The Sun. — London, England, 1858-09-30 00:00:00

THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION. LEEDS, WEDNESDAY ATFERNOON. According to the arrangements made in the first instance, the reading of papers in the sectional meet ings of this scientific congress was to have finished yesterday ; but, owing to the number entered, or their length, or both combined, 25 were left unread when the sections rose yesterday afternoon. The consequence has been that four of the sections met this morning. In section E (Economic Science and Statistics) yesterday, Mr. W. NEWMARCH addressed the meet ing " On the recent history of the Credit Mobilier." In 1855, at Cheltenham, he ventured to state to the section his conviction that, notwithstanding the ap parent great success of this extraordinary associa tion in Paris, there were many fundamental and grave errors connected with the whole system on which it was founded, and that no long time could elapse before serious mischief might be apprehen ded. And there were good reasons for believing that that statement was well founded. After a mi nute anlaysis of the prospects held forth by the pro moters of the association when it was founded in 1852, Mr. Newmarch said that it started with a paid-up capital of £2,400,000 ;in addition to which more than £4,000,000 had been obtained in the way of deposits ; so that what might be called the avail able capital was about £6,000,000. This was down to the end of 1855; and they had then invested £4,000,000 in French funds, &c. ; and £1,300,000 were in bonds of various kinds, and about £2,000,000 were being employed in trade. So long as there was almost a continuous rise in the French funds nothing could be apparently more prosperous or free from hazard than this most extraordinary undertaking. At the close of 1855 a profit was shown, and a dividend made, of something like 50 per cent. upon the paid-up capi tal ; but at the close of 1856 the profit announced was barely more than half of that in 1855, while 1857 showed barely more than one-third that of 1856. Indeed, during the last two years the expe rience of the society had confirmed the opinion of its promoters. In the last two reports it had been admitted in fact, although not very clearly, that all the railway, gas. and omnibus companies, the lines of postal communication, the steam packets, the ob ligations in Switzerland, Spain, Austria, and Rus sia—that all these things, with which the company had been involved in carrying out its.objects, had not resulted so profitably as had been expected. The report at the close of 1856 caused the £2O shares, that had been at £7O or £BO, to fall to something like £3O ; and they had risen but very little since then. The report for 1857 was very long, and contained much fine writing ; but the fact was that no dividend was declared. At the meeting in April there was an admission that a balance in favour of the society—which the report attempted to prove existed in December, assuming a certain mode of valuation—had then been swept away. Indeed, in Paris, the question had been and was being again raised. whether it was possible for the society to continue to exist separately, or whether it must not somehow be placed in conjunction with the Bank of France, upon which it had so largely depended from the first. A few figures would show the result of the society's operations. In 1855 the profit on stocks, shares, and bonds—which appeared to mean the profit from buying on one hand and selling on the other—was set down at £1,040,000; 1856, £457,000 ; 1857, £lBO,OOO. Profits on com missions-1855, £57,000; 1856, about the same; 1857, only £28,000. Profits on " continuations"- 1855, £55,000; 1856, £171,000; 1857, £28,000. In terest on investments (all the railway and other companies it might be presumed) was set down at £121,000 in 1855; but no item appeared under that head for either of the last two years. One could. not but be struck with the extraordinary state of things that could allow of the existence for even six years of so anomalous an institution—one almost entirely at variance with all that had been hitherto recognised as sound principle—which professed to have made a new discovery as to the effecting the greatest results by means of credit upon the vastest scale, but which was, in fact, a monstrous stock jobbing concern, and nothing more. (Applause.) If there had been issued, as at first proposed, 24 mil lions sterling of inconvertible paper, the mischievous effects would be incalculable. The society claimed at its origin that it must be unaffected by political councils or social crises ; yet, supported as it was by many persons who, for some reason, were supposed to be great authorities in finance, and supported also by all the force of the Government, the insti tution was crumbling away, until one was forced to believe that it was in the last stages of its exist ence. It might be asked how he accounted for the fact that during these six years the French finances gencraly seemed to have been conducted with ease and success, despite constant large expenditure, much of which was wholly unprofitable and much yielding only an inadequate return. There was reason to believe that during the six years, on rail ways alone, there had been actually expended in France nearly 30 millions sterling a year—an amount not far short of what led to our railway difficulties. There had also been the Russian war, a failure of the silk crop, and two partial failures of the harvest. How, then, had all this expenditure been kept up ? Ile believed that the Credit Mobilier had been a positive source of mischief rather than that it had in any way.helped towards these wonderful results. Here was the real cause. The official returns showed that since 1845 the ba lance of trade had been very much more than 100 millions sterling in favour of France ; the demand for French goods having come from the United States and Australia, through the gold disco veries. Our own Board of Trade reports showed that during the first half of this year the declared value of our imports from France was more than seven millions sterling; while the declared value of our exports to that country was not more than two millions. We had paid the five millions in gold received from Australia and the United States. This result was as remarkable as to his mind it was clear and simple, and it was another illustration of the profound and extensive changes that were being produced upon the whole of the commercial coun tries by the gold discoveries. (Hear, hear.) The Credit Mobiher was a striking exemplification of the entire powerlessness, except for great mischief, of anyy institution that aimed at great results by any but the most honest and straightforward means. (Applause.) It started with the boast of doing the greatest things by some new device . which should relieve men from : the obligation of understanding their own affairs—some contrivance greatly to dis pense with labour—something to accomplish some thing by means which nobody could clearly under stand. Its experience was like the experience of all previous similar or analogous attempts, and to us it should read the same lesson—that a nation could only increase its material wealth by relying entirely upon the industry and intelligence of its citizens. (Applause.) Some questions having been put to Mr. NEW MARCH, he said he had no doubt the profit claimed to have been made in 1855 was really made, for there was a considerable rise in all kinds of securi ties, which was precisely the most favourable state of things for the association ; but whether the 24 millions of paid-up capital was still intact must de pend entirely upon 'the mode of valuation of the concerns, bonds, &c., held. " Hitherto the directors had been the valuers. Yesterday evening there was a second soiree in the Town-hall, which, like that held on the previ ous Thursday, was extremely well attended. To-morrow there are to be excursions by railway . to Wharfedale and Craven, Low Moor and Salt haugh, and Harrogate and Ripon. THE CONCLUDING MEETING. The concluding general meeting was held in the large room of the Town-hall at 3 o'clock this (Wed nesday) afternoon. There was a numerous attend ance of ladies and gentlemen. Professor Owen, the President of the Association, presided, and on the platform also were many of the distinguished men who have taken part in the various gatherings which have been held under tho society's auspices during the last few days. Professor OWEN commenced the proceedings, by calling upon Major-General SABINE, who stated the various steps which had b een t a k en b y t h e E xecu ti ve Com mittee for securing and advanci ng th e interests of science d uring the ne x t 12 mont h s. Th ey were dividedinto two heads—first, resolutions which re quired no grants of money to ca rr y th em ou t ; an d second, those which did require gran t s of money. Under the first head it had been de c id e d, among other