The Sun. — London, England, 1858-11-18 00:00:00

PRIMARY VISITATION _ _OF TILE BISHOP OF LONDON. • Yesterday the Right: RA , . the Lord Bishop of London held his primary visitation in the metro politan cathedral. For the first time, the charge was delivered under the dome, the area being filled with chairs for the clergy of the diocese, who attended in great numbers. There was also a very large congregation, including a great number of ladies, in the portion of the church devoted to the riblic. Although the new matting was down in the area, and the leather curtains were hung be tween the pillars, the church was exceedingly cold, with constant draught, which evidently sorely tried the lungs of the congregation. The charge, which was of unusual. length, occupied upwards of four hours in delivery, and was a remarkable speci men of sustained and impressive elocution, and of unfailing power of voice, on behalf of the Right Rev. Prelate. The service appropriate to the occa sion having been chaunted by Minor Canons Lup ton and Webber, his lordship ascended a temporary reading-desk, which had been erected for the occa sion, and delivered his charge as follows : His lordship commenced by reminding the clergy that the day on which they were assembled was the 300th anniversary of the accession of Queen Elizabeth, and of the close of that reviving effort of Romanism which so sorely tried the Church and nation during the five years of her sister's reign. This was the first opportunity he had had of seeing them all together face to face. CIIURCII RATES. With regard to the support of church fabrics his lordship statedthat there were 61 churches partially supported by endowments, while in 113 parishes rates were raised in the legal way ; in all the rest the fabrics and worship were maintained, more or less, from voluntary sources, either from an alloca tion of the seat-rents, sanctioned by law, or from a voluntary appropriation of seat-rents, or simply by the offertory or subscriptions. Before Bishop Blom field's new churches were erected the number of chinches in the diocese entitled to be supported by the ancient system of rates could not have much exceeded 200. His lordship then proceeded as follows : " I fear I must not deceive you into any expectation that in those parishes in which church rates have been lost they arc likely to be recovered, though certainly signs are not wanting of the in habitants of newly-constituted parochial districts being more ready now to contribute to the main tenance of their own particular church than they were formerly to the distant mother church of the undivided parish. The feeling of Parliament does not seem to warrant the hope of our recovering what is lost. We know not what plan the Govern ment may devise for settling this difficult and em barrassing question of church rates. I believe, indeed, that if what was hinted at last summer by the head of the Government be adopted, the landed proprietors of England will not be found unwilling of their own accord to tax their property by an annual rent-charge fairly calculated, that they may keep up what the vast majority of them happily regard as the most valuable institution in the country. I fear, however, that in the towns we could not expect to share very largely in the advan tage of such a commutation, since in so many instances in towns other arrangements have already become habitual ; and people el also that in towns the churches, from the overwhelming amount of population, are not able to provide that full accom modation for the poor which is secured in the coun try, and for which the landed proprietors think it no hardship to be obliged to pay. I do not mean that there is any substantial equity in considering the holders of the property in towns free from a burden of this kind. Common reason tells us that the owner of a large manufactory is as much indebted as the owner of a large landed estate toThe labourers by whose industry his capital is made productive, and is therefore bound to contri bute his full share of whatever is required to se cure for them the means of instruction, whether secular or religious, and of worship. And it is nothing . but the barest justice that persons whose income is derived from the high-rented dwellings of the poor in the squalid lanes of our crowded cities should contribute to secure for their teiants the means of frequenting that house of God, in which alone in their life of toil they may be taught, in the only trueand safe sense, to regard themselves as opal to their brother men. But lam afraid iu this matter, besides what is just, it is very necessary to'be looking to what is feasible. And I should be deceiving you if I said that I had any good hope of such an impost being laid by Parliament on the owners of house property in towns or voluntarily adopted by them. The Government measure is yet unknown. No one can say what is likely to be the result of the fresh discussions- which must soon arise on this vexed question. For myself, once for all, I must repeat what I have elsewhere maintained that I know no argument which has been adduced which proves that there is any injustice in men being liable to a tax imposed for the maintenance of a great public institution, even if they do not themselves approve of that institution ; and I see, certainly, no greater, hardship in dissenters and Roman Catholics contributing to the maintenance of our churches, than in our paying our proportion of: the taxes which are charged with the mainte nance of Maynooth—or to take a more appropriate case, in the great Episcopalian landowners of Scot land being bound to maintain the established Pres byterian worship. Men, however, have irritated themselves into the belief that they have a griev ance in church rates, and it is politic, it is Christian fully to consider their feelings. Moreover, I suppose it is granted that, whatever may be said of the jus tieAt-ik the present church rate, it has great incon venience.,, and therefore we are quite ready for any good alteration of it which can be suggested, and we wish this alteration to be made in the most con ciliatory spirit towards those who are not members of. our church. How far these alterations may with safety be carried, the Government we are led to believe, is now considering. Even supposing that the alterations were to go very far, I should feel no fear myself that the churches of this great and wealthy metropolis would be allowed to fall in ruins, or the seemly dignity of their ser v'...ecs be curtailed, because we were thrown more unreservedly on the hearty loyalty of that great muss of persons who love the time-honoured insti tutions of our church, because they feel it has brought many blessings on their own and their fathers' souls. I cannot sad, however, that I should Le equally free from alarm in remote or very poor places. Indnd, as I have already stated, 1 cannot look upon this otherwise than as a poor man's question. The parish church ought to be every where, and, thank God, still is in many parishes, and always in the country, the inheritance of the poor. It is their right to have maintained for their use, not merely by the voluntary exertions of those who are charitably disposed to aid them, but by some provision of the law. And I do most earnestly trust that whatever settlement is devised, nothing will be done to sacrifice the rights and feelings of the great majority of the people, both rich and poor, in order to satisfy the unreasonable demands of a political influential few. I must say unreasonable demands, for I cannot allow any man's objections to church rates to be reasonable, who, when a compromise is proposed, not contented with an immunity being secured to himself and his fsl low dissenters, protests against the impost being levied by authority of law,even on those who are actual members of the established church, and feel no hardship in the payment. CONFESSION. His lordship then went on to the questions as to the authority and claims of the ministerial office, - which had, he stated, grown to an importance such as had scarcely ever before attached to them since he Reformation. With regard to absolution, 11 ) e observed that " isolated passages might adduced from our great divines upholding the priest's absolving power; but any dangerous application of such passages was guarded against by tile w h o l e tenor of those more moderate sentiments which we find breathingthrough the N . vor_ks_ quoted when we view them as a whole." Ins lordship then entered at great length into the .subject o f ee • of the nfession. After remarking, "The silenceeeth parea with the Church fulness of the church of Rome in-treating of