The Sun. — London, England, 1865-01-20 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence. The "screw corvette Scout, 21, 1,462 tons, 400- horse power, Mr. A. J. Burniston, master, in charge, fitting for the first division of the Steam Reserve in the Medway, is complete in her rigging, and is get ting well forward iu other respeets that she may be ready for commission by the end of the ensuing month. She has been fitted with a topgallant fore castle and a poop, with the necessary offices of a flagship, and it is stated at Chatham that she will relieve the Rattlesnake, 21, 400-horse power, car rying the broad pennant of Commodore A. P. E. Wilmot, C. 8., as flagship on the West Coast of Africa. ---- The screw frigate Bristol, 39, 3,027 tons, 600-horse power, Mr. J. T. C. Webb, master, in charge, pre paring for the first division of the Chatham Steam ' Reserve, in readiness for commission, is all ataunt in her rigging, and is being pushed forward in her fitments as rapidly as possible, in order that she may be out of hand and ready for the pennant before the end of the • ensuing month. The station for which she is intended is not yet known. The Challenger, 21, screw corvette, Captain Ken nedy, arrived at Spithead yesterday from the North American and West India station, and on anchoring exchanged salutes with the Victory, the flagship of the Port Admiral at Portsmouth, Admiral Sir Mi chael Seymour, G.C.B. The Challenger sailed from Bermuda on the 31st' of December with the Virago paddle steamer, coming home for repairs, disabled in her machinery after having been ashore, but parted company with her in a gale when about 1,000 miles distant from Bermuda, and had not seen her since. The Challenger is ordered to proceed to Sheerness to dismantle and pay out of commission. The fever had entirely disappeared at Bermuda at the time the Challenger left. The enormous sheer-legs, made of masses of angle and plate iron, and intended to form the 40- ton hoist at the head of the inner fitting basin in Woolwich Dockyard, are now lying in readiness to be planted in position, and will probably be com pleted to-day. The steam traction engine (Bray's patent) employed in the service of the yard during the past three years has been found most effectual in their removal, as without its aid the difficulty of transporting the unwieldy bulk along the confined avenues leading from the factory to the place of erec tion—impassable for a team of horses—would have been insurmountable. The operation of transport by this peculiar means was witnessed by the various officers of the yard, and many other persons. The question was frequently raised, " Why has the Ad miralty sanctioned the outlay, stated to be £2,000, for new sheers, while a crane of equal capacity and similar manufacture, received a short time ago, is lying on the wharf unemployed ?" A few days ago some of the dockyard men were ordered to assist one of the contractors in a work which it was necessary to complete as early as pos sible, and as a requital for their extra labour the sum of ss. each was allotted to them, and deducted from the contract payment. After a lapse of some days the men complained of not having received their money. As an explanation of the cause of the delay it was alleged that the Paymaster had not been able to calculate the amount of income-tax which it would be necessary to deduct. The men were finally paid 4s. 114 d. each, a farthing being withheld from each amount. Commander Maitland yesterday joined her Ma jesty's 5-gun vessel Landrail, commissioned at Woolwich for service on the south coast of Africa, to assist in the suppression of the slave traffic. The Landrail has been thoroughly repaired, and was yesterday undocked. Her crew has been appointed from the flagship Fisgard, and her officers, the ma jority of whom have been commissioned, have joined at Woolwich. A party of royal marines has like wise been transferred. The Ada, steam-vessel, with a heavy cargo for the Mediterranean, yesterday steamed alongside the shipping pier of Woolwich Arsenal, and took on board 230 tons of war stores for Malta. She after wards hauled off to the powder buoy, and shipped in her magazines seven tons of combustibles, like wise for Malta. The War Department steamer Lord Panmure yesterday went down to Purfleet from Woolwich, laden with war stores for Portsmouth, and com menced shipping 1,000 barrels of powder for March wood, near Southampton. The lighter Hamoaze, from Portsmouth, arrived yesterday at Plymouth. The iron screw steam storeship Megwra, 6, which was commissioned on Wednesday at Devonport by Capt. Montague B. Dunn, obtained seamen yester day from the receiving ships in Hamoaze. Her com plement of officers and men will be 165. The gunboat Hyena, having had a thorough repair atDevonport, made a satisfactory trial of her engines yesterday at the measured mile. She is under orders to receive her powder, after which she will proceed to Milford to join the screw steam Coastguard ship Blenheim, 60, Capt. Thomas 11. Mason. The iron-cased screw steam-sloop Enterprise, 4, Commander Charles T. Rowley, at Devonport, was swung yesterday for the adjustment of her com passes, preparatory to sailing for the Mediterranean. The paddlewheel steam sloop Geyser, 6, Com mander A. T. Thrupp, was putout of Keyham steam yard yesterday morning, and in Hamoaze received some supernumeraries. She is under orders to take disposable officers from Plymouth and Portsmouth to the Tagus. It was yesterday announced at Chatham Dock yard that Mr. P. Thornton, principal master-ship builder at that establishment, and Mr. R. Laws, principal storekeeper, had been appointed members of the committee ordered to assemble at the Admi ralty, under the direction of Mr. H. C. E. Childers, M.P., one of the Lords of the Admiralty, chairman, for the purpose of revising the forms, orders, and other similar documents in use at the several dock yards. - - In consequence of the breaking up of several of the depot battalions, which was resolved upon by the Government at the close of the financial year, various important changes will be made in the dis position of the regimental depots now attached to the various battalions. The three divisions at Chat ham will be augmented by several of the depots from the other stations, while most of the East India and British depots now at that garrison will be transferred to_other battalions and their places sup plied by new depots. Among the regiments which are already named to leave Chatham are the 43d Light Infantry and the 101st Royal Bengal Fusi leers, attached to the Ist Battalion ; the 31st Regi ment and the 83d Regiment, belonging to the 2d Battalion ; and th e 51st King's Own Light In fantry, the 75th Regiment, and the 91st Highlanders, doing duty with the 3d Battalion. The 43d and 51st proceeded to Winches ter, where it is intended t , O form a division composed exclusively of the depots of light infantry regiments, a similar battalion being also formed of the depot companies of Fusileer regim en tg, including the Ist and 2d Battalion of the sth Northumberland Fusileers, the I st an d 2d Bat talions of the 7th Royal Fusileers, the Ist and 2 d Battalions o f the 2 1stRoyalNorthBritis . fi Fusileers, the Ist and 2d Battalions of the 23d Royal Welsh Fusileers, the 87th Ro ßoyal Bengal Pus- yal Irish Fusileers, the 101st the 102 d Royal Madras Fusileers, the 10341 11**rs Royal Bombay Fusileers, and the 104th Bengal Fusileers. ' Captain J. C. Caffin, Director of Stores and Naval Director-General of Artillery, in spection of the ordnance departments and an Chatham on Wednesday and, e cours e afternoon, iiTithtores at of which he visited the ordnance-wharf, panied by the heads of the department, proceeded ace°ln - , proceed e d to the armoury, in which are deposited many thou_ sand stands of arms (rifles) for land and sea service. He also inspected the collection of Armstrong a n d other guns, together with the large supplies of war material now in store. With the exception of the ordinary smooth bore guns and the new 100 pounder Somerset smooth-bore gun, the stock of guns con sists almost entirely of 110 pounder and 40 pounder rifled Armstrongs, none of the 300 pounder or 150 pounder Armstrongs having yet been received at i2hathani. The following appointments were made yesterday at the Admiralty :—Commander John D'Arcy, to the Asia, additional, for service in the Osborne ; Commander George Palmerand Commander H. H. Knocker, to be Inspecting Commander inthe Coast guard ; Lieut. F. C. W. Liardet to the Royal Ade laide ; Lieut. William M. Moger and Lieut. George M. Comber to the Megmra ; Lieut. J. F. G. Grant to the Victory; George G. Boys, midshipman, to the Pylades ; Dr. C. C. Wimberley, assist.