The Sun. — London, England, 1858-03-09 00:00:00

TrIE RE-ELECTIONS. NORTH STAYFORDSUIRE.—RETURN OF MR, ADDERLEY. The re-election of the Right Hon. C. B. Adderley,, whose seat had been forfeited by his acceptance of the office of President of the Council of Education, took place yesterday, at Stafford. The hon. gentleman arrived at Stafford by the 10 o'clock train, sad a carriage and foxr awaiting him at the railway station, he was conveyed to the Crown Court, at the County Hall, where the Under Sheriff (Mr. Hand) and some half-dozen of the county gentry awaited him. In the body of the hall there were not more than 20 or 30 persons, notwithstanding that it was the com mission day for the assizes, so little interest did the election proceedings excite. HUGO MrnaLL INGRAM, Esq., of Hoare-cross, in b few brief sentences, placed Mr. Adderley in nomina tion as a fit and proper person to represent the division in Parliament. Viscount Isoitarn, M.P., seconded the nomination. No other candidate having been proposed, the Under Sheriff declared Mr. Adderley duly elected. Mr. ADDEBLET then proceeded to return thanks. In doing so, he observed that, a lthough the assemblydesirous referring briefly to the circumstances under which he had had the honour of being re-elected as their repre sentative in Parliament. When he last stood before them for re-election he had been found fault with by some of his old supporters for the part he had taken in the vote censuring Lord Palmerston for the mode in which he had vindicated the honour of England by chas tising the Chinese. (Hear.) He was now amongst them in consequence of another vote of censure on the no ble lord, for letting down the honour of England in the estimation of foreign powers, and at the suggestion of a power with whom we were in alliance. He himself firmly believed that the large major it y of the English people sympathised with both thos e votes which he a t given, and would condemn the rou g h tyranny of aangdrethae nation over a barbarous peop le on the one hand, mean tim displayed by a grea t power in c_orrespon deuce with idity an equal power on the other. (Hear.) Of this he was quite certain —France herself was far too chivalrous to entertain any respect for a friendship sought to be maintained at the sacrifice of honour. (Hear.) He hoped that there was not a man in Stafford shire whose blood did not boil, as his own did, when he read the menace held out by the French Minister to wards this country, and when he saw the English Mini ster ready to truckle to it, and seeking to soften it merely by private explanation. Let them, as Stafford shire men, observe all those gentlemen of the county who were foremost to rally round the late Premier with the cry of " Palmerston and the honour of England," on the occasion of the last election ; he alluded especially to the movers of hie opponent on that occasion, Sir Robert Peel and Mr. Bass, and to many others — who had now been, as they foretold they would, the first to forsake Lord Palmerston when they found that the honour of England lay in another direction. (Hear, hear.) As to France, she had already shown that she in no way depreciated the feeling of this country, and the expressions that had been made use of since the fall of Lord Palmerston. They might depend upon it that the friendship between the two countries would be none the weaker by being maintained with honour on both sides. We should be doubly anxious to acquit ourselves of any possible abuse, by foreign assassins, of our na tional asylum, and France would have double confidence in the integrity of an ally who had not been afraid to show its sensitiveness to its own honour. (Hear.) It was the noble apology made by the Emperor of the French which induced him as well as others to vote for the introduction of the Conspiracy Bill. The vote of censure which had been passed on Lord Palmerston would in no way interfere with the progress of that bill. But now they had justly censured the late prime minis ter, he hoped they should meet the apology of the Em peror of the French in a similar noble spirit, and that they should be enabled calmly and fully to deal with the conspiracy laws. (Hear, hear.) Now it had been said that the conservative party had shown great folly by their eagerness to depose Lord Palmerston, and that if they had waited a few days longer there was a worse fail before him inevitable, Now, as to that, it was clear this occasion was not sought, nor even expected, and still less wished for by the Conservative party ; but when the vote was proposed—a vote of censure for conduct which they had already censured—it could not be ex pected that they should stultify their previously expressed opinion, or that they should move the previous question, and so get rid of the matter, for such a motion would have been fatal to the measure. (Hear, hear.) He would next state very shortly his own views on the two great questions now before parliament. In the first place with regard to the India reform, he should personally have no occasion to alter his course. He voted for the introduction of the bill of the late govern ment, intending to support certain amendments in committee as to the construction of the councill; and he should therefore have to continue precisely the same course. It was quite clear to him that the whole of that question had been greatly misunderstood. The celebrated petition of the company was a tissue of fallacies, and the misrepresentations of the opponents of the bill showed how grievously the opposition had been conducted. It was represented as effecting a total revolution of the government of India ; whereas it amounted to nothing more than a complement or completion of legislation since the year 1774: Every measure passed since that period had gradually done away, fiat with the commer cial, anti secondly with the political monopoly of the company—had thrown open the commerce of the coun try to the world, placing the government under the con trol of the Crown. Tnis measure, therefore, was simply the completion of what had already been begon. In future, let them bear in mind that the government of India must almost entirely be conducted, not in Down. ing.street, nor in Leadenhall-street, nor yet in Cannon: row, but in Calcutta. (Hear.) The right hon. gentle man, ia conneniou with this subject, referred to the importance of all questions requiring decisive and prompt answers being settled on the spot, instead of being referred to the complicated tribunal of a double office between the two ends of London. The two grand desiderata in connexion with the future administration of the affairs of India were a special training for the military service of India, and open promotion, securing the patronage of India from home jobbery. (Hear.) With regard to the other great question of the day, that of a new measure of reform, he might state as his own firm conviction that the promise of a political reform bill was far more real coming from Lord Derby than it was from the late Government. (Hear.) He had himself come to the conclusion that it was a political juggle between Lord Palmerston and Lord J. Russell who made promises not to be fulfilled—who were like two thim blers, each anxious to make the country believe the pea was under his thimble, in the hope that the country would take one of tisem up. (Laughter.) But Lord Derby gave them a distinct promise that next year a bill would be introduced which would prove to be more real and valid. For himself he (Mr. Adderley) could only repeat as his own general principles on this subject what hs had told them before. He conceived that in a free country like this admission to the franchise ought to be the rule, and exclusion the exception, and as property and intelligence spread, the possession of the political franchise should spread, pari passu. It was said that Lord Derby was not likely to introduce such a measure as the " true reformers," as they were called, would have brought forward. Now he had a distrust of the so-called class of reformers ; they were mere theorists as politicians. They were men who were ready to square the institu tions of the country with their own theory of what was right, and they were prepared with a model of their own —namely, America, by which they would by a very royal process of their own square them. He had little confidence in those who recently met in London, the leader of whom e xpressed his opinion th a t the represen tation of this couniry should be in exact p roportion to the population, however distributed. Why, this would give to London one-tenth of the rep even " entering representation, and would exclude Scotland altogether from an appearance," as lawyers termed it, at all. (Hear.) He (Mr. Adderley) had mush more faith in men w h o had a share of sympathy with the question, men whose opinions were net likely to be abstractedly perfeot, per haps, but much more acceptable to the country. (Hear.) Raving now disposed of all he bad to say to them on political matters, he would conclude by expressing kis own gratification that he, their eld servant of 17 years, had been honoured by promotion in station, and he must say that the office Lord Derby bad