systematic_ e confession is itself, to my mind, an irref e r h ai 4 i argument to show that the mind of our is quite against the practices now sought to beintroduced," and he referred to the Tridentine Catechism Decrees, and the Prayer book in support of his V* and quoted also from Hooker and the illustration Homilies in of the way in- which our divines have nowed the subject. He in an age given then observed : " But we live' to reckless extremes. And I do not hesitate to siy that there is great danger lest some of o ur young c l erg y especially--and some al so who are old enough to know b e t ter, o ften led away by their juniors—claim for themselves p riest ly rites which are both alien to the whole spirit of our church's teaching, and have no warrant whatsoever in the Word of God. My reverend brethren, it is my firm belief that there is danger among us lest a mode of teaching may gain ground which, as it would so exalt the sacraments administered by the clergy as to turn them into superstitious charm!, would make tho clergy themselves spiritual despots over the laity. You know that at this moment a deep alarm pervades the country lest the habitual establish ment of the confessional, as a means of priestly in fluence, may be employed to give men who thus unduly magnify their office an influence subversive of the legitimate exercise by individuals of the duties of the Christian conscience, and dangerous to the peace of families. I believe that this alarm is exaggerated. Comparatively very few persons wish to introduce the confessional into our system ; and the, authorities of the church, I am persuaded, are quite alive to the danger." After referring to the Knightsbridge case, his lordship said :—" Now, • my reverend brethren, with reference to the prac tice thus avowed and defended, I will first state my own views—and secondly, how far I shall think myself justified in interposing my authority to prevent evil effects. I would remark, before we go furthet, with respect to the whole of that depart ment of the pastor's office in which he has to deal with the individual souls of his people suffering under a sense of sin in the private minis tering of spiritual consolation, that this is almost the most difficult, as it is the most delicate, part of his functions. It would be very unlike the tact and prudence usually displayed by the authorities of the Church of Rome if they allowed any priest to be a confessor without special license. And our own church, warning us distinctly that the private adviser of his people's souls must be discreet and learned, holds out no encouragement to every raw young man, the moment he received priest's orders, to embark on duties for which he is not fitted by age, character, and experience of life. But, moreover, there is a good deal of confusion in men's minds as to the questions at issue between the ad vocates and. opponents of confession, which it is well to clear up. We who disapprove any ap proach to the introduction into the Church of Eng land of the confessional, as it is technically called, of course do not forget the injunctions of our Prayer-book. which called upon us all to make public confession of our sins daily, as we approach to receive comfort from hearing the declaration, which the minister is authorised by the rules of the Church to pronounce, of God's willingness to par don and absolve all those that truly repent and un feignedly believe His holy Gospel. Neither do we shut our eyes to the fact that previously to their receiving the holy communion ,those persons—who, having tried, find that they cannot by self-exami nation and confession to Almighty God, with full purpose of amendment of life and endeavours after reconciliation with those whom they have offended, attain to a full trust in God's mercy and quiet their own consciences, but require further comfort and counsel—are exhorted to seek the aid of some dis creet and learned minister of God's word, that they may open their grief, and, having the comfort of being distinctly assured of God s willingness to pardon them, may receive ghostly counsel and ad vice, to the quieting of the consciences and avoid ing of all scruple and doubtfulness. Neither again do we forget further that the pastor who visits any member of his flock labouring under dangerous sick ness, if he finds the sick man troubled in conscience with any weighty matter, is directed to move him to make special confession of his sins, t hat thus opening his heart, he may, if he seems truly peni tent, have the consolation of hearing from his pas tor's mouth before he dies that God of His great mercy in Jesus Christ is ready . to pardon him, and be assured that, great as his sins are, he is not ex cluded from the benefit of dying in communion with that Church which is Christ's body. We are for getful of none of these points. The passages which treat of confession and absolution in our Prayer book speak, I believe, in this language of comfort which is in store for the repentant sinner's soul when, either publicly or in'the congregation, or alone before God, or calling in the aid of his spiri tual adviser, he confesses his sin and begs God for pardon and reconciliation. God forbid that in this controversy one word should ever escape from us which seems to throw an obstacle in the way of the overburdened soul, either in health or in sick ness, opening its griefs to a trusted pastor. God forbid also that we should deny that much good may be done by discreet pious men when their aid is thus invited. My rev. brethren, on this subject it is right that I should speak with great serious ness. Let each of us ask ourselves whether we are quite alive to our duties, and by God's help are be coming equal to them, in this momentous inter course which is often required between pastors and their people's souls. Beware lest in the din of un hallowed controversy we allow words to be lightly spoken which may encourage the ungodly or care less pastor to feel contented with his want of power, arising from his want of spiritual-mindedness, to minister any consolation to distressed sinners. It is the duty, however, of the ministers of Christ, according to their ordination vows, seeking ' for His sheep that are dispersed abroad, and His child ren that are in the midst of this naughty world,' to use both ' public and private monitions and exhor tations as well to the sick as to the whole within their cures, as need shall require and occasion shall be given.' And we dare not with exactness define the amount of plain speaking as to which, in sues monitions, may be necessary to arouse a slumbering conscience. A pastor, in his deal ings with sinners' consciences, must, indeed, be very discreet and very reverent, but also he must not flinch from being faithful. We bear all this distinctly in mind, though it is certain that these weighty matters have not unfrequently been forgotten in the exciting discussions which this subject of the confessional has of late raised. More over, I would observe, for myself, that it is no wish of thine to insist on other people adopting my own opinions as to the exact nature of the presbyter's office, and thus to narrow those bounds of a wise comprehensiveness, according to which the Church of England has always allowed her children, if they chose, to believe that some very especial bless ing and comfort to the penitent soul is to be derived from listening to the promises of God's mercy pro nounced by his minister on those limited occasions when alone the formularies have authorised him officially to pronounce them as absolution. What I do utterly disapprove of, and what I feel constrained most strongly to protest against, is something very different from the common pastoral intercourses which is indicated in the three passages of the Prayer-book I have cited, and: which the Church always must uphold. It has been said that I have not explained myself when I have spoken against a systematic introduction of the practice of confes sion, as oppressed to such common pastoral inter course. But I really believe, even those who make the objection will, when they reflect, allow—all men of common discernment must know and dis tinctly recognise—the difference between the pas toral intercourse I have spoken of and that which is now endeavoured to be set up amongst us under the name of the Confessional. • If any clergyman so preaches to his people as to lead them to suppose that the proper and authorised way of a sinner's re• conciliation with God is through confession to a priest, and by receiving priestly absolution—if lie leads them to believe (I use the illustration I have found employed by an advocate of the Confes