The Sun. — London, England, 1865-08-30 00:00:00

The Freni Irtsmouth. PORTSMOUTH, Aug, 29. The long expected visit of the French fleet to this port has at length become an accomplished fact. Within range of our forts and in close proximity to the most fruitful nursery of our naval power a for midable squadron of foreign men-of-war at this mo ment rides at anchor. Such, however, is the manner of their coming that so rare an event gives rise to no other feeling than one of intense satisfaction, and that not even the most timid lady sees anything in the invasion more perilous than a long vista of plea surable excitement, culminating in a ball. From an early hour this morning the appearance of Ports mouth gave evidence that it was stirred by some un wonted expectation, but the streets were compara tively quiet until about 9 o'clock, 'when the firing of artillery spread a somewhat general impression that the French fleet might have come in sight. A sud den rush of some hundreds of people to the pier and ramparts was the result, but it was soon discovered that the firing was caused by the arrival of the Aus trian screw wooden frigate Friedrich, 22 guns, Capt. Von- Wiplinger, which had just arrived in the road stead and dropped her anchor on the extreme west of the English fleet off Ryde, after exchanging salutes with the Victory, the flagship of the Port- Admiral, Sir M. Seymour, and the King's Bastion battery. The disappointment occasioned by this in telligence was, however, very trifling, for although the sky was far from being free from clouds, there were at intervals streaks of blue from which the sun • shone out brightly, and it was pleasant to walk by the ramparts looking across the tranquil roadstead in which the British ships of war lay moored. During the night their numbers had been increased by the arrival from Portland of the Research, 4, iron-cased Sloop, Capt. Wihnshurst, 1,253 tons and 200-horse Power. On reaching Spithead she took up her posi tion in line west of the Prince Consort, 35, screw fri gate, 4,045 tons and 1,000 horse power, Capt. G. 0. Willis, C.B. The remaining English vessels of war lying at Spithead to receive the French fleet, anchored in a line from N.W. to SSE., are the Edgar, 71, screw, wooden line-of-battle ship, on board which is hoisted the flag of Rear-Admiral-Sir S. C. Dacres, K.C.8., 3,094 tons, and 600-horse Dowell, Captain - G. T. P. Hornby ; the Hector, 24, iron frigate, 4,089 tons and 800-horse power, Capt. G. W. Preedv, C.B. ; the Defence, Capt. A. Phillimore, 16, iron frigate, 3,720 tons and 600-horse power; the_ Black Prince, 41, iron frigate, 6,009 tons and 1,250- horse power, Capt. Lord F. Kerr; the Achilles, 26, iron frigate, 6,121 tons and 1,250-horse power, Capt. E. W. Vansittart ; the Royal Sovereign, 4, turret ship, 3,765 tons and 800-horse power, Capt. H. Herbert ; the Liverpool, 39, wooden frigate, Capt. R. Lambert, 2,656 tons and 600-horse power ; the Salamis; paddlewheel despatch vessel, 835 tons and 250-horse power ; and 10 screw wooden gun-. boats, acting as tenders, each of 250 tons and 60- horse power. It will be seen by this list that the English fleet is very powerfully represented at Spit head, consisting, as it does, of '2O vessels, with a combined tonnage of 38,187 tons, and a nominal horse power of engines of 9,750. There are few places in which a naval spectacle can be seen to greater advantage than the broad expanse of water separating the Isle of Wight from the mainland, in which this splendid squadron lay It is sufficiently. wide to admit of manoeuvres on a considerable scale withoul being so extensive as to preclude the spectator from following them easily with the naked eye. .Spit head' itself is one of those magnificent anchorages Nyhich . v,:9l44 seem to. h33T..bon..formed by nature as a resting-place for ships, possessing, as it does in the Isle of Wight, a break water more powerful than any which . human ingenuity could construct. In this respect it has an advantage over Cherburg which no digue could supply. For some time before the French vessels cast their anchors in its waters today yachts and boats innumerable plied about the roadstead like a swarm of busy bees. The weather, happily, grew warmer and the sky more cloudless as the day wore on, and the streets of 'Portsmouth became from hour to hour more thronged, and as sumed a gayer aspect, for, as if by magic, the house tops and church steeples sprouted out at noon -with a perfect forest of - bunting, the tricolor of France being for once in the ascendant in the very heart of one of our inbst s:rougholds..,, . One of the divisions of the Imperial fleet was seen o 7 irea t nor 113'3 night, and at d.ty break this morn ing it stood down to the weatward, where it formed a junction with the main. body. of the fleet,'under Vice-Admiral Count Bouct Willatnnez, consisting cif eight vessels. Soon afterwards the ships were seen south-east of Dunnose, communicating with a pilot vessel. moorccl. About half-past 10 the Osborne paddle yacht, with the Lords of the Admiralty on board, accom panied by the paddle yachts Enchantress and Black Eagle,steamed out to Spithead to receive the squad ron, which could now be seen in dim outline through the dark haze collected to leeward, the Reine Hor tense, having the Minister of Marine, M. Chasse loup Laubat on board, leading, followed by the Sol ferino, carrying at the fore the flag of the French Commander-in-Chief, Count Bonet Willaumez. Sir Michael Seymour, Naval Commander-in- Chief, in attendance on]the Lords of the Admiralty, had by this time arrived at Spithead in his paddle yacht the Fire Queen. Steamers of all sizes and descriptions, too, were cruising about the roadstead, - while, a fleet of schooners, yachts, yawls, and cutters belonging to the Royal Victoria Yacht Club came out from Ryde Roads and darted to and fro by the line in which the English ironclads lay at anchor, in as yet silent and grim array. Meantime the French squadron continued to ad vance, ship after ship, in single file, the at first shadowy outlines of the vessels becomi n g each moment, more clearly defined, conspicuous among them being the Magenta and Solferino, with their high black halls and double rows of ports, light rig, and pecu liar beaks; It was not, however, until near noon that the squadron hove in sight off Portsmouth. Its approach was the signal for a merry peal being rung by the bells of St. Thomas's Church, and for a more determined rush of people to the ramparts, which Were, from that moment until long after the fleet anchored at Spithead, thronged with spectators. Shortly after the nine most powerful ironclads in the navy of France, accompanied by four frigates, steamed slowly into Spithead, and dropped each her anchor opposite to one of her English sisters. As soon as the Solferino had anchored, the Osborne and the . Reine Hortense stood towards each other, and meeting midway between the two fleets dipped their flags it. salutation. The English ships at Spit head were then with almost magical rapidity manned at eveiy yard, and a more stirring scene than that which greeted the spectator, both on shore and afloat, as they did so it is not easy to conQeive.. A vessel with her yards fully maim e d i s a l ways a pretty -day, a - whole squadron MD' sight, but when, as to -day, to the effect the view presented was mtrik.