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

TH E aLoucEeeß E LECTION COM- and Lund told him to give her the money, which he did, and the woman then ran away. MIS 'SI Mr. W. Holtham, innkeeper (Spread Eagle) pro - duced an account which he had against the blue Alicia to 8/ ss. Bd., and which had _ GI OUCESTER, OCT. 10. The inquiry into corn t . pt practices at Gloucester election was r esumed this morning at ten o'clock, by the examination of who Daniel Clark , a Liberal, proved that he re ceived 5/ from J. Moss, an d gave 31 of it to Mr. B ra wn, a lay clerk at that cathedral, to vote for Price and Monk. Spent the rest in treating. Mr. Whithorn, wine merchant, was then again examined as to the payments which he made to voters oU the days of nomination and poll out of the 1,0001 which he had received to pay the ex penses of Sir R. Carden , the Co nservative candidate. On the day of nomination he gave to Mr. C. Hawkins 261; Mr. Y. B. Hanman, 281; J. Ward, 1071; H. Smart, 201; and on the day of the_poll, to Stumper, 601; to O. Clutterbuck, 150/ ; W. Parker, 401; James Mayney, 671 or 701; S. Hanman, 201; J. Smart, 91. The 91 to Smart was asked for as a loan, and witness took his acceptance for the money. Paid himself to voters as follow :—Thomas Cole, 13/ (he voted for Carden and Monk) ; J. Perris, 10/ the said if he did not get the money he should go 1 1- c; the other side) ; Charles Perris, Si; G. Sterry, 2. Mann, 10/ • E. Bouldry, 91. All these were 51 ; . . ' for vohng for Sir R. Carden. He paid in the com mioße-room on the day of the poll—E. Bourne, a freeman, 101; E R. Bourne, J. Bourne, and W. Bourae, 8l each ; Thomas Davis, a gaol officer, 101; W. T. Baylis and W. Bayley ( brou g ht b y Mr. Ma yne y, 6/ each ; T. Butler, 51; H. Browning nought by Ward) 6/. It was not true that he witnese) slipped the money into Browning's pocket. e voted for Price and Monk. Then Benjamin Cook had 101, George Drinkwater 51, and Eames . Prinkwater 5 1 . Th ese were brou g ht by Haines. Charles Batch, brought by Mayney, received 101; J e ws Hooper, 81; Jas. H. Hyatt, C. Hyett, and S. Hyatt, brought by Mayney , 101 each, and the father :lad 21 to go to Cardiff to fetch his son ; Thos. Knight, H. B. Newgate, and J. Newgate, freemen, brought by Ward, 101 each. They pro mised to plump for Carden, but they all split their votes. Paid Thos. Knight 51. John Lake said he had been offered 101 on the other side,. and witness paid him that sum. Paid J. Lloyd 81; J. Lodge, 41; M. Matthews. Sl ; H. Meadows, 4/ ; and Thos. Meadows, Si. Mr. Mills, of Stonehouse station, said he would not vote for Carden unless he got 51; witness thereupon paid him 5/, but he ' Toted for Price and Monk. Paid H. J. Wilkins, A A. Allen 101, and Thos. Dome 41; the last named had been employed to watch voters. Also ,-,1 91 12s to James Meredith , of t he Star public house, on the day of the poll. Altogether he could make out payments to the amount of 893112 s 4d. He had tried to make out what had become of the balance, but although he had devoted many hours to it, he could not make out any individual item, but he could safely say that the whole of the balance of the 1,0001, received by him had been used for the purposes of bribery. The mode of keeping his electioneering accounts was Vi, put a certain sum of money into his pocket in the morning, and to " take s tock" the next morning, the deficiency wo uld be the day's expenditure. He th en g ave a list of pub lic-hoiLges at which scores had been run up a nd bills had been !lent in, but they had not been paid. The number of bills was just thirty —the amount pin ning from 9s to 601. We give a few of the heaviest : Mr. Groutage, Boothall Inn, 221 68 3d ; Mr. Tandy, Rising Sun, 361; Mr. W. Watkins, Cross Keys, 11/ 2s sd; Mr. Turk, New Inn, 171 15s ; Mr. Smart, Falcon, 641 16s 7d ; Mr. Gurney, Pilot, 141 16s 6d ; Mr. I. Brewer, Hope,, 131 17s 2d. Altogether these bills mountedto 2691 6s 10d. The witness -added that a good many of them were legi timate claims, and might have gone into the audi tor's account. Much of it was expended in provid ding rafreshments and dinners for members of the committee, and it was a question with some of the committee whether they should not pay for the dinners out of their own pockets, but they did not. He sent one man, named Knight, an inmate of one of the hospitals, to a quiet place to be out of the way of the other parties, whom they suspected of an intention of carrying him off. There was a bill for keeping this man and a person who was sent with him to take care of him. Never gave any order to open public-houses, but had given orders for refreshment and dinners at particular public houses -on particular occasions. Never gave Smart any authority to open his house, but had heard he was supplying drink to voters, and told him he must stop it. As to the man Beckley, he had never offered to get his son released from the military service if he would vote for Carden. Beckley said that Captain Robertson was interest ing himself to get his son off, and witness then said if they had any interest on their side, we (the Con servatives) had as much on our side. Never threatened Beckley to stop his son being released if he did not go with the Conservatives. Mr. J.;Lovegrove, the agent to Sir R.Carden, was again called. He said the list of messengers would be ready for to-morrow. As to the publicans' ac counts, he had gone through them with Mr. Whit horn, and agreed that there were some legitimate claims among them, and he should recommend Sir R. Carden to pay them. The witness enumerated a n umber of bills which had not been paid, amount ing to from 3301 to 3501. The witness was next questioned as to his knowledge of where the first half of the 5001 came from, as spoken to in his first examination. He did not know where it came from unless itwas sent by Mr. Barnard. The first half did not come either to his house or to his office. Told Mr. Barnard it was his opinion that it would be necessary that 1,0001 should be provided. Did not tell him to make such a statement to Sir R. Carden, because he could have made such statement himself. Mentioned this to Mr. Barnard as a friend of Sir R. Carden, and because in 1857 he made an advance of 1001 to Mr. Whithorn for moneys ex pended by him upon the canvass. Believed Mr. Barnard made a second advance of 1001 after the election to Mr. Whithorn for money expended by him. The witness promised hereafter to give fur ther information in reference to the moneys received and paid in 1857. Believed the 5001 had been re paid to Mr. Barnard by Sir R. Carden, and that Sir Robert had expressed surprise that Mr. Barnard should have advanced any money on his account without first consulting him. Told Sir Robert th a t it was done no doubt in consequence of his sugges tion, and Sir Robert had expressed his astonish ment that . Mr. Barnard had not called upon him when in Gloucester. Mr. Barnard canvassed with Sir R. Carden in 1857. committee, amounting . not been paid. It was fo r refreshments to the members of the committee. Wm. Parker, carpenter, received 45/ of Mr. Whit and 41 for paying a man's travelling expenses. - 4 + a v oter, 5/ ; Wm. Price, 4/ ; Fras. h G os e : Love,. 21; H . Harris, 51. Tyler, Meek, 4/. ; Wm. bu- - Izikrris) ; Thos. Cox, 2; ; 21 (to fetch a voter named Did not and to two other men he gave Si vitt; know their names. Met them in Sir W. uar den!s committee-room. He was 20 days canvassing, for which he deducted ss. a flay. Spent 10s. a day in canvassing ; sometimes more. Was never asked for his own vote but always polled the same way. By Mr. Welford—l am on my oath, and swear that the 10/ for the two men's names unknown did not go into my own pocket. Did not poll any dead men. Mr. Geo. W. C. Buchanan, of the Spa, Gloucester, was an active supporter of Sir R. Carden—canvassed with him about a week. He had canvassed with Mr. Cooper and Mr. Thorpe in previous elections, and he had confined himself to that part of the work, because he knew there were things done which he would not wish to be mixed up with. Called on a voter named Murrell, who told him he was under obligations to' Mr, Wilkes, who had a mortgage on his property and was also in arrears with his rent, but Murrell said he was always a Blue, and he asked witness's advice. He at once advised him to vote for Price and Monk, and that was all that passed between them. Never offered a man named Davis £5, nor any other person. Had been often stopped in the street by parties who said they had