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TUESDAY MORNING. I:3E-CJIA EEL at,Avai of the Channel Feet, c -- 4 ing of 11 sail-of-the-line, in Bantry Bay, on Saturday; . -has created a considerable stir in the locality, and a demand for fresh provisions has given a great im petus to the beef trade. One dealer sl,auOiters daily 20 head of cattle for the supply of the fleet. Nc% 21,210. THE SUN, LONDON, WE DN E SDAY EVENING, .T k IN 18, -1860. PRICE 4 1) . STAMPED, 5D ME GALWAY SUBSIDY DRAMA. TWENTY-THIRD REPORT of the DIRECTORS of the COMMERCIAL BANK of LON DON, for the Half-year ending June 30, 1860. At the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the Share holders, held at the Banking-house, Lothbury, on TUES DAY, the 17th July, 1860. PUBLICATIONS. SURREY GARDENS. - TO-NIGHT. - MR. BALFE'S SECOND GREAT MII-ICAL FESTIVAL, at which the following artists will appear :—Madlle. Psrepa, Madame Louisa Vinning, Miss Medora Collins, Miss Poole, Mr. Patey, Mr. Perren, and Mr. Sims Reeves. Mr. Viotti Collins and Miss Arabella Goddard (her only appearance this season). Admission, ls. To commence at 7 o'clock. The Galway deputation arrived in Dahlia yester day, and held a second indignation meeting at the office of the Irish committee on Eden-quay. A resolution, among others, was adopted, protesting against the ri g ht o f th e London directors to trans fer or sell the subsidy without the consent of the shareholders. SERIOUS STRIKE OF MINERS. - New ready, price 55., bound and illustrated, _MARGARET AND HER BRIDESMAIDS, Forming Vol. XL of HURST AND •BLACKETT'S STANDARD LIBRARY OF CHEAP EDITIONS OF POPULAR MODERN WORKS. "We recommend all in search of a fascinating story to read this work. They will find it well worth their while. 'I here are a freshness and reality about it quite charming."— Athenaeum. TO-NIGHT. - WASHINGTON FRIEND'S Grand Musical and Pictorial Entertainment, entitled TWO HOURS in CANADA and the UNITED STATES.- 5,000 MILES of beautful Scenery.—The Falls of Niagara, River St. Lawrence, VICTORIA TUBULAR BRIDGE, Illustrations of American, Indian, Emigrant, and Negro Life, &e., &c., with his Songs, Anecdotes, and Melodies, Daily, at 3 and 8 o'clock.—Stalls, 3s. ; Area, 28. ; Gallery, is. - St. James's Hall, Piccadilly. era- I to ieral o, it ings Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. THE QUARTERLY REVIEW, No. CCXV., is Published THIS DAY. luded, if the art of exist- might there he bill ed into 11 be to :ed the tg, as it ore the c:iple of General Is of tho ause re- General ation to be dealt ttee was 'ENSES that it be entleman td stated, there was and Ire- ace, been corrected. re was a a on that rded their iven up a enformity by 2,000 kglish law place, the n of wine, tmption of ile, during decreased ;ed. Fur in Ireland to promote committed he hope of position in 1. It gave 3freshm eat pnt ought to tous liquors portant bill od for some been known le length of be now ad ad to a good Et. said there after twelve srht the pro the Sing'' it was quite a the second A o'clock in bers present faith in the originally been printed ao petitions Dunne, Mr. • matessy, 111 r• at, the house 38 136-98 la. LICENSES bill was dis- lo house ad' trade. Thor° Less was aloft .n, .37s to 4 00 all 40s to 440 ..38s to 41 '...38s to 4N w, at the cur" ng corn, •s-it' and raillero -e..42s to 434 '...426 to 45 4 ...42s to 4 54 ...37s to 40 9 ....42s to 46 4 ks 39s to 4 , 91 ...37s to 40 inners, whit Oats a shim.'" nil ..28s to ov4 • •••• 48s to 5 0 • to -- -11 ;flour, 42s to sterclay's corn IQ's rates wer e a small shot rops are goo?; 27s to 3. 1 ' .••. ....46s to O a ! .....468 too y, very sofa! Hoes of when Oats !Ss Od Ils Od —s Od h-square, th e range Astleif midge-terrac e ' •er, Esq., of • Ind, the Lad/ inst., at S t ' ichester, rd Chichest er ' dress of S. ast., at Sal 1:1 ! C a nnon-stre e " Wick, Caitiv pton, Thoval° . T r, the Rev. d liege, Oxfor found Woo " aged 7 6 .. itby, )0 YO U " N Iflice, l4o.ll tho o . o unt9 ° 16,535 13 4 £1,371,244 13 2 Dividend at the rate of per cent. per an num, for th e h a lf- year en di ng 30t h J une, 1860 ... .. .• • ....... ..... £12,000 0 0 Rebate of interest.On current bills carried to profit and lost; new account .. - Balance carried to next half-year... 3,984 11 4 551 2 0 £16,53513 4 Cash in the ba n k an d at call, at,the Bank of England, Exchequer Bills, India Bonds, and Government Securities ................ 250,785 17 0 Bills discounted, loans on stock, and other se curities • • •• • • Strong-room, fittings, and furniture (premises held on lease).. 1,117,458 16 2 3,000 0 0 £1,371,244 13 2 Balance brought down ~ £16,535 13 4 £16,535 13 4 The report and balance-sheet having been read, It was resolved,—That the report and balance-sheet just read be approved, printed, and circulated amonzst the Pro prietors. The Chairman, Mark Hunter, Esq., on the part of the Directors, declared a dividend on the• paid-up capital of the Company, at the rate of £8 per cent. per annum for the past half-year, free from income tax, payable on and after Satur day, the 28th inst. Resolved—That the following Directors, viz. : • Joseph Alfred Chowne. Esq., Jonathan Hopkinson, Esq., and Joseph Thompson, Esq., Who go out of office in pursuance of the Deed of Settlement, be re-elected Directors of this Bank. Resolved—That the thanks of this meeting be presented to the Chairman and Directors, for their attention to the affairs of the Bank during the past half-year. Resolved —That the thanks of the Shareholders be given to the Manager, Mr. Cutbill, and the other o ffi cers of the RanX MARK HUNTER, Chairman. COMMERCIAL BANK OF L OND 0 N.- The Directors HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, that a DIVIDEND on the raid-up Capital of the Company, at the rate of £8 per cent, per annum, for the half—year ending 30th June, 1860, free from income t ax , w i ll b e PAYABLE at t h e 13anking House, in Lothbury, on and alter SATURDAY, the 28th inst. By order of the Board. Dated July 17,1860. A. R. CUTBILL, Manager. No TILE OF DIVIDEND. -BANK OF DEPOSIT (Established A.D., 1844), No. 3, Pall-mall East, London, S.W.—The WARRANTS for the HALF YEARLY INTEREST, at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum, on Deposit Accounts, to the 30th June, are ready for delivery, aild payable daily betwee n th e hours of 10 and 4. PETER MORRISON, Xanang Prospectuses and forms sent free on application. BY HER MAJESTY'S ROYAL LETTERS PATENT. MR. A. 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Charges strictly moderate. "(EATING'S COD LIVER OlL.—The Pale Newfoundland, pure and tasteless, the Light Brown, cheaper and of good quality. The demand for these oils, diost highly recommended for their medicinal prDperties, has so greatly increased that Mr. Keating, being anxious to bring t , em within the reach of all classes now imports, direct, the Pale, from Newfoundland, and the Brown from the Norwe gian Islands.—The Pale may be had in half-pints, is 6d; pints, 2s 6d ; quarts, 4s 6d. The Light Brown, in pints, is 8d; quarts, 35. No higher price need be paid. At 79, St. Paul's-churchyard. 8, LOWER GROSVENOR-STREET. TEETH-1860—Post free, three stamps. A IREATISE EXPLAINTNG Messrs. GABRIEL'S IMPROVEMENTS in ARTIFICIAL TEETH and FLEXIBLE CORALITE GUMS, whereby one set will wear longer than three ordinary ones, and being fitted without sprirgs, wires, or metals, and without any operation, prove a valuable desideratum to all who have occasion for the den tist's services. None but pure first class materials and workmanship employed. while the expense is even less than half the ordinary cost. To be obtained only of Messrs. Gabriel, dentists to the Prince Dottaiana, established 1815, see diploma, No. 110, Regent-street, W., (next Mechi's) and 33, and 34, Ludgate-hill, City " The adyantages obtainable by Gabriel's system render it pre-eminently superior, and the nearest approach to perfec tion yet attained."—Observer. " Gabriel's treatise should be read by all who value health; their system will save much money and more annoyance."