The Sun. — London, England, 1859-09-29 00:00:00

DB. LIVINGSTONE'S EXPEDMON. The Cape papers publish the following letters which have been addressed by Dr. Livingstone to the late governor, Sir George GreDec. " Tete, lB, 1858. " Dear Sir George,—We have been up to examine the rapids of Kebra, or more correctly Ka ord Vasa, when the water in the Zambesi w as at its lowest, and we found that all we knew of it previously, from Portuguese description, -was just nothing at all. We steamed about four miles beyond where any description we could get even here terminated, and found that instead of a number of detached rocks jutting out of the water across the stream, the affair arises from the Zambesi being con fined by mountains to a bed a quarter of a mile wide at parts, and at one point to fifty or sixty yards. In the wider part there is a deep groove cut of the solid rock, if such it can be called, where rocks are twisted, broken, cleaved, and huddled together in every direction, besides being waterworn and drilled with portholes everywhere. When sailing up the groove, with the walls far above our masts, the man at the lead kept calling out 'no bottom at ten fathoms.' Yet the groove fills at flood and flows over the adjacent bed, though to do so it must rise perpendicularly 80 or 100 feet. There are rapids in the groove which this feeble vessel cannot stem, but we have no doubt that a steamer of good power would go up easily at flood. One rapid which had 5 feet of fall became level at 3 feet general rise of the river. The Ma Robert was just one sixteenth of an inch thick when new—is now thinner ; so we fear to try towing her up lest she should go craunch, like an old tin kettle, in the operation. There is also a place with perpendicular walls, past which no towing line could be carried. The mountains are at least 2,300 feet high, covered with trees and very healthy. As far as the eye can reach northwards we see ranges of the same even into the bide distance. We slept without cover or quinine, and but for:the toil, which was excessive, we should all have returned improved in health. It made us so lean that had I come down this way in 1856, I should have perished before reaching Tete. It is an impediment to navigation, i.e., canoe or bumboat navigation. They cannot paddle against a four knot current, and then here they cannot punt at 60 feet deep, nor tow from a height of 80 feet, so they go overland. We have abundance of work in the meantime down here. The geologist reports having found three seams of coal-Ist, seven feet thick ; 2d, thirteen feet six inches ; 3d, twenty•five feet thick, in a fine cliff section. It was fired by light ning a few years ago, and burned a long time. We are all in good health—have had colds only—no fever, except among the Kroomen. The Portuguese commandant, Major Secard, gave us the residence or government house to live in at Tete. lam going up the Shire next week. " D. LIVINGSTONE." " Tete, 19th Feb. 1859. " My dear Sir George—ln my last I told you of our visit to Kebra Vasa, and I am happy now to be able to inform you that it has been visited again since the water began to rise, and the reports by Mr. C. Livingstone and Mr. Baines fully confirm - what was advanced as to the effect of a flood. Se veral of the cataracts, which at low water seemed very serious obstacles, are rendered so smooth that but for the adjacent mountains having been sketched they would not have been recognised ; but a steamer capable of stemming the main current is necesssary for the ascent. The river is now 15 feet above above low-water mark in November, and as it is expected to rise considerably more I felt in clined to take advantage of it, and haul the vessel through; but besides the risk of doubling her up, she can carry so little cargo we would soon be without supplies after we had succeeded. We shall, therefore, work fork while on this side the rapid; and, as a beginning, I may mention that we went up the Shire at the beginning of January and found it a good navigable river for at least a hundred miles from its confluence. The mountain Mamm-• bala is four thousand feet high and has a wonder fully well cultivated large top. Lemon trees grow quite wild in the woods, and so do oranges and pine-apides. There are several fine little fountains, with water slightly chalybeate ; the people inde pendent and very hospitable. The view from the top of the Shire winding across an extended plain, inhabited by real Solophagi, is magnificent, and, as you may judge, from the height, we had quite a different climate from that of the plain. The vege tation is very like that of Loanda and Angola. We have also a fine hot sulphureous fountain at the base, yet no advantage has been taken of this splendid sanatorium by the, Portuguese. The valley of the Shire at one part o.baunds in elephants, and if you come to see us about January, I undertake to show five hundred of these noble animals grazing on the plain. We saw more than that; as there are branches of the river which form islands, we"some• times chased them with this vessel. They had magnificent tusks. I think ,that they are at tracted down from the hills by the sweet fruit of wild palmyras, o: which there a . re fine forests there. The people are very suspicious of us— never having been visited by Europeans before —but treated us civilly. Our wooding parties were never molested, yet a guard was set over both night and day. They are well armed with bows and poisoned arrows. The women insert an orna ment exactly the shape of the rings fur table nap kins into the upper lip. The effect is frightful. It is a most unaccountable ornament. They cultivate largely on the upper third of the Shire valley, and we purchased abundance of provisions at a cheap rate, besides specimens of their cotton yarn. They have two kinds of cotton, and both very good in quality. Our first object was to gain their confidence, and seeing them so suspicious, though we had pretty certain information of tho Shire becoming smooth again beyond the cataract which stopped our pro- gross, and that Arabs from Zanzibar 'were in the habit of coming down in canoes from Lake Nyanja, we thought it imprudent to leave the vessel in their power and go overland. We leave them to allow our first visit to have its effect, and in the course of a month return to them again. The reason why the Portuguese have not gone farther up about Merambala is probably the steady rapidity of the current—two and a half knots. There are no still reaches, and with the heavy Zambezi canoes, it is difficult to get on in a current. The people, too, have a bad name. They are said to have killed some native traders. In 1856, when I was coming down past the mouth of the Shire, I was told that an expedition had been sent up, but was unable to go far because the river was blocked up with duck weed. Quantities of that were then coming out of the river, but at 25 miles from the confluence the duckweed ceases, so that the expedition could not have gone far. Above that th 3 river widens a little, but it is free from sandbanks, and-deep. In deed, it may be said to be superior to the Zambezi for steam navigation. We could go on at night even. " This is our most unhealthy season. Fever is fatal on the coast. Here we have some of it, but no one dies in consequence. Three of our party have had touches of it, but better. This is the edge of the high healthy lands, where I have still every reason to believe that Europeans might live in safety. We are longing somewhat for news, having received none except the papers you were kind enough to send us by the Lyra. " I have little hopes of any good with the people under or in contact with the Portuguese. A year or more must elapse ere they recover from the effects of their late war. But I think more highly of the capabilities of the country for the produce England stands most in need of than ever. I could collect a waggon load or two of indigo from the streets of Te?eto-morrow. Dr. Kirk made some with it ; and cotton, though burned down annually, springs up as brisk as ever. The people here make sugar. Of this I was not aware before. We have put up our little engine, to show what machinery can do. Our first _work was t o saw up p l an k s, w i t h w hi c h M a j or Secard, our best friend, was about to build. We try sugarcane as soon as it is ready to cut.