The Sun. — London, England, 1862-01-02 00:00:00

THE NAVY. The annual official return of the condition and situation of every vessel in the navy was published yesterday, under the authority of the Admiralty. From this return it is satisfactory to know that, so far as the navy is concerned, England was never in a prouder position. The number of vessels on the Ist of January was 856 of all rates and classes. There were, besides, 150 line-of-battle and other sailing ships stationed at the various ports in Eng land and the colonies for harbour duty, thus swell ing the total to upwards of 1,000 vessels of all descriptions. Of the 860 vessels actually in com mission:or building or preparing for service, only 154 are sailing ships, the whole of the remainder being propelled by steam power. The list of vessels is made up of 81 line•of-battle ships, each mount ing from 74 to 131 guns; 22 vessels, each with an armament of from 60 to 70 guns; 44 51-gun frigates, the whole, with the exception of about 10 of that number, being screw steamers ; 57 ships, each mounting from 22 to 50 guns, and the majo rity of which have a tonnage as large as ships of the line; 29 screw corvettes, or frigates, each mounting 22 guns; 317 screw and paddlewheel steamers, each carrying less than 22 guns ; and 185 screw gunboats, each provided with two Armstrong guns. The following screw ships of the line, and other steamers, composed the squadron on the coast of North America, under the orders of Vice-Admiral Sir Alexander Milne, K.C.8., on the Ist of January, exclusive of the vessels of war now on their passage to that station :-The Conqueror, 101, 800 horse power ; the Donegal, 99, 800 horse power ; the Nile, 91, 500 horse power ; the Hero, 91, 500 horsepower; the Agamemnon, 90, 600 horse power ; the St. George, 90, 500 horse power ; the Aboukir, 86, 400 horse power ; the Sanspareil, 70, 400 horse power ; the Immortalite, 51, 600 horse power ; the Liffey, 51, 600 horse power ; the Phae ton, 51, 400 horse power ; the Melpomene, 51, 600 horse power ; the Orlando, 51, 1,000 horse power ; the Mersey, 40, 1,000 horse power ; the Diadem, 32, 800 horse power ; the Ariadne, 26, 800 horse power; the Challenger, 22, 400 horse power; the Cadmus, 21, 400 horse power ; the Jason, 21, 400 horse power; the Orpheus, 21, 400 horse power; the Greyhound, 17, 200 horse power; the Rinaldo, 17, 200 horse power ; the Racer, 11, 150 horse power; the Desperate, 7, 400 horse power; the Bulldog, 6, 500 horse power; the Barracouta, 6, 300 horse power; the Hydra, 6, 220 horse power; the Medea, 6, 350 horsepower ; the Spiteful, 6,280 horse power; the Nimble, 5, 80 horsepower; the Steady, 5, 80 horse power; the Plover, 6, 80 horse power; the Landrail, 5, 80 horse power; and the Cygnet, 5, 80 horse power. The squadron stationed on the South-East Coast of America, under the com mand of Rear. Admiral R. L. Warren, consisted of the Forte, 51, 400 horse power; the Curacoa, 31, 350 horse power; the Satellite, 21, 400 horsepower; the Curlew, 9, 60 horse power; the Stromboli, 6, 280 horse power ; and the Ardent, 3, 200 horse power. The fleet composing the Mediterranean squadron, under the orders of Vice-Admiral Sir W. F. Martin, K.C.8., consisted of 29 vessels of all rates, several of which, however, have received orders to return to England for service elsewhere. During the past year the following vessels were completed and launched from the various royal and private dockyards :-The Defiance, 91, 3,475 tons, 800 horse power; the Perseus, 17, 955 tons, 200 horse power; the Shearwater, 11, 669 tons, 150 horse power ; the Pandora, 5, 426 tons, 80 horse power ; the Aurora, 51, 2,558 tons, 400 horse power, at Pembroke; the Bristol, 51, 3,027 tons, 600 horse power, at Woolwich ; the Glasgow, 51, 3,038 tons, 600 horse power; and the Chanticleer, 17, 950 tons, 200 horse power, at Portsmouth; the Rattle "snake, 21, 1,705 tons, 400 horse power, at Chatham ; ' the Speedwell, 5, 428 tons, 80 horse power, at Deptford ; the Black Prince, 36, 6,039 tons, 1,250 horse power, at Glasgow ; the Defence, 18, 3,668 tons, 600 horse power, at Newcastle; the Resistance, 18, 3,668 tons, 600 horse power, at Poplar ; and the Lily, 4, 695 tons, 200 horse power, at Millwall. The following is a list of the vessels of war now in construction, with the places at which they are building :-The Achilles (iron), 50 guns, 6,079 tons, 1,250 horse power-Chatham; the Africa, 4 guns, 669 tons, 150 horse power-Devonport ; the Agin ' court (iron), 50 guns, 6,621 tons, 1,250 horse power -Birkenhead ; the Alligator, 22 guns, 1,857 tons, 400 horse power-Woolwich ; the Belvidera, 51 guns, 3,027 tons, 600 horse power-Chatham ; the ) Bulwark, 91 guns, 3,716 to ns , 800 h orse power- Chatham ; the Caledonia (iron cased), 50 guns, 4,045 tons, 800 horse power-Woolwich ; the Columbine, 4 guns, 669 tons, 150 horse power-Deptford; the Dartmouth, 36 guns, 2,478 tons, 500 horse power -Woolwich the Dromedary, 4 guns, 500 tons, 100 horse power-Millwall ; the Dryad, 51 guns, 3,027 tons, 600 horse power-Portsmouth ; the Enchan- tress, 4 guns, 835 tons, 250 horse power—Pem broke; the Endymion, 36 guns, 2,478 tons, 500 ' horse power—Deptford; the Enterprise, 4 guns, 669 tons, 150 horse power—Deptford ; the FaTo rite, 22 guns, 1,623 tons, 400 horse power—Dept ford; the Guernsey, 4 guns, 695 tons, 200 horse power—Pembroke ; the Harlequin, 6 guns, 950 tons, 200 horse power—Portsmouth ; the Hector (iron), 32 guns, 4,00 tons, 800 horse Power-61;;- gow ; the Helicon, 4 guns, 835 tons, 250 horse power—Portsmouth ; the Ister, 36 guns, 3702 tons, 500 horse power—Devonport ; the Jaseur, 5 guns, 425 tons, 80 horse power—Deptford ; the Menai, 22 guns, 1,857 tons, 400 horse power—Chatham ; Minotaur (iron), 50 guns, 6,621 tons, 1,250 horse power—Blackwell; the Myrmidon, 4 guns, 660 tons, 200 horse power—Chatham; the Nassau, 4 guns, 695 tons, 200 horse power—Pembroke ; the Newport, 5 guns, 425 tons, 80 horse power—Pem broke ; the North Star, 22 guns, 1,623 tons, 400 horse power—Sheerness; the Ocean (iron-cased), 50 guns, 4,045 tons, 1,000 horse power—Devon port ; the Orontes (iron), 3 guns, 2,812 tons, 500 horse power—Blackwall ; the Psyche, 4 guns, 835 tons, 250 horse power—Pembroke ; the Rattler, 17 guns, 951 tons, 200 horse power—Deptford ; the Reindeer, 17 guns, 951 tons, 200 horse power— Chatham ; the Repulse, 89 guns, 3,716 tons, 800 horse power—Woolwich ; the Robust, 89 guns, .3,716 tons, 800 horse power—Devonport ; the Royal Alfred (iron cased), 50 guns, 3,716 tons, 800 horse power—Portsmouth ; the Royal Oak (iron cased), 50 guns, 3,716 tons, 800 horse power—Chatham ; the Salamis, 4 guns, 835 tons, 250 horse power — Chatham ; the Sappho, 6 guns, 950 tons, 200 horse power—Deptford ; the Sylvia, 4 guns, 695 tons, 200 horse power—Woolwich; the Tamar (iron), 3 guns, 2,812 tons, 500 horse power—Millwall ; the Tarta rus, 4 guns, 835 tons, 200 horse power—Pembroke; the Trent, 6 guns, 950 tons, 200 horse power—Pem broke ; the Triumph (iron cased) 50 guns, 3,716 tons, 800 horse power—Pembroke ; the Tweed, 51 guns, 3,027 tons, 600 horse power—Pembroke ; the Salient (iron), 32 guns, 4,063 tens, 800 horse power ; the Wolverine, 21' guns, 1,623 tons, 400 horse power--Woolwich; the Zealous, 89 guns, 3,716 tons, 800 horse power—Pembroke. - The Defence, 18, 3,668 tons, 600 horse power, Capt. R. A. Powell, C. 8., was undocked at Chatham Shortly after noon yesterday, the operation being Successfully performed under the direction of Com mander Pope, Master Attendant, and Mr. Lang, Master Shipwright. Her draught of wate r a ft was 22 feet 9 inches, and forward 20 feet 6 inches, there being about a foot of water beneath her keel and the floor of the dock at the time she was undocked. Al though there were only a few inches between the frigate and the stonework at the entrance to the dock, the vessel did not once touch the side. During the afternoon the Defence was placed alongside the floating