— Morning Herald. For obvious reasons it is necessary particularly to note the name, and that the entrance to the city establishment is up the private passage between Benson, the silversmith's, and he State Fire Insurance Office.— Liverpool, 134, Duke-street. A BOON TO NERVOUS SUFFERERS. JUST PUBLISHED FOR GRATUITOUS CIRCULATION, a new edition of 20,000 copies of THE WARNING VOICE. on lit HENRY SMH Doctor of Medi cine of the Royal University of Jeoa. e lT ze. , A Mediccil Work e Causes, Sy-rnptoms, and Cure of Nervous Debility, Loss of Memory, Dimness of Shrht, Lassitude, Indigestion, Blush ing, Dislike of Society, Thoughts of Sell-destruction, Fears of Insanity, and all other Mental or Nervous Disorders, which, if neglected, or improperly treated, result in constimp tion and premature death. Post free to any address, se-ure from observation, on receipt of a stamped directed envelope. Sent direct from the Author's residence, 8, Burton -crescent, Tavistock-square, London, W.C. CURTIS ON MANHOOD NEW EDITION: A KIEDICAL ESSAY ON NERVOUS AND GENERA TIVE DISEASES. Just Published, the 125th thousand, with numerous plates, in a sealed envelope, price is,, 's'old by all Booksellers, or sent post paid, by the Author, for 12 stamps, MANHOOD : the CAUSE and CURE of PRE MATURE DECLINE, with Plain Directions for Perfect Restoration to Health and Vigour. ByJ. L. CURTIS, 15, Albermarle-street, Piccadilly, London. S,VECtACLES.-SIGET AND HEARING.- DEAFNESS.--A newly-invented instrument for ex treme cases of deafness, called the SOUND MAGNIFIER, Organic Vibiator, and Invisible Voice Conductor. It fits so intq the ear as not to be in the lecst perceptible ; the unplea sant sensation of singing noises in the head is entirely re moved. It affords instant relief to deaf persons, and enables them to hear distinctly at Church and at public Every other kind of hearing instruments. Messrs. SOLO MONS have invented spectacle lenses of the greatest trans parent power. The valuable advantage derived from their invention is, that vision becomes preserved and strengthened ; very aged persons are enabled to employ their sight at the most minute occupation, can see with these lenses of a much less magnifying power, and they do not require the frequent changes to the dangerous effects of further powerful assist ance. -39, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly, opposite the York Hotel. CONTENTS INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER on the Physiological Structure and Functions of the Reproducti ve O rgan. CHAPTER IL—Causes of Supernatorrlura and Impotence; Early Vicious Indulgences; Dangers of Neglect. CHAPTER lII.—A Review of the various Disqualifications Ot Marriage ; whether resulting from Youthful Ab use, the Follies of Maturity, the Effects of Climate, or Infection. CHAPTER IV.—The Author's plan of Treatment, Medical and Rural being the result of a successful practice extending a v,er„a p_eriod of 25 years. Gonorrhoea V. and VI. on the modern Treatment of and Syphilis. osZietßook concludes with numerous variTzi and interesting Loti c k° which is added the Author's' receipt of a preventive E WORK iv valuable work , an f! "Curtin REVIEWS OF TH 011 nanhood —This is a tr u- -, ~ Sunday Times, 811°,11 c1 be In the hands of young and old.' 23d Marh, 1856. lighweoart,ithour hal f those diseases which produce K WiliCh is described the source o conferred a great boon by clecrit . frequently premature lie in youth or more __, ...A...t_h_orm. e_forconsultation, ' daily, from old age."— , , iD ail ally Telegraph March 27, 153° ' Ar6to R. .. , ...."al . I , ) tn 10 :1111:1::: this AtED IC AL ADVICE. DR. LA'MERT, Registered L.S.A., Honorary Member of the London Bospital Medical Society, MA I of the University of Erlangen, & v be CoNsuLTED on all cases of Debility, Nervous ema a' d on the Secret In firmities of Youth and Maturit/e, near,En en till Two, and la b o r ley from Six till Eight, at his real sr, BEDFORD-SQUARE, LONDON Dr. La'Mert has Just published,_price Sixpence, With nu merous Engravings and Cases, a New Edition of his Work, SELP-PRESERVATION, which will be sent free, in a sealed envelope. by Mann, 'M Cornhill, London, or by the Author, for Eight stamps. CONTENTS. SECTION L—The Physiology of the Generative Organs. SECTION IL—Puberty- Manhood -The Morale of Genera lye Physiology —True and False Morality. SECTION ll L — Marriage in itssMoral, Relations —Its Expectancies and Disappointments—Advan ages of Physical Contrasts in securing Healthy Offspring.es Social, and Physical SteTioN IV.—Sperrnaterrhcea and Impotence—The cans of Sterility in both Sexes— Self-inflicted Miseries. SteTTois V. -The Vices of Schoo *dolour§ habits on the mental and general faculties. De- SECTION on of Nervous and Generati ve , )B___Effects a certain Per bility—impotence and Sterility —Dangerous Results s 4 0 1 various Hazardous Specifics—The Author's Principles Treatment ; Medical, Dietetic, and General, derive Twenty Years' successful practice The above work is intended for the perusal of those w . uo s have In early life been induced to bwerre from the strict rn a le re of morality. In its Wholly es facts of paramount utility on. brourht together, wholly divested of tne delusions and inc . . sistencies so largely introduced into certain quasi medico! P u blications given to the world tis, under the inns° or Phil anthropy, or as n arc men and others, whose tamperings with the constitution " acts of gratiCude," by pretended clergy t reqttently followed by aeriont3 yousegnenaea. T Pj g r e E n general a e l ( 0 1 13 P u Out- r O p p a e y ra a , nd ß N a l e g e- ht c o p u e r r s s e p , e c F ti e e 1 G d and 1 , sse very small, for the waistcoat p oc k e t , eac h con t a i n i ng 12 an d 18 lenses, constructed of German Class. 'Will show distinctly a person to know him at two-and-a-half and three mites, and an object from Sto 10 miles distant. Her Majesty's Coast Guard are making use of them as day and night glasses in preference to all others ; they are a' so prefrred for deer stalking by sportsmen, gentlemen, and gamekeepers. Tele scopes, 3i inches long, by which a person may be clearly seen and known at 34 miles, and an object at 12 to 14 miles' dis tance ;and with an extra astronomical eye-piece Ju• iter's moons, Saturn's rings, and the double stars are distinctly seen ; they are in endless variety, of larger and all sizes, with increasing powers, and are secured b her Majesty's Royal letters patent. — Messrs. S. and B. SOLOMONTS, Opticians, 39, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly, opposite the York Hotel, W. 3, GREAT MARLBOROUGH -STREET. W., REAR THE PANTHEON., D R. CULVERWELL, M em b er of the Royal College of Surgeons, Licentiate of Nildwitery, and Apo thecarigs' Hall, London, ca n b e consulted daily (only) as above, on all cases of Nervous Debility, L anguor, Incapacity, Less of Memory, Sterility, and all Functional Derangements of both Sexes, emanating from early and excessive ,indul gences, gas Just published, pri sealed l ; by post, 13 stamps, 18, No. 4, An entire new o a u n n d Vall s 7ork, entitled synopsig The Physiology and Anatomy of our Gener a ti o n The O r igin of Disease — Sympto ms, Treatment , and Cur Also, an Exposi tion of. and - Remedy for, all Urinary Dera nge !: ments and MaritAl Disqualifications, MALE. • The modern treatment of Syphilis, Stricture, Blennorrhagia Gonorrhcea), Spermatorrhcea, Impotency, and all Diseases of the Urinary Organs, with Prescriptions, &C. FEMALE. The Physiology and Anatomy of Women— Functional Ir regularities in Health and Sickness —Choice in Marriage— Their Expectancies and Disappointments—T ause and t Removal of Sterility—The Theory and Symponis of Gesta tion—Use of the Speculum, and he securing of Healthy Offspring. Also, No. 1. rs HEALTH, HAPPINESS, and LONGEVITY ; "11 Debility, Nervousness, Dyspepsia, knd IndigeNtion, No. 2. LOVE AND MARRIAGE : their Obligations, Happiness, and DisappointnrientS ; Love and othmr Matches. Sterility Removed, and healthy Off .Pring scoured. No. 3. THE CASE BOOK • 100 Cases of SPERMATORRIPEA. Their Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment, Confessions and Cure by