The Sun. — London, England, 1859-10-03 00:00:00

7HE NAVY. None of the ships belonging to the Channel fleet have left Plymouth during the last week, and there is no present prospect of a combined movement by Admiral Fremantle, who is Commander-in-Chief of the port during the temporary absence of Vice-Ad miral Sir Barrington Reynolds, K.C.B. In the meantime indications which would pass unnoticed under other circumstances, are now observed with interest both on board and on shore ; the officers know, if possible, less than the townsmen. The flag ship, Royal Albert, 121, Capt. B. Rice, went from the Sound on Wednesday into Hamoaze, and, with all her armament on board, was placed in dock at Devonport. The copper was stripped off near the aperture of her shaft, and that part of the ship was caulked and recoppered ; her bends were also caulked. She was undocked on Saturday. The corners of her fans will probably be reduced. Her crew of 1,000 men are good considered. Some are absent on leave until the 7th inst. Strong gales from the southward, accompanied by heavy rains, have recently prevailed, and have compelled the fleet in the Sound to strike top-gallant-masts and make all snug. The state of the weather has most likely prevented the departure of the screw steam ship Caesar, 90, Capt. T. H. Mason ; for some days the davits have been ready to get up her anchors, and she has been otherwise prepared. The blue Peter was flying on Saturday, and 10 or 12 officers and about 60 men, for various ships in the Mediter ranean, have embarked. The officers of the Caesar are requesting to have their letters addressed in the first instance to Gibraltar. According to present in formation she will remain two years on the station; she was commissioned in June, 1858. The Caesar sailed yesterday (Sunday) morning at 10 o'clock. It will be recollected that, some 10 days since, the Lords of the Admiralty issued orders to prepare for foreign service the James Watt, 91, Capt. Edward Codd, and the Agamemnon, 91, Capt. T. Hope. These ships continue ready. The James Watt is bound for the Mediterranean, andhasreceived stores for the Orion and other ships there. The destina tion of the Agamemnon is uncertain ; it is not thought now that she will follow the James Watt ; some of her officers have just received leave of ab sence for a week. The Nile, 90, Capt. A. B. Wil mot, C. 8., has a rod crew of 850 men, many of .whom are from Liverpool ; five months since she supplied 80 to the Doris, andshortly after 90 to the Algiers. It is expected that the Nile will return to Queenstown, where her crew will probably be re duced to 350. The screw steam frigate Emerald, 50, Capt. A. Curving , has a cr ew of 550, which is Ices than her complement ; it is supposed that she will winter at S heerness. The Mersey, 40, Captain Caldwell, C. 8., has a complement of 560, chiefly young fellows," who hope to be paid down at Portsmouth, and to pass the winter there. No pre parations for sea are making on board the Diadem, 32. Capt. W. Moorsom, C.B. The screw steam gun vessel-Flying Fish, 6, Corn. Hope, went outside the harbour on Thursday to try ber machinery, which has been recently repaired at Keyham steam yard. The Aboukir, Hero, Melpomene, Topaze, and Virago complete the Channel fleet. Very few men have volunteered for the expedition to China. Vice-Admiral the Hon. Sir R . S. Dundas, K.C.8., Capt. C. Frederick, Mr. S. Whitbread, M.P., and R ear -Admiral Lord C. Paget, M.P. (secretary . ), re turned to town on Saturday from an official visit of inspection to Pembroke dockyard. The Duke of Somerset, the First Lord, who accompanied the Board, has gone to his seat, Maiden Bradley. The Locust, 3, paddle, Lieut.-Commander J. B. Field, arrived at Portsmouth yesterday from the eastward with supernumeraries, &c. The Biter, gunboat (tender to the Blenheim), arrived at Portsmouth yesterday from Portland. The Osborne paddle-yacht, Master Commander G. K. Bower, arrived at l' or t s mouth yesterday from • Pembroke, where she has been in attendance on the Lords of the Admiralty. The floating battery Trusty ,passed Sheerness on Saturday, in tow of two steamvessels, to return to her moorings in Upnor Reach, near Chatham, after the experiments against her side-plates with 56 cwt. gun and conical shots. The firing ranged from 400 • • to 200 yards. The result has been that the broad side plates have been broken to pieces ; the shots have often penetrated through her broadside. Shots with the greatest accuracy of firing (the gun being laid by a gunner from the Excellent) were sent into an openort, which went through the timber ma terials o n the other side, driving off and breaking the plates to pieces. The officers and crew of the Minotaur, at Sheer ness, have changed over to the Cumberla nd,! all the officers receiving their new commissions to the latter-named ship. The new screw steain frigate Forte was taken into No. 3 dry dock at Sheerness on Saturday. Her Majesty's iron paddlewheel steamvessel Antelope, Lieut.-Commander JohnW. Pike, arrived at Woolwich on Saturday at 3.30 p.m. from service on the West Coast of Africa. She was found to be in a disabled state from one of her plates being de cayed, and, having been temporarily repaired, she was sent home by the Admiral to be docked. The steam storeship Dee, Thomas C. Pullen master in command, sailed from Woolwich on Sa turday, at 3.15 p.m., with supernumerary seamen and lads for Sheerness and steam machinery for Plymouth. • The gunboat Hind, tender to the Russell, 60, at Falmouth, arrived at Plymouth on Wednesday with supernumeraries. The Narcissus, 51, is to be launched at Devonport on the 26th inst., and the Jason, 21, about the 10th November. The following oppointments were made on Sa turday at the Admiralty :—Lieut. A. H. Alston, to the Excellent ; Lieut. H. Davis, to the Encounter ; Lieut. C. A. J. Heysham, to the Imperieuse ' • Lieut. J. Berkeley, to the We llin g ton ; Lieut. H. Hilton, to the Simoom ' • H. B. Hamersley, mate , to the I m p e rieuse ; P. B. N nd, midshipman, to the Mer sey ; D. D. Fremantle, midshipman, to the Odin ; Thos. D. Chown, second master, to the Snap ; William Haydon, second moster, to the Bouncer ; Silas Vicary, second master, to the Grasshopper; and George D. Rickards, second master, to the Flamer. The subjoined letter was on Saturday received sat Woolwich from Mr. Thomas Brown, command ing the troopship John Duncan, now lying in the East India Docks, in reply to an official demand requiring a detail of the specific advantages actually derivable from the use of Clifford's boat-lowering gear, as,fitted on board that ship by command of the Lords of the. Admiralty preparatory to her late outward voyage to India with troops in June, 1858, and which is now compulsory in all troopships be fo re proceeding to sea. " East India Docks, Sept. 30. " Sir,—ln reply to your inquiries as to the efficiency of our boat-lowering apparatus, fitted by order of Government on board the troopship John Duncan,r on her voyage to CalcrAta, I have to state that in latitude 32 deg. south, and longitude 79 deg. 30 min. east, when the ship was going 8f knots per hour, with a disagreeable cross sea, the starboard lifeboat was lowered, with an officer and six men to pick up one of the soldiers, who had fallen overboard from the fore castle de ck. lam happy to say that the man was picked up; and ;in 15 minutes the boat was at the davit and the man was in his cot. I would further wish to state that while on our passage from Calcutta towards Trinidad with coolies, and when in lat. 1 deg. 17 min. north, and long. 89 deg. 22 min. east; at 4.30 a.m. one of the coolies fell ovetboard. One of the lifeboats fitted with Clifford's Patent was imme diately lowered and the man picked up in 10 minutes, although the ship was going at the rate of nine knots per hour at the time. Again, when in lat. 24 deg. 14 min. south and long. 8 deg. 27 min. east, while the ship was going 51 knots an hour, another of the coolies fell over board, and in six minutes after he was picked up by the lifeboat.