The Sun. — London, England, 1859-10-11 00:00:00

THE GLOUCESIER ELECTION COM MISSION. GLOUCESTER, Our. 10. The inquiry into corrupt practices at Gloucester election was resumed this morning at ten o'clock, by the examination of Daniel Clark, a Liberal, who proved that he re ceived 51 from J. Moss, and gave 3/ of it to Mr. Brown, a lay clerk at the cathedral, to vote for Price and Monk. Spent the rest in treating. Mr. Whithorn, wine merchant, was then again examined as to the payments which he made to -voters on the days of nomination and poll out of the 1,0001 which he had received to pay the expenses of Sir R. Carden, the Conservative candidate. On the day of nomination he gave to Mr. C. Hawkins 261; Mr. J. B. Hanman, 281; J. Ward, 1071; H. Smart, 201; and on the day of tholl, to Stumper, 601; to 0. Clutterbuck, 150/ ; gunman,Pker 401; James Mayney, 671 or 701; . 201; J. Smart, 91. The 91 to Smart was asked for as a loan, and witness took his acceptance for the money. Paid himself to voters as follow :—Thomas Cole, 8/ (he voted for Carden and Monk) ; J. Perris, 10/ (he said if he did not get the money he should go to the other side) ; Charles Perris, 51; G. Sterry, Si; J. Mann, 10/ ; E. Bouldry, 91. All these were for voling for Sir R. Carden. He paid in the com mittee-room on the day of the poll—E. Bourne, a freeman, 10/ ; E R. Bourne, J. Bourne, and W. Bourne, 81each ; Thomas Davis, a gaol officer, 101; NV. T. Baylis and W. Bayley (brought by Mr. Mayney, 61 each ; T. Butler, 51; H. Browning (brought by Ward) 61. It was not true that he (witness) slipped the money into Browning's pocket. He voted for Price and Monk. Then Benjamin Cook had 104 George Drinkwater Si, and James Drinkwater Si. These were brought by . Haines. Charles Batch, brought by Mayney, received 101; Jesse Hooper, 81; Jas. H. Hyett, C. Hyett, and I. Hyett, brought by Mayney, 101 each, and the father bad 21 to go to Cardiff to fetch his son ; Thos. Knight, H. B. Newgate, and 7. Newgate, freemen, brought by Ward, 101 each. They pro mised to plump for Carden,. but they all split their Totes. Paid Thos. Knight Si. John Lake said he had been offered 101 on the other side, and witness paid him that sum. Paid J. Lloyd 81; J. Lodge, 41; M. Matthews. 51; H. Meadows, 41; and Thos. Meadows, Si. Mr. Mills, of Stonehouse station, said he would not vote for Carden unless he got Si; witness there u p on p aid him Si, but he voted for Price and Monk. Paid H. I. Wilki lastns, 51, A. Allen 101, and Thos. Dome 41; the named had been employed to watch voters. Also paid 91 12s to James Meredith, oft e Star public house, on the day of the poll. Altogetherhe could make out payments to the amount of 8931 12s 4d. He had tried to make out what had become of the balance, but although he had devoted many hours to it, he could not make out any individual item, but he could safely say that the whole of the balance of the 1,0001, received by him had been used for the purposes of bribery. The mode of keeping his electioneering accounts was to put a certain sum of money into his pocket in the morning, and to " take stock" the next morning, the deficiency would be the day's expenditure. He then gave a list of pub lic-houses at which scores had been run up and bills had been sent in, but they had not been paid. The number of bills was just thirty—the amount run 'ling from 9s to 60/. We gives. few of the heaviest : —Mr. Groutage, Boothall Inn, 221 6s 3d ; Mr. ' Tandy, Rising sun , 36/ Mr. W . Watkins, Cross Keys, 1112 s s d; M r. Turk, New Dm, 171 15s ; Mr. Smart, Falcon, 641 16s 7d ; Mr. Gurney, Pilot, 141 16s 6d ; Mr. J. Brewer, Hope, 131 17s 2d. Altoge th e r these bills monntedto 26 91.6 s 10d. The witnessndded that a good many of them were legi timate claims, and might have gone into the audi tor's account. Much of it was expended in provid ding refreshments and dinners for members of the committee, and it was a question with some of the committee whether they should not pay for the dinners out of their own pockets, but they did not. He sent one man, named Knight, an inmate of one of the hospitals, to a quiet place to be out of the way of the other parties, whom they suspected of an intention of carrying him off. There was a bill for keeping this man and a person who was sent with him to take care of him. Never gave any order to open public-houses, but had given orders for refreshment and dinners at particular public houses on particular occasions. Never gave Smart any authority to open his house, but had heard he was supplying drink to voters, and told him he must stop it. As to the man Beckley, he had never offered to get his son released from the military service if he would vote for Carden. Beckley said that Captain Robertson was interest ing himself to get his son off, and witness then said if they had any interest on their side, we (the Con servatives) had as much on our side. Never threatened Beckley to stop his son being released if he did not go with the Conservatives. Mr. I. Lovegrove, the agent to Sir R.Carden, was again called. He said the list of messengers would be ready for to-morrow. As to the publicans' ac counts, he had gone through them with Mr. Whit horn, and agreed that there were some legitimate c l a i ms among them, and he should recommend Sir R. Carden top ay them. The witness enumerated a number of bills which had not been paid, amount ing to from 3301 to 3501. The witness was next questioned as to his knowledge of where the first half of the 500/ came from, as spoken to in his first examination. He did not know where it came from unless it was sent by Mr. Barnard. The first half did not come either to his house or to his office. Told Mr. Barnard it wee- his opinion that it would be necessary that 1,000/ should be provided. Did not tell him to make such a statement to Sir R. Carden, because he could have made such statement himself.' Mentioned this to Mr. Barnard as a friend of Sir B. Carden, and because in 1857 he made an advance of 100/ to Mr. Whithorn for moneys ex pended by him upon the canvass. Believed Mr. Barnard made a second advance of 1001 after the election to Mr. Whithorn for money expended by him. The witness promised hereafter to give fur ther information in reference to the moneys received and paid in 1857. Believed the 500/ had been re paid to Mr. Barnard by Sir R. Carden, and that Sir Robert had expressed surprise that dr. Barnard should have advanced any money on his account without first consulting him. Told Sir Robert that it was done no doubt in consequence of his sugges tion, and Sir Robert had expressed his astonish ment that Mr. Barnard had not called upon him when in Gloucester. Mr. Barnard canvassed with Sir R. Carden in 1857. By Mr. Welford—l received 1,1751 from Sir R. Carden, altogether, and there is 3301 to 350/ owing beyond this and the 500/ received from Mr. Bar nard. I should have paid these amounts before this, but thought it better not to paythem after the commission had been issued, and before it sat. The other party paid their bills about 24 hours before the commissioners met. Altogether 2,7601 was the cost of the election on the Conservative side. When Sir R. Carden paid the accounts of the election of 1857 he made no remark. It was about 1,2001 or 1,300/. Mr. F. B. Bauman, grocer, of Worcester, bribed Decimus Best, jun., with 101 to vote for Sir R. Car den. He had been suffering from rheumatic fever, and said he was behind in his rent, and that he had received an offer from the other side, on which witness said, he would be as liberal as they were. Gave Decimus Best, sen., 4/; he voted for Carden and Price. Gave Robert Acett 51; Mr. Took 51, and Mr. Jeynes 51 to vote for Carden. Had spent 4/ in treating voters and others at different public- Muses. Received 281 from Mr. Whithorn, and 51 from Stamper. Knew Henry Cox, and never offered him a receipt for the money to vote for Mr. garden. Offered to take him to Mr. Lovegrove to see what could be done for him, as he was in bad circumstances. Found, however, that Mr. Wilkes had offered to take him through the Insolvent Court, and he knew that then it was all tie. Had heard that he had been accused of offering one Wright to wipe off his account for his vote, but he only owed a few shillings, and that was not likely to be sufficient to buy hisvo te. Had told Henry Townshend to get him off qu quarter's rent, if he would Ward our way, but he saw a he ut co . uld get more. 1 Mr. Ward (examined before) ties to whom he had paid money p i f u or a tteti of par- I Had paid John Bagley 51, but did not con l s ) r i a ' v d n e t r e iat . was exactly for his vote. Had made no