voted for Carden, and hoped he would give them something to drink ; but he had made it a rule never to give anything. .He and his family had voted for three generations for the Conservative candidate. He knew nothing about bribery him self, but he knew it was stated that in Mr, Cooper's time there were 13 0 venal vote s, in Mr. H o p e's time 200, and he believed the number was now 400. This corruption seemed a growing evil in the coun try. One illustration—l saw two men talking together in the street very vehemently, and one said, " I beant a-going to let 'em have my vote for nothing. Look at the 24 lawyers having their £25 down and S guineas a day a piece, and I beant a going to let 'em have mine for nothing." Now he took that as the tone of society generally. Every body, as it seemed to him, wanted to get the most he could out of an election. He believed the in creased corruption was a good deal owing to the system which prevailed at municipal elections. Alderman Hughes had told him that his election had. cost him £4o—(This was denied by Mr. Hughes, who was present in the court)—and Mr. Eason had paid £25. There was scarcely a man who would go up to vote without being paid at the least his day's work. He believed that the corruption had increased since the passing of the Municipal Reform Act. Ho recollected before the passing of the Reform Act that Capta in Berkele y (now Sir Maurice Berkeley) had stated that one of his elections cost him £20,700, and Mr. Cooper's election cost him £20,000. At that time the cost of bringing voters to the poll from a distance was heavy. If Mr. Price had stated that his election once cost him 3001, he (witness) believed that some one else must have paid the money. Mr. Brimmell, ropemaker, was called to prove that he had bribed three voters, viz., H. French with 4/, and Thomas Harding and G. Lines, 2/ 10s. each, to vote for Sir R. W. Carden. He paid this out of his own pocket, and had sent no claim to any one. If the Conservative party offered payment, he should certainly not refuse it. He also agreed to give one Walters 3/, but he was kidnapped on the night before the poll. John Ailoway, tailor, received 51 from Mrs. B. Monk for voting for Price and Monk. James Cotes received the same sum from Mr. Mallard for the same purpose. Mr. J. Davis received 4/ from Mallard to vote for Price and Monk, but did not vote at all. Peter Ed wards—My wife received 61 for my vote. I never had the money. She is mistress and mas ter, too. Ai-. Evans, beotmaker, received 421 from Jeffer son Bryan for treating and bribery, and detailed how he expended it in the purchase of votes for Price and Monk. One or two other witnesses gave similar evidence, but it was only a multiplication of evidence that has already been pretty fully published. It is expected that Sir R. W. Carden will be exa mined in a day or two, and that the whole of tho evidence as relating to the last election, will be ad duced by Thursday next. The court adjourned at 4 o'clock until to-morrow THE CRARTERHOUSE BRE2H.REN AND THE ELECTIVE FRANCHISE. The Revising Barrister for Finsbary gave his judgment in this case on Saturday, in the Lords Justices' room, Lincoln's-inn. Several of the brethren were present, and took a keen interest in the pro ceedings. The following is the judgment, which governs the whole of the claims (amounting to about 80) to be placed on the voting list. The Revising Barrister said the 36th section of the Reform Act provides that no one shall be put upon the register who within twelve months pre vious to the last day of July shall have received pa rochial relief or other alms which by the law of Par liament disqualified him from voting. The old law of parliament therefore seems on this point to be re tained. Now, prior to the Reform Act, it was well settled that hospital pensioners and bedesmen might be qualified to vote. If they received parochial relief or alms within a certain period they were thereby temporarily disqualified. But the mere fact that they subsisted on the revenues and enjoyed the settled pensions, the defined prescribed allow ances of an endowed public charity, was no dis qualification. They were considered to have a per manent interest in the establishment, and it was i held that if any one of them was turned out, he might have a mandamus to reinstate him. When the Charterhouse case was presented by Mr. Banis ter in 1851 for registration, an objector contended that the pensioners lived on charity. The objec tion was disposed of as follows :—" It is said that Mr. Banister lives on charity, so likewise do the fellows of a college. They live on charity, if by charity is meant the bounty of their founder* but they are not on that account excluded from civil rights, or deemed incapable of appreciating the duties and exercising the privileges of citizens. By the deed of foundation the eighty Brothers of Char terhouse are to be gentlemen by descent, merchants ruined by the disasters of commerce, or soldiers mutilated in the service of their country. From the moment of their appointment they are inde pendent. They cannot be displaced at the caprice of a governor." In the Burleigh Hospital case no weight was attached to the circumstance that the foundation was a charity. Mr. Justice Maule observed, "the only question is whether these bedes men have an equitable estate." Now, how does Mr. Justice Maule answer this question ? Simply by saying, "I tkink they have an equitable estate, as they are not liable to arbitrary amotion." The expression of Mr. Justice Maule that the Burleigh bedesmen were not liable to arbitrary amotion may have suggested what was said as to the Charter house pensioners, that " they could not be displaced at the caprice of a governor." The ease respecting the Windsor military knights, decided by the Court of Common Pleas in Julylast, as reported by Mr. Scott, in his fifth volume, p. 40, is in one respect very distin guishable from the7present. The Windsor knights receive their appointment directly from the Crown. Their apartments are within the verge of the Royal palace. They are constantly under the eye of the Sovereign. They inhale the atmotsphere of the court, and are subject to its influence; and if we could suppose it possible, which we cannot, that any one of these ancient knights should be dis placed or amoted, where would be the remely ? Would a mandamus be issued against , the Crown ? If, on the other hand, a pensioner of the Charter house is capriciously expelled, the courts of this country are open to him. He is entitled to justice, and will obtain redress either by mandamus .or by a proceeding in Chancery, or possibly by both. His tenure is stable, his position secure. But al though the circumstances of the Windsor case are peculiar and such as to make it stand by itself, there was an expression of opinion by the Lord Chief Justice in delivering the judgment which will rule my decision in the present case. " We ' are of opinion," said his lordship, " that there is no such estate or interest in these houses as can pro perly be deemed an ownership, for although the dean and canons of Windsor may be bound to allow the knights to occupy these houses, yet it appears that the d ean an d canons have power and authority to impose such restrictions on the enjoy ment as to divest the occupation of the character of ownership. The knights cannot let their houses in the whole or in part, nor oven receive inmates or guests therein, except with the assent and sanc tion of the dean and canons." When the claim of the Charterhouse pensioners was brought forward on the former occasion, there was no means front the evidence of supplying the test hers suggested by the Chief Justice, and so f ar as I am awar e the test itself had not then been disclosed by judicial decision. I now, however, apply it to the present ease, and find that there is enough to satisfy sac that the Charterhouse pensioners " cannot let their houses in the whole or in part, nor even receive inmates or guests therein, except with the assent of their superiors." This being so, I am bound to hold that the objection made against William By Mr. Welford—T received 1,1751 from Sir R. Carden, altogether, and there is 3301. to 3501 owing beyond this and the 5001 received from Mr. Bar nard. I should have paid these amounts before this, but thought it better not to pay them after the commission had been issued, and before it sat. The other party paid their bills about 24 hours before the commissioners met. Altogether 2,7601 was the