Cauterisations, Galvanism, &c. &c. To be had of Mann, 30, Cornhill ; and the Authors. Advice to the Working Classes. tee Half-a-Guinea. Dr. Culverwell, consulting assistant and sole successor to his late brother, It. J. Culverwell, M.D. DIRECTORS. MARK HUNTER, Esq., Chairman. John Alfred Chowne, Esq. ' Robert Stracey Price, Esq. James Clay, Esq., M.P. i John Savage, FN. George Clive, Esq., M.P. erbert Taylor, Esq. Jonathan Hopkinson, Esq. Joseph Thompson, Esq. William Jackson, Esq., M.P. Thomas Winkworth, Esq. Sir Joseph Paxton, M.P. MANAGER —Mr. Alfred Richard Cutbill. Solacrrous—Messrs. Upton, Upton, and Johnson, and Messrs. Norris and Son. Present—Port-ve Prietors. The advertisement calling t h e meeting opr was read. and after• wards the following E PORT. The balance-sheet for the half-year ending 30th June last, Which the directors have now to submit to the shareholders, shows a net profit (including £1.285 4s. 3d. brought forward from last account) of £16,535 13s. 4d., after paying all ex penses of management and making provision for bad and doubtful debts. The directors are therefore enabled to recommend a divi dend for the half-year ending 30th June last at the rate of £8 per cent. per annum, free of income-tax, making, with the dividend already paid, 71 per cent. for the past 12 months. After payment of this dividend, which will require £12,000, there will remain a balance of £551 2s. to be carried forward to new aeestmt, £3,984115. 4d. having been allowed ferrebate on current bills not yet due. The dividend will be paid on and after 28th instant. In compliance with the provisions of the deed of settlemen• the following. Directors, viz., John Alfred Chowne, Esq. Jonathan Hopkinson, Esq., and Joseph Thompson, Esq., re tire from office, but being eligible offer themselves as candi• dates for re-election. July 17, 1860. COMMERCIAL BANK OF LONDON BALANCE -SHEET TO 36TH JUNE, 1860. DR. • Capital subscribed ....... £1,500,000 Capital paid-up, £2O each on 15,000 shares.... £300,000 0 0 Guarantee fund.. 75,000 0 0 Balances due to the customers of the bank.. 979,708 19 10 Balance ofundivided profit, 31st December, 1852 Net profit for the half-year end ing 30th June, 1860, after pay ing income tax and deducting all charges and expenses, and making provision for bad and doubtful debts... Balance carried down • • • ...... • 1,28.5 4 3 I. The London P oor CONTENTS. . 11. Joseph Scaliger. 111. Workmen's Savings and Earnings. IV. The Cape and South Africa. V. Mrs. Grote's Memoir of Ary Scheffer. VI. Stonehenge. VII. Darwin on Species. Viii. The Conservative Reaction. John Murray, Albemarle-street. THE TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE SUN . - See the LONDON REVIEW and WEEKLY JOURNAL of Saturday, July 21, price 3d., every Saturday. W. Little, Manager, ii, Southampton-street, Strand. A single c_ipy sent free by post for four postage stamps. THE LONDON REVIEW AND WEEKLY JOURNAL, conducted by CHARLES MACKAY, LL.D., Threepence, every Saturday.—W. Little, manager, No. 11, Southampton-street, Strand. tZ_OVERNMENT upon FIRST PRINCIPLES. \ Illustrated Analozically, Statistically, and Morally. By JOHN GROSSMITH. This work embodies a wide field for information, not only upon Social and Moral subjects, but upon a great variety of questions which are essentially incorporated with the politi cal discussions of the day, in connection with the Commerce, Trade, and Taxation of the country. Statesmen and lovers of intelligent progress will find in it a compilation of facts well worthy their attention. London: Piper and Co., Paternoster-row. The Fourth Edition. Just Published, Bvo, in cloth, price ss. by post free, 55. 6d. ON TRUE and FALSE SPERIVIATORRIREA; with the View to the Correction of wide-spread Errors in relation to the Treatment and Cure - of Sufferers from De bility of the Generative system, or Sexual Hypochrondriasis. Translated from the German of Dr. PICKFORD. " Dr. fickford is known to English readers by his frequent Iractical contributions to German medical literature. This is the first time, he informs us, that he has addressed himself to the non-medioal reader. We trust that this may not be the last, if he shall detect any other aqually flagrant evil which it may be in his power to correct."—London Medical Gazette. " The editor has conferred a great boon on the sufferers from this distressing malady by translating this little book, and by laying bare the scandalous practices of unqualified adventurers, who profess to cure a disease of which they know nothing, with no other object than to fill their own purses. The difference between true Spermatorrhcea and the various forms of disease which resemble it are accurately de scribed, and thus a safe guide is offered for the treatment of the malady."—Medical Circular. " We have dilated so long upon the contents of the preli minary chapter, that we have scarcely left ourselves space for any notice of the subject specially treated of by Dr. nckford ; but the moderate price at which the ' brochure' is sold, places it within the reach of every one interested in the matter."— Dublin Medical Press. London : H. Bailliere, 219, Regent-street. PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEES. THAMES EMBANKMENT. The committee appointed to consider the question Of the embankment of the Thames, re-assembled yesterday, Sir J. Paxton in the chair. The members present were Mr. W. H. Cowper, Lord R. Montague, Mr. Roupell, Mr. Walter, Sir J. Pakington, Lord J. Manners, Mr. Phillips, Mr. Alderm an C u bitt , Mr. Beamish, and Sir S. M. Peto. Mr. Ledger, wharfinger, of Queenhithe, was ex amined, and said that the, plans which he had seen for a Thames embankment, would take 30 to 40 feet from his wharf wall, and if effected he should be compelled to put his barges into the stream, as the plan would deprive him of nearly the whole of his present wharf convenience. The distance between the pillars supporting the embankment should be as distant from each other as would be equal to the length of his barges, which was between 60 and 70 feet. They were taken in sideways, as they had no rudder. His wharf stood rather more in the river than most of the other wharves in the neighbour hood. As the current would be increased by the embankment, it would require more men to navi gate the barges. If his barges were to be placed outside the embankment, it would increase his ex penses by £BOO per annum. The grain he received at his wharf found its way to every part of the kingdom. There was now very little current near to his wharf wall. The barges were aground half of every tide. The steamboats agitated the water, and kept the banks clear, while docks would collect mud and be more objectionable than the present state of the banks. Mr. Gould, another wharfinger,•said he was the largest occupier on the Thames, and his premises were adjacent to those of the last witness. He con sidered that the proposed embankment would be most injurious to his trade. The columns would be the least objectionable. His frontage extended for 90 feet, and the barges required 85 feet. He admit ted that the embankment would be a great public convenience, but it would militate against his inte rests. A majority of the wharfingers objected to the embankment. His rent was about £2,000 a-year for 90 feet. Mr. Bazalgette said that he expected to underpin the wareholse by 4 feet to get a foun dation, whereas from 12 to 40 feet had been re quired for that purpose. Mr. Smith, another wharfinger, about 300 feet to the west of Queenhithe, said he had a frontage of 60 feet, his business being principally in the different descriptions of grain. He had a3O feet wharf at a—ground-rent of Xl3o,—Lutd.- 1 40- 4 ..... 