The Sun. — London, England, 1858-06-10 00:00:00

CROSSED CHEQUES. (From the Times ) A number of communications have been received on the bill just introduced by the Attorney-General to give validity to thepractice of crossing cheques. The feeling of the_ mercantile public is universally in favour of the principle of the measure, and theie will be ground for great regret if the bill is not modified in time to prevent its technical defects f r om.being used by the bankers as a p re t ex t t o de feat it altogether. In the days when a crossing upon a cheque was supposed to give protection the common practice was for the d rawer t o wr it e " an d company" upon it, leaving the person to whom he paid it to prefix the special name of his banker, if he should think fit to do so, as a greater precaution. According to the wording of the proposed bill, however, this course will not be available, as no crossing will have legal force except such as may have been placed upon the cheque by the drawer previously to its issue. Out of this a multitude of complications are certain to arise, some of which are pointed out in the letters subjoined. the whole difficulty might perhaps be met by persons drawing cheques in the following manner :—" Pay to —, or bearer, through the Bank of ;" leaving the holder to fill in any special name so as to make it Bank of England, bank of Messrs. Glyn and Co., Robarts and Co., or any other establishment. But in the present state of the law any such addition to the body of the document after its issue would be liable to be treated as a forgery. Apparently that which is wanted, therefore, is an act to give the holder of a cheque power to fill up a blank of this description : " Barton-on-Trent, June 5. " Sir,—lf you have given the whole of the new bill yre lating to crossed cheques in your impression of thi s d ay , there will, I foresee, arise to bankers a difficulty of a most peculiar nature on the passing of the act. "Every crossing of a cheque done by the drawer himself or by his authority before the issuing of the same will be governed by the new Act, whereas all crossings subsequent to issuing will be controlled by the 19th and 20th of Vic toria, cap. 23. "Owing to this circumstance, it will be necevary, when ever an informality in presentation takes pla-e, for the banker on whom the cheque is drawn to identify, as well as he can, the writing of the crossing before he can know how to treat it. Suppose, for instance, Banker B has pre sented to him by Banker C a cheque crossed with the name of Banker D. Before deciding what course to take he must form the best conclusion in his power as to the date of the crossing. If crossed by any one under the authority of the drawer before the issuing of the cheque, the banker is bound to return the cheque at once to C. If, on the con trary, the crossing has been subsequent to the issuing, he is lacund to pay the cheque to C, and is liable to an action if he does not do so. "Here is a pretty fix for bungling legislators to get a poor banker into ! " I am, sir, yours oboaiently, " " Sir,—lf the Atto rne y -G enera l' s Bi ll is passed B. as it stands now, it will be illegal for the holder of a cheque crossed is blank to prefix the name of his banker to the words ' and company,' for to do so would be to add' to the crossing. It follows also that if the holder does add the name of his own banker, he will not thereby oblige the banker on whom the cheque is drawn to pay its amount to the banker whose name is so added, the cheque having been originally crossed with the words 'and com pany' only. The crossing being sow a material part of the cheque, it might even be doubted whether a holder who added the name of his banker to a crossing in blank would not be indictable for forgery. " I presume these several consequences are not contem plated, and will be obviated by necessary alterations, but • it is a pity that so little care should be taken in framing important Bills. "I may add that ' pay such cheque,' although collo quilly used, is not good English. What you do is to pay the amount of the cheque. " Your obedient servant, Ct The folloWing note purports to show that bankers hive no means of protecting themselves against the possibility of the crossings of cheques being oblite rated by chemical means. The argument is that the use of prepared paper could not be enforced, as some customers do not use printed cheques, but plain writing paper. Hence a suggestion that it the new law is passed the bankers must refuse pay ing any crossed cheques whatever. Of course it will be perfectly open for them to do so. The question they would first have to consider would be whether new banks would not be immediately started that would consent to accept the full responsibility thus attempted to be resisted, and which, after all, is . only such as, until a few years back, was generally supposed to exist. It is to be remarked, moreover, that banks are not compelled to pay upon cheques drawn on other than their own form, provided thy , y choose to make a s ti pu l a ti on to that effect, which it would be perfectly reasonable for th©m to do. Finally, it must be pointed out that the way in which the banking interest generally have used their influence to obtain exceptional legislation in their favour, and to avoid having legitimate respon sibility thrown upon them, is neither conducive to their reputation nor their permanent prosperity. It was a great error of Parliament to allow a clause to be introduced in the Penny Receipt Act to ex onerate them from the consequencos of paying • cheques with forged endorsements. Bankers were - at liberty to refuse to receive accounts except on a private stipulation that this liability should not be encountered, and there was consequently no occa sion to alter the general tenour of the law of the land to meet their convenience. With regard to thedanger of paying crossed cheques,the experience of many years can be cited to show that it is little more than nominal, and the same is the case as regards forgeries. The loss which to a banking firm would be of small consideration in their yearly ave rage might, however, be ruinous to au individual customer, and it is bad policy on their part to restrict the advantages that may b 3 gained by resorting to them. Everything that diminishes the convenience and security of a banking account must in the end be injurious to those who carry OD the trade ; and there is less excuse for the narrow course taken, since, not only would th e d anger o f the responsibility be of a triflinc , character, but there would be the power, by establishing a clear ing -house guarantee lund, to reduce it t o a mini mum, point. If any private or joint-stock batik, without wai . ing fur alterations of the law, would at once invite cus t omers b y a promise not' to avail itself of the exemptions that now can be pleaded against responsibilities that should naturally fall upon such concerns, it would deserve to receive the support of every house interested in the main tenance and extemion of healthy commercial usages : " 14, Lower Berkeley-street, dune 7 " Sir, --In your article t,-.lay about crossed chcqu . es you say, 'lf they ( ~a nkert.) were to suffer from crossing, being obliterated by chemical means, it would simply be from their own neglect in not having their cheques printed on paper that would preclit le the possibility of their being tampered with.' As customers are not obliged to have printed cheques, and often write them on plain writing paper, if bankers are to be responsible for not lin.ling out an undiscoverable obliteration as above, they will be obliged, in order to protect themselves, to refuse paying any crossed cheques whatever.--I am, Sir, your obedient servant, " T. RAIKES." Annexed is anotller communication on banking matters, which indicates that the resort to legal pleas by bankers to escape reasonable responsibility is not generally regarded as creditable, and deser vedly points to the quarter whence the most con spicuous instance of the kind has proceeded " London, June 5. "Sir,--In the c it y article of the limes of to-day an observation is made with reference to the reposed new law regarding cr osse d cheques, to the effect p that private bankers might perhaps refus e to receive accounts eb if any be E.dditional responsibility were throw n on th the joint-stock banks certainly would not do ne; t Permit t t one case has as yet so. hee me to observe that only before the public in which a bank paid a cheque u brought crossed `and Co.,' to a private person, and denied its liability to loss in consequence, and in that case a joint-stock banking company were the defendants.