- ing in the extreme. The Reine Horteme, followed then made for Poi-ts mouth, and as by the Osborne, the former rounded t h A Spit Bu oy th e flag of the Minister of. Marine received a salute f rom the Victory, stationed in the harbour. This saute the Solferino, not wishing to be outdone in cour tesy, returned with rigid punctuality, belching forth flame in rapid flashes, each being succeeded by a brief silence, which although it might convey no compliment was extreme,y grateful to civilian .. _ cars. But the land was not to be outdone in this great strife of sound, and accordingly the roar of the garrison artillery went booming across the water, dying away in reverberations - which grew fainter and fainter until at last. they totally ceased, and the vexed air was quiet once more. By this time, too, the smoke created by the firing, -which hung over the water, began to drift before the wind and to break up into light fleecy cloul3, each of which took its own way into the heavens, leaving the atmosphere immediately over Spithead perfectly clear. When mic...llt be n lying harmlessly by • one another in the roftilstea.l such an array of ironelads constructed on the most deadly principles as has never been seen assembled together before. Hundreds of boats im mediately clustered round them, and loud cheers continued long after they anchored to greet the ap pearance of the French officers and sailors on the leeks of their respective vessels. The allied fleets, as hey now lie at Spithead, are anchored in three pa- THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVEAING, AUGUST' 30, 1865. rallel lines—the English and French admirals' ships, subjects and old companions, to the $lO,OOO in green the Edgar and Solferino, being abreast of each other, backs, or any other blood money to be won at the ex and the French ironclads lying inshore of they osition, pense of an innocent man. He accoadingly communi and, consequently, occupying the place of honour. cated the whole schemeto Mr. Penton, chief of police, About three-quarters of an hour after the Reine and a little counter-plot was arranged between them, Hortense reached the buoy assigned to her in Ports- by which, if Mr. Sanders could be induced to play a mouth Harbour, where all the ships in commission . part, they hoped to capture the whole gang. The were manned to receive her, and from almost scheme was unfolded to Mr. Sanders by O'Leary, every craft in which flags were flying, the Lords and though attended with extreme risk to that gen of the Admiralty left the Osborne, which was tleman's life, had it failed in the smallest particular, ' drawn up within a few hundred yards of her, in was approved by him, on consultation with Mr. their barge, and paid a visit in full uniform to the Tucker, two of the magistrates of the city, and other French Minister of Marine. They remained on personal friends. It was proposed by Blossom and board the French yacht for about 20 minutes, and his confederates that O'Leary should call upon Mr. immediately after were rowed back to their own. Sanders in a carriage with a pretended message from Scarcely had they taken their departure, when the the Recorder, and persuade him to enter. This done Mayor of Portsmouth, Mr. Ford, accompanied by the rest would be easy, and the prize would be won. the Chevalier Vanden Bergh, French Vice-Consul, A fast horse was to be purchased for the purpose, went on board the Reine Hortense, to pay their and one of the gang, in the guise of an ordinary respects to M. Chasseloup Laubat. Soon after they cabman, was to act as driver. After proceeding a had left the French Minister returned the visit of short distance the vehicle was to be stopped by three the Lords of the Admiralty. other conspirators posted by the wayside to await its The Chevalier Vanden Bergh also went out to coming, who were to jump in, throw O'Leary out, Spithead, and waited upon the Vice-Admiral corn- gag and manacle Mr. Sanders to prevent outcry and manding the French fleet on board the Solferino. resistance, and then rattle away as fast as horseflesh On leaving the ship the Vice-Consul was saluted could carry them to Lachine, where a boat was to be with seven guns. in readiness, under charge of a crew of Indians, Visiting has been the order of the day here too, handsomely paid for their services, to ferry them among the chief officers of the French and English across the St. Lawrence to Caughnawaga, where an ships at Spithead, and nothing more worthy of note other batch of conspirators was to be in attendance is likely to take place until the banquet on board the with horses and vehicles to drive into Federal terri- Duke of Wellington this evening. The British American Provinces, tory, near Rouses's Point. The weak part in the case was the honesty of O'Leary. If, instead of betraying, he were true to the Confederates, and took any other road than the one indicated to the police, Mr. San ders was a doomed man. Mr. Penton, however, an swered for O'Leary's fidelity, and Mr. Sanders re solved to trust himself in their hands. At 8 o'clock on Monday evening last O'Leary called, as agreed, at the house of Mr. Sanders. Mr. Sanders entered the carriage without hesitation, and with all the air of innocent unsuspicion, and in less than a minute afterwards the three conspirators stopped the vehicle, threw O'Leary out, and clapped a pair of manacles on Mr. Sanders's wrist. " That scoundrel, O'Leary, has betrayed me," said Sanders. Blossom immediately drew forth a gag and at tempted to force it into the mouth of the prisoner. " There is no necessity to gag me," said Sanders ; " I am betrayed and helpless, and will make no re sistance." The conspirators had humanity enough to forego the gagging ; and the carriage drove on to wards Lachine, at what Sanders calls a John Gilpin rate. On arriving at the tollbar the gate was shut. The driver lashed the horse to break through the obstruction, and the animal stumbled and fell. In an instant Mr. Penton and his assistant, Mr. Tetu, with a strong body of police, aided by Mr. Beverley Tucker and his son, who had been sworn in as special constables for the occasion, sprang upon the conspirators. Seeing that the biters were bit, and that, to use the expression of their leader Blossom, they were " infernally sold," they leapt from the vehicle, driver and all, and took refuge in an ad joining oat field, in which the crop was four feet high. From this ambush they fired. at least half-a dozen shots upon the police, which the latter re turned. No blood, however, was shed on either side, and in less than a quarter of an hour after Mr. Sanders had entered.the carriage, the whole party of conspirators, except those stationed at Lachine and the driver, were captured, and Mr. San ders released. Three others were afterwards captured at Lachine by a detachment of the force