—l am, &c., "'DAVID LIVINGSTONE. " Dear Sir G e( 7 rse,—We are now about to deliver our letters to her Majesty's ship Persian, and though I know that she has one onboard for you of May last, I add a few words to that, as we are sending some buarge seeds and living plant s of the motsikri. Dr. Kirk will write Mr. 3.l.,Gibbon as to how they are to be disposed, an d I h ave now to be your go o d offices for speedy transmission , to their d est i nat i on. The buarge will do well in Natal, in localities where other cultivation is impossible. Should it grow, n o care is required for an annual crop (a comfortable fact for all Hottentots, English, Date, and Af r i can) for it is simply pollared when the fibre is mature i n the thinner branches. The seeds yield a paint or drying oil. Some are for India and others for Natal: and we shall send more when we can. There are plants, too, of motsikiri, a tree the seed . of which yields a fat and an oil valu a bl e i n com merce. It is exported from Whambane. We have sent home a report, the joint production of Dr. Kirk and myself, on the African fever ; and we think our experience of it has rendered it a less formidable disease than heretofore. This will prpbably be published. " We have been able to furnish a report on the navigation of the Zambesi, after seeing all the changes to which it is annually liable. From what we have observed in an unusually dry year, a vessel drawing two feet, such as they are o bli ge d to use on / the Mississippi, could ply the whole of ordinary years. During four or five months each year large vessels could ascend to Tete. There the river is 964 yards from bank to bank—about three times the width of the Thames at London-bridge ; at the broadest part it is about three miles, and divided into five or six channels. A tide-poll put up at my suggestion by Major Sicard showed a gra dual rise above low-water mark of 8 feet, then a va riation from 8 to 15 feet during some months, then a gradual decrease to 31. The low-water mark adopted was the surface of that in which from 18 in. to 24 in. were found in certain crossings from one channel to another. The channels then contained reaches, miles in length, of 8 or 10 feet, but in the crossings we had much difficulty; the vessel of 31.3 in. being of what is called the :Niger canoe or pot bellied shape,' and so weak an engine as to be unable to help us in the difficulty. She was only 1-16th of an inch thick in the beginning, and is now like an old copper kettle full of holes at one part. We are about to try Nyinyesi from the Shire, if she will only stick together so long: The Shire is more easily navigated than the Zambesi, as we have two or three fathoms con stantly, and can steam by night. We are in hopes, after surmounting a 30 mile difficulty, of getting on the lakes of Eastern Africa, and then we go to the Makololo country either afloat or afoot. (Signed) "DAVID LIVINGSTONE. " P.S.—I wonder why our Cape merchants don't push their merchandise higher up the coast. The Tete trader 3 have been compelled to wait four months at Quilimaine for calicoes, or till an Ameri can ship came. They are a yard wide, coarse, un bleached calico, and dearer than the English. Gentoos from India give higher prices for ivory, in English calico, than the Americans can afford. We -have failed to receive our regular newspapers, and not a Punch except yours—nothing more is needed to prove us out of the world." FRENCH COLONISATION. ( From the Times.) A French colony is an unlucky child ; it won't grow, it won't get well of any complaint it has got. At the same time it catches all children's complaints with fatal facility. Is the fault in the child or in the mother ? What is it which invariably keeps a French colony back, stunts and dwarfs it, represses any natural principle of expansion, and makes it look like a limb that has been tortured by some iron mould into an unnatural shape, and has been artifi cially wizened from its birth ? France is a glorious, brilliant, and fighting goddess, but is she a good mother ? That homely word, which embodies so much praise not trumpeted in gazettes, or accom panied by flags and flying colours, medals, and plumes—is it characteristic of the temper of France? Does she look upon a colony as a real child, as part of herself, and a natural sharer in her own prospe rity and honours ? or does she look upon it as a convenient drain to carry off her own morbid humours, a distant receptacle for rebellious and threatening spirits that she wants to get rid of ? Is she a stepmother to her children, without any na tural affection for them or pride in them ? Does she show any of that parent's feeling which brings the child forward, and shows it off as an example? or does she not rather keep a colony in the back ground, as grand houses do their back premises, which they have not for show but only for the baser uses ? Algeria has a more showy lot, indeed, but even Algeria is little better than a convenient cock pit, kept going in order to train the true French fighting breed, and sustain, if not the awe, at least the apprehension, of Europe. Whatever be the cause, a French colony is a poor spectacle. French Guiana, of which a picture was given in our foreign news yesterday, is now in a sad state, without labour or capital, the land groaning under mortgages and encumbrances, and the labour prevented from coming into the market by legal shackles. Did the Govern ment even let things alone and do nothing, the colony might right itself in time and come round of itself; but, unfortunately, the Govern ment just steps in to prevent the action of natural remedies. Were the black labour left free to make its own terms, the present landless class of liberated blacks would in time buy out the mortgaged and helpless landowners with the price of their own labour, and the land, having attained the great benefit of cultivation in the process, would pass into the hands of men of capital. This is the natural remedy; but the Government does not allow the colony to right itself. The liberated blacks have their legs tied by a tax which cuts off' all stimulus to their exertion, and does not make it worth their while to offer their labour. Their stimulus to exer tion is, of course, the prospect of buying land, but they are practically prohibited the purchase of land by a special "fiscal decree subjecting the sale or exchange of small tracts of land to a transfer-tax amounting to 200 or 300 per cent. of their value ; while vast and rich estates are liable only to a duty on sale of lor 2 per 1,000." This is the state of things, then. The blacks, excluded from property, will not work ; and the landowners cannot relieve themselves from their embarrassments because the land lies idle. The landowners are willing to sell, the blacks are willing to buy, but the law inter feres. The French have commonly complained of the insufficiency of black labour, as if that was the cause of the pressure • but the real reason is that they will step in with their artificial enactments, and prevent the black labour from coming into the market. Guiana seems to be suffering now from no natural want whatever, but simply from bad laws. And then, in crder to remedy the effects of this gratuitous meddling and mischiefmaking, we have that attempt at a practical revival of the Slave Trade which was made a little time ago. Such are the results of interference with the na tural course of things—first a want of labour made artificially by the law in the midst of a real abun dance of that article ; and, secondly, a violent re medy to supply that want. As for the lab Jur of the bagnes, which was to have done miracles in French Guiana, it seems to have turned out a dead failure. The convicts make trin kets and toys enough, and supply the officers' rooms with elaborate tables and escritoires. " One man gets curious boxes made, with secret drawers ; ano ther orders pieces of furniture composed of the choicest woods ; a third has an elegant and costly kiosk or summer-house constructed." But as for digging and planting, or any work which requires spades, ploughs, or wheelbarrows,—that does not enter into the sphere of a French convict's labour. Disease and death too, have made frightful havoc in this miserable class ; the situations of the peni tentiaries have not been selected with a correct eye to health, and the climate has done its work. The management is deplorable, and the fifty millions of francs which have been spent upon convict estab lishments have produced only as vet " a few veget ables for the use of the Staff," Establishment after establishment has been abandoned in consequence of the deadly effects of climate in bad situations. Government employes, doctors, distributors, have yielded to it, besides convicts. Military men are not generally fit managers of such institutions—at least, French military men seem not. The dash of the officer may carry him through an African cam paign with eclat, but set him down in a remote spot, where the eye of France is not on him, tie him to a steady task, set him to conduct a routine of peace ful discipline, and he has not the stimulus he wants to make him work. We greatly doubt even whether the Government at Paris has its eye upon merit of this kind, and whether it has a real place among the recognized claims to honour and reward. Able civilians would probably be better heads of such in stitutions than officers, but the French Government would not hear of a civilian in such a post. So far from adding by labour to