things, that application should be mad e t o th e Sardinian Government for obtaining additional fa cilities for scientific men to pursue their researches on the summit of the Alps ; to appoint a committee to take steps for improving the patent system of this country, and securing a better reward to meritori ous inventors ; and to appoint a committee to com municate with the Board of Trade for makin g oceanic observations ; to take steps for makin g magnetic and other observations in various parts of the world ; to request the attention of the Lor ds of the Admiralty to the importance of authorising further research on the depth, temperature, ize : , of the sea, with especial reference to communications with distant shores by means of submarine tele graphs; and to endeavour to obtain greater facili ties ties for promoting geographical investigations. Those resolutions which had grants of money at tached to them included the following, the aggre gate amount granted being £1,265 :—XSO to endea vour to obtain an act of Parliament to appoint new trustees of the property of scientific institutions ; £5OO for maintaining the establishment of theKdw Observatoryr and £2OO to Prof. Wilson, of the Melbourne U aiversity, in aid of his proposed scheme for establishing a reflecting telescope for observa tion of the southern nebulae, on the understanding that the local Government defray the remaining cost. The other grants consisted of various smaller sums for the purpose of enabling different scientific men to make researches in furtherance of the re spective branches of science to which they have devoted themselves, and to continue the system of dredging the coast to obtain specimens of various marine animals which has been for some years pur sued by'several gentlemen under the auspices of the Association. The following is a complete list of the grants : Parliamentary committee—museum trust property, £5O; Kew Observatory, £500; Prof. Wilson—tele scope at Melbourne, £200; Col. Sykes—balloon ascents, £2OO ; Voelcker—manure experiments, £25 Maskelyne--phocographie chymistry, £10; Sulli van—solubility of salts, £3O ; Gages--chymical analysis of minerals, £10; Mr. Hopkins—expansion and contraction of rocks, £5O; R. Mallett—earth quake experiments, £25; Murchison—Lancashire fossils, £2O; Dr. Wright—marine fauna, £10; Dr. Green—medusidw, £5; Dr. Wright—tunicata, £5 ; R. Patterson—dredging, north of Ireland, £2O; Dr. Daubeny—growth .of plants, £10; T. Allis—oste ology of birds, £5O; R. M'Andrew—dredging com mittee, £5; Dr. Kinahan—dredging in Dublin-. bay, £l5; J. Thomson—discharge of water, £ lO ' Wm. Fairbairn—committee on steamvessels, £l5. Professor PHILLIPS stated that the sum of money which had been received by . the Association during the present meeting was altogether £1,929. (Ap plause.) The number of old life members who had been present at the Leeds meeting was 222 ; new life members, 43 ; old annual subscribers, 111; new annual subscribers, 90 ; associates, 706; ladies, 508 ; foreigners, 13 ; making the total number of members composing the Leeds meeting 1,693. (Ap plause.) This meetmg, the learned professor added, had produced only £7B less than was received at the meeting of the Association in Dublin last year. (Applause.) Lord MONTEAGLE then rose and proposed a vote of thanks to the president and executive officers of the British Association for having selected Leeds as their place of meeting this year, and for the excel lent manner in which the business of the Associa tion had been conducted. (Applause.) He spoke of the meeting as having been a very successful one, and regarded it, in relation to Leeds and the West Riding, as a union between science in the abstract and science applied and brought to practical re sults. (Applause.) One great peculiarity of the meeting, he said, had been the practical nature of the subjects discussed, and the large proportion of Ipcal contributions. (Hear, hear.) The resolution was carried with acclamation, and Professer OWEN responded to it. He expressed. in his own name, and on behalf of the British As sociation, their sense of gratitude for the reception which they had met with, and for the arrangements of every kind which had been effected for the effi cient performance of their duties and for their com fort. (Applause.) He said that entire unanimity had prevailed among the various public bodies of the borough, and in thanking, in the first place, the Mayor and Corporation, he remarked that the mag nificent Town-hall had been placed at their entire disposal, and it had afforded ample convenience for the business of the Association. (Applause.) The learned professor thanked seriatim various persons and public bodies who had contributed to ren der the arrangements for the Association com plete, and in the course of his observations he alluded particularly to the pleasure which the mem bers of the society had derived from inspecting the Leeds Local Exhibition of Industry. (Applause.) He added that the Association would leave Leeds with a much higher and more expanded sense of the industry and importance of the town. (Ap plause.) In thanking those gentlemen who had entertained the visitors, the learned professor said he could not refrain from referring to the munificent hospitality of one gentleman, Mr. G. S. Beecroft, one of the members for the borough, who had opened his arms, so to speak, to the whole of the members of the Association. (Applause.) The meeting of the Association will be held next year in Aberdeen. THE NEW BRIDGE AT WESTMINSTEI The unsightliness of " Old" Westminster Bridge makes everyone anxious for the moment when its young and graceful successor shall strip itself of its present mysterious hoarding, and at last unfold its beauty and utility to the public gaze and occupa tion. For years past we have been accustomed to submit to a horrible disfigurement of the great western water thoroughfare which, while stripped of its old•fashioned quaintness and associations, has never during its numerous transformations as yet realised our modern notions of the fitness of things. We have lost the row of covered recesses on each flag-way which were wont to be such com forts to the way-worn traveller, and of which, an tiquarians, afflicted with a love of the marvellous, used to' tell us Esuch wonderful stories of murders that had been discovered by means of the echoes of the bridge. The crown, 6,0 pleasant to look at, and so picturesque to every one but omnibus horses and obese pedestrians, has been gradually shaven down to the very verge of safety, and the balustrades, through which strangers peeped at the finest river views in Europe, have been superseded by a wooden partition, which permits nothing to be seen but its own dull, impervious monotony. The traveller on the "silent highway" has had his eye offended by closed and bungled up arches decorated with warning whisps of hay ; and, altogether this great metropolitan structure has looked more like an Irish castle rank-rent than a great arterial communication in the greatest city in the world. Meanwhile, the traffic, north and south, had daily and hourly increased, until, at last, a daily average of thirty thousand vehicles of one sort or another has been ascertained to pass over the crazy waterway. Poor M. Labeylle, the Swiss engineer who, some century or so ago, was employed bythe Board of Works of the day to construct Westmin ster Bridge, had little notion of the future work which his edifice would have to do, or he cer tainly would not have submitted so easily to the autho'rities, who in all ages have been the sworn , foes of architects and engineers. M. Labeylle laid his foundations simply for a wooden superstructure, but even for that his arrangements were insufficient, and wonld be laughed at by the merest tyro in engineering of the present day. The worthy Helvetian made his wooden caissons where he listed, and having duly filled them with stones, he had them towed to the station wherein they were finally to rest. Having got them there he commenced digging a founation for them with great pertinacity, never remembering that as fast as he made a hole at the ebb tide, the water filled it again at the flow, until at last, tired of the bootless work, he dropped his caissons on the gravel, and com menced raising his piers without further preparation. He had designed a wooden structure, but the powers that were decided that it should be stone, and ac cordingly stone it was made ; so that between the unskilfulness of the engineer and the ignorant mulishness of the authorities, a bridge was made in the eighteenth century which became crumbling and dangerous in less than one hundred , years ; whereas old London Bridge, which had been built by Peter of Colechurch some eight hundred years before, showed a tenacity which almost defied the pickaxes of the artisans of the present structure. When that bridge was completed, and free passage was given to the immense volume of water which