The Sun. — London, England, 1858-09-28 00:00:00

THE NAVY. The St. Vincent, 104, Capt. Harry Eyres, C. 8., was brought down under the shears at Portsmouth yesterday morning to be masted with jurymasts, for the flagship of Rear-Admiral the lion. George Grey. The' Archer, 16, screw ship, Capt. John Sander son, has completed her defects at Portsmouth, and goes to Spithead to-day. The Erebus, 14, floating battery, has had her four guns taken out of her, and is laid up in ordinary at Portsmouth. _ _ The crew of the Victoria and Albert Royal yacht, and the labourers employed in the rigging-house at Portsmouth, take -the Queen Charlotte round to Sheerness and bring round the Waterloo. Accord ing to arrangements she sails to-day, accompanied by the steamer Argus. The Queen Charlotte has bent sails, and sails this afternoon (Tuesday). The Sprightly sails this evening_for Greenock, - with the prisoner belonging to the Hogue. Mr. F. X. Laire, for many years the master ship wright at Chatham dockyard, has been awarded a retiring pension of £669 per annum by the Lords of the Admiralty, in consideration of his long and honourable service in that department of the navy. Admiralty orders have been received at Chatham dockyard for the line-of-battle screw steamer Hood, 91, to be brought forward for launching forthwith. THE ARMY. Yesterday morning the 30th company of Royal Engineers, under the command of Captain W. 11. Noble, left head-quarters, Chatham, and proceeded to Shorncliffe, where they relieve the 3d. company, which is ordered to return to Brompton Barracks previously to embarking for India. Each of the companies is about 120 strong, including non-com missioned officers and men. Instructions were yesterday issued from the East India-house, giving the details of the reinforcements that will embark in the vessels taken up for their conveyance to India. The Adamant, King Philip, and Mary Harrison will take out the reinforcements for the following regiments, all of which will pro ceed to Calcutta —viz., Gth Dragoons, 7th Hussars, 9thianeers, 3d Buffs, Ist battalion; sth Fusiliers, Ist battalion ; 6th Foot, Ist battalion ; Bth, Ist bat talion; 13th (Prince Albert's) Light Infantry, Ist battalion; 19th, Ist battalion ; 20th, I s t b a ttalion; 23d Royal Welsh Fusiliers, Ist battalion ; 29th, 34th, 37th, 38th, 39th, 42d Royal Highlanders, 48th, 54th, 6,oth Rifles, Ist battalion ; 64th, 73d, 75th, 82d, 88th Connaught Rangers, 93d High landers, and 9/th (Earl of Ulster's) Regiment, and the Royal Artillery. The number that will embark on board each ship is—King Philip, 500 men; Ada mant, 300 men; and Mary Harrison, 270 men, exclu sive of officers. The Havering will embark 310 men of the Ist Royals, Ist battalion; 44th, 60th Rifles, 3d bat talion; 66th, 68th Light Infantry, 69th, 74th Highlanders, and 91st Regiments, for Madras. The Northumberland takes out 300 reinforcements for Bombay - , for the Bth Hussars, 18th Royal Irish, I s t battalion.; 28th, 33d (Duke f Wellington's), 46th, 57th, 86th, 89th, 92d, and 95th Regiments. The number of troops that will embark in the Henrietta Mitchell, for Kurrachee, is 90, belonging to the 27th Enniskillens, 81st, 87th Royal Irish Fusiliers, 89th, and 94th Regiments. Intelligence has been forwarded to the head quarters of the Chatham division of the Royal Marines Light Infantry that two prisoners, under orders to be tried by court-martial, have effected their escape from Melville Hospital, Chatham, where they were confined for the purpose of un dergoing medical treatment previously to taking their trial. The names of the prisoners are Cheese man and Smith, both men of bad character ; and in making their escape it would seem that they left their wards in the dead of the night and succeeded in evading the vigilance of the sentries by climbing over the palisades of the hospital grounds. It is desirable that for the future prisoners awaiting their trial should have a separate sick ward to themselves, and not be mingled with the other patients, whereby the escape of :prisoners is facili tated. THE MILITIA. New colours were presented by Lady Rayleigh, on behalf of the ladies of Essex, to the West Essex Militia (which is under the command of Col. Brise), at Chelmsford, on Saturday. Her ladyship, in making the presentation, spoke as follows :—" Col. Brise, officers, non-commissioned officers, and men of the West Essex Militia, the ladies of Essex have requested me to present these colours to you on their behalf. This regiment is associated in the memory of some among us with recollections of patriotic enthusiasm and voluntary devotion exhi bited in days long gone by, when our beloved coun try was threatened with foreign invasion, and when she had little to defend her save the brave hearts of her children and the waves which beat upon her shore.. God forbid that such dangers should again menace our homes, and that, by means of the best security for a nation's peace—the righteousness which exalts it, the evils of war may be long averted from us. I feel sure there is not a man here who, if duty called upon him, would not fight bravely and endure patiently in the cause of his Queen and country, and who would not be ready to emulate the noble' deeds of British soldiers in the Crimea and in India. But your duties do not, at present, demand these heroic sacrifices ; therefore it is espe cially incumbent upon you to endeavour to honour your profession by strict attention to its discipline during your time of service, and by sustaining in your own homes and neighbourhoods that charac ter for high moral courage which makes a good man as well as a good soldier. The ladies of Essex unite with me in expressing to you, Colonel Brise, and the officers of your regiment, oar grateful sense of the uniform attention we have received at your hands, and our best wishes for your welfare. I rejoice in being a soldier's daugh ter and a soldier's 4-ter, and T therefore venture, on my own part, to expre. s my earnest desire that the blessing of God may rest upon you all, and my firm conviction that I give these colours into the hands of brave and faithful men who will never desert them." Lady Rayleigh, as she concluded her address, wa loudly applauded. Colonel Brise niade a suitable speech in acknowledgment. The interesting ceremony was witnessed by a vast con course of people. The regiment, having completed it's 21 •days duty, was dismissed yesterday (Monday). The kssex Rifles.—This militia regiment for East Essex was dismissed yesterday (Monday), after three weeks' training at Colchester. The Royal South Gloucester Re g iment of Militia (23d), was inspected on S a t ur d ay by Col. Patton, commanding the troops o f th e district. lie ex pressed to Lieut.-Colonel Commandant H. W. Newman, his high satisfaction at the great steadi ness of the regiment under arms, and their appear ance altogether. They were called on to volunteer for the line, when 10 men were accepted. The re giment will give in their arias and be discharged to their' homes a ft er vo l unteering on Monday. Their conduct in billets has been excellent. The First Devon Militia will assemble for 21 days' training at Exeter next Thursday. The men of the Royal Cornwall and Devon Miners' Artillery, now being trained at Truro, are havinr , four hours' drill a day. On the Ist of October the regiment will be inspected by Colonel Pester, the Commandant of the Royal Artillery of the Western District. • The Ist division of the Royal Sherwood Foresters, consisting of about 300 men , un d er t h e command of Major Boddam, left Newcastle-on-Tyne for Glas gow at 7 o'clock a.m. on the 23d inst., and arrived at o p.m. The headquarters division, under the commaml of Liort.-Colonel Mellish, arrived in Glas gow the following evening. This regiment relieved the Ist battaliOn of the Rifles, which is now gone to Newcastle and Sunderland. 