the resources of the colony the bagnes have brought so many additional mouths to consume them, and, to the havoc of disease and death, "a constant deficiency in the primary articles of sustenance, periodically culminating in a famine," afflicts French Guiana. The scene of hardship, want, and sepulchral horrors has the effect which those scenes so often have, and does not soften and humanise, but brutalise the French officer. An examination of the goods and arms of the Military Governor of the Penitentiary of St. Marie, at La Comte, showed that that high and responsible officer occasionally wore a cuirass of human skin. " A convict had died whose breast was covered with exceedingly beautiful tattooing. The commandant of the station knew this, and had the man flayed before he was buried. For a mo ment it was thought that this human relic would have been put up for auction with the officer's other effects, but fortunately it occurred to some body that it was rather too disgusting." It is a perfectly well-known fact that scenes of mortality harden men ; indeed, there is a peculiar sort of desperate and horrid callousness—a brutality sui generis, which is fostered by them. The classical historian has described the moral effects of the plague at Athens, and Manzoni has imitated his picture in his ghastly account of the plague at Milan. But the horrors of Cayenne are not so overwhelming as to produce such a piece of bruta lity as this, were a French colony properly under the eye of the home Government. As it is, France is, as we have said, no mother to her colonies; she looks on them as no part of herself; she merely 11 C 3 a calory, w h ere t h ere i s nobody t o fi g ht, as a sing; ; her officers there feel themselves exiles, out casts from honourable eenu or . brillir . tnt . service,. , and i e n r a an d k istant colon drudges t o which anctintrrirrienallydisheolpnlomuera. honourable y—for what can be a more v h is o ie n tel o i urable sphere of labour than a reformatory ? holds, according to the French standard. These men feel themselves, then, out of the world, with no e ye upon them, and left to do as they like. They are not in France, and they do not trouble themselves to behave as if they were. But every officer in ayrench colony ought to feel as if he were in France. It shows a great defect of administra tion if he does not, and a French colony never will be what it ought to be till it is made to feel at home in the Empire, and to be—what it is not now —part of France. THE SUN, LONDON' THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 29, 1859. TILE ITALIAN QUESTION. The Emperor of the FrenCh occasionally feels it necessary or desirable to break through the myste rious silence he maintains as a rule on the affairs of Italy. He does so, however, not to tell us what he wishes, but simply to indicate one of the proposed solutions of the problem which he does not wish. The Moniteur was yesterday morning instructed to deny the common rumcur, that the Emperor really wishes to create a kingdom of Central Italy for his nephew. " Foreign journals," says the official organ, "have asserted that the solution of the affairs of Italy has been impeded by the desire of the Em peror to found a kingdom for a Prince of his house. Such reports do net require refutation. It is enough without speaking of the engagements of Villafranca, to refer to the acts and words of the Emperor be fore and since that date." This statement, though meagre enough in information, is still definite and precise as far as it goes. It efectually disposes of a rumour that has been a good deal circulated on this side of the water, but to which five have given neither currency nor credit. We have not sup posed or suggested that the Emperor's latent design was to establish his troublesome nephew in Central Italy. This solution of the problem would, indeed, we have little doubt, be even less palatable to him than the annexation of the Duchies to Piedmont. Nor was there anything to further the development of such a plan, suppos ing it to have been entertained. The Tuscans hate Prince Napoleon, and he has no love for them. While he is thus thoroughly unpopular with the Italians he has never, that we know of, expressed any ardent wish to be chosen as their ruler. He has most probably no desire or ambitien to under take the active duties of Government. Pleasure, self-gratification, in some form or other, is, and has been, the supreme object of his life, to which everything else is sacrificed. He maintains a kind of sulky connexion with the army, but he has never distinguished himself as a soldier, or paid anything like practical attention to the duties of his profession. He has of late years taken a leading part in public affairs, but without dis playing the least capacity as a statesman. The latest account of his movements is in perfect har mony with his ruling passion. Instead of preparing himself to comply with the rumoured call of the Italians, to undertake the government of Central Italy, he has just purchased a fine estate on the banks of the Lake of Geneva, where he doubtless proposes to enjoy without interruption the luxuri ous style of life he loves. We have little doubt his plan has his cousin's entire approval. Prince Napo leon will be much more out of the Emperor's way at Geneva than at Florence. What Louis Napoleon really wants is to retain the influence he has recently acquired in Italy, and remain, as he has been during the last few months, practically master of the Peninsula. The return of the exiled Dukes is the solution of the Italian problem that would most directly favour this design. If they returned, the old feeling of antipathy between them and their people would manifest itself with new in tensity, and would inevitably produce at, state of chronic uneasiness and disturbance that would at any time afford the French Emperor a pretext for interference. Still retaining his character as the friend of Italy, if he found himself uncomfortable at home, nothing would be easier than to undertake another Italian campaign, and obliterate the me mory of unpopular domestic acts in another battle of Solferino. Meanwhile, through the power he has recently acquired, he would become the Austria of Italy, retaining absolute military supremacy over the Papal States, and having, through his influence in the Duchies, the means of carrying on profitable diplomatic intrigues both in the north and south of the Peninsula. Still, if Louis Napoleon clearly sees he cannot continue to urge the return of the Dukes without losing all the credit and influence he has gained amongst the Italians, he will not force this measure, however much he may desire it. He is too keenly alive to his own interests to pursue, with blind and fatal obstinacy, such a suicidal policy. If he were really far-sighted and wise for himself, in a large and elevated sense, he would aban don at once his narrow Austrian policy, and support the right of the Italians to act for them selves. He weal] thus win the lasting gratitude and attachment of this noble people, and secure an amount of real influence in the Peninsula far greater than he could ever acquire by mere diplomatic in trigue or military display. We are not sure that even now, at the eleventh hour, he may not adopt this just, prudent, and liberal policy. So far as the note in the .Moniteur contains anything positive, it rather tends in this direction. Throwing out of account the peace of Villafranca, it appeals to the Emperor's words and acts before and since that date. Now the words and acts thus appealed to are all in favour of Italian independence, the more solemn of them being, indeed, express guarantees against the interference of any foreign Power in the deliberations and decisions of these States with regard to their own form of government. So far, therefore, tho note is rather favourable_as an indi cation of the present tendencies of the Emperor. If he is really disposed, after all, to favour the cause of Italian independence, all that is now hap pening in the Duchies must tend to confirm such a decision. The inhabitants of Central Italy do not share in the doubts and vacillations of their Impe rial friend and ally. Their attitude remains what it has been from the first—firm, dignified, and reso lute. The letter of Baron Iticasoli, Prime Minister of Florence, is a noble illustration of this. A friend had urged him to prepare a strong reply to the late article in the Moniteur. Bat he writes in answer to assure him that this is not necessary, and his let ter shows throughout a clearness of patriotic pur poso-and a strength of calm resolve which the efforts of adverse diplomacy will neither confuse nor disturb. "I am happy to assure you," he says, " that from the day I was put at the head of the Tuscan Government I have never had one moment either of uncertainty or weakness. Uncertainty cannot abide with a man who proposes to himself a