previously had had to squeeze itself in a sort of cascade through the numerous arches of the old bridge, the doom of Westminster Bridge was sealed. The " scour" began immediately to under mine its unskilfully-placed caissons, and that " settling down " commenced which, during living memory, has been the constant cause of trouble and anxiety to successive Boards of Works. The erection of the new Houses of Parliament brought matters to a crisis. Sir Charles Barry could not bear to see his beautiful Gothic tracery stand side by side with a crazy tottering agglome ration of wooden hoardings, clumsy looking piles, debilitated arches, some blind,f some with one eye out, some labelled dangerous with the significant bundle of straw, and with a roadway shaven so close to the crown as to threaten a shower of omni buses or some similar calamity into the river at any given moment. Mr. Page, the eminent go vernment engineer, was accordingly set to work, and in due time a design Was produced at once bold, original, and beautiful, and which would satisfy the artist's desideratum of harmonising with the new Palace, and at the same time fulfil the more utilitarian end of accommodating the enormously increased traffic of the river. A perfectly novel and courageous conception respecting the new bridge was, that it should be actually constructed on the site of the old one while the others still remained open for traffic ; and at this moment piers are being completed and ribs are being thrown across, while the human tide rolls incessantly over head; and the great intercommunication of north and south London goes on without interruption on a platform so to speak, under which the piledriver, the black smith, and the mason are working incessantly night and day. The works of the new bridge were commenced m 1833 by Messrs. Mare, of Black wall, from the designs of Mr. Page, and continued for two years in the hands of that firm, until its bankruptcy br o ug ht ever y thin g to a standstill, and two valuable years were subsequently lost in a red tape interregnum. Mr. Page then took the work in hand himself, and with the powerful a id o f M r. Harris, his chief superintendent, got more work aiine-duringthe last year than would have been done in six at the rate mainta ined b y the original•con tractors. At this moment the abutments of both sides of the river are complete, and four of the six piers in the bed of the river are also in readi ness to receive their iron superstructure. Un like M. Labeylle, Messrs. Page and Harris have prepared sure and solid foundations. Immense piles, shod with iron, have been driven down deep into the London clay, which forms the lower bed of the river ; these again have been cased in solid iron, and. the inclosed space and interstices . have been filled with concrete, on which rest the immense solid granite blocks which form the stone founda tions of the piers. • The - masonry is carried., to a foot and a half above the Trinity high-water mark, and from. thence will spring the graceful iron ellipses which • are to form the arches of the bridge.. In obedience to the condition of construction, which requiredthat the old bridge should not be disturbed until the new one was ready for traffic, a longitu dinal section, with a breadth of exactly one-hal f the final literal dimensions of the bridge, is now com plete, both in piers and abutments. The iron arches are in course of construction up at Battersea, and it is expected that in March next cabs, " busses," waggons, and bipeds, will be rolling and running over the finished half of new Westminster-bridge. To much credit cannot be given to the engineers for this bold and original mode of construction, which reduces to solid reality Swift's caricature of begin ning to build houses at the chimney-tops, while it realises an immense saving in avoiding the expense of a new site, and allows the enormous traffic of the river to go on without the interruption of a single day. The near approach of the time when the bridge will be partially thrown open to traffic will of course heighten the curiosity of the public respecting its details and the accommodation they may expect from the completed structure. We shall inform them, then, that the new bridge, of a graceful Gothic design, with seven elliptical arches, each flattened at the crown so as to allow a clear view of Sir Charles Barry's masterpiece, will start on the Surrey side from Stangate, sweeping away in its course the block of houses that stands on the western side of Westminster-road between Stangate and the river. Ascending by a gentle gradient of 1 in 54 to the centre, where its extreme altitude will be nearly ten feet less than that of the old bridge, it will cross the river with an extreme length of 1,206 feet being just 108 feet less than the length of Waterloo bridge. On the Middlesex side it will sweep the western side of Bridge-street, leaving Palace-yard entirely open, and thus an urban picture will be obtained of striking effect and palatial magni ficence. It will have a breadth of 84 feet 3 inches, being as nearly as possible double that of the old bridge, with a flagway of 10 feet on each side ; and it is needless to point •out-what advantage this in creased space, combinedwith the comparatively low elevation of the roadway, will confer on the western traffic of the metropolis. Sightseekers may then stand on the bridge, and, leaning over the tasteful balustrade with its trefoil decorations, decide for themselves whether Sir Charles Barry's work is a failure, or the great architectural triumph of the country. One thing they will be sure of, and that is that that architect has taken good care of the Speaker and the great officers of the honourable house ; and they will probably be surprised to find that for the former space has been found for a garden of about a quarter of an acre in a part of London where ground is worth at least a thousand pounds a foot. But we shall have to wait about two years for the completed structure, and in the meantime must avail ourselves with thankfulness of the facilities for riverine transit which the ingenuity of Mr. Page and the skill and energy of Mr. Harris and his subordinates in the work will have provided for us, There is one more fact respecting this great metropolitan structure which must not remain un recorded. The original estimate was £240,000, and it is now confidently expected that that sum will amply cover all expenses. 0, si sic omnia ! Daily News. ROYAL COMMISSION ON THE ARMY CLOTHING SYSTEM. WEEDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING. The Commissioners appointed to inquire into the management of the three great military depots at Weedon, Woolwich, and the Tower, assembled here to-day again in the building known by the name of the Pavilion, in close contiguity to the clothing store, and resumed the investigation. Mr. Selfe presiding as chairman. They devoted nearly three hours in the early part of the morning in (completing the inspection of the internal economy of the depot which they began on the preceding day, and in which they were again accompanied by Captain Gordon, the chief superintendent, and Mr.' Drew, their chief secretary. This occupied them until about half-past 2 o'clock, and then they yroceeded to the examination of witnesses. The inspection to-day was more especially directed to the state of the boot and saddlery departments and to the mode of inspection adopted there. The result was to sonic extent brought out in the evidence taken at a subsequent part of the day. There were a few of the employes of the establishment present at the inquiry during the afternnon, and the rustic popu lation of the town of Weedon was adequately represented. Commissary-General Adams was called at the request of the CHAIRMAN, and stated that he and a staff of eight assistants were and had been for some time engaged in making up the arrears in the ledger of Mr. Elliott from the Ist of April, 1857, to the 14th of May, 1858, at the instance of the War office, a work of infinite labour as shown by the following report which he read to the Commis sioners : " On the 9th of June last eight commissariat officers who were residing on half-pay in different parts of England, Scotland, Ireland, and the Channel Islands, were ordered to repair to Weedon to assist in completing certain accounts. " On the 10th of June I was informed that, it being con sidered of much public inportance that these accounts should be completed as soon as possible, it was deemed de sirable that the labours of these officers should be superin tended by a superior officer of their own department, and I was directed by the Secretary of State for War to proceed to Weedon for that purpose. On the 13th of June, having visited Weedon, I suggested that the examination of the accounts which had been recently rendered to the War office up to the 31st of March, 1857, should be completed at the earliest possible period, in: order that the state' or