shears and had her iron foremast, weighing 15 tons, shipped on board. In consequence of the De- fence being still in a very unfinished state, and not likely to be ready for some 3 or 4 weeks, a❑ order was received from the Admiralty by telegraph yes- terday, directing that in the event of hostilities with America the whole of the officers and crew would be turned to the Galatea, 26, which • ~ _ _____ is just ready for sea, and which would be immedi ately despatched to America. This order has created a considerable amount of disappointment and some dissatisfaction amongst the officers, all of whom appear to be satisfied that the Defence will prove herself a smart ship, and they were consequently looking forward with some degree of professional pride to the time when she would be ready for sea. The Galatea, 26, 800 horse power, Muter Com mander A. Goldsmith, received the remainder of her Armstrong and other guns on board at Folly Point, Chatham, yesterday. She carries the most power ful armament of any frigate in the service, consisting of six 100-pounder Armstrongs and 20 10-inch 95 cwt. smooth-bore guns, with a 20-pounder Arm• , strong for boat service. Her boats were forwarded to her yesterday from the stores at Chatham. The Meeanee, 81, 2,591 tons, 400 horse power, has been removed from the great basin at Sheerness in to the stream, where she now lies awaiting orders. She has been several months in the first-class steam reserve, and a short time, therefore, will suffice to have her ready for sea. The Revenge, 89, screw, Captain Chas. Fellowes, at Plymouth, is reported to be ready for sea. The Devastation, 6, steam sloop, Commander John D. M'Crea, was taken out of No. 8 dock at Ports mouth on Tuesday morning, and will in all proba bility sail for North America to-day. The Vigilant, screw steam-sloop, Commander Pike, went out of harbour yesterday morning and anchored at Spithead to receive her powder and shell. She will try her speed at the measured mile to-day. The Coquette, screw steam-sloop, was taken into No, 1 dock yesterday morning, and the Highflyer, screw steam-sloop, into No. 3 dock, to be examined and copper cleaned, &c., preparatory to being com missioned. Yesterday the War Department transport Bo marsund was placed alongside the Ordnance wharf, Chatham, for the purpose of shipping the armament of the Severn, 51, 500 horse power, consisting of eight 8-inch 65 cwt. guns, 18 32-pounders, each of 58 cwt., and four 70-pounder Armstrongs, on the main deck; and one 100-pounder Armstrong pivot gun, six 40-pounder Armstrongs, and 14 32-poun ders on the upper deck. The Edgar, 90, screw, Capt. Mends, with the flag of Rear-Admiral S. C. Dacres, C. 8., received her orders by post yesterday morning to sail immedi ately from Spithead for Lisbon, where she will re ceive final orders as to her destination. Rear- Admiral Dacres took leave of his family at Dent's George Hotel, and embarked at 3 p.m., the ship sailing immediately afterwards. The Lyra, 9, screw, Commander Alexander, will _ be put out of commission at Portsmouth to-morrow. The Terrible, paddle, Capt. Glasse, C. 8., sailed from Spithead between 2 and 3 p.m. yesterday, for the eastward, where she will dismantle and be put out of commission. The Stromboli, 6, paddle, Commander Henry, went out of Portsmouth harbour yesterday to Spit head, where she will take in powder and shell, prior to sailing for the Pacific. She takes out two 100. pounder Armstrong guns for ships on the station. Four of the gunboats now being brought for ward at Portsmouth for the first-class reserve at the port,—the Foam, Cracker, Swinger, and Pheasant, —are ordered to be rigged, stored, armed, and com plete in every point for sea by Saturday next at Sunset. The flag of Rear-Admiral the Hon. Sir George Grey, Superintendent of Portsmouth Dockyard, was shifted yesterday, in accordance with instructions to that effect, from the St. Vincent (now boys' train ing ship), to the Asia steam guardship of the port. Capt. Thomas Wilson is re-appointed to the St. Vincent, which, under the new regulations, is to receive 600 boys for training. The gunboats Porpoise, Partridge, Gleaner, Ripple, Tilbur4, Nightingale, and Trinculo, prepar ing at Plymouth for active service, are to be sup pliecrwith smooth-bored guns; the Charon, Clinker, and Delight will have rifled Armstrong guns. Rear-Admiral Sir Thomas Pasley, second in com mand at Plymouth, struck his flag yesterday (Wednesday) on board the Royal Adelaide, and hoisted it on board the guardship of steam ordinary Indus, Captain Astley C. Key. Captain Hall, of the Royal Adelaide, Plymouth, has taken command of the screw steamship Rus sell, 60, at Falmouth. Yesterday a detachment, comprising 200 non commissioned officers and men of the Royal Artil lery, left Warley barracks, near Brentwood, for Sheerness, for the purpose of augmenting the force at that garrison. Yesterday 250 men were also expected to arrive at Warley from Woolwich. The following appointments were made yester day at the Admiralty : Captain W. King Hall, C. 8., to the Russell, vice Wode house, whose term of service has expired. Commanders—F. S. Tremlett, to the Impregnable, com missioned as a training ship for boys; R. B. tHarvey, to the Hibernia, vice Blane, superseded at his own request; T. M. Jones, to the Sphinx, vice Day, promoted; Charles John Balfour, to the Trident, vice Nicolls, dismissed the service. Master—G. A. Macfarlane, additional, to the Asia, for he Coquette. Assistant• Paymasters--Henry F. Alldrich, additional supernumerary, to the Hogue; R. W. M. Colwell to the Warrior. Assistant-clerks--Nicholas L. Gedge and William A. Kilner, additional supernumeraries, to the Rachorse. LORD CLARENCE PA GET ON THE NAVAL RESERVE. Mr. W. M. Bullivant publishes a letter which he has received from Lord Clarence Paget, the Se cretary of the Admiralty, on the subject of the Naval Reserve. The letter shOws how anxious Lord Clarence Paget is to give every facility to officers joining the Naval Reserve. At the same time the letter is not put forward with the autho rity of her Majesty's Government, but as a simple expression of his own opinion. He says:— I understand the scheme to embrace two grand objects. Firstly, the provision of a well-educated and practical body of merchant officers trained in the science of gunnery, as an adjunct to the Royal Navy in time of war. Secondly, that these officers shall in peace time instruct the seamen under their command who be long to the Royal Naval Reserve, in the gunnery exercise, both theoretically and practically. At the present time the Government have no machinery by which they can impart to these officers the important knowledge of the higher branches of the science so necessary to the adequate performance of the functions above mentioned. The most they can offer is a course of drill in the annual exercise of great guns and small arms on board the training ships in our parts, such as is now given to the seamen, but this does not, except in rare cases, embrace the business of target practice, much less the higher branches of the theory of projectiles, amount of changes at various rangee, &c., which are all essential to the efficient command of gun's crews. Although, however, the Admiralty will do all in their power by supplying each officer with works on the use of great guns and small arms, as issued for the guidance of officers of the navy, nothing short of a course of experimental instruction on board one of the gunnery ships, such as is under gone by our own officers, will really fulfil all that is required. This coarse is, at the present time, unattainable by the reserve officers, owing to the limited means at the disposal of the Government and even if facilities were offered for the instruc-; tion of officers on board the Excellent at Ports mouth, and Cambridge at Dcvonport, it is not pro bable that they could devote the time requisite for the completion of a course