The Sun. — London, England, 1859-10-07 00:00:00

2HE NAVY. Since the Trusty, 14, steam floating battery, re turned to her former moorings opposite Upnor Castle, Chatham, she has undergone an examina tion in order to ascertain the amount of injaries she met with during the experiments that were made on her with the view of testing her capabi lities of resisting the effects of the shot fired from. the Armstrong cannons at Shoebnryness. The re sult of the survey has demonstrated that this new kind of iron-cased floating batteries presents com paratively no resistance whatever to the shots from the Armstrong guns. Although the Trusty is covered with massive wrought-iron plates, of ex traordinary thickness, yet every shot that struck them shivered the plates to pieces and entered the vessel; some of the shots, it is evident from the examination, having passed through the iron plates and beams of the battery on one side, and through the timber and iron casing of the vessel on the other. The battery presents the appearance of having been most severely handled ; and it is the unanimous opinion of the officers and others who have exa mined her that vessels of this class will be found to be almost entirely useless when fired upon by guns of the Armstrong class. The Admiralty yacht Vivid, H. W. Allen, master, left Woolwich yesterday for Dover, to embark the Royal Commissioners engaged in the survey of the coasts and marine fortifications of Great Britain. The building of her Majesty's 91 gun ship Bris tol has commenced at Woolwich, on the slip from which the Galatea was recently launched, and is ordered to be carried on with the utmost despatch. The Bristol will be of the same dimensions as and in every respect similar to the Anson, laid down at Woolwich in February last. Her total length will be -about 300 feet. The freight-ships Champion and Osprey have ar rived at Woolwich for the shipment of shot, shell, and military stores. The paddlewheel steam storeship Dee, Master T. C. H. Pullen, from Woolwich, arrived at Plymouth on Tuesday, with large boilers for the Narcissus. She went into Keyham basin to discharge. The steam sloop Virago, Commander M. Dunn, left Plymouth on Tuesday, with supernumeraries for Portsmouth. The mizen mast and !bowsprit of the flagship Royal Albert, 121, at Plymouth, are defective, which will involve a longer delay in the dockyard. The paddlewheel steamvessel Locust, 3, Lieut. Field, from Portsmouth, arrived at Plymouth on Wednesday, with 45 supernumeraries for the guard ship Impregnable and the Imperieuse. The screw steam corvette Pearl, 21, Capt. John Borlase, C. 8., from Portsmouth, arrived at Ply mouth on Wednesday afternoon. Her feed pipe has burst, and will have to be made good before she sails for China. The screw steamship Donegal, 101, Capt. Glan ville, from Liverpool, arrived at Plymouth on Wed nesday afternoon. The name of the seaman unfor tunately • drowned in the Mersey is James Rose. He clung to the lead-line, but was drawn under the current, as the ship was under steam and canvas. Four seamen jumped overboard to save him. Dur ing her stay at Liverpool the Donegal shipped 98 men. A court-martial will assemble.to-day (Friday) to try a private of Marines, on a charge of stabbing his sergeant. The gunboat Hind, from Falmouth, arrived at Plymouth on Wednesday with supernumeraries. The screw steamship Topaze, 51, Capt. the Hon. W. H. Spencer, in Plymouth ound, is ordered to prepare for foreign service. She has embarked 100 boys for distribution at her new station. Letters have been received at Plymouth from the screw steamship Orion, Captain J. J. Frere, dated Gibraltar, Sept. 4 She left Malta on the 12th, and arrived at Gibraltar on the 23d. On the passage sfie sprung her maintopsail yard, and lost a man, who was drowned. The crew had not yet been paid bounty. In port were the Marlborough, Orion, Princess Royal, Conqueror, Centurion, and Victor Emmanuel. Five were expected to be sent home shortly. The Russian squadron at Spithead, comprising the screw frigate Ilia Mourometz, 53, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Nordmann ; screw liner Gan goud, 84 ; and the screw corvette Vohl, 11, left that anchorage yesterday afternoon, under steam for the Mediterranean. The Ilia Mourometz exchanged the customary salutes with the military and naval au thorities on leaving, the saluting battery on King's Bastion replying on behalf of the Governor, and , the Mars, 80, at Spithead, on behalf of Admiral Bowles, the commander-in-chief. A Russian screw sloop, one of the three vessels expected at Spithead from Cronstadt, on their way to the Amoor river, arrived at that anchorage yesterday as the above vessels were getting under weigh. Mr. J. C. Ingles was yesterday appointed sur geon additional to the Nile. THE ARMY. In order to induce skilled mechanics and handi craftsmen to join the corps of Royal Engineers, the authorities have it in contemplation to raise the bounty money now given to recruits from £3, the sum now handed to each recruit in that branch of the service, to at least double that amount. Eight officers, 139 non-commissioned officers and privates, and 104 horses of the 13th Light Dra goons embarked at the North Wall, Dublin, on board the Iberia steamship, for Glasgow, on the way to Edinburgh. In order to benefit by the advanced progress of Sir W. Armstrong's rifled ordnance factory of Woolwich, is has been decided, at a meeting of the select committee of the Arsenal, Col. St. George, R.A., C. 8., president, Capt. Sir W. Wiseman, Bart., R.N., vice-president, Col. Robinson, R.E., Col. Greathed, C. 8., D.C.L., and Col. Smythe, R.A., members of the committee, Sir Ben. Hawes, K.C.8., Deputy Secretary at War, Sir Wm. Arm strong, C. 8., superintendent, and Mr. Anderson, director of the rifled ordnance department of Go vernment at Woolwich, to manufacture forthwith, at the Elswick and Woolwich factories, a large number of rifled guns of various sizes—namely, of 100, 50, 25 12, and 6 pound calibre—to carry th e elongated shot and shell. It is said to be in con templation to complete with as little delay as pos sible a number of 12 and 6-pounders to be reserved for transmission, if required on any future emer gency, by the overland conveyance to China for gunb )at use. Gun-carriages, intended for Sir 'W. Armstrong's 12 and 6-pound guns, are in course of construction on an improved principle, suggested by Col. Tulloch, superintendent of the Royal car riage department. The new carriages are fitted with mechanical appliances, under the control of a single gunner seated on the limber, so as to point the gun in any direction, and elevate or reduce the range, without labour or exertion. A sample car riage of the above-named description has been em ployed on trial, and approved. The Northumberland Artillery Militia underwent review inspection on the grounds of Tyncmouth garrison on Tuesday afternoon. They went through their evolutions and handled the great guns in a soldierlike manner. Some German officers were pre sent, and they appeared to be much struck by the stout and healthy appearance of the men, and the manner in which they went through their exercises. The regiment is in a very high state of efficiency and is highly creditable to the officers. LONDON COFFEE AND EA TING-HO USE KEEPERS' ASSOCIATION. This association held their monthly committee meeting on Monday evening at the Freemasons' Tavern, and after passing the minutes of the last board, the only business of importance transacted was the proposition of J. S. Wisedell, which was duly seconded by W. Alldis, that the annual ball should take place early in January next ; after which the committee adjourned to their annual supper. Upwards of seventy gentlemen sat down to table, and the chair was filled by Mr. Eldred, president. After the usual loyal toasts had been duly honoured, The CHAIRMAN proposed " Success to the Coffee and Eating-house-keepers, Benevolent Associa tion," of which there was good augury from the in creased number of members who attended the pre sent meeting. (Cheers.) Mr. SHERWOOD proposed " The health of the President, Mr. Eldred," and congratulated the society on its esent position and prospects. The. CHAIR ITAN returned thanks, and said that the humble exertions which had met met their kind approval should be most cheerfully continued. (( heers.) " The health of Mr. Thomas Sherwood, the Treasurer," was proposed aid acknowledged, as were also the toasts of " The Committee," and " The past Presidents of the Association." • The CHAIRMAN proposed " The health of their indefatigable