remains in store on that date might be checked and verified. I also submitted that regiments and corps should be applied to for returns of all clothing, and other stores received from or returned to the depot ; that I should be furnished with statements to be prepared from, or that I might have refer-. ence to the cash accounts, to ascertain that all purchases and sales had teen duly accounted for ; and that it might be necessity to call for rebut s of all transactions with other depots. I stated that the number of vouchers to be posted was supposed to, exceed 20,000. On the 2d of July, I was requested to prepare draughts of a circular and of the re turns to be required from regiments or corps, which I sub mitted for approval on the following day. This circular was issued on the 10th of August, and many of the regi ments at home have, I understand, furnished the returns. " The postings in the ledgers have been much interrupted and retarded •by vouchers having been delivered in and withdrawn in great numbers almost daily for the settlement of large arrears due to contractors and for other purposes, and that regularity in their order has been, disturbed which it would have been very desirable to observe, with the view of more readily checking or accounting for the large issues of clothing to contractors for alteration • of cloth and mate rials delivered to contractors to be made into clothing; of consignments to the army packers, Messrs. Hayter and Howell, at Mark-lane, to be repacked and forwarded to re giments ' • of issues to and receipts from other depots; and of issues to the Admiralty, the East India Company, or otherservices the value of which would be recoverable. " Notes have been kept in posting the vouchers of such as appear to be incomplete or objectionable—such as bear the signatures of the viewers only, or are otherwise defective, according to the regulations of usual practice of the service. " A check has also been kept of the registry numbers in the contract account ledger, in order that when all the re ceipt vouchers have been handed over any that have not been marked off and appear to be missing may, if possible, be traced and brought to account. " There are seven ledgers in course of preparation for the period from the Ist of April, 1857, to the 14th of May, 18.58, viz. :—Cloth and warm clothing for the army generally; busbies, chacos, cloaks, coats, jackets, overalls, and clothing various ; boots and shoes, brushes, and forage caps ; buttons, badges, and garniture • necessaries, accoutrements, and packages ; saddlery ; tunics and trousers, made up and in material, 8,416 vouchers of receipts and 10,361 of issues have been in some, or are in course of being posted in other of these ledgers ; and there are 429 vouchers of receipts and 27 of issues, which have been from time to time delivered over, but could not be entered in their proper order, and will, with about 1,500 more, which are retained by the mill , tary store department for the purpose of settlement of large arrears due to contractors, remain to be arranged and added hereafter to the present or some supplementary ledger. "It is proposed to send to the War-office the several ledgers, as far as they can be completed, with the postings of the vouchers already in course of entry, in order that their examination may be proceeded with, and that the vouchers which could not be entered in their proper place or order, with those retained for settlement with contractors, should, when these are all handed over, be made additional entries at the end of the present ledger, or be completed in supplementary ledgers. " When all the . postings have been completed, and the ' state' or remains in stores on the 31st March, 1857, certi fied by the examiner, of the accounts already rendered, has been furnished, an account can be prepared showing the remains of the stores which should have been transferred by Mr. Elliott, - and a comparison can then be made with the remains ascertained and brought to account by Captain Gordon on or about the 14th of May, 1588. " It must, however, be observed that even the account thus prepared cannot be deemed a satisfactory public account until it has been thoroughly ascertained, in the course of its examination at the War-office, that all purchases, sales, and all transactions with contractors, the army packers at Mark-lane, and with other depots have been duly and properly accounted for. It should also be borne in mind that the present ledgers have been compiled from a mass of documents handed over, a large number of which are defective and objectionable as vouchers, from time to time, without any arrangement whatever, and there is no guarantee that they represent all the transactions of the depot.—Weedon, Sept. 29, 1858." He added that he was conducting the work of ex amination with as much expedition as possible. There were at present 10,000 pairs of boots un accounted for in the ledger. • By Mr. Turn.-_.r.—He could not see that there THE, SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 20, 1858. had been any accounts kept at all at Weedon in Mr. Elliott's time (a laugh) ; and any private business conducted on such a system must certainly result in bankruptcy. The witness underwent some further examina tion at the hands of the Commissioners as to the mode in which he was conducting the examination, which gave rise to a remark by the Chairmain, made incidentally, that the Commissioners would not be be satisfied with the dictum of the War office as to the sufficiency or validity of Mr. Elliott's vouchers. Mr. Turner also remarked that he could have no confidence whatever in the system of accounts kept by Mr. Elliott until they were properly verified. He added, playfully, that the witness seemed to be engaged in a laborious task, and he wished him a safe deliverance from it. The Chairmain said it looked something like a life appointment: (A laugh.) Henry Crutchley, a viewer in the saddlery de partment, said, he remembered some skins coming from Gibsons, contractors for saddlery, which were rejected for being defective in the dye. Sergeant Brodie did not on that occasion show him where he had put a private mark on those skins to indicate bad places, as stated by Brodie before the Commis. sioners. He did not remember any such circum stance. It was all an invention. None of Gibson's skins had been rejected for any other reason than defects in the dye. He recollected 94 of his skins being condemned on one occasion on that ground. By Mr. Turner—He had only seen Mr. Gibson twice at Weedon during the two years he had been in the saddlery department. Mr. Gibson had a saddlery department at Weedon, but it had no con nection with the depot. Captain Smith, the inspector of saddlery, said, that Sergeant Brodie, whom he described as a dis contented man, served under him for some time as foreman of, saddlery at Weedon. He remembered having a conversation with Brodie on one occasion, when some lassos from Mr. Palliser, a contractor in Pall-mall, came to the depot ; but that conversation had been much misrepresented by Brodie ; and what witness said on that occasion was provoked by an observation of Brodie himself, enjoining him to observe caution in any dealings he had with Mr. Palliser. Witness said, when the lassos arrived they had the incurable fault of being deficient in weight, and, making that discovery, he said to Brodie that " they would never do, and that he (witness) must see the man about them." Of 1,986 lassos which Mr. Palliser had sent in, 995 were rejected by wit ness for a deficiency in weight, and for not being conformable in that respect to the sealed pattern. It was not a matter in which he (witness) had any option. He could only go •in his inspec tions by the sealed pattern furnished to him by the War-office. He remembered that on one occasion when 1,000 ayed sheep skins came into the depot from Mr. Gibson, the army saddler, Coventry-street, he felt himself called on to reject 130 of them for defects in the dye in certain places. The defects were remedied by Mr. Gibson, and then the rejected skins were passed by witness on a second inspection. He denied the truth of the statement of Sergeant Brodie that the rejected skins came back from Gibson's .in the same condition as when they were condemned, and that he (witness) passed them in that condition. He remembered rejecting 200 skins sent in by Messrs. Bevington and. Morris for defects in the dye. He admitted, as stated by Se r geant Brodie, that he had, at his request, counter manded an order he had previously given, for the sale of certain saddlery. It was damaged saddlery that had come from the Crimea, and as well on that account as from a change in the pattern it could not have been made available for the service. But he was induced, at the suggestion of Sergeant Brodie, and, after consulting Mr. Elliott, to forego the order for sending it for sale. It was, therefore, allowed to remain in store and had never since been issued, and he was still of the opinion that it could not be made available for use in the army, and that it would have been better to sell it at that time. He denied in general terms, as stated by Brodie, that any of the saddlery in store at Weedon had suffered injury from mismanagement, though he experienced some inconvenience at one time for want of dubbing. The number of saddles which he had condemned as unserviceable and sent to be sold was 76 ; and he also sent to be sold 72 other saddles which had be longed to the 4th Light Dragoons, and had been condemned by the authorities of that regiment and sent to Weedon as unserviceable. By Mr. Turner—He was at one time inspector, storekeeper, and issuer all at once, in the saddlery department. 