The Sun. — London, England, 1860-12-04 00:00:00

JRE NAVY. The members of the Royal Commission appointed to investigate the management of the Royal Dock yards, consisting of Lord Gifford, Sir 11. Willough by, M.P., Rear-Admiral Robinson, Mr. R. Dalglish, M.P., and Mr. Price, late Secretary to the Com mander-in-Chief at the Nore, secretary to the Com missioners, arrived at Sheerness on board the paddle wheel steamer Wildfire, Mr. G. Brockman, master commander, on Friday last, nom Chatham. They had an interview with Capt.-Superintendent C. \%rise, Aide-de-Camp to the Queen, in reference to the duties of the Commission, and returned the same day. The screw line-of-battle ships St. George, 90, and Colossus, 80, and the screw steam sloop Desperate, 8, are now at anchor in Portland Harbour. His Hoy al Highness Prince Alfred is expected to join the former vessel very shortly. The Argus, screw Coastguard vessel, arrived at Portsmouth yesterday from the westward with Commodore H. R. Yelverton, C. 8., Controller- General of the Coastguard service, on board. The Bulldog, 6, paddle, Capt. Sir L. F. M'Clin tock, has had her foremast and broken bowsprit taken out, and been placed in No. 8 dock at Ports mouth yard to repair defects. The damage to her stem and cutwater extends nearly their whole length, a great portion of the latter being carried away below the water line. The copper on her fore body is also much chafed, and driven up in ridges by its contact with the ice. The Barracouta, 6, paddle, Commander W. Wood, is engaged sending down yards and upper spars, and overhauling rigging for a refit, alongside her hulk in Portsmouth harbour. The Immortalite, 51, screw, Capt. G. Hancock, has been removed from the steam basin and berthed alongside her hulk in Portsmouth harbour. She is completing caulking, &c., in readiness for painting. The Harrier, 17, screw, Commander Sir Malcolm M'Dougal, is all ataunto at the middle harbour buoy, in readiness to swing for the final adjustment of her compasses, and will shortly proceed to Spit head, where she will ship her powder and shell prior to sailing for her destination. The Euryalus, M, screw, has been placed•in the basin at Portsmouth, where the shipwright depart ment will proceed with the fitting of her poop. She has been taken in hand by the steam reserve, who have commenced sending down her yards and over hauling her rigging for a refit. The Fancy gunboat, in dock at Portsmouth, pre paring to receive her new boilers, has been partially opened up, and several of her timbers amidships will }Hive to be replaced with new ones , owing their defective state. The Tribune screw frigate, in dock at Portsmouth, is in the hands of the ship wrights ; her repairs will be of a very extensive character. The Meteor, iron-cased battery, in dock at Ports mouth, is having the removal of her iron plating continued. The outside of this vessel on the removal of her plates and planking presents a remarkable aspect, owing to the black and soddened state of her timbers, &c., an inspection of which might go far towards elucidating the important question of the best mode of applying wood and iron in the future construction of iron cased vessels. The officers of the screw steam sloop Miranda, 15, Corn. H. C. Glynn, at Plymouth, are ordered to go on board the gunnery ship Cambridge, Captain A. W. Jerningham, in Hamoaze, to receive instruc tions for using the Armstrong gun. The Miranda is going on the East I n di a an d Chi na s t at i on. _ His Imperial Russian Majesty's steam frigate Oleg, 57, left Plymouth Sound on Sunday for the westward. The gunboat Porpoise, 3, tender to the Royal Albert, 121, having been repaired and refitted, was put out of N 0.4 dock in Devonport dockyard yester day (Monday). It is reported in Plymouth that the Royal Albert may be expected there to be refitted. The screw steam gun vessel Nimble, 5, and the gunboat Speedy, went yesterday morning from Hamoaze into Plymouth Sound, for the purpose of trying their engines and machinery. Steam was got up yesterday (Monday) on board the Howe, 121, in the basin at Keyham steamyard. In consequence of the inconvenience which offi cers belonging to the several branches of the ser vice are frequently put to when moving with troops for want of mess accommodation, the Secretary for War has notified to H.R.H. the Duke of Cambridge, Commander-in-Chief, that in future an allowance of ss. per diem will be granted each officer travel ling coastwise with troops, provided the journey exceeds 12 hours, and there is no mess accommo dation. The following appointments were made yesterday at the Admiralty :—R. T. Saunders, master, to the Imaum ; A. J. W. Musgrave, midshipman, to the Miranda ; S. M'Callum, second-class assist.-engi neer, to the Immortalite ; T. Rees, second-class assist-engineer, to the Asia, for the Rose ; and David Crichton, acting third-class assist.-engineer, to the Fisgard. THE VOLUNTEER MOYEMENT. The anniversary meeting of the Admiralty Com pany of the Civil Service Rifle Corps was held yes terday evening in their drill-room at head-quarters, Somerset-house, when the prizes which were com- peted for at the practice-ground of the corps at Wimbledon in October last were presented to the winners. The match consisted of 5 shots at each of the ranges of 300, 500, and 600 yards ; the first prize, a silver cup, being won by Mr. S. S. Lewes, who scored 17 points, and the second, a field-glass, by Mr. Noel Smith, who scored 12 points. Mr. Lewes's score was the same as the highest made at Wimbledon in July last in the competition for the Whitworth rifles, given by the National Rifle Asso• ciation, and exceeded the score made in 12 matches recently shot, at the same ranges, in various parts of the country, in which the average points made by the winners were only 13. The meeting was presided over by Rear-Admiral Lord C. Paget, and was attended by Sir R. Bromley, Sir John Liddel, Col. Greene, Major Graham, Mr. Richards, and a numerous body of the gentlemen of the Admiralty and visitors, amon g w h om were severa l l a di es . Capt. Willis's report of the progress made by the company during the first year of its enrolment was received with marked satisfaction, and the members separated with three hearty cheers for Lord C. Paget and their visitors. On Saturday evening about SO members of the 7th Middlesex (Islington) Rifle Volunteers as sembled at their head-quarters, Bird's-buildings, Islington, for parade 0 review order. Having been formed four deep they marched out, preceded by their band, and accompanied by some of the cadets of the regiment, the Whole under the command of Capt. Ebsworth, the captain-commandant. They proceeded through the n a i g t -stree.t, Islington, along the Holloway-road and Se ven Staters-road to the M a nor-house, and, after halting there a s h ort t i me for refreshment, returned by the same route. The in thei r attention strength of this corps now am ounts to 100 men all of whom have b e en unremitting to drill, and, considering the comparatively short time they have been formed, they are a very e lm_ cient body of men. The cadet corps numbers about 40 boys from. 10 to 15 years of age, who have been well drilled by Sergeant liornby, an old Indian soldier. The additional company for the 2d Tower Ham lets Regiment, which has lately been formed in the districts of Clapton and Stamford-hill, is rapidly augmenting, and already numbers 50 effectives. The Rev. C. L. Mercier has kindly allowed the com pany to have the use of a large room in the grounds attached to St. John's Foundation School, Lower Clapton, and drill takes place on Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday evenings, under the instruction of competent sergeants. The 11th Hants Rifles, under the command of Capt. Henderson, were inspected at Romsey on Friday by Lieut.