of gunnery instruction without detriment to the duties of their employers; under the circumstances I would earnestly entreat the officers of the reserve not only to make them selves masters of the rudimentary exercise in the training ships, but likewise to study attentively the works whi c h th e Admiralty W ill present to them, and, if possible, to devote a day or two to a visit to ' the Excellent or Camb r id g e, where daily target practice takes place. _ - Let us suppose that they have acquired , as far as possible, a knowl e d ge of the management of great guns, it would then bo a question of national policy deserving the consideration of the Government, whether they might not entrust one or more guns to the care of those officers who have under their command a certain number of seame n of the Royal Naval Reserve, exactly as they have entrusted guns to the Artillery Volunteers along the coast. Our valuable trading ships, particularly those of the higher class, which bear the precious metals of our shorzs, would thus not only have their legs to trust to, but their arms also. I apprehend that all our largest merchant bhips, 1 ! whether steam or sailing, will, with a little strength ening of their deck, carry easily a long chase gun on the poop, and one gun, well handled by experi enced gunners, will probably render the ship safe against privateers, the principal class of vessels which they have to fear in case of war. The wisest course, therefore, for the packet coin. panies and shipowners to adopt, would appear to be that they should prepare their ships for a long gun abaft, and that the officers for the naval reserve should set to work at gunnery without loss of time; for whether we have peace or war, it is more than probable that the seas may shortly be swarming with the privateers of the two contending parties on the other side of the Atlantic. THE BIGRT 1.10. N. B. IV, CARD WELL, N..P., AT OXFORD. OXFORD, JAN. 1. The annual dinner of the Druids' Society took place this evening at the Town-hall, Mr. Alderman Saddler presiding, supported byMr. Cardwell, M.P., Mr. C. Neato, Sergeant Gazcice, Mr. Sheriff Carr, Captain Mallam, Captain Fane, Lieut. Holmes, Mr. Hussey, Alderman Dudley, Alderman Towle, Mr. Bacon, Mr. T. North, &c. The Town-hall, as is usual on these occasions, was densely crowded. Mr. Langston, M.P., was absent through serious illness. On the removal of the cloth, The CHAIRMAN, in proposing "The Health of the Queen," observed that that excellent lady, whose health had been for so many years given as the pride and glory of the land and the nation at large, had been deprived by the hand of Providence of a most affectionate husband, who was at once a most indulgent husband, a wise friend, and an able coun sellor. The grief which the whole nation felt at the demise of Prince Albert could not be surpassed, and he trusted that the general sympathy of the people would to some extent alleviate the grief of their Sovereign, and that, although widowed and her children fatherless, she would still be enabled to perform those high duties which her august station imposed upon her, with the same energy and fide lity that had hitherto made her alike a model mother and a model Queen. (Cheers.) The next toast was that of " The Prince of Wales and the rest of the Royal Family," in giving which the CHAIRMAN expressed an earnest hope that the Prince would ever follow the excellent counsels of his illustrious mother. The CHAIRMAN said the next toast was one which was always drunk with enthusiasm at that meet ing; it was the health and prosperity of our brave defenders by sea and by land. (Cheers.) At the present moment that was a toast which was pecu liarly applicable, because we knew not, speaking literally, what a day or an hour might bring forth. He was happy to say that the intelligence which had that day been received was of a more peaceful character than any which had preceded it, at the same time they must remember that it was not of an official character, and although they earnestly prayed that peace might be preserved, yet at the same time it was the duty of the country to be pre pared for the very worst: (Cheers.) Thank God, not only had we a Ministry, but an army and a navy, who were prepared to vindicate the honour of the country, and if, unfortunately, we should, we should drift into war, they would find'that both the army and the navy would, when called into action, prove themselves fit to carry the banners borne by those who had shed immortal glory upon the his tory of this land. (Cheers.) But there was one moat important body which he should be sorry to omit from this toast—he meant the Volunteers. (Cheers.) If in case of a war the Government felt it incumbent to call upon that body, he was sure that that call would be answered with alacrity,and that the Volunteers would render essential service by performing those duties at home which were now fulfilled by the army, and thus increase its efficiency. Ho gave them with the utmost cor diality, " The Army, Navy, and Volunteers.' (Cheers.) Captain FANE returned thanks. The CHAIRMAN next proposed " The health of the City Members," expressing great regret at the ab sence of Mr. Langston, who was prevented being present by serious illness ; but he was happy to say that he had not long since received a telegram stating that considerable improvement had taken place in the hon. gentleman's condition. He thought it necessary to mention this to quiet the apprehensions of those who had been disturbed by certain rumours which had been current during the day. Mr. CARDWELL, M.P., on rising to respond to the toast, was received with loud cheers. He said, . Gentlemen, I thank you from the bottom of my heart for the kind and cordial manner in which you have received the toast of my health and that of my ex cellent colleague, Mr. Langston. I assure you, gen tlemen, that it is with the most sincere regret that I stand alone to-day to return thanks for this toast which has been drunk by this numerous meeting of our constituents and friends, because we know very well that nothing but the overruling hand of neces sity would have prevented him from being among us on this occasion. Let us hope that the excellent tidings which we have beard may be borne out, and that he will speedily recover, and come again among us. (Cheers.) Gentlemen, the departed year has gone down, like a winter's sun, in gloom, and with an anxious augury for the future. It has left us mourning a loss at once inscrutable and irrepar able; for the nation grieves not only as a loyal people, tendering, as it must ever tender, the hom age of its sympathy to the deep nffliction of a most honoured and a most loved Sovereign, but, beyond that, every household in the lend, from the highest to the humblest, feels the great calamity we have sustained as a domestic and personal bereavement. Such is the tribute which English hearts have paid to the high endowments and the sterling virtues of the Prince Consort—the tribute of genuine gratitude and sincere affection. It is a sorrow too deep to be expressed in words, and it will not be effaced by time. (Cheers.) But we bow to the hand of Him who rules in wisdom and in mercy the kingdoms of men. Gentlemen, we saw with sorrow a civil war break out between two parts of one great country —the inheritors of our blood, of our literature, and of our glory—(cheers)—and, gentlemen, we should regard it as little less than a civil war among our selves if any unhappy circumstance should arise to involve us in hostilities with the people of America (Hear.) Our chairman has told us that the tele gram of to-day says that there is hope of an ami cable settlement, provided the demand of England has not been made in such a spirit and in such a temper as to render it impracticable; and I trust in due time, when all the correspondence shall be laid before the public, that they will be of opinion that those who