-surg., to the Euryalus, additional; and Charles M. F. Torr, clerk (supernumerary), to the Royal Adelaide. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. LONDON AND SOUTH-WESTERN. A special general meeting of this company was held yesterday at the Waterloo Station, Lambeth, for the purpose of considering a proposal for the amal gamation of the Exeter and Exmouth and the Thames Valley Railway undertakings with the un dertaking of the London and South-Western Railway Company ; and also for considering arrangements for the use in perpetuity of portions of the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway Company's Metro politan lines and City undertaking. Capt. Mangles, the chairman, presided. Mr. Clarke, the secretary, having read the notice convening the meeting, The special report was taken as read. The CHAIRMAN said as the report was so full and explicit it would not be necessary for him to detain them for any considerable time. The first matter that they had to consider and approve was the pro posal for the amalgamation of the Exeter and Ex mouth Railway with the London and South-West ern undertaking. The Exeter and Exmouth Rail mouth was 104 miles in length, one-half of which, from Exeter to Topsham, belonged to them, and the other half from Topsham to Exmouth, belonged to to an independent company. It was intended that that this portion of the line should be amalgamated with their undertaking. The directors proposed that the ordinary shares of the independent com pany, £36,800, should be represented by £18,400 4 per cent. South-Western Preference Stock, or the same amount of ordinary stock—the £27,000 5 per cent. preference stock of the Exeter and Ex mouth Company should be represented by £27,000 41 per cent. preference stock in the South-Western Company, which would be exchanged for the for mer company's 5 per cent. stock, and the debenture debt of £16,000 would become part of the debenture debt of the South-Western Company. The traffic of the Exeter and Exmouth line was worked by the South-Western Company in 1861, and in 1862 the gross receipts amounted to £B,9l7—in 1863 to £9,63s—and in 1864 to £9,850: They would per ceive that there was a general increase of traffic from the commencement, as on other railways. This would leave a very small loss, and prevent the necessity of keeping separate accounts. The ar rangement would not come into operation until January, 1866, when it was expected there would be no loss, and in future years a considerable gain. The next proposal was for amalgamating the Thames Valley Railway With their undertak ing. This line was originally proposed to run from the Great Western and Brentford line to the company's Kingston line at Shepperton. It was pro jected as a hostile line when they were at war with the Great Western Company with the view of get ting the broad guage to run into their system. The line was now cut off between Brentford and Twick enham, and only existed as a line from Twickenham to Shepperton, seven miles in length. There was now a line projected from Shepperton to Wey bridge, but it was understood that would not be proceeded with, if the amalgamation of this line ,00k place. The line passed through building land, and the traffic would improve. They had agreed to pay the company £4,650 a year for the line, and the capital was £llO,OOO ; but they proposed to give the Thames Valley Company £100,910 of South-Wes-; tern stock, one half in ordinary and the other half in 41 per cent. preference stock. This would in volve no additional money payment for taking the line into their own hands. The third and last pro- position he had to submit was for authorising ar rangements with the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway Company for the use in perpetuity of their lines between the Clapham, Long Hedge, and and Knight's-hill junctions and. the Ludgate-hill station, as specified in the special report, and shown on the map in the room. The directors did not authorize him to say that it was a onesided bargain and all in their favour, for no such bargain could work well. He believed it was an equitable and convenient arrangement for both companies. It would open up a large district of London to the South-Western Company. At the same time it was right to state that the directors did not think this was a final measure, although they considered it a beneficial arrangement. The money to be paid was £316,000 for the perpetual use of the lines of the Dover and Chatham Company, for which they would have to allow £11,060 a year, or 31 per cent. ; and as they would have to raise the money at 41 per cent., it would represent a loss or payment of about £3,000 a year for the use of those lines. They were advised by competent persons that the suburban traffic would be very considerable over those lines. It was an arrangement so moderate and equitable that it must result in advantage to both companies. Those arrangements would develope a large amount of suburban traffic to and from the beautiful districts served by their system. He con cluded by quoting from Herapath's Journal the fol lowing paragraph in reference to this subject : " The South-Western will find that within a circle of about 25 miles from the City, in their district, their entrance into the heart of the City by means of the Chatham will have the effect of gradually de veloping a large additional residential traffic." There were so many advantages in being enabled to carry their traffic beyond the Ludgate station to the Me tropolitan and Northern railways, that it was unne cessary for him at present to advert to them. On the motion of the CHAIRMAN, seconded by Mr. TITE, M.P., a formal resolution, approving the amalgamation of the Eastern and Exmouth under taking with that of the South-Western Company, was carried unanimously. The CHAIRMAN then moved a formal resolution, approving the agreement for the amalgamation of the Thames Valley Railway with that of the South- Western Railway Company. Mr. CASTLEMAN seconded the motion, and it was carried unanimously. The CHAIRMAN moved a formal resolution autho rising the directors to take the necessary steps for completing the arrangements with the London. Chatham, and Dover Raiiway Company. Count EYRE seconded the motion. A short discussion ensued, in the course of which Mr. TITE asked for some explanation as to what prospect the company had of making an arrange ment with the South-Eastern Company for going into the Cannon-street station. era C t H io A n lß s l o lA na N e s t a i i m d n e e g m o a t i t a t e t i r o n s h a were e ben re e pe n u d n d g e consideration r and it would therefore not be wise to say much about it at present. No one knew more about it than he did, as he (the chairman) went every day into the city. Mr. TITE was perfectly satisfied, and The motion was unanimously adopted. A vote of thanks to the chairman and directors concluded the proceedings. SOUTH DEVON. It appears that after three appeals to the share holders—two by Mr. Ellis, of Exeter, and one by 1 the chairman of the company, the next half-yearly meeting of the proprietors is to be held at Exeter, instead of at Plymouth, on the 28th of next month. A meeting of shareholders residing in the neighbourhood of Exeter recently passed a re solution requesting Mr. Ellis to become a candidate for a seat at the board, and he has accepted this in vitation ; stating that if elected he wil l continue to Bhareho advocate the principle, " that the busi ness of the companyin theworking expe should be conducted for the benefit of the privile ges to generally, without granting any exclu sivean the South n y ses co:npany." Also, a reduction especially in the locomotive department ; the Devon c cost of which is is. 6d. per mile to London and S a o n u a th Eet V °x \ niPearnY' as compared with 100. to the Bri s t o l Company, and Bd. to the estern Company. RAILWAY BILLS, Yesterday the examiners resumed their inquiry, in committee rooms 16 and 17, and after taking the THE StN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 20, 1865. usual evidence, declared the standing orders of Par liamenVcomplied with in the following cases, subject to the production of the receipt of payment of the deposit to the Accountant-General : LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH COAST.