1- 4abtl- Mr. Kennard said that tlAeey it nct occupieditwyre lieveotuo Idt embankmentthhepbe rleecv m r:os i would out several tnousanas oi-poinidinpon it to make it convenient. The embankment would re d uce hi s present wharfage, instead of extendin g it. rode s euenadl odtdn, state thepub lic vtdee oag b ftr a enttahkhtese facilities same mr t e h ee e sti T :m h fser a oo n g, t rn e te s hat . convenience. It would be a great public im provement, and would be the best way of giving facilities for traffic between both ends of the town. He did not think it would injure his premises, and all that it would do would be to increase the ex pense of his business. But it was the duty of every one to give up something to effect a great conve nience. There would be no inconvenience in barges lying outside the embankment, as the river was wider there. He had driven piles into the river to keep the barges safe and firm, and the barges were kept there without any difficulty whatever. Mr. Hadley, of Puddle-dock, was examined. He said he had a frontage of 60 feet to the Thames. He said his premises were erected in 1850 at a cost of £30,000. They are flour mills, and manufac tured a thousand sacks of flour daily. A large pro. portion of that was sent out by water carriage. If a dock was formed in front of his premises, with facilities for the barges going in and out, it would be a great advantage. If there were to be a dock of 150 feet in width in front of his premises, it would be satisfactory, but while this embankment was being made he wanted to know what was to become of their trade. He should be glad to give his assent to any scheme which would give them greater facilities, but at present they bad all the facilities they required. Any compensation to be given to the wharfingers for the obstruction of their business while the embankment was being made should be given after the work was done, for until that time -they.would be unable to properly estimate the loss which had been occasioned. The •streets would be greatly crowded or stopped during the making of this embankment. They would also become stopped if a sewer was made down the Strand and Fleet-street. All they required was that their barges should come in and go out as they do at present. In two or three years he expected to carry on a larger business, and to be able to grind 800 qrs. of wheat daily. Mr. Graham, an iron merchant, said his dock was at the narrowest part of the river between Black friars and. South wark bridges. He said that all he required was a proper facility for his barges to enter the docks. A suspension bridge near Queenhithe would remove his objections. Mr. - White, of Carron Iron-wharf, said the pro posed embankment would interfere with his barges, and if it was made they would be compelled to lie out in the stream. If any public benefit could be arrived at without doing them an injury, of course they would be ready to give their assent to it. Their frontage to the river was 130 feet, the front age towards Thames-street 150 feet, and the depth 200 feet. _ _ Mr. Josiah Harvey, of the Grand Junction-wharf, Whitefriars, said they had at present 205 feet of wharfage, and this embankment would take two thirds of it. They should require space for their barges to get in and out of the docks. If he was to obtain by the embankment the same facilities as he now possdsed he should not offer objections to it. He paid a rent of £9OO a-year, and the term of his occupation was for 31 years. This embankment would be so limited in its advantages that he did not think it Would be desirable. If there was to be a fine wide roadway, which could be used as a pro menade, and the riverieould be restored to its former purity, there was no doubt that it would be of great advantage to the population in the present crowded evidence. . Ray neighbourhood. Mr. Rathbone, of Thames-street, gave similar irent gave it as his i a . n t io w n ou th m at h a ave di t cal M ty r would be experienced in respect of the columns h e proposed . acerta distancen On e w har apart,fin t e r sßomoseeowf would dto be require them o : .oth t e o r effe ivi ct r. o . f k e ld a e u r s m in a g n was examined, and said that them to n th ') ffihe persons' premises. the proposed plan would take away whole h of his premises. He said there was greatmis e a as to the dock entrances, and he felt assured ppre thatnsio.n six months they would be filled up with mud. in mechanical means could be provided for removing it from time t o ti me th a t o bj ec ti on wou l d no longer exist, but his experience of the river showed to him that an accumulation of mud would take pla ce . There would be great difficulty in getting the barges into the docks on account of the strong run of the tide. He believed that the docks would be imprac. ticable, as there was such a great increase of trade that they would require a dock entrance to every wharf. In his own case he had sometimes to un load or load a barge in a single night to save a ship, and he presumed his neighbours required the same, and to enable them to carry on their busi ness they ought to have a dock entrance to every wharf. Although engineers had given evidence that there would be no difficulty in carrying out %Ms embankment in iefin.enee to the trade on the river, he would rather take the opinion of a London lighterman, who knew the dif ficulties of working barges on the river, which bad not been touched upon by the engineers. The whole of his property would require to be under pinned, and as he had some experience of under. pinning his own warehouse, he knew that it would be most expensive. Queenhithe was not an en croachment on the river, but was the identical dock where Queen Elizabeth landed he... wines. The committee then adjourned. INTERNATIONAL STATISTICAL CONGRESS. Yesterday the Congress re-opencd at 10 o'clock in six sections, under their respective presidents. In the first section (Judicial Statistics), in the course of the proceedings, ' Lord BROUGHAM, the chairman of the section, said the term " Judicial statistics" signified the re gular and constant record of the whole particulars connected with the administration of the law in all its branches, its administration by all courts, civil and criminal, local and general; the state of those courts, as to the judges and other office-bearers; their whole proceedings through every stage, together with every mat ter concerning the working of the law, though not.lraving come within the cognisance of any tribunal—in a word, the record in minute, and for the most part in a tabular form, of all the facts connected with the execution of our laws. Without such information they could not exercise their legislative functions safely, not to say effectually. How could they know how a law worked unless they had all the facts before them ? It behoved them therefore to collect statistics con stantly with reference to the working of their laws. Four years ago he had brought this subject before the House of Lords. Government was too apt to be penny wise and pound foolish. A very interesting discussion then took place on the subject of salaries to judges and judicial persons in various parts of the Continent, the fees and modes of payment, together with their qualifications, the manner of their appointment, and the nature of their duties. Several of the delegates gave a variety of very interesting details. At 12 o'clock his Royal Highness the Prince Consort entered the section, and Lord Brougham explained to him that a discussion had taken place on the salaries of judges in various countries, when it appeared that their salaries were in most cases exceedingly small, and that in certain countries—which he very much commiserated--the judges were elected by univer sal suffrage. It was agreed " that the statistics of juries should show the number and description of Jurors in the book, the number called during the year for one or more times, number of days and hours the jurors were employed, number of trials by jury in civil and criminal cases, distinguishing special juries, the remuneration of jurors, the num ber of jurors, and the cases in which trial by jury is obligatory, eases in which it is optional, and cases in which juries were unanimous, or have given their verdict by a mere majority, or by some other proportion, the number of jurors discharged,. and on what grounds." In Section 11. (Sanitary, Lord Shaftesbury pre sident) a lengthened and interesting discussion took place, the result of which will be consolidated and