with him beforehand, but finding he had 5/ in han d after the election he gave it to him. Had expend ed about 1901 altogether. Mr. Taylor contradicted the statement of Mr. Sharp, denying the offer of Beechwood for his vote. Mrs. Gurney, wife of James Gurney, landlord of the Pilot Inn, received 401 from Hamper and paid it to four voters named (101 each) for their votes for Sir R. Carden. Another voter, named Tanner, said he should vote for the man who would give him most money. Her husband had a claim of 51 for coming from Milford Haven, but he had not been paid. Samuel Brett, cabmaster—Met G. H. Cooke in the itreet. He said he was going to gaol, and asked if he could get him out of his difficulties. He was going to prison for 21 9s. Got the money from a party who were drinking together at the White Hart (Dovvdniss) who subscribed it together, a nd he took it to C ooke and got him released. r. Whithorn and Mr. Taynton were of the party at the White Hart. Took Cooke's I U for the money. Was told at the White Hart that he was to take a memorandum for the money, and Cooke gave the IOU. Never asked the man for his vo t e, andedoidutnvoottekrsnoiwn whom he voted for. Canvassed s a me 1857, and gave a woman 3/—one of the Coopers of Longford—at Lund's request. She sat on the stairs, and Lund told him to give her the money, which he did, and the woman then ran away. Mr. W. Holtham, innkeeper (Spread Ea g le ) pro duced an account which he had againt the blue committee, amounting to 8/ ss. Bd., and which had not been paid. It was for refreshments to the members of the committee. Wm. Parker, carpenter, received 451 of Mr. Whit horn, and 4/ for paying a man's travelling expenses. Gave Lovett, a voter, 51; Wm. Price, 4/ ; Fras. Meek, 41. ; Wm. Bu nd, 21 ; H. Harris, 5/ ; Tyler, 2/ (to fetch a voter named Harris) ; Thos. Cox, 2/ ; and to two other men he gave Si each. Did not know their names. Met them in Sir R. W. Car den's committee-room. He was 20 days canvassing, for which he deducted ss. a day. Spent 10s. a day in canvassing ; sometimes more. Was never asked for his own vote but always polled the same way. By Mr. Welford—l am on my oath, and swear that the 10/ for the two men's names unknown did not go into my own pocket. Did not poll any dead men. Mr. Geo. W. C. Buchanan, of the Spa, Gloucester, was an active supporter of Sir R. Carden—canvassed with him about a week. He had canvassed with Mr. Cooper and Mr. Thorpe in - previous elections, and he had confined himself to that part of the work, because he knew there were things done which he would not wish to be mixed up with. Called on a voter named Murrell, who told him he was under obligations to . Mr. Wilkes, who had a mortgage on his property and was also in arrears with his rent, but Murrell said he was always a Blue, and he asked witness's advice. He at once advised him to vote for Price and Monk, and that was all that passed between them. Never offered a man named Davis £5, nor any other person. Had been often stopped in the street by parties who said they .had voted for Carden, and hoped he would give them something to drink ; but he had made it a rule never to give anything. He and his family had voted for three generations for the Conservative candidate. He knew nothinr,c, about bribery him self, but he knew it was stated that in Mr. Cooper's time there were 130 venal votes, in Mr. Hope's time 200, and he believed the number was now 400. This corruption seemed a growing evil in the coun try. One illustration --I saw two men talking together in the street very vehemently, and one said, "I beant a-going to let 'em have my vote for nothing. Look at the 24 lawyers having their £25 down and 5 guineas a day a piece, and I beant a going to let em have mine for nothing." Now he took that as the tone of society generally. Every body, as it seemed to him, wanted to get the most he could out of an election. He believed the in creased corruption was a good deal owing to the system which prevailed at municipal elections. Alderman Hughes had told him that his election had cost him £4o—(This was denied by Mr. Hughes, who was present in the court) —and Mr. Eason had paid £25. There was scarcely a man who would go up to vote without being paid at the least his day's work. He believed that the corruption had increased since the passing of the Municipal Reform Act. He recollected before the passing of the Reform Act that Captain Berkeley ((now Sir Maurice Berkeley) had stated that one of his elections cost him £20,700, and Mr. Cooper's election cost him £20,000. At that time the cost of bringing voters to the poll from a distance was heavy. If Mr. Price had stated that his election once cost him 3001, he (witness) believed that some one else must have paid the limey. Mr. Brimmell, ropemaker, was called to prove that he had bribed three voters, viz., H. French with 41, and Thomas Harding and G. Lines, 2110 s. each, to vote for Sir R. W. Carden, He paid this out of his own pocket, and had sent no claim to any one. If the Conservative party offered payment, he should certainly not refuse it. He also agreed to give one Walters 31, but he was kidnapped on the night before the poll. John Alloway, tailor, received Si from Mrs. B. Monk for voting for Price and Monk. James Cotes received the same sum front Mr. Mallard. for the same purpose. Mr. J. Davis received 4/ from Mallard to vote for Price and Monk, but did not vote at all. Peter Ed wards—My wife received 61 for my vote. I never had the money. She is mistress and mas ter, too. Az.. Evans, beotmaker, received 42/ from Jeffer son Bryan for treating and bribery, and detailed how he expended it in the purchase of votes for Price and Monk. One or two other witnesses gave similar evidence, but it was only a multiplication of evidence that has already been pretty fully published. It is expected that Sir R. W. Carden will be exa mined in a day or two, and that the whole of the evidence as relating to the last election, will be ad duced by Thursday next. The court adjourned at 4 o'clock until to-morrow THE CRARTERHOUSE B.RE2.H.REN AND THE ELECTIVE FRANCHISE. The Revising Barrister for Finsbury gave his judgment in this case on Saturday, in the Lords Justices room, Lincoln's-inn. Several of the brethren were present, and took a keen interest in the pro ceedings. The following is the judgment, which governs the whole of the claims (amounting to about 80) to be placed on the voting list. The Revising Barrister said the 36th section of the Reform Act provides that no one shall be put upon the register who within twelve months pre vious to the last day of July shall have received pa rochial relief or other alms which by the law of Par liament disqualified him from voting. The old law of parliament therefore seems on this point to be re tained. Now, prior to the Reform Act, it was well settled that hospital pensioners and bedesmen might be qualified to vote. If they, received parochial relief or alms within a certain period they were thereby temporarily disqualified. But the mere fact that they subsisted on the revenues and enjoyed the settled pensions, the defined prescribed allow ances of an endowed public charity, was no dis qualification. They were considered to have a per manent interest in the establishment, and it was held that if any one of them was turned out, he might have a mandamus to reinstate him. When the Charterhouse case was presented by Mr. Banis ter in 1851 for registration, an objector contended that the pensioners lived on charity. The objec tion was disposed of as follows :—" It is said that Mr. Banister lives on charity, so likewise do the fellows of a college. They live on charity, if by charity is meant the bounty of their founders]; but they are not on that account excluded from civil rights, or deemed incapable of appreciating the duties and exercising the privileges of citizens. By the deed of foundation the eighty Brothers of Char terhouse are to be gentlemen by descent, merchants ruined by the disasters of commerce, or soldiers mutilated in the service of their country. From the moment of their appointment they are inde pendent. They cannot be displaced at the caprice of a governor." In the Burleigh Hospital case no weight was attached to the circumstance that the foundation was a charity. Mr. Justice Maule observed, "the only question is whether these bedes men have an equitable estate." Now, how does Mr. Justice Maule answer this question ? Simply by saying, "I think they have an equitable estate, as they are not liable to arbitrary amotion." The expression of Mr. Justice Maule that the Burleigh bedesmen were not liable