The Sun. — London, England, 1859-04-14 00:00:00

ELECTION INTELLIGENCE. ASHBURTON. Mr..Moffatt, the sitting member, and Mr. Harvey . Astell, his opponent, have both declared their in tention of going to the poll. BARNSTAPLE. No less than five candidates have announced their intention to become candidates for the representa tion of this borough. Sir W. Fraser and Mr. Laurie, the present members, offer themselves for re-election. Mr. G. Potts, of London, and Colonel Stucley (of Hartland Abbey, Devonshire), both of whom formerly contested the borough, and the latter was once one of its representatives, have reappeared as Conservative candidates ; and Mr. J. H. F. Davie, son .of Sir H. Davie, M.P., of Creedy-park, Devonshire, comes forward on Liberal principles. The latter gentleman, in his address, says he is in favour of real progre ss an d o f an ex. tensive measure of reform. A sharp contest will evidently take place here. BIRMLNG HAM. It is now stated with considerable confidence that an attempt • will be made to displace Mr. Bright, and that a private meeting, to make arrangements for that. purpose has already been held upon the subject. One good Liberal, a gentleman connected with the locality, has, it is said, been applied to, 'but declined to owe his election to a combination of Whig'and Tory votes. If a candidate could be ob tained the Liberal party admit that the seat of Mr. Bright or Mr. Scholefield would be considerably imperilled. The matter at present is managed with great secrecy. BRISTOL. Mr. F. W. Slade, Q.C., of the Western Circuit, is the Conservative candidate for one of the seats for this city. The learned gentleman is a son of Gen. Sir J. Slade, K.C.8., of Maunsell-house, So merset, twin brother of Major-Gen. M. J. Slade, Lieutenant-Governor of Guernsey, and brother of Admiral A. Slade, who holds a high command in the Turkish navy. He has been an unsuccessful candidate for Salisbury, and was returned for Cam bridge upon one occasion, but was unseated on pe tition. Yesterday evening his address was issued, in which he says : " Having been called upon by an influential portion of your fellow -citizens to co me f orwar d at this momentous crisis in defence of the institutions of our country, I respond to the call, and now respectfully presume to offer myself to your notice as a candidate for the honour of representing you in Parliament. I do not come before you as a total stranger. The profession of which lam a member brings me from time to time under your notice, whilst the stake which my f am il y h ave for many years possessed in the county of Som erse t le a d s me naturally to fe e l a deep . inte rest in the we lf are o f your anc i ent city. My political opi nions are, I believe, well known--I desire to maintain unimpaired the great landmarks of the constitution ; I wish to preserve all that is valuable, though prepared cheer fully to lend my aid towards, amending all that is defective, in the various departments of the State. I believe that the Government of Lord Derby is eminently qualified to secure these several objects. I, therefore, most strongly condemn the factious combirm tion formed at a moment of national difficulty for the sole purpose, by embarr:assing . the Government, of promoting the selfish ends of disappointed men. I have no confidence in Lord John Russell, whose career appears to me to have been marked more by the successful manceuvres of a party leader than by the patriotic endeavours of a disinterested statesman. The late conduct of the noble lord has been on a par with that of former years, and i n th e h ope of placing himself again in power, he fair Pursued a disingenuous course, which has prevented a fair consideration of the Go vernment measure of reforp, and has unnecessarily inter- Ppted commercial proc e edings by n ece ssitating the present aeal to the country. It is for you to say whether you will have a strong Government, enjoying the confidence of our gracious Queei . n,. or one f ormed out of a factious and dis cordant Opposition andhether you will allow England, to be powerful at home respected abroad, or see her influence wane under the baneful consequences of a distracted Par liament. In the event of mty Obtaining the honour I seek, through your nerou.s confidence, my unremitting atten tion will be devoted to the consideration of those various national and local interests, the advancement of which is the em indi spe pire itsnsably elf." essential to the prosperity of your city and of ~.... Addresses BURY ST. EDMUND'S, have now appeared from th ree candi dates for this borough—Lord A. Hervey (Liberal Conservative), Sir R. Buxton (Progressive Conser vative), and Mr. J:. Hardcastle (Liberal). The three candidates will in all probability.go to a poll ; and in that case the contest will principally lie be tween Sir R. J. Buxton and Mr. Hardcastle. —___.— CHATHAM. The contest in this borough is likely to be a very severe. one, Major-Gen. Sir F. M. Smith, the present being ppposed by Mr. A. J. Otway, who is member, supported by the whole strength of the Liberal party. Although Sir F. Smith voted in favour of the second reading of the Derby Reform Bill, yet he is firmly opposed to the disfranchisement of the voters in her Majesty's dockyards. Sir F. Smith has also gained some popularity in consequence of the decided part he took in favou r of Civil Service Superannuation Bill. The friends of Mr. A. S. -Otway, late M.P. for Stafford, are sanguine of suc cess, and the greatest efforts are made to return a Liberal member for the town, notwithstanding that all the Government influence will be it is likely made use of to insure his defeat. At the last elec tion Sir F. Smith was returned by the narrow ma jority of 29 over his 9pponent, Mr. Romaine, one of the present secretaries of the Admiralty. ._____... DEVONSHIRE (lsTORTI1). Mr. J. W. Buller has just issued his address to the electors of the Northern Divisi on of Devon. shire. DEVONSHIRE (SOUTH). We stated a few days ago that Mr. Palk and Mr. Kekewich would offer themselves for re-election. Since then Mr. Palk, addressing metin g of elec tors and tenantry at Torquay, said:-... cc H e was sorry that an hostile combination should have induced the Government to t en d er their resignation at a moment when it was most i m p ortant that they s hould have remained in office. With re gar d to the proper defence of the country, he believed it would be found that since the Derby Government had been in office every att etiti __, 1----vn• l earned that the been directed to the defence of the coast. some way other—he could not tell how--it had' ."'"'-•-•..gland, its colonial navy of France was greatly supetik• to our o wn. Now considering the maritime position of possessions, commercial returns, and its hitherto acknow• legged sovereignty of the seas, this ought not to b e th e case; and be was happy to say that ht P had be en question of reform have taken to put our naval forces on a proper footing. H e should have been glad could the been settled in the present Parliament, because it is a question of great importance to all classes Re was flrry it was not settled, because he held the opini on that it ought s to be done as speedily as possible, and on terms that would be satisfactory to the country. But on a question of this kind, it was . right that they (the co Put elctors) sh ou ld look after their interests and support ther rightsand • • • pri m . le es ; they could not afford to be crushed in this part of the try simply for the advantage of the manufacturing e°ulA of the North. He felt convinced that the interest of towns parties would be best supported by making a liberal privileges to o parties ession to the people, and extending the those who required it, if it could be shown that they were duly qualified to exercise that privilege." DURHAM (CITY). A meeting of the Conservatives has been held in this city to adopt measures to secure another Con servative candidate, when it was resolved to invite Mr. Richard Lawrence Pemberton, of Bishopwear mouth, to offer himself for the representation of this city. GREAT YARMOUTH. .The Liberal candidates addressed their suppo r t ers at considerable length on Monday, night. Mr. j, W. Shelley, one of the borough magistrates, pre sided. Mr. %VATKIN contended, with reference to the assertion that the Reform Bill of the Go vernmeht might have been modified in committee as t o i ts details, that the Liberal party quarrelled not with its details but with its main principles---the dis franchisement_ of county freeholders resident in boroughs, the non-reduction of the f fran chise, borough ran- Th _v. , iv a en El t. the retention of nomination boroughs. was 'tot, kee p of all this, the hon. gentleman argued, f ew gre ' at t P e the . . rep . resentation in the hands of a that was thattorial interests. The consequence of country th at tihe Executive Government of the representatiOn the hands of a tew ; and as the Government also at monopoly, 'So the Executive was . that which flower e.a monopoly. The result —viz., inefficiency,. T f i r i orn every kind of monopoly from filling the right best men were prevented of England came intoPearl4.and when the people o . f some other county. 