—Addi tional powers to make three junctions to connect their existing and authorised railways in the county . of Surrey, with diversions at Camberwell and Dul wich, and additional lands at Camberwell, Mitcham, and Southover. Additional capital, £90,000 ; and power to borrow £30,000. The company's second bill is for the construction of new railways from St. Leonard's to their Ouse Valley and Tonbridge wells and Eastbourne lines, and to raise £300,000 on shares, and £lOO,OOO on mortgage. EAST LONDON (THAMES TUNNEL LINE.)—For the construction of railways from Bethnal-green by a junction with the Great Eastern and terminating at Deptford, in junction with the London and Brighton, with branches from Liverpool-street to Whitechapel, and extensions to the Blackwall and Brighton and South Eastern Railways. Proposed capital £1,400,000, and to borrow £466,000. CHICHESTER AND MIDHURST.—For an extension to the London and South Western near Haslemere. Capital £lBO,OOO, and loan £60,000. FULHAM.—For new lines through Fulham to the Windsor and Richmond Railway. Capital £285,000 and loan £95,000. SOUTH DEVON.—For a branch at Exeter, and to enlarge stations at Teignmouth and South Brent. Capital, £225,000 ; loan, £150,000. SOUTH WALES AND GREAT WESTERN DIRECT.— For a line between the South Wales near Chepstow and the Great Western near Wootton Bassett, with a branch to the Bristol and South Wales Union near Pilning station. Capital, £1,800,000 ; loan, 600, 000. ALTRORPE-ON-TRENT AND LINCOLN.—TO connect by a line to Lincoln, the West Riding and Grimsby with the South Yorkshire. Capital, £.450,000 ; loan, £150,000. BISHOP'S CASTLE.—Extensions between Cherbury and Minsterly, and to Craven Arms. Capital, £133,000 ; loan, £53,000. HEXIIAM AND ALLENDALE.—For railways in Northumberland. Capital £120,000; loan, £40,000. CONNAH'S QUAY (WREXHAM, MOLD, AND CON NAH'S QUAY), —For railways and docks at the mouth of the River Dee. Capital, £390,000; loan £130,000. Also for branches to Dee Valley. Capital, £90,000, loan, £30,000. WREXHA3I, MOLD, AND CONNAH'S QUAY.—For new lines and Dee Valley branch. Two bills were withdrawn—viz., those for the Bridport, Lyme Regis, and Axminster, and for the Bishop's Castle OVenlock Extension). Mr. Charles Greville, By a large number of persons, placed in very different walks and circles of society, the announce ment of the death of Mr. Charles Greville will be received with something more than the regret they bestow on an old and highly valued acquaintance. .n a circle more restricted in numbers, but compris ing the very heart and centre of the best society of England, this event will be deplored as the loss of a wise, constant, and zealous friend. For by the peculiar quality of Mr. Greville's mind, while he took a warm and active interest in everything that was passing around him—in the amusements of the world, in the sports of the turf, in the literature of the day—he could at any moment throw off these pastimes of the hour, and concentrate his vigorous intellect on any grave and weighty matters which he took earnestly in hand. Hence, while he con tinued during the greater part of his life to be one of the most popular men of his time, he was not less regarded by the first statesmen of the age as a dis passionate counsellor and a discreet friend. Charles Greville was born in 1794. He had con sequently but just completed the 70th year of his age. His father was the fifth son of the fifth Lord Warwick; his mother was Lady Charlotte Bentinck, the accomplished and amiable daughter of the third Duke of Portland, a lady to whom in a very advanced age it was the happiness of her children to pay every mark of respect and veneration. This connection with his maternal grandfather decided the life, and in some degree the opinions, of Mr. Greville, for it placed him in close propinquity to the great Whig houses of Bentinck and Cavendish. By the influence of the Duke of Portland, as First Minister, of the Crown, his grandson, then very young, obtained a valuable sinecure office in the Island of Jamaica. and the title of Clerk of the Council Extraordinary which implied in those days the reversion of the office of Clerk in Ordinary to the. Privy Council on the next vacancy. Ile also was employed in early life as private secretary to Lord Bathurst, and thus initiated into official life. Of a singularly refined and intellectual counte• nance, of courteous manners, and of varied attain ments, and of a lively disposition, it is not surprising that Mr. Greville was soon plunged into all the gaiety of the Regency. He was one of the most favoured guests at Oatlands, then inhabited by the Duke and Duchess of York; and his connexion with the turf, as well as his official positions, subse quently brought him into frequent and intimate communication with George IV. As years ad vanced he took a keener interest in the political events of the time ; he lived in closer intimacy with the men by whom those events were directed. Without professing to be a party politician, he ar dently desired the success of the great struggle for Catholic Emancipation, and one of the few literary works he published in his lifetime was a volume on the " Past and Present Policy of England towards Ireland (1845), in which he contended for the com pletion of the measure of relief to the Catholics by the payment of their clergy. In all the important transactions which he subsequently witnessed, al though he professed no unrestricted confidence in the leaders or the principles of the popular party, yet his good sense and his love of justice ranged him on the side of Liberal progress and Conservative im provement. His true position, partly from the pecu liar nature of the permanent office he held in the Privy Council, and partly from his personal inti macies with men of opposite opinions, was a neutral one; but he used that neutral position with consum mate judgment and address to remove obstacles, to allay irritation, to compose differences, and to pro mote, as far as lay in his power, the public welfare. Contented with his own social eminence, he was alike free from ambition and from covetousness. No man was more entirely disinterested in his judgments on public affairs, for he had long-made up his mind that he had nothing to gain or lose by them, and in the opinions he formed, and on occasion energetically maintained he cared for nothing but their justice and their truth. Hence it was that with no special authority, save that of his own integrity and acuteness, the opinion of Mr. Greville was sought and respected by multitudes of persons ; he was in some sense the general referee ; and his time and attention were never wanting to the service of his friends. The utility of a man standing thus unbiassed between the two great parties in the State, and trusted equally by the leaders on either side, could hardly be overrated ; and when the more secret political transactions of the last three reigns are recorded the share taken in many of them by Mr. Greville will be found not insignificant. At this moment, a single anecdote, alike honourable to each of the anpofartthieespcaortncherennedotiunniwt,ilmlinagylysuffiplcaeyetod.givLeord m idea of the part he not unwillingly played. Lord Mel- Mel bourne resigned office in 1841, and Sir Robert Peel thee years.cb celebrated Cabinet over which he presidedinforming five for of the accession to power of his illustrious rival, Lord Melbourne, meeting Mr. Greville at Stafford house, said to him in his accustomed language, " Charles, can you take a message from me to these chaps—a friendly one, I mean ?" The Clerk of the Council assented. Upon which Lord Melbourne proceeded to inform him with the utmost precision of the manner in which the Queen liked the public business to be carried on, of the habits her Majesty had formed, of the subjects to which her attention was chiefly directed—in short, he carefully marked out the best and nearest road to the Royal favour, and then directed him to communicate these par ticulars to Sir Robert Peel. Mr. Greville performed the commission with