cost of the election on the Conservative side. When Sir R. Carden paid the accounts of the election of 1857 he made no remark. It was about 1,2001 or 1,3001. Mr, F. B. Banman, grocer, of Worcester, bribed Decimus Best, jun., with 101 to vote for Sir R. Car den. He had been suffering from rheumatic fever, and said he , was behind in his rent, and that he had received an offer from the other side, on which witness said, he would be as liberal as they were. Gave Decimua Best, sen., 41; he voted for Carden and Price. Gave Robert Acett 51; Mr. Took Si, and'Mr. Jeynes Si to vote for Carden. Had spent 41 in treating voters and others at different public hbuses. Received 281 from Mr. Whithorn, and 51 from Stamper. Knew Henry Cox, and never offered him a receipt for the money to vote for Mr. Carden. Offered to take him to Mr. Lovegrove to see what could be done for him, as he was in bad circumstances. Found, however, that Mr. Wilkes had offered to take him through the Insolvent Court, and he knew that then it was all up. Had heard that he had been accused of offering one Wright to wipe off his account for his vote, but he only owed a few shillings, and that was not likely to be sufficient to buy his vote. Had told Henry Townshend to get him off a quarter's_ rent, if he would go our way, b ut he saw he could get more. Mr. W ard (mamma before) put in a list of par ties to whom he had paid money for their vo te s. Had paid John Bagley Si, but did not consider ' was exactly for his vote. Had made no bar ga i n with him beforehand, but findinghe had Si in hand after the election he gave it to him. Had expended about 1901 altogether. Mr. Taylor contradicted the statement of Mr. Sharp, denying the offer of Beechwood for his vote. Mrs. Gurney, wife of James Gurney, landlord of the Pilot Inn, received 401 from Hamper and paid it to four voters named (101 each) for their votes for Sir R. Carden. Another voter. named Tanner, said he should vote for the man who would give him most money. Her husband had a claim of 61 for coming from Milford Haven, but he had not been paid. Samuel Brett, cabmaster—Met G. H. Cooke in the street. He said he was doing to gaol, and asked if be could get him out of his difficulties. He was loin to to p rison for 21 9s. Got the mone y f r om a party con w ho d •we!e drinking t o g ether at the "White ow Hart (D niss) who subscribed it together , and he took it to Cooke and got him released. Mr. Whithorn and Mr. Tarlton were of the party at the White Hart. Took Uooke's I 0 U for the money. Was told at the White Hart that he was to take a before d C o o t k h e e gave t i t o h n e . me morandum for the money, ti I 0 U. This w as some me Never asked the man for his vodte,saonnide doindtnvoottekrnsoiwn whom he voted for. Cativasse 1857, and.gave a woman 31—one of the Coop Longford— at LuUd's request. She sat the C e o stairs,p e r e THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 11, 1859. Alexander Arnold is sufficiently established, and I expunge his name froth the register. The claims of the " officers" of the institution, embracing the preacher, reader, master, &c., were then disallowed, and the names struck from th list of persons entitled to vote. THE BRITISH OPIUM TRADE AND .R.EVEWUE. The Edinburgh Anti-Opium Committee, believ ing that there are few subjects of so great import ance regarding which the public mind is so little irlormed as the opium trade and revenue, respect fully submit the following statement of the leading faces regarding t.hoin to the serious consideration of their countrymen, OPIUM TRADE. 1. An immense importation of opium—prepared expressly for the purpose of gratifying a vicious taste by smoking it—is annually made into China from ports in British India. This importation has increased forty-fold since the beginning of the cen tury, or from 2,000 to 80,000 chests. The demand for this article has been created by shipments origi nally made by the East India Company in 1735 and since 1800, chiefly by British merchants, who have succeeded in extending it, by experimental importations, from time to time, into new parts of the coast—at first of a losing character, but profit able in the end, by creating a taste for the new vice. Opium now forms the great bulk of the returns for Chinese tea and silk, amounting, as it does, to £8,000,000, while the export of all British produce and manufactures to China average little more than £2,000,000. The use of this opium, so prepared, is produc tive of the most ruinous consequences to the popu lation where it is consumed. These consequences are carefully to be distinguished from those which result from the abuse of alcoholic beverages, melan choly as the latter are—the former being, in the long run, the rule not the exception, and the result of the use not the abuse of the indulgence. f' The - usual demoralising influences of the opium trade" are thus not merely incidental to it, but, in the language of the Report of the Select Committee of the House of Commons, " are incontestable, and inseparable from its existence." 3. According to the most unexceptionable testi mony of merchants, travellers, physicians, govern ment servants, missionaries, and Chinese states men, the vice, the misery, and even the destruction of life, resulting from this in dulgence, it is almost impossible to estimate " The moderate use" of opium as it is prepared for the Chinese, which some suppose to be so harmless, tends to the practice of sensuality in its grossest forms. " Moderation" leads, with fearful certainty and speed, to " excess ;" and excess to every crime of which its victim is capable, until: his career is ended in a prema ture grave. The numbers thus cut off are variously estimated; but although it is only along the sea board that the practice prevails greatly as yet, the lowest calculation exhibits an amount of mortality which it is fearful to contemplate. 4. Public sentiment in China is strongly opposed to this trade. On this account it is one of the greatest obstacles in the way of Christian missions. Our countrymen there are known only as vendors of opium—the curse of China—or as preachers of Christianity. The Imperial Government set itself against the trade for more than 60 years, and de clared it contraband. It was, however, utterly unable to contend with the heavily armed vessels in which the opium is carried, but in 1839, after repeated warnings to the English residents (the last being addressed to them individually) to send away their opium then in Chinese waters, a special commissioner from Pekin caused the owners to be confined within their own dwellings until they surrendered the entire quantity, amounting to 20,283 chests. He then destroyed the whole, valued at between one and two millions sterling, and took such measures as rendered it almost im possible to dispose of a chest along the coast. 5. The British Government thereupon declared war against China ; and after the slaughter o f nearly 40,000 of its subjects, dictated a treaty by which the Chinese were compelled to pay more than £4,000,000 for the opium destroyed, and for the expenses of the war, and also to give up the island of Hong Kong on their coast. The English merchants had previously signed a pledge to dis continne the trade and the: British Government entered into a supplementary treaty, by which they bound themselves to discountenance all smuggling for the future. 6. Instead of these engagements being kept, the merchants (with, it is said, two exceptions) imme diately resumed the trade. After a time, the British Government also allowed the island ceded to them for the purpose of " careening and refitting ships, and keeping stores there for that purpose," to be used for warehousing the contraband opium ; and the annual import into China has risen since that war from less than 40,000 to 80,000 chests. 7. During the continuance of peace, the British Government importuned the Chinese Emperor to legalise the opium trade, but always without suc cess. He refused again and again, alleging that " nothing should induce him to derive a revenue from the vice and misery of the people ;" but a se cond war having broken out, they have now dictated a new treaty, by which their former obligation to di ;courage smuggling is abrogated, and the Chinese have been forced to legalise the trade, with every prospect of its indefinite extension among their vast population of 400,000,000—more than a third of the human race. The great rise which immpdi ately took place in the price of opium in Calcatta shows what ground there is for this apprehension. OPIUM REVENUF. 