The Sun. — London, England, 1860-12-06 00:00:00

IRE NATTY. the Royal Commissioners who have inspected i',er Majesty's dockyards in succession, with a view of examining the system and reducing the expen diture complained of, yesterday returned to Wool wich. The Board consisted of the Earl of Gifford, Sir H. P. Willoughby, Mr. R. Dalglish, M.P., Rear-Admiral Robinson, and Mr. A. Price, R.N., seerf.tary. They arrived at the dockyard at 12 o'aock, and promptly commenced their duties in the office of Mr. Thornton, assist.-master shipwright tof the yard, by a lengthened examination of the Commodore Superintendent, the Hon. J. R. Drum mend, Mr. Turner, master shipwright, and others. The proceedings were strictly private. The following vessels have been taken up by Government to ship stores for foreign stations in her Majesty's dominions—viz., the Zebra, West Indian, Sardinian, Point, Viceroy, Providence, lonia, Napoleon 111., Margaret, Bessie Searight, Thames, Bosworth, Traveller, Era, and Effort. The sheds and other temporary buildings erected between the first and second docks in Chatham dockyard were yesterday completed, being taken down in order to clear away the site for the work shops, forges, and sheds which are to be built close to the second dock for the accommodation of the workmen who will be employed in the construction of the large mail-clad iron steam vessel of war about to be commenced in No. 2 basin. The new workshops and other buildings will be built of corrugated iron, and will be immediately taken in hand by Messrs. Grissel, the same firm which constructed the iron roof and covering of the new building slip completed at Chatham Dockyard a short period since. The exterior shot•proof armour plates for the new steamer will, it is understood, be constructed at the works of the Thames Iron Shipbuilding Compeaty, who it is stated have entered into an eagageraent with the Admiralty to supply them. About 1,000 hands will be employed on the new iron, steamer. The Undaunted, M, screw frigate, which is to be launched at Chatham on New Year's-day, had her rudder successfully fixed in its place yesterday. The Firebrand, 6, paddle, Commander J. Bruce, will go out of Portsmouth harbour to-day to Spit head, and is expected to sail the following day for the West Indies. In the notice in The Sun of yesterday of the "North Atlantic Telegraph Expeditions" reference is made to the instruments used on board her Ma jesty's ship Bulldog for the purpose of obtaining specimens from the bottom of the sea on the line of soundings taken. Those supplied by the Admiralty were an American invention, and proved so entirely useless for the purpose that other means had to be devised to obtain the desired result. This was ob tained through the ingenuity of Mr. W. H. Steil, assistant engineer on board, who devised an instru ment of a very simple and effective nature, which answered the purpose required admirably, and which has brought up 24 ounces in 1,913 fathoms. On one occasion, in 180 fathoms, it brought up two ounces of gray mud and :12 stones, some of the latter as large as a fowl's egg, and others the size of a hazel nut. It is adapted for either deep or shallow waters, as in using it in water over 200 fathoms two slung shots are hang on branching hooks, and are disengaged by the same motion which opens the jaws of the instrument on its con tact with the bottom. Dr. Wallich, the naturalist to the Bulldog's expedition, suggested the applica tion of indiarubber bands for the purpose of closing the jaws more forcibly, and which were used on some occasions. It is intended to carry out some experiments with Mr. Steil's instrument, and one on a principle suggested by Sir F. L. M'Clintock, in the course of a few days, at Spithead. Capt. Sir F. L. M'Clintock will be succeeded in the command of the Bulldog by Commander H. F. M'Killop, who distinguished himself highly while in command of the Viper in the Black Sea and Sea of Azoff. The present senior lieut. of the Bulldog, C. Parry, will join the Hero, 91, screw, at Devonport, and will be succeeded by Lieut. E. D. Acklow. The following gentlemen have been nominated to a naval cadetship :----John Mackenzie M'Quhae, Edward Blakemore Fletcher, James Vere Darley, Edward Amphlett, and Douglas Methuen Forsyth. THE ARMY. The iollowing movements and appointments in the Royal Artillery are announced in a general regimental order, dated 4th just :—Lieut. D. M. Wilson, 4th brigade, is raised to increased pay therein, vice Sandilands ; Lieut. S. Windham has been appointed to the horse brigade, vice Sandi lands, promoted. The following removals of officers are also announced :—Capt. Sandilands, from Ire land to Corfu; Lieut S. Windham, from Corfu to Ireland. The following is to be the distribution of the assistant-surgeons of the brigades serving in India.:-11th brigade, J. H. Hearn, from 13th bri gade ; L. H. Halahan, M.D., from 14th brigade ; T- 7. Orton, from 14th brigade ; W. Y. Jeeves, from rah brigade ; J. W. Rimner, as per general regi mental order, April 1, 1859; H. F. Paterson, M.D., from 14th brigade ; R. D. Burn, M.D., from 14th brigade ; A. P. Cowan, M.D., as per general regi mental order, July 2, 1860, 13th brigade ; It. A. Chapple, from 14th brigade ; R. U. Cashman, M.D., as per regimental order, April 1, 1859 ; J, 11. Finnemore, from 11th brigade ; A. J. L. Hep worth, as per general regimental order, April 1, 1859 ; It. W. Clifton, from the 14th brigade ; A. D. Gulland, M.D., from the 14th brigade ; A. W. P. Pinkerton, M.D., as per general regimental order, April 1, 1859; R. C. Crean, as per general regimental order, nth November, 1859. 14th brigade, J. Barker, from 13th brigade ; W. Haugh ton, M. 8., from 11th brigade; G. Sharp, from 11th brigade; A. R. Smith, from 11th brigade; J. M. Taylor, from 13th brigade ; D. F. de Hodgson, M.D., as per general regimental order, Ist of April, 1859 ; G. D. Milne, M.D., from 13th brigade ; W. Tanner, from 11th brigade. The following appoint meats and removal of master gunners have been approved by his Royal Highness the General Com manding-in-Chief, viz. :—Battery Sergeant Major Matthew Renham, of the Coast Brigade, to be master gunner at Shoreham, vice Wright, pen sioned ; Sergeant Bernard Dolan, of the Coast Brigade, to be master gunner at Ware Basin Bat tery, Sunderland, by augmentation, and Master Gunner Robinson to he removed from the North -Fort, Liverpool, to the Heugh battery, Hartlepool. Officers commanding brigades of the Royal Artil lery are directed take such measures as will insure correct and complete requisitions for annual cloth ing being received at the Horse Guards at the periods fixed by the clothing warrant page 18, paertra. graph 7, much incon ven i ence h av i ng b een ex at the penced t hrough requisitions not com i ng t o h an d proper time, and many of these received are comparatively useless in consequence of the num bers and sizes of the surplus clothing being omitted, and it not being stated in the requisitions whether the surplus had or had - ‘et been deducted. A notification was ddterday received at Wool wich from the Board of Admiralty statin that g henceforth the good-conduct medals a war d e d to men serving in the Royal M ; --ar 'nes Corps would he delivered as follows:—the first, after three years' service, instead of five, as heretofore; the second, after eight ; the third, after 13 ; and the f ourt h , after 16, in cases well recommended. Orders were yesterday received at the head_ quarters of the Royal Engineers at Chatham, directing the necessary quarters to be prepared at Brompton barracks for the officers and men of the 32d Company, who will arrive at the Royal Engi neer eatablishinent to-morrow from Alderney, where it has been stationed a considerable period, and employed in the repair of the defences of that island. In compliance with a garrison order the regi ments of the line and militia stationed in Portsmouth garrison have commenced a course of drill with the 32-pounder guns in position on the walls of the fortress, which will he continued daily throughout the winter. The fort at " Lumps," near Southsea Castle, Ports mouth has been completed by the contractors, and is now ready for arming at the hands of the War Department. The work has been eonstructed to mount 17 guns, nine on its sea face and four each on its east and west flanks; 14 of the guns