his usual fidelity, and conveyed to the new -Premier these invaluable hints for his as beyond measure struck by the guidance. Peel w generous feeling which had suggested this commu nication from a political opponent, in order to save the Sovereign and her Minister from the embar rassment of novelty ; and not a little of his grati tude was due to the able mediator who had bridged over the, chasm of contending parties at such a moment. Such occurrences were not unfrequent in the life of Mr. Greville, and if it be true that he has left behind him a considerable collection of memoirs on the public affairs of his own times, these papers may hereafter possess a high degree of historical value. His style, without being brilliant or ambitious, was singularly clear and forcible, sometimes even vehement; and with more of literary vanity or the desire of fame he might have ranked high among the writers of our language. Mr. Greville was one of the oldest members of the Jockey Club, and a firm supporter of the Turf, from the days of the Duke of York's stud to the last October meeting at Newmarket. He was not, how ever, one of the favourites of fortune on the racecourse. He never won the Derby, and once only, we think, carried off the St. Leger with Mango. But as the owner of Alarm, Preserve, Orlando, and several of the finest animals bred •in his time in England, he contributed to uphold and improve the blood of the racehorse, and of late years the sale of his thorough bred yearlings has been one of the most interesting events of the season. A martyr all his life to hereditaiy gout, Mr. Greville thought himself obliged, some years ago, by increasing infirmity to resign his offices and retire altogether into private life. A perceptible decay stole over his features, and an unwonted apathy seemed at times to chill the warm and eager interest he had been accustomed to take in the affairs of life. The end was approaching more rapidly than he himself or those about him had anticipated. Symp toms of disease of the heart had begun to manifest themselves. He retired to rest as usual on Tuesday night, but yesterday morning it was found that, ap parently, without a struggle, life had departed. It has seldom been the lot of a man who carefully avoided all display and circumscribed his influence within the sphere of private life to take so active a part in public affairs, or to maintain relations of so much interest with the leading statesmen of England and of Europe ; and it must be added that Mr. Greville's influence was ever directed by a manly love of his country, by a spirit of independence, by a love of moderation, and by a sense of justice. He was content that the part he played should remain obscure, so long as he was satisfied that it was just and right. To those, not few in number, who shared his friendship, and can recall to memory his count less acts of courtesy and service, no further record of his life is needed ; and within the wide circle of the society in which his life was spent, few names will be repeated with more regard or remembered with more regret than that of Mr. Charles Greville. —Times. The Murder near Portsmouth. The magisterial examination in this case was resumed and concluded at Portsmouth yesterday, the magistrates on the bench comprising Mr. R. W. Ford (mayor), Captain Maitland, Mr. R. M‘Cheane, and Captain M'Coy. Mr. T. Cousins, solicitor of Portsea, conducted the case on the part of the Crown, and Mr. T. Field, of Gosport, ap peared for the prisoner. The further evidence given on the first day's examination beyond what was reported in The Sun of Wednesday was not calculated to throw any additional light on the case, with the exception of that given by Sergeant Poole, of the borough police, who stated, in answer to questions put to him, that he had known the deceased woman for some con siderable time, and had seen her in Portsmouth streets and in publichouses with different men, and that within the last 12 months, but could not say whether her husband had ever been with her. For the past six or eight months he had missed her. The case yesterday was as follows : Hannah Lillywhite examined—The deceased, Emma Sophia Piper, the prisoner's wife, was witness's daughter. The prisoner and deceased were married last Christmas twelvemonth. They had latterly lived very happily toge ther. On the afternoon of Monday, the 9th inst., witness weilt from her residence in Surrey-street with deceased down the main road towards Portsmouth to meet the pri soner, but not meeting him they raturned and went toge ther to Mr. Oakley's beerhouse, at Fratton, arriving there between 4 and 5 o'clock, and left again about 5. The wit ness deposed to having partaken with her daughter and Mrs. Oakley of the glass of beer, elder wine, and gin spoken of by previous witnesses, and to the subsequent meeting with prisoner and his violently striking the deceased and knocking her down, and striking her while on the ground. Witness became so excited that she could not now state exactly what took place. Witness, with the others, had been drinking spirits—gin. All had been drinking spirits, before that spoken of at the Red House. Could recollect nothing more until seeing the deceased in a chemist's shop. Cross-examined—Had some gin with deceased at the tap of the Bedford Hotel before going to Mrs. Oakley's.' We went into another publichouse after that before reaching Mrs. Oakley's. It was in Surrey -street. There we had two measures of gin, but could not say now what sized measures they were. Could not say when she (witness) first ascer tained that her daughter (the deceased) had been stabbed. Could not say whether it was before or after the death of the deceased. Could not tell whether the prisoner spoke to the deceased or not before hefir so st ne str e :ck so h li e c t i .. tor C , Could not recollect any answer de ceased made. Pressed upon bwithyitsenietphsoseinrstathid she- by Mr. eceM deceased, Flditeuld,ree prisoner,thecoll or Mrs. O a kl ey . Theect nothing th a t was sa id primer's prisoner was a sober man. Did not know that the prisoner objected to the deceased visiting the Oakleys unless he was with her. Deceased never told witness, or said in her pre sence, that the prisoner did not like her to visit the Oak leys without him. When the prisoner first came up to the deceased, witness, and Mrs. Oakley, when the first blows were struck, he looked very spiteful, but witness could re collect nothing after the blows were struck. She became so excited. Before deceased was married to the prisoner she was a girl of loose c haracter, but not after. Re-examined—The prisoner knew the deceased eighteen months or two years previous to his marrying her, and must have known her character. By the Mayor—Never had any words with the prisoner relative to the deceased's visiting the Oakley's house. Was afraid something was going to happen when the prisoner came up looking pale and spiteful on the evening of the 9th, because he had given her blows before, and once for telling the truth. Could not tell the cause of the prisoner looking pale and spiteful. Had been in publichouses and beershops with deceased, but had not been in the habit of doing so latterly. By Captain Maitland—Prisoner never complained of wit ness taking deceased about to publichouses or elsewhere. Police-constable Harvey deposed to intercepting a letter from the prisoner to his father which led to the prisoner's, apprehension. Emma Rosina Lillywhite examined—ls living with her parents in Surrey-street, Landport. Deceased was witness's sister. The letter produced is in the prisoner's handwriting. The envelope is not. By the Mayor—Had seen the prisoner on many occasions. Had seen a knife in his possession which he carried in his pocket, but might not know it again if she saw it. It was not so large as the knives carried by sailors at their belts, butoit was of that description—a shut-up knife. Had seen the prisoner take the knife from his pocket and use it. Richard Barber, superintendent of the Portsmouth Borough Police, deposed to proceeding to Chertsey, and re ceiving the prisoner in charge from Mr. Superintendent Murtell, of the Chertsey constabulary, and taking him to Portsmouth. On arriving there and being charged with the murder of his wife the prisoner made no reply. Superintendent Murtell deposed to apprehending the pri soner at Newhall, near