The Sun. — London, England, 1862-01-20 00:00:00

THE NAVY. The Warrior, 40, Captain the Hon A. Cochrane, fre,m Portsmouth, arrived at Plymouth yesterday 'rooming, and is appointed to sail to•.morrow for iisbon and Gibraltar, The Galatea, from Shcer ness, arrived in the afternoon. Two hundred men leave Plymouth this morning by the South Devon Railway to join the Shannon at Portsmouth. The Revenge, 89, Captain Fellowes, is appointed to leave the Sound to-day for Ireland. The screw steam gunboat Rainbow, 2 (tender to the Ajax, at Kingstown), left Plymouth on Satur day for the coast of Ireland. The Caesar, 86, screw, Captain Mason, steamed into Portsmouth harbour on Saturday, after having been officially inspected by Captain H. Broadhead, commanding the steam reserve. She has commenced stripping and clearing out, preparatory to paying her crew and hauling down her pennant of com mission. The Geyser, 6, paddle, Commander Jackson, has bent sails at Portsmouth and gone out of harbour to Spithead, preparatory to sailing for the Pacific and Vancouver's Island. The Trafalgar, 86, screw, Captain I. B. Dickson, lying at Spithead, is expected to sail for the Medi terranean. The fine frigate Arethusa, 51 guns, 3,141 tens, having been lengthened to Chatham Dockyard, converted from a sailing frigate to a screw steamer, and fitted with engines of 500. horse power by Messrs. J. Penn and Sons, Greenwich, got up steam for the first time in the basin at Sheerness on Sa turday for the purpose of testing the engines, con siderable interest being manifested in the trial, the Arethusa being one of the first vessels in the Royal navyfitted with three eylinders instead of two as in most other steamers. The officials present on board the frigate on the part of the Government were Capt. C. F. Sehomberg, late superintendent of the steam reserve at Chatham ; Mr. W. Price, inspector of machinery afloat ; Mr. W. R. Fabian, chief en gineer; and Mr. Townsend, foreman of the factory, Mr. Holliday was also present on the part of the contractors. The Arethusa is fitted with a pair of expansive trunk engines of 500-horse power (nomi nal) ; diameter of cylinder, 7 feet 2 inches; length of stroke, 3 feet 6 inches. The trial lasted five hours, the engines working very satisfactorily. The result was as follows :—Number of revolutions per minute 61 ; steam pressure, 201 b. ; temperature of superheated steam, 305 deg. ; barometer, 26.5. Instructions have been received to hasten forward the completion of the Arethusa, and to report to the Admiralty when she will be ready for trial at thOneasured mile. The sailing frigate Calypso, 18, Capt. F. B. Mantresor, will be paid off and put out of commis sion at Chatham to -day. The screw frigate Galatea, 26, 800-horse power, left the Nore on Saturday morning for Plymouth, under the charge of Commander J. Jackson, Assist.- Master-Attendant of Sheerness Dockyard. She is navigated round by a party of seamen and rig gers from Chatham and Sheerness Dockyards. The Galatea is fully equipped, and ready for the pen dant. The iron steam frigate Resistance, 18, 600-horse power, is to be fitted with Cunningham's self-reef ing topsails, under the personal superintendence of the inventor, the fittings connected with which are being prepared by Messrs. Warden and Co., Lime bouse, who prepared the fittings for the Defence, 18, iron steamer, at Chatham, to which the same in• vention has been applied. We have been officially requested to announce that the Lords commissioners of the Admiralty have extended the leave of absence of the Naval Cadets of her Majesty's ship Britannia to the 4th of February, on which day they are all to assemble on board at Portsmouth. _ _ Admiralty orders were on Saturday received at Chatham Dockyard directing a return to be made of the various ships belonging to the reserve at that port, indicating their tonnage, horse-power, and condition. The return is also to specify the time that will be required to make good the defects in the hull and machinery of those vessels wanting repair, as well as the number of men required for the work. In the case of those ships which have lately been surveyed, that fact is to be stated against their names, but an approximate time they will take to be repaired, and the number of men required is to be furnished. So important is the return considered that, by a subsequent order from the Admiralty, it is to be furnished immediately it is prepared, as it is most urgently wanted. On Saturday a despatch was received at Chatham Dockyard from the Admiralty, directing the officers of that establishment to report the earliest date at which the armour-plated steam frigate Royal Oak, M guns, will be completed, and whether it is pos sible for her to be finished and launched before October next. The return is to state the number of additional hands that will be required to com plete her before the time specified. A remarkable instance of the effect of severe frost on iron occurred at the Ordnance-wharf, Chatham, on Saturday. During the day a party of convicts were employed in removing a number of the large 10-inch guns from one part of the establishment to another in readiness for embarcation. In order to facilitate the operation the large steam crane was brought into requisition to lift the guns, but scarcely had one of the 10-inch guns, weighing 95Cwt., been attached to the gear than the massive chain which held it suddenly snapped just as the cannon was only a tew feet from the ground. What makes the accident appear the more remarkable is the fact that not the slightest flaw could be detected in the metal of which the chain is composed, the chain itself being made to sustain double the weight. and only a few days before baying been used in lifting weights of even tons. At the moment of the mutt falling, though several of the convicts were at work within a couple of feet of it, not one was injured. The following appointments were made on Sa turday at the Admiralty :—Robert Gilpin, master, to the Indus for the Perseus; and John H. Marshall, chief engineer, to the Asia for charge of the ma chinery of the Ceesar, when paid off. THE AlLlll'. The Himalaya, screw troopship, Capt. John Sec combe, arrived at Spit head yesterday morning from the West Indies, 13 days and 20 hours from St. Thomas's, her last point of departure. She brought mails from St. Thomas's, which were landed at Ports mouth,,, and desp a t c h es f rom hi s R oya l Hi g h ness .i. rin-...e Alfred for her Alajesty, which Capt. See combo conveyed , l owing is the Hi l'ersona"y to Osborne. The fol list, with malay e s passenger, troop , an d in validfax, Dec, 1, portslB6i_isof ernbarcation :—From Hali fax, a n d file, 4 soldiers' wives, and 9 child ren , b elod .napto varicus regiments, and 1 ward-roo m s t ewar d Capt. Thomas F. Dixon, 39rotitin Bermuda, Dec. 8— of troops on b oar d) , wife, w it, egiment (in charge rank and file 39th Regimen: d a ' and servant; 22 Artillery ; Li eu t s . Mi tchell one . an man Royal r end file, 9 soldi ers ' w i ves, and 22 Tisdall ' 73 rank childre n Engineers; Mr. P a y ne , carpenter it, Ronal to undergo sentenc e o f Court- ma'rt . * N " 6 seamen ial, and the dis rated Master-at-Arms of her j M aesty , s ship Jas o From Jamaica, Dec. 21—Dr. W. E 11. Eaton, 3a, W est India Regiment, and Ensigns Metcalf and Daly, 14th Regiment, proceeding to Engl an d on leave; staff purveyors wife, 2 children an d 1 servant, and 2 seamen. From Barbadoes, Dec. 27-14 rank and file from various regiments, invalids ; one woman and four children ; Staff-Assist.