to arbitrary amotion may have suggested what was said as to the Charter house pensioners, that " they could not be displaced at the caprice of a governor." The case respecting the Windsor military knights, decided by the Court of Common Pleas in . julylast, as reported by Mr. Scott, in his fifth volume, p. 40, is in one respect very distin guishable from the'laresent. The Windsor knights receive their appointment directly from the Crown. Their apartments are within the verge of the Royal palace. The, are constantly under the eye of the Sovereign. They inhale the atmotsphere of the court, and are subject to its influence; and if we could suppose it possible, which we cannot, that any one of these ancient knights should be dis placed or amoted, where would be the remedy ? Would a mandamus be issued against the Crown ? If, on the other hand, a pensioner of the Charter house is capriciously expelled, the courts of this country are open to him. He is entitled to justice, and will obtain redress either by mandamus or by a proceeding in Chancery, or possibly by both. His tenure is stable, his position secure. But al though the circumstances of the Windsor case are peculiar and such as to make it stand by itself, there was an expression of opinion by the Lord Chief Justice in delivering the judgment which will rule my decision in the present case. "We ~ are of opi n i on ," sa id hi s lordship, that there is no such estate or interest in these houses as can pro perlybe de r e a m h e e d ris ar o i f o lv wn i e h i d -s s h e i r p, for a b lthough d the deanap allowp ea appears d the t h k a n t i g t l h l t e s d t e o fte occupy c st a r nt i lo c i t ne i ons on the houses,m sse ay e boun yet to re authority to impose suc h have power and enjoy ment as to divest the occupation of the character of ownership. The knights cannot let their houses in the whole or in part, nor even receive inmates or guests therein, except with the assent and sanc tion of the dean and canons." When the claim of the Charterhouse pensioners was brought forward on the former occasion, there was no means from the evidence of supplying the test here suggested by the Chief Justice, and so far as am aware the test itself had not then been disclosed by judicial decision. I now, however, apply it to the present case, and find that there is enough to satisfy me that the Charterhouse pensioners " cannot let their houses in the whole or 3.13 part, nor even receive inmates or guests therein, except with the assent of their superiors." This being so, lam bound to hold that the objection made against William 4 er ., l ia rn a o ni ld is e fro s ta uffi th c e i , or r i e t g ly ist e e s r t . ablished, and I •f the " et. 9 l l 2rs" of the institution, The claims o- - each A ex l p ex un an g u e hi. d , reader, master, &c., were embracing the I` l-- ost *:.l the names struck from the thenlist of persons • OPIUM TRADE AND THE B.RITISH 7 . " .. PNUE, B-71, .s. 4.---_—_. 'eliev- The Edinburgh Anti -Opium Committee, .. ing that there are few s übjects of so great impol. ante regarding which ti 'le public mind is so little informed as the opium t rade and revenue, respect fully submit the followin 's• statement of the leading facts regarding them to tibe serious consideration of their countrymen. OPIU TILADEC- rep ared 1. An immense imp( eation of opium—p expressly for the purpose of g ratifying a vicious taste by smoking it Ls Manually made into China from ports in British India. This importation has increased forty-fold since the beginning of the cen tf u u r r y t h , s r a f r r t o i m u e 2 h ,o a o s O b t e o e n BO ft , r o e o a o t e d e hbe by es t s s h . i p l e l en tdemand - in , h a ve succeeded in exte.nding t, by experimental y i n a n ay s i m n c a e d e lB b o y o, t c h h e i e fl E y a y British nd C° m m P e a r n c nts wh 1735 but profit italhePourtuasatti—onas; fl fr r o s m t utfimaeluktlntigmceh, into new w parts of able in the end , by ereatin g a taste for the new vice. Opium in now form d s t s h il, in e k gr a e m a-t on b u u t lko g, of the as i r t etu d r u n e s s, fo t r u Chinese £,OOO, while the exort of all itish produce tea an and manufactures to China p average Br little more than £2,000,000. 2. The use of this opium, so prepared, is produc tive of the most ruinous consequences to the popu lation where it is consumed. These consequences are carefully to be distinguished from those which result from the abuse of alcoholic beverages, melan choly as the latter are—the "former being, in the long run, the rule not the exception, and the result of the use not the abuse of the indulgence. " The usual demoralising influences of the opium trade" are thus not merely incidental to it, but, in the language of the Report of the Select Committee of the House of Commons, " are incontestable, and inseparable from its existence." 3. According to the most unexceptionable testi mony of merchants, travellers, physicians, govern ment servants, missionaries, and Chinese states men, the vice, the misery, and even the destruction of life, resulting from this in dulgence, it is almost impossible to estimate " The moderate use" of opium as it is prepared for the Chinese, which some suppose to be so harmless, tends to the practice of sensuality in its grossest forms. " Moderation" leads, with fearful certainty and speed, to excess ;" and excess to every crime of which its victim is capable, until: his career is ended in a prema ture grave. The numbers thus cut off are variously estimated ; but although it is only along the sea board that the practice prevails greatly as yet, the lowest calculation exhibits an amount of mortality which it is fearful to contemplate. 4. Public sentiment in China is strongly opposed to this trade. On this account it is one of the greatest obstacles in the way of Christian missions. Our countrymen there are known only as vendors of opium—the curse of China—or as preachers of Christianity. The Imperial Government set itself against the trade for more than 60 years, and de clared it contraband. It was, however, utterly unable to contend with the heavily armed vessels in which the opium is carried, but in 1839, after repeated warnings to the English residents (the last being addressed to them individually) to send away their opium then in Chinese waters, a special commissioner from Pekin caused the owners to be confined within their own dwellings until they surrendered the entire juantity, amounting to 20,253 chests. He then destroyed the whole, valued at between one and two millions sterling, and took such measures as rendered it almost im possible to dispose of a chest along the coast. 5. The British Government thsreupon declared war against China ; and after the slaaightel‘ o f nearly 40,000 of its subjects, dictated a treaty by which the Chinese were compelled to pay more than £4,000,000 for the opium destroyed, and for the expenses of the war, and also to give up the island of Hong Kong on their coast. The English merchants had previously signed a pledge to dis continue the trade and the: British Government entered into a supplementary treaty, by which they bound themselves to discountenance all smuggling for the future. 6. Instead of these engagements being kept, the merchants (with, it is said, two exceptions) imme diately resumed the trade. After a time, the British Government also allowed the island ceded to them for the purpose of " careening and refitting ships, and keeping stores there for that purpose," to be used for warehousing the contraband opium ; and the annual import into China has risen since that war from less than 40,000 to 80,000 chests. 7. During the continuance of peace, the British Government importuned the. Chinese Emperor to legalise the opium trade, but always without suc cess. He refused again and ag ain , alleging that "nothingshould induce him to drive a revenue from the vice and misery of the people ;" but a se cond war having broken out, they have now dictated a new treaty, by which their former obligation to di -courage smuggling is abrogated, and the Chinese have been forced to legalise the trade, with every prospect of its indefinite extension among ,‘ their vast population of 400,000,000—more than a third of the human race. The great rise which immedi ately took place in the price of opium in Calcutta shows what ground there is for this apprehension. OPIUM REVENUF. 