----I am, Sir, your obedient servant, " A PRIVATE BANKER." Another correspondent makes the following practical remarks on the loose recommendations lately given with respect to non-compliance with the letter of the law in the mode of cancelling cheque stamps : " Sir,---The Chancellor of the Exchequer has announced the practice followed by the Bank of England in regard to the cancelling of adhesive stamps, and has expressed a hope that the other banking establishments will follow the example. It is very desirable, however, that law and practice should correspond, particularly where the former gives so explicit directions as to require that the names or initials written across the stamp shall be the mode of dis charging it. " In the case of a cash credit on which draughts have been passed, and the adhesive stamp may not have been crossed, except in some such manner as that the date or amount in figures has been marked on it, and where the principal on the cash credit bond has afterwards become bankrupt, the securities, when called on to pay up the amount, will find legal grounds for disputing their liability for the debt incurred by such draughts. Persons in their position are not unfrequently inclined to take advantage of such deviations from the law, and it is not fair towards our judges, when the legal enactment is special, to ask them to admit the authority of practice. " The suggestion that the mode of cancelling draught stamps should be enlarged was so reasonable, and the opportunity for doing so in the bill which is being pre -1101,1 by the Attorney-General so fit, that would be well A. the Chancellor of the Exchequer would it reconsider the subject. " There is another point in r e f erence to draughts on bankers, which practical men, so far as I can learn, would approve. It iN that id, should be enacted that all draughts wherever orb owever without any exemptiornawn' should be subject to the auty hatever. There are two reasons forthis. The first is that commercial voucher should be intact or complete in itselfa. been Intls exemptionr by personal presentation, which has s t e a d in practice, ques tions may arise long after —at the authorised who are securities on a cash credditstabS. swayh'oemfPaeyrBdeinss proofs be necee pute the personal presentation, an d sary to establish it. The second reason is that it is doubt presentation of a chequ e on a cash - fill if the personal dit, whereby a debt is contracted, and not ere money of the taken, would be legal without a stamp drawer's own Could not this also be remedied in the bill now being pre: pared by the Attorney-General by it being required that all draughts shall, without exception, bear the stamp ?..... I am, sir, your most obedient servant, _ " Scotland, June 4." .1 1 A BANKER. ritE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 10, 1868. THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH EXPEDI- TION. PLYMOUTH, JUNE 9. The wire squadron, as it is termed in nautical circles here, is still anchored in the Sound, and only waiting now the signal which will permit its clear ing out to sea. As far as preparations are con cerned, every vessel was in a position to start yes terday evening, and the only cause assigned for the continuance of the delay is that Professor Hughes has not yet completed those electrical experiments through the coil which, w e are told, will result in a greatly improved rate of speed in transmitting tabtthe words. At present the arrangement is Agamemnonday) is evening,btuot get n it ude r w would e er t ay ai n t o l y - e morrowsurprise e ( T n u o e r: e here to find this still further delayed, and it is not beat all pu thattinaepffrobtadbilesezteunrdnaoyw morning. Everything, the starting will however, is completed for going at a moment's notice, and within an hour after the signal is hoisted all four vessels could be clear outside and going down the Channel. Since the return, both the Agamemnon and the Niagara have each re ceived an additional length of 50 miles of wire, and every spot on which coals could be piled, and on very many where, as it turned out, they could not, the vessels have been crammed choke full. This, as we have before r emar k e d , makes very little dif ference iu the trim of the Agamemnon, but the poor Niagara seems as if the provocation of another ton or two wouid send her to the bottom. It is impossible for any one to look now at her heavy water-logged aspect and believe she is of the enormous tonnage stated. The Himalaya, which anchored near her, though five shorter, has a finer shape, and looks in every way a fair match for the Transatlantic frigate. It has been erroneously supposed by some that, as during the experi mental trip the cable was broken two or three times in rapid succession on board each ship, the trial was therefore a failure, and that the path to success with the undertaking itself is still as obscure and difficult as ever. These opinions, however, have no foundation in fact. The experimental trip was decided on for the pur pose of putting the cable and the various apparatus for laying it to the most severe tests, and, in fact, to make mishap s , i n or d er t h at the value of the dif ferent machines for remedying such disasters might be practically ascertained. From the beginning it was i n t en d e d t o l ose or expend the cable with which these experiments were made and fur this v e ry p ur p ose t h e Agamem non and Niagara were each provided with some 20 miles of coil which had been condemned as worth less by the company's engineers. We have already informed our readers in what manner this was ex pended in the Bay of Biscay ; let us now see the results which have been achieved from such trials. Every step in the whole course of the experiments was watched with the moat jealous care, and at the time of the first fracture of the cable it was re marked with surprise on beard the Agamemnon that the rope had parted in the machine in stead of, ashes always been the case in submerging cables, at the last wheel going over the stern. The second, third, and fourth fractures also taking place between the wheels of the paying out appa ratus, and in precisely the same spot as the first break, endeavours were made to account for these unpleasant coincidences. The cause was soon ascertained. In the process of paying out, the cable passes over two large wheels, each of which has four very deep V shaped grooves. Before the present improved paying out apparatus was de signed, the great difficulty in sinking cables had been their liability to surge when an attempt was made to check their speed--that is, the rope slipped over the wheels without turning them. In the pre sent machine, to obviate this serious danger, each of the eight grooves in the wheels was made with a regularly increasing circumference of one-eighth of an inch, so that the slack rope, if any, would ba absorbed entirely in the continued stretching the rope underwent in passing round. Apparently the increase of circumference was so trifling as to be of no importance either one way or the other, but a moment's reflectio n s h ows th a t , i n reality, it effected such a chauge in the condition of the rope as would render it little short of an impossibility to submerge it without breaking. The increase of one-eighth of an inch in each groove stretched the piece one inch and one-eighth in passing through the machine. The whole length of the wire in the machine at one time is 120 feet, but 30 feet makes a complete cir cumference of the two grooved wheels, and, of course, as there couldtheu be no surging or slipping back, it amounted to a stretch of one inch and one eighth in each 30 feet for every fresh length of 30 feet, so to speak, " went through the mill,", and was stretched to its gradually increasing diameter, coming out at last 30 feet 1/ inch long. If the whole length of cable was thus paid out, it would stretch it some 11 m'les longer than it is n o w. A weight of one to n suspended GO feet of the wire stretches it one inch, but it would require nearly three tons to stretch 30 feet 1!,. inch longer. What made this strain the worse was that it was one of which the dynamometer indicated but a small share. Therefore, when the cable broke between the wheels, wi 11 the dynamometer standing a certain strain, it only gave the amount of force required to overcome the resistance of the machinery and brakes, with the addition of the strain exerted at a powerful leverage to stretch the wire between the wheels. f n truth, therefore, there is no knowing the actual weight at which the coil broke, and it can only be presumed that, as the company have made many huudreds of experiments on its strength, and have never yet met even with