Secretary, :q r . Rogers," who was, he believed, almost the founder an the father of the society. (Cheers.) Mr. ROGERS acknowledged the compliment they h a d kindly paid him ; and in doing so, observed that the society was now 22 years established, and having overcome the preliminary difficulties usual in such cases, they had now a fund of £4,000 (cheers)—after having distributed £1,300 to the widow and orphan. (Cheers.) There were no less than 2,000 members of the united trade in the metropolis, and considering the small annual pay ment required, half a guinea a-year, they might necessarily look for ample support in the good work in which the society was engaged. (Cheers.) Several songs were very effectively sung by Messrs. Ryder and Bates,. ,which materially en hanced the enjoyment of the evening. PETE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 7, 1859. REFORM - BRIBERY - FOREIGN AFFAIRS. (From the Plymouth Journal.) Lord John Russell has been installed a freeman of Aberdeen, and, according to custom, has im proved the occasion by a speech, which, though ad dressed to a provincial municipality, has an interest for the whole empire, and, indeed, for all Europe. First and foremost he takes up his tradition of Reform. This is the question which, above all others, concerns us most ; for in it all the elements of good government are kernelled. On the true representation of the people in Parliament hinges the whole theory of political progress. Would we have retrenchment of the public expenditure, an improved organisation of the army and navy, ex tension of the principles of free trade, a safe but dignified foreign policy, and, in short, an effective administration, equal to the wants, the position, and the responsibilities of the country, the direct way to all these objects is to enlarge the basis of the House of Commons, so that it may really repre sent public opinion. Since the Reform Bill of 1832, every section of the nation has moved for ward in a manner, and to an extent, without parallel in history. This is a testimony to the effect of that measure, and it is now becoming a recognised fact, that social and political development are intimately allied. Our first Reform Bill was an experiment, and, at the time, was even a hazardous one ; for long misgovernment and rooted abuses had done their work, and the mass of the population was discontented. Every grievance was laid at the door of the Government, because the Government ' was itself a standing grievance, resting on an oligarchy and not on the people. Reform in vested Parliament with a new character, and opened a new era. Without it we should never have obtained free trade ; and our manufacturers would still be crushed by monopoly, while our operatives might be crying for bread. After a quarter of a century of advancement, which has almost doubled the population and changed tho whole face of the country, in one place almost effac ing towns of ancient importance, in another convert ing obscure villages into ports and cities, we ask for an extension of this great charter. What was then the semblance of a representation, has now, by the altered condition of the country, become its shadow. We keep up the fiction of a House of Com mons, but it no longer deserves the name. It is rather a lower chamber of the Lords, with an in fusion of manufacturers and capitalists. And what does Lord John Russell promise us in its place ? What is his programme for the new Reform Bill ? He tells us we are not to look to him for organic changes. His whole career, from his first advocacy of Reform, tallies with this declaration ; and, as we are not among those who would Americanise the constitution, it is not one we shall quarrel with. Organic changes are not desired by the great body of the people. For the present, we are disposed to accept a moderate measure, believing that, in the actual state of parties, no other could be carried through Parliament. The object in view is to adjust the representation to the developments of popula tion, and the altered relation of classes. Un doudtedly Lord John Russell is correct in his view of the spirit of English institutions, that they do not aim to give every man a vote, but to vest this privilege in all who may be fitly trusted with it. But, if such be the end desired, no one will have the hardihood tosay it has been attained. The prac ' tices at the last general election, on the side of both Liberals and Tories, and the revelations daily made before the Gloucester Election Commission, clearly prove that large numbers of the existing constituen cies are corrupt beyond redemption. The seats of tkese rotten boroughs are openly bought and sold. It would appear that the agents of the Libe ral candidates, though enjoined to keep strictly within the pale of the law, have, in some places, been obliged to conform to the local usages, or to abandon the contest. The latter would certainly have been the more consistent course, but it is a suestion whether we should then have elicited such disclosures as those of Thompson, alias Thornton, and Clarke, alias Brettles, which must give an irresistible impulse to the cause of Reform. What will the advocates of small boroughs say to the family of the Coopeys, who always vote together, and never without a bribe? The Tories carried them off, though they were hard run by the Liberals, one of whom, hav ing his blood up, offered to advance £5 on the Tories, whatever might be given by the latter. The ordinary price of a Gloucester voter is £lO, but the Coopeys go in a lot for £2OO. Of course, the sys tem is not confined to Gloucester, though there are few close boroughs where it is so openly practised. We could name small constituencies in this county in which bribery is unknown, but these are excep tions, and corruption is the rule. To call such a system a representation of the people is an abuse of terms. It is a national scandal, from which we claim to be delivered, and there is no remedy but a genuine Reform Bill. In a large constituency ex tension of the franchise to all who contribute to national revenue will furnish a guarantee against bribery. If the Gloucester voters were as numerous as they ought to be they would not fetch ten pounds each, nor ten pence. Is it rational to ex pect that with such constituencies we can look for a reduction of taxation, or any of the other advan tages of good government ? If members pay down £2,000 for their seats it will be for some personal object, not from a desire to serve the public ; and, while such motives prevail, we must be content to pay £70,000,000 a year in taxes. Lord John Russell has promised a Reform Bill equal to our requirements, and we believe he will adhere to his pledge. The question, in his hands, still remains with the aristocracy, but let them not waste the time that remains; for if they now fail to effect an equitable settlement, the people will take it into their own hands, and the landed interest will have lost its opportunity. . Passing to foreign affairs, Lord John Russell feels the shackles of red tape, and speaks with more reserve. America and France, though without being named, each receive a hint, which may be taken either as an admonition or as a warning. In a war with America our commerce would un doubtedly suffer more than in the fiercest struggle with any other power; but it is certain that the loss of our antagonist would be as great as our own. Be this as it may, no section of the community is more jealous of our national honour than the com mercial classes ; and Lord John Russell shows this to be a natural result, for it is their interest, ex posed as they are to foreign aggressions; that the name of England should be respected. America and England have both a high part to play, and, as we lately remarked, they should both present to the world an example of mutual consideration and forbearance. Lord John declares that Eng land holds up a beacon to the nations ; America, as a kindred country, and a sister refuge of freedom, should aspire to do the same. But when an Ameri can general makes a descent on British territory— when he there draws the sword, and flings away the scabbard, bidding the British come on if they dare, it must be owned that our patience and all our feelings of amity are being tasked to the utmost. Even the American Government, indeed, has thought a collision so probable, under such a provo cation, that General Scott has been despatched in hot haste to supersede the arrogant Harvey ; and we hope this step may indicate that President Buchanan is not disposed to refer the dispute to the fatal arbitrament of the sword. To France, Lord John Russell speaks as plainly, though with the same discretion. Our neighbour is described under the myth of a firework manufac . . turer, with whom we are in dangerous proximity, and who amuses himself by throwing up rockets, which, rising aloft at all hours, keep us in constant fear of a conflagration. At present, the only pre caution we take is a heavy insurance, by keeping up a large army and navy; but Lord Johh warns the pyrotechnist that, if he persists in this course, he may some day bring the whole town about his ears, and have his factory suppressed. Cer tainly the Emperor Napoleon is evincing a spirit so aggressive as may alarm all Europe, while, at the same time, he shows that not the least reliance can be placed on his word. Only a few weeks ago he announced hisi retention of reducing his forces by land and sea, and we now hear of nothing but mighty armaments, which, from their peculiar character, can have no object but hostilities with England, his faithful ally. The peace of Villafranca falsified all his programme for Italy, and, whatever he may think, has not won for him the friendship of Austria. 