1180,1°11 with the people in the case of the war in th—e .systemas it did from its own inefficiency, a e j . ru nea—broke down superior wealth and superior England, with her spite of her intrinsic power. Population, sunk, i n ment dissolved, not to car r y a P r "Llit Govern but to . keep in office ; they ac t7 1° 2 1 „ 1 ,. despised . the national danger which it ihe and were going to the country upon mere nvo:vea ' and siderations. (Cheers.) p arty eon.. Mr. YOUNG, M.P., said the question was wheth er the House of Commons acted ri g htl y in thelate division. He had voted with the majority, and he was ready to stake his election upo n the issue. Taking into account the territorial influence th e Bill of the Government would have created and maintained, he. believed, if it had passed, the people would have been worse represented than at present. It wholly ignored the existence of the working artisans throughout the United Kingdom, except those who happened to live in £lO houses ; and although he himself was not an extreme Re former, he must insist on a fair extension of the borough franchise. The Chancellor of the Ex chequer h a d e ndeavoured to take the Liberal element o u t o f ever y county, but his object was so transparently evident that it was a aiatter of won, der that he could ever have hoped to pass his bill. Tho opposition of Lord John Russell was said to have been factious, but the noble lord's co. , rse was taken immediately after the introductiin of the bill, when he got up and expressed those senti ments which he afterwards put into a resolution. Adverting to the ballot, Mr. Young t- aid he had always been of opinion that electi ~,s should be conducted on that principle, having witnessed its successful, quiet, and peaceable application in Australia, where intimidation and bribery were unknown, because every man was independent. The hon. member, in conclusion, stated that the promises of support tendered to Mr. Watkin and himself, after six days' canvass, were more nume rous than those given to Mr. Watkin and Mr. M'Cullagh in 1857, after 14 days' canvass. (Cheers.) In the course of the proceedings it was stated that Mr. M'Cullagh had abandoned all idea of offering himself as a candidate for the borough. GREENWICH. Last evening a numerous and enthusiastic meet ing of the elec tors of this borough was held in the hall of the Literary Institution, Greenwich, for the purpose of hearing an address from Mr. Alderman Salomons, one of the present representatives of the borough. The chair was occupied by Dr. Purvis, of Black heath, who briefly addressed the meeting.upon the occasion of their again assembling so soon after the recent contest. _ Mr. Alderman SALOMONS, who was loudly cheered, said they had met together under circum stances of a peculiar character, the country being on the eve of a general election. It was scarcely two months since he was returned as their repre sentative, and he now appeared before them as a candidate at the approaching election and to ac count for his conduct in Parliament. (Cheers.) In the two months he had been their representative ques tions of great importance had come before the at tention of Parliament, the first of which was that of church rates. The next question, which was second only-to that of peace or war, was the Reform Bill introduced by her Majesty's Government, and the defeat which the Government had sustained upon it had led to the present intended dissolution. In that bill there were two great and leading de fects—the disfranchisement of county voters and no reduction being made in the borough franchise. (Hear.) These were the two leading defects in the bill, by the first of which no fewer than 826 county voters in that borough would have been deprived of the right they now possessed, and if they took the whole of the boroughs in West Kent no fewer than 2,256 voters for the county would suffer in a similar manner, It was this element which had rendered West Kent a Liberal instead of a Tory county, which it was 10 years since, and he would like to ask whether the present representatives for West Kent—Mr. C. W. Martin and Mr. T. What man,—were not as good and respectable representa tives as the former Tory representatives, Mr. Smith, of Gravesend, and Sir E. Filmer. (Hear.) He knew well that both Mr. Martin and Mr. Whatman were greater friends of progress than either Mr. Smith or Sir E. Filmer. (Hear, hear.) That which had made West Kent a Liberal county—the 40s. freeholders—had a like effect on the representation of East Sussex. In Brighton there was this pecu liarity—the builders would not take land from the freeholders on leases, and no fewer than 1,726 per sons resided there ho had votes for East Sussex, and this had made that part of the county a Liberal, instead of a Tory constituency. (Hear.) The mea sure had been condemned in Greenwich, Deptford, and Woolwich, as it had been in other parts of the country. It had been asked why members had not voted against the second reading of the bill, instead of Lord John Russell's resolutions. To have done that would have been to vote against the question of reform altogether, and although, as a young member of the House of Commons, he was not in clined to quarrel with the Government, yet he could not but express his deep regret that it had been determined to dissolve Parliament at, the present moment. (Hear.) He might refer to the speech of Mr. Deedes in the House of Commons against this course being adopted, and when that measure had been condemned both by the friends of the Govern ment and its enemies he thought it ought not to have been treated as a question of -feeling, but one of policy to withdraw the bill altogether. There was no greater inclination in any House of Com mons that had been elected than the present Parlia ment to do justice to the question of reform. (Hear, hear.) He had voted in favour of Lord J. Russell's resolutions, and in again appearing before them for re-election at an early date he believed the vote he had given would meet with their approval. (Cheers.) A vote of want of confidence had not been passed against the Government; but he believed that had such a vote been put the majority in favour of such a motion would have been at least 150—(hear) — and his opinion was that it was rather hard be cause the House of Commons refused to take a bad article prepared by the national workmen that they should all be kicked our. (Hear, hear, and laughter.) If again returned as their member, which he had no doubt he should be—(cheers)—he would take care that in any Reform Bill which might be proposed the rights of county voters should not be interfered with and taken away—(hear, hear)—that a large extension of the suffrage to boroughs should be made; and, above all for that borough, that the rights of men employed by the Government, whom the Government had proposed to disfranchise, should not be destroyed. (Cheers.) The worthy alderman then alluded to his votes upon the ques tion of church-rates, the ballot, and the Super annuation Bill, and resumed his seat, loudly cheered. Mr. STONEHAM proposed a resolution approving the past conduct of Mr. Alderman Salomons in the House of Commons, and pledging the meeting to support him at the next election. Mr. SAW seconded the resolution, which was carried unanimously : and after the usual vote of thanks to the chairman the meeting separated. LEEDS. A large and enthusiastic meeting of the