been kind enough to place him in was, at all events, the one which he felt least unfit to undertake. When, however, he came to give an account of what he had done in that office, be might, he trusted, be able to show that he had neither neglected or abused the trust. Mr. Adderley resumed his seat amidst prolonged ap plause. ba t ne v s v o the flthanks to the under-sheriff concluded the f election. NORTIT RETURN OF LE ICESTERSHIRE. LORD JOHN MANNERS The re-election of Lord John Manners, at' er hie acceptance of the office of Chief Commissioner et Public Works, took place before the Town-hail, Loughborough, yesterday. There was not a very large attendance of farmers, although the county gentryand the non-electors were well represented. Sir G. BEAUMONT, Bart., proposed, and Sir G. J. PALMER, Bart., seconded, Lord John Manners. Mr. C. H. PitEwEN then, as a freeholder of the county, begged the opportunity of saying a few words explanatory of his a motive for retiring from the contest. Upon hear' t Lord J. Manners had accepted a seat in the ,n 1 matr ent he issued hie address, and communicate w G it ' h . Ntriatu-_ . , . ",,,,_ ,0 0ue friends who had supported him on a for rt ,: c : o l ata % na., ! g ro i T many of thees he received former d„n p i ., ; ,, tthole:a Ara c,n, n a o t t ,,l to in p a ersevere in the contest on ,nitha eferenee to that foaling h o ;aar, though he dischim g ed e that he ever hal" " yard Lord Darby'e Government in ti h t " p 1 ' 1 " . lord rib() had aee " e P pt ir V I." ' , A) ,,,, i Z t ‘ e. ' , oße the noble Goveretnent. Respe e cti c .t that Lord John Fussellfulfilled iiad r b ° G rin ' " would Inthat bill, wh:ch was withdrawn ; 1:0: 2 d l' i l i n il : 17.1, observe wised a reform bill, but was turned (m al t before -a-I°prr: bis promise ; and now Lord Derby promised h a matter whic h should receive attention. itiealt.; believed that there w ere members of the present Government nil') were quite prepared to give this question a fair an d liberal consideration. (Hear, bear,) , Mr. Disraeli, fur u np, and Lord Stanley, for another. • • The feeling of the Country was such thait was utterly impossible for any Governmentso resist a ►new reform bill. (Applause.) He thought it wa only a fair and reasonable course that they should give the new Government a fair tril.l. He advocated that in any measure of reform which was introduced, they should go back to the old plan of . not dividing the cousities. In the new plan some divisions of counties were thrown entirely into the hands of j members of aristocratic houses. ! Rev. E. STEVENSON, a Baptist minister , asked Lord ; Tat suN, LONDON CONFERENCE --------------- _ John Manners to tell those assembled whether, in his p stahebSaathbirt(hGrdomaynishaonualdupbreoatru.)rneA,lston,towhaactohne toinieniontani b thought in reference to the long-vexed subject of church rates. He wished fur ther to know th i e opinon of the no ble lord in reference to reform. There was no reason in the world why the county people should not be placed on the same footing as the boroughs were ; and he did n ot see any reason tha t small nomination boroughs, with from 150 to 250 voters should return one or two mem bers to Parliament, while Loughborough, with a popu lation 12,000, did not return a single representative. Lord JOHN MANNERS stepped forward to address the electors, and was rece i v ed with loud a pp lause by his sup porters, and with groaning and other marks of dis approbation by the great bulk of the assem blage. He said he had no wish to make a lengthened address in the present severe state of the weather, wh h ich d they all suffered from. 'Nor was it necessary, as he a been before them three times in the course of twelve months. Bat he returned his grateful t . hanks . to those numerous friends who had at once promised him their support so cordially and generously7-aso to those . op ponents who had given . Mr. Frewin . such judicious counsel in recommending him to withdraw a from what, in Parliamentary language, he must term a frivolous and vexatious opposition ; and lastly, to Mr. Frawen, who he - hoped, if he should comsat the county on a future occasion, would manifest the same good humour that he bad done to-day. He believed he had done nothing to forfeit the confidence of the electors. At the close of the last session of Parliament, he was so struck with the manner in which Lord Palmerston had conducted public business, that he felt it to be his duty to raise his voice against the noble lord, and he was assured that the feelings he then expreesed were shared by many mem bers on both sides the house. When Parliament met this session it was impossible not to see that many of his supporters were heartily sick of the allegiance they had so rashly vowed to him and were pre. pared on the first opportunity to renounce it. Shortly after the meeting of Parliament there was laid on the table of the House of Commons that famous despatch of Count Walewski, which proclaimed to all Europe that tie laws of England favoured assassination. He doubted whether that was the intention of the writer of that despatch. Then came the Conspiracy Bill, on which the feeling of the house was soTstrong that many leading Liberals, including even Lord John Russell, voted against the introdaction of the bill. The Conser vative party, though equally sensitive with Lord John Russell, about the maintenance of the national honour, did not however vote against the introduction of the bill, partly out of deference to her Majesty's Government and partly to evince their abhorrence of the crime of assassination. But, in the debate which then took place, fair warning was given to the ministry that the people of England expected that calumnious despatch to be answered. That warning, however, was in vain, and after ten days had elapsed, during which the despatch was unanswered, the bill came on for the second reading. Mr. M. Gibson then introduced his famous amendment, respecting which hie friend Mr. Henley had observed nothing could be more moderate or more true. That amendment was carried in a full house by a majority of 19 ; the very same number which, in 1852, displaced Lord Derby's government, and made way for Lord Pal merston. Lord Derby then took office which was abso lutely thrust upon him, and he did so sincerely desirous of maintaining the dignity of the crown and the real happiness of the people. While doing so, Lord Derby would strive to prevent, as far as human means could prevent so great a calamity, the interruption of our friendly relations with France. There was a trial now pending in this country of one of the conspirators against the life of the Emperor of the French. When that trial was brought to a conclusion they would then be in a position to know whether the laws of England in rela tion to that matter required any alteration. At present the balance of high legal opinion was in favour of the laws as they stood, and until this trial was over it would be indecorous to legislate on a matter which they might find required no legire lation. One of the most important questions of the present moment was the future government of India. Although he had been one of those who thought that until the mutiny was subdued, legislation should not be undertaken, yet the majority in favour of it had decided that question, and a measure was now under the consi deration of that man to whom they must and did look for guidance on all matters relating to India, Lord Ellenborougi, who was devoting his great statesmanlike qualities and thorough knowledge of India to the solution of one of the greatest legislative problems of this or any other day. With regard to reform, he had no doubt that many persons were without the franchise who might be advantageously entrusted with it. He had no doubt, also, that the counties had not their fair share of representation. As a tory, he was not con cerned to defend the bill of 1832, and he saw no reason why, when other more pressing questions were disposed of, he might not combine with his colleagues to con sider this and similar measures, and see if they could not devise a measure which, while it maintained the equilibrium of the different elements in the constitution, would rectify proved abuses, and impart additional stability to those great and time-honoured institutions which had rendered England the safe and almost the sole abode of tempered liberty and self sustained order. With regard, however, to the ballot, he would never be a party to a measure which would prevent the people of England from giving an open and above-board expression to their opinions, whatever they might be. H. bad been asked about Sunday bands. He had not had much time to consider that subject, but he thought the arrangements established last year in the London parks by his predecessor, Sir B. Hall, might be allowed to continue as they were. On the subject of church-rate', to say as Mr. Stevenson did that they were an imposed tax was most erroneous. They were a responsibility resting upon all property in England, 1 whether acquired by purchase or descent. It was said I that church-rates were a con3cientions grievance. He asked to whose consciences ! Not to those of