are entrusted with the powers of State have acted in a manner worthy of them, and consentaneous with their own principles and feelings. . I believe there never was a spectacle of which Englishmen might be less ashamed in the face of Europe and of the world than the demeanour which England has shown in this great trial of her fortunes. We have sustained an injury such as we could not possibly pass by if we meant to retain the name and the position which Engrand has heretofore enjoyed among the nations of the world. (Cheers.) The law, and, as we see, the opinion of civilised Eu rope, have been declared on our side. Our contest is for freedom and for the peaceful rights of com merce. (Cheers.) The issue, then, gentlemen, does not rest with us, but upon the answer we may re ceive. How has the English people comported itself under these circumstances ? Has England shown that irritation and excitement which usually accom panies weakness; or that quietness and confidence which can spring alone from a consciousness of right and a consciousness of power ? We have been deter mined to do right, but we have been equally deter mined not to suffer wrong. (Cheers.) The Americans may find an apt description of the conduct of Eng land, and by that I mean not the English Govern ment merely, but the English people at large, for there has been no party feeling in this matter; what has been done has been the act—as it always is in circumstances where the honour of England is at stake—it has been the act of a united people, speak ing and acting as ono man. I say the Americans may find the best description of the attitude of England at this moment in the words of her own popular poet in describing fortitude, as "Serene and earnest—and still, and calm, and self possessed." I trust that the news of to-day may be ratified by more full intelligence, and that we may find men on the other side of the Atlantic influenced )y a spirit like our own, and that these occurrences may not only pass over without leading to the great ca lamity of hostilities between two kindred nations, but that, by the explanations that may follow, the danger of a state of war may be so far removed and smoothed away that there may arise HO other circumstance calculated to involve us in the like danger for the future. (Cheers.) A country can afford to be peaceful in its tone, and moderate in its language, that stands in the happy position in which we now stand. (Hear, hear.) Never was our army or our navy in a more efficient state. We not only raise without a conscription an army and a navy sufficient for the defence of our own shores and our great colonial possessions, but we raise a militia without ballot. (Hear.) And, in addition, there has been exhibited during the last three years a spectacle which no other nation ever exhi bited before, in the magical rise of that great army of Volunteers which has earned the gratitude of their own country and commanded the admiration of every other nation. And while speaking of them and the great debt of gratitude which the country owes to them, let us not forget the Naval Volunteers, whose example at this period of doubt and anxiety has attracted to them the notice and approval of their countrymen. (Cheers.) I speak of the Naval Volunteers with peculiar interest, for I was ono of those who had the honour to advise the adoption of this special force. At the time the subject was under discussion we were told by these who professed to speak authori tatively that it mould be impossible to raise a corps of Naval Volunteers, because such were the feelings of alienation between the naval service of the coun try and the merchant service that all efforts to raise a Naval Reserve from the merchant service must necessarily fail. But those to whom the inquiry was intrusted did not take that view. They said, if there be that feeling of ollematiou between the navy and the merchant service, let us inquire what is the reason and whose fault it is ? Does it not arise from the recollection of old times and ancient grievances, when you relied upon impressment for manning your navy, and when your appeals to the merchant service were made by the agency of force ? We said, try the naval Englishman as you do every other Englishman in every other position of life. Don't use force, but appeal to his patriotism and generous feeling ; invite him to come forward and rally round his country, and see if he will not be as ready to give his service towards the protection of the coun try and the maintenance of its honour as they are. And what has been the result ? It is not yet three years since that advice was humbly tendered to the Crown by those who conducted that inquiry, and all of you know that not only have we an efficient force ready and zealous to come forward if our navy should require their services, but, as my noble friend the First Lord of the Admiralty told me the other day, of men who constituted the cream of the mer chant service. It is an honour and an ambition to belong to the force, and so it will ever be for a body of Englishmen to come forward for the defence of the country when you speak to them as Englishmen, and appeal to their patriotism, to their generosity, and to their highminded feeling. But that is not all. That which I regard with the greatest satis faction in witnessing the progress of that force and their conduct is that the barrier which did exist between the navy and the merchant service is broken down, and we now find the merchant ser vice animated by the same spirit which pervades the rest of the community. Ancient jealousies are forgotten, and all Englishmen are ready to unite in defence of the country. I am glad to find the feeling of England is unanimous in enter- taining an earnest hope that the blessings of pew:* will be continued. (Hear.) No man would depre cate more than I would any recourse to war, with all its attendant horrors and miseries; but, while I am most anxious to avoid war, I am gratified in knowing that in any event our noble and beloved Queen may confidently rely upon the patriotic and enthusiastic spirit in England and Ireland—(cheers) —in Scotland and in our colonies—of a brave, a loyal, mid a magnanimous people. (The right hon. gontleman resumed hilt seat amid loud and pro tracted cheering.) The CHAIRMAN next proposed the toast of " Prosperity to the University of Oxford," coupling with it the name of Mr. Neate and Mr. Sergeant Gaselee. Mr. NEATE, after a few introductory remarks, observed that he was not ono of those who would advocate the cause of the Americans ; but, at the same time, so long as they were not our actual enemies, he felt bound to treat them as our brethren. He could not help thinking that the justice of our cause would be so manifest that, although he did not concur altogether with those who spoke of the enormity of the offence, the Government of the United States would hesitate before, by a refusal to comply with our demands, they plunged the two countries into a war. If however a war did take place, nothing would give him so much conscious ness that they were engaged in ajust quarrel as the fact that his hon. friend, occupying he as did a high position in the councils of his sovereign, agreed with the rest of the Ministry th a t i t was a b so l u t e ly necessary ; for he believed that no position whi ch the right hon. gentleman filled would induce him to assent to a war which was not a righteous one. (Cheers,) At the same time he must express his opinion that the constant use of irritating language upon the part of the press of this country when speaking of American institutions was much to be deplored, and he regretted to say that the leading newspapers of the kingdom were too much in the habit of indulging in comments upon American in stitutions which could not fail to be most offensive. Thay would remember that it was the practice of the people of Sparta to set a drunken man before their children