The Sun. — London, England, 1860-11-20 00:00:00

ELECT., GRA CE. READING. READING, Nov. 19. The nomination of candidates for the seat vacant by the. resignation of Mr. Francis Pigott, who now holds the office of Governor of the Isle of Man, took place to-day in the Town-hall. There was a numerous attendance of both electors and non electors, but the proceedings were conducted in the most orderly manner, and the various speakers had net to contend with the usual unseemly interrup tions. Every word they uttered was heard in the farthermost corner of the hall, and beyond a few hisses, cock-crows, and shouts of laughter, there was nothing to distinguish the assemblage from an ordinary meeting of respectable burghers. Shortly after eleven o'clock Mr. Boorne, the Mayor, and returning officer, entered the hall, and took his seat in the chair. lie was followed by the two candidates, Mr. Sergeant Pigott and Capt. Walter, each of whom was accompanied by a select body of his friends and supporters. The cheers which greeted the entrance of Mr. sergeant Pigott were mingled with some hisses, but the reception of Capt. Walter was all he could have desired. After the usual preliminaries, Mr. Alderman PALMER proposed Mr. Sergeant Pigott as a fit and proper person to represent the borough in Parliament, and the nomination was seconded by Mr. Alderman EXALL. Capt. Walter was proposed by Mr. Sims, and seconded by Mr. TOMPKINS. Mr. Sergeant PIGOTT, on coming forward to ad dress the electors, was received with mingled cheers and hisses. He reminded them of the important duty they were met to discharge, and trusted they would give him a patient and attentive hearing. The seconder of his hon. and gallant opponent, he said, had alluded to the rapacity of lawyers. But it was a fact that for every farthing the lawyers bad taken out of the pockets of the nation the sol diers had drawn millions. During the last 60 years £3,000,000,000 had been expended in war and on the army. One of his objects in wishing to get into Parliament was to assist in putting an end to such reckless and wasteful expenditure. He proclaimed himself to be a Liberal in politics, and expressed his belief that if the Toryism of Lord Eldon, instead of the Liberalism of Grey and Russell, had been in vogue in 1848, when every despotic throne in Eu rope was shaken to its base, England would proba bly have been the scene of revolution, rebellion, and bloodshed, all ending, perhaps, in the establish ment of a Republic, which was sometimes worse than an absolute monarchy. If the King of Naples had listened to the advice of Liberal statesmen he would not now be struggling for his Crown in a corner of his dominions, but would be supported on his throne by the acclamations and love of his peo ple, instead of flying a disgraced monarch from his kingdom. The learned sergeant next proceeded to defend the ballot as the best practical remedy for an acknowledged evil. It would prevent intimi dation and undue influence of every kind, and go far to secure freedom and purity of election. He denied that it was un-English in its character, and was persuaded that a system which was pursued with advantage by all the aristocratic clubs in Lon don could never lead to deceit and falsehood. Turn ing to the question of Parliamentary reform, he said he was in favour of an extension of the fran chise, believing the time had gone by when pro perty could be taken as a test of either respecta bility or intelligence. The schoolmaster had been abroad, education had been widely diffused, the freedom of the press had been firmly established, and the better portion of the working classes had been prepared for an enlightened enjoyment and exercise of political rights. He was not prepared to go as far as universal suffrage or anything like it, nor did he agree with Mr. Bright that the fran chise was the best cure for every evil. Some gua rantee of independence and intelligence must be secured, but that was a question of degree, to be determined in Parliament, and not in that hall. The learned gentleman then expressed his opinion that the theory of direct Jtaxation was a sound one, though it might in practice be carried too far, as, perhaps, in the case of the income tax. Direct taxation made those pay who could afford to pay, which was a great and manifest advantage, while by indirect taxation the country was apt to raise and to spend more money than it was aware of. He believed that in the matter of expenditure the people had been as much to blame as Parliament or the Government. They had been too prone at every little offence put upon them to call upon the Go vernment to draw the sword and vindicate the honour of the country in open war. For his own part, he strongly objected to the proposed expendi ture for fortifications. It was worse than nonsense. With a good militia, a good yeomanry corps, a good volunteer force, and an efficient navy, he saw no necessity for fortifications composed of stone, brick, and mortar. Our real defences were our own stalwart forms, our stout hearts, and our well-filled purses. It was awful to think that our yearly ex penditure now amounted to upwards of £70,000,000. The time for economy had arrived, and he for one would never cease to cry for judicious retrench ment. The learned sergeant concluded a very long speech, which, towards the close, elicited some un mistakeable marks of impatience, by expressing his conviction that he would be returned by a large majority. Capt. WALTER was received with loud and pro longed cheering. He said—Gentlemen, after the eloquent harangue which has been addressed to you by my hon. and learned opponent I think it will be unnecessary to detain you any length of time. I shall confine myself as much as possible to the points of difference between us. The present is not a fitting time for entering into the question of the manner in which my hon. and learned opponent liar been brought forward. We have discussed that point quite enough already. Suffice it to say, therefore, that the conduct which has been pursued by a portion of tue Liberal party on the present occasion is not that which is generally followed in other boroughs. For example, in Southwark, which contains something like 20,000 electors, there is no association to bring candidates forward with out note or warning. No—gentlemen present themselves, as they should in a free country, to the general body of the constituency. The same course ought to have been followed here. It is deeply to be regretted that a different line of conduct has been pursued, and in that opinion, I may state, Mr. Shaw Lefevre, whose family is well known and highly respected among you, fully concurs, (Hear.) My Lon. and learned opponent says he is an enemy of nomination boroughs. So am I. Nobody could have a, g r eater dislike to nomin a ti on b oroug h s t h an I li w a h re, but let us recoll ec t th a t th e ev il may ex i st er nomination is placed in th e h an d s o f three or the orf the han men as well as wh ere it i s l o d ge d i n between ds:o r e f one on l y. Th ere i s little difference latter has thetw o cases. I think, ind ee d, th a t t h e advantage, for where th e nom i na ti on li is in the ch han odu , of One ot man you have a responsibi ty whi y shared by severalcann persoers,expect where the p ower i s (1 - lear, hear.) My ho n . and learned opponent saysuhte declines to go i n t o is in favour of an ex tension of the franchise, b details. He thinks that th e ballot I-, he the only re medy for the acknowledged evil of undue influence and interference brought to bear upon the humbler classes of voters." Such are the words of his ad dress ; but when I turn to his sp eech before the Liberal Association, at its first meeting at the George, I find he said that " although the b a ll ot would not be a perfect remedy, it would prove a small one in palliation of the evil," m Y own opinion is that the ballot would be no palliation of the evil at all. Every voter must give an answer of some sort to any candidate who solicits his support. He must either say "Yes' or "No ; " or else ho must reply, " I would rather