complete political design, and fulfils it upon a persevering system, every part of which tends to the fulfilment of the whole." His con fidence in the ultimate and complete suc cess of the present movement in the Duchies is not only full and striking, but well grounded. "I feel assured," he says, " and all may feel assured, that neither this Government nor those of Modena and Bologna, nor that of the King.elect, nor the Italian people, will fail in their intent to constitute that strong kingdom, which is a universal want, and which alone will enable all of us to call our selves Italians, as Italy can only in th it event be said to exist. This, which is our wish, must needs also be the wish of Europe, for Europe can never hope for peace till it. becomes an acknowledged fact that there is an Italy.'" This is the language of men who not only deserve success, bat are resolved to secure it. Maintaining this firm and dignified position, we repeat our conviction that the Duchies must triumph, whether the Emperor of the French frowns on or favours their prayer for annexation to Sardinia. Events nearer home may surely warn Louis Na poleon not to lose the fruits of a noble enterprise by a dark and double-faced policy—not to throw away, by half-hearted and insincere measures any chance of securing influence and popularity. If he does not take care, the Italian war will be utterly without result. It was designed to increase his credit and influence both at home and abroad, and it certainly did this at first. But he is on the point of losing both. Ile has already fallen in the estima tion of the Italians by his doubtful if not treacher ous line of policy. And he has lost influence at home by his foolish dealings with the press. Re turning from a triumphant campaign in Italy, with his laurels yet green, he felt himself strong enough to appeal boldly to public opinion ; and an Imperial decree was published which appealed to grant a certain amount of liberty to the heavily fettered press. The Emperor seems to have foolishly ima gined that this act would be immediately followed by columns of panegyric on himself and his policy. Nothing of the sort, however, of course happened. The press, treating the offered freedom as a reality and not a sham, spoke out in an independent tone. This was not to bo endured. The first breath of adverse criticism was followed by a circular from the Duke ,of Padua, explaining that the system of warnings is an essential part of the Imperial policy, necessary for tht protection of the Government and the nation. A formal note ap peared in the 111oiziteur to the same effect. The suicidal folly of this course is already sufficiently apparent. It has produced a leaction against the Government, and in favour of greater liberty, such as neith( r the Emperor nor his Ministers at.all ex pected. Nor can the matter end with a mere-re turn to the old regime. The Emperor's true policy, and only permanent safety, lies in granting a defi nite measure of legal freedom to the press. In a word, he is warned on all hands to adopt a more sincere and liberal policy both at home and abroad. If he does not take the warning in time the good results of the Italian campaign will be thrown away, and the battle of So!fei'ino, so far as he is concerned, will have been fought in vain.—Daily News. [ADVERTISEMENT.] —llolloway's Pills.—Bilious COM plaints—Fever.—The great and sudden increase of tempe rature deranges the human system and decomposes vege table and animal matter, the malaria arising from which is a constant source of febrile complaints. These aro subdued and every function rectified with safety and certainty by Holloway's invaluable purifying pills, wjsich never fail to preserve the most delicate from the long catalogue ofslis eases produced by foul dr, as also from sun-stroke, giddi ness, and other inconveniences springing from excessive heat or unusual exertion. They check the first departure from nature, and have the felicitous property of overcoming the earliest symptoms of disease by expelling its cause, and efficaciously establishing wholesome, healthful action throughout every vital organ in the human body, NAVAL EXPENDITURE. The rapid increase of our naval expenditure en tailing upon the Ministers of the day the necessity of producing and defending estimates of enormous magnitude in Parliament, it. occurred to Sir John Pakington, when First Lord of the Admiralty, to fortify his department by appointing three Com mittees of Investigation, upon whose reports our naval administration might be, in case of need, im proved or vindicated. There was the Financial Committee, consisting of Messrs. Corry, Hamilton, Anderson, and Sir Richard Bromley, to inquire why the navy is more expensive than formerly ; the Committee on the Steam Machinery of the Navy, of which Admiral Ramsden, Mr, Nasmyth, and Mr. Ward were members ; and, lastly, there was a Com mittee to inquire into the labour in our dockyards. The desirableness of revising the scheme and exa mining the efficiency of our naval establishments, from time to time, will be seen from the fact that we have spent in the course of the last six years no less than £12,286,000 on shipbuilding, steam machinery, and fitting ships for sea and commission. The amount voted for establishment charges for the naval yards of Deptford, Woolwich, Chatham, Sheerness, Portsmouth, Devonport, and Pembroke, for this present year is £l15,000; while the sum voted for workmen's wages in the same yards is £1,232,000. The wages are paid to 13,290 persons,: to 4,000 shipwrights, 330 caulkers, 610 joiners, 342 sawyers, 876 smiths, 486 millwrights and workers at mills, 394 riggers, 204 sailmakers, 427 spinners, 1,105 exercising unclassified trades, and 2,076 labourers, and 2,240 men engaged in the steam factories. We quote these figures to show the grand scale upon which every organic defect in our dockyard administration must be repeated. The labours of the last Dockyard Commission followed the Parliamentary committee on naval expenditure which sat in 1848, since which date as we all know, great and important changes have taken place in our naval requirements. The dockyard committee was composed of Rear- Admiral Smart, chairman; Mr. H. Chatfield, mas ter shipwright at Deptford ; Mr. A. Murray, chief engineer at Portsmouth • Mr. R. Laws, storekeeper at Chatham and Mr. ite Bowman, civil engineer and ship builder, of the East India-road. The re port is only signed by four of these gentlemen, Mr. Chatfield strongly protesting against the conclu sions of his colleagues. The committee in the first place take a general view of the whole system of conducting the business of the dockyards, and then report in detail upon each trade. Their first remark is, that " the quantity of the work done in the dockyards is still below the standard of well-conducted private establishments." This is the key-note to the whole report. The committee constantly compare the results of Government labour with those of commercial enterprise, and the result is what might have been expected. Mr. Chatfield, on the other hand, and Sir Baldwin Walker, Sur veyor-General of the Navy, in his "Remarks," which are appended to the Report, struggle with this tendency. Mr. Chatfield maintains that so far from assimilating the management of work in the royal dockyards to the system observed in private establishments, we should take great care to avoid imitating that system. He complains, or at least points out, that the proposal to conduct the dock yards on factory principles and to adopt the system practised in the private trade, is due to the fact that there were two engineers on the committee, whilst he alone represented the ship-building department. A brief account of a report which consists of more than a thousand paragraphs, and extends over 93 folio pages, must needs be very general. The corn= mittee recommend changes affecting the whole con stitution and working of the dockyards. They esti mate every mode of working and paying simply by its results. They find that the supervision of the yards is defective; that there is too little concert among the officers as to the business of the day ; that responsibility is too much divided and not sufficiently defined; that while the quality of the - work has received great attention ,its cost has been un d ulyneglected; that the position and authority of the practical foremen in the yards is not sufficienly se- . cured in the eyes of the workmen; and that the system of superannuation, which is founded on the permanence of employment, hinders the discharge of inefficient workmen. They further condemn the three systems under which payments are made to the workmen for their labour performed in the yards. ' They condemn the " task and job" system, by which a definite sum of money is paid for each specific work in detail, according to an established system of prices, because they find that the system does not provide