The Sun. — London, England, 1860-07-12 00:00:00

IRELAND. DUBLIN, WEDNESDAY MORNING. A SKETCH OF LORD PALMERSTON. Mr. Maguire, in one of his letters to the Cork EzZininer, draws the following sketch of the speech delivered by the Prime Minister on Thursday even ing in moving the privilege resolutions :-- " Amidst breathless silence, and no little anxiety, the Premier addressed himself to his task ; and I venture to assert that, whatever the feelings of disappointment or mortification he provoked by the manner in which he sought to make things plea sant,' and the mode in which he palliated and ex - plained the conduct of the other house, there was no one present who did not concede to his speech the merit of consummate skill. The artifice was so natural•like, and yet so transparent that it ex cited admiration, and not the slightest shade escaped the attention of those who watched him from all sides, and very oppos ite points of view. Many of the Radicals were fur i ous at the gloss which was put upon the resolution, and on account of the admissions which were made; but not the most angry of them could refuse to the mode in which a difficult and critical task was executed the tribute of his admiration. There was not the slightest attempt at declamation or oratory, so called. Indeed, he scarcely rose for a moinent above the level of an easy address, almost conversational —the very style suited to one who has to settle a difference between two bodies, and whom the least indiscretion on the part of the party interfering would at once set by th e ears . L or d P a l mers t on ' s object in rising was to assure the Commons that the Lords meant no harm in what they had done ; that what they had done they had done for the best, and with the sincerest respect for the Commons; but that, if they really meant wrong, which he felt they did not, if they attempted it again, the Com mons would then know how to settle the affair after their own fashion. Now, this role would be spoiled by declamation, utterly ruined by fine figures of speech and grand or picturesque images ; there fore, it was as simple and unpretending as it was skilful and effective. Well, this speech, which occu pied nearly an hour in its delivery, was concluded about half-past five &clock ; and what was the hour, think you, when he who spoke it left the House ? A quarter past two the next morning. For nearly tea hours he occupied the same place, not merely sitting out the debate, but the business which followed—ready, at the very latest moment, to rise and extricate his subor- dinates from a difficulty, to ward off in convenient opposition by a few conciliatory words, or to yield it with apparent willingness if he found it too strong to be resisted. And fre quently at such an hour this gay and gallant veteran walks to his house in Piccadilly—perhaps after having been at work, more or less continuously, for twice the length of time of any, even the humblest clerk in a public office. I happened,' said a mem ber to whom I was speaking of him, ' to follow Lord Palmerston as he left the cloak-room the other morning, after a late sitting, and, as I was going his way, I thought I might as well see how he got over his ground. — At first he seemed a little stiff in the legs, but when he warmed to his work he be gan to pull out, and before he got a third of the way he bowled along splendidly—so that he put me to it to keep him in view.' Perhaps, in a few hours after that long sitting, and that walk home, and the brief sleep which followed, the Premier might have been seen standing bolt upright at one end of a great table in Cambridge-house, receiving a deputation from the country, and listening with patient and courteous attention to some tedious spokesman, or astonishing his hearers by his know ledge of their affairs, and his intimacy with the mysteries of their trade or business. I may detest his foreign policy, I may doubt his sincerity as a politician ; but as a man I confess I admire him vastly. The fact is, most members like him, and even his bitterest opponents entertain for him per sonally the kindest feeling ; while his own imme diate followers would do anything for him because of his own qualities, and his unswerving fidelity to his friends. In that respect, to use the emphatic language of an enthusiastic admirer and out-and out backer, Palmerston is a genuine brick." ALLEGED MYSTERIOUS MURDER. A Thurles correspondent of one of the Dublin papers writes— "The following strange facts have been brought to light in the neighbourhood of Thurles :—On Friday morning last, as Mr. J. Tennant, of Parks towa, was taking his accustomed walk over his estate, for the purpose of looking over his fox covers, he happened to be examining a portion of a dry sand quarry in the vicinity of Carrigeen, a place Situate within about four miles of the town of Thurles, when ho discovered in a shallow recess in the quarry the skeleton of a full-grown woman. Having made his observations and taken the neces sary precautions to secure the remains from being interfered with, Mr. Tennant immediately sent in formation of the circumstance to Mr. Joseph H. Br idshaw, sub -inspector of constabulary at Thurles, who had the proper steps taken to preserve every thing as it was when found until an inquest could be held. In the course of the same day (Friday) the county coroner was in attendance, with an in telligent jury, who, having carefully examined the position of the skeleton, returned the following as their verdict :—"rhe skeleton of a female, name unknown, has been found in a hole in a quarry, at Carrigcen, on Friday last, the 6th July ; and we find that the said female was murdered by some person or persons unknown.' The jury were irre sistibly forced to the above conclusion by the posi tion in which the body bad been deposited, which manifestly proved that it had been first cut into pieces, and then placed in the hole in which it was found, as on any other supposition it would have been impossible to have forced it into so circumscribed a space. As to the time at which it may have been placed there there can be but conjecture. The only portion of clothing discoverable about the remains consisted of part of a cotton stocking, which remained on one of the leg bones ; there was also a quantity of dark brown hair attached to the skull. Sub-Inspector Bradshaw attended the inquest, and has commenced a series of inquiries throughout the neighbourhood, which it is hoped may ultimately lead to the disco very of this mysterious and barbarous murder. Much interest is manifested throughout the entire locality by all ranks to obtain some clue to the vic tim and authors of this foul crime, the result of which will be duly communicated." IRISH LANDLORDISM. On this side the Channel it is not often that one reads or hears of an instance of such reciprocal good feeling subsisting between tenant and landlord as in a case which has just come before the public. It appears that about 30 years ago Lord Clonbrock let a farm on his Galway estates to Mr. Patrick Trumple at a rent of £llO a-year, for the tenant's own life. The landlord built a good slated house and drained the land, which was let at the market value of the day. Matters prospered with the tenant, and at his death a few days ago it was found he had accumulated a sum of Xl,OOO. Dying childless, he bequeathed half of the amount to his widow and the residue to Lord Clonbrock, "as a mark of his esteem and gratitude for all his kindness since he became connected with him as his tenant." In re turn for this kindly remembrance, his lordship has made a grant of a new lease to the testator's widow, with a gift of the interest of the £5OO left to the noble legatee to lessen her rent. Trumple was a Roman Catholic, and what is called an improving farmer. Lord Clonbrock, it is Pretty well known, is a Protestant and high Conservative ; but, as a landlord, never recognising any distinction of creed, political or religious. TIIE POPE'S IRISH BRIGADE. Letters have been received in Limerick, prepar ing the relatives and friends of respectable young men who took their departure for Rome to join the Pope's army, for their speedy return, having been much disappointed in not obtaining commissions, upon promise of which, and other flattering induce ments, they were enticed to go over. Extraordinary revelations arc expected to be made. LANDED ESTATES COURT. Property to the amount of nearly.