churchmen certainly ; and admitting that every dissenter in England felt them to be a grievance, the natural solution was that they should be exempt from payment. Yet this had been proposed over and over again in the House of Commons, and had been invariably repudiated by dissenters What the dissenters wanted was the entire abolition of church-rates, which was moustrously absurd, and ridicu loualy unjust. If, however, any scheme were proposed which would save the aggrieved consciences of dissenters, and at the same time adequately secure the maintenance of the fabrics devoted to the national religion, he would give to such a measure his mostcareful and dispassionate consideration. He begged, in conclusion, to thank them for the manner in which they had listened to him, and assured them he had taken office tinder Lord Derby with a sincere desire to assist him in the great duties which devolved upon him. He now accepted the trust which he hoped they were again about to confer upon him, in the hope of maintaining, either as a minister or a simple member of Parliament, the principles of genuine and rational toryism which he bad always professed, and to maintain which they were about, he hoped, again to return him to Parliament. de lei cla o re o d th L er or c d an j d o i h da n te m w an as p ner r s op d o u s l e y d, and elec th ted. e high Then sheriff a vote of thanks to the high sheriff, duly proposed and seconded, terminated the proceeding. DELEGATES. DURHAM.-THE JUDGE-ADTOCA.TE. DURHAM, MARCH 8, Mr. J. R. Mowbray, M.P. for this city, having accepted the office of Judge• Advocate under Lord Derby's Government, has this morning issued his address to the electors. He says : " I have received moat unexpectedly from the Earl of Derby the offer of a high aid responsible office under the Crown, and I have accepted that offer. . . . Although not instrumental in the overthrow of the Government of Lord Palmerston, I have not hesitated to respond to the appeal of Lord Derby, because I thi nk he is fairl y entitled to call upon Conservatives of every shade to rally round him at the present crisis, and because I believe he is pre pared to uphold the honour of the country by a firm yet conciliatory foreign policy, and is sincerely anxious to pro mote all those measures of legal reform and of social and political progress which are called for by the increasing in telligence of the age." There can be little doubt the honourable gentlema n will be re-elected without opposition, as during the five years he has represented the city he has won the good opinion of men of all parties by his assiduity and inde pendent conduct. GREAT EXHIBITION IN 1861.—1 t is stated that the council of the Society of Arta propose taking into their consiieration to-morrow the policy of holding another exhibition. The discwssion on the Address terminated yester day morning. This important document, which on the motion of Signor Farini was passed. unani mously, after undergoing various alterations, runs as follows "THE ADDRESS OT THE CONFERENCE? DELEGATES OF THE ITALIAN NATIONAL CONSTITUTIONAL LEAGUE TO THE VARIOII4 SOVEREIGNS, PRINCES, AND STATES unit on EUROPE. "The claim of Italy to enjoy a nationality of her own has been so often urged and brought before public attention as almost to preclude on our part the advancement of any new ideas or principles on which it may be founded. " Yet, impressed as we are by the important and solemn duty which has been entrusted to us by the suffrages of thousands of our countrymen, and by the anxious expectation which watches with an earnest and heartfelt eagerness our deliberations, we enter upon the task with a humble diffidence in our capacity of doing justice to so important a duty, yet determined to perform it to the best of those abilities it has pleased Providence to gift us with. " The vitality of nations has been a subject that has often excited the deep interest of historians while gazing on the strange and unfathomable effects of Providence in peoples being suddenly restored to life ; in others, with equal rapidity consigned to the grave of a feeble memory. But in every Instance of history, where a people has sprung either suddenly or by long and tedious degrees into a nationality of their own being, there has been invariably to be seen the mighty foreshadowing of an inward vitality, which has proolaimed by unmis takeable signs the future germs of an existence. Pro vidence seems to have foretold, in its wise dispensation of the destinies of future people, by either their language or their traditions, or the actual position their country may occupy in the map of the world, the eventual cer tainty of a future nationality springing into a healthy existence. So also has it foretold, by an inward decay, by a false appearance of real strength, by the slothful indifference of a people to all which concerns their future being, the certainty of their eventual disappear , ancei from those bounds which hitherto had marked their position and name as a nation. Yet still, if inch a nation has enjoyed for a long period of time the self consciousness of strengtk, the certainty of its own great ness, now wading through fields of carnage and blood shed, tc-day struggling for its own being, to-morrow fighting for the supremacy of the world alone, it leaves to its posterity, to its future descendants, as a memento of what it was, the dream of its ancient power. But when that dream has been further enriched by deeds of true virtue and heroism, recorded either by the pen of the discerning historian or the glowing imagination of the poet, it becomes a dream over dwelt over by the elail ciren of the past as one always to be remembered with pride, as one always to be emulated at every period of their existence ; and if with this dream should he left with such a people still a distinct language of their own —still the name of an unity which may at any moment be forthcoming into a reality, and with it combined the effects of civilisation—intelligence and indomitable energy of character, ever working, ever preserving, such a people may well rely yet on achieving for themselves a new position and existence of their own. " The place which Italy occupies in Europe at the present time, although divided as it is in parts or parcels of contending interests, presents to the mind the various features we have endeavoured to portray as the sure signs of an existing vitality, of a nationality sooner or later certain to be realised. The aspiring dreams of Rienzi, of Julius 11., of Lorenzo d'Medici, the touching strains of Petrarcb, of Alfieri, throughout the entire of the `mi Idle centuries, exhibited ever the dream of an Italy entire and united. And in later days the continual insurrections, the always uttered watchword L'ltalia fara da se,' sounding every now and then throughout every part of Italy, with her exiles homeless and shelter. less, seeking refuge on foreign shores, proclaims in unmistakeable language the dream ever existing, is speaking its action in bold and powerful efforts to realise it as a fact. " Such, too, was the similar destiny of Greece until it burst into a spontaneous action of a vitality impossible to be resisted. The same ancient glory, the same tradi tions of past greatness, of noble deeds formerly realised, became the heirloom of what was long deemed a nation for ever extinct. But living as they did, ever dreaming of the past, fondly cherishing in the minds of their sons the hope of yet springing again into a united nation—the Sparta and Athens of old, rivals for former glory—they seized their first oppor tunity of forcing the idea into a stern reality, "The idea of Italy cannot be too often reiterated ; she must become the same reality as the Greece of the present day, indissoluble in its ties of relationship. The past feuds of Ghibelline and Guelph, of old divisions and hatreds, of antique superstitions and ignorance, have passed away before the dawn of enlightenment, leaving in their place the continual seeking, the craving desire of an united Italy. "Its claims for such a being, strengthened by the gratitude, the justice, the humanity, and the interests of the various Powers of Europe, apart from any already proclaimed as above, are many and numerous. "1. With regard to the gratitude due to Italy one sole claim is sufficient to name—that it is to that people who now pant for liberty, Europe and the world at large owe the great debt of having been the first to unite together the great lesson realised in the middle centuries —the unity of liberty and civilisation. " 2. To their humanity—to atop those continual scenes of atrocity and infamy which every now and then awake the attention of the world, and which, while covering the soil of Italy with the blood of her sons and daugh ters, victims of political expediency, are daily enacted — a crying disgrace to civilisation and religion. "3. To their justice.—By the non-fulfilment of the Treaty of Vienna, signed in 1815, by which numerous advantages guaranteed to various parts of Italy have never been bestowed, or if given, have entirely become obsolete in the eyes of absolutism. "By the non-fulfilment of the pledges made by the English and French Governments in 1848 and 1849 to the Italian people, especially as regards the armed occu pation of Rome. And, "4. To their interests.