-Surg. W. Gardiner, in charge of invalids; the sergeants Royal Marine Light Infantry for passege to England; Mr. J. T. Price, clerk, Royal Navy, one colour-sergeant Royal Marine Light Infantry, une corporal and two pri vates Royal Marine Light Infantry, one quarter master, ono stoker, end six seamen, invalids. The s l : i n baQ also on board abort 400 tons of condemned naval stores. She will go into Portsmouth harbour to-day to land her freight and prepare for further service. '1 he Himalaya. on her cutward voyage. took out a company of Royal Engineers for servic , in Canada, who were disembarked at Halifax, pro needed thence to Windsor by rail, where they em barked on board a steamer to Fredericton and the Grand Falls,- marching from the latter place'to ... ~.: Riviere du Loup, and concluding their journey thence by rail to Quebec. The 41st Regiment, which has been emp yed in the construction of military roads at the western end of the Isle of Wight, is under orders o remove from there to Sheffield on Wednesday n xt. The men belongiug to the lath R 3 ment were sent on Friday from the transport Adelaide to the hulk Vigo, in Hamoaze, and on Saturday were conveyed in a steamtug to the Royal William Vic tualling-yard. They are now distributed in diffe rent quarters, some at Mount Wise, others in the Raglan Barracks, &c. The Adelaide is under re pairs in No. 1 dock at Keyham steamyard. She will not be able to leave Plymouth for Halifax in less than ten days. The vice-president and members of the Council of Military Education have removed from No. 1, Whitehall-yard, to their new quarters, 13, Great George-street, Westminster. The residence in Whitehall-yard and the adjoining house are to be appropriated to the use of the State Paper-office about to be pulled down for the public offices im provements. TILE YOLUNTEE.RK On Friday evening last Lieut.-Colonel H. Garnet Man, the commanding-officer of the Ist City of London Engineers, attended for the first time a meeting of the corps, at the City of London Na tional Schools, White-street, Finsbury-pavement. At the conclusion of the drill he addressed the mem bers, and expressed himself highly gratified at the efficiency already attained, and said he was quite sure, from what he had witnessed that evening, that the corps would become a distinguished one, for its members brought with them both zeal and intelli gence. He was sure they would always support him in carrying out strict military discipline, as that was as necessary for volunteers as for the regular army. He should feel great pleasure in imparting to them suitable instruction in military engineering. A match between No. 6 company and Ne. 13 (Shoolbred's) company of the Queen's Westminster Volunteers came off on Friday last, at Wormwood Scrubs. The match was £lO a side at 200, 300, 400, and 500 yards, five shots at each range, and was contested by 10 men from each company. Shool bred's company proved the winners, having made 184 points against their opponent's 136. On Wednesday evening a grand ball took place at the Freemason's Tavern in aid of the band fund of the 39th Middlesex (Finsbury) Rifles, and was very numerously attended, there being present re presentatives of nearly all the metropolitan volun teer corps, together with several officers of the re gular army and members of the Hon. Artillery Company, whose brilliant uniforms contrasted well with the dresses of the ladies, the majority of whom wore complimentary mourning, and the more som bre dresses of the volunteers. Lord Ranelagh pre sided at the supper, and in the course of a few ob servations stated that another sham fight was in contemplation for Easter Monday at Brighton. His lordship said he had placed himself in communica tion with several commanders of volunteer regi ments in London and the suburbs, and the majority of them were favourable to his proposal ; and the railway company had offered to afford facilities for the transit of the troops. After the delivery of seve ral other speeches, dancing was resumed, and pro tracted till a late hour. The object for which the ball took place was attained. During the present week negotiations were en tered into and have just been finally completed, be tween the 2d administrative battalion of the Mid dlesex Rifle Volunteers, consisting of the 3d (Hamp stead), 13th (Hornsey), and 14th (Highgate) and three other Middlesex regiments, known as the 12th (Barnet), the 41st and 33d (Tottenham) whereby a permanent amalgamation of these regiments, for merly in two distinct battalions, is effected, much to the satisfaction of all concerned,:and will be here after known better as the 2d Administrative Bat talion, under the command of Major Wilkinson, with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel; Capt. Taylor, of the Barnet Regiment, to succeed him as the Major. This arrangement augments the strength of the battalion very considerably. It will now consist of 11 companies, nearly all full, making the number of effectives amount to almost 1,000, with unprecedented facilities for target prac tice, there being no less than five capital ranges situated at convenient distances for each corps. One of these ranges at Hornsey, when fully com pleted, will extend to a distance of upwards of 1,000 yards. Returns as to the target practice of the six com panies forming the Norwich battalion have just been made up, and the results indicated are satis factory. In the first period 345 men scored 6,052 points, or an average of 17.61 points each ; in the second period 221 scored 2,528 points, or an average of 11.30 points each ; and in the third period 106 scored 874 points, or an average of 8.30 points each. Of the 345 Volunteers shooting 75 were declared marksmen ; 78 were left in the first class, 127 in the second class, and 65 in the third class. On Thursday a match will take place in Earl Spencer's park at Althorpe, between 11 Norfolk and 11 Northamptonshire Volunteers, crack shots being, of course, selected on both sides. The match has been arranged, it is understood, by Viscount Bury, M.P.,'on the part of Norfolk, and Earl Spencer en the part of Northamptonshire. One or two movements may be reported in con nection with the Lincolnshire companies. In a second prize contest among the members of the Market Rasen corps, the first prize, a cup of the value of £B, was shot for at 200, 300, and 400 yards, and was won by Ensign Goodson, who scored 17 points in 15 rounds. Several items of interest come to hand from the corps in the Fen districts, O❑ Wednesday a handsome silver cup, presented by Lieut. Loonies, was shot for by the Whittlesey com pany, the ranges being 300, 450 and 600 yards, five rounds each. Privates H. and J. Read tied, each scoring 16 points; but, on the ties being shot off at 600 yards, Mr. J. Read proved the winner. On Thursday another cup, presented by Ensign Bowker, was shot for at ranges of 200, 500, and 600 yards ; Lieutenant Loonies and Private H. Read tied, each scoring 16 points ; but, in shooting off, the Lieutenant won. Private I. Read shot again, although not eligible to take a prize, having been a winner on the previous day, and again made the highest score, 17 points. A challenge cup, provided by subscription, and two prizes presented to the March company by Captain Catlin and Lieutenant llawbarn, were last week presented to the success ful competitors, Private B. Brandfurd receiving the cup and one of the prizes, and Private W. R. Fuller the second prize. THE WEATHER AND THE PARES. Owing to the intense frost, that has lasted now three days and nights, the ornamental waters in and near London have become in most cases frozen over —in one instance, the Serpentine, in Hyde Park, was not covered with ice until Saturday morning, and then only in patches of 50 or 100 feet square. However, yesterday, although the Royal Humane Society's officers, under Mr. Young, the secretary, and Mr. Williams, the superintendent, bad caution boards placed in each park, warning the public that the ice was for the present far from being safe, some thousands ventured upon the frozen surfaces on the