specially detailed for the purpose by Mr. Pen ton, but up to this moment the driver had succeeded in concealing himself. On searching the persons of the kidnappers photographic portraits of Sanders and Tucker were found on the persons of each, con.; siderable sums of money, and letters, tending to show, though not conclusively to prove, that the Federal authorities at Washington had cognisance of the scheme. Blossom wore upon his breast, con cealed by his overcoat, the silver badge of a Deputy- Provost-Marshal of the United States, which badge, together with the correspondence, the greenbacks, the gag, and the manacles, remain as trophies of the bloodless, but spirited, encounter. The utmost satisfaction is expressed at the result in Montreal, and great praise is bestowed upon O'Leary, Mr. Penton, and the police, for the adroitness with which the affair was managed. Nor is due credit with held from Mr. Sanders for the coolness and pluck he displayed in the transaction, for had the conspi rators suspected even at the last moment that he had acted as a decoy it is highly probable that one at least of the ruffians might have aimed a revolver at his heart, instead of firing at random upon the police. The attempt to kidnap is, it appears, only a misdemeanour, punishable with fine and imprison ment for two years, - whereas the firing upon the police in the execution of their duty is a more serious matter, which; at the option of the Judge, may be punished with imprisonment for life. The trial on both issues, and probably on a third (for conspi racy), will take place before the Ordinary Court in this city about the middle of next month, and jus tice, nor more nor less, will be done upon the offen ders, if they be proved guilty of either the major or minor crimes in the committal of which they were captured red-handed. While the Canadian Parliament, especially con vened to discuss in all its bearings the question of Confederation, is preparing with a majority in favour of the Quebec scheme in both Houses to enlighten the public opinion upon the sub ject more thoroughly than has ever yet been done, with a view of overcoming the faint dis sent of the French population, the maritime pro vinces appear to harden in their opposition, both inert and inactive. New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward's Island, and Newfoundland, have each a surplus of income over expenditure. Canada alone suffers from a deficit. For this reason perhaps more than any other, the four colonies looks with distrust upon a scheme of Confederation emanating from Canada, and in which Canada will of neces sity play the greatest part, lest the first result might be over the' whole territory a greater financial de ficit than now exists in Canada alone, to be made good by increased taxation over a people very ill fitted to pay it. It is just possible, however, that Confederation and a uniform tariff, more wisely framed than that of the United Statas, and one more nearly in accordance with the highly-successful free trade policy of the mother country, might not only remove the Canadian deficit, but give such an im petus to the internal improvement and foreign com merce of the whole Confederation as greatly to in crease the revenues without increasing the expenses of the maritime provinces. The present feeling in Canada is that the maritime provinces should not be subjected to anything like pressure or dictation, unless the British Government for imperial purposes should see fit to employ the former as gently as may be ; but that Canada, confining itself to its own legitimate share in these important transactions, should endeavour between this and the Ist of Jan., 1866, to form itself into the nucleus around which the other provinces should gather at their leisure. Little Rhode Island refused for a long time to come into the Federal Union of the United States, but ultimately saw that it would not do for her, with her scanty population, to "be left out in the cold." Other States of the Union were not convinced all at once that it was wise in them to cast their lot with their fellows ; but all ultimately found reason to change their minds, and the Union was estab lished. So it is argued may be the case in British America. It is for Canada to take the lead, and all the rest will follow when public opinion is sufficiently ripened, to accept the inevitable, and make the best of it.. (From the Times' Correspondent) MONTREAL, Aug. 14. General Grant has just concluded a flying visit to Quebec and Montreal. In both cities he has been received with the distinction due to his renown. The civil and military authorities have united to do him honour, but in neither city nor in any portion of his route did the people—as that word is usually employed—exhibit anything towards him but a re spectful curiosity. In Quebec, where there are but few Americans, his presence scarcely excited notice beyond the circle of the garrison ; but in Montreal, where citizens of the United States are more numer ous, both as permanent residents and transient visi tors, an attempt was made to force a popular mani festation in his favour. A crowd of about- 200 persons, mostly Americans, gathered in front of the St. Lawrence-hall, in which excellent hostelry the General had taken up his quarters, and cheered him whenever he went out or in, much, it is said, to his personal annoyance, for, with the modesty of true greatness, he dislikes to be what his countrymen call " ovated." With this excep tion, the inhabitants of Montreal allowed him to come and go as he pleased, uncontrolled by their applause. If there were any design on the part of the General, as some allege, or of the American re sidents, as many believe, to make political capital out of his visit in favour of the perpetually threat ened annexation of Canada, it proved abortive. The visit was too short and hurried, and the Gene ral too entirely surrounded by his staff and fellow travellers to gather much, if any, information from intercourse with the Canadians; though, perhaps, as some staunch loyalists assert, he saw enough to convince him that the conquest of Canada--should unhappy fate impose upon him the task of at tempting it—would by no means prove easy in the present temper of the population. He could not but have felt, however, that he was in a foreign country, and among a people who respected his character and admired his abilities, but who had no enthusiasm to bestow upon the cause with which his name was associated. Another and more stirring episode, growing out of the American war, occurred in this city on the night of the 7th inst., and has for the moment ab sorbed the attention of the public, and excited a feeling the reverse of friendly to the Federal Go vernment. Happily it ended well for all parties except the guilty, and happily the Federal Govern- ment disavowed all connexion with it as soon as the facts became known. The results will thus be left in the hands of Canadian justice, without any neces sity for - the diplomacy either of Lord Russell or Mr. Seward. Two Southern gentlemen, Mr. George N. Sanders, of