£6o,ooo changed hands yesterday before Judge Longfield. An estate in the county of Roscommon was set up in six lots, consisting of imps opriate tithe rent charges, found no favour, as the whole was withdrawn for want of competition. POTATO CROP. n i A letter froTl("*El i i mallock, in the county of Lime rick, publi s h ed gives an unfavournabtihe Freeman of this m orn i ng , that quarter, of the prospect of the potato crop in " I have just returns The The writer says :— over this district,. perha tirot7ll travelling extensively lt:eland, e largest potato grow to country in the south of and I am pained ' ' to state that both observation the alarming fact that the and report confirm seriously affected with the potato crop is already fortnight since the youn g plat b it n ti As late as - a and healthy, and hopes were gent s l ooked vigorous that this year's return would be unusuallyen entertained tive. More recently the leaves exhibierthite; deposits in small spots, varying in size fromrutsli eighth to the fourth part of an i nnh in diameter,e These spots have gradually spread out, until they Kaye covered the whole surface of the leaf, which emits a rank fetid odour. I saw on Sunday last a large field of potatoes in the farm of Mr. Conyers, Castletown, which were put down last January, literally burnt to the ground by this process of in fection.. Passing along the roads the smell given out by the potato plant is most offensiv Several small districts have not, I am happy t ; say, been a tt ac ked ; but generally speaking ti e blight is great, and great alarm prevails among the farming classes." CONCENTRATION OF THE COURTS OF LAW. The Report of the Commissioners appointed to inquire into the expediency of concentrating the Law Courts and their offices, and into the pecuni ary means which exist for defraying the cost of a new site, with the necessary buildings, has been laid upon the table of the House of Commons. Before we proceed to analyse it, it may be as well to refer to the occasion of the appointment of the present commissioners. In March of last year, and while Lord Dolby's Government was in office, Lord Chelmsford introduced a bill to give additional ac commodation to the Vice-Chancellors' courts at Lincoln's-inn, and for this purpose proposed that the Society of Lincoln's-inn should be empowered to raise £lOO,OOO, the interest of which should be secured by a perpetual charge of £4,000 on the in come of one of the funds with which the commis sioners now deal. To this bill strong opposition was immediately shown. The want of concentration had become an increasing evil ; it was feat that any more addition to existing building- would afford but a temporary and very inadequate relief, and Lord Chelmsford's plan had the defect of being founded, as the com missioners remark, " on the ptinciple of making permanent the present separation of the equity courts from those of the common law, and all other branches of the administration of justice. The Incorporated Lay. Society therefore pre sented a petition to the house of Lords on behalf of the London attorneys against the proposed measure. This petition fortunately met with a favourable re ception ; Lord Chelmsford postponed his bill, and the present commissioners, Sir John Taylor Cole ridge, Sir Wm. Page Wood, Sir Geo. Cornewall Lewis, Lord Wynford, Dr. Phillimore, and Mr. Young were shortly afterwards appointed. It will be found from the report that in effect the three main questions submitted to the commis sioners for investigation were the following :-1. The expediency of concentration. 2. The selection of a site, and 3. The funds out of which the ne cessary expenses might be paid. Upon the first question the report says—" We have had no divi sion of opinion or difficulty in arriving at our con clusion. The evidence of witnesses entitled to the greatest consideration personally, and from their means of acquiring knowledge on the subject, may be stated as being all on one side ;" and the report proceeds to state the present condition of some of the law courts and their offices. Upon this point, however, we need quote but little ; there are few of us who have not gained by personal experience the knowledge now imparted by the commissioners, and we shall be content with giving two of the paragraphs in the report upon this subject. "The Judge of the Probate and Divorce Court has no court of his own, but sits for the present, by permission of the Lord Chancellor, in the Lord Chancellor's Court in Westminster-hall. His re gistrar's-office, however, and the depositions of wills are still remaining in Doctors'-Commons. The Judge of the High Court of Admiralty is also without any court of his own. He has been used to sit, by permission of the College of Advocates, in their hall, and now sits, by permission, in the court of the Master of the Rolls, at Westminster, but the office of the Registra r a n d th a t o f th e Ad miralty Marshal's are still in Doctors'-Com- mons " The courts of the two remaining Vice-Chan cellors are utterly unfit for their purpose; in struc ture, size, proportion, 'ventilation, and arrange ment, it is difficult to speak of them in too strong terms of disapproval. They are so unfit as to make it necessary for us to report to your Majesty upon the urgent propriety of some immediate measure for the better accommodation of these two judges. What we have said of their courts applies with equal if not greater force to their chambers—it almost requires ocular inspection to conceive fully how insufficient, inconvenient, and unwholesome they are." " Upon the second question—the selection of a site—the commissioners report that three plans have been presented to their notice : 1. Westmin ster ; 2. A portion of the interior of the square of Lincoln's-inn-fields; and 3. The site bounded by Carey-street on the north, Pickett-street and the Strand on the south, Bell-yard on the east, and Clements-inn on the west. As to Westminster, the commissioners report that—" Any considerations in its favour are conclusively overweighed by two on the other side, the first, that by bringing all the courts and their offices to Westminster they would recreate as regards the lawyers who practice in equity, and perpetuate as regards those who prac tice in common law, and also as regards the main body of London attorneys, the very serious incon venience of separation from their chambers and offices. The second, the entire want of such space at - Westminster, contiguous or even near to West minster-hall, as would be necessary for the purpose." The site of Lincoln's-inn is also rejected by the commissioners, partly from the space offered being insufficient, and partly upon sanitary grounds. The remaining site proposed, that of Carey-street and the adjoining mund, is then considered, and the commissioners speak in the following terms of it :—" In favour of this we have the concurrent tes timony of witnesses from all branches of the pro fession. It is so near to Lincoln's-inn-fields that as to actual convenience of position, little difference exists between the two, but that little is in favour of this last. It has as regards the metropolis the great benefit of being a substitution for a neighbourhood of close and ill-built streets, badly ventilated and drained, and in respect of part at least very disreputably inhabited ; it is large enough for the purpose required, and the quantity to be taken may be more or less according as the details of the building may re quire a greater or less area ; all sanitary conside rations are in its favour; it will at once have a good frontage towards the south, and it labours under no greater difficulties in this respect on the north and other quarters near the site proposed by Mr. Gem" (the Lincoln's-inn site). But by far the most important branch of the in quiries prosecuted by the commissioners, and to which the greater portion of the report is devoted, is that involved in the third question—The funds out of which the necessary expenses are to be paid. The commissioners say upon this head—" We have humbly to report to your Majesty that there do exist funds which, if they can with propriety be made available for the purpose (as for the reasons hereinafter stated we think they can), will be found amply sufficient to carry these important objects into complete effect without imposing any, and if any, only a moderate and