'rhere can be no greater stigma on his policy than the circular just addresstd by Sardinia to the great European Courts. Here is an app ea l from apoleon drunk with success, to Napoleon sitting soberly in council of Europe. The King of Sardinia shows that, if the treaty of Villafranca be carried out—if the strong fortresses on his frontier are left in the Lands of Austria, and the Austrian Archdukes are again posted on his flank, he will be completely hemmed in, at the mercy of Austria whenever she chooses to attack. During the late war Italy made great efforts, and submitted to great sacrifices, even throwing aside her own locs.t jea lousies and traditions ; and now, by the proposed restoration of the Archdukes, she finds all her hopes frustrated. Her bearing through the crisis has commanded universal respect. We may smile at the aspirations of Tuscany for statues and pictures at such a time, but great popular movements are always attended with some extravagances ; and, perhaps, fainting spirits, amidst the difficulties sur rounding them, may derive encouragement from these presages of success. It must be confessed that some stimulus is required at the present moment. Rumour speaks again of a Congress, as the final adjudicator of the question, and Lord John Russell's declaration that England, so far as she can make her voice heard, will pronounce for Italy, may give the drooping Italians some courage. For our part, we have no•hope that a Congress will arrive at the only satisfactory solution the formation of a powerful Italian kingdom in Upper Italy ; and we would strongly discountenance the idea that Eng laza will do more than exert her influence for a cause which, though now claiming our support, Piedmont herself took out of our hands. TILE BUILDERS' STRIKE. Air, George Jotter, the - Secretary of the Trades' Conference sitting itt the Paviours' Aims, and, one of the leading represeritetives of the men now " on strike," has addressed us a letter, which we yes terday published, on certain po Lets recently in debate between the contending parties. With one exception these points are but of minor imporience. We have already said that in our opinion it would have been wiser in the masters to recognise the authority of the Conference, inasmuch as, whether its conduct had been laudable or otherwise, it was at any rate the authority acknowledged by the men. Recriminations, however, of this kind signify little or nothing to the real questions at issue, and these questions we think it now desirable to place before the public in a perspicuous form. How far Mr. Potter's general representations possess any value will appear as we proceed. The first great feature in the case was the "strike" —a term which has been since used to embrace all the events of the contest, but which, in reality, was only one transaction out of a series. The operatives engaged in the building trades had been prevailed upon to join in a demand upon the masters for ten hours' wages in exchange for nine hours' labour, and upon the refusal of the employers to concede such terms the men engaged at Messrs. Trollope's were deliberately called off their work by the Confer ence of the united trades, and directed to strike. The intention of the conference was to maintain these men out of contributions made by others, who were still to continue working for their respective employers on the terms repudiated at Messrs. Trol lope's, in order that funds might thus be secured for carrying on the struggle. It was expected that Messrs. Trollope would beunable to hold out against such indefinite force, and that when they had been thus coerced into surrender the same tactics should be employed against other building firms in succes sion until the whole trade had been brought under control. These plans, however, were frustrated by a combination of the masters, who, in self-defence, formed an association of their own, and resolved that when the men at Messrs. Ttrollope's had actu ally struck they would eachand all close their shops until Messrs. Trollope could resume work. This measure, which was effectually carried into execu tion, deprived the operatives of their expected funds, and placed the masters on a level, for power and union, with the men themselves. Accordingly, Mr. Noble, one of the conference committee, confessed in a public speech that, except for this proceeding, which was called the " lock-out," and which formed the second feature in the case, the men must have won, whereas they were now left in some straits for money. These • two acts—the " strike" on the part of the men, and the " lock-out" on the part of the masters—constitute the 'whole case up to a certain point, and up to this point it has now become evi dent that the masters were entirely in the right. The " lock-out," which Mr. Potter describes as a measure not to be exceeded for its tyranny, was an act of pure and necessary self-defence, as his own friends have been compelled to own. It was the inevitable sequel of the " strike," so that, unless the "strike" could be justified, those who concerted it must bear the odium of that and the " lock-out" too. So clear, however, is now the folly of the " strike" that nobody has so much as a word to say for it. The public saw at once that the "nine hours move ment" was utterly unjustifiable. The operatives of the building trades were neither underpaid nor overworked. These "poor men," as Mr. Potter now pathetically terms them, were men in receipt of as much daily pay as an ensign, and more than many a curate. For such wages they performed only the amount of work which can be legally exacted from women and children in factories, while that work itself was made as light as possible by trade usages, forbidding a man to exert his natural strength. In short, it could not be pretended that the men employed had anything to complain of, and the true design of the agitators was simply to quarter upon the employers a certain additional number of workmen who happened to be unem ployed. Of course, so preposterous a requisition could never be sustained, and we were told last week upon the very best authority that it never took well even With the working people themselves. All this is now clear, but it is not to be forgotten in a fair appreciation of the case that the contest com menced with an aggression on the part of the men since confessed to be without justification. At this point, however, the masters took another step. They resolved to resist, once for all, the dic tation and interference of those Trades' Unions by the agency of which the " strike" had been con cocted. The " strike" itself was but the climax of a long series of provocations, and at length they fairly turned to bay. Rejecting the nine hours' agitation altogether, as a preposition which might safely be left to fall by its own folly, they took *heir stand on a resolution directed not so' much to the existing controversy as to the security of trade for the future. They said they would take no unionists, or members of trade socie flee, into their employ, and they framed a " document" or " declaration," to be accepted by every applicant for work, which would bind him for the time to abstain from any connection with societies professing to interfere authoritatively be tween masters and men. At this the indignation of the Unionists was naturally great, for the measure, if enforced, would