-Colonel Luard, Assistant Inspec tor of Volunteers for the South-Western District. The weather was very unfavourable, but at the conclusion of the inspection Col. Luard addressed the corps, expressing great satisfaction with their appearance and efficiency. On Friday last the Crickhowell, or 3d Company of the Breconshire Itifle Volunteers, marched up to their range under the commandof Capt. Gwynne,foro the purpose of contending for a handsome silver cup, presented to the corps by Lady Malden, and other prizes subscribed for by the members of the corps. The cup was won by Corporal Ramsey, scoring 17 points; second and third prizes by private; Ramsey and W. Lewis, making 16 points each. 1 he ranges were 200, 300, and 400 yards, five roue'... at each range. The open prize was won by Private Hall, of the 2d or Brynmaur Company, scoring 4 points ; 2d and 3d prizes by Privates Ramsay and Richards, 5 points, 500 and 600 yards, five rounds at each range. The consolation prize, won by Private M. Prossor, scoring 13 points; 2d and 3d prizes by Privates P. Lewis and H. Williams, 12 points each, at 150 and 200 yards, five rounds each range. The various volunteer corps in the county of Mon mouth are steadily increasing in strength and effi ciency, and many of the corps having been united for administrative and review purposes, are nume rically very effective. The 2d Monmouthshire forms a battalion nearly 500 strong, Ebbw Vale and Sir howy having joined it. The 3d Monmouthshire Rifles have so increased by the accession of 100 volunteers from Risca and 50 from Tredegar, that the commanding officer is to be colonel in rank. The 7th Monmouthshire Rifles now number 300 men, and brigade with the Monmouth and Ponty pool. It is in contemplation to unite all the New port bodies into one battalion, which will then number some hundreds. The artillery corps have secured a practice ground at the mouth of the river Usk, the Rev. J. Nicholls having liberally granted the use of his ground at Nash for the purpose. THE PROPOSED METROPOLITAN ArEA T-MARKET. A question more or less interesting to the whole metropolitan community, is now under considera tion by the corporation of London, the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's, and the meat salesmen and slaughtermen in and about Newgate-market. Dur ing last session of Parliament the corporation, at great cost and trouble, promoted a measure which eventually passed into law, for the establishment of a grand public market for the sale of meat, provisions and poultry of all kinds, on part of the site of old Smithfield, and on a scale commensurate with the requirements in these respects of the metropolis at large. It was part of the project to connect the market with the abattoirs at Copenhagen-fields, and with the provincial railways, by a communication with the Metropolitan Railway, now being con structed, and to which the corporation has sub scribed £200,000. Regard was at the same time had for the public health by preserving in perpe tuity the ground between Long-lane and St. Bar tholomew's Hospital as an open space for the free diffusion of light and air; for the market itself a small three-cornered piece of the ancient site of Smithfield was proposed to be used ; a 50-feet car riage way on three sides of the market was secured to the public •, room for the hay and straw market was preserved ' • and even consideratious of taste were consulted by the appropriation of a space, 130 feet in diameter, for the erection of a fountain or some other ornamental object. The bill empowered the corporation to charge upon certain tolls to be taken in the market a sum not exceeding £235,000 for the purchase of the site and approaches, and for improvements; and also on the rents to be received not more than £200,000 for the erection of the necessary buildings. A toll of a farthing per stone was to be levied on the meat, poultry, and other provisions brought into the market, to go towards payment of the interest of the £235,000, and the gradual extinction of the principal ; and a rent not exceeding three-halfpence per week for every superficial foot was to be paid by the occu pier of ever shop, stall, or standing-place. The bill substantially passed into a law in this shape, the only material alteration being a reduction of 33 per cent. of the proposed rent and toll, in deference to the wishes of the meat salesmen and traders in Newgate-market, by whom it was opposed before a Select Committee of the House of Commons, chiefly on the ground of rent and toll. Such was the pro ject conceived entirely in the public interest by the corporation, sanctioned and supported by the Go vernment, approved by the Legislature, and receiv ing eventually the Royal assent ; but difficulties altogether unanticipated and comparatively trivial in themselves, though sufficient for purposes of ob struction, have arisen to impede for some consider able time the realisation of this great scheme for supplying an urgent public want, and the corpora tion has been compelled to give notice of their inten tion to apply again to Parliament for powers enabling them to overcome the opposition in ques tion. Circumstances have occurred which, in the opinion of the Markets Improvement Committee, who have had the sole management of this matter, render it absolutely necessary to abolish Newgate i market simultaneously with the establishment of the new market. On obtaining a reduction in the rent and toll before the Select Committee the sales men and slaughtermen of Newgate-market appeared satisfied. Their advocates in the Commons did not oppose the bill, nor did they appear to oppose it before the Lords' Select Committee, and the mea sure passed in that form, on the understanding, as between the Home Secretary and the corporation, that full inquiries should be instituted respecting certain statements made by the salesmen before the Commons' Committee as to the quantity of accommo dation required by them, with the view to an application to Parliament to restore the original charges, if the allegations upon which they had been based should prove untrue. On the faith of this understanding an application was made, on the Ist of August last, to the Association of Meat Salesmen and Carcass Butchers, to learn what was the precise amount and description of accommodation they would require in the new market. To this an answer was received a few days afterwards, declining to give any infor mation, and intimating their intention to remain in the present position, and to treat the proposed market as a competing and antagonistic establish ment. Thus the matter rests for the present, as between the corporation and the salesmen and car cass butchers ; but, in addition to that, a new ob stacle stands in the way of the corporation pro ceeding to give practical effect to the Act of last session. The corporation hold the present site of Newgate-market, which covers 28,000 superficial feet, on a lease granted by the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's, made under the authority of an Act passed in the reign of Charles IL, renewable in perpetuity every 40 years on payment of the small fine of £4, and an annual ground rent of another £4. The condition of the lease is that the ground and buildings upon it shall always be used as a market unless with the consent to the contrary of the Dean and Chapter. From the property in Newgate-market the corporation, under this lease, derive a net profit of £3,000 per annum, and they now propose, with the sanction of the Dean and Chapter, to abolish the market, and still to hold the ground, but upon trust, to apply the rents to buy the slaughter houses and other nuisances in connection with the market, which, having been established before the passing of the Building Act in 1844, cannot be removed except upon payment of compensation under the compulsory powers of the Nuisances Removal Act of 1855, which it is proposed to incorporate in the Bill for which the corporation arc now applying to Parliament. Ne gotiations are now pending between the Markets Improvement Committee, the Dean and Chapter, and the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, who are contingently interested, with the view to give effect to this proposal. At a meeting of the Chapter, held on the 15th ult., after discussing with the Markets Irarrovement Committee and several of the princi pal officers of the corporation, the subject of abo lishing Newgate-market, they (the Chapter) passed a resolution that in their opinion the measure could not be carried out without injustice to their lessees, unless by an Act of Parliament on the prin ciple of Acts which have been passed for city im provements, with powers of compensation to all parties interested. At the same time the Chapter say, " they are most desirous to see the nuisances and the crying evil existing in and about the mar ket abat e d, an will readily give their consent to ouch an Act of Parliament for the purpose, if the provision s thereof are drawn up satisfactorily to them, and shall be approved by the Ecclesiastical Corayssioners, who are contingently interested in the e ich thwegklte-market Estate." At an interview few days Markets I mprovemen t C omm itt ee h a d a h S a e r r ee a ta c r k ) n -,0 atvvrielikeci l t i .g th l t ! lro i p r no. G r ba e at o ijo. r o g nn : e t L i e s w u i n s e t s e t o H o d o m t o e fairness and moderation of the proposal of th e e [ADVERTISEMENT.] Pins and medicine t invariably ag annoyance, die address to E gravate and perpetuate diseases; ,s oLdon, and the) appointment, and expense may be heir in tridiflerent health sending only thavred by PersonN S. 