8. By far the greater part of the opium imported into China is prepared by the British Government in India, expressely with that view. It is manu factured according to samples obtained from China of that preparation of the drug most in demand among the infatuated victims of the demoralising influence before described. It has :all along been packed according to Chinese weights, even during the subsistence of the treaty binding thiz country to disconrage smuggling into China, and it is disposed of by public sale now in the name of her Majesty, the profits arising from it forming a large part of the Indian revenue. 9. Within the presidency of Bengal the Govern ment exercise a strict monopoly in the growth of the poppy. This is enforced by regulations often made instrumental of great oppression in the hands of the corrupt native officials. The money re quisite for the cultivation is advanced by Go vernment, and an ever-increasing extent of the richest land is annually devoted to that purpose, at the cost of the proportionally diminished g rowth of the useful products of the soil of India, Thus, sn tdoh n efe o dt notwithstanding eee h rs s yte t iaueunieftd, the such etEnhit easitrr chairmen, m s sugar, India nduluastcrao d irectors , nmiunpedsai Company yuf ea h&dsome ehxuet fre o t h i va o tv ll et t hd o ee r d i it v s e d rit home c saan s w l eo h f e t r he addit i onali t is a N i v .t a i s e l before w unk nown, revenue h ilfer ot_mh eyth them selves, farmingni. selves, in their own " Memorandum of Improve ments in their Administration" (presented to Par liament, 1858), call the consumption of opium " a hurtful indulgence, from which India itself has been comparatively ce 0 rd uf; t free. " 10. A the testimony of competent and attends tr n tu pr evne eju dds ttu h diced ebeeuinseparableiva witnesses,cu lt ivation ht in e demoralisation ia.the A tradeGo Government enr which ncmh is e iChina officer in that department declares that " one opium cultivator demoralises a village ;" another, that in Assam, where the cultivation is free, " it is de populating the country and degrading one of the finest races" of that peninsula " into one of the most abject s enla e untdhtehd the culturep r a ved.' North-Western Provinces, oftiiupu ppyisprui n a n b d ited in : in of tthe the e growths u presidencies — and ofaee a o dr the ii :s u at si a le n e and Bombay theoi t m ed b ayK prohibition g is vir tually Kingdom) o (as t oclibnf Madras this prohibition is easily enforced, the plant being extremely conspicuous, and requirinc , to be four months on the ground. 12. The remainder of the opium shipped from India to China is the produce of native independent states, but it can be shipped only from British ports where the British Government have no difficulty n levying any amount of transit duty they choose o impose, there being no other route by which it can pass. From these two facts last mentioned, it is evident that whenever the Legislature wills it, the culture and manufacture of opium in India can be effectually brought to an end. That this would at first entail a serious loss to the Indian revenue is admitted ; but the committee believe that by wisely developing the great resources of India, by employing the large capital which Go vernment has now embarked in the manufacture of opium, in works of public utility, yielding a good return ; and by an improved system of taxation, reaching the more wealthy classes, the loss would be only temporary, and the new sources of revenue prove much more secure than the precarious and dishonourable opium manufacture. In name of the committee, G. D. CULLEN, Chairman. D. DAVIDSON, Vice-Chairman. DAVID M`LAREN, lIOn. Sec. Edinburgh, April 7, 1859. A QUAINT REMARK.—It was told of an old Miss lohnstone, of llawkhill, that, when dying, a tremendous storm of rain and thunder came on, so as to shake the house. In the same quaint, eccentric spirit, and with no thought of profane or light allusions, she looked up, and listening to the storm, quietly remarked, in reference tl her departure, "Ech, sirs! what a nicht for me to be fleeing thro' the airl"—Dean Ramsay's Reminiscences. TIIE WRECK OF TILE ALMA. Yostetqav'morning the official inquiry into the loss of the Alma was resumed at the Greenwich Police-court before Mr. Traill and Capt. Walker, H.E.1.C.5., as on the former occasions. Mr. Cumberland appeared for the Board of Trade. Mr. Wilde, Q.C., again attended on the part of Captain Henry and Mr. Davis. Sir J. Bowring, examined, said—l must beg to mention that on my leaving China I was in a very shattered state of health, and had not the oppor tun-41- of making such observations as I o th erw i se should. J. retired to rest at 10 o'clock on the night preceding the wreck. At that time the weather ryas 5o much so as to be th e su bj ec t o f remark very amongti the passenge rs . W e th oug h t we had a complaint ag a in s t the company for delay at Galle. Mr. Traill—That is not a part of the present inquiry. Sir John Bowring—The weather was hot, and I lay down with few garments upon me. 1 was aroused by three crashes about .3 o'clock. I was below in the cabin saloon. The crashes rapidly suc ceeded each other. Very soon the vessel reeled over, and through the open portholes on the starboard sid3 the sea rushed in in torrents. I made my way through the porthol2s of my cabin and endeavoured to reach the deck. I saw distinctly the jjarnish Islands in the distance. Trey were on the port s ide of the steamer, In the direction of the reef. I have no recollection of having seen the reef at that time. The outline was not very distinct, but I could see it was there. he outline was against the sky. Un doubtedly, if the vessel had not been aground, I must have seen the land distinctly. There was no chain or rope, and the bulwarks being high it was impossible for me to reach the deck, or to make any one know my position. After a long waiting we were dragged on deck through the skyli g ht s d own to the port side, and after sitting some time we were lowered let° the boat, When I was on deck on the port side I not only saw the islands but the reef. There were several delays. We were lowered into boats waterlogged, in consequence of which we could not escape from the wreck. We were after wards conveyed by the lifeboat to the reef. The reef presented a dark black line, the reef descend ing into the sea, and the lower pa r t b e i ng l os t i n the water. Between the part of the reef where we struck and the higher part there was water. Mr. Cu alberland—Did you see any haze between the ship and the reef? Sir ,John Bowring —None at all. Mr. CumberlandL-Any haze beyond the reef and the Harnish Islands ? Sir J. Bo wring —No. Mr. Gisbourne, civil engineer, examined—l was passenger on board the Alma, and joined at Aden. I was employed in laying down the Red Sea tele graph. We had three vessels assisting in the ex pedition, 'one a man-of-war vessel, the Cyclops, Capt. Pullen, which had been 15 months surveying the side and soundinc , bottoms, and she acted as our pilot. I was on board all three vessels at different times, but was always engaged on board the vessels in laying down the cable. The cable is laid down on the other side of the Harnish Islands, more on the African co ist. lam not allowed by the Admi ralty to state the exact line. I had never.made any passage between the Aboo Islands and Jiber Zoo gur. My experience is, that there are very variable currents in the Red Sea, which renders tae position of a ship very uncertain to the extent of three or four miles in 12 hours. The currents are variable in the Red Sea generally. The night preceding the wreck I was on deck. I remained there about half an hour until about 11 o'clock, when I lay down on deck on the starboard side. It was then a beautiful moonlight night. I awoke on the ship striking, and heard a voice which I believe to be Mr. Davis's, saying "23 fathoms sand." I was next awoke by hearing " Hard a•port," repeated twice, about the time when the ship struck. My impression was that we had run over a native boat—it was a slight shock. I felt a bump within a minute or half a minute of the first, and then there was a third scrape and the vessel stopped. I then heard some one say—l think it was Captain Henry, but can't say—" Don't reverse, but go on ahead !" I had heard no other orders given about the engines be fore, I got on my legs, but was knockd down by a lady with a chair. I succeeded in getting on to the bulwarks, and was there within five minutes of the ship sinking. I saw the bow of the vessel was on the exposed rock, and saw in the distance the loom of land against the sky. I could then see the water playing on the edge of the reef, but the reef itself was scarcely visible. The bow was up a detached portion of the reef. The Harnish Islands behind