reported formally to-morrow." In Section 111. (Industrial, Sir Roderick Mur chison president) an interesting discussion took place, which chiefly referred to the questions re lating to mines and mining, in which Mr. Hunt, of the Mining Record' Office, and M. Visschers took part. On the entrance of his Royal Highness the Pre sident of the Congress, The CHAIRMAN explained that Mr. Hunt had made some interesting statements on the important question of coals, and had shown that we might with advantage apply to our country the Belgian system, and render our mines more profitable by the employment of engineers who had the confi dence of the Government of the country. These gentlemen would have no direct authority or influ ence over the mines, but would give their_counsel sand advice, 1-10 isayinst- as ILOYALt Highness entered, that they were doing the best they could to instruct such a class of gentlemen, and when it became known that they were . fully qualified to go Qut and give advice on these subjects, no doubt their services would be more generally called into requisition, and this would prevent the upper beds of coal being totally destroyed for the sake of getting at the richer beds beneath them. In Section IV. (Commercial Statistics, presided over by Mr. Nassau William Senior) the whole morning was occupied with the discussion of a paper by Mr. Newmarch, on " The Statistics of Prices and Wages in the Principal Trades." In Section V. (Naval and Military Statistics, over which Earl Stanhope presided) a paper by Mr. J. T. Hammack was read by the author, on " The Census," referring to the means of 'obtaining the necessary information as to the enumeration of the population, and the existing methods in connexion with the recommendations of the Congress to ob tain the most satisfactory results. The discussion on this paper occupied the whole of the morning. • In Section VI. (Statistical Methods, over which M. Quetelet presided), a paper on the statistics of literature was read by MO.:MINTER, JONES, of the British Museum, in which the following general propositions were put forward. The literary sta tistics of a country ought to embrace all that is the result of the exercise of the human intellect, so far as the same is manifested through the Press. The most ephemeral street ballad must find a place in its details, no less than the work of the highest scientific character. The Press affords an index to the material, intellectual, and moral condition of a nation ; and, if carried sufficiently far, will show the special character of the industry of every coun try. The several points of inquiry ought to be— The number of new works and volumes published annually wider the several classes of theology, jurisprudence, philosophy, and science (pure and applied), history, geography, and biography, fine arts, general literature, the classical writers of Greece and Rome, dictionaries, grammars, and educational works, periodical publications, includ ing the transactions of learned and scientific socie ties, newspaper literature, and ballad literature. After some discussion, a vote was taken, affirm ing the general principles laid down. The propositions were then discussed in detail, and, with the exception of that referring to the number of copies printed, which several gentlemen practically acquainted with the subject showed it was impossible to get at, were accepted. The Congress assembled at two o'clock under the presidency of the Right Hon. W. F. Cowper, M.P. The first business was to read a list of the repre sentatives of departments and societies in foreign countries not actually deputed by their respective Governments, attending upon the Conference. Belgium—M. Corr Van Der Maeren, President of the International Customs Reform Association. France—M. Chatelain, of the Statistical Depart ment of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Prussia—Dr. S. Neumann, delegate from the Central Society of Prussia for the Improve ment of the Condition of the Labouring Classes, and from the Society c f Scientific Medicine of Berlin. Russia —Captain Siera korski, delegate from the Russian Minister of War- Professor Kaponskine, representative of the Uni versity of Moscow, and M. Gregorief, Fellow of the Imperial Geographical Society, and member of the Central Statistical Committee. United States—Dr. Jarvis, delegate from the Government of the United States, and President of the American Statistical Society. James Wynne, Esq., and Sheppard No mans, Esq., from the Geographical and Statistical Societies of America. The British Association, the National Association, and the Manchester Statisti cal Society were also represented. M. LE CHEVALIER L. DEBRAUZ DE SALDEPENNA urged that the whole of the proceedings should be in French, which was the international lan guage. The CHAIRMAN said it was optional at these Congresses to speak i n French, or in the language of the country i n which the Con gress was held. In this they followed the precedent of the Congress at Vienna. M. Debrauz, M. Chatelain, and M. C arr V an d er Maeren were appointed foreign secretaries. A variety of foreign delegates, Russian, Prus sian, Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish, and others read addresses, mostly in French, the MSS. of which, owing to the confused method in whi c h th e busi ness was managed, were given unfairly to one re porter; he of course, went off with th em, and thus gentlemen representing other journal s were de prived of the opportunity which had been pro mised them of summarising their contents. Dr. C. N. DAVID (Denmark) gave an account of the progress of statistical science in Denmark, and stated the nature of the contents of the volumes, 21 in number, published under his di ' rection. He deplored the want of one uniform system as regards weights and measures, and ex pressed his conviction that in no country were suicides noted with sucficient accuracy and fulness. Dr. AS HER (Hamburg) spoke in English. It was impossible that any Legislation could proceed with out an arithmetical knowledge of the factors that come into competition in forming a law. They could least of all dispense with this knowledge in all questions of financial legislation. He laid before the Congress valuable tables relating to the gross revenue of Hamburg from 1818 to 1859, both inclusive, with the average of every five nears, and a variety of other matters. The value of the imports subject to duty had increased about 117 per cent., forming one-fourth of the entire value of im ported goods. The value of the imports for the last three years was about 58Th millions of marks banco—an increase of about 709 per cent. as com pared with 1815. The export duties had varied, and as many of them as remained were abolished in 1857. lie referred to a general asylum for the poor, supported partly by voluntary contributions and partly by the State. During the last seven years the State had provided 80 per cent. of the expenses, or 356,500 marks currency out of 447,000 marks a year. There had been a decrease of pau perism in the septennial period ending 1859, as compared with the septennial period ending in 1852, of 7 2-sths per cent., though the number of births had increased 9,27 per cent. Mr. L. K. DAA spoke in English, and described the official statistical publications of Norway which he represented. From 1815 to 1855 there had been decennial censuses, which had been gra dually im:.roved and enlarged, embracing (a) the number of the people, arranged according to age, sex, marriage, and employment ; (b) the do mestic cattle—horses, oxen, sheep, goats, swine, and •reindeer ; (c) seeds of different kinds sown annually. Every fifth year since 1830, the county maoistrates collected statisti cs as t o agr i cu l ture, fisheries, trade manufactures, mines, poor-rates, rate of wages. savings banks, &c. He laid on the table these reports from 1851 to 1855, and stated that reports were also made by the clergy and others. Numerous other delegates having spoken, the proceedings were adjourned till this day at ten o'clock, when the Congress will reopen in sections, and afterwards reassemble in its collective capacity at two o'clock. SUMMER ASSIZES. WESTERN CIRCUIT.