'The Chairman—" Three single gentlemen rolled into one." (A laugh.) Witness said, in reply to the Chairman, that Gibson's men on one occasion received some old saddle-cloths out of the store at Weedon, bnt that was to work up in repairing some articles belonging to the Government. By the Chairman—He once dined with Mr. Gib son, or rather had something to eat with him—(a laugh)—for it was after dinner—when witness was at his house on the occasion of an illumination. He never received any compliment, or bribe, or dou ceur, or anything of that sort from Mr. Gibson, or any of his people. He did not receive a present from Mr. Cuffe, the saddler in Cockspur-street, a contractor, and he would explain the circumstances. He had known Mr. Cuffee for 25 years, and had been, until witness went to Weedon, in the habit of both making presents to and receiving presents from him. On Aug. 27, 1857, he received a hamper containing three dozen of wine, which he knew had come from Mr. Cuffe, though there was nothing in the shape of a note accompanying it to show that it had. That wine he (witness) felt it his duty to pay for to Mr. Cuffe, considering their relative posi tions after witness had gone to Weedon had been altered. But for that he might have felt himself at liberty to accept Mr. Cuffe's kindness. In reply to a question from the Chairman, Mr. Dew, the Secretary to the Commission, said the official letter discharging Sergeant Brodie from Weedon was dated the 19th of September, 1857. The Chairman said, there was a suspicious cir cumstance that just at the time there was a differ ence between the witness and Sergeant Brodie, width resulted in Brodie's discharge, he (Brodie) was suggesting to Mr. Cuffe the propriety of making witness a present of wine. At this stage of the inquiry (half-past five o'clock) the Commissioners adjourned until this day (Thursday) at half-past 11. REOPENING OF ST. JAMES'S CHURCH, CU' AIN-ROAD. This church, which was much injured in June last by the large fire which originated next door to the edifice, was re-opened on Sunday last. Two very large congregations assembled on the occasion. The church looked really beautiful ; the walls and roof have been restored and coloured in a chaste, light, and becoming manner ; the . pews and wood work of the church have been painted over three times, and finally grained and varnished in resem blance of oak wood. The pulpit and reading-desk are furnished with velvet drapery all round, large, deep, and of the most handsome and ample material, and present a grand and imposing appearance. The communion table, of carved oak, remarkable for its value and beauty, which was presented by the younger members of the church ten years ago, has been restored, and over the commandments an ele gant emblazonment of the words "God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ," has been effected at the expense of Mr. J. Alabaster, a former member of the church. The organ, bUilt by Eagles, of the Hackney-road, a large and powerful instrument, has been completely re stored. For some time past the parishioners have been subscribing iliberally to a fund raised for the pur pose of presenting a testimonial to the respected minister of the parish, the Rev. James W. Mark well, M.A. Mr. Markwell received a splendid silver tea and coffee service, and a purse, and other testimonial when he left the curacies of St. Clement Danes and Marylebone, and he therefore generously insisted that this Mark of the esteem in which he is held by his present parishioners should not be given to him, but to the church ; accord ingly, a stained glass window for the altar window is in course of preparation by that eminent artist, Mr. N. W. Lavers, of Southampton-street, Strand ; it will be very beautiful and rich, will cost 50 guineas, and Mr. Lavers, who was a member of Mr. Markwell's congregation at the West-end, out of respect for that worthy clergyman, will give a figure of the Apostle St. James for the centre,value 10 guineas. The window will be erected in a few weeks. The preachers on this interesting occasion were, the Rev. T. Jackson, M.A., rector of Stoke Newing ton, and prebendary of St. Paul's Cathedral, and the Rev. H. Steobing, D.D., F.R.S., rector of St. Mary Somerset, in the city. The able, eloquent, searching, plain, and simple appeals of these emi nent preachers wens rewarded by the deepest atten tion, and followed by a practical result unexampled in the history of collections in this locality. When the collectors reckoned up the contents of the plates, the amount was £B4 14s. Several large sums were given, but it reflects the highest credit on the friends of humbler means when it can be stated that the plates contained more than £5O in , small moneys. The greatest praise is due to the active churchwardens, Mr. S. Archer, of Worship-st re et, an d D r . Hancern, M.D., of High-street, Shoreditch, surgeon to the Eastern Counties Railway Company. A debt of £240 now remains. It is to be hoped that the parishioners (many of whom have not yet given), will come forward and help this worthy cause, so that we may soon have to announce the pleasing and creditable fact that the debt is cleared off. The church, with its many services, its large schools, in which 11,000 poor children have been educated since they were erected in 1851, has the strongest possible claims on the parishioners. The Rev. J. W. Markwell is a most zealous and active clergyman, a faithful and talented Gospel preacher, and has done so much good in the parish during the eight years of his ministry there in erecting schools, repairing and improving the church, pronfoting Bible classes, and numerous in stitutions for the benefit of the parishioners, and is so liberal, amiable; and self-denying, that he well deserves the - love and high estimation in which he is held by all his parishioners. We may observe that the restoration of the church, which has given universal satisfaction, was effected by Mr. J. M. Brown, of Paul-street. It is expected that the Bishop of London, and other bishops and dignitaries of the church, will preach at St. James's on the occasions of future ol lections for the liquidation of the debt. POLICE INTELLIGENCE—Sept. 29. GUILDHALL—Lewis Lewis, a draper, late of 58, Exmouth-street, Clerkenwell, was brought up on Tuesday last, on a warrant, before Alderman Sidney and Alderman Phillips, charged with not surrendering at the Court of Bankruptcy after having been legally adjudged a bankrupt. Mr. Jones appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. Humphreys, jun., of the firm of Humphrey, Son, and Morgan, attended for the defence. Georga Adams Walker said—l am clerk to Mr. Johnson, messenger in the Court of Bankruptcy. I produce the proceedings in bankruptcy against Lewis Lewis, consisting of the petition for the ad judication of bankruptcy, dated the Bth of May, 1857. I also produce the adjudication of the same date, and the duplicate summons, signed by Com missioner Fonblanque, dated the 16th of May, requiring the bankrupt to surrender on the 2d and 30th of June following. I served a duplicate of adjudication on the defendant's premises, by fixing it on the wall in the shop, at 58, Exmouth-street. That was the last known place of abode of the bankrupt. The bankrupt was called on to sur render on the 30th of June, and proclaimed in the usual manner, but he did not surrender on that occasion, nor since. Sergeant Huggett, of the City detective force, said—l know the prisoner. He is the same person who was adjudged a bankrupt under the name of Lewis Lewis, in May, 1857. Cross-examined—l went to New York after the prisoner, and I held two warrants for his apprehen sion. One was signed by Alderman Phillips and the other by Commissioner Holroyd. I found the prisoner was passing over there in the name of Harvey. He gave me up about £350. I did not take a power of attorney with me from his credi tors, but I had one drawn up in New York. I did not receive the 300 and odd pounds upon a release from all his debts. I gave two receipts for the money, one at the English Consul's, and the ether to the counsel employed in the matter. The power of attorney was drawn up partly at my instance, and partly at that