temporary burden on the finances of the State." The funds to which the commissioners allude are three in number. A sum of £1,291,629 ss. 6d. stock, which forms a portion of a larger sum lying in the Court of Chancery under the title of " The Suitors' Fund." 2. A sum of £201,028 3s. 3d. stock, forming por tions of a fund known as " '1 he Suitors' Fee Fund." 3. A sum of £88,254 standing to the credit of he Paymaster-General at the Bank of England, arising from fees received in the common law courts. The Suitors' Fund must not be understood as re presenting any portion of the securities which are standing to the credit of the different causes and matters under litigation in the Court of Chancery, and which at the date of the last returns in 1859 amounted to nearly £50,000,000. This fund is ex clusively the fund of the suitors, and with it the commissioners of course do Rot deal. The Suitors' Fund is of a most moderate though large amount. The report ent ers e l a b orately into the circum stances connected with its origin and subsequent growth, and as it is essential for the purpose of understanding the conclusions arrived at by the commissioners as to the propriety of dealing with the £1,291,000, a brief explanation of it must be given. When any of the parties to a cause pay the funds which are in dispute into court, which is often done in the earliest stage of the proceedings, any of them are at liberty to ask for the investment in stock of such of the funds brought into court which consist of cash ; in the absence, however, of such request the cash is not invested for the benefit of the liti gants, and when the cause is adjudicated upon the successful party only asks for and only receives the sums of cash which were paid in. But in these cases, although the parties to the suit do not ask for the investment of the cash, the Court of Chan cery, under the authority of acts of parliament, makes the investment whenever the floating balances in handibecome inconveniently large, and the court does not account with the suitor any more than a banker does with his customers for the profits made by such investments. Prior to the year 1725 it had been the practice to deposit the monies of the suitor ordered to be brought into court with the masters or ushers of the court "by whom. the monies de posited were employed for their own personal bene fit, the advantage arising from such employment constituting, in fact, a portion of the profits of their respective offices." These gentlemen appear to have banked unfortunately. The South Sea bubble swallowed the suitors' money, and George 1., upon the address of the House of Commons, enforced a file of £30,000 upon the Lord Chancellor Maccles field towards making up the deficiencies caused by THE SUN, LONDON, TrItTRISDAY '':4EVENING, JULY 1% -1860# the masters' speculation. Au act of parliament was shortly afterwards, passed, appointing an officer called "The Accountant-Gen eral ,Court of Chancery," who was to perform the duties which up to that time had been performed so indifferently by the masters. Other acts were passed whereby certain rates and duties were levied throughout England and Wales for the specific purpose of making good to the suitors what they had lost ; and in 1738 the suitors' cash lying unemployed in the hands of the Accoun tant-General, having again become considerable, an Act of Parliament was passed, authorising the investment of a sum of £34,900. In this sum we have the origin of "The Suitors' Fund," and through investments made under Par liamentary authority from that period down to the present time, the stock purchased with suitors' cash is now represented by £2,613,360, and forms the first portion of " The Suitors' Fund." It is not proposed that any portion of this should be touched. But in the year 1768, an Act of Par liement having been passed directing that the sur plus interest arising from the stock to which we have just referred should be also invested in stock, in the investments made under the authority of this act we have the origin of the second portion of " The Suitors' Fund," which now consists of the above-mentioned £1,291,629 ss. 6d. stock, which the commissioners very properly call the " Profit" Fund, and propose should be one of the three funds applied for the purposes of the new courts. The second of the three funds, that of £201,028 2s. 3d. stock, forming part of what is called "The Suitors' Fee Fund," is easy of explanation. It ap pears that the fees paid by the suitors to the o'lieers of the Court of Chancery were, by an Act of Wil liam IV., directed to be paid to " The Suitors' Fee Fund account," and after the payment of certain salaries and compensations out of it, the annual surplus was directed to be invested and placed to a similar account. The investments are now repre sented by this sum. The income of this fund, as well as the income of both portions of " The Suitors' Fund," is at present applied towards the payment of the salaries, com pensation, and allowances of the officers of the Court of Chancery ; and the commissioners give the accounts for the two years 1858 and 1859, from which it appears that in 1858 the income was in excess of the expenditure by £8,683 ss. 11d., and in 1859 by £3,042 17s. 7d. The third fund proposed to he taken by the corn , missioners (the £88,254 55. ld.) has arisen from the fees paid by the suitors in the common law courts, and which have been paid over to the Treasury, after deducting all the annual salaries and pay ments chargeable upon it. The commissioners, after having xplained the nature, and traced very elaborately the history of the Suitors' Fund, next enter into the question whether any rights will be violated by the appro priation of that part of the Suitors' Fand which they propose to take, for, as the report says, " upon the applicability of the Profit' Fund the contro versy substantially turns." The first point submitted to the commissioners seems to have been, that as this Profit Fund has arisen from the investment of suitors' money, upon principles of justice and upon the principle of a trustee being compelled to account for his trust money, the Court of Chancery . should account for the profits made. The commissioners report, how ever, that " there is no foundation for the argu ment." They say, " The court can in no proper sense of the term be considered in the light of a trustee for the suitors," and they explain that in the absence of any applications for the investment of such monies the court is in the position of a mere stakeholder. Apart also from the question of the position of the Court of Chancery as a trustee, the commissioners show that the employment by the masters, prior to 1725, of these monies having been recognised as part of their official remuneration, and the investments subsequent to 1725 having been made only under the authority of the legis lature, who directed the modes in which they should be applied, no claim to this Profit Fund by the suitors can be substantiated. Another objection is thus stated by the commissioners : "But it has been suggested to us that although individual suitors may have no property in Fund B" (the fund in question), " and no right to inter fere with its appropriation, yet that the collective body of suitors have just ground for objecting to its application to any purposes other than those by which they as a body are immediately benefitted.' This argument seems to have met with the sup port of the Vice-Chancellor Sir William Page Wood, but the conclusion of the remainder of the commis sioners, that if this fund is not the property of the suitors and cannot be claimed by them, they are unable to perceive on what reasonable grounds the discretion of Parliament should be fettered as to the mode of its future application, seems most con sonant with common sense. The third and apparently the last objection made was this That by the abAraction of this fund the court will, to ttic c-Atent of the income of about £39,000 per annum, be deprived of the power of re ducing the fees paid by the suitors. This suggestion sounds rather hypercritical, for if it is conceded that the suitors have no legal right to the fund in question, either as individuals, or as a collective body, it seems difficult to understand how they can have a moral control over the fund, and the com missioners report :—" That the benefit to the suitors from such a remission