overshadowed the reef. I did not see the mounds until my attention was called to them at daylight. I may have seen them, but I looked upon them as the foreground of one of the Harnish Islands. The background was a loom ol'lajid clearly defined against the sky. The land I saw was in the formation of au amphitheatre, and at right angles where I stood it was rather more astern to the ship than the port bow. The moon had gone down. It was starry and clear overhead, but dark over the water. The boats with the pas sengers disappeared when proceeding towards the reef. If the weather was such as that half an hour previously to when the vessel struck the loom of the land ought to have been seen. Ellin, the q uartermaster, examine ion a previous occasion, was then recalled, an t d mr st . ate s d h t e h w e courses steered steered on the night of the wreck. He said —A t 12 o'clock, when I came on deck, I had the course steering that c ri n n meiv T Mills, N. byheWfirst order to change course was just before the sinking at four bells, when Mr. Carter, the third_officer, directed it to be altered to N.W. W. The next change of course was about half an hour before we struck, when it was again altered by the di rec ti on of the third officer to N. by W., which was the course she went ashore. (The witness then repeated the principal points as given by him in his previous examination.) Captain Henry was then recalled—l produce the protest made by me before Captain Playfair at Men, about 10 weeks after the wreck. Some time C on ap t t o ai m n s P , w la h y i f c a h ir h c e a s l a le id d uponatt e r ,ne l leens Tri vahm a ni d a: e hdie. e t lab hi r s datel p idee r lei o ppn t oi e elsd s oi t tt t a o nd a f es e p re t. d m l e a sa c w opy tt oi N i v ra a d s ibt eontradictory to what I had stated. I saw Bushier there and spoke to him, but there was no possibility of my proving to him by any other per son that he was wrong. Mr. Traill here rind the protest in question, set ting forth the illness of Capt. Henry at Aden, and calling upon Mr. Davis, the chief officer, to take the vessel out of the harbour, and naming the courses to steer, as contained in Capt. Henry's first examination. Capt. George Davis Cook said—l was a captain in I er Majesty's service, and was on board the Alma at the time of the wreck. I was asleep on deck , but on awaking I looked up and saw the reef around extending the wh o le l eng th o f the port side of the vessel, and at the time of the second and third shock the vessel turned on her side. I then went on to the bulwarks and saw the reef perfectly plain. The vessel was on the detached portion of the reef, and I saw one mound on the reef perfectly clear at a distance of 250 yards. I could not ob serve that there was the slightest haze to prevent the reef being seen. Mt Cumberland proposed under the 273 d section of the Merchant Shipping Act, to put in as evidence the protest made by Bushier, the Persian pilot, to Brigadier Cogan, the political agent at Aden, but after soon : discussion, Mr. Traill said he was disinclinedto receive such protest as evidence, it not appering that Brigadier Cogan was an authorised person to receive such statements. However, in so far as portions in con nection with that protest had been made use of in court during the examination, such parts would be used as a means of reference. This being the whole of the evidence, Mr. \\Tilde addressed the Court at great length, recapitulating the various points as given in evi dence. He was very glad the inquiry had bean continued s( Fong as it hid, because it had had the effect of disabusing the public mind of a variety of statements which had been put forth from time to time, and which had been further given credence to in the opening speech of the learned gentleman who appeared for the Board of Trade. One part of h,is statement was that the vessel had been plundered'by the - native crew, and that after soundings of 23 fathoms had been ob tained the crew went on recklessly to destruction. So far from this being the case, the soundings as then obt..ined would place the ship in the exact position as expected, and not have denoted danger as approaching land. No doubt the statement made by Mr. Cumberland was given in good faith on the information which the Board of Tr•ad: had received, but so• far from there not having been a good look- Jut kept, there was positive evidence to the con trary. Then it was said the crow consisted of more Lasears than there ought to have been, but such a .4A:ten - tent was altogether unfounded, because if they asked those who were experienced they would find that Asiatic se Anew were better fitted for the navigating the Red Sea, this th i g t i s ts crew, climate than Europeans. It was also proved that in crew cost the company more than an En at ,1 1:1 1 o l notwithstanding arned A,ciourise conclusion,dang e dangers th was ad become m fi e r sat wreck vessel l, in belonging to the company abundance of look-out men we alj r ic e isnt a ei L s y h s i and urged that Mr. Davis could only be :l e referred to the fact of her having been aground three , although an an error of judgment. Mr. Trail! and Captain Walker here retired, and cnCug:acegldoepodsi after an absence of about a quarter of an hour re turned intg court, when Mr Trani, addressing Captain Henry and Mr. Di.vis, said—We have been considering during our absence, as indeed you may be sure we have been doing throughout this inquiry, as to the persons blameable for the cause of this wreck, and I am sorry to say that we can come only to one con clmion, which is, that the vessel has been lost through a fault. The only question is as to whose fault it is ; and it is our opinion that not you, Captain Henry, but Mr. Davis, the chief officer, was in charge of the ship, and that in alter ing the course at 12.45, if he had consulted the chart, he would have found that the course was not altered sufficiently, but that the vessel was nearly, in a direct course to run on to the rocks where she became a wreck. We aro also of opinion that you, Captain Henry, in giving him directions to haul up, and referring him to the charts, gave him all the information you possessed, and - placed him in charge of the ship, and that if he had not been in charge of the vessel it would have been his duty to consult you. These are only some of the points to which we shall have to refer in making our report to the Board of Trade, and in doing which we shall not fail to refer to the good character which we have received of Mr. Davis as an officer. Numerous testimonials as to character were here put 111, anil Mr, Baker, the second officer, who it will be remembered rewired the thanks of the pas sengers, passed at a meeting on board the Bombay steamer, er, for his daring services in putting off in a boat and obtaining water for the relief of the sufferers, and afterwards putting off and intercept ing her Maje,ty's ship Cyclops, was exonerated by the Court from all blame, his certificate having been called for at the commencement of the inquiry. Mr, Cumberland applied for an order for the payment of the costs of the inquiry. Mr. Traill asked against whom the order would be made ? Mr. Cumberland replied it would virtually be the company to which the ship belonged. Mr. Trail remarked that he thought such an order against the company would be unjust, as they had employed a person who held a certificate of competency from the Board of Trade. Captain Walker observed that he did not think the Board of Trade would desire that the costs of the inquiry should fall upon Mr. Davis. Mr. Traill, after some further observations, de clined making the order, and the proceedings ter minated. GLASGOW .IUTUMN CIRCUIT. GLASGOW, SATURDAY. The Glasgow Autumn Circuit was opened here on Monday last by Lords Ivory and Deas, and brought to a close this evening. On Tuesday Lord Ivory broke down from indisposition, when Lord Cowan, who was sent for by telegraph, took his place. On the following day Lord Cowan also succumbed to illness, when the telegraph brought Lord Ardmillan, who, with Lord Deas, completed the work of the circuit. In all there were 61 cases, in which 81 persons were implicated, the great ma jority being thieves, housebreakers, returned con victs, &c., who were convicted and sentenced to from 10 years periods of penal servitude varying downwards. There were, however, only two cases which excited especial interest, the one being that in which Margaret Gallacher, Boyle (her husband), James or Boyle, Boyle, John Charles Kerr were accused of very foul act oconspiracy. From the evidence it appeared that