—l have the honour to be, sir, your obedient servant, " THos. Bnows, Commander Ship John Duncan." THE ARMY. Orders were on Saturday received at Chatham garrison from the Horse Guards, directing the depot companies of the 29th (Worcestershire) Re giment to vacate the tents at the Spur Battery, and proceed to-morrow morning to Devonport, where the - depot is ordered to be quartered. The following officers of the 29th will leave Chatham with that regiment :—Lieut. T. P. Wood, Ensigns H. W. Kindersley, F. C. Buxton, and W. C. Ar nold. Capt. J. M. Lyle, who commands the depot, will remain at Chatham, as instructor of musketry to the 2d battalion. It is understood that the depot of the 99th Regiment, now at Cork, will be attached to the 2d battalion at Chatham, and oc cupy the quarters vacated by the 29th depot. Major itupert Deering, from the 18th depot bat talion at Fermoy, has been appointed to the 3d battalion at Chatham. vice Major H. Rowlands ( 17 - 0 .), who has retired from the service on half-pay. The detachment of the 10th (North Lincoln) Foot and the remainder of the detachment of the 9th (Queen's) Light Dragoons disembarked on Saturday morning, 'nd proceeded by special train at eight a.m. from Portsmouth for Taunton, Bxeter, and Plytnouth. The Adelaide screw steamer will embark at Portsmouth. about the Bth inst., the 4th battalion of the 60th Rifles from Aldershott Camp for con veyance to Waterford, returning thence to Ports mouth with the 2d battalion of the 18th (Royal Irish) Foot, who will occupy the ground vac a t e d by the 60th at Aldershott. The 3d battalion of Grenadier Guards, compris ing 17 officers and 800 men, arrived in Liverpoal on Thursday afternoon last from the metropolis, and embarked the same day on board two of the City of Dublin Company's steamers for Dublin, where they supply the place of the Scots Fusilier Guards, who passe d through Liverpool the same day en route for London. The second division of the 13th Light Dragoons embarked at the North-wall, Dublin, on Saturday morning at eight o'clock, to join the rest of the re giment in Scotland. It was stated some months since in The Sun that the local authorities of Great Yarmouth had called the attention of the War-office to the defenceless state of the coast at that point. A reply was re ceived to the effect that the erection of a work at Gorleston was "under consideration; " but this did no t satisfy the Mayor, who replied t hat such a pro mise had been made for years without any result. This remonstrance has elicited a second letter from the Earl of Ripon, Under Secretary at War, who states that the erection of the work will be pro ceeded with as soon as terms can be come to with the proprietor of the site required. His lordship adds : " In consideration of the importance of the roadstead to the general trade of the country in the North Sea, two bat teries, powerful armed, have recently been provided at Yarmouth, north and south of the anchorage, the centre or town battery being postponed as of leas pressing import ance than other places in the United Kingdom at present totally unprotected. lam to add that the construction of the Goriest= battery at the mouth of the harbour will take precedence of that on the vacant site at the centre of the anchorage." In addition to draughts forwarded during the week, 100 able and well -disciplined young . men, forming a portion of the Woolwich division of Royal Marine Light Infantry, were despatched to Portsmouth on Saturday for service in the gun boats fitting out at that port for China. Notwith standing the many heavy calls which have been recently made on the division the vacancies have been rapidly filled by recruits and volunteers, and in, most instances they have yielded with alacrity to the hard course of drills to which they are sub jected, in order to attain their present state of effi ciency, to which the Lords of the Admiralty made particular allusion in their late inspection of the corps. The drills commence daily at six, and con tinue, with slight intermission, until five. Major-General Eden, Commander of the Forces in the Western District, whose period of service has expired, inspected the troops attached to the Plymouth garrison at Mount Wise, on Friday last, and bade them farewell. During his residence Gen. Eden secured the esteem of the inhabitants. Major-General Hutchinson is now in command of the Western District. Forty-eight men belonging to the Royal Artillery at Plymouth, volunteers for China, left by the South Devon Railway on Friday. THE BUILDERS' STRIKE. In the course of last week the great Strike in the Building Trades passed 'through certain phases of considerable importance, though, unhappily, with out any improvement in the general aspect of the struggle. It should be understood that this con test, though nominally confined to a single depart ment of business, does in reality embrace several different trades. The employers are all of one class —master builders, but the employed belong to vari ous classes, comprising masons, bricklayers, joiners, plasterers, plumbers, and so forth, all which trades, though engaged in the same Strike, are organised in separate unions or societies, and are distinguished by some varieties of opinion. Another circumstance necessary to be remembered is, that the Strike is confined to Londcn, that is to say, to the metropo litan postal district, and affects only the workmen employed within those limits. The first step towards a treaty or compromise was taken by the masons separately. The opera tives of this class, a strong and intelligent body, detached themselves from the Conference of the United Trades, and summoned to London the chief officers of their own Society from its central seat at Bristol. This proceeding was calculated to cut• two ways. If it produced a reconciliation between the master builders and the masons the secession of so 'influential a class from the other trades would go' far to terminate the Strike, and bring about a general agreement. If, on the other hand, it failed to do so, the operative masons of the metropolis might procure the adoption of their cause by the whole body of the trade, and thus obtain a great increase of support. Unfortu nately, the latter is the result now most probable. The p ro position of the masons was to the effect that the men should give up the Nine Hours Move ment and the masters withdraw the Declaration, work being then resumed as before. This, it is evident, was simply a return to the status quo ; but there appears to have been a misgiving on the part of the masons that the masters had certain other matters before their eyes, and accordingly they added to their proposal a general assurance that if the masters "had any grievance to corn plain of" they would at any time be "happy to meet them" upon the points at issue. It turned out that these collateral questions involved the very differences on which the negotiations broke off. The Nine Hours agitation was absolutely sur rendered, as well it might be, and, though the masters talked about " insuperable difficulties" in the way of a withdrawal of the Declaration, it seems as if these obstacles might possibly have been eluded except for the failure of ulterior at tempts. It was required on behalf of the masters that such rules, by-laws, and practices of the Ma sons' Society " as should be declared by the Presi dent of the Board of Trade, or any retired Judge of her Majesty's Courts at Westminster, to be con trary to the spirit of the law of the land," should, in so far as they affected employers, and operatives within the metropolitan limits, be revised or dis continued. This proposal the masons evaded. The masters then suggested a reference on the points in question to " some eminent impartial authority," adding this time that, in p articular, all rules and practices should be remove d which interfere with the freedom of workmen, or prevent members of Trades' Unions from working with other work men." This proposition also the Masons, by formal resolution, declined to entertain. Pending these separate negotiations, the Confer ence of the United Trades had not been inactive. Treaties and compromises being the order of the day, the Committee of the Paviours' Arms had also prepared its proposition for the consideration of the masters, the terms whereof went to this effect,—that the men should resume work upon the withdrawal of the Declaration, leaving the previ ous question—i.e., the Nine Hours Movement—to be discussed by a sub-committee chosen from the masters and men together. This overture, however, was curtly rejected, the masters refusing to recog nise the authority of the Conference, or to admit any such medium of communication between their workmen and themselves. At this the Conferer was naturally indignant, and convened its con . s tituents on Friday evening to obtain a ratification of its powers, which, as a matter of course, was promptly accorded. We may now make our deductions from this batch of miscarriages. The Nine Hours question, it will be seen—the origin of the whole dispute— was fairly given up by the Masons, and thrown into abeyance by the other trades. Nor was this a point extorted from them by violence, in despite of their genuine convictions, for it is plain enough that they have the means of