-WINCHESTER, July 17, CROWN COURT. (Before Mr. Justice Keating.) MURDER OF , A WIFE AND SIX CHILDREN IN THE ISLE OF WIGHT. William Henry Whitworth, a soldier, aged 39, was indicted for the wilful murder of Martha, his wife, and Frederick, William, Robert, Mary Ann, Elizabeth, and Ellen Whitworth, his six children, at Sandown, in the parish of Brading, Isle of Wight. Mr. IV. M. Cook appeared for the prosecution ; Mr. Cole for the defence. It will be remembered that Whitworth, who was a sergeant in the Royal Artillery, was the master gunner at Sandown Fort, in which his quarters were situated, there residing with his wife and six of his children, the seventh being absent. On the 18th of May Whitworth ran across the parade ground, and threw himself upon his knees before Captain Robinson, and exclaimed, " For God's sake, sir, save me !" He handed to Captain Robinson his watch, some papers and money, and added, " He's used me dreadfully ! He's held a pistol at my head, and swore he'd shoot me if I didn't cut my throat." He then opened the collar of his coat, exhibited his throat cut and covered with blood, and said—" There's awful work down there ! Pray go down !" He was sent to the h os pit a l. O n entering the house the whole of the inmates were found murdered. The prisoner, when placed at the bar, stared vacantly about the court, muttered some incoherent sentences, and was apparently eating something. A jury was empanelled to try the question whe ther the prisoner could understand the pleadings to an indictment, and Dr. Lyford, the surgeon to the county gaol at to r,0t...t0d that the prisoner's mental powers were almost entirely extinct, arising from the softening of the brain, a disease which had apparently been going on for some time. The prisoner, who had placed his arm round the neck of the turnkey who had him in charge, smiled at and pointed to his lordship, and appeared to be much amused at the appearance of the court. After an explanatory address from his lordship, The jury found that the prisoner was unable to plead. His Lordship said then he should direct the usual order to be made. The gaoler motioned to the prisoner to leave the bar, but he appeared quite unable to comprehend the meaning, and when he was led away by the arm, he exclaimed in a loud tone of voice, " Gracious God, look down upon you all, miserable sinners." LOVE AND SUICIDE.-EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF ATTEMPTED DOUBLE MURDER. Robert Simpson, aged 23, was indicted for wounding Sophia Rowe, with intent to murder her, at Winchester. Mr. Gunner prosecuted. The circumstances of this extraordinary case formed one of those recurring instances that "truth is stranger than fiction." It appeared that Rowe, who had been a domestic servant. is the daughter of a brickmaker, named James Rowe, residing a t Stowmarket, in Suffolk, and on the 24th of last December, being out of a situation, she went to the Painters' Arms, a public-house in Sussex street, Winchester, to assist the landlady, who was in ill-health, and there she remained until the morning of Saturday, May 12. Previously to this she had become acquainted with the prisoner ; the Thursday and Friday nights preceding the 12th they slept together; and on the Friday morn ing the man said he was tired of soldiering, he should cut his throat, and requested that Rowe would obtain him a razor. She told him that she would not borrow one, upon which, according to the girl's account, he became so unhappy that she gave him ls. 6d. to purchase a razor. He bought one, re turned to the Painters' Arms, and remained there for the rest of the day, giving the razor to Rowe, who locked it up in her box. At night, when they went to bed, at the prisoner's request, Ro we took the razor out of the box and placed it under the bolster. Another girl, Rachel Welby, also got into the bed, being accustomed to sleep with Rowe ; she arose at seven o'clock the next morning and went down stairs. About five minutes afterwards Simpson took the razor from under the bolster, and Rowe desired him to cut her throat. He replied that he had not power to do it, and Rowe declared that if he did not cut hers he should not cut his own. Simpson asked her to lay her arm down for him to put his head on, and she then laid her arm down and he laid his head upon it. At that time he had the razor in his left hand, and with it he first cut Rowe's throat and then his own. Mrs. Watlen, the landlady, heard some noise, and on running up stairs found them both lying on the bed with their throats cut and bleeding. Rowe held out her hand, and said " Good bye." Simpson said, " This is love," and Rowe added, "I shall die happy." Mr. Buckle, a surgeon, was called in, and on an examination of the wounds discovered upon Rowe a very large incision in the neck, dividing a por tion of the trachea, attended with much hemorrhage. The prisoner's neck was not so seriously lacerated. The jury convicted the prisoner of the attempt to murder. His Lordship characterised the conduct of the parties as a foolish and wicked act--an offence against morals, religion, and law ; and ordering sentence of death to be recorded against the pri soner, told him that he would have to suffer a long term of imprisonment. MIDLAND CIRCUIT.—LEICESTER, July 17. (Before Mr. Justice Wightman.) Hannah Holmes, 16, domestic servant, was in dicted for the wilful m ur d er o f S amue l Wells. Mr. Mereweather and Mr. Sargeant for the pro secution ; Mr. O'Brien and Mr. Palmer defended the prisoner. Prisoner had been a domestic servant to the de ceased Samuel Wells, and they had had daily dis agreements. She had been heard to say that she hated him (deceased), and that "she wished the old devil was dead." Prisoner was sent by her master to the house of Henry John Wells, a son of deceased, for some wheat and some arsenic. A small bag of wheat was given her, and a packet of arsenic containing lb. Afterwards the packet was returned to the son's house, and it was found that the packet then contained 21 ounces. On the following night Samuel Wells wished to have so.i'e gruel for supper, and prisoner made him some. On taking it he remarked that it was thick, and he could not "get through it." 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Admission, Is. which was taken up to deceased, but he could not touch it. The daughter then ate some of it, and also gave some to her little boy. The prisoner tried to pm - suade them not to eat it, and proposed that it should be kept hot for the, deceased for another time. They both fell ill with vomiting and burn ing pains in the mouth and throat, but ultimately recovered. Samuel Wells continued ill, and died in a week after taking the gruel. Some hens and chickens had pecked the vomit and died. The medi cal evidence proved that deceased had died from the effects of arsenic. Letters were put in, written by prisoner, expressing sorrow for what she had doue, and stating► that she did not mean to kill her master. For the defence Mr. O'Brien urged that the pri soner was young and did not know the consequences of her act. There was not sufficient motive proven for the commission of murder, and he submitted that it could only be considered a case of man slaughter. _ _ The learned Judge having summed up, The Jury retired for about half an hour. On their return into court they found a verdict of Guilty, with a strong recommendation to mercy. The Judge then put on the black cap and pro nounced the sentence of death in the usual form. The prisoner was conveyed from the dock in a fainting fit. NORFOLK CIRCUIT.