Chertsey. Conveyed the prisoner to Chertsey, after telling him he was charged with the wilful murder of his wife. On arriving there the prisoner cleared out his pockets by witness's direction, and took from his waistcoat pocket the knife produced. (The knife was a most formidable though not a large weapon. Its blade when open was kept open by a backspringisand was about 4in. long in the blade, rather narrow, and very sharp and pointed.) In my opinion, from the appearance of the knife, it has been recently sharpened. The knife is precisely in the same condition, in every respect, as when received from the prisoner. Mr. Thomas Long, surgeon, examined —I am a registered medical practitioner. About half-past sin the afternoon of Monday, the 9th inst., was summoned to the chymist's shop of Mr. Hayles, and found there the deceased woman sitting on the floor of the shop, throwing herself about, and calling for "James." There was blood and marks of blows on her face. On examination of her person, found a punctured wound about the sixth rib on the right side of the back, from half to three-quarters of an inch in length, which must have been caused by some sharp instrument. Attempted to probe the wound, but found resistance, the parts being very much contracted.: Applied some strap ping to the wound, and the deceased was then put in a cab and sent home to her mother's house. Went there soon afterwards, and found the deceased then dead. In witness's opinion death ensued from internal hemorrhage. The knife produced is such a weapon as would produce the wound spoken of. George John Scafe, surgeon, made a post mortem exami nation of the body of the deceased on the 12th inst., under a warrant from the Deputy-Coroner. Externally there were bruises on the face and under the left ear ; an abrasion on the right knee, and discolouration. On the back, about an inch and a quarter from the spine, and over the sixth rib, on the right side, was a transverse punctured wound. In ternally there were a few drops of extravasated blood under the scalp, but there was nothing in the head to ac count for death. The right lung was slightly diseased. In the left side' of the chest there was no effusion, but on the right side there was a largo amount of blood behind and below the right lung. On removing the lungs from the chest found in the lower portion of the lower lobe of the right lung a clean transverse incision extending an inch and a half, or more. There were about three pints of blood in the chest, partly fluid and partly coagulated. Traced the punctured wound in the body, and found it sufficiently large to pass a finger through it, the upper portion of the rib being splintered. The large amount of hemorrhage was sufficient to account for death. There were no other appearances that could have caused death. The wound could have been caused by the knife now produced (the knife taken from the prisoner). The case for the prosecution being closed, the deposi- tions were next read over and signed by the respective witnesses, at the conclusion of which Mr. Field addressed the Bench for the prisoner, and commented in severe terms on some portions of the evidence, particularly on that given by the woman Oakley and the mother of the de ceased. His duty, however, he said, was simply to ask the magistrates to commit his client for trial on the lesser charge of manslaughter, and not on that of murder. What the prisoner did, if he did it at that time, was the effect of momentary passion, the result of his wife's conduct in going about, as had been described, with her mother to public-houses and beer-houses. I . The prisoner had married the deceased, and thus gave her a chance of retrieving her character, whether he knew of her previous character or not. _ _ At the conclusion of the learned gentleman's address, which occupied some time in delivery, The magistrates retired for consultation, and after 20 minutes' absence returned, when The MAYOR, addressing the prisoner, said that the ma gistrates had given their gravest consideration to the case with all its attendant circumstances, and they felt com pelled to commit him for trial at the ensuing assizes for the county at Winchester on the charge of murder. The prisoner, on being asked if he wished to say any thing, and being cautioned in the usual way, replied, " I should like to say a few words," and read the following statement from a paper he held in his hands : " I dearly loved my wife. For a long time past we had been on the most affectionate terms. Being out of work I crossed with her from Gosport to Portsmouth on the after noon of the 9th inst., and I called in at the shop of Loe and Tout, smiths and engineers, desiring my wife to wait for me outside. When I came out I found her gone. I went to her mother's and found she was gone from there, but was told there that she and her mother were gone to Mrs. Oak ley's beerhouse. I hatedher going there unless accompanied by myself, for I did not like Mrs. Oakley or the people who frequented her house. When I got to Mrs. Oakley's I was _ _ _ told that my wife, her mother, and Mrs. Oakley were gone to the Old Red House. I hated her going about from pub lic-house to beer-house in this way, and I had told her often not to do so, and not to go to Mrs. Oakley's without me. When I went further after her I met Mrs. Oakley, who caught me in her arms and called me 'dear Jim.' I followed her to find my wife, and I asked my wife where she had been to ? She said, To Mrs. Oakley's.' I said, 'Where else ?' and she replied, ' I don't know.' Mrs. Oak ley then said, ' I'll tell you the truth, Jim ;' but I said to her, ' I want the truth from my wife, Mrs. Oakley, and not from you.' I was very much irritated at seeing my wife and her mother in the state they were in at the time, and I struck my wife a blow on the face with my fist. After wards a man knocked ma down. When I got up I went after my wife and her mother, who were going towards Mrs. Oakley's house again. When I got near my wife she said, ' I'll make you pay for this.' I was so very much excited after this that I don't know what happened, but knowing that I had struck her with my fist in Fratton street, and that she had threatened to make me pay for it, I ran away, and have been very miserable ever smce. I didn't like her going about to public-houses without me. This is all I have to say now." The prisoner was removed from the dock, and the wit nesses were bound over in their recog,nisances to prosecute. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TIMES.—In one respect Mr. Bright bears a strong resemblance to the greater part of his species. He likes blowing the trumpet for others to go to battle. Everybody likes to see everybody else doing his duty, and a little more than his duty ; and few will be found to objectif this slight excess of duty is attended with some risk. Mr. Bright brings his indignant, remonstrances to bear in succession on Lord Palme rston, Lord Derby, the Liberals, the Conservatives, the House of Commons altogether, the Lords, her Majesty, the newspapers, writers in general, and everybody and every class with a conscience or a sense of shame, because they don't proceed to a cti v e and effective meastres for the reform of Parliament upon thoroughly representative principles. It is a point upon which we may safely carry out the Apo stolic precept of confessing our sins one to another, for we have all committed ourselves to Reform, and then made a grievous backsliding. Mr. Bright wishes us to commit ourselves again still more loudly, and to put our hand to the work. He gives life to the sentiment and form to the aspiration. He exhibits the figures and spreads out the map. He puts the classes in battle array, and teaches a proper con tempt for the minority. He relates the history of the cause with unsparing fidelity. No theatrical per formance ever had a more candid critic. There is her Majesty twice committed from her throne, and now forced to hold her tongue. There is Lord Palmerston, who one fatal evening might have given the word, and did not. There are the Conservatives, who had only to stand by their own professions, and the Lords must have swallowed the measure. There is the Peerage, doubled by the great war, taught its bounds by the Reform Act, jealous of democracy, but not courageous. There is the Press as we fear the Press will always be in