—The continual alarms created in Europe by the constant insurrections taking place in almost every part of Italy, which apart from the discus sions which inevitably take place on the subject between the various European powers, lead to the entailment of an enormous cost by the prosecution of those who take part in the struggles, by the keeping up of prisons, ever full of political victims, and by especially requiring large foreign standing armies in Italy to keep in check the revolutionary spirit of its people ; "The numerous exiles who, crowdivg the streets of foreign countries and brooding over their misfortunes and the wrongs of their country, keep Europe and society at large in a continual state of terror and sus pense not alone by the concoction of conspiracies, but even of crimes of a worse nature to the wellbeing and happiness of the world, as, for instance, the crime of assassination. " Such, then, is but a list of the smallest portion of the claims which Italy possesses on the gratitude, the humanity, the justice, the interests of the various Euro pean Powers. " It may be urged, however just are either one or more of these many claims, the doing justice to Italy becomes an impossibility in the present state and division of Europe ; that if the idea were entertained by the various Powers the problem would still remain to be answered, How could Italy become united without overthrowing the balance hitherto considered essential to the well being of the continent of Europe ! " The answer which would be given to such a ques tion would be, that the Italian people do not seek to demand an impossibility at their hands, but simply what could easily be carried into effect without disturbing the natural balance of power in Europe. To do away with the absolute state of terrorism in which they for ever live, to do away the spirit of evil, seeming to crush the very beauty of life itself, is all they desire to render them happy and contented in the enjoyment of social and political and religions rights. " The realisation of this object can thus be effected : "The giving to each of the varkus States of Italy a Constitutional Government. "The Constitutional Government of each State to embrace— " 1. A Representative Assembly and a House of Peers. "2. Tho freedom of public speech and the liberty of the press. "3. The right of public assembly. " 4. The appointment of a municipal guard. " 5. The organisation of the municipal authority on a liberal elective system ; and "6. For all courts of ju-tice to be open to allow public opinion to give full weight to justice. A mutual arrange ment to be made between each of tie various Sovereigns of Europe to appoint a central and supreme Power to arrange all matters of difference that may arise between them, and to allow the Representative Assembly of each State to choose their own delegates by vote to represent the mutual interest of each Sovereign at the central and supreme Power. "Thus, by the joint confederation of the States, would be represented to the world a body compact and united in itself, and the dream of the people of Italy would become at once a reality. "That they are fitted to enjoy such a state of govern. ment a calm and dispassionate glance at Italy, devoid of prejudice or preconceived ideas, must readily be admit ted. Apart, however, from the growing intelligence of the Italian people withi n the last few y ears, the tried The liberal and const i tution tu f t n i l o l n y their late king, Carlo ment Albert, for whose memory I tal y will ever retain a grate fuls g s' ux r a cPc n ee t r e i n the ha Ise Sardinians alreadycln iau country.sbb been recollection, has fully proved the undeniable fact that the Italians are already fitted to claim for them. selves the only form of government suited to their warts, and which, when acceded to their just demands, will for ever set aside that loud murmur of disc ,nteut which ever and anon threatens to overwhelm the Continent in a deluge of human blood." The address, on being declared carried by the President, Sio'n , r Borromeo, was received with loud cheers by the delegates, and the Conference adjourned to I his day. ARTIFICIAL COAL.—A. curious communication, by M. Baroulier, has been sent in to the Academy of Sciences, describing a method for obtaining a substance possessing all the properties of coal. It is a fact generally admitted by geologists, that coal is the result of the carbonisation of vegetable matter by heat under a strong pressure, and under circumstances calculated to impede the escape of their volatile ingredients. M. Baroulier proceeds in a similar manner ; he envelopes vegetable matter in wet &ay, and exposes it for a considerable time to a great pressure, and to n heat of between 200 and 300 degrees centigrade (or the melting poiuts of tin and bismuth nearly). Various kinds of sawdust, subjected to this treatment, yielded different substances, possessing more or less the resinous lustre and colour of coal, and burn ing with a bright fleme. 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Clattik er ; Dr. Sholiand; Dr. Harvey; de sons, whose health has been ... ,, UO .. rt e e r es ef Castlestuart; meeting was Major Gen, Th c ,",„".. l :T u t t ,h , Do waz . , l'Y arzer : Dr. Ingram ; ment erected to his memory in the iand of his birth. A means of cure had failed. held a few days ago, at the provost's house, . t. ,„,.,4 bt: it, se a teetabl e per- Dublin, for the purpose of considering a suggesticn 121 b canisters are sent Caarri fi , d, z lib u . 'V i r , erection of a statue of dons. In canisters, Important Caution against Co .I.e'fe 77 ' \ 11b. 25."91b1.,7 I ' . l'- ' l. " lt ' h !,.rl'll otther —Ttli.e Vice-Chanoellor fever. nut made by his Excellency the Earl of Carlisle for the 121 b. 22e. The Qiilte Provost presided, and the meeting Oliver Goldsmith, by public , ceipt of Post-office order. Barry Du B arry 'Y"..: ( tice, on „;.. subscription in the neighbourhood of Trinity College i Regent-street, London. ..ppeitihnet.suggestion of his Excellency. A committee %sae resolved to carry William Page Wood granted au njun . e ion ea the loth Mareb, appcu i d e d . luld a subscrip ful dangers of spurious imitatio i ns. Alfred Hooper Nevin, for imitating it D A gev., 1 othe r ll that f h • ion list opened. The first name 1854, against . - _ i a. o 1 e Lord Lieutenant for 100/. Barry's Revaltat3 Arabica r ow. , ,„ndingll..,taceilatieuleu present subacribed 641., few THz ATLANTIC STEAM-PACKETS. The announcement of the Postmaster-General a day or two since that the United States packets (Collins' line) had ceased running, is an event in the history of steam navigation. For ten years the American mails were carried by British steamers (Cunard's). The Americans then thought they could build mail packets as well as Englishmen ; they accordingly started Sand's line between New yte new ships built by York and Southampton. These vessels were soon surpassed Cunard. Inn spee dlB 50 and size stazeby rd his line between New York and Liverpool, in direct opposition to Cunard. He has built in the whole five ships, at an expense of 800,000 1 . ; two of these, viz., the Arctic and Pacific, worth 200,0001., were lost. Soon after 1850, Livingstone started another American brie between New York and Southampton. His first two ships, th e Humboldt and Franklin, were lost. Cunard established a weekly mail communi cation with America, and the three United States lines established another weekly communication, thus making the arrival and departur e o f a ma il between Eug:and and America semi-weekly. S a nd's, Collins', and Livingstone , s packets w ere h eav ily sutsidised by the American Government. Collins reduced the passage between New York and Liver pool to less than ten days. Cunard has built eight ships since 1850, only one of which, the P e rsi a , h as beaten those of his great rivals in speed, and this su periority is only ou the eastern passage. H orses , it i s said, run faster returning to than going from their stable, and s smethinglike this would app ear t o b e the case with steam ships. The English mail packets run fastest from New York to Liverpool, and the Yankee steamers beat the Britishers f rom Liver pool to New York. Sand's line ran t en y ears , an d last year the subsidy was withdrawn—the ships were found to be worn out for ocean steaming, and they ceased running. They earned a five per cent. dividend during the last three years of their career, but nothing previously. Collins's line has never paid simple interest to the stockholders. The only line now properly. subsidised by the Americau government is Livingstone's, and the subsidy to this will shortly be discontinued. When it was first started, it paid a 7 per cent. dividend, but this was soon reduced to nil. The ships by this line only form a monthly mail communication with England. Vanderbilt's ships carry American mails for a portion of the postage on the letters which such mails contain. The failure of the American lines is attribtred to various causes. The steam machinery of American steamers