8. By far the greater part of the opium imported into China is prepared by the British Government in India, expressely with that view. It is manu factured according to samples obtained from China of that preparation of the drug most in demand among the infatuated victims of the demoralising influence before described. It has ;all along been packed according to Chinese weights, even during the subsistence of the treaty binding thi, country to discourage smuggling into China, and it is disposed of by public sale now in the name of her Majesty, the profits arising from it forming a large part of the Indian revenue. • 9. Within the presidency of Bengal the Govern ment exercise a strict monopoly in the growth of the poppy. This is enforced by regulations often made instrumental of great oppression in the hands of the corrupt native officials. The money re quisite for the cultivation is advanced by Go vernment, and an ever-increasing extent of the richest land is annually devoted to that purpose, at the cost of the proportionally diminished growth of the useful products of the soil of India, such as sugar, indigo, &c. Thus, notwithstanding the remonstrances of some of the ablest of the chairmen, directors, and members of the service, the East India Company have extended the cultiva tion to districts where it was before unknown, and have derived an additional revenue from farming out the home sale of this article—while they them selves, in their own " Memorandum of Improve menis in their Administration" (presented to Par liament, 1858), call the consumption of opium " a hurtful indulgence, from which India itself has been comparatively free." 10. According to the testimony of competent and unprejudiced witnesses, the demoralisation which is proved to be inseparable from the trade in China attends the cultivation in India. A Government officer in that department declares that " one opium cultivator demoralises a village ;" another, that in Assam, where the cultivation is free, "it is de , populating the country and degrading one of the finest races" of that peninsula "into one of the most abjeet and depraved." 11. In the North-Western Provinces, and in Scinde, the culture of the poppy is prohibited : in the presidencies of Madras and Bombay it is vir tually so—and (as in the case of the prohibition of the growth of tobacco in the United Kingdom) this prohibition is easily enforced; the plant being extremely conspicuous, and requiring to be four months on the ground. 12. The remainder of the opium shipped from India to China is the produce of native independent states, but it can be shipped only from British ports where the British Government have no difficulty in levying any amount of transit duty they choose to impose, there being no other route by which it can pass. From these two facts last mentioned, it is evident that whenever the Legislature wills it, the culture and manufacture of opium in India can be effectually brought to an end. That this would at first entail a serious loss to the Indian revenue is admitted ; but the committee believe that by wisely developing the great resources of India, by employing- the 1 irge capital which Go meni n t I w has k n s o now of c n p i n b i a ) i r i k e e n d t i i i n i ty t e 3 u i l e a i n d l i i n fa g e tau good e o o o d f opium, v er n return ; and by an improved system of taxation, reaching the more wealthy classes, the loss would bo only temporary, and the new sources of revenue prove much more secure than the precarious and dishonourable opium manufacture. In name of the committee, G. D. CULLEN, Chairman. D. DAVIDSON, Vice-Chairman. DAVID APLAREN, Hon. Sec. Edinburgh, April 7, 180. A QUAINT REMARK.—It was told of an old Miss Johnstone, of Hawkhill, that, when dying, a tremendous storm of rain and thunder came on, so as to shako the house. In the same quaint, eccentric spirit, and with no thought of profane or light allusions, sh• looked up, and listening to the storm, quietly remarked, in reference to her departure, " Ech, sirs! what a nicht for me to be fleeing thro' the air I"—Dean Ramsay's Reminiscences, TILE ALMA. Yesterday morning the official inquiry into the loss of the Alma was resumed at the Greenwich Police-court before Mr. Traill and Capt. Walker, as on the former occasions. Mr. Cumberland appeared for the Board of Trade. Mr. Wilde, Q.C., again attended on the part of Captain Henry and Mr:Davis. Sir J. Bowring, examined, said—l must beg to mention that on my leaving China I was in a vg.: y shattered state of health, and had not f':ie oppor tunity of making such obseryati 7.'s as I otherwise should. I retirpd t l rest ":. 10 o'clock on the night preceding the W ri r..:. At that time the weather tie, so much so as to be the subject of was yery remark among the passengers. We thought we had a.complaint against the company for delay at Galle. Mr. Traill—That is not a part of the present inquiry, Sir John Bowring—The weather was hot, and I lay down with few garments upon me. 1 was aroused by three crashes about 3 o'clock. I was below in the cabin saloon. The crashes rapidly suc ceeded each other. Very soon the vessel reeled over, and through the open portholes on the starboard side the sea rushed in in torrents. I made my way through the portholes of my cabin and endeavoured to reach the deck. I saw distinctly the Harnish Islands in the distance. They were on the port side of the steamer, in the direction of the reef. I have no recollection of having seen the reef at that time. The outline was not very distinct, but I could see it was there. The outline was against the sky. Un doubtedly, if the vessel had not been aground, I must have seen the land distinctly. There was no chain or rope, and the bulwarks being high it was impossible for me to reach the deck, or to make any one know my position. After a long waiting we we're dragged on deck throu g h th e skylights down. to the port side, and after sitting some time we were lowered into the boat. When I was on deck on the port side I not only saw the islands but the reef. There were several delays. We were lowered into boats waterlogged, in consequence of which we could not escape from the wreck. We were after wards conveyed by the lifeboat to the reef. The reef presented a dark black line, the reef descend ing into the sea, and the lower part being lost in the water. Between the part of the reef where we struck and the higher part there was water. Mr. Cumberland—Did you see any haze between the ship and the reef ? Sir John Bowring —None at all. Mr. Cumberland—Any haze beyond the reef and the Harnish Islands ? Sir J. 130 wring —No. Mr. Gisbourne, civil engineer, examined—l was passenger on board the Alma, and joined at Aden. I was employed in laying down the Red Sea tele graph. We had three vessels assisting in the ex pedition, one a man-of-war vessel, the Cyclops, Capt. Pullen, which had been 15 months surveying the side and sounding bottoms, and she acted as our pilot. I was on board all three vessels at different times, but was always engaged on board the vessels in laying down the cable. The cable is laid down on the other side of the Harnish Islands, more on the African co tst. lam not allowed by the Admi ralty td state the exast line. I had never made any passage between th e Ab oo I s l an d s an d Jib er Zoo gur. My experience is, that th ere are ver y var i a bl e currents in the Red Sea, which renders tne position of a ship very uncertain to the extent of three or four miles in 12 hours. The currents are variable in the Red Sea generally. The night preceding the wreck I was on deck. I remained there about half an hour until about 11 o'clock, when I lay down on deck on the starboard side. It was then a beautiful moonlight night. I awoke on the ship striking, and heard a voice which I believe to be Mr. Davis's, saying "23 fathoms sand." I was next awoke by hearing " Hard a-port," repeated twice, about the time when the ship struck. My impression was that we had run over a native boat—it was a slight shock. I felt a bump within a minute or half a minute of the first, and then there was a third scrape and the vessel stopped. I them heard some one say—l think it was Captain Henry, but can't say—"-Don't reverse, but go on ahead !" I had heard no other orders given about the engines be fore. I got on my legs, but was knockd down by a lady with a chair. I succeeded in getting on to the bulwarks, and was there within five minutes of the ship