The Sun. — London, England, 1860-08-03 00:00:00

:base, Dug rilson, asign, dward ithout a full f 14th Major ), vice Clerk saary- ), from ted to North to the Ali-pay being I Foot, Lieut.- in the °Tient emyse, 0: eneral. enant in the r half- I, to be T. to be hael do :o half to be ikrupts ictoria, lat day ~015,100 1,459,900 021,420 1,490,420 758,795 1,712,700 ',420,610 737,460 ',635,565 shier. .r, com let day paid or 1 Great he last interest , ed this ninster 3ollege, b state The it 101 b; ~ E. L. Lewes, [ (cox). ilinson• w, lOst lb; W. ; (cox), W 8000 , 'meet d, and board )ay.) .... 1 .... V .... 3 ••.. I .... 2 1 1/11• 1 r••• 2 ~.• 1 2 ... o the at in rhieli B for view , and rther MONEY MARKET AND CITY NEWS. CITY, Two o'CLocx. The transactions in the Foreign and Colonial Produce Markets during the last few days have however rather more active. The inquiries for tea, owever have been limited, no material alteration 50 R? r tfa ., sk o art Ballymena having taken place in values. Sugars have been stock Birk., La.:and Ch .7un a c In fair request, particularly the finer descriptions, Z 25 i r 1 3 1 5 9-e lir a u n r c7 Tyne and the refiners have purchased rather freely of the stock i.o Bristol: t n an d Exeter Stronger qualities, prices consequently have shown stock 6arilesta a . ll upward tendency. In the refined market a steady 10 0 Carmarthen a r n tramit n rdtgan business has been done at a reduction of 3d. to 6d. 20 (ork, rn Bl l r l ock., &Passage per cw t. on dried go o d s. F or co ff ee th e d em and has 10 DoA w i Age 6 ts'no div. bsen on the increase, chiefly for the superior quali- 10 Do B . ; l i n as T e eFi e P pd e . r t a ol ties of Plantation Ceylon. Rice has been dealt in g . p l ublin & it T l t t ellixt . j u u n n e c to a fair extent, and a moderate business has been stock Ea u s n iTn e glitin I recorded in fruit and spices. At the public sales of stocks Eastern Counties Eastern Union, A stock drug s stock Do there was not much activity, and previous Do N A d' ?ate ß ElTtis Values were with difficulty sustained. Saltpetre has 25 East Suffolk been inactive, the few transactions in the private stockl Do Edinburgh & Glasgow market being at former rates. Tallow has con- stock p r il t iaer t h ae &Ru n nj t e o e n tallied steady, no change of importance being Pp- stock Ft o irness y parent in values for present delivery. A moderate f i t r l r a o s a ft , '. and m Nth S o . f Scotland esru stock Great Northern s peculative business, however, has been entered stock Do do A stock into for delivery in the spring. stock Do do B do Increased activity prevailed in the Liverpool ssttoo2 ( c 4 r t ea s i ' l; rlv este o rn f Ireland disposed Market yesterday, 15,000 bales having been stock Do Str Val gu t s ; . stock 14 posed of at previous rates. In the Railway stock l2 r l r a is n h c.a S sVi t r h e - .Vo e rfc n shir; Share Market a large amount of business 'II Lonuctorßrial.Bpeglasil Iv es transacted, and prices exhibited a further 25 Lona, Chat., and Dover, stock Lond. &Nth. Western advance. 124 Do eighths stock Loud. & th. Western A- small amount of gold, viz., £4,000, was with- 25 L'derry & Coleraine I drawn from the Bank of England yesterday. 25 L'derr/ & E t niliszlen , Very little effeet has been produced at present stock IT 0 Ka an ryp . S ort f. and C .l a n rl?sl n e by the arrangements in progress for the bills arriv- . 1 12 01 4T D t o doontainshares— . but at maturity to-morrow, the 6th of the month, stock Midland the engagements on this occasion are rather stgk m. p d o G ll t i . rn „ king i .IzZ a e n rb d y b moderate, and ample discount facilities are obtain- 25 Do A shares able. The rate for first-class bills in the general iii Do rra t i Line . 100 Newcastle and Carlisle Market is 31 to 31 per cent. 10 Newry & Armagh, def The half-yearly meeting of the Bank of Egypt stock NNewry, 01k... Warnpt.. & Ros. 0rf..... • . •• • ha s • .. c... just been held, when the report, of which the 50 N , hn. Counties Un'io'n 1 2, ,, 10 . wing is an extract, was unanimously adopted: s i lo/ ; TP or r le ll v r .lra s i l l ' &Dk.stoi...ir stock —The net profits , making provision for bad u D i c t t. 4 ;i pe tN a A s L•ec ee s43 . / i and doubtful debts, amount to £11,148 9s. 10d., stock Do B stock from which the directors recommend that a divi- stock g lt o h (in E ~ , s . t ern. . N E. Be purchase ck dend be declared at the rate of 7 per cent. per stock Do York s annu m, free of income-tax. After payment of the stock North London dividend, there will remain £2,398 9s. 10d. to be mg. , ' N. North d Staffordshire a ii ffn u s n h o i rt Junction 12 Not. &Grantham Rail carried forward to the next account. 10 Peebles ...... ••••• • • • • The dividend in the London and South-Western Railway Company is at the rate of 4- per cent. There has been a moderate degree of activity to- s s day in the Market for Public Securities, but sales s having preponderated the tendency of prices has been unfavourable, and the recent improvement has s s been nearly lost. Consols being 932- 8 for money and the 9th inst. The state of the Continental Politics still induces an uncomfortable feeling, and assists in promoting the heaviness of the market. s The New 3 per Cents. are flat at 931 94 ; the B Reduced at 93t 94 ; and the New 2k per Cents. at 7 71. Exchequer Bills remain at 3s. to 6s. prem. 12 India Stock has declined to 217 ; ditto 5 per Cent. B Enfaced Paper is steady at 97 1 ; and the New 8 Loan at 104 k. A fair amount of business has been transacted in Foreign Securities, but prices show less firmness. Turkish 6 per Cents. are 76k to 76k; ditto New, 61 to 611 ; and the 4 per Cents., 1011 ex div. ; Mexican are heavy at 211 ; Spanish at 48k; and Brazilian 41 , per Cents, at 871 88 ; Peruvian 3 per Cents. are firm at 731; Sardinian at 831; and Russian Scrip is at 1 1 prem. The Ocean Marine Insurance Shares are 21 1 Prem. ; the Thames and Mersey, k 1 prem. ; and the g l Universal, 1 prem. Less firmness has been apparent in the Railway Share Market, a decline of Ito 1 per cent. having g , taken place in several of the principal lines. si Lancashire and Yorkshire, Brighton, North- Western, Midland, North-Eastern (Berwick), and South-Eastern have declined 10s. ; Caledonian, 4 ; st Portsmouth [0 Rhymney.....- ... ••• • • )ck Scottish Central )ck Scot. N. E., Aber. stock Ick Do Scot. Mid. stock )ck Shropshire Union [0 Sittinp - bourne & Sheer )ck South Devon .... • • • • • • )ck South Eastern .. •• • • • • )ck South Wales .... • • • • • • >ek S. York. and River Dun 20 Staines, Wok,. and Wok n Stockton & Darlington 25 Do do Stockton & Hartlepool )ck Taff Vale .... • • •• • • • • • )ck Do Pref. No 1 25 ThamesHavenDk&Rail 50 Ulster . 25 Do . . )ck Vale of Neath 13 Victoria Sta. and Pim )ck Waterford & Kilkenny SO Waterford & Limerick 20 West Cornwall ..... •. • 20 West London 10 Do Ist class .....• • • 20 Do 2d class .. .. •• • • Dck West Midland—Oxford 25 Po. Newport 1'72 Do. llereford 25 Blythe and Tyne 10 per c. pref. (issued at £5Ol. tk Rris. & Exet.4 p.ct.stock O Do. do. do. Shares ,ck Caledon £lO, 44 per cent ,ek Do. Quar. Shares, No. 2. 61 Cork & Bandon, 51 p. c. O Cornwall, 5 per cent 64 Dun.Perth&Aber.Jun. ek E.Angn.Class A 7 &sp.c ck Do. do. Class B 6 p.c ck Do. do. Class C 7 p.c ck E. Coun. Ex. sp. c. No. 1 , ck Do. do. No. 2 ck Do. New 6 per et. stock. , ck Eastern Union, 4 per ct. ck Do. 5 per cent. guar... Eck Edin.&Glas. sp.c. shares ick Do. 4p. c. gua. S. &D. ,ck Edin. Perth& Dun. 4 p.c. ick Furness, 5 per cent .... ,ck Glas.& S. West.g.a. 5 p.c. ck Great Northern, 5 p. ct. Eck Do.sp.c.Redm., 10 p.c.pm )ck Do. 44 p. c. do. do. )0 Do. sp.c. Redm. 5 p.c. pm .0 Gt. Nh. of Scotld. Ist pf. Gt. Sn. & W (Ireland) 4 )ck p. et. pref. stock i 0 Great West. (Berks and Hants) Ext. 5 p. et ,ck to. Redeemable, 44p.0t. .ck Do. Redeemable, 4p. ct. ,ek Do. Irredeemable, do ,ek Do. 5 p.ct. Redeem. Pref. 8 Do. Birm. Pref. Shares. 0 Gt. W. Ches. 8 p.c. pf.sh. .0 Do des p. ct. pref )ck Do Birmg.guar. stock 164 Do. Chester gua. shares [34 Do. do. do. 10 - Do. do. do. )ck Lan.&York 6p. c. stock )ek ;Do.Barnsl.st.£s3s 10d pc ck IDo. 6 per c. (E. Lan.) . • ck Lon. & Brig. 5 pc.gu. No.l l ck Do. 5 p. c No. 2' ck Do. gua. 6 p. Eck Do. do. 5 p. c. No. 4 ,ck Do. do. 44 per cen'. 6 , Do. do. 44 p. c. shares.. lek Do. 7 p. ct. Pref. stock. )ck Do. 6p.c. do. (W.E.&C.P.) wek Do.4p.c.g.(div.def.til '65) 5 ,Lon. Chat, and Dover.. ick Lou. and N.W. Cov. and Nuneaton, 5 p. ct..... Eck Lon. & S.W, 7p. et. stock ock Do. 44 per cent 6d. Do. (Prtsm. perpl anus of 2s. 6d...... ...... 24 Londondy. & Cole. sh. 124 Londony. & Ennis. sh. )ck. Man. Sh. &Lin. 6 per ct. 6 Do. £6 ac't Do. 34 per cent 10 Do. redeem. 6 per cent 124 Marynort & Car., 4 p. c 124 Do. 44 per cent , ck Mid. Con. 6 p. c. stock ck Do.Con.Bris. & Bir. 6 p.c. Eck Do. 44 p. c. pref. stock 6 Do. with option till 1860 ok Do. Leic. & Hit. pref. st. ck Norflk sp. c. Ex. at. 1846 ok Do. 51 p. c. Pref. do. 1847 , ck T)o.sWay.Val.Ex.st.lB47 ,ck North British, 5 p. c. ck Do. New, Rua. sp. c.... 0 1 Do. Bor. Un. g. pf. shsl 0 Do. do. do. ick Nth.Dev.R ail. & Dck.Co. )ck N-East.Cons.Pref. 4p. c. )ck Do. Berwick, 4 p.c. Pref. 7 Do. do. do tO 'Do. Leeds, 6p. e. No. 1 124 Do. do. Quarters, 1848 15 Do. York, H. &S. Purch. [0 North Staffordshire 10 Rhymney Guaranteed. 