of fees would be as nothing compared with the boon they would obtain from the proposed scheme, by reason of the greater economy and despatch with which it would enable their business to be transacted." No other arguments than those we have men tioned as having been raised against the appropria tion of the first of the throe funds are raised against the appropriation of the second—the £200,000 stock —and as to the third fund—the £BB,2s4—the commissioners remark that it is " wholly free and unappropriated." The report lasily proceeds to show in what man ner the three funds may be made available with a due regard to the present charges upon them. As to capital, it has been shown that this has arisen from the surplus income of the stock repre senting the suitors' cash. This stock amounted in October, 1859, the report tells us, to £2,613,360, purchased on an average under 87 per cent., and as in the event of the Court of Chancery becoming . . bankrupt, and the securities all realised under £B7 the suitors would look to the " Profit" Fund for indemnity, the commissioners propose that Parlia ment should guarantee their indemnity. They show that precedents abundantly justify such en gagements on the part of the state, and the amount of risk incurred appears to be of a nominal nature. As to income, the dividends arising from the chancery funds proposed to be withdrawn appear from the report to amount to £45,000 a-year. We have seen that in 1859 the income arising from both portions of the Suitors Fund and from the Suitors Fee Fund only exceeded the expenditure by £3,000, and assuming this to be an average result (although we believe tho expenditure in that year to have been unusually high) it would leave a de ficiency of £42,000. Against this the report shows that we should have the following annual sums to set off: £2,000 for rent of offices used by the Court of Chancery, and which would be saved on completion of the new buildings. The surplus of the fees paid over to the Treasury by the common law officers, and which have amounted on the average of the last six years to £14,000 and upwards; 16,000 for buildings occupied by common law officeis, and which would also be saved, and the surplus of the Court of Probate and Admiralty fees, amounting respectively to £7,000 and £12,000 per annum. These sums, it will be found, reduce the deficiency to £16,000. This stun the commissioners are of opinion should be made good by the public, by means of an annual payment out of the Consolidated Fund, and they recommend either that the Consolidated Fund should pay into the Court of Chancery such a sum, not exceeding £40,000, as should be equal to the dividends on so much of the capital withdrawn from time to time for the purposes of the now buildings, or in the event of Parliament refusing its consent to any portion of the sum required being made a permanent charge, however small, upon the State, that the sum to be annually paid from the Consoli dated Fund should be reduced from year to year, as the existing compensation annuities fall in, until ' the deficien c y cause d b y th e a b sor pti on o f th e t wo Chancery funds should be made good. But the deficiency even of this £16,000 will be temporary. The compensation annuities amount it appears to the enormous sum of £70,000; and in reference to them the commissioners say, "It is computed that these annuities will diminish afthe rate of £2,000, and taking the net annual contribution from the public funds to be £16,000 at the commencement, it will wholly cease in eight years, while if the anticipated increase in the fees recaived by the Probate Court take place, the charge on the public will be extinguished in less than half that period." The edmmissionm conclude their report by stat in(' that, without having gone to the expense of minute survey's, they estimate the total cost of the proposed new site and buildings (allowing X 1.50,000 for contingencies) at £1,500,000, which they say would be about the produce of the funds they p ro _ pose to take. We have entered apparently at some length into the consideration of this elaborate document, but we have in truth done little more than was neces sary to make the proposals of the commissioners intelligible. No more important a subject could have been referred for investigation, and more im portant results could hardly have been obtained. It unknown d b e e n en ly reads as if £1,500,000 t reasure t rove, w hi c h had lying dragged t i somen o the surfa c depths, eana l ai l d iadbe I bare to theen std- light- ..-it.raises a substantial vision of courts of law which'. are:not ‘‘ insufficient, inconvenient, and un whoh "some." We will brave the shades of the suito• !s of 1760, and we have no need to force a title upon_ those of 1860. REALTH OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK. (Rom the Reyistrar-Generars Report.) The present returns show a very satisfactory de crease in the deaths for the week that ended last Saturday. The total number was 919 ; that of the previous week 1,001. For the corresponding weeks in the 10 years 185059 the average number, after correction for increase of population, is 1,115. The deaths in last week were therefore less by 196 than they would have been according to the average rate of mortality in the first week of July. Sum mer weather has not been without rood effect in the improvement of the publi c h ea lth . There were 17 deaths from small pox in the week. The number is not great, and it is not drawn specially from any quarter of the metropolis. There were 46 from measles, vhieh at present prevails more than any other zymotie disease. Of 33 from scarlatina, 4 occurred in St. Clement Danes, and 3 in Plumstead. Twelve deaths were caused by diarrhoea, and one by cholera, which occurred to a gentleman in Albert-street, Clapham-road, after six days' illness. A case of manslaughter was re turned, and four of infanticide ' • also 12 of suicide. A lunatic was accidently choked by food. Two children were fatally scalded : three deaths occurred from burns, one of which was that of a child whose clothes caught fire: Last week the births of 879 boys and 788 girls, in all 1,667 children, were registered in London. In the 10 corresponding weeks of the yeat s 1850-59 the average number was 1,467. At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height of the barometer in the week was 30.126 in. For eight days the mean daily reading had been above 30 in. In the week the lowest barometrical reading was 30 in.; the highest, 30.25 in. The mean temperature of the air in the week was 58.5 deg., which is 3 deg. below the average of the same week in 43 years (as determined by Mr. Glaisher). The difference between the mean dew-point tempe rature and air temperature was 5.7 deg. The de gree of humidity was 82. Th e th ermome t er i n th e shade rose to 73 3 deg. on Thursday, it fell to 41.6 deg. on the same day ; the extreme range of that day, and also of the week, was therefore 31.7 deg. The thermometer in the sun rose to 123 deg. on the same day. There was no rain in the week. The wind was generally in the north-west. In the thirteen weeks ending Saturday, June 30, the total number of 14,894 deaths was registered in in London. The mortality was high, for in the corresponding quarters of the four years 1856-9 the numbers ranged from 13,252 to 14,541. That this re sult was due to unseasonable cold will become ap parent when it is stated that, whereas the mean temperature of the air in any of those four quarters was not lower than 52.3 deg., and in those of 1858-9 exceeded 54 deg., the mean temperature of the quarter now ended was only 50.5 deg. As a conse quence of the cold the deaths from pulmonary dis eases, exclusiye of phthisis and whooping-cough, rose from 1014 in the June quarter of 1859 to 2,610 in the last quarter. Phthisis was also fatal ; it in creased from 1,993 deaths to 2,133. Whooping cough was rather more fatal than it had been in the same quarter of 1859, but in a much less degree than in those of 1857-8, when the mean temperature was much higher. As might be expected under atmos pheric influence to which all persons are exposed, and of which all more or less are susceptible, the mortality from diseases generally was increased. But there was a perceptible decrease in the aggre gate of zymotie complaints, which in two previous spring quarters caused 3,604 and 3,135 deaths, and last