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Last night Mr. Alderman Salomons made his ap pearance before a large assembly of the inhabitants of Greenwich, convened in the Lecture-hall, as a candidate for the vacancy in the Parliamentary re presentation of the borough caused by the retire ment of Mr. Townsend. The meeting was an nounced to take place at 8 o'clock, but so early as 7 the people began to pour into the hall ; and when the Alderman presented himself on the platform it -was crowded to excess, while some hundreds more applied in vain for admission. He was accompanied by General Thompson, M.P., and several of the most influential inhabitants of Greenwich, and was en thusiastically cheered on entering the room. Dr. Prior Purvis, of Blackheath, acted as chairman, and briefly congratulated the audience on the recent alteration in the law, which enabled a gentleman whom the constituency had once before under me morable circumstances sent to represent them in Parliament, to present himself again for election with the certainty of now being able to sit and vote in the House of Commons in the event of being re turned. Mr. Alderman SALOMONS then stood forward to address the meeting, and was again loudly cheered. After a passing allusion to the Act of last session, providing for the admission to Parliament of per sons professing the same religious creed as himself, he said he stood there to challenge the eleotors to fulfil the promise they once made that they would return him again to Parliament as their represen tative whenever the day arrived on which he should be freed from the disabilities which until recently attached to members of the Jewish religious per suasion. He told them most unaffectedly that he was sorry for the circumstances under which an election for .Greenwich was now likely to arise. (Cheers.) On those circumstances it would not become him to make any observations. All that he had to say was that the period of election was at present so uncertain that he should not have come so early into the field were it not that others had come forward to challenge the suffrages of the con stituency. That being so, he thought it his duty not to think of presenting himself as a candidate for any other place until he first the electors of Greenwich an opportunity of redeeming the pro mise they formerly made him ; and he was now ready to meet any other candidate for their suffrages at the hustings, where alone the election could be decided. (Cheers.) Of Mr. Angerstein, who had recently announced himself as a candidate, he would only say that he was, in every sense, a gentleman —a worthy opponent, and a man of honour ; and if the circumstances were such as he thought ought to induce him to enter the lists on the present occa sion, he would find in him (Alderman Salomons) an individual who would meet him on terms such as those on which gentlemen ought to meet. (Cheers.) But he did think that Mr. Angerstein, coming for ward, as that gentleman said he did, professedly on the same side as himself—ought not to have pre sented himself on the present occasion, allowing his political opinions to be in accordance with those of a majority of the electors. Having said so much, he would come to a statement of his political prin ciples, and ask how far they in accordance with those of the greater part of the constituency. He was no stranger among them. For many years they had been familiar with his principles ; and living besides, as he had done, in public for a considerable part of his life, and having served the office of chief magistrate of the city of London, in which a man might be said to live for a whole year in a glass house at the top of a pole—(laughter)—and to be wholly unable to hide his light under a bushel, he thought he had some claim on the consideration of metropolitan constituency, when he sought at their hands the honour of representing them in the House of Commons. (Cheers.) At present there were three questions in which the country at large was interested, and those were—an extension of the franchise, the ballot in connexion with it, and the abolition of church-rates. First, in regard to the franchise, a large extension of it, as they all knew, was made in 1832, but since then new interests had grown up, a striking advance had been made by all classes of the people in intelligence and moral worth, and especially by the industrial classes, and he thought the time had arrived when the great mass of the community should be afforded facilities for expressing their opinions on public questions to a greater extent than was accorded them by the Re form Bill of 1832: This country differed from all others. With what part of the community had all the great movements originated which had con ferred advantages on the whole country ? Had these come from above or below? They had all been the result of public opinion, expressed chiefly by the middle and working classes, and they had all led to some signal impetus being given to the trade of the country, and as a consequence to a manifest amelioration of the condition of the humbler ranks of the people. He thought the time had now come when a large extension of the suffrage should take place, with the view of satisfying those great public wants that had grown up in the community since 1832. (Cheers.) The country was to a certain degree in the dark as to the extent to which the new extension of the franchise should 6 0. If he had the Government Reform Bill before him he should be able to say whether he approved or disapproved of it. But, without knowing the programme of the Government, his opinion was that the franchise, as hitherto, should be based on property- in some way or other, whether in the shape of rating, household occupation, or accumulations of money in the sav ings -banks. Those were matters of detail ; but he was certain that no person who heard him would say that the man of no property whatever ought to be placed in the same position as the man who had property of some kind or other. (Oh, oh !) He would convince the gentleman who cried " Oh, oh" that he (Mr. Alderman Salmons) was right. So ciety was banded together for mutual protection, and what the Legislature should look to was to place the franchise, or rather the possession of pro perty- as the groundwork of it, so low that it should be the ambition of every man to obtain it ; and that was the principle by which he (Mr. Salomons) would test the soundness of any coming Reform Bill. (Loud cheers.) In connection with that he would have the ballot. (Cheers.) He himself believed that both those who were strongly in favour of the ballot , and those who were as much against it, over-rated its importance. But it was essentially an elector's question ; and it' an elector thought he would be more protected by the ballet than without it in the exercise of his franchise, there was no reason whatever why those who asked for it should not have it. He might speak with some confidence on this subject, because he had come by slow degrees to the determination which he had submitted to the meeting. He was one of those who at one time felt considerable hesi tation in having recourse to the ballot ; but seeing the great advances which had been made by the working and industrial classes generally—seeing the order that had prevailed for the last ten years, and looking at the diffusion of the means of educa tion among the humbler orders of the community —he thought the time had arrived when it should he conceded, and lie would never lend himself to the imputation that when a working man was asked for his vote and promised it he would afterwards seek to evade the performance of his promise at the ballot-box. On the contrary, he was of opinion that the promise of a working man was as good as that of a man who wore broadcloth—(cheers)—and if such a man thought it would be to his advantage to vote under the protection of the ballot it was not for him (Mr. Salom - ons), who asked him for his vote, to prescribe the manner in which it should be given, whether in an open or a secret manner. Passing to the question of church-rates, the speaker pointed out how inimical to, religion and to the interests of the Church itself, as well as dangerous to the pub lic peace, had been the unseemly controversies to which it had given rise for many years past. He also alluded to the progress which the voluntary system of maintaining. th fabrics of the Church, and the expenses attending Divine worship was mak ing in the rural districts. Looking, he added, at the question in a comprehensive spirit, and when he saw the large sums of money raised throughout the country for the support of public worship, in one form or other, he could not for a moment doubt