81 Scottish Central, new p 1 )ck Scottish North-Eastern 35 p. c. pref. stock Do.Aberdeen,gua.6p.e. )ck Do. 7p. c. pref. stock 10s. South Devon, Ann. 10s. 10 Do. Fixed 44 per cent. ,0.6 South Eastern (Reading Ann., 1.0.6) 31t Do. 44 per cent ck Do. Fixed 1 4 p.c. Ist is ek °outh Wales, gua. 4 p.c. ek Do. 44 per cent. ck S.-Yorkshire, 4p. c. gua. 5 Stock. & Dar. Asp. c 5 Do. B 6 per cent 5 Do. C 6 per cent Eck Watrfd & Rilkny, 6 p. c. ck W.Mid -Oxf Ist Gua stk Do. 2d do O Do. Newport 5 p.e.pf.red. [0 Do.Perpet. 6p.c. pf 1866 [0 Do. till 1869, Ist is. [0 Do. do. 2d is. 10 Do. Hereford 44 p.c. pf. and Great 'Northern_ (A Stock), Great West er n, I :I; and South-Western, £l. The Foreign lines have remained at ab ou t f ormer Fi Fit(t( rates. Lombardo-Venetian realise 111 12 ; Great etl Luxembourg, 7 to 7k ; Dutch Rhenish, 11 to 11k. iiln the Colonial Market, Grand Trunk of Canada have advanced to 31 and 31i ; and Great Western t, of Canada to 11i 12. East Indian have declined g to 100, Joint-Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares are at „1 Previous rates—London Joint-Stock 291 f ; Union :1 °I . Australia 414 ; Peninsula and Oriental Steam have declined 10c, and Royal Mail Steam ss. BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 93.3 4 xi ber Cont. Consols Annuities -", elv 3 per Cent. Annuities New 2i per Cent. Annuities 77t Annuities, 30 yr:, expire 6th Jan., 1880 l 3k Ditto for 30 yrs , expire sth April, ;1885.. IE4 India Stock ' Ditto 6 per Cent. Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent. — Ditto 6 per Cent Ditto Debentures, 1858 97 3 Consols for Account, 9th Aug. 933 3 Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, lid D.tto £5OO .... 3 pm Ditto Small FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. Brasilian 5 per Cent Ditto 4% per Cent. 1852 Ditto 1860 Mexican 3 per Cent Ditto Account Peruvian 4% per Cent Ditto 3 per Cent. for Account Russian 6 per Cent. 1822, £ St — Ditto 4% per Cent. Scrip, 1860 Sardinian 5 per Cent. Ditto Account Spanish 3 per Cent Ditto Account Ditto New Deferred — Ditto Account Turkish 6 per Cent .. Ditto Account Ditto New Loan Ditto Account .. 61% 1 Ditto 4 per Cent. Guaranteed — Ditto Account Dividends on the above payable in London. THREE O'CLOCK Consols, Money . .. .... • Ditto Account, Au gus t 93% i POLICE INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.) I B' MARLBOROUGH-STREET. A SAD CASIL—Mary Ann Goodchild, of 5, Little Crown- I court, Soho, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt, on a war- s rant, as follows : t Jesse Goodchild, the husband of the defendant, keeping et a broker's shop as above, said that his wife for some past si had given herself up to most dissipated habits. A few days RI ago she, after threatening she would cut his throat, seized a knife, and swore she would run it into his bowels. She had twice before stabbed him with a knife, and once cut his s' head open with a hammer. He was in a good business, Ev but she was in the habit of coming into the shop and taking out things and selling them for drink. The warrant officer who took the defendant into custody said he found her lying on the bed helplessly drunk, with a bottle containing spirits in her pocket. The husband said it was a dreadful thing for his little 'thing for them was to have family to hav h e tt su s c a h ia a th m e o b th e e s r t Mr. Tyrw her away from them, and with that view he should order her to find two respectable housekeepers to be sureties for her good behaviour for six months. Th e required sureties not being forthcoming the defen dant was locked up. MR. JOHN WATKINS, the eminent ph otOgraphis t, of Parliament-st ree t (by the way, the oldestphotographic rooms in England, an d perhaps the best), was a commission from th e Q ueen to take several portraits the Prince of Wales, a day or two prior to his departure for Canada. He had also the honour to obtain sittings from the Duke of Newcastle, General Bruce, Captain Grey, and others, who are the c ompanions of his Royal Highness on this interesting and practically h useful voyage to our g reat These portraits may be seen at the rooms of the artist ; they are c erta i nly among th e best that American colony. have been taken; but there are few of the profession who are so successful as Mr. Watkins, in combining accuracy of likeness with the artistic thought and manipulative skill that preserve what is agreeable and "abate" what is other wise. This has been the result of long practice ; his por traits are counted by thousands, including peers, pre lates, statesmen, judges, officers of both services, cler en, members of all learned professions, artists, and men ofet ters—nearly all the leading artists being in his printed list, togetker with a large number of authors. His powers, however, have been far more severely tested : to men ft matters little that the actual is more conspicuous than the possible ; not so with women, where, to sacrifice a grace, i s an offence against nature, and to lose a beauty, and perpe_ tuate a blemish, is to commit a crime. Few can bear the trial of the photograph without peril ; but certainly Ai r. Watkins can, if any one can, make a plain woman content, and a handsome woman pleased, with the semblance of what she actually and at the moment is. No doubt there is, as there ought to be, some " after-touching " always ; but —by what means obtained wo cannot say the " beauties" in Mr. Watkins's gallery are beauties, although photography has "given the world the copy."—Art Journal for August, 1859. At the Bankruptcy Court yesterday adjudication was made against James Denny Chapman, warehouseman and draper, of Alderraanbury and of Whitechapel. The bankrupt, who owes £lO,OOO, has absconded, and a reward has been offered for his apprehension. 7 6d 55 57 34 3dl 65} 65, 1011 101! d 511 5 61 853 86 104 106 31 3 d 9! 10 6! 7 115 117 31k 52k 86 51 88 53 6 7 45} fq 88i 0 68 69 EO 82 6 8 41 42 10 11 p 2 1 50 30 d 52 57 Ilf 6 64 47 49 10 ni 2 l4 d PREFERENCE SHARES. 4S is T 1 Closing Business Sh are ' Railways. Paid. Price. Done. 94 96 [O4 105 St Si 99 101 114 116 105 110 112 114 111 113 127 130 81 83 11l 113 90 92 78 79 103 105 118 120 118 120 112 114 107 109 87 89 99 100 100 102 89 91 91 93 102 104 10 104 17 18 101 11 77 79 204 21 101 104 15 151 137 139 1141 1161 1141 11M 138 143 1141 1161 103 105 52 156 [3O 134 67 69 20} 21i [l7 119 [s2i 1571 121 121 125 127 i P 68 70 i i P 139 141 104 105 95 97 111 113 109 111 i li p 92 94 100 101 d *d *p 23 234 73 75 122 124 [3O 135 101 11] 241 21/ 104 106 104 106 91 93 100 102 86 88 28 29 F. 34 3 33 34 45 %0 130 132 126 128 10 10i 14 Ifil 11 12 LINES LEASED AT FIXED RE TALS. Railways. Paid.) Leasing \Closing Business Co.'s. I Price. Done. Bedford and Bletchley all Ln Buckinghamshire ..•• 100 Ln &N.W 98 100 Chester & Holyhead . . 100 Do. 52 524 Do. do. 51 per c en t. 100 Do 125 127 Do. do. 5 per cent. 100 Do. Clydesdale Junction.. 100 Caled nin 112102 114 104 1121 Colchester, Stour Val. all E.U.:}l C 16 17 E.Lincolnshire,g.6p.c. 100 Gt.'North. I 4 - 139 141 E.Union,Harwich Shs 11 all E.Cou t • 44 Do. Woodbridge . . 100 Gls.Barr.&Neils,Dra. 100 Caledonin Do. New Gloster& Dean Forest all Gt. West. Hartlpool.Dck.& Rail. all Yk.N.&Br Hull and Selby Do. Shares Do. I Shares L an c.& Carl. gua.s p.c. 100 Ln.& N.W 210 213 London & Greenwich 100 i East... 62 64 Do. Preference ...... 100 Ill Po. Soutend. 100 IPeto &Co 9l 93 p.ct. 100 'Norfolk DLT.v6espte°ritc' g en u t a ... 10101 T. TW &II 9/ qi Midland - 9 1 7 ; 1 9 N ewmarkt.,BuryEx 15. 5. 6 E.Counts p guaranted 5 p. c. I all Do Kne• 3311 aie(illn.ccifrS'aultcotknr &. I .i re fa . e . t 100 a Do. Shares . Do. I Shares .. Lanc.& Carl. gua.s p. c . London & Greenwichl Do. Preference . • • • • • Lon.,Tilby.& Soutend. Lowestoft, gua. 4 p.ct. Do. 6 per cent....•• • • • Manc.,Buxtn. & Natk. M id . Bradford Prefer ence Stock ... • • •• • • • N ewmarkt.,BuryEx 1 guaranteed 5 p. c. S Northn.& Eastn. 5 p.c. Do. do. 6 per cent ... • Do. Fixed 5 per cent. North Western ...... Preston and Wyre. I Do. Stares .......A. Roystn.Hitch., & Shep Shrewsbry& Hereford all ,Do. all Do. al aall o sril Ld d L . yawnkl all Do. 100 Gt. North. 100 T.Brasseyl Soxxth Staffordshire Wilts and Somerset.. Wimbledon Crovdn. 1 ...... all 111‘Clean.. 100 Gt. West. , all L.Szßrgtn DOCKS. l+i 15 101 P 1 111 91 93 1 n gi --- -------- —.— DOCKS_!_\ Business , Closing Done. Share Docks. Pala. price. ----- --- stock ICommercial ' 100 stock Do. 4 per Cent.Pref.Min. 100 -1 21 i 85 stock East and West Indies ica stock London lOO .... stock St. Katharine lOO stock Southampton ' 100 stock Victoria . ........ :1 100 96 .... 98 20 Do New,.. . . .......... 2 id P 137 139 106 108 SHARE .MARKET.-(THIS DAY.) Share) Railways. 8 8i 80 82 11i 14 64 7 i 104 106 941 95 ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. 