Francisin Pater son, a writer and house factor Glasgow, h a d 1 a shop in M'Alpine-street to Boyle and his wif e , not l g a o r t l y o who were brokers. The rent w paid, however ; finally he was induced the shop on the pretext that he would be paid £5 on account. When lie arrived the woman Boyle in vited Paterson into the back shop (a dimly lighted place), saying it was requisite th a t h e s h ou l d exa mine the water crane, which was out of ord er . N o sooner was he there than the woman seized hi m b y to the neck, when she fell thet the grosuannide, timeand dragged him on the top of her, a exposing her person. Paterson struggled to get away, but meanwhile the woman raised the alarm that he was attempting to commit a criminal as sault upon her. Boyle, the husband, and the other prisoners, who were waiting at hand, then t rushed in, attempted tear severely. down Peterson's clothes, and assaulted him o They then en called in the police, when he was given in charge, and in a few days tried before th a e s police magistrate for assault upon the woman, but acquitted on ac count of discrepancy in the evidence. An accomplice, named Helen M'Call, or Duffy, said,—l h ave known John Boyle and his wife for seven month:. Mr. Paterson raised a small debt action againstthem, and they attended the Small One Debt Court. night I spoke to Mrs. Boyle about the case. She told me that if I would go to the ba c k s h op wh en her to t r i p hi Mr. Paterson came and assist down and keep him down Mr . Lumsden would would not, but I give me a new dress. I said I would be a witness. This was on the 24th of February. A few days after Mr. Lums den and Boyle tried to get him down in secret, and she told me, and Charles Kerr, and her sister. Mrs. Boyle told me she had told him she had £5 if he would call for it, and that she would take him down into the store. On Wednesday morning, the 2d of March, I went up to the house, and I heard John Boyle say to his wife that Mr. Lumsden had said she was to prepare herself, as Mr. Paterson would be in in an hour. It was all arranged how they were to come in. Mrs. Boyle was to pull him down and expose herself and also h im ; and the little girl, Mrs. Boyle's daughter , wa s to cr y "Mur der ! my mother is being killed," and I was to go in with another person and be a c itness. All this was arranged in the morning. Stewart, Charles Kerr, and James Boyie were to rush in. I was i n .the shop, and the little girl was placed at the door, to watch Mr. Paterson. The little girl came cry ing " Here are Mr. Paterson and Mr. Stewart coming." James Boyle stopped Stewart, and Mr. Paterson came down alone. When I went in a little after I saw Mrs. Boyle lying on a shake-down. James Boyle and John were together. Charles Kerr and I were outside. She took hold of him. There was a bed on the floor, and I saw her lying on it, with her person exposed. Charles Kerr and John Boyle had gone in, and I found them there. His shirt was open from the throat down, and he was bleeding in the left cheek. Mrs. Boyle was taken home to her own house between 7 and 8 o'clock. We went to a public-house. They called for half a mutclikin of whisky, and John laughed and said they had the old chap safe enough now. I recollect the day after the affair happened speaking to Mrs. Boyle. She expected the police doctor to visit her. She asked me to get a pennyworth of blood, and she daubed the sheets with it. I went and bought the blood from a young 0;irl in Market -lane. (Mar garet Cameron called.) This is the person from whom I got the blood. Mrs. Boyle put some blood in a bottle, and put the bottle below her pillow, so that she might pour it about her when the doctor Caine in. I saw her put some upon the sheet and her person. I never saw Paterson except when he was coining to them for the rent. I did not tell my hus band till it was all past. They told me not to tell him. It also came out in evidence that the object of the prisoners was to extort hush-money from Paterson to prevent exposure, or to obtain damages from him by means of an ac'ion at law. After a trial which lasted two days the prisoners were on Friday night found guilty as libelled. This morning they were brought up for sentence. Lord Ardmillan, addressing the prisoners, said the jury had, after a painstaking investigation, come • to a unanimous verdict, finding the four pri soners guilty of the crime of conspiracy as libelled to extort money, or found a false claim for damages against Mr. Francis Paterson, by means of a false accusation of a criminal offence, isnowing it to be p false, and by mean s of perjury. A more heinous offence could not be committed, and one more wickedly and more cunningly devised or more determinedly persevered in it was difficult to imagine. Up to the trial, and during its progress, all the prisoners at the bar persisted more or less in maintaining that false accusation of an in decent assault by Mr. Paterson upon the person of the female prisoner at the bar. The jury in the box had been compelled yesterday and the day previous . .0 consider whether that accusation of the as sau't was or was not perpetrated by Francis Pater son. If it had been proved before the police magis trate, a much more serious crime would have been committed by them. It fortunately happened that under the circumstances the case was only tried b -fore the police court, and Mr. Paterson was ac quitted by the intelligent and discerning magis trate, who had seen 'ls ionocence through the meshes that the prisoners had tried to spread around him, but he might have been tiled for that eflsnee in this court if it had been laid under a dill" rent. denomination, and he might have been convicted ; if that story which they had concocted had been believed, he would have been convicted of this most serious offence, and transported for a tsrm of penal servitude, and a severe sentence would have been pronounced against an innocent man. A more wicked scheme, 004 one more wickedly carrircl out, lie (LorclsArdmillan) had rarely heard of. Then came the oaths by which they had sup. ported that false accusation—oaths taken in a pub lic court to what the y knew to be false. They had swo rn before Almighty God, and a s theywould answer to God at the great day of judgment, to this lying and malicious accusation, which now had been found, by evidence that would satisfy every human being who had heard the trial, to have been totally untrue. A more grave offence than that of perjury in conspiracy against an innocent man could scarcely be committed. They might be very thank ful they had been found out before the injury they had meditated had reached the innocent man. They would have one day felt remorse if he had been falsely convicted upon that evidence. That great judgment-day to which they hid alluded in their oaths must come to them, to him (his lord ship) and to every one. They would do well to con sider the crime they had committed; and might thank God for the one hope for them, and all, on that day. Great as the impious crime was which they had committed, there was mercy even for them. They might really be thankful to God that the justice of man had traced and discovered their crime before that awful day came, when the solemn and certain judgment would be pronounced which they had impiously invoked upon their guilty heads. He could not, consistently with his duty, but visit their crimes with a severe sentence upon each of them. Thera was some little difference in the enormity of their guilt. The originators of the crime were John Boyle and Margaret Boyle. The other two, James Boyle and Charles Kerr, were, as appeared from the evidence, brought into the con spiracy after it was started, and although it had bean clearly shown that both were present at the assault upon Fra:ncis Paterson, yet they did not appear to have resting upon them the same degree of guilt as rested upon the other prisoners who originated the atrocious crime. Some distinction would, therefore, be made in the term of penal ser vitude to be awarded to each of them. The sen tence of the Court was that John Boyle and Mar garet Boyle be subjected to penal servitude for seven years each, and James Boyle and Charles Kerr to five years' penal servitude each. Lord Dens next addressed the prisoners, and briefly referred to the circumstances attending the conspiracy, after which his lordship added that he could not conceive fi, more atrocious offence than this, which was worse in some respects than an attempt against the life of a person, as it struck at the root of any man's character, which might be destroyed in the eyes of his wife, his