a faulty piece which broke at less than four tons, while very many have stood as high as eight, none of the ropes broken during the experimental trip gave way at a lower strain than the lowest we have mentioned. Directly the trip was over and the squadron anchored in the Sound there was a general meeting of all the engi neers and others in charge of the machinery on board both the Agamemnon and Niagara, and what ever doubts remained as to the risk incurred by the iucreasing diameters of the wheel grooves were at once done away with when it was found that the Niagara's cable had on all occasions also broken in the machine, and at precisely the same spot as the same accident occurred on the English vessel. This was regarded as conclusive, and accordingly it was resolved to land the wheels at Keyharn and have all the grooves planed down to the same diane ter s, which was done forthwith. Mr. Amos and Mr. Ap pold objected to this operation as unne in asmuchunnecessary, as the wire was not stretched 1 inch in 30 feet, but only 1 inch in 120, and that in fact the stretching was required to prevent the coil surging or paying back. At the same time, however, they distinctly expre sse d th e i r opinion that though un necessary the planing down would do no harm. There can be no manner of doubt but that this al teration is a most important and valuable improve ment. There is not the least possibility of the cable surging, as the tar prevents it. When the action of the machinery was reversed for hauling in, of course the cable was wound in at the largest wheel and off at the smallest, and the cable, if ever, would have surged then, but it never did, though the strain at one time was at its highest point. As far as other matters went on board the Niagara the experiment was perfect. At no time did the dynamometer indicate a higher strain upon the wire than 51 cwt.—about 6 cwt less than that on board the Agamemnon. The greatest speed at which the coil was run out was at the rate of 100 fathoms in 64 seconds, or rather less than 6 nautical miles an hour ; about the same (within a few fathoms) of the greatest speed of the Agamemnon. The Niagara not only cast loose her large buoy and buoyed four miles of cable, but she also attached one of h er sma l l b uoys at about a mile from the largest. Both answered the purpose in everyrespect. Shortly after buoying with the smallest the coil parted from the Niagara, mad the sudden jerk caused it to the same break away f rom b ot h the buoys in precisely manne r as it occurred with the Agamem non's wire. Aenexamination into the cause of this the cable to the buoys showed at one that the fastenings used to secure grip or strength, in oys were not sufficient either in have accordingly beeenase-otf any sudden pull. These ta h l tr er . ed, and made capable of enduring ten times the of theain the wire can ever put or fr al om a semicircle. to a slight meg solnigthhtelymm. The dified f , splice also has been ment of a circle, and by this the chance of the wire still further guarded untwisting in its descent is against. Thus, every precaution -vhich skill and foresight. aided by practical experience, Can su ge t has been adopted, and all the apparatus may now be regarded as perfect. Some doubt still exists whether the Agamemnon will sail or be towed to her destination in mid ocean. Captain Hudson of the Niagara, is determined on steaming ; b u t the Agamemnon is already so full that it is no longer doubtful that she cannot take the coals ne cessary for 18 days' steaming. Though the sacks are stowed in temporary 'Junkets along the main deck, it has nct been found possible to cram more into her than 480 tons, or, at the most extreme computation, only coal for 15 days. Under the most favourable circumstances this is the time she must occupy in the voyage ; but if even a single day were lost _ in making the splice she would be unable to steam at the most critical part of the voyage, namely, when approaching the coast of Ir e l an d. H ow this difficulty is to be got over is not yet decided, though most probably it will be arranged by giving the Agamemnon, towed by the Valorous, a couple of d a y s ' s t art of the Nia gara. This would do all that is wanted. The Por roiantiety Bay, Por cupine surveying vessel has a l rea d y b een despatched to Newf oundland. She will wait for the Niagarna and pilot her caref u lly th roug h i ts navigation to the Bay of Bulls, where, if Fall goes well, the wire will be landed and the latest advices from New York and Washington instantly transmitted. During the paying out no messages are to be sent through the wire from ship to ship, but merely constant currents to show that the insuq latiou and electrical continuity are perfect. The rendezvous in mid ocean for which the squadron steers on leaving is 52 deg. 2 min. north latitude, 33 deg. 18 min. west longitude. Where the American side of the cable will bo landed is in 47 deg. 49 min. north, 54.0 west, and the telegraph house at Valentia is in 51 deg. 56 min. north, 10 deg. 25 min. west. The precise distance between the two points is 1,720 nautical miles. The length of wire in both veseels amounts to 2,966 nautical miles, so that there is at least 80 or 90 per cent. allowed for slack and contingencies. In our account of the experiment trip we stated that Mr. Wood house went on board the Niagara as electrician. This was a mistake. Mr. Woodhouse went as superintending engineer, and Professor Whitehouse was electrician. THE BALLOT. (From the Daily News.) In the division of Tuesday night there voted for the Ballot : all the Members for the Cities of Lon don and Westminster and the Metropolitan Bo roughs, except two who voted against it, and two who were absent ; the Members for Birmingham, Manchester, Salford, Sheffield, Southampton, Edin burgh, Glasgow, Paisley, and Dundee. There is scarcely one of these gentlemen who is not a man of mark in the Liberal ranks, independently of the importance reflected upon him by the con stituency he represents. There is not one of them that can fairly be called a man of extreme opinions —for even Mr. Roebuck will be allowed to be no mob-flatterer, and Mr. Bright is an intensely " middle-class man." An immense majority of the gentlemen who supported Mr. H. Berkeley's mo tion with their votes are quite asinfluential leaders of public opinion as those we have specified. Thera can be no doubt that the 222 members of the House of Commons—voters, tellers, and pairs—who on Tuesday night recorded their votes in favour ofthe Ballot constitute the substantial strength of the Liberal Party, and they constitute one entire third of the representative branch of the Legislature. It is rather ominous, therefore, to find opposed to this phalanx such a large proportion of those whose claims to office are mainly based upon the belief that they enjoy the confidence of the Liberal Party. Let us run over this dispiriting muster-roll : Members of the late Cabinet—Lord Palmerston, Sir G. C. Lewis, Sir G. Grey, Mr. Labouchere, Sir C. Wood, Mr. Vernon Smith, Mr. M. Talb Baines. Members of the late Government—Mr. R. Lowe, Sir A. Ramsay, Mr. J. E. Elliott, Mr. W. F. Cowper. Liberal Leaders not in the late Government.— Lord John Russell, Sir. F. Baring, Lord Melgund. Peelites.—Mr. Gladstone, Mr. Sidney Herbert. In vain would we attempt to shut our eyes to the fact. A gulf is opening between the official Li berals and the elite of their party, across which ere long it may be impossible for either to pass to the aid of the other. The Ballot is only one question ; but it is one of many which mark the distinction between the existing generation of Liberals, and the survivors of a past ge nera ti on of Liberals, or those who have inherited its traditions. In 1830 2 the advocates of the Ballot were a minority among the already enfranchised, perhaps even among these whose enfranchisement was contemplated by E arl Grey's Reform Bill. It was easy, therefore, for the Whig leaders to persuade public meetings—. except in the case of open-air meetings in the mann facturingdistricts—to keepsilence about the Ballot, lest dissension should be introduced into the Re- form ranks. It was still more easy for them to suppress all mention of the subject in Parliament. Nearly thirty years have elapsed since that time. Since then a new generation of politicians has emerged into active rife, who take their opinions from the circumstances and discussions of the time in which they live. Events have taught men who startled at the idea of Vote by Ballot as a novelty, and men who thought nothing about the matter, to recognise it as an urgent necessity. The lan guage they hold upon the subject is the first that has been heard