net tell you." If the answer is " Yes" or " No," there can, of course, be no secret about the matter ; while, if the elector refuses to speak, the candidate must conclude at once that he intends to vote against him. There is a third case. A man may say he will support you, and then go and vote against you. Such persons, however, cannot be numerous in any constituency ; they are the hypo crites of the community, and certainly do not de serve protection. (Cheers.) I do not believe the ballot is wanted in Rending. I here been canvases ing the borough for the last six weeks, and during the whole of that time I have met only two men who wanted the ballot for themselves. (Hear, hear.) Some people say in effect, "We are thoroughly in dependent ourselves, but our poorer neighbours are not so." For my part I do not think that the poorer classes are the least independent ; in all probability indeed they are the most independent. (Cheers.) I am certain, at all events, that the working classes do not want the ballot, but, oa the contrary, would be ashamed to have it. I believe it would be no remedy at all. Depend upon it that publicity is the best remedy for every evil, and that everything like secrecy must have a pernicious tendency. The ballot is established in France, and yet that country is the seat of an iron despotism. It likewise prevails in America, where political excitement never ceases, and where the Government, according to my hon. and learned opponent, is even worse than those on the Continent of Europe, because it is republican. England—the: only really free and independent country on the face of the globe—has not got the ballot. Where the ballot exists we find either ab solute monarchy or unbridled democracy—the tyranny of the few or the tyranny of the many. Surely, then, we have every reason to adhere to ()Pe own old independent habits. (Cheers.) My hon. and learned opponent has dwelt upon the expenditure of the country, and has instituted a comparison be tween what has been spent by lawyers and what by soldiers. Our military expenditure has indeed been large, but the money has not been spent by the soldiers at all. It has been voted by the Government and Parliament for the good of the country, or what they deemed to be such. (Hear.) Not much, certainly, has gone in the way of pay to the soldiers. Ido not believe there is a General officer who is as well paid as even a County Court judge. My hon. and learned opponent has asked what the army has done ? It has done a great deal. To the armyyou owe the preservation of the greatest empire the world ever saw—the empire of India. Our colonies were gained and are held by the army. The object of the present war in China is to force the people of that country into a treaty of commerce with us. Let it not be said, therefore, that the army is of no use. (Hear, hear.) My hon. and learned opponent has referred to the case of Italy, speaking as if he wished you to believe that I am a Tory, friendly to the despotic Governments which lately existed in most of the Italian States. I have seen a good deal of Italy, and it is somewhat remarkable that Mr. Gladstone, who once belonged to the CJI3- servative party, was the first man to expose the atrocities of the Neapolitan Government. (A Voice, " Mr. Gladstone is a Liberal.") I admit that Mr. Gladstone is a liberal man, but, like every true Liberal, he does not belong to any party. (Cheers and laughter.) Why should not a man be perfectly independent ? (Cheers.) Why should a man go into Parliament merely to oppose or support a particu lar party? Our real want is a want of good mea sures, no matter by which party they may be pro posed. For years back we have been at the mercy of parties. What is the result ? Parliamentary reform has been promised over and over again bat the question still remains unsettled, simply because one party deemed it to be its duty to oppose the measures brought in by the other. My hon. and learned opponent has declined to say how far he would extend the suffrage. For my own part I should say let representation go with taxation—let those who pay the taxes have a voice in sending members to Parliament. In the bill introduced into the House of Commons by Mr. Disraeli there was one good feature—the lodger franchise. He would have admitted a large number of the working classes, and had I been in Parliament at the time I would have given it my hearty support. (Cheers.) My hon. and learned opponent has called the present an anomalous con test. The subject must, indeed, be a sore one for him. How annoyed he must have been at finding, after having in vain appealed to two or three con stituencies before coming to Reading, and after having, as he supposed, made everything snug here, that an independent man had come forward and claimed your suffrages! I have no doubt my hon. and learned opponent:would make a very good member, but if so, why was there such a great hurry in bringing him forward. (Cheers.) I have been charged with disturbing the unanimity of the Libe ral party. My reply is that in this free country every gentleman has a perfect right to solicit the suffrages of any constituency. (Cheers.) It has been said that my hon. and learned opponent has received 700 promises. The accuracy of that as sertion will be proved to-morrow when we come to the poll. It has also been said that some of my Liberal supporters will not appear to-morrow. I have no fear on that head. I have perfect confi dence in all my supporters, but I am willing to enter into a bargain with the other side. I am ready to release my supporters from any promises they have made to me if my hon. and learned oppo nent will do the same. (Cheers and laughter.) Some of you laugh; but if Mr. Sergeant Pigott is so much the better man why should he not close with my offer ? My own opinion is that our friends on the other side are not so confident as to the result of the election as they pretend to be. Let them not forget the fable of the tortoise and the hare ; they may find it strikingly illustrated to morrow. (Hear, hear.) An attempt has been made to intimidate me. It has been said that my brother, who has represented the county for the last two years, ought to have put the screw upon me to prevent me from coming forward. My hon. and learned opponent, after accusing me of being in alliance with the Berkshire Chronicle, told a meeting of his supporters that he knew " many gentlemen who could not approve Capt. Walter's course in this borough, and who felt he was injuring his brother's chance another day in the county. He did not desire that that effect should be produced, but if the matter went on he believed the two brothers would naturally be associated together." Is that, I ask, fair treatment? (Cries of "No, no," and cheers.) I believe lam as good a Liberal as Mr. Sergeant Pigott. (Cheers.) My family has sup ported Liberal principles for the last 30 years. The first Liberal who ever represented this county—it is now 30 years ago—was my father. An attempt has now been made to asperse his character by re presenting him as a man who belonged to no party. Why, gentlemen, I am proud to be able to say that my father was no partisan. I wish to follow his example, and if you do me the honour to return me as your member I shall give my best support to good measures by whomsoever they may be brought forward. (A cry of " Bravo, Captain," and cheere.) The gallant gentleman, after stating that he would not trouble them with any further observations, but would be glad to answer any questions which might be put to him, resumed his seat amid enthusiastic and protracted cheering. A show of hands was then taken for each of the candidates. The numbers seemed to be pretty equal, but the Mayor formally declared the majority to be in favour of Mr. Sergeant Pigott. Mr. Sims then demanded a poll on behalf of Captain Walter, and the voting was ordered to take place to-morrow. On the motion of Sergeant Pigott, seconded by Captain Walter, a vote of thanks was awarded to the Mayor for his services on the occasion, after which the assemblage quietly dispersed. SOUTHWARK. The state of affairs