The Sun. — London, England, 1858-09-14 00:00:00

SCREW v. PADDLE. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Malta sailed from the Mersey, for Southampton, on Tuesday, after leaving the large gravinc , dock, in the shipbuilding yard of Mr. John Land, at Bir kenhead, where the facilities of that fine establish ment had been again satisfactorily tested in the im portant operations of transforming a somewhat slow-going paddle into a fast-sailing screw steamer. The successful results which have followed this transformation in the Malta are powerful argu ments in favour of the screw, as compared with the paddle, so far, at all events, as regards speed and economy. The following figures show steamer, the former dimensions of the ship when a paddle an her dimensions since the alterations :—As a paddle —Length between the perpendiculars, 209 feet ; beam (between paddle s ) , 35 ; ditto (over sponsons), 39 ; depth of hold, 21 ; tonnage ;1,225 tons. As a screw —Length between perpendiculars, 280 f eet ; beam (between paddles), 38 ; depth of hold, 29 ; tonnage, 2,020 tons. The increased length has been added to each end of the vessel, and the removal of the sponsons has been taken advantage of to increase the width of the spar or cabin deck six feet, extending the accommodation for passengers, while add ing in no slight degree to the beauty of the vessel's outline. With the exception of the en gines, which are 500 horse-power, and have been made by Messrs. It. Napier and Son, Glasgow, the entire work, including the boilers, was planned and executed at Mr. Laird's ard, a sufficient proof of the immense facilities to be found at the " Birken head Ironworks." The engines were sent down by rail when the vessel was ready for their reception, and they were put on board by the powerful crane on the dock quay, with ease and. security. The ad vantafies which the owners of the Malta are likely to derive from the alterations may be seen from the fact that while her average speed as a paddle-wheel steamer was not more than eight or nine knots an hour, on her first run from Liverpool to Southamp ton, as a screw steamer, she accomplished an average speed of 121 knots an hour, though down by the head, having her full complement of coal, water, and provisions on board, with spare machinery and stores not usually carried. In lighter trim the speed i• s, of course, considerably greater. On the trial trip, from the Northwest Lightship to the Bell Buoy, she made 1311 knots, under the disadvantage of a heavy beam sea and wind. The passage to Southampton was also made under very unfavour . able circumstances, having to contend against a strong wind and. heavy sea, as far as the Land's End, with no assistance from sail during , the pas sage. This, we believe, is the first experiment of • the kind, and - goes far to increase confidence in screw vessels. From the result of the Malta's trials so far, we may put her down as one of the fastest screw vessels afioat—Liverpool Albion. THE NAVY. ADMIRALTY CIRCULAR. The following circular has been promulgated by the Admiralty, and is dated the Ist instant : "My Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty having lad under their consideration the subject of superannuation of the officers, clerks, artificers, and workmen of her Majesty's dockyards and other naval establishments, are pleased to direct that all officers, clerks, artificers, workmen, and others, shall be henceforth superannuated on their attain ing the age of 70 years as a maximum, but you are still as heretofore to report to their lordships the names of all officers, clerks, artificers, workmen, and others, under that age who may be found incapable from infirmity or disability to perform their duties with due efficiency. " You are therefore to furnish lists forthwith con taining the names, services, &e., of all officers, clerks, artificers, workmen, and others, under your superintendence, of 70 years of age and upwards, and until the Ist of November next you are to send up similar separate lists, along with the usual superannuation returns, informing all such persons under your orders as may be immediately affected by their lordships' decision that their superannua tion will date from Ist November 1858, until which period they are to continue to di scharge the duties of their respective stations. "After the Ist November, 1858, you are to for ward the names, services, &c., of all officers and clerks on their attaining the age of 70 years, on the usual forms, with a view to their being super annuated. And you are to include the names of all artificers, workmen, and others, on their attaining that age, in the customary form, forwarding the names of men who are found unfit for service for the grant of superannuation allowance. "By command of their Lordships, (signect) "W. G. ROMAINE." The following ships have been ordered home from the coast of Africa :—The Hecla, 6, Commander Aplin ; Alecto, 3, Commander Hunt ; and Childers, 12, Commander Swinburn. 'nese ships have all been three years in commission. From a retrun which has just been made it ap pears that the following line-of-battle ships and other vessels are now at Chatham attached to the reserve, viz. :-51ine-of-battle ships, from 80 to 120 guns each ; 19 frigates, of from 20 to 51 guns each ; 17 lesser frigates, of from 8 to 18 guns ; and 3 floating batteries, The whole of these vessels can be brought forward for immediate service whenever they may be required. A line-of-battle screw steamer, of 91 guns, is ordered to be laid down on the slip from which the Mersey, 40, steam frigate, was recently launched. An Admiralty order has arrived at Sheerness for the following ships to make snug for the winter, viz. :—The Royal George, 102 guns ; the Colossus, 80 guns ; the Emerald, 51 guns ; and the Scout, 21 guns ; all screw steam ships, which arc to remain as first-class advanced ships in the steam reserve. Preparations are being made at No. 1 building slip at Sheerness to build a new screw steam cor vette of 21 guns, of heavy calibre, to be called the Stirke. The following vessels are at Devonport :—ln the Sound, Valorous and Nautilus. In Harbour—lm pregnable, Royal William, Exmouth, Porcupine, Cambridge' Ilawke, Cumberland, Royal 'Albert, Himalaya, Quail, Growler, Skipjack, Badger, Mag pie, Virago, Sylph, Avon, Diligence (transport), ethic. (Turk), and Lark (Liberian). The Victor Emmanuel, 91, Capt. J. Wilcox, C. 8., arrived in Portland harbour on Friday evening, where she was to remain for a day or two. The Biter, steam gunboat, Lieut. Commander Rose, put in at Hartlepool on Saturday, and pro ceeded- again. The Devon, lighter, is now at Looe, by orders from the Admiralty, overhauling the moorings buoy in the roadstead. The Formidable, 84, Capt. Fitzgerald, is now rigged all ataut, and her lower and topmast rigging is being rattlined down. The Industry, storeship, Master Commander Hodges, sailed foom Devoßport on Saturday, for Queenstown. The Leveret, steam gunboat, Lieut. Commander Denham, arrived at Dover on Sunday, from a cruise. _ The Spanker, steam gunboat, Lieut. Commander Chatfield, arrived at Berwick on Saturday, from a cruise. The St. Jean d'Acre, 101, screw, being in it for ward state with her rigging and stowage of her stores, has been taken from the Devonport Dock yard and placed at her moorings. The Valorous, 16, paddle, Capt. Aldham, arrived - at Devonport on Sunday at noon, from Portsmouth. The Dee, 4, store vessel, Master Commander Thomas C. Pullen, arrived at Portsmouth yester day morning from Woolwich, with machinery be longing to the Mersey, 40, screw ; Bacchante, 51, screw ; and Immortalite, 51, screw, nearly complete in building at Pembroke ; a l so a propeller for the Mersey. Mr. Pullen reports that he passed a Prussian squadron in the Downs becalmed, at 9 a.m. on Sunday, which he believed to be the Thetis, Gefion, and a yacht, which are on their way to Brest ; they may put in at Spithead. The wind, however, is very light and shuffling. The Fairy, royal tender, Master Commander D. N. Welch, after having repaired defects to her hull and having been coated with Hay's composition, hauled out of No. 1 Dock, at Portsmouth, yester day, and was placed at her moorings up