by the younger generation of poli ticians; it has been incessantly dinned into their ears until it has become part of their political creed. The third part of the House of Commons who vote for the Ballot represent the existing opinion of liberal progressive England. The other two thirds represent the opinions of the masters of counties and close boroughs. The official Liberals we have enumerated above must make up their minds to choose between the two parties. Whatever their choice, we have no wish to deny that it will be made in good faith. We know how difficult it is for men strengthened and confirmed in their opinions by the conflicts of well nigh half a century to unlearn the lessons of their youth. But while we shall respect their consistency we must admit that it relegates them to political inaction. The adherents of tie political creed of an extinct generation cannot possibly be the leaders of a new generation which has abjured that creed. We entirely concur in the complaint made by Mr. Bright of the manner in which this question has of late years been discussed in the House of Commons. While the votes recorded in favour of Vote by Ballot have been steadily increasing, the interest of the debates has been proportionally de creasing. A few of the supporters of the Ballot have made it the groundwork of jocular and telling addresses ; the far greater number have merely made tame duty speeches in its favour, in order that they might be able to say to their constituents that they had spoken for it. But the deep and growing earnestness with which the great mass of the community yearn for this boon has found no adequate echo in the Legislature. In the House of Commons the supporters of Vote by Ballot argue in its favour as coldly and calmly as they would demonstrate some abstract proposition 7n Euclid. They are met, not by arguments, but by trivial jokes, or by haughty declarations that no concession will be made. Honourable members complain of the pertinacity which bores them with such a discussion year after year ; and the Times, and their other flatterers in the press, echo the complaint with exegg!rated foppishness. But eut of doors the craving for the Ballot is a burning passion. Every supercilious denunciation of it— every silly jest at its expense—is recorded and treasured up as an insult to be avenged. The tenant, the cloth, the working man, the poor man in embarrassed circumstance., compelled to vote so•ainst their conv i ct i on ; the i nte lli gent artisan, who longs for the franchise as a recognition of his full right of citizenship, and yet shrinks from it lest its exercise should become a badge of slavery ; all these are almost as little edified by the wit of their advocates as by the insolence of their opponents. In what temper are such men likely to read a remark that fell from Mr. Sotheron-Estcourt ? " Since the last general election, he fell in with a constituent of his—a farmer. He asked him what he thought of the Ballot. His reply was that he was all for the Bal lot, for at the last election he had to vote against his conscience, having been solicited for his vote both by his landlord and the parson's wife. He (Mr. Estcourt) did not see of what use the Ballot would have been to such a person except to cover his delinquency." What does Mr. Estcourt mean by " delinquency ?" Doss he mean that it would havelbeen "delinquency" in a farmer to act!accord ing to his co nsc i ence ? or d oes be scorn the man who had not courage to assert his conscientious conviction at the risk of ruin to himself and family ? Mr. Estcourt has a keen eye for the cowardice of the unconscientous voter ; but he is blind to the ruthless tyranny of those who intimidated him. He sees the mote in the farmer's eye ; he cannot see the beam in his own. Ho and his class make cowardly rascals of their tenants-at-will; and then taunt them for being what they have made them. Our squirearchy are using their wealth as the Barons of old used their arms : first they degrade their weaker neighbours, and then they jeer openly at their degradation. What the consequences of Beronial oppression were, may be read in the in- surreetions of communes, in the jacqueries of peasants, in the French Revolution. Th e self-will of our squires way in its turn produce like bitter fruits. But we are wandering beyond the subject to which it was our object to call attention. One-third of the House of Commons support the principle of secret voting. This third of our representatives speaks the wishes of nine-tenths of the out-of-doors speculativeiil \7. iv Vivian community. Read over their names, you will find the list to be composed for the most part of men like William Scholefield, Aspinall Turner, \Val oyster Which t Wal ter Buchanan, Adam Black. These are not wild Gray, look ; they are not men who, entertain for any consideration . look upon " the world as their would with sword will ope ;" they ate Vote by Ballot is thnes'raceffisUeltt not me who o o f i p )i r n o i t o r r a is ete t d he a y ni c i lo ci n o o se t 'deration. Their advocacy of observation ; it is the consequence of rooted con viction. They cannot' principle will not p •vv e tt o t f t the handful of even if they could, their constituents their minds, and threelt the L w i change their s. The secret voting is What h for the Party of Progress leaven of the Parable was for the a measures ,chseorp o ael f meal among which it was hidden. is steadily going on to leaven the whole mass, is there, then, for a re-organisation of party so long as we see all its members, to m men have been accustomed to look as aspirants to high office, obstinately opposing the e arnest and I growing wish of the only party from whichltbey ; can expect effective support ? So long as this an tagonism between the leaders and the followers exists, we may have intermittent, ephemeral ac cessions of the Liberal party to office, bat we can have no permanent, powerful Liberal Government. Unless the Liberals who have hitherto led can be brought to concede the point of the Ballot, the Party of Progress must be contented to remain in its present disorganised and unsatisfactory state until new leaders can form themselves, and earn the confidence of the public, in the Parliamentary arena. Did we believe that it was reasonable con viction that rendered the old leaders hostile to the Ballot, we would not urge this consideration upon them : but no man who watches their sayings and can fail to see that there opposition to it is simply a matter of personal feeling. Are we to accept the absence of Sir James Graham and Lord Stanley from the Division as an indication that their eyes have been couched ? NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE. The assembling of the garrison in honour of the visit of his Excellency' the Swedish Ambassador and some other foreign personages, who intend visiting Woolwich to-day, is ordered to take place at two o'clock p.m. Col. Bloomfield, aide-do-camp to her Majesty and senior officn of the garrison, attended by the local staff will receive the distin guished visitors, and accompany them to the re view ground and over the departments of the Royal Arsenal. . . For some time past serious complaints have been made by the military au: horities connected with the several branches of the service at Chatham of the scarcity of water in that garrison, and this scarcity has within the last week increased to such an extent that garrison orders have been issued directing that the troops are to discontinue their baths in the se veral ablution rooms, and that every precaution be taken to prevent any waste of water. The garrison is supplied wish water from several old wells and tanks which have been in use for some period, and, although there are waterworks established for the supply of the whole of the barracks, the authorities have not yet taken the necessary steps to obtain an unlimited supply from that source. In addition to the inccnvenience arising from a deficiency of water the barracks at Chatham are in a very crowded state. The authorities have attempted to get over the difficulty by placing several hundred troops under canva., but owing to the continued arrival of recruits to join the various East India regiments at Chathaua the nuwbar of men occupying the barrack-rooms is still dispropor tionably large. At Brompton barracks a large por tion of the building has bean set apart for a hospital, in which about 200 s'ck soldiers are packed in the very centre of a barrack crowded with troops. Already there have been several cases of measles and small-pox among the troops, caused, there is no doubt, by the overcrowding of the men. In accordance with a divisional order the