--BEDFORD, JULY 17. (Before the Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas.) HARTWELL V. VEASY AND WIFE. Mr. O'MUlley and M r . C ouc h were for the plain tiff, and Mr. Keane and Mr. Browne for the de fendants. This was an notion for slander, the declaration alleging that Mrs. Voasey falsely and maliciously , spoke and published of the plaintiff the words fol lowing, that is to say, " He kissed and embraced Anna Maria Brewer." The defendant pleaded "justification" and not guilty. The plaintiff was at the time in question in the employ of the Duke of Bedford, patron of the parish church of Woburn, his duties being to clean the church, attend to the gas in the church, schools, yards, &c., at a salary of 12s. 10d. per week. The girl whom the plaintiff was charged with having "kissed and embraced" was servant of the schoolmistress, and helped to teach in the infant school. The plaintiff is 67 years of age, was for eleven years in the army, having fought at Waterloo. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff— damages, £5O. TILE GREAT SOLAR ECLIPSE OF TO-DAY, JULY 18. BY J. GLAISHER, ESQ., F.R.S. This eclipse will rank among the most remark able, as the time of absolute total eclipse is v er y nearly the longest possible. The breadth of the greatest shadow line possible is about 180 miles, and in this eclipse it is about 130 miles, and its passage over the earth about 7,000 miles, and the interval of time from the shadow first touching the earth in California, and finally leaving it in Egypt, is about three hours, and within this space the eclipse will be total The shadow will first touch the earth, or the eclipse become visible, in the North Pacific Ocean, near the cost of Upper California ; from thence the shadow will pass over North America, crossing Hudson's Bay, Labrador, and the Atlantic. It will first touch Spain at the bottom of the Bay of Bis cay ; passing across in a line from north-west to south-east, over and nearly parallel to the river Ebro. Leaving Spain between Valencia and Tor tosa, it crosses the Mediterranean and the southern most of the Balearic Islands, and enters Africa be tween Algiers and Constantine, and finally leaves the earth near the shores of the Red Sea. Considering the phases of the eclipse beyond the limiting parallels of totality, near to them the eclipse will be almost total, and is more and more removed from totality as the distance increases. In England the magnitude of the eclipse may ba judged from the following considerations. If we consider the diameter of the sun•to be represented by 100, then, at all those places situated on or near a line joining London and Liverpool 83 parts of the diameter of the sun will be obscured ; at places situated near lines parallel to the above drawn through Dublin and Edinburgh respectively, 87 such parts will be obscured on the former, and 79 on the latter; and at intermediate places, the tnagni tude will be intermediate. The greatest eclipse in the British Isles will therefore be in Ireland, and the smallest in Norfolk. The point of the sun's border on which the moon will first impinge is situated on the right hand and a little below a horizontal lino drawn through his centre, and the last contact will be at a point on the left hand, or eastern border above the horizontal line passing through his centre. The following are the ti middle, and ending of the e each place: imes of the beginning, :clipse, in local time, at Middle of the EcliOse The Eclipse ends. h. In. At London At Oxford At Cambridge At "Dublin At Edinburgh 1 1 3 39 2 p p: : : 1 39 p.m. 1 pan. 1 17 p.m. 2 2 4 4 2 9 p p. .m m. . 2 48 p.m. 2 15 p.m. 2 26 p.m. 3 54 p.m. 3 48 p.m. 3 53 p.m. 3 22 p.m. 3 31 p.m. Although the phenomena of this eclipse in Eng land will fall far short of those in the line of totality yet it is the largest of any solar eclipse that will happen here till the 22d day of December, in the year 1870; and the next, and only one in this century, will be in the year 1887, on August 19, and which will be nearly total. STATE OF TRADE. MANCHESTER, July 17.—The yarn market has been very quiet. There have been some few sales for India, China the Mediterranean, Germany, and the home trade, but they have been on a small scale, and lower prices have had to be taken in every case. In cloths there has also been but little bu , iness. if there has been any change in prices they have been a little easier, but hardly to a quot able extent. There has been a moderate business in all sorts of cloths suitable to India and China on these terms, but sellers disposed to hold for full prices have not been able to effect sales. The letters from India continue discouraging. In cloths for other markets, such as longcloths and T-cloths, business has been rather flatter, and in longcloths especially, which are somewhat affected by the accounts from Syria. There is a meeting this afternoon of Messrs. Freeland's creditors, not yet concluded. The lia bilities are expected to exceed the amount at first anticipated. Messrs. John Slagg and Co. report : —" Since our last report there has been a steady demand for T-cloths, longcloths, and printers, and a fair amount of business has been done in them at the full rates of last week. India and China goods are still comparatively neglected ; but a moderate business is doing in them at prices slightly in favour of buyers." Messrs. George Fraser, Son, and Co. say : " Our market to-day has been without improvement, and lower prices are accepted in many cases both for yarns and goods. India shirtings are about lid. per piece lower than on Tuesday last, and India yarns about id. per lb. lower. The extent of business doing continues limited. LEEDS, 17th.—The cloth-halls have not been visited by many buyers to-day, and those present purchased but sparingly. For the season of the year, however, and looking at the amount of business doing directly between merchants and manufacturers, the aggregate amount of cloth sold to-day was satisfactory. Manufacturers, whether small or large, continue in full work, but some of the dressers and finishers are rather slack. Prices of both cloth and wool are firm, unless it be that some kinds of mantle cloths, rather over the season, are lower. ROCHDALE, 16th.—There have not been many transactions in wool to-day, owing chiefly to the lowness of stocks in the hands of dealers and the high prices asked. The flannel trade is active. Not only is there a fair business doing in actual purchases of goods for immediate delivery, but good orders are being given out for autumn and winter. The advance in the wages of the operatives, and also the increase in the price of wool, necessitates an advance in the manufactured article, which rather checks trade, and causes manufacturers as well as merchants to act cautiously. „ PRICE OF GOLD.—The quo t a tion of gold at raris s about at par, and the short exchange o n London is 25.121 iper £1 sterling. On comparing these rates with the Eno.- fish Mint price of £3 17s. 101 d. per ounce for standard gold, it appears that gold is about 2-10ths per cent. dearer in Paris than in London. By advices from Hamburg the price of gold is 423 per mark, and the short exchange on London is 13 . 3 f per £1 sterling. Standard gold at the English Mint price is th e refore about 1-10th p er cent. dearer in Hamburg than in London. The course of ex change at New York on London for bills at 60 days' sight is 1091 to 109/ per cent., which, when compared with the Mint par between the two countries, shows that the el chan change is slightly in fa v our of England • but, after making allowance for charges of transport and difference of interest, the rresent rate leaves a small profit on the importation of gold from the United States. It is stated that the workmen in the employment of the Mining Company at the copper mines of Bon inahon, amounting to several hundred persons, have struck for higher wages. Fearing injury might result to the property o f th e company, who have very expensive machinery cud much valuable otatcrie/ in the neighbourhood. a party of the reserve con stabulary force in the Phoenix-park were despatched last night to Ben mahon, to reinforce the local police. THE PARTY RIOTS IN THE NORTH. According to all the local papers the excitement in Lurgan is still at white heat, and grave apprehen, sions appears to be entertained of another outbreak between the rival factions. The battle of Derry macash on Thursday last shows pretty plainly what might follow from anytt:ing like a general arming of the people, while it fully justifies the course taken by the Government in regard to the Irish volunteer movement. It is clear that the time has not come when it would be prudent to recommend a change in the Act of Parliament, which denies to Irishmen the right enjoyed by the people of Great Britain. • The Eclipse • begins. h. in. h. m. 