that if the maintenance of the ecclesiastical fabrics was a voluntary instead of a compulsory charge; not only would Churchmen but Dissenters also be willing to share in it. (Hear.) He would now say a few words in reference to our international relations. He spoke in a borough in which there were two dockyards, and where there could be no insensibility as to the requirements of military and naval affairs. A great deal had been said within the last two or three months on the re lations of this country with France. We had been at peace with France for the last 42 years, and if under the circumstances of that period we had been enabled to live on terms of peace with our nearest and most powerful neighbour, he could see no rea son why we should not remain at peace with her for at l east another 42 years. He believed himself, having some intimate connexions with the French people, that although there might be among them those who were still swayed by the recollection of ancient feuds, there were many more who cast 'a wistful eye on the mode in which we had become as a nation rich, great, and powerful ; and he be lieved there was a very large p ro p or ti on of them who were anxious to remain on the best terms with this country. When he told the meeting that during the last 10 years the French imports and exports had been doubled, they would see how deep an interest our neighbours h ad in th e undis turbed continuance of the peaceful relations which • had- so long subsisted between them and us. li e added that-it would he-unbecoming a great nation like England to neglect those proper defensive pre- SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 28, 1858. cautions which tended to make all other nations respect us. He wi ihed that our rulers would always bear in mind, how essentially a commercial people we were, tha t we had a large population to support, and that it was infinitely better to be able to maintain an industrious community by means of the peaceful pursuits of trade and commerce than as soldiers and sailors 'to fight our battles. He had therefore always felt . strongly the necessity of keep ing up those " wooden walls," consecrated in the history of the country as its best defence—a proper army that might b•,.." augmented in case of need, but chiefly to rely on an efficient navy for the protec tion of our coasts and the defence of our trade. (Cheers.) The Aldf rman having briefly stated his views in reference to the question of education, passed on to the consideration of the question of the paper duty, the total and early abolition of which he strongly urged as a means of fair play to the penny press, which he strongly eulogised, making at the same time a complimentary allusion to the ability and enterprise with which the Times was conducted, and to its influence throughout the civilised world. Acknowledging the gratitude he owed as an individual to Lord Derby for the assist ance he had rendered to the final triumphof Jewish emancipation, he indulged in a few goodnatured criticisms on the constitution of the noble Lord's Government, and concluded by expressing a hope that the constituency would return him (Mr. Salo mons) as their representative whenever the day of election arrived. On the motion of Mr. W. Bennett, seconded by Mr. Roch, and briefly supported by General Thomp son, M.P., a resolution that Mr. Alderman Salo mons was a fit and proper person to represent the borough of Greenwich in Parliament was carried with great unanimity, and the Alderman having briefly replied to several questions put to him from several parts of the meeting, the proceedings ter minated at 10 o'clock. RAJAH BROOKE IN LIVERPOOL. LIVERPOOL, SEPT. 27. Sir J. BROOKE, K.C.8., Rajah of Sarawak, Borneo, has arrived in Liverpool for the k urpose of taking part in the proceedings of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts at the annual meeting to be held at th e Collegiate In= stitution this evening. The Mayor of Liverpool, taking advantage of the Rajah's presence in the town, invited the heads of the commercial bodies and the leading shipowners and merchants here to a ddetencr at the Town-hall this afternoon, to meet Sir James Brooke. Among the invited- guests were Sir J. Brooke, K.C.8., Bishop of Chester, Rev. Dr. Keene, Rev. M. Leicester, Rev. Rector Campbell, Rev. M. Dowding, Rev. Dr. Hessey, Dr. Smith, Dr. Baylee, Dr. Casswell, Messrs. Anderson, R. Brockle bank, T. Brocklebank, C. Bushell, J. Bramley- Moore, M.P., Carstairs, Crosbie, A. Campbell, G. Campbell, Duckworth, Duff, Fairbairn, Finlay, S. R. Graves (chairman of the Liverpool Ship owners' Association), Gladstone, T. B. Horsfall, Harrison, Inman, Livingstone, Littledale, Matheson, M'Micking, Preston, Potter, Royds, Rathbone, Stotterfoht, Sanders, Shand, Stewart, Schwabie, J. Campbell, C. Turner (chairman of the Liverpool Docks and Harbour Board), T. Turner, blethers, Taylor, Sorr, Waterhouse. After the dejeuner, The MAYOR gave, in succession, "The Queen,' " The Prince Consort, Albert Prince of Wales, and' the rest of the Boyal Family," and " The Bishop of the Diocese (Chester) and the Clergy. The Bishop of . CHESTER responded for himself, and the Rev. Rector CAMPBELL on behalf of the clergy. The MAYOR next proposed the " Health of Sir James Brooke, .K.C.8.," observing, that when he looked at the Chinese treaty just concluded he felt persuaded that our Government would not let pass an opportunity of again possessing such an impor tant position in the Eastern Archipelago as the province of Sarawak on the island of Borneo. Sir J. BROOKE inxising to respond was enthusias tically applauded. He said—Mr. Mayor, my Lord Bishop, and Gentlemen, it affords me the highest gratification to acknowledge the honour that you have just conferred upon me ; and you must pardon me if some feelings of a personal nature—feelings of pride and of pleasure—should on this occasion mix themselves, not unnaturally, with the public duty I wish to perform. No man can be deaf to the voice of approbation ; no man can separate himself from his life's task, or from those objects which have become entwined around his very existence. And so, gentlemen, it is with me. I have lived and struggled, sacrificed much that men dearly prize, and suffered much which men willingly avoid, to advance the welfare of the country which has be come to me a home—to promote the happiness of a people whose happiness is my happiness, and to provide in time for the security of Sarawak when my life and my labours shall have ended together. These, gentlemen, are the objects which, from the reasons I have told you, have become a part of my very existence; these are the objects from which I can never separate myself, except indeed to forget my baser self ; and these are the objects which I would now recommend to you with all the earnest ness suitable to the cause with which I am identi fied. I feel conscious of being identified with a noble cause—the cause of justice and humanity ;- and I appeal to yolf, gentlemen—l appeal to my countrymen at large, wherever just and generous hearts beat—l appeal on behalf of a people who for 15 years past have implicitly relied upon the good faith of England, and who in that reliance have acted side by side in the common cause, as they were told, of civilisation and of commerce. (Hear, hear.) - I must claim your patience, Mr. Mayor and gentlemen, while •I. endeavour, briefly as I am able, to narrate some events of my past career, to state the obligations • entailed upon this country by its former acts, and the advantages it might obtain by according to Sarawak a measure of protection for its future security and happiness. My project of a voyage to the Eastern Archipelago had been long cherished, and it was from this town of Liverpool that I first set sail to accomplish what I had long thought of. On a second voyage, the first being unsuccess ful, I did what I had contemplated. I reached Borneo, and, as you are aware, I became the ruler of Sarawak. It was, Heaven knows, upon no sordid calculation of pe rsona l advantage hat I undertook the office. It was from the impulse of feeling, rather than from the dictates of prudence, that I cast my life and fortune upon the issue. Its rash ness, its folly, my unavoidable ruin and proba ble death, were pointed out to me by