to show them how absurdly he be haved, end thus to warn them against the vice of drunkenness, and it seemed now to be the practice of a large portion of the English press to place all the defects of the American institutions before the English people with a view of warning them against the errors of democracy, and he could not help thinking that this was done chiefly for the purpose of decrying popular institutions in this country. Whatever might be the evils of democracy, he did not think that the present was a time when irrita ting comments upon American institutions ought to be made. It was quite plain to him that the political history of Oxford since the passing of the Reform Bill was a history of the triumph of Liberal princi ples, and they had in their right hon. member and the right hon. gentleman the member for the Univer sity two signal instances of that triumph. No consti tuency could be more essentially aristocratic than was the University of Oxford, and therefore, it was with the greatest possible satisfaction that he witnessed the return for such a constituency of so eminent a member of the Liberal party as the Chancellor of the Exchequer. In conclusion, he observed that it was his ardent wish that peace should be maintained, but an honourable peace could only be maintained so long as we preserved unsullied the honour of the empire. (Cheers.) Mr. Sergeant GASELEE also returned thanks, ex pressing his regret that Mr. Cardwell had not thought fit either to give them a retrospect of the session, or to state whether the Government were prepared to carry out in its entirety that progres sive policy to which they had pledged themselves upon taking office. Various other toasts of a local character were drank, and the proceedings were brought to a close. AN IMPUDENT ROBBERY.—Last evening as Mr. M'Rao, of Ludgate-hill, was driving through Stamford street, Blackfriars-road, a clever thief abstracted from the boot of the phaeton (driven at a rapid rate), by means of a false key, several articles of value, and got clear off. So quickly was it done that he was not even seen. [ADVERTISEMENT.]—HoIIoway's Ointment and Pills.— Cherish Hope.—Let no sufferer despair of cure till a fair trial has been given to these incomparable medicaments. Marvellous cures aro constantly reported, of invalids being restored to health when all hope had long since vanished. All„complaints of Ethe chest, all irregularities of the heart, all impurities of the blood, all derangements of the stomach and liver, are banished by Holloway's preparations. The Ointment must be well rubbed over the parts affected twice a day at least, and oftener in urgent cases. The use of this Ointment, aided by Holloway's Pills, will cure all sores, ulcers, piles, fistulas, and skin dise ases. H owever old or obstinate, to their power all eventually yield. THE WINDHAM CASE. The proceedings in this case were resumed yes terday morning in the Court of Exchequer, West minster, before S. Warren, Esq., and a special jury. Mr. M. Chambers, Q.C., Mr, Field, and Mr. H. Williams appeared for the petitioners; Sir H. Cairns, Q C., Mr. Karslake, Q.C., and Mr. Mil ward for the alleged lunatic; Mr. Coleridge, Q.C., for Mrs. Windham ; and Mi. Charles Russell for Lady Sophia Giubelei, the mother of the alleged lunatic. Dr. Forbes Winslow recalled and cross-examined by Mr. Coleridge, Q.C.—I saw Mr. Windham only on two occasions for the purpose of conversing with him. I consider this a very remarkable case, but not unusual. Iu some of its features it might be unusual. I have had a large experience in cases of this sort for 20 years, and extensive practice. I have 70 or 80 patients in various diseases under my care every day. I class this as a case of imbecility- There are well known conditions of mental dis orders. It is a case in medical language of "amen tia." I have to inspect persons who are to be placed in lunatic asylums under lunatic acts. I examine them, and if satisfied I give a certificate. Re-examined by Mr. Chambers—l rank this as a case of imbecility under the class of amentia. Not absolute idiotcy or lunacy, but between the two. It is a numerous class. If I was to confine my opinion to the two interviews with Mr. Windham I should decline to sign a certificate to confine him in a lu natic asylum; but he requires some control. He requires some restraint, :but not to be placed in a luilatic asylum. I have noticed certain acts which led me to the conclusion that he is of unsound mind. I mention as an instance of this his continued friend ship for Mr. Roberts, although he told him of his having connexion with his wife before marriage. There was a paralysis of the moral sense of decency, no apparent sense of shame, and I could not make him understand that it was an act of indecency that a man should live with his wife almost up to the day of her marriage. By the Commissioner—This is a condition of mind between lunacy and idiotey, incapable of ma naging himself or his affairs. That was the defini tion of unsoundness of mind as laid down by Lord Eldon in Lord Portsmouth's case. In my opinion the state of mind of Mr. Windham is such that he is incompetent to manage his affairs. Tha jury, as laymen, are as well qualified to determine this question as myself. The type of this case is most difficult to analyse, on account of its subtle nature. The boundary line of amentia is so difficult to as certain that you must be guided more by the action of the persons than by your own observations. In a case like this, in order to come to a right conclu sion, you cannot disembarrass your mind of the history of the case. By a Juror—He appeared to be insensible to shame. When lam called upon to examine pa tients frequently the details of the case are laid before me. The general practice is to have placed before me certain facts. lam guided to my con clusions by what I saw and what I have heard in court. A combined action from both. I attribute as much importance to one as the other. It is the usual practice to give the medical man a statement of facts by which I was to test the capacity of the person to be examined. No proper investi gation could take place without it, or it would be like calling upon a chemist to test a cer tain liquid without giving him the means to test it. By the Commissioner—lmbecile persons are re markable for their cunning. They are capable of understanding a certain amount of tutoring, and for a time would be able to answer the questions. The impossibility of fixing the attention on any given subject only for a short period of time, was a distinguishing characteristic of this species of im becility. Deadness or insensibility to moral obliga tions is also a frequent concomitant to this species of insanity. Dr. Thomas Mayo, examined by Mr. Chambers —I am president of the College of Physicians. I have given my attention to disorders of the mind to a great extent, and early in life I wrote a work on the subject. I was present on two occasions with Dr, Winslow, when we had interviews with Mr. Windham. I was in court yesterday, and heard what Dr. Winslow said. He has substantially given a very accurate account of those interviews. I formed an opinion of the state of mind of Mr. Windham from these interviews. I had interviews with him on the 13th and 14th of November. The first in terview with him, accompanied by Dr. Winslow, was about two hours. I had a second interview. Dr. Bright was present on both occasions. I could see in Mr. Windham a very weak intellect and an impure mind to the extent that I should expect him to turn out of very unsound mind. What I ob served was perfectly consistent with the mass of evidence I have heard in this court. Speaking of his intellectual s3lnptoms, I should say he was childish and inconsequential under circumstances in which a man of intellect would be serious. Helinade disjointed remarks. Speaking of the ethical part of the case, by far the most important, my