destroy all the machinery by which they hoped to " rule the destinies of trade," and reduce them to insignificance, not only on the present occasion, but in all future time. Stimu lated, therefore, by this conviction, and desirous also of escaping from the first false position to more tenable ground, they concentrated all their attacks on the " odious document," and, by the aid of some public sympathy, established a better kind of case. It must be remembered, however, even at this point, that the most to be said against, the masters was that they were going a little too far. On the mere principles of."the' controversy they were still right, and the men still wrong. The men had been the aggressors, and they had given mani fest provocation. All that was urged on their behalf—and it is not much for Mr. Potter to boast of—was that a very natural sentiment on the part of the masters had carried them rather beyond the mark. At length, however, and as the latest phase of the case, the masters are showing symptoms of reason able compromise, while the men are betraying a con sciousness of wrong. The masters have in some measure modified their views, and both in their ne gotiations with the masons, and in subsequent ex planations of the case, have appeared willing to fore. go the " declaration " if the several Trade Societies would consent to such a revision of their rules and bye-laws as would purge them of the obnoxious element. This, we believe, would satisfy the opinion of the public, but it is perfectly evident that the Unionists and their leaders regard such proposals with decided repugnance. The masons, although the masters were ready to stand by the very law of the land equitably interpreted, cried off instantly when this critical point was touched, and redoubled their agitation. The Paviours' Arms Conference has done little better, though , this is the point to which we alluded as forming an exception to , the general unimportance of Mi. Potter's com munication. He here tells us that his constituents " have agreed" to the proposed purgation of their rules and bye laws, but he proceeds to say that the agreement consists only in "adopting Mr. Ingram Travers's and Mr. Marsh Nelson's proposal to amal gamate our societies on the pattern of that of the Engineers." Now, we are by no means sure that the Amalgamated Engineers will furnish the model most desirable. If they do, the society must have undergone considerable changes since 1852, when it appeared before the public in no very favourable light. In any case, however, this proposition of a selected reference will bear no comparison with that of the masters, who offer to be bound by the decision either of any retired Judge of the Superior Courts, or of any eminent impartial authority what ever, and who, besides this, are content that this umpire himself shall be bound entirely by the spirit of the law. , Between these two proposals there is no room for hesitation. The masters ask plainly and distinctly for lawful protection, not only on their own behalf, but that of non •unionist workmen, and they ask for nothing more. The men speak by no means so frankly. The masons scarcely conceal their resolution to maintain the usages giving them a control over others. and, if Mr. George Potter can say anything better for his immediate friends, it must be by a more p i o raising offer than th a t described in his last epistle. —Times. [ADVERTISEMENT.}—EPPS's (Elorncoopathie CheiniFA) Cocoa.—This esteemed preparation is sold by the prin cipal grocers at Is. 6d. per lb., in Ilb., ilb., an,l packets. Each packet is labelled " James Epps, Homceo • pathic chemist, London." (AnvEnTisnmENT).—Holloways Pills for the cure of Dropsical Affections.—The causes of dropsy are very various. It is often engendered by the morbid state of :he system. When the circulation is sluggish, impoverishea, or impure, the first thing to•be done to effect a cure is to correct the depraved humours of the blood, and give tone to the stomach. They are a gentle but most effective aperient and purifier. They speedily put the whole system into order, and give the patient more strength and scum or health than perhaps he ever enjoyed before at any period of his life. Printed directions for the use of the pills are give n with. each box. They act most beneficially on stomach, liver, and kidneys. MR. ROWLAND HILL. The English press is seldom deliberately unjust in its criticism of distinguished public servants ; and if betrayed into a harsh judgment, founded on a misconception of facts, it rarely attempts to justify its blunder by abusing the victim of its in justice. But a leading contemporary has during the last two days made and repeated a violent and uncalled-for attack on one of the most experienced and meritorious officers in the public service—an attack, we venture to say, which the public, that has profited so largely by his labours, will not easily forget or forgive. There is hardly a single family in the country, that is not directly indebted to Mr. Rowland Hill's persevering and laborious exertions in the national work of postal reform. He has been engaged for 20 years in deviang aut.' carrying out a system of cheap and expeditious communioation, find during that time has ettbcted a revolution in the department over which he presides such as is. rarely accomplished in the lifetime of an individual. Yet the ?hoes, on the very slightest provocation, thinks it becoming to speak of this public servant as a conspirator against our national rights and liberties. On the faith of representa tions that are not only erroneous but false, it ranks him with Austrian informers and French spies. His past improvements in the machinery of the Post office are stigmatised as tyrannical " caprices." We have letter boxes attached to our hall doors ; there fore the Englishman's house is no longer his castle. London is divided into postal districts which in volve " the possession of immense local knowledge, and of acquaintance with arbitrary geography," in order to direct letters aright : therefore the liberty of the subject is destroyed. Finally there is a right and a wrong way of directing newspapers, and Mr. Rowland Hill having recommended the former, is represented as an official despot, issuing his " ukase" from St. Martin's-le-Grand. When he writes t• explain :the actual facts of the misrepre sented case, our contemporary treats him as a pre sumptuous upstart which it is its business not to reason with or oven listen to, but to put down. Now, even supposing the facts really were as re presented by our contemporary, this is hardly the tone to adopt towards a most meritorious public servant. All servants of the Crown are of course amenable to criticism, and must expect to be criti cised. But some consideration is due to those who through a long course of arduous duty have proved themselves not simply servants of the Crown, but benefactors of the public. Distinguished merit may at least claim to be treated with common courtesy. The zeal, energy, and public spirit which have been tested for 20 years, which have carried blessings to every home throughout the country, and won the gratitude of the nation, constitute, indeed, no im munity from censure. But these qualities uniformly manifested through such a term of service, are a fair plea in favour of inquiry and examination be fore a sweeping verdict of condemnation is pro nounced. - In the present case, however, there is really no ground for such a verdict at all. The charge brought against the Postmaster-General is simply false. An inquisitorial circular, it is alleged, was issued to the employes at the Liverpool Post office, by the authority of the Postmaster-General. This is untrue. No circular was sent to the clerks of the Liverpool office. A confidential note, contain ing the questions referred to, was addressed by the local Postmaster to a few of them for a special purpose. - Whether the note be wise or foolish, innocently or so criminally inquisitorial that it is the duty of the press, in the select language of our con temporary, "to drag it before the bar of public opinion and brand - it as intolerable," it was written and sent without the knowledge of the Postmaster-General. He knew nothing whatever of the pretended circular. It is something more than vapouricg on the part of the Times, therefore, to speak of it as an "outrage on the right of private life perpetrated by the Post-office Department ;" and to repeat in various phrase that " Mr. Rowland Hill has no right to torture the servants under his control." He has not done anything