of Messrs. Fisher and Rokinson, creditors of the bankrupt, who have a house of business in New York, and another in Watling street. The money I received was on the general account of the creditors. I made no promise•to the prisoner that if he gave up the money he would not be prosecuted. I found on the prisoner a letter containing the halves of Bank of England notes to the amount of £3OO, which I placed in the hands of the Sheriff of New York. I took the prisoner before the Supreme Court and got the money given up to me. I came away with the money, but I could not bring away the prisoner, as there was no international law to permit me. I showed him the warrants, and said if ever he came to England I should certainly apprehend him. He said there was no fear of his ever coining to England, as he could get a good living in America. I commenced an action against the prisoner to recover the money before it was given up. There were four actions commenced on behalf of Messrs. Leaf and Co., Messrs. Caldecott, Messrs. Fisher and Robinson, and another party whose name I forget. He as signed the money to me in writing. John Beauvoir, of the metropolitan police force, said—On Monday night I saw the prisoner in St. John's-square, Clerkenwell, and I spoke to him, as I had known him previously. I said, " I suppose you are aware that there is a warrant out for your apprehension." He said, " Oh, yes, I am perfectly aware of that, and if either of you put a hand upon me I will punch your head." I had another officer with me, and when the pri soner walked away we followed him to a public house in a court in Ludgate-hill. I then went in search of the officer who held the warrant, leaving my brother officer to watch the prisoner, and when I came back they were both gone, and I afterwards found him in custody at the Old-street station. Mr. Humphreys said as it would be necessary to adjourn the case, he trusted the magistrate would take bail for the prisoner. Alderman Sidney said it was not customary to take bail in such cases, and he could make no ex ception to that rule in favour of the prisoner, who was accordingly remanded till Wednesday next. MARYLEBONE.—George Smith, a middle aged man, described on the charge sheet as a painter, was brought up, charged with a mur derous assault on his wife, Fanny Smith, and also with attempting to strangle her. Mr. Grange appeared for the prosecutrix. Prosecutrix, an elderly and very respectably dressed female, stated that the prisoner • was her husband, and that she had been acting for some time back as housekeeper to a cousin of hers, re siding at 12, Alpha-road, St. John's-wood, and where she also occasionally slept, as did also the prisoner. Her own home was at 32, Edward-street, Dorset-square. On returning to her home the previous afternoon, about four o'clock, she found the prisoner in her room along with a female with whom he had been keeping company for some time past, the prisoner being very drunk. Feeling in dignant at finding another woman in her room along with her husband, she ordered her to leave, when he said she should not, and that he was not going to give her up for an old like her. He then struck her a violent blow on the neck, which knocked her on the floor. He then took up the poker to her, but put it down again, and seizing hold of her he forced his knuckles into her throat and tried to strangle her. After struggling for some time she managed to scream " murder," when, fortunately for her, her landlord, who is a constable, arrived and rescued her from further violence. He had also, previous to this, attempted to throw her out of the window. The landlord and another constable fully corro borated the above evidence, and said if they had not gone up prisoner's wife must have been murdered. He was very violent, and threatened to throw them over his shoulder, besides making use of a deal of bad language. Mr. Broughton characterised it as a most brutal attack, and told the prisoner that it was lucky for him he was not there on a far more serious charge. He recollected the case of a man over the water who- threw his wife out of window, and she was nine months before she was well enough to att en d at the court ; h e was kept in prison the whole of that period, and when he was tried he was found guilty, and transported for 14 years. He considered this a most atrocious case, and should send him for the full term of six months with hard labour. WORSHIP-STREET.—Marshall, 30 N division, brought before Mr. Hammill a wretched-looking, miserably-clad woman, and charged her with attempting to destroy herstlf by drowning. The constable stated that between three and four o'clock in the morning, while on d u ty nea r th e C a t and Mutton Bridge, London-fields, Hackney, he saw something of a light colour crawl from the towing path beneath the arch of the bridge, but whether the object was a human creature or an animal he could not descry. Hastening down the embankment to the spot, and turning on his lantern, the light fell upon the . prisoner, who was standing by the water's edge in a perfectly nude state, with the ex ception of her flannel petticoat. On questioning her as to her motive for being there in such a state, and at such a time, she replied, " I wish to be at peace," and he of course took measures to remove her in safety, and have her ragged garments, which were lying near, placed on her. Mr: Hammill now asked the poor woman her age, and her motive for seeking to destroy herself, to which she replied, " I wish to kill myself, and should have done so in another instant. I was saved from death, but I wish to be at peace." Subsequently she stated that her name was Divine —that she was 63 years of age, but nothing could induce her to tell where she had lived, or whether she had any relatives. Mr. Haminill observed that it was manifest the officer had saved the poor creature from a watery grave, and remanded her that inquiries might be made respecting her. Charles Walker was charged on remand with having unlawfully offered himself as a s ervant to a_ licensed victualler, and o bt a i ne d s uch employment by means of a false character. Mr. Child (of the firm of Wire and Child), now attended to conduct the prosecution on the part -of the Licensed Vi c t ua ll ers ' Protection Society. Lewis, jun., d e f en d e d the prisoner, and thM • courty was crowded by persons interested 1 Mr. T. Butler, landlord of the Flower Pot, In Church -street, Shoreditch, stated that he advertis e d on the 15th inst. for an under-barman, upon Which ' the prisoner applied and gave a reference to Mr. G. Kerr, of Vere-street, Clare-market, Lincoln's-inn fields. Witness saw that person, who gave the prisoner an e xce ll en t c h aracter for honesty and ac tivity in the bar, adding that h e s h ou ld no t h ave parted with hi m but for the fact of a brother or brother-in-law coming to reside there and fill his situation. To further inquiries Kerr asserted that Walker had lived with him 12 months, and was with the former o cc up an t o f th e house before that, and had oily left three weeks. This statement per fectly coinciding with Walker's - previous account of his set - vice - with Kerr, induced witness to engage him, but very speedily he discovered, though he could not prove it, that his new barman was in the practice of dishonesty, by having confederates to whom he passed false change over the counter. Further inquiry elicited the truth that Kerr had clearly given Walker a false character, for several publicans identified the latter as having been in their service, and discharged on suspicion of dis honesty, during the time he was alleged to have been in the service of Kerr. He was consequently given into custody. Mr. Harwood, of the Blind Beggar, Mile-end, gave evidence of having engaged the prisoner, on sth May last, as a barman, f rom th e excellent Cha racter.given by Kerr. He discharged him from suspicion of dishonesty on the 28th. Mr. Livingston, of the White Hart, Whitechapel road, said he engaged the prisoner about the middle of January last, quickly deemed him dishonest, and retained him only nine or ten days. In this in stance a character was given by another person. Mr. Leisk, of the Pitt's Head, Old-street, proved that the prisoner was in his service from the 7th to the 22d of August, when he discharged him from a similar suspicion to the foregoing. Kerr furnished him with a character. Mr. Child said that he should prefer three charges against the prisoner, and press for the full penalties of the law. By the 32d of Geo. 111., cap. 56, any person guilty of this offence was liable to a penalty not exceeding £2O, or i n d e f au l t t h ree months' imprisonment. The mischief resulting from such acts was quite incalculable, and the most stringent measures must be adopted to meet it. Mr. Lewis made an appeal on behalf of the pri soner, who had a young wife and four children. Mr. Hammill observed that he should deal with the case by punishing the