quarter 2,917. Though fatal cases of small-pox (240) were numerous, yet they scarcely exceeded those of the same period in 1859. Of the 240 exactly a fourth part occurred at 20 years of age and up wards. Measles, from which 568 young persons and three adults (at 20 years and upwards) died, was more fatal than any other zymotic disease. Scarla tina carried off 356 persons, and diphtheria 107 ; they were both considerably less fatal than in the same quarter of last year. Diarrhoea also exhibited a marked decrease on that of previous springs, and no death from cholera was returned. Five persons died from privation, 89 infants from want of breast milk, 15 persons (chiefly young) from purpura and. scurvy, 32 from delirium tremens, 24 from intempe rance. Deaths from heart disease rose to 685 ; those from bronchitis to the unusual number of 1,456. There were 80 suicides in the quarter; and 41 deaths, in a great proportion those of children, were from murier and manslaughter. J A IV4 TRANSPORT Or ZROOPS . The conveyance of a military force, by railway is not a novel operation, but it is generally confined to infantry, and the number of rank and file con veyed at once rarely equals that of the passengers by many an excursion train, while the troops have the advantage of being under perfect discipline at the beginning and end of the journey. The con veyance of infantry is comparatively an easy task, and the time required may be soon calculated ; but artillery, which includes so much besides men, heavy guns, ammunition waggons, and horses, that must all be kept together, separation from either making the rest useless, is more difficult to deal with. If the movement is complicated by a force of cavalry the difficulty is increased still further by the large number of horses, without which the men are hors de combat; the original dragoon who served both on horse and foot, being extinct. He has not been able to hold his own, and the military workinc , of the "theory of selecti on " h as extin guished' him. In a campaign, supposing the existence of good roa d s an d abundant forage, artillery and cavalry are not the most difficult parts of an army to move. But if they can be carried to the actual field by railroad, the saving in time— the most important item —is immense. This is evident enough—a mere truism. But the prac tical mode of doing it, the amount of railway plant required, and the efficiency of the railway staff for the operation, have by no means been fully tested. An experiment, however, was made yesterday on rather a large scale, the results of which gave some idea of the time required to convey a combined force of artillery and cavalry from point to point by railroad. The London and North-Western Railway Company having received 20 hours' notice to pre pare a point on one of their branch lines for " de barking," to use a foreign term, a certain number of troops, a piece of waste ground on the Willesden Junction was selected for the purpose. A by-way, leading from the great Harrow-road, crosses the rails, or rather the rails cross it on the level. On each side of this roadway a temporary platform had been raised, exactly resembling those of cattle sta tions. One ran for some distance parallel with the rails, with a sloping descent from it. The other was narrow, and at right angles to the railway. The difference of size was made purposely, and horses and guns were debarked at both to test the relative merits of this broad and narrow gauge. The smaller was merely a strong wooden framework, resting on sleepers, planked, and covered with ballast. The point from which the combined force departed was the Caledonian-road station ;it consisted of the Grey battery of the Royal Artillery, which had arrived from Woolwich on the previous night, and between 400 and 500 cavalry, composed of the 2d Life Guards ane the 10th Hussars. This is not a large force, the number of a full regiment of cavalry and one com plete battery of field guns do not reckon for much in a great war; but it required six immense trains, each of more than 30 carriages, to bring them down from the Islington station. The last train started thence at a quarter past 11, and had not disposed of its martial freight till nearly 4 o'clock. The first train down arrived within sight of the platform at 10 o'clock, but for some reason not at once percep tible was halted there, and the men kept locked up in the carriages till one o'clock. It was a very close day ; the Artillery uniform is not the coolest summer wear, and most people know how stifling a closely-packed carriage is when motionless. When released the men rushed and leaped out, half stewed and exceedingly fagged, much more so than they would have been by any march of the same distance. But, as this detention may have been part of the test, we will not say it was unnecessary for the main object ; only it seemed so. The horses being in open carriages did not suff©r so much ; but appeared very glad to feel the earth under their feet,, and the guns behind them again. They stood, seven in each carriage, ready harnessed. The guns and ammunition carts were on railway trucks. The nicest part of the operation was ad justing the train to the platforms, so that each car riage should have its roadway exactly leading from it. That arrang6d, the rest was easy. The men rushed out, the horses pranced down the platform, and the guns and carts descended the slope by their own weight. Nevertheless, each train occupied from 30 to 40 minutes before it was clear. As soon as as the cavalry mounted it left the ground, and pro ceeded by the by-road to London ; the artillery drew up in the lane leading to the Harrow-road, the first guns halting till all had been got out. The whole battery then returned by the high read to Islington. The Earl of Cardigan was on the ground watching the proceedings. THE GAS MONOPOLY. The gas monopoly has determined to die hard. That its doom is sealed can no longer be doubted, after the report of the Select Committee over which Mr. Sotheron Estcourt presided, and which sat for three weeks continuously during the present session. There had been two previous select committees on the subject, the result of whose labours, in a great mass of evidence relative to every branch of the question, was before the committee of this year on the first day it sat. Notwithstanding this advan tage, it was found impossible to restrain the power of professional frustration within a narrower limit than that of nineteen days ; at the end of which time, finding it unavailing for the purpose of de feating the remelialbill, supported by all indepen dent interests in the metropolis, counsel for the companies were instructed to perform what was meant to be the imposing ceremony of withdrawing indignantly from the contest, leaving the devoted committee without further molestation or admoni tion to work its wicked will. Without betraying any symptom of being thunderstruck by this awful rebuke, Mr. Estcourt and his colleagues continued to sit for two or three days more, and proceeded to settle, according to their J ud gmen t, th e f orms and details of the measure whose essential features had been so elaborately investigated. The maximum of legal dividends having been fixed by the act of 1847, when competition existed, at 10 per cent., was re duced to 8 per cent., competition being now abolished by the companies themselves. Some reduction was demanded by the promoters of the bill ; and instead of leaving it undecided, counsel for the companies had suggested that it would be better to put it at a lower figure; yet no sooner have the committee done so, than the change is made a principal ground of complaint against them in the House of Com mons. The bill asked for a reduction of price, and the committee agreed to recommend the adoption of four shillings per thousand feet as the ordinary standard ; but this is declared to be ruin and rob bery, although, if we are not much misinformed, compromises have been more than once negotiated on the subject of which this condition was to have formed an essential part. The great grievance of all is said to be the appointment of inspectors, and the establishment of summary proceedings for the trial of disputes between the producers and con sumers of gas ; yet it is clear that without resort to some such measure all legislation on the subject must be practically useless. We need not go into