of the kind. The Liverpool Postmaster acted on his own re sponsibility, and he has been called upon by his superior for an explanation of his conduct. If Mr. Rowland Hill has not yet publicly pronounced any verdict on the act, it is fair to suppose it is because it is still under investigation. Why, under these circumstances, hasten to c:m - demn a public servant, and persist in reiterating an odious charge, when the facts on which it rests have been explicitly denied ? If our contemporary has forgotten Mr. Rowland Hill's great and memor able services, the country has not. There will be to sympathy with this hasty and groundless outcry against the man whose splendid administrative re forms in one of the most important and far-reaching departments of the public service have won the gra titude and admiration not only of England but of the whole civilised world. The Times characterises these reforms as " caprices," tyrannical caprices to which we have submitted in the past, but can really submit no longer. It has enumerated those by which we secure the prompt and rapid delivery of letters. But it has omitted some of the more important items of his tyrannical administration. Thero is the " caprice" by which he has increased the facility for transmitting small sums of money from one part of the kingdom to another, so that the number of money orders issued has increased within a few years nearly forty-fold. And there is the crowning " caprice" of all, by which we now pay a penny for sending a lettera hundred miles instead of ninepence or a shilling. The payment of that heavy sum was a time-honoured custom to , which we had almost a prescriptive eight. But the ruth less hand of the reformer has swept away that clumsy and expensive process. Other despotic ca prices have tended to render the work of reform complete, so that we now have our letters carried and delivered with unexampled cheapness, expedi tion, and punctuality. It is no doubt too bad. We are the miserable victims of wholesale reform, and naturally avenge our outraged rights in a burst of objurgation against the author of our calamities.— taily News. PRESIMV.-11I0N OF LIFE .FROM 8111P 'WRECK. A meeting of the Royal National Lifeboat Insti aition was held yesterpay at its house, John-street, Adelphi,, Mr. Thomas Chapman, F.R.S., in the chair. There were also present Sir Edward Per rott, Bart ; Admiral Gordon, Deputy-Master of the Trinity-house ; Mr. George Lyall, M.P., and Mr. Alexander Bootefeur. Mr. Lewis, the secre tary, having read the minutes of the previous meet ing, a reward of £3O was voted to the c ew of the institution's lifeboat stationed at South arold, the silver medal to John Craigie, her coxswain, and the second service clasp to B. Herrington, for their gallant service in rescuing, during a strong gale of wind and heavy sea, the - crew of ten men and the master's wife from the Prussian brig Lucinde, which was wrecked off Misner Haven on the night of the 17th ult. The officer of the Coast-guard re ported that the lifeboat had behaved nobly on the occasion, as well as the beat's crew. A reward of 5.:13 was also voted to the crew of the society's boat stationed at Bridlington, for rescuing between three and four o'clock on the morning of the 16th ult. the crew of six men from the brig Eliza of Sunder land, which was wrecked off Bridlington during a heavy gale of wind. A reward of £ll was likewise voted to the'erew of the Castletown, Isle of Man, lifeboat 4 which belongs to the institution, for put ting off on the..night of the 30th August and rescuing three men from the Norwegian brigantist. Ospreinsingen, which during a sudden gale of wind td become disabled. The Wick lifeboat, which is on the institution's plan, was also reported to have saved recently a ship's crew during a heavy gide of wind. ihe boat was under the command of Captain 'Tudor, R.N., who for a previous act of bravery in rescuing life wears the society's silver medal. • Rewards amounting to 1:15 10s. were also voted to the crews of the society's lifeboats stationed at Fleetwood, Do -or, and Boulmer, for putting off' in reply to signals from vessels, which, however, did not require the boats' aid. The Ramscrate lifeboat, which is also on the institution's plan, had recently in conjunction with the harbour commis sioners' steam-tug and some luggers, succeeded in bringing into harbour from the Goodwin Sands the brig . Quickstep, of London. They had been engaged in the arduous undertaking two days. A reward of Lo was voted to the crew of five men of a Harwich smack for their valuable assistance in saving the crew of seven men from the brig Fame, of South Shields, which was wrecked on the Ship wash Sands during hazy weather on the Gth tilt A reward_ of £2 10s. was also voted to a boat's crew for putting off and rescuing two out of. six men who had been capsized from their boat outside Mevaqissey Harbour, Cornwall, on the evening of tiro 2lth idt. The institution decided to station a new lifeboat at Silloth, near Carlisle. Sir Se nits Graham, Bart., M.P., had offered his. co-operation to the humane undertaking. The society also erd 'red a lifeboat to be built for Porthcawl, t or Cardiff. The establishment had received the very liberal support of Mr. Talbot, M.P., lord-lieutenant of the con ty, and other gentl2nen in the locality. The inAitution was reported to be making an urgent appeal to the seamen of the merchant ser vice to assist it in placing and maintaining lifeboats on every.exposed part of the coasts of the United KingdoM. Payments amounting to £1,307 for lifeboats and their accessories having been ordered to ba made, the proceedings closed. F- FLOGGING - IN THE CiEsAB.---It i 8 stated that the poor fellow who was flogged in Keyham yard for muti nous conduct on board tho Caesar, and who was afterwards se it to Exeter gaol, in accordance with his sentence, shortly a,fuer died there.—.Plymoith Journal. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—Oct. 6. MARYLEBONE.—THE "MARQUIS" AND THE " COLONEL."—CoIoneI Graham was charged before Mr. Broughton on a summons with having used towards the Marquis of Westmeath language calcu lated to provoke a.breach of the 1 - )ace. Mr. Lewis, jun., attended for the complainant, and Mr. Sleigh for defendant. . . At the desire of Mr. Sleigh, the marquis quitted the court while Mr. Lewis stated the facts of the case, and when he had concluded the noble com plainant took his place in the witness-box. The Marquis, having been swain, said—l reside at 14, Queen's-gar/I.ns, hayswaier. Last month defenil-• entered into a negotiation with Mr. San ders, my agent, to take my house. I consented, and allowed him to put in some furniture. This was on the Tuesday before quarter-day. It was put into the dining-room. I told defendant that his property would be quite secure, and that I should put the key of the room in my pocket. There was an arrangement that defendant was to pur chase some things of mine which were on the pre mises. On the 28th defendant overtook me in Queen's-gardens, and, on my turning round, looked furiously at me, and said, " Do you consider your self a gentleman P" I told Ithn I considered myself as good a gentleman as he was, and he said, " What is your complaint ? You have refused to give Mrs. Graham a chair in the house, and have sent your servant to take the lock off the hall-door." I said to him, " I do not know what you mean," and I remarked, " I have not seen Mrs. Graham, nor have I been asked for any chair. As to the lock, I did tell my servant to take it off the door, but Mrs. Graham prevented him from doing so. It is a private lock, and one of Bramah's." The de fendant then added, " You have refused to give me the key of the room ;" and I told him I had not been asked for it. I did not intend to have given it up till all the arrangements as to the purchase of fixtures, &c., had been com pleted. If I had been a younger man (the Mar quis is between 70 and 80 years of age) I think I should have struck him in consequence of his be haviour towards me. There can be no pretence for saying that I acted with any want of courtesy to w aids his wife. Had he made any apology to me I should have been quite content. I walked away. By Mr. Sleigh—Up to the time I have spoken of I considered his manner to be that of a gentleman. We were passengers in an omnibus on the day alluded to, before the language I complain of oc curred. We had not much conversation together. In the course of that morning • I had been at Mr. Sanders's office, and had promised that he (defend ant) should have full possession in a