Kentucky, and Mr. Beverley Tucker, of Virginia, forlorn and stranded remnants of the once great Southern Confederacy, are, as all the world knows, residents of this city, where they are quietly living under the protection of the British flag. President Johnson, ill-advised by Mr. Secre tary Stanton, and pe r h a p s i n a ,moment of alarm and irritation at the dastardly murder of President Lincoln, accused these gentlemen of complicity in the crime, and put a price of $25,000 upon each of heir heads. NO one believes that either of them had the slighteSt foreknowlalge . of, -or sympathy with, the murder, and no one, whether lawyer or layman, reading the voluminouS evidence of per jured and suborned scoundrels with manyaliases, who testified before the military tribunal at Washington, could discover a scintilla of proof that collectively or individually they knew more of the plot - to assas sinato Mr. Lincoln than the man in the moon or President Johnson. Messrs. Tucker and Sanders no sooner heard of the charge against them than they offered to return to the United States, and meet it, provided the Government would guarantee their personal safety pending the investigation, and . secure them an impartial trial before a judge and jury. The offer was not accepted, and the exiles remained on British territory, content to know that on that soil they were as safe as Louis Napoleon Buonaparte had been in Switzerland or in London, or as any European fugitive from political vengeance would be in New York or Philadelphia, or that, if demanded by the Federal Government under the . Extradition Treaty, "the demand would have to be , supported by such evidence of their complicity in assassination as would satisfy the legal authorities of Canada that there was a fair presumption of their guilt. Of this there was no prospect. The danger was that as long as the proclamation against 'them remained uncancelled the rowdyism of the States might produce . ruffians in sufficient numbers to attempt their forcible abduction for the sake of the reward. Nor was the danger illusory. A fortnight ago a party of desperadoes, two of them a father and son of the name of Blossom, from Auburn, in Maine ; two brothers named Adams, from the Canadian frontier, and four or five from New York and Washington, arrived in Montreal and distributed themselves among the minor hotels and boarding houses of the city, carefully avoiding the St. Lawrence-hall, where, from the general publicity of the place, they were more likely to attract notice and suspicion. Theymatured theirplans, which were first for the abduction of Mr. Sanders, and secondly of Mr. Tucker, very quietly, and, as they imagined, very skilfully. Their leader, Blossom, who passed under the alias of Hogan, appeared to be bountifully supplied with money, freely distributing it among the conspirators. Casting about for that Canadian aid without which they feared their scheme might fail, they fell in with one O'Leary, formerly a de tective in the Montreal police, but who for some venial error had forfeited his position, and was with out the means of livelihood. To him they cautiously ommunicated their plans, and finding him well disposed, offered him the sum of $lO,OOO, to be paid by the Federal Government as soon as Mr. Sanders was safely informedlo e dged in the gaol o f th a t c ity. They furthermore froml,a him t r e thati with the the ederal Government Was determinedind to secure that person, , that he was intrig u i ng lead ing opponents of Mr. Johnson's in n the States, that next to Mr. Jefferson I.lavois he was considered the most important capture that could be made, and that the Government had raised the price Put upon his head to $50,000, which large sum was ,' to be further supplemented by $25,000, the personal contributicn of a New York millionaire, who had made a large fortune by contracts with the Govern ment during the war. 'They furthermore promised O'Leary any position in the police service of the Government at IVashington which he might desire. O'Leary, apparently daizled by these magnificent terms, accepted; but not so gladly as to excite sus picion, and the bargain was solemnly sealed—more Anzericano—by a drink at the nearest bar. O'Leary, however, had a game of his own to play. He knew himself to be an able detective, and preferred honourable reinstatement in his old position in. the Montreal police, and the good opinion of his fellow. C 0 RoNER'S INQ UEST.—Yesterday Mr. W. J. Payne hold a painful inquiry at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, on the body of Richard Ray, Esq., aged 67, the secretary of the Hand-in -Hand Fire and Life Insurance Company, New window.Bii tredgo-s u e , t, 110 11 1 j a t c r k y f ri i a e r t s u , ri l i v e h d o afell verdict from oft h f e ,, t A li ec i n i l de fi n o t o u i l . death." f AnnurrisED4NT.l—Holloway's Ointment and Pills.— Unerring PreeisiOn.---When the health is breaking down from the continuance of some weakening discharge, when ulcers refute to heal, and extending mischief is threatened, then is the time to try the potency of Holloway's healing ointment and purifying pills. No treatment for giving ease and safely leading to a cure can b e compared to this. The ointment cleans and cools the foulest and most angry sores, diminishes the inflammation, reduces the swelling, a o r w es n b pe th rso p n al a n i and danger. Thou • M an th d eir p prevents the growth of s pr te o s u t d i ; y ile f s r h o - cases of experience . to the unvarying success attending th e use o f Holloway's medicaments inulcerated legs e n _ larged veins, tciufy skin, and swelled ankles. HOLIDAY-MAKEXit (Prom the Times Correspondent.) FRANKFORT, Aug. 28. The poor wight who, on reaching the border at Gretna, chanced to meet there an ill-favoured and redhaired girl, had to submit to no end of obloquy for the conclusion he forthwith came to, that " all Scotchwomen were ugly, and wore crops of carrots on their heads." If I tell you that every German you meet is sure to have a pocket-comb in his pocket, and to make use of it every third or fourth minute, I suppose there will be an outcry against my propensity to overhasty generalization. Truly, however, that pocket-comb is my abomination. I embarked at Blackwall on board one of the Antwerp steamers many years ago. I was new to the world then, and impressions worked deep on my mind. We sat down to breakfast in sight of the Nore, and I happened to be seated near a Professor, whose long hair left no room for doubt as to his nationality. He bowed down his head on his cup and plate, and my heart yearned to him, as I honoured the piety and disregard of the world that prompted him to stick to his habits of " grace before meat" under any circumstances. Grace ! no, the graceless, shaggy old brute only whipped out his horrid pocket-comb, and—took away such appetite as sea-sickness would have spared me. Since that time my ideas of Germany are inseparably associated with the use and abuse of that most objectionable of all pocket instruments. I dread it more than the olive-leaf bladed ivory-handled