sional) that as the Greek Church has erred by neglecting preaching, and the Church of Rome by not encouraging the reading of the Scriptures, so our church has hitherto been much to blame for riot leading her people more habitually to private auri cular confession—if he thus stirs up the imaginat'on of ardent and confiding spirits to have recourse to him as a mediator between their souls and God, and when they come to seek his aid receives them with all the elaborate preparation which is so likely unduly to excite their feelings, and for which there is no authority in the church's rules of worship— taking them into the vestry of his church, securing the door, putting on the sacred vestments, causing them to kneel before the cross, to address him as their ghostly father, asking a string of questions as to sins of deed, word, and thought, and imposing his penance before he confers absolution—then the man who thus acts, or—even if some of these par ticular circumstances are wanting—of whose gene ral practice this is no exaggerated picture, is in my judgment unfaithful to the whole spirit of the church of which he is a minister. And if it so , chance that the person thus brought -under his in- 1 fluence be a female, and the questions which he asks—perhaps with the best intentions, but, under such circumstances, with the most deVorable want of sound discretion—include minute inquiries into sins of impurity, he cannot be surprised if his con duct is condemned as bringing grave scandal on the Church. My reverend brethren, I know that I carry you and the Church of England with me, when I express my strong disapproval of such prac • tires. Ido most earnestly trust that the zealous, self-denying men, who have felt di,posed incautiously , to encourage such practices, will seriously consider with themselves, and before God, that they are not acting as they ought. Depend upon it, real faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, such as the Church of England holds to be the effectual cause of the soul's salvation, is not strengthened by our people thus to lean upon the unauthorised mediation of man. And let the say plainly, also, to any who may be engaged in the attempt to introduce such a system among us, that I rejoice to have a full conviction that they are labour ing in a hopeless task. The overwhelming majority of our pious and intelligent clergy, to whichsoever of our acknowledged schools of theological senti ment they belong, as well a 3 of our laity, are deter mined b resist it. We may be ready to admit that the clamour raised respecting the confessional is often unwise ; but quite independently of any cla .uurr, thoughtful l.e h e o r r e re st nd a , nds a firm resistance of good and Heal and Bible teaching, who know:lha:lnd., n value the character subject will be able toislead Church, and love it for its aposto olfsotphhiersetry,w-eorne a tl n ii 3 7 , probability- of those who advoca . te these innovations succeeding in their attempts to indoctrinate the they y y NN o , f e ul. the d csloeor„nrry,fina i t - h s c uccess would but be ruin; but a very small minority-lolsfeltrs* deserted by all fl of ock i s, and our Church would socn become a Chu;lelh' prob strengtha l e l e i r t g y et - o Y . iins w e N: s \r t ta l e l , e is wherein n n such our the e t laity.elergy clergy, know o t w her We trust to hold our ground from enjoying con fidence of our people while - we teach. them Christ's truth; we feel that we shall justly lose their confi d euce if we strain alt er the unwarranted influence THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 18, 1858. of a mediatorial priestly power. I cannot but ear nestly- trust that :the discussions on this subject which have lately arisen, and even the improper heat which has been excited, will be overruled by God to make men more cautious how they trifle with any of these dangerous weapons, by which some of our clergy have been disposed of late vainly to think that they might strengthen themselves by borrowing from the armoury of Rome." With regard to penal discipline, in case it should be re• quired, his lordship said :—" All I can distinctly in timate on , this public occasion is, that if what I deem a dangerous systematic invitation and admis sion of their people to confession is endeavoured to be maintained by any clergyman in this diocese, I shall feel myself bound to watch his proceedings very carefully, and shall hold him most deeply re sponsible for any evils that ensue; considering care• fully, in each particular case, what power the law gives me to correct what is amiss. One thing I wish to add, that if I have abstained hitherto from giving in any church distinct directions on this subject, it has been because I have re ceived no assurance that my directions are likely to be obeyed. Clergymen who seek to intro duce this bad system may indeed express a general readiness to follow my advice as to modes in which they will carry it into practice, thus endeavouring to gain for it the aid of my authority. On such terms lam not likely to give advice. What I do advise and urge is, that they abstain altogether from seeking to introduce among their people ally sys tematic and habitual confession such as I have described." . • MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.—Nov. 17 (Before Mr. Pashley, Q.C., Assistant-Judge, at Westminster.) Mary Ann Davis, the woman who was convicted on Tuesday of robbing a"policeman of a £lO note, &c., was put upon her trial yesterday morning, with Edwin Shaylor, described as a picture dealer, for feloniously breaking and entering the shop of Henry William Johnson, in Gloucester-street, Clerkenwell, and stealing therein 110 ounces of silver wire, the property of him and others. They were also indicted as receivers. After the examination of several witnesses, The Assistant-Judge summed up the evidence, and the jury found Davis guilty- of receiving the property, knowing it to be stolen ; and Shaylor, of breaking into the premises and stealing it. Sentence on the prisoners was postponed, the police stating that additional information could be furnished respecting . them by the next sessions. Mary Aun Carmichael, 22, Sarah Harper, 21, Frances Jordan, 26. and William Jordan, 34, were indicted, Carmichael for stealing a gold watch, value £35, the property of John Williams, from his person, Harper and Frances Jordan for receiving the same, and William Jordan for being an acces sory after the fact, and for unlawfully endeavour ing to prevent the apprehension of the prisoner. Carmichael.. The prosecutor, who at first gave the name of Johnson, but afterwards stated that he lived at 3, Central-avenue, Portman-market, and was named John Williams, accompanied Carmichael to a brothel kept by the Jordans, 1, Stephen's-court, Marylebone, and while there she robbed him of his watch. - Carmichael and Harper pleaded guilty. The evidence of several police constables proved the case against the other two prisoners, and they were found Guilty. Carmichael and the two Jordans were each sen tenced to six months, and Harper to four months' hard labour. Ann Thompson, 19, was indicted for stealing . in the dwelling-house of Charles Lyne, a timepiece and other articles, value £7, and a pair of boots and other articles, the property of William Mosely. Mr. Abram prosecuted; Mr. Gent defended the prisoner. A police-constable of the N division stopped the prisoner in the Caledonian-road carrying a large bundle, and on his asking her - where she got it from she said she was carrying it for a man who had promised her a shilling for so doing. He took her in charge, and the contents of the bundle proved to be the proceeds of one of four house robberies committed during the preceding night. The jury found her guilty of feloniously receiv ing the property. She had been summarily convicted three times, although she called a witness to give a good cha racter, ~ • The court passed upon her a sentence of twelve months' hard labour. George Freeman, a youth, the son of very re spectable parents, was indicted for stealing in the dwelling house of the Right. Hon. the Earl of Malmesbury a watch, value £6 Os. 