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The Xew Orleans Picayune, o f Nov. 14, publishes the following letter from Mr. 1 )ouglas, written in reply to an invitation from the e citizens of New Orleans, irrespective of party. t o address them on the subject of the present con tlition of national affairs : " Gentlemen,—Your request tc , address the eiti• zens of New Orleans ' on the pn sent condition of affairs of our country,' has just been placed in my hands. Au invitation so numerously signed by the most eminent business Inen of this great com mercial city implies a compliment which I duly appreciate, and am exceedingly reluctant to decline. " These are not the times for patriotic men to affect indifference, or to degenerate into despon dency, or to rush madly into violent and extreme measures. Just in proportion as our Llommon coun try is environed with peril, it becomes' the impera tive duty of every patriot in the land to increase his efforts and exert his utmost powers a Id energies to rescue the Republic from the disasters which threaten its integrity. " No man in America regrets the election of Mr. Lincoln more than I do; none made more strenuous exertions to defeat him ; none differ from him more radically and irreconcilably upon all the great issues involved in the contest. No man living is • more prepared to resist, by all the legitimate means . sanctioned by the constitution and laws of our country, the aggressive policy which he and his party are understood to represent ; but while I say this, I am bound, as a good citizen and law abiding man, to declare my conscientious convic tion that the mere election of any man to the Pre sidency by the Ametican people, in accordance with the constitution and laws, does not of itself furnish any . just cause or reasonable ground for dissolving the Federal Union. " It is not pretended, so far as I am informed, that any provision of the constitution has been violated in the recent election. No act has been done which impairs or destroys the constitutional rights of any State or citizen. Nothing has yet occurred to release any citizen from his oath of , fidelity to the constitution of the United States, which is the supreme law of every State and of every citizen. But while it is conceded that no act has yet been done which impairs the rights or • endangers the peace and safety of any portion of our country, it is apprehended that the election of Mr. Lincoln carries with it the assurance that the policy and principles of the party by which he was elected will prevail and be carried into practi- cal effect in every department of the Feder - al Go vernment, and thereby will endanger the peace and safety of the slaveholding states. Is this apprehen sion well founded ? Do the results of the recent election justify this apprehension ? The President can do nothing except what the law authorises. His duty is to see the law faithfully executed. If he fail to perform this duty he will soon find him self a prisoner before the high court of impeach ment. Fortunately, that tribunal is so constituted as to command the confidence of the people of the entire South as well as of the Conservative men of the North. We have this security that the existing laws will be faithfully executed. I have yet to learn that the people of the South complain of the acts of Congress now on the statute book upon the subject of slavery, as applicable to the states or territories, or to the district of Columbia. These laws were enacted mainly, if not entirely, by the joint action of the Conservative members of North and South, in opposition to the Abolitionists and Freesoilers, aLd have been acquiesced in by the southern people as well as by their senators and representatives, under the present and preceding Administration of the Federal Government. Consequently, it is fair to presume that the south, so far from demanding the repeal of the existing laws on the subject of slavery, as essential to her safety and equality in the Union, will insist upon their being retained upon the statute-book and faithfully executed. Nor are we permitted to infer that the Southern people require any additional legislation by Congress on this subject, for the reason that the Southern senators and representatives have not introduced and advocated any changes in the existing legisla tion upon the slavery question under the present Administration, and that of Mr. Pierce, when the Abolitionists and Freesoilers were in the minority in both Houses of Congress. " Assuming, therefore, that the Southern people and their senators and representatives. deem their rights and institutions entirely safe under the con stitution and laws as they now stand, and only desire to be let alone, without any interference by Congress with their domestic concerns, the question arises whether Mr. Lincoln and his party will have the power, even if they have the dispo sition, to disturb or impair the rights and institu tions of the South, either in the States or the ter ritories or in the district of Columbia ? They cer tainly cannot do it under the existing laws. Will they have the power to repeal or change those laws, or to enact others ? It is well known that they will be in a minority in both Houses of Con gress, with the Supreme Court against them. In the Northern States there have been elected already a sufficient number of Democratic members of Con gress, bold and true national men, pledged to the Cincinnati platform and the doctrine of non-inter vention by Congress with the question of slavery in the States and territories and the district of Columbia, who, added to the Southern repre sentatives, will give at least 20 majority against Mr. Lincoln and his party on all these questions. In the Senate there is also a decided and reliable majority. Hence no bill can pass either House of Congress impairing or disturbing the rights or institutions of the Southern people, in any manner whatever, unless a portion of the Southern senators and representatives absent themselves, S 3 as to give an abolition majority in consequence of their absence. " In a minority in both Houses of Congress, with the Supreme Court to expound the laws and restrain all illegal and unconstitutional acts, the President will be utterly powerless for evil, if he should have • the disposition to do wrong. Even in the distribu tion of his patronage he would be dependent upon the Senate for the confirmation of his nominees to office, so that he cannot appoint a bad man to office without the consent of those in whom the South confide. A partisan President, thus tied hand and foot, powerless for good or evil, without the consent and support of his political opponents, should be the object of pity and commiseration rather than of fear and apprehension to a brave and chivalrous people. What good or harm can he do to anybody, except to humble the pride and wound the sensibilities of a large portion of the American people by occupying the chair once filled by Wash ington, Jefferson, Madison, and Jackson ? Does this fact furnish sufficient cause for destroying the best Government of which the history of the world • gives an example ? Four years will soon pass away, when the ballot-box will furnish a peaceful, legal, and constitutional remedy for all the evils and griev ances with which the country may be afflicted. " If in the meantime any act shall be perpetrated which shall violate or impair the rights of any citizen or State, or shall endanger the peace