whole of the troops attached to the head-quarters of the Chatham division of Royal Marine Light Infantry were drawn up on their parade-ground yesterday morning, for the purpose of witnessing the cere mony of reading the sentence of a district court martial on private John Moulton, 73d company, who was tried on a charge of having deserted f rom head-quart ers , an d no t returning until brou g ht b ac k by military escort. The prisoner, who has b orne a very bad character in the corps, was sentenced to be imprisoned for 168 days in the military prison, Fort Clarence, Rochester. The Cadmus, 21, steam screw corvette, is ordered to be brought lor ward at Chatham for commissioning. Capt. F. W. Haultain, 10 Battalion Royal Are il lery, has taken up his appointment as Captain In structor of Artillery in the Royal gun factories, Woolwich, vacant by the resignation of Captain Vandeleur. The gunboat Misletoe and Julia have been docked at Woolwich, and the Spanker and Sandy un docked and admitted into the fitting basin. The Admiralty c.B„of yachtthe VVictory,o i e v t id r / in command of C a pt. Seymour,y, in the sp ec i a l ser vice of the Prince Consort, returned to Woolwich yesterday. The following appointments were made yesterday at the Admiralty : Commander M. B. Cockraft to be Inspecting Commander of the Coastguard, vice Commander St. Ledger, whose period of service has expired ; R. N. Tarraway, second master, to the Oberon ; and F. Gilbert, paymaster, to the Imaum. THE FLOWER SHOW AT CHISWICK. The fete of the Horticultural Society yesterday was, happily, governed with the three most essen tial elements of a successful exhibition of the kind—charming flowers, elegant company, and magnificent weather. It was a display iu every respect worthy to be associated with those earlier show fetes of Flora, when as yet Fluvius had not taken to mar the festivities by his cumbrous showers. The recent election of the Prince Consort as the president of the society, combined with the exer tions which have been made by the best friends of horticulture, appear to have given new life and vigour to the society. Notwithstanding floral fetes at the Crystal Palace, the Botanic Society Gardens, and elsewhere, the publiccannot spare these charm ing reunions of Chiswick, and it would have been a lasting shame to us if the appeal made a short time since to the public to assist the society in pre serving these delightful grounds had not been libe rally responded to. It is almost entirely owing to the exertions of the Horticultural Society that gar dening in the United Kingdom has reached its un rivalled position. The flower, fruit, and vegetable shows throughout the kingdom took their origin from the parent society, and Sir J. Paxton and other eminent men may date their success in life from their knowlege first obtained at the gardens at Chiswick. The expenses incurred by the society have been heretofore mainly defrayed by the pro fits obtained out of the garden exhibitions ; but unpropitious weather, the attractions of the Crystal Palace flower shows, their accessi bility, and that of the Botanic Gardens, have materially damaged the old society's earnings in this respect. There is really no reason what ever why the Crystal Palace should be preferred to Chiswick, even in regard to its accessibility, if only a little exertion was used to make the facilities ef reaching the gardens duly known. Chiswick is not so far fr. m London as the Crystal Palace—=team boats go to within a short distance of the grounds ; the North London Railway, in connection with the Brentford branch, provide a station scarcely 100 yards from the society's grounds ; the South- Western Railway carry passengers from Vauxhall i or Waterloo-b r id g e to Chi sw i c k it se lf , an d th er e s an entrance into the grounds direcly opposite the railway station, only unfortunately it is not always open, and was not open yesterday, and those who went down by that line had a pretty little rural walk of about half a mile along the Sutton green lane, with a delicious odour of roses, laburnums, and white and pink May, and the newly mowngrass, which 'twere worth a much longer walk to enjoy By the South-Western Railway the entrance is at the rosary and American plant garden, and the contrast between the rich and luxurious blossoms of the rhodiodendron and the carefully cultvated garden, contrast strongly w ith th e rus ti c simplicity of the line, and the few neat but straggling.coiin try-looking cottages. The whole of the Chiswick gardens have been newly arranged ; and it must be remembered that here most of the trees and shrubs are rare specimens, and labelled with their common and botanical name., and tile collection of fruit trees is the most perfect in the world. We rejoiced to see that the public, who used to flock to Chiswick in the days of its glory, thousands who love flowers and fruit, and everything connected with a garden, did endeavour to show their grati tude for benefits conferred by the society, by an attendance which, if not, perhap?, quite so nume rous as on some occasions ihat we have witnessed, might the list of the compare w b i r t i h l brilliant eom an any of its r predecessorsrank and fashion w hi c h it con t a i ne d . At the head of gra tification of pl ac i ng the names of her Majesty , the Prince Conso r t, an d t h e Pr i ncesses Alice and y for th e Helena. w e have the The fruit and flowers were, occa sions, a rrange d b eneath the enormous mar quees, supplied from th e m mu f actory o f M r . B. Edging ton, of th e B orough. The geran i ums were, as usual, p er f ec t masses o f gorgeous co lours. The roses were as on former charming and delicious, the fruits tempting in the extreme, the orchids quaint and bizarre, and glowing bright in their colours. There was also a large show of horticultu ral fin ' plements o f a ll kinds, hot-houses, c onservatories, machines of all descriptions and forms us e d in the garden. Numerous specimens of Ransome's impe rishable siliceous stone fashioned into the most artistic of vases, gave the charms of the sculptor's art to the show, and presented a pleasing appear ance on the walks and lawn. Music was there, too, with all its charms ; and there are few among those present who will soon forget the admirable manne r in which the three unit e d Guards' bands performed the selections from the incomparable music of " William Tell," or the picturesque appearance of the Guards, with the groups of elegantly-dressed ladies promenading upon the clean mown sward, or seated apart beneath the cool shade of the deep Foliage of the trees. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.—June 9. (Before the Assistant-Judge at Clerkenwell.) Abdullab, 18, and Rumjan, 30, sailors, natives of Oude, were indicted for having stolen two watches, of the value of 91. 193., th e proper t y o f Richard Sayer Arnell. They were also indicted for having stolen two watches and two chains, the property of Bernard Davis. Mr. Salter appeared for the prosecution. The prosecutor, Mr. Arn-11, was a watchmaker and jeweller, carrying on business at 98, Edgware road, and it appeared that on May 10th the pri soners, who were in Asiatic costume, called at his shop, and said they wanted two watches for a gen tleman, and that they came from the Prince of Ou.le's. Two watches were packed up and handed to Rumjan, who went away, leaving Abdallah in the shop. In about half an hour Rumjan returned, and said he had not been able to show the watches to the Prince, as he had gone out, but he had left them with the Princess. Abdallah put his signa ture to a memorandum, and both went away, Mr. Arnell, of course, being under the impression that they really were connected with the Oude family. Subsequently Abdallah, Ramjan being in his com pany, pawned one of the watches at Mr. Gill's, 8, Hampstead-road ; the other was pawned, at Ram jan's request, by a person with whom he lodged in Ewer-street, Gravel-lane. In the other case, they obtained two watches in precisely the same man ner from Mr. Davis, 430, Euston-road. Abdallah told Mr. Davis that he was interpreter and reader to the Prince of Oude. Nawab Mehdee Koollie Khan Bahadoor, great grand-son of Nadir Shah, and secretary to the Prince of Oude, 15, Warwick-road West, examined through Mirza Ally Akbar Khan Bahadoor, inter preter, proved that neither of the prisonera be longed to the Prince's establishment, but they came over to this country as menials in the retinue of the Prince of Oude, who died some months back. They had no authority to say they were connected with any of the family. The Assistant Judge told the jury that the priso ners were guilty, if they intended t o ge t p ossess i on of the