sinking. I saw the bow of the vessel was on the exposed rock, and saw in the distance the loom of land against the sky. I could then see the water playing on the edge of the reef, but the reef itself was scarcely visible. The bow was up a detached portion of the reef. The Harnish Islands behind overshadowed the reef. I did not see the mounds until my attention was called to them at daylight. I may have seen them, but I looked upon them as the foreground of one of the Harnish Islands. The background was a loom of land clearly defined against the sky. The land I saw was in the formation of an amphitheatre, and at right angles where I s s to e o cs: d sealam i s t si was rather m ore been seen. astern to the ship than th e port b ow. The moon had gone down. It was st arry an d clear overhead, but dark over the water. Th e b oats with the pas sengers disappeared when proceeding tntih.eualctko nh t toahawlefpaalrrondeoNsmi hour o t u h o s e previously f courses r t • h ee e f. l atl l d f o th u g e t ho w t eNtvaothhehen: have thea s vu Ellin, the quartermaster, e A es t t s oe e c e a i s e io d nno,wathe sthnenighret of thecalled, and s t a t e d the Wreck. He said -12 o'clock, when I came on deck, I had the course given me by Mills, N. by W. 3 - She steering that course. The first order to chap e course was just before th e s i nking at four bellgs when Mr. Carter, the third officer, directed it t o b e ' altered to N.W. W. Th e next change of was about ha if an hour before we struck, when it was again altered by the direction of the third officer to N. by W., which was the course shewent ashore. (The witness th en repeated the principal points as given by him in hi s previous examination.)puee Captain Henry was th en recalled—lproduce the protest made by me before Captain Play fair f. a Aden, about 10 weeks a ft er the reek. Some time r y after I made this pr o t est Captain Pla fa r called upon me and read a d epos i tion to m yir e, which hi e md had been made by the pilot, an d of it, which I declined t offered me a copy to accept. I saw it was contradictory to what I had stated. I ss w Bushier there and spoke to him , but there was no ponoss that ibilit h y e o was wrong.f my proving to him by any o the r per - Mr. s Traill here read the protest in question, set ting forth th e ill ness o f Capt. Henry n at Aden, and calling upon M r . D av i s, the chief officer, t take the vessel out of th e harbour, andnaming the courses to steer, as contaixed Capt. in Henry's first examination. Capt. George Davis Cook said—l was a captain in 1 er Majesty's service, and was on board the Alma at the time of the wreck. I was asleep on deck, but on awaking I looked up and saw the reef around extending the whole length of the port side of the vessel, and at the time of the second and third shock the vessel turned on her side. I then went on to the bulwarks and saw the reef perfectly plain. The vessel was on the detached portion of the reef, and I saw one mound on the reef perfectly clear at a distance of 250 yards. I could not ob serve that there was the slightest haze to prevent the reef being seen. Mr Cumberland proposed under the 273 d section of the Merchant Shipping Act, to put in as evidence the protest made by Bushier, the Persian pilot, to Brigadier Cogan, the political agent at Aden, but after some discussion, Mr. Traill said he was disinclined to receive such protest as evidence, it not appering that Brigadier Cogan was an authorised person to receive such statements. However, in sp far as portions in con nection with that protest had been made use of in court (luring the examination, such parts would be used as a means of reference. This being the whole of the evidence, Mr. Wilde addressod the Court at great length, recapitulating the various points as given in evi dence. He was very glad the inquiry had been continued serong as it kad, because it had had the effect of disabusing the public mind of a variety of statements which had been put forth from time to time, and which had been further given credence to in the opening speech of the learned gentleman who appeared for the Board of Trade. One part of his statement was that the vessel had been plundered by the native crew, and that after soundings of 23 fathoms had been ob tained the Frew went on recklessly to destruction. So far from this being the case, the soundings as then obt,iined would place the ship in the exact position as expected, and not have denoted danger as approaching land. No doubt the statement made by .Mr. Cumberland was given in good faith on the informal ion which the Board of Trade had received, but so far from there not haViog been a good look out kept, there was positive evidence to the con trary. Then it was said the crew consisted of more Lascars than there ought to have been, but such a was altogether unfounded, because if they aslcL d. those who were experienced they would cliulate a n n Asiatic gaitiii t tegi h gi find that ASiatic se i m on were b e tt er fitt e d for the a c,,,o n Ntr..i,e_ite E iviael u nt r edc . e o ood p snint e osp a tet n aNa,,ll. s i,iie . ytti hltesii l tols t aamtn N l V pvhd a aaai s nnsdgy a bt l et s hmic o ei oco p mrfid r ec o ar svnatteghwdlea, vessel sse: h scai a ek in its waters. Th e learned counsel, in n be a l l o l t i f in conclusion , referred to the f ac t o f her Majesty'se ship Cyclops l e d r o onlya s ; i ' v b ays engaged, a e l t a h c o c u u g s han e d of a h n a d vin u g rae b l ee t n hat ag; r u . abundance of look-out d ay m i is e h n r c e oN e uv an error of judgment. _ _ _ Mr. Traill and Captain Walker here retired, and after an absence of about a quarter turned into cou r t, w h en of all 13 "jur re- Mr Traill, addressing Captain ienry and Mr. Dt.vis, said—We have been co,:-Ldering during our absence as indeed you ma-, - be sure we have been doing throughout f 1'.1" .- d inquiry, as to the persons blameable for th.:,l cause of this wreck, and I am sorry to say that we can come only to one con elusion, Nvlnet is, that the vessel has been lost till'c'um b . a fault. The only question is as to dose fault it is ; and it is our opinion that not you, Captain Henry, but Mr. Davis, the chief officer, was in charge of the ship, and that in alter ing the course at 12.45, if he had consulted the chart, he would have found that the course was not altered sufficiently, but that the vessel was nearly in a direct course to run on to the rocks where she became a wreck. We are also of opinion that you, Captain Henry, in giving him directions to haul up, and referring , him to the charts, gave him all the information you possessed, and placed him in charge of the ship, and that if he had not been in charge of the vessel it would have been his duty to consult you. These are only some of the points to which we shall have to refer in making our report to the Board of Trade, and in doing which we shall not fail to refer to the good character which we have received of Mr. Davis as an officer. Numerous testimonials as to character were here put in, and Mr. Baker, the second officer, who it will be remembered received the thanks of the pas sengers, passed at a meeting on board the Bombay steamer, for his daring services in putting off in a boat and obtaining water for the relief of the sufferers, and afterwards putting off and intercept ing her Majesty's ship Cyclops, was exonerated by the Court from all blame, his certificate having been called for at the commencement of the inquiry. Mr. Cumberland applied for an order for the payment of the costs of the inquiry. Mr. Traill asked against whom the order would be made ? Mr. Cumberland replied it. would virtually be the company to which the ship belonged. Mr. Traill remarked that he thought such an order against the company would be unjust, as they had employed a person who held a certificate of competency from the Board of Trade. Captain Walker observed that he did not think the Board of Trade would desire that the costs of the inquiry should fall upon Mr. Davis. Mr. Traill, after some further observations, de clined making the order, and the proceedings ter minated. GLASGOW A UTUMN CIRCUIT. GLASGOW, SATURDAY. The Glasgow Autumn Circuit was opened here on Monday last by Lords Ivory and Deas, and brought to a close this evening. On Tuesday Lord Ivory broke down from indisposition, when Lord Cowan, who was sent for by telegraph, took his place. On the following day Lord Cowan also succumbed to illness, when the telegraph brought Lord Ardmillan, who, with