94/ 5 4 Paid. Closing Business Price. Done. 61 6/ 8 9 17 17} 57 58 39 41 27 29 784 794 301 314 106 108 1181 110/ 121 122 135 137 112 114 731 73i 60 65 110 1101 71 72 112 113 12 12i 104 1041 12/ 13 954 96i 10 11 42i 13 3 2 d 128 124 103 105 all 100 34 100 100 100 100 100 16 134 100 100 100 17i all 163 10P 104 all 1 100 THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUS r. 3, 1864. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. BRIGHTON RACES-THURSDAY. The Pavilion Plate of 100 nova (Handicap); certain winners extra. One mile. Mr. H. J. Smith's Fitz Avon, 3 yrs, 7st 71b (W. Bottom) 1 Mr. S. Jacob's Ipswich, 3 yrs, 6st (J. Adams) 2 Mr. Nichol's Bel Esperanza, 6 yrs, 7st 121b....(8u110ck) 3 The following also ran :—Ambush,Wild Bird, Fortuna f, Teacher, and Lady Peel. Betting-7 to 4 agst Bel Esperanza, sto 1 each agst Lady Peel and Ipswich, 10 to 1 each agst Fitz Avon and Ambush 100 to 15 agst Wild Bird. Bel Esperanza made play, with Fitz Avon next, Ipswich taking the lead at the three-quar ter mile post. Entering the straight Lady Peel took up the running, with Ambush, Fitz Avon, and Teacher next, in the order named. At the distance the Fortuna filly ran out, and Ipswich came on with the lead ; nearing the stand he was collared by Fitz Avon, and the two ran a good race home, the latter winning cleverly by a length ; a bad third. The Sussex Stakes of 5 sovs each, with 30 added. Optional selling weights, &c. Half a mile. (4 subs.) Mr. Hughes's Fractious, aged (£4O), 7st 111 b (car. 7st 121 b) (D. Hughes) 1 Mr. W. Day's Parole, 2 yrs (£6O), sst 111 b .. (J. Adams) 2 Mr. Hodgman's Royal Oak, 3 yrs (£4O) 7st 31b (Grimahaw) 3 Betting-5 to 4on Fractious, 7to 4 agst Parole. Frac tious waited upon Parole to the half distance, when he came out and won easily by half a length ; three lengths between the second and third. The winner was not sold. Mr. Hughes claimed Parole. The Grand Stand Plate of 50 sous (Handicap). One mile. Mr. Hodgman's Wild Bird, 3 yrs, Est 91b (H. Grimshaw) 1 Mr. Saxon's White Rose, 3 yrs, 7st 101 b.. (L. Snowden) 2 Mrs. Osbaldeston's St. Clarence, 4 yrs, Bst (G. Fordham) 3 The Rover and Australian Maid also ran. Betting-6 to 4 agst White Rose, 4to 1 agst Wild Bird, sto 1 agst Australian Maid, 10 to 1 agst The Rover. On the flag falling Australian Maid got off with the others, but almost immediately swerving round was pulled up and took no part in the race. White Rose made the running, fol lowed by the Rover and Wild Bird, St. Clarence last White Rose remained in front until half-way up the dis tance, when Wild Bird went to the front and ran home an easy winner by two lengths ; a bad third. The Champagne Stakes of 5 sous each, with 100 added ; for 3-yr-olds, 7st 61b ; four, Bst 71b ; five and upwards, Bat 121 b. Certain' penalties and allowances. The winner to give six dozen of champagne to the Brighton Race Din- ner. One mile. 16 subs. Mr. Copperthwaite's Twilight, 4 yrs, Bst 31b (Custance) 1 Mr. Ten Broeck's Satellite, 4 yrs, Bst 111 b (Wells) 2 Mr. Godding's Pastime, 3 yrs, 7st 21b (Perry) 3 The following also ran :—Weatherbound, Seclusion, Crater, Blue Jacket, and Jack Spring. Betting-5 to 2 agst Crater, 3to 1 agst Blue Jacket, 9 to 2 agst Satellite, 5 to 1 agst Jack Spring, 8 to 1 agst Twilight, 100 to 7 agst Seclusion. Seclusion made the running, Crater lying second, and Jack Spring third, Blue Jacket and Weatherbaund being some lengths in the rear. Entering the straight Satellite took second place with Twi light at his quarters to the half-way up the distance. Se clusion was beaten, and Twilight run home the winner by three lengths, a length and a half between the second and third, two lengths between the third and fourth. The Brighton Cup of 100 sovs in specie (Handicap.) Old course, about two miles. • Mr. Rigby's Tournament, 6 yrs, lOst 31b (G. Fordham) 1 Mr. Hughes's Winkfield, aged, 7st 101 b (carried 7st 121 b) (D. Hughes) I Mr• Land's Lord Mato', 3 yrs, sst 121 b .. (J. Daley) 3 The following also:ran :—Lucknow, Simla, Brunette, and Australian Maid. Betting-5 to 2 agst Brunette, 4to 1 agst Simla, sto 1 sgst Tournament, 6 to 1 each agst Winkfield and Lord Milton, 100 to 15 agst Lucknow. Australian Maid led, with Winkfield and Lord Milton second and third, Tour nament lying off with Lucknow a long way in the rear. At the Bristol Mile Post Winkfield took up the running, with Lord Milton next, Tournament going up to his horses. Going down the hill Tournament went to tho front, was never afterwards headed, and won by four lengths ; a very bad third. The others straggled in at wide intervals. 27: The Ninth Brighton Biennial Stakes of 10 Boys eech, with 100 added, for 2-yr-olds : colts, Bst 71b ; fillies, Bst 41b. Winners extra. 16 subs. Duke of Bedford's Cowley, Bst 71b (S. Rogers) 1 Lord Ailesbury's Bribery filly, Bst 41b.... (L. Snowden) 2 Betting-7 to 2on Cowley. Won by four lengths. HARTLEPOOL RACES.—TITESDAY. The Jackson Nursery Plate Handicap of 4 sovs each, with 25 added, for two-yr-olds. T.Y.C. Mr. Naylor's Fast Runner, 7st 61b Mr. Gill's Lily, 7st 111 b Mr. Osborne's Camphor The West Hartlepool Plate, a free handicap, of 20 sovs. About a mile and a-half. Mr. Osborne's Honeymoon, 3 yrs, 6st 61b Mr. Johnson nd Peggy Taft, 5 yrs, Bst 71b 2 Mr. Gill's Surprise, 4 yrs, 7st 91b 3 The Tradesmen's Plate of 4 sovs each, with 20 added; two yr-olds, 7st; three, 9st. T.Y.C. Mr. Gill's Lilly, 2 yrs Mr. Osborne's Hope filly 2 Mr. Richmond's Stockton, 3 yrs The Innkeepers' Plate, a free handicap of 30 sovs. About a mile and a quarter. Mr. Dawson's Malpas, 3 yrs, 7st llb Mr. Byrne's Desmond, 3 yrs, 7st 61 b Mr. Ryder's Punch, 4 yrs, Bst llb 3 The Mariner's Stakes of 2 sovs each, with 20 added ; two yr-olds, sst 101 b ; three, 7st 71b ; four, Bst 101 b ; five, 9st 31b ; six and aged, 9st 61b. Heats, about one mile. Mr. Silverlook's Jeremiah Moderate, 3 yrs w o. THIS DAY'S MARKETS. CORN EXCHANGE. There was a very poor show of English wheat on the stands this morning. Although the demand, owing to a further large influx of foreign produce, was by no means active, factors were vary firm, and Monday's prices were supported. Nearly 50,000 quarters of foreign wheat have come to hand this week. The importers, however, showed no dis position to accept lower rates ; but the business done was somewhat restricted. Floating cargoes commanded previous rates, witk a moderate inquiry. Most descriptions of barley were in fair request, at full quotations. The malt trade was in a sluggish state, on former terms. Rather large parcels of oats were taken off at full quo tations. Beans, peas, and flour changed hands slowly. Prices, however, were supported. ARRIVALS THIS WEEK. Wheat. Barley. , Malt. Oats. Flour. English 1,28 0 Irish — 1,550 50 1 1,270 Foreign 49,910 1 11,700 1 --- 51,43 015 C 40 sacks 11,380 brls. NEWUATE AND LEADENHALL. Prime meat, the supply of which is limited, moves off steadily, at full quotations. All other kinds are a dull in quiry, a t late rates. Per 81bs by the carcase. s. d. s. d. s. d. Inferior beef .... 3 0 3 6 Middling mutton 4 2 Middling d 0.... 3 8 4 4 Prime do . 4 8 Prime large do.. 4 6 4 8 Veal Do. small d 0.... 4 8 4 10 Small pork 4 8 Large pork.. 4O 4 6 Lamb 4lO Inferior mutton.. 3 6 4 0 BOROUGH HOP. The accounts from the plantations being still unfavour able, the demand for all kinds of hops is active, and prices still continue to advance. The duty is called £90,000. Mid and East Kent pockets.... 100 s to 150 s per cwt. Weald of Kent Sussex .. COLONIAL. TEA.—The market continues very inactive, and prices have undergone no material alteration. SUGA.R.—There has bean rather more animation, and prices have been firmly supported for the better qualities. In the refined market more business has been transacted, owing to a reduction of 3d. to 6d. per cwt. on dried goods. COFFEE.—For the better qualities of plantation Ceylon there has been more inquiry, and at public sales prices have shown an upward tendency. Other descriptions have been in moderate request, at about previous quotations. RICE.—The inquiries for East India have been rather extensive, and at public sale full prices were obtained. A few lots of superior Carolina sold at high rates. SALTPETRE.—No public sales have been entered into, but the private market continues steady, no change of importance being apparent in quotations. TALLOW.—The market has been rather inactive, but more buoyancy has been apparent this morning. The cur rent quotations are—P.Y.C. on the spot, 535. ; and last three months, 525. 9d. per cwt. TBIS DAY'S SHIPPING'. LONDON, Aug. 3.—Wind this day at noon—South- Westerly ; light breeze, and fine weather, but rather cloudy. SOUTHAMPTON, Aug. 2.—Wind N.W.—Arrived— Sultan, steamer, from Lisbon; Cubana, steamer, from Hav annah. PLYMODTH, Aug. 2.—Wind N.—Arrived—Her Ma jesty's steamer Himalaya, from Portsmouth. NEWPORT, Aug. 2.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Ferdi nand and Louis, from Amsterdam for Singapore. ; Neloda, from Bristol St. Thomas. Sailed—National; for Ja maica. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, Friday Morning. Wind W. Arrived,'Aug. 3—South Western, steamer, from Jersey. Sailed, Aug. 3 —Courier, steamer, for Jersey ; Shannon, steamer, for St. Thomas. (BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Friday Morning. Wind N.W. ; tide low water ; weather cloudy. Arrived, Aug. 3—Hope, from Santander; Ino, from Ibrail. DEAL, Friday Morning. Wind W.N.W. ; moderate. Passed—Anna, from Hong Kong for London; Aran, for Quebec. Sailed—All the outward bound. THE FRENCH EXPEDITION TO SYRIA.—A letter from Toulon announces, under reserve however, that Rear- Admiral Bonet, recently promoted to that grade, will be appointed to the command of the fleet which is to transport the army to Syria. The same letter, dated June 29, states also that all the orders that had arrived up to that date concurred in enjoining that the troops, materiel, and trans port fleet should be kept in a state of readiness to get off at twenty-four hours' notice. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS—(YEsTERDAy.) TENURE AND IMPROVEMENT OF LAND (IRELAND) BILL. On the motion that the house go into committee on this Viscount DUNGANNON moved that it be referred to a select committee, for the purpose of amending several most important clauses. _ _ Earl GRANVILLE said the subject on which the bill proposed to legislate had already undergone much inquiry in both houses of Parliament, and he hoped, therefore, no further delay would be given to the measure. _ The Marquis of WESTMEATH protested against a bill of this nature, which unwarrantably assumed that Irish men did not know how to manage their properties. The Earl of DONOUGHMORE supported the motion for going into committee. He had nothing more at heart than to see this bill made an efficient measure, and that it should be passed this session, but he thought it ought to be referred to a select committee. Lord MONTEAGLE said it would be impossible to go into committee and deal satisfactorily with the clauses in this bill. That being the case he thought tho bill should be sent to a select committee. The Marquis of CLANRICARDE said it was his opi nion that this bill should pass, though he did not think it would do much good. In point of fact, it was an honest bill, and he believed it was a harmless one ; and as it had been much considered in the other house he thought they should accept it and not send it back. Earl GRANVILLE said that considering the short period of the session that remained, the bill should not be now sent to a select committee. He thought that such a bill could be as well discussed in a committee of the whole house as before a select committee, and he hoped therefore the amendment would not be pressed. The question was then put on the original motion, and their lordships divided, when the numbers were— Contents 3 t Non-contents Majority —4 Tho house then went into committee, and the clauses up to 6 inclusive were agreed to. Clauses from 7 to 22 were agreed to with verbal amend ments. On clause 23, The Marquis of BATH moved to omit the words "wear and tear ," the meaning of which he did not understand. After some discussion, Earl GRANVILLE said he had no objection to the amendment, and the clause, as amended, was ordered to stand part of the bill. Clause 24 was agreed to. Clauses to 33 inclusive were agreed to. On clause 34, The Marquis of BATH proposed to substitute the words occupying tenant" for "tenant at will." After a few words from Earl GRANVILLE, The amendment was withdrawn. Clauses to 39 inclusive were agreed to. On clause 40, which provided that the tenant should serve notice on the landlord, or his agent, of the proposed .mprovements, The Marquis of BATH moved as an amendment that the improvements should not be made unless the owner or his agent should give notice in writing to the tenant that those improvements were necessary. Lord CHELMSFORD supported the amendment, as he thought the clause as it stood would place the landlord in an invidious positicn. Lord DONOUGHMORE also supported the amend ment. Earl GRANVILLE said that under the clause a land lord was asked to give notice of his withholding his assent to proposed improvements to the clerk of the peace within three months, and it might be assumed that, if a landlord took no notice of the matter within that period, he had no objection to the improvements proposed. After some further discussion, in which several noble Lords took part, _ . The clause, as amended, w©s agreed to. The clauses up to 54 inclusive were agreed to. The remaining clauses were agreed to, and their lordship' resumed. CONJUGAL RIGHTS (SCOTLAND) BILL. Their lordships went into committee on this bill. The LORD CHANCELLOR said the object of this bill was to render sentences of divorce pronounced by the Scot tish Courts valid all over the Empire, and he proposed that the operation of the act should be limited to parties born or domiciled in that country. The bill passed through committee, and was reported without amendments to the house. COAST OF AFRICA, &c., ACT AMENDMENT BILL, This bill passed through committee. CROWN DEBTS AND JUDGMENTS BILL. The amendments of this bill were considered and agreed MILITIA ACT AMENDMENT BILL. This bill was read a third time and passed. DEBTORS AND CREDITORS ACT AMENDMENT BILL. Lord BROUGHAM moved, " That as regards the Debtors and Creditors Act Amendment Bill, inasmuch as persons in actual custody, who were to be released by the Bankruptcy Bill lately withdrawn, had relied upon that bill being proceeded with, and had not considered any amendment of the Debtors and Creditors Act was required, the circumstances which required legislation on the subject matter of the said bill are of such urgency as to render the immediate consideration of the same necessary." The - motion having been agreed to, Lord BROUGHAM then moved that the bill be read a second time, which was also agreed to. METROPOLITAN POLICE FORCE DOCKYARDS BILL. This bill was read a third time and passed. HERITABLE SECURITIES, &c. (SCOTLAND) BILL This bill was read a third tinge and passed. MAYNOOTH COLLEGE BILL. Lord REDESDALE protested against what he con• sidersd a very unjust provision of it, which created a charge of £650 per annum for some time upon the students of the college. The Duke of LEINSTER defendel the bill. The bill was then read a third time and passed. The Bank of Ireland Bill and the Weights and Measures (Ireland) Bill were severally read a third time. The Sheriff Court-houses (Scotland) Bill was read a third time and passed. THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT (1858) AMEND- MENT BILL. The report of amendment on this bill was brought up and agreed to. Tho Common Law Procedure (Ireland) Act Bill, Copy hold and Enclosure Commissions Bill, and Turnpike Trusts Arrangements Bill were severally read a third time and passed. MILITIA BALLOT BILL. This bill passed through committee. SMITHFIELD MARKETS, STREETS, AND IMPROVEMENTS BILL. This bill was read a third time and passed, as were also the following bills :—Prisons (Scotland) Bill, Police and Towns Improvement (Scotland) Act Amendment Bill, and County Coroners Bill. The Industrial Museum (Scotland) Bill passed through committee, and the house adjourned at ten minutes to 12 o'clock. HOUSE OF CO MMONS. —(YESTERDAY.) FORTIFICATIONS AND WORKS. The house again went into committee on a* vote for £2,000,000 for fortifications and works moved by Lord Palmerston. Mr. LINDSAY moved the following amendment : That, as the main defence of Great Britain against ag gression depends on an efficient navy, it is not expedient to enter into a largo expenditure on permanent land fortifica tions." Mr. H. BERKELEY seconded the amendment in a humorous speech. Mr. S. HERBERT, who, in consequence of his fre quently turning his back to the reporters and speaking to the members behind him, was very indistinctly heard in the gallery, observed that the two speeches in which the amendment had been moved and supported, required som e notice from him. In the first place, he thought his gallant friend behind him was somewhat too credulous as to the state of preparation in which this country was, and espe cially as to the present condition of the ordnance, when he depended upon the statements of a French officer. His gallant friend said that he had met a French officer who told him that all our ships were about to be armed with smooth bored guns, while France had 600 rifled guns in her fleet. Now, that statement he (Mr. S. Herbert) could meet with a direct denial. In the first place, he did not believe that France had got 600 rifled guns on board her ships They had, he knew, rifled a considerable number of cast iron guns, and it happened to them as it happened to us, that whenever those guns came to be tested as guns ought to be tested that were intended for real service, they failed. (Hear) hear.) The consequence of sack failure was that France had now taken a different course, and no doubt, would, in the end, succeed in making excellent rifled guns. Then said his gallant friend, this French officer asked