my friends, but were pointed out in vain. I felt that there was a sphere of action worthy of a brave man, and a duty that I seemed called upon to discharge. (Cheers.) I did proceed, and I soon discovered that never man undertook a task more desperate, or, apparently, more hopeless. Around me were murder and rapine; everywh:re the good were op pressed, and terror, distress, and insecurity pre vailed; the administration of justice brought peril, and the apprehension of the malefactor usually re sulted in conflict. In short, within and without crime was rampant, and every bond of justice had been loosened. Out of this chaos order was evolved, security festered, government established, and pro sperity sprung up as confidence was surely and steadily won. (Cheers.) What I relate in a minute took years to accomplish.. My efforts were crowned with success, but I was rewarded ; for, come what may, all the good done can never entirely be de stroyed, nor can the consciousness of having done it pass away without life itself. (Cheers.) However, gentlemen, my efforts would, in all probability, have proved useless. It was the sympathy and en couragement of my countrymen which cheered me forward ; it was the unequivocal assurance, t4e ac tive support, and the conclusive sanction of the Go vernment of my own country which insured suc cess, and which carried conviction to every mind that Sarawak was he facto a protected State, and that England had resolved to regain her proper position in the Archipelago by a just, generous, and enlightened course of policy. (Loud cheers.) Judge, then, Mr. Mayor—judge, gentlemen, while I very briefly state the facts, whether the proposed arrangements arc consistent with good faith to Sarawak, and to the advantage of the world andof England. No sooner had the' cession been made ,han it was intimated to the Prime Minister of this country that I had acquired the territory'and the Government of Sarawak, and that I was ready, with the permission and aid of Government, tohold it for them. The first communication was imme diately responded to by the appointment of a Go vernment officer instructed to make inquiries on the spot ; and it was at his request that I then indi cated the course of policy which I considered for the interests of England, and for the advancement of Sarawak. The policy thus recommended was pur sued. I proceeded gradually to develope the re sources of the country I had acquired—to establish legitimate authority, to suppress piracy, and to pro mote commerce. And in doing so, as I had sug gested, I was encouraged by the .countenance of my own Government, and aided by the presence and active support of British vessels of war. So vigorously, so successfully, indeed, was this policy pursued, that the Hague Government of the day, through its Minister, addr'essed a strong remon strance against my position, urging that it was sanctioned by our own Government, and that Eng land was precluded under .the treaty of 1844 from forming a settlement on the mainland of Borneo. In replying, Lord Aberdeen imperatively inain tained the right of England to form such settlements whenever it suited its puipose. (Cheers.) He de fended my position in Sarawak, declared it to have been acquired in a most operi 'and le&itimatenianner, ' and avo we d it to b e the paramount duty of Govern- MEM ment to protect the just rights and kgitimate inte rests of her Majesty's subjects. That is, gentlemen, what my position really was—that with the know ledge and concession of the Sultan of Borneo I held the country and government of Sarawak, and he de fended my rights thereto. No sanction more con clusive can well be conceived, and the treaty of 1821 was then finally settled, and my just rights and legitimate interests not only acknowledged but defended. As a sort of corollary I was afterwards appointed a public officer and instructed to negotiate a treaty, by which Holland with other nations was excluded from the north-west coast of Borneo. Thus, if acts indicate the intentions of the Government, those intentions were clear. In 1847 I was in Eng land for a few months, when I was honoured by the Sovereign, applauded and distinguished by my countrymen, and formally- thanked in the name •of the Government by the Premier f or my serv i ces . I then retired with increased power to the East as the representative of Great Britain. Step by step the intentions of the Governm en t were developed. Assurances were made that England would repress disorder and encourage commerce, and measures were actively prosecuted for this purpose. Having referred to the confidence in the protection of Eng land which these measures inspired in the natives, and stated, as an additional proof of the protective objects of the Government, that the British Minis try sanctioned the national flag at Sarawak, which was saluted by British ships of war, Sir James asked whether these vigorous measures were now to be abandoned. He replied " No; this policy, honestly commenced, honestly pursued, must be maintained." He continued :—I have an intuitive conviction of the value attached by the people of England to the unswerving maintenance of the national faith, whether in dealing with a petty native State or a powerful European nation. This conviction has grown with my growth, and it is upon this that I rely for a decision in favour of the native inhabitants and of the British residents in Sarawak. Remember, gentlemen, that British merchants and British missionaries, British subjects of every class and country, with their wives and families, in reliance on the faith and justice of their Government, have embarked their all—life and for tune—in Sarawak. Many a year of toil has passed over them, and many n seed of promise has been sown which cannot and will not, I believe, be be trayed. I must, however, leave it to you and to the great commercial communities of the country to decide - whether, under the circumstances I have de tailed, Sarawak can be abandoned and the interests 'attracted there destroyed. I feel confident every gentleman present will concur with me that a na tional obligation should, if requisite, entail a national sacrifice, and that a public sanction should be held as sacred as a private bond.. But no sacrifice or costly, offering at the shrine of political integrityis required in this case, but a simple and advantageous arrangement of a long vexed ques tion, difficult to evade consistently with honour. Sarawak cannot stand alone. She must lean upon the support of an European State in order to ensure that permanency which is at the root of all prospe rity. The proposed arrangement ik3, that England should grant a protectorate to Sarawak ; and, secondly, that she should refund the sum which I have expended to bring Sarawak to its present prosperous condition. The other details would fol low as a matter of course.. This proposition is just ; for, the arrangement being advantageous, England should not benefit at my expense—(hear) —or, in other words, should not trade upon my small capi tal; and, having acquired a valuable province, she should not repay my poor but very highly lauded service by th e d eprivat i on o f my inheritance. It is moreover not only just but necessary, for it will afford a national sanction for consistency, i and sup ply me with m eans f or p l ac i ng Sarawak n a state of efficiency after the late Chinese insurrection which was brought upon her chiefly in consequence of her close relations with England. Having de scribed the geographical features of the country with a view to show the commercial advantages which England would derive from the arrangement, Sir James said that the value of the countries of the Eastern Archipelago had been recognised by the people of England, and the cession of the island of Java, with many another rich dependency, had been deplored as a foolish and fatal act of neglect by the government of the day. A bright jewel was plucked out &mil the British Crown from lack of knowledge to appreciate its value. Do not (he con tinued) stand by and see this error repeated in the present with regard to Borneo. Do not permit the north-west coast of Borneo to be cast away in order that you may regret its loss hereafter. Guard that possession as a link uniting the British possessions in Australia