'TUE POTATO DISEASE. The broken weather , which,^ with the exception of a few make-believe summer days, has marked the month as far as it has gone, has revived the annual alarm of failure in the potato crop. Already some disagreeable reports have been put in circu lation, which, on closer investigation, have proved. ; to be almost utterly without foundation. TER SOUTH WESTERN AVD EXETER RAILWAY. The Exeter and Yeovil Railway—the first idea of which was originated as long back as 1844, com pleting the communication between Exeter and London by the same route as the old coach road— is now finished, under the London and South- Western Company's auspices, and is to be opened to the public to-morrow. Through what contests of broad and narrow gauge—through what panics —through what absurdities of legislation this rail way has been carried in the long interval between 1844 and 1855, when the bill finally passed, it would be tedious and unnecessary to relate. Suffice it to say that the people of Exeter have been throughout persistent in their endeavour" to stand upon their aid ways," while the London and South- Western Company have been no less constant in supporting them. The public have been long familiar with the rail road from London to Salisbury, which city was for I a long period represented in Parliament by a former chairman of the South-Western Company, the late Mr. Chaplin, M.P. The extension to Yeovil, a dis tance of 41 miles, was completed last month. The remaining 46 miles, giving a second railway route between London and Exeter, by the important towns of Axminster and Honiton is now finished, and its opening for traffic will be inaugurated to-day by a grand dinner to be given to the directors of the South• Western Company by the mayor and corpo ration of the western city. The new line, which has been constructed by Mr. Erring,ton, of the firm of Locke and Errington, presents few engineering difficulties, except one of a tunnel through green sand near Honiton. The railway crosses three rivers—the Otter, the Colley, and the Axe, all well known to fishermen—by iron and stone bridges ; and the country which it tra verses is eminently picturesque, abounding in scenery of the most beautiful character, thickly dotted with the residences of many distinguished The value of this extension as an important link of the narrow g auge system cannot be overrated, whether regard ed in a military or commercial point of view. When the bill was before Parliament some attention was directed to it as affording a connecting link in the national defences, the idea being that it must ultimately lead to a connection between the great naval arsenals of Portsmouth and Plymouth"; while, in a commercial point of the view, it restores to Exeter a great amount of trade once • carried on through the district traversed' by this line, and shortens the existing railway distance to the metro polis no less than 27 miles. Although formally opened for traffic to-morrow, the service of express trains will not commence until the Ist of August. VICTOR HUGO. The Progres of Hayti, just received, publishes the following letter from Victor Hugo, in reply to one from the editor, M. E. Hourteloup, thanking him for his eloquent defence of John Brown ; " Hauteville House, Jersey, March 31. " Your letter has deeply moved me. You, sir, are a noble specimen of that black humanity which has been so long despised and misunderstood. From one end of the earth to the other there is but one spirit in man, and this is shown by blacks such as you. Were there several Adams ? That is a ques tion which naturalists may discuss—this much is certain, that there is but one God. And since there is but one father, we must be all brothers. This is the truth for which John Brown died. This is the truth for which I struggle. You thank me for my efforts, and I cannot tell you how much I am gra tified by your thanks. Upon this earth there are neither whites nor blacks, but only spirits ; elf these you are one. Before God all souls are white. I love your country, your race, your liberty, your revolution, your republic. Your magnificent and gentle island is now dear to the eyes of all free souls ; you have set a good example ; you have crushed despotism. This example will aid us to shake off our slavery, for servitude in all its forms must disappear. What the States of the South have killed is not John Brown, but slavery. Henceforth the American Union, in spite of all that is said in President Buchanan's disgraceful message, must be considered as broken. I regret it much, but there is now no help for it. Between the South and the North there stands as a great gulf the gibbet of John Brown. Solidarity is impossible. Such• a crime cannot be split in two. Continue to stigma tise this crime and to consolidate your generous revolution. Go on with your work—you and your worthy fellow-citizens. Hayti is now a burning and a shining light. It is well that among the torches which illuminate the path of progress one should be held by a negro hand.—Your brother, " VICTOR HUGO." PUGILISM. JOSEPH Goss (or NORTHAMPTON) AND BODGER CRITTCHLEY (OF BIRMINGHAM), FOR LlOO A-SlDE.—Al though these combatants are both provincials, they are well known to the metropolitan patrons of pugilism, having before contended in the London ring, Goss having met and defeated the game Rooke, while Crutchley had to succumb to the artistic Boa Tyler. In the present match the belligerents were confined to 10 stone, and when they went to scale both were found to be within the prescribed limits, there not being more than a pound difference in their specific gravity. Goss trained at Northampton, Crutchley had been backed by Bob Brettle, of Birmingham, and credit is due to his trainer, Jem Hodgkis, for the con dition in which he brought his man to the ring. The start had been arranged to take place at five o'clock a.m. , and this judicious arrangement caused matters to terminate in a satisfactory manner, on a spot of ground near to where Dan Thomas obtained his victory over Gillam, of Brighton. The ring was formed by the commissary, and when these arrangements had been completed the belligerents stepped. within the ropes. Goss won the toss for corners, but this was not much advantage, for there was little or no sun. In betting Crutchley was the favourite, his friends freely lay ing the odds of 5 to 4. By half-past eight o'clock the men had received the finishing touch from their seconds, and were conducted to the scrateh. Many were the changes that occurred., in this protracted and arduous struggle. Now would the, gallant Brum have a decided superiority, and again the. tide of battle would turn in a most unmistakeable ma: finer in favour of his antagonist. For unflinching gameness both men proved themselves of equal worth, In the w hole 120 determined rounds were fought, occupying three b .ours and twenty minutes, when Brettle, finding that his u an had no chance, threw up the sponge for Crutchley. Go ss, for the last twenty rounds, had had the " trump card" 4 n I hand, his youth and perseverance having prevailed over the tact, skill, and judgment of the Brum. Mrs. Ross, the mother of the champ;son. rifleman, is the daughter of the late Colin M'Cree, Erai., of Cornbill, Perth, who was a large planter in Demerara and South America. She is a lady of comparatively short stature, but many of her feats with gun and rod are record ed along the banks of the Tay and on the moors and rivers in.Aberdeen shire, and many a heavy salmon has she he tided, and brought down not a few moorfowl. One of ha c shots is well known among the tenantry on the estate al 7 Aboyne, where in 1849 or 1850 Mrs. Ross killed a g.Tan se with a single rifle bullet at a distance of a hundred yards.— ..17.0MA Guide. sal of tuses f the tuni- .aders Oa he t pro- r - '