where was Sir W. Armstrong and his guns ? and his gallant friend added quoting the opinion of the right hon. and gallant officer op posite (General Peel), as to the excellence of the Armstrong gun, that they would shortly be produced in such numbers that they would very soon altogether displace the existing armaments. "Great is Armstrong, and Peel; is his pro phet." Now he (Mr. S. Herbert) could inform his gallant friend that the Armstrong had been delivered at the rate of 12 guns a wee k. [Au HON. MEMBER, " What size ?"] N AP IER-" What weight ?"1 45. [Sir C. He could not tell the weightybut they would soon have 8 0-pounders, Besides these they had now 12 batteries of rifled cannon manned and horsed complete, numbering 72 guns. (Hear, hear.) He mentioned these facts to dispel misapprehensions that were going a broad that the Ordnanc e d e p ar t men t was i n an inefficient state, and that we were about to lose the advantages which these great scientific in ventions in the art of gunnery were calculated to give. (Hear.) The hon. gentleman (Mr. Lindsay) said that inva sion was impossible—that it would be useless for less than 100,000 men to come, if they came at all; and that if they m o w e d in effecting a iauclittg) notate of tllera would ever return to his own country. Now he was not going to dis cuss with the hon. gentleman what would be the number of men with which it would be possible to invade this country, because upon that his opinion would be worth no more than that of any other member who was not an authority on mi litary matters—he would only say that the views of the hon. gentleman were not those more than once expressed by a great master of the art of invasion, who had long contem plated the possibility of an invasion of England. M. Thiers told them that the Emperor Napoleon said in reference to this subject, "If I made an attack on England I should have to throw 60,000 men upon the English coast ; to con quer England, and subject the English people would be a chimerical idea ; but with such a force I wovdd make a de scent upon her coasts, occasion her great nal schief, destroy an enormous mass of property, and strike a panic through a country which depends upon its safety aril security as the means of carrying on its industrial pursuits;, and for such an object it might be worth while to make the: attempt." What might be the ultimate fate of the 60,01)0 men who com posed the invading army he did not knot v ; but the opinion of Napoleon was that the attempt, if rop.do, would succeed in causing so much mischief and loss to this country that under certain circumstances an enemy would be justified in making it. But, said the hon. gentlem an, " we should in the meanwhile be revolutionising France,." He (Mr. S. Her bert) would not go into the question how far it might be possible to succeed in that object; he would only remind the hon. gentleman that the pres ent Emperor of France was firmly seated upon his throne ; that he perfectly under stood the people he ruled—few sovereigns indeed so well ; and he would also remind the blon. gentleman that we tried in the last war to revolutionis o France when it was dis turbed by hostile factions and conflicting chains, and that we miserably failed in the attem pt. (Hear.) Then the hon. gentleman said the navy was the true defence of England. Who doubted it ? Was it proposed in supplementing it by defences on land to abandon that main and chief line of de fence ? Not at all. Every man of sense knew that we had an hereditary prestige on the seas, and we kept up an enor mous and powerful navy to maintain that prestige, mad that naval superiority which must always be our chief and first line of defence ; but that was no reason why it should not be supported by defences on shore. The hon. gentleman gave it as his opinion that the introduction of steam, and its application to the purposes of navigation, was rather an advantage to the invaded than the invader. In opposition to that view he took the opinion of naval officers of high authority with whom he had conversed, and they told him that the introduction of steam had to a great extent deprived us of the power of blockade. In former ti sokumes,ew w lon:f might s ig th h e t wind blew from a particular quarter, we sleep safe in our beds, for the enemy's fleet could not come out, while a blockading squadron could always be main tained to keep their ships in port, but now all that was changed. The steam might be got np in the night, and the invading fleet be off our coasts, and perhaps a lan ding ef fected, before the blockading squadron knew that they had sailed. The hon. gentleman, alluding to a document which within the last few days had appeared in the public prints, said, " but the Emperor of France has written a letter ex pressing anxiety to maintain the most friendly relations with this country, and speaking of his army and navy as not being of a size calculated to create alarm on the part of any foreign nation;" and the hon. gentleman added that he firmly believed the Emperor of France was in earnest in wishing to maintain peace with this country. He (Mr. S. Herbert) was not prepared to offer any denial to that state ment; but the hon. gentleman should remember that cir cumstances were someti mes stronger than men. (Hear, hear.) But if the Emperor of France was anxious for peace, he had almost got peace in his own hands. No nation would attack France, least of all England. (Hear, bear.) England would engage in no European war unless she was herself attacked. The whole of our prosperity de pended upon the maintenance of peace; and ho believed there existed generally in this country a feeling that war, unless forced upon us and in self-defence, was a crying sin. (Hear.) He did not believe that in the whole of England there was a man who wished for war, and that there were very few who did not pray that such a terrible calamity might be averted. Then what was the conduct of the Em peror of the French, with which, under the circumstances he described, he (Mr. S. Herbert) had no cause of com plaint ? He was at this moment, and had been for a long time past, strengthening the fortifications of Cherbourg, L' Orient, Rochefort, and Brest. Of that we had no right to complain. We had no right to complain of any sove reign putting his own coasts in a state of defence. Nor, on the other hand, had any foreign power a right to complain of our putting ourselves in a state of defence. (Hear.) But we had even a batter right to do so than France in this re spect, that the fortifications and defences of our dockyards and arsenals were much weaker than those of France ; and secondly, that a navy was an arm more vital to us than to any country in the world. The hon. gentleman had quoted the authority of a French officer. He (Mr. S. Herbert) re membered a great French authority, whom he saw some years ago when he was here with Louis Philippe, saying, "You have the finest fleet in the world, and a large amount of important property in your dockyards and ar senals, yet you make no effort to protect it from attack." Since then no doubt great improvements had been made, and there had been considerable progress during the last ten years, especially in strengthening the works and forti fications of the dockyards and on our coasts. Let it not, then, be said, as had been two or three times repeated, "Have nothing to do with this newfangled idea of fortifi cations—Portsmouth was fortified, Chatham was fortified, and Plymouth was fortified." Mr. H. BERKELEY—I said fortifications to stand a siege. Mr, S. HERBERT—Then his gallant friend meant not that there should be no fortifications, but that we should have no fortifications that would stand a siege. (Hear.) But that was precisely what they wanted to prevent. (Hear, hear.) They desired not only that we should be secure against a coup de main, but that we should be protected against any attempt to destroy our dockyards and ships by a regular siege. (Hear.) He need hardly quote authorities at this time of day to show that fortifications were useful. This was sufficiently proved in the last great continental war—when frequently small bodies of troops operating behind fortifications were enabled to resist powerful armies. It was the same at Silistria and at Kars. But it had been said fortifying your coasts is needless, your fleet is your defence ; and if by accident an enemy's squadron did make a descent on our coast, his ships would never get back. But what happened at the commencement of the last war ? In 1796, notwithstanding our blockade of the French ports, a French fleet of seven sail of the line, with transports and frigates, sailed out and entered Bantry Bay, landing a force under General Roche. The expedition was defeated and dispersed, but the ships all got back. In 1798 a French fleet of nine sail, with troops, reached Ire land, but was defeated by Sir J. Warren. In the same year there was another expedition reached Killain Bay. Again, in 1797 four French frigates entered Bristol, and destroyed several ships and much