and safety of any portion of our people, for which the constitution or laws shall fail to provide adequate and efficient remedies, the time will then have arrived for those who thick the constitution has bsen disregarded and the Federal power perverted to purposes inconsistent with their safety, honour, and equality, to consult and deliberate upon the nature, extent, and mode of redress. " I do Lot anticipate, nor do I deem it possible in the present condition of the country that under the administration of Mr. Lincoln any act can be per petrated that would destroy or impair the constitu tional rights of the citizen, or invade the reserved rights of the States upon the subject of slavery ; but, if I should find myself painfully mistaken on this point, I have no hesitation in expressing my deliberate conviction• that such an outrage would not only make the Southern people a unit, but would arouse and consolidate all the Conservative elements of the North in firm and determined resistance by overwhelming majorities. In such an event the South would occupy an impregnable position. With her own people united and animated by one sentiment—the unfaltering resolve to main tain and defend their rights and liberties as won by the blood of their fathers and guaranteed by the constitution of tlaeir country, they could safely rely upon the justice of their cause, and confidently expect the sympathy of the civilised world, and the choicest blessings of Divine Providence while struggling for the right. Under these circumstances, I can perceive no just cause, no reasonable ground for such rash and precipitate action as would plunge into the horrors of revolu tion, anarchy, atid bankruptcy the happiest people, the most prosperous country, and the best Govern ment the sun of heaven ever shed his genial rays upon. To those, if any such there may be, who look upon disunion and a Southern confederacy - as a ,hick desirable in itself, and are only waiting for an opportunity to accomplish that which had been previously resolved upon, the election of Mr. Lincoln may f u 7nish a pretext for precipitating the Southern States into !eVolu tion. But to those who regard the Union under constitution as our fathers made it, the most pecic7ous legacy ever bequeathed to a free people by a patriotiC Ancestry; and are determined to maintain it as long as their rights and liberties equality and honour, are pro tected by it, th e e l ect i on o f M r . Lincoln, in my humble opinion, presents no just cause, no reason ableree and elabo ra t e ] excuse f or di sun i on. t, TT questions h aving discu sse d a ll th e at issue, fly y, !during the r ecen t in my addresses to the people canvass, I do not perceive that any patriotic object can be advanced by any further public discussions on my part prior to resuming my seat in the Senate. That the passions and animosities engendered by recent contests may soon give place to reason and patriotism ; that calm and wise counsels may prevail, and fraternal feeling be restored ; that the constitution may be preserved inviolate, and the Union maintained for ever, is the ardent hope and fervent prayer of your friend and fellow-citizen, S. A. DOUGLAS. "New Orleans, Nov. 13." TdE NEW YORK MONEY MARKET. __~_ The New York adviees yesterday show that in the three days from the 17th to the 20th of Novem ber the panic had reached its climax, and that a reaction had apparently commenced just before the departure of the mail. The favourable turn had been brought about by a joint measure of 16 of the principal banks, these institutions having at length become sufficiently alarmed to consent to act toge ther for the common safety. Any further delay would have resulted in a general suspension in some of the principal branches of business, and espe cially in the grain trade. The New York exporters were in this position :—They were liable for draughts made upon them by the Western houses for grain and other produce transmitted to New York, and their legitimate means of meeting these draughts con sisted in the sale of bills upon the European houses to whom this produce is consigned. But such bills had at length become totally unsaleable, and a stop page of payment therefore seemed inevitable. In that case the break-up of the New York export houses would have been followed by that of the Western produce dealers, and these in turn would have brought down all the Western banks to which they are indebted for advances. In this emergency the majority of the New York banks agreed to hold a meeting at the Bank of Commerce. The total banking capital of the city is £13,800,000, and about £9,000,000 of that amount was repre sented on the occasion. The conference re sulted in a resolution to purchase bills of exchange on England in the open market to an amount equal to £500,000, each bank contributingpro rata to the payment. A committee was formed to carry out the measure, Messrs. Stevens, Tileston, and T. Taylor, the respective Presidents of the Bank of Commerce, the Phcenix Bank, and the City Bank, being the parties selected. On the following day, Nov. 20, this committee met at one o'clock, but, of course, it was then found that other buyers had come into the market. Although the committee offered to purchase largely at the rates current a few hours previously, scarcely any applications were made to them. This was on the aftet noon preceding the departure of the present mail, and they were to continue their sittings from day to day. Meanwhile, the transactions had been large in the open market at 100 to 102 for merchants' and 103 to 104 for bankers' bills, and it will probably be found that the public have subsequently continued to keep up with the bank biddings. At the same time, there was a general understanding on the part of the banks, although it was not formally adopted as a resolution, that they should extend their dis counts, and, acting upon this, some of them had doubled their scale of accommodation. These move ments had already caused violent fluctuations in the stock-market, and an average rebound had been established of about 3or 4 per cent. Illinois Cen tral had gone from 52 to 55 ; Erie from 261 to 28, and New York Central from 701 to 73. The ques tion arises, "How will the proposed purchase of £500,000 bills of exchange affect this country ?" Some impression prevailed that it was the inten tion of the banks to remit the bills forthwith to Baring's, with orders to have them discounted, and for the amount to be sent back in gold. Other letters, however, affirm positively that they do not contemplate any summary proceeding of this kind, but will simply send the bills for collection at maturity, and meanwhile, from time to time, as the exchange rises, sell their own draughts against them. If the latter course be pursued, the result will be that no gold movement will take place, be cause the bank draughts would be sold to persons having to make payments to this country. If however, the rate of interest, which had just ranged between 1 and 2 per cent. per month, should be maintained at a high point, the banks possibly will be disposed to order some amounts in gold to be sent to them forthwith. In any case the affair is not likely to have a very important influence on our market, while the effect of the arrival in New York of £200,000 or £300,000 from this side, coupled with the steady receipts from California, may be estimated not only by the experience of 1857, but by the fact that the drain from the north to the south, which has caused all the present confusion, is believed not to have greatly exceeded half a million sterling. With regard to the political question, there had been no material change, but the probability is that before the close of the year the people in both sections of the country will be looking for new sources of ex citement, and eager to get rid of the present diffi culty by any dexterous compromise that may be offered. The Farmers' Bank of Richmond, Virginia, is stated to haVe stopped payment, and several of the other Southern establishments are expected to follow. In New Orleans, however, the bank usually hold a good specie reserve, and it is thought they will ride through the present difficulty. The capital of the Farmers' Bank of Richmond is £160,000. Later reports from Mexico, received at New York by way of Havannah and New Orleans, allege that Mitamon has resigned and been succeeded by Gen. Robles. The Reactionists, it is,added, had eva cuated Puebla, and the greatest alarm prevailed at the capital. Mr. Maclane, the American Minis ter, had given up his appointment. ASSIZE INT_ELLIGENCE. HOME CIRCUIT.