knife of the Italian brigand. Well, then, I think that if at any time, God and Bismark permitting, old Teutonia succeeded ix achieving her unity, the pocket-comb ought to be quartered somewhere in the Imperial escutcheon, as an emblem of national niceness. Of all countries in the world, England and Holland not excepted, Ger many—Protestant Germany I should say—may be safely pronounced to be the cleanest. Here I am, seated at my writing table, in one of the third floor rooms of my hotel, and the white beechen floor, the moveable carpet, the white china stove, only opening out in the passage, the bedding, the curtains and counterpane, are a nest of unspotted tidiness, so long as only a Christian has enjoyment of its luxuries. Say nothing of a private dwelling for the upper or middle classes, where the Haus-Frau, on the second day after her honeymoon, is transformed into a mop and a water-brush, and knows no other worship than rubbing and scrubbing, dusting and scouring. In all the domestic establishment, however, the only unclean article of furniture is the human animal. For him the pocket-comb epitomises all the rites and mysteries of the toilet. I had picked up an acquaintance at one of the stations on the Bavarian line the other day, and as we went to the ticket office he asked me, with a view to be my fellow traveller, " Whether I would go first or second class ?" " First class in .Germany," he observed, "is only fit for Princes and Queen's massengers. The soft deep cushions of the first-class carriages are stifling in this hot weather; and, besides, your chance is that you will have no company from one end to the other of .your route." " The chances are that' you will have too much company in the second class,".l said ; " but, for my own part, Irani no way particular, so here goes for the second class." My companion, gentle reader, was a gentleman, if I at all know - what ought to be understood by that appellation. The perfect lines - of his profile, the thin though not emaciated face, the rich but smooth brown hair, the shaven chin, the bushy whiskers, the small ear, the long white taper fingers, the almond nails—all about him spoke of that blood which gives in England a much surer patent of high descent than any golden page in that sacred volume which the good-natured cynic, Thackeray, rather profanely calls "theßritishßible." Something in my friend's garb proclaimed him a scholar; if not actually a " clerk ;" a fellow of one of the Oxford colleges, if not a priest in orders. The word " nice" seemed to have been coined for his benefit, and he was evidently a man whose keen senses are given to him rather for excruciating pain than for exquisite pleasure. Well, with such nerves as God had endowed him with, acoustic as well as olfactory, my friend courted a contact with the lower German world, and so we sat down together, vis-a-vis, in one of the second class carriages. It was a nicht-rauchende coupe, and we had no one with us besides a mother and nurse with a kicking "Joy and a squalling babe. My friend drew up the skirts of his cutaway coat, rubbed his ear, and took out a pamphlet. We passed one sta tion, another ; an odd passenger or two got in and got out, and we had no lack of breathing room ; but presently, at Lohr, behold ! the guard looks in hurriedly.. " 4 Noch vier platzen hier!" he cried, and here, pell-mell, with armful of bags, hampers, cotton umbrellas, and other impediments of every descrip tion, four big countrymentumbled in. Look out for toes and shins; squeeze yourself up, shrink away into nothing, or here you have German contact with a vengeance. Our four countrymen did not look much above the class of pig -drovers. They had evidently travelled day and night—heaven alone knows how many days and nights ; such linen 1 such neck cloths ! such velveteen coats ! They dared not smoke in that forbidden compartment, that was clear ; but even their smoke would have been a re lief against the stale odours of their unlit pipes. They were merry withal, noisy and friendly, and as they took a love-at-first-sight fancy to my dainty Oxonian, they poured into his ears such volleys of their Franconian jargon as even 011endorff would not have enabled him to make out in a hundred years' study. As he stared at them and was dumb stricken, they conceived that he was afflicted with what Sir Bulwer Lytton calls the "aristocratic com plaint" of being hard of hearing, and so they re doubled their shouts, and with them the peals of their good-humoured but roaring laughter. They soon perceived the futility of their efforts, however. They detected, perhaps, some ineffable disdain in his thin distended nostrils, and were, on the whole, too welibred to give voluntarily offence, so they turned their attention to their neighbours on the other side, and we soon had a screeching concert from the obstreperous boy, the stormy baby; "the hushing, soothing woman. There was an end of that also, however, and our new fellow-passengers. were reminded, of the fact that they had tasted nothing that morning, and open flew their parcels with their thick sandwiches. By a natural associa tion of the ideas of breakfast with those of a morning toilet, out also from the same receptacles' came their pocket-combs—pocket-comb, I should say, for as one of them had been at the trouble of producing one, that one passed from hand to hand and from head to head, till the hats which did duty as tables and plates for the occasion had been laid back on their rearranged-cheveltires. The day was baking hot even at that early hour, but those dear fellows who sat with their faces to the engine complained of the draught, the dust, and cinders ; and the sash on the Side where the women sat was pulled up without ceremony as far as it would go. The same greasy sleeve that had per formed that feat brushed also past the aquiline nose of my college friend to do as much on our side. I only wished you had seen the daggers he looked as he stopped the sacrilegious hand. There might have been a divergence of opinion and a " difficulty" about our right . of breathing ; but, luckily, at that moment, there was a whistle of the engine, a slack ening of the train, and we came to one of the hun- dred and one stations with which we had to make our acquaintance in our weary progress. " Let us pay the difference, and take first-class tickets," says our friend, picking up his goods and chattels, and there we were, meet company for Queen's Messen- gers and Princes, safe from pocket combs and reek ing pipes, except when the company, short of second and third class carriages, are driven to the necessity of pouring in a whole mob upon you, and meet your complaints with a protest that " you have only paid for onoplace, and they have a right to do as they ike with their own." With all the drawbacks that may rise against• :ravelling in this country, owing to the habits of a . _ great part of the people, and the inconceivable length to which a few miles' Journey may be drawn by the invincible slowness of the national tempera ment, there is no doubt that the country affords endless