merchandise, afterwards landing a body of troops at Fishguard, which was, in the end, compelled, it was true, to capitulate. But the troops arrived, and landed on our coast, and had they been more numerous would have dole infinitely more mischief, and this at the time when the French ports were blockaded by our fleets, and our navy was flushed with the successes of St. Vincent and the Nile. This showed that it was not impos sible for a hostile fleet to assail our coasts under circum stances of greater difficulty than now existed. The value of earthworks was mentioned the other night in connexion with the siege of Sebastopol ; but it was a mistake to suppose that more earthworks were sufficient, or that the defences erected on the instant on the south side of Sebastopol would have been any sufficient protection if the more important defences in the north had not existed ? Napoleon 1., in reply to the question, what was the use of fortifying a camp ? asked, how was it possible for troops to manoeuvre without such protection ? Then, what did they see on all sides ? Not only France, but Russia, Prussia, Austria, and all continental nations were strengthening their defences by fortifying their coasts and frontiers. If there was any country which more than another was dependent on fortifi cations whenever her sea line was broken it was England. Our regular army was small, and we should be compelled to depend upon raw levies. The hon. gentleman said raw levies were sufficient, and he (Mr. S. Herbert) believed that raw levies of Englishmen had performed great achievments. The objection, don't adopt fortifications because it was a new-fangled idea, might be urged with far more force against the Armstrong gun, the Enfield rifle, or any modern im provement. He (Mr. S. Herbert) would ask, taking the question in the lowest point of view—that of pounds, shil lings, and pence—what was the cost of fortifications as com pared with the cost of soldiers and the sacrifice of human life f But was it any reason that they should sacrifice their men because some hon. gentlemen had a contempt for what they called such " new-fangled things" as fortifications, which, by the way, we had had for upwards of 300 years (Hear.) He supposed he was not quite justified in alluding to the motion on the table of the hon. member for Birming• ham, which differed in some respects from that of the hon. gentleman who moved another resolution, but it seemeetto him (Mr. S. Herbert) that, always supposing they were not acting like lunatics, which the hon. member for Birming ham seemed to think, they could not-accede to his motion. The hon. member for Birmingham was a great believer in the " Vox populi vox Dei" maxim, and therefore he ought to be aware that the whole country was sentient of alarm on this subject, and that there well might be in the minds of an immense majority of the people some cause for alarm, and that therefore the Government ought to deal with the whole of this question as soon as they could. He (Mr. S. Herbert) did not think we should be wise in neglect ing any details which in their opinion were necessary, and they had arrived at the conclusion that we were not in that state of defence which so great, and powerful, and rich a nation ought to be. (Hear, hear.) One great means of maintaining peace, no doubt, was a prudent and pacific policy. (Hear.) We ought, in our foreign relations, to show an appreciation for the rights and feelings of other people. If all nations did that, there would be no danger of war ; but at the same time, knowing that we must com port ourselves pacifically to other nations, we must also deprive other nations of the temptation of attacking us (Hear, hear.) With that view the Government had ap pointed a commission, whose report now lay on the table. He remembered that last year a motion was made by an hon. member to the effect, that they should no longer deal with this question by voting year after year small sums, but that they should by some well-eousider94 and compre. 17 Fi i 119 184 1224 1 201 731 4 31 I 1101 f 112} 4 13 12 1041 54 44 96 5} 421 i 128 i 9 81 22 65 i it i lei 56 Si 85j 141 617 6 1 89 8i 1 68} 8 Ilf I 4- i 100 5 all all 100 100 100 100 8.13.4. 100 100 100 all all s. d. 4 6 5 2 5 0 5 2 5 10 hensive effort attempt to do that which would put them in a state of security at once. That metion was discussed in that house, and he was certain that if the Government had not given it to be understood that they intended seriously to consider this matter, that motion would have been carried. Well, that commission had brought for ward a very masterly report, which declared that it was our duty to defend ourselves by the best means which science and art could afford us. (Hear, hear.) That report was now before the house, and he would not, therefore, go into any details upon it ; but if the house should be of opinion that the whole of this supposed weakness of our dockyards and arsenals was purely imaginary, and that fortifications was not the way to defend them, but, on the Spartan principle, that we should trust to flesh and blood, that house would reject the resolution of the noble lord, and it would be for the Government to say what they would do under the pres sure of a responsibility so heavy. But his belief was that that house fully represented the feelings of the country on this subject. (Hear, hear.) They might have discussions as to the how and the when and the where, but ho believed it was the unanimous opinion of the country that they ought not to allow those great depositories of their naval strength to lie at the mercy of any one. (blear, hear.) He had heard it said by some we ought to increase our standing army ; but there were 15 battalions now due to us—three on the sea coming from India, three more promised by India and nine in China. But with a large force of volun teers they must take measures to release from garrison duty as large an amount of the regular army as they could spare for duty in the field. His hon. friend (Mr. H. Berkeley) quoted a gallant officer, Sir M. Berkeley, who told them not to spend anything on fortifications. He (Mr. S. Herbert) had been told by seamen to trust to ships, and ships alone ; he was told by artillerymen to trust to trained gunners ; he had been told by officers of the line to trust to the military only—in fact it was the old story of " Nothing like leather." (Hear, hear, and a laugh.) The Government had appointed a commission which surveyed the whole of the neighbour hood of London, and the whole coasts of England, Ireland, and Scotland, and by means of that commission the house had got together an enormous amount of informationwhich in case of hostilities would be invaluable to officers in. com mand. (Hear.) He believed the amount of stores collected was very great. He heard a gallant officer say that our great fortresses had only 150 rounds of artillery ; but he (Mr. S. Herbert) had got a return which showed that those fortresses had got, some of them 350 rounds, and some of them as much as 1,000 rounds, and he did not believe those fortresses were ever better stocked than they were at present. He had stated now to the house that he believed the country saw the necessity and believed in the wisdom of the measure which Government proposed. The Government had not put themselves blindfold into the hands of engineers, or of ar tillery or naval officers—they had taken counsel from all as to the best means of putting the country in a proper state of defence. The Government did not pretend to say that those works would prevent invasion. No works, no navy, no army would do that. Invasion—meaning thereby the landing of troops—would be always a possibility ; but let them make these chief points invulnerable, and when they had made Portsmouth and Plymouth safe, they might concentrate their forces elsewhere. He believed that years hence, if these works were executed, gentlemen would be found who would say that they always predicted nobody would ever land at these places, and woad exclaim " See how you have wasted our money." But he (Mr. S. Herbert) would not be disturbed by those predictions. He should look upon an investment of money in defending those places as the best safeguard against the landing of an enemy. (Hear.) He hoped therefore the house would agree with him in thinking that the Government were only asking to hasten the completion of that system of works which the house had already one by one sanctioned. With these opi nions, and with the greatest confidence as to the result, he left the measure in the hands of the house, trusting to that patriotism which they had always disidayed in every mat ? ter in which the national safety and the national honour I were involved. (Loud cheers from both sides of the house.) Mr, BRIGHT said he had given notice of an amendment to the resolution of the noble lord, but his hon. friend the member for Sunderland was before him with an amendment not exactly of the same character, but which still, if earned, would have the same effect upon the resolution