continuing the Strike. It was a tacit confession that in this preposterous demand the mark had been overshot,—in fact, the Secretary of the Masons' Committee acknowledged in plain words that " the Nine Hours question had never taken well with the working classes in the country." So much for the original ground of agitation,—for that demand which the Conference enforced by a Strike, and which the masters, in self-defence, were compelled to meet by a lock-out. The next point is the Declaration, and here also the negotiations of the week enable us to collect something of what the masters really want and the Unions refuse. It is a natural inference from the course taken by the arguments that the Declaration as a sine qua non might possibly have been waived, if certain of its essential effects could have been otherwise secured ; and these effects, it is equally obvious, pointed rather to the protection of the men than the advantage of the masters. The first question of all, for instance, concerned the position of those men, some 8,000 in number, who had ac cepted the Declaration, and gone to work under its terms. How were they to stand if the 6,000 or 7,000 still on Strike were admitted without this guarantee ? Would the latter set of hands even consent to work with the , former ? It appears that this primary condition was extremely doubtful, for one of the Masons' Deputation stated at a public meeting that when the question was put to them on the masters' behalf they answered that " that was for them (the Society men) to decide after the Declaration had been withdrawn." The first con sequence, therefore, of the unconditional withdrawal of the Declaration by the masters might easily have been the loss of all the 8,000 hands already obtained on eligible conditions, for the sake of obtaining 7,000 others on conditions less eligible—a bargain which few would venture to recommend. . It will have been noticed, again, that in the ex planatory proposition made by the masters to the Masons the requisitions of the former are directed especially to the " freedom" of the men—to their release, in fact, from that thraldom in which the Unions would fain retain them. Men are at liberty to combine among themselves according to law, but they are not at liberty, either in law or in justice, to exert their combined powers against the freedom of others. That, in reality, is the point now at issue. It is not whether workmen may form are tphe er r t e tyranniseo cut bo d y , io ana intot over ot hder observance workmen s o te r hr k ve Trades' Unions, but whether these Trades' Unions intimidation e c o n n d n e cte d that usages overlooked as they that masons,fit t o on prescribe. thin su p point, In rules ul e And persecution and nodt will shirked even the test of law, and were evidently to submit their rules and practices to he unwilling of impartial authority. Thinmaencbepyruerevision with 4 6 . 't ---•.-..- 10a no power as a section to touch the regulations sanctioned by their entire body, but this power they' might have applied for, as they are now ap plying for other powers, and it is clear that this was tli critical point at which the negotiation broke off. Such, however, is now the position of affairs. The masons have separated from the Conference, but have connected themselves with their main body, and. will, it is anticipated, receive the support of the Society's funds. The Conference continues the fight as before, and the masters, also as before, are resolutely holding their ground. We regret as much as anybody can that the attempts at agree ment should have so completely miscarried, but, with one ea,weption, we do not see that the masters can be blamod for their resolution. We think they might as well. have recognised the Paviours' Arms " Conference," which though, perhaps, an irregular species of convention, was probably as " respon sible" as their own. Save for this, however, their conditions were reasonable, for it is clearly in the interests of the public, and the working man also, that every operative should be effectually protected in the disposal of his own labour.—Times. THE BELL OF WESTMINSTER. On Saturday the great bell of Westminster sounded for the last time, and while in the ♦ery act of striking Big Ben became dumb for ever. At the present moment the bell is even more hope lessly cracked than • its ill-fated predecessor, and like him, too, must be, broken up and recast before the great clock of the metropolis can again record the flight of time. Recasting is a word which is soon said ; but such a weary deal has to be done before Ben's mutilated fragments find their way to the melting pot, and still more before the renovated mass is again restored to its lofty dwelling, that, even taking a sanguine view of things, we think at the least a clear twelvemonth must elapse before the voice of the great bell can again be heard booming over the great province of houses in which it is to regulate the laws of time. The first bell was cast by the Messrs. Warner, and on trial proved so Much heavier than was expected that a clapper of nearly double the weight than originally intended had to be used to elicit the sound. Under the infliction t of repeated trials the bell broke in Palace-yard, and most fortunately bef4e it had been raised to its resting-place amid the iron beams and girders of the bell-chamber in the summit of the clock-tower. It was accordingly broken up and recast, showing, during the first-named process, that the first casting had been a failure. To Messrs. Mears of Whitechapel the recasting of the second bell was entrusted, Messrs. Warner de clining to undertake it on the terms offered by . the Board of Works. The second bell which has just cracked was a magnificent casting. Its weight, size, and tone were exactly what was required, and Mr. Denison most properly certified to the com pleteness of the largest and finest bell ever cast in England. This was, as usual, tested, and at last after considerable delay and trouble hoisted to its .place above the clock-room. The peculiar iron framework from which Big Ben and the quarter chimes were to hang has been so repeatedly de scribed in these columns that a repetition now would be almost useless. It will suffice to say, therefore, that it was amply strong enough for bells hung as they usually are hung, that is, swinging to a certain extent free and yielding to the stroke of the hammer. This mode, however, was - not the one adopted, and, contrary to the experience of all bell-hangers from time immemorial, Big Ben was firmly bolted to the beam from which he hung and made as rigid as the walls of the tower itself. Thus fixed, his tone was tried ; the clapper was swung to its full extent. The result, as may easily be an ticipated, was that the rigid bell acted like a gigan tic lever upon the bell frame, which worked danger ously, while it was evident that the tone of the bell itself was seriously impaired by the rigidity of its fastenings, which of course prevented much of the vibration. Both these facts were clearly pointed out in the account of the trial of the bell which ap peared in this journal. So matters dragged on, the clock was not going, the bell-frame was not fastened. Public attention was directed to the delay, but with very little result, beyond eliciting the usual amount of denial, complaint, and flat contradiction from all concerned in the matter in any way or form. Par liamentary papers were moved for and produced, in the interest of all the great contending parties, but they only made bad worse, as none contained the whole truth, while some contained no truth at all. At last, when it is not too much to say the pub lic were disgusted with the whole affair, and weary of the mismanagement and waste pf money which each fresh inquiry disclosed, the clock at length was fixed, and Big Ben began to number hours, though his own, as it seems, were of the shortest. With the first notes of the great bell's voice the public were much disappointed, and blamed the bell. This was unjust. The bell was as fine a bell as was ever cast, and its jarring tone was entirely due to the way it was hung and the way it was struck. Of its rigidity, which was one fault, we have already spoken. The mechanism of the clock, it is said, was not strong enough to raise the ham mer a sufficient height to draw forth the full tone. Another reason was that to assist the rebound of the hammer from the bell, in order not to check vibration, and to catch it instantly for the next stroke, the hammer was filled with a pad of india rubber or some such elastic substance, which, of course, muffled the sound completely. Neither of these two latter courses, however, had