enjoyment to any man that visits it on his holiday tour. Yesterday was my fourth day, and lily third Sunday on this same Franconian - line from 1 Bamberg to Frankfort, and the shady hills, the broad Main, the towns, castles, and churches on my route, seemed to acquire new charms in my eyes in proportion as they became more familiar. Life is short, and the world is large, and I suppose I shall never stop and see anything of Bamberg, Wurtzburg, Schwienfurt, Gemunden, and other old places of the kind, beyond what I may catch at a glance as the train rolls past them. lam not sure, however, that they are not seen at the greatest advantage from afar. There they sit on their hills with their many spired min sters, their turreted palaces, their wildernesses of gables, their grey ruins, their sunny slopes, and their leafy promenades. It is as much as one can do now-a-days if he stays for a few hours at the living capitals ; the still life of those decaying towns must be taken as a matter of course. People them with as much of the romance of the past as you please, conjure up the phantoms of entombed empe rors, and crumbling prince-bishops. Only, if you are wise, avoid the dull hours of their long summer days, the cramping beds, the smothering bolsters, and the savoury sauer-kraut of their thorough Ger man hotels. Or, if you are curious about a place where the old and the new join hands, where the Middle Ages are blending their lingering memorials with the realities of the bustling 19th century, stop for a day or two here at the Imperial Frankfort. Take a stroll in the cool of the evening along the Zeil, hold your nose, and just peep in at the Suden-gasse. See the Kaisers at the Riirner, and the market girls at the Messe, Goethe's house, and the Rothschilds'. Many are the times I have been at Frankfort; I have lived here for 12 months at a time. The more I see of it, however, the less I tire of it. I find all Germany here, genuine Germany, with its bewigged, besotted droning Diet, with its greedy, unsympathising, piti lessly screwing Geld-Sacke. There is no transcen dant beauty in the country immediately round Frankfort. The bare bald plains from here to May ence, and from here to Hanau, are only suggestive of point-blank cannon balls and unimpeded cavalry charges. But if Frankfort is not the rose, she has the fragrance of the rose within reach. Soden and Homburg are at minutes' distances ; so is all Nas sau ; not much further Heidelberg and all Baden. Here at hand you have the Forest and the Forst haus, the beer-flasks at the Main-gardens, cold bathing in the Main waters, the sweet, broad river itself, placid and easy-flowing as all German life, famous shops for , mian glass and Black Forest trinkets ; considerai .e dirt, too, and every variety of smells, incurable, ineradicable, for Frankfort is the money-market of Germany, and if " money is dirt," morally, in all countries, it is especially so here, morally and physically, whether you have it in paper or in that dingy metal which is called Ger man silver. The Cattle Plague. The following telegram and despatch have been received from her Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires at St. Petersburg and her Majesty's Consul-Generai at Warsaw : TELEGRAM FROM MR. LUMLEY. " St. Petersburg, Aug. 27. " The Minister of tho Interior informs me not a single head of cattle will bo allowed to leave a Russian port with out examination:and a certificate of health." DESPATCII PROM CONSUL-GENERAL MANSFIELD. • : • Warsaw, Aug. 24, "My Lord,—l have the honour to bring to your Lord ship's notice a, remedy for the cattle disease now so preva lent in England, which was adopted with much success in this kingdom seven years since. I lately found.myself in the company of several largo landed proprietors, who, on my asking for information upon this subject, told me that when the disease was extremely . prevalent in Poland in the year 1857, no remedy answered, so well as, on the first appearance of the malady, to givo the. cattle water very strongly impregnated with iron. " This treatment was first discovered from it having been observed that upon a farm where there was a chalybeato. spring the cattle wore either but slightly affected or re covered after drinking profusely of the ehalybeate water, while on the, adjoining farms the beasts died in largo numbers. "It was then found that by putting old Iron into the cattle troughs, so as to produce a highly chalybeato water, the same result ensued, : and the cattle recovered. "I have, Sce., . "C. E. MANSFIELD. " To the Right Hon. the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs." ESSEX. 'The disease still does not appear to be making any very marked progress in this county. Mr. Helmore, inspector for the Stratford district, dis covered the disease among several head of cattle on the forest at _Wansteacl, And ordered the animals to be slaughtered and buried, while others in which the symptoms of the,disease were not so, strongly:de veloped were ordered to be impounded for future inspection. The cattle were a portion of a foreign herd. Mr. J. Seabrook, of Old Lodge farm, Spring field, has been fined £lO and 19s. costs, for infring ing the recent Order in Council by not causing a cow which had died from the plague to be buried on his premises. JERSEY. The States have ordered the port of Gorey to be closed against all importation for the present. Up to the present time no appearance of the disease has been detected, either among the island cattle or those imported. On Saturday a numerous meeting of the members of the Agricultural Society was held, at which his Excellency the Lieutenant- Governor was present, when it was resolved to peti tion the States to prohibit the importation of cattle from England until the cessation of the disease. EDINBURGH. The spread of the cattle plague in Edinburgh is at present causing serious anxiety and alarm. Hitherto it has been entirely confined to the dairy cows, and to a particular locality —namely, the dis trict draining into the Water of Leith. But some cases have also occurred in other parts of the town, liable to epidemic disease, and there are also cases in the rural districts to the west of the city. The magistrates have provided a sanitarium for animals afflicted with the disease, and also places of sepul ture for those dying or destroyed in consequence of the plague. While the dairy stock, about 2,000 in number, are thus suffering, the cowfeeders are taking alarm, and in many cases sending their stock for sale at a distance while the animals are yet in health. The dairymen have resolved toraisethe price of milk from 3d.. to 4d. per quart from the Ist Sep tember. The prices of butchers' meat remain almost unaffected. As an instance of the infectiousness of the disease, it is mentioned that one cow brought , from 'London with the sickness upon it, and which, owing to suspicions as to its condition, had changed ha n d s several times, is believed to have communicated the infection to 66 others. A meeting of justices of the peace of the county of Midlothian was held at Edinburgh on Monday, for