waters in different parks, and many nearly lost their lives by th e i r f oolhardiness. The therm ome t er, as reg i stered at the Royal Humane Society's receiving-house in Hyde Park, bY Negretti and Zimbra's patent glass, indicated o'clock yesterday 26 dErPbeing g 'a.. , Y morning the glass wa s not hi g h er than 27 degs., being a fall of sleet or snow. The weather was gloomy, 5 degs. below freezing point. w ri a ' duieogiu,sh.seaBn4d, extreme and pro m the r windaaienrs ainntd h so e fitinhn b et a h r e om s e .s te .u r stood . at 29 weather drew many parks —so many in deed that it was at one tim e de spectato orna i m m e ni n e ta ri various to enter either St. James's enclosure, th e gates of the R..gent's Park, or Kensington Gardens. ber of carriages conveying The num was, however, less than on many previous occasions, the thinness of no ice there were numerous Owing to sions during the day in the various_ i waters, but fortunately without any fatal result. ThE SUN, -LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 20, 1862. THE BAHAMAS. The New York papers publish advises from Nassau to the 21st ult. A letter of the 15th says : " The past week has been one of the most excit ing ever known in the annals of Nassau. At least, so says the oldest inhabitant. On the 6th instant there arrived the schooner Prince of Wales, of Nas sau, and a sloop, both loaded with cotton and rice, having run the blockade at Charleston. On the 7th inst. the steamer Isabel, formerly the United States mail packet between Charleston and Havannah, arrived, loaded with 1,000 bales of cotton, she also having escaped from Charleston. Her name has been changed to Ella Warley ; her captain's name I have been unable to learn, but she was piloted over Charleston bar by R. Lockwood, one of the best pilots of that port, and brother to the one who com mands the Theodora. She came into port with the rebel flag at her peak, but since her arrival has changed owners (a ' bogus' sale, of course), and is now in port with the English flag flying. On the 9th inst. the notorious Theodora, Clpt Lockwood, ar rived; she was loaded with 600 ba:es of cotton, and escaped from Charleston how or when I am unable to ascertain. She flies the rebel flag and laughs at us. On the 9th inst. also arrived the English steamer Gladiator, from England, with cargo consisting of cannon, small arms, blankets, shoes, clothing, medi cines, and a large quantity of gunpowder. She cleared for the coast of Afr;ca, hut from her arrival here I should say she was somewhat out of her course. It is said, and I have every reason to be lieve the report true, that she has full equipments for an army of 25,000 men. It is well known and acknowledged that her cargo is for Jeff. Davis and Co., and her safe arrival in a Southern port is now, no doubt, anxiously expected, for her cargo must be badly wanted, and the vessel would be a valuable acquisition to the rebel mosquito fleet. How she or her cargo will get there remains to be seen. Their plan is, no doubt, to transfer the cargo to smaller vessels, and let the steamer remain where she is or return to England. " On the 11th inst., much to the annoyance of all Nassau, the United States'steamerFlambeau, Lieut. W. G. Temple, United States' Navy, commanding, arrived off the port, and is now at anchor in the harbour. What her movements are I know not, neither did I consider it proper or appropriate to in quire. It is sufficient to kn•Jw that she is here, that she is well armed, commanded, officered, and manned, and that the interests of our country will be attended to and cared for as far as is in the power of her commander. I visited and found her a pattern of discipline, cleanliness, and good order, and re flecting great credit on all attached to her. "Itisan established fact that the inhabitants of Nassau, from the Governor down to the lowest con traband, with the ex( eption of three or four, are now not only sympathising with, but openly aiding and abetting, the rebels in their operations against the Government of the United States. As an in stance of it I will mention one case. Two schooners with coal for the vessels of war of the United States that may call here from time to time have arrived in this port, consigned to our consul. He solicited permission to land the cargoes, which wes refused, and he was told that no armed vessel of the United States could receive coal in that harbour, and at the same time the Theodora was allowed to coal and undergo repairs without any restraint. What are we to infer from such conduct ? The consul has re monstrated, but all to no purpose." Another letter of the 16th says : "An amusing incident occurred a night or two after the arrival of the United States' steamer Flambeau, which goes to show that Englishmen be• lieve us Yankees capable of anything after the Trent affair. The pilot of the Flambeau anchored her in the upper part of the harbour, where the channel is so narrow that the vessel had not room to swing. Capt. Temple deeming the position an unsafe one, moved more towards the entrance of the harbour. As soon as he had done so, a report was circulated on shore that he intended to go alongside the Gladiator, and tow her out of the harbour un der cover of the night. As soon as this report reached the ears of the Governor the troops were ordered under arms and were marched to a water battery of:four guns, commanding the channel, and had orders to resist her passage should she make the attempt; but, as the Flambeau remained at her anchorage, nothing came of it, and no one was hurt.' The battery is manned at night, however, ever since, and will remain so, I suppose, while the Yankee gunboat remains in the harbour. Nothing can be imagined more absurd than this conduct on the part of the Governor of Nassau ; that any sane man, and one holding a high official position, could suppose an armed vessel of a friendly Power would attempt an act such as I have described is the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard of. He must have been terribly alarmed, for a vessel was at once de spatched to Havannah with a request to the Admi ral to come at once, or send such force as would enable his excellency the Governor to resume his ordinary habit and enjoy his usual rest, both of which have been so much disturbed by the presence of the terrible Flambeau in the waters of Nassau. The looked•for vessel or rquadron is hourly ex pected, and then peace will, I trust, once more reign in Nassau, and quiet be restored to that now unhappy village." A later letter (to the 21st) rays " More steamers have at the same time during the last month entered the port of Nassau than at any previous time. We have now in port her Ma jesty's steamer Bulldog, 6 ; HE r Majesty's gunboat Steady, the United States gunboat Flambeau, the British steamer Gladiator, and the rebel steamers Ella Warley and Theodora ; and on Monday morn ing the Karnak will be added. It is curi3us to hear people talk. The Flambeau is here watching the Gladiator, supposed to have arms and ammunition for the South, and the Bulldog and Steady watch the Flambeau, lest she should attempt to cut out the Gladiator. Our local Government has declared its determination to keep up a strict neutrality be tween the belligerents. A vessel was sent out here with coal for the United States steamers, it being intended to make this a coaling depot ; but the Go vernor in Council has informed Mr. Whiting, United States Consul, that no Union steamer will be permitted to coal in this port ; nor will any rebel war steamer." THE _RIPAL AMERICAN TVAR VESSELS AT ,ouTHA2/17'0.N: SOUTHAMPTON, JAN. 18. The Belgian steamer Congres, which put in here a week or two ago, left to-day for New York. Some ammunition being amongst ber cargo it was ex pected she would have been convoyed some short distance by the Federal war steamer Tuscarora, lying here, but she started without such convoy. The occasional movements of the Tuscarora are still as mysterious as ever. She left her moorings on the last occnsicn so suddenly that two of her officers were left ashore. Even her first lieutenant does not appear to know the intentions of the com mander until the orders of the latter are given. It is reported that the Sumter is coming up the Channel. Another Federal man-of-war is expected here shortly. Pilots live and sleep on board the Tuscarora, Nashville, and her Majesty's ship Daunt less, so as to be ready to take their respective ships out to sea at a moment's notice. The officers of the Nashville have expressed them selves indignant at the rumour that their ship is sold, because she will not be able to get away from Southampton under the Palmetto flag. Some of the officers of the Tuscarora dined with the Federal consul, Captain Britton, to day. BENSON'S WATCHES AND CLOCKS.