Liberals was held in the Town-hall, on Tuesday evening, for the purpose of selecting two Liberal candidates to be put in nomination for the representation of this borough at the ensuing election. About 2,000 per sons were present, and nearly the whole were elec tors. Alderman Lnccock was called to the chair. Before the principal business of the meeting was commenced, a resolution, on the motion of Mr. D. Lupton, seconded by Alderman Kelsall, was unani mously passed, thanking the Right Hon. M. T. Baines " for the distinguished ability, zeal, and in tegrity with which he has discharged the various duties devolving on him as member for this borough," and expressing " deep regret that his failing health renders it necessary that he should retire from Par liamentary life." Three persons were then pro posed to the meeting as " fit and proper to represent the borough of Leeds in the Commons House of Parliament"—namely, Mr. Edward Baines (brother of Mr. M. T. Baines), who was proposed by Alder man Botterill and seconded by Mr. J. Middleton ; Mr. W. E. Forster, of Burley, near Otley, who was proposed by Mr. J, Lupton and seconded by Mr. J. Jowitt, jun. • and Sir Peter Fair bairn, Mayor of Leeds, who was proposed by Alderman Gresham and seconded by Mr. Mus grave. Both Mr. Baines and Mr. Forster were present and addressed the meeting. Sir Peter Fairbairn was not present. In the course of his speech Mr. Baines said that notwithstanding the un animity with which, both in and out of. Parlia ment, the R e f orm Bill h a d b een con d emne d, L or d Derby had had the assurance to appeal to the country to enable him to pass a bill which the Rouse of Commons would not pass, and which even his own followers in that house were the first to condemn. The appeal was then made to the men of Leeds, and upon the way in which they answered that appeal would depend whether any measure of reform should be carried or not. (Hear.) For he understood the appeal not only to be to to enable L or d D er b y, i f he pleased, to pass a measure enable of that c h aracter, but much more it was an appeal him so to strengthen the aristocratic and Co nservative el emen t i n th a t h ouse as t o b ea t d own the democratic opposition which he met there, Liberal p o li cy .establish hi s own policy, turn the tables in that house, and esta b l i sh a Conservat i ve i nstead of a there. (Applause.) He (Mr. Barnes) ap proved of the measure of which a sketch had been given by Lord John Russell. (Applause.) He approved of the extension of the county fran chise to £lO occupie rs , and of the extension of the borough fran c hi se to £6. (Cheers.) That was a measure which was at once liberal and wise. It would be a great extension of the franchise to those classes - which had entitled themselves to it ; would it not be, therefore, a great advantage to our glorious constitution that its pale should be so ex tended that those who were now outside of its pri vileges, and therefore, in periods of discontent and agitation, assailant s o f th e const i tut i on, should be strought inside and become defenders of the con .titttnttion ? He ought not further to trespass upon by the t ()Pic, and now would turn to the second topic on which he wished to say a few words. It was and second once specially referred to by Mr. Jowitt and also the continent, gentl him —th e who did him the honour to move and with sole (Hear, question of impending war on in of the (Hear, pear, hear.) It was with awe burst that he looked to the gather likely to burst inuntder-elouds which seemed so iearror and destruction upon the continent. h t a istln was that the e duty ease, u t y he o fmtuhsi this declare to them that he) most deliberately and resolutely of opinion first, because he looked to maintain a s i ai n d ta t in his, neutrality and peace. (Ap pcolaunusterY.) upon war as the greatest of calamities and the greatest of crimes. (Hear, hear,) He looked upon war, ex cept when absolutely necessary, as a thing utterly indefensible, and utterly at variance with all Chris tian precepts (hear, hear) the prevalence of which in the nineteenth century of the Christian era was one of the most lamentable stigmas upon the depravity of human nature. (Applause.) War blighted all the blessed fruits of peace which were perpetually springing up—prosperity, knowledge, mutual intercourse and love, the growth of Chris tianity, the spread of truth—war blighted all these things, and therefore it was that on general prin ciples, always excepting under some overpowering necessity, he was the declared enemy of war. (Hear, hear.) The second reason why he objected to our interference upon the present occasion was, that both parties who were about to go to war were in the wrong. (Applause.) He thought that Austria had established an iron yoke over the north of Italy with which we could not sympathise, but he feared that that remarkable man, who in his deep policy seemed to have concocted schemes of vast aggran disement—the Emperor Louis Napoleon—instead of going into Italy to liberate Italy, went, not to liberate, but to appropriate—(applause)—and to extend the dominion of France, and perhaps to re enact the great drama which his uncle began—to attempt the ascendancy of Europe. Therefore, he said, it was not for us to interfere in this matter; but it was for England to exercise her best offices to maintain peace if possible, and, if not possible, still to hold the position of being mediator ; and, when it might be possible, to interfere with effect to mediate on the side of liberty. (Hear, hear.) One word only connected with that subject, and he had done. He thought that the defences of the country, especially the navy, which was almost our only defence—our old defence, " our wooden walls," our " towers along the steep"—that the navy ought to be maintained. It was the first duty of the Ministers of England to maintain it in a state of such efficiency that England might be able to look on serenely even against a world in arms. (Applause.) There was another topic upon which, for a special reason, he wished to say a word. It was solely upon the abo lition of church-rates. He was favourable to their entire abolition, and he most earnestly wished that all who were afraid of abolition could but see this town of Leeds. He wished he could but put their large-hearted noble-minded vicar, the Dean of Col chester—(applause)—into the witness box, and have him examined as to the working of the sys tem of dispensing altogether with church rates in this borough. (Hear, hear.) What a miserable thing it would have been if a man like Dr. Hook had been squabbling for pence to wash a surplice or pay the chorister boys. Had he not, by doing without church rates, and depending upon the noble spirit of his own people—had he not been ten times more useful, ten times happier, and ten times more respected, than if he had to fight an annual battle with the Dissenters of Leeds for a few paltry pounds for such purposes as those to which he had referred P (Applause.) It would be wrong (observed Mr. Baines in conclusion) to de tain them by further remarks upon political ques tions. He was proud of his native town. He was ambitious to see Leeds prosperous, virtuous, edu cated, enlightened, honoured, happy. (Hear, hear.) He had witnessed the growth of their trade, and the expansion of their population ; he had taken part in the formation of almost all their public in stitutions; his whole life had been a long appren ticeship in their service —(hear, hear)—and if it should seem good to them to continue him in their employment, but in another capacity, he would set before himself the example of some who had served them well, and would do his best to carry on their concerns for their advantage. (Loud applause.) Some questions were then put both to Mr. Baines and Mr. Forster. The former declared himself in favour of the ballot, and the latter in favour of the entire abolition of church rates. On the names of the three gentlemen who had been proposed being put to the meeting, Mr. Baines and Mr. Forster were carried almost unanimously. A resolution soliciting Messrs. Baines and For ster to allow themselves to be put in nomination, and pledging the meeting to support them, was then carried without the slightest opposition, and, after passing a vote of thanks to the chairman, the