nearest and dearest friends, as well as in the eyes of the public in general—an affair which struck at the very root of all law and justice. His lordship concluded by saying that he did not think the sentence which Lord Ardmillan had proposed to be at all a severe one ; on the contrary, he thought it was very lenient, and o ne i n w hi c h h e fully concurred. The prisoners were then removed. The only other case of importance was the ti ial of Michael Cassidy and Robert Henderson for the, murder of M. John M'Pherson, a literary gentle man connected with Glasgow, author of several dramas, and lately editor of the West of Scotland Magazine, &e. Mr. M'Pherson had been meeting some friends at, Bothwell on Saturday, the 30th of July, and on re turning to Glasgow with a friend, at 9 o'clock, went with him into a hotel in King-street, it being very wet, and remained there for a short time. On leav ing it Mr. M'Pherson's friend went in search of a cab, and Mr. M'Pherson walked along Trongate, when he was set upon and knocked down. He died in an hour afterwards from the injuries he re ceived. The evidence against Cassidy and Hender son was not such as to sustain a charge of murder, and the Advocate-Depute withdrew it, and insisted on one of culpable homicide. Two of the witnesses swore distinctly to Cassidy tripping up Mr. M'Pherson, but the evidence against Henderson was very far from clear. The jury returned a unanimous verdict of guilty of culpable homicide against Cassidy, and by a ma jority found the charge not proven against Hen derson. . Cassidy was sentenced to four years' penal servi. tude, and Henderson was set at large. MURDER IN .NEW YORK, The New York Journal of Commerce of Sep tember 28 says :—" Last evening a most singular case came to light in the sixth ward, the dead body of a man, evidently murdered, being found at the corner of Little Water and Worth-streets. The scene of the tragedy used to be the resort of mur • derers and thieves, and years ago, when the Five Points were much worse than at present, Crown's Corner,' as it was known, was decidedly the worst locality in the neighbourhood. The building,which is a three-story one, is now occupied by prostitutes, organ-grinders. and thieves, and maintains some of its old reputation. On the second floor, a man named John H. Benjamin, who sells hot cakes around the Park for a living, occupies a-room, with a mistress named Jane Bradford. Last evening when he went home, he found the door of his room bolted on the inside. All demands for admission brought no answer, and supposing that all w as not right he went down stairs to get assistance in solv ing the difficulty. As he passed out of the h a ll he happened to look up towards the window of his room, which is on Little Water-street, and saw a man i- the act of jumping out of the window. The fellow, observing Benjamin, immediately jumped back into the room. Benjamin went into a liquor store, kept by a Mrs. Gordon, in the lower part of the building, and secured the assistance of an acquaintance, and then went upstairs. The door of his room was now opened, and he entered. The room was dark, and everything was quiet; so, striking a light, an investigation was imme diately ma e. Jane Bradford, the mistress, was there apparently alone ; but upon looking at the bed, the body of a man, covered with blood, was discovered. He had evidently been choked to death, as marks upon his throat indi cated, and the blood was still running from his nose. Officers Donaghty and Higgins were noti fied and conveyed the body to the station-house in Franklin-street, and then arrested Benjamin, Miss Bradford, Jane M‘Cabe, and Josephine Smith, the two latter being supposed to have some knowledge of the affair. They were all locked up. On the b'dy of the deceased there was found nothing by which he coald be identified. In the bed and beside him, however, there were some naturalisa tion papers, which may have belonged to him, The name of James Magee was upon them. It is rather a singular circumstance that these papers should have been found where they were. The girls all profess to have no knowledge of the affair. Miss Bradford states that a man in a red shirt, whom she does not know, met her in a liquor store downstairs in the evening, and insisted on going with her. She emphatically declares that he was repelled by her, but several witnesses are positive that the man who was about to jump from the window (and who afterwards did so) had on a red shirt. It may be that he is the perpetrator of this deed. Still, another of the girls declares that Jane Bradford told her that Benjamin killed th e man, but that person informed our reporter that the deceased came into her room early in the after noon, remained there till evening, and then upon the bed, having quarrelled with no onelay what ever. She expresses much astonishm en t at hearing of the man's death. The whol e case is shrouded in complete mystery, a n d now only an inves tigation can bring everything co nnected with it t o light." VOLUNTEER CORPS. NEW CASTLE -ON-TYNE. On Wednesday evening the monthly- meeting was held for the election of members; 40 new members having consented to joi n , it was resolved, on the motion o Sir John Fife, " That a Highland company be organised." NORWICH. The members of the three companies formed here mustered in uniform fpr the first time on Friday afternoon, on the cricket-ground in the Ipswich road. Between 200 and 250 gentlemen assembled on the occasion, and their appearance excited con siderable interest among the citizens generally. For some time the formation of the companies was attended with great difficulties, and even now they are not complete ; but perseverance has nevertheless been crowned with considerable success, and the sheriff's company numbers 80 members, being only 20 short of the full number. The other companies, which are onder the command of the Mayor and Mr. F. Hay Gurney, are not quite so numerous. A eorps, numbering between 120 and 130, has been formed a t Perth, and the Edinburgh style of uniform has been adopted. The Lord-Lieutenant of the county and other gentlemen have given their cordial support to the movement. PADSTOW. Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to ac cept the services of the volunteer artillery corrs recently form e d a t thi s port, and it is now called the Ist company of Cornwall Artillery Volunteers. At a meeting held a few days ago Mr. C. G. P. Brune, Deputy-Lieutenant, attended, and swore in 30 mem bers, and at a subsequent meeting 23 more took the oaths. ST. PANCRAS. A committee of gentlemen, headed by Mr. D. E Cameron, the senior churchwarden of St. Pancras, is now in the course of formation for the purpose of establishing a rifle corps. AVISEACIL The company formed B here comprises between 70 and 80 volunt eers , an d stands No. 1 in the Cam bridgeshire corps. The practice ground has be( n inspected and approved by Lieut. Griffiths, ef Donegal Militi a . Th e unform selected for the corpsthe is that which is adopted in Cambridgeshire gene rally—viz., rifle green trimmed with dark braid. COUNTRY ,VARKR7'ti COLCIIESTER--OcT. 8 A good attendance to-day at" the corn-exchange, and a fair supply of wheat ; low and inferior parcels were not sold so readily, but the best qualities supported late rates. A fair inquiry for malting and grinding barley at rather lower rates. Beans rather cheerer. Peas as dear as last week. Wheat, white 42s to 50s 1 Beans, Mazagan.. 32 s t o 34 4 red 32s to 42s I Middle & small 36s to 42.4 Barley 36s to 44s White peas 40s to 42s I Oats l Bs t o 28 s Grey.. 3ss to 38a CIIELMSFORD—OcT. 7. • A liberal supply of wheat and barley, and a firm busi ne,s transacted for good qualities, but inferior sorts were taken slowly. Prices stationary. Spring corn dull. Wheat, white 42s to 52s Peas, Partridge ..38s to 401 red 40s to 45s White 38s to 403 Barley 32s to 40s Boiling 3Bs to 42s Chevalier ....34s to 44s Dun 33s to 36s Grinding 26s to 34s Beans, Tick ....40s to 423 Malt 60s to 663 Harrow Ticks 41s to 44s Chevalier 63s to 69s : Mazagan 36s to 38s Oats 24s to 33s OXFORD—Ocr. 8. A large quantity of wheat on offer to-day, with a good attendance of buyers, and, although there was a fair de mand, the generality of the transactions were at last week's rates—viz., for white, 42s to 48s, red 40s to 44s per qr. Barley plentiful, and a few prime lots were soon caught up at 2s advance. Best samples were worth 425, and inferior st )1d as low as 28s. Other grain dull. Oats 20s to 295, but little doing. Beans, 38 s t o 50 s. H og peas, 39s to42s ; boilers, 45s to 508 per qr, Flour, 31s per sack. Hay, from £3 lOs to £4 lOs per ton. KIRKALDY—OcT. 8. We had fair supplies of grain to-day at market. A. fair show of new wheat, oats, and barley. The new Che valier barley and new oats sold quickly ; all other grain at late rates. Wheat (N). First.... 