and India with our vast and growing interest in the empire of China. Sarawak holds a commanding position on the shore of the China sea, both for commercial purposes and those of protec tion and defence: she possesses a fertile soil, valu able tropical products, extensive forests of valuable timber, and is rich in the minerals most needed for the maintenance of our political position and the development of our commerce; for the value of the coal fields of the north-west coast of Borneo can be estimated only by the extension of our commerce and the increase of our steam marine. It will be well for the statesmen and merchants of England to pause and consider the coming exigencies of the nation. The Chinese treaty has been concluded ; that vast and decrepid empire lies prostrate before British commerce and European diplomacy. It re quires no profound sagacity to predict that the nation whose territory borders the China Sea, and whose resources arc nearest and most valuable, will gain a paramount influence over —nay, more, a poli tical mastery in China; and for want of precaution it may be that the commerce of England will find itself impeded, and have to struggle against obsta cles far worse than any which have yet been expe rienced. I cannot believe, however, that she will turn sluggard, and that her Government will con tinue deaf to the claims of national grandeur and commercial extension. The ripening harvest of commerce must be watched, and carefully reaped An European policy is to be developed in the East and the north-west coast of Borneo is a most im portant position. Do not, then, throw it away. Having disclaimed the object of mere personal aggrandisement, Sir James said, to gain the pro tection of his native country for Sarawak, and to place her in a state of prosperous security, had been the passion of his life. A very few months more would decide the future of Sarawak, and bind or break the ties which so long had connected her with this; country. This decision (he continued) will give me joy or sorrow for a short time The pulse of pleasure or the pang of anguish may thrill or throb for a short. time, but duty will then resume its sway. That duty is clearly before me, and it must be done. .Sarawak must be placed in prosperous sccuritv, and then my life's task will have ended. (Cheers.) Sir James concluded by urging those present, and the mer chants of Liverpool generally, to recortimend to her Majesty's Government the adoption of a policy which would redound to the honour and advantage of England, and confer lasting blessings upon the inhabitants of the north-west coast of Borneo. Mr. T. B. HORSFALL, M.P., responded to the health of the members for the borough and county, after which Mr. C. TURNER responded to the toast of the commercial bodies of Liverpool. The MAYOR gave " The health of the Members for the Town," to which Mr. HORSFALL responded, and in doing so he urged upon the commercial bodies of the town to take up this important question and press it upon the attention of Government. The MAYOR, as the last toast, gave " The Com mercial Associations of the Town," and Mr. C. TURNER briefly responded. Sir James subse quen tly went on 'Change, where he was enthusiastically received. [ADVERTISEMENT.] SIGHT AND HEARING. 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It enables deaf persons to hear distinctly at church and at public assemblies ; the unplea- • sant sensation of singing noises in the ears is entirely re moved, and it afford s all the assistance -that po ss ibly could be desired.-39, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly. Observe — opposite the York Hotel W STARTLING CONFESSIONS OF A .ROCKITE. The following remarkable biography, professing to be the history of a " Rockite" is taken from the Kilkenny Moderator. It may be remarked that there is nothing stated in the narrative beyond the range of probability. The existence of organised bodies in Ireland, similar to the Ribbon Society, having for their object the removal of obnoxious persons, has often been proved by deeds of blood incomparably more cruel than those detailed below. Had these " Confessions" first seen the light in the columns of some Irish provincial journals their genuineness might be doubted, but the character of the Mode rator is a guarantee of their faithfulness. " There died very recently in the Kilkenny Union Workhouse, in the 80th year of his age, a remark able person, whose departure from this earthly stage we cannot permit to pass without a glance at his strange eventful history. The personage whom we would introduce to our readers is the once noto rious Wm. Delaney, generally known by the sobri quet of Billy the Boy.' He must not be confounded with another Wm. Delaney, who gave evidence as an informer on the trials of the murderers of Hoyne and Mortimer, in this county. This latter person age was a much younger man. Billy the Boy' was connected with what was called 'the Whitefeet murders' of more than 30 years ago. He was not very formidable in appearance,•being only 5 ft. 4 in. in height, for he was found under the standard height for' the army when in early life he offered to enlist in her Majesty's service—a consummation which, if attained, might have saved from serious trouble many of her Majesty's loyal lieges. He was rather broad-shouldered, and well made for enduring fatigue, and he was a great sportsman. It was the dexterity he had acquired in this manner in the use of firearms which led him into the com mission of various crimes which we shall hereafter glance at. His most remarkable feature was per haps his eye. If you knew even nothing of the man, and were called on to remark him, you could not, we think, fail to observe a degree of clear, cold, cunning in the g re y e y e , w hi c h s h ou ld make you uneasy. This, however, may have been mere fancy. Billy was more than a dozen times in gaol, and was tried for capital offences, we believe, on five or six occasions. At no time was there a conviction, and he mice escaped through the sudden illness of a juror. His pious expression on that occasion was that God had a hand in him.' He never ' in formed' on his accomplices. He had the merit, if it can be called so, of faithfulness to his rebellious crew.' In his latter days we have reason to be lieve that he refused to have anything to do with the lawless proceedings in the way of agrarian crime which were so disgraceful to our county with in the last 15 years, and which were terminated by the execution of Hoyne's murderers. The Boy' sometimes talked freely about his former exploits, and it is from his own lips that we give the follow ing stories. The only variation which we have allowed ourselves to make is in patting together the different accounts which he gave at different times of the same transaction. It is necessary to do this in order to limit our narrative. It will also explain why he appears to have admitted his participation in the crimes so freely. He never did so while telling his story once? but by putt'ng together his different versions of same occurrence his connection with the crime was always clear. Giving this explana tion, we may now proceed to set down his own words The first bad thing I had anything to say to was the death of James Sutcliff. The boys were out one night, and our leader was a black guard fellow of the name of (of course we omit the name). Well, sir, this fellow had a grudge against Sutcliff, something about a greyhound it was, or some game. Well, our leader, the black guard, made us drunk, but he kept himself sober ; and then he persuaded us that he had an order' against Sutcliff. And so we went to his house, and I staid in the background, because I was the only one of the party that Sutcliff and his wife knew. Well, when we went to the house, our leader de manded admittance, and, when he wasn't let in, he lays down his gun against the jumb, and makes a rush against the door and sends it in. They then went in and brought out Sutcliff, and one of the party fired a shot at him when he was in the yard. That did not kill him, but then the leader went back to where he had le - e; his gun beside the door, and fired into him again, and so we left him.' We may remark that Billy keeps himself as far as possible from the murder. Some said that it was he • who actually fired the first shot ; but his account is somewhat corrobo rated by Sutcliff's wife's story, who stated that, though she knew Delaney, yet she did not see him of the party. "To proceed to another story :—‘ There were people of the name of ejected from a farm, and it was taken by another set ' • and Andy Mul downey wasleft as caretak er . Th e boys were watch ing him for a long time, for he was a terrible man. He built up the windows of the house, and he was well armed, and it was long before we got an offer at him. Well, one day he went to a neighbouring house to meet a friend, ye understand, and we knew that he would not leave the neighbouring house for some time ; so we went up to his own place and took the stones out of some of the windows, and three went in and the stones were built in again. Andy Muldowney returned, and of course when lie saw all as it was when he left, he opened the door and went in. :But he wasn't long in when he was no more. There were people tried for that, but they wern't the people that did it, though they wern't sorry for what had happened.' Billy was generally believed to have: been himself one of the three who went into the house. When asked about the murder of D elaney,which occurrednear the round tower of Fartagh, this was the story : The black guard was a cousin as well as a namesake of my own, and he wanted to betray some ofthe boys to the police, for they had bribed:him ; so he laid a plan to get the boys to attack some house where the po lice would be ready to seize them. Well, sir, he was afraid to betray any of us, and so it was some of the Galmoy boys he wanted to bring into the trap, and we found it out. So we determined to give the Galmoy boys word, and lots were drawn to know who was to give them the intelligence. The lot fell on me. (We may remark that it is probable, from this' and other circumstances, that Billy, ruf fian as he was, was generally the tool of others.) Well, sir, I went and told them the design, and I never saw him more.' When he was asked did he ever hear anything of the particulais of the case, he -would reply—' Well, they said the Galmonians went out with him as if they were going to fall into the trap, and when they got him near a bog hole, they, fired a shot at him and threw him into the hole. The leader of the party was a terrible fellow ; they called him Bloodybones. Well, when Delaney fell into the water he wasn't dead, and he tried to getout, find Bloodvbones fold him to come to the side where lie was. 'lt was said through the country that when hc struggled:to the side, Bloody bones hit him on the head with the butt of short gun, and said when he hit him, " Dead dogs tell no tales," so he fell over and perished.' " There were two attempts made on the life of Mr. Barton of Greenhills. Billy alwaysindignantly denied having had anything to say to the first of these attempts. Why, he was out of his gig, walking quietly beside it, and is it me to miss him in that way ! The blackguards to say that I was such a bad shot as that ! Of the second attempt he gave the following account There were two of us appointed for it, but the other party failed me, the blackguard, because he thought I was able to do it myself. There were two roads to his house, and I was on one of them, behind a hedge. The other road was open, because it wasn't a safe road to do anything on. The way we were to know had he came home was by a light in the win dow of his house, for we had a friend in it ; and if the light was to be put out, then we were to know that lie_had come home. Well, I was. watching the light every now and then, and I was - listening for • the horse's steps, and it was a terrible cold night. I had a bottle of whisky with me, so I took a long drink to get some warmth into me; and before I had the bottle down from my mouth I heard the trot of the horse, and I laid down the bottle in a hurry, and put my gun through the hedge. But between the whisky and the slapping of the branches across my face, my sight spread a little, so I could not take steady aim--z-that was what saved him, for I only took off two of his fingers.' " One story somewhat to the credit of the wretched man we must add, There was a game keeper whom he considered his friend, .and when this person was threatened by some of the White feet, Billy interposed in his behalf, but he did so after a characteristic fashion. He did not give the threatened man notice, much less the police intelli gence, of what was to take place ; but he assembled a party of his own and met in such force those assembled to attack the gamekeeper, that the latter were discomfited and obliged to desist from their attempt. " This is enough about Delaney's crimes. We may add something about the state of his con science in his latter days. When asked if lie did not think himself a very bad man, he would reply, God help me, sir, I'm very bad—l took an oath against drink before the altar, and it was not long till I broke it, and that was very bad.' Yes, Billy,' his interrogator might say, ' but it's not about drink I am now speaking, but about the mur ders you were concerned in. Were not they very bad crimes ?' His reply to this on one occasion was very peculiar. Well, sir, I don't know about that. You see, sir, l i was a . very . handy fellow aboutAret arras, and the people had a Tory great respect 'or me on that account, so they put me on every wick edness that was to be done.' Notwithstanding these attempts at extenuating his guilt, we have reason to believe that he felt to some extent the wickedness of his career. Ile refused in later life, as we have mentioned, to have anything to ,say to the people who got up. the murders of Hoyne and Mortimer; and on one occasion, having got some idea that another life was in danger, he endeavoured to put the intended victim on his guard. On this occasion he said—' God knows it is not for any re ward I am looking, but I don't wish to have any thing to say to more blood—a hundred thousand pounds would not bribe me to do that.' He gotta Testament, which he promised to read, and on one occasion, we are assured, a gentleman saw him on his knees in a field, when he supposed there was no one looking at him. He also stated that his reason for going into the workhouse, where he died the other day, was that he might have time for reflec tion.' Whether there was anything of real repen tance in all this the Great Day alone can tell." POLICE INTELLIGENCE—Sept. 27. WESTMINSTER.—DESPERATE ATTEMPTS TO MURDER A HUSBAND.—Elizabeth Waring, a dimi nutive woman, 30 years of age, who was committed from this court a short time ago for a serious assault upon another woman, was placed at the bar, charged with the following determined attempts to murder her husband : George Waring, of Union-place, Castle-lane, Westminster, hawker, whose head was enveloped in surgical bandages, and who appeared in a very faint and low condition, said that he had gone to bed in prisoner's absence on Saturday night and fallen fast asleep, when he was awoke by a severe pressure on his throat, and subsequently found that the prisoner had rolled her apron round his neck, and, tightly pulling each end, endeavoured to strangle him. He tried to speak, but could not, but by a violent effort rose up partially, and, by inflicting a blow on her eye, released himself. He then called out, and a young man in the next room came to his assistance. Prisoner immediately went out, and he shortly afterwards got into bed again and fell asleep. How long he remained undis turbed he could not say, but was awoke by feeling blood: streaming from his head, forehead, and fingers, and found that he had been attacked by his wife with a 51b. stone bottle. Mr. Arnold inquired whether he saw his wife when he awoke the second time ? Prosecutor replied she was in the room, and he saw her run out. Mr. Arnold asked whether she had anything in her hand ? Prosecutor answered, she had part of a stone bottle, which was smashed to pieces. When she left his sleeping room he got out of bed, and while the blood was pouring from his wounds, she threw two large earthenware vessels at him from the door, which were dashed to pieces against the wall. An alarm was then given, the police came in, and he was taken to the hospital. By the Magistrate—She was not sober. She drinks very often. Henry Gear, 252 B, said that at three in the morning he was attracted to 2, Union-place by the cries of " Murder" and " Police." He found prose cutor leaning against the street-door, bleeding pro fusely from the head. He said his wife had cut him with a bottle. On examining the bed he found a pool of blood, and there were parts of a broken glass bottle, a broken stone bottle, and earthenware vessels on the floor. The prisoner was intoxicated. In answer to an inquiry from the Bench witness said there was blood on part of the stone bottle. When he apprehended the prisoner, and told her what she was charged with, the only reply she made was, that they had had words together. The following certificate was handed in : " This is to certify that George Waring is an in patient of this hospital, afflicted with two scalp wounds. " PONSONBY KELLY ADAIR. " Westminster Hospital, Sept. 27." The prisoner was remanded till Wednesday. CHARGE OF MANSLAUGHTER.