'Bd. the, pro perty of JOh n Cl emen t s , one o f his lordship's ser vants. He pleaded guilty. Evidence was given as to his previous excellent character, and no rea-‘ son could be assigned for his .committing the theft other than he had been suddenly tempted by see ing the watch lying in the butler's pantry, et Lord Malmesbury's, and no one by. The prisoner was sent to his lordship's residence on an errand from his employers, who were lamp manufacturers, and unfortunately could not resist the opportunity of stealing the under butler's watch, which he pawned next day for £2. The Assistant-Judge sentenced him to three months' hard labour, and hoped that he would en deavour to regain that high character which his friends had given him. John Stantion, 26, bricklayer, was indicted for unlawfully assaulting Benjamin Armstrong, a police constable, in the execution of his duty. He pleaded guilty. The prisoner was known as a desperate character, and the assult was a very violent one. The court sentenced him to nine months' hard labour, and to enter into a recognisance of £5O to keep the peace for two years. Mr. M'Carthy, 18, a shoe-black, and Henry Proctor, 20, labourer, were indicted for stealing an overcoat, the property of W. H. Norton, from shop in in the Strand. Proctor pleaded ;linty. M'Carthy protested his innocence but his participation in the theft was clearly proved by ther'porter of King's College Hospital, who, in pursuing him, was knocked down by an omnibus and narrowly escaped being run over. The jury found him guilty, and he was sentenced to six months hard labour. A former conviction, and a sentence of twelve months, were proved against Proctor, whom the Court sentenced to three years' penal servitude. (Before Mr. Creasy.) Edward Clark, 26, traveller, was indicted for fraudulently obtaining, by false pretences, the sum of 13s. from Ambrose John Whiteman ' with intent to defraud; he was also indicted for fraudulently obtaining, by false pretences, the sum of 16s. 6d. from Margaret King. There were six other counts charging the prisoner with similar offences. H. -. Lewis prosecuted ; the prisoner was undefended. Mr. Lewis, n opening the case, said the prose cutor was a Mr. Burrell, trading under the name of Clothier and Co., in Houghton-street, Clare-mar ket, and was a general printer and paper bag maker. The prisoner was engaged by him as tra veller, and was allowed a percentage on all orders he obtained, which produced him a weekly sum of 20s. to 255. He entered the prosecutor's service in May, but was not entitled to receive any money on account of his employer, but merely to take orders, and on their being returned to Mr. Burrell, he charged his commission for having obtained them. At the end of July the prisoner,, without giving any notice, absconded from his employment, and nothing more was heard of him until the end of October, when he was given into custody. At no time had the prisoner authority to receive money ; but it appeared that after he had left Mr. Burrell's service, in the month of August, he went to Mr. Whiteman and received money on the part of his employer. Mr. Ambrose John Whiteman said he carried on business at No. 22, Princes-street, Notting-hill, and on the 22d of July the prisoner waited upon him and solicited orders. Witness gave him one, with an understanding that he should have three months' credit. Soon afterwards he brought a bill, and ap peared to linger about as if he expected payment, when the - witness remarked that the tune had not arrived for doing so. .The prisoner remarked that he supposed that it was not convenient then to pay the bill, and witness replied that he did not know about it not being convenient, - but there was a dis tinct understanding that he should have three months' credit, and those three months had not expired. The prisoner then ,said, " Why, the fact is that I am collecting for this house, and for all the money I can collect this month I am authorised to make an allowance of 21 per. cent." Upon that representation he paid the prisoner, and received a receipt bearing the name of the prosecutor. Margaret King, in the employment of Mr. Duffy, proved paying the prisoner in July tie sum of 16s. 6d. on a similar representation. Mr: Burrell, the prosecutor; said it was the.pri soner's duty to collect orders, for which he received 10, 15, and 20 per cent. He left his employment in July without notice, and the next time he saw him was iri October, when he was in custody. He had no authority to receive money. The prisoner, with considerable effrontery, cross examined this witness, and endeavoured to elicit that he had given him authority to receive moneys on his account, which was positively denied. The jury found the prisoner guilty. William Wall, City police-constable 121, proved that the prisoner was tried at the Old Bailey on the 18th of August, 1856, and sentenced to six months' hard, labour on a charge of embezzlement. Mr. Creasy said he felt sure, from the prisoner's demeanour in the dock, that he was familiar with charges of embezzlement, as it appeared he had already had six months' imprisonment for that offence. However, he would protect society from him for some time to come, and now santenced him to be kept in penal servitude for three years. LECTURE BY M. KOSSUTH. On Monday night a numerous audience assem bled in the Music-hall, Edinburgh, to hear a lec ture from M. Kossuth, on " Hungary 'in connec tion with the condition and general interests of Europe." The chair was occupied by Mr. Charles Cowan, M.P. ; and among the gentlemen on the platform were Dr. Schmitz, Colonel Lichensteins, Count Ibaz, the Rev. Dr. Hanna ; Councillors Fyfe, Girle, Wood, and Dick, Mr. Gorrie, advo vocate ; Mr. Lorimer, advocate ; Mr. Thos. Knox, Mr. M'Callum, Mr. Harrison, Bailie M‘Gregor, of Glasgow, Robert Rae, Esq., of Glasgow. Mr. COWAN said it had always been, and he trusted it would ever be, the glory of Great Bri tain that her shores, when once reached by those who were objects X dread and hatred to the tyrants of the earth, were an ark of refuge, which she was resolved, at all hazards and against all consequences to maintain. (Cheers.) It must be especially interesting to those who had sprung from the same land to which Wallace and Bruce, and a multitude of other worthies and martyrs had belonged, to receive with cordial sympathy and give a hearty welcome to a like-minded spirit— one of the nobles of the earth—(cheers)—and, though the present meeting had no political ob ject, he ventured to express his own sentiments that he believed that, had it not been that his dis tinguished friend (he would not say distinguished stranger) had been deserted by false friends, and overreached by the wiles and machinations of a secret diplomacy, he would long ere now have achieved the object of his heart—the emancipation and independence of his beloved fatherland. (Loud cheers.) He (Mr. Cowan) was sure that the citi zens of Edinburgh and the whole country, in memory . of those heroes of our own fatherland, would give to his Excellency Louis Kossuth, as on former occasions, a most cordial welcome. (Enthu siastic cheering, waving of hats and handkerchiefs.) M. KOSSUTH, on rising, was received with tre mendous cheering, again aad again renewed. After felicitously expressing his great obligations to the meeting for their presence, M. Kossuth proceeded to say that Hungary in the lith and 18th centu ries had been lad prostrate under a foreign yoke, and that singularly enough the duration of. her prostration at both periods lasted precisely ten years. The same ominous ten years were being again rapidly completed, since the date of her last prostration, and he trusted that the spirit of their fathers still animated the present descendants of Hungary, and that rising in their moral might they would declare that their bitter degradation would last nolonger. (Cheers.) Unhappily their fatherland was still oppressed, and, he believed, we might as well attempt to make a blackamoor white as endeavour by any moral means to bring the House of Hapsburg to any serious conviction of their duty. In his present lecture heproposed to re move certain mists of misrepresentation which sur rounded the history and position of Hungary, that his audience might thereby , be the better enabled to understand and realise the great—the European —importance of the Hungarian cause. M. Kossuth then entered into a variety of interesting details re lative to the political condition of Hungary previ ous to the movement of 1848 and since the destruc tion of the people's liberties. Of the future, he said —" The fog and smoke of Downing-street are not particularly favourable to clear sight. It is fashion there to profess that it is good to prop the existence and cultivate the alliance of the house of Austria, because the integrity of the Austrian dominions is useful, is necessary to England. Useful, necessary. What does that mean ? It cannot mean that it is advantageous to your coMmerciil interest. You have very little commerce - \vith the Austrian em pire. With a free_Hungary, 'free Italy,. your com merce is sure to be ten times as - extensive. Then why useful ? Why necessary ? Evidently