--" Perfection of mechanism."—Morning Post. 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The Ointment mast be well rubbed over the parts affected twice a day at least, and oftener in urgent cases. The use of 1 this Ointment, aided by Holloway's Pills, will cure all sores, ulcers, piles, fistulas, and skin diseases. However 1 old or obstinate, to their power all eventually yield. THE DREADFUL COLLIFTP CCIDENT IN NOBIIIUMBERLAND, . SHIELDS, SATURDAY, 8 P.M. I deeply regret to report that after a lengthened I imprisonment in the bowels of the earth the 215 men and lads still remain close prisoners in Hartley New Pit. After I left the colliery last night, to send the telegraphic message from here to Lon don, the work for the removal of the rubbish and broken timber obstructing the shaft went on briskly, but about 10 o'clock some of the walls of the shaft gave way and little could be done . until this was bratticed up. This morning the working gangs were 33 feet from the engine -drift of the yard seam, from which it is hoped the unfor tunate men and lads will be rescued when reached. This distance has been reduced to-night to less than 18 feet, and by to-morrow morning, at least, it is hoped that the obstruction will be removed as far down as this drift, and the poor fellows, if alive, of , will be rescued. They whichhave been t h e r w e it s h every o h d o p t h e ree days. The bodies of George Sharp and his son, a lad 16 years of age, and Ralph Robson, three of the five unfortunate men thrown out of the cage ascending the pit at the time the broken beam and timber were falling down, were taken out of the rubbish in the shaft last night, and have been sent to the upper seam. A third body not yet ideetified was found this after noon, and removed to the same place. New Hartley Colliery, where this sad disaster has occurred, is close to the Hartley Junction on the Blyth and Tyne Railway, and belongs to Messrs. Carr Brothers. The work is carried on under the superintendence of Mr. Charles Carr, the head owner, and Mr. Humble, the resident owner. The colliery comprises three seams—the high main, the yard seam, and the low main; but the mining operations have been recently confined to the low, or steam coal main. The workings have been car ried on by a single shaft passing through the yard seam, at a depth of about 70 fathoms, and pene trating to the low seam, which lies about 100 fathoms below the surface. The shaft was divided into two equal sections by a substantial wooden brattice running through its entire length. One half was used as an upcast and the other as a downcast pit, this arrangement answering the same purpose in connection with the ventilation of the mine as the duplicate shafts which are employed in many collieries. Some time ago a communication was established between the low mean and the yard seam independently of the shaft, by means of an air staple, and within this, on the suggestion of Mr. Dunn, the Government inspector, a ladder was pieced so as to afford an easy access from the lowest to the middle stage of the mine. Another staple affords a passage f rom t h e hi g h main to the surface, but between th e yard seam an d t h e hi g h ma i n th ere appears to be n o commun i cat i on , w ith the excep tion of the sh a ft. Closely adjoining the shaft, on the east side, s t an d s a su b stan ti a l s t one s t ruc tu re , containing the mac hi nery emp l o y e d for keeping the pit clear of water. The pumping engine is one of the largest to be met with in the coal trade, with a power equal to 400 horses. The beam of this ma chine weighed about 40 tons, and measured eight feet in depth at the middle, by five inches in thick ness at the thinnest part. The accident that killed the five men in the shaft, and which is imprisoning the 215 men and lads in the mine, occu rre d a b out h a lf-p as t 10 on Thursday morning. Th e greater body of the miners in the pit had gone i n at 1 o ' cloc k i n th e mo rning, and were just about b e i ng rel i eve d t o come to bank by the back shift, which went in at 9 o'clock. In fact, two sets of men of the first shift had got to bank, and the third shift was " riding" or coming up the shaft in the cage, and had got hauled halfway up when the beam of the pumping engine overhanging w th a e rn sh in a g ft santatphped in two,ebanksuddenly and without any the projecting outer half, weighing upwards of 20 tons, following with a tremendous crash right down the centre of the shaft. It struck the top of the brattice, and carried the woodwork and timber, which extended from the top to the bottom of the shaft, with it down the shaft. It encountered the ascending cage,bringing up the eight miners, half way. The survivors of the party state that they first observed something shoot past them with a velocity of a thunderbolt,and presently found themselves overwhelmed by a per fect hail of broken beams and planks. The iron cage in which they were ascending was shattered shock, and two of the unfortunate to m pieces enwe y r b eki t l he ledohe spot, and carried far down among the ruins. Of the remaining six three sur vived for some time, and the others were ultimately rescued. however, Buffered more or l ess severe l y fromthe 1 as well as the p r i va ti ons All, falingtimber they were exposed to during the 12 weary hours that elapsed before assistance could be conveyed to them. The mass of rubbish completely filled the lower part of the shaft, so as to cut off, as already reported, all chance of escape by that egress for the men and boys employed in the low main. Had they been confined to that portion of the mine serious fears might have been entertained for their safety, considering the rapidity with which the water must accumulate on the stoppage of the pumping appa ratus. It would, however, be in their power to pass through the staple leading to the yard seam, and having gained the higher stage of the mine, it is hoped that they may be able to hold out till as sistance can reach them. The names of the men killed in the shaft are 1 Ralph Robson, George Sh arp, G eorge Sh arp, age d years, his son; R o b ert B erw i c k , an d Willi am Brown. A beautiful instance of the self-devotion and simple piety of an interesting section of the miners was displayed in the pitshaft after this acci dent. Two of the men who were knocked out of the cage were partly buried in the ruins which choked the shaft. The elder Sharp could be heard praying among the rubbish where he was buried. Thomas Watson, who was hanging by the broken cage, heard the moans and prayers of his unfortunate companion, and though much bruised by the wood that had struck him, he dropped himself do wn th e pump on to the rubbish in which poor Sharp was buried, and prayed with him until he expired, though every moment Watson himself expected to be engulfed where he