anything to do with cracking the bell, which those least versed in the art of bell-hanging will see at once is mainly due to Big Ben having been rigidly bolted down or up without a possibility of yielding the fraction of an inch under the ponderous blows of the hammer. So at length he broke. The only remedy now left is to remove the clock, get down the bell, break it up and recast it for the third time, prove it, get it up the tower again, and refix the clock under it as soon as may be. If these six operations average, on the whole, less than three months to each, why the work will be very quickly done. An old adage tells us the fate of the best broth with too many cooks to prepare it. In the name of common pru dence let the contract for the next bell be given to some of our most eminent bell founders who have passed their lives and realised fortunes in the ma• nufactbre of bells of all kinds. Let such a man be told what is wanted, and let him be responsible that it is forthcoming. We may then hope to have a bell which will be a pride instead of a grievance to the public mind. nce FE3IALE EMIGRATION TO NEW- ZEALAND. The following extract from an official letter, dated Auckland, June 24, 1859, and addressed to Mr. A. F. Ridgway, as agent for the island, will be read with interest : " You will be advised in a separate communica tion on the subject of sendjng out a number of female domestic servants, who will be willing to undertake the repayment of the cost of their passages respec tively within two years after their arrival. This ig an experiment the success of which will depend wholly upon the moral character and fitness of the young women sent out ; and I need scarcely urge upon you the necessity for exercising the utmost discretion and caution in their selection. "On this side the Government will take the charge of receiving and providing them with ac commodation until they shall have found employ ment, which they will speedily do at wages from £2O to £3O a year. The disproportion in number between the sexes of our population is so considerable that for every well-conducted young woman there is a certain prospect of a comfortable settlement in life, as soon as she, shall, by her conduct here, have proved herself worthy." Extract from another letter, dated Auckland, June 24, 1'859 : " I have the honour to inform you that, in con sequence of the scarcity of female domestic servants here, it has been resolved to authorise you to send out at the expense of this Government about 50 emigrants of that class. You will, therefore, be so good as to take the necessary steps for that purpose as soon as possible. "The persons to be sent out Wust be young women of good character, who have actually been trained and employed as household servants. They should be generally selected from the country, and not from London, as servants accustomed to a great city do not easily accommodate themselves to colo nial life, and if some of them are acquainted with dairy work so much the better. " You are authorised to appoint a matron to take charge of them, who will be allowed the gratuitv usual in similar cases - , and I am sure you will take every possible care to select a fit person for this im portant charge, and also to ascertain that they are sent by a ship the character of whose officers will 'be a guarantee that nothing improper will bz permitted on board. _ _ " You will please to obtain from all the girls so sent out promissory notes for the cost of their pas sage, payable to the superintendent, at the provin cial treasury, by two equal instalments, 12 and 24 months after their arrival. They must, of course, be of such an age as to make their obligations binding, and their signatures should be - witnessed by the person who is to accompany them as matron. " I have no doubt tint you will, with your usual zeal for the interest of this province, do everything in your power to insure that only proper persons are sent out." [ADVERTISEMENT.]—EPPs's (Homoeopathic Chemist) COCOA.—This esteemed' preparation is sold by the prin cipal grocers at Is. 6d. per lb., in 11b., 41b., and packets. Each packet is labelled " James Epps, Hoino3o • pathic chemist, London." CIRCUIT REMINISCEIVCES AND TRIAL BY JURY. Sir John Coleridge delivered a lecture to the members of the literary society at the Athenaeum, Exeter, on Wednesday evening, entitled " Circuit Reminiscences." Mr. Sillifant presided. The audience was numerous and influential. After some introductOry remarks on the advantage of judges itinerating throughout the land, the lecturer said that going the circuit in his younger days was a very different thing to what it had been since the introduction of railways. It was then much more expensive and formal ; indeed, it was not untruly considered that the whole body going circuit ex pended more than it carried away. The judges did not post, but went in sober state, four-in-hand. Barristers posted, as it was considered irregular to travel in a public conveyance. The mess was then rather expensive ; the bar had their Own cellar of wine, under the care of their own officers, who went the circuit. The leader of the circuit was expected to be frequent in his attendance at mess, for to him they appealed to decide disputed points of profes sional etiquette. Those were days when gentle men in common life wore clothes of every colour, but the barrister was always expected to dine in black. He remembered, on one occasion, going out for a walk with other members of the Western Cir cuit in a town in Somerset,, and they met the judges. Oue of the party wore a black neckerchief, and a blue cap with a gold band round it. It chanced that a recruiting party, with drum and fife, passed at the time, and when they were afterwards sitting down at lunCheon the judges' butler waited upon them with their lordships' compliments, and to say that there was a recruiting party in the town, and if any of them had a military turn of mind, there was a fine opportunity for them to indulge them selves to their hearts' content. (Laughter.) In his early career, although the law did not allow him to Languish in idleness, still he had many idle days. He was fond of employing them in note-taking, whenever cases of an interesting character pre sented themselves, and he had found great benefit therefrom, especially at times when the facility of taking a rapid and accurate note became of great importance to him. He found that he had a note of a remarkable case which he had heard while on circuit in Cornwall. The story was this the county of Cornwall there lived a highly respec able family named Robinson, consisting oftwo sons, William and Nicholas, and two daughters. The property was settled on the two sons and their male issue, and in case of death on the two daughters. William was to be the 'squire, and Nicholas was placed with an eminent attorney at St. Austell, as his clerk, but with a prospect of ode day being ad mitted into partnership. The young man conducted himself well and respectably, and the attorney be came much attachedto him. The harmony, however, between the two and between the family was broken, for Nicholas had fallen in love with a young woman at St. Austell, who was a milliner or a milliner's apprentice. The result was that in Novmber, 1782, the young man was sent to London to qualify himself as an attorney, and thence he wrote un happy letters to his old master and others, but he was ultimately admitted an attorney of the Courts of Queen's Bench and Common Pleas. Thencefor ward he was never seen by any member of his family or former friends, and all search for him proved fruitless. In the course of time the old Robinson died. William, the eldest son, succeeded to the property. He never married, and died in May, 1802. As nothing was heard of Nicholas, the two sisters became entitled to the property, and they held possession of it for 20 years, no claim being made to disturb their enjoyment of it. In 1783 a young man, whose looks and manners were above his means and station, had made his appearance as a stranger at Liverpool. He called himself Nathaniel Richardson—the same initials as Nicholas Robin son. He bought a cab and horse, and plied for hire in the streets of Liverpool, Being a civil, sober, and prudent man, he soon became prosperous, and drove a coach between London and Liverpool. He married, had children, and gradually acquired considerable property. Having gone to Wales to purchase horses in 1802, he was b 7 an accident drowned in the Mersey. In the year 1821 it was said that this Nathaniel Richardson was .no other than Nicholas Robinson, and his eldest son claimed the property which was then inherited by