they think of the emergency , of the-war with Russia or with France, and imagine that Austria will be a useful ally. Will she ? Why, sir, as to a war with Russia, how far you may rely . on Austria for such an emergency, you had occasion to learn in your late war. The words I spoke on that occasion have been fully confirmed by subsequent facts. I say now as I said then—Austria can never prove a true and useful ally to Great Britain against. Russia. She will only clog your wheels, fetter your hands, distance the conflict from the vulnerable points of RuSsia, in order to distance it from her own fron tiers ; but help you to reduce Russia to proper limits she never will, she never can dare. And why not ? The answer to this question is to be found in the famous instruction of Czar Alexander 1., to Admiral Teitsakoff, " Should Austria really dare to play false with me, you are herewith autho rised to invite in my name the Sclavonic popula tion of her empire to rise and give their assistance; and where will Austria be ?" There is the mystery. Conclude on the future by reflecting how different would have been both the course and the result of your. late war, if, instead of faithless Austria, afree and independent Hungary had stood on your flanks. And hencndge what can be of greater use to you--a free Hungary, whom every interest will prompt to assist you in the emergency of a Russian war, or Austria—" the little valiant, the ever strong upon the stronger side," who, like a professional gamester, lives only by playing fast and loose. As to the emergency of a war with France, a great truth may be told in a few words. In any war in which France shall stand on the ono side, and Great Britain with Austria on the other, France has but to advance towards the Austrian frontiers and say, " Here we are to assist you, Italy, Hungary, Crotia, Gallicia, Bohemia ; rise and be free ; ' and so far from deriving any strength from an Austrian alliance, you shall have given to your antagonist ten nations for allies; most of whom well know how to fight, and can muster armies by hundreds of thousands of men. How different the prospect if the unnatural compound of hetrogeneous elements, formed by a long series of usurpations, called Austria, good for nothing on earth except to perpetuate servitude, shall have ceased to exist, replaced by a coalition of free na tions holding together from community of interests, neither ambitious themselves, nor ready tools of any ambition on earth, but guardians of peace, because strong and happy and free. Please reflect on this ; the subject is worth while to reflect upon. The hour passes fast. What to-day is anticipated may to-mor row become reality. Happily the British people is awakening fast to a proper perception of the neces sity to watch the manoeuvres of secret diplomacy ; and the independent liberals, those worthy patriots who don't care a bit about party scramblers for office, but care much about conscientiously perform ing their duty to their country, are manifestly acquiring day by day more and more weight in Parliament. This augurs well for the future. You have followed our past struggle with a brother's interest, have rejoiced at our successes, and have mourned over our fall with a brother's love. 0, nurse that interest ! 0, do not withdraw that love! The cause which has occupied your attention this evening has a future . yet—it may be an earlier future than some of you might think. I throw my self on the British people's sense of justice and watchfulness, to guard that cause in eventful emer gencies from a repetition of the fatal errors of it fatal policy, from which we, and with us the Euro pean family of nations, have suffered and still suffer so much. We, plain sons of nature, we are a grate ful race, sir ; and who can tell, maybe, that to have secured the well-deserved affection of a grateful nation may yet prove to be a safer stock laid up for trying emergencies than the precarious alliance of an ambitious ' mortal, who one day coaxes you, another day builds a standing menace against you-; and while in his hypocritic ardour of friendship he invites your Queen to grace with-her presence the inauguration of - his Sebastopol, built against the country of his invited guest, he at the same time takes care to revive rankling recollections, and stirs up new flames, and pokes and feeds the here ditary hatred of his nation against you that he may have it prepared for possible emergencies, or should occasion liner , or should his heart fail him to touch you himself, he should at least leave you the legacy of revived hatred, and implant the thirst after your humiliation into the impressiOnable cha racter of the nation over whom the evil genius of this dark decennium gave him power to rule for a span of years. Ladies and gentlemen, I have done with this evening's task, Some of my words, if on the wings of British publicity they chance to find their way to distant lands, may prove a seed which it was worth while to strew. And who can tell but, when the future shall have assumed the shape • of a stirring present, the reviving recollection of this evening may yet help to call forth a timely spark of British sympathy ? And the sympathy of the British people, if expressed not too late, is a fact in itself of mighty import. I wish we had heard of your sympathy nine years ago. But, se cluded as we were, we only thought that, if the eyes of the outward world followed with some con cern our arms uplifted in mortal combat, it was but like the concern with which the crowded benches of the Roman amphitheatre looked down on the gladiators in the arena beloW. And we felt lonely, so lonely as the last Numantian may have felt be fore he threw himself on the funeral pile. Next time it may be otherwise. And could I hope that a faint recollection of this evening may yet contri bute towards preserving the germ of sympathy for times, may be lingering to come, but sure to come, I should bless the hour when we thus met." M. Kossuth sat down amid a thunder of ap plause, and during the course of the delivery of his lecture he was frequently interrupted with loud and long-continued cheers. A vote of thanks to the lecturer, proposed by Mr. COWAN, was ver7 enthusiastically accorded; and the meeting terminated with a vote of thanks to the chairman. AL DE .IiIONTALEMBER2I Our readers have now .had before them the whole of M. de Montalembert's memorable pamphlet, and certainly, if elegance. of style and a judicious selec tion of materials be matters criminal in the eyes of a correctional police, this admirable specimen of modern French writing has no mercy to expect at theirt hands. . In . one respect we are condemned to share the misfortune of M. de Montalembert. The prosecution to which he is subjected, even more than the extraordinary merit of his work, will make its contents known all over Europe, and thus an extended—nay, a sort of unnatural publicity, will be given to opinions as regards the great Indian controversy of May last which we believe to be in many respects entirely erroneous. It must be evident to all readers that, although M. de Montalembert speaks of a debate on India, he has confined his notice, with the exception of about three lines devoted to Lord John Russell, to the speeches on one side of the Ifiestion, although it is by no means true that nothing was said or could be said on the other. But, worst of • all, we cannot even undertake our own defence against our eloquent assailant, lest some expression might escape from us which the correctional police might lay hold of and turn against him. We must therefore submit with the best grace we can to our hard fate, and trust we may be indemnified by the triumph of liberty of thought and speech in the person of M. de Montalembert for this sacrifice which we make to his safety. Passing over, then, without further comment, M. de Montalembert's account of the Indian Debate, and his rejoicings that the opinion of the Times did not in that instance prevail, .we turn with great in terest to the views expressed by M. de Montalembert on the present position of this country. We are not in the habit of giving much attention to the very disparaging estimates of our position and prospects which are constantly put forward by foreign writers ; the animus is too hostile and the ignorance too gross. But of M. de Montalembert neither of these two things can with truth be said. Unlike M. Le Maistre, who loved the institutions but hated the nation, M. de Montalembert pro fesses himself as much attached to the latter as to the former, and, as for knowledge, he is as well acquainted with our institutions as most English men, with this additional