stood. After Sharp's death, Watson scrambled back to the cage, where he hung until 7 o'clock on Thursday evening, when he and his other two companions were rescued. Of course, as soon as the accident was known, messengers were despatched to the neighbouring collieries, and all the best men connected with them were sent to the rescue. The gin and jack were rigged, and wrought by an engine, as also the crab, wrought by men and horses. It was determined not to send the timber and rubbish up to the bank, but to pass it up by means of the gin and jack to the upper seam, which is not blocked. But on descend ing the shaft it was found that only two men could work at the obst ruct i on a t on e time, and in doing so they had to be slung with ropes, and the process is extremely dangerous and tedious. During the night of Thursday and the whole of yesterday the efforts of the men employed in clear ing the shaft were continued with unremitting assiduity. Yesterday and to day the pit was visited by Mr. Matthias Dunn, the Government inspector, who remained on the ground a considerabl a portion of the day; as also by Mr. Hugh Taylor, chairman of the coal trade ; Mr. John Taylor, of Earsdon ; Mr. Edward Potter, chairman of the steam coal trade ; Mr. T. E. Forster, viewer of Seaton Delaval ; and Mr. Hurst, viewer of Backwortb. These gen tlemen made a careful inspection of the state of the pit, and offered their suggestions as to the most de sirable plan of the operations. Throughout 3 esterday the scene in the neighbour hood of the pit was exceedingly touching. The intelligence of the calamity had become widely dif fused throughout the district, and from all quarters, on foot and by train, parties of men and women, belonging almost entirely to the mining population, kept pouring in towards the colliery. In the after noon there must have been several thousand persons of all ages and both sexes on and about the bank. The great centre of attraction was of course the pit mouth, and the police had some difficulty in keeping the bank top sufficiently clear to allow the work to be efficiently carried on ; but over the whole assem blage there reigned an expression of deep sadness as of people standing, so to speak, under the shadow of a great disaster. NEW HARTLEY, 9 P.M. The intelligence from below is less satisfactory. Mr. Coulson, master sinker of Durham, an extremely able men in his line, who has been down the shaft all day, has sent up a somewhat unsatisfactory re port. He states that the obstruction in the shaft has become more solid and wedged together as they get down. The men imprisoned below were heard during the course of this morning working, and as the pitmen term it " jowling." in the shaft. The noise ceased during the day; and to-night se veral attempts were made to signal them from above the mass of obstruction, but no reply was obtained. But it has been explained that, as the men would not go out of the seam to work at the obstruction in the shaft, they have probably re moved all they could, and then retired more into the workings. The managers of the pit are con fident that there is not the least cause for alarm, unless they should suffer from the effects of foul air. The excitement is increasing in the neigh bourhood, and to-night, upon which the fate of the poor fellows seems to hang, will be a very anxious perious in this mining district. Everything that skill and courage can do will be done by the miners to rescue them alive. It was hoped that food might have been got down to them to night, but it seems that the pump through which it was hoped it might pass is broken. SHIELDS, SUNDAY, 6 P.M. The men and lads still remained entombed. From six o'clock last night to four this afternoon no perceptible progress has been made in rescuing them. Last night the sides of the shaft threat ened to fall in and bury the persons engaged in clearing a passage down ; so this afternoon they were obliged to cease operations to remove the ob stacks in the shaft until the sides are bratticed. The last body of the five men killed in the shaft on Thursday was found last eight. Popular excitement in the district is intense. There is an enormous concourse of people all day as sembled at the spot, but excellent order has been kept by the county constabulary, and the operations have not been hindered by their presence. At mid night the buried men were heard signalling to the working parties. They were heard distinctly again at 10 and 11 to-day. This has given great relief to all the persons at the bank. The low seam of the pit is supposed to be rapidly filling with water, which cannot reach the men and lads for many days, as they are supposed to be in the yard seem. Mr. Humble, the resident viewer, says they have a pony in the yard seam ; also horse provender. He is cer tain that the air is good there, and that there is plenty of fresh water. The colliery surgeon, how ever, is anxious about the boys and old men, 50 boys having been in,:the pit 80 hours ; the first shift of men 89 hours, the back shift 81 hours. The families of the buried men have shown onderful fortitude. Prayers have been offered for their preservation in all places of worship in the district to-day. TILE SECOND PROSECUTION :OF "ESSAYS AND ,REVIET PS." It has already been stated in the columns of this journal that a second prosecution has been com menced in connexion with the volume now so generally known as "Essays and Reviews." While the case of the " Bishop of Salisbury v. the Rev. Dr. . Rowland Williams," now awaiting judgment, was under discussion in the Court of Arches, the Rev. James Fendall, M,A., Rector of Harlton, near Cam bridge, proctor in convocation for the diocese of Ely, filed articles against one of his representatives, the Rev. Henry Bristow Wilson, B.D , Vicar of Great Staughton, near St. Neots, the author of the essay entitled " Seances Historiques de Geneva— the National Church." First of all the articles set out that Mr. Wilson, who graduated at St. John's College, Oxford, in 1825, was presented by the President and Fellows of St. John's to the vicarage of Great Staughton in 1850, and instituted thereto by the Bishop of Ely ; that by his essay he has offended against the laws ecclesiastical, &c. Mr. Wilson is "articled and ob jected to" on the gr~ . •und that he has depraved and denied the following passages of Scripture and for mularies of the church :—Genesis, 3d chapter, 20th verse—" and Adam called his wife's name Eve, be cause she was the mother of all living " St. Matthew, 19th cnapter, verses 4 and s—" And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read that he which made them at the beginning, made them male and female, and said, for this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and they twain shall be one flesh." Also the following from " The Form of Solemnization of Matrimony :"—" Almighty God, who at the begin ning did create our first parents, Adam and Eve, and did sanctify and join them together in mar riage," &c. The passage from Mr. Wilson's Essay which is cited as depraving or contradicting these authorities is the following :—" Thus some may con sider the descent of all mankind from Adam and Eve :as an undoubted historical fact; others may rather perceive in that relation a form of narrative into which in early ages tradition would easily throw itself spontaneously. Each race naturally— necessarily, when races are isolated—supposes itself to be sprung from a single pair, and to be the first, or the only one, of races. Among a particular people this historical representation became the concrete expression of a great moral truth, of the brotherhood of all human beings, of their commu nity, as in other things, so also in suffering and in frailty, in physical pains and in moral corruption. And the force, grandeur, and reality of these ideas