Lord Deas, completed the work of the 'circuit. In all there were 61 cases, in which 81 persons were implicated, the great ma jority being thieves, housebreakers, returned con victs, &c., who were convicted and sentenced to periods of penal servitude varying from 10 years downwards. There were, however, only two cases which excited especial interest, the one being that in which Margaret Gallacher, or Boyle, John Boyle (her husband), James Boyle, and Ch ar l es Kerr were accused of a very foul act of conspiracy. From the evidence it appeared that Francis Pater son, a writer and house factor in Glasgow, had 1 1 a shop in M'Alpine-street to Boyle and his wife, who were brokers. The rent was not regularly paid, however ; but finally he was i n d uce d to go to the shop on the pretext that he would be paid £5 on account. When he arrived the woman Boyle in vited Paterson into the back shop (a dimly lighted. , place), saying it was requisite th a t h e s h ould exa mine the watr crane, which was out of order. No sooner was he there than the woman seized him by the neck, when she fell to the ground, and dragged him on the top of her, at the same time exposing her person. Paterson struggled to get away, but meanwhile the woman raised the alarm that that he was attempting to c omm i t a criminal as sault upon her. Boyle, the h us b and, and theotherprisoners, who were waiting at hand, then rushed in, attempted t o tear down Paterson's clothes, and assaulted him severely.. They then called in the police, w h en he was given in charge, and in a few days tried before the police magi s t ra te for assault upon the woman, but acquitted on ac count of discrep ancy in +l, ' evidence. An accomplice, named HelenM.;Call, or Duffy, said,—l have known John Boyle and his wife for seven months. Mr. Paterson raised a small debt action against them,. em , and they attended the Small Debt Co ur t. Onen t ig l ht I spoke to Mrs. Boyle about the case. Sh e me that if I would go to the back s h op when Mr. od Paterson came and assist her to trip him down and keep him down Mr. Lumsden would give me a new d re ss. I sa id I would not, but I would be a witness. This was on the 24th of February. A few days after Mr. Lums den and Boyle tried to get him down in secret, and she told me, and Charles Kerr, and her sister. Mrs. Boyle told me she had told him she had £5 if he would call for it, and that she would take him down into the store. On Wednesday morning, the 2d of March, I wont up to the house, and I heard John Boyle say to his wife that Mr. Lumsden had said she was to prepare herself, as Mr. Paterson would be in in an hour. It was all arranged how they were to come in. Mrs. Boyle was to pull him down and expose herself and also him; and the little girl, Mrs. Boyle's daughter, was to cry "Mur der ! my mother is being killed," and I was to go in with another person and be a itness. All this was arranged in the morning. Stewart, Charles Kerr, and James Boyie were to rush in. I was in the shop, and the little girl was placed at the door, to watch Mr. Paterson. The little girl came cry ing " Here are Mr. Paterson and Mr. Stewart corning." James Boyle stopped Stewart, and Mr. Paterson came down alone. When I went in a little after I saw Mrs. Boyle lying on a shake-down. James Boyle and John were together. Charles Kerr and I were outside. She took hold of him. There was a bed on the floor, and I saw her lying en it, with her person exposed. Charles Kerr and John Boyle had gone in, and I found them there. His shirt. was open from the throat down, and he WCS bleeding in the left cheek. Mrs. Boyle was taken home to her own house between 7 and 8 o'clock. We went to a public-house. They called for half a mutchkin of whisky, and John laughed and said they had the old chap safe enough now - . I recollect the day after the affair happened speaking to Mrs. Boyle. She expected the police doctor to visit her. She asked me to get a pennyworth of blood, and she daubed the sheets with it. I went and bought the blood from a young girl in Market-lane. (Mar garet Cameron called.) This is the person from whom I got the blood. Mrs. Boyle put s•me blood in a bottle, and put the bottle below her pillow, so that she might pour it about her when the doctor came in. I saw her put some upon the sheet and her person. I never saw Paterson except when he was coming to them for the rent. I did not tell my hus band till it was all past. They told me not to tell him. It also came out in evidence that the object of the prisoners was to extort hush-money from Paterson to prevent exposure, or to obtain damages from him by means of sit action at law. After a trial which lasted two days the prisoners were on Friday night found guilty as libelled. This morning they were brought up for sentence. Lord Ardmillan, addressing the prisoners, said the jury had, after . a painstaking investigation, come to a unanimous verdict, finding the four pri soners guilty of the crime of conspiracy as libelled to extort money, or found a false claim for damages against Mr. Francis Paterson, by means of a false accusation of a criminal offence, knowing it to be false, and by means of perjury. A more heinous offence could not be committed, and one more wickedly and more cunningly devised or more determinedly persevered in it was difficult to imagine. Up to the trial, and during its progress, all the prisoners at the bar persisted more or less in maintaining that false accusation of an in decent assault by Mr. Paterson upon the person of the female prisoner at the bar. The jury in the box had been compelled yesterday and the day previous to consider whether that accusation of the as sault was or was not perpetrated by Francis Pater son. If it had been proved before the police magis trate, a much more serious crime would have been committed by them. It fortunately happened that under the circumstances the case was only tried h.:nnv the police court, and Mr. Paterson was ac gain ed by the intelligent and discerning magis trate, who had seen ' is innocence through the e ,h e s t bat the prisoners had tried to spread ar,ned him, but he might have been tried for that oikete in this court if it had been laid under a difirent denomination, and he might have been convicted ; if that story which they had concocted hid been believed, he would have been convicted .f this most serious offence, and transported for a torrn or penal servitude, and a Severn sentence would have been pronounced v;ainst an innocent man. A more wicked scheme, and one more wickedly earrird out, he (Lord A r d millan ) had rarely heard of. Then came the oaths by which they had sup. ported that false accusation—oaths taken in a pub lic court to what they knew to be false. They had sworn before Almighty God, and as they would answer to God at the great day of judgment, to thi s lying and malicious accusation, which now had been found, by evidence that would satisfy every human being who had heard the trial, to have been totally untrue. A more grave offence than th a t of penury in conspiracy against an innocent man could scarcely be committed. They might be very thank ful they had been found out before the injury they had meditated had reached the innocent man. They would have one day felt remorse if he had been falsely convicted upon that evidence. That great judgment-day to which they had alluded in their oaths must come to them, to him (his lord ship) and to every one. They would do well to con sider the crime they had committed; and might thank God for the one hope for them, arid all, on that day. Great as the impious crime was which they had committed, there was mercy even for them. They might really be thankful to God that the justice of man had traced and discovered their crime before that awful day came, when the solemn and certain judgment would be pronounced which they had impiously invoked upon their guilty heads. He could not, consistently with his duty, but visit their crimes with a severe sentence upon each of them. Then was some little difference in the enormity of their guilt. The / originators of the crime were John Boyle and Margaret Boyle. The other two, James Boyle and Charles Kerr, were, as appeared from the evidence, brought into the con spiracy after it was started, and although it had been clearly shown that both were present at the assault upon Francis Paterson, yet they did not appear to have resting upon them the same degree of guilt as rested upon the other prisoners who originated the atrocious crime. Some distinction