advantage—that he is better able to compare them with those of other countries, and can regard them from without as well as from within. Every feeling, every wish of such a writer, is favourable to a country which he not only regards with great, perhaps even with too partial admiration, but also looks upon as the only hope for the advancement of real liberty . and progressive civilization. And yet our critic views our present situation with great disquietude. It is not that we are hopelessly committed to the Pro. testant heresy, for he admits that our liberality and toleration are exceedingly favourable to the mission of Catholie teachers. Nor does he appre hend danger to us from internal discord. He con siders that power in this country is substantially in the hands of the middle classes, and there is no real conflict between aristocracy and democracy, and that the nobility are only too ready to serve a power the resolutions of which, when once arrived at, they never dream of disputing. So far from regretting the decline of party spirit, he views in its extinction the best proof of substantial progwss and sees no reason why matters should not go on in a course of steady improvement without this turbulent and exciting agency. The danger which he apprehends for us is not internal, and is not Asiatic; it is to be found, he believes, in the pre sent condition 4 Europe. In 1815 England pos seised the sympathy and good wishes of every na• tion on the Continent except France. Now it is no longer so. We have become more liberal and the Powers of Europe more retrograde, so that the gulf between us is wide, and widens every day. Our army has, he says, most unjustly but incon testibly lost its prestige, and besides all these causes there is a " moral rep ulsion " between us and the great Powers of Europe. There is, besides, envy at our prosperity and liberty. He thinks we trust too much to our past glory, to our bravery, our liberty, and our naval sitperiorsty. Mere physical strength and courage, he believes, are gradually losing their advantage by the progress of science as applied to war. Our naval superiority may be rivalled, as it has often been rivalled before, and the result of that rivalry may not always be as prosperous to us as in the days of La Hogue and Trafalgar. Ancient glory is a source of miscalculation rather than strength, and liberty, like beauty or. riches, is a good which requires to be defended, and cannot always defend itself. ' On the whole, M. de Montalembert thinks that we overestimate 'our resources, and that we may easily be drawn by our pride and confidence in ourselves into some war from which we may come forth conquered, or at least greatly humbled. These 'opinions, we confess candidly, do not carry conviction to our minds. N.ty, perhaps in our insular pride we think that we could demonstrate their groundlessness by arguments which, at any rate, would be satisfactory to ourselves. Our pre sent. intention is not to enter into any controversy on the subject, but merely to beg our readers to take notice Qf the fact that such opinions are pro fessed by a person so friendly and so intelligent as M. de Montalembert, as well worthy of our most serious consideration. The fact is worthy of con sideration in two points of view. In the first place, our friendly oritic may be right, and we may be wrong, in the estimate we respectively form of the resources of this country as compared with the great Powers of the continent. If we know our own affairs better than he does, he most likely knows the affalr3 of our neighbours better than we do and, as the whole question is one of comparison, he perhaps stands in the more favourable con dition of the two for arriving at a just and impartial judgment. -We have had success enough to turn the head of any nation or any individual, and,. aS this is a disorder of which the patient him self is always ignorant, we cannot be quite sure that it has not turned ours. But the main value which we attribute to M. de Montalembert's opin ion of our prospects in case of war is founded on the consideration that, whether true or not, it must undoubtedly be the opiniOn entertained of us by a large portion of the statesmen of Europe. If our friend and apologist thus doubts of our resources, ' what must be' the opinion of those whose morning and evening prayer is for the destruction of liberty as impersonated and upheld by England? Now, if we arc supposed to be unequal to the maintenance of the position we occupy, it ii of the last import ance that we should know it, for such a supposition is more likely than any other cause to lead other countries to apply to it the test of experiment. Having once got a foreign witness whose evidence is above suspicion, - we shall do wisely not to neglect his, warning, and ,to redouble every precaution against the possibility of losing in a few disastrous monthi the glorious works of centuries of labour, self-denial, and valour.— Times FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT AT YEOVIL.—,:hI- Wed nesday afternoon an accident happened to Captain Phelips and party, by which they were more or less injured. The gallant captain, with his lady, also Mrs. Quantock, wife of Major Quantock, and her little boy, had been spending the day at Holland House, with Mr. H. Batten. At five o'clock they left in a carriage, but had not proceeded far before the horses took fright, and rushing . off, dashed the vehicle vio lently against the wall, throwing the occupants into the road. They were conveyed back to Rolland House, and Messrs. Sharland, Coles, and Tomkyns, surgeons, sent for. Captain Phelips was severely injured about his head and arms, and his lady so injured that she has been confined to her bed ever since. Mrs. Quantock escaped with a few bruises, but her son had his collar bone broken and one of h 4 eyes severely injured .—Sherborne Journal. [ADVERTISEMENT.]—The Fatality of Disease.—llollo way's Pills.—lt is distressing to look around us and see the numbers that are hourly carried prematurely to their graves who might easily be saved by medicines suited to their complaints. In the majority of cases diseases originate in impure or impoverished blood. Holloway's Pills act on that vital fluid. They expel from the secretive organs and the circulation the morbid matter which produces inflam motion, pain, fever, debility, and physical decay. When b pills m taken according to the printed directions attached to each ' box they have never been known to fail. Under a course ofthese e the. robust. siek an soonl s se n s o fr t o s m upe h rfi is c bed ial and , or te t ni. he feeble man cure NrarYi but complete and permanent, POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—Nov. 17. MANSION-HOUSE.--A gentleman applied to the Lord Mayor for a summons against the direc tors of a public company, and wished to be heard upon the application. The Lord Mayor refused to hear the statement in public, but expressed his willingness to attend to the application in private, and if he should con sider there were grounds for it, the summons should be granted, and the 'complaint publicly heard ; but, he was determined not to hear ex parte representa tions uttered with regard to companies or indivi duals. His lordship then retired with the applicant to one of the private rooms, and having heard the 'grounds of complaint refused to grant the summons. W. Chalkley, porter to Messrs. Tegg and Co., publishers, Queen-street, Cheapside, was brought before Mr. Alderman Cubitt, charged with defraud ing his employers of several small sums of money. Mr. W. Winterburn, clerk in the Great Western Railway Company's office, King-street, Cheapside, said—On the 16th of September last I received from the prisoner a parcel addressed - " Robins, Chelt en ham, and he gave me 11d. for the carriage. On November 16 I received another parcel, addressed " Robins, Yeovil," together with 11d. On May 7 I received a third parcel, addressed " Kelly, Man chester," with 2s. 2d. I put my initials to these sums in the prisoner's way book. Mr. J. 11. Marshall, after proving that the pri soner was in the habit of receiving from him from time to time cash for petty disbursements, produced the way book, which showed that the prisoner, by either altering or adding to the figures as originally entered, had defrauded the prosecutors of 4s. In answer to Alderman Cubitt, Mr. Winterburn suid that when the prisoner brought him a parcel on the preceding day he noticed that the sum of ls. had been added to a former entry. He thereupon communicated with the prosecutors. J. C. Knight, the constable, deposed that when the inspector at _the station-house read over