the har bour. . , The ciallenger, 21, screw corvette, recently launched at, Woolwich, and now in a forward etate, has been undocked for removal to Sheerness, where she will be completed, and placed o n th e s t eam re serve list. The Unicorn, powder hulk, is ordered to be removed to the d previou s l y occupied by the Challenger, for repairs.ock TIIE ARMY. The camp, which was formed at Chatham at the commencement of the sununer, for a portion of the East India depots attached to the first and third battalions, has been entirely broken np, and the whole of the troops, formerly occupying the tents pitched within the Spur battery and at Prince Edward's bastion, quartered either in the huts at Brompton, or else in Chatham barracks. The ne cessity of providing additional accommodation for the troops was forced upon the attention of the au thorities early in the summer, in consequence of 8 pox, measles, and other epidemics, breaking out among the crowded troops, chiefly recruits, quartered i n the barracks. It was then decided that a few troops should be placed under canvas as an experime n t, but on its being subsequently ascertained that the b arracks were becoming as crowded a au in creased s ever, number of men were encamped, as id this number was from time to time augmented, -until several depots were placed under canvas. It is now understood that a camp on a large scale will be formed at Chatham every year in order that all the troops sent to that garrison may under go the experience of a camp life before embarkin g for India or the colonies. THE MILITIA. The North York Rifle Militia, under the com mand of the Duke of Leeds, the colonel, are to as semble at Richmond, Y or k s hire, on the 28th inst., for 21 days' training. The regiment is about 580 strong. The 3' Royal Surrey Militia Regiment, Lieut.- Col. Cl'Aalloner, commandant, assembled for 21 days' traini.ng upon the 9th inst., and mustered about 500 RAILWAYS IN AUSTRIA. VIENNA, Sept. 10.—In various foreign journals it has been said. that the Vienna-Trieste, Tyrolese, and other Austrian railroads have become the pro perty of the Lombardo-Venetian Company, but the statement is incorrect. In this country it is 'very nearly impossible to obtain perfectly authentic in formation on matters of finance, but the following account of what has recently passed between Baron Bruck and the representatives of the above-men tioned company has been obtained from a person who must necessarily have some little knowledge of the actual state of affairs. About six weeks ago Baron Rothschild of Paris, Messrs. Blount and Talabot of the same city, and Messrs. Laing and Uzielli, of London, came here as the representatives of the Lombardo-Venetian Rail road Company, and informed the Minister of Fi nances that they were willing to take the Vienna- Trieste Railroad off his hands if the terms offered were acceptable. The price first asked for the whole line, which is 370 English miles in length, and cost the State about 150,000,00011. (X 15,000,000) —was 100,000,00011. (L 10,000,000). Negotiations were carried on for spine time without any result, but a few days ago the following terms, which will be binding should they meet with the approval of the Board of the Lombardo-Venetian Railroad, were agreed on. _ The Austrian Government will cede the Vienna- Trieste Railroad, as also the line from Verona to Botzen and from Innspruck to Kufstein, which to gether have a length of 130 English miles and cost the State about 80,000,00011., for a sum which, if paid down at once, would be equivalent to about £5,700,000. The representatives of the railroad company, however, think it would be advantageous to pay interest on a part of the capital, and have therefore stipulated that the above-mentioned sum shall be paid in eight annual instalments. The Austrian Government demands a further eventual payment of £2,000,000 in four instalments, should it be found that after the year 1871 the whole "net" (reseau) of railways pays above seven per cent. on the whole capital. As a kind of indemni fication for the tremendous pecuniary sacrifices made by the Austrian Government, the company, under takes to construct-1. The line over the Brenner Pass from Innspruck to Botzen. 2. A branch from the Trieste line to Agram and Sissek,'in Croatia. 3. A branch from the Trieste line to Klagenfurt and Villach, in Carinthia. The first of these three lines, which will cross the great chain of the Alps, and form a direct commu nication between Germany and Italy, has been care fully surveyed by M. Talabot and others, and it has been clearly ascertained that it offers fewer and less formidable difficulties than did the Semmering. The length of the line between Botzen and Inns pruck is about 80 English miles, and its cost is not likely to exceed £2,800,000. The second line—from Steinbruck to Sissek—can hardly fail to pay well, as Sissek is on the Save, and consequently in con nection, by means of that river, with Lower Hun gary, the Banat, Bosnia, and Servia. Even now great quantities of corn, rags, &c., are dragged in bullock carts across the mountains to Fiume. The line from Marburg to Klagenfurt and Villach is not likely to pay so well as the others, but it will doubt less bring in full 5 per cent. It is also probable that the two principal lines of the Francis Joseph Railroad Company will be handed over to the Lombardo-Venetian Company, and that the present shareholders will be paid off in bonds. The lines alluded to are from Pesth to Marburg, and from Odenburg to Kanisha. The former will connect the capital of Hungary with Trieste, and the latter, which is a part of the great line between Vienna and Belgrade, runs through some of the most fruitful districts in the south-west of Hungary. It is very possible that at no distant period all heavy goods going from Trieste to Vienna, and vice versa, will, instead of being sent across the Semmering, go by the Odenburg-Kanisho.Railroad. The capital required for the completion of all the lines mentioned will be about £11,000,000, which sum must be raised during a period of 10 years, the time that will be granted for their construction. The Austrian Government will guarantee 5 2-10 per cent. on the whole capital employed, both in this and in the Lombardo-Venetian concession, and the guarantee will apply separately to each of the new lines. This last is a most important feature, as it prevents any risk of the high dividends, which will doubtless be earned on the main line from Vienna to Trieste and on the Lombardo-Venetian lines, from being diminished by losses that may possibly be incurred on the branch lines, which are to be con structed exclusively with capital raised on bonds under the separate guarantee of the State. The receipts of the Vienna-Trieste Railroad have, since its entire opening in Nov., 1857, been at the rate of 1,000,000 per annum, and a private company can hardly fail to make them infinitely larger. The Lombardo -Venetian railroads have now been in the hands of an Anglo-French Company rather less than two years, and the receipts have risen from £520 to £1,040 per mile; the working expenses, on the contrary, have been reduced from 85 to 50 per cent. As you will naturally wish to know how it is the Austrian Government is willing to part with the Vienna-Trieste Railroad at less than half its cost, and to give away 130 miles of railway in the Tyrol, I will endeavour to give some explanation on the subject. Reasons, political, financial, and cminereial induce the Imperial Government to act as it is now doing. The Emperor is exceedingly desirous to bring the component parts of his vast empire into as intimate connection as possible, and neither he nor his Ministers are blind to the great political and commercial advantages which must arise from the speedy completion of the great rail way girdle which is to be drawn round Austria. If the Lombardo-Venetian Company should come to terms with Baron Bruck, the It'alian and South Austrian lines will be amalgamated, the strate gically important Tyrolese line will be completed, and Lower Hungary and Croatia will be brought into direct railway communication with the north- ern provinces of Austria and with Trieste, her principal commercial port. The- financial advan tages are self-evident. Government will be re lieved from further outlay for the railroads in question, and it will, for the next six or seven years, receive about £1,000,000 in exchange for property which, although extremely valuable i n itself, will never be properly productive under State management. 