watches by a trick, and to deprive the owners of them. The Jury found them guilty. The Assistant Judge sentenced each to six months' hard labour in Coldbath-fields. Geo. Wise, 19, was indicted for feloniously em bezzling threw sums of money he had received on account of Ebenezer T. Jobbins, his master. Mr. Metcalfe was counsel for the prosecution, and Mr. Ribton for the prisoner. The prosecutor was a baker, at Kilburn, and the prisoner was in his employment, and had to carry bread to customers and receive money. In several instances he had appropriated sums he had received for his master to himself, and there were three charges in the indictment, having occurred within six months. The Assistant Judge held that the evidence in support of the third count did not amount to legal proof, and withdrew that count from the considera tion of the jury. In summing up, his lordship called the attention of the jury to the evidence bearing upon the third count with reference to the two first counts. Mr. Ribton submitted that such evidence ought to be altogether excluded, the particular charge to which it related having been struck out of the in dictment. The Assistant-Judge said he was satisfied that the evidence could properly be put before the jury. Mr. Kibton wished that the point might be re served for the Court of Criminal Appeal. The Assistant Judge could not accede to that, as he had no doubt at all that the point was not an arguable one, and the matter was one entirely within the discreticia of the Court. Mr. Rbton said that no doubt it was so, but the law was very ano ma l ous on th e subject. Ifthe mat ter in dispute was a bill of exchange, he ee--crld go to the full Court and apply for a ntw trial on the ground of misdirection, but in a case of this kind, it depended upon the mere will of the presid ing judge whether he would allow a point to be reserved. He knew of a case in which Mr. Baron Platt positively refused to reserve a point, and a sentence of death was passed. The Home Office, however, caus©d the point to be stated, and it was successful, and the prisoner was thereby saved from being hanged. An improvement of the law in this respect was greatly needed. The Assistant-Judge said he must perform his duty as the law required, as it was now. He could not, using his discretion, reserve the point. The prisoner was found guilty on the two counts, and was sentenced to six months' hard labou r . Charles Brewer, 27, and Robert Clarke, 42, were indicted for stealing six trusses of hay, the property of William Pullin, of Highgate, their master, and Thomas Malton, a carman, having a stable at th e Boston Arms, J unction-road, Kentish Town, was indicted for receiving the same feloniously. Mr. Cooper prosecuted ; Mr. Sleigh clefendod Clarke, Mr. H. Brown was for Malton, and Mr. F. H. Lewis appeared for Brewer. The jury . a . cquitted Clarke and Malton, and found Brewer guilty. He was sentenced to eight months' hard labour. POLICE INTELLIGENCE._ June 9. GUILDITALL.—Jonathan Mirehouse, a well dressed young man, was placed at the bar, before Alderman Mechi, charged with being found in the unlawful possession of a gold chronometer, value 481., and a gold guard chain, value 121., which had been obtained of M essrs . Parkinson andFrodsham, of Change-alley, Corehill, by fraudulent means. It appeared from the evidence that a detective officer, named Green, having gone to the warehouse where the accused was employed, after some con versat'on received from him the watch in question, which was one of several alleged to have been ob tained from various jewellers under fradulent pre tences, by a man named Rawson, now in Newgate on the charge. The accused further admitted that Rawson was his brother, and that he had re ceived the watch and chain for him to take care of. After some further evidence, The prisoner was remanded. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. —ATTEMPTED SUI - —Eliza Lloyd was brought before Mr. Bing ham, charged with having attempted to drown herself in the Serpentine. Geore Clark, 12, Brunswick-street, clerk, said he was in Hyde-park on Tuesday a b ou t 12 o'clock in the day, when he saw something floating in the Serpentine. He immediately went into the water, and ascertaining that it was a woman on the point of drowning, he, with assistance, got her our, but not without opposition on her part, and cries of "Let me die, let me die." It appeared that the prisoner was a servant out of place. She had, within a few weeks, lost two good situations, one in Conduit-street the other in Princes-street, The prisoner having expressed contrition for her conduct, Mr. Bingham decided on remanding the prisoner till Saturday, when she would be delivered into the care of her friends. DANGEROUS CONDITION OF THE CELL DRAINS. The business of the court was yesterday for some time suspended, owing to the dreadful stench aris ing from the drains connected with the cells on the basement. It was necessary to throw open all the windows and doors in order to ventilate the court, and of course this process could only go on while public business was suspended. The same thing has occurred from time to time during the last two or three years ; and though the dangerous and insuf ferable nuisance has been frequently brought under the notice of the proper authorities, nothing has been done to remedy it beyond a little use l ess patchwork alteration. The drain, it appears,is of brick, and is said to be below the level of the ma i n sewers, which prevents the soil from running olf. During the present hot weather, besides the nuisance of the s ti n k, there is the danger of an infectious disease manifesting itself. a protection, and left the court evidently disap pointed that the act did not protect her. GREENWICH. —CONVICTION OF A POLICE CONSTABLE FOR NEGLECT OF DUTY. Thomas Hawkes, police-constable 140 AI, was charged be fore Mr. Seeker, bypirection of the Commissioners of Police, with neglect of duty. Edmund Lyle, maser mariner, of 4, Elizabeth terrace, Rotherhithe, said—On Wednesday, the 2nd inst., wishing to give a woman, named Ann Swanson (since convicted, and sentenced to two months' imprisonment) iu charge, for robbing me of certain articles of wearing apparel, and not see ing a policeman, I went to the station-house, and there saw Sergeant Cooper, 20 M, who sent the defendant with me to my house, where the woman was working. On the way the defendant asked me why I had not got the man on the beat to take the - charge. I told him I had riot seen a constable, or I should not have walked to the station. We then went to the house, and on entering the kitchen I called the woman and told her I intended giving her into custody for robbing me, and told the defendant to take her away. The defendant remarked, " Come on, old woman, you must go with me." The woma n re pli e d that she would when she got her bonnet on, and went into the back kitchen apparently for that purpose. The defendant then said he would go out and see if he could find a constable on the beat, and left the house, returning about five minutes afterwards with police-constable 300 M. Whilst defendant was away I went and fastened the front door, thinking the woman might attempt to escape, and on going to the back kitchen to see where she was, I found her in the water-closet, where I have every reason to believe she . contrived to get rid of pawnbrokers' duplicates relating to the stolen property. The woman was taken to the station by the other constable, and on the way there the defendant remarked to me that he was on the sick list, and that it wasno part of his duty to take the charge. The defendant said lie bad bee❑ told by his super intendant to change his clothing on the day in question, and that he did not think he was doing wrong in getting another constable, only being absent a minute. Mr. Superintendent Brandon here remarked that the defendant had not received any special order to change his clothing as stated, the order being f_x the men generally. Mr. Seeker said that the defendant, having been sent to do a particular duty, he ought to have carried it out. Mr. Superintendent Brandon, in reply to a ques tion, said the defendant had been eight years in the firce ; and when confronted with the .corn phinant, he denied ever having seen the woman before he brought the constable, in consequence of which the present charge had been preferred. Mr. Seeker said the charge preferred against the defendant was one of the heaviest that could be brought against a police-constable, whose duty it was to take such hold as the law allowed of persons given into custody, and to keep them safe until brought before the proper authorities. The con duct of the defendant had, in his opinion, been most culpable, and had, he thought, led to what the complainant stated, the making away with that which would have at once shown where the stolen property was to be found. So wilful a dis regard of duty could not have been committed, as the defendant had reiterated, innocently, and he (the magistrate) thought it almost unnecessary to mark his sense of such conduct by inflicting the full penalty of 101 , or three months' imprisonment. He should, however, impose a fine of 205., and in default of payment to be imprisoned one month. The defendant, who repeatedly asked his worship not to inflict a penalty, as that would lead to his dismissal from the force, was then removed iu custody. HAUIMERSMITH._IbIPORTANT APPLICATION. —THE METROPOLITAN BOARD OF WORKS V. CHISWICK.