is in ferior to that of Eng l ish vessels, and the hulls are not so strongly built. Hence the former ships break down oftener than the latter, and this causes irregularities in the mail service. Again, Ameri can lines work with fewer steamers than English lines ; when there is a break-down, therefore, with the former the mail service must be interrupted, because ships are not at heed to be substituted for the disabled ones. There is less certainty also about the continuance of the American subsides than about the English ones , an d there is conse quently a difficulty in raising sufficient capital to provide an adequate fleet for the Americau lines. Most of the ocean lines would pay well without mail contracts if they ran at a moderate speed. As it was the pace which used to kill horses in mail coaches, so it is the pace which wears out steamers and ruins the owners. When a line of packets ob tains a mail contract the packets are tasked at a high speed. This of course secures the most pro fitable traffic, and the non subsidised lines on the same route, if they do not run as fast, are ruined. The wide difference in cost of working steamers at high and low speed is easily proved. Collins ships were obliged to run 14 miles an hour by contract ; but to do this each ship burnt 128 tons of coal daily. New, that same ship could run 12 miles an hour and only consume, 80 tons of coal daily ; and 61 tons a day only would actually drive her 11 miles an hour. Taus it took more than double the quan tity of fuel to increase the speed by three miles an hour. The truth is that the power of coal neces sary to produce speed must be increased in the ratio of the cube of the velocity. But not only is the cost of fuel enormous in fast steamers, but the wear and tear of such ships must be very great. They must first be built with great strength, at an extra expense, of course. After running six years, Collins' ships coat in repairs more than the original outlay for building them, and yet, notwithstanding those repairs, the ships would not last above 12 years. Every trip of one of Collins' steamers to England and back again coat upwards of 10,0001. Every six years the boilers have to be renewed, at an expense of 22,0001. Collins' last ship, the Adriatic, cost in building 170,0001. Her speed has not yet been properly tested. Next to the Leviathan, she is the finest ship in the world. Notwithstanding that all Collins' steamers were really very fast and splendid ones, they never sup planted Cunard's in public tavour, not even with the Americans themselves, Collins is a true patriot. He has spent an immense fortune to establish a reputation for his countrymen for skill in ocean steam navigation. Some of his family perished in the great calamities which have overtaken his own ships, and he has experienced the bitterest obloquy and opposition in his own country while undertak ing for its benefit one of the most spirited enter. prises ever sustained by a single individual. What will ihe British Government do now the formidable rivals to Cunard's ships have been fairly driven off the Liverpool and New York line, and America has acknowledged the supremacy of Eng land in steam navigation? For some years there has been a simi-weekly mail communication between this country and the United States, and the two countries can scarcely do without such a frequent communication, for the American m a il s are o f gr eat magnitude. Now is the time for English capital and enterprise to grasp at the whole o f the mail traffic, and all the lucrative trade that accompanies it in the North Atlantic, but of every shilling post ago on a letter to or from the United States the British Government, according t o th e l as t postal convention, nets 10i d., if the lett er is c onveyed across the Atlantic man English packet. The American Government has not yet finally decided on the non - su bsidy policy, and Collins, with true Saxon pluck, having been drive n f rom th e M ers ey, is contemplating ru nni ng his magnificent steamers to some port in th e B ritish Channel, where they would be sure to monopolise the traffic of the whole con ti n ent of Europe with America. MAILS FOR THE REPUBLIC OF LIBERIA. In accordance with the pro v i s i ons o f a p os t a l conven ti on concluded with Liberia, and which will come into operation on the Ist April next, the fol lowing rates of postage will be substituted for those now levied : oz., 6d. ; above oz., above 1 oz., and not exceeding ex ceeding 3 ()v., 3 s. ; and so on, adding two rates andfren Letters ao cth exceeding not2ozs., additional zs., exceeding . Is. oo i;above a:bo tosov. ; re 2 ozs., and aot f fraction of an ounce. The postage must in all cases be prepaid. Registered Letters----Letters addressed to Liberia may be registered provided the postage, together with a registration fee of Gd., be paid in advance. Newspapers. --- New papers addressed to Liberia, and posted in conformi ty rg ea,ble with a postage o f ld. eac h , w hi c h with the usu a l regu l a ti ons , ill advance, and n o c h arge w h a t eve r m wi u ll st h b e e ch p a aid will be made on the delivery of the newspapers in Liberia. must lL a tbe prepaid, and no further charge will b e o followingreduced o packets ratesbe of forwarded postage which L to Book Packets.—Book levied ibe in Liberia. F or a b oo k p ac ket not ex ceeding 4 ozs., 3d. ; above 4 ozs., ano not exceed ing 4 lb., 6d. ; abov e lb., and not exceeding 1 11 ., ; above 1 lb., and not exceeding 1 lb., is. Gd. ; above 15 lb., and not exceeding 2 lbs., 2s. ; and so on, adding Gd. for each additional lb. or fraction of half a pound. A book pack et may conta i n an y num ber of sepa rate books or oth er p u bli ca ti o ns, print , ,, or maps, and any quantity of paper, parchment, or vellum; and the books or other publications, prints, mips, may be either p r i n t e d , wr itt en , o r plain, or any mixture of th e t h ree. F urt h er , a ll l eg itimate bind ing, mounting, or covering of a book, publication, drc., or of a portion thereof, will be allowed, whether such binding, &c., be loose or attached ; as also rollers in the case of prints or maps, markers (whether of paper or otherwise) in the case of books ; the safe transmission of literary or artistic matter, b i and, in short, whatever is necessary for or usually a p pertains thereto ; b ut no patterns or ooks of paper) will be all owe d. Th e f o ll ow ing regulations Patterns ( un less consisting merely of must be observed :-1. Every packet must be sent either without a cover, or in a cover open at the ends or sides. 2. A b oo k p ac ket must not contain any written letter, closed or open. nor any enclo sure) sealed or otherwise closed against inspection ; nor must there be any letter, or any communica tion of the nature of a letter, written in any such packet, or in or upon its cover. 3. No book packet must exceol two feet in length, width, or depth. By command of the Postmaster General. Row- LAND HILL, Secretary.--General l) & l A - office, March 6. TEE LATE LORD CLIFFORD OF CRUDLEIGII.—News has been receive:l in England of the death of Lord Clifford of Chudleigh, whi c h h a ppened at Rome on the 28th of last month, afte r a s h or t idnef-s, in his 68th year. The dereascd noideroa ,, , Hugh Charles, eldest son cf Charl.tF, seventh Lord Cliff.),d, by a daught-r of Henry, eighth Lord Arundel of Wardonr, was born in 1790, and re ceived his early education at the Roman Catholic College of Stonyburst. TUESDAYL_EVESING, MARCH 9, 18Ng. RAIL WA THE NEW ADMINISTRATION. (From the Daily News ) In the present state of political opinion it is not easy for any set of public men to agree upon what our Transatlantic cousins call "a platform" with regard to Reform in Parliament. For gentlemen whose chief bond of party cohesion has hitherto been the profession of Conservative principles, the difficulty is of course increased. To those who, like ourselves, occupy towards the new Adminis tration the position rather of vigilant observers than impassioned party combatlnts, it has been not un- instructive to mark the varying phases of opinion and feeling which the re-elected Ministers have been under the constitutional, but somewhat dis agreeable, necessity of betraying to the world on this vexed question. Between Mr. Disraeli's exposition of reform prin ciples to the Buckinghamshire electors yesterday, and that of the E•trl of Derby yesterday week in the House of Lords, there is scarcely anything in common except that both concur in asking fir time. The noble lord, it may be remembered, did no , seek to conceal his convieiaon that the necessity of doing anything at all in the matter of Parliamen tary Reform was an eminently un. ovr..rd result for which the previous advisers of her Majesty had been mainly responsible. Lord Derby de clared unequivocally that, for his own part, he " should have been well satisfied if it had b eu the pleasure of Parliament to determine that no alteration on a question so exciting was called for or required ;" and that on the avowed ground " that the Reform Act has given to the country a representative system and provided a House of Commons which fairly and fully repre sents the numbers, the