further details here ; suffice it to say that the terms proposed by the Committee are upon the whole ex ceedingly moderate, regard being had to the great and governing fact that the supply of artificial light to the inhabitants of London has within the last few years ceased to be by competition, and been converted into a strict and permanent monopoly, On Tuesday evening Mr. Staniland undertook to prevent the further progress of the Bill in the House of Commons, upon the ground that the vested interests concerned had not yet had a full and fair hearing before a Committee upstairs. The candour of the objection thus raised may be estimated by a passing admission made in the course of a somewhat lengthy speech by the hon. member for Boston. In his desire to impeach the finding of the Parliamen tary jury, he declared that they had gone far be yond what the promoters of the bill had asked for. " If the Committee had given only what the pro moters of the bill had asked, little or no harm would have been done, and the gas companies would have been perfectly satisfied, for they were not opposed to what was called uniform legislation." Little or no harm would have been clone; then how did it happen that as soon as the Committee were panelled a formidable array of forensic forces pre. sented brief s , t oo k close order, and for the space of nineteen days contested every inch of ground claimed i n th e preamble or included Rithin the scope of the bill ? The combined Comr.anies, who for three years have baffled every attempt at settlement, would, we are now told., have been perfectly satis fied with the bill promoted by the associated ves tries of the metropolis ; then why do they not agree to it ? Or why, after the first week's dis cussion, or after the second week's discussion or at the end of the third week's discussion, would' they Opine to no t er m s o f compromise ? We say it plainly and fearlessly—because they. do not yet despair of being able to retain their irresponsible hold over the public and private comfort of three millions of their fellow -subjects, and of turning the sam e to account in exorbitant exaction. Mr. Stani hind had the coolness to tell the House of Commons that it was quite a mistake to suppose that the supply of gas in London was a monopoly, because it was quite in the power of any one who chose to Make and sell as much of that commodity as he was able. As well might he argue that the car riage of letters by the Post-office was not a mono poly because any young man who has'nothing else to do May spend his time in carrying letters from house to house or from town to town if he pleases. But laws are required to be made to meet the reality of things as they stand, not to square with the silly quibbles of sordid interests, however great. Equally wrong in judgment and in taste was the reckless impeachment of the con- duet of the committee. The manner in which the imputations were received by the house must have satisfied even the member for Boston that he had done no good to the cause he bas so ruthlessly ad vocated. Mr. Sotheron Estcourt stands deservedly high with men of all parties for probity, coolness, and discretion ; and nothing could tend more to convince the less•informed portion of the house of the hollowness and factiousness of the Gas Mono polists' case than the attempt to insinuate par tiality or incompetence against the chairman of the committee. Disdaining to complain of the attack made upon him in his cha racter of foreman of the jury specially appointed to try this very serious issue, Mr. Estcourt good-humouredly offered to move that the bill be referred back to the committee, in order to give the counsel who had sulked and withdrawn a last opportunity of urging their rhetoric pleas on behalf of their clients. He only stipulated that this supplementary proceeding was not to be abused into a new pretext for delay, and that argument, not further evidence, was to be heard. To this proposal, the house, on the recommendation of the Home Secretary, testified its readiness to assent ; and we only hope that the cause of justice moy not suffer through the extreme urbanity and unselfish ness manifested by the chairman and other mem bers of the committee. It is simply scandalous that great interests should be trifled with year after year with an impunity and effrontery uncon cealed, We trust that in this case at least we are approaching an end.—Daily News. SUMIIIE.R ASSIZES. - OXFORD CIRCUIT.—ABINGDON, July 11. (Before Mr. Justice Hill.) Henry Joseph Smith, 26, a corn factor, of very respectable appearance, was indicted for having fraudulently converted to his own use eight quarters of barley (he being bailee thereof), the property of William Baker, of Wroughton, Wilts, in tl,u munth of March last. Mr. H. James was cnuubel for the prosecution ; Mr. J. 0. Griffiths appeared for the defence. Tho priponcr as found guilty. Mr. Just icc Hill said it was of the highest import ance that confidence should be maintained in the transactions of this great commercial country, and he regretted seeing a person of such apparent re• spectability in a position of such degradation. His lordship then sentenced the •prisoner to eight months' hard labour. The prisoner, who evinced great anxiety during the trial, and wept bitterly on the verdict being given against him, was removed from the dock. The assizes terminated about noon, and both the learned judges afterwards rode on horseback into Oxford, to open the commission in that city. NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—YoRE, July 11. Nisi Prius Court. (Before Mr. Baron Martin.) There being no civil case ready for trial, his lord ship proceeded to assist M r . B aron Wild e i n dispos ing of the criminal business. Joseph Cowburn, 33, Benjamin Clarkson, 41, John Routh, 25, and Richard Ridgwell, 35, were charged with shooting at John Asquith, with intent to murder him, or do him some grievous bodily harm, at Featherstone, on the sth of April last. Mr. Seymour and Mr. Searle were for the prose. cution ; the prisoners had no counsel. The prosecutor is a labouring man in the service of his uncle, Mr. C. Wrightman, at Featherstone. On the night of the sth April last, he was returning home from . Normanton, w h en h e saw the four pri soners loitering about n ear t o hi s uncle ' s premises. Being convinced, by their appearance and move ments, that they had no honest object in view, the prosecutor secreted himself, in order to watch their proceedings. Whilst screened from observation the prosecutor saw the prisoners enter the fold-yard. Two of them placed a ladder against the pigeon cote, and subsequently they stole a number of pigeons. The prosecutor then entered the house and made an alarm, when Mr. Wrightman and other persons on the premises were instantly in readiness for the purpose of pursuing the prisoners, who were then in the act of effecting their escape. The prosecutor was armed with a gun loaded with powder only, and he soon came within 15 or 20 yards of the prisoners. He called upon them to stop, and threatened that if they did not comply he would fire upon them. The prisoners turned round, and Clarkson, who had a gun charged with powder and shot, fired the contents at the prosecu tor, who was consequently wounded in the mouth, and shot also entered other parts of his person. The prosecutor was disabled, and the prisoners made good their retreat, leaving behind them a bag con taining 60 pigeons. The prosecutor was under sur gical treatment for some time, being severely in jured. The prisoners were further charged with steal ing the pigeons, to which three of them pleaded guilty. Routh denied that he was guilty, but he was not tried upon this charge. The jury found all the prisoners guilty of shoot ing with intent to do grievous bodily harm. Pre vious convictions were proved against Cowburn, Routh, and Ridgwell. His lordship sentenced the whole of the prisoners to 15 years' penal servitude. The entry of causes in the first list for the North and East Ridings closed yesterday. There are 17 causes entered. No cause of particular interest was tried to-day. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.