will fire through embrasures on the parapet, the remaining three will be pivot guns, and mounted on circular bastions, or cavaliers, on the salient angles of the front of the work; all three sweepin; each flank as well as the front, and dominating the whole work. The rear of the work is undefended by artil lery, being closed from each flank by an earthen parapet, with a brick wall, pierced for a rifle fire, a building for officers' and men's quarters, and the entrance gate. The whole is surrounded by a wet ditch, not revetted, of good depth and breadth in front, but greatly diminishing in both points on the rear or landward side. The entrance gate on this side is gained by a drawbridge, the rolling part of which being withdrawn leaves a gap over the ditch four paces wide. The whole width of the ditch at this point is 16 paces. The ditch in front is flanked by three caponnieres, one at each angle. The front of the work is covered by an earthen glacis, which extends to a short distance within high water mark. The front or sea face thus presents a bold profile, but the ditch not being revetted, and the sides and bottom of the ditch consisting of nothing beyond shingle and loose sand, it is not likely to maintain its present angle for any length of time ; even now, the late rains have caused several fissures to appear along its slopes. During south-east gales a heavy sea rolls in along the beach in front of the work, and makes continual encroachments upon the beach line, washing the earth away in large masses ; in fact, so much has the sea encroached upon the land, that a portion of the foundations of the works erected during the French war at this same point is now below high-water mark. To counteract this serious evil, the original contract contained provi sions for the construction of a sea-wall in the imme diate front of the work. • Subsequent investigations have, however, proved the utter impossibility of doing this, owing to the nature of the ground, and it now remains to erect groins or devise some other means to resist the action of the sea, which else may soon clear its way to the very escarpment of the work itself. The rear of the work is weak, as the brickwork could be breasted by a couple of field pieces, and the circular bastions are perfectly open to rifle fire from the adjoining fields and hedgerows. The interior of the work contains accommodation for about 50 officers and men. The whole of the works, masonry and earth, have been finished in a very superior style: MR. BRIGlir AND FREEHOLD LAND SOCIETIES. (From the Times.) It is pleasant to find a speech of Mr. Bright's with half of which we can agree. That energetic orator has just been promoting a " movement" in favour of the Freehold Land Societies of Birming ham,'and, as was to be expected, has delivered him self of some decided views on the tenure of land in this country. The societies in question are formed for the purpose of facilitating the purchase of land in such small plots as will place the bargains within the reach of all who have saved a little money—the ultimate object, of course, being the acquisition of the vote which the land will convey. On this sub ject we need say very little. The scheme, whether judicious or otherwise, has been adopted by all political parties in turn, and tie result will proba bly leave them where they stood before. Mr. Bright's argument, however, took a wider range than the mere advocacy of this particular "move ment," and embraced the various conditions affect ing the sale and purchase of land under our present system. According to this argument, the law of primogeniture and entail are especially pernicious to the wellbeing of the population, and the practices connected with the transfer of land scarcely less so, Together, they have the effect of locking up the land in few hands, and excluding the people at large from the possession of any " small portion of the soil of the country" in which they live. All such laws and usages ought to be swept away. Land ought to be free, just as cotton and corn is free. It ought to be readily negotiable, obtainable at a moderate price, and distributed among the population more generally, instead of being accu mulated in the hands of particular families or pro prietors. That is Mr, Bright's theory, which, indeed, he has inculcated upon many previous occasions, and he, of course, concludes with an inference that it ve:ould, if practically carried out, elevate the:poi,' tical character of the nation, improve its social "prospects and confirm its public liberties. W`e have said that on this occasion we can go b:aif way with Mr. Bright's arguments, but we are by no means clear as to the exact scope of his pro position. If his object in denouncing the law of primogeniture and entail is simply to dismember all considerable estates, and dispossess all large pro prietors, we can comprehend his sentiments, though we do not share them ; but if he was addressing himself to the object before the meeting we do not see the force of his harangue. People are already free to associate and buy land, nor is there any difficulty in finding land to buy. In all but a few exceptional districts of the country land may be had at almost any time and in almost any quantity. Our advertising columns give proof enough of this. It is pretty nearly as easy to make an investment in land as in the funds or in railways; nor is the price at all extravagant in comparison with other securities. Notwithstanding the solidity of the property, and the favour in which lauded estate is always held, it can be brought to pay a better in terest than Consols. At this moment a working man who had saved enough to buy an income of 40s. a-year in the funds could buy a larger income in freehold land with the same money. Of course, there is some difficulty in meeting with a number of small bargains in the market, but that is pre cisely the difficulty which Land Societies are cal culated to remove, by purchasing large estates for the purpose of dissection and distribution; and it would certainly not be experienced in a less degree if Mr. Bright's theory were in full operation. Our Land Societies would be a good deal more puzzled in France, where estates are perpetually cut up, than in England, where they are allowed to accu mulate. There are no people so tenacious of land as the small proprietors of Trance, who will cling to their pl o t s , i n sp i te of debt and ' mortgages, long after they should have been sent into the market. Mr. Bright evinced a remarkable consciousness of the infirmity of his own case. He could not so much as describe the abominations of the law of primogeniture and entail without observing that he should, no doubt, be told by " editors of news papers" and others that the restrictions he spoke of did not exist. He was fain to qualify his own words, and that so materially as to leave very little residue behind. We certainly must remind him, exactly as he had anticipated, that " there is no such thing in England as the law of primogeni ture," and that " tl'e laws of entail are n o t as th ey used to be." A man may dispose of his estate pre cisely according to his own caprices, and if, failing such disposition on his part, the law gives it to his eldest son, that is because there is a fair presump tion from the majority of examples that he would have done this very thing himself if he had done anything at all. We have no wish, however, to blink the question. It is quite true that in this country tradition favours, and the law to some extent admits, the accumulation of landed property ; whereas in some other countries tradition and law work in the opposite direction, and it is perfectly reasonable to inquire which of these two principles is the better one. For the answer we can hardly do better than turn to France, where exactly such a revolution as Mr. Bright contemplates has within the last 70 years been actually accomplished. The soil of France is for the most part parcelled out among an infinity of small proprietors, and the Legislature has done all in its power to perpetuate this distribution and prevent the accumulation of that species of property. Looking at Frenchmen, then, from Mr. Bright's point of view, are they better off than we are ? Arc the agricultural classes of France more enterprising and prosperous than ours ? Do the French people