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THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 14, 1858. we . shall never get at the real conditions of our public contracts. The end of the Weedon case, however, is this :—Some of the contractors are still contending against aspersions cast upon their mer cantile honour; some give imperfect evidence, be cause their books are in the Bankruptcy Court ; Mr. Ramsay, the Assistant-Director of Stores, being considered to be chargeable only with incom petency or neglect, has been removed to an inferior station ; and Mr. Elliott, the principal Military Storekeeper, has been arrested in America, whither he had retired with the produce of extensive embezzlements.—nmes. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. MANCHESTER, SHEFFIELD, AND LIN- The total expenses of this company's railways (including rents, toll, duty, &c.), from July 1 to September 5,1858, amounted to £48,488, as against £49,614 for the corresponding period of 1857. The proportion of the South Junction receipts accru ing to this company from July 1 to September 5 amounted to £3,967, as against £6,803 for the corresponding period of 1857 ; and the expenses amounted to £2,602, as against £2,676 for the cor responding period of 1857. The total receipts (including rents, &c.) of this company's canals, from July 1 to Aug. 31, 1858, amounted to £9,783, as against £11,413 for the corresponding period of 1857 ; and the expenses (including rates, &c.) amounted to £6;688, as against £6,463 for the cor responding period of 1857. MIDLAND GREAT WESTERN OF IRELAND. The directors of this company state in their re port that the receipts on the line from Dublin to Athlone and the Longford and Cavan branches amounted for passengers and mails to £39,931, and for goods, cattle, &c., to £33,999, total £73,930, for the past half-year, against £73,226 at the corre sponding period of 1857, showing an increase of £704. The total income from the railway and canal amounted to £81,154, and the disbursements to £53,936, leaving a net profit for the half-year of £27,218. To this is added £4,628 from the preced ing half-year, leaving a disposable sum of £31,846. From this the directors propose that a dividend at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum free of income tax be paid on the capital of the company, leaving a balance of £646. The accounts of the extension railway from Athlone to Galway have, as hereto fore, been officially audited, and a small deficit of £64 has arisen in the operations of the half-year; but there still remains on the year's working, to the credit of the baronies, £1,015 on this particu lar account. The directors advert to the prospect of Galway being established as a transatlantic packet station, and state that the interests of the railway are argely concerned in the success of a company placing steamers on this route, and the directors are accordingly affording every facility, and, on certain satisfactory contingencies, have pro mised pecuniary encouragement to the promoters of the line of packets now sailing from Galway for the American continent. The directors observe with regret that since their last effort to arrange the dif ferences so unhappily subsisting between this com pany and the Great Southern and Western Rail way Company by arbitration, no progress has been made towards an arrangement, but they are reluctant to abandon the hope that a settlement may yet be effected. To promote an object so desirable they are quite prepared, as they have formerly proposed, to submit all matters in dispute to arbitration. Impressed with the import ance of having the line to Sligo speedily constructed, the directors are taking the necessary steps for having the work commenced without further delay. The capital account for the half year ending the 30th June last shows that £2,584,486 had been ex pended. The revenue account showed that £73,931 had been received on the railway, £7,031 from the Royal Canal, and £192 for sundries, making £81,154. The working expenses of the railway amounted to £27,131, and of the canal to £2,493 ; total, £29,624. The interest on the canal and other mortgages amounted to £18,619, the income-tax to £650, the repairs of a steamer for the Shannon traffic to £1,279, and the Grand Canal balance to £3,763 ; together £24,312, which, added to the working ex penses, makes the total disbursements £63,396, and leaves, as above, £27,218. The reserve fund shows a balance of £28,822 in favour of the company. The revenue account for the railway from Athlone to Galway during the half-year ending the 30th June showed that £14,817 had been received and X 14,881 expended, including interest at the rate of 31 per cent. on £470,000, leaving a deficiency of £64, which, deducted from £1,079, the surplus of last half-year, leaves £1,015 to the credit of the account. Aion - CONTRACTS. If an article could be extended to about 150 co lumns we might hope to be able to deal at one view with the question how to clothe an English soldier. It need not be so dull or dreary as at first sight the subject might appear to threaten. Shoddy cloth and boots of many patents are not in themselves invit ing subjects of meditation, but the adventures of a soldier contesting with his regulation enemies is not incapable of lively illustration. Choked by his tight stock in all climates, toiling under his porous greatcoat through tropical rains, shivering in the same useless garment during night watches in Canada, footsore from boots so contrived as to let in the sharp atoms that strew the line of march, tor tured by that heavy shako which has once or twice within military . memory saved a man from a sabre cut, but which, in every military experience, kills men by apoplexy, such incidents of his pilgrimage might give scope to the imagination of a military Bunyan, and perhaps enlist the sympathies of the most cruel and hardhearted member of the Peace Society—if that stony-souled and most pugnacious congregation of mortals should still exist in a cor porate form. But these elaborations are beyond our possibilities. It may be as stated, that when our men saw the loose-clad and well-gaitered Zoua'res, springing like cats from rock to rock up the Alma heights, they envied them the free use of their limbs, and it is a notorious fact that when the Chinese first saw our red coats they taxed their ingenuity, not to find means to kill them, but to invent contrivances for throwing them down, for they were convinced that, once down, they could never get up again, and might be killed off at leisure. It is a common trick of sailors on board ship to catch their pet monkey . and dress him in a tight-fitting imitation of a marine's uniform ; then they stand round and enjoy the agony and, grimaces of the creature as he vainly strives to exercise his natural agility. But this prison of cloth and mul tiplication of impediments are first principles in the minds of our martinets. They are institutions which we must leave unquestioned. We are going to deal only with a small episode in the great mili tary clothing epic. Mr. Coningham, the member for Brighton, has just been making the usual after-session speech now expected by every popular constituency ; and he does good service by keeping this subject before the public eye. It must not be allowed to fade away, although, no doubt, it is disagreeable to many sympathies. Mr. Coningham truly says—" If you attack the military system, every colonel and general, and cornet and ensign, thinks it necessary to get up and protest against such attacks on the ad ministrators of that department. They are the most energetic and responsible people in the world—men who have. been just cut out for the place—only, by some accident or other something- went wrong and some horrible malversations took place ; but they knew, nothirig about it. Why; COl. •Boldero, the chairman