meeting separated. An active canvass on behalf of Mr. Beecroft, the Conservative candidate, is going on in the borough, and one on behalf of Messrs. Baines and Forster was commenced yesterday. The contest promises to be a keen one. LEOMINSTER. Mr. Hardy has completed his canvass and issued a second address to the electors, thanking them for their kind reception. Mr. Hardy attended a large meeting of the electors and addressed them at great length on the political topics of the day. Mr. Han bury also continues in the field, and it is fully ex pected there will be no opposition to the return of the old members. LEWES. The Right Hon. Henry Fitzroy, the Chairman of Committees in the House of Commons, and the Hon. H. Brand (both Liberals), the two sitting members, have offered themselves for re-election. Their seats are to be contested by Sir Charles Blunt and Mr. R. P. Amphlett, on whose behalf an active canvass has been set on foot. LINCOLNSHIRE (SOUTH.) Mr. Anthony \Vinson, who was returned with Sir John Trollope at the last election, has retired, and left the new candidate, Mr. Packe, in posses sion of the field. Mr. Packe belongs to the Liberal party, and thus, in the event of his return, one vote is here lost to the Derby Government. LONDON. An address has been issued on the part of the committee of Liberal electors of London, urging the re-election of the present members. This address expresses " unfeigned regret" that Mr. Thomas Baring should, by the injudicious zeal of political partisans, be placed even in momentary antagonism with any part of the community, and deprecates the idea of excluding Lord John Russell in order to make way for a Tory Cabinet Minister. Reformers are cautioned against giving even a single vote to a Tory. In this address the Ministry is called a "mere provisional Tory Government." MAIDSTONE. Mr. Charles Buxton, the present member for Newport, has offered himself as a candidate in the Liberal interest for the representation of this borough, in conjunction with Mr. W. Lee. A most enthusiastic reception was given to Mr. Buxton at a meeting held in the Corn Exchange on Tuesday evening, at which about 1,500 persons were pre sent. The hon. gentleman condemned the late Government Reform Bill, and avowed himself an advocate for a • liberal extension of the franchise, the adoption of the ballot, the abolition of church rates, the promotion of education, and economy in the naval and military expenditure of the country, consistent with a due regard to efficiency. At the conclusion of his address a resolution pledging the meeting to use their utmost exertions to secure the return of both Liberal candidates, was unanimously carried, and the meeting separated with the most encouraging prospects of success. MALMESBURY. Mr. Luce, who has sat for this borough since 1852, retires from the representation. Lor.d Andover, eldest son of 'the Earl of Suffolk, has issued an address soliciting the suffrages of the electors. MANCHESTER. A meeting is to be held in the Free-trade Hall on Friday evening for the purpose of nominating Mr. Abel Heywood as a candidate. MARLBOROUGH. Lord Ernest Bruce and Mr. Henry Baring have issued a joint address to the electors soliciting re election. TYNEMOUTH. Mr. Lindsay addressed an immenso meeting in the Albion Assembly Rooms on Tuesday night, when a vote of confidence was carried, with only three dissentients. But yesterday morning he met his committee, and in face of the bitter hostility of the shipowners, and with the knowledge that his opponent, Mr. Taylor, had got two days' start in the canvass, he resigned; and Mr. Taylor will be roturned without opposition. WARWICKSHIRE (SOUTH). Sir C. Mordaunt, of Walton, who is now on his way from Italy, has issued an address to the elec tors. WORCESTER. The Council of the Worcester Parliamentary and Financial Reform Association have passed a resolu tion of thanki to the sitting members, Mr. Laslett and Mr. Ricardo, for the good service rendered by them in voting against the Government Reform Bill, which they consider wholly inadequate to the occasion, mainly because it failed to make any, but the most paltry and delusive provision for the .ex tension of the franchise in cities and boroughs. They are to , invite the non-electors to use their influence to dispose the voters generally to co operate with the association, in order to obtain the privilege of voting for the unenfranchised multi tude. YORKSHIRE (WEST RIDING) At a meeting of the Conservatives, held at Wake. field on Tuesday last—tho Hon. Edwin Lascelles in the chair—it was resolved that the Riding should be contested by the Conservative party, and that the Hon. James Stuart Wortley be requested to come forward. The general feeling of the meeting was in favour of Sir John Ramsden for the Liberals, and the Hon. Stuart Wortley for the Conservatives, and, should Mr. Crossley persist in a contest, it is highly probable that Mr. Stanhope will be brought forward. Mr. Crossley's extreme Radical opinions are expected to induce many of the Whigs to sup port Mr. Wortley, and, as Mr. Wortley possesses great influence, this will probably be the case. SCOTLAND. FALKIRK BURGHS. The burghs having almost unanimously signified their preference for Mr. James Merry, who was unseated after the last general election for bribery on the part of his agents, over Captain Hamilton, who succeeded him in the representation, the former gentleman has issued an address offering himself as a candidate. He says, " I shall be prepared to sup port a much more advanced measure (than that of Government) as regards extension of the franchise, re-arrangement of the constituencies, and protection of the voter." FORFARSHME. Lord Duncan,the sitting member, has issued his address. He congratulates himself on being able to announce that his opinions on all political sub jects of general importance remain unchanged, even "in these days of sudden political changes and conversions." No opposition will be offered to his lordship's return. MONTROSE BURGHS. Mr. W. E. Baxter, in addressing the electors, postpones a full statement of his sentiments till he meets them, as he purposes to do on an early , day ; but meanwhile he stigmatises the defeated Derby Reform Bill as " an attempt to restore to the terri torial aristocracy part of the power which they lost in "'32," and he pledges himself that his support will be given "to no Ministry unprepared to deal with the Reform question in a liberal spirit." It is probable Mr. Baxter will walk the course. STIRLING (COUNTY). Mr. Peter Blackburn, the. Scotch Lord of the Treasury, again offers himself for Stirlingshire, and in an address to the electors expresses his regret that a bill founded on such fair and liberal views as the late Government measure of Reform, should have been defeated by faction, without any attempt to improve in committee any imperfect details that might be found in it. No opposition is offered. PEEBLES (COUNTY). Sir Graham Montgomery again comes forward for Peeblesshire, and no opposition is indicated. He states that, should he be again returned, he shall feel it his duty "to support Lord Derby's Government in their endeavour to carry a safe, moderate, and constitutional measure of Parliamen tary reform." IRELAND. It is announced on authority that Sir James Hig ginson is to start as a candidate for the borough of Lisburn. The address of Sir Frederick Heygate to the electors of the county of Londonderry is published. He professes independent principles, but he admits that his sympathies are with the present Government. Mr. Robert Peel Dawson, nephew of the late Sir Robert Peel, is also in the field. He, too, is a follower of Lord Derby, and thinks the unfortunate Ministerial Reform Bill possessed of many points of merit. Very few have so far had the moral courage to say so much in its praise. The Northern Whig says that, from com munications made to that journal, " It would ap pear that the dominion of aristocratic landlords in the county of Down may possibly be resisted at the expected election, and that an effort to free the county from the serfdom of territorial nomineedom may be made by a resident gentleman, of sound Liberal politics and thoroughly independent prin ciples, who is qualified in an eminent degree for Parliamentary position, and whose name, when it appears, will command the hearty support of all the Liberal party in Down." It is believed, never• theless, that territorial influence is too much in the ascendant in the, county of Down to give colour to the probability of a Liberal displacing either Lord Edwin Hill or Colonel Forde. Lieut.