generally enjoy greater political freedom ? Have any of those for t unste results ensued which Mr. Bright now con fidently predicts as contingent on the adoption of his theory ? Not one, and that Mr. Bright knows as well as we do. Landed proprietors and country gentlemen have, indeed, almost ceased to enter as a class into the composition of the French nation, and, if that result would be sufficient to satisfy Mr. Bright, no doubt it might be attained here ; but it is as certain as experience can make it that the Where Mr. country would be none the more prosperous for it, or its liberties the more secure. which Bright nichofthtehet cumbrous and complicated forms by was right was in his desetip should giverhainsfer of land is impeded, though we the point if weingreater credit for his agitation on measureshad ever whichbeen activecou ld hit ve been ht recollect . that he or his friends supporting the numerous i h n e troduce . d for mitigating the evil. Beyond doubt either by law or lawyers abo u eo t m tl P ie lle s a al t e lo o n t s. land are i ln u o t u t( i ) ie d i i .e sg i u t s i t s an landholders th themselveshis o are the chief sufferers. They,lkild thei r l an d at tunes almost unsaleable, though they may be really anx ious to sell, while others are as d es i rous of buy ing. The disputable nature of titles, the obscurity and expense of the inquiries requisite for establish hp, them, and the length of time over which the process o f transfer is protracted are all so ma ny obstacles to the purchase, and consequently to the N,. _ THE At SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 6, 1860. sale of land, though they would be felt less by the members of land societies th an by an y o th er persons, I But the troth of the matter is that Mr. Bright's leading theory respecting th e v a l ue o f " s mall por ' tions of the soil" is 'altogether a mistake. Excepting for incidettal advantages, a small piece of land is of no use to anybody, and is decidedly a bad property to hold. A man may buy it for the vote it carries, or for a garden of paddock or poultry-yard, and, if he has the money to keep it up, it will yield him a good return in gratification or amusement. To suppose, however, that the mere possession of an acre or half an acre of the soil will confer upon a man any peculiar advantage not derivable from its equivalent under other forms of perperty is an utter fallacy. In point of fact, such plots of land cost money not only to buy, but to keep. They are little luxuries ; very agreeable, but absolutely unremu , nerative ; and if a poor man had such a bit of pro perty the wisest thing he could do would be to sell it at once. If he attempted to " lire on it" he would find himself in the hands of mortgagees and money lenders before twelve months were over, as is seen in France, where half the petty proprietors are held in bondage by the tradesmen of the nearest towns. The accumulation of land, in short, which after all is not greater than the accumulation of money, is so strictly consequent upon the very nature of things that it requires arbitrary laws to prevent it, and that fact ought to be pretty decisive of the whole merits of the question. (From the Horning Herald.) John Bright is, for all his burly proportions, shallow in heart, narrow in mind, poor in principle. He has no deep thoughts, no enlarged views, no ennobling aspirations. e has been little in his whole career. Like a bluebottle, he has buzzed about, making a noise and tainting whatever he fastened upon. What in his entire lifetime has he done ?In the corn-law repeal movement he was only second fiddle, and this by an act of forward presumption. He has sat in Parliament many years, and he has not set . the seal of amelioration or improvement on one page of the statute-book. He has stedfastly withstood any real amendment in the condition of the working classes. He opposed. the Ten Hours. Bill, the Dyeing Works Bill, and assisted with all his might in the ruin of the Coventry weavers. His ideas are froth, and must come uppermost. He talks well, as many such men must, but there is no substratum of education, knowledge, or sound intellect beneath. He has just been effervescing in Birmingham. He had got hold of a subject just suited to the grasp of his mind. The abrogation of the law of primogeniture is just such a matter as he could dwell upon. It looks so equal and honest, so clear, simple, and demo cratic. What more easily comprehended by the rabble than that property should be divided evenly —that each child should carry off his stick, and break and bend it as he pleased. Thus the bundle might be got rid of, and the hated aristocracy fall to pieces. He chooses to forget the old apologue. He is for equality and independence, not strength and union, He does not know that this usage of primogeniture (we shall not call it a law) is deeply seated in nature; that it arises from an intuitive perception of the power of combination. A river broken into rills, and scattered through meadows, evaporates and is lost ; assets cut up into small dividends become Id. in the pound ; when the cake is sliced among the whole family, they can each have but a morsel. And so it is with pro perty. What would be of real worth, bulk, and use, if left to one, dwindles to almost nothing when shared among Ihe many. If we go dividing, subdividing, and retailing without end from fathers to sons, the entire estate disappears. It is worth nobody's while to look after it, and so it is neglected and forgotten. We wonder considerations as simple and ready as these, and withal so natural, so forcible and reasonable, did not present them selves to the tribune's mind as he expatiated on the rights of younger sons and the privileges of the working classes. More begets more, and A left an estate, has every motive and opportunity to im prove and augment it; but if it happened to be separated into small allotments there would be no means for proper cultivation, and the attractive and accumulative force inherent in property must be gradually weakened and finally vanish. If the equal partition is so just and wise we wonder that fathers should delay it for a single day. Why not tell off eaca child's share every night, or every week, or at least once a year ? Why go on gather ing, and hoarding and agglomerating till the hour of death ? Justice and wisdom cannot come too soon, and if the equal division is so good and pru dent in itself, it is cruel to postpone it so long. But if, on the other hand, the accumulation is thrifty and sound, it must be politic and sensible also to perpetuate it for a reasonable number of years, by the law of the land. Why:should a man's material property die away with his death ? If he writes a book, if he achieves a name, they live after him. Is it asking too much that the result of his anxieties, exertions, and labours for gain should not be en tirely snuffed out by the finger of death, as it would be if the rule once got into vogue of infinitesimal division ? Mr. Bright, in his narrow-mindedness, is striking at the enterprise and prosperity of his own order. If business men are to be the only class of thriving mortals who are to build up nothing for posterity, but to share their fortunes and di*, what becomes of the motive to continuous labour ? We shall have a nation of small people, a poor country ; we shall have a level area j us t brought down to the scope of universal suffrage and ab solute tyranny. America is no fair example. She is young, and has boundless territories as yet to grow upon. But France is before us; and to whttt has its landholders fallen ? They are peasantry, not gentry ; they are not placed to stand between the throne and despotism, but to elect and promote supreme and autocratic rule. There is too much strong sense, to :deep a respect for natural ambi tion, too grateful a recognition of successful expe rience among Englishmen, to desire that the law of primogeniture were swept away. With this would go the power, the prosperity, the glory, and the freedom of the country. We should all shrink down to Mr. Bright's class, and become a very small people. But, in truth, there is no binding law of primogeniture; there is nothing to compel a father to leave his real property to his eldest son if he wills to the contrary. He may cut up his estate into as many fragments as he likes