for limiting the cost of the whole ship. Thus they report that " sister corvettesof 1,462 tons have cost upwards of £3,000 more for shipwrights' labour in one yard than another, though both were paid for by measurement of the work upon them, under the same scheme of prices, and though the work upon both must have been nearly identical." In like manner they condemn the system of " day work with cheek measurement," because, it cheeks the energies of the men who are virtually induced to value the work as it progresses, and to execute no more than will equattheir wages. They propose to abolish these two systems altogether. As a substi tute they propose that when a ship is to be built, the plan to be followed shall be that practised by the shipbuilders in the Thames ; that is to say, to fix a price per ton for shipbuilding our for the ship, s the price varying according to the class and pro portions of the ship and the scantling and the qua lity of the work required. The ship being divided into certain stages of work, the price to be paid for workmanship is also so divided. The only super vision, then, necessary is thus reduced to seeing that the work is of the best quality. They attach little value to the periodical visits of the Lords of the Admiralty to the dockyards, and point out the expense as a charge which might be spared ; ha; they recommend that a shipwright and an engineer from the surveyor's department should frequently visit the dockyards. A still more important recom mendation is that, to supply the Mt want of a proper stimulus to Government officers for the effi cient and economical management of the works under their charge, the cost of every ship built and fitted for ordinary, or completed for sea, and the balance.sheets of the chief manufacturing branches, showing the net cost of the work*oduced. in the different dockyards, should be . printed annually with the Navy Estimates, and presented to Parlia ment, and circulated to all the doCkyaids. It is easy to see froM thevaininents of the Sur veyor-General, as well as those of other persons high in office,.that great resistance will be made to the introduction. of many of these changes. Never theless, since their comments are not made in a spirit of obstructiveness and opposition-to improvement, the discussion they provoke will be fay ourable to the increase of exact knowledge upon this important subject, and tend to mature the plane by which the present system is destined to be superseded.— Daily Neics. THE RIFLE CORPS MOVEMENT. NOTTINGHAM. - At . a special meeting of the Not tingham Town Council, on Monday, a motion was brought on by Mr. Parsons to the effect that the council :provide a proper site for the Nottingham Robin Hood Rifle Corps for practice. Mr. Parson:, said that a piece . of ground belonging to the Cop pice Farm (corporation property) had been approved by Captain Hobbs, the Government inspector, and he (Mr. Parsons) should move that it be let to them at a nominal annual rent. The..piece. of ground comprised about five acres, anti would cost between £OOO and £7OO to bring it into a fit state for the corps. Several 'members of the hall objected to the grant of the land on the ground that it would be unjust to the ratepayes and would.in their opinion cause dissatisfaction in the town.. After a short but spirited" debate it was decided that the land should be let to the corps at a small annual rent. Mr. Parsons then proposed that a grant of £3OO should be made by the corporation towards defray ing the expenses of fitting the ground up. A sum of about £7OO would be required, but the corps would make up tho deficiency, and he thought it was only right that they ehould be assisted by the town. The motion being put was carried by 21 to 12, and the decision was received with great applause. .SOUTIIPORT.—In this town a very promising corps has been raised, which now numbers nearly 60 members. The extensive sands on the seashore form the practice ground, which has been inspected and favourably reported upon by Capt. Hobbs. A very neat uniform (dnrk gray with scarlet facings) has been adapted, and when on drill the members present a very soldierly appearance. The corps is under the instruction of Sergeant Inman, late of the 33d Regiment, and the progress the members have made in their duties is highly satisfactory. The subscription raised for the equipment of the corps is now about £330. Mr. J. 11. Wrigley, Deputy- Lieutenant of the county of Lancaster, headed the list with a donation of £lOO, and other gentlemen in the town have given liberal sums. The members,. have taken the oath of allegiance, and. when their number reaches 60 they will nominate their officers. KING'S LYNN.--The officers selected by the King's Lynn Rifle Company have been approved by the lArd•Lieutenant, and have received their commissions. The company has been declared the fifth in the Norfolk corps, and is to consist, like the others, of a captain, lieutenant, and ensign, and 100 of all ranks. The effective strength of the company is at present 71, and the members are to meet for drill on Mondays and Saturdays. A commencement was made last week. .The borough members have each given £2O towards the expenses of the com pany. EDINEURGIL—On Tuesday evening the admini stration of tho oath of allegiance to the rifle yawl teers was commenced in the library of the nigh School. Bailie Blackadder attended to represent the magistracy of the burgh. About three hundred members of the Bankers' Company and two Artizans' Companies came forward, and the oath being read by Mr. Morham, Clerk of Lieutenancy, was taken separately by each company, and subscribed to by every member. A number of members being un able to appear, will be sworn in during the week, before the termination of which it ig evvested that every Edinburgh volunteer wilt have taken the oath to serve his Queen and Country. GLOUCESTER ELECTION COM, MISSION. THIRD DAY. The inquiry was resumed yesterday morning, when George Webb was the first witness examined. He was partner with Mr. Gilbert, the parliamentary agent and accountant, his portion of the business being the accounts. Understanding that Sir Wm. Hayter wanted some one to go to Gloucester on election business he recommended Thompson as a person who had been engaged with Mr. Gilbert in elections. He had also been engaged with Mr. Cop pock. Had formerly been a member of the London corporation, and was highly respectable, Sir W. Hayter accepted his services, and gave witness a note addressed to Mr John Hutt, to give to Thomp son. A trustworthy person was wanted, who could take care of the voters and keep the returns and accounts. Mr. Gilbert was at Wakefield at this time. Told Thompson there was a person wanted at Glou cester, and he was to take the letter to where it was addressed, and make his own arrangements. Thompson afterwards told him he was engaged to go to Gloucester, and was to have £5OO to take with him to pay the expenses of the Liberal candidate, He did not hear from Thompson that the money was to be employed for illegal purposes. It was arranged before Thompson left London that he should take the name of Thornton. Did not think that circumstance involved any secrecy in the ap plication of the- money. Thompson telegraphed from Gloucester for Clarke, but witness telegraphed. back " Gone to France." Thompson then tele graphed, " I want a repetition of my medicine, and if got, send Clarke with it." Took this in two ways —that he might be ill andwanted Clarke, and that he wanted money, and witness was determined to have nothing to do with sending him money. The witness spoke to other telegrams received. from Thompson when at Gloucester. The initial " P." meant Patch, a person in Mr. Gilbert's employ. Received one telegram from him on the nomina tion day—" Nomination over—ours—one o'clock— safe 192, ready anywhere—answer." Understood from this 192 was the majority, that the election was over, and that he was ready to go anywhere else. Met Thompson afterwards in London, when he told witness that he had had occasion to borrow money, but did not say how much, nor from whom he borrowed it. Did not know where he was now. Had seen him since he had been summoned, and ad vised him to attend this inquiry, and tell all he knew, and that then no harm would come to him. The witness went on to say that he knew Clarke, who had told him that he had not received the £25 which had been promised him. Witness men tioned it to Thompson, who said he would see him paid. Had been to Sir W. Hayter's once or twice on other business. Sir 'William wanted persons to watch on the other side. Had received £lO himself from Thompson, who told him he had received money to ge to Gloucester. Had not the slightest suspicion that the money was to be spent in bri bery. Did not think it was too much for the legal expenses. Would not obey the Speaker's warrant to give evidence before the Parliamentary com-• mittee because