in this borough has become more complicated through the retirement of Mr. Apsley Pellatt, who, after an active canvass during the last ten days, has decided not to press his claims in opposition to Mr. Scovell. Although this resolu tion was not unexpected, yet its consummation has caused inc reased excitement among various parties in the b orough. Mr. Pellatt's chance was from the , first deemed by those who ore best acquainted with local circumstances to be much inferior to those of Mr.Scovell, who in the districts bordering upon the river possesses undisputed influence, and is exceed ingly popular with a l arge portion of th e consti tuency. In hi s notice of retirement Mr. Pellatt and speaks of that act as th e fulfilment of a promise, " cheerfully withdraws from opposing a local gentleman whose p o liti cal sentiments harmonise with his own and with those of the majority of the constituency of Southwark." The committee who were engaged in conducting Mr. Pellatt's elec tion, however, appear to take a somewhat cliff& rent view of his withdrawal, as Mr. Newman, the chairman, in a public notice, declares that neither he nor the committee knew anything of Mr. Pel latt's determination to retire until after the letter of resignation had been sent to The Times. It must be mentioned, however, that Mr. Newman's name has been several t;mes used in publishing the intention of Mr. Pellatt to withdraw should Mr. Scovell come forward as a candidate; and at a meeting of Mr. Fawcett's friends on Friday night it was publicly stated that Mr. Newman had de clared that Mr. Pellatt would give a final answer as to his intention upon the following (Saturday) morning. In the meantime this retirement of one who was certainly a formidable antagonist to any " stranger" has produced a revival among the numerous class of aspirants for Parliamentary dis tinction, and several fresh candidates have been spoken of. An attempt was made at first to induce the electors to believe that Mr. Pellatt had retired in favour of Mr. Layard ; but, as that gentle man's name had previously been mentioned only in connexion with the fact that he had de clined to divide the Liberal interest, that expla nation did not receive much credit, and Mr. Pel latt's own announcement of his motives has determined the point. Mr. Layard, however, possesses many friends in the borough, who are un derstood to be actively engaged in preparing such a requisition as they think will not fail to induce that gentleman to offer himself as a candidate to I succeed Sir C. Napier. Another name that was yes terday put forth more prominently was that of Sir Anthony Sterling, who describes himself as the tried friend and colleague of Sir Colin Campbell in the Crimean and Indian campaigns. Whether this gentleman intends seriously to enter upon the con test, or whether he is only an addition to the host of paper candidates who have already appeared, it is impossible at present to ascertain. Mr. Scovell held his first public meeting last night at the Lea ther-market, Weston-street, Bermondsey, which was attended by upwards of 2,000 persons, and being a torchlight meeting, presented a somewhat striking scene. Mr. J. Harris presided, and intro duced N&r. Scovell, who explained in detail his poli tical views, which are already known by his pub lished address. nu SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 20, 1860 sidered mode of proceeding, and the experiment is' comparatively useless. It will be remembered also that in the firing at Eastbourne several shells burst almost as they left the muzzle of the gun, as it for tunately happened, without any injury to the by standers; had it been otherwise, the excuse that the charge was too strong for the shells would have been a very lame one, especially as appertaining to a set of experiments supposed to be conducted with something like scientific accuracy. It is satisfactory to know, however, that the real serviee experiment in China was entirely free from any of the minor difficulties in working which were noticed at East bourne; indeed, the success of the Armstrong was so remarkable, that out of polite consideration for the canons rayes of our allies, the subject was not to be mentioned in the official despatch. But though we may be disposed to carp at the experimenters, we have nothing but praise to be stow upon the gunners. On both occasions in these trials their skill was remarkable, the Armstrongs throwing shot shell into a space of 15 feet by 12, with very few mis-shots, and the smooth bores making almost equally good practice. It was most interesting to observe, also, that at Bexhill this remarkable efficiency was shared by the Volunteer Artillery, who proved themselves quite up to the mark with the regulars.—Daily News. 711 E NAVY. The Bulldog, 6, paddle, Captain Sir F. Leopold M'Clintock, arrived at Spithead yesterday, from Killybegs harbour, Ireland, on her return from sounding the North Atlantic between Faroe Islands, Iceland, Greenland, and Labrador. She has been incessantly employed in these duties for nearly five months, ant. requires considerable repairs, from the damage she has received during the passage home from the Labrador coast. Off Greenland, in the commencement of October, she lost bowsprit, stern and quarter boat, and a portion of her bulwarks. She is expected to go into Portsmouth harbour to dock and repair. The Desperate, 8, screw, Commander Ross, sailed from Spithead yesterday el-ening for the eastward. The Mersey, 40, screw, Capt. H. Caldwell, C. 8., lying at Spithead, is under immediate orders for sea; her destination is supposed to be the West Indies. The Euryalus, 60, screw, Capt.. Tarleton, C. 8., paid off her crew at Portsmouth yesterday, and hauled down the pennant at sunset. His Netherlands Majesty's screw sloop Cornelis Dirks, Capt. Koopman, arrived at Spithead on Sun day from Helvoetsluys, bound to the West Indies. Yesterday morning she exchanged the customary salutes with the flag-ship and garrison. The following appointments were made yester day at the Admiralty :—W. H. Fawchner, master, to the Mersey ; E. Harris, paymaster, add;tional to the Indus ; M. Maxwell, assistant paymaster, to the Impregnable, as supernumerary; R. Drury, clerk, to the Ariel; and T. March, clerk, to the Geyser. THE ARMY. Gen. Sir Richard Dacres, commanding the garri son at Woolwich, yesterday inspected the troopship Norwood, about to embark the battery of Armstrong artillery from the Royal Areal pier for New Zea land. The General, accompanied by Major Reilly, C. 8., Aide-de-Camp, and Major Field, the newly appointed Deputy-Assist. .Quartermaster-General, went over every portion of the vessel, in his desire to satisfy himself that the accommodation provided for the long voyage should be as complete and satis • factory as possible. The 'tween decks are spacious and well ventilated, being 73,- feet in height, and the poop deck for the use of the officers is well berthed with double and single cabins, and there is very fair accommodation throughout the ship. The voyage is expected to extend to nearly four months, for which a sumptuous stock of provisions and every necessary and comfort are stored in ample abundance. A number of Major Rhodes's patent picketing screws, which are eminently adapted for an extem porary encampment, or roadside bivouac of cavalry, have been received at Woolwich for experimental trials, by order of Sir Richard Airey, Quartermas ter-General. The screws are after the corkscrew fashion, and, with lines attached, are for the pur pose of tethering horses. They are of two sizes— viz., 14in. and 16in. long, and weigh, with two ropes attached, 21b. and 21-lb. each ; and, according to the statement of the Duke of Cambridge, recom mending the screws for a service trial with the Royal Artillery in their Monday's route marches from Wootwich, the method of picketing horses will be exceedingly simplified. This system is two-thirds lighter, and about an eighth cheaper, than the new French system of picketing horses adopted only last year, the weight of which, giving accommodation for 15 horses, is about 1251 b., and the