and dispose of it where he wishes. There is only the prescriptive usage, which is, indeed, a very strong law. If the parent does not will otherwise the eldest son will take the real property ; and even if it is entailed, the father, with the consent of the son or next heir, can cut it off, thus leaving it free again for partition or dissipation. Mr. Bright knows this, and has admitted it, and yet he has the iniquity to parade so wise, considerate, and equitable a dispensation as a cruel injustice to the humbler classes. The truth is. this, Mr. Bright is str e nu ous ly labouring to d es t ro y the constitution of this coun try. In his lifetime he would see a republic in England. He would have the lumber of the Throne, the Church, and the aristocracy swept away, and, as a safe beginning, he wants to abolish what we call the law of primogeniture. To effect this pur pose he hunts up his books to cram himself with assertion or argument. He finds the " Encyclopedia Metropolitana ' against him, and he runs across the Atlantic to Bancroft ; this, too, not sufficing, he dips into Eraser, and takes a gleaning from the " Recreations of a Country Parson." The great unwashed of Birmingham, are as a matter of course, astounded at his information. That " one small head could carry all" John Bright knows is, in deed, a prodigy, especially when Smith's " Wealth of Nations" was added to the other learned cata logue. He had not a word to say to the condition of the weavers, whether in Coventry, Lancashire, or elsewhere. He did not sympathise with the far mers. His only bowels of compassion were for those wretched slaves the agricultural labourers. Their lot was, indeed, miserable, and to improve it we must establish agrarian laws ; we must, in fact, have a revolution. To make this clear to the Birminghamites he ventured a plunge into the law of real property, and had sunk far enough to get into the mud, which he flang up plentifully to the meeting. Mr. Bright has been long enough in the House of Commons to know that no lawyer of any weight or authority, or any landholder of respect ability and influence, defends the present state of Ihe law in all its particulars, and that the mode of conveying land is one of the subjects which is ad• milted on every side to be largely capable of improvements. It may be, too, that any peculiar grievances of the freehold land societies might be removed with general advantage, for these in them selves are excellent institutions. But all this, and much more, in the way of law reform, we hope to see effected without a revolution or any breach in our constitutional safeguard of primogeniture. 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The deceased nobleman had been an invalid for some years previously. He is succeeded by his eldest son, the Hon. Henry Cairnes Westenra, aged nine years. of O'Connell, and to endeavour to carry their object only by the ‘ force of public opinion, and not to adopt any of the wild and impracticable schemes which too ardent men would endeavour to suggest. Mr. LAWLOR, of the Queen's county, seconded the resolution, which was carried unanimously. Mr. UNDENWOOD, Presbyterian, moved that a petition to both houses of Parliament be presented, which was agreed to. The meeting then broke up, but not before a person on the platsorm, who had endeavoured to ohtain a hearing, had received some rough handling. THE REPEAL MEETING. This demonstration came off last night, according to announcement, in the Round-room of the Ro tunda. The attendance was crowded, and the platform, on which a number of Roman Catholic priests were assembled, was occupied for the most part by the overflow of the meeting. A green banner, bearing the motto "Aid yourselves, and God will aid. you," the staff terminating in the form of a spear or pike-head, was placed in a con spicuous position, and was waved vigorously when ever the speakers made " a point," to stimulate and increase the enthusiasm of the audience. The O'Donoghue, M.P., presided. The secretary, Mr. T. D. Sullivan, stated that the signing of the national petition was progressing through the country, and would receive, no doubt, a great extension. Already it was signed by up wards of 300,000 'bona fide male adults of various classes and of different creeds. (Cheers.) There were a number of letters received from eminent Irishmen, ecclesiastical and lay, A Voice.—Viva la Fran shay. Mr. Sullivan having read a letter from Dr. M'Hale in his usual style, The Secretary also read a letter from Mr. William Smith O'Brien. The CHAIRMAN, in addressing the meeting, said —He could assure them that, notwithstanding the distress of late years, the Irishmen of 1860 had not degenerated. Although the question of repeal had not occupied a very prominent position of late years,. yet it had never passed away from the public mind, and never could, unless the inhabitants of Ireland became abject slaves—(" Never !") or unless they •be turned into, or be removed to make way for Englishmen. Might God preserve them from these calamities ! (Cheers ) A Voice—No more English famine. (Cheers.) CHAIRMAN—They all knew that the Union, as it was called, was carried by the exercise of every fraud. (Hisses.) Before it was carried the sense of Ireland was not fairly taken, and since it had been carried it had never met with national appro val. (" Never !") In the year 1800 the Irish Par liament might be said to have consisted of the independent representatives of a small class of their fellow-Countrymen—of the pensioners, placemen, and nominees of the English Government. A Voice—A groan for the Castle hacks. (Groans.) The CHAIRMAN—Many good men sat in College green with Curran, Grattan, and Flood—(cheers) — but the numerical superiority of the venial crew at the disposal of the Minister overcame all oppo sition. On the 22d of January, 1799, the union between Great Britain and Ireland was first proposed in the Irish Parliament. The house divided, and the numbers were—for the Union, 105 ; against it, 106. There was a majority of one in favour of Ireland. The attack was again renewed on two subsequent occasions, and the friends of Irish legislative independence were left in considerable minorities. Once it was 115 to 160, and the next time 108 to 152. When they remembered that the Irish Parliament was Protestant, and that English Ministers were obliged to resort to every species of corruption in order to obtain these majorities, in that Protestant Parliament, they might safely affirm that the sound Protestant opinion of Ireland was opposed to the Union. The object of the men of 1848 was the Repeal of the Union. They failed, and were imprisoned, having been condemned by packed juries—(hisses)—but he availed himself of that, the first public demonstration in favour of repeal since 1848, to tell the patriots of 1848 that those who condemned them did not represent the opinion of Ireland. (Cheers.) He had thus glanced at the history of the last 50 years in order to show that the Union was carried without the consent of the Irish people, and had not since met with na tional approval. The longer it endured the more insupportable it became. (Cheers.) The repre sentative of English power in this country, by bringing brute force to bear down a disarmed people.