the charge to the prisoner the latter said he was guilty of the offence with which he was charged, and hoped his employers would deal leniently with him. The prisoner said he was guilty. Mr. Marshall—The prosecutors wish the prisoner to be dealt with as leniently as possible as he has hitherto borne a good character. He has a wife and family. The prisoner wished the case to be disposed of at once. Alderman Cubitt—The law does not admit of my doing that, but if you plead guilty you will be brought up in petty sessions, when two magistrates will be •in attendance, and then the case can be dealt with here. The prisoner, who then formally pleaded guilty, was remanded till Friday, when he will be brought up in petty sessions: Andrew MTherson, travelling clerk to Mr. A. Anidjah, looking-glass manufacturer, of 170, Bish opsgate-street Without, was brought up on remand charged with embezzling several sums amounting to £3 Os. 6d. belonging to his employer. Mr. Beard appeared for the prosecution. Evidence in support of the various cases having been adduced, the prisoner, who declared that, so far from havino• embezzled the moneys of his em ployers, the latter owed him lls. 3d., was fully committed for trial. Mary Travers was charged with stealing two pairs of boots from the shop of Mr. John Chew, bootmaker, of 64, Minories. _ _ . • It appeared from the evidence of the prosecutor that the prisoner had recently paid:several visits to his shop, and, after having tried on boots, left with out making any. purchase. On Saturday last, after she had taken her departure, ho missed a pair of ; boots from a stack near where she had been sitting. She came again on Tuesday, accom panied by a little girl, and after trying on several pairs, which she said did not suit her, was about to leave the shop, when he stopped her and asked her what, she had under her arm. She replied, Nothing. He called his foreman, who put his hand under the prisoner's shawl, and found the two pair of boots produced. The little girl escaped, but the prisoner was given into custody. Henry - Bird, the prosecutor's foreman, corrobo rated his master's evidence. Prisoner said she was guilty of stealing theboots. Alderman Cubitt sentenced her to imprisonment with hard labour, for six weeks. Mr. Hogarth, of 1, Stepney-green, appeared to a summons charging hiin with having refused to pay a cabman, named James Goodwin, his legal fare. The complainant said—On the 3d inst. I was en gaged by the defendant at Mile-end-gate to go to Stepney-green, to take up. I then proceeded to Fresh-wharf, London-bridge. There were five per sons and two packages. My claim is—distance Is. 6d. ; 3 persons, ls. 6d. • luggage, 4d. ; 40 minutes' detention at the two plates, ls. ; the total being 4s. 4d. I demanded this sum of the defendant, who re fused to give me more than 2s. He afterwards offered me 3s. 4d. I offered to take 3s. 10d., al though my legal fare was 4s. 4d. By the defendant—Although the entrance to Fresh-wharf was blocked up, you detained me more than half-an-hour after you had ascertained that the steamer had started. You were talking to your friends who came from the wharf. J. Stephenson, another cab-driver, said—l was hired at the same time as the complainant, and took part of the luggag e. We were detained by the de fendant nearly 40 minutes in Thames-street. By the defendant—We were not ordered to drive you to the wharf until we had waited 40 minutes. Defendant—My answer to the charge is that there was no detention other than was caused by the block-up at Fresh-wharf. He then called— Mr. J. Hogarth, who said—l met the complain ant's cab at the entrance to the wharf. We waited a very few minute's, as the cab could not go on to the wharf: I went to the warehouse to get a man to come up for the boxes, which occupied a few mi nutes more. The cab had arrived before I got to it. The steamer having started, we stood and " rea soned" for a few minutes. Alderman Cubitt—The question is what time you took to deliberate as to what you should do after you found that the steamer had departed ? Witness—l do not think that more than eight minutes were consumed in that way. Margaret Callaghan, servant to the defendant, said that the cab was at her master's door only from five to ten minutes. Alderman Cubitt—lt appears that 3s. 10d. was the exact amount of the fare. The defendant gave the complainant 2s. He will therefore have to pay ls. 10d. to make up the proper fare, and the costs. Defendant—How much altogether ? Mr. Goodman (chief clerk)-Is. 10d. fare, 3s. the cost of the summons, and 7s. 6d. the cost of the witnesses. The defendant paid the 12s. 4d. BOW-STREET.—An elderly man,who said his name was Henry _Stokes, and gave an address at which on inquiry he was found not to be known, was charged with indecently assaulting a young woman named Clarissa Long, servant to Mr. I. W. Thurston, a baker in Bloomsbury-court. The servant had been out walking with Mr. Thurston's daughter, a little girl of 12 years of age, and on returning about 7 o'clock in the evening they complained that a gentleman had been fol lowing them. Mr. Thurston desired them to go out again, and followed, to observe what occurred - . He saw the prisoner approach them, and put his arm round the servant's waist. He followed the prisoner for some distance, and then gave kim in charge. Mr. Thuriton and the servant agreed in stating that the prisoner had laid his hand on the latter in an indecent manner, but this the prisoner denied. He acknowledged that he tapped her on the shoul der familiarly, but alleged that he had done _so in consequence of her looking at him and laughing in such a manner that he thou°ht she was a woman of the streets. She had laughed at him in the same manner when she passed him before. Mr. Jardine said it was possible that the prisoner might have been under such an impression, but a man who mistook a respectable woman for a pros titute must take the consequences of conduct which, however little a person of the latter class might ob ject to it, was a gross indignity to a person like the complainant. He must pay 405., or be imprisoned for 14 days. The prisoner pail the fine and was discharged. NEAP OLITAII r VOMMB.RCE. -4 - The following official re turn has been published of the commercial movci vent. of the_ continental part of the kingdom of N: yles during 1857. The commerce with foreign countries amounted to 145,930,000 fr., of which 79,615,000 fr. were for imports and 66,315,0000 fr. for exports. The for mer as compared with - 1. 856 have increased 21 millions and the latter de creased 241 millions. The diminution may be Orin cipally attributed to the- prohibition to the expo' ; o.f:corn, and in a slight degree to the effect of the commercial crisis. In the above total of imports, I , lngland furnished for 29,425,000 fr. ; France, 1.C . J,83 o,ooofr. ; and Ame rica, 14,500,000 fr. ; the rem.ai nder being by Hol land, the Sardinian States, •ani 1 Spain. In the ex ports, England stands for 1€ ;,400,000fr.; France, 16,700,000. ; Russia, 12,0! ?5,(1100fr. ; and Austria, 11,945,000 fr. The princip al articles of import are raw cotton, cotton yarn, sugar , woollen and cotton, wove goods, tobacco, coffee, •;.oal, silk goods, &c. The exports consist of olive oil, raw, silk, mad der, raw wool, almonds, drie d fruits, and liquor ice. The total production of olive oil in the king dom of Naples in 1857 amou sited to 912,000 hec tolitres, valued at 67 millions of francs. During the last few years considerabl e extension has been given to manufactures in the kingdom, and a num ber of establishments have 1 . 