the purpose of taking steps in terms of the re cent Order inCouncil, relative to cattle disease in Scotland. The Duke of Buccleuch presided. A report was read from the chief constable to the effect that, after the most diligent inquiry, no cases of the plague had been discovered in the county, excepting in the immediate vicinity of Edinburgh, but sanitary precautions had generally been taken. Mr. JonN SWAN, cattle agent, made a statement as to the spread of the disease in Edinburgh and neighbourhood, and mentioned that at Corstor phine, three miles from the town, several cows had become infected, and the only source of infection he could think of was the town manure, a great deal of which was daily carted past the place. It would be a very serious thing if in this way, or any other, the plague was allowed to spread beyond the city ; and, as the great cattle markets were about to be held over the country, it was a matter of very serious concern how they were to act. He thought all the animals seized should be at once buried, and that the attempts to treat the animals only did harm, from giving greater opportunity to spread the disease. Professor DICK, in answer to the Duke of Buc cleuch, said that 11 cows under his charge had re covered ; and in those cases where the disease was taken in the early stages the animals were recover ing pretty rapidly. A cow which had become ill on Friday and was promptly treated on Sunday ap peared quite well. The Duke 'of BUCCLEUCH thoUght it would be rather unreasonable to kill all the cattle that were affected. In answer to his Grace, Professor DICK said the disease was undoubtedly infectious, but it rather appeared to him that it spread in an epidemic form, taking hold, like the cholera, of particular districts. He believed a spon taneous case had just occurred in Aberdeenshire. A letter was read from the clerk to the magis trates of the city, mentioning that attempts were being made to pack up the carcasses of diseased cows and send them out of the county for sale. The chief constable was directed to trace the offenders and .communicate with neighbouring counties. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS TIMES.—The accounts received of the course of the cholera confirm almost entirely the opinions we recently expressed upon the character of the present visitation. It is, as we defined it, an outbreak of the epidemic in the basin of the Mediterranean. As yet it appears as if the air of this inland sea was ne cessary to the atmospheric poison. Within these limits, too, the disease has been ra th er re ti r i ng to wards the East than advancing towards the West. Some time ago it swept northwards from Alexandria to Constantinople, and westwards even to Valencia and Gibraltar. But the epidemic wave is now re ceding. The pestilence has appeared on the Syrian coast at Bey rout and Jaffa, both passed over in the previous ascent of the disease from the Nile to the Bosphorus, and has broken out also in the Isle of Candia. It has, too, as we anticipated it might, crept into the Black Sea, and is spreading round its coasts as round the shores of the Mediterranean. It is reported from Varna, Kustenje, and Trebizonde, and we hear of it as far as Bagdad. As far as any track can be laid down from these movements, the epidemic seems retiring towards the regions from which it is said to havearrived—the coasts of Arabia. At the same time, however, its characteristic Ca prices have been signally shown in the exemptions enjoyed. Sicily, though in the focus of contagion, and visited with dreadful severity in 1854, has hitherto escaped. Even the ports of Barbary, ex posed as they may be thought to such afflictions, are as yet healthy. Naples has not suffered, nor the towns of Greece, though the disease is reported from Salonica, at the head of the Archipelago. Again, the virulence of the attacks at some points is singu larly contrasted with the lightness of the affliction at others. We will say nothing about the terrible sufferings of Constantinople, which may be explained, perhaps, by the condition of the city and its popu lation ; but there is probably no great difference in that respect between Ancona and Valencia, and yet the former town was devastated, while the latter escaped with little hurt. In point of fact, the epidemic has hitherto failed to establish itself at any point west of Ancona. It took no hold of Marseilles, and scarcely made itself felt at Barce leno. Still, too, it fails to penetrate inwards from any seaport attacked. The interior of Italy is still free. The report of cholera at Milan was never confirmed, and has been formally contradicted. There are rumours of two cases at Modena, but we cannot say on what authority. On a broad view of the whole intelligence it remains beyond a doubt that the ravages of the present epidemic are limited to the shores of the Mediterranean and Black Sea. Of the origin of the visitation we know nothing certain, but we are furnished with many probabili ties. Some of these were remarkably expressed in a Report compiled for the Egyptian Government. The havoc committed by the epidemic at Alexandria suggested official inquiries, and the President of the Board of Health has addressed a communication on the subject to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, which deserves consideration. In this memoir it is stated as the opinion not only of the President himself, but of all the scientific and professional authorities in Egypt, that the poison is generated in the crowds of pilgrims periodically visiting the holy places of Arabia. Even the first origin of the disease in 1817 is ascribed to the same source ; and, whatever may be our ' view of the theory, it is impossible, after perusing a narrative of the facts, to deny the probability of the inference. The pilgrims congre gate at certain periods of the year from all points of the Mahomedan world to the number of 700,000 or 800,000. They are not of a class naturally either careful or cleanly, and on these occasions they are worse than usual. It is even a point of religion with them that no pilgrim should change his clothes during the whole time of his pilgrimage. Under these conditions they are huddled together in enormous crowds beneath the fiery sky of the Desert. It is an indispensable incident of the ritual that each pilgrim should sacrifice at least one sheep, and the skins and offal of these countless victims are left to decompose under an Arabian sun. The result of all this is that thou sands of pilgrims perish on the spot, leaving their bodies to be shuffled hastily under a coating of sand, which the first sirocco will disperse, and their clothes to be packed up and carried off as sacred relics to be distributed among their relatives and country men. The Egyptian Minister thinks that here is the seedplot and hotbed of cholera, and there is cer tainly nothing improbable in the conclusion. He wishes, too, that the European Powers would take into their serious consideration a practice which it is obviously beyond the power of a Mahomedan Government to control. For immediate