cost from 245. to 28s. ; whe:eas 15 of Major Rhodes's heaviest tethering screws, with connect ing lines attached, weigh only 37}1b., and cost from 18s. to 20s. only. The first trial is expected to take place on Monday next. The screw steamship Himalaya, Capt. John Sec combe, embarked at Portsmouth yesterday detach ments of the 17th, 21st, and 96th Regiments, for conveyance to Kingstown. This morning she will also embark the City of Dublin Militia Artillery, and afterwards sail for Kingstown, where she will disembark the whole of the troops, who proceed to Dublin. The annexed circular memorandum has been addressed to the army at home in reference to re cruiting for the regular army : • " Horse Guards, Nov. 13. • " In every instance of the enlistment of volun teers from the Militia into the regular and Indian military forces, commanding officers are requested to report to adjutants of Militia the approval, or otherwise, of the men, within the period specified in the conditional discharge certificate received by the voluntQer from the Militia previous to his en listment into the regular or Indian army. " The attention of commanding officers is called to the annexed circular memorandum,* addressed to inspecting field officers of recruiting districts, prohibiting recruiting parties from attempting in any way to induce militiamen to leave their re spective regiments in order to enlist into the Line. " By command of hi 3 Royal Highness the Ge neral Commanding-in-Chief, "A. HORSFORD, Deputy Adjutant-General." * " All recruiting parties are to be strictly for bidden from attempting in any way to induce militiamen to leave their respective regiments in order to enlist in her Majesty's regular forces ; militiamen having no more right so to enlist than men of one Line regiment have to enlist in another without the consent of the commanding officer. Such a proceeding on their part amounts to deser tion and will exp ose th em t o t h e penalties at tached to that offence, a liability which every opportunity should be taken to make known. " Volunteers, therefore, who may be anxious to enlist in the regular army should apply for permis sion to their commanding officers, who will exer cise their discretion as to granting their request. " It is to be clearly understood that in all cases of men receiving conditional releases for the pur- ' pose of enlisting into the Line, they will, as now, be required to refund 18s. 6d., to cover the bounty and other expenses incurred in their enrolment ; also any balance of bounty they may have received in advance, on account of their first engagement, if reattested for a second.'" A Vienna letter of the 11th says :—So heavy has been the fall of snow, and so great the drift, that we have been cut off from all communication with the outer world during eight and forty hours, but this morning the three outstanding English wails came in. THE FORTHCOMING SESSION. About this time part of next year's crop of legis lation begins to be sown. Whether drilled in by the painstaking Attorney-General, or sown broad cast by the lavish hand of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the seed of future measures ought now to be receiving the moist and warm aids of earth and sky. We are in no secret, and have nothing to tell. If Mr. Bright has been commissioned to make a Treaty with the Emperor of Russia, or Mr. Lindsay has been empowered to surrender the duty on tobacco, we have been told nothing about it, and shall not hear till the thing is done. Our advice, then, is of the most general nature, and in the in terest of all parties. Th e first thing that occurs to us, as it must be to our readers, is that Ministers should attempt no more than they are lik e ly t o ac complish, and that when the State ship has as many prcjects on board as can be got into the hold, they should set their face against deck cargoes. We have no patience with the man who at the very day of sailing, when the ship ought to be under way and ready to avail herself of the breeze in her favour, comes down to the ship's side with a huge boiler, a hundred bales o ?cotton, and as many huge packages that may contain anything or everything. It was the deck cargo that wrecked last Session, and ' sent the legitimate freight to the bottom of the sea. Fortunate indeed it was that we had a concurrence of two calamities last year—a deluge of waters without and measures within ; so that, if we lost the summer, we had not much to lose. But it is quite possible the sun may shine this year, and, if he does, the country will raise a very loud protest against the surrender of another August to the hungry and longwinded dragon of debate. The sim plest review of last session shows that all the work could have been done, and a Reform Bill passed into the bargain, before August. As it was, everything was done to provoke useless controversy. It was not less the fault of the Government than of the gene ral garrulity that the Orders of. the Day did not come on CI the proper hour for adjoin oment, and days, weeks, and months were wasted in talk that led to nothing. Parliament ought not to be treated like a besieged town. The Minister has no right to make half-a-dozen attacks upon it, and compel half a-dozen defences, on the speculation of carrying one point out of half-a-dozen. Let him propose no more than he intends to carry, and he is the more likely to carry it than when he has to contend not only with differences of opinion, but with the physical impossibility of doing many things at once. If, too, Parliament does not deserve to be treated as a foe, neither is it quite the child or the silly fool that some statesmen suppose. The public has ceased of late years to put the smallest faith in a Budget. It no more believes that it will be let off with the figure, nicely put at so many pounds, shil lings, and pence, for the army or the navy, or this or that war, than it trusts the architect's esti mate for the imposing edifice he tells you can be done for a mere trifle. Large sections of the human race cannot be brought to reason or reduced to submission at so very cheap a rate. It is, then, mere child's play to come before the House with Estimates that mean nothing at all, and that have to be explained afterwards as pieces of constitutional etiquette. The dignity of legislation is seriously affected when a pro ductive tax is remitted one month and found to be necessary the next, when duties are lowered in the spring and screwed up again at Midsum mer, and when it is found that the glittering largesse thrown by handfuls to the mob is no thing but gilt counters to dazzle the eye and produce a momentary cheer. A Budget is pre eminently a matter of calculation, and, unless it aims at infinity, can be estimates sufficiently near to save corrections. We had three, if not four Budgets, this year; like so many attempts to extract a bad tooth, or to improve an ill fitting dress, or to correct a clumsily constructed sentence. In fact, the figures of the Budget varied as much from day to day as prices at the Stock-Exchange. There are people who will neither make an arrangement nor acquiesce in one, and whose delight is to keep everything unsettled till the last moment, when something must be done. An instinct seems to tell them that their best chance, with regard to their own convenience, is a scramble, and that if they make a dash they can manage for themselves, leaving others to do the same after. Somebody or other must have made a strong dash at the beginning of last Session to throw affairs into the higgledy piggledy state they remained in to the end. But we doubt if anybody gained much by it. We beg also to suggest that a loose formation is not usually the best for a Cabinet. It must more generally be a close phalanx, with a very definite plan of its own ; ready, indeed, to profit by opportunities, but still with something to fall back upon. All successful causes have been well orga nized, and a bad cause with a system and a policy will any day beat a good cause which has neither out of the field. But Parliament itself is a cause, and representative institutions, as we