are not a whit impaired in the abstract, nor indeed the truth of the concrete history as their represen tation, even though manhood should have been placed upon the earth in many pairs at once or in distinct centres of creation. For the brotherhood of man really depends, net upon the material fact of their fleshy descent from a single stock, but upon their constitution, as possessed in common of the same faculties and affections, fitting them for mu tual relation and association, so that the value of the history, if it were a history strictly so called, would be in its emblematic force and application." Charges are also made against Mt. Wilson in re ference to the following passages: Psalm 51, verse 5 :—" Behold I was shapen in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me." Romans, chapter 5, verses 12 to 19 inclusive—" Wherefore as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin, and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned Far as by one man's disobe- dience many were made sinners, so by the obe dience of one shall many be made righteous." From the cateceism—" Being by nature born in sin and the children of wrath." From the "Ministration of Public Baptism of Infants"—" Dearly beloved, asmuch us all men are conceived and born in sin." Mr. Wilson's views for which he is articled are thus expressed We cannot be content to wrap this question up and leave it for a mystery as to what shall become of those myriads upon myriads of non- Christian races. First, if our traditions tell us that they are involved in the curse and per ii tion of Adam, and may justly be punished here after individually for his transgression, not having been extricated from it by saving faith, we are dis posed to think that our traditions cannot herein fairly declare to us the words and infer ences from scripture; but if on examination it should turn out that they have, we must say that the authors of the scriptural books have in those matters, represented to us their own inadequate conceptions, and not the mind of the spirit of God, for we must conclude with the apostle, Yea, let God be true, and every man a liar.'" Another point on which Mr. Wilson is charged with being heretical is " The Incarnation of our Lord," and the following passage from his essay is cited :—" Forms of expression partly derived from modern modes of thought on metaphysical subjects, partly suggested by a better acquaintance than heretofore with the unsettled state of Christian opinion in the imme diately post-apostolic age, may be adopted with re spect to the doctriees enumerated in the five first Articles, without directly contradicting, impugn ing, or refusing assent to them, but passing by the side of them, as with respect to the humanifying of the Divine Word, and to the Divine personalities." These views are alleged to be in contravention of the 7th chapter of Isaiah, 14th verse; St. Luke's Gospel, Ist chapter, 26th and following verses; and the collect for Christmas-day. Article 6 (of the Thirty-nine Articles) says In the name of th e Holy Scripture we do understand those canonical books of the Old and New Testament, of whose au thority was never any doubt in the Church." this article the following remarin; of To Wilson are alleged to be contrarient :—" Or it iT a Y )c3 ex pressed thus : the Word of God is contai. ed .- in Scripture, whence it does not follow that it is co extensive with it. The Church to which we belong does not put that stumbling-block before the feet of her members ; it is their own fault if they place it for themselves, authors of their own offence. Under the terms of the sixth article one may accept literally, or allegorically, or as a parable, or poetry, or legend, the story of a serpent tempter, of an ass speaking with man's voice, of an arresting of the earth's motion, of a reversal of its motion, of waters standing in a solid heap, of witches and a va riety of apparitions. So, under the terms of the sixth article, every one is free in judgment as to the primeval institution of the Sabbath, the universality of the deluge, the confusion of tongues, the corporeal taking up of Elijah into heaven, the nature of angels, the reality of demoniacal possession, the personality of Satan, and the mira culous particulars of many events." Again:— " Many narratives of marvels and catastrophes in the Old Testament are referred to in the New, as emblems, without either denying or asserting their literal truth, each as the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah by fire from heaven, and the Noachian deluge." These views are alleged to be repugnant to the following passages from the Prayer Book : from the baptismal ser'ice—" Almighty and ever• lasting God who of thy great mercy didst. save Noah and his family in the ark from perishing by water, and also didst safely lead the children of Israel thy people through the Red Sea." From the prayer for fair weather—" 0 Almighty Lord God, who for the sin of man did once drown all the worid except eight persons." _ Against various portions of the Gospel of St. John the following passage from Mr. Wilson's Essay is cited as deserving condemnation :—" The ideal method is applicable in two ways ; both to giving account of the origin of parts of Scripture, and also in explanation of Scripture, It is bus either critical or exegetical. Au example of the critical ideology carried to excess is that of Strauss, which resolves into an ideal the whole of the historical and doctrinal person of Jesus; so again much of the allegorising of Philo and Origen is an exegetical ideology, exaggerated and-wild. But it by no means follows, because Strauss has substituted a mere shadow for the Jesus of the Evangelists, and has frequently descended to a minute captiousness in details, that there are not traits in the scriptural person of Jesus which are better explained by retetring them to an ideal than a historical origin; and without falling into fanciful exegetics, there are parts of Scripture more usefully applied ideologi cally than in any other manner ; as, for instance, the history of the temptation of Jesus by Satan, and ac counts of demoniacal possessions. And liberty must be left to all as to the extent in which they apply the principle, for there is no authority, through the expressed determination of the Church, nor of any other kind, which can define the limits within which it may be reasonably exercised." . . . " The idologian is evidently in possession of a principle which will enable him to stand in chari table relation to persons of very different opinions from his own, and of very different opinions mutu ally ; and if he has perceived to how great extent the history of the origin itself of Christianity rests ultimately upon probable evidence, his principle will relieve him from many difficulties which might otherwise be very disturbing. For relations which may repose on doubtful grounds as matter of history, and as history be incapable of being ascertained or verified, may yet be equally suggestive of true ideas with tacts absolutely certain The spiritual signi ficance is the same, of the transfiguration, of opening blind eyes, of causing the tongue of the stammerer to speak plainly, of feeding multitudes with bread in the wilderness, of cleansing leprosy, whatever links may be deficient in the traditional record of particular events. Or let us suppose one to be un certain whether our Lord were born of the house and lineage of David, or of the tribe of Levi, and even to be driven to conclude that the genealogies of him have little historic value ; nevertheless, in idea, Jesus is both Son of David and Son of Aaron, both Prince of Peace, and High Priest of our profession ; as he is, under another idea, though not literally, without father and without mother.' And he is none the less Son of