—MAIDSTONE, DEC. 3. The commission for the county of Kent was opened on Saturday by Mr. Justice Byles, and business was proceeded with this morning. There are 46 pri soners for trial, and out of this number 23 are sol kliers belonging to different regiments, and it would seem that their principal object for the commission of the crimes imputed to them was that they might be discharged from the military service. - Mr. Justice Byles adverted to this fact at some length in his charge to the grand jury. His lordship said that never having had the honour of meeting them before in that county it was impossible for him to say whether the calendar in the number and magnitude of its crimes was heavier than usual, but there was one circumstance in it which, in his short experience, was entirely novel, and that was the fact that more than half the offenders were soldiers in her Majesty's service; and he was also sorry to add that the offences laid to their charge were crimes of the deepest dye, amongst which he ob• served the crime of arson was very common. The circumstance of so many soldiers being charged with offences naturally led to the reflection, How could this be? Some, it was true, were set down in the calendar as imperfectly educated, but others as being able to read and write, and some as being able to read and write well. Time was when education was looked upon as some security against prime. but recent experience would seem to show that this was a very ineffectual preventive. What then were the special reasons for this crime in the present calendar ? It seemed to him—and it was a remark that he should not have made but for the large number of soldiers about to be brought before them, and which he would now refrain from making if he did not think that to gentlemen of their weight and position it would not be thrown away—it seemed to him that these crimes by soldiers were simply from want of employment, and that it was from this cause that soldiers wandered about and committed crimes. It proved indeed the old pro verb that employment was but another name for happiness. Indeed a celebrated writer more remarkable perhaps for his brilliancy than his soundness—said that "employment is the happiness of nine-tenths of the human race, who thus have no time to consider and to know how unhappy they really are." It was unnecessary to remind them of what they had learned as schoolboys, that the greatest military power that ever existed, and that he hoped ever would exist—one that held the world in subjection for 12 centuries—always took care in times of peace to employ its army on works of physical exertion, which made the soldiers stronger, sounder, hardier, and better men when war again made its appearance. The memorials of those peaceful labours of soldiers remained until the pre sent day in those solid walls and straight and admirable Roman roads which extended and radi ated from the metropolis to the extremities of the then known earth. It was therefore a very serious question whether on a frontier county like this the superfluous energy of their soldiers might not be employed in erecting works of defence, so that if the fears which now existed in some quarters that the blasts of war, silent on these shores for so many centuries, should be again heard, they should be in a firm position to meet the foe. Jas. Hill, 27, and John Payne, 30, pleaded guilty to , a charge of burglary at Gravesend: Mr. Russell was instructed to prosecute. It appeared that the prosecutor was a solicitor, who resided in Darnley-terrace, Gravesend, and his house was broken open, and a good deal of property stolen, the robbery having evidently been effected by experienced burglars. On the same morning one of the Kent constabulary, named Cleddish, who was on duty at Greenhithe, several miles from Gravesend, met the prisoners going towards London, and having suspicion that they had been committing some rob bery, he procured the assistance of a brother con stable, named Jarvis, and these two, with a third named Kettlend, endeavoured to apprehend the prisoners. They, however, made a most desperate resistance, but although the constables were severely beaten and injured they stuck to their wen, and eventually succeeded in securing them, and on being searched a crowbar and other housebreaking imple ments were found upon them, as well as all the pro perty that had been stolen from the house of the prosecutor. _ _ - Mr. Justice Byles sentenced the prisoners to be kept in penal servitude for three years. Mr. Russell said he was instructed to lay before the Court a certificate of the magistrates by whom the prisoners were committed, testifying to the good conduct of the constables in this affair, and recom mending his lordship to exercise the power given him by the statute, of ordering them a reward out of the county funds. Mr. Justice Byles said the magistrates were not justified in making such a recommendation, as it placed the judge in rather an invidious position if he should differ in opinion with the magistrates, and should be of opinion that the circumstances were such as did not justify him in applying the county fonds to the payment of a reward. His first impression was that he should not attend to the recommendation of the magistrates ; but upon con sideration, believing that the police officers had behaved very well, and that if any one was to blame it was not they, he would not do an injustice so far as they were concerned, because the proceedings of other parties had been irregular. He should there fore order them each to receive a reward of £2. James Baker, 28, a private in the Royal Engi neers, a smart, soldierly-looking man, who was de corated with several medals, was charged with uttering counterfeit coin. Mr. Russell prosecuted. The jury returned a verdict of Guilty, and the prisoner was sentenced to nine months' imprison ment and hard labour. George Barnett, a respectable-looking man, sur rendered to take his trial for misdemeanour, he having unlawfully published a paper purporting to be a copy of a summons issued from the county court at Rochester, with intent to defraud. Mr. Russell appeared in support of the prosecu tion ; Mr. Ribton was counsel for the defendant. Mr. Ribton stated that the defendant was willing to plead guilty upon the understanding that a cer tain course would be adopted, because he really did not intend to commit any offence, or to do any thing wrong. The fact was that the defendant's wife and the wife of the prosecutor were con tinua:ly quarrelling, and he never could get any peace, and in order to put an end to such a state of things he procured one of the printed forms of a county court summons, which could be procured at almost any stationer's shop, and foolishly filled it up and sent it to the prosecutor. His object, however, was not to obtain money, or anything of the sort, for when the prosecutor offered to give him money to settle the matter, after the receipt of the supposed sum mons, he refused to take it, and said all he wanted was peace. Mr. Russell said he bolieved the facts were pretty much as stated by his learned friend, and he was not instructed to press for any punishment. The defendant then pleaded guilty, and the learned judge ordered him to enter into his own recognizance to appear and receive the judgment of the court, if he should be called upon to do so. MIDLAND CIRCUIT.-LEIOESTER, DEC. 3. A winter assize having been appointed to ba held in this town and county, Mr. Baron Bramwell ar rived here about noon, and opened his commission at the , Town-hall. After attending divine service at bt. Martin's Church, his lordship proceeded to try the borough prisoners. For the borough there are but two cases and four prisoners, _ Joseph Booth, 43, Post-office clerk, was indicted for stealing a post letter containing two half-sove reigns and, five receipt stamps, the property of her Majesty's Postmaster-General, on the Oth of August, 1860. Mr. Cockle and Mr. Mereweather prosecuted ; Mr. O'Brien defended. Tne jury returned a verdict of guilty, and the prisoner was sentenced to four years' penal servi tude. He had been in the postal service for 15 years, and had been recommended by several of the prin cipal inh4bitants to the postmastership recently vacant in this town. A POSER.