would, therefore, be made in the term of penal ser vitude to be awarded to each of them. The sen tence of the Court was that John Boyle and Mar garet Boyle be subjected to penal servitude for seven years each, and James Boyle and Charles Kerr to five years' penal servitude each. Lord Deas next addressed the prisoners, and briefly referred to the circumstances attending the conspiracy, after which his lordship added that he could not conceive a more atrocious offence than this, which was worse in some respects than an attempt against the life of a person, as it struck at the root of any man's character, which might'be destroyed in the eyes of his wife, his nearest and dearest friends, as well as in the eyes of the public in general—an affair which struck at the very root of all law and justice. His lordship concluded by saying that he did not think the sentence which Lord Ardmillan had proposed to be at all a severe one ; on the contrary, he thought it was ver y lenient, and one in which he fully concurred. The prisoners were then removed. The only other case of importance was the tz ial of Michael Cassidy and Robert Henderson for the murder of Mr. John M'Pherson, a literary gentle man connected with Glasgow, author of several dramas, and lately editor of the West of Scotland Magazine, &c. Mr. M'Pherson had been meeting some friends at Bothwell on Saturday, the 30th of July, and on re turning to Glasgow with a friend, at 9 o'clock, went with him into a hotel in King-street, it being very wet, and remained there for a short time. On leav ing it Mr. M'Pherson's friend went in search of a cab, and Mr. M'Pherson walked along Trongate, when he was set upon and knocked down. He died in an hour afterwards from the injuries he re ceived. The evidence against Cassidy and Hender son was not such as to sustain a charge of murder, and the Advocate-Depute withdrew it, and insisted on one of culpable homicide. Two of the witnesses swore distinctly to Cassidy tripping up Mr. M'Pherson, but the evidence against Henderson was very far from clear. The jury returned a unanimous verdict of guilty of culpable homicide against Cassidy, and by a ma jority found the charge not proven against Hen derson. Cassidy was sentenced to four years' penal servi. tude, and Henderson was set at large. MURDER IN NEW YORK, The New York Journal of Commerce of Sep tember 28 says :—" Last evening a most singular case came to light in the sixth ward, the dead body of a man, evidently murdered, being found at the corner of Little Water and - Worth-streets. The scene of the tragedy used to be the resort of mur• derers and thieves, and years ago, when the Five Points were much worse than at present, Crown's Corner,' as it was known, was decidedly the worst locality in the neighbourhood. The building, which is a three-story one, is now occupied by prostitutes. organ-grinders, and thieves, and maintains some of its old reputation. On the second floor, a man named John H. Benjamin, who sells hot cakes around the Park for a living, occupies a room, with a mistress named Jane Bradford. Last evening when he went home, he found the door of his room bolted on the inside. All demands for admission brought no answer, and supposing that all was not right he went down stairs to get assistance in solv ing the difficulty. As he passed out of the hall he happened to look up towards the window of his room, which is on Little Water-street, and saw a man in the act of jumping out of the window. The fellow, observing Benjamin, immediately jumped back into the room. Benjamin went into a liquor store, kept by a Mrs. Gordon, in the lower part of the building, an d secured the assistance of an acquaintance, and then went upstairs. The door of his room was now opened, and he entered. The room was dark, and everything was quiet ; so, striking a light, an investigation was imme diately made. Jane Bradford, the mistress, was there apparently alone; but upon looking at the bed, the body of a man, covered with blood, was discovered. He had evidently been choked to death, as marks upon his throat indi cated, and the blood was still running from his nose. Officers Donaghty and Higgins were noti fied and conveyed the body to the station-house in Franklin-street, and then arrested Benjamin, Miss Bradford, Jane M'Cabe, and Josephine Smith, the two latter being supposed to have some knowledge of the affair. They were all locked up. Ou the body of the deceased there was found nothing by which he colld be identified. In the bed and beside him, however, there were some naturalisa tion papers, which may have belonged to him. The name of James Magee was upon them. It is rather a singular circumstance that these papers should have been found where they were. The girls all profess to have no knowledge of the affair. Miss Bradford states that a man in a red shirt, whom she does not know, met her in a liquor store downstairs in the evening, and insisted on going with her. She emphatically declares that he was repelled by her, but several witnesses are positive that the man who was about to jump from the window (and who afterwards did so) had on a red shirt. It may be that he is the perpetrator of this deed. Still, another of the girls declares that Jane Bradford told her that Benjamin killed the man, but that person informed our reporter that the deceased came into her room early i n then intheaftleary noon, remained there till evening, and upon the bed, having .quarrelled with no one what ever. She expresses much astonishment at hearing of the man's death. The whole case is now shrouded in complete mystery, and only an inves tigation can bring everything connected with it to light." VOLUNTEER CORPS. NEWCASTLE-ON -TYNE, On Wednesday evening the monthly meeting was held for the election of members ; 40 new members having consented to join, it was resolved, .on the motion of Sir John Fife, " That a Highland company be organised." NORWICH. The members of the three companies formed here mustered in uniform for the first time on Friday afternoon, on the cricket-ground in the Ipswich road. Between 200 and 250 gentlemen assembled on the occasion, and their appearance excited con siderable interest among the citizens generally. For some time the formation of the companies was attended with great difficulties, and even now they are not complete ; but perseverance has nevertheless been crowned with considerable success, and the sheriff's company numbers 80 members, being only 20 short of the full number. The other companies, which are onder the command of the Mayor and Mr. F. Hay Gurney, are not quite so numerous. RTH. A corps, numberingP E between 120 and 130, has been formed a t P erth, and the Edinburgh style of uniform h as b een adopted. The Lord- Lieutenant of the county and other gentlemen have given their cordial support to the movement. P. Her M a j es t y has been ADSTOW graciously pleased to ac cept the ser v i ces o f t h e volunteer artillery cori recently formed a t thi s port, and it is now called the lst company of Cornwall Artillery Volunteers. At a meeting held a few days ago Mr. C. G. P. Brune, Deputy-Lieutenant, attended, and swore in 30 mem bers, and at a subsequent meeting 23 more took the oaths. ST. PANCRAS. A committee of gentlemen, beaded by Mr. B. E Cameron, the senior churchwarden of St. Pancras, is now in the course of formation for the purpose of establishing a rifle corps. IVISBEACII. The company formed here comprises between 70 and 80 volunteers, and stands No. 1 in the Cam bridgeshire corps. The practice ground has betn inspected and approved by Lieut. Griffiths, ®f the Donegal Militia. The unform selected for the corps is that which is adopted in Cambridgeshire gene dark braid. rally—viz., rifle green trimmed with COUNTRY MARKET% COLCHESTER-Om 8 A good attendance to-day at the corn -exchange, and a fair supply of wheat ; low and inferior parcels were not sold so readily, but the best qualities supported late rates. A fair inquiry for malting and grinding barley at rather lower rates. Beans rather cheater. Peas as dear as last week. Wheat, white 42s to 50s 1 Beans, Mazagan.. 32s t o 34 4 red 32s to 42s I Middle & small 36s to 42s Barley 368 to 44s White peas 4os t o 42 s I Oats lBs to 28s Grey.. 3ss to 38s CHELMSFORD—OcT. 7 A liberal supply of wheat and barley, and a firm busi ness transacted for good qualities, but inferior sorts were taken slowly. Prices stationary. Spring corn dull. Wheat, white 42s to 52 s P eas , P ar t r id ge ..38 s t o 4 0a red 40s to 45s White 38i to 40s Barley 32s to 40s Boiling. 