feelings, the intelligence, and the property of the country. Admitting, how ever, that legislation on the subject had become inevitable, the new Prime Minister expressed his future intentions in these cautious terms :—" As soon as the pressure of pAtliamentary business ea tables us deliberately and carefully to consider the question of Parliamentary Reform, we will give it Our attention with a sineera and ernes atsire— should it be found in any way practicable—not to trifle with that great question, but to deal with it in the hope that we may be able in the course of next session to lay before Parliament and the coun try a measure which, though it may not perhaps please everybody—for that is too much for us to expect—we trust may be accepted as a fur and moderate measure of reform by moderate and im partial men." It was scarcely possible to say less ; but the experience of a week has proved that it would have been probably dangerous, if not im possible, to say more. There are obviously two great divisions of opinion on this question in the Derby Administration. There are those who, like the Prime Minister, think it a misfortune that things cannot remain as they are ; there are others who, while joining in the plea fcr delay, consider even extensive altera tions not only inevitable, but just and expedient. Sir Fitzroy Kelly—wh se political educetiou has of late made rapid strides, and who must now be regarded as the "promising boy" of the Adminis tration—heads the extreme left of the Ministerial phalanx. This able and zealous gentleman vents theories that must scatter horror and dismay among the massive and heavily acted ranks in front of which he so daringly skirmishes. His policy is all for extension ; nay, he does not stop there, but goes iu manfully for the forbidden thing—the due ap portionment of representation to numbers—the re moval of those glaring anomalies which give to the few hundred electors of the decayed borough that share in the Government of the empire which is denied to many a great and growing centre of po pulation, manufactures, and trade. Sir Fitzroy seems to have taken upon himself as his peculiar function the duty of illustrating that pregnant phrase of Lord Derby's ; "a Conservative party is not ne cessarily a stationary party." With views so ad vanced and liberal on the great question of Parliamentary Reform, with doctrines so thorough going as to the necessity of an immediate end sweeping change in the time-honoured system of Land Transfer, surely Sir Fitzroy Kelly has esta blished—far be it from us to insinuate that he has paraded—his competence to take office with any Ministry however much the reverse of stationary. Between this advanced lawyer and the tardy progressiveness of a Henley or a Sotheron-Est court the discrepancy is indeed considerable. Mr. Henley—who may perhaps be taken as the repre sentative of the extreme ministerial right—has not moved very much as yet. On church rates he hardly seems to have moved at all ; on Parliamen tary Reform he has not got beyond this :--,‘ LA me see what you are going to do, and then I'll tell you whether I'll support you." He would not have joined any Government in which his hands were to be tied on the subject of Reform." The thing has been " dangled before the eyes of the country," without ever having been fairly brought before it. " His judgm 'nt has not been formed whether this or that particular measure ought to be carried ;" finally he declares to his constituents, as the ulti mate expression of his present opinion (0 on the matter, that "he will take that or any other sub j et into consideration, free to act as he may think best for the general good of the country." Friends and opponents will alike adua't that the gentleman who gave utterance to these oracular sentiments is a thoroughly honest and independent man, but it is at least equally undeniable that, as far as Parlia mentary Reform goes, he is not committed even to the extent of following the line indicated by Lord Derby. Among the rank and file of the Mi nisterial host, which are the most numerous, those who are " Conservative" after the fashion of the Attorney-General, or " stationary" like the Presi dent of the Board of Trade ? Between these two extremes there is probably a considerable section whose views on the matter have not been inaptly represented by Mr. Disraeli and Lord Stanley. In his very able address of Thurs day last the new Colonial Secretary, in somewhat violent contrast to the paternal declaration in the House of Lords, is reported to have said, "I believe there is no statesman now who, in whatever part of the house he may sit, considers or calls the Reform Bill of 1832 a final measure. No one denies that some modification of that bill is required. Ido hot hesitate to repeat here, and now, what I have said on a former occasion, that I think that in our pre sent parliamentary constitution there are anomalies that are removable by legislation, and anomalies which are not only great evils theoretically, but which lead to practical abuses. I think that many districts of this country have reason to complain that they have not en adequate shore in the eepre sentation—a state of things doubly unfortunate, apart from the practical inconvenience it causes, because it produces a suspicion--an unfounded suspicion, I am bound to say, but still a very general one—that the present representation is arranged in such a manner as to be rather delusive than real." Lord Stanley, though more cautious in hie language, is scarcely behind Sir Fitzroy Kelly in the extent of his opinions. And now for Mr. Disraeli. Mr. Disraeli is prudently oracular. He, however, pledges the new Government to the earnest and anxious consideration of " a measure which shall not be a mere party measure, which shall not be constructed or devised merely to prop up a faction, which shall not be invented merely to increase the political influence of a political section, but which, dealing largely and completely with all the questions connected with the subject that are entitled to consideration, will, he trusts, recommend itself to all temperate, ra tional, and sober-spirited men as a measure ade quate to the occasion." Such are the principal data from which the coun try may form its own judgment as to the probable action of Lord Derby's Administration on the sub ject-of Parliamentary Reform. Is it not perfec , ly clear now, as it has been any time these last seven years, that no efficient measure of Reform will be granted till the voice of the country is raised in earnest to demand it ! Until that is done—until the country speaks out—men in power will only make this question, as Mr. Disraeli truly enough asserte they have hitherto made it, " the stalking horse of a faction—a something to he hung up and taken down according to the exigencies of a dis tressed Minister." For the last seven years this is only too correct a picture of what has really taken place. It is time that it came to an end. If Mr.. Henley and th e " s t a ti onar i es " can be kept quiet, the country will probably be disposed to wait and see what Mr. Disraeli has in store for it next ses sion ; but let it be well understood that the people must then come to a close reckoning with th it rulers, and insist en being no longer trifled with. THE LIVINGSTONE EXPEDITION. —Liverpool, March 6. —The " launch" was removed on board the screw steamer Pearl yesterday, ander the superintendence f Captain Bediegfield, R.N., and Captain Washington, R.N., principal bydrographer to the Admiralty, WI 0 had come down to take part in the preparations for starting the expedition. The Pearl is expected to sail for her destination on Monday. [ADVERTISEMENT ]-11 - ol!oway's Ointment and Pills preferable to all (Aber f-r the Cure of bad Legs.—Mrs. Bayley, of Wlieeler's-lane, Great Colinore. street, Birmingham, had a bag leg for a considerable time. She obtained the best medical advice in town, and tried a variety of other remedies, but without effect ing any good whatever. Ho!laway's ointment and pills were then made use of, which, in a brief space of time, effected a perfect cure. Mr. Hobson, chemist, 45, Horse Fair, Birmingham, can testify to the accuracy of the ease. —Sold by all medicine vendors throughout the World , and at P:ofessor H o lloway', , Estab , i-bments , 244, Strand, L ,radon, and 80, --Maiden-lane, New York ; by A. Stampa, Constantinople ; E, Guidicy, Smyrna ; and E. Muir, Malta. • • IGENCE. CALEDONIAN. The report by the directors of this company to the half-yearly general meeting to be held at Glas gow on the 12th March says :—The revenue ac counts show a balance of 106,173/. ls. Hid. After payment of dividend on—let, the original prefer ence stock, 16,766/. lls ; 2d, the new preference shares, 8,435/. 8d ; there remains, 80,962/. 4s. 3id. The directors recommend a dividend on the ordinary stock at the rate of five per cent. per annum, 77,137/. 18s. 6d., and that the surplus, 3,8241. ss. 91d., be carried to the credit of the con tingent account, which will stand thus :—Surplus revenue as at 31st July, 1857, 9,392/. Bs. si. De duct—let, expended during the half-year, for re newal of bridges, 4,0341. 