—Edmund Galley, a man about 25 years of age, described as a journey man carpenter, was charged with the manslaughter of Sampson Stroud, also a journeyman carpenter. It appeared from the statement of Joseph John son, that on Saturday evening Stroud discovered that his wife had run away with the prisciner or some other man, and her husband's furniture. Upon in quiry of the man employed to move the goods, it was ascertained that they had been conveyed to 36, Graham-street, Pimlico, where apartments had been taken in the prisoner's name. While witness and Stroud were standing at the corner of Graham street, after having made this discovery, prisoner turned the corner, apparently with the intention of ping into the house, when Stroud, who was much excited, went up to him and said, " What have you done with my wife ?" and a scuffle immediately occurred between them, both being in the act of fighting. Prisoner, who is a very tall powerful man, then took Stroud round the waist, swung him round two or three times, and fell with all his weight upon him on the ground, Stroud's head striking on the pavement with great force. Witness immediately pulled prisoner off Stroud and sepa rated them, and they then followed prisoner, who went away down Coleshill-street, to gi ve hi m i n t o custody. While engaged in following him, prisoner turned round and again showed fight to Stroud, but witness prevented it. Witness then went back to Graham-street, to watch the house No. 36, while Stroud, in a very excited state, went by his advice to the station. Witness waited three-quarters of an hour in Graham-street expecting Stroud, and then heard that he had been taken to the hospital and was dead. By the Court—l cannot say who struck the first blow. When deceased got up after falling he looked delirious and very ghastly. He did not complain of suffering—he had no opportunity of communicat ing his feelings to me, as we were running after the prisoner. 'Witness added that while watching in Graham -street, during Stroud's absence, he saw prisoner let himself into the house No. 36. Inspector Friar said that at half-past six on Saturday evening Stroud came to the station in a most excited state, and made a complaint to him of the circumstances above detailed. He had not left the station-house above a minute when witness was told by a little boy that he had fallen down in the street. Witness immediately sent constables out with a stretcher, and Stroud was picked up insensible and conveyed to the hos pital, but he never spoke, and was found to be dead. Evidence was given showing that prisoner, who had absconded, was apprehended by Birch, 208 A, on Sunday evening at his sister's house, Grove-road, between Holloway and Highgate. He was at first denied by his sister, but witness forced his way into the house, and found him in a room at the top of the house. The constable then told him the nature of the charge against him, but the prisoner denied that his name was Oaticy, or that he had ary know ledge of Stroud. The constable then desired him to come out to the light, and on his doing so found he had the remainder of a neckerchief on, a piece of which had been previously given to the officer. Finding it useless to deny his identity any longer, prisoner admitted that he was the man of whom the constable was in quest, and said Stroud had struck him first. The accused was remanded for a week. HAMMERSMITH.—EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF ABDUCTION.—ROMANTIC STORY.—John Haines, a rough-looking man, about 30 years of age, who was described as a " brickey," was brought before Mr. Ingham on a warrant, charged with unlawfully taking away from her home a young girl, named Lucy Parton Nicol, the daughter of Mr. Robert Nicol, the landlord of the Elgin Arms, in the Elgin road, Notting•hill. The complainant, an interesting-looking young woman, who had all the appearance of being 18 years of age, deposed that she would be 16 on the 20th January next. She had known the prisoner about 14 months: He was formerly in her lather's service as . potman, and he left in April last. In the following July she was passing the Planta tion-road, near her father's house, when. she met the prisoner, who took her by the hand, and led her amongst some trees. They sat down together, and he then accomplished his pur pose. She did not scream, although he forced her backwards. She met him frequently after that time, and he asked her if she would l eave home and go with him. He also said if she would go with him he would take care of her. She refused to leave home, or to go with him. In the beginning of the present month she again saw him, and he gave her some beer. She then p rom i sed to meet him in the fields, and she went out for that purpose. She waited a long time, and s h e was about going home, when he came up, and said she must go with giddey, drank and everything beenhad him. She believed th e b eer sh drugged, for she felt very senses appeared she found to becomerds ea walkinglf . Vl ien withsh e r himec ioverielcivihmel: holt Scrubbs, and she then said th a t s h e wou ld go home. He said she should not, but go with him, and that if she told anything about the matter he would either s h oot or stab her. She then went quietly w ith h i house kept by 7Ain r t s o . i F t n u s l e h a in , T h and h he ad t o s o u k pp h e e r r , t a o n d a remained up till one o'clo . ck in the morning. She slept with two girls, and the p r i soner wi th M rs. Rose's brother. In the morning prisoner took her out, and the intimacy was renewed. They then Went home to breakfast, and slie - remained there for another night, an d left with hire. on Saturday. He then took her td - Brentford,• afterwards to Shep- • Sle rd's - bush, and' they. reinained* . tiliOnt fife field until Sunday morn i ng, w h en he took her home. The prisoner declared that he did not take he away. lie asked her before Mrs. Rose if she would go home, and she refused. - The complainant, in answer to questions, said the prisoner told her that he should ask her to go home before Mrs. Rose, and that she mast answer " No," for she should not go home. He did ask in the presence of Mrs. Rose, and witness said she did not care about going home. The prisoner said he begged and prayed of Ter to go home, but she would not. She was alwrlyg following him about, and he took her to Mrs. Ro: rather than to another house. • Mr. Robert Nicol, the father, was next examineti, and said his daughter went out on Thursday, tb e 9th inst., and did not return until the Sunday Nl lowing. He did not know of her going away, and had . not the least suspicion of anything wrong. Mr. Ingham—Then the prisoner never had yo u r consent for paying his addresses to your daughtc ? The witness—No, sir ; and could never have h a d my consent, because I knew he was a married ma 1 3. Hannah Amelia Rose said she was a married wi man, and lived at Sand's-ene, Fulham. When t .e prisoner came to her house with the complainer._; t, he said that he had left his wife, and was going i; live with the young lady. She slept in her hou 3 e two ni6ht§, but never with the prisoner. She hea- r d the prisoner ask the young lady if she would ; home, but she replied that she would not, and tha t if he left her she would poison herself. The complainant here denied having made