he considered Thompson would at tend. Went to Ramsgate, and if he was denied there by his servant or wife it was without his authority. Thompson said he had arranged with Mr. Moffatt that he was to have £lOO for his fee. Saw Thomp son a fortnight ago, but not on Friday last. Had advised him to come to Gloucester, and had no idea why he did not. He said, however, that he should not come ; he would take his own course. Mr. Parkes was recalled, and said he believed the witness Webb was the person to whom he de livered the envelope, but he only saw him for a moment. Mr. Webb did not at any time come to him for more money for the Gloucester election. Richard Kingdon, clerk in the office of Mr. Gil bert, proved the payment of £25 to Clarke last June, but declared that he did not know who gave him the money. Had never seen him before. The money was brought to him at night. It certainly was not Thompson who brought .it ; he knew Thompson well. Miss Wall, barmaid at the Gloucester Hotel, proved that she wrote for Thornton during the elec tion a telegram—" I want a repetition of my medi cine," &c. Thornton (Thompson is his real name, but he had taken the name of Thornton at Glouces ter) said he was unwell, and could not write. Thornton and Brettles (Clarke) were staying at the hotel three or four days. Mr. Wilton was the only gentleman who visited there except one, when a gentleman in a white hat came. (Portrait pro duced.) That was not his likeness. I3rettles had been at Gloucester since the election—about the time of the parliamentary committee. Mr. Wiltorrwas next examinued, and added to his evidence given .on Monday that the Reform Club was established on a similar basis to that of a Con servative Club which had been in existence some years. There was a rule in the Conservative Club simi lar t o that of the Reform Club, that a profession of poli tical principle must be made by every member. The Conservative rule ran thus—" Every person admitted to this society shall be of soand Conservative prin ciples and of good character and morals." The Con servative Club rules were certified, like those of the Reform Club, by Mr. Tidd Pratt, and mane; of the Reform Club rules were taken from those of the Conservative Club. He then amended his evidence of Monday as to the sums which were paid and re ceived by him. He had on the day of the poll re ceived an additional £5O from Mr. P. Chandler, of Gloucester, and instead of £lO g i ven t o Mr. all had paid him £l3 103. Alh paid £l2 to a Mr. Gardiner, which was expended partly in bribing electors. An additional sum of £33 was also paid to a publican named Ortin for bribery and treating,. Mr. Wilton then said that he wished to make a statement as to the reason which had induced him to take an active part in political matters in Glou cester, and which had certainly interfered with his professional prospects, and he might say with his success in life. When the petition was presented, in 1857, against Sir R. Cayden's return, it was con ducted by his uncle, and on it failing he was re proached on all sides for supporting a frivolous and vexatious petition. In order, therefore, to vindicate his uncle, he (Mr. Wilton) had got up evidence of the bribery, and laid it before his uncle, and sub sequently it was laid before Sir M. Berkeley, but they all declined to prosecute the parties, who had sworn that they had not bribed, and against whom he had got up evidence. One of the parties against whom he (the witness) alleged bribery was Mr. Alderman Whitom, and Mr. Wilton undertook to lay before the commissioners hereafter evidence of bribery committed in 1857. He then recapitulated the circumstances which he considered had justi fied him in bringing forward a second Liberal candidate, chiefly from the fact of an increase of Liberals on the register since 1857. A fortnight before the election, however, he found that pro mises, if not actual gifts, were being made to the electors on the other side—promises of money, of employment, and of endeavours to get furloughs for voters' sons. Every conceivable means of cor rupt ion was being used, and it was the common talk that the old Tory tactics were to be renewed. He could divulge particular cases of bribery, but thought at present it was better not to mention names. The reason why they had stipulated with their candi date that he should advocate the ballot was because they believe with Mr. Coppock, that it was the only cure for bribery. He did not believe there bad been a pure election for Gloucester since the lteform Bill, except on the occasion when Mr. Price was re-elected without opposition on his ac cepting a Government contract. He believed there was in Gloucester a majority of 150 conscientious Liberals on the registrar, but at the same time he believed there was a much larger number of 'venal votes, whsse assistance it was necessary in a small proportion to secure to obtain a liberal majority. If the Conservatives were to buy up all the venal voters, the Liberals could not obtain a majority. Ho bad formed this opinion after a careful analysis of the register. He Caine to the conclusion after this analysis that, setting apart the corrupt portion of the voters, there was a majority of 150 Liberals. The corrupt voters were to be found among both classes. Some voters (out voters) had declared in the last fortnight that they would never vote if not paid for it, and that they never had. When he ap plied to Mr. Price for money for election expenses he told him that the money was - .vanting to pay time messeno•ers. He did net think it necessary to tell him that all the money was not wanted to pay messengers. Thompson told him that Clark had seen Mr. Trail in Gloucester, and the remark was made that lie was conic to distribute th 6 £2,000 allotted to Gloucester by the Conservative party. Clarke was reading the newspaper at the Wellington Hotel, when he SaNV a gentleman enter and stand opposite the pi er g lass, and he then s aw th e reflec tion of Mr. Trail's features. Mr. Wilton text enumerated the different payments which he had made to various parties for bribery, treating, &e. The sum total amounted to £914 4s. 6d. A good deal of it was spent in treating when on canvass. He himself . knew of no direct bribe r y, an d h a d never given away any money himself. He would give all the information he could ; and did not wish to skink the strictest exposure. Mr. Wilton, being pressed by the commissioners to mention the names of the voters who had been bribed; respectfully de clined doing so. He - had heard £5,000 and £lO,OOO mentioned:as having been nent in the elec tion, but he kn ew no thi ng o f hi s own knowledge. He believed that in Mr. Monk's majority about 34 votes were obtained by illegal influences. Mr. Innell, agent in the oil trade, and lately sheriff' of the city of Gloucester, said he was the president of the Oloucester Reform Club, and mn.inl J. (.."::3 ;orated Mr. Wilton's evidence as to what trampired a the London Reform Club in the interview with Mr. Moffat and Mr, jrionk. H e also said he had canvassed with Mr. Monk four fifths of the electors, and although some held back, he considered the canvass highly favourable to the Liberal party. There were extensive rumours of bribery on the other side. He never gave or pro raised a bribe. He denied the truth of the evirl . -, nee given by Jed on the Parliamentary P:ommittee. Never bribed Jeffs directly or incl;.leelly. Mr. Smith, solicitor, was also examined, but added nothing new. HQ denied all knowledge of bribery. An adjournment here took place. POLICE INT. LLIGENC_Z—Sept. 28. LAMBETH.—AN ACCOMPLISHED GANG OF FOREIGN PLUNDERERS.