—The other day as a gentleman was standing at the railway station at Keith, he overheard an individual accosting another, thus ;—" Demnie, fa yaws the on ?" On inquiry, he found that the person was accost ing a gill in charge of a quantity of wo)I, and was asking her who was the owner.—Aberdeen Herald. [ADvEnTisEmENT.]—liolloway's Pills.—No medicines can surpass these Pills in their purifying and curative powers over every organ of the body. Stomach, liver, lungs, heart, and kidneys soon display subjection to its in fluence, by which all diseases of those organs are averted, all obstructions removed, and every function is healthfully performed ; the digestion is by their influence so improved that scarcely any food disagrees; acidity and flatulency alike are checked ; nausea and biliousness disappear; firmness is given to every muscle, and tone to every nerve ; the mind becomes exhilarated, the thoughts cheerful. These wonderful Pills correct dyspeptic habits, whether resulting from residence in hot climates, or over indul go • nce They secure by night sound and refreshing . sleep, , A which fits the uouy for renewed exertion. STATE OF TRADE. BIRMINGHAM.—Trade :has been so thoroughly inanimate, and there has been so little change for the last fortnight, that very little can be said in relation to it. Quietude is its general characteris tic ; we can scarcely say that it is positively de pressed, but it is quite certain that many firms in different branches, who are generally pretty fully occupied, have, since the middle of last week, not been making more than half their usual return ; and no reanimation has yet appeared.—Birming ham ,Journal, SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE.—The iron trade of South Staffordshire presents no new feature. Steady dulness continues to characterise it. The large increase in the exports of iron timing Octo ber, mainly arising from the increased quantity sent to the East Indies, appears inconsistent with the accounts of depression from all the iron-making districts ; but the fact is that less iron was exported in that month than in the month previous, although as compared with October, 1859, there is a consi derable increase. Inquiries for rails continue, and tenders for 15,000 tons are invited for a foreign railway, of which 3,000 tons aro to bo delivered immediately. The reduction of the rate of discount by the Dank of England on Thursday will have a beneficial tendency, as previous to the late advance a better demand, especially for rails, was being ex perienced, and the price of Welsh iron was raised. In hardware trades there is no variation from the general quietness previously reported. Generally the home trade is dull, the Irish demand being particularly so, but a fair quantity of orders are coming in. The lock trade of Willenhall is perhaps as quiet as any. At Walsall there is a want of orders, and the demand for accoutrements for rifle corps, which has done much to make up for the dulness of the year in one branch of the staple trade of that town, is pretty well come to an end. The Australian market is glutted with Walsall goods. We hear of efforts being made to introduce various kinds of hardware productions into France under the new tariff. SHEFFTELD.—The fair has exercised its usual effect in suspending work, but the serious aspect of the case is in the last advices from the United States. We fear there is now no business of im portance to be expected from that side of the water till we have entered upon the new year. Great flatness prevails in the cutlery trade.--:: hef field Independent. TOWN SEWAGE. Mr. Mechi, of Tiptrce-hail, has addressed the following letter to the editor of the Times:— Sir,-1 am glad to see that public attention is at length given to the all important question of apply ing our town sewage to agricultural fructification. The great discrepancy that exists between Mr. Shepherd, Mr. Walker, and Mr. M'J)ougall as to the number of inhabitants necessary to sufficiently fertilise one acre may be best corrected and tested by the manuring which our soil now receives in actual agricultural practice. On this point per mit me to annex an extract from a paper that I read before the Society of Arts. If, as I believe, ' each acre only receives the manure from two sheep, or its equivalent from other animals or from artifi ei,il manures, it follows that Mr. M‘Dougetll's esti mate of 600 and Mr. Walker's of 40 inhabi tants per acre are far beyond the requirements of ordinary farming. In fact, for cereal crops such heavy dressings would be positively injurious. No doubt for pasture land, where grass is cut in the green state for immediate consumption, enor mous quantities of sewage may be advantageously Applied ; but making hay of such crops on the spot would ho impossible, for want of space, and from the rapid and almost immediate after growth. I therefore consider Mr. Shepherd's the most ap proximate calculation as applied to farming in the ordinary rotation. To feed the good people of London and their living animals the available produce of 6,000,000 acres would be necessary. Therefore it is not unreasonable te suppose that, as it requires two acres to feed each human being and the animals which he employs, at least one acre might be fertilised by:the residuum of such a use or consumption. Our population approaches 30,000,000 ; our cul tivated and nastoral acreage is about 50,000,000 acres ; and we import and consume the products of at least 40,000,000 foreign acres. If so, lam much under the mark in my, estimate that each person only requires two acres to supply all his wants. THE GREAT FRAUDS TN THE LEATHER TRADE. COMMITTAL OF FIVE OF THE ACCUSED. At the Guildhall Police-court yesterday, Lewis Robert Poole, of the late firm of Poole and Bryan, of Northampton, boot and shoe manufacturers ; Mr. Roger Dawson, a solicitor, of Northampton ; Mr. James Cooke, a tanner and currier, of Walsall ; George Billingham, a furniture broker, of North ampton ; Thos. Chapman, an innkeeper, of the same town ; and Frederick Walter Ventris (Messrs. Quilter and Ball's, the accountants', clerk), were again examined upon the charge of conspiring together for the purpose of concealing and embez zling property to the value of £1,200 and upwards, with intent to cheat and defraud the creditors of the bankrupts Poole and Bryan. Sir R. W. Carden presided. _ _ Mr. Van Sandau conducted the prosecution, and the following gentlemen appeared for the accused: —Mr. Best, instructed by Mr. Waldron, for Poole and Billingham ; Mr. Sleigh, instructed by Messrs. Pilgram and Joy, for Chapman ; Mr. Murphy, for Mr:- - Dawson ; Mr. Ebsworth, for Mr. Cooke ; and Mr. Hubert Wood for Ventris. Mr. Dawscn said, before any evidence was taken he wished to explain why the record of the action which he had commenced on Mr. Cooke's behalf for the recovery of the goods in question haP. been withdrawn. Since these proceedings had been taken Mr. Cooke had changed his attorney in that action, for which' purpose his present solicitor deemed it advisable to withdraw the record, but the action was still pending. Spittle, the detective officer, was then called upon to produce the documents found upon Mr. Dawson when he was taken into custody, and two of them were then placed in the hands of a witness of the name of Holloway, who identified the handwriting of one of them—which purported to be the state ment made by the witness Beard, who signed it at Mr. Dawson's office—as the handwriting of Mr. Dawson. The other document, which purported to be an order in Mr. Cooke's name for the delivery of the goods to his agent, Chapman, and bore a receipt in the name of Chapman for the goods, the witness also declared to be in Mr. Dawson's handwriting, including all the signatures. Sir R. W. Carden asked if that document was the original or merely a copy. Mr. Dawson admitted the handwriting, as it was only a copy of the orginal order. Some further evidence having been taken, Sir R. W. Carden said he had given the most patient consideration to this case. It was a very important