David, Priest Aaronical, or Royal Priest Melchizedecan in idea and spiritually, even if it be unproved whether he were any of them in historic fact. In like manner it, need not trouble us if, in consistency, we should have to suppose both an ideal origin and to apply an ideal meaning to the birth in the city of David and to other circumstances of the infancy. So, again, the incarnification of the divine Immanuel remains, al though the angelic appearances which herald it in the narratives of the Evangelists may be of ideal origin according to the conceptions of former days. The ideologian may sometimes be thought sceptical, and be sceptical or doubtful as to the historical value of related facts; but the historical value is not always to him the moat itr portant—frequently it is quite secondary. And, consequently, discre pancies in narratives, scientific difficulties, defects in evidence, do not disturb him as they do the Mr. Wilson is challenged with regard to his views on separation of doctrine and practice, the nature of clerical subscription, and many other sub jects treated of in his essay. He has engaged Mr. Du Bois as the proctor to conduct his defence. The argument on the admission of the articles will take place as soon as the forms of the Court of Arches will permit. STRONG WIND z' AND GALES. At a meeting of the Meteorogical Society, held on Jan, 15, Mr. Beardmore, C.E., president, in the chair, a paper was read by James Glaisher, F.R.S., " On the Pressure of ' the Wind in Strong Winds and Gales at the Royal Obser vatory, Greenwich, in the years 1841 to 1860." The author excluded from his investigation all light winds, or when ever the pressure en the square foot was less than 51b. He detailed in each year every successive stormy hind or gale, beginning with the year 1841, and ending with the year 1860, indicating the limits of pressure of each, with the direction of the wind. He then collected all the cases which had happened in these 20 years under each direction of the wind, and found that there had been five cases from the S., with pressures from 71b to 161 b ; 12 from the S.S W., from 71b to 241 b; 85 from the S.W., from 71b to 251 b; t 1 from the W.S.W., from 71b to 251 b , 18 from the W., from 71b to 281 b ; six from the W.N.W., from 71b to 251 b; three from the N.W , from 71b to 121 b; one from the N.N.W„ with a pressure of 61b ; eight from the N., from 71b to 151 b; 'inc , from the N.E., from 71b to 21lb; three from the E.N.E , from 71b to 141 b; two from the E., from 71b to 91b ; one from the S.E., with a pressure of 61b ; and one from the S.S.E., with a pressure of 71b ; and withi n the 20 years the wind had once blown with a pressure of 281 b-viz., in 1860, from the W. ; twice with pres sures of 251 b, from the W.S.W. and S.W.; once with 241 b from S.S.W. ; once with 211 b from N.E., and the greatest pressure from all other quar'ers u, AB 161 b. From the N.N.E and E.S.E. there had b. en no instance of a pressure so great as slb on the square foot. Mr. Glaisher then exhibited tables, showing the order of frequency and magnitude of the pressure of the wind in every month of the year. He remarked that it January pressures exceeding 51b had always taken place; that in 19 years they varied from 61b to 181 b, and on. e reached 251 b. In February four instances occurred of no pressure so great as 51b, 14 from 71b to 221 b, and one of 251 b. In March, four instances of no pressure so great as 51b, 15 from 61b to 171 b, and one of 211 b. In April, three in stances of no pressure so great as 51b, 14 from 61b to 131 b, and three of 151 b. In May, six instances of no pressure so great as 51b, 13 from 61b to 161 b, and one of 231 b. In June there were 11 instances of no pressure so great as 51b, eight from 71b to 121 b, one of 231 b. In July, nine instances of no pressure so great as 51b, 10 from 61b to 101 b, and one of 151 b. In August 11 instances of no pressure so great as 61b, 8 from 71b to 111 b ; and one of 161 b. In September, 10 instances of no pressure so great as slb ; 9 from 61b to 121 b ; and one of 131 b. In October five instances of no pressure so greet as 51b; 14 from 71b to 151 b, and one of 161 b. In November, six instances of no pressure so great as 51b ; 13 from 61b to 201 b ' • and one of 241 b. In December, seven inst ances of na pressure so great as 51b, 12 from 71b to 161 b, and one of 241 b. The author then exhibited a table of the extreme pressure of the wind in every month, and remarked that in some years, .as in 1841, 1842, 18 43, 1846, 1849, 1855, 1 856, and 1857, no pressure had reached 51b for several months together; while in other years, as in 1848 and 185 3 , the pressure had been. e:Lceeded in every mouth bn. t one in both years, and. in 1850 in every month without eau), ption. The year 1860, the la st of the ser'es, was distinguished by the greatest pressur a in the 20 years—viz., 281 b in the month of February; at td this year was no less remarkablt ) for pres oulres of 221 b in ithe months of May and June, wiTile in these m onths, genera lly the extreme pressure was very ms'ililes3. M. r. Glaisber tb en spoke upon the greatest pressures in each y ea r, and poinaed out the great difference between thein in different years.. He said in 185.1. the greatest pressure in the ykla.r was 111 h only ; in 1846, i2lb ; in 1845, 1818, and 1857, hit each year, it was 131 b ; while in 185.) it was 201 b ; , 841. 211 b ;in 1849, 221 b ;in 181.1 and 1852, 241 b ;in 1843 - au. 1850, 2 . 51 b ; and in 1860, 26.1 b. It was also re * the light pressures, with the exception of 1851, marktil thk, 4, as in the fiv e y ears 1844 to 1848, th e ex were in OM,. were 13Ib to 18Ib, while in the first three Creme press - arta 1841 to 1843, they were from 211 b to years of the serer., , 9 to . 1852,. with the exception of 1851, , and in the last two years of the 2thselby;wier.reth2e23;beartoT2%b Ftsries they were 201 b I' o u CCM SPIRACY: THE CATO. S 7 R.,7•Err ttempted to be put in execut:ont for murdering the On irshinary 22, 1820, a projeCt, long before set on foot, was a whole Cabinet Ministers , and immedi. Ntely overturning the Government, Evnd proclaming a republic-, An old s. Idier, named Arthur Thistlewood, was the chief of the conspi racy, the leaders of which were twenty-fom -in number, o their chiefs being Lugs, a butcher, DavidsoA, c a creole, Brunt and Tidd, shonnakers, and Edwards, who x terwarde revealed the plot. They met twice a day during - .the first three weeks in February ire a hired room near Grate' - met , and generally assembled. including their most trustcd fol lowers, to the number of 30 or 40. Their first project was to murder the Prince Regent ; but this was soon laid as ,'de as of little service, and in lieu of it the more practical de sign adopted of despatching the whole Ministers in their separate houses. Forty despea . adoes were told off for these detached murders, and whoever I :ailed in the part assigned him was to atone for it with his Two pieces of artil lery were at the same time to be eeizee l , stationed at Gray's , Inn, and six in the Artillery Ground ; withthese the Man sion House and Bank were to be assaulted, and as soon as they were carried a Provisional Government was to be pro claimed, the King dethroned, and London set on fice to several places This design was so far matured that t he day for its execution was fixed, being the 19th Februar;r. But it was afterwards resolved to postpone it fur a few days, as intelligence had been received that the whole Cabinet were to dine at Lord Harrowby's, in Grosvenor-square, on 22d February. Thistlewood immediately proposed that they should commence operations on that day, and by an attack on the assembled Cabinet when at dinner ; " for," said he l "as there has not been a dinner for so long, there will no' doubt be 14 or 16 there, and