—(Uproar, which lasted a considerable time, the chairman several times vainly endeavouring to proceed). Mr. T. O'SULLIVAN came forward and said— Boys, will you not hear The O'Donoghue (Cheers.) . _• The CHAIRMAN then continued—They might be able to imprison and banish Irish patriots, to sup press their meetings, but there was one thing they never could suppress until they banished the Irish race, and that was the spirit of patriotism, anti the longing for self-government which was the inevit able result of that patriotism. They Row sought to carry their object under circumstances more favour able than their predecessors, for the statesmen and peers of England had recently declared that every nation had a right to govern itself. Were they satisfied to be governed by Englishmen ? (Cries of " No.") They now came together for the pur pose of declaring in the name of Ireland, that Irish men could never rest satisfied or tranquil until they had secured for themselves the blessing of a native Parliament—a Parliament that would faithfully represent the people, that would be guided by their wishes, and would make the development of Ire land's prosperity its sole object. (Loud cheers.) An Irishman had no business in the English House of Commons. A Voice—Unless he can speak. (Laughter.) The CHAIRMAN—He could not second them unless he agreed to forego the principles of his race, and adopt the manners, customs, and feelings of the English. A Voice—" Deasy" (Loud hisses.) After some observations as to the manner of despatching Irish business in the House of Com mons the Chairman concluded amid loud cheers. Mr. DAUNT moved . the first resolution, viz., "That we desire to obtain for our country her ancient and rightful native Legislature." The Rev. Mr. MULLEN, in seconding the resolu tion, said he rejoiced at the awakening of national feeling which bad taken place. He asked the meeting were they satisfied that Ireland should continue be robbed ? (Cries of "Nu r) He would not ask them, Were they willing to be overtaxed because England was afraid of invasion ? (Great cheering and waving of hats, which lasted several minutes.) They wanted to be united to England by the golden link of the Crown, but to be governed by Irishmen. (Hear, hear.) The resolution was put and passed. The CHAIRMAN said the meeting would next be addressed by John Martin, one of the patriots of 1848. (Cheering.) Mr. MARTIN, on rising, was received with renewed cheering. He said the only claim he had to political reputation was the part he took in the sad affair of 1848. (Cheers.) He did not intend to take any part in the conduct of the meeting, but he took advantage of that opportunity to declare publicly his unswerving loyalty to the national cause. (Cheers.) He was not satisfied with the rule of England over Ireland. He desired liberty for all countries—he desired that for the Italians. He sympathised with every people who were strug gling for liberty. lie rejoiced in the national greatness of France and of the great republic of the West that had shaken off the yoke of England —(cheers)—but his first duty as an Irishman was to strive for the liberty of his own country, which • had suffered more from misrule than any other country in the world. •The Union cost Ireland £20,000,000 a year. The sacrifice of heart's blood of as many Irishmen as would fall to obtain the object they had in view would be well bestowed. (Tremendous cheering.) He hoped to see the day when the end of Ireland's toituro would come, and it would come as sure as God was just. Mr. JOHN FRANCIS MAGUIRE, M.P., moved the following resolution :—"That British Ministers and other influential persons in England having recog nised and supported the principle that people, who are discontented with their Governments may rightfully change or abolish those Governments by violent means if they Cannot do so peaceably—and in place of them set up rulers and Governments of their own choice, we are now assembled, peaceably, to inform our rulers that they and the existing form of government for Ireland are not of our choosing, and do not possess our confidence ' • and that we earnestly desire the restoration of that native Legislature of which our country was frau dulently deprived." He said he had no love for agitation, but, being a nationalist, he felt bound in honour as a public man to take a part in the present movement. He believed that there was no real safety, Progress, or prosperity for Ireland but in the administration ofher affairs by men,sprung from the soil—liv in g in the atmosphere of Ireland, and under st an din g the wants, interests, and necessities of their country. What chance had they of the grand jury laws being placed on a better footing by an English Parliament ? [Mr. Maguire was here interrupted by an individual in the gallery, who was instantly treated by his neighbours on the physical force prin ciple, while loud cries ascended from the body of the meeting to " Smash him," "Throw him over," and " Fling him out of the window." The tumults con tinued for a considerable time.] Mr. Maguire con tinued to address the meeting at considerable length, and impressed the necessity of following the advice ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. HOME CIRCUIT.—MAIDSTONE, Dec. 5. (Before Mr. Justice Byles.) Mr. Frederick George Eyre, the chaplain of the Feversham Union, an elderly man, surrendered to take his trial upon a charge of feloniously assault ing Sophia Foreman. Mr. F. Russell conducted the prosecution. The prisoner was defended by Mr. Barrow. The prosecutrix, a young and rather good-looking woman, deposed that she was the wife of William Henry Foreman, who was a pastrycook at Fever sham, and she and her husband lived in the same house with the prisoner at Ospringes, and witness acted as his housekeeper. The occurrence com plained of took place on the 4th of October, and on that day her husband had gone to attend to his busi ness at Feversham, leaving her alone with the pri soner in the house. Soon after her husband was gone the prisoner called to her and told her to get him his boots. At this tithe witness was in the sitting room on the ground-floor and the prisoner was in the kitchen, and she took the boots to him there, and gave them to him, and he then made an improper pro posal to her, and witness told him she did not understand him, and left the room and returned to the sitting-room. Shortly afterwards the prisoner came into the sitting-room. She was on her knees at the time, engaged in sweeping, and the prisoner caught hold of her wrists and pulled her into a room up stairs. She did not recollect that he said anything while he was dragging her along, but she did all she could to prevent him, although she was not able to offer much resistance on account of her weak state, from having been recently confined of a still-born child. The prisoner then pulled her into his bed-room, and forced her on the bed in spite of her struggles, and committed an assault upon her. (The witness detailed the particulars, which are not fit for publication.) She went on to say that she was almost insensible at the time, and was not aware whether she shrieked out or not, but she endeavoured all she could to prevent prisoner from carrying out his intention. The prisoner left the room and went down stairs, and as soon as she was sufficiently recovered she also went down, and saw him in the act of going out at the street door. No one came to the house during the day except Mr. Alvey, the master of the union workhouse, who called in the evening, and her husband did. not return home until 12 o'clock at night, and she told him that the prisoner had been pulling her about. He said " Pulling you about ; what do you mean ? how did he pull you about ?" She then told him that he bad pulled her up stairs, but he was in such a rage that she did not like to tell him any more, particularly as he said that if he had come in at the time he would have killed him. On the Sunday after the occurrence she told her husband's mother how the prisoner had behaved to her, and said that he had forced her up stairs into his bed room, and assaulted her. She remained in the pri soner's house until the 10th of October, but he was not there during the time. He had gone to attend the funeral of his brother at Bath, and he told wit ness and her husband where he was going to before he left; but he did rot say when he was coming back. He told tkem that he was going away before the offence was committed. Witness went before a magistrate on 10th October ; but she did not then make any particu!ar chargeagainst the prisoner, and her reason for that was that her husband wanted to get the furniture away without any bother. She told the magistrates' clerk and superintendent of police that she could say a good deal more than she did if sne was not afraid of her husband. Her sister subsequently told her husband of all that occurred, and he immediately obtained a warrant against the prisoner, and he was taken into custody upon this charge. The prosecutrix was subjected to a very search ing examination by Mr. Barrow, and in the course of it she stated that the house where the offence was committed was one of a row, and there were houses on both sides of it, and she bilieved that persons in the adjoining houses could have heard if there had been any noise or screaming in the pri soner's house. She struggled as much as she could when the prisoner laid hold of her. and