are told, are on their trial. It is our glory to spread them, and the state of affairs in Europe certainly seems to offer some slight hope of success. This is not to be done by diplomacy or by propagandism. It is an affair of example. Were the British Parliament for a few Sessions to effect all the improvements and make all the progress which it confesses to be de sirable, and were it to do this without waste of time, words, temper, and good name, no doubt that would have a powerful effect on the world, and lend new strength to many a struggling cause. As things are, we are almost tongue-tied on the question with foreign absolutism. It is vain to argue on abstract grounds with Empires and despotic Courts, when we can only show an annual chas of promised, in tended, andabandoned measures, makeshift finance, schemes in perpetual postponement, debates begin ning and ending in nothing, and six months of loose talk, followed by one month's crash of half digested Bills. Yet this is not the fault of the nation, nor is it so much the fault of Parliament as is sapposed. A Cabinet with a few carefully prepared measures will easily override the small plots of an irregular and divided Opposition. Where are the angry cries and exorbitant demands that used to keep the nation on the verge of anarchy, and which afforded a bad excuse for doing nothing but stand still ? There are no such de mands in these days. At this moment we do not see the giant that is to shake the Cabinet out of its propriety. Lord Palmerston need not fear such a scheme as the ballot, and as for all the other schemes of Parliamentary Reform, there is not one that he could not neutralise at once, if he desired it, by a simple but comprehensive bill of his own. What else is there that he need fear, except that indefinite future, which is likely enough to :be fertile in new horrors if it be not anticipated ? That is all that is required. A session requires as much preparation as a military campaign, and if it be entered on without forces, stores, or plan, the want is soon found out. But in politics, as in war. it is best not to have too many irons in the fire, and so waste on unprofitable enterprises the strength wanted to secure one single success.—Times [ADVERTISEMENT.] Pills and medicine invariably ag gravate and perpetuate diseases ; their annoyance, dis appointment, and expense may be avoided by persons in indifferent health sending only their address to E. 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Holloway's Ointment and Pills.—Constant Changes of Temperature.—lt is most essential for the health of all that the great vicissitudes of temperature now occur ring should receive attention ; they exercise an injurious effect on the majority of persons. Where colds, sore throats, rheumatism, bronchitis, and similar diseases arise, Hol loway's ointment should be well rubbed, without delay, near the affected parts, and his purifying pills should be taken at the same time. These wonderful remedies arrest and eradicate these diseases with certainty and safety, and will agree with any caistitution. The ointment should be well rubbed upon the skin precisely as salt is rubbed into meat to preserve it ;it will penetrate to dieordorei tissue and owe it. THE VOLUNTEER MOVEMEIV T. Her Majesty's Court of Lieutenancy has sanc tioned the addition of three new companies to the 2d City of London Rifle Volunteer Corps (Captain Commandant G. A. Spottiswoode). Its strength is therefore now four companies. It meets for drill three times a week—twice at head-quarters, 10, Little New-street. for recruits, and once in the court yard of Bridewell Hospital for company drill. The 24th Middlesex (Uxbridge) Corps, under the command of Capt. Hilliard, met on Sunday morn ing at the railway station, Uxbridge, and, after going through several of their evolutions, marched, preceded by their band of fifes and drums, lately presented to them by the Hon Miss Irby, to church, where a sermon was preached by the Rev. Mr. Price, who is chaplain to the corps. The enrolment of members is steadily increasing, and the Lord Lieutenant's sanction has been obtained for the for mation of a new company. An influential committee has been appointed in Greenwich, at the head of which is Mr. Ald. Salo mons, M.P. for the borough, for the purpose of forming a marine artillery corps or brigade for the service of artillery, and for gunboat service on the Thames. The suggestion, which originated with the worthy alderman, has been very favourably received, and sufficient support has been already promised to render its realisation certain. It is proposed to ac cept the services of a large body of persons whose business is immediately connected with the river, watermen and lightermen, and also of amateur watermen and others, who will form a company distinct from the professionals. Tne value of such an arm of defence may be gathered from the fol lowing extract from the report of the Naval Committee appointed to inquire into the sub ject of floating batteries, booms, rafts, &c.:— " The committee having examined several of the Thames river barges, wood and iron, and consulted an eminent engineer conversant with the subject, are of opinion that two of them, from 60 to 90 tons each, could cocroly connected together and fitted to carry two heavy guns, with a breastwork, for river defences. Iron canal barges are also suitable for this purpose, but being smaller, averaging 40 tons, three of them would be required for the same armament. Such small batteries could be rapidly prepared, and if placed within a boom, connected with chains, where water is smooth, would be a formidable barrier." The 2d Sussex (Cuckfield) Corp 3 of Rifle Volun teers, consisting of two companies and numbering 153 members, under the command of Capt. Meek, was inspected on Friday by Lieut.-Col. Moorsom at Cuckfield-park, the seat of Capt. Sergison, one of the captains of the corps. After marching past, the corps was put through various battalion move ments—the manual and platoon, skirmishing, and file,and volley firing. At the conclusion Col. Moor som complimented the men on the steadiness of their marching and general efficiency. The corps dined together afterwards, when most of the leading gentry in the neighbourhood were present. EXPERIMENTS WITH TIIB ARM- STRONG GUNS. The bombardment of the old Martello towers at Eastbourne and Bexhill has resulted as might have been anticipated, in a victory for the Armstrong gun over the 68-pounder. But if we are to regard these experiments as testing the comparative merits of smooth-bore and rifled ordnance, they are only partially satisfactory. They show us what execu tion the Armstrong can do at its short range, but not what the heaay smooth bore can do at its short range. We were perfectly prepared to see the tough old tower at Eastbourne crumble under the fire of the Armstrong 100 and 80 pounders, at a range of 1,032 yards, and we were not at all surprised to find the companion tower at Bexhill resisting the attack of 32 and 68 pounders at 1,036 yards. It was scarcely worth while to go to all this trouble for an experiment which was not calculated to display the surpassing advantages of the Armstrong, and which merely showed the 68-pounders attempting work they were not fitted to do. The trial, in fact, was about as rational as a steeplechase between a crack hunter and a dray horse, both excellent animals in their wav, but offering no match. The shot from the smooth bore, artillerists inform us, travels for a short distance at about twice the speed of the rifled projectile, but it loses this superior velocity after the first 500 yards, while the rifled shot retains its lower speed over a very much longer course. To obtain, thou, the fair and proper use of the round shot, we should employ it within the range of its greatest power; the effects, in that case, may be rationally compared witk those produced by the Armstrong at the same distance ; but in the experi ments upon the Martello towers the range chosen was actually greater for the smooth bores than for the Armstrong, whereas it should have been the reverse. To