—Jacob Levy, Louis Levy, and Rosa Levy, believed to belews and natives of Prussia, and also members of a gang of foreign plunderers who have been most successful in plun dering tradesmen in the metropolis, as well as many of the provincial towns in England, were again placed at the bar, before Mr. Elliott, on various charges of robbery. Mr. S. Solomon, of No. 22, Finsbury-place, one of the firm of J. and S. Solomon, attended for the prosecution, and Mr. Wood and Mr. Neale for the prisoners. The first charge entered on against the prisoners was that of stealing three gold watches, of the value of £25, from the shop of Mr. Pearce, watch maker and jeweller, of No. 45, Mount-street, Lam beth, and from the testimony of James Mauncey, the prosecutor's shopman, it appeared that on the 14th inst. the prisoner called at Mr. Pearce's shop and selected guards of various descriptions, amount ing to nearly £4OO, which they represented they wanted for the Spanish market. They desired that the invoices might be made out for each sepa rate parcel, and ready for th:-:m on the same evening, when they should call and pay. This, however, they forgot to do; and on the stock being looked over the following morning, three watches and other articles were missed ; and information of the robbery and a description of the prisoners, was given to the police, which led to the apprehension of two of them on the 22d, and the third on the 24th. The witness, who distinctly identified all the three prisoners, was cross-examined at some length by Mr. Neale and Mr. Wood, and at its conclusion, Mr. Solomon remarked. that as the matter elicited tended to strengthen the case for the proseCution, he did not intend making any observations limn it. The next witness called was Mr. William Henry Wells, a jeweller, carrying on business at No. 14, Corn market, Oxford, who said—l know all the prisoners from having seen them in my shop fre quently with a young man not in custody. They said they had a brother coming from Australia to get married, and that they should require a number of articles for wedding presents. They exhibited. several chains which they said were not of a quality good enough to give to the Germans as wedding presents—(laughter)—and they exchanged them with me for goods of a superior quality, and I paid them the difference in money. Two or three days after the prisoners came again, when they said they liked my goods very much, and that their relative should come to Oxford to make his purchases there instead of at Liverpool or London as he intended. On Friday, the 9th instant, the prisoners called to select the articles they wanted, and were so profuse in their selections that the counter became so crowded with the articles they had chosen that at the request of the elder prisoner I removed them into an inner room. While making this selection of goods, the prisoner Louis Levy wished to see a violin, and on its being handed to him he at once commenced to play it, walking about the shop while doing so, and also into th e room w h ere th e selected articles were placed. From their wishing to select goods from a number of trays at once I be came doubtful of them, and told my young man to keep a good look out. At this time the female prisoner Rosa fainted, or at least pretended to faint, and I had to call out to Mrs. Wells to go upstairs and bring down some old rum—(laughter)—and some scents to revive her. Mr. Solomon—Well, I suppose that this assumed fainting and your attending to the female prisoner was calculated to divert your attention from the other prisoners ? Mr. Wells—Yes, it certainlywas, but as soon as she recovered they commenced se lecting the goods again, and went on until s h e fainted a second time. (Renewed laughter.) Mr. Solomon—Oh, she fainted or pretended to faint a second time, did she ; and I su pp ose you was diverted a second time from the others to at tend to her? Mr. Wells—Yes; but she recovered the second time quicker than the first. by the younger male prisoner rubbing her on the cheek a little harder than she wished ; for she said something to him in German, which I under s t oo d t o mean fool, and he went on with his fiddling. The goods which they selected amounted to and they requested that an invoice might be made out to them, to be ready by ten o'clock on the following morning, when they should call and pay for them. They said they should remain four weeks at Ox ford, and selected some pearls to be made' into ear rings, and their order altogether would amount to £2OO. Mr. Solomon—While the prisoners were at your shop, did the elder prisoner and the f ema l e go into the room where the selected goods were, as well as the younger male prisoner ? Mr. Wells—They did more than once. They left my shop at about half past six o'clock, and soon after I missed a ring from a lot of twelve, and could not find it, but thought it might have got mixed up with the selected goods. The younger prisoner came back after they had left the shop to purchase an opera-glass, but the elder prisoner seemed to protest against his doing so, and they then left, from which time to the present I have not seen them. On the Monday following I missed more property—half-a-dozen of dessert spoons, and half-a dozen of the pearls the prisoner had been looking at, and this morning I have ex amined the property found on the premises, and in the possession of the constable, and found amongst it a gold chain, a pencil case, a seal, and a ring, my property, and part of the property I had shown them. I had also made inquiries respecting the prisoner at the time, and found, that though they said they were about to remain at Oxford for about four weeks, they went straight to the railway sta tion, and started by the seven o'clock train. I also found that the prisoners were well known at the station, and suspected as pickpockets, and all per sons travelling with them were cautioned to " take care of their pockets." He further ascertained that a young fellow, who used to travel with them, had started from Hull to Hamburg, taking with him a box containing property to the amount of over £l,OOO, belonging to the gang, and which they had stolen at different places. Mr. Neale objected to this latter statement, and cross-examined Mr. Wells. Afr. Neale—You have sworn to the gold chain produced as your property P—Mr. Wells—Yes ; I'll swear positively to it, as I put the rings on it. Mr. Neap : When had you it last in your pos session P—Mr. Wells : On the Friday when the prisoners were at my shop. Mr. Elliott : Oh, you had it then, and showed it to the prisoners, and that was the last time you had it P—Mr. Wells : It was, sir. Mr. Elliott (to the clerk)—Add that fact to the depositions. The officers swore that the goods identified by Mr. Wells they found on each of the prisoners. Mr. Solomon here said this was all the evidence he intended offering to-day, but as the prisoners, it was well-known, had been for some time carry ing on a system of plunder in the metropolis as well as in the provinces, and as the officers were in pos ses:ion of information respecting other and exten sive robberies, he had to request a further remand. Mr. Elliott granted the remand, as requested, until Wednesday next, and the prisoners were removed from the bar. DEPARTURE OF 6 OLDIERS'FAAIILIES FOR INDIA. —SOUTHAMPTON, Sept. 23.—The Taymonth Castle, 632 tons, Capt. John M 'Aister, sailed hence to-day for Calcutta, with the wives and children belonging to the 23d, 48 t h, and 71st Regi men t s. Sh e h as on board -6 married soldiers and wives, 136 women, 7 children above 12 years of age, 189 between 1 and 12 years, and 4 infants • t o tal, 342 souls —oval to 2431 stat u t e adults. The Duarook, 601 tons, Capt. Forster, came into dock this morning, and will to morrow embark the women and children of soldiers serving in the 27th, 51st, and 52d Regiments, and sail at the end of the week for Kurrachee. A third ship, the Euxine, is under orders to be here by the 3d of October, to embark women and children for Madras. These ships are chartered by the Emigration Commissioners, and all the arrangements are under the superintendence of Mr. E. A. Smith, their officer at this port. Mr. T. W. C. Murdock, the chairmen of the Emigration Board, 'was here on Satui day for the purpose of looking over the a rrangements, and seemed to be perfectly satisfied. The orders for embarka tion are given by Major Lacy, staff officer of pensioners at this place, who is assisted by a to n - commissioned officer sent expressly from London. Each woman receives £l. and each child 10s. towards their outfit; and the Major i; also provided with funds by the Central Association to afford relief to any distressed cases which may come undei his notice. The whole of the arrangements connected wia the embarkation and tho despatch of the ships are being carried out in the woat taatigaotory manner, COUNTRY MARKET& • MELTON MOlO3-RAY—S2PT. 27. There was a fair show of wheat to-day, with a heavY business at the annexed prices :—White wheat , new, 49.3 Od to 45s Od ; o ld , 45s Od to 47s per 36 stone; barley in better supply, at 38s to 44s for old, and 34s to 40s Od per qr. for new ; oats, 28s to 33s Od per 24 stone ; beans dull, at 50s to 54s for old; now, 46s to 48s per 38 st. HULL—SEP. 27. At our market to-day we had a =iterate supply of Enr lish wheat, which was taken off by local millers at fr a quality held for late rates. Parley for malting were neglected, althop last week's prices for both new 0. - ad old ; foreign a-3 i n steB4 request, and grinding pawls met a better demand, Oato and peas a slow so' e, but prices were not lower. Wheat..., OP • 46s 0,1 to 48s Od ..ci white... qr ......... od New red ... " 2 ... Old red 42s Od to 45: _ hi offered at a reduction. Bea° ........ New white .. o 55 1 ° 1 Dantzic, Konb , ' dm. old white 48s Od t _ s Dutch, Belgian, and French.. 45s Od to 4768 Od 4 Od Baltic and Hamburg, red .... 