the two daughters, and the action was tried in Cornwall. Nearly 40 years had elapsed since any one had seen Nicholas Robinson, but it was made out conclusively, in a most remarkable way, and by a variety of small circumstances, all pointing to one conclusion, that Nathaniel Richardson was the identical Nicholas Robinson. The Cornish wit nesses and the Liverpool witnesses agreed in :the description of his person, his height, the colour his hair, his general appearance, and more particu larly it was mentioned that he had a peculiar habit of biting his nails, and that he had a great fondness for horses. In addition to other circumstances, there was this most remarkable one—that Natha niel's widow married again, and the furniture and effects were taken to the second husband's house. Among the articles was an old trunk which she had never seen opened, but it happened one day that this old trunk was, through curiosity, examined, and among other letters end papers the two certi ficates of Nicholas Robinson's admission as attorney to the Courts of Queen's Bench and Common Pleas were found. On the trial the old master of Nicho las Robinson, alias Nathaniel Richardson, swore tc his handwriting, and so the property.was recovered. The right hon. gentleman, in referring to the trials of Feargus O'Connor and O'Brien, at which he pre sided-as judge, observed that the Chartist body at that time interested him a good deal. For the most part its members appeared to have been honest, but misguided persons. He had no doubt if the movement had not been suppressed that it would have led on to plunder and havoc, and that blood would have flowed like water, for the occupation and habits of these men made them a hard-handed and stern race. The way in which some of them defended themselves was remarkable ; although speaking with a Lancashire pronunciation, which was very difficult to understand, they neverthless spoke pure English, and quoted—not the works of Tom Paine and other infidel writers, but such writers as Algernon Sidney, Sir William Jones, John Locke, and John Milton. There were men among them who, after working 10 or 12 hours a-day, had been diligent- readers, and were better English scholars than many of the jurymen who tried them. After passing a glowing eulogiura on the legal and forensic . abilities of two of his con temporaries—Erskine and Follett—Sir John-. Col eridge concluded by warmly advocating the system of trial by jury. There were some, he said, who laboured to depreciate trial by jury, or, as it was more correctly termed, "trial by judge and jury." He did' not mean to say that this mode of trial was perfect, or that it was appropriate in deciding all matters of fact. He was far from saying that it would not admit of some improvement; but, speak ing from long experience and from much conside• ration, in nothing was he more confident than in thinking that to trial by jury they were more in debted, as members of society, as citizens, in respect to their property, their character, their safety, and. their liberty, than to any other single institution in the country.' (Cheers.) He had been a judge for an unusally long period, and he should ever regard. with admiration the manner in which juries dis charged their duties. Again and again he had reason to marvel at their patience, and again and again he had observed questions put by a jury which had been omitted by counsel and judge, the answer to which had thrown a light that had guided them to the truth of the whole matter. (Cheers.) As it regarded the judge and society generally, the institution of trial by jury was most important. Take it away from the merchant, the tradesman, and the farmer, and he ventured to say that they would take away one of the most im portant institutions which distinguished this coun try from every other nation. (Cheers.) It was one, and not the least important, part of their system of self-government. (Hear.) It was also a material part of a citizen's education. He had often thought if he had the appointment of the magistrates in the country that he would appoint those gentlemen who had served on petty juries on the Crown side for two assizes at least ; for he was sure that a more practical knowledge of criminal law was learnt in that way than could be acquired by several months of careful reading. (Laughter.) Earnestly did he hope that in their laudable desire to .improve their institutions they would never fancy themselves more wise than their ances tors and dispense with tr,ial by jury. (Cheers.) Let them be true to its principle, if they improved it in some of its details. Let them cherish it as an inestimable treasure, and guard it as they did their _Habeas Corpus, their Bill of Rights, and their M igna Charta (cheers), for it was not less essential than any one of these to their liberties and to their well-being—civil, social, and national. (Cheers.) One thing should always be remembered, that stupid verdicts were no arguments against the in stitution, for no human institution, however wise in itself, could be expected to work perfectly. Let pun improve their jurymen by raising the cha racter or their national education ; let them intro duce iatp _their panels all classes who by law were a not la , t v i 11 , t , if they foundfrom o i toit p l e 'a r i f l e , etliable to serve ; and when they had done that, and let hich, w them e framedm demn the instit u ti on . (Ch eers .) Th e y lived under 'n a wi‘e and just spirit. They could not possiby overrate the blessing which they possessed, yet it was so much a matter of course that they were apt to think as little of it as they did of the sun that shone upon them from Heaven. Such was human iature, and he should not consider that he had spoken so long that evening in vain, and they would not have listened so patiently for nothing, if what had been said to them shouldrouse them to a sense of the blessings they enjoyed, and to an earnest resolution that as far as it was in their power they would hand down this institution of trial by jury pure and undiminished to their latest posterity. (Protracted cheering.) BAST INDIA AND CHINA MAILS. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's screw sPeamiT Pera,Capt. Jamieson, bringing the Calcutta and China mails in charge of Mr. Douglass, of the General Post-office, arrived yesterday morning at Southampton. She left Alexandria on the 19th ult., Malta the 23d, and Gibraltar the 27th. As far as Cape Finisterre she had light brEezes and fine weather ; across the Bay fresh breezes, with heavy westerly swell ; up Channel moderate breezes and fine weather. The steamer brought 93 passengers, including Col. Taylor, Col. Lemon, R.M.8., Col. Wynn, Cap tains Despard, Stansbury, Cox, and Slaughter, Lieutenants Prior, Bolger, Bingham, Stewart, God- fret', Smith, R.N., Peard, R.N., and Malleh, R.N., Dr. Smart, R.N., from India, China, &c. ; Major Macdonald, from Egypt ; Major Bayley, Captains Ellison and Couch, Ensign Oliver, from Malta ; Lieutenant Adcock, from Gibraltar, &c. The cargo of the Pera consisted of 1,287 bales of silk, 3,107 cases of fruit, 8 packages of elephants' tusks, and 131 packages of miscellaneous merchandise. In the Straits of Gibraltar the Pera spoke the brig Jessie Thorns, of Liverpool, and the Prussian brig Pius IX. The usual Egyptian fleet was lying at Alexandria. Her .Majesty's ships Renown, Argus, Banshee, and Caradoc were at Malta; also, the Peninsular and Oriental steamer Alhambra. Her Majesty's screw frigate Doris, Capt. Heath cote, from Malta, arrived at Gibraltar on the 21st, and left. for Tangier on the afternoon of the 22d. On the 24th ult. her Majesty's steamship Edgar, 91, Capt. James E. Katon, bearing the flag of Rear Admiral John E. Erskine ; and the Neptune, 91, Capt. Sir W. Hoste, Bart., arrived at Gibraltar from Torbay. At the same time six steam line-of battle ships arrived from Malta—viz., the Marl borough. 131, Capt. Lord Kerr, with the flag of Vice-Admiral Fanshawe ; the Centurion, 80, Captain Patey ; the Conqueror, IM, Captain Griffiths ; the Princess Royal, 91, Capt. Baillie ; the Victor Emmanuel, 91, Capt. Willcox; and the Orion, 91, Capt. Frere •, also the steam gunboat Lapwing, Commander O'Reilly. When the Edgar and Neptune came up with Admiral Fanshawe's fleet to the eastward of the rock, the Edgar saluted the Marlborough with 15 guds, which compliment was immediately returned by the Vice-Admiral's ship firing 11. The ships then formed in line and steamed slowly into the bay, headed by the Marl borough. On arrival the garrison saluted Admiral Fanshawe's flag with 15 guns, the three-decker re turning a like number shortly afterwards. The whole of these ships, together with the Vulture, were lying in the bay when the Pera left on the 27th. A French squadron, composed of three two-deckers passed the rock from east to west at 6 p.m. on the 23d ; one of them bore a Rear-Admiral's flag. The British Charge d'Affaires at Morocco, Mr. Drummond Hay, arrived at Gibraltar at noon on the 26th, in her Majesty's steamer Redpole, and, after paying a visit to Admiral Fanshawe, on board the Marlborough, Mr. Hay left in the same steamer for Tetuan. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam ship Vectis, from Southampton for Marseilles, ar rived at Gibraltar on the 20th. The following British merchant steamers had arrived at Gibraltar :—Sept. 20, the Frankfort, Capt. Joy, six days from Liverpool, wiih general cargo for Genoa and Leghorn; 22d, the Pactolus, Capt. C. Mill, five days four hours from Liverpool, with general cargo for Malta and Alexandria ; 23 d , the Amity, Capt. G. Haig, seven days from Lon don, with general cargo for Genoa and Leghorn. The Russian steamship Alexander 11., Captain Fisher, from Leith, arrived at Gibraltar on the 22d; and the Boug, Capt. Smith, from London, on the 23d. During the passage of the Spanish steamer Pen samiento, from Cadiz to Gibraltar on the 25th ult., one of the crew, who was in the act of fastening the steamer's awning, fell overboard and was drowned, opposite the coast of Conil. Every exer tion was made by the captain and passengers to save the poor fellow, but all their efforts proved un availing, owing to the strong current. Exchanges at Gibraltar were quoted as follows on the 24th : London, 90 days' date, 51 • Paris, ditto, sf. 31c.; Marseilles, ditto, sf. 32c. • &runt, ditto, sf. 34c. ; Madrid, eight days' sight, dis. ; Cadiz, ditto, -} Malaga, ditto, par. ; Seville, ditto, ti dis. ; Alicante, ditto, -!; dis. ; Valencia. ditto, -1 dis. ; Bar celona, ditto, par. ; Spanish Pillared Dollars, 3 per cent. premium—none, and no demand. The Portuguese screw steamsloop Argos, 2 guns, Commander Neves, put into Cadiz on the 20th from Tangier, with dispatches, and left for Lisbon on the 22d. The French war steamer Tisiphone, Captain Benic, also put into Cadiz from 'rangier on the 20th ; and the Albatros. 4 guns, Commander La Pierre, from Toulon, on the 23d. The Russian steam frigate Svetlana, 38 guns, Capt. Pousime, ar rived at Cadiz on the 20th, in five days from Ports mouth. . THE STEAM PLOUGH IN AMERICA The agricultural journals of the United States report a successful trial of a new steam plough. The mail from Illinois to-day (a New York paper says), brings flattering accounts of the success of an invention which is likely to prove to certain parts of the West what the cotton gin was to the South. We refer to Fawkes's steam plough, the experiments with which at the State Fair at Free port have demonstrated that it is capable of plough ing 40 acres per day ! The benefit which must accrue to the prairie lands of the West, especially those of Illinois, from such a monster labour-saving machine, cannot easily be over estimated. The traction of this plough, instead of being effected, as in the English invention, by wire ropes, affixed to moveable anchors, is accomplished by means of a driving drum, which appears, from the following description, extracted from the same jonrnal, to be capable of doing a great many more •feats than drawing a plough : " An interesting and amusing occurrence recently took place at the trial of Fawke's steam plough in Oxford-park, near Philadelphia. After the public exhibition had been brought to a close, a common farm or hay waggon was fastened to the engine—a band, such as is often found in the country, consist- ' in,g of four pieces ' was procured, and the ' Stars and Stripes' unfurled froM the cart. A large party of jolly and enthusiastic farmers filled the waggon to overflowing, and the novel train was drawn by the engine over the turnpike, three miles, to Frankford. Four miles further, at the Chatham-street station, where the engine with its train proceeded, a severer test of the traction power of the machine was proved. The truck upon`which it was to be trans ported over the Pennsylvania Central Railway to Lancaster, was in waiting, but the question anxiously discussed was, how the ponderous engine was to be lifted upon the truck. The crowd in at tendance were enthusiastic over the scene, but Mr. Fawkes WNS at no loss as to how it was to be ac complished." The United States Railroad and Mining Reporter says :—" He at once announced his intention of running his engine up an inclined gangway, and thus making it place itself upon the truck. Many attempted to dissuade him from what they deemed a hazardous undertaking, but . 16 insisted it could be done. 'We accordingly procured two planks, 28 feet long, 6 inches thick, and 14 inches wide, and with them made an inclined plane from the ground to the top of the truck. The timbers were separated about three feet, and securely blocked up, and gave a united surface adhesion of 28 inches, which, as his driving roller is six feet long, was but 28- 72nds, or 7-18ths of the usual traction surface. Starting within five feet of the foot of the plan*, to show his independence of momentum, the inventor ascended until near the top, stopped, backed down the plane several feet, again stopped, started up ward and entered upon the truck. Unaided by momentum, and with less than two-fifths of , his ordinary surface of adhesion, he ascended a grade o over 1,000 feet to the mile. Arrived at Lancas ter, steam was got up while the machine was on the truck, and a plane even shorter than that by which the ascent had been made was constructed. Upon this the engine placed herself, and descended to the road." The journal from which we copy the above further remarks : "We regard this performance as unrivalled in the annals of engineering, and one, moreover, which assures us that the employment of engines with a driving drain will not be confined to agriculture, hut that in the construction of railroads, tunnels,. and ()the: public works, as well as in mines, they may be advantageously used in transportation, on grades hitherto regarded as insurmountable, save, by animal power or stationary engines. Railroads, planked like the passenger road to Darby, may be lakd either temporarily or perma nen tl y , over hills, or up the mountain side, and passengers and freight —where the amount is yet too small to warrant the construction of heavy Works—may be carried l at a profit, by Fawkes's Locomotive, with a driv-', lug drum." POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—Oct. 1. WORSHIP-STREET.—Sarah Jane Wiggins, aged 24, was charged with having caused the death of James White, three years of age, under circum stances of an unusually revolting character. The prisoner resides at 4, Clarence-cottages, Hackney. Emma Scott said—l am married. My husband is a labourer, and we lived in the same house as the prisoner. When I first went to the house a man was living with her ; his name was James White, and I always supposed he was her husband and the father of the child. He left last Tuesday three weeks, and she has been alone since. I think he is a groom, and that he has left to go out of town with the family he is engaged with. Mr. D'Eyncourt—What is the prisoner's name ? Witness—She passed by that of White up to Wednesday last, when she said it was Sarah Jane Wiggins, and that sho was not married to White. I saw the unfortunate child alive on Tuesday last, and I did not see it alive afterwards. At half-past one o'clock on that morning the prisoner went out At 11 o'clock I heard the boy scream, and I asked the eldest girl what was the matter with him. She replied that he wanted some tea, and I told her to give him some. About half-past two o'clock I heard him scream again, opened the room door, and saw the boy dressed and walking about the room. The prisoner was not there, but the boy's sisters were ; one nine years old and the other seven. The boy was a little more than three years of age. He had been under the doctor's hands for an abscess in the face. I saw no bruises about him. Never ob served the prisoner use violence towards him. On the day I was speaking of (Tuesday), I went out about five o'clock in th e a ft ernoon , and when I re turned about six o'clock I found he had been put to bed. Prisoner came home at a quarter to eight o'clock. She went to that room. I heard her go upstairs and I then heard heavy slaps as though given with the opedhand, but I heard no scream. After that I saw prisoner come downstairs and go out, taking the eldest girl with her. She returned in about half an hour, it being then about a quarter. to nine. The following