-July 10. OLD COURT. (Before the Lord Chief Baron.) Thomas Buxton, 27, was charged, upon the co roner's inquisition, with the manslaughter of Catherine Kenney. In this case it appeared that the deceased was very drunk at the time of the occurrence, and S that she was throwing• stones at some children. The prisoner told her desist, upon which she struck him, and he pushed her away from him, and she fell against the curb-stone and received injuries from which she died, The grand jury threw out the bill. The Chief Baron said it appeared to him upon a consideration of the evidence that the charge was not supported, and under his lordship's direction the jury returned a verdict of not guilty. John Spencer, a Roman Catholic priest, was charged with the capital offence of assaultinga boy named William John Roberts. Mr. Cooper prosecuted. The prisoner was de fended by Mr. Pearce. The evidence in this case was not of a nature to be made public. The prisoner, who was stated to be a Roman Catholic priest, kept a school at Shore ditch, and the boy Roberts was one of his pupils. The prosecutor was severely cross-examined, and he admitted that he did not say a word of what had happened until ho was spoken to by the police. The jury returned a verdict of not guilty. The prisoner was then charged upon a second indictment with the commission of a similar offence upon another lad named Leon Moresco. The circumstances of this case were similar to those of the preceding one, and were of an equally disgusting character. The prosecutor . had been placed at the prisoner's school by a person named Heidemann, and the offence was alleged to have been committed in the month of May last. The lad appeared to have made complaint very soon afterwards ; but in this case, as in the former, it appeared there had been disputes between the pri soner and the prosecutor, and the latter had been charged by the prisoner with stealing his milk and sugar. The jury retired to consider their verdict in this case, and after being absent half an hour they again came into court and again returned a verdict of not guilty. The other indictments were postponed. THE NINE HOURS' MOVEMENT'. A public meeting of the building trades, in furtherance of this object, was held last evening at St. Martin's Hall—Lord Robert Montague, M.P., in the chair. The attendance was very numerous, The CHAIRMAN, in addressing the meeting, re ferred to the importance of the question which had brought them together. It had survived strong and protracted opposition, and was not to be decided by any flippant arguments, but was worthy of careful and scientific investigation. He was sorry that the employers had determined not to hear any reasons that might be brought forward to effect a settlement of the question, but to remain in their ice-bound prejudices. The question was two-fold, but both its features had been confounded by in terested persons. The assertion that a cry of nine hours' work and ten hours' pay had been raised in this way. The first question was the proper duration of labour, and the other the amount of wages. It had been fairly said that a fair day's wages should be received for a fair day's labour. Lord Cranworth had stated wages to be the subject of a fair bargain between empl o y er an d emp l oye d . But, he asked, how could there be freedom when the one party could shut his works and revel in luxury, while the other must starve ? They asked their employers what they meant by a free bargain, and they were informed of their ignorance of prin ciples of political economy and the law of supply and demand. It was fair that they should have the option of raising the price of their labour, as well as the manufacturer and capitalist, This was viewing the Trestioa accordtng to the laws of poli tical economy, but such was low ground, and labour was not a marketable commodity. The employers, beaten out of this argument, inquired, " Cannot we do with our own as we like ? Lord Erskine, on being answered on one occasion with this latter argument, replied by bringing a cane which he carried in his hand in contact with the person's back who had ad dressed him, and re-echoed the statement. There was, however, something more than money wanted; there was a demand for leisure. Labouring men had social and domestic duties to perform. With reference to the second part of the question, the amount of work which a man could perform, he believed that when the time engaged in going to work and at meals was taken into account, it would be found that working men were 12 hours absent from their families. (Hear, hear.) He considered the nine hours movement was quite in accordance with the age. The Saturday half-holiday and the early closing movements had been successful. He believed further, that the long hours of labour had rendered those mechanics' institutions of which some time ago so much was heard quite unavailing, and led people to frequent publichouses. Mr. CLEMIR moved the first resolution as follows : "That we believe our request for a reduction of the hours of labour, justified by the first principles of political cconory.y, and that by the increased skill and rapidity of manipulation acquired by the work men the necessity for the ten hours system has passed away, the building operatives, in conjunc tion with machinery, being enabled to produce suf ficient for the requirements of society by labouring nine hours per day." The speaker adduced extracts from the works of Adam Smith to refute the state• ment of Lord St. Leonards recently made in the House of Lords that the demand for the reduction of the hours of labour was not in accordance witl the principles of political economy. He further as. serted that labour was not a marketable commodity and ought not to be treated as such. Mr. PITT, painter, seconded the resolution, and recommended organisation, after which the resolu tion was carried unanimously. Mr. HOWELL, bricklayer, moved the second re solution :—" That this meeting regrets the latp re fusal of the master builders to discuss the nine hours' question with a deputation from the men, believing such refusal to be inimical to the inte- rests and position of the employers, and calculated to engender embittered f e eli ngs b e t ween th emse l ves and teir workmen at a time when every effort should be made to render the interests, welfare, and progress of both identical. Being convinced that the concession we seek is necessary to the pre servation of our physical and the expansion of our intellectual and moral powers, we pledge ourselves to press our clai m until ithas been conceded." After some leng,tl-ty observat ions, he inquired if those hearing him were willing to give up their claim of right, which was responded to by loud and reiterated cries of " Never Mr. MAGAR, plasterer, seconded the resolution, and exp resse d t h e hope that no one present, while ' concurrin g in the nine hours movement, was en gaged in working overtime. The resolution was carried unanimously. Mr. POTTER, in proposing a vote of thanks to the chairman, intimated that through the latter coming forward they had gained a large accession of support. lie believed him to be a friend of the working men. The resolution was duly carried, and the meeting separated, NEW COURT. (Before Mr. Justice Crompton.) Eliza Harriett Mary Feltham, a well-dressed woman, surrendered to take her trial upon an in dictment charging her with stealing four doyleys and a pair of mittens, the property of Sir Robert Peel. The evidence for the prosecution was given in The ,Sun of yesterday. Mr. Metcalfe prosecuted, a7ul Mr. Sergeant Bal lantine, Mr. Robertson, Mr.. Best, and Mr. F. H. Lewis defended. Mr. Sergeant Ballantitte, in a most energetic ad dress, contended that the story told by the police was without truth, and contended that his client had found the things, and that the police had for their own purposes lava le the charge of theft. The learned judge, in summing up, left it for the jury to say whether the police were to be credited. The jury then retired, and coming into court shortly before seven, said there was no chance of their agreeing, some being cif opinion th,a, Lh pri soner had picked up the t His lordship then told 1.! aui that even then if she had not endeavoured to find. to whom they belonged that was la , :t. , eu)'. The ju,..