—Mr. Woolrych, the clerk of the Me tropolitan Board of Works, amompanied by several gent!emen, applied to Mr. Ingham for an allow ance to a poor rate assessed upon the parish of Chiswick, by order of the Metropolitan Board, in default of thewovereeers of the parish. Mr. Wool rych stated th 4 at in 1856 the board issued a precept upon the overseers of Chiswick to raise the sum of 9311. 175., being part of a debt due to the late Commissioners of Sewers. The overseers had re fused to obey the precept, and the Metropolitan Board now proceeded as the law allowed, to make a rate, considered as a poor rate, and to send down their own collector to receive the money. Mr. Ingham said this was the first case of the kind that bad been brought under his notice, and therefore he wished to know under what clause of the r et the board pr, needed. Mr. Woolrych said similar rates had been made in St. George's, Hanover-square, and also in Lam beth, and the m ag i s t ra t es had allowed them. The clau.es under which they acted were, first, the 188th, 161st, and the 181st. Mr. li,gham asked if Chi4wick was not included in the area of the Metropolitan Board ? Mr. Woolrych said it was not, but was included in tlie area of the late Commissioners of Sewers. The act gave the board power to recover from the outlying parishes all the debts due to the late commissioners Mr. Ingham said, in the 181st sectiou be saw that the board bad power to require of the over seers in the outlying parishes to pay, but it gave them no- powers to enforce it. Mr. Nroolrych admitted that the clause was no . carefully drawn, but argued at some length tha hid worship should take into consideration the join , effect of the three clauses. Mr. Ingham said there was considerable force in the arguments of Mr. Woolryeh, but at the same time he entertained a doubt whether he had any power to proceed in this way. Under the 161st section the board had power to apply for a man damus in the Court of Queen's Bench for the over seers to be compelled to collect the rate. It was an extremely important case, and he thought the board should go to the Court. Mr. Woolrych said they would very likely be too late this term, and it was doubtful whether they would be able to obtain the mandamus for some months. It was a very important matter to the exchequered ratepapers, as they would ha v e t o p a y the money, i ns t ea d of those who lived in the parish when the rate was assessed. His worship would remember that those objections could be raised upon an appeal against the rate. Mr. Ingham), after considering the question, thought he might allow the rate, from the fact that all he had t o d o a t th e present time was to see that the rate was duly made by an authorised body. The other points could be raised upon summonses being applied for. His worship accordingly allowed the rate, by attaching his hand and seal to the rate-book. THAMES. --CANNIBALISM. —Johanna Foley, an Irishwoman, aged 30, was brought before Mr. Yardley, charged with violently assaulting her rela tive, Julia Foley, and biting off part of one of her fingers. It was a case of Irish row in Nightingale buildings, Ropemakers'-fields, Limehouse, where more savage assaults have teen committed than in any other part of the district assigned to this court. Evidence having been given, a portion of the third finger of the prosecutrix's right hand was put before the magistrate and th: n handed round the table of the court. It had been bitten clean off between the first and second joints, and the nail, which exhibited no indications of cleanliness, was quite perfect. The prisoner entered into a long history of fa mily rows and feuds, which the magistrate said had nothing to do with the case, She then said, "I don't know whether I Bit her finger off or not." Mr. Yardley—l can't pretend to punish such a case as this, I shall commit you for trial, and you may call any witnesses you may think proper Lefore a jury. S P PE E cT itst eL scri; paw l - E A: I 7 GLASSE& —S, and li. Solemons, opticians, 39, Albemarle- R H an s z iftiN A G N — D streJt, Piccadilly. Observe—opposite the York Hotel, W. 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Th e g reatadvantage • o scenery n and the derived LA.MBETH.--THE DIVORCE AND MATRIMONIAL from this invention is, that vision pre- CAUSES ACT.—A decently -dressed and rather good- served and strengthened and very aged persons are enabled 1 looki 0 , n„, young woman, applied to the magistrate ploy their si.ht at the t w o it e h ni those lenses ' of most minute occupation —can see ' for protection under the above act, and said that they do not require a the mu f eh less magnifying power—and her husband, who had left her, had threatened to gerous effects of furtber renqwneell changetan s to the dam. bring a broker and dispose of all her household san be suited at the most remote p part of the wo c r e il b Pe s rs en on d , goods ; and as they had been principally purchased ing one of the glasses out of their spectacles in a y , and stating the dist ince from the eye they . by her own money, she wished for a protection. with it, and those Mr. Elliott—flow long has your husband been stating , theirwho have not made use of spectacles by ago, Deafuess.—New Discovery.—The Organic away from you ? Vibrator, an extraordinarLy powerful, small, newly-invested ---__ _ rshi . Applicant—Three days, your wo p instrument bip City of for 'deafness, entirely different from all of hers I LIVERPOOL, June 9.—The screw steam-ship Mr. Elott—O 1 tn y bree days ? surpassing anything of the kind that has been, or prof ably Baltimore, Capt. Leitch, belongingthe Liver )00l to r , ,• . can be, produced. Being of the same colour as the ski hi Company,' Applicant—That is all, sir. Is New York, and Philadelphia Steam-s p „r INT Elliott—The The law does not contemplate pro- not perceptible. It enables deaf persons to hear distinct I ; t sailed from Liverpool to-day with a large number of Mr• . ott— I cannot hI o p . . church and at public assemblies; the un l t Ya p easan sensation of tection in such a cas©•and ; and therefore steerage and 57 cabin passengers, a ship letter mail, andsinging noises in the ears is entirely removed, and it aflords a fair cargo. The Royal Mail steam-ship Persia sails you, all the assistance that possibly could be desired.-39. Albe• for New York on Saturday. . t The applicant said she understood she could get naarle-street, Ficcadilly—Opposito thq York hotel, W, SOUTHWARK.--CHARGE OF BURGLARY.— William Jones was charged with breaking into the Star and Garter Tavern, Star-corner, Bermondsey, and stealing therefrom a quantity of tobacco and money. Samuel Howell said that his uncle kept the house, and he lived .with him. Witness saw all closed up at eleven o'clock at night, and about au hour afterwards he was retiring to his bedchamber, when he saw a light in the shop. He immediately descended, and looking through the keyhole he perceived the prisoner behind the bar emptying the drawers. He called in the police and had him se cured. The prisoner was fully committed for trial. HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK. (Front the Report of the Registrar General.) The deaths registered in Loudon, which rose in the previous week to 1,108, declined in the week ending last Saturday, J une sth, t o 1,087, o f which 583 are deaths of males,. 