attention was most attracted to the mode he received and treated the relations between himself and his wife. All that took place on hat subject has been correctly stated by Dr. Winslow. There was an utter childishness and shamelessness. I would particularly specify the indifference with which he treated the question, whether he had said he had had connexion with the female whom ho afterwards married before marriage and that that had satisfied him. He said he had only made the remark to blind people as to his in tended marriage. When asked by me whether he had ever been in bed with three women at a time, ho treated this question with levity. He denied it, but laughed. The adhesiveness he showed in his attachment to Roberts, in spite of his admitting a low opinion of him, was another circumstance of his indifference to moral obligations. He had an in capacity in regard to the management of his affairs, for such a man would be sure to have bad assn• ciates, and a mind so weak would be sure to give way to them. Those were the principal points leading to the opinion I have expressed. Mrs. Llewellyn re-called and cross-examined by Sir H. Cairns—l have seen my brother, Conway Dignan, in the streets begging once since my mother's, death last summer. In September, Octo ber, November, or December, I did not meet my brother and speak to him in St. James's-street. 1 did not meet him and say, " Ah, Conway, how are you, and what are you doing ?" I did not see him in St. James's-street. In the month of July I saw him begging, and I was so shocked that I asked my solicitor to get him a situation. The only time I spoke to him was while I was in a cab in the Vaux hall-road. He came to me, and 1 said " Conway, be a good boy." I never said, in any shape or form, " I know of a capital thing you can do nicely. Did you ever hear of young Windham ? His uncle the General has begun to try to bring him in insane, and if you would swear for the General it would be the making of you, and you would not require a situation." I never said so, nor did I say two words to him. I never heard so base an accusation, or that I ever said, " The General will have the money, and not his nephew. What you will have to swear is this, that you lived with Llewellyn as his clerk, and had ample opportunities of hearing Mr. Wind ham's noises and mad ways." My brother never said, " Oh, Augusta, how can you try to bring a younger brother into such a mess ? You know 1 neither know young Mr. Windham or the General, and I would not get myself into trouble by false swearing for you or twenty Generals." I never said anything of this, or did I speak two words to him. I deny every word of the following ; every word is totally false :—" You are very foolish. You know as much as other people who are on the General's side." I deny having said, " Will you go with me to a solicitor ?" I never spoke but a few words to him at the latter end of June. Ile did not say, " I will not do anything of the sort, and I would sooner stop in my present position: than try to injure a young man I know nothing about." I did not say, " If you do not com• ply with my wishes I cannot do anything for you ; you are very foolish." He did not say, "I would not go into any court to forswear myself, or injure my family's name." I deny having spoken to him since the month of June. I did not say, " You can take your own course. What does it signify if you do bring in young Windham insane ? it will not injure you, but will be the making of you. You don't suppose I am doing this for nothing, do you ?" I never said anything of the kind. Re-examined by Mr. Chambers—My brother begged of passers by like a ragged man, thinking to get money out of Mr. Llewellyn to support him in idleness. He never earned a shilling in his life. The last day I saw him was the day before Christ mas day, opposite our house in Duke-street, hooting and pointing at it, and getting a mob round him, Mr. Llewellyn went to Vine-street for the police to watch him, and he went away. I tried to get him a situation twelve months after my mother's death, as I was horrified at his appearance. That was I think in May, 1861, when I tried to get him a place at my mother's solicitor's. I took him in a cab with me ; and once I was going to my sister's, when he stopped me whilst I was in a cab, and said, " Oh, Augusta, I hope you will forgive me." I said, "Be a good boy," and that was all that passed be tween us. By the Commissioner—My brother, for his bad conduct, was expelled by my husband from the house. Before I came into court to-day I had not the most remote idea of the questions that would be put to me, and I say solemnly, and in the pre- Nence of these 23 jurymen, under the obligation of BSDAY EVENING, JANUARY - 2, 1862. the oath I have taken, that this alleged conversa tion is entirely and utterly false, if I were to die in the box.—(This declaration, made in a solemn and impressive manner, created a great sensation in the court.). During the above examination it was understood that the brother of Mr. Llewellyn was in court. Mr. Field said he would now put in the mar riage settlement, which conferred upon Agnes Ann Rogers an annuity of 1800 until 1869, when it was to be increased to £1,500; two persons, named Woburn and Roberts, being named to see the due execution of the same. It also secured to Ann Agnes Rogers, alias Willoughby, the free and un controlled disposition of the property and jewels, to be retained for her own separate use, and to be willed and disposed of in any way she might think fit, notwithstanding any act of coverture to the contrary. Mr. Hansel' then proved the signature to this settlement to be in the handwriting of William Frederick Windham. Mr. Hansell then put in the certificate of mar riage celebrated between William Frederick Wind ham and Agnes Ann Rogers, at St. John's Church, St. John's-wood, London, in August, 1861. The attesting witnesses were Mr. Bowen May and Mr. Rober ts. Mr. M. Chambers said that was the case for the petitioners. Mr. Coleridge said he believed his case would be a short one ; and what he proposed was, that Sir 11. Cairns should open his case, call his witnesses ; and, if necessary, he (Mr. Coleridge) would supple ment any witnesses ho might wish to call after wards. Sir H. Cairns then rose to address the jury on behalf of the alleged lunatic, Mr. William Frede rick Windham. He said it became his duty to address them on behalf of Mr. Windham, who was the subject of the present inquiry, and he did sa under circumstances which were to some extent uuparalleled. The present inquiry had lasted almost twelve days, and during that time a demand had been made on the patience and atten tion of the jury which, as far as he was aware, was without a precedent in modern times. The peti tioners had raked up and chronicled the events in the life of Mr. Windham of more than 21 years, and exhibited to the public gaze, and had pictured to them, with no delicate touches, the vices or frail ties of him who was the subject of the present inquiry. Himself and friends, who were counsel of Mr. Windham, were compelled to sit there in a state of constrained quiescenee,except so far as was allowed to them in cross-examination, and not per mitted to correct the errors which witnesses fell into, or to expose their inconsistencies, and although now and then in doing so they might have appeared to draw upon the forbearance of thejury in pressing questions, they were necessarily prevented from explaing at the time their reasons for doing so, and as the jury could not understand their relevancy to the inquiry, they were obliged to take them on the credit of counsel. He now rose to address them, and in doing so he should, in the first instance, make two requests. First, on behalf of Mr. Wind ham, that, in the consideration of his remarks, they would bring with them a calm, unbiassed, and he would add a judicial judgment, for they should