of the noble lord. It was not therefore his (Mr. Bright's) intention to move the amendment of which he had given notice, but lie would take that opportunity of making some observations upon the preseft stage at which they now found themselves. He wished to point out to the committee that the resolution of the noble lord, though it was of a simple character, and merely asked the house to vote a sum of money towards the defences of our dockyards and arsenals, and Dover and Portland, besides a central arsenal, of nearly £2,000,000, the right hon. gentleman (Mr. S. Herbert) said it was something like £5,000,000 they were going to divide upon. Ho thought the committee would deceive themselves if they imagined they were now discussing a question of £2,000,000 only, or £5,000,000 only; because they knew that the noble lord at the head of the Government had adopted almost in their entirety the propositions contained in the report of the Defence Commission, and he (Mr. Bright) thought he was warranted in saying from experience that whenever the Government undertook any great work or any small work the estimates were never adhered to, but, on the contrary, in some cases were doubled before the works were completed. He had no doubt, judging from the past, that if they voted what the noble lord asked them to do, they would vote what would turn out to be an expenditure of at least £20,000,000 sterling. (Tlear.) Let the com mittee remember that what the noble lord asked for did not include a central arsenal at Cannock Chase at all. But even that was not all, because there were countless millions more involved in the report of the Defence Com mission, and they expressed almost an unanimous opinion that we should have to largely increase our standing army, and that those very works which the noble lord asked them to vote for would be valueless unless they had some 70,000 mon to man and defend them. (Hear, hear.) Now he thought the noble lord at the head of the Government did the committee great injustice the other night when he brought forward this motion skithout any notice, or without giving an opportunity for discussing it. He (Mr. Bright) should like to ask the gentlemen who sat on that front bench (the Treasury bench) whether they were unanimous as to this expenditure, and whether they came before the house as a united Cabinet—(hear)—or whether this was a compromise to get over a quicksand which was in their midst. He did not believe that the Government did come before the house with unanimity on this great question. The late Sir R. Peel in 1851 discussed the value of military evidence. (The hon. member here read a passage in which Sir R. Peel warned the house against embarking in enor mous expense, on the authority of military officers). He (Mr. Bright) said the right hon. gentleman (Mr. S. Her bert) admitted he had taken the advice of naval and mili tary officers in this matter, and he (Mr. Bright) believed if the house adopted these resolutions they would absorb the whole industry of the country. (Hear, hear.) He had no doubt that many members of the house had had showers of military opinions brought to them by every post for some months past. He had not expected the discussion to come on this session, or he would have made a collection of them, and have extracted a few passages to show the house what kind of things were recommended for their adoption. One, and by no means an irrational man, proposed that as we had a standing army we should have also a standing navy —that we should have a force of 30,000 always on board the ships, and some 30,000 always in the marine barracks—that they should all be in a position to march on board at five minutes' notice; and he added, that then we should have the country admirably defended. (A laugh.) Another gentle man, Lieut.-Colonel Valentine Baker, of the 10th Hussars, had published a pamphlet, in which he recommended the establishment of a militia of 180,000 framed on the census and chosen by ballot, and the formation of a sort of national guard consisting of 500,000 men, who should be mustered for one day each year. (Laughter.) He (Mr. Bright) was not one of those who thought that, considering our means of defence. it might not be very advantageous to have a large volunteer force instead of an enormous standing army. Ho found that in Switzerland and in the United States—countries one of which was surrounded or partly encompassed by a perilous enemy, and the other a nation which marched with a high hand among the powers of the globe—there was no standing army, but the whole defence was committed to a volunteer force. if the house would only have the common sense to get rid of the noble lord the member for the City—not as member for the City, but as Foreign Minister—together with the Foreign-office and its delusions, policy, supersti tions, and absurdities, he thought it not at all unlikely that we might save three-fourths of all the expenditure now involved in the maintenance of that foreign policy, and whatever was required for the defence of a country, united and populous like this, might be had at comparatively no expense by the volunteer service of young men below middle age. (Hear, hear.) But Colonel Valentino Baker said that we must have contracts for earthworks all round London capable of being completed in a fort night, and that a small annual sum should be paid to the contractor as a compensation for his holding the contract,. so that whenever the enemies, who had been so long ex pected but had never come, were fairly on their way, in a single fortnight the contractors were to build earthwork fortifications all round London. Colonel Baker also recom mended that 20,000 metropolitan police should be armed and equipped, that there should be a volunteer force of 200,000, that there should be an entrenched camp at Alder shott and on Epsom Downs for 40,000 men each. Accord ing to Colonel Baker's scheme there would be a force of 1,072,000, the whole of which would not cost so much as the present plan of the Government. Then, again, proposals had been made by Colonel Jebb—a gentleman whom 20 years ago he (Mr. Bright) considered a very sensible man. (Laughter.) Colonel Jebb had published a pamphlet from which it appeared that he was in a state of great alarm as to the necessity of defending London. He proposed to begin at Tunbridge-Wells, to go on to Reigate, Guildford, Reading, and Henley, and probably he also included Colchester in his line of defence. Yet the gallant officer quoted with apparent approbation a n expression of Gen. Lewis, "It may be considered an axiom that no land ing could successfully be effected in the presence of 2,000 men well prepared." If he (M r. Bri g ht) had said anything of that kind he would have been treated as a person utterly ignorant and foolish in the matter. Surely, with railways all around the coast and telegraphs as frequent as railways it would not be difficult at any time to assemble 2,000 men at any g i ve n point. Next came Lieut. Gen. Mackintosh, who referred to a pamphlet recently published iu Paris, ala said that Ireland and that part of the kingdom should not be left with less than 30,000 infantry. These gentlemen might know something about military matters, but everybody did not know that a great number of the pamphlets published in France in reference to this. country were pamphlets p u b. lished by a certain party who believed that the best mode of overturning the present dynasty was to beget first dis trust and afterwards war between France and England. Probably many gentlemen who then heard him believed that the French Emperor by the present law could prevent any of these pamphlets being published, but the fact was that it was only by outstepping the law that that Govern ment could interfere with a pamphlet before it bad been published. It was not so with newspapers. A newspaper could be warned, and, after three warnings, suppressed, but there was no such law with regard to pamphlets ; and the miserable pamphlets issued from the Paris press, and quoted as proofs of the hostility of the French Government to Eng land, were the productions not of persons in favour of the French Government, but of those who were anxious, as he had just remarked, to create first distrust and then war be tween France and England, with a view of overturning the present dynasty and setting upon the throne some member of the two branches of that family now in exile. t Colonel Mackintosh said there must be a fort at the north of London, covering Hampstead and High gate, and he added, what might be consolatory to the hon. member for Lambeth if he happened to live on the other side of the water, that the north could be much more. readily defended than the south, inasmuch as the bridges could be broken down and the river rendered impassable. (A laugh.) He did not find in the proposition made by the , noble lord at the head of the Government that these recom mendations were adopted, and therefore as the noble lord himself was not a great military authority, and in politics; was very