day or two if he wished it. I did not promise to give up posses sion to him early on the Tuesday. On 28th some one in the employ of Mr. Sanders asked me to give up the key of the room where the furniture was locked up, but nothing could have induced me to give it up. Some of my servants were in the house, and all my furniture had been taken away. I will not undertake to swear that I did not refuse the key in order that the lady might get a chair out to sit upon. The colonel never said to me " You can't taunt a lady in any way without insulting her hus band." I should have applied for a summons upon an eat Her day, the last Monday, but I was not well. I should have been satisfied with an apology. In answer to Mr. Lewis, The Marquis said—l never refused to let the lady have a chair, but I would not give up the jkey when applied for. - Mr. Sleigh, on behcilf of his client, observed that the marquis's conduct towards the lady was any thing bat correct and proper. The age of com plainant protected him, and had he been a younger man the colonel would not, perhaps, have done less than resent upon the spot the insult which he con sidered had been offered to his wife in refusing her a chair. The colonel never atthmpted to lay hands upon the marquis, and ho thought that, under all the circumstances, his lordship would have exercised a sound discretion if he had not brought the case before the court. Mr. Lewis said that certain fixtures which were to have been taken were not paid for by the colonel, and that, in point of fact, the marquis was quitejus tified in withholding possession till everything was properly arranged. Mr. Sleigh called two witnesses, John Morton, in the employ of Mr. Sanders, the house agent, and James Wood, the latter quartermaster-sergeant in defendant's regiment—the name of the regiment did not transpire—but their evidence was of no more importance than that the marquis refused to give up the key till the matter was completely settled. The key was given up by the marquis on the afternoon of the day when the language com plained of was used. Mr. Sanders sent a chair for the lady as sha could not get one from the room. After some further proceedings, Mr. Broughton said he regretted that the case had been brought to the court, and thought that if the colonel had expressed his regret at using the words he did, he might have done so without at all com promising himself as a gentleman and an officer, and if he would now tender an apology, he (the marquis) would perhaps accept it. Mr. Sleigh—Acting under my advice, sir, the colonel will not do anything of the sort. Mr. Broughton, considering that language calcu lated to provoke a breach of the peace had been used by the colonel, then convicted him in the penalty of 405., or a week in the House of Correction. The fine was directly paid, and Mr. Sleigh ex pressed his intention of obtaining the judgment of the Court of Queen's Bench as to the legality of the magistrate's decision. LAMBETH.-ROBBERY OF WATCHES AT TIIE CRYSTAL PALACE.—Thomas Mahoney, Alfred Irwin, and John Day, alias Driscoll, three determined looking thieves, were placed at the bar before Mr. Elliott, charged on suspicion with stealing three watches, and committing other robberies at the Crystal Palace, on the day before. From the testimony of Inspector Heele, of the Crystal Palace Railway Station, Richards, a detec tive officer of the Brighton Railway, and other wit nesses, it appeared that on the evening before a gentleman complained to the first-named witness of having been robbed of a valuable gold watch on the railway platform, and search having been made after suspicious characters, the inspector saw Day and Irwin in conversation. They soon separated, and the inspector keeping his eye on Day saw him get into a third class carriage. In the interim the attention of Mr. Richards was called to Irwin and Mahoney, and having been informed that several robberies had been committed, he took them out of a first class carriage, and also removed their com panion Day from the third class. At the station house they acknowledged they had gone to the Palace "to do something, but they had not been able." On the arrival of the train in which they were about t o p rocee d a t th e L on d on -bridge Sta tion, the searcher found a greatcoat belonging to Day in the carriage from which he had been re moved, in the pockets of which he discovered three watches, one a double-bottomed silver watch, engine -turned, by E. J. Dent; another, a silver lever hunting watch, engine-turned (second-hands off), makers, Braithwaite and Jones, Cockspur street ; and the third, an old-fashioned silver watch, winds up in front, Soulmer, London, all of which had been wrenched from the rings. The p r i soner Day, when asked at the station for the greatcoat which he had worn just before, said he had sent it to town to its owner, and though Inspector Heele swore positively that the coat produced was the one worn by the prisoner when he first saw him, Day- as positively denied it. The magistrate directed the prisoner to put on the garment, and the manner in which he did so was exceedingly laughable. He endeavoured to puff himself out to give the appear ance of a mis-flt, but it would not do, and an officer belonging to the F or Covent-garden division de posed that for the last two years he had been in the constant habit of seeing him in the disputed coat, and further, that his name was Driscoll, not Day, and that he was a member of the most desperate gang of thieves in the metropolis, called " the Field lane gang." The officers requested a remand, and Mr. Richards informed the magistrate that one of the watches found corresponded in every respect with one of which information had been left at the London bridge Station by th e gen tl eman f rom w h om i had been stolen. Mr. Elliott remanded the prisoners for a week. The n ixt prisoner placed at the bar was a well dressed man with a profusion of dark whiskers and moustaches, who gave the name of Alfred Martin, and who has been in custody for the last week on a. charge of stealing a valuable gold watch from the person of Mr. Edward Findley, of the Man chester Arms, Manchester-square, on Wednesday wcek, at the Crystal Palace Station. Mr. Findley, it appeared, when about to enter a first.class car iage, was called to by a person . ..ho no doubt was a confederate of the prisoner, and requested not to press against a lady, and on turning round, the moment was seized by the prisoner to wrench his watch from an Albert chain. Mr. Findley at once missed his propeety, and, seizing the prisoner , by the throat, ehargee him with taking his watch. The prisoner coolly replied " I have ; here it is say nothing about it, and give y ou £20." Mr.; Findley handed him over to the care of an officer. Inspector Anscomb said that since the former ex amination he had been to Brighton and made in quiries at the address given by the prisoner, but nothing whatever was k nown of him there, nor cou'd he learn anything of him in the town. The prisoner said he should plead guilty if his worship would d ea l summarily with his case ; but Mr. Elliott observed that the offence was of too serious a character to be dealt with by him, and fully committed him for trial. SOUTHWARK.—FASHIONABLE PICKPOCKETS. —W. Brown, a well-dressed good-looking young man, and Mary Ann May, a lady-like-looking young woman, were brought before Mr. Burcham, charged with being concerned with another man in steal ing a purse containing Bs. from the person of Ca therine Jordan. The prosecutrix said that she resided in Nelson square/ Blackfriars-road, and on the previous after noon she came by the South-Eastern Railway from Croydon, and on passing the end of the incline an elderly man and the female prisoner stopped her, and asked her the way to the Surrey Gardens. She told them as well as she could, and then the female said something about an omnibus. She came very close to her, wich excited her suspicion, especially as they left her rather abruptly. Witness put her hand to her pocket, and missed her purse, contain ing Bs., which was safe there a minute or two be fore. She instantly ran after them, and seized hold of the female, when the male prisoner came up and attempted to force her away. In the scuffle the old man made his escape, but a constable came up and captured the prisoners. Police-constable 97 M said he saw the prosecu trix struggling with the female prisoner, and the man trying to pull her away. Mrs. Jordan told him that she had been robbed of her purse and Bs., consequently he took them into custody. The female was searched, and in her possession was found a pair of scissors used by pickpockets and three empty purses. One of them was cut across. Mr. Burcham asked him whether he knew any. thing of them. Witness replied that he had seen them with an elderly man a short time before walking up the incline. He had then some suspicion as to their avocation. Ha believed if they were remanded he should be able to apprehend the other man and get further evidence against them. The male prisoner said he had only come up to London, and knew nothing of the other parties. Mr. Burcham remanded them until Saturday. WORSHIP-STREET.