10s. 2d. ; 2d, sum a- the credit of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Company to 31st July, 1857, under the working agreement, 1,777/. 14s. 3d. Add surplus revenue on a.icoutits f the half-year to 31st of January, 1858, 3,8241. ss. 94d. Sum at the credit of the contingent ac count as at 31st January, 1858, 7,404/. Os. 10,1 d. The revenue and working expenses are coArasted as follows with those of the h M.-year to 31s , January, 1857 :—Revenue, 1857, 330,358/. ; 1858, 350,654/. ; working expenses, 1857, 137,064/. ; 1851, 131,9501. The company are interested in four bills now before Parliament, for-I , t. The Dalwarnock Branch, from the Clydesdale Branch at Ruthei glen to the East End of Glasgow—length about a mile, and the estimated cost under 57,0001. 2d. The Port Carlisle Branch—to connect the main line at its southern terminus with the Port Carlisle Railway—length about half a mile ; estimated cost, 10,000/. 3d. The Symington, Biggar, and Brough ton Railway. Tnis is a branch for which an act was obtained in 1847, but the powers expired before the company were in a position to execute the works. The line is now revived by the land owners and others locally interested, this com pany contributing 7,500/. towards the capital of 36,000/., and engaging to work the branch (exclusive of maintenance) at 40 per cent. of the re ceipts. 4th. The Carlisle, Langholm, and Hawick Railway. In compliance with the power given to the directors by the shareholders at the last half yearly meeting, arrangements have been made with the promoters of this railway to subscribe 125,0001. towards the capital of 365,0001., and to work the line.at 45 per cent. of the receipts. No cif in should be spared to carry this bill, and to defeat the aggressive measure of the North British Company, who, as already explained, seek to appropriate traffic, and to occupy districts alrea ty assigned by Parliament to this company, and which cannot be given to another without breach of the conditions of the original grant,to the Caledonian. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—March 8. WORSHIP-STREET. —C b arles Stuart, a police man of the N division, was charged with stealing a pewter pot from the Nightingale public-house, Hackney-road. The prisoner came to the bar and called for half a pint of porter. Directly after, while the barma'd was serving another customer, he puffed some smoke into her face from a pipe which he had in his mouth, blinding her, and causing her to turn away. When she looked round he was gone, and a pewter pot was missing, He was pursued, but not overtaken. A few days afterwards he came again, and asked the barmaid if he had ever been at the house before ? On her replying that he had been there twice, and that a pewter pot bad been missed on each occasion, he became very abusive. He was then given into custody. Sergeant Townsend stated that the prisoner bad been many years in the force, and had always borne a good character, but had been lately in valided in consequence of injuries the head received in the oourse of his duty, and was subject at times to mental aberration. The magistrate said that the plea of insanity mast be decided on by a jury, and committed the prisoner for trial. WESTMINSTER.—Mrs. Hessing, the proprie tress of the Two Cnairmen, Dartmouth-street, Westminster, was summoned for unlawfully suf faring gaming in her house. Sergeant Buckley, 17 B, said that at half-past 12 on the night of the 24th of February he was passing defendaat's house, when he heard persons talking witbiu, and the rattling of money. He then heard a man say, "I won a sovereign of you ; I will ton you to see whether it is two or nothing." The house was shut up, but witness stood on the ledge of the shutters, and looking through the window saw seven or eight men in front of the bar. One of them shook up money in his hands, and put it on the counter ; the gas had been turned off, and this was done by the light of a candle upon the counter. After' the money was put down Mrs. flossing said, " There is a policeman looking at you ;" and witness then observed, " I can see what you are at." Witness then went Into the house, when Mr! , . flossing said they were tossing ior brandy, and those present confirmed her account. In cross-examination by Mr. Childe, the solicitor for theLicensedVictuallers'Society,witnessadmitted that all the persons in the house were respectable neighbours, arid that business was apparently over, all the lights being out. He was in the street, and the house door was shut when he heard about the sovereign, and then he climbed up on the shutter tb look in. Another policeman having corroborated com plainant's testimony, Mr. Child° said that Mr. Kessing, who died 11 months ago, was a highly respectable man, and had kept the house for 17 years years without any com plaint. Mrs. Kessing, who continued the business with the same propriety, induc,ed her customers as usual to leave the parlour at 12 o'clock on the night in question, extinguished the gas, and lighted her bedroom candle, when the customers who were in front of the bar said they should like a drop of brandy, and began tossing for it. She said she could not allow tossing, but they insisted upon doing it. She used as much influence as she rea sonably could to prevent it, and surely she was not to be rendered' amenable for the acts of others. He submitted that this was a very different case to persons sitting down with cards or other instru ments of gaming ; and, in conclusion, pointed out that because this summons had been issued the licensing magistrates, last Wednesday, before her guilt or innocence was determined upon, bad sus pended her license. Mr. Paynter, with evident surprise, inquired whether that was so ? Mr. °Ade replied that it was. Mr. Stillwell, a barrister's clerk, proved that the parties tossed for drops of brandy ; and that, al though one man had offered to toss for a sovereign, the cnallenge was not accepted. Mr. Paynter thought that tossing, as in this in stance, was a species of gaming that the keeper of a public-house could ;wither prevent nor control, and dismissed the complaint ; desiring the police to inform the licensing justices that there was no imputation upon Mrs. Kessing's character or con duct. WOOLWICH. —Robert Hinds, a police-con stable of the R division, appeared before Mr. Seeker at the instance of the Commissioners of Metropo litan Police, to answer the charge of neglecting and violating his duty, for which he had been sus• pended, and was liable, by the terms of the Metro politan Police Act, to fine or imprisonment. Mr. Mallalieu, superintendent of the R. division of police, attended to watch the case. Sarah Davis, a simple-looking young girl, de posed that she recently lived as servant in the house of Mr. Renshaw a gentleman re,liding at Lesuess-heath, Erith. On the 13th of November last the defendant introduced himself to witness as a single man, named Webber. He came to the house almost nightly, and witness frequently walked out with him, remaining in his company from one to two hours whilst he was considered to be on duty. By Mr. Seeker—He was in the habit of looking round my master's premises, and in consequence he first saw me. Caroline Berry , a portly damsel, deposed that she was cook at Mr. Renshaw 's, and had often told Sarah not to go with the policeman, as witness knew that he was a married man. She al+) told the defendant that no good would come of it, and that be would be sure to get into trouble if he con tinued t.l c.,me after Sarah. In consequence of tins intrigue Sarah had been discharged from her service. Police Inspector Nemo, in reply to the magis trate, stated that the defendant had hitherto borne a good character in the force, and generally ma naged to be at his post when his sergeant came round the beat. At other times he was at the pre mises of Mr. Renshaw. It was proved by other evidence that the de fendant, when on night duty, had occupied his time in a more agreeable manner than keeping " watch and ward" over the property of the residents of Erith. Mr. Seeker said he had nothing to do with the question of courtship, although he would recom mend the young woman Davis to take the more sap advice of the cook, and not to keep polic?naen, whe ther married or single, from their duty. It wag proved that the defendant had neglected his duty, and was liable by a section of the Metropolitan Po lice Act to be fined in a pend'y not exe ,,,.di„ g 101., such penal .y to be deducted flow any sum N hick migiit be due to him, or to I 0 inair Boned for one month. He should now fine th e d e f en d an t 205., oz;21 days' imprisonment. THOMAS TOOKE, F. 8.8. We have the painful to k of recording the death of Mr. Tooke, the venerable author gf the "History of Prices," and in many respects for a long period the ohief of living economists. Mr. Tooke died at his residence, 31. Spring-gardens, early on the moroing of Friday, the - - 26th ult,, and hid remains were interred at Kensal-green Cemetery on Thursday last, in a vault which already contains one or two members of his family. Mr Tooke's age was within a few days of the completion of his 85 h year, but it was not until wit;,in the last sew months that he