frequently mistaken and in error—(laughter)—lse must beg leave to form his own opinion upon a question ire reference to which there were so many councillors. II had in his possession two or three more extracts similar to those from which he had already quoted, and as they were f rom the writings of persons important as military nem lie thought he was entitled to ask the Government wb o was the authority they followed, how far they went, and how much they would expend in the impossible object they had in view ? Gen. Sir R. Gardner, an officer well acquainted with fortifications and who was only the other day Governor of Gibraltar, though he certainly had not shone with any lustre as a statesman and a governor, said in a pamphlet which he had sent about most industriously, that an ex penditure of twenty millions would not be sufficient for the additional fortification required. Lieutenant -General Ken nedy, in a new edition of his pamphlet, proposed to fortify- London by surrounding it with a line of forts, each armed with 40 guns and with 500 men, extending in a circumfer ence through Hammersmith, Wormwood Scrubs, Willes den- green, Hampstead, Tottenham, ever the River Lea, to Deptford, Norwood, Streatham, an d W an d sworth. A writer in the United Service Maga z i ne , who he presum e d combined the authority of the ar m y and naey, said in a lat e number, " The steam navy alone required should consist of no less than 1,056 vessels of all sorts of which we are at present deficient ; 101 screw line -of-battle ships, 6 block ships, 74 steam frigates, 67 steam corvettes and sloops, 7 floating batteries or rams, 268 gunboats, and 8 6rnortar ves sels." Now . that was published in the United Service Magazine, a periodical read in military circles, and pre sumed by the editor not to be absolute idiotcy, or else it would not have been published. (Laughter.) Another writer in a pamphlet headed, " Invasion rendered impossible, by a member of the Royal Naval and Military Institution," proposed to place permanently along the open beaches, at the mouth of the rivers, all round our great road steads, and in front of all our sea-coast towns, long 32 pounder guns, at a distance of 30 yards apart. (Laughter.) No doubt, if the noble lord at the head of the Government had proposed something like this for a long extent of coast, many men who now laughed would have thought the pro positions the height of wisdom. (Laughter.) The scheme would give sixty guns to every mile, and each 'gun was to be manned by one captain and ten men, the men to cousin of paid volunteers from the towns and villages on the coast and a few miles inland. Assuming that there were 300 miles of coast line in Great Britain that needed defending, 13,000 guns would be required, with 18,000 captains, and 180,000 men. M. Brialmont, who published a History of the Battle of Waterloo; or, a Life of the Duke of Welling ton,. whose father was' a great authority, and supposed to be the eldest officer in Europe, said there must be an enor mous increase of the fortifications of Chatham, a new for tress at Guildford, and a great depot, with a vast entrenched camp at Croydon, adding that these works, with the re-or ganisation of the Englis'a army on the basis of the con scription, would render England invincible at home. M. Brialmont's plan also involved the augmentation of th e standing army, and the erection of a grand strategical pivot in the south, in the neighbourhood of London. He now came to the proposition of the commission. The come missioners said very early in their report that " having carefully weighed certain foregoing considerations, we are led to the opinion that neither our fleet, nor our standing army, nor our volunteer force, nor even the three combined, can be relied on as sufficient in themselves for the se curity of the kingdom against foreign invasion." Their report proceeded upon a desponding principle through out. They assumed that there would be some grand combination of all the maritime nations of the earth against England, but if we pursued a policy of justice and courtesy in dealing with foreign na tions he (Mr. Bright) believed that a combination of the great maritime powers against this country was absolutely impossible. The commissioners talked of a a sudden naval combination, but there could bet none. How long did it take to negotiate the smallest and most inconsiderable matter ? We learned here by every day's post, and sometimes befove the hand of the clock had marked here what it had marked eastward, the negotiations, and plots, and conspiracies which were being hatched in the courts of Europe, and yet these seven men talked about a sudden naval combination among the maritime nations. The right hon. gentleman. who had just addressed the house said nothing could be more carefully drawn and better considered than this report, and yet he (Mr. Bright) declared without the slightest hesita - tion that he had never read anything of an official cha racter so utterly incoherent, illogical, and absurd. (Laughter and cheers.) They said that with the powers of concentration steam now afforded, a force could be assembled before daylight upon any point selected for an attempt and thrown upon the shores in two or three hours. That was just the sort of twaddle, just the sort of stuff which filled up the columns of the Morning Adver tiser. (Great laughter.) He could scarcely conceive how seven gentlemen—major -generals, admirals, captains, F.R.S.'s, and everything else, could offer to the Queen and Parliament a report containing such monstrous absurdities. (Laughter.) They went on to say that without secure forts behind which the fleet could find refuge in case of disas ters, certain things must occur. The whole report pro ceeded upon the assumption that nothing was to be met with but disaster. We might for 300 years have had nothing but naval disaster in our history to justify the tone these gentlemen took. (Hear, hear.) They said, with an attempt at fairness which made the thing much worse, " Doubtless the defence would be somewhat aided by the railways and telegraphs." When they wanted to say what France could do they related the powers of her steam boats, railways and telegraphs, but when they wished to say what we could do, they simply said, " doubtless the defence would be somewhat aided by railways and tele graphs." The whole thing was a foregone conclusion, and the commissioners need not have stepped beyond the threshold of their own office to have considered their re port. On the contrary, they might have gathered all these absurd paragraphs from any newspaper in London, without. any scientific inquiry at all. (Hear, hear.) The noble , lord had inserted in the resolution " works to protect th e harbours of Dover and Portland." But the commissioners said the defences of Dover were worth very little, and if they did not happen to be there, they did not know that they would reoemmend any expenditure at Dover at all. Consequently we had fortifications which did not defend any one, and for which there was no necessity, and we were to be put to an expense of £350,000 in adding to them. (Hear, hear.) It was said now that Dover was to be made a harbour of refuge, it was more necessary to have these defences, but why should harbours of refuge be de fended as if ships entered them for the purpose of making them their permanent abode ? With regard to Portland,. the commissioners said there was no naval establish ment there, and that so far as they were aware, it was not intended to form one ; and yet they proposed to expend £630,000 in the defence of the roadstead and harbour of Portland. He wished that some gentleman accurately in formed upon military matters could have gone through the evidence given before the commission, so as to have given to the house a picture of its gross and ludicrous inconsistencies. A Colonel Bingham was examined, who , said the Government would require for these works 72,000 trained and 108,000 untrained men, making 180,000 ate' - gether. He further said that there were required for rile defence of the dockyards, towns, and batteries on the 'coast more than 3,000 guns, but he told them at . th t e ta seen v 'e time an arsenal. that at present there were not men sufficient eork the Maitland, 1,000 now existing. Then again Admiral l at S ne Captain Sullivan, and others told them n forts could frankness, mean, of great in tb.e present state of ge in t g a o bili d ty es an trop prevent iron-plated ships Sir J. Burgoyne, of Undoubted army 4tohemifileesld; Portsmouth gunnery it would honesty and from 30 to lines ran b g e mg impossible to defend He and (Mr. he. r. Bright was talking the other day to a gentleman who did wouldwithout rather trust to an not seem to be much in favour with the Secretary for War, but who was for all that the greatest machinist in England, Mr. Whitworth, of Manchester. (Hear, hear.) That gen tleman told him that he would undertake to throw a 701 b. shell filled with molten iron six miles. 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