—George Levi, described as. a,eigarmaker, was charged on remand before Mr. Corrie with being concerned in stealing, on the 23d ult., a silver watch and guard from the person of Mr. John Wilman, a German, carrying on busi ness as a watchmaker in Southwark. Prosecutor, while passing through Montague street, Spitalfields, at midday, at the date men tioned, was beset by three men, two of whom held him, while the third, whom he believed to be the prisoner, forcibly possessed himself of his watch and chain. Witness contrived to deal the actual thief a blow with his umbrella, which knocked off the fellow's cap, and he ran away without it. An officer coming up soon afterwards, took a descrip tion of the rogues and possession of the cap. On the following Wednesday, prisoner was apprehended in Whitchapel, but denied all knowledge of the robbery. Mr. Wilman, however, identified him among others at the station-house. Mr. Corrie—ls the prisoner known ? Deeble—Your worship, he was convicted at the Old Bailey sessions for a robbery on the 3d of May, 1858, and sentenced to 15 months' imprisonment. Prisoner—lt is a mistake, I assure you; I never was convicted. Fully committed to the Middlesex sessions. THAMES.—SHAMEFUL ROBBERY AND OUT RAGE.—Mary Ann Brown and Emily Jones were brought before Mr. Yardley, charged with assault ing and robbing Peter Olsen, a foreign sailor, re cently paid off from the British merchant ship Lucy Ann, now lying in the St. Katharine's Dock. The prosecutor, who had been severely maltreated by the prisoners and other infamous women in a house into which he had been decoyed, said that he fell in with the prisoner Jones on the previous day, she asked him to treat her, and he did so. A number of girls in Ratcliff-highway, hearing he was a " homeward bounder," gathered about him, and made him treat them too. They also tried to get at his money. After spending a good deal of money in this way he accompanied Jones to a house of ill fame, and gave her 4s. and a s hilli ng for some beer. After being with her for some time he foolishly counted his money in her presence. It consisted of ten sovereigns in gold and 4s. or ss. in silver, which he returned to his purse, and deposited it between the bed and the mattrass in the room. The candle was then blown out by the prisoner. He demanded the key of the room door, but on being assured by Jones that no one could enter he remained passive for half an hour, and then Brown entered the room and asked for some matches, and went down. stairs again. Directly afterwards he missed all his clothes, and made a noise about them. After the pockets were tho roughly ransacked, and his watch, tobacco-box, papers, and other things removed, his clothes were thrown into the room again. Money was demanded of him and he refused to part with any, and his clothes were taken away again. He recovered his money which he had placed between the bed and mattrass, and secreted it under the singlet he w as wearing. The pri soners sa id they would deliver his clothes to him on the payment of 2s. He re fused to part with any more money, and the pri soners and two other females, who used most horrid oaths and imprecations, made a furious at tack upon him, and beat him unmercifully. Brown also put a handkerchief over his face and nearly suffocated him, while another woman cut his singlet, and Jones took from it the purse contain ing the money, which fell out of it. In the struggle ne of the furies bit the sailor's hand severely. The prisoners and their confederates then made their escape, leaving their victim helpless and exhausted in the room. On recovering himself he hastened to the station-house in King David-lane, Shadwell, and made known his loss. The prisoners were shortly afterwards apprehended by Henry Marsh, a police-constable 469 K, and they at once denied all knowledge of the matter. Marsh afterwards searched the room in which the affray took place, and found there two sovereigns which had dropped in the struggle. The prisoners said they were innocent and knew nothing of the prosecutor or his money. Mr. Yardley —You are both committed for trial. The prisoners —We would rather have it settled here, sir, Settle it at once, sir. Mr. Yardley —If you say you are innocent, I cannot adjudicate upon the case. The prisoners said they were innocent of taking the purse and money. Mr. Yardley —You are committed for trial at the sessions, and a jury will decide upon your guilt or innocence. WESTMINSTER. CHARGE OF ILLEGALLY AND FORCIBLY ENTERING PREMISES.— Martin Lyons, a barber, with Wm. Traill and Patrick Welch, were brought up on remand before Mr. Paynter, charged with riot and assault, and with attempting to effect a forcible entrance into the premises of Mr. Daniel Kemp, grocer, 18, New street, Brompton. Mr. Smyth was engaged for the prosecution. It appeared from the evide nce th a t th e h ouse in which the complainant lives has a double shop, an d that in one of them the complainant carried on h i s business. In the other, the prisoner Lyons carried on the business of a barber. He got into arrears for rent, and being unable to pay, he requested that he might be forgiven what he owed, and that he might be allowed to leave. The defendant shut up his shop, and took other lodgings, where he removed his goods. On Sept. 23, complainant employed a broker, who found the prisoner Ly ons in his shop, and who refused to leave unless £lO was given to him, which was refused by Mr. Kemp. The broker, with assistance, tried to put Lyons out, when he said he -would give up possession quietly. This was about five o'clock. About half-past el even o'clock Lyons, accompan ied by the oth er pr i soners, went to the house of complainant, armed with crow bars and sledge hammers, when th e y a tt empte d to force an entrance into the shop which was occupied by the prisoner Lyons. Two policemen (Herring and Osborne) of the B di v i s i on, who had intimation of the intended attack, were there, and remarked to the prisoners that they were very wrong in the course they we re pursuing, and that they were doing an unlawf u l act. They, however, notwith standing this caution p ers i s t e d, upon w hi c h the co nstablesinterfered. Herring seized hold of Welch, who threw him, and while he was on the ground kicked him, and also endeavoured to bite his face. As there was a large crowd assembled, by some of whom th e p r i soners were encouraged, Herring was -.forced to use his truncheon. The pri soners were eventually overpowered, and taken to the station-house. The depositions of the witnesses having been read Mr. Smyth submitted that the case was complete against the prisoners, and that the offence was of that character that they ought to be sent to the sessions for trial. Mr. Paynter made a few remarks to a similar effect, and observed that he should commit them on a charge of riot and assault. Lyons, in answer to the question what he had to say to the charge, observed that his defence would be that he did not go out of his shop with his own consent, but that he was forced out. Sergeant of Police B 14, said that the constables on duty near complainant's house had information that an attack was about to be made on it. The prisoners were then committed, the magis trate consenting to receive bail for their appearance at the sessions. _ _ _ Bail was obtained by Lyons and Trail, but not by Welch. MYSTERIOUS DEATH AT strANSEA. Considerable excitement was caused among the inhabitants of the New-road, Swansea, on Monday night and yesterday morning, by a report that a man bad been murdered on the ;beach. The cir cumstances, however, do not justify the belief that there has been foul play. The deceased is a young man 27 years of age, named Barnard, who has been for several years collector in the employ of the Liverpool Steam-Packet Company. He resided, with his wife, to whom he had been married for six years, at No. 6, Albert-place, on the New-road. On Monday, he was engaged in