prisoner to the utmost extent he was empowered by the act, for a check must be put to such a systematic fraud. The prisoner was then fined £2O in each of the three selected cases, or in default the imprisonment mentioned. Mr. Child then said he was further instructed to ask the magistrate's judgment against Mr. Kerr as the party giving the false character in question, and against whom a summons had been obtained for unlawfully and wilfully giving a false or coun terfeit character to one Charles Walker, offering himself as a servant. The defendant, who answered the summons, was represented by a solicitor, who, after the evidence taken in the preceding case had been repeated, cross examined the witnesses without affecting in the slightest their testimony, and then urged that his client, who had served in the navy, and had only been in the trade a limited time, was quite unaware of the consequence he had subjected himself to by an act of kindness to a man whom he desired to assist. He had perhaps acted loosely in the matter, but not with bad intent, and a conviction in this case would entail upon him probable ruin. Mr. Hammill observed that the Legislature had imposed a•similar punishment on those giving and those using a false character. He would make an example of this defendant by ordering that he, too, pay in each of the three cases the full penalty of £2O, or three months' imprisonment in default. WESTMINSTER. Elizabeth Wareham, a woman of small stature, was brought up for re examination before Mr. Arnold, charged with a desperate attempt to murder her husband, a haw ker, by tightly twisting an apron round his neck whilst he was asleep, and pulling both ends, by in flicting desperate wounds upon his head, while in the same defenceless condition, the instruments of assault, a glass and stone bottle, being broken to pieces, and subsequently hurling two large earthen ware vessels at him, which, had they not missed their aim, would probably have killed the man in his then weakened state. Complainant's head was covered with bruises, and he still appeared very weak. He said he wished the magistrate would deal with her lightly for the sake of his children. Mr. Arnold—l can't permit a woman like that to suffer a light punishment. Such a drunken crea ture can't be of much use to her children. Mr. P. K. Adair, house-surgeon in the Westmin ster Hospital, saw him on the 26th. He had two scalp wounds on the left side of his head, a cut on the eye, and was very weak. The bottle produced would have inflicted such injuries. Mr. Paynter—Would a blow in the temple have been more serious ? Witness—l don't know that it would. Had ery sipelas set in, the wounds would have turned out very bad. Mr. Arnold—l remand her till Tuesday. Defendant—Oh, give me what I am to have ai once. Mr. Arnold—l am not going to give you any thing. lam going to send you for trial for attempt ing to murder your husband. An extensive change has been made in the pic ture gallery of the Crystal Palace ; a number of the pictures have been removed, and replaced by works of more interesting character. The additions are chiefly English pictures, and British art now holds its fair proportion of space on the walls, whilst the extent of the collection is greater than before. The change betokens the advance and success of the gallery under Mr. Wass, and we have no doubt will obtain for it the reputation necessary for its support. It will now repay the trouble of a special visit.— The Critic. PLAINTIFF.—It is a curious illustration of the Scotch character—its pugnacity and pertinacity—that he who in English courts of law is called the plaintiff, in. Scottish courts of law is called the pursuer. The English man, when aggrieved, complains—brings his plaint before the judge : the Scotchman, when injured, pursues the foe, as if with a grim determination never to cease pursuit till he has destroyed him.—The Critic. [ADVERTISEMENT.] SIGHT AND HEARING. SPEC TACLES.—POWERFUL TELESCOPES.—OPERA, RACE, AND PERSPECTIVE GLASSES. Messrs. S. and B. Solomons, opticians, 39, Albermarle-Street, Piccadilly. Observe— opposite the York Hotel, W.—Opera, Race-course, Field, and general Out-door Day and Night Perspective Glasses, very small, for the waistcoat pocket, each containing 12 and 18 lenses, constructed of German glass. Will show dis tinctly a person to know them at two-and-a-half and three miles, and an object from eight to ten miles distant. Her Majesty's Coast Guards are making use of them as day and night glasses in preference to all others ; they are also pre ferred for deer-stalking by sportsmen, gentlemen, and. gamekeepers. Telescopes 3f inches long, by which a per son may be clearly seen and known at 3f miles' and an object at 12 to 14 miles' distance; and with an extra astro nomical eye-piece, Jupiter's moons, Saturn's rings, and the double stars are distinctly seen. All the above can be had of larger and all sizes, with increasing powers, and are secured by her Majesty's Royal Letters Patent. The Royal Exhibition, 1851. A valuable, newly invented, very small, powerful Waistcoat-pocket Glass, the size of a walnut, by which a person can be seen and known one and a half mile distant. They answer every purpose on thr, Race-course and at the Opera houses. Country scenery and ships are clearly seen at four to six miles. They are invaluable for shooting, deer-stalking, yachting, to sportsman, gentlemen, game keepers, and tourists. Price 30s.—Spectacle Lenses of the greatest transparent power. The great advantage derived from this invention is, that vision becoming impaired is preserved and strengthened, and very aged persons are enabled to employ their sight at the most minute occupation —can see with those lenses of a much less magnifying power, and they do not require the frequent changes to the dangerous effects of further powerful assistance. Persons can be suited at the most remote part of the world by send ing one of the glasses out of their spectacles in a letter, and stating the distance from the eyes they can read small print with it, and those who have not made use of spectacles by statingtheirage. Deafness.--New Discovery.—The Organic Vibrator, an extraordinarily powerful small newly-invented instrument for Deafness, entirely different from all others, surpasses anything of the kind that has been, or probably ever can be, produced. Being of the same colour as the skin, is not perceptible. It enables de a f p ersons t o h ea r distinctly at church and at public assemblies ; the unplea sant sensation of singing noises in the ears is entirely re moved, and it affords all the assistance that possibly could be desired.-39, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly. Observe — opposite the York Hotel, W biliold s, d a e n b d ilit li y v , e wi r lch o onlui LADVERTISEMENT.]—We have read with much pleasure Du Barry's report on the cure of indigestion ( d yspepsia), a followm . g are a few flatulency, constipation, nervous, plaints, cough, asthma, consumption, and the attention of many : medicine, by Du Barry's Food. merit t abeth Jacobs, of Nazing a cure of extreme ner vousness, extracts, which appear to m Eir e l Cure No. 47,121 —" Miss Vicarage, Waltham-cross, a pternofessyoersaros; and nervous langour." 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Important caution against the fearful danger of BlPBasg4e, WagoaoindstgrAateeddanHoinjunction g M , a , r D ch u , spurious imitati ons : The Vic e -Chancellor Sir William Barry's Revalent a Arabica Food."' lofnorthinelitlaotitini lADvEßTisEmicr.]—Bilious affections, induced by atmo s —pheric heat or a too liberal diet, if not early check e d, are often attended w ith serious consequences. When any one finds his ideas less clear than usual, his eyesight dimmed, and his head dizzy, and is indisposed to all exertion, physical `or mental, he may be quite sure that he is in immediate need of some cooling and purifying medicine. Let him send at once for a.box of Holloway's Pills. After a few doses of these inestimable pills his head will be clear again, his spirits elevated, and all his energies restored. These mild yet efficacious pills are composed of vegetable extracts, without the admixture of a grain of mercury or any noxious substance. COUNTRY MARKETS. NEWCASTLE—SEPT. 28. • There was a moderate trade in grain at market to-day, the supply of which was fair, at fully Saturday's rates for the best samples. South country parcels in limited request, and prices declined Is per qr. Foreign tending downwards. Fine malting barley made more money. Beans in favour of the buyor. Oats a steady sale. Peas scarce. in limited demand. RICHMOND-SETT. 21 - -- --- We have again to report a good supply of wheat at mar ket, and prices ruled about the same as last week : Wheat, white..sB Od to 5s 6d I Barley.. 