she believed that she screamed while he was forcing her up stairs. When the prisoner forced her upon the bed she resisted with all her strength. She first told her husband the whole of what took place at Ramsgate, but he had heard the story from her sister before. Re-examined. —Witness suffered a good deal after her confinement, and was subject to palpitation of the heart ; and when she was so attacked she lost all her strength. The reason she did not tell any. of the neighbours was that the prisoner had told both her and her husband not to have any commu nication with them. In answer to questions put by the learned judge, The prosecutrix said that she had only been married two years. She had no family. She would be 29 years old next birthday. When she saw her mother she told her that she wanted her advice, and she then informed her how the prisoner had behaved to her; and when she had done so her mother said, For God's sake, don't tell William (meaning her husband), he is such a violent temper. something serious will occur." Her husband was a violent-tempered man. William Foreman, husband to the prosecutrix, deposed that he was formerly a private in the Royal Marines, and was now employed at Faversham. He and his wife went to live at the prisoner's house, at Ospringe, a short time before the 6th of October. He remembered going out on that day to attend to his business, and he did not return home until late at night. He observed that his wife did not seem well, and he asked her what was the matter, and she made a complaint of the conduct of the pri soner. On the following Sunday he went with her to his mother's, at Faversham, and in consequence of something he heard afterwards he obtained a warrant against the prisoner 'charging him with this offence. The prisoner upon one occasion asked him where his " miss.B" was, and he told him that he could not expect that she would stop in his house after the manner he had behaved to her. The reply the prisoner made was that we wanted to catch him in a trap. Witness told him they did not want anything of the sort; and the prisoner then told him to go into his study with him, and he then said to him' What is all this bobbery about ?" and then inquired what witness's wife had said to him. He told him that she said he had dragged her up stairs and made obscene propositions to her. The prisoner thou inquired whether he had taken any steps on ' the matter, and he replied that he had been before a magistrate and had obtained a warrant; and the prisoner then said that if he had not done that he would have made it all right with him, and witness replied that all he wanted was to get out of his house as soon as he could, On the morning after this occurred the prisoner came to him in a very excited state and asked if he wrote a letter to his wife to ask her to come back whether she would do so, and witness told him he knew that she would not, for he would not let her. The prisoner after this did write a letter to his wife and read it in er to witness, and asked him whether he thought it would do, and he at the same time said that he could not be expected to commit himself. Witness told him that was his (prisoner's) affair, and not his own, and the prisoner then said that if his wife did not come back thA people would think there was something up, and they would hoot at him and lie should lose• his living. He also said that if she would only conic back for a day or two he would not mind. The letter referred to was put in mid read. It was addressed to the prosecutrix, and in it the pri soner expressed his astonishment that she had left his house, and said it would be much better if she came back and the matter was settled amicably. Examination continued—When witness told the prisoner that his wife had made a charge against him of pulling her about he said lie did lay bold of her wrists, but he had no motive for doing so, and made use of sonic other word which witness did not understand. At this time he did not know all that had taken place. The mother of the last witness and the sister to the prosecutrix were then examined, and they proved that she made a complaint to them of the manner in which the prisoner had behaved to her. Mr. Alvey, the schoolmaster to the union, deposed that he called at the prisoner's house on the evening of the 6th October, and saw the prose cutrix, and inquired if Mr. Eyre was at home ; and she told him he was not. ay Mr. Barrow—The prosecutrix made no com plaint to him at the time, and there was nothing at all particular in her appearance that attracted his attention. The partitions of the houses in the row where the prisoner lived were very thin, and he had frequently heard voices through them. This concluded the case for the prosecution. the jury Barrow than made a very able addl.( so tooc at i h a e jury on behalf of the prisoner, and he comm ente some length upon the improbability of the stow told by the prosecutrix, antialso that if she had made the resistance she represented her cries must have been heard in the adjoining houses. The learned Judge then summed up, and thejury retired to deliberate upon their verdict. They were absent about half an hour, and upon their return into court they gave a verdict of Not Guilty. There was a slight manifestation of applause when the verdict was delivered. CHEMISTRY IN RELATION TO COJIMEI?CE. (From the Chemical Noes.) To discover a new chemical combination which shall produce a brilliant dye at a cheap rate is enough to gladden the heart of any chemist and to fill his pockets with gold. To find out the art of manufacturing diamonds would likewise, for a time, be a profitable discovery; but neither of these dis coveries would be comparable in value with one which would preserve beauty,-unimpaired by time, or, at least, preserve a fresh and clear complexion. The attempt to manufacture a cosmetic, which will effect this, is as laudable as an attempt to unite England and America by a telegraphic cable, and success would be quite as useful in- the former as in the latter case—provided, however, that in beautifying the faces of our ladies it did not destroy their health. At the present moment there are cosmetics enough manufactured to float a man-of-war, and skin-powders enough to fill it. The names given to these substances would fill a volume, though the actual number of ingredients which go to their formation are very few indeed. Unfortunately, the greater portion of these are of a highly injurious character, and their evil effects are not lessened by their being applied externally., That ladies should endeavour to make their personal appearance agreeable is excusable, not to say praiseworthy ; and such an endeavour is quite in accordance with their self-denying charac ter, since it cannot be for their own pleasure that they employ such means to heighten the effect of their natural charms, but solely because they think it gratifies the eye of the harder and uglier sex to rest on what is called a brilliant complexion. Laud able, however, as such a motive is, we cannot but think it to be our duty to point out at what possible cost this result is obtained. For example : —lt cannot be beneficial to the skin of the face to have its pores stopped up with a mineral com posed chiefly of flint and magnesia, such as talc, a substance extensively used under the name of French blanc : neither can oxide of bismuth, or a combination of fluorine and bismuth, be an advisable application to the countenance, not withstanding its innocently sounding name of blanc de perle, or in vulgar English, pearl white. Being insoluble in alkalies, it can only be removed from the skin on going to bed with great difficulty, and indeed after a time it is doubtful whether it can be thoroughly removed at all. As to its • effects, without wishing to be alarmists, we cannot refrain from stating that its continued employment pro duces a twitching of the muscles of the face, which is by no means unlikely to end in paralysis. There is another objection to its use, which may perhaps have more weight with those who think that " sufficient for the day is the evil thereof;" than that we have mentioned, and this is that it blackens when exposed to sulphuretted hydrogen, a gas fre quently met with in badly-ventilated rooms, and, indeed, everywhere where gas or sewers exist. Many a lady who would not hesitate