'peen formed both in the neighbourhood of the ca• pital and in the pro= vinces. The principal ones are for the manufac ture of cloth, printed claim !8, ribbons, silk goods, carpets, paper, earthenware, &c. Most of the work men employed in those many ...factories are foreigners, and the managers or forem c m either English, Ger man, or French. The shippi n.g movement of the port of Naples in 1857, entries a i id departures as well as the coasting trade included, was 4,892 vessels, mea suring together 635,075 1 tons. Out of the above tonnage 407,768 tons belon., g to the Neapolitan flag. COUNTRY Ar ARKET Si. NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE—Noy. 16. At this morning's market thrrt) was a pretty goed at tendance, and rather more tone in trie trade, sellers making fully Saturday's prices. Foreign quiet and unchanged in value. Flour in limited demand . In barley and .other kinds of spring corn not much pass hag. CULTIVATION OF TOBACCO. From a report addressed to the Agricultural So ciety of Algiers, it appears that while in 1848 the province of Algiers only produced 138,574 kilog. of tobacco, it yielded 621,027 kilog. in 1852, and 3,751,214 kilog. in 1857, equivalent in value to 3,409,883. f. This immense increase in so important a branch of trade has, therefore, in the course of 10 years, bettered the financial condition of the 'pro vince of Algiers alone by nearly 4,000,000 f. per annum, a sum which remains in the country, and is not liable suddenly to disappear like French or ,foreign capital, which takes alarm at the slightest commercial difficulty, and withdraws from the market, often creatin(r a, serious crisis. The culti vation of tobacco produces other advantages be sides ; it leads to the draining . of insalubrious and unprofitable marshes, and it inspires the native population with a desire to improve their condition. A family enjoyinc , a good reputation easily find a landed proprietor to entrust them with the cultiva tion of one or more hectares of good land, and to provide them for six or eight months with every necessary - of life. At the end of the season, this land will have produced from 1,500 f. to 2,500 f. per hectare ; the landlord receives his share, and the family, after reimbursing his outlay, find them selves in possession of a surplus with which they c an rent land on their own account ; and th us , in a few years, they may be in a condition to purchase land for themselves, and become substantial agri culturists. There is, howeve r , an insect . which at tacks the tobacco-plant, and will'somet imes destroy the finest crops, which otherwise fear nor frost, and are but slightly neither hail affected by the sirocco. This insect gnaws • the roots and stalks his the ground two or three times, and eventually to sustain a consider able loss i n the quantity ultimately reaped. Theie are different species of this insect, some of which merely attack the outside, while others penetrate into the interior of the stalk. Up to the present time every effort to has been unavailing ; but the Prince Minister of Algeria has recently received a letter from a person who saffers to publish a secret of his for a sufficient remuneration. His secret consists in steeping the plant in a certain decoction before planting it. HULL—Nov., 16. A large supply of wheat to-dw y, at last week's prices. Barley was quite as dear. Oats ' met a slow sale. Beans and peas unaltered. Wheat.... Old white....per qr.. Old red y, • 4os Od to 44s Od New white .. ~ New red .... ~ . Dantzic, Konb., 4cc. old white 50s Od to 538 Od Dutch, Belgian, and. French 46s Od to 47s Od Baltic and Hamburg red. St. Petersburg an d Riga, Old 39s Od to 418 Od Barley.... English malting 324 Od to 36s Od Grinding 29s Od to 31a Od Saal and Oderbruck Holstein and Danish 3os Od to 338 Od Grinding 27s Od to 29s Od Oats English, old Archangel and Riga, per st is Ofd to is ld Friesland and Dutch la lfd to la 2d Swedish and Danish Oallfd to 18 fd Beans ....English, old, per qr 46s Od to 485 Od New pigeon 42s Od to 43s Od New tick. Egyptian Peas Foreign breakers Grinding 3Bs Od to 40s Od Tares ....Winter Bss Od to .90s Od Indian Corn Linseed, feeding 4Bs Od to 52s Od crushing Linseed cakes (Hull) £9 2 6to £9 7 6 . Foreign BlO oto 9 0 0 Rape cakes 515 oto 6 0 0 Bones 512 oto 515 0 ROCHDALE—Nov. 15. The market continues quiet, but prices are about sup- ported in the few transactions recorded this week. In the provision market there was a large show of potatoes, and the trade was heavy, with lower.prices at the close. Flukes, 9s 6d ; radicals, 8s to 9s Wellingtons, 84 per 2521 b. CORK—Nov. 15. The folloming were the quotations this morning :—Red wheat, 18s 6d to 21s; white, 18s 6d to 23s Od; barley lOs 9d to 16s 3d; oats , lls Od to 12s 10d. In the butter market upwards of 1,000 firkins were on sale. Prices—First quality, 104 s; second, 102 s; third, 975; fourth, 825; fifth s , 25.; sixth, 50s. BELFAST—Nov. 15. We quote no alteration in the value of wheat, but the trade continues in a lifeless state. Fine barleys maintain their value, other sorts quit. unsaloable. Oats and beans in favour of the buyer. -Nov. 18. ;here was very little doing in ithout much change. a. d. s. d. Do., new 11 6 to 13 0 Bere Rapeseed Oatmeal l2 6 to 14 6 Bakers' flour Indian corn , ET--Nov. 17. the close of tke market.) Walls End. s. 4. Ca.asop 18 9 Hetton 20 0 Kelloe l9 0 Heugh Hall 18 6 South Hetton 19 6 Bradyll's Hetton 18 6 West Kelloe , 17 6 South Kelloe l9 3 d, 23—sold, 14, DUBLIN• At this morning's market grain, and prices remained 1 8. d. a. d. Wheat, white 22 6 to 24 6 Do., red 2l 6 to 22 6 Do., new 21 6 to 24 6 Barley Oats Do., black ll oto 12 0 COAL MARK (Prices of Coal per Ton at s. d. North Percy Hartley ..16 0 Wylam l6 0 Holywell 16 6 Nixon's Merthyr 21 0 Powell' Duffryn Steam 21 0 Nixon's Duffryn. 21 0 Walls End. Tees 2O 0 1 Stewart's 19 6 Ships at marker LOCAL SHARE MARKETS. LIVERPOOL—Nov. 17. The market was very quiet at the opening, and continued so throughout the day, but closed firm. Sheffields, 35/ 1 - North British, 551 6i—York and North Midland, 76/ —Eastern Counties, - 12 7-16 I—Midland, 97/ B—Chester East Lancashire, 93/ 94—Dutch Rhenish, 4 31 dis.— and Holyheads, 36 1— Caledonians, 84 ± s—Lancashire and Yorkshire, 95 I—London and North-Westerns, 90 Grand Trunk of Canada, 91 9-16—Great Western, 54 —/ Leeds Northern, 47/—Dovers, 22 7-16 f—Berwicks, 921 3 —Blackburns, 1111—Birkenheads, 66} 67—Great Western of Canada, 14 MANCHESTER-NOV. 17. The market was inactive, and prices closed firm. Leeds, 951—London and North Westerns, soi 90—Dovers, 221-- Midlands, 971—Eastern Counties, 12I—Sheffields, 35 f Trunks, 9j. BIRMINGHAM--.-NOV. 17. The transactions in this market to-day were—Caledo nians closed at 84—Birmingham and Derbys, 70—Oxfords, 29—Birmingham Banking Co: shares were done at 29 — Great Western Birmingham Guaranteed Stock, at 73-• Shropshire Unions, 43—Holyheads, 361. [ArovnunsEmENT,--Itarey's Horse and Cattle Improv ing Food is equally a dapted to improve the stamina of ill conditioned Horses, Cows, Bullocks, Calves, Sheep, and Pigs. It causes no, extra expense, as it contains far more and better nourishmbnt than its cost of lid. per feed sup plies in corn and hay; , hence ensures an actual saving in the keep. But its principal advantages are a great improve ment in the digestive functions, the stamina and general condition of horses enabling them to perform far more labour without getting distressed. It imparts new vigour to sick, debilitated, or old apparently worn-out horses, and it puts rapidly the finest flesh on cattle generally, and im proves the milk in cows, as it enables thein to extract the entire nourishment out of everything they feed on. Rarey and Co., 77, Regent's Quadrant, Piccadilly, London. Packed in tins of about 90 feeds, lls. ' • in casks of about 450 feeds, 50s. ; of about ' 1,000 feeds. X 5, being about lid. per feed. BIRTH& DEsacE.—CU the 16th inst., at Leatherhead, the wife of W H. Doane, Esq., of a daughter. JERvis.—On the 15th inst., at Penge, Sydenham, Kent, the wife of Lieut.-Colonel Wm. JeKiiis (formerly of the Bengal Army), of a son. WARD.—On the 12th inst., at 18, Randolph-place, Maida hill west, the wife of Newman Ward, Esq., barrister-at law, of a daughter. WHITE.—On the 15th inst., at Dowlais, Glamorganshire, the wife of John Ludford White, Esq., F.R.C.S., of a son. MARRIAGES. BEGBIE—SWINEY.—On the 16th inst., at Cheltenham, the Rev. M. Hamilton Begbie, 8.A., the third son of Major- General Begbie, Madras Artillery, to Anne Eliza, the youngest daughter of Lieut.-General Swiney, Bengal Artillery. LINDSAY—LOYD.—On the 17th inst., at St. Martin's-in the-Fields, Major Robert J. Lindsay, Scots Fusilier Guards, and Equerry to H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, son of the late Lieut.-General Lindsay, of Balcarras, Fifeshire, to the Hon. Harriet Sarah Loyd, only daugh ter of Lord and Lady Overstone, DEATHS. CAMERON. —On the 13th inst., at Guernsey, Lady Came ron, relict of Sir John Cameron, K.C.8., aged 83. CONINGHAM.—On the 16th inst., at Kemp-town, Eliza beth Meyrick, the only daughtor of William Coningham, Esq., M.P. CHARNOCK.—At • St. Mary's-road, Peckham, Elizabeth, wife of Richard Chamoc , Esq., of the Inn er T em ple. CuawaY.—On the 14th inst., _Geo. S. Crawley, E s q. ; of Harley-place, Bow-road, aged 49. GARRATT.—On the 13th inst., at his residence, 2, Bruns wick-terrace, Brighton, W. A. Garratt, Esq., late of Lincoln's-inn, aged 78. MOXON —On the 15th inst., at Torquay, Colonel WiWant Moxon, late of the Bengal Army, aged 79. STIKEMAN. — On the 16th inst., at 2, Church-terrace, Lee, Kent, Henry F. Stikeraan, Esq., of the Stoke Exchange, and 7, Birchin lane. 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