the eyes of Mr. Bright. There are the robust Devonshire squires, who, in the midst of good cheer and after many toasts drunk not in water, fixed glazed eyes on the ghost of murdered Reform. Peacemakers and tempo risers, with their compromises and compensations, fill -the corners of the picture. Friendship throws a veil over one, a debt of admiration and gratitude is discharged in the pardon of another. The sky is darkened by terror. Acci dent precipi tated the last Reform ; accident may once more fire the train ; and to be at the mercy of accident is nothing less than slavery. In contrast . with this puny and vacillating group the millions fill the land, and are drawn up in hot expectancy and eager pre paration. Homer does not so fill the page, or Martin the canvas. Here is all that if wanted to the writing on the wall. No accessory circumstance of doom, or vengeance, or terror, or remorse, or of the craven fears that are infinitely worse than holy awe, be cause unholy, is omitted. There is only one thing we cannot see or detect, or even hope to see, in this terrible picture. We don't see John Bright himself setting to work as he once set to work . for the re peal of the Corn Laws. We don't see him pro pounding his Reform Bill asLord Grey propounded his forty years before he carried it. We don't see him taking his stand on his bill, and making it the bond of his party. We don't see him binding to this plan every Liberal in the country desirous to escape the denunciations he has launched upon us all. But why does Mr. Bright nail this flag to his mast, and declare for Reform or nothing ? He has nothing to lose by it—nothing by either failure or by that success which Reformers fear still more. The returning wave of party which made Mr. Mil ner Gibson a Minister, and gave Mr. Cobden the offer of a seat in the Cabinet, left Mr. Bright where he was. His speeches had offended that working majority which, more than the numerical, Cabinets have to look to. Such a man seems reserved by special circumstances for a great and active part. Yet when Mr. Bright has given his cold assent to Mr. King's and Mr. Baines's propositions, all that he does further is to drop a hint that something else will be wanting to give these measures due effect. That is what we have said ourselves a hundred times, and say again—for even if these two propo sitions were embraced in one bill, it would be a ridi culously partial and incomplete measure, not worthy to be called a Reform Bill. We are entitled to call on Mr. Bright for a fuller and more definite scheme, as also for a more practical method of deal ing with it. He throws discredit on the motives not only of the Press, but of all who have had to take a part in the question. He has to prove him self a better man, not by eloquent though vague speeches, but by an agitation as serious as that by which the Corn Laws were repealed. It is not our. place to cry out loudly for Reform when we are perfectly sure that we should cry out in vain, that the country does not feel the want, and that we should simply exhaust the patience of our readers. When Mr. Bright has to complain that Lord Pal merston dropped Reform with the concurrence, and even to the amusement of all the personages, parties, and interests immediately concerned, he shows thereby how hopeless the cause had become. But let him ask himself why he does not set about it more thoroughly and manfully. Is it because he feels that he would simply tie a crushing weight to his shoulders and strangle himself with the harness if he took up the cause otherwise than by vague declamation ? Is it because he fears he would be but coldly supported by the unenfranchised, and still more coldly by their employers ? Is it because the masses do not themselves, pine and sigh for Reform, a s he describ es th em , even though they might take it on trust, and give it some feeble support? But while the story, as Mr. Bright relates it, can only have one conclusion—that the people do not desire Reform, and that whoevey takes his stand on Re form will most probably be left in the lurch, every successive speech of this kind proves it still more and renders it still more dangerous to embark in this frail craft. Mr. Bright lashes the pool, and the net is hauled in empty again and again. There must be some reason for an indifference which, without reason, would be positively disgraceful. We believe that the reason is to be found in the results of recent legislation and government, The great mass of the people pay no taxes at all except on things they know they can do without ; they pay very trifling rates—most of them none at all ; they have no public duties, civil or military, imposed on them •, they have perfect freedom of conscience ; they have a good education almost free - they are surrounded by things done for them at the cost and trouble of their betters ; they have a safe resource to fall back upon in age or disability • they may go to a colony if they like. The restriction of indirect taxation to luxuries and dispensable articles, and the immunity of the working classes from all other burdens, produces a degree of contentedness, as far as Government is concerned, which appears to us almost fatal to purely political agitations. With what prospect, then, could any important section of the political world or any organ of opinion bind itself to a cause proceeding on the assumption that the people are discontented, misgoverned, oppressed, in jured, and disregarded in the policy of the country ? The instant it tried to secure a basis it would find itself on a quicksand. At the first clash of arms it would find itself deserted and betrayed. In truth, the domestic policy of a country proceeds not on arithmetical or mechanical considerations, not on figures, maps, tables, areas, and lines, but on those moral forces which constrain the heart and move the hands, making all as one man. There exists no such moral force and tide of feeling in this matter. Show it, and that is enough ; but we will not take it for granted merely because Mr. Bright, greatly desiring it, says that it ought to be, and must and shall be. He is deceived by his own eloquence. They flock to hear him, and he thinks them in earnest. He has our hearty consent to put them to any practical proof of their earnestness; but neither he nor they will, we believe, advance beyond the easy and plea sant relation of a highly-gifted speaker and a charmed auditory. DAILY NEWS.—We have been lately treated by a contemporary to several dissertations on the state of affairs in India. The professed object has been the very laudable one of calling attention to the embarrassments which threaten us from that quar ter. The writer specially disavows any intention " of apportioning blame or responsibility," but in endeavouring to trace the source of existing evils he not unnaturally discloses his view of the remedies that should be applied. The failure of the present system of Indian Government to secure local content, and a sense of safety at home, is attributed to " a century's traditions" of the old East India Company. All the shortcomings of the ex isting Administration are due, not to any inherent vice of its own, but to the " leaven" of its predeces sor, which impedes its free working, and counteracts its salutary enactments. Once free from these " traditions" and this " leaven" the Government of India will be all that could be desired. The com petitive civilian will dine amicably with the indigo planter ; young subalterns will treat their native servants as considerately as we do our pet criminals ; the " Queen's" officer will cease to despise " the Company's" officer, and the jealousy of the latter will give place to the cordiality that usually springs from a common profession ; the " services" will cease to black-ball the " outsiders" at the clubs ; the " natives" will be admiring, but distant, spec tators of the happy Anglo-British family ; Rajahs will be able to appeal to treaties without getting laughed at for their credulity ; and landowners to whom their estates have been officially guaranteed will have no fear of their tenants being made part owners in the property they were assured was wholly and unreservedly theirs. The happy result of establishing this Eastern Arcadia is expected to be the reduction of the formidable British army which is now considered to be necessary