have made a really sound and reliable experiment, the Armstrong gun should have been placed at least 2,000 yards from the tower, and the 68-pounder within 500. The relative advantages of the two would by this means have been exhibi ted ; as it is, the Armstrong has not been tested to its full capabilities, and the smooth bore has been tried under palpable disadvantage. Do any of the distinguished artillerists who witnessed and pre sided at those experiments suppose that Bomarsund would have been breached and taken if the 68- pounders had been brought.to bear upon the granite walls at the same range taken for the attack on the Martello tower at Bexhill ? Upon the Russian fortress, which we may conclude was rather stronger than our old Martello tower, some hundred of the heaviest shot and shell were fired at a little over a thousand yards without any practicable breach being made; and the business was done by a few 68-pounder ship guns landed and brought up to within 400 yards of the - veils. Unless, therefore, the old tower at Bexhill was really to be rapidly demolished to make way for something stronger in the way of a coast defence, we can see little prac tical utility in the trials of the 68 and 32 pounders upon it. We had thought that the numerous experiments upon defensive structures of earth, wood, stone, and iron, which have for some years past been going on at Portsmouth and Shoeburyness, had pretty clearly defined the powers of the old and the new artillery; it may not be so, and certainly these latest experiments have the recommendation of shoring the effect upon real fortifications in stead of Jfortified target. There may be condi tions of stability in a whole fortified work nut altogether attainable by a model of parts only, even if it be made out of sections of the same material, and possibly. some of the targets, espe cially those of iron upon granite blocks, which have been so easily destroyed, afford no very reli able evidence either in favour of the guns or against the defences. In this view the practice upon the Martello towers was called for, but they might have been planned with a more direct reference to the capabilities of the Armstrong, and conducted so as to shut out all fallacies, and render the conditions equally favourable to the two guns. In point of range they have not exhibited either weapon at its best. They have shown us what the 68 and 32 pounders cannot do, but not what they can do ; while they leave us in doubt as to whether the accuracy and destructive power of the Armstrong are as extraordinary at long range as at that which for rifled ordnance must be pronounced short range. The immense advantage that would belong to a body of artillery attacking a fort with Armstrong guns would be that they would be able to commit desperate havoc upon their antagonists with com paratively little risk to themselves, as they would be out of the range of the rifle. But suppcsing that the Martello had been defended by riflemen only, every gunner would have fallen before the place was made untenable. We had a real service experiment of far more value in the attack of Capt. Milward's battery upon the Chinese cavalry, when, at from 1,200 to 2,200 yards, the shells were pitched into the trenches and amongst the troops with unerring accuracy. Even had the Chinese possessed the Enfield rifle they could not have touched our men at this range. But there is every reason to believe that the Armstrongs would be found equally efficient at a much longer range, and it is surprising to find that no shots were tried against the Eastbourne tower beyond the 1,032 yards. If the Armstrong is not effective for bat tering purposes beyon k the reach of the rifle, it is desirable to know this. It is not with any desire to under-estimate the valuable qualities of the Armstrong that we make these remarks, but rather to point out the amazing want of experimental acumen in the trials at East bourne and Bexhill. Not only was the long range test not made with the one gun whose peculiar property it is, and the short range omitted with the other whose special excellence is its battering power at point blank firing, but the guns were not tried on equal conditions as to weight of projectile . The Armstrongs which did the great damage to the 6 and 9 foot brickwork were 80 and 100 pounder guns, while the round shot guns were only 32 and 68 pounders. Again, the number of shots fired by the Armstrongs was more than three times as many as those from the smooth bores, being 170 at East bourne and 52 at Bexhill. All exactness and nicety of judgment are prevented by this ill-con- MOVEMENTS OF THE MORMONS. The following details are famished by a writer who devotes special attention to the matter, and from whom we learn that— . After two years of inaction, the Mormons have decided to recommence aggressive operations. In December last a body of elders arrived from Utah, to stir up the " Saints" to a remembrance of the work they had to do. Early in the present year preparations were made throughout the Mormon Church for active work. A season of" ingathering" to the church had succeeded the period when, sud denly deprived of nearly all the Utah elders, the. Moi mons were compelled to turn their attention mainly to the perfecting of their organisation. A missionary spirit reigned too in the " mountains of Ephraim ;" its fruits were the establishment of the Union Academy, Great Salt Lake city, for the in struction of the elders in science and the modern languages, and a determination to send a large number of missionaries to Europe. Meantime, the educational movements which were some time before commenced in Utah and England worked vigorously on. The "Deverel University" appointed a superintendent of com mon schools; schools were erected in all parts of the territory ; scientific and literary ' societies sprang up under the fostering care of the terri torial Legislature; lectures on scientific subjects were regularly delivered in the " social hall"—the seat of Mormon festivity, and inventive genius and scholastic ability were nurtured and encouraged by every possible means. The English training classes for the priesthood and the conference choirs were well supported, and have had, in many districts, manifest results. On the 27th of July, landed in Liverpool, from the Edinburgh, Amasa Lyman and Charles C. Rich (of the 12 apostles), Jos. F. Smith, and Samuel H. B. Smith (nephew of the late "prophet" Smith), and nine other elders. Three arrived by the Glas gow, on the 3d of August; 12 by the Middlesex, Aug. 26 ; one by the Edinburgh, Sept. 7th ; three by the Antarche, Sept. 17th ; eight by the Lady Franklin, and Pour by the Washington, Sept. 18th ; and three by the James Foster, jun., Sept. 21st. "Apostle" Lyman immediately took the editorship of the Millenial star; "Apostle" Rich began travelling among the conferences; and the elders were appointed to various districts, with the view of learning the character of their work and fami liarising themselves with it, six being sent to Lon don. A third "Apostle," George Q. Cannon (successor to Parley Parker Pratt, who was shot in May, 1857, by Hector M'Lean for seducing his wife), is expected from Utah with another body of missionaries in a few weeks - ; and on his arrival he is to take charge of the publishing and emigration departments. The emigration for 1859 and 1860 is not so large as would appear from the newspapers. By the William Tanscott, sailed from Liverpool, April 11, 1859, 725 " Saints ;" by the Antarehei July 10, 30; by the Emerald Isle, Aug. 20, 54 ; by the Under writer, March 30, 1860, 594 ; by the William Taps cott, May 11, 731; by miscellaneous ships, 233 ; giving a total of 2,327 within 14 months. Open-air preaching has been largely carried out by the elders during the summer. Regular services in the South Pastorate are said to have been attended by hundreds of attentive people. Marked attention and an investigating spirit are reported of the hearers at open-air meetings in the Southampton Pastorate. Elder Wm. Jefferies commenced open air services in Norwich in the month of June, with 