to use a face powder would, we will venture to say, pause before laying on her delicate skin a hydrated silicate of magnesia, which, under the name of steatite, is extensively used in the manufacture of such powders. As to the colours used for giving a rosy tint, and sold under the name of bloom of roses, or plain rouge, it is impossible to enumerate all the substances which enter into their composition ; suffice it to say that they are most frequently made of a mixture of talc and carmine, a compound which is so various in its composition that no two specimens are alike. Beside the substances we have mentioned, there are others which are largely used in the manufacture of face-powders, and which are quite as, if not more, injurious than those we have mentioned. For the benefit of those ladies who consider they must use a powder of some kind to prevent the skin from becoming rough in cold weather, we may mention that the most harmless is that known as violet powder, which is formed of wheat-starch and orris-root powder, with the addi tion of a little scent. What chemist who reads the numerous advertisements of hair-dyes of marvellous properties, or, still more, who notices the number of persons who disfigure their hair with such ap plications,'can have helped asking himself how far the use of these may account for the increase of that obscure class of diseases which the physician finds it so difficult to deal with. Some of the most extensively used of these hair-dyes are composed of a mixture of quick or slaked lime, powdered white lead, and litharge. The mode of using these powders is to mix them into a paste with water, and plaster the hand with It, covering it with oiled silk, or some other waterproof tissue, to keep it moist, and letting it remain on for several hours. Now, there cannot be a doubt that during this time a consider able portion of lead must be absorbed into the system through the pores of the skin, which are rendered more than usually absorbent by having been previously cleansed, and by the heat which is engendered while the head remains covered with this impervious tissue. The poisonous property of lead when taken into the body in any form is well known, but it is only reasonable to conclude that its effects must be peculiarly injurious when ab sorbed through the skin so near the brain. These effects exhibit themselves in various forms ; some times by inflammation of the alimentary canal ; at other times by spasm of the muscles ; but, its effect in this particular instance under conside ration would probably be on the nervous system, which might ultimately lead to apoplexyor partial palsy. Neither can the use of hair dyes. which are composed of nitrate of silver, sulphide of potas sium, sulphate of copper, or prussiate of iptash, be otherwise than injurious ; and when we have men tioned these substances, we have not nearly speci fied all the deleterious substances used in their preparation. THE LA TV OF LANDLORD AND TENANT lAN FRANCE. Three cases of some interest to landlords and tenants were submitted to the courts on Thursday last. The first was this :—A person named Du plessy, who held on lease certain buildings in the Quai de la Gare, sublet, iu 1854, part of them to one Chevallier, on lease for six or nine years. The Orleans Railway Company, in 1859, bought the buildings, and gave Duplessy notice to quit ; he, in his turn, gave Chevallier notice to leave on the Ist of January, 1860, and that person formally ac eeptea it in writing, as putting an end to his lease. Subsequently Duplcssy took the buildings on a new lease from the railway company, and he allowed Chevallier to remain in the portion occu pied by him. But on the 30th of June last he gave him notice to leave on the 6th of January next. Chevallier refused to accept that notice on the ground that by leaving him in occupation he had tacitly annulled the acceptance of the former notice, and had virtually renewed the lease for the same length of time as that which he (Duplessy) had obtained from the railway company. An action having been brought before the Civil Tribunal, judgment was given in favour of Chevallier. But the Imperial . Court yesterday, on appeal, holding that this deCision was bad in law, quashed it, and declared that the notice to quit on the Ist of June last was valid. The second case was as follows : —A lady named Geoffrey, some time back, let to one Cherre a garden attached to a house in the Rue Vaugirard, and authorised him in the lease to raise against the wall of the garden any construction he might please, subject to his paying the expense. He built some sheds against it, and then the pro prietor of the adjacent garden, a M. Durand, who had paid for the construction of the wall, de manded that, as Madame Geoffrey derived as much advantage from it as he did, she should pay him 323 f., or half the expense. Madame Geoffrey did not deny that, as the wall was a party one, the sum was due, but, she contended that it was Cherre who ought to pay it, as he profited by the wall fer his constructions. Cherre, however, refused, on the ground that the expense of a party-wall falls by law on the landlord, inasmuch as it is he who de rives permanent benefit from it; and that, b es id es, the lease, though throwing on him the expense of any construction he might make, did not r en d er him liable to pay for the wall itself. The case was Civil yesterday argued before the after long pleadings for the different partie s , judg ment was given to th e effect that Madame Geoffrey must pay the 323 f. The third affair was of a dif ferent kind. A lady named Gerard lately took on lease an apartment in a house in the Faubourg Poissonniere, and, after sending in her furniture, she wentto shetak ehepossession, a m cc s o:n b p u a t n t ie h d e cboyncaielragpe dog, which positively refused to let the animal enter, and after a long altercation she was obliged to send it away. On appeal to the landlord she could obtain no redress, and she then applied to the President of the Civil Tribunal sitting in chambers to order that, as her lease did not contain any stiprtlation that she should not keep a dog, the animal should be allowed to enter. The President granted the application, and, moreover, directed that if need be the commissary of police of the district and the armed force should be employed to compel obedience. The Bonn Gazette of the 30th ult. states that Professor Dahlman had on the previous day au attack of apoplexy, but hopes were entertained that it would not be attended with fatal results. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. CROYDON STEEPLECHASI?.—IVEDNEsDAv. The Croydon Stakes (Handicap) of 5 sovs each, with 30 added. About three miles. 21 subs. Mr. T. Golby's Johnny, 5 yrs, Ost 101 b.... (Nightingall) Mr. IL Land's Heads or Tails, 6 yrs ' lOst 21b (J. Land) 2 Mr. AV, Smith's Chester, 6 yrs , lOst 21b (Bennet) 3 The following also ran :—The Curate, The Tattler , Doubtful, and The Fawn. Betting-5 to 2 each agst Heads or Tails and Doubtful, 4 to 1 agst Johnny. At the third jump from home Johnny took the lead, followed by Doubtful, who afterwards fell, and Johnny ran in the winner by 10 lengths ; a bad third. The Railway Stakes of 3 sovs each, with 25 added, 12st each. Selling allowances. About two miles. 3 subs. Mr. C. Searle's Harlequin, aged (X. 50), 115 t.... (Owner) 1 Mr. Drake's Surprise, aged , list (Stinton) 2 No betting. harlequin made all the running and came in alone. The winner was bought in. The Innkeepers' Plate (Handicap), of 50 sovs. About two miles and a half. Mr. T. Grove's St. Mark, aged, lOst 71b (Nightingall) 1 Mr. B. Land's Red Rover, 4 yrs, lOst 51b (J. Land, Jun.) 2 Mr. Gooderham's Cockatoo, aged, lOst 91b.... (Griffiths) 3 The following also ran :—Alfred the Grevt, Cloughtally, Lottery, Sunbeam, Crinoline, Polly, Babylon, Contention, Inder, and Bannockburn. Betting-4 to 1 agst St. Mark, sto 1 each age t Conten tion and Sunbeam, 6 to 1 each agst Red Rover, Vannock burn, and Babylon. They had scarcely settled to their work when Crivtoline put her foot in a drain, fell, and rolled over Eatwell, who was much shaken. Polly showed the way past the Stand and up the hill, but on the far side of the course Red Rorer went to the front, with Cockatoo second and Sunbes o third, and on repassing the Stand Sunbeam and Cockatoo had changed places, St. Mark going on fourth. Clough .