mornin gI saw the eldest girl come downstairs, and at 20 minutes to 8 o'clock I heard heavy slaps above. They were repeated five or six times. Mr. D'Eyncourt—Did you then hear any scream or cry ? Witness—Neither. The prisoner was then up stairs. About half-past 8 o'clock I heard prisoner come downstairs, and saw her pass my window in a great hurry, almost running. She came back in a quarter of an hour, went upstairs, returned directly, and screamed at the top of the stairs. I went to my door and asked " What is the matter ? She replied, " Oh, my little Jemmy has gone." I said, " Oh, dear me ; not dead ?" and she answered, " Yes ;go and see." I ran up, and saw the child with its clothes on lying upon the bed. It was quite still. We both went downstairs, and the doe tor entered as I was going out for assistance. I was then about a quarter to 9 o'clock. Mr. D'Eyncourt—Now, be careful. prisoner say anything ? Witness—When the doctor was there she said she could not account for the bruises. I saw the bruises then ; and after he had gone she told me that the child had been very weak—relaxed in the .aside. Did the Mr. D'Eyncourt—Have you observed her con duct to the children ? Witness—l have often heard heavy slaps, never seen them given. Mr. D'Eyncourt—Did you hear anything about the child being tied ? Witness (with some hesitation)—Last Tuesday week the prisoner told me that during the past night the child had been relaxed in his inside, and made much mess. On the next day, Wednesday, she told me that the child had made no more dirt, and she did not think he would again, as she had punished him. I asked "In what way did you punish him ?' and she answered, " I took him up stairs when the other children went to bed, and after he was undressed and had said his prayers, I tied him to the bedstead, with his hands fastened down." I said, " Oh, Lord, you surely did not keep him there all night ?" and she answered " Yes, I did, until 7 o'clock this morning." Fanny White—l am nine years of age. This woman (prisoner) is not my mother. I remembcz mother dying, but don't know how long since. Mr. D'Eyncourt—What is your father ? Witness—A gentleman's servant ; he has left us three weeks last Tuesday. Mr. D'Eyncourt—Did you ever beat your brother? Witness—Oh no, sir. Mr. D'Eyncourt—Do you know how he came by the bruises on his face and head ? Witness—No, sir. Mr. D'Eyncourt—Did you ever see this woman beat him ? Witness—She used to take him upstains, so I could not see it. I know that she slapped my sister once. Mr. D'Eyncourt—Now tell me the truth, and don't be afraid. Did you ever see her tie him with a cord? Witness—One night she tied him with a cord like that (pointing to a sash-line attached to a win dow of the court). It was when we went to bed one night; may be a week ago. She tied him to the bed stead with his arms behind him. Mr. D'Eyncourt—Was he dressed? Witness—No, only his little " shimmy" on. Mr. D'Eyncourt—How long did he stop there ? Witness—When I awoke the next morning, between 6 and 7 o'clock, he was still there; he was awake, and still standing up. Mr. D'Eyncourt—.Did you hear him cry ? Witness —No, he only " winnicked" a little. I think he was afraid to cry for fear he should b e punished more. He seldom cried. I believe she used to beat him on his back. As he was tied be was obliged to stand. Ido not think that shebeat him that night she tied him up. He was punished , when he cried. Mr. D'Eyncourt—What was he tied up for ? Witness—Because he had been crying for water all day. Mr. D'Eyncourt—What did she do after she tied him up ? Witness—She went to bed. She must have un loosed him while I was down stairs in the morning. Mr. D'Eyncourt—Have you ever known him tied up before that ? Witness—l don't know. Mr. D'Eyncourt—Did you ever slap him ? Witness—Oh no, sir. Mr. D'Eyncourt—Do you recollect the day before he died ? Witness—Yes, sir. When she went out she cut us each a slice of bread and butter. He cried for cake, and I gave him some of my food and tea. Mr. D'Eyncourt—What happened that night— the night before he died ? Do not be frightened. Tell mo all the truth. Witness—She took him up and s h oo k hi m . Sh e tied him up that night in a different way. I am quite sure of it. I think she stood on the bedstead. (The poor little girl's attempt to describe what had occurred on this occasion was for a considerable period not comprehended. The skeleton of a four post bedstead was subsequently formed with pens, and she clearly demonstrated by the aid of a hand kerchief doll the position in which the little sufferer had been placed, viz., bound with three or four turns of rope round the body on the cross piece of the top of the bedstead at the foot). She then con tinued—His back was next the board, and his head hanging down. I heard him " winnick " all night nearly ; did not hear her speak to him. Mr. D'Eyncourt—When was he taken down ? Witness—Not when I got up in the morning ; he was still there. I got up at the usual time. When the policeman came I went upstairs with him, and saw the little boy lying dead on the bed. Mr. D'Eyncourt—Did you ever see the cord round your brother's neck? Witness—l did not see it. Mr. D'Eyncourt—Do you wish to put any ques tions to this child, prisoner ? Prisoner—No. Mr. Edward Dennis Hucon, surgeon, of Rich mond-road, Hackney, said—l have attended the deceased child. Unquestionably its death resulted from violence. I have made a post mortem exami nation. I found the stomach perfectly contracted, and manifestly without food for some time past, although it had been well nourished. The imme date cause of death I believe to have been caused by an effusion of blood upon the brain. I found marks of a ligature round the head. After some further evidence, the prisoner was remanded. [ADVERTISEMENT.] —The great injury inflicted on many invalids by drugs increases the interest the public take iu Du Barry's nevalento. Arabica Food, which cures without medicine indigestion (dyspepsia), flatulency, constipation, nervous, bilious, and liver complaints, cough, asthma, con sumption, and d e bility. We quote a few out of many thou sand cases of cures by this delicious food :—Cure No. 180, —" Twenty- five years' nervousness, constipation, indiges tion, and debility from which I have suffered great misery, and which no medicine could remove or relieve, have been effectually cured by Du Barry's Food in a very short time. W. B. Reeves, 181, Fleet- street, London." Cure 4,208. " Eight years' dyspepsia, nervousness, debility, with cramps, spasms, and nausea, for which my servant had consulted the advice of many, have been effectually cured by Du Barry's Health .restoring Food. I shall be happy to answer any in quiries. Rev. J. W. Flavell, Ridlington Rectory, Norfolk." In tins, at is. 6d. ; lib., 3s. ; 21b., 65. 9d. ; 61b., 125.; 121 b., 265. The kOlb. and 121 b. tins carriage free, on receipt of post office order. Du Barry and Co., 77, Regent-street, London . Fortnum, Mason, and Co., 182, Piccadilly ; Abbis, 60, Gracechurch-street ; 4, Cheapside ; 63, and 150, Oxford street ; 330 and 451, Strand • 49 and 60, Bishopsgat e • street ; 85, Tottenham-court-road. Also at Dublin, Bewley and Draper ; at Edinburgh, Raimea and Co. at Liverpool, Nixon and Thew; at Manehester, Sharp a n d Scott; at York, Raimes, Blanchard, and Co.; at South ampton, Randal and Son. BECEN2 WILLS AND BEQUESTS. The will of Lady Wheler, wife of Sir Trevor Wheler, Bart., of Cross house, near Torrington, Devon, was administered to, in the London Court of Probate, by Sir Trevor Wheler, Bart., the hus band, and George Hume, Esq., the surviving execu tors, the other executor, the Rev. George Dandridge, Rector of Rousham, Oxford, having died before the testatrix. The probate was limited to property left to her ladyship by the will of her father, the late George Dandridge, Esq., over which she bad a power of disposition, having disposed of £l,OOO to each of her daughters as marriage portions be queathing the residue to her husband, Sir Trevor, for his life, and then to her two daughters equally between them. Her ladyship has bequeathed to Sir Trevor the service of Sevres china presented to her by the late Sir Trevor Wheler, Bart., has left her set of diamonds to her eldest daughter, Lucy Penelope,with other specific bequests to her and her daughter Jane, and the rest of the jewels, trinkets, and books to be divided equally between them. To her maid she leaves £2O, and her wardrobe, and to her housekeeper £25. The will is dated the 13th of Nlarch, 1858. The will of William Edward Russell, Esq., of Swanscombe, Kent, was proved in the principal registry of the Court of Probate, by the executors, E:eanor A. Russell, the relict, John Russell, Esq., the son, and Frederick Stoneham, Esq., of Cray ford, Kent. The personalty was sworn under £lB,OOO. He has bequeathed to his said son, John Russell, for his own absolute use, his share in the trade andbusiness of a brewer and maltster carried on in partnership with John Henry Tillyer, at Gravesend, and leaves him all his interest in the freehold and leasehold premises and buildings con nected therewith, and the plant, machinery, and. stock, with all the credit attached to the business. Leaves to his two other sons and two daughters £BOO each. Bequeaths his freehold residence and land at Swanscombe, and his farm, land, and tene ments at Northfieet, and the produce thereon, to his wife for her life, and, at her decease, to be di vided amongst his children, except the said eldest. He has left all his furniture and household effects to his wife absolutely.