of, the committee appointed to inquire into certain proceedings at Weedon, came down to the house. and made disclosures sufficient to make the hair of every honest man's head to stand on end. They 'were substantiated by evidence which cannot bediSputed. It was proved that those abo minations had been committed. Well, had any one man been suspended? Not any one. The history of this Weedon business ought to be read aloud in public places once every week until . the Whole sys tem is thoroughly abolished and reformed. Time was,.not long ago, when the soldier was clad by his colonel, who, having certain allowances for that purpose, might, if he choose, make a profit of some . thousand a-year by the transaction. The shako, the stock, the coat, the trousers, and the boots were then provided, at a .profit, out of an allowance of 2s. 6d. per man. This was a sylltem discreditable• to the rank of a field - offices, and open to other more practical objections. Rich colonels, of great military zeal, spent sums beyond their allowance in dressing their. regiments in fantastic splendour. Poor colonels, or avaricious colonels; served out to their men such miserable garments that the captains were ashamed to march their Companies through Coventry. Public opinion,: noting.these things, became first sarcastic and then angry, and the system was abolished. The stage was now clear for a new act. It was a great opportunity for original administrative talent. The object to be accomplished was to buy good military clothes and accoutrements and serve them out to the Men.' All the lights of the nineteenth century shone upon the enterprise. Waterproofers and anatomical tailors, boot pluggers and wool dyers, with a crowd of proprietors of thousands of registered garments, were all eager to assist ; and book-keepers, cunning in double entry, were not wanting to keep everything in order. Great brick buil dings of businesslike ugliness arose in the cen tre of England ; principal storekeepers and deputy storekeepers, and inspectors and viewers—a long catalogue, 'with very_ liberal salaries at the top and very wretched salaries at the bottom--were duly appointed. That everything-was done with rigorous attention to precedent in official life may be trust fully relied upon, for the laborious student finds that the' first name that becomes prominent during after inquiries is Elliot, and the second is Grey. . And now the work commenced.. First came the contracts. • They were drawn with such strict at tention to the public advantage that the contrac tor who signed that document was no longer a free man. Whatever the representatives of the mili tary clothes-buying public did or said, rejected or accepted, delayed or expedited, was under the terms of that contract well justified in law. Grave counsel lors in after days pored over these: stamped papers, and vainly tried to pick a hole in them ; but the rivets were all sound--.--nothing but the Court of Bank ruptcy could break them. Whether the contractors ever showed these documents to • a legal adviser before signing them we are not told. Most pro bably they did not even read them themselves. They signed them " as a matter of form," just as Wou might, possibly accept a bill forthe O'Mulligan. hen came the execution of these contracts, and the contractors found that the matters of 'form be came 'very terrible realities. Gooils .of all kinds were shot into the warehouses, and there they lay indefinitely waiting examination. • During the in terval they were tossed about, damaged, and ren dered inferior to pattern, and were at last rejected. When a piece of cloth was passed it was commonly sent to Limerick to be made up, then sent back to Weedon to be inspected, and again returned to Limerick to be used. To one firm 12,000 out of 20,000 yards of cloth were sent back, and the ex amination was so capricious that when a tradesman, smarting under a recent, rejection, furtively cut from the rejected mass a piece of the same shape as the pattern-piece, and invited the viewer's atten tion to the two, the _viewer chose the recently cut piece as the better • and real pattern-piece. Under this system • no man could live. Then it got abroad that ali.the contractors did not thus suffer. Some adopted the practice of setting deception against tyranny. They nailed up the soles of their boots with brads to prevent the viewers finding out defectS ; they erased the rejection marks and sent back the rejected goods, which the second time passed unquestioned ; they put shoddy into their cloth and bad leather in their accoutrements ; but these tricks did not answer as a whole, and many men dis dained to haVe recourse to them. Then it became whispered that these delays and vexatious rejections were not quite universal,• and it occurred to saga cious tradesmen that confidential officials, who only received 225. a-week, might naturally wish to in crease their income by perquisites. After this dis covery had been made,—and, to give the officers due credit, it was not the fault of all of them that the discovery was not made at an early stage, before so much money had been log - by delays and rejections,—the machinery worked much more easily. Some of the examiners worked as journey men upon the work they examined ; a viewer for tified his energies by comfortable potations of brandy-and-water and a bonus to boot in the back parlour comprehend, he wa s f o ll owe d home, of the contractor. If a t ra d esman was slow to . and made to understand what was the correct practice: • Sometimes, after holding out., the trades man at last consented " to do as other contractors have done," and a percentage was duliiai:47,—nd entered:in the partnership books as " expenses." The system was getting into easy gear, and people were beginning to understand each other, w h en some unfortunate jealousies arose, a proper gentle man-like Secrecy wits not preserved, and a Select Committee of the House.of Commons came u p on the stage. It is scarcely remarkable that the 12 hundred pages of evidence which they have pub lished teem with rank abuses. It requires con siderable credulity indeed to believe that when im mense quantities of stores are bought at contract price, sold by auction at a waste price, and re ceived into store again at contract price, this cycle of waste has its origin in no worse quality than negligence. But, even if we believe that in the principal officers . unaccountabld and glaring folly is more probable.than actual corruption, there is throughout the whole of the two great volumes of evidence such numerous cases of actual bribery among the underlings that the atoms form an at mosphere. The people actually proved to have been bribed are all inferior folk ; but the Is aste of public stores has been as great as if every officer in the establish ment had been bribed. Who can tell which was paid by Sloth . and whj.ch by Mainmon ? How can we say what proportionate part of the actual truth h bfl a euen s en y e e be t eir c o o t out ? If we may credit the whispers that lieve we h e a heart there amongeth r:f.forward, frsewa commercial rfaar:dvmeoTrsheh otu. behindm en t , h w a n e must ha s ever e - chance of another contract," thec dni d ann o i n ve' o nir t e h hn e a s a i v t re a e te tin.h ti confess Pri t a 7 % et All A? long as this fear operaes NIIIMINIONisi NEWTONVN AND - MACHYNLLETH. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held at Machynllcth on Friday, Mr. R. D. Jones in the chair. The report stated that the company had yet nearly two years for the purchase of land and four years - for the completion of the railway. Negotia tions had been entered into with contractors, and it was hoped that by the next half-yearly meeting the board would have come to an arrangement for the commencement of the works. The Corris Tramway Company had obtained a new act, authorising them to complete their undertaking ; that line was in course of formation, and when completed would form a j unction with the Newtown and Machynlleth, and be an important feeder to it. The CHAIRMAN enlarged on the various topics referred to in the report, an d m ove d it s ad o pti on , which, b e i n g seconded by D r . E VANS , was unani mously agreed to. The SECRETARY (Mr. D. Howell) mentioned that steps had been taken to obtain payment of arrears of calls, on which interest would be charged. The proceedings closed with a vote of thanks to the chairman. THE CATASTROPHE ON THE OXFORD RAILWAY. Mr. A. C. Sheriff, general manager ; Mr. Wilson, engineer ; Mr. Hurry, another officer of the line, were engaged from an early hour yesterday morn ing, in experimenting between Round Oak and Brettel-lane stations, with a view to ascertain the uawould experience in carriagesstop and a van, in the event away from others at the former op fig difficulti esn their at b .strain n breaking a h ok a fi t nl a g g 7 station, and running down the incline towards Brettel-lane. The carriages were laden each with 22 cwt. of iron, 5 cwt. each more than the weight which Capt. Tyler, the government inspector, com puted would be equal to the weight of the, passen gers who were in the part of the train that broke away on the night of Aug. 23, when that dreadful accident occurred which occasioned the experiment. The number of tickets issued by the company for the train to which the calamity happened was 1,500, adults and juveniles together. Basing his calcula tions upon a proportion of these leaving the train at the preceding stations, the government inspector set down as the weight in each carriage 17 cwt., and with that weight made his recent experiments on the same piece of line. On the last day of the inquiry before the coroner, the guard Cook, who was in the part of the train that broke away, deposed that at one time, when the train was receding at the rate of four miles an hour, he applied his break, and succeeded in nearly stopping the train. Yesterday the train came into the Round Oak station with the breaks on, as is usual on approaching a -station - at which it is in tended to stop. The engine was then uncoupled, and the train allowed to recede, till it had attained the speed of, three miles an hour, the break was then applied, and the train was stopped in 11 yards; again, going at the rate of 31 miles an hour, the break brought it up in 33 yards; a speed of 51 miles attained, and the train receded 234 yards be fore it could be stopped ; a return again to 3',- miles an hour, and the carriages ran back 65 yards before they could be stopped. All this time the same num ber of persons was in the guard's van as was there when the breakage took place ; and, although there was a second class break in the train, yet only the break in the guard's van was used. Later in the day the jury were invited to witness the experiments—in fact, for the information of those gentlemen the experiments were determined upon. The Rev. Mr. Bayley (Baptist minister), the foreman, and about six others of the panel, witnessed similar experiments. The foreman and others rode in the guard's van, and watched the application of the break ; others superintended the measuring of the distance that the train ran ; whilst another rode in the second' class break to see that that was not used in stopping the carriages. The following were the results of the second ex perimentS. Running at 21 miles an hour, stopped at • 101 yards. • ~ 5 7 1 1 ~12 4 5162 ~ ~ ft 1 66 y, ff 61 101 ft ft Again a speed of 6 miles an hour was obtained ; the guard applied his break, got out of his van, and threw a " sprag," or pointed baulk of timber be tween the spokes of one of the wheels and stopped the train in 70 yards. The regulations of the com pany require the guards to carry a good supply of these sprags with them. Another start, again a speed of six miles reached. Once more the guard applies his break, and then runs to the second class break, applies that also, and brings up his train in 61 yards. The disadvantages of the rails being hot from a strong noon-day sun were supposed to ba lance their being a little damp on the night of the accident. IRELAND. DUBLIN, MONDAY MORNING. GALWAY AND AMERICA. According to the Galway Vindicator of Saturday the success of the Lever line of packets is even more than an accomplished fact. In proof the fol lowing circumstances are mentioned in connectien with the sailing of the Prince Albert, which is destined to make her second outward trip across the Atlantic on Tuesday next : " Every berth on board the Prince Albert is en gaged—first, second, and third class ; and orders were yesterday issued to the agents at the different localities to enter no more passengers, just to pre vent disappointment. There is to-day in Galway awaiting shipment by the vessels of the line more than twice as much as can be carried in the vessel for next week, and we may state that such arrange ments are being made by Mr. Lever for putting additional vessels on the line as will obviate any inconvenience or disappointment for the future. We speak of these things not in a mere boastful character, but as facts of great significance. To-day we had an opportunity of looking over the book which registers the goods received for shipment to America at' the Galway terminus of the Midland Great Western Railway, Every day, and by every train since Monday, large consignments of goods have been received from almost every manufactur ing district of England, Ireland, and Scotland. Take, for instance, on Wednesday, the Bth, there appeared on the goods list of the early train the following entry :-26 hhds. of porter, to Hubert and Parish, New York; City of Dublin Steam packet Company, to W. I. Butler, 48 cases goods ; Jones, to ditto, 26 boxes of linen. By next day's train there arrived, addressed. Jones to Butler, 61 boxes of linen ; 66 boxes of linen • 7 cases of mus lin ; 12 bales of prints. In making mention of these we do not, of course, pretend to enumerate all the miscellaneous articles intended for exporta tion. This morning Captain Waters received a communication from Mr. Lever, requesting to know whether it would be possible to fit up additional accommodation for the number of first and second class passengers who were offering ; but, on con sultation with Captain Thompson, R.N., the man aging marine director of the line, who is in Galway at present, and actively assisting in the fitting out of the Prince Albert, he thought it better to advise that no more passengers should be taken than what the ship was prepared to carry according to her ordinary complement. In the propriety of this arrangement we entirely concur, as it is best to study the comfort and convenience of the passengers already entered rather than grasp at too many. A ship from Liverpool, the Ballot, bringing a cargo of the primest steam coal to Mr. W. Evans, our en terprising fellow-citizen, arrived in the harbour. Her anchor . was scarcely dropped when the cargo was purchased by the agent of Mr. Lever, Mr. W. H. Butler, and the vessel was hauled alongside the Prince Albert and the coals shipped for her out ward voyage. Yesterday Captain Waters and Cap tain Thompson were engaged in seeing to the ship ment of water and stores in abundant supply ; and it is now certain that when the Blue Peter is hoisted at the fore on the afternoon of Tuesday next, the Prince Albert will be in as good trim, as well filled, as well found, and as well regulated, in every respect, as any first-class ship that ever crossed the Atlantic from the shores of Great Britain." IRISH BANK RETURNS. The last bank returns exhibit a falling off in the circulation as compared with last month, of £84,445. In the preceding four weeks there was a diminution of £97,696, and in the month ending on the 3d of July a decline of £260,599, so that on the quarter the decrease is under half a-million. Last year the decline in the same three months was £700,000. The falling off on the month is alto gether between the Bank of. Ireland and the Na tional Bank. The Provincial and Ulster Banks have each slightly increased their issues, and the other banks present no alteration. In the amount of coin held there is, on the month, an increase from £2,384,027 to £2,391,694. The following figures will show the position of the Irish banks in the aggregate now and at the same period of last year : Four weeks ending Average Circulation. Average Coin held. Aug. 29, 1857 £6,224,810 £2,245,415 „ 28, 1858 5,664,962 2,391,698 From the foregoing returns it follows that the Irish banks are now £689,632 below the sum autho rised by certificate, and taking into account the coin held, the amount is £3,081,226 below that allowed by law. The Bank of Ireland and the Provincial and Northern Banks are under their fixed issue. The National, Ulster, and Belfast Banks are above it. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—Sept. 13. MANSION-HOUSE.---Angel Hyam Cohen, of• I No. 5, Windsor-street, Bishop:Tate-street Without,' was brought before the Lord Mayor, charged with having received two casks of copper bolts, screws, and other stores, which had been stolen from her Majesty's dockyard at Portsmouth. Mr. Swaithe appeared on behalf of the Board of Admiralty (the prosecutors), and the prisoner was defended by . Mr. Solomon. Sergeant A. Smith, a detective officer belonging to the metropolitan police force, said—From infor mation I received from Portsmouth, through the Board of Admiralty, I went at 11 o'clock this morn ing to No. 5, Windsor-street, Bishopsgate-street Without. Outside I saw the prisoner, whom I asked if his name was Cohen ? He said it was. I then told him I was a police-officer,and asked him if he had received two casks. le hesitated and went inside. I followed him and repeated my queS tion, and he replied, " Yes, I have. I asked him, " Who from ? ' and he replied, " Mr. Warren, of Portsea." I asked him what Mr. Warren was, and he told me that he was a marine storedealer. I said, " I suspect they contain metal, the property of her Majesty ; have you any objection to our search ing your place ? " He replied, "I have ; you shan't search it." In the passage I saw ten casks stand ing. I pulled the head off one of them, and found it contained copper nails and bolts, and other things with the broad arrow on them. I asked him if he knew the contents of the casks ?—and he told me he did not. I had been watching the casks in the street, and saw them'*before they were delivered at the Nag's IL:, ad in the Borough. On a desk in the prisoner's counting-house I found the bill which I produce, relating to two casks of metal, the stated weight of which is 3 cwt. 1 qr. 121 b. The bill is made out to Mr. If. Cohen. I said to the prisoner, " You must now consider yourself in custody and go with me to the station-house." He resisted very much. He called to his men, and upon their coming he gave them orders to bolt the gates and doors. At length we got him into the street, when he again re sisted very much and tried to run away. It was only by the aid of three or four other officers that we were able to secure him. We were surrounded by 300 or 400 people, who pulled us first one way and then another. The Lord Mayor—ls this a lar g e establishment ? Witness—l do not know ; orders were given to bolt the great gates. Cross-examined by Mr. Solomon—The prisoner did not ask me to show him my warrant. I did show it to a man who asked for it, but that was after the prisoner had been forced into the house away from us. Mr. Solomon—But you did not show it to the prisoner . till then. Witness—l never did show it to him. (The wit ness produced his warrant.) The Lord Mayor—He is not bound to show it till he is asked for it. He is bound to have that card in his posseSsion, and to produce it when asked for. Sergeant Robinson, another metropolitan police officer, said—l accompanied the last witness to pri soner's premises and saw the t wo cas k s d e li vere d. I went in to take possession of them. Smith went in with the prisoner. I remained in the passage to look after the casks. After the head of one of the casks had been taken out I asked to have access to them, and, was very strongly refused. The pri soner strongly refused to be taken into custody ; he refused to leave the house. I have got the casks at the station now. Their contents consist of bolts, washers, screws, and other things, and are marked with the broad arrow. Sergeant Smith was recalled, and in answer to the Lord Mayor, stated that lie had received infor mation that a quantity of metal had been stolen from her Majesty's dockyard at Portsmouth. Mr. S waithe—l now: ask your lordship to remand the prisoner. The present charge arises from a tele graph despatch which was received, stating that a large robbery of stores had taken place at Ports mouth dockyard. It will be necessary to get the at tendance of a gentleman from the dockyard to in spect the contents of the casks. Mr. Solomon—l am also anxious for a remand in order that inquiries may be made. The prisoner and his father are large wholesale dealers in metal. These casks were sent up to them, and they have a letter from the person by whom they were sent which will show that as far as they were concerned they are perfectly innocent of this charge. The Lord Mayor—l shall remand the prisoner. Mr. Solomon—Will you accept bail ? The Lord Mayor—l should not. have hesitated to take bail if there had been no resistance, but when a man calls upon his workpeople to resist the police there must be very good ground for supposing that he knew what he was about. If he had been an honest man he would have at once given the name of the person from whom he had received the cask s . After some farther.conyergation the prisoner was liberated on bail, himself in £l,OOO, and two sure ties in £5OO each. BOW-STREET.—lnspector Mackenzie, of the F division, waited on Mr. Henry in order to report upon the course he had taken in reference to the moneys forwarded to this court for the benefit of the young man Smith, one of the witnesses against the cabman Knight, charged with robbing a ser vant girl at a brothel. The money had been en trusted to the inspector by his worship with instructions to apply it in accordance with the wishes of the donors, who in almost every instance had attached conditions to the gifts. In compliance with their wishes Smith had left the infamous house in which he had been employed, and was now endeavouring to find some more reputable occupa tion. He (the inspector) undertook to assist him to the best of his power. He had given Smith a por tion of the money to buy clothes with, and would give him more from time to time if he continued to conduct himself well. Smith said he would endeavour to do so. Mr. Henry expressed his approval of the course taken by the inspector, and the conversation ended. A post-office messenger named Frederic J. Bushell who had been remanded from Monday week on a charge of stealing money letters, was brought be fore Mr. Henry . for final examination. On the morning of the prisoner's apprehension the prisoner was seen by the officer, Bingham, to abstract and pocket a letter from a heap which he was carrying on a tray, from the circulation de partment to the London district office. On hearing of this, Mr. Clare, inspector of letter-carriers, went to the prisoner, whom he found in the Inland-office, and whom he desired to attend him in the control ler's room. The prisoner said " Yes, sir," but instead of obeying, rushed away in a contrary direction, and after a severe chase through several offices, up one flight of stairs, down another, &c., was at last stopped in the hall. He was then taken to the controller's room and taxed with having appro priated a letter. He said, " Yes, two," and, pro ducing two from his breast pocket, gave them up. One contained two sovereigns which had been en closed in it by Mr. Taylor, a clerk in the National Debt-office, addressed to his father, at Herne Bay. He had sealed it with the seal a the department, fancying that would be a sufficient protection. The other was from a servant girl named Hicks, at Highbury, to her aged mother at Dartford, and contained two sixpences. Mr. Henry remarked that it was almost incredi ble that the practice of sending money through the post in this manner should continue so general after so many cases of robbery. It was much to be regretted that the public did, not avail themselves of the facilities afforded for the use of post-office orders. It must be that people were not aware how numerous these cases were. He committed the pri soner for trial. A sorter named Samuel Beal was committed for trial for stealing two money letters on Saturday last. He was caught almost in the act by the offi cer Smee, to whom he confessed that since July he had robbed the Post-office to a considerable extent, though he had hitherto been honest during the whole of the five years he had been in the service. He added, " I cannot tell what possessed me to-day, but I could not have resisted the temptation if I had seen Smee standing at my. elbow." Robert Leslie Wilson was likewise committed for stealing two money letters on Wednesday last. He was also seen in the act, and the letters were found on him. In neither of these cases were the letters stolen of the description known as " test" letters. MARLB OROUGH-STREET.