36s Od Second.. 46s Od Third .. 48s Od' Barley (N). 26s Od 345 6d 365 Od Barley (0). •-*-8 Od —s Od ---5 Od Oats (N). 22s Od 27s .0d —s Od Oats (0). 23s Od Wheat (0). First.... 38s Od Second.. 44s Od Third .. 47s Od 28s 6d —B, Od. COAL M. (Prices of Coal per Ts :AR] In at s. d. Bates' West Hartley..l4 3 Davison's West Hart- EET—OcT. 10. the close of the market.) Walls End. ley By:ass's Bebside West Hartley . Walker Primrose 12 6 Tanfield Moor 12 6 Tanfield Moor Butes-12 6 Wylam 15 0 Grey's West Hartley .. 14 3 Hastings Hartley l5 0 Ward's West Hartley l4 0 West Hartley 15 0 Holywell 15 0 Walls End. 1 Acorn Close ...... , 16 6 Eden 16 6 G osforth 16 9 Clssop l7 6 Ships at mark, Heugh Hall a. d. - r 6 6 Hetton lB 0 Braddyll's Hetton 17 3 Whitworth 15 0 Russell's Hetton 17 3 Haswell . lB. 0 Keiper Grange l7 3 Kelloa l7 6 Hunwiek l5 - 0 Shincliffe ...16 3 South Hartlepool. 17 0 Trimdon Hartlepool..l7 6 Riddell • .15 9 Belmont; l6 0 Montague 15 6 South Durham l6 0 Carway Steam 22 6 Powell' a Duftryn. Steam 22 0 Nixon's Duirryn 22 6 A, 6 7—Sold, 60. LOCAL SHARE MARKETS. LIVERPOOL--OCT. 10. • The market to-day was dull at the opening, with, some improvement, but declined soon after, and, closed, flat. North British, 591—Great Western of Canada, 131 14— Sheffields, 35I—Caledonians, 891 —Lancashire and York shire, 96—London and North-Westerns, -931 94—Dutch Rhenish, 41 dis.—North Staffords, 4i 4 d,—Berivicks, 881 89—Midlands 105 /—Chester' and Holyheads, 60— 13irkenheads 77 .1 , 771—Great Northern, 102 -I—Eastern Counties, 13-16 I—G ran d Trunk ofCanada, 9 9-16— Great Western, 631 63 1—Dovers, 23 1-16—Lombardo- Venetian, 2 / p—Great Luxembourg, 78 I. BIRMINGHAM—OCT. 10. There was a small business doing, and stocks were scarce. South Staffordshires sold to-day at 101 —Birmingham Banking Company, 26k, buyers—Birmingham Gas, 144, buyers—Midland Derby Stock, 85—Birmingham and Staf fordshire Gas, 102, buyers. MANCHESTER—OCT. .10. There was a very quiet business doing in this market to-day, and at the close prices were steady. Sheffields, 351 —foyers, 2 - 2 15-16—Leeds, 951—Midland stock, 106— Berwicks, 88t. FOREIGN MAIL PACKET LIST. In the following table E signifies that letters are despatched by evening mails from London, and II by morning mails, DESTINATIONS.. Next Despatch Port of Mail of Mails. De s p a t c h . de. --_, ----- Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton Oct. 12, 31 Southamp. Oct. 10 Ditto, via Marseilles Bahamas and Havana via New York Oct. 28, E Liverpool.. Oct. 27 Canada, &c. (byCa na d n. pckt ) Oct. 11, E Liverpool,. Oct. 12 Cape of Good Hope, Ascen- • sum, and St. Helena Nov 5 E Devonport N ov. 1 China, Penang, and- Singa- , pore, via Southampton pet. 20, B Southam. Ditto, via Marseill es Oct.--, E . • ... .. p Oct. 19 ... Oct. 13 India (Calcutta Gibraltar, via Southa m pt on -Oct. 12, 11 31 S.outhamp., Oct. 10 Honduras and B ) lewfl and e Cdelsylon, Oct. 17, Southamp. Oct. 16 via Southampton Oct. 20, 31 Southamp. Oct. ith Ditto, via Marseilles India (Bombay), via South ampton Oct. 12, 31 Southam Ditto, via Marseilles 0 9 Lisbon, Brazils,Buenos Ayres, and P. Islands Lisbon, Vigo, and Oporto Oct 17, 31 South amp. Oct. 11 Malts, Egypt, and Ad en, via . Southampton Ditto, via Marseilles Mexico and Havana ....... • Nov. 2, 31 Southamp. . 1 Newfoundland .. . _._ Oct. 14, E Galway ... . United States and British N. " • America (by British packet) Oct. 14, E Liverpool., ..d. D. Ditto (by U. S. packet) S 1 Oct. 24, E LiverpooPl:. overdue west a, Co n a s d t T o e f ne A ri f ir r e ica .. ,..ll .. a . IN'tzeouswetilnarNit,ehvylpfrar:itela; ,t-'4l:y. :. Oct ' 17 11 Southamv. n-4 'a ISouthamp. loot. le [AnvEnT isEnExT. just published ) n — Mr. B enson, Ludgate-hill, has ,a new i ustrated parnphle by post for t wo stamps). It should bet on watche s (f ree read by who about buyi ng a watch, as it contains prices an all d important informati to use it l on as to— What watch t o b uy 1 where to buy it ! ..• . . . [AnvEivrisEmnx9r.)-11611Olvay's.. Ointment and Pills. Tumours, Cancers, and bad breasts.—lt any departure It o= . . health requires earlier attention, than another to prevent disastrous consequences, it is the.class of disease now tinder review. To save hazard and future pain the budding tu mour must have early attention, .or days of discomfort and. nights of disquietude will be the sufferer's portion. When ever the ailment first appears, after fomenting the spot with warm water, Holloway's Ointment must be energetically rubbed on the part till a considerable quantity is absorbed. The Pills, too, must be commenced with t medies be dili gently persevered in, the siniple ror the early. tumour If ou hese re fell cancers are arrested. In cases of bad breasts, w ithout milk f ever with or , relief is almogt instantaneous. [ADVERTISEMENT.] —• Medicine alway s aggravates chronic diseases, such as indigestion (dyspepsia), flatu lency, habitual constipation, nervous, bilious and liver complaints, &c., but Du Barry's delicious Revalenta Arabica Food invariably cures them in a very short time. We extract two out of many thousand expressions of grati tude from invalids. Cure 36, e 4 18—Rv. Dr .. Mins of cr amps, spasms, an d daily vornitings. Cure 26,418— ter Dr. Harvey of diarrhoea and debility: 'Cure 39,621—Dr. Wurt zer of consumption. Cure 32,880 —William Hunt, Esq., Barrister, of paralysis. Cure 46,270—Mr. James Roberts, timber merchant, of Frimley, of thirty years diseased lungs, spittingsof blood, li ver derangement, partial deafness. Cure 21Miss E li zabeth Jacobs, of Nazing Vicarage- Waltham Cross, Hefts, a cure of extreme nervous, ness, indigestion, gatherings, low spirits, and nervous fancies. Cure No , 48,314—Miss Elizabeth Yeo than, Gateacre, near Liverpool, a cure of ten years dyspepsia, and all the horrors of nervous initability, in tins, at ls. 6d. ; 11b., 3s. ; 21b., ss. 9d. ; 61b., 125.; 121 h., 26a. Th e lolb . and 121 b. tins carriage free, on receipt of post 111ce order. Du Barry and Co., 77, Regent-street, London' Fortnum, Mason, and Co., 182, Piccadilly ; Abbis, 60, Gra cechurch-street ; 4, Cheapside ; 63, and 150, Oxford ktrect, ; 330 and 451, Strand • 49 and 60, Bishopsgate ? trod ; 85, Tottenham -co 49 Also at' Dublin, Bewley and Draper ; at Edinburei, Refines and Co. Rt Liverpool, Nixon and Thew ; at Manchester, Sharp and Scott ; at York, and So, Blanchard, and Co. ; at South unpton, Randall and Son. . BIRTHS. FoLET.—On the Bth inst. at Wadhurat Vicarage, Sussex, the wife of the Rev. Jelin Feley, of a daughter. JOHNSON. —On the 9th inst ,at Balham-hill, Mrs, W. G. , Johnson, of a daughter. • MoNexTox.—On. the 9th inst., at 24, Inverness-territce, Rensington-gardens, the wife of John B. Monckton, Esq., of a daughter. l'EnatsE..--On the 9th inst., the wife of David W. P earse , Esq., 37, Arundel-terrace, Holloway, of a daughter. MARRIAGES, ISTAUNDEII—BmAumorrr —On the 6th inst. at the parish church, E dgbasto33.,_ Mr. Charles Frederick Maunder, of New Broad -street, London, F.R.C.S., to Catherine, the youngest daughter of Mr. William Beaumont, of Bir mingham. READE—CAPEL.—On the 6th inst., Francis Nevil Reads, 21st Fusiliers, to Florence Amelia Louisa, the youngest daughter of the Hon. Adolphus Capel, and granddaugh ter of Viscount Maynard. 131 DEATH S. Mrs. John INRRIDGE.—On th e 9 t h inst., at St. German en LaYe, BOW s. Hugh Bainb r id ge. sal YER.—On the Bth inst., at Southampton, Rear-Admi 110C Wm. Bohun Bowyer, aged 70. of QUET.—On the Bth inst., Edward Paul Bocquet, Esq., Cuthbert, Thurloe-place, Brornpton, aged 85. OCTTEIBERT.—On th e 10th inst., at Denm ar k-hill, Ed w i n qn"thaegeBdthnin. E vßitEi._ E o s st at 2 87, GOODHAL L.— O n the sth inst at Lower ili Goodh a ll, E sq. '7 gNh o H rw o oo lb d or: H , e M nr r y . Thomas Ed gar Evetrett, aged 46. NIAItTLLLI.—On the 7th inst., the Rev. T. C. Martelli, of M archwood, near Southampton, aged 46. A msAY.— On the 7th inst., at Thorn Falc oun , S omerse t, Elizabeth L ady Ramsay, aged 82. SKENR.—On the 7th inst., .at Avon -hill Midford, near Bath, C aptain John M'Dowall Skene, R.N., aged 45. oNDON : Printed and Published by MURDO YOUN (4 , of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The San Office, No. 112, ;trend, in the Precinct of the Savoy, is the county of Iliddlese.t, Tuesday, October 11, 1859. SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 11, 1859 .