- tally and Bannockburn now retired from the race, and little further on St. Mark went up to lied Rover, ran with him in close company to the ploughed land at the top of the hill, where he quitted him, and goliopped home the winner by six lengths ; a very bad third; Inder was fourths Lottery fifth, and Babylon sixth. The Hunters' Stake of 5 soya each, with 20 add d, 12st 7 1 b each. Gentlemen riders, professionals and winners extra. About two miles and a half. 8 subs. Captain Coates's The Dodger, 12st 71b (carried 13st) (Mr. Edwards) Mr. Shepherd's Yorkeo, aged, 12st 71b (Owner) 3 The following also ran :—Roderick Dhu, Warwick, Young Billy Bean, Gipsy, and Mufti. Betting-6 to 4on the Dodger. Yorkee made the running to the third jump from home, when The Dodger went to the front and won by tea lengths. Nothing else passed the post; Gipsy fell. Despite the unfavourable weather the attendance was very numerous, and the sport seemed to create great satis faction. The course was very heavy, and pedestriano were compelled to wade ankle deep in mud to and from the Grand Stand. The betting enclosure was well littered with straw, and every expedient was adopted to render the visitors comfortable. COUNTRY MARKETS. SHEFFIELD—DEC. 4. At the market to-day a fair business - was done at the following quotations : Red wheat, per load of 3 imperial bushels...24o Od to 28s Od White 7 P / / ...25s ,Od to 28p Od New red ...20s 007 to 25s Od 9 f t New white ~ If ...24s Od to 265 Od tf Beans ...20s Od to 22s OOd 3, Peas, per qr 64s Od to 6 55 ° cl Grinding barley, per qr 33 s Od to X is oa Malting ditto, „ 35s Od to 436 0 41 ,,„ , I,Oats 2ss 6d to 34s it" Millers' prices for flour-2s 3d, 2s sd, and 2s 7d per 141 b. HULL—Dm. 4. At to-day's market the attendance was larger, and the business doing in wheat was of a nominal character, J' former rates. Malting and grinding barley unchanged. Oats, peas, and beans were in slow request. Linseed cake and rape cake somewhat easier to buy. Wheat.. . . Old white.... per qr 66s Od to 71s 0 Old red New white .. ~ New red .... ~ Dantzic. Konb , Zirc. old white 62s Od to 66s Od Dutch, Belgian, and French. 60s Od to. 62s Od Baltic and Hamburg, red ..._ 60s Od to k62s OA St. Petersburg and Riga, old. 52s Od to Os ( $ .l " Barley.... English malting 4ls Od to 434 u,su, Grinding 34 s Od to 365 Od Seal and Oderbruck Holstein and Danish Grinding 01 3 a : _ dti Oats English, old Archangel and Riga per st Os 14d to 14° Friesland and Dutch ' .. 0814' dto 0 815 d Swedish and Danish oBl4d to 03140 Beans ....English, old, per qr 498 Od to 51$ Od New pigeon 448 Od to 455 Od New tick. Egyptian Peas Foreign breakers Grinding Tares .... Spring Indian Corn Linseed, feeding crushing ....... 35 72 Is Odoo d d t tt o to 38 8 5 — s 4 s 0 0 0 a d i 46s Od to 52s Od Linseed cakes (Hull) £lo 10 0 to £lO 15 0 Foreign BlO oto 9 0 0 Rape cakes 5lO oto 6 0 0 Bones NEWAR: We have very little change various descriptions of grain a White wheat, new, 58s to 75s Red do. s2s to 68s Old white s7s to 75s Red do. 52s to 65s Barley, malting 38s to 448 Peas,.... :—DEC. 5. to note in the yalneo of the t market. Barley, grinding 32s to 363 Oats, old, . 33s to 389 New do 24s to 275 Beans.... s4s to 589 Beans, new 50s to 520 43s to 50s. BRISTOL SUGAR—Dm. 6. There has been scarcely anything doing in sugar this; week, and the only sales reported are a few lots of Barba" does at about former rates. Rum.—The market is entirely cleared at full rates. COAL MARKET—DEc. 5. ( rrioes of Coal per Ton at the close of the market Carr's Merthyr.... .... 208. 6 d. Wallsend Tees 2ss. Od. Carway and Duffryn Malting .. ... 235. 6d. Ships at market, 3; sold, 3.. [ADVERTISEMENT.] —The greatest happiness of a Jour• nalist is to introduce to his readers some new discovery cal' culated to benefit that vast portion of our fellow-creature% which has the strongest claims upon our sympathies. It is with this feeling that we call the attention of invalids to the following extracts from Du Barry's interesting report Of cures without medicine by Du Barry's Revalenta Arabie% Food. Cure 180—Mr. W. R. Reeves, 181, Fleet-streets London ' of twenty-five years nervousness, constipation? indigestion, and debility. Cure No. 54,618—Wandsbeckl near Hainliurgh, May 12, 1857,—1 hereby certify that my mother•in-law, Mrs. Hoize, who has just completed her 107th year, after having suffered for half a century and more, from indigestion (dyspepsia), and consequent dis orders, has been perfectly cured by Du. Barry's Revalenta Arabica. Food, and is now enabled to digest almost any kind of food with great comfort. —W. Rolle. Avoid Pills and Medicines : they invariably aggravate and perpetuate diseases ; their annoyance, disappointment i and expense may be avoided by using D u Barry's Foo which, at a few pence per day, saves 50 times its cost in I other remedies, removing effectually, without purging, constipation, indigestion (dyspepsia) nervous, bilious and liver complaints and all their con se q uences. Certificate No. 36,418. We find it the safe st remed y . Andrew Lire, MD., F.R.S., Dr Harvey, Dr. Wurzer, Dr. Shorland, Dr. Campell. Let invalids avoid the fearful dangers of spu rious and injuriou., imitations offered under a variety of false pretences. Nevill's imitations are prohibited by the high Court of Chancery under a penalty of £5,000 against Alfred Hooper Nevill and his agents ; and the pretences that Nevill has a patent for Arabica Food and that Du Barry's are connected with such patent are utterly falso. No canister is gen uine without th e name Barry Du Ba rr) " and Co., 77, Rege nt-street, i n full, ontheseal and wrappe r. Shopkeepers who attempt imposition in one article must expect to be distrusted in all others. Packed in tins lib. 2s. 9d.; 21b. 4s. 6d.; 51b. ll s . ; 121 b. 22 5 . ; 241 b. 40 s . The 121 b. and 241 b. canisters aro sent carriage free on receipt of Post-office order by Barry Du Barry and Co., 77, Re' gent-street, London; Fortnum Mason, and Co.; Abbic? 60, Gracechurch-street ; 4, Cheapside • 63 and 150, Ox bard-street ; 330 and 451 , St ran d ; 49 and 60, Bishopsgate street ; Batty, 16, Finsbury. Pavement; Phillips and Ce. tea -dealera ; Petty, Wood, and ing Wilham-street, City ; at 127, Hi g h H o lb orn ; and C0.,7t11 grocers BIRTHS. B UTLER.—On tho sth inst,, at 13, Sussex-square, the wife of Charles Butler, Esq., of a daughter. Cox. —On the sth inst., at Hendon, tke wife of Alfred Cox, Esq., of a daughter. EardrroN.—On the 4th inst., at 35, Hertford•street, May fair, the Hon. Mrs. Arthur Egerton, of a son. MOORE.—On the 3d inst., at Woolwich, the wife of S. Moore, Esq., R.N., of it daughter. STAUNTON.—On the 14th ult., at Cape-town, Cape of Good Hope, the wife of Colonel Staunton, Comman dant, of a son. MARRIAGES. SURTEES—CROMPTON.—On the 4th inst., at Brighton, the Rev. Scott F. Surtees, rector of Sprotborough, York shire, to Isabella, second daughter of the late Sir Samuel Crompton, Bart., of Thornton-10-street, in the same county. WORTHINGTON —BELL.—On the 4th inst., at Uttoxeter, the Rev. John Worthington, 8.A., to Millicent Fox, the second daughter of John Fox Bell, Esq., of the High wood, Uttoxeter. DEATHS. ADLER.—On the 2d inst., the Rev. B. T. Adler, incum bent of St. Matthew's, Islington, aged 61. BECKWITII,—On the 3d inst., Mr. Joseph Beckwith, one of the earliest members of the Corresponding Society, con temporary with Hardy, Thelwall, &c., aged 85. BOTT.—On the 4th inst., Mrs. Bott, wife of Mr. Thomas _ _ . Bott, of Myddelton-square. COOKNEY.—On the 4th inst., at 11, Bolton-row, Picca dilly, James 'l'. Cookney, Esq., R.N., aged 67. HEUVEY.—On the Ist inst., at Ickworth, Frederica Mary Lucy, youngest daughter of the Rev. Lord and Lady Arthur Hervey, aged 16 months. MAYO.--On the 4th inst., suddenly, at Hamilton-terrace, St. John's-wood, Newman Mayo, Esq., aged 65. LONDON Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG I of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sus iffice, No. 112, Strand, in the Precinct of the savoy, in the want" of Middlesex, Thursday, December 6, 1860. FIN Is now rel, ( -.....„ MEM( At a Nr e tlon 0 , tb , , Rig Roy It was proi and se( That the and a milit tilde of his Proposed 1 and s, X. C .1 That he f7 ain ) Por coup without ins %red by t of the auth P roposed second Bart., That as ' llsof a st, arpasse Ilia R "