remember that, short of the issue of life and death being in their bands, there was no issue more mo mentuous than the present inquiry in dealing with a fellow-creature. The second request he had to make was on his own account, which was to ask their indulgence, as he felt the extent of the case upon which he might have to address them, which was a duty and a task he might well shrink from did he not rely, in fine, mainly upon the knowledge that he was about to defend Mr. Windham from a charge the most cruel, the most unjust, and the most unjustifiable that was ever preferred. (Loud applause in the court, which drew from the Com missioner a remark that if such unseemly conduct was repeated he should exercise the power vested in him to prevent its recurrence.) It would perhaps be convenient for him then to state precisely the issue they would have to try. They were empanelled to decide whether Mr. Windham was capable of managing his own affairs, or whether he was in capable of managing his own affairs on account of his unsoundness of mind. The order by which that case was referred to them was couched in terms which were not used in that case alone, but had been used in a long experience in the court from which it came. There were a great number of cases in which it was said that a man was in capable of managing his own affairs, but not indi cating unsoundness of mind; and he would draw their attention to some hypothetical cases bearing upon that point. The jury, however, before they decided against Mr. Windham, must combine two elements—incapacity of managing his own affairs and with that they must be satisfied that that in capacity arose from unsoundness of mind. If a man was enamoured of an object and disposed to give all he possesses to obtain it, then they would have one of the two propositions he had mentioned with out the other. Ib . would read one or two sen tences from one of the most eminent authorities of the land on the subject of idiots and lunatics, ex pressed in terms much better than he could express it. He meant Mr. Justice Blackstone. The learned counsel here read an extract from " Blackstone's Commentaries" in regard to the treatment of idiots and lunatics, which strongly condemned the Roman law which allowed a friend or relative to step in and take possession of the property of a man when they considered it was not properly administered, as contrary to the constitution of England. Neither was there a discretionary power to do so when he was guilty of any acts of extravagance. He further quoted from the judgment of Lord Eldon in Lord Portsmouth's case, in which he laid it down that mere imbecility would not be sufficient to restrain a man in the disposal of his property unless it was accompanied by an unsoundness of mind. He also quoted the observation of Mr. Commissioner Warren on opening the ease, in which he laid it down that to find a verdict in favour of the peti tioners it must be proved that Mr. Windham was of unsound mind. As to the insanity relied on in this case, in far the greater number of cases of in sanity there was what was called delusions. The cardinal test of insanity is the absence or presence of delusions, and in the opening they were told there were none in this case. They were told that it was a case of imbecility amounting to unsoundness of mind. Where a jury had got to deal with a case of insanity accompanied by delusions, the case was different, and as they had been told that day, it was one of great difficulty. A man might go through all the duties of life with accuracy and precision, but touch one chord, and then insanity instantly manifested itself. There was a remarkable case of a man who indicted Dr. Monro, who was under the delusion that he was shut up in a tower, and that he was in the habit of corresponding with a princess, by writing to her in cherry juice. That man was put into the box as a witness, and no one could discover the least instance of unsoundness of mind, and the trial was about terminating, when a person came into court who knew the history of the whole case, and he mentioned about the princess and being shut up in the tower, when the insanity immediately showed itself and the trial was put an end to. The learned counsel then put some hypo thetical cases in support of his argument, to prove that different views might be taken of the mental powers of men in the absence of delusions. if a man was accused of being imbecile who acted at other times as a rational man, then they must care fully examine those acts to discover whether they were assumed or not. As to property there was no graduated scale as to the amount of property to be enjoyed which could determine the question of sound ness or unsoundness of mind, and whether a man's property was £2OO or £20,000a year, the result must be the same, and the amount of money could not affect the question as to the soundness of the mind. He asked them then, when he should comment on the evidence, to dismiss from their minds, and put aside all they had heard or been told as to the un soundness of mind of Mr. Wind ham on account of the largeness of his property. As to questions being put to witnesses as to what opinion they had formed from the evidence, although he could not object to them, yet they were, he contended, not proper ques tions to be put to them when these statements were not borne out by what the witnesses had seen for themselves. He asked the jury not to delegate such powers which belonged to them to the witnesses for that was the issue which it was for the jury, and the jury only to determine. This was a case of all others to which this observation ought to apply. if they were to put that issue on witnesses, he would refer to a policeman,' who gave his opinion that Windham was of unsound mind, and being asked his reason for it, he said, because Mr. Windham came up to him, took hold of his arm, and said " Come old Kay, and have a glass with me." Then there was the evidence of Mr. Corballis, the clerk at the War-office, who never moved out of his own room but who was quite ready to say that Mr. Windham was of unsound mind, because of his peculiar laugh, and that was the sort of evidence upon which they were called upon to say that Mr. Windham was of unsound mind. It was true that Mr. Windham was of a boisterous spirit as a young man, and that he was frequently at war with his tutor, and they had got in addition that Mr. Windham had contracted tastes which were distasteful to the public, and pro perly so. They had also seen statements thatpersons had got about him, and took him to Emanuel's and induced him to purchase £14,000 of jewellery, and of his desire to sweep off all the timber from the Felbrigge estate. The impetuosity of temper and his self-reliant character had induced persons to come forward into court and they were ready to con- , strue his early conduct of life into an unsoundness of mind, and an inability to manage hisown affairs. The jury bugges ted that Sir H. C a i rns mus t hot, press ton much upon them, as it wa, a now half past four o'cl. nk. Sir H. Cairns said he would stop aok 4 . once, as this would be good place for doing so, and he would resume his' address on the following maiming. POLL GE INTELLIG ENCE.