--Two well dressed young Germans entered the court, and, addressing Mr. Beadon, begged to know what redress they had against a very cruel fraud practised upon them. The spokesman said his friend had paid his atten tion to an English lass and was accepted, and the wedding-day fixed for Sunday last. Being desirous of doing what was right as well as genteel, the bridegroom elect inquired of a person whom he had a slight acquaintance with how and where he could procure a marriage license. This person took him to a man who, as he said, furnished these licenses. A bargain was struck, and on 4s. being paid a paper purporting to be a license was handed to him. On Sunday last the bride and bridegroom and bridal party made their appearance at St. George's Church and presented their license to the clergyman. As soon as it was inspected the bridegroom to his great disappointment was told that he had been imposed upon and that'the license was waste paper. The party left the church, of course much mortified at the result of their visit. Applicants wished to know whether they had any remedy . against the man who got the money s from the bridegroom ? Mr. Beadon asked if the ma* was known ? Applicant said he had no doubt he could give such a description of the man as would lead to his apprenhension. The chief clerk (Mr. Leadley) inquired why the parties:did not go before the registrar to get mar ried without expense and trouble in place of getting married by license ? The applicant said he wished to have the mar riage ceremony performed in the most respectable and binding manner, as he was a foreigner. Mr. Beadon said if he could find the man who defrauded him he might give him into custody. The applicants thanked the magistrate and left the court. In the course of conversation the pretended license was produced. It was a small scrap of paper covered with unmeaning hieroglyphics, and signed with an unintelligible name. MARYLEBONE.—Yesterday Charles Johnson, a labourer, of Salford, near Manchester, a tall and powerfully made man, and Joseph White, a coster monger, of diminutive stature, whe refused to give his place of abode, were charged before Mr. Long with violently assaulting Jesse Perkins, 54, Hamp den-street, Paddingt on , and with stealing 245., a comb, and a farthing from his trousers pocket. Johnson was also further charged with assaulting police : constable Kerscher, 124 D. - Perkins stated that, at' about five minutes past 12 o'clock on Saturday night, a woman came up to him. She asked him if he would treat her with some gin. He observed that he had no objection, and he went with her down Praed-street, Padding ton. He there passed the prisoners, but went out with the woman to Manor-place. When he reached there White came up to him, and asked if there wa s any thoroughfare there. ile replied that he be- Head there was not. Tie had scarcely made the remark when the prisoner White seized kold of him by the throat, and got him to the ground. Mr. Long—What happened after that ? Prosecutor—The other prisoner and the woman put their hands in my trousers pocket, and one of my pockets was torn away. Mr. Lqng—Was there any money in either of them ? Prosecutor—Yes, sir, 245. in silver, a farthing, and a comb. Mr. Long—Did either of the prisoners say any thing before the attack on you ? Prosecutor—No, sir ; but after I was down I heard White say, "He is done for." I was for a few moments insensible. When I recovered I saw the prisoner running away. I got up and called out " Stop thief, murder, and police," and went after White. I pursued him into Old Churck-street, where he was stopped by a police-constable. Policeman Jones, D 274, proved having stopped White. When at the stationhouse he found Os. in silver in his pocket. Kerscher said that he was in Old Church-street when he heard the cry of " Stop . thief, murder, police." In a minute after the prisoner came to wards him, running at his utmost speed. Witness seized hold of him, upon which he said he had done nothing. Witness told him that he had heard the cry of " Stop thief, and police," and that he should take him to the stationhouse. When there he was identified by the prosecutor as the man who had his hand in one of his pockets while the woman was searching his other pocket. Kerscher stated that after the prisoner was lodged at the stationhouse he went to the spot where he saw the prisoner, and apprehendedhim ; he searched about, and found a comb with part of a trousers pocket. Th e prosecutor identified the comb. Th e officer added that the prisoner offered a determined resistance. The trousers were produced, when it was found that the pocket, which had beeu torn away, so tal lied with what remained that it must have been a prisoners, who denied a n y par ti c i pation in part Th o e f it. the robbery, were committed for trial. CLERKENWELL.—Sergeant Evans, 22 G, at tended before - Mr. Corrie, accompanied by a very respectably-attired woman, and said he was desi rous of having the following facts made public : It appeared that the young woman, who had only lately arrived from the country, had advertised for a situation, and on Friday a respectably-attired man, about 40 years of age, called to see her, but, she being out on the first occasion, he went again in the evening. He then informed her that he was authorised by a gentleman residing in the country to en gage some f emale servants, and having stated the salary, told her to meet him on Saturday morning, at the -Great Northern Railway, for the purpose of seeing the gentleman. She met him ac cording to the appointment, when he asked her what money she had ; and upon her saying she had only between 13s. and 145., he said that would not be enough, but he would pay the rest, as they would both be repaid as soon as they. saw the gen leman. She , giiye him the:money, for the purp ose , t as she supposed, of his obtaining two railway tickets, and he went away and she never saw him again. The place where the gentleman was said to live was at Worthing. Mr. Corrie said if the man was met with he could be given into custody, and he had no doubt but that publicity would prevent others being robbed. Edwd. Wilson, aged 14, a pen maker, was charged with stealing a cashbox, containing twelve £5 Bank of England notes and £l2 in gold, the moneys of Mr. Joseph Fryer, a watch-gilder, residing at 4, Europa-place, St. John's-row, St. L uke's.: The prisoner was son-in-law to the prosecutor, and, according to the statement of the latter, had been a very troublesome and bad boy. Mr. Come remanded the prisoner for a week. SOUTHWARK.—Two smart-looking young fel lows, named Donovan and Elliot, were brought before Mr. Burcham for final examination, charged with breaking into the dwelling-house of Mr. Chas. Kempley, greengrocer, 51, Twigg's-folly, Dock head, Bermondsey. They declined making any defence, and were committed for trial. WANDSWORTH.