3Bs to 42s Chevalier ....34s to 44s Dun 33s to 36s Grinding 26s to 34s Beans, Tick ....Os to 42s Malt 60s to 66s Harrow Ticks 41s to 44s Chevalier 63s to 69s - 7 Mazagan 36s to 38e Oats 24s to 33s OXFORD—OcT. 8. A large quantity of wheat on offer to-day, with a good attendance of buyers, and, although there was a fair de mand, the generality of the transactions were at last week's rates—viz., for white, 42s to 48s, red 40s to 44s per qr. Barley plentiful, and a few prime lots were soon caught up at 2s advance. Best samples were worth 425, and inferior sold as low as 28s. Other grain dull. Oats 20s to 295, but little doing. Beans, 38 s t o 50 s. H og peas, 39s to42s ; boilers, 45s to 50s per qr. Flour, 31s per sack. Hay, from £3 lOs to £4 lOs per ton. KIRKALDY—OcT. We had fair supplies of grain to-day at market. A. fair show of new wheat, oats, and barley. The new Che valier barley and new oats sold quickly; all other grain at late rates. Wheat (N). First.... 368 Od Second .. 46s Od Third —48 s Wheat (0). First.... 38s Od Second.. 448 Od Third .. 47s Od Barley (N). 26s Od 34s 6d 36s Od Barley (0) Od . —8 Od —a' Od Oats EN). 22s Od 27s Od —s ' Od Oats (0). 23a Od 28s 6d —s Od COAL MARI (Prices of Coal per Tom at LET—OcT. 10. the close of the market) s. d. Bates' West Hartley 14 3 Davison's West Hart ley 15 0 Byass's'Bebsida West Walls End. s. d. Heugh Hall.. . 16 6 Hetton lB 0 Braddyll's Hetton 17 3 Whitworth.. ...... l5 0 Russell's Hetton . l7 3 Haswell lB 0 Keiper Grange 17 3 Kelloa ' 17 6 Hunwick • l5 0 Shincliffe 16 3 South Hartlepool 17 0 Trimdon Hartlepool 17 6 Riddell 15 9 Belmont l6 0 Montague 15 6 South Durhara 16 0 Carway Steam 22 6 Powell' a Duffryn Steam 22 0 Nixon's Duffryn .... .. 22 6 67—Sold, 60. Hartley 7.15 0 Walker Primross .12 6 Tanfield Moor.. . . .... 12 6 Tanfield Moor Butes..l2 6 Wylam l5 0 Grey's West Hartley . l4 3 Hastings Hartley l5 0 Ward's West Hartley l4 0 West Hartley 15 0 Holywell 'l5 0 Walls End. Acorn Close 16 6 Eden 16 6 Gosforth l5 9 Cassop 17 6 Ships at mark, LOCAL SHARE MARKETS. LIVERPOOL-OCT. 10. The market to-day was dull at the opening, with some improvement, but declined soon after, and closed flat. North British, 591—Great Western of Canada, nt She Melds, 35a—Caledonians, 89 1—Lancashire and York shire, 96—Lon and North-Westerns, 931 94—Dut c h 96---London Rhenish, 44 dis.—No r th St a ff or d s, 4i 4 d , —Berwicks, 881 89—Midlands, 105 I—Ch es t er and Holyheads, 50—• Birkenheads 77 77 k — Great Norther n , 102 4—Eastern Counties, 11 13-16 4—Grand Trunk o f C anada, 9 ' 9-16— Great Western, 631 631—Dovers, 23 1-16—Lombardo- Venetian, 2 1 p—Great Luxembourg, 71 • BIRMINGHAM--OCT. 10. There was a small business doing, and stocks were scarce. South Staffordshires sold to-day at 104 I—Birmingham Banking Company, 24, buyers--Birmingham . Gas, 144, buyers--Midland Derby Stock, 85 —Birmingham and' Staf fordshire Gas, 102, buyers. MANCHESTER—OCT. 10. There was a very quiet business doing in this market to-day, and at the close prices were steady. Sheffields, 351 —Dovers, 22 15-16—Leeds, 9 5I—Midland stobk, 105— Berwicks, 88. FOREIGN RAIL PACKET LIST. In the following table E signifies that letters are despatched by evening mails from London, and II by morning mails. Next DESTINATIONS. Despatch Port of Mail of Mails. Despatch. dt e. , Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton ' Oct. 12, 31 Southamp. Oct. 10 Ditto, via Marseilles Bahamas and Havana via New York Oct. 28, E Liverpool.. Oct. 27 Canada, &c. (by Canadn. pckt ) Oct. 11, E Liverpool.. Oet. 12 Cape of Good Hope, Ascen sion, and St. Helena Nov 5, E Devonport Nov. 1 China, Penang, and Singa pore, via Southampton Oct. 20, B Southamp. Oct• 19 Ditto, via Marseilles Gibraltar, via Southampton Honduras and Blewiields 2 1 0 7 , , 31 M s S o ou u t th ham am p ; oe Oc t t. 1 1 9 11 India (Calcutta) and Ceylon, Oct. —, E ............ Oct. .13 via Southampton Ditto, via Marseilles India (Bombay), via South ampton Oct. 12, M Sontham Ditto, via Marseilles .... Oct : 19 Lisbon, Brazils.Buenos Ayres, ... and F. Islands Oct. —, m Sonthamp. Nov. 5 Lisbon, Vigo, and Oporto.. • • Oct. 17, M Southamp , Oct. 11 Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via . Southampton Oct. 12, 31 Southamp. Oct. 10 Ditto. via Marseilles . ... •. , Oct. :—. E , ... „ . . Oet: 13 Mexico and Havana Newfoundland ... . . ... .. . . Oct. 14, E Galway Oct. 14, E Liverp - oo • l •• .. Oot. - 19 Oct. 12, E Southamp. United im t t e te d or States o:.cayo)i.r .y and r i d ptiticskh . ept)ac B r i ti sh ..e N .t ) `Peat Coast aonasdtToefneArifffrele", . I . a . a Oct. 24, E Liverpool.. overdue West India, California, . Vene zuela, Chili, Peru, Grey- town, New Granada, ..tie. • : O c t 77 -------- ----- - __ ...1 17. M Southarnn OR+ la ISouthamp. (E)et. 18 [ADVERTISEMENT.] _Mr. Benson, Ludgate-hill, has just published a new illustrated pamphlet on watches (free by post for two stamps). 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Medicine always aggravates chronic diseases, such as indigestion (dyspepsia), flatu lency, habitual constipation, nervous, bilious and liver complaints, &c., but Du Ba rry ' s d el i cious Revalenta Arabi ca Food invariably cures them in a very short time. We extract two out of many thousand expressions of grati tude fr om invalids. C ure 36,418—Rev. Dr. Minster of cram ve ps, s pas, and daily vom i tings. Cure 26,418—Dr. He of cons ary of smdiarrhcea and d e bilit y. Cure 39,621—Dr. Wurt zeumption. Cure 32,880—William Hunt, Esq., Barrister, of paralysis. Cure 46,270--Mr. James Roberts, timber merchant, of Primley, of thirty years diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver derangement, partial deafness. Cure No. 47,121 —Miss Elizabeth Jacobs, of Nazing Vicarage- Waltham Cross, Herts, a cure of extreme nervous, ness, indigestion, gatherings, low sp i r i ts, and nervous fancies. Cure No. 48,314—Miss Elizabeth Yeo man, Gateacre, near Liverpool, a cure of tett years dyspepsia, and all the horrors of nervous irritability. In tins, at Is. 6d. ; 11b., 3s. ; 21b., 55. 9d. ; 51b., 125.; 121 b., 265. The 101 b. and 121 b. tins carriage free, on receipt of post- Alice order, Du Barry and Co., 77, Regent-street, London* Fortnum, Mason, and Co,, 182, Piccadilly ; Abbis, 60, Gr acechurch-street ; 4, Cheapside ; 63, and 150, Oxford-. Street; 330 and 451, Strand • 49 awl 60, Bishopsgate- A - reet ; 85, Tottenhara-couri-road. Also at Dublin, Bewley and Draper ; at Edinburgh, Raimes and Co.; at Liverpool, Nixon and Thew; at Manchester, Shia" and Scott; at York, Relines, Blanchard, and Co. ; at South ampton. Randall and Son. ______..„.. BIRTHS. FOLEY.—On the Bth inst., at Wadhuret Vicarage, Sussex, the wife of the Rev. John Foley, of a daughter. JOUNSON.—On the 9th inst., at Balham-hill, Mrs. W. G. Johnson, of a daughter. MoNCKToN.—On the 9th inst., at 24, Inverness-terrace, Kensington- gardens the wife of John B. Monckth z i, Esq., o f a daughter. 1' tAnst.- -On the 9th inst., the wife of David W. Pause, Esq., 37, Arundel-terrace, Holloway, of a daughter. MARRIAGES. 111ATTNDER-131:Atmoxr —On the sth inst., at the parish church, Edgbaston, Mr. Charles Frederick Maunder, of New Broad -street, London,Lodo FR'C'S', to Catherine, the youngest daughter William Beaumont, of Bir mingham. READE—CAPEL—On the 6th inst., Francis Nevil Reade, 21st Fusiliers, to Florence A me li a L ouisa, the youngest daughte r of the Hon. Adolphus Capel, and granddaugh ter of Viscount Maynard. B tINB D EATHS. Mrs RIDGE.—On the 9th inst., a t S t. German en Laye, John Hugh Bainbridge. IIoWYER.—On the Bth inst., at Southampton, Rear-Admi ral Wm. Bohun Bowyer, aged 70. llocQuvr.—On the Bth inst , Edward Paul Bocquet, Esq., of Thurloe-placo, 13rompto. n, aged 85. C ii , , : i t u la t b E e T r T t . ,_E osqn. CuTtinEitT.—On the 10th inst., at Denmark-hill, Edwin 'tlamgeBdth7linst at 287, Thomas Edgar Everrett, aged . 46. oDuALL.—O the sth inst., at Low: (4 0 E. Goodhall, Esq. g N h o H rw o o l o b d on: R , e M nry r. IIARTELLI.—On the 7th inst. th Rev T. of M arc h wood, near Southampton, e aged . 46. C. Martelli, :tAmsAv.—On the 7th inst., at Thorn Falcoun, Somerset, Elizabeth Lady Ramsay, aged 82. S'LANE.—On the 7th inst., at Avon-hill, Midford, near Bath, Captain John M'Dowall Skene, R.N., aged 45. orrnois : Printed and Published by MIJILDO YOUNU, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sin Office, No, 112, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the county of Middlesex, Tuesday, October 11, 1859.