manfested very sensibly the decay of powers to be naturally expected at so advanced a period of life. The death of his second son, Mr. Thos Tooke, jun. (one of the directors of the Bank of England), after a very short illness, at the close of December, may be rega , cled as the mere immediate catie3 of the ead event we now record. The euddennese and weight of the shock occasioned by se severe a bereavement as he 10-s of his eon, exhau.ted a str-ngth already impaired and failing, and her the las.. tee, months Mr. Tooke hat. been gradually sinking. But there has been no interval, even up to the latest moment, during which the clearness and serenity of mind for . which Mr. Tooke was so remarkable was interrupted. The long career of Mr. Tooke has been one which in. viiee and will repay scrutiny He has united in an emi nent degree the sagacity and penetration of mini which enabled him to be a guide and discoverer in new paths, and the practical wesdoro and soundness of judgment which qualified biro to occupy a conspicueus place in the active business of life. In Mr. Tonke's case the com bination of the speculative wiih the practical facul y was exceedingly remarkable. Few men could be foun I more ardent in their pursuit of new truth , , or more ready to ainpt and maintren them when he had once rati-fied eimself that the discovery was a real one ; but at the sarne time he may be classed among that small num ber of persons whose jedgment is so clear and unbiassed, that the cases are exceedingly rare in which their deli berate advice is not fully justified by the event. For a long period, in toe early pirt of his life, Mr. T. oke was the leading partner in one of the largest houses engaged in the Ru,,sian trade; and it was while BO occupied that be acquired that remarkable command of facts which enables' him to raise upon so wide and solid a basis the economical doctrines and discoveries which will ever bear his came. Tim work which preceded the " History of Prices" was entitled "Tt,oughtm and Deiaile on High and Low Prices," and appeared in 1823. A second edition was published in the following year. The first two volumes ,e the " History of Prices"—tire work upon which Mr. T eike's fame principally rests— appeared is 1838. Two further volumes appeared in 1840 and 1847; and it was or ly in the spring of last year that the sth and 6th vo erahrac the impereant period fr •ni 1848 to 1857, and extending, in many respects, the scope of the carder v published In these two volumes, es is well known, Mr. Tooke relied to a great extent upon Li s coadjutor, and friend, ant pupil, Mr. Newmarch, a coadjutor who may be ju-tly said to be, in some iui portant degree, the representative of the school of which Mr. Tooke is the fooeder. But the active sphere filled by Mr. Tooke was of scarcely less interest than his pursuits as a philosopher. He was governor, by re-election, for several su cessive terms of the Royal Exchange Corporation—he was chairman under similar circumstances of the St. Katharine's Dock Comps .y—and he was one of the earliest promoters of the London and Birmingham Railway. He contributed largely to the establishment of the Statistical Society, and to the latest period of his life he never lost an op portunity of forwarding the objects of that association. He was a Factory Commissioner in the early days of the great and difficult controversy out of which that elm mission arose, and he was the chairman of the subsequent commission relative to the employment of children. Among the last honour., he received was the distinction of being elected a corresponding member of the French Academy. It is well known that Mr. Tooke was the author if the Merchants' Petition of 1820 in favour of free trade, and that, in point of fact, the free-trade movement then com menced was in a large measure originated by him. The petition itself is a noble document, and every principle it, sets forth has since made the ground-work of legis lation. He has now passed away full of years and honours ; and so long as patience and intrepidity in the support of truth—a rare sagacity in separating real from spurious science—and the promotion, by his own active example, of every useful work, can constitute a claim to gratitude and respect, so long will the name of Thomas Tooke fill a distinguished place in the history of the time in which he lived.—Economist. March 6 tJuuntrj blarlEect. CHELMSFORD—MARL n 5. The wheat trade to-day was in a rather dull state, and the rates of last week baraly maintained. Spring corn also dull, and unchanged in value. Wheat, white, old, per s. s. qr. 45 51 I Oats, new 45 51 Peas, red, old. 42 46 new 40 46 Barley 34 40 Chevalier 38 44 Grinding 23 32 Halt 70 73 Chevalier 72 73 8. 8. per qr .....24 29 Partridge 40 43 White 38 42 Boiling 39 44 Dun 3B 40 Beans, Tick Harrow ticks 36 40 Mazagan 32 35 Ditto, new 32 34 COLCHESTER— AS —ARCM 6. A. fair supply of wheat, and readily taken off at a slight advance on last week's rates. Fine malting barleys at full prices. Beans rather dearer, and peas at about the same as last week. Prices to-day were as follow ;—Wheat, white, 464 to 52 , ; red, 42s to 48s; barley, 36s to 44s ; oats, 24s to 28s ; beauB' Mazagan, 31s to 36s ; middle and small, 36s to 40s ; peas , white, 40s to 42s ; grey, 40s to 425. Official Statement of the Quantities of Corn, &c., race: in the port of London, from the following ports. f March 1 to March 8, both inclusive. yi cm 0 ' a ta' a A P., g Colchester 1 63 16 2:; ___3` _ Harwich Leigh 1 389 7 30 23 Haldon 1 545 10 ,20 (11(1 24 , 1 vea CI ova ..... 1 200 1 , 480 KIRKCALDY-MARCH 6. We had good supplies of grain to-day of all kinds. Sales quick, and prices of barley and oats 6d to is per qr higher than the rates of last week. Wheat. Barley. Oats. I Beans.. First 4Bs Od I 32s Od 29s Od Os 01 Second 43s Od 28s 6d 25s Od Os I Third 31s Od 22s al I 19s Od I Os Od COIL KAMM Prioos of Coa►is per ton ai r. —Minas 8. the elm of the market Walleend, s. d. Ward's West Hartley l5 3 Howard's West Hartley Netherton 16 3 Holywell raulield Moor l5 0 Hastings Hartley 16 3 , West Hartley Grey's 15 3 Walker Primrose 9 Wylana Eden .... .18 • Haswell .................................... 22 _2l 6 Herten ....................• - A _2l 6 Wallsend, tze feramwellgate lB 6t T r i m don Thornley l7 0 Montague Garesfield l2 6 Ships at marke South Hetton .............. --21 0 L.ambton ................. n ...20 Hartlepool 6 21 Tees P- - 11'm Duirryn Steam 4“- owe _ _ C N o o w a p h eu n il are art ep le o y ei ...... .. ... 1 1 6 6 no s Trimdou W n w South Durham 0 ;t, 90 ; sold, 74. LOCAL SHARE liiiiiSE - LIVERPOOL — MAU CH 3. STOOK EXCHANGE—The market has fluctuated throug h . out the day, and closing weak at the lowest point. Birkenheads, ni 3—Caledonians, 46,i I—Chester an a Holyhead, 191 I —Eastern Counties, 11i 12—East Law cashire, 91 h —Great Western 60 4—Lancashire an d Yorkshire, 91i 2 - -London and North Western, 965,,8rj Sheffield., 301 1 0— Midlands, 9 •l — North British, 1 3 - -Berwicks, 233—York and North Midland, 39i 1 1 , -- —Leeds Northern, 244 i—Dovers, 22 —Dutch Rbaci"" 31 3 dis.—Grand Trunk of Canada, 1 2 i a—Great Western of Canada, 1913. RIANCHESTER, MARCH 8. STOOK EXOIIANGE.--There was only amoderate busi nese at easier prices. Midland, 9i t—L moondens, 9613- -- Dovers, 22 3-ki—liastern Counties, 12—Trunks 12 II Canadas, 198 — Ditto , New, 1 5-16 die--Leeds , 42—Shst fields, 394—Birkenh ead Stock, 72i—Berwicks, East Lancashire, 913—Caledonians, 461—Ditto, pref., 103.1. --met BIRTHS. Ullman—On the 6th inst., at 69, Portland-pace, the vrif• of Herbert Barn trd, Esq., of a daughter. Cox—Ou the 6th inst., at [inner, the wife of Charles Colo Esq., of ,a daughter. MONSBLL—On the sth inst., at Pais, Berthe, the wife of 00 Right Hon. W. Mousell, of a son. SALWYS—On the • 7th inst., at 63, Chester-square, the 'oil Of C. Jasper Selwyn, Esq., Q.C., of Riehmo nd i Murrel, A NOB, MARRIAGES. NORRIS—POWELL—On the 6th inst., at St. B o tolpb, Bi sh01 : gate, Stephen Perceval Norris, of tdoinfield-street, bury-circus, to Sirah Powell, of 21, Finsbury circus. PURKIS OLDIIAM —On the St inst., at St. Luke's, Samuel Purkis, of Walworth King's-road, cheleei t to Emily Rizabeth, oldest daugh. er of Henry Olabsub King's-road, Cho sea. Chelsea; a s i t r. i y .e — et 0 , LC.BI. DEATHS. ATLMER—On the sth inst. a t his hous e, in Dawson-plae4 Admiral Frederick Whitworth William, Baron AY lraap B Elizabeth, the wife of B. H. Bally, 11.. A. A n 11120.eat8ot.h inst a t 11, Yor k P lace, Portman square DANIEL—On Nash of Great Ches terford, NAsu _On the 7th inst , Thos. F. , (tc., aged 75. Essex, aged 40. TRAvsEs on the 6th inst., at his residen..e, 54, Greestreet, Grosvenor-square Benjamin Travers, Esq., F.B ~ ''''''' n g S e SA aTI UD t son of Joseph and Elizabeth Tussaud, -___S nor: Burgeon t2o;tihnes t Q . , 11 e a r n , om e , and grandson es the late Madame Tussaud, Baker-street, Fortman,-squateo aged 29. ------------ _—__ _..., _ __—__ •.-1, Francis B. Tussaud, only, LONDON : printed and Published by Il Cr RD° Y . W 114 : ' of No. U. .iti•fJlt). Printer, at The Sun Ottio , r ' t l; 112, strand, in the Precinct of the 35voy, in the ce s2 of Ididdlesex, Tuesday, March ►9, MS. • •