it will be a rare hauf to murder them all together." This was unanimously aseentei to; and it was fixed that on that day 24 of the conspirators, fully armed, should meet in a loft above a stable in Cato- street, off the Edgeware-road, at six in the evening, ready, under Thistlewood's orders, to proceed on the murderous enterprise. On the day fixed the whole 2+ armed to the teeth, assembled at the appointed hour ira the loft above the stable at six o'clock. Two of them were: stationed in ro sv eno r- s guar eto see that the road was clear and one was to call during dinner at Lord Harrowby's with a note, and when the door was opened the whole body, who twos and threes in the vicinity', were to have assetabla' d b y were to rush in and mit.. -der the entire Cabinet Ministers. The heads of Lord Castia, eagh and Sidmouth were to be instantly cut off and brought off as trophies, to be paraded through the streets, for which I , urpose bags were prepared. Meanwhile the cavalry barracio iltr King-street, Portman square, were to be attacked ty thi-05ving fire into the forage depot, and the Bank and Mansion.Nizse assaulted by the conspirators. Ministers, however, hat. secret information of the design from Edwards, one of their 4 1 11mber, and in stead of dining as proposed at Lord Harrowby's in Gros• venor-square, they did so privately in Downing . -street; but the preparations for the entertainment at Lord g '-street; were allowed to go on without interruption. Meanwhile, Mr. Birnie (afterwards Sir hichard), the police magietrate, proceeded to the barracks of the Coldstream Guards, who had been ordered to have a detachment in readiness to support the civil power. Finding them not under arms, however, that intrepid officer, thinking that not a moment was to be lost, proceeded alone with his 14 policemen to Cato-street, leav ing directions to the military to follow as quickly as possi ble, which they acccordingly did, but not in time to take , part in the commencement of the affray which followed. Birnie meanwhile arrived at the stable in Cato-street, and the first of the police who moanted the trap stair wAs an active end brave man, Smithers, who, as scion as he got to the top, called aloud to the party t&. surrender, whereupon Thistlew , od ran him through the body, and he fell. The lights were instantly extinguished, and a frightful conflict commenced in the dark between the police and the eienspi raters, who, being fully armed, and 10 superior in num lore, made a desperate resistance. Some dashed headlong down the trap stair, and broke awl)* before the Guards arrived ; *others, including Thistlewood, got off by the skylight to the back. In the midst of the tumult the detachment of the Guards arrived, and instantly entered, headed by Captain Fitzclarence, at whom a p stol was discharged, and a bloW with a cutlass was aimed by a mulatto, which his covering sergeant warded off with his bayonet. Resistance then ceased, and nine in all were made prisoners. The rest escaped at the time, but most of them were taken the next day, including Thistlewood, their leader, for whom a reward of £l,OOO had been offered. Thistlewood, Ings, Tidd, Brunt, and Davidson received sentence of death; five were sen tenced to transportation for life; and one, after being eel" tenced to death, received a free pardon. The other five were executed on Ist May, in presence of an immense crowd of spectators, many of whom evinced the warmest sympathy' with their fate. So far fr o m denying what was charge d against them, they openly admitted it before receiving sell' teller, and lamented only that their projects had not been carried into effect.—Alison'e Lives of Lord Castlereagh an d Sir Charles Stewart. COUNTRY JIARAL:Ab. ‘, CAMBRIDGE-JAN. 18. There was a moderate show of wheat to-day, and 60 1 trade ruled rather inactive—the prices being fully up to last week's rates—white, from 60s to 64s ; red, 66s to 6 0 t Barley in steady demand—malting, 35s to 40s, grinding, 3, to 31s. Oats were st ea dy, a t 22 s t o 28 s . B eans were sold at 38a to 42s per qr. YORK- JAN. 18. We were again but scantily supplied with wheat to -day• and the attendance was not numerous. The trade ruled fair, and late prices barely supported. The barley tract? , more healthy. Oats steady. Wheat, red 6os to 63s i Oats.... 22s to 26 6 White do .62s to 66s i Beans 42- to 4fo Barley .32s to 37s I Peas ....—s to -- 4 Malt, 68s to 70s per qr. ; rye, 36s per qr f • flour, 471 i to 49s per sack. NORWICH—JAN. 18. Wheat to-day was in middling supply, and trade fail at the prices of last w ee k. A l ess quantity of barley all ing, which supported late rates, with a slow business. White wheat 62s to 64s I Red wheat 58s to 6 25 Malting barley....3Bs to 39s I Chevalier barley 37k. to 3 8 ° New d 0...... 37s to 39s 1 Oats.. --E to NORTHAMPTON—JAN. 18. At this corn-market to-day the supply of wheat Ir 0 , limited. The t one o f th e tra d e was slow, and the price° were at no decline upon the previous rates-45s to 68s for old, and 66s to 62s for new. A steady business in barley - malting 32s to 38s, grinding 20s to 29s per qr. Oats 113 moderate show, at previous prices—quoted at 20s to 3 48 per 24 stone. Beans, old, 38s to 45s ; peas, 36s to 408. Rye, 37s to 425; malt, 70s to 74s ; flour, 40s to —8 P et sack. LEICESTER—JAN. 18. The supply of wheat to day at market was very &bort, and the attendance of farmers and factors much better. Trade dull, and quotations is lower. White, 63s to 60 6 —red, 54s to 60s per 36 stone. Barley was in steady re quest, grinding, 30s to 33e ; malting, 34e to 38s per gni oats, 23s to 34s per 24 stone. Beans at high prices- - new, 40s to 42F , ; old, 43s to 48s per 38 stone. Fine flour, 46s Seconds, 44s I Thirds, 42s per 20 stone. BIRTHS. BALLAnn.—On the 16th inst., at Pembroke, S.W., the wit) of Ccmtnauder J. B. Ballard, R.N., of a son. CU,,RY.—On the 17th inst., at the Royal Naval Hospit 4l, Plymouth, the wife of Captain Douglas Curry, R.N., Superintendent, of a atn. HILL. —On the 15th inst., at Sherborne, Dorset, the wife of Captain W. H. Hill, R.N., of a son. SIDNEY —On the 18th inst., nt Bowes Manor, Southgate, Middlesex, the wife of Alderman Sydney, m,p., of a daughter. MARRIAGES. LANSDOWN—BREMRIDGE.—On the 18th inst., at Saint George's, 8100 , sbury, George Lansdown, Esq., of Bed' tord-piace, younger son of the late James Lansdownt of Regent's. park, to Caroline Maty, elder dough' ter of Elias Bretnridge, Esq., of Bloomsbury-square. BAILEY—BOULDER:iON - On the 16th inst., at Christ Church, Bayswater, Vincent, only son of Wm. PaileY , Esq., of Oaken, Staff rdshire, to Charlotte, third (laugh" ter of Henry Smith Boulderson, Esq., of 17, Gloucester ., square, Hyde-park. DEATHS. BOURNE.—On the 17th inst., at his residence, Heathland near Stourbridge, Joseph Green Bourne, Esq., aged 74. FORD.—On the 17th inst., at Abbeyfield, near Sandbaoh• Cheshire, Charles Ingram Ford, Esq., J.P. and a Dep. Lieut. for the county of Chester, aged 65 FERICAR.—On the 18th inst., suddenly, Jane Anne, daugh" ter of Mr. Fred. Ferrer. GRIFFIN.—On the 14th inst., at 7, Clapham-rise, John P• Griffin, Eq., aged 77• HALL.—On the 14th inst., at Greenwich, Mrs. Louisa Hall, aged 79. LATHAM.- On the 14th inst., at Broughton-in•.Furneest Richard Latham, Esq., late of Bahia, aged 70. SEARLE.—On the 16th inst., at Garswood, while on a visit to Sir Robert Gerard, John S,.arle, Es /., aged 69. YOUNG.—On the 15th inst., at Southsea, Dr. ColLYoung , late of the 6th Vetn. Battalion. LONDON : Printed and Published by MORD° YOUNG, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at TDE SuN Office, No. 112,Stran in the Precinct of the Savoy in the County of MiddleeeSt Monday, January 211 , 1882. • t t I Th Th C Th Pe Die; C bile Jas MIE ei Ref 11€ q dies Sir Era J. la Ge c N Mrs for G..] Air Aid Ric J. a The Ito Rei