—.Tan, 1. GUILDHALL—AIderman Humphery, on tak ing his seat on the bench, called our reporter's attention to tht . following extraordinary prophecy which appearei I in " Zadkiel's Almanac for 1861," in reference to, his late Royal Highness the Prince Consort :—The . full moon neare s t t o th e i ngress of the sun in Ari es . is 2h. 12 m . p. m ., 26th M arch,, 1861. This lut 'Litton is remarkable, because the same sign aseen , - Is as at th e i ngress, an d very nearly the same degree. Again we find Satu rn re t rogra d e in the ascendant, and Jupite r i n th e twe lf th, w i th Mars again fixree.lY burning i n th e t ent h house. Some very pug oacio,..is feelings are displayed by th e ruling Powe rs . The revenue fails, and turmoil arises on that question.. A royal marriage is now indicated by Venus, lady of the tenth house, being in exact sextile aspect to Mas. Mercury, in the eighth, pro motes much mortality during the spring amongst children, and many deaths by catarrhs, coughs, and asthma. The stationary position of Saturn in the third degree of Virgo in May, following upon this lunation, will be vt 'ry evil for all persons born on or near the 26th of A ugui,t ; among the sufferers I regret to see the worthy Pri nce C onsort of these realms. Let such pt ‘rsons pay scrupul ous a t tent i on to health. Some sin i 7ular calamity f or L on d on i s threatened about the Ist of August, when Sat urn comes to square off Uranus in this figure. It may be by tumults or the death of numbers by fall of some building, &c. The evil will be sudden and singular." COUN2 EY MABEL 2b. ------ NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE—DEc. 31. To -clay's market was quits of a holiday character, and both buyers and sellers held off for the issue of the Ameri can question. Wheat firm. HULL-DEC. 31. Arrivals of wheat have been rather small this week, and consist mostly of Baltic shipments perTsteamer. At our market to-day there was but a limited business done. English wheat sold slowly at barely last week's currency t and foreign rather firm. Wheat.... Old white....per qr ... 54s Od to 58s Od Old red 9 1 New white .. , 2 New red .... ' , Dantzic, Konb , &c. old white 63s Od to 67s Od Dutch, Belgian, and French. 58s Od to 628 Od Baltic and Hamburg, red ,. 60s Od to 62 s Od St. Peter s b urg an d Riga, old. 50s Od to 52s Od Barley.... English malting 358 Od to 39s Od Grinding • 3os Od to 32s Od Saal and Oderbruck Holstein and Danish 34s Od to 36s Od Grinding Oats . English, old Archangel and Riga, per st osl2 1d to 13d Friesland and Dutch o sl3d to 08131 d Swedish and Danish oBl2ld to 0813 d Beans ....English, old, per qr New pigeon 42s Od to 44s Od New tick. 4OB Od to 428 Od Egyptian 3Bs Od to 40s Od Peas .. Foreign breakers Grinding 3os Od to 32s Od Tares .... Spring. —s Od to —s Od Indian Corn Linseed, feeding s2s Od to 56s Od crushing . Linseed cakes (Hull) £9 15 oto £lO 10 0 Foreign Rape cakes . 517 6to 6 0 0 Bones 5 5 oto 510 COAL N (rrloes of Coal per Ton a' MARKET. a the close of the market s. d. Bate's West Hartley 15 3 Carway and Dullryn Malting 24 0 Do. Anthracite 21 6 Wylam . .16 6 Davison's West Hart- s. d Grey'slirest Hartley..l6 6 Bell's Primrose ......14 0 Walls End. Hartlepool....,, 17 9 Whitworth .... . l4 6 Trimdon Hartlepool l7 6 Thorpe l7 3 Haswell lB 3 South Hartlepool 16 9 North Felton 15 0 South Hetton ..18 3 Harton , Brgddyll's ...rietton 17 6 West Hartley' l6 3 , 51; sold, 36. _ _ .. _ ____. ley ....16 6 Burnhope Gas 14 0 Tanfield Moor 13 6 Holywell 16 6 Walker Primrose 13 3 Byass's Bebside West llartley .16 6 Lambert's West Hart- ley 16 3 Ships at market FOREIGN MAIL PACKET LIST. MAILS DUE. Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton. Jan. 18. via Marseilles Jan. 12. Brazil and Cape Verds, by British packet. Jan. 4. Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena Jan. 1. China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton Jan. 2. via Marseilles Jan. —• Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton Jan. 2. India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Jan. 2. via Marseilles Jan. —. India (Bombay), via Southampton via Marseales Jan. 4. Lisbon Jan. 1. Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Jan. 2. via Marseilles Jan. Newfoundland Oporto and Vigo U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet.. Jan. 2. by U.S. packet b Cana Jan. 1. W.C. of Africa, Mad e i ra , an d Ty eneriffe dian packet. Jan. 10. Bahamas, via New York'Mexico ........ Jan. IG. ....Dec. 30. All parts of West Indies, in c l u di ng • Chili, Peru, I California,and British Columbi a Dec. 30. SIR JAMES FERGUSSON.—We regret to state that Sir James Fergusson, M.P., has sustained an accident while hunting, his horse having inflicted a severe wound upon his head, and that the hon. baronet is temporarily incapacitated from the discharge of public business. His friends in Ayr shire will be glad to learn that hie injuries are not of such a nature as to confine him much longer to his room..—Ayr shire Express. THE WE A THER..— Galignanisays:—At six o'clock yesterday morning tho thermometer of M. Chevallier stood at 3 7-10ths below zero Centigrade (25 1-3 d Fahrenheit) and at noon 1 5-10ths above zero C. (341 F.) The ice on the large lake in the Bois do Boulogne was yesterday thronged with skaters, and among them were many ele gantly dressed ladies. A number of the fair sex were also seen gliding along in small sledges of various farms, orna-_ mental with much taste. ANNUAL RETURN OF THE STOCK OF COTTON IN LIVERPOOL,—LIVERPOOL, Dec. 31.—The , returns of the stock of cotton in hand in this port, up to the 31st Decem ber, have just been published. From these figures the actual stock of cotton in hand turns out to be about 90,0 0 bales in excess of the estimated. Of this excess 74,000 bales are American. This is partly accounted for by large quantity resold here by spinners. The following is the stock in hand—American : Sea Island, 7,031; Stained ditto, 32 ; Upland Bowed, 81,690; Mobile, 48,869; Now Orleans, 141,688—total American, 279,310. Other Coun tries : Pernam and Paraiba, 11,893; Bahia and Maceio, 13,480 ; Maranham, 1,880 ; Egyptian, 9,492 ; West India, 328; Carthagena, 11 ; Surat, 295,000; Madras, 11,139; African, 32—grand total, 622,595 bales. MURDER AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.—A frightful murder has just been committal at a lonely village, called Graigwen, about two miles from Llanfair, and eight from Welshpool. It appears that some men with a thrashing machine happened to be passing along the road on Monday evening, and were attracted by the singular proceedings of a man named Ismael Jones, and called the attention of Mr. Thomas, surgeon, of Llanfair, who just then came up on horseback, to the man's movements. Jones had a rope around his neck, and seemed to be trying to hang himself to the bough of a tree, when they prevented his accomplishing his object. On nearing the house Mr; Thomas perceived toe body of a woman, with her skull cleft in two, lying on the ground. Jones confessed that it was his wife, and that he had cut her head open with a spade which was near, and intended to hang himself. Ho was speedily secured and conveyed to Montgomery Gaol. The inquest was formally opened on Wednesday, and adjourned to Saturday. BIRTHS. INIABERLY. —On the 29th Dec., at Plymouth, the wife of Colonel Evan Maberly, C. 8., of a son. TURNBULL.—On the Ist inst., at 56, Thornhill-square, Islington, the wife of Mr. R. T. Turnbull, of a daugh ter. WALTEit.—On the 31st Dec., at 40, Upper Grosvenor street, the wife of John Walter, Esq., M.P., of daughter. MARRIAGES. DAY—LABBETT.-011 the 31st Dec,, at St. George's, Han over-square, Thomas Day, Esq., of Piccadilly, to Jane Labbett, of Ealing. YOUNG—HARE.—O n the 31st Dec., at the Church of the Holy Trinity, Brompton, N. Lewis Young, Esq., AL D., of Birbadoes, to Elizabeth, second daughter of Ruben 'faro, Esq., ot DEATHS. 1 A-a BRETT.—On the 31st Dee., at Peckham-rye, Airs. Brett, sen., aged 73. CooPE . II-0n the 30th Dec., at Grove-house, Upper Ken tish-town, Louisa Jane, wife of Captain Chas. Cooper, late of Bristol, aged 77. LINTON.—On the 30th Dec., at Kennington, John Alexr. Linton, aged 69. LAKE.—On the 30th Dec,, Mr. Peter Lake, Tittenhanger, Ilerts, and Islington. RUDGE.—On the 30th Dec., Mr. Thomas Rudge, of Holly 9. WRITE.—OnSme tli theicat Mile-end- roa d, C apta i n J, w 31stk aged Dec,, 3 While, of the merch an t navy. ce' LONDON : Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at TriE Surr Office, No. 112,Strau d, in the Precinct of the Savoy in the County pi lididdleser, Thursday, January 2, 1862.