inquiry, and upon looking at the evidence carefully, he had come to the conclusion there was not sufficient to induce him to send Mr. Dawson before a jury. In all the evidence which had been adduced there was nothing to prove any complicity on the part of Mr. Dawson in the concealment of the bankrupt's property; and the letters taken from him did not, in his opinion, make the case any clearer against him. Although no respectable soli citor would be anxious to receive such letters from a client, there was nothing in them to prove the charge of subornation of perjury—in fact, the whole of them appeared to bear reference to the action, and the evidence throughout showed Mr. Dawson to have been acting for Mr. Cooke rather than for the bankrupt Poole. Mr. Dawson was therefore discharged. Mr. Van Sandau applied that the documents should be impounded. Sir R. W. Carden said they would, of course, remain in the possession of the officer. With regard to bail, he would not accept it for Poole under any circumstances; and he took that opportunity o f stating that the levity of conduct displayed' by Poole and Ventris throughout this investigation was most discreditable to them. Bail was then taken—Chapman in two sureties in £2OO each, and his own recognisances in £500; the sureties for Billingham were fixed at £lOO each, and for Mr. Cooke in £250 each; Ventris was unable to procure bail. The charges of perjury were not proceeded with on account of the lateness of the hour. ENORMOUS FORGERIES ON A LONDON FIRM B. A LIVERPOOL TEA _MERCHANT. LIVERPOOL, Monday. This forenoon Mr. Richard Woodward Powell, a partner in the firm of Scott, Powell, and Co,, tea merchants, of this town, was placed before the magistrates at the police court, charged with having forged a signature to a guarantee for £5,000, and also with having forged signatures to bills of exchange amounting to nearly £2,000, with intent to defraud Messrs. Absolom, Crocker, and Town send, merchants, of London. The court was much crowded with merchants and others interested in the case. Mr. Robinson, of the firm of Lowndes, Robinson, and Lowndes, solicitors, said he had the honour to appear on behalf of Messrs. Absolom, Crocker, and Townsend, of London, who charged the prisoner with having forged the name of John Scott, sen., to a guarantee to them (the prosecutors) for £5,000, and also with forging, as the endorser, several bills of exchange—viz., one bill for £462 16s 2d, another for £484 2s, and a third for £482 is 6d. From the statement of Mr. Robinson, it appeared that in July last the firm of Scott, Powell, and Co. were considerably indebted to Messrs. Absolom, Crocker, and Townsend, tea merchants in London, and these gentlemen being unable to get their money, sent one of their representatives to Liver pool for the purpose of obtaining a guarantee that their claim would be paid. In pursuance of this instruction a guarantee was drawn up, which was to have been signed by Mr. John Scott, sen., father of Mr. Scott, of Scott, Powell, and Co. After some negotiation it was intimated that Mr. Scott, senior, having previously given a guarantee for the firm, refused to give another, and it was then ar ranged that bills should be drawn by the firm, and accepted by Messes. Absolom, CrOcker, and Towns end, and that Mr. Scott, sen., should endorse those bills, the proposed guarantee being abandoned. The bills were accordingly drawn, accepted, and endorsed; but on their becoming due they were met, and on Mr. Scott, sen., being called on for pay ment as the endorser, he denied that he had ever signed any such documents. In consequence of this application was made at the office of Scott, Powell, and Co., where Mr. Scott was not to be found, but Mr. Powell (the prisoner) was there, and he was taken into custody by 'Aycock, the detective officer. Wm. Laycock said that on Saturday he went to the counting-house of Messrs. Scott, Powell, and Co., where he found the prisoner, and took him into custody, telling him at the same time that he was apprehended on a charge of having forged the name of John Scott to a guarantee for £5,000, and also for having forged the same name to a bill of exchange for £462 16s. The prisoner, on this being stated, said :—" I have nothing whatever to do with it. I have several times cautioned Mr. Scott about that before now." On taking the pri soner to the police station and searching him, the witness found three tickets - for " left luggage" at the railway station. He (Laycock) proceeded there, and found three portmanteaus, containing several suits of new clothes, £lOO in gold, a medicine chest, and a case of revolvers. All these the pri soner acknowledged to belong to him, but they were not addressed to any one, or to any place. On his person Laycock also found between £9 and £lO in cash ; and in the safe at the counting-house there was a further sum of £270. George Absolom, the lklanchester representative of the firm of Absolom, Crocker, and Townsend. said that, in obedience to instructions which he had received, he came to Liverpool to obtain a guaran tee from Messrs. Scott, Powell, and Co., which it was proposed should be signed by Mr Seott's father ; but Mr. Scott explained to him that his father having already given a guarantee for the firm, refused to give another ; but Mr. Scott, jun.' sug gested that they (Absolom and Co.) should draw bills, which Scott, Powell, and Co. would accept, and his father would endorse. This course was ultimately agreed on, and the guarantee was with drawn. Three bills were prepared by Messrs. Scott, Powell, and Co., and these being endorsed by the name of John Scott, were sent to London, One of these bills was for the sum of £462 16s. 2d., another for £484 25., and the third for £482 ls. 6d . The prisoner was present when the bills were de livered to him, and, in fact, checked them off in the bill-book. The endorsement of John Scott, Whi c h was put on before the bills were accepted, or se n t to London, was a forgery. Mr. Cobb said there was no evidence What ever to sho hthe forgery . show that the prisoner Fm was ro in t any Way con nected h e evidence th ere seemed no doubt that the name of J o h n Scott had been forged by some one; but the qu es ti on absent, and that remaining behind was, who forged it? He remarked jedun"towapaspear unless s th o a o t tt, M se r n . Mr. compelled to do so. . S , e re o f t u t' s In answer to a question from the b h enc ,Laycock said Mr. Scott had said to hi m he would not appear unless he was compelled to do so. Mr. Cobb continued--In point o. no evidence of forgery Whatever, and, if possible, still less of the prisoner's Mr. Aiken said it did connection with it. not seem to him at all likely that a pa r t ner of a firm could be present, and indeed take part in transactions amounting t o thousands of pounds, Without knowing something of what was . • „oing on The fo • • rgeries, if they were forgeries, were undoubtedly committed in favour of the firm of Scott, Powell, and Co. He th ere f ore thought there was sufficient evidence to remind the prisoner. He was remanded to Friday. Li answer to an application to have the prisoner admitted to bail, Mr. Aiken drily remarked—The prisoner's appearance here has been altogether the result of what might be termed an accident, and if allowed to go away there was no saying what other accidents might arise. He had better remain iu custody. 