-Colonel Dickson is a candidate for the county of Limerick. In his address he pronounces in favour of all that is liberal ; but he carefully abstains from stating to which of the great parties in the State he means to attach himself. .Mr. Synan is also in the field, and is said to be pursuing an active canvass ; and Mr. Henry Lyons, of Croom-house, has just re turned from London. with the view of pressing his claims upon the electors. The three candidates are Liberals, two positive and one doubtful. Mr. Henry O'Sheil (late Mayor) has retired from his canvass of the city of Limerick, and the candidates are now reduced• to the sitting members and Major Gavin. Two Liberals — Mr. Loughnon and Mr. O'Donnell, both mem bers of the legal profession—are up for Kilkenny city; Mr. Sullivan, the member in possession, making no signs as yet of seeking re-election. Sir Timothy O'Brien's retirement from the repre sentation of Cashel is announced, and Mr. Charles Hemphill, who contested it at the last general election, has addressed the very select constituency, on ultra-Liberal principles. A contest is threatened in the county of Tipperary. The O'Donoghue is quite safe to win, but a run is to be made against Mr. Waldron, who is a large landed proprietor in the county, while his more favoured colleague does not own apatch of ground there, Mr. Dixon O'Keefe is spoken of as the coming man, and await 3 the judgment of the county club. Major Boothby, brother-in-law of Lord Fermoy, and an Englishman by birth, has entered the lists for the borough. of. Kinsale. His address is straightforward and in telligible. He places no' reliance on a measure of reform emanating from the old opponents of progress. CORK, WEDNESDAY EVENING. KINSALE. Major Boothby, brother-in-law of Lord Fermoy, Captain Brine, and Mr. George Wildridge, of London, have addressed the electors. The Liberal electors of Kinsale have requested Mr. John Arnott, Mayor of Cork, to stand for the borough. Mr. Arnott has not yet signified his intention. DUNGARVAN. Mr. J. F. Maguire has again addressed the electors. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.-April 13. The Court sat to-day at Westminster to hear rate appeals. Present—Mr. Pashley, Q.C., Assistant- Judge, presiding ; Mr. Pownell, Mr. Arden, and Mr. H. H. Harwood. Several appeals by the East London Waterworks Company against rates made by the parishes of St. George's East, Mile-end; St. John, Hackney; Bethnal-green ; All Saints, Poplar; St, Anne, Limehouse ; Shadwell ; St. Leonard, Shoreditch ; and St. Mary, Whitechapel, were adjourned by consent to next sessions. THE IMPERIAL GASLIGHT AND COKE COMPANY V. THE POOR••RATE OF PADDINGTON. Mr. Bovill, Q.C., Mr. Bodkin, and Mr. Woollett were counsel for the appellants ; Mr. Dowdeswell and Mr. Powell were for the parish. _ The question in this case was as to the rateable value of the company's drains running through Paddington. After the case on the part of the ap pellants had been gone into at length, a discussion took place, the result of which was that by consent the appeal was to be turned into a special case -for the Court of Queen's Bench, on condition that, if the parties could not agree to the terms of the case, this Court should give judgment on the data now before it. THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY V. THE SAME. Mr. Huddleston, Q.C.; Mr. Cripps, and Mr. Digby were counsel for the appellants; Mr. Dowdeswell and Mr. Powell for the parish; Mr. Metcalfe and Mr. .Little represented Mr. Henry De Bruno Austin and others ; and Mr. Karslake appeared for Messrs. Rigby, builders. Mr. Huddleston said the rate appealed against was made on the sth of October, 1858, and was fixed by the parish at £30,063, but how the odd " 63" came to be put on he was at a loss to understand, after the manner in which they formerly dealt with this rate. In 1846, upon an award by Mr. Pollock, the rateable value was fixed at £7,378, in 1848 there was a slight increase, and in 1854, in consequence of new buildings, &c., a round sum of £2,000 was added to the rate, and it was made. £lO,OOO. From that sum it was in creased to £15,000, and in 1856 it was made £20,000, That amount, upon an argument on a special case, - was reduced to £16,000. Yet, subsequently, with out any notice to the company, the parish increased the rate to £30,063. Where they got the 63 from, after having dealt with the rate in round thousands, he could not tell, - but supposed it had been added to make it appear that. the estimate for the rate had been prepared with the greatest minuteness of de tail, an 4 was exact to a point." Although this enor mous increase had been thus suddenly .made, there had been not only no proportionate increase of the company's property, but no increase at all in point of fact, and of course the company had no alterna tive but to come to this court upon an appeal. One of the grounds upon which it was prayed by the appeal that the rate might be quashed was, that in Paddington there had been a systematic under rating of other property and a non-insertion in the rate of property liable to be rated. The rateable value of Paddington was something like £550;000, yet he was prepared with evidence to show that property of the rateable value of £lOO,OOO was not rated at all. The parish had greatly extended, and ground which had been used for garden purposes had been taken for building. Buildings had been erected, and although the ground had been rated to the poor, since it had been built upon it had been taken out of the rate altogether, and was not in cluded in the rate in respect of which the Great Western Railway Company entered this appeal. This, it appeared to him, was ladies to the greatest possible degree. It was alleged that these buildings would not berateable until completely finished and let, and the question he should raise upon this point was whether they ought not to be included in this rate, by which the rate generally would be reduced. If so, the rate was clearly bad. Mr. Dowdeswell objected to this being gone into and said he by no means admitted the accuracy of his learned friend's statement. This was an appeal by the company against the rate assessed upon them ; it was quite another question whether these buildings were rateable, which he denied. Mr. Huddleston said the question affected the legality of the rate altogether. Aftei a long discussion, The Assistant-Judge said he thought the most convenient course would be to go into this part of the case, and he would take the evidence of the exclusion of property said to be rateable from the rate, because if that were proved, it would quash the rate. Mr. Henry Tait, an,,accountant, was then called, and he stated, on examination by Mr. Cripps, that he had been employed to inquire what property there was in Paddington not included in the rate. He found that Mr. Henry De Bruno Austin had about 150 first-class houses not rated. The rents asked for them varied from £770 to £l2O a year. They would give an average rateable value of £20,000. Messrs. Rigby had buildings also un- rated ; other persons had built houses which were also excluded from the rate. Altogether he had cal culated the rateable value of all this property at about £70,000. Some of the houses were finished and fit for habitation. Mr. Metcalfe and Mr. Karslake contended that the houses which their clients had built, being un finished and unlet, were not liable to be rated at all, there being no beneficial occupation. No value could accrue to the parish until they were finished and occupied, and it was submitted that the parish had done quite right in excluding this pro perty from the computation for the rate. Mr. Dowdeswell said there were two things which the Court must determine—whether this pro perty was erroneously omitted from the rate, and that to such an extent as to justify the Court in im posing upon the parish the signal inconvenience which would result from the quashing of the rate, by involving the paving, lighting, and other rates. The Assistant-Judge ultimately ordered the rate to be quashed, as certain property of a rateable character had been omitted therefrom, but without costs, and made an order of substitution under the statute, the quashed rate to secure another.. Rate quashed accordingly. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-April 13. MANSION-HOUSE.—Henry Rezzell, carman, to the South-Western Railway Company, was charged with having caused the death of Mr. David Ritchie, Secretary to the Committee of the Treasury at the Bank of England. Roberts (53), said—At about ten minutes before ten o'clock this morning I was on duty at the statue in King William-street, when I heard a cry from the opposite side of the statue, and on running round I found a gentleman lying on the ground, upon whom a wine pipe or cask had just fallen from a van belonging to the South-Western Railway Company which the prisoner was driving. The van was drawn by two horses abreast, and the pri soner was on the box, driving with the reins ver y quietly, at a walking pace. It was going towards Eastcheap from the direction of King William street. There were eight empty casks on the van above the rails, four being on each side, and the cask that fell upon the gentleman fell from the off side next to the tail of the waggon. It fell on his head, and I believe that he was dead when he was taken to the house of Mr. Smith, a doctor, in King William-street. I did not see the cask fall. _ • Alderman Carter—Was there any rope or other kind of fastening round the waggon ? Policeman—Yes, the casks had ropes round them, and they were secured by hooks, or pieces of hoop iron, in the form of an S, one end of which was fixed to the rope while the other end had hold of the casks. When I saw it, after the fatal accident, the pothook was still hanging to the rope, the other end having apparently given way. The whole thing looked like an accident. The prisoner was quite sober at the time, and he pulled up imme diately upon hearing the cry, and waited till he was taken into custody. All the particulars have been sent to the beadle for the coroner. I have been informed that the gentleman's name was Ritchie. ' Edward Taylor, a jobbing porter in the neigh bourhood of King William's statue, said—l saw the cask fall from the waggon and knock the gentle man down, and I ran to pick him up. I found him lying on his back, and the blood was flowing from his nose and mouth. I, with some others, took him to Dr. Smith's. When I laid him down in the room there he fetched one breath awl was dead in a minute afterwards. The waggon, which was going along very slowly at the time the accident hap pened-was about three-quarters of a yard from the kerbstone, and I should think the gentleman had made one step from the herbstone, as if to go behind the waggon, when the cask fell upon him. George Adams,, coachman to Messrs. Allsop and Son, the ale brewers, of 61, King William-street, ,said—l was sitting on the box of my carriage, which was standing . at the door of No. 61, when I saw the prisoner driving his waggon towards Me at aslow walking pace, loaded with empty puncheons'. I saw the gentleman come round to the front of the statue. He then stood still to let the van 'pass, and just as he got one foot on the kerbstone and the other foot on the horse-road one of the puncheons fell on his head and knocked him 'down. The prisoner could not have driven fast at the time, as there was something before him, and the waggon did not run against anything so as to jerk the puncheon off. I believe the cause of the accident was the breaking of the piece of iron, which was fastened, one end to the rope and.the other end to the chime of the cask in the form of an S. After the cask fell I saw the piece of iron hanging to the rope. Mr. Taylor, a gentleman from the office of the Secretary at the Bank of England, attended to watch the proceedings. He said that he had not seen the body, but he had not the slightest doubt that the person who had lost his life in the way described was Mr. Ritchie. The prisoner, upon being asked whether he wished to ask the witnesses any questions, said, — Not at all, my lord ; all that has been said is quite correct. _ _ _ The prisoner was then bailed, to make his ap pearance at .the Mansion-house after the coroner's inquest shall have been held. Alfred Williams, who was some days ago charged with having obtained sums of money from various persons under false pretences, was brought up for final examination. It will be recollected that the prisoner stated to some of those from whom he ob tained money that he was Dr. Felix Arnott Wil son, of Carr-lane, Lo.wmoor, Yorkshire. George Wooler, Regiitrar of Births and Deaths, of Lowmoor, said—No medical man name Wilson ever resided at Lowmoor to my knowledge, and I Have lived there since 1791. The prisoner's attorney—How do you know that no Dr. Wilson resided there in January last ? Witness—Because I am required as registrar to make a return quarterly of all the medical men residing in my district to the Registrar-General. Thd prisoner's attorney—No Dr. Wilson, a medical man ; but might there not be some other Dr. Wilson there ? Witness—What! Oh, you mean doctors of law, or doctors of divinity, I suppose ? The prisoner's attorney—Exactly so. Witness—Ah, but you see we haven't got any characters of that kind doWn there. (A laugh.) It was contended by the prisoner's law adviser that there was no case against his 'client. Alderman Carter said, the authorities at the Criminal Court should decide upon that point against such a vagabond impostor, ,p,nd committed the prisoner for trial. BOW-STREET —George Letcham, a youn g man employed at a low salary as an " auxiliary" letter carrier in the north-eastern district of the London Post-office, was charged with stealing a letter con taining a £5 Bank of England note. Mr. Peacock, solicitor to the Post-office, pro secuted. It appeared that Mr. Clark, a . gentleman residing at Norwich, had sent the note in question by post to his son, who resided at Kingsland. The letter was expected on the 26th of March, and the wife of :Mr. Clark, jun., was looking out for the postman, when she saw him, on the opposite side of the road,whocrosed hand several letters to the prisoner, over and delivered one of them to her. Seeing that s the letter was from a sister, and not the one she expected, she asked the prisoner if there was not another for her. He replied " No," and went t d was away with the other letters, one of whieh she in a large envelope and 'seal e d w ith red nolce wax—thus answering the description of th e l e tt er sen t from Nor with. It was proved that on the same evening (March 26) the prisoner induced a man named Charles Barr to get a £5-note changed for him at a public house. This note was subsequently traced to the Bank of England, and was shown to be of the same number and date as the one sent from Norwich by Mr. Clark, sen. The General Postman stated that he lived at Mildmay-park, Stoke Newington, and occasionally gave the prisoner some of his letters to deliver. He remembered giving him some on the morning in question, and saw him cross over and deliver one at the residence of Mr. Clark, jun., but he could not recollect if there were two for Vlr. Clark that morning. He had never before heard any com plaints respecting the prisoner. Mr. Lewis, who defended the prisoner, cross examined the witness Barr, and elicited from him an admission that he had been once charged with having a watch in his possession unlawfully, but was acquitted ; that he had been a witness in one or two cases of skittle sharping ; and that, being out of a situation, he had been living for the last 12 months on his own means. From this he in ferred that Barr's statement, as to his having re ceived the £5-note from the prisoner was not to be credited, although the prisoner admitted having gone to the publichouse with Barr and a young woman. Mr. Henry committed the prisoner for trial, but accepted bail. INTARLBOROUGH-STREET.