1,000 persons present at each of the two opening services. Elder Benjamin Evans, in one of his re ports from Wales, says—" The brethren holding the priesthood are unexceptionably full of life and spirit with the work of preaching in the open air, and the attention paid to them is better than I have seen it for some years." Regular services have also been held at several places in London. This is not the only Christian agency copied by the Mormons; for an elder, Daniel Matheson, has been labouring in and around Dundee as a missionary to the Gentile population. In some parts of the British Mission the in-door meetings are reported as prosperous. The meetings of the South Pastorate, in particular, are said to be well attended; an inquiring spirit is attributed to the British nation; and many of the meeting rooms are already too small for the congregations. The proprietors of respectable halls seem ignoratit of the real character of Mormonism—the great Free-trade Hall, Manchester, and the Trongate Hall, Glasgow, having been let for Mormon conferences. The baptisms during the summer are said far to exceed the emigrations for the year—a sure indica tion of our advancement. Care has been taken to secure the return of the " straying" sheep—those who have received Mormon notions, but have apos tatised in times of difficulty, or been excommuni cated for slight offences. This effort has been very successful; and in Wales many rich persons have been induced to open their houses as meeting rooms. Let the present aspect of Mormonism be well understood. The system has been undergoing a change in that time wherein the people have thought it dying out. It is no longer an outpost of the Mormon Church, as it exists in England ; nor is its great object the gathering of all, the " honest in heart to Zion, that they may escape the plagues of Babylon." The British Mormon Mission is intended to be permanent. The " northern sea" is not to be rolled back, that the modern Israelites may pass over dryehod to the " promised land." The gather ing to Utah continues, bat it is not intended to cease; and the " hour of God's judgments" is no longer looked for by the Mormons of Europe. As for escaping from " Babylon" en masse, and leaving it to the " vials of wrath" they have so long and so often predicted, the Mormons " never look for such a time to come, nor expect the breaking up or the taking home en masse of such Missions as the British and Scandinavian Missions." It renders the Mormon Church a permanent thing in England. Many of its features have been softened down. The daring blasphemy which years ago shocked every stranger entering a Mormon meeting is not now generally met with. Discourses from scriptural texts, framed almost like Christian discourses, are the models which the elders are required to copy. The grosser features of Mormonism are kept in the background, and the system is represented as a massive one, of a liberal and universal meaning. Courtesy to opponents has taken the place before occupied by curses and denunciations, and love and a desire to do good to all men are set forth as the spirit and aim animating the elders. It is not difficult to discover the chief object the Mormon leaders now have in view. Such prepara tions as they have made are net intended to con vert.(? pervert) the lower orders of society. Mor monism's new dress is put on for other eyes than those of the vulgar crowd to behold; the great object of its principal advocates is to strike at the middle classes—to tell upon "the liberal and ad vanced minds of England"—to "establish in the public mind a juster and higher appreciation of I Mormonism." In the new work they have thus decided to inaugurate, the Mormons confidently look for success : " there are those who believe that the period has opened when the Latter-day Church in these lands, es well as in America, will rise in the scale of its destiny, and draw from the middle classes of society some of its best men, and some of its most liberal and advanced minds." The means of frustrating this new Mor mon move are simple, and will prove efficacious. A knowledge of Mormon first principles will enable the teachers of the gospel to expose the perversions of Scripture on which they are founded ; while the reproduction of those blasphemous notions held and i propagated . by the Mormons some years since will serve to blacken and vilify Mormonism and its leaders more effectually than the reports which fill anti-Mormons works. [AnvlunsEmENT.]—The following mailable among the numerous extraordinaryicions Health out medicine effected by Du Barry's are not the curesle a w s T h e - - Cure No. 47,121.—Mi5s Re storing Eievalenta Arabica Food. f n e, d i W ges a t l i t a h a a , m g - a c t r h o s s r s . , H E l e i r z t a s b : e t a h ea J r a s c s o f b Jacobs, t o r f em N e a n z e i n ry g a n V at:l ic e a ts4 r .s a , e Cure 48,314. Miss ins, low spirits, and nervous e fancies. Liverpool; a cure of 10 Elizabeth Yeoman, on, dyspepsia, Captain Allan of epileptic years dyspepsia and G a all the eae r u b r n e r o a r f s coafra.Lsntaitiepxrostyr:oinaut:siiirdLroieftiadeberiosl Leicester, e t .s y ry: Cure 18,216. Dr. Andrew r s , deivarrreia;f all hopes 54,812.,. Miss Vir ginia irritability. fits.an d Cure debility. 46 C , u B r l e 4. C 36 1 :, , r 2 r e 1 . 2 3 . 4 : Cae 1 n ; ee l : consumption, after her g of iais two zeg y a ea e r r s s, medical adviser had abandoned of recovery. Avoid Pills and Medicines: they invariably aggravate anti perpetuate diseases ; their annoyance, disappointment,arry' sFcc or day, sav es 60 t i mes its cost in o th e r remdereemg effectually, W ith out purging, and which, expense at ea i m fas a w y pence avoided by using Dune oevi der B , _ cons tip a tion,. indigestion (dyspepsia) nervous, bilious and liver complaints and all their consequences. Certificate No. 36,418. We find it the safest remedy. Andrew Ure, MD., F.R.S. Dr Harvey, D r . Wurzer, Dr. Shorland, Dr. °mp g' . Let invalids av o id the fearful dangers of spu rious and injmiou-4imitations offered under a variety of false pretences. Nevild's imitations are prohibited by the high Court of Chancery under a penalty of £5,000 against Alfred Hooper Nevill and his agents ; and the pretences that Nevill has a patent for Arabica Food and that Du Barry's are connected with such patent are utterly fals,. No canister is genuine without the name Barry Du Barry and Co., 77, Regent-street, in full, ontheseal and wrapper. Shopkeepers who attempt imposition in one article must expect to be distrusted in all others. Packed in tins 11b. 2s. 9d.; 21b. 4s, 6d. , 51b. lls.; 121 b. 225. ; 241 b. 40s. The 121 b. and 241 b. canisters are sent carriage free on receipt of Post-office order by Barry Du Barry and Co., 77, Re gent-street, London; Fortnum Mason, and Co. ; Abbia, 60, Gracech urc h- street ; 4, Cheapside ; 63 and 150, Ox bard-street ; 330 and 451, Strand ; 49 and 60, Bishopsgate street ; Batty, 16, Finsbury Pavement ; Phillips and Co, tea-dealers ; Petty, Wood, and Co., King William-street City ; at 127, High Holborn; and all growth THE E FATAL _BOLLER EXPLOSION AT KATNG' S. CROSS. the coroner for West Yesterday Mr. Wai'd ey, Middlesex, resumed and .concluded at the Victoria Hotel, King's-cross, the inquiry respecting the deaths of George Wiggins ..ArL d Charles Tann, who were killed by the explosion of the boiler of a loco• motive engine at the works of gr. Jay, contractor to the Metropolitan Underground Railway. The first witness examined was Capt. Tyler, of the Royal E n gi neers , an d G overnme n _ inspector of Railways. He said he examined the' engine by the order of the Bo ar d o f T ra d e on th e g{l' the King's:cross termi nus o f th e Great Nt inst. at ‘rthern Railway. He found the engine lying on ire- side. The crown of the firebox had been blown in, vul it had been forcibly detached from the other three 00ne• In some places it had given way at the rivets, in others the whole of the plates had been to through. The inside of the firebox was a flat sui" face immediately over the fire. It was, in come-. quence of its formation and