to secure us in the possession of India, at the risk of inspir ing amongst Englishmen an intense dislike of the country, and generating in the natives an unwhole some conviction that to us they are a distrusted and conquered people, kept faithful only by the fear of 70,000 British soldiers. The abuse which it is now the fashion to heap upon the memory of the Com pany's defunct Government will be in better taste when a palpably better dne has succeeded to it. The East India Company deserved its fate for prov ing false to its tradition, and allowing itself to be led captive by the brilliant, but eminently unsound policy of the late Lord Dalhousie. But in what respect can the present system claim superio rity over its predecessor ? The discontents which are now the subject of general comment are surely not a proof of good government. The necessity of setting apart 80,000 men out of our small army to preserve our hold in India cannot certainly be considered matter for satisfaction ; and the confusion that exists as to where the responsibility of Indian government really lies is as great, if not greater, than when the double Government" was believed to be the source and origin of every ill under :the Eastern sun, The planters, including under that title all the old " interloping" class, complain that they are made the victims of partial legislation, and that the Home Government refuses them encouragement or protection.' The officers of European troops complain that they are kept by the local governments in unhealthy stations for the mere purpose of watching native levies of doubtful fidehty ; the officers of the old Company's armies have been driven almost into insubordination by that splendid imbroglio, " the amalgamation," and the local authorities are believed to regard with extreme jealousy and distrust the encroachments on their influence and discretionary powers of the Se cretary of State for India in Council. Of the feel ings of the native population it is impossible to speak with any degree of confidence. The cotton-trade diverted from America has found a partial home in India, and has flooded the country wit h the p recious metals. Content is generally a consequence of wealth and comfort, and the picture drawn a few weeks ago by Mr. Baring of the revenue and trade of India affords just cause of satisfaction to the public, though by no means due, as he appeared to intimate, to any interposition of the Government. The dissensions, however, which the natives see raging amongst the English residents, and the dis gust which they hear expressed by large portions of these for their own Government, cannot but be a source of danger. It may flatter Sir Charles Wood just now to be regarded as the guardian of " native rights," but the day will come, if in Bombay it has not come already, when new taxes: will have to be levied, and when the example now set by Euro peans may be imitated on a larger and more threatening scale by the people of the country. The military occupation of India is, perhaps, the point on which opinion at home most needs en lightenment. A great deal of ignorant abuse is levelled at the Sepoy army. In the articles on which we comment Bengal is plainly assumed to be India, and the Bengal Sepoy army the Indian Sepoy army. But the public should realise more clearly than they do at present that of the three great divisions of the late East India Company's native army, only one, and that the Bengal army, proved faithless. With the exception of a few regiments, which were per haps rather hastily disbanded, the Bombay army remained sound ; and this is the more remarkable, as the men of whom it was composed came generally from the same districts and were to a great extent of the same caste as the Bengal Sepoys. The 50,000 Sepoys of the Madras army remained staunch to a man, and assisted actively, as did also several of the Bombay regiments, in the suppression of the re bellion. The Nizam's irregulars, officered by Eng lishmen, gave a useful and loyal assistance to our own troops ; so did the little armies of several other native States. Why, then, this indiscriminate con demnation of " the Sepoy army ?" Never, perhaps, have there been more faithful troops than the Sepoys of Southern and Western India. It is far from prudent to encourage in England this extreme jealousy of native levies. The day will surely come when we shall be obliged to confide in them. It is not to be supposed that in the event of a European war we should abstain from drawing a large portion of our 70,000 British soldiers from India for servic e nearer home. It is to an instinctive fear of this eventuality, rather than to any selfish preference for Sepoys over Europeans, that the partiality of the local governments for native troops may be attri buted. The suspicion created by the events of 1857 is probably subsiding, and the confidence which pre ceded that time being gradually recovered. It was perhaps natural that the whole native army, should be condemned, and should suffer for the faults of a part of it, but it is not right or expedient that this misconception should survive, so as to prevent for the future any confidence from being placed in troops which, in the midst of the sorest temp tation, remained faithful to their salt, and assisted us to punish the treachery of their own countrymen and to re-establish our dominion. The presence of a large army of Europeans in India has a double danger. The maintenance of this force constitutes a drain of a very serious kind on our recruiting re sources, and besides, enables the executive to support a large army independent, to a great degree, of the usual parliamentary grants. As a military power we were always comparatively weak, and that weak ness it is certainly not desirable in any degree to increase. The difficulty of recruiting our army has been greatly increased by the depopulation of Ire land, and by the general rise in wages throughout the United Kingdom. On the other hand, the pre sence of this immense force on Indian soil is to the natives of the country a plain evidence of our dis trust. It is perhaps impossible that they can ever cordially accept a government thus forced upon them by British bayonets. The wielders of those bayonets, too, hate the country and its inhabitants; and the diminishing number of them who volunteer out of the regiments going home to remain in the country is significant, and promises badly for any future cordiality between the two races. Under these circumstances it is not • wise to disparage a military resource which in competent hands has re peatedly stood us in good stead. Dreadful Scaffold Accident in the City. Yesterday morning, about 11 o'clock, a fearful occurrence took place in Great Winchester-street, City, in consequenc e of the fall of the upper part of a very extensive building now in course of erection for AldermanWaterlow and Sons, whose vast range of premises facing London Wall, and known as Carpenter's Hall, run behind up to the new - buildings. It appears that upon various portions of the new building facing Winchester-street upwards of 20 persons were at work, when without any warning the cornice, which it is said was of great weight and overhanging the line of the front wall very considerably, gave way, the massive stoles in their descent striking the main stays of an evidently firmly bound scaffolding, forcing the framework on to the roofs of the houses on the opposite side of the street, and hurling the poor fellows engaged in their several vocations to the ground, literally dashing them to the earth. The scene was terrific, the falling materials shaking the whole of the foundations for some distance, and causing the ut most alarm to the several residents, who are very nume rous about that hour of the day, when the utmost activity is used by the clerks in the several offices and chambers. The dust having cleared away a little, an examination of - the debris was immediately commenced by the police and others, which resulted in four men being found apparently dead, and other maimed workmen, who were at once con veyed by the police constables to St. Bartholomew's Nos- pital. Upon instituting late inquiries we are glad to be able to report that, although eight of the poor fellows at work upon the scaffolding at the time were taken to the Hospita l of St. Bartholomew after being rescued from the