—A boy, named George Fair grave, aged ten years, living with his parents in Duke-street, Lincoln's-inn-fields, was placed in the dock before Mr. Ingham, charged with unlawfully throwing stones at a train upon the Crystal Palace Railway, whereby the lives of the passengers were endangered. Mr. Henry Anscombe, inspector of police upon the Brighton and South Coast Railway, said he at tended to prosecute, as they had frequent complaints from passengers travelling upon the line of stones being thrown at the carriages. A great many win dows in the different carriages had been broken by stones, and the company had been obliged to place a constable on the watch to put a stop to that dan gerous practice. He would ask his worship to deg with this case, on account of the youth of the pri soner, under the Police Act for throwing stones . a thoroughfare, as their acts were of a more penal character. James Brown, a constable in the employ of the Brighton Railway, stated that at about 25 minutes before 6 o'clock on Sunday evening he was stand ing upon the railway bridge in Battersea-fields near the Pimlico station. There were between 30 and4o boys upon the bridge, the majority of whom were sitting upon the wall watching the trains as they passed. He also saw the prisoner and several other boys sitting upon the opposite wall by themselves. As the train came up he watched the boys, and he saw the prisoner throw three stones, line fter the other. The stones were lying on the top of the wall as if placed there ready to be thrown, and the pri soner appeared to aim them at the engine. He went up to the prisoner directly, and asked him what he meant by throwing stones at the train, and he replied that he was very sorry for it, and would not do it again. Mr. Ingham said if the prisoner had been older he should have sent him for trial, when in all pre bability he would have been transported. It was a most dangerous thing to throw stones upon a -rail way, as it might cause a great loss of life. The father of the boy hoped his worship would be lenient, as the case had already been a great expense to him. Mr. Ingham said he was very sorryfor the father, but it was absolutely necessary to put a stop to stone-throwing upon railways. He fined the pri soner 405., or 21 days' imprisonment. COUXTRY MARKETS. OXFORD-Sm. 11. Our corn exchange to-day was again well attended, with large supplies of all kinds of grain, which met a dull sale. Barley was plentiful, with an upward tendency. Not single sample of peas at market. Tares in demand, and very dear—lOs 6d to 12s per bushel. Flour 32s to 338 per sack. Good bread, &id ; best, 5d the 41b. loaf, NORTHAMPTON--SEPT. 11 There was an average supply of wheat in market to-dal. New white samples sold at 45s to 465, and old 44s to 46 per qr. Other sorts of grain were in tolerable supply; now samples of barley realising 37s to 40s per qr. Oats 30s to 365, and new 26s to 32s per 24 stone. Beaus, 51s to 62" t and new 48s to 50a per 33 stone. CHELM . SFO: ,D-SEPT. 10. At this morning's market there was very little doing is grain, and prices remained without change. Wheat, white 41s to 50s Peas, Partridge ..45s to 470 red 37s to 46s White 42s to 44 0 Barley 3,58 to 418 Boiling 435 to 490 Chevalier ....39s to 45s Dun 458 to 47s Grinding 29s to 338 Beans, Tick ...39s to 411 Malt 70s to 738 Harrow Ticks 39s to 43s Chevalier 728 to 738 Mazagan 378 to 406 Oats 268 to 368 KIRKCALDY—Sarr. 11. Here, to-day, we had fair sup lies of wheat and bar. ley, but small of oats. Sales quick for all sorts. Wheat and oats same as last day ; barley ler qr. dearer. Wheat (0). Barley (0 ). Oats (0). First.... 38s Od —s Od —s Od Second.. 46s Od —s 04 —s Od Third .. 50s Od Od —8 Od Wheat (N). Barley (N). Oats (N). First.... 348 Od 268 Od 22s Od Second.. 42s Od 31s 7d 24s ‘Od Third .. 48s Od 33s Od 26s 6d COAL MARKET-SEPT. 13. (Prices of Coal per Ton at the close of the market.) Davison's West Hartley, 15s. 9d ; Holywell, 14s. _odij Howard's West Hartley Netherton, -s. Od. • Tann Moor, 13s. 3d. ; Tanfield Moor Butes, 13s 3d.; Wyl s ' 14s. Od. ; Newcastle Hartley, 14s. ; Byass's Bebside West Hartley, -s.; Walker Primrose, -s. Od. Tyne Main, Od.; Hastings Hartley, 15s. 9d. • Haswell Gas, -5. _ ; Lambert's West Hartley, 15s. 9d.; West Wylam, 13s. u O .; Ward's West Hartley, 14s. 6d. ; West Tanfield, 13s. 3 d• .; Nixon's Merthyr, 21s. Walls End-Riddell, 15s. 9 a;,' Eden, 16s. Od. ; Benson, 15s. 9d. ; Tho rp e, -s. Od. ; s. Od. ; Russell's Hetton, -s. Od. ' • Framwellgate, Od.; Haswell, -s. Od. ; Hetton , 18s. Od. ; Cassop, 16s. ja; llradyll's Hetton, 16s. 6d. ;_ Gosforth,' -s. Od. ; Dryblul l Grange, 16s. Od. ; Heugh Hall, 16s. ; Lambton, 17s. 6 a• South Hetton, 17s. 9d. ; Acorn Close, 16s. Od. ; whoa' cliffe, 15s. 6d. ; Kepier Grange, -a Od. ; Shincliffe, 1 6 " Hunwick, 14s. 3d. ; Wintworth, 14s. 3d.; South Durhan i f 16s.- Ships at market, 63 ; sold, 14. WEATHER AND CROPS.—In Inverness-shire the weather for the last week has been dry, windy, and sunnYo the very best that farmers could desire for securing their crops in good condition. A great deal of corn has been stacked, and the promise is fully more than an average' The potato disease has not increased, and . turnips look We t ' . THE CHAPEL ROYAL OF ST. GEORGE'S, WlND sox.—Sir Chas. Young, Garter King-of-Arms, with hir assistants, were engaged at St. George's Chapel, Windio r t• on Saturday last, iu placing the banner, sword, and other insignia of his Majesty the King of Portugal over his stall, as tie newly elected Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter. There was also placed at the back of the stall ti brass plate, on which is engraven the arms of his Majesty; surrounded by the Garter and Motto " Honi soit qui Ma' y pense," with the following inscription :—" Du tres haut, tres puissant et trey excellent monarque, Pedro V., Roi 4 0 Portugal et des Algarves, Due de Saxe, Chevalier du Tres Noble Ordre de la JarratiL.re. Dispense des cer4monie° d' Installation par lettres patentes, datees du X XlVme Jour de Juin, MDCCCLVIII. ' ETON. COLLEGE, Monday.—The long vacation , which commenced on July 26, terminates this day, a lthough the return of the scholars does not begin until Wednesdar evening; when the lower boys a rr i ve . Th e fifth an d E Lan forms return on the two following days, when the whole school will have reassembled. On Monday, the 27th inst., the examinations in the modern languages for the Prince Consort's prize will commence and terminate on the Satur day following. A new 'assistant-master, Mr. Thaekerayt has been appointed to succeed Mr. A. Waterfield, resigned. BIRTHS. BARROW.—On the 12th inst., the wife of the Rev. ,Tohll Croker Barrow, of Abingdon Villas, near Kensingion, of a daughter. • BURGOY/qi—On the 12th inst., in Upper Harley-street► the wife of John C. Burgoyne, Esq., of a son.' limLOcn.—On the 12th inst., at Southfields,Wandswortlit the wife of Charles Kinloeh, Esq., of a daughter. RALEIGH.—On the 13th inst., at Park-place Villas, Maids Hill, the wife of John Raleigh, Esq., of Melbourne, Vic toria, of a daughter. MARRIAGES. FORSTER—MANisTr.—On the 7th Met , at .Shildon in the county of D ur h am , H enry Hird Forster,. Esq., Oat; son of the late W. J. Forster, Esq., of Tynemouth, grandson of the late Henry Scott, EAq., brother of Lorli Chancellor Eldon and Lord Stowell, to Mary Scott, thin: daughter of the Rev. James Manisty, M.A., incumbel' of Shildon. STEPIIINGS—LOVERING.—On the 11th inst., at the paris h church, Walton, Mr. Thomas Stephings, of Cloudsler street, to Mercy, youngest daughter of Mr. T. Lovering, of Bootle, near Liverpool. DEATHS. • COLLINS.—On the 9th inst., at 10, John-street, Adelphiv Thomas Tindale Collins, aged 39. COPSEY.—On the 11th inst., at Halkin-place, Belgra"' square, Mr. Copsey, aged 53. CUTLER.—On the .12th inst., at 12, Devonshire-stre et ' Bishopsgate, Miss Susannah Cutler. DAVIS.—On the 11th inst., at her residence, 44, tYPr e e c Harley-street, Maria, widow of the late Lieut.-Colo n Wm. Bodyeott Davis, aged 80. Kixo.—On the 12th inst., the Rev. John King, for thirtr seven years incumbent of Christchurch, Hull, aged 69 ., PARDY.—On the 11th inst., at Tulse-hill, Brixton, Mr. or' Pardy, aged 37. PEGO.—On the 13th inst., at Nuneaton, Warwickshir' Thomas Pegg, aged 85. SELEY.—On tho 13th inst., at 19, Mornington-road, Henry Selby, Esq., of Bathurst, West Coast of Afol" LAIDLEIL—On the 11th inst., at Brighton, the Most No ble e Sarah, Dowager Marchioness Townshend, wife of Join . Laidler, Esq. LONDON : Printed and Published by MURDO YOU N G of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, No• li e f Strand, in the Precinct of -the Savoy, in the 001F 1 ,V. - Middlesex, Tuesday, September 14, 1858.* G, ton, E Road, on M( the 25 terme and 4 ed."an nesbu and 8F Road 21s. al L° DER; SAT' DAY, DOW Lohd , Warri LiTer Stock Maud Stale Greet Alarm Rudd Dews Bele: The the al Par ticket chaml CON] T' Ev Atha " Tel at So respc son t of th In Cl Le T Fniij