4s Od to 4s 6d Ditto red • 5s 3d to 5 s 6d Oats 28 9d to 4s Od HULL--SETT. 28. To-da)l there was a short supply .of English wheat, and growers would not submit to the decline noted in Mark lane. In the limited business passing last week's prices were fully maintained. Wheat.... Old white.... per qr, 44s Oct to 48s Od Old red New white .. ~ New red .... „ Dantzic, Konb., &c. old white 50s Od to 53s Od Dutch, Belgian, and French 43s Od to 44s Oct Baltic and Hamburg, red . . 45s Od to 478 Oct St. Petersburg and Ri ga , old. 40s Od to 42's Od Barley.... English malting 34s Od to 38s Od Grinding 3ls Oct to 33s Od Saal and Oderbruck Holstein and Danish 32s Od to 33s Oct Grinding 2Bs Od to 30s Od Oats English, old Archangel and Riga, per st is lid to is 2d Friesland and Dutch is 21{I to is 3d Swedish and Danish i s id to is 2d Beans ....English, old, per qr 4Bs Od to 50s Od Old pigeon Old tick Egyptian .. 43s Od to 445. Od Peas Foreign breakers Grinding 4ls Oct to 42s Od Tares ....Winter 9ss Od to 100 s Od Indian Corn Linseed, feeding s4s Od to 57s Oct crushing Linseed cakes (Hull) £9 15 oto £9 17 6 Foreign BlO oto 9 0 0 Rape cakes 6 5 oto 610 0 Bones 515 oto 517 6 ROCHDALE—SEPT. 27. Wheat, flour, and oatmeal met a steady consumptive demand at unaltered rates. BELFAST—SEFT. 27. At this morning's market there was very little doing in grain, and prices remained without much change. CORK-SEPT. 28. At the market this morning there was a slow trade, and prices much the same as last wee k f or th e best qualities of wheat. Good barley made rather more money. Oats a trifle lower. Wheat ...15s to 21a Oat5.... White .18s to 23a Beans to —9 Barley ..10s to 16s Malt ....—s to —a DUBLIN-SETT, 28. We had a very dull market to day, and although the quantity of new grain offered was not in excess of that shown on last day, a large number of samples remained un sold. Wheat of all qualities sold at a decline of 6d to is per barrel, oats 6d, and inferior barley 6d. s. d. 8. d. Wheat, white 22 0 to 24 0 Do., red 2O 0 to 22 6 Do., new Barley Oats Do., black ll 3to 12 0 s. d. s. d. Do., new .120 to 13 0 Bere . l3 0 to 13 6 Rapeseed .... 28 oto 29 0 Oatmeal l4 6 to 16 6 Bakers' flour Indian corn • BRISTOL SUGAR—SEPT. 29. There is a very good demand for sugar this week at pre vious rates. A larger business would have been done had importers been willing sellers. A good demand for rum, and a large business was done at former rates. COAL MARKET--SEPT. 29. (Prices of Coal. per Ton at the close of the market.) Grey's West Hartley, 15s. Od ; Eden Main, 16s. Od. ; Howard's West Hartley Netherton, 15s. 6d. ; Tanfield Moor, 13s. Od. ; Tanfield Moor Butes, 13s Od.; Wylam, 14s. 6d, ; Newcastle Hartley, -s. ; Byass' s B e b s id e W est Hartley, -s. Od.; Walker Primrose, -s. Od.; Tyne Main, -s.; Buddle West Hartley, 16s. Od. • Haswell Gas, 13 5 .; Lambert's West Hartl e y, 15 s. 9d.; West Wylam, .-s. Od.; Ward's West Hartley, 14 s . 6d. • West Tanfield, - s . Od. ; Birchgrove Graigola, 21s. ; Nixon's Merthyr, 21s. Od. ; Gawber Hall Hartley, 14s. 6d. ; Nixon's Duffryn, 215.0 d.; Powell's Duffryn Steam, 21s. Od. Walls End-West Hetton, 16s. -9d. ; Byron, 16s. 6d. ; Hunwick, 14s. 6d. ; Whitworth, 14s. 6d.; Shineliffe -s. Od.; Haswell, 18s. Od. ; Hetton, 18 s . Od. ; Cassop, 16s. ' 9d; South Kelloe, 17s. ; Stewart's, 17s. 9d.; Coundon, -s Od; South Hetton, 17s. 9d. ; Acorn Close, 16s. 3d. ; Wham eliffe -' s. Od. • Kepier Grange, 17s Od. ; Tees, 18 s . Od. ; Bradyll's Hetton, 16s. 9d. ; Gosforth, -s. Od. ; Dryburn Grange, Od; Heugh Hall, 16s. 3d. ;.Lambton, 17s. 6d. ; Framwellgate, 16s. ; Harton, -s. Od. ; Eden, 16s. 3d. ; Benson, 15s. 9d. ; Bell, 15s. 6d. ; Belmont, 15s. 6d. Ships at market, 139 ; sold, 101. LOCAL SHARE . MA.R.KETS. LIVERPOOL—SEPT. 29. The market was good from the opening, and closed at the best, especially for Leeds -and Mid lands, but London and North Westerns and Povers rather pressed for sale. —Eastern Counties 12 I—Caled on i ans , 884 84—Great Western, 53f 54—Lancashire and Y or k s hi re, 961 961 Sheffield, 351 6—Midland, 98f /—North Briti s h, Mt 1--- Berwicks, 95} I—Dovers 21 22—. Dutch Rhenish, 3/ d. —Leeds Northern, 481 9—York and North Midland, 771 8 —Great Western of Canada, 181 18 Grand Trunks, 9 10—Chester and Holyhead, 351 61—Blackburn, 1 11—Birkenheads, 671—L on d on and North-Westerns, 91 911—East Lancashire, 93 94. MANCHESTER—SEPT. 29. A limited business was doing in the market to-day, and prices firm. Chester Guaranteed 8 per Cent.; 17—Trunks, 9l—East Lancashire , 93 I—Midlands, 981--Sheffield, 351 —Dovers, 21 15-16-Leeds, 9 61—Eastern Counties, 121 Berwicks, 961—Canadas, 181—Ditto new, 2 3-16 d. BIRMINGHAM—SEPT. 29. Prices were firmer to-day, as follows :—Great Western Stour Valley Guaranteed Stock, 551—Londons, 92 Birmingham and Derby, 71--Birmingham and Stour Val leys, 7l—Birmingham Canals, 93—Birmingham Banking Co., 27g. • LIEDS-SEPT. 29. There has been very little change in prices to-day. Midlands, 98f--Great Westerns, 54 I—North Western, 8 9-16—Dovers, DIOCESE OF LONDON.—An exchange of prefer ments has taken place between the Rev. J. J. Toogood, rector of St. Andrew's, Holborn, and the Rev. H. G. S. Blunt, rector of Kirkby Overblows, Yorkshire, and the reverend gentlemen will, in the course of the next two or three weeks, leave their respective congregations to enter upon their " exchange." The Rev. John Back, curate of St. John the Evangelist, Westminster, has been presented by the Duke of Buccleuch to the rectory of St. George the Martyr, Queen-square, vacant by the resignation of the Rev. W. Short, on being presented to the rectory of Llan drinio, Montgomeryshire. John G. Hubbard, Esq., a go vernor of the Bank of. England, has commenced the erection of a new church, which • is to cost £lO,OOO, in Baldwin's place, a destitute locality of the parish of St. Andrew, Hol born, and has nominated the Rev. T. H. Ball to be the first incumbent, the rev. gentleman,:until the completion of the church, acting as curate of St. Andrew, Holborn, at a stipend provided by the munificence of the gentleman at whose sole expense the church is to be built and endowed. PAY OF OFFICERS - RETURNING FROM We have been frequently asked what pay officers coming home from India on sick certificate or private affairs receive, and whether a free passage is provided in either case ? We can state that officers returning from India, both on private affairs and by medical advice, receive regimental pay of their rank only, their Indian allowances ceasing from the day they leave the presidency. The invalid officer receives a fixed sum to grovicle his passage home and back to India, which is sufficient for the expenses overland. Officers re turning on their private affairs must pay their own passage. Sick officers have the privilege of res or ti ng t o any B r i t i s h settlement east of the Cape, including the Cape itself, dur ing the term of their leave, which is limited to a year, but an extension may be obtained should the officer's health re quire it. All officers in such case—not passing the Cape-- receive pay . equal to half batta; according to rank, which, for a captain is about £3O a month, a lieutenant £22, and . an ensign £18: Officers of the company's service are under the same regulations.— United Service Gazette. BIRTfIS. PITIPPS.—On the 27th inst.,. the wife of the Rev. G. W. a daughter rector of Husbands B osworth, near Rugby, of . STOKES—On the 17th inst., at Cambridge, the wife of Pro fessor G. G. Stokes, of a sen. TAGA.nr—On the 28th inst., at 31, Craven-hill-gardens, Hyde-park, the wife of Francis Tagart, Esq., of a son. WALKER. —On the 27th inst., at Castle Huntly, the wife of Fountains Walker, Esq., of a son. MARRIAGE. CARNEGIE—HOPE.—On the 29th inst., at Kilmtown Church, Kent, the Hon. Swynfen T. Carnegie,: C. 8., Captain R.N., to Louisa A., eldest daughter of Adrian J. Hope, Esq. SNEWIIi—OLIVER.—On the 28th inst., at St. Pancras Church, Charles B. N. Snewin, Esq., of Lloyd-square, Pentonville, to Sarah Marchant, second daughter of the late William Oliver, Esq., of Manor Cottages, Upper Holloway. DEATHS. ACOTT.—On the 27th inst., Susanna, relict of Capt. Josh. Acott, R.N., of Beaufoy-terrace, Maida-hill. CHARLIER.—On the 28th inst., at Sheffield-terrace, Camp den-hill, Joseph Charlier, Esq., Deputy-Assistant Com missary-General, H.P., aged 69. DES VOEUX.—On the 28th inst., at Sillwood House, Brighton, Sir Charles Des Voeux, Bart., aged 79. DENDY.—On the 27th inst., at Feltham, Middlesex, Anne, widow of the late Samuel Dendy, Esq., of Montague street, Russell-square, a n d d aug ht er o f t h e late Sir Thos. Hyde Page, aged 70. GORDON.—On the 27th inst., at W a t er l oo Villa, Halite, Captain Wm. George Conway G or d on , 91st Regiment, aged 2s. JONES —On the 25th inst., Mr. Henry Jones, of High street, Kensington, aged 44. RA.GGETT.—On the 27th i ns t., at Norfolk crescent, after a protracted illness, Hen r y Raggett, Esq., of Whit es ' , St. James's-street. LONDON : Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, No. 112, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the county of Middlesex, Thursday, September 30, 1858. ;, ..