purposes, however, it is of little use to argue about the source of the present visitation. The direction of its pro gress is of more consequence than the point of its departure. We think there is much ground for assurance in the accounts which we have detailed, but none for over-confidence or incredulity. The cholera does certainly not appear to be. advancing across Europe in a definite track towards these shores after the precedents of former times. It is hovering over the Mediterranean and Black Seas, with a tend ency towards the East i n it s fli g ht . It has not settled anywhere in Europe, except at Constantinople and Ancona. Of the " chlorine" at Hanover we hear no more, and the Continent, so far as we know, is free from the epidemic in its whole breadth between sea and sea. Still, the pestilence is abroad, and though capricious in its course it is not losing its virulence. The mortality at Constantinople and in the vil lages on the Bosphorus appears even to have ex ceeded that at Alexandria and Damietta. We can not tell what course a pestilence so capricious, when once in the air, may eventually take ; and prudence counsels caution while there is yet time. It happens, too, that all the measures which should be adopted ifs preservatives against cholera are simply measures which, in our ordinary and every day interests, should uniformly be taken. We are only told to be clean, and in the event of the actual arrival of the plague to exercise a little more pru dence and forbearance in personal and domestic management than in ordinary seasons. That is no very onerous imposition. The letters, however, which have recently appeared in our columns dis close the true difficulty of the problem. There is a numerous class among us which, unfortunately, cannot be clean ; which is so housed, lodged, occu pied, and fed, that it is a mere mockery to preach cleanliness or care to it. We have to apply ourselves to material conditions, and deal with material ob stacles first. We must disinfect foul air. and supply pure water. We must send whitewashers and scavengers on their rounds, and then provide for the distribution of the healthy and the removal of the sick. All large towns, and, for that matter, many country villages, contain habitations from which sickness in some form or other is rarely absent, and in which an epidemic, when it arrives, is sure to be found. We are happy to think that these nests of disease are less common than formerly, but they are far too numerous still. It is with these that we have to deal, and to this task, in one field or other, our duty is pretty well limited. For once there is an accord among scientific authorities. Whatever may be thought of the origin or nature of Cholera, we are all of one mind as to the way to meet it. Theories of quarantine or contagion find but little favour. The true course is to set our houses in order and provide wholesome food and proper medicines for those exposed or afflicted. Deprive the pestilence of its natural allies in filth and fear, reduce it to its own unaided action, and counteract that action by timelyremedies—those are the simple precepts which science gives. It will be our own fault if they are not followed. PosT.—Not to sound an alarm, as is too usual at the time being ; not to represent malarious in fluences as preternaturally rife beyond what occurs normally at this season ; the most stolid observer of passing signs must fain acknowledge that three millions of human beings cannot be packed together in one great city without incurring extraordinary chances of disease from malaria. Time out of mind the plum season has been recognised as the most unhealthy in the round of twelve months. Winter may oppress with cold and damp • people of weak lungs may then succumb who would have lingered awhile in comparative health under more genial conditions of temperature and climate. The ver • • dure of spring is not without its constitutional trials ; and summer, with sunstrokes and fevers of inflammatory type, . reminds frail mortality that even when nature is at her strongest the destroyer death will garner in his own. Of all seasons, nevertheless, autumn is most unhealthy to densely= packed human populations. Disease and death are then most rife ; pestilences, which* at other times creep languidly westward from the East, culminate amongst us in their gravity, and strike with a fata lity to which we are at other times unused. As a counterbalancing set-off to this condition of things, a s a matter that, when considered and 'reflected upon, should reconcile us to city domicile in autumn, is the well-known and acknowledged fact that pre valent diseases of this period are more preventible than those of any other. Much as doctors may j wrangle and dispute among themselves concerning the pathology of many diseases, they are completely in accord in respect to the typhoid and choleraic complaints which are apt to prevail at this season. Guardians of the public health acknowledge, as a matter too obvious for dispute, that, given pure air and pure ingesta, these classes of maladies can be, not wholly warded off indeed, but prevented, assum ing the proportion of epidemic scourges. Thus, prevention seems to resolve itself into conditions of breathing, eating, drinking, and avoiding. Of these, the breathing function is the one that con cerns the hygienic physician most. People are apt to pay little regard to influences that they cannot see—influences which in many cases are not appre ciable to any of the senses. For this reason, the supplying of pure air becomes a matter of more imminent public importance than the supplying of pure victuals. Of late the public has come to have some due regard for invisible pests wafted atmo spherically, in proof of which we need only cite the abolition of cesspools and the prosecution of the main drainage scheme. One by one noxious manufactures have had an onslaught made upon them. War has been waged against intra-urban knackers' yards and manure factories ; bone-boiling establishments have been forced, in many cases, to migrate ; smoke has been diminished to the point of. admitting the blooming of roses in the Temple gardens—not, however, that smoke is chargeable.. with any great meed of hygienic wrong. Grave yard pumps have been locked up, and city grave yards themselves are lying undisturbed by sexton's spade and mattock. Altogether, we are improving in the matter of atmospheric hygiene ; but there yet remain pest-generating inconsistencies strangely at variance with the general recognition of the value of pure air; and, not least among these, one which came under the notice of Mr. Humphreys, the coro ner, at Bethnal-green on Monday, and a report of which we published yesterday. The object of that inquest was to ascertain the cause of death of a child named Cannell, who is said to have sickened from the breathing of foul air emanating from receptacles of putrid blood, employed by sugar refiners. Inso much as the inquest stands adjourned, we have no right to anticipate or .prejudice the verdict. It would be altogether an abuse of evidence