—lllustrated London News. COUNT.RY MARKETS. LIVERPOOL—OcT. 1. Notwithstanding large arrivals of grain ma flour, the market was amply supplied with samples from granary, and we only want more customers. Business' not specia lative enough in Brunswick-street at present. era quotations of last week are unaltered. LEICESTER—OcT. 1. There was a fair supply of 'wheat to-day, with a mode rate show of other grain. Pi-ices—White wheat, 46s to 48s —red, 40s to Vs per 36 stone; an excellent inquiry for fine barley, grinding, 30s to —s ; malting, 40s to 42s per qr. ; the oat trade was dull, at quotations ranging from 28s to 31s per 24 stone. Beans a good sale, at 50s to 52s per 38 stone. Fine flour, 3is I Seconds, 32s I Thirds, 30s per 20 stone. NORWICH—OcT. 1. Here, to-day, there was rather a full attendance of the trade, and a firm feeling. The show, of wheat was good ? and prices for both old and new were at about late rates. The supply of new barley was on the increase, and prices at about late rates. Little passing in oats, beans, or peas. Flour in favour of the buyer. White wheat. 45s to 48s Red wheat 38s to 430 Malting barley.... 38s to 45s I New malting barley3Bs to 440 Distilling d0......25s io 28s I Oats.. 24s to 210 Flour, 29s to 29s 6d per sack from the miller. GLOUCESTER—Ocr. 1. At our market there was rather a large attendance, but no great trade was done, and prices were at about fully tho currencies of this day se'nnight. NOTTINGHAM—OcT. 24. We had a fair attendance at to-day's market, and a small supply of grain. The extreme prices of last week, however! were maintained. Barley a small show, with'-no material change in price. Beans scarce, and is lower. White wheat, new, 45s to 52s Barley, grinding.. 27s to 31s Red do. 42s to 46s Oats, old, .. Old white 4Bs to 548 New do ...23s to 284 Red do. 428 to 47s 1 Beans.. 48s to 51. Barley, malting.... 36s to 44s I Beans, new .. .... 41s to 440 Super. flour, 35s to 39s ; fine, 30s to 33s per 20 stone STAMFORD—OcT. 1. At our market yesterday wheat obtained no advance 00 , last week, with a fair show, and a good attendance of the trade. Barley went. at ext reme prices. The supply of oati was moderate. Beans still slow. CAMBRIDGE—OcT. 1. There was a tolerable supply of wheat., and, with a rather inactive feeling in the trade, white moved off at 44s to 48s; red, 40s to 44s per 36 stone. Spring corn was by no meaty plentiful. Barley, 38s to 42s per qr. Oats dull, at 20s to 26s for new ' • old oats, —s to —s. B eans i n li m it e d sup' ply, and a slow sale—new ' 38s to 41s ; old, —s to —s per 38 stone ; tares, 6s 6d to 9s per bushel. NORTHAMPTON—Ocr. 1. At this corn-market wheat was in fair supply, and sold at fully late rates—prices ranging from 40s to 44s for nevrt and 40s to 45s per quarter for old, There was a fair trade passing in barley. Oats, with u slow demand, quoted eS 25s to 325. Beans, old, 47s to 525; new, 40s to 445. Rye, 30s to 368; malt, 64s to 665. DUBLIN—SEPT. 30. Our market was brisk, with a fair supply of grain, and we note an improvement of 6d on the prices of last market: The best barley fully supported late rates ; inferior realised Gd to is less money. Oats and rapeseed moved off at Thee day's currencies. Indian corn was slow of sale. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. di; Wheat, white 22 6to 25 6 Do., new ..... 11 oto 12 _u Do., red 2l oto 24 0 Bere Do., new .... 21 0t023 6 Rapeseed Barley Oats Do., black l4 oto 1,5 0 Indian corn .. 29 oto3o 0 FOREIGN MAIL PACKET LIST. In the following table E Signifies that letters are despatched by evening mails from London, and M by morning mails. Next DESTINATIONS. Despatch Port of Mail of Mails. Despatch. dLe. Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton Oct. 12, M Southamp. Oct. 10 Ditto, via Marseilles Bahamas and Ifavana via New York Oct. 28, E Liverpool.. Oct. 27 Canada, &c. (by Canadn. pckt,) Oct. 4, E Liverpool.. Oct. 6 Cage of Good Hope, Ascen sion, and St. Helena China, Penang, and Singa pore, via Southampton Ditto, via Marseilles Gibraltar, via Southampton.. Oct. 4, M Southamp. Oct. 2 Honduras and Blewfields .... Oct. 17, 31 Southamp. Oct. 16 India (Calcutta) and Ceylon, via Southampton Oct. 12, M Southamp. Oct. 2 Ditto, via Marseilles India (Bombay), via South ampton Oct. 12, 31 Southamp. Oct. 10 Ditto, via Marseilles Lisbon, Brazils,Buenos Ayres, and F. Islands Lisbon, Vigo, and Oporto Oct. 7, 31 Soothing), Oct. 1 Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Oct. 4, M Southamp. Oct. 2 Ditto, via Marseilles Mexico and Havana Oct. 3, M Southamp. ,Oct. 1 Newfoundland Oct. 7, E Liverpool.. United States and British N America (by British packet) Oct. 7, E Liverpool.. Oct. 5 Ditto (by 'U. S. packet) Southamp. West Coast of Africa, Ma deira, and Teneriffe Oct. 24, J Liverpool.. Oct. 9 West India, California, Vene zuela, Chili, Peru, Grey town, New Granada, &c. [AuvEwrisEmENT.l—Holloway's Pills and Ointment.-' Stomach and Kidneys. —Between these two o rgans th e re exists a close and intimate relation, which is demonstrated by the wasting which occurs in all diseases affecti ng the kidneys. The disordered stomach is often the first hide% of renal irregularity. Holloway's remedies, used at that juncture, would cut short many a serious and fat a l a tt ac k. They act withwonderful efficiency on every organ of secre tion, but specially do they regulate the stomach, liver, and kidneys in restoring their healthy functions, and casting out any obstructions and impurities. It is necessary for the ointment to be well rubbed over the affected parts twice daily, when it is absorbed, and much augments the purify' mg and salutary influence of the pills. BIRTHS. LODER.—On the 30th ult., at the High Beeches, Susses, the wife of Robert Lodar, Esq., of a daughter. NAPIER.--On the 29th ult., at HolkharnVicarage, Norfolk, the wife of the Rev. Alexander Napier, of a daughter. WEST.—On the 30th ult., at Alscot-park, the wife of J. R. West, Esq., of a son. WHITTINGnAm.—On the 20th ult„ at Corfu, the wife of Colonel Whittingham, C. 8., 2d Battu. 4th King's Own, of a daughter. MARRIAGES. ANSTRITTITER — PARSONS.—On the 30th ult., at St. Pancras Church, Sir Windham Carmichael Anstruther, Bart., of Westraw and Carmichael, to Mary Ann, second daugh ter of John Parsons, Esq. GIRLING — CARTER.—On. the 29th ult., at St. John% Westminster, Mr. Joseph Girling, of Dorset-street, Pim lico, to Georgians Jemima, the only daughter of Thomas Carter, Esq., Bessborough-gardens, DEATHS. BARROW.—On the 30th ult., at 15, Frederick -street, Graril inn -road, Mr. John Barrow, aged 82. FULLER.—On the 28th ult., at Gibraltar, John Augustus Fuller, Captain 6th Royals, and eldest son of John Bird Fuller, Esq., of Weston -park, Wilts. GANDY.—On the 26th ult., at Oaldand,Windermere, John Gandy, Esq., aged 73. JAMES.—On the Ist inst., the Rev. John Angell James, of Birmingham, aged 75. JEERasi7o.—f Jersey 3d inst., a t 38, Berkeley-squ are , the RAYMOND. —On the 30th ult., at Kensington, Major Victor Raymond, late Paymwstor 27th Inniskillens, aged 71. RITTER.—On the 28th ult., at Berlin, Professor Dr. Carl Ritter, aged 81. RYLAND.—On the 23d ult., at Rose Villa, Biggleswade, Mr. John Ryland, aged 61. LONDON : Printed and. Published byINIURDO YOUNG, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, No. 112, st ra nd, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the county of atiddesel, Monday Oetobor 3 1859, fact the call Caz "hi itist Pal; and Mar divi Hot o'o G On; at G (148. at 5 to ti for LAI Ball Mon Win Are; corn open estal and pert I Gres the i hanc visit at 12 Dr. TUT Tl. DAI free Marl Autl V T RA Eel oi cent. Has the r. Kin,; sent ND PATH thei, I'm& Co and of th R Di this foun upw T 1 this gent sina and PO C be h of t Don Post Malt Cho ries, enal best etre MeE °till pit Iv