\ found her guilty, recommending her to mercy, in which the prosecution joined. li.is lordship sentenced her to six months' im. prisonment in Newgate. DEATH OF THE COUNTE SS OF WICKLOW. —lire have to record the demise of the Countess of Wicklow, who died on Sunday, at the fan lily residence in Cav en di s h ! square. The deceased Counter who was born 19th July, 1795, married 16th February, 1816, the Earl of Wicklow, by whom her ladyship had a Imily of six daughters. The families of the Marquis and I.darchioness of Abercorn, the Earl of Aberdeen, and other Persons of rank, are placed in mourning. SP O.RTIN INTELLIGENCE. LIVERPOOL RACES. —WEDNESDAY. A Nursery Plate Handicap of 50 sovs. Half a mile. Mr. Saxon's Billy Banks, let 121 b (L. Snowden) 1 Mr. Jackson's Weatherproof, Ist 21b (A. Edwards) 2 Mr. Edward's My Dear, 65t.... The following also ran :—Diana, Canary, Sister to Horace, and Sister to Anson. Betting-6 to 4 agst Sister to Horace, 4to 1 each agst Billy Banks and Canary, 5 to 1 agst Sister to Anson. Won cleverly by a neck, a length and a half between the second and third; three-quarters of a length between the third and fourth; Canary close up. An objection was lodged against the winner by Edwards, on the ground of a cross, but it was withdrawn. The Liverpool St. Leger of 10 sovs each, with 100 added, for three-yr-olds; colts, Bst 71b; fillies, Bst 31b. Penal ties and allowances; the second to receive 50 sovs out of the stakes. One mile and three-quarters. 19 subs. Mr. Merry's Northern Light, by Chanticleer, Bst 101 b (in. 31b extra) (Custance) 1 Mr. Dawson's Sir William, Bst 71b (Bullock) 2 Mr. Winteringham's filly by Voltigeur—Makeless (late Subtraction), Bst 31b ••0 (Aldcroft) 3 Wildman and Tirailleur also ran. Betting-5 to 4 agst Northern Light, sto 2 agst Sir William, 3 to 1 agst Wildman. Won by a short head ; six lengths between the second and third. Tirailleur was beaten a long way. The Stanley Stakes of 15 sovs each, 10ft, with 50 added for two and three-yr.olds. T.Y.C. 8 subs. Mr. Saxon's Brown Duchess, 2 yrs, 7st 71b (inc. 51b ex.) (Midgeley) 1 Col. Towneley's Doefoot, 2 yrs, 7st 71b (inc. 51b extra) (J. Snowden) 2 Mr. Calder's Viatka, 3 yrs, Ost 31b (inc 51b ex.) (Aldcroft) 3 Betting-5 to 2on Brown Duchess. Won by half a length ; bad third. The Molyneux Plate (Handicap) of 100 soya in specie, added to a Sweepstakes of 5 sovs each ; the second , t , o receive 10 sovs out of the stakes. O ne m il e. 15 su b s .' Mr. Saxon's White Rose, 3 yrs. Est (Midgley) I Mr. Merry's Cecilia, 3 yrs, 6st 61b Mr. T. Hunt's Master Begot, 6 yrs, Bst 81b (inc 101 b ex.) (Charlton) 1 Parmesan and Horace also ran. Betting-6 to 4 agst Master Begot, 4to 1 agst any other offered. Won by a length; three lengths between the second and third. • Handicap of 5 sous each. Chantress Tousle Lawl Pudrick Five ran. The Knowsley Dinner Stakes of 100 sous each, h ft, for three-yr-olds ; colts, Bst 61b ; fillies, Bst 21b. One mile and a half. 4 subs. Mr. Merry's Northern Light, Bst 61b (Custance) w" Sweepstakes of 5 soya each, with 30 added, for two and three-yr-olds, did not fill. LATEST BETTING. GOODWOOD STAKES. sto 1 agst Gridiron (taken) 10 to 1 agst Avalanche (12 to 1 taken freely) 12 to 1 agst Tocher 14 to 1 agst Rattlebone (taken) 100 to 6 agst Flitch (taken) 100 to 6 agst Stapleton (taken) 20 to 1 abet Optimist (taken) 25 to 1 agst Feodorowna (taken) 40 to 1 agst Lovett (taken) ST. LEGER. 3to 1 agst The Wizard (taken) 3to 1 agst Thormanby (taken) CRICKET.— GENTLEMEN V. PLAYERS. — This match was resumed at Lord's yesterday, and it will be seen by the score that the Players won in one innings, and had 180 runs to spare. The Players took the first innings, and scored 394 ; the Gentlemen, in their first innings, only scored 137, and then took their second, scoring 76. COUNTRY MARXETS. SHEFFIELD-JULY 10. The fine weather having made the farmers busy in the hayfields, there was a very small supply of grain, and but a limited business was done. Red wheat, per load of 3 imperial bushels...22s Od to 23s M ft White ...23s Od to 258 Od ), New red New white I „ ...17s Od to 188 Od f 9, 18s Od to 106 6d Beans 7) ft ... If ... 1930 d to 21s Od Peas, per qr sos Od to 52e Od Grinding barley, per qr 338 Od to 36e Od Malting ditto, „ 3BB Od to 43s Od Oats II 2Bs Od to 33s Od Millers' prices for flour—ls 11d, 2s ld, and 2s 3d per 141 b. NEWARK-JULY 11. At this corn market there was but a moderate show of wheat for the season, and recent prices were exceeded le per qr. Few samples of barley shown. Oats were hardly an average supply. Beans in moderate demand, at full White wheat, new, 598 to 64s Red do. sss to 60s 01(1 white s9s to 64s Red do. 55s to 60s Barley, malting, 38s to 45s Peas, Barley, grinding 30s to 32i Oath, old, 3os to 3611 New do 281 to 32s Beans. 48s to 51s Beans, new 45a to 48a 4s to 48s. HULL-JULY 10. At our market to-day there was again a very thin attend ance and a limited supply of wheat. Very little business was dono. Wheat.... Old white.... per qr ... 59s Od to 60s Od Old red New white .. „ New red .... , Dantzic, Konb , '&c. old white 53s Od to i7s Od Dutch, Belgian, and French s3s Od to 54s Od Baltic and Hamburg red . . 53s Od to 54s Od St. Petersburg and Riga, Old'. 45s Od to 49s Od Barley.... English malting 3Bs Od to 42s Od Grinding Saal and Oderbruck Holstein and Danish 34s Od to 38s 04 Grinding Oats English, old Archangel and Riga ' per at Os 14d to 141 d Friesland and Dutch 081.41d to 0815 d Swedish and Danish 0314d to 08140 Beans ....English, old, per qr 46s Od to 48s Od New pigeon 44s Od to 45s Od New tick Egyptian 3Bs Od to 40s 04 Peas Foreign breakers Grinding Tares .... Spring. Indian Corn 39s Od to 40s Od Linseed, feeding crushing Linseed cakes (Hull) Foreign Bl5 oto 9 6 0 Rape cakes 5 0 oto 5 5 0 Bones • 5lO oto 515 I) Mr. Phelps. COAL MARKET-JULY 11. The market was more active to-day than on Monday, and previous prices were fully maintained, with a small advance on one or two sales of first-class house coal. Best house coal 18s to 18s 9d, seconds 16. to 17s, Hartley'■ 14s 3d to 15s 3d, manufacturer's 13s to 15s. Ships at market, 56 —Sold, 31. TILE MAILS. MAILS DUE. Australia, Ceylon, and Mauritius (via South ampton) . . Overdue. Do. (via Marseilles) `Aug. 4. Bahamas and Havana (via New York), „ Aug. 2. Canada, &c. (via Londonderry) .. JO) , 18. Cape of Good Hope, &c. Aug. 1. China, Penang, and Singapore (via S'ampton) July 19. Do. (via Marseilles) July 13. Gibraltar (via Southampton) Overdue, India (Calcutta), Ceylon, &c. (via Southampton) July 19. Do. (via Marseilles) July 13. India (Bombay), (via Southampton) .. Overdue. Do. (via Marseilles) .. July 19. Lisbon, Brazils, Buenos Ayres, C. Aug. 6. Lisbon, Vigo, and Oporto July 11. Malta, Egypt , and Aden (via Southampton) Overdue. 1)o. (via Marseilles) • • July 13. United States, California, &c. (% hi, Cork) • • July 19 . WeAtern Coast of Atrica, Madeira, T e neriffo .. July . West Indies and Pacific, Carthgena, Cuba, &c. July .14. BIRTHS. CHATTERIS.—On the-11tii inst., at The Grove, Lee, th wife of Henry Chatteris, Esq., of a 53n. HALL.—On the 10th inst., at the Close, Norwich, the wife the Rev. Edmund Hall, of a son. PLATT.—On the 11th inst., at 20, York-terrace, Regant'e park, the wife of F. T. I'latt, Esq., of a son. - . , MARRIAGES. BOMPAS—BUCKLAND.—On the 11th inst., at St.Thornaeor Portman-square, George C, Bompas, eldest surviving so 3 of the late Mr. Sergeant Bompas, to Mary Ann Scott Buckland, eldest daughter of the late Very Rev. William Buckland, D.D., Dean of Westminster. tha 10th inst., at St. James's Church, Colonel Leith Hay, C. 8., 93d Highlanders, to Christina Grace Agnes, eldest daughter of the late W. C. Hamilton, Esq., of Craiglaw, Wigtonshire. I)IZATHS. CURTIS.—On the 10th inst., at New Cross, John Curtis, Esq., of Po x - grove, K i ngselere, Hants, aged 79. MOOILE.—On th e 7 t h inst., at 19, Portland-place, Major J. Arthur Moo re , age d 69. STEVE NS —On the 10th inst., at 27, St. Mary's-road, C anonbury-square, William Stevens, Esq., 35 years a member of the Court of Common Council for, and 23 years Deputy of, the Ward of Bishopsgate-within, aged 79. TAYLOR.—On the 3d inst., at Bilston, Staffordshire, Wm. Taylor, Esq., formerly M.P. for Barnstaple, aged 78. VAN OVEN.—On the 9th inst., at 22, Manchester. square, Laniard Van Oven, M.D., aged 64. WICKLOW.--On the 7th inst., at Silviood, Brighton, the Countess of Wicklow. WRENCH.—On the 7th inst., at the Vicarage, Salehurst, Sussex, the Rev. Jacob George Wrench, D.C.L., vicar of the above parish, aged 70. LONDON : Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at. Tha ;Sun Office, No. 112, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, In the minty Thursclly, July 120860.