position, the weakest part of the boiler, and was subjected to a very severe strain when high pressure was employed. To show the strain it would have to bear at a pres sure of 70Ib. to the square inch, a force equal to 43 tons would be exerted; at 801 b., 49 tons ; at 901 b., 55 tons; and at 100 lb. to the square inch, 61 tons. Looking to the crown of the firebox, it vrao plain that it was not originally carefully constricted. The roof stays were not in good form ; they N I. ere defective in strength, and were not properly sup. ported on the walls of the firebox. Some of them had been bent by the' strain to which they had been subjected. They had been bolted to the copper plate in a very irregular' manner. Having minutely described the construction of the engine, he con tinued :—The principal defec t in the roof stays was the want of length and of p roper support at the ends. They were short to the distance between the walls in which they should have been supported, as they had been fixed according to Es: custom which had been too much practised, with thk. l end resting upon the screw of the rivet which joined plate to the front and back walls of the firebox, crown in stead of being made to rest upon the walls ; and it was this defect whi c h had b een th e m ain cause of the weakness, and which, no doubt, led to the ex plosion. It was usual cases of boiler exploa•ion to attribute the effects which they produced to eff traordinary pressure of steam generated suddenly" in the boiler in consequence of the firebox becoming heated. In the present instil, lice it had been sug gested that the water in the boiler might have been so exhausted as to heat the croivn of the firebox, and that water might have been poured upon it in its heated state, the engine suddenJ7 started, a sud den generation of steam might have.' resulted, and the explosion then took place. For ocveral reasons he believed that nothing of the sort would have produced the explosion, as he underotood that the engine was standing still at the time of the explosion. He could come to no other conclusion but that the boiler ga ve.l way in consequence of the weakness of its construc tion, and at a pressure not very much exceeding that at which it was ordinarily employed, and at pressure at which it ought to be safe. As a rule,. boilers should be constructed to resist a strain Sir times as great as that which they were ever likeiy to sustain. The strain ought to be proved by hy draulic pressure, not only when first constructed, but in after years. Looking at the frequency of boiler explosions, it became a matter for serious consideration whether it was not desirable that precautions of this description should be enforced by law. If precautions were enforced, these explo sions would be as rare as they were now frequent, and a benefit would be conferred on those who manufactured boilers as well as on those who pur chased them, and on those whose lives were continu ally endangered by the increasing use of them on railways, in factories, at sea, and wherever steam boilers were employed. The class of explosion now' under consideration was one which had been by no means uncommon, as there were similar cases in which the crowns of fire-boxes had been blown in ; on the 16th of August, 1859, at Lewisham, on the South-Eastern ; in October, 1859, at Lewes, on the Brighton Railway ; in July, 1858, on the North. British Railway, &c. ; and he feared that there were too many engines now working in which similar danger was continually incurred. The cause of the explosion lay in the original construc tion of the fire-box. The Coroner said the jury had to thank Captain Tyler for his valuable statement. Mr. Wallis, the house-surgeon of the Great Nor thern Hospital, deposed that Church, one of the sufferers, was not in a fit state to be examined. No more witnesses were examined, and the room was then cleared. The jury having deliberated for about an hour and a-half, the public were re-admitted. The Coroner said the jury had decided not to hear the evidence of Church, as they did not think he could throw any light upon the matter. An open verdict was then returned, to the effect that the deceased men Wiggins and Tann met their deaths by the explosion of a boiler at the works of Mr. Jay, contractor to the Metropolitan Railway, and that there was no evidence to show that any person was criminally responsible for their deaths. The jury also suggested that Captain Tyler's re port should be submitted to the Government. The inquiry then terminated. COUNTRY MARKETS. COLCHESTER —Nov. 17. A fair supply of saleable wheat was brought into market to-day, with a dull trade, and prices were is under former currencies for best 'samples ; damp sorts fully 2s lower, but very little changed hands. Spring corn slow, at last day's prices. Wheat, white 608 to 72s ' Beans, Mazagan..36s to 42s red 44s to 648 ! Middle & small 44s to 50s Barley 4OB to 508 I White peas 4Bs to 52' Oats ..22s to 28s I Grey.. 42- to 48s CHELMSFORD—Nov. 16. A good supply of wheat to-day, and prices at former rates for good dry samples; inferior samples 3s to 4s per qr lower. Fiue malting barley in good demand, and sold at full prices ; oilier sorts the turn lower. New beans is per qr cheaper, and white peas in good demand at full rates. Wheat. white 48s to 66s I I eas, Partridge ..43a to Vs red 57s to 66s I White 43a to 461 Barley Ms to 42s j Boiling 438 to 47 Chevalier ....38s to 45s I Dun • 398 to 421 Grinding 33s to 37s Beaas, Tick 3BB to 463 Malt 61s to 67s Harrow Ticks 39s to 49s Chevalier 648 to 69s ; Mazagan 32a to 43s Oats 26s to 31s ) NORTHAMPTON—Nov. 17. At this corn-market to-day wheat was in tolerable sup ply, with a fair demand, prices ranging from 64s to 68s for white, and 4es to 64s for red. In barley a good business, mahing 40s to 465, grinding 34, to 36s per qr. Oats in small supply, and prices ste.tionary—qvo;:ed at 21a to 38a per 24 stone. Beans, old, 52s to 665; peas, 46s to 535. Rye, 37s to 425; malt, 68s to 72s ; flour, 338 to 348 per sack. KIRKALDY—NoT. 17. We had a less supply of barley to-day, and fine quali ties brought fully the prices of last week ; indifferent parcels were sold at fully is lower. Oats in fai r su p p l y , an d is cheaper. Old and new wheats in small supply, at about laic rates. Wheat Barley Oats First.... 40s Od 308 Od 23s Od Second.. 58s Od 41s Od 29s Od Third .. 70s Od 443 Od 32s Od COAL MARKET—Nov. 16. Wilma of Coal per Ton at the close of the market. e. d.. Walls End. llolywrell lB 0 Tanfield Moor Butes 15 6 Edon Main ...... 2O 0 R, d. Hetton .. 2l 6 South Hetton ....21 6 Tees 2l 0 South Dvrham 19 0 Peases West .16 0 Stewart's 21 0 146 ; sold, 130, Walls End. Brsddyll's Helton 20 8 Haswell 2l 6 Ships at market, BIRTHS. COLLIER.—On the 18th inst., at 55, Ebury-street, the wife of John F. Collier, Esq., barrister-at-law, of a daughter. FEILDING.—On the 13th inst., at Witton-park, Lanca shire, the wife of Lieut.-Colonel Feilden, of Dulas Court, Herefordshire, of a daughter. Howes.—On the 19th inst., at 43, Brunswick •terraee, Camherwell, the wife of Henry Howes, Esq., General Post Office, of a son. MARRIAGES. LLOYD—Fax.—On the 14th inst., at St. Mary's Church, Windermere, William Run°lds Lloyd, Esq., of Bir mingham, to Bitha, daughter of the late George Fox, of Windermere. TREMAYNE—VIVIAN.—On the rth Inst., at Cardynham Churelt, John Tremayne, Esq., of Heligan, to the Hon. Mary Charlotte Martha, eldest daughter of Lord Vivian, of Glynn, Cornwall. DEATHS. Blticlist.—On the 16th inst., at 23, St. James's-street, Mrs. Brigg, aged 56. BAR IiERIET-OR the 13th inst., at Bedford, John Nugent Barberie, Esq., aged 58. DEARLE.— On the 16th inst., at Epsom, Miss Deane, aged 40. MACDONALD.-0/1 the 15th inst., at 74, Sloane-street Lieut.-Colonel Robert Macdonald , C. 8., formerly com mandingo3sn th thß e egt., aged 82 . 14th inst., at 18, Alexa n d er - square , BMMPn Gle3othrgeinst„ at Morris, Cardonsas, in the Esq., ag e d 60. MAXWELL.—On Stewartry of Kirkcudbright , Sir David Maxwell, Bart , ' William the Hon. Colonel of the Galloway Militia. 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