—William Wag ner, a ticket-ofleave man, Andrew Foster, Fred. Humphreys, jeweller, of Red Lion-square, and Wm. Wynne Bramwell, furniture dealer, of Queen street, Soho, were again brought up on the charge of being concerned together in presenting a forged check on the Union Branch Bank, Argyle-place, for £265, and Humphreys with having in his pos session at his residence a large quantity of coining implements and counterfeit coin, consisting of sove reigns, five shilling pieces, half crowns, florins, and shillings. Mr. Bodkin, the barrister, attended on the part of the Stamp-office; Mr. Mullins, to prosecute for the Society of Bankers ; Mr. Pollard, for the Mint ; and Mr. Lewis defended Wagner and Humphreys. The depositions already taken having been read over, Mr. Bodkin said, on behalf of the Inland Re venue, that 11 should proceed by indictment at the Central Criminal Court against Humphreys for the possession of a die for penny check stamps. Mr. Pollard said he attended on the part of the Mint against Humphreys for the possession of coining implements and counterfeit coin, and the copy of the depositions would be laid before the Attorney-General preparatory to indictment. Maria Crozer, 9, Sussex-street, Tottenham-court road—l live with my mother. At the beginning of March Wagner and a woman came to lodge at our house, in the name of West, as married people. I have seen Wagner go out with a black bandage round his face. Charles Webb, inspector of•the C division at the Vine-street station.—On the 28th of February . Wittkins made a communication to me, and in con sequence of this and subsequent communications I gave certain instructions to Constable Joy. Henry Lambourn, lodging at the Three Crowns, Richmond-street, journeyman baker.—On Sunday, ,the 20th of March, the prisoner Bramwell came to .the house. He asked if Mr. Watkins had been, and I told him he had not. He said he must see that evening. I told him he resided in Church street, but did not know the number, and he then went away. I afterwards saw Watkins, and gave him the message. Bramwell came again on the 22d, towards evening. It might be between six and seven o'clock, and he went to meet Watkins at seven o'clock, at the corner of Red Lion-street. Mrs. Sandgrover, 10, Grafton-place, Euston square—The witness Watkins lodged at her house. On Sunday the 20th of March, Bramwell called and left a message for him, making an appointment for the following Monday morning at the corner of Swinton-street, Grays-inn-road, and on that morn ing he again called to know if the message had been delivered as desired. Robert-Dalrymple; potman at the Three Crowns publit-hOus6---I know Bramwell as coming fre quehtly. Have' seen him and Watkins playing dominoes together. On the 22d of March Bramwell called and inquired for Watkins, who was not there. He desired if he should come he was to meet him at the corner of Red Lion -street at eight o'clock to the minute—Holborn end of the street. He called a second time, and begged I would not forget. Sarah M. Watkins, wife of the witness Watkins —On the 22d of March • Bramwell called at our house, it was on a Tuesday, and asked for my husband. He was not at home, and I told him so, and that he had gone to answer an advertisement he had seen. He .asked for a piece of writing paper, and I gave him an envelope, and he wrote what now appears on it :—" Meet me at eight o'clock, corner of Red Lion-street, Holborn.--W. - Adams." On Wednesday, the 23d, he came again, and asked for Watkins, but I do not recollect the answer I gave. He said he would wait, but I said I could not accommodate him. Joseph Turner, Orange Tree public-house, New road, barman—On the 23d of M arc h atkins came in the morning ; Foster and Bramwell were there also, and I believe the rest were there that day. Cross-examined by . Bramwell—l w ill swear t o you in particular as being there. John Spittal, a city detective officer—l produce a certificate of the conviction of the prisoner, Wil liam Wagner on the 23d of February, 1852, at the Central Criminal Court, for feloniously forging and uttering an order for payment of £B4O, upon which he was sentenced to 10 years' penal servitude. I swear the prisoner is the man. The witnesses having been bound over to appear at the Central Criminal Court to prosecute, in order that they might not be again obliged to attend at this court, the prisoners were again remanded for a week. THAMES. —john Collins, aged 19, described as a labourer, of Fox and Goose-yard, Shadwell, was charged with assault and hihway robbery. It appeared from the evidence of Mr. Buckles, the. master of a ship lying in the river, that he had been spending the tvening with a few friends on Wednesday, and soon after midnight was parting with the potman of a publichouse in the Commer cial-road, when he was attacked by the prisoner and two other men. One of them seized him by the collar, on the right side, another on the left, and the prisoner made a blow at him with one hand, and with the other made a snatch at his watch, which was immediately separated from the guard. He caught hold of the prisoner, who handed the watch to one of his confederates and got clear of him. The guard dropped on the ground and was recovered. In answer to Mr. Yardley, the prosecutor said that he was quite sober and on his way to his ship when the transaction took place. He was certain the prisoner stole the watch and broke the swivel. William Watmore, potman at a publichouse, said the prosecutor had just parted with him, and he saw him suddenly attacked by five men, gild heard him call out he:was robbed. The prisoner, as he was running away, fell into the arms of witness, and, after a desperate resistance, he secured him. The other four men ran away in separate directions. The prosecuior said that five men possibly did join in the attack and robbery, but he only saw four of them. _ - - John Howe .Itichards, a police-constable, said the prisoner had been convicted and sentenced to two years' imprisonment and hard labour for robbing a lady named Winn on the day the Guards returned to London: Mr. Yardley—When was that ? Inspector Griffin, of the K division, said he be lieved the Guards returned from the Crimea to London in 1856. Mr. Yardley committed the prisoner for trial. MARYLEBONE.—SCANDALOUS CONDUCT OF A MEDICAL STUDENT. — A young man Alcide Rampel, a foreigner, described as a medical student, was brought before Mr. Broughton charged with having, on the previous evening, in the Regent's Park, indecently exposed his person to a respectable female, Mrs. Ann Moore, and. her niece, 17 years of age. Mr. Keene attended for the prisoner. The case was proved; and Mr. Broughton committed the prisoner to hard labour in the Hou se o f Correction for two months. GIN FOR THE RHEUMATISM.—Deborah Cautrey m wa ay s riebn chargedoe officer by Mr. T u bb s , th e re li ev i ng of , with having unlawfully conveyed gin into the workhouse. It appeared that on the same afternoon prisoner went to visit a sick inmate, and on Mrs. Richard son, assistant to the matron, examining her cloth ing, she found a bottle containing a half pint of gin concealed in one of the sleeves of her dress. She was then given into the custody of 212 D. The prisoner, on being asked what she had to say, replied that she had been a nurse for many years, and that having in the infirmary a sister who had the rheumatic fever, she took in the gin to rub her with it. She was not aware that she waa doing anything wrong at the time. Mr. Broughton fined her 10s., or, in default of payment, seven days' imprisonment. RETIREMENT OF A SUPERINTENDENT OF POLICE. —Mr. Samuel Hughes, who has recently retired upon a very handsome pension, after - a long service in the police force, a great portion of his time being in the D division, attended, and stated to Mr. Broughton the fact of his being no longer connected with the police. He was anxious, under the cir cumstances, to express his deep sense of the kind ness he had invariably received from the magis trates, the clerks, and officers connected with this court. Mr. Broughton said that, knowing him to have been a most efficient public servant, he hoped he would long live to enjoy his well-earned pension. HAMMERSMITH.—A QUESTIONABLE POSI TION.