44s Od to 2s Oa St. Petersburg and Riga old. 40$ Od to 4 _, Barley.... English malting ' 36s Od to 409 US Grinding 3os Od to 32s qq. Saal and Oderbruck Holstein and Danish 3Bs Od to 45s Od 30s Od to 315 OA Grinding Oats English, old 10d to Ild Archangel and Riga, per st Os Friesland and Dutch ()slid to 061114 Oslld to oslslo Swedish and Danish Beans , ...English, old, per qr. New pigeon 4os Od to 42s pc!. New tick. 39s Od to 40s 04 Egyptian 37s Od to 38 8 04 26s Od to 298 0 0 ._ _ Peas Foreign breakers Grinding Taros ....Winter —s Od to --s 04 Od Indian Corn Linseed, feeding sos Od to 525 Ot! crushing Linseed cakes (Hull) £8 12 6 to - £3 11 0 v ',! .... 39s Od to 40s ql Foreign. 715 oto 8 . '' Rape cakes 412 6to 4 1-1, ` O l Bones 415 oto 5 0 MARKET HARBOROUGH—SEPT. 27. , There was an increased show of wbeat, w hich met 0 1: proved demand, at higher rates. White wheat, old 3 90 41s ; new, 38s to 40s per 36 stone. Barley in limit-id (Pau ; - tities at a slight advance on former terms—old, 308 to 381 new, 25s to 335. Oats were a fair show, from 26s to 1 9 1 per 24 stone. Beans (old), at 42s to 49s ; new, 3 80 t ° 4 _ per 38 stone. DUBLIN—SEPT. 27. new grain, Our market was brisk, with a good supply of ne - ket. and we rote an improvement on the prices of last ula.„i The best barley fully supported late rates ; inferior rea a t: 6d less money. Oats and rapeseed less inquired for at and 6d day's currencies. Indian corn was slow of sale, anu lower. s. d. s. d. Wheat, white 22- 6 to 25 0 Do., red 2l 0 to 24 0 Do., net; 21 0 to 23 6 Barley Oats Do., black l4 0 to 15 0 8. d• s• A. Dos 4 0, n ew ..... 11 ot o 12 6 Bere .. 13 oto 1 Rapeseed .... 2 0 0 to 22 6 6 0atmea1...... 12 6 to 14 Bakers' flour .. 14 6 to 18 0 Indian corn .. 29 0 to 30 0 ET—SETT. 28. the close of the market) Walls End. 'J . d. 6 Hough Hall .......... .17 9 B il r e a ttn y . 11; Hetton. 0 0 Russell's Hetton ...... 1g 6 Stewart's ......... • . • .. 1 5 6 Kelloe ........... - . I 18 9 Trimdon HartleP oo " 1 8 9 Haswell ......... 15 9 Whitworth ........... Cassop ............... 6 South H ar tl e pool. ..... 1 1 , 0 P eipe well r Grange.. 'BDuffrYn .. . Steani.. ! 1 K ' et, 81—Sold, 27. COAL MARK (rrlces of Coal per Ton at s. d. Davison's West Hart ley 15 6 Dean's Primrose.... l4 0 Tanfield Moor 12 9 Bates' West Hartley 14 3 Buddle's West Hartleyls 3 Eden Main 17 0 Holywell 15 6 Walla End. Gosforth l6 5 Acorn Close 17 6 Thornley 16 9 Harton Ships at mark, LOCAL SHARE MARKETS. LIVERPOOL—SEPT. 28. 'with IV:: The market to-day was firm at the opening, improvement, but declined soon after, and el°,, se 14- . " North British, 60 I—Great Western of Canada, 1 7york - Sheffields 351—Caledonians, 88 —Lancashire all. D inh shire, 96—London and North-Westerns, 03i 83 r w iclolf Rhenish, 41 dis.—North Staffords, 43i e " 891 90—Midlands, 105 4—Chester and liolyheads, stag, Birkenheads 77 774—Great Northern, 101 Counties, 11' 13-16 I—Grand Trunk of Canada, 8 Great Western, 63 631—Dovers, 22 15-16—L owba Venetian, 2 / p—Great Luxembourg, 7/ I. BIRMINGHAM—SEPT. 28. t There was a fair business doin and pr i ces were 8 0- 10 , - n i South Staffordshires sold to-day at - 101--Bir itLin i g l - 6- -- Canals, 95—Great Western, 63—Stour Vallee, Birmingham Pref., lA—Town and District tan" ; ,,' ;boo —Birmingham Banking Company, 26 261 — B irni- ' Guaranteed, 741-01 d Mill, 111 12. MANCHESTER—SEPT. 28. There was a very quiet business doing in to-day, and at the close prices were not at the best. AV — land stock, 105-I—Sheffields, 34—Great Westertl9,-ortil Dovers, 23—London and North Westerns, 93 ) a head Staffords, 3/ d—Leeds, 96—Trunks, 8 15-16 — B'' stock, 771. this ra.garicide! FOIZEIGN MAIL PACKET LIST tr In the following table E signifies that letters are despa il 9 by evening mails from London, and 3I by morning W ue - uy evening- macs 'Tom .I..oneon, anu .ai uy u ,,,, - -- ------ - ----,. ICe X - e 31511 . DESTINATION s. Despatch Port O f de. of Mails. Despatch. _____- Australia and Mauritius, via Oct- 10 Southampton Oct 12, 31 SouthamP. n 3 Ditto, via Marseilles Baha mYorkas and Havana via New t. 29 e p V • Sep. 30, E Liverpoo l .• S Se pt. Canada, 'ere. (by Canadn. pckt ) Sep. 20, E Liverpo ol. Cape of lion, and St. Good Hele Hop na e, Ascen- Oct. 5, E Devonpor t Oct. I China, Penang, and Singa- Oct- 2 06 pore, via Southampton Ditto, via Marseilles Sep. 26, E ......... so . ~ Gibraltar, via Southampton — SouthamP. Se pt. 1 " Honduras and Blewfields India (Calcutta) and Ceylon, Oct- ‘ - r() via Southampton — SouthamP• s i pt. ,- Ditto, via Marseilles S 9 5 India (Bombay), via South- Sept.i 1 ampton Sep. 27, 31 Lisbon, Brazils,Buenos Ayres, . l .m . .. PM . Ditto, via Marseilles ' Oct. 5 0 and P. Islands Lisbon, Vigo, and Oporto Sep. 27,31 SouthalllP. Malta, Egypt, and Ade,, via t 19 _..0.u.t. s Sep • ig Southampton . SouthamP. . Sept. Ditto, via Marseilles Mexico and Havana - Newfoundland Sep. 23, E Liverpoo l.. United States and British N Sep t ' ° Ameri,a (by British packet) Sep. 23, E Liverpool. ~.... Ditto (by U. S. picket) West Coast of Africa, Ma- 1 00 01 deira, and Teneriffe Sep. 23, E Liverp oo- • • West India, California, Vene zuela, Chili, Peru; Grey- .. Oct. 4 town, New Granada, &c. „ /00 possibility [ADVEILTISEMENT].—The o f a bandon' rY dicine altogether is sh own by the numerous extrnrciellinscr, cures without medicine of indigestion (dyspepsia) , na" l asthma,constipation, consu n m er p v t o i u on s ; banilidoudse,bailintdyl,iveeffrecctoemdpblayinntus, ent.grryill delicious Health restoring Revalenta Arabica Food., 0. following are not the least remaikable :—Cure.No. 40i 30 Mr. James Roberts, timber merchant, of FrinaleYl % e at, years' diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver derang e d 10/ partial deafness.—Cure No. 58,816. Mrs. llolze, years, of dyspepsia (indigestion), debility, irritability,cal nervousness which had tormented her for 70 Year' ,cars No. 46,814. Mr. Samuel Layton, Leicester, diarrhoea.--Cure No. 52,612. The Dowager Cotui,te Castle Stuart of many years' nervous irritability , ~ t ie e rs, indigestion.—Cure No. 51,812. Miss VirOni 9 ' ' ° ,,, e l . 7tban” cured of consumption, after her medical advistr 11 five doned all hopes of recortry.—Cure of two s _ o f o * d deb a years' nervousness, constipation, indigestion, an an y d which I have suffered great raise hay° which no medicine could remove or ralieve, very been effectually cured by Du Barry's foo d in a don - . 7' shoot time.—W. B. Reeves, 181, Fleet-street , l2 L eu vlb., In tins, at ls. 6d. ; 11b., 3s. ; 21b., ss. 9d. ; 51b., st -265. The 101 b. and 121 b. tins carriage free, on receipt ot Pe aon . office order. Du Barry and Co., 77, Regent-street, 1 9 11 60p Fortnum, Mason, and Co., 182, Piccadilly; Gracechurch-street ; 4, Cheapside ; 63, and street; 330 and 451, Strand ; 49 and 60, Bishe sPtiuti, street ; 85, Tottenham-court-road. Also at 1) d CO., Bewley and Draper ; Edinburglk, Raimes Slia a nd at Liverpool, Nixon and Thew; at Manchester, uth. Scott; at York, Raimes, Blanchard, and Co.; at So ampton, Randall and Son. 116,b0billstoteltl: BITHS. BARING.—On the 22d inst. R ,at Kink& Garve, near Ding" wall, N.B. the wife of William Baring, Esq., of a VI 11 ; GIBOS.—On tho 26th inst ,at 38, Bedford-row, gra. Ale' • Gibbs, of a daughter. Rolm—On tho 27th inst ,at Margate, the wife of T. 6 • Rowe, M.D., of a son. MARRIAGES. f co y T UCK—RANDALL. —On the 27th inst., at St. John's, IA I. of green, Bucks, Buckma ster Jos eph Tuck , Esq., „,B°iis Hi g h Wycombe , to Mary Ann, the daughter of h°ll9. Randall, Esq., Of Small Deans, near Bradenham, B ac h WALKER—R A.MSDEN.—On the 27thinst. a t Christ. clluq. P a ddington, W. L. Walker, Lieut.-Col on el Retired 14,19 a: H.M.I.F.'s, to Louisa Mary, daughter of the late Ric.' Ramsdell, Esq., of Highbury. DETHS. TIT , BAnnY.—On the 6th 'tine, A at S fl • 13 ydney, John ki• --'/ , e, t C E e s m ci n .,second son of the Rev. H. Barry, rec tor of Dr 3- and Upton Scudamore, Wilts. fo BIGGS.—On the 26th inst., suddenly, Mr. Henry Digg° ' 5, Blenheim Coages, Suth Hackney, age 61. r CA A T I L II I I N a- G. o — ad O n is t i h tt in e g 2 t 3 o d n, i a n o t :t 'k a li': W T. ling,Ca b uiluA e ' COORG.— r On , the 24th inst ed his Highness the It 3 .j' h 51 Coorg, at 20, Clifton Villas, Warwick-road, Maida-hoh West. GIPPARD.—On the 22d inst., the Rev. F. W. Giffard, vi car Wooton, Lincolnshire. IIARDING.—On the 21st inst., at Ryde, Lieut.-0)1°11°1 Harding, of Cheltenham, aged 79. M:x ;HA.w.— On the 26th inst. , Mr. John 31inshavi , of If Albany-road, Islington, aged 7. Tr lal% RODINSON.—On the 23d inst., at Paris, the Lady li-e— -son, Robinson, relict of the late Sir Richard Robin Bart. 71 B , itia• STEW-Ala.—On the 21st inst., a t Aberfeldh —• •• Stuart, of Fasnacloich, agd 91. —....---f*--------- ',ONDON : Printed and Published by MIIRDO Y- 112 lu of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sus Ofnee, NO. of Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy. iiithe co lti kiltl4lo4ex i Thursday, September 29, 1869. kept b t.ta. }orTnai vi oOn he of Sep ~VD, (4 4r1 7 1 , tl ierr ititdo ar l 4 °I . the th is 11 11 - 1;; Th, thig t hG ith o 1, 08 Of ), kefl (q l , th, 14 ti Life 2 Loan Et 111 41 C ent If as th, I:s Al, trt