collecting at the Landore Copper-works, and returned home shortly after six o'clock in the evening, being then quite well. About 10 o'clock he left the house to go home to Langdon-place, close by, with a lady who had been visiting his wife. A very short time afterwards he was discovered lying on the sands between the Star and Garter public-house: and Sloane-street, in a dying condition. A woman named Jones, living in Wellington-street, was the first who ca:led others to the spot. She drew the attention of several workmen who were near, to him, and when the men came they found him lying on the ground groaning, and perfectly helpless,his dress being in a very disordered state. They pro ceeded, accompanied by the woman, to carry him into the New-road and down towards the centre of the town. When they arrived at the corner of Albert-place, a neighbour recognised the hat and stick, earried by the woman, as those of Barnard; and directly'afterwards his wife, who was standing at her own door, came up and exclaimed, after look ing at the body, that it was her husband, adding, "he is murdered, he h as l os t:hi s watch. " It was sub sequently found that the watch was in the house, and money and other articles were found in his pockets, so that if he had been robbed it can only have been of a gold ring he wore and which is mis sing. He was at once taken into his own houtie, and surgeous were sent for. He moaned after being in the house, and opened his eyes and looked at his wife, but did not speak, and in a few minutes all signs of life disappeared. Mr. Shepherd, surgeon,arrived about 20 minutes after the deceased had breathed his host, and was followed by Mr. Hall, surgeon, and Dr. Williams. The medical men could do nothing, life being quite extinct. It appears that the deceased had accom panied home to Langdon-place the person with whom he went out, and he must then have imme diately gone to the place where he was found. There is no mark of violence of any kind on the body, though there is extensive discoloration at the back, and all down the back of the legs. A post mortem examination of the body was made yester day afternoon by Mr_ Shepherd, Dr. Williams, and Mr. Hall, and the result is such as to make it pro bable that death was caused by effusion of blood upon the brain ; there being at the back of the head, at the base of the skull, an effusion of blood quite enough to account for death. Mr. Shepherd has, however, taken home the contents of the stomach with a view of testing for leading poisons, and the result of his examination will be given at the inquest to-day, but there appears little doubt that the man died from natural causes. Barnard leaves no family. He was a very sober and steady man.—Swansea Herald. COUNTRY 21LAR.k _ETV. MANC HE STER;-0 CT. 6. There was a firm demand for new English wheat, but sales were chiefly confined to good samples. Extra quali ties of flour sold to a fair extent at 6d per sack higher. Oats and oatmeal no cheaper. New peas rather lower. Indian corn in more demand, and dearer. BIRMINGHAM-oex. 6. There was a fair supply of wheat to-day,? and the attendance was moderate. An. active business doing, and, in some instances, at rather more money. Batley in de mand, and maintained quotations. Beans and peas were dull. Oats in more demand. • LOUTH—OcT. 5. A limited amount of basinesti was done to-day, but the prices were at no advance on last week, viz., wheat, red and mixed, old and new, 40 s t o 44 s per qr. • white, 48.. Best samples of barley much inquired for. ' Oats, 21s to 24s ; beans, 42s to 45s ; barley, 38s to 41s. PLYMOUTH —Oct 4. This market rather active, with some inquiry/or, wheat at a slight advance. Oats in fair demand. Englishwhits wheat, 458 to b arle y , 42s to 45s per qr ; French do., 42s to 44s ; grinding 2Bs to 265; oats, 20s to 24a; and flour, fine, 338 to 34. ; seconds, 31s to 325. NEWARK—OcT. 5. There was a better tone in tho wheat trade to-day, with a fair supply, and prices as on last market day. The mar ket was well attended. EDINBURGH GRAIN—Ocr. 5. Sales were ready t o -d ay, and prices better. Wheat on the top 4s Od --average is 3d up. Barley on the top le 6d average Os 9d up. Oats on the top Os 6d up.. . average Os ld up. Beans on the_top is down.... average Os 6d dowa. Averages per Imperial quarter. Wheat.... Barley 1 14 11 8-12ths Oats . 1 4 6 5-12 the Beans Total Supply and Sales. Wheat .1137 qrs ....... Sold 828 qrs Barley... 2668 qr 5.......... Sold 2170 qrs Oats .1562 qrs ........ Sold 1263 rs Beans 79 qrs S o l d 61 q ra CORK—OcT. 4. The following were the quotations this morning :—Re,l wheat, 19s Od to 20s 63; white, 22s Od to 23s 6d; barley 12i Od to 158 6d; oats, 98 6d to 12s Od. DERBY SMITHFIELD—OcT. 4. The supply of fat stock to-day was good, with, a fair attendance of buyers ; high prices were asked for the best quality, but a few of the middling sort were left unsold. Sheep were in full average supply. Fat pigs numerous,' but not so well sold. A full supply of pigs, but the de mand was flat. Beef Mutton .. ,to 51c1 Lamb Od to Od Rough fat, 5s 6d per stone. Hides, 31(1 to 51d ; calf skins, 6d to 61d. FOREIGN MAIL PACKET LIST. - , In the following table E signifies that letters are despatched by evening mails from London; and Mby morning mails. Next DESTINATIONS. Despatch Port of Mail • of Ylails. Despatch. due. Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton Oct. 12, 31 Southamp. Oct. 10 Ditto, via Marseilles • • Oct: 18, E Oct. 6 Bahamas and Havana via New York Oct. 28, E Liverpool.. Oct. 27 Canada, &c. (by Canadn. pckt ) Oct. —, E Liverpool.. Oct. 6 Cape of Good Hope, Ascen sion, and St. Helena Oct. 5, E Devonport Nov. 1 China, Penang, and Singa pore,o via Southampton . Oct. —, E ...... Oct. 13 E Southamp Oct. 19 Oct. 10, Ditvia Mars • ..... Gibraltar, via Southampton Honduras and Blewfields India (Calcutta) and C e yl on, via Southampton . Oct. M Southam. Ditto, via Mar se ill es Oct. 10 , , E p 3 India (Bombay), via S outh- Oct. l Oct. 1 9 ampton ... ..... . ......... Oct. 12, 31 Southam p. Oct. 10 Ditto, via Mar se ill es Oct. 18, E Oct. 5 Lisbon, Brazils, B uenos Ayres, and P. Island s Oct. 10, M Southam Ma p. Lisbon, Vigo, and Oporto Oct. 7, 31 Southamp. Oct Oct. 5 . 11 lta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Oct —, M Southam. Oct. 1 Ditto, via Mar s eilles Oct p 0 10, E Oct. 5 Mexico and Havana Nov. 2, M Southamp. Nov. 1 Newfbundland United States and British N America (by British packet) Oct. 7, E Liverpool.. sot. 5 Ditto (by U. S. packet) Southamp. West Coast of Africa, M a- deira, and Teneriffe West India, California, Vene zuela, Chili, Peru, Grey town, New Granada, &c. Oct. 17, M Southamp. 061. 16 BIRTHS. CRUSE.—On the sth inst., at St. Jude's Parsonage, South. wark, S., the wife of the Rev. Francis Cruse, incumbent, of a son. Low.—On the 3d inst., at Clapton Nursery, the wife of Stewart H. Low, of a daughter. MouLL.—On the sth inst., at Brentwood, Mrs. W. A. Moull, of a daughter. VICKERS.—On the .sth inst., at W oo dl ands, Tooting-com mon, Mrs. James Vickers,of a daughter. MARRIAGES. InvING—PEAKE.—On the 4th inst., at the parish church of Stoke Damerel, Devon, Gilmour Irving, Esq., of the Admiralty, Somerset House, to Amelia, eldest daughter of James P. Peake, Esq., of H.M.'s Dockyard, Devon. port. SHARMAN—MANSFIELL—On the 6th inst., at Trinity Church, St. Andrew' s ; H o lb orn, Edward Alfred, only so n of Mr. Edward Sharman, of Grove House, Tun bridge-wells, to Helen, fourth daughter of Mr. George Mansfield, of John-street, Bedford-row. DEATHS. BRADLEY.--On the 4th inst., at her residence, Blyth, Mrs. Bradley, aged 83. CARNELL.—On the 30th ult., at Belgraye Lodge, Tun bridge-wells, Miss Mary Cornell, DOWLING.—On the 30th ult., at Llantarnam Abbey, near Newport, Monmouthshire, Richard B. Dowling. Esq., of the Middle Temple. EvAxs.—On the 3d inst., at Dodbrooke, Devon, Robert B. Evans, Esq., aged 82. Fox.—On the sth inst, at at Dartmouth, John Elli o tt F ox, Esq., of 40, Finsbury' -circus, solicitor, aged 64. JAY.—At the Court House, Painswick, Gloucestershire, Thomas Jay, Esq., of Derndale, Herefordshire, aged 29. JUDD.—On the sth inst., at Curzon Lodge, Old Brompton, Wm. Judd, Esq., aged 77. PINDER.—On the 2d inst., atßrookfield, n ear B a th , t h e Rev. Edw ar d Pinder, a ged 34. LONDON : Printed and Published by AWED() YOUNG, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Stet Office, No. 112, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the county of iddlosex, Friday, October 7, -18510, Pe Gr th ha vi, i c the mix 1, 0 of ger Peg , Th Frei Ma cot Ida ex,