that; t statement. The witness added, that on the Saturday sill • suspected there was something wrong, and s h e t 01.3 the prisoner that she should not provide any dinnc c for them. Witness's husband allowed them to slec in the house as he had known the prisoner and hi ,t; wife a long time. The prisoner further said that he told complaii i - ant that if she lived with him she would have t 3 fare very roughly, as he was sometimes out of work , but she refused to go home, and said she would fol, • low him. Mr. Ingham then remanded the prisoner for th s attendance of Mrs. Nicol, who was said to be very PHOTOGRAPHING AN EXECUTION. The Photographic .Arews (a new journal devoted to photography) contains a strange and startling narrative from a correspondent in Algeria. It ap• • pears that a family of Arabs (one of them a Sheikh :) had been convicted, and very properly condemned to ), death, for a most atrocious murder in the vicinity o f Algiers. The correspondent resolved to photograph. the execution of these ruffians. He says :—" The crowd of men was immense, and as the rays of the rising sun fell upon their upturned swarthy faces it was painful to see the earnest and even frightened expression of their countenances. I had been pre sent not long before at an execution in France, which thousands had assembled to witness ; and the recollection of the jests and laughter I then heard made the dead silence on the present occasion more impressive. lat first thought that this silence was owing to the number about to be executed, yet I could not reconcile this interpretation of it with the reports I had heard of the indifference of the natives to human life. I asked the driver of the waggon if such silence was usual, and learnt from him, half a native himself, the reason. The Arabs are followers of Mahomet, and believe that their bodies, after death, will, by means of the tuft of hair they leave on their otherwise shaven heads, be conveyed by their prophet into paradise. Now, the head, which is completely separated from the trunk by the action of the guillotine, can alone, ac cording to their belief, be placed in paradise, and as the body must be left on earth, they conclude (what is perfectly natural, seeing the nature of their paradise), that this arrangement will not contribute much to the owner's gratification. I have since heard that when the native chiefs executed a man by cutting off his head the executioner invariably left it attached to the body by a bit of flesh, with a view to obviating the in convenience referred to above. . . . . . . The criminals were not brought on the scaffold to gether, but led up one at a time. The first was the Sheikh, who seemed perfectly indifferent to his fate. So rapidly was he bound to the plank and thrust under the axe that I had barely time to in sert the plate-holder and get the instantaneous movement into order before the sharp edge de scended and his head rolled into the basket. This picture was quite successful, and so was the second, but the third presented a dim appearance ; the fourth was nearly, and the fifth and sixth were wholly invisible. How to account for this I know not, unless the atmosphere around the scaffold be came in some way affected by the blood, the odour of which was distinctly perceptible to me. Perhaps some of your readers may be able to suggest the reason." COUNTRY MARKETS. LEICESTER-SEPT. 25. At this eorn market to-day the supply of wheat from the growers was tolerably good, and there was a numerous at tendance. The wheat trade ruled firm, and the previous week's rates were fully supported.. Old white made 458 to 495, new 46s to 50s, old red 42s to 455, new 44s to 46s per qr. There was rather more doing in barley, at late rates for superior sorts ; inferior, is lower. Quotations for all kinds ranged from 32s to 40s. Oats is lower, namely, 30s to 365, and little doing. A small show of beans, fine sam ples making 64s per 38 stone. Fine flour, 335, seconds 31s, thirds 29s per 20 stone. Potatoes are turning out well. NORTHAMPTON-SETT. 25 There was a fair attendance of farmers, and a tolerable show of wheat. N o t muc h c h ange i n barley, prices vary ing from 36s to 40s per qr. In other descriptions of grain no material alteration. Mangold-wurtzel and potatoes pro mise a good yield Wheat ...42s to 44s Oats.... 2Bs to 36s White .20s to 45s Beans Barley .36s to 40s Malt ...66s to 70e COLCHEST R-SEPT. 25. There has been a limited show of wheat, and the trade dull. The folloming prices were obtained : Wheat, white 46s to 50s Beans, Mazagan..4os to 42s I red 40s to 46s Middle & small 46s to 50s Barley 32s to 46s White peas 46s to 48s I Oats 26s to 32s Grey 42s to 45s KIRKALDY-SEPT. 25. Here, to-day, we had fair supplies of wheat and bar ley, but small of oats. Sales quick for all sorts. Wheat and oats sa o me as last day ; barley is per qr. dearer. Wheat (0). Barley (0). O a t s (0). First.... 38 Od —s Od Od Second.. 468 Od —s Od —s Od Third .. 50s Od —s Od —s . Od . . Wheat (N). Barley (N). Oats (N). First.... 318 Od 23s Od 22s Od Second.. 42s Od 31s 7d 24s Od Third .. 48s Od 33s Od 26s 6d COAL MARKET-SEPT. 27. (Prices of Coal per Ton at the close of the market.) Grey's West Hartley, 15s. 0(1; Tyne Main, 13s. Od. ; Howard's West Hartley Netherton, -9. Od. ; TaiMeld Moor, 13s; 3d. ; Tanfield Moor Butes, 13s 3d.; Wylam, 14s. 6d. ; Newcastle Hartley, -s. ; Byass's B e b s id e W es t Hartley, -s. Od.; Walker Primrose, 13s. Od.; Eden Main, 165.; Walbottle Hartley, -s. Od. ; Haswell Gas, -s. Od. Lambert's West Hartley, 15s. 9d.• West Wylam, -8. Od.; Ward's West Hartley, 15 s . Od . ; ? West Tanfield, -s. Od. ; Nixon's Merthyr, 21s. Walls End-Riddell, 15s. 6d• Tees, 18s. ; Coundo n , -s Od ; Birchgrove Graigola, 20s. ed.; Haswell, 18s. Od. ; Hetton, 18s. Od. ; Cassop, 16s. 9d; S. Kelloe, 17s. ; Stewart's, 16s. ; Northumberland, -s. ; South Hetton, 16s. 9d..; Acorn Close, -s. Od. ; Wharn -s. ; Kepier Grange, 16s 9d.; Brown's Moor, -s ; Bradyll's !Lefton, 16s. 9d. ; Gosforth, 15s. 6d. ; Dryburn Grange, •-. Od; Heugh Hall, 16s. 6d. ; Lambton, 17s. 6d. ; Hunwick, -s. Od. •. Whitworth, 14s. 6d.; Shincliffe 16s. 3d. ; Powell's Duffryn Steam, 21s. Od. ; Nixon's Duifryn, 21s. Hetton Hartley Main, lts. • Ships at market, 122 ; sold, 103. BIRTHS. BROWNE.—On the 25th inst., at Leamington, the Hon. Mrs. George Browne, of a son. PENRUDDOCKE.—On the 26th inst., at Upper Grosvenor street, the wife of Charles Penruddocke, Esq., of Comp ton-park, Wilts, of a son and heir. RAY.—On the 26th inst., at 62, Glocester-terrace, Hyde park, Mrs. Ch ar l es Ray, of a daughter. STONE. —On the 25th inst., at Magadino, Lego Maggiore, the wife of Henry Stone, Esq., of the Inner Temple, barrister-at-law, of a son. MARRIAGES. GREY—STEDINGIC—On the 20th inst., at the British Le gation, Stockholm, the Hon. William George Grey, her Majesty's Charge d'Affaires, to Theresa Catherine, Only daughter of Major-General Count Stedingk, Inspector- General of Cavalry in Sweden. SUTHERLAND—SAUNDERS.—On the 23d inst., at St. Andrew's, Plymouth, Major gdward Sutherland, late 7th Fusiliers, to Mary Bradford, widow of the late Lieu tenant-Col. John Saunders, of the Bombay Army. DEATHS. BROOMAN.—On the 25th inst., at Hull, John E. Brooman, Esq.; R.N., Paymaster of HAL S. Cornwallis. CALDBECK.—On the 25th inst., at Monkstown, Dublin, Wm. Caldbeek, Esq.; aged 71. CLANIVILLIAM.—On the - 20th inst., at Taynnilt, Argyll shire, Elizabeth, Countess of Clanwilliazn, aged 49. DuFP.—On the 23d inst., at Eden House, Banff, James C. G. Duff, Esq., of Eden, &c. Fisxnn.—On the 25th inst., at Hillmarton Vicarage, Wilts, the Rev. Francis Fisher, aged 37. K Innv.—On the 24th inst., at his house, West Hoathly, near East Grinstead, 'Sussex, John Blake Kirby, Esq., of 14, Devonshire-street, Portland-place, London, magis trate for the county of Middlesex. MAINWARING.—On the 20th inst., at Bath, Vice-Admiral Mainwaring. RirriNGALL.—On the. 21th inst., at Lang-ham, Norfolk, the Rev. S. F. Ripping-all, aged 68. LONDON : Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG, ' of No. 112; Strand, Printer; •at The Wen•Oftice,- No: 112; Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the county of Middlesex, Tuesday, September 28, 1858. BC gage - 1 'ark. this ltefer , Dairy. 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