554 those of females. In the ten years 1848-57 - the average number of deaths in the weeks corresponding with last week was 964 ; but as the deaths returned for last week occurred in an increased population, they can only be com pared with the average when the latter has been raised in proportion to the increase, a correction which will make it 1,060. The comparison sitar that the mortality of last week exceeds that which is obtained by calculation from former experience at the beginning of June, but that the excess IS not considerable. Zymotic diseases increased last week, as regards the number of fatal cases, from 259 to 291 (the corrected average for last week being MO This increase arises from measles, the deaths from Which in the last two weeks were respectively 45 and 621 from whooping-cough, which was fatal in 61 and 69 cases ; from typhus, which was fatal in 32 and 43 ; and from diarrhoea, which was fatal in the two weeks in 14 and 18 cases. Six children died from measles in the sub-district of Greenwich Weer. An old man died on the 2d inst. from cholera, after six days' illness, in Smith-square, Westmill" ster. Twelve women died from diseases inci dental to childbearing ; 20 children died from having been born prematurely ; 16, of whom nine were a year old, died from teething ; 44 from caw vulsions. Twenty violent deaths were registered, 16 of which were accidental, and four by suicide (all of these last by hanging). A woman, aged 90 years, and five men, aged 90 years and.upwards; were returned, the two oldest having beenTesPee' tively 97 and 103 years. The centenarian had been formrly a sergeant in the F oo t G uar d s , an d had served in the Walcheren expedition and Peninfuler campaigns, and was pensioned previously to the battle of Waterloo. He possessed remark:able physical strength, and retained his mental fainni" ties to the last. Latterly he followed the occuPe' tion of a tailor ; he died on the 25th ult. at Bridge' field-place Wandsworth. His medic a l a tt en dsrit) who supplies most of the above particulars, has seen the certificate of his birth, now in the posses' sion of his daughter, which runs thus :—" Sohn Ewing, born 16th October, 1745, at Carronshereo parish of Larbert, shire of Stirling. Extracted firers the record. John Bunce, clerk." Last week the births of 765 boys and 780 gitrlss in all 1,545 children, were registered in Loneorb In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 184 8 ' 57 the average number was 1,465. At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height of the barometer in the week was 29 . 894 1 e' The lowest barometrical reading was 29.64 in. 09 , Thursday • the highest was 30.01 in., a n d occurred on the following day. The mean temperature of the week was 66.2 deg., which exceeds by nearl7 10, deg. the average of the same week in 43 years (e s ' determined by Mr. Glaisher.) On Monday and til er , three following days the mean daily temperature was from 1.1 to 14 deg. in excess of the average:' On Tuesday the thermometer attained its highest' point in the shade, which was 85 deg., and also its highest in the sun, which was 119.5 deg. Th e lowest temperature occurred on Sunday, 30th ult. , and was 50.1 deg. The entire range in the week in the shade was, therefore, 34.9 deg. The mean dart range was 24.7 deg. The mean temperature of the water of the Thames was 62.1. The difference be' tween the mean dew-point temperature and a . it temperature was 10.70 deg. The mean humidity.; of the air was 68, complet e sat ura ti on b e i ng e epred i sented by 100 ; on Monday the humidity was oaf 58. Rain to the amount of 1.16 in. fell on SAILr" day. A severe thunder storm with vivid lightning' occurred between six and e i g ht o ' c l oc k on Sat . a," day morning. An oak in Gr eenw i c h-p ar k was s true'b , by the lightning and stripped of a portion of its bark. Rain fell to the depth of an inch in less than an hour. Hail also fell during the storm. Country Markets. EDINBURGH HAY AND STRAW MARKET JUNE 8. Supplies of all kinds these last six days large. Oat straw, from 108 Od to 133 Od per komple of 16 1 5te11....° ' tron • wheat do., 8s Od. to Ils Cd ; barley do., 8 s 0 to lu m Od. Hay from 10d to 13d. EDINBURGH MEAL---JuNE 8. There were in the market to-day 12 sacks oatmeal, egiC"' weighing 2801 b imperial, which sold at 40s Od and —O. DALKEITH MEAL MARKET—JUNE 7. of There were in the market to-d a y 26 b ags o f oa t m eal, 0 barleymeal, and 0 pot barley. Sales dull. Oatmeal, per sack of 2801bs First. Second. Third. imperial Barleymeal, pe r ditt o -s Od —a Od —a- -n' Peasemeal, per ditto Flour, new, per ditto.... —s Od —s .Od .. Oa Pot-barley, new, per ditto —a Od —a Od - -8 Ott DUBLIN—JUNE 8. Whit') wheat, 27a 01 to 29s Od ; red ditto, 24s Od to 26' 6d; ditto new, a Oil ; barley, malting, 14a to 183 Od; grind' ing, —a to —a ; caw, old, 15s to 16s 6d; ditto, new,. to —a 01; oatm ea l, 14 s 6d t o 16 s ad ; b are, new, —8 to -- it s „ Od ; rapeseed, —s Od to s Od p er b r l ; b a k ers ' flour, Od to 18s 61 per cwt; Indian corn, 35s 01 to 378 6d rz 430 lbs. COAL MARK Prices of Coals per ton al s. Walker Primrose ...... 9 Howard's West Hartley Netherton 14 6 Bncldle W. Hartley l5 0 Grey's West Hartley l3 9 LOD g,ridge's Wst Hartley 15 0 Morpeth West Hartley 14 0 Tauheld Moor Butes 12 6 Wylam Wallsond, &o, Framwellgato l4 Haswell 17 6 Tees l7 Ships at marke JCT.—JUNE 9. t the close of the market Wallsend, ita. 0 d. &corn Close l5 : 11 Benson 14 9 Eden .15 ° Braddyll ,Powell's Duffryn Steam 0 u " "Whitw or th l4 6 W Hough Hall 14 9 fletton l7 ( 6 0 - Lambton l7 -South Kelloe 16 ll 1 Gosforth - l4 '" 16 3 Hartlepool ;, 82 ; sold, 59. LOCAL SHARE MARKB.TB. LIVERPOOL—JuNE . 9. STOCK EXCHANGE—The market to-day has been do ll but advanced 4 per cent. at the close. Birkenh ea d s , —Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, 374 B—L on d on O North Western, 913 4—Lancashire and Yo r k s hi re , 89i no ----Midlands, 914 2—Eastern Counties, 12 j—C a l e d o nians' 41 4—Blackburn, 94 10 —South E as t ern, 20 British, 123 ,—llutch Rhenish, 4j to 13 d.—Great Western of Canada, 18:i 183—York and North Midland, 35 1-- 1 Chester and Holyhead, 174 to 171---Berwicks 22j , —East Lancashire, to 89—Grand Trunk Of Cantw al 113 to 4—Leeds Northern, 221 3. MANCHESTER, JUNE 9. wit w STOOK EXCHANGE.—Tho ma r k e t o p ene d quiet. 1 an inanimate business, but prices wore rather firmer Leeds, 90—Do vers , 20 7-16—Midl an d s, 014 —Trull' 11 11-16 —London s , 91k 2—Sheffielde, 37/—Caledoui an," Sl—Borwicks, 90. BIRMINGHAM, JUNE 9. 0 61 STOOK EXCHANGE.-This market was steady d prices rather better. Birmingham and B r i s t o l (Mid: 3 , n d 6 per cents.), 138 —Londons, 91i —N or th Stafford,' % • —South Staffords, 10 (buyers)—Birmi ng h am Canals, [ADVERTISEMENT.]—HoIIoway' s Pills.--This medicine has been constantly increasing in public estimation L f ' .r years, and is now acknowledged to be the most woria" . ful remedy in the world. It acts directly ou the ort eg t removing all obstructions from the stomach, renovati°o the springs of life, and purifying the blood, totally era ; dicatiug liver complaint, that mainspring of so toll diseases, indigestion, loss of appetite, pains in the Biler and general debility. It is also a remedy on which the asthmatic may place the greatest dependence, andel:001 perfect restoration to health.—Sold by all medicine yep dors throughout the world ; at Professor Hollows,'" Establishments, 244, Strand, London, and 80, Mal . lane, New York ; by A. Stamps, Constantinople; Guidicy, Smyrna ; and E. Muir, Malta. BIRTHS. LINDSAY—On the 7th inst., a t H a i g h H all, Wi ga n ' the Hon. Mrs. Charles Lindsay, of a daughter. MONTEFIORE —On the 6th inst. , at Hyde- pars -gar dent the wife of N a th]. Montefiore, Esq., of a son. MATTHEWS—On the 7th inst., at Clapham-rise, Mrs. lb' Matthews, of a daughter. • f ROBINSON—On the 4th inst., at Windsor, the wife o _ Robinson, Esq., M.D., Soots Fusilier Guard s, ‘O4 a sol 3. MARRIAGES. ASLETT— HEAVISIDE—On the Bth inst., at Wes tine92l r Church, Hants, Willi am St ra tt on A s l e tt, Esq., 3fagis Royal Marines, to Ellery Ann, younger daughter or late Richard Heaviside, Esq., Ist Dragoon Guards. WALKER — HOLLINGWORTH—On the Bth inst. St. George's, Hanover-square, the Rev. Henry inst., vicar of Ludh am , N or f o lk , t o L y di a , e ld e st daugh t f h. r the late Ven. John Banks Hollingworth, D.D. deacon of Huntingdon. DEATHS. BROCKITURST—On the 19th April, at Lucknow , musket wound, received Feb. 23 at the captura of 1 0f '; gunj, Lieutenant F. J. S. Brockhurst, 53d Foot, eldeov sou of the Rev. J. S. Brockhurst, of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, aged 25. l FREELING--At Azlingurgh, of smallpox, Walte r Te! Freoliog, Lieut. 46th Deputy-Assistant 03_4 missary-General with Sir E. LugarO's force, the seal . surviving son of the late Sir G. H e nry Freeling , 131 ' r aged 30. y ab. GUEDALLA—On the Bth inst., at an advanced age, oil— Guedalla, Esq., of 12, Finsbury-squaro. Drurr H RBERT—On the 9th inst., at 42, Parker-street, lane, Mr. John Herbert, aged 68. JOHNSTON—On the Eth inst., at Upton-park, Slates Bucks, Thomas Henry Johnston, Esq., aged 63. 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