—John Yeamore, an engineer, employed at the New Hammersmith Distillery, was placed in the dock before Mr. Ingham, charged with being found under a bed, supposed for the purpose of committing a felony. Mr. G. J. Barnard, the landlord of the George publichouse, Broadway, Hammersmith, deposed that the prisoner had been lodging in his house about a week, since he had been employed at the distillery, and between 10 and 11 o'clock on the previous night he saw him go upstairs with another man, for the purpose of retiring to rest. His female servant went upstairs to bed about half-past 11 o'clock, and she then found the prisoner concealed under her bed. She called witness up, and he then told the prisoner to come from under the bed. He had neither boots nor shoes on, and he was only dressed in his trowsers and shirt. Witness sent for a constable and gave him into custody. It appeared that last week the prisoner tried the bedroom door on two occasions after his servant was in bed. He could not charge the prisoner with being there for the purpose of committing a felony, as his object was clearly palpable. The witness said he had his servant in court. Mr. Ingham asked her if she had any complaint to make against the prisoner for assaulting her. The servant, a smart-looking young girl, here stepped forward and said he had not assaulted her ; he had only tried to open her door when she was in bed. Mr. Ingham said he was sorry that she had not some stout brother to have given the prisoner a good thrashing at the time. He could not say he was there for an unlawful purpose, and therefore he must discharge him, but the landlord would be per fectly justified ill turning him out of the house. Mr. Barnard said he should not allow him to re main in his house. The prisoner was then discharged. COUNTRY MARKETS. NEWCASTLE-APRIL 12. A tolerable supply of wheat, but there was a dull feeling in the trade, and all good qualities realised the rates of last week. There was not much doing in oats, barley, and beans, and prices were without change. Flour held for higher rates ; business trifling. Peas moved off slowly. Some inquiry for foreign wheat, but trade was flat. HULL—APRIL 12.. At this corn market to-day there was a small supply of wheat, which was in good condition, with a slow inquiry at is to 2s per qr over the rate s o f last week. Barley is quiet for malting sorts, but grinding moves off at full prices. Beans and peas a trifle better, both in price and demand. Oats steady, at fully late rates. Wheat.... Old white....per qr ... 40s 0d to 498 Od Old red New white .. New red .... „ Dantzic, Konb , &c. old white 508 Od to 53s Od Dutch, Belgian, and French 4ss Od to 46s Od Baltic and Hamburg, red . Barley... . English malting 33s Od to 37s 011 Grinding 2Bs Od to 30s Od Seal and Oderbruck . Holstein and Danish .. 29s Od to 31s Od Grinding 26s Od to 28s Od Oath English, old Archangel and Riga, per st Os lld to Hid Friesland and Dutch Osllid to is Od Swedish and Danish Oilld to Osllfd Beans ....English, old, per qr. 44s Od to 46s Od New pigeon 4os Od to 42s Od New tick 39s Od to 40s Od Egyptian 358 Od to 36s Od Peas Foreign breakers Grinding Tares ....Winter Bss Od to 90s Od Indian Corn Linseed, feeding sos Od to 55s .Od ' • . crushing • • 44s Od to 51s Od Linseed cakes (Hull) L 9 5 oto £9 10 0 ;, Rape cakes Foreign • , t 63 1 1 0 0 0 0 to to 6 8 1 1 6 5 0 0 I Bones 612 6to 615 0 RICHMOND—APRIL 9. There was a moderate supply of wheat to-day, for which full prices were obtained. White ruled 5s Od "to 6s Od per bushel ; barley, 3s 6d to 4s Od ; beans, 5s Od to 6s ; oats, 2s 6d to 3s 6d. SHEFFIELD—APRIL 12. The show of wheat is not large, and the trade quiet, and prices can only be quoted about equal to last week. Fine barley at full rates. The demand is limited for beans, oats, and other articles, without alteration in values. Red wheat, per load of 3 imperial bushels...l4s 6d to 15s 6d White y, If ...16s Od to 188 6d Beans If • » ...17s Od to 19s 6d Peas, per qr Grinding barley, per qr 29 3 Od t o 32 s Od Malting ditto, „ 33s Od to 39s Od Oats 71 2ls Od to 32s Od Millers' prices for flour--is sd, is 7d, and is 9d per 141 b. Hay, 80s to 85s; wheat straw, 28s to 365; oat straw, 28s to 36s ; turnips, 14s to 16s. per ton. COAL MARK (Prices of Coal per Ton at MT—APRIL 13. the close of the market.) s. d. Davison's West Hart ley 15 3 Wylam 14 0 Howard's West Hart- Walls End. it s. d. G H KOe a . s si pf w oer t e r 1 l h+. . r. . a n. . . .. i i .. •. . .. .. . . ... .. ... ......... 9 0 0 Lainbton. 17 0 Riddell l3 9 Hartlepool. l6 9 Braddyll's Hetton 15 9 Harton ....... . Whitworth.. 14 0 Hetton Framwellgate l4 6 South Kelloe l6 • 0 Benson,.., l 4, 0 South Hetton 16 9 Nixon's Merthyr 21 0 Powell'sDuffryn.Steam2l 0 • ley 15 0 Haswell Gas. ll 6 Walker Primrose 11 0 Grey's West Hartley _l4 6 Byass's Bebside West Hartley ..15 0 Tanfield Moor 11 3 Walls End. Acorn Close 15 6 Eden 15 0 Kelloe l6 3 Heugh Hall 15 0 Cassop l7 0 Ships at marke )t, 114—Sold, 76. LOCAL SHARE MARKETS. LIVERP 0 01.—APRII. 13. The market improved in the middle of the day, prices closing firm, though not quite at the best. Midlands, 101 / —Birkenheads, 621 3—Leeds Northern, 45 I—Blackburn, 111 I—North British, 56i, 57—Great Western of Canada, 151 f—Grand Trunk of Canada, 8 1 i—GreatWestern 58— Eastern Counties 11! i—Chester and Holyheads. 49 ' 50/ Sheffields ' 381 f-Caledomans, 80 —Lancashre and York shire, 9311—London and North-Westerns, 93/ 41 —Dutch Rhenish, 5 41 . dis.—Dovers, 20 a 20/—Berwicks, 90 f-- East Lancashire, 911 2. MANCHESTER—APRIL 13. There was a fair business doing, and prices were firm, a portion of the business being for next account. Dovers, 20 11 -16—Sheffields, 381 —Midlands, 101—Union Bank, dia.—Great Northern A, 86 for next account. BIRMINGHAM —APRIL 13. There was a dull business done to-day in this market. Prices were all lower. Business confined to dealings in local stocks. [ADVERTISEMENT.] —Holloway's Ointment and Ease.—For the cure of burns, scalds, wounds, and ulcers, this justly celebrated ointment stands unrivalled. Its balsamic virtues, immediately on application, lull the pain and smarting, protect the exposed nerves from The air, and give to the vessels the vigour necessary to heal the sore, and confers on the blood a purity' which permits it only to lay down healthy flesh in place of that destroyed. Hollo way's Pills, simultaneously taken, much assist the oint ment's purifying and soothing power. Together these medicines act like a charm. Travellers embarking for un wholesome climates, Where pestilential airs are constantly producing fever, should provide themselves with these remedies, - which will assuredly save them nights of 'watch ing and days of pain. BIRTHS. BEARD. —On the 10th inst., at No. 2, Bewley Cottages, Ringsland, the wife of Thos. Beard, Esq., solicitor, of a daughter. BUTLER.—On the 12th inst., at 13, Sussex-square, the wife Charles Butler, Esq., of a daughter. CHESTER.--On the 13th inst., at 63, Rutland-gate, the wife of Harry Chester; Esq., of a daughter. MAYNE.—On the 12th inst., at 14, Kensington-gate, the wife of Major Taylor Mayne, of a son, TnonsoN.—On the 13th inst., at Christ's Hospital; Lon don, the wife of the Rev. James Thomson, of a daughter• MARRIAGES DOWIE—CHAMBERS.—On the 13th inst., at 1, Donne terrace, James Muir Dowie, Esq., of South-hill, Liver pool, to Anne, third d aug ht er o f Robert Chambers, Esq./ Edinburgh. DUNDAS—ATKINSON.—On the 13th inst., at St. Jana° • parish church, George Dundas, Esq., younger, of Dun das, to Mary Elizabeth, only daughter of the Rev. IVIn• Atkinson, rector of Gateshead Fell, Durham. DEATHS. BANNING.—On the 13th inst., at Montpellier, South Lam' beth, Mr. Thomas Banning, of 21, Great Tower-stree t, aged 85. CASE.—On the 11th inst., at Poulton Hey, Cheshire, Sohn Deane Case, Esq., aged 74. GIESON.—On the 10th inst., at Hampstead, Oliver Frantrf second son of the Right H on . T . Mi lner Gibson, 31.1-', aged 8 years. GILEGG.—On the 7th inst at Oxford, accidentally drowned byyortkh-eteurrpsaectet, Regent's-park o e f nrs ab !!p a a t rk boat, R, , R aged ob 9 t. 8 1 .. Gregg, Esq., of 25 ' GRIFFIN.—On the 12th inst., Nathaniel Griffin, Of Gray's• inn, barrister•at-law, aged 56. HUDLESTON.—On the 13th inst., at 12, Euston-square , Colonel R. J. Hudleston, H.E.1.C.5., aged 93. TAYLOR. —On the 11th inst., at 6, Berkeley-square, Bris tol, Mr. J o h n T ay l or, for nearly 60 years proprietor of the Bristol Mirror. LONDON : Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG of Na. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, No. 112 7 Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the county of Middlesex, Thursday, April 14, 1859. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY trENING, APRIL 14, 1859.