2'llE FRAUD BY A BANKER'S CLERK AT SHEFFIELD. Mark Rawlins, of Machinbank, banker's clerk, was brought before the magistrates at Sheffield, on Saturday, on a charge of defrauding the Sheffield and Rotherham Banking Company to the extent of about £l,OOO. It appears that some years ago the prisoner had an account at the bank in which he was a clerk, as co executor under the will of his father, for many years registrar of births and deaths at Sheffield. The affairs of the trust were wound up a considerable time ago, but during a period of more than a year the prisoner has occasionally had large deficiencies in his receipts as counter cashier of the bank, and has given cheques on the execu torship account for the amounts of the deficiencies. Strangely enough, though there were no funds in the bank to the credit of the executorship account, these cheques have been accepted and placed to the debit of the account, and the frauds were continued without discovery until Friday last. The cheques have been mostly for large amounts, the two last being given—one on the sth Sept. for £l6O, and the other on the 7th for £l4O. On Friday the ac- counts came under investigation at a meeting of the directors of the bank, and the discovery of the fraud resulted in the apprehension of the prisoner, on a warrant, rather late in the evening. Mr. Gould, who appeared for the prosecution, said the facts having transpired only yesterday, he was not yet prepared to go into the case. He might mention, however, that since the appre hension of the prisoner on Friday evening, k had come to the knowledge of the directors that there was a deficiency in his cash that day to tha amount of £55, which sum prisoner had token during the day to apply to his own purposes. This he should be prepared to prove at the proper time. So far as was at present known the amount ab stracted was about £l,OOO. The bank "held the policy of a guarantee society for £l,OOO, which he hoped would hold them harmless from any consi. derable loss. Mr. Chambers, who appeared for the prisoner, offering no objection, the prisoner was remanded until Wednesday next. The prisoner, who is a married man, with one child, has hitherto been considered a most respect able and trustworthy young man. He was e director of the Athenaeum, the salaried secretary of the School of Art, an active promoter of the Me chanics' Library, and was intimately connected with several other societies. He was alio a man of the most steady and temperate habits, but appears to have lived at home in a style beyond his income. COUNTRY MARKETS. COLCHESTER —DEc. 1. A fair supply of wheat was brought into market to-clay, and best samples realised former currencies ; other sorts difficult of sale. Fine barley more in request for malting; middling parcels a heavy sale. Now beans rather lower. Peas as before. Wheat, white 6OB to 68s ; Beans, Mazagan.. 368 to 421 red 44s to 60s 1 Middle & small 44s to 50s Barley 4os to 50s 1 White peas 4Bs to 524 Oats ..22s to 28s Grey to Oa IRD—Noy. 30. wheats niay be quoted from :es; inferior samples were out ng barley, with a dull trade, )les at 2s, lower. All other Yeas Partridge 43s to 44s White 43s to 461 Boiling 43s to 47s Dun 39s to 42i Beans, Tick ...,38s to 46s Harrow Ticks 39s to 491 Mazagan 32s to 43s CIIELMSFI No business done. Best 3s to 4s per qr under late rat of the question. Fine maltil sold at Is, and inferior sami articles inactive. Wheat, white....42s to Gls red 515 to 61s Barley 33s to 41s Chevalier 36s to 44s Grinding 31s to 36s Malt 61s to 67s Chevalier 64s to 69s Oats 26s to 31s NORTHAMPTON-DEC. 1. At this corn-market to-day wheat was in tolerable sup ply, with a fair demand, prices ranging from 64s to 68s for yhite, and 42s to 62s for red. In barley a good business, malting 40s to 445, grinding 32s to 35s per qr. Oats in small supply, and prices stationary--quoted at 24s to 38s per 24 stone. Beans, old, 54s to 56s ; peas, 44s to 545. Rye, 37s to 425; malt, 68s to 72s ; flour, 33s to 34s per sack. KIRKALDY-DEC. 1. We had a moderate supply of barley to-day, small of wheat, but large of oats, and prices at 2s under late rates, with a dull trade. Wheat Barley Oats First.... 40s Od 30s Od 208 Od Second.. 52a Od 39s Od 26s Od Third .. 623 Od 41s Od 298 Od COAL MARKET—DEc. 3. (Prices of Coal per Ton at the close of the market. Hasting's Hartley Carway and Duffryn Malting Ships at market, 2; sold, 2. THE MAILS. MAILS DUE. Australia, Ceylon, and Mauritius (via South ampton) .. Dec. 19. Do. (via Marseilles) Dec. 13. Brazil and Capo Verds Dec. 5. Buenos Ayres, Monte Video, &c. Dec. —. Bahamas and Havana (via New York) .. Dec. —. Canada, &c. (via Galway) .. Overdue. Cape of Good Hope, &c. Jan. 1. China, Penang, and Singapore (via S'ampton) Overdue. Do (via Marseilles) Dec. 13. Gibraltar (via Southampton) .. .. Overdue. India (Calcutta), Ceylon, &c. (via Southampton) Overdue. Do. (via Marseilles) Dec. 13. India (Bombay), (via Southampton) .. Dec. 10: Do. (via Marseilles) .. .. Dec. 5. Lisbon .. Dec. 11. Cuba and Mexic9 .. • • Dec. Malta, Egypt, and Aden (via Southampton) .. Overdue. Do. (via Marseilles) .. Dec. 10. Vigo, and Oporto Dec. Ll. United States, California, &c. Dec. 6. Western Coast of Attica, Madeira, Tencriffe .. D ec . 10 . West Indies and Pacific, Carthagena, Cuba, &o. Dec. 14. [ADVERTISEMENT.]—We have read with much pleasure Du Barry's report of the sures without medicine by Dn Barry's food. The following are a few extracts which ap pear to merit the attention of many :—Cure No. 47,121. " Miss Elizabeth Jacobs, of Nazing Vicarage, Waltham cross, Herta ; a cure of extreme nervousness, indigestion, gatherings, low spirits, and nervous fancies." 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Cure No, 48,721, G enera l B aron d e Zaluskowski, of many years fearf u l di sor d ers o f th e di g estive functions. , Avoid Pills and Medicines : th e y invariabiy is ai p gr po a i v nin aggravate eanntd, perpetuate diseases ; their annoyance, disappointment, and n h d i expense at a femayw pence b e day, saves usingool3 Barry's times constipation,other rem ed ies, indigestionr e m ovin ( g d y s e e v ffe p c s t n i al nervous, bilious andl 1y , witho ut purging liver complaints and all their consequences. Certificate MD FR S Dr Harvey, Dr. Wurzer, Dr. Shorla n d, D r. No. 36,418. We find it the safest remedy. And rew U re, Campell. Let invalids avoid the fearful dangers o f spu rious and injurious imitations o ffered under a var i e t y o f false pretences. Novae imitations axe prohibited by the high Court of Chancery und er a penalty of £5,000 aga i ns t Alfred Hooper Nevill and his agents ; an d th e pretences aectepatent for A ra bi ca Food and that Du genuine witho u t th e name Barry Du Barry Regent-street, i n f ull, on the seal and wrapper. thatßaßarry's canister ys e i l are l i has es nnd with su c h patent are utterly fals3. No N Shopk e epers who attempt imposition in ono article must expect to be distrusted in all others. Packed in tins lib. 2s. 9d.; 21b. 4s. 6d. ; 51b. Hs. ; 121 b. 225. ; 241 b. 40s. The 121 b. and 241 b. canisters are sent carriage froe on receipt of Post-office order by Barry Du Barry and Co., 77, Re gent-street, London; Fortnum Mason, and Co.; Abbia, 60, Gracechurch-street ; 4, Cheapside ; 63 and 150, Ox. bard-street ; 330 and 451, Strand ;49 and 60, Bishopsgate street ; Batty, 16, Finsbury Pavement ; Phillips and Ca. tea-dealers; Petty, Wood, and Co. King William-street, City ; at 127 , H igh Holborn ; and all grocers BIRTHS. BEA UMONT.—On tho Ist inst., at 5, Lansdowne-terrace, the wife of John A. Beaumont, Esq., late of 4th Light Dragoon Guards, of a daughter. L UDLOW.—On the Ist inst., at Blandford-square, the wife of Major -General Ludlow, of a daughter. VERNON.—On the 28th ult., at Coul House, N. 8., the lion. Mrs. Greville Vernon, of a daughter. VANSITTART.--On the Ist inst,, at Paris, Mrs. George N. Vansittart, of a son. MARRIAGES. - - DURRINT—WORSLM—On the 29th ult., at St. George's, Hanover-square, Richard Dur ran t, of Great Russell street, Bloomsbury, to Hannah, eldest daughter of the late Peter Worsley, Esq., of Hillingdon, Middlesex. THEANSTONE—BENTLEY.—On the Ist inst., at the pariA. church of Erith, Mr. W. Fawdington Theakstone, of the Stock Exchange to Lucy, widow o f th e l a te' C. A. Bentley, Esq., only daughter of Mr. Wm. Cafe. DEATHS. AnuNsoN.—On the Ist inst., at Abney House, Stoke Newington, Mr. Edward Atkinson, aged 46. DARBY.—On the Ist inst., at Twickenham, Capt. Darby, R.N., aged 62. FAna.—On the 2d inst, at Islington, Mr: Charles Farr, late of H.M.'s Excise-office, aged 70. NORTIECOTE.—On the 2d inst., at West Hill, St. Mary Church, the Rey. Arthur H. Northcote, aged 38. REEVES.—On the 30th ult.: John Reeves, Esq., father of Mr. Reeves, aged 76. TOONE.—On the 2d inst., Catherine, widow of the late W Toone, Esq., aged 91. YOUNG.—On the 30th ult., at Broad Oak End, near Hert ford, John Robert Young, Esq., aged 80. LONDON : Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Dflice, No. 112 strand, in the Precinct of the Sav o y, i n the county of middleeex,_Tueaday, December 4 2 1860. Rion ,( Colonel i' It w: TI and E tudo Prop Tb Spain those "tithe opirec of the PITT, Th Lion :etteral Roo and Deco iron Shil lr , tion HI Lon;