debri! (four of them supposed to be dead), it has been ascertaine d that none of them have been killed, though the majority of them are seriously injured. One of them has been able to leave the hospital. It appears that Mr. Alderman J. C. Lawrence w as engaged at the instant of the fall in examining the pro- , gress of the works. He was not upon the scaffolding at the time, but had descended into the street, when the crash took place in consequence of the fall of that portion of the , cornice which it had not been found possible to "brace ' sufficiently to secure it in situ, and hence the calamity. MI" der the directions of the worthy alderman, and through th e assistance of Inspectors Daddy and Kilby and Sergean t Forster, a large body of constables were obtained without any unnecessary delay from the. Bishopsgate, Moor-lane, and other contiguous stations, who, together with the workmen upon the spot, proceeded with hearty goodwill to render all necessary relief to the men buried in the ruins and for their conveyance to the hospital, where they wer e received in the most kind and ready manner by the house surgeon and his assistants, and furnished immediately NVi til , every attention their several cases required. Relays 01 police-officers arrived at 2 o'clock, under Inspector Harding' , and also every available help from the firm of Messrs. LBW' rence and Co., builders. It has been said that the opposite houses were much in jured by the fall of the scaffold, but that is not so. A f t°. windows were broken and a few tiles displaced, and nO doubt much alarm was caused by the falling materials, b ut otherwise no particular damage was done. Messrs. Waterlow and Sons have given instructions that every exertion shall be made to relieve the sufferers. The district surveyor arrived soon after the accident, and h a ' minutely inspected the building, with a view to report a 5 to the cause of the sad calamity. Upon making inquiries at St. Bartholomew's Hospital at 8 o'clock last evening we were informed by Mr Fearles, the house-surgeon, and the sister of Harley's ward, o f the following names and residences of the poor fellows in tha t and Turner's ward. We can, therefore, give a correct LIST OF THE SUFFERERS IN ST. BARTHOLOMEW'S HOSPITA L 1. Wm. Green, aged 62, Petre-street, Goswell-road. 2. Peter Lofthouse, 3, Berkley-street, Clerkenwell. 3. Charles Hales, Commercial-road, Lambeth. 4. Thomas Tozer, 1, St. Ann's-place, . Colebridge-r° s a West. _ 5. Francis Taylor, 1, Edward-street, Blackfriars-road . 6. Thomas Pears, 10, Horsemonger-lane, Borough. 7. James Kemster, 3, Ann's-place, Westminster. 8. Thomas Branscombe, aged 20, 5, Singleton-st reet " Hoxton. Three of the above poor fellows are not considered lik:, e 2 to live, their injuries being of a very severe character. others have broken bones and otherwise mangled limbs, b it are not considered to be in immediate danger. COUNTRY MARKETS ---A , BIRMINGHAM—THURSDAY. At this day's market there was a less supply of Wil i at 's which realised fully last week's rates. Barley ten downwards. Oats quite as dear. Beans dull. Peas ° taken in retail, Currencies :—English wheat, white, 40s to 44s ; redl, 6 to 41s per 36 stone. Malting barley, 28 s to 34 s ; grinawu,i 22s to 25s per qr. OatA, 24 s to 30 s ; Irish, 19 s t o 24S r 30 stone. Beans, 38s to 42 s ; and peas, 38 s to 42 s per (I'.' BURY ST. EDMUND'S —W EDNESDAY. EDNESDAY. Talavera wheat, 46s to 48s; red ditto, 35s to 38s ; bat' 30s to 34s ; secondary ditto, 24s to 26s per qr. Aver g „glo Wheat, 8291 qrs., 38s ; barley, 3,9831 qrs., 30s sd; oa , " qrs., 225. MANCHE S TER—TnunsDAY. LlO At our market this morning English wheat WO -g 5 g,4 24 slowly at the prices current last week, while foreign wa s offered at a reduction of id to 2d per cental. Flour 130 , exceedingly dull, and might have been obtained on 6 1: ale' what lower terms. Oats and oatmeal were in retalhco maul only, at late rates. In beans or Indian cor n ." was no change observable. BRIS T OL—T HURSDAY. 0 11 On our market this afternoon there was a la,rgo, s tic tio o of English wheat. Sales could only be made at a re,,u,,loce• of is per qr., at which a limited business toco'brarld Foreign a slow sale at unaltered prices. Malting„ col , " firm and fully as dear. Grinding goes largely o w sumption at the reduced rates of last week. OM S g ad saleable in retail, without change in value. maiie beans difficult of disposal, and the turn lower. EDINBURGH—WEDNESDAY. a tri At our market there was a good supply of col wheat, which met a dull sale. Wheat on the top, 2s Od Up average, is id "r" Barley on the top, Os 6d down Overage, Os ed tiP• Oats on the top, is Od up average, Os 3d tif'• Beans on the top, s7d up average, is 7d ill'' Average prices. '36 64 Wheat, 86s7d I Barley, 25s 9 d I Oats, lBBlo d I Beans,. Total supply and sales. Wheat 9BO qrs Barley 1809 qrs 6 :01 sold 1 190604 Oats 2533 qrs sold 20 31 Beans 122 qrs sold 1 1 :' 0 Town-made flour sells as follows :—White, 36 s O d ; e superfine, 34s 6d; superfine, 335; fine, 31s Gd. GLASGOW—WEDNESDAY. hel d This day's market was well attended. Wheat 'ldeal"; at previous rates, which checked sales; flour fallY.4bigher, prime barrel scarce. Barley unaltered ; beans 34 1001, 1) :; but the demand less brisk ; peas the turn in seller's oath quiet ; oatmeal and Indian corn neglected. Foreign Mail Packet List. Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton ..... 12• Ditto, via Marseilles Feb. - 5 1 Brazil and Cape Verde, by British pac k et F e b • o r, Ditto, by British packet Jan' I It' Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena. Fet 4 China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton Jan e e,, Ditto, via Marseilles JO. " • ..0. Falkland Islands Jan* Gibraltar, via Southampton • ..... Jan. India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton...All' otr,, Ditto, via Marseilles •• ..... Jan. ,"6, India (Bombay), via Southampton. Jan• if. Ditto, via Marseilles .. Jan 1 . I • < Mauritius, via Southampton ...... .. .. .. .. Fe"' ............ 1 ;. 1 Ditto, via Marseil e.i. Newfoundland Portug,.l Ditto, by pi ivate ship to Lisbon... .. ..... United States and British North America, by Bri- g tish packet Ditto, by 'United States packet, via Southamp- tcn Ditto, via Cork ..... 20. Ditto, by Canadian packet, via Londonderr y . . 3.111/ : 1 0, West Coast of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe ...... Fe"' West Indies and Pacific (except Bahamas, Cuba, 00. and Mexico 9, .... .• .••• ........... „•• Bahamas, via New I ork. FeP' 0. Bermuda, ditto Few' j o, Cuba and Mexico JO' -d Births. ify o af COIVELL.—On the 18th inst., at 112, Piccadilly, th e T. W. Cowell, Esq., of a daughter. 0 1.113 FERGUSSON.—On the 17th inst., at Edinburgh, Lady of Fergusson, of a son. goy' TEMPLE.—On the 18th inst., at Bournemouth, the sop George Temple, Esq., of Bishopstrow, Wilts, of BLitoe WEBB.—On the 1 9 th inst., at 6, Spring-terrace, %G P- Surrey, Mrs. Edward Webb, of a son. Marriages. Lisseitso BOGER--NORT I L — On the 18th inst., at Ilastino,., T. Boger, Esq., Commander R.N., to Helen d ,, youngest daughter of the late Dudley North, „ niece of Fredk. North, Esq., M.P. for Hastings. to O r TowsE—HoorEß.---On the 18th inst., at St. geg vi Tost l O Martyr, William Wrench Towse, of 89, Grest iti o9, street, and South Norwood, Captain L.R.V.8.1 ei' App of William Beckwith Towse, Esq., of Fishmong ers f to Emily, only child of Bartlett Hooper, Esq. , William-street, city. Deaths.. 11' 19 ' 1? BATES.—On the 17th inst., at 42, Stanhope-stree t ' stead-road, Joshua Bates, Esq., aged 64. /0? CRABTREE.—On the 18th inst., Larkfield-terrne e, o f tree, near Liverpool, Joseph Crabtree, Esq., le ° 0 , nidad, aged 74. " 7 - 0 . CRossE.On the 17th inst., at Weymouth, Her - he 1 4 Crosse, Esq., late Captain 59th Regt., aged 27. 130 0 0 DARLEY.—On the 17th inst., at Surbiton, Mr' 0. Darley, aged 75. f ." 6J, FORD.—On the 18th inst., Mr. George J. Ford, ° 413 1) John-street, Clerkenwell, aged 63. STRICKLAND.—On the 10th i ns t., a t Walcot, Lint'ol 0' Lady Strickland, aged 67. TYLER.—On the 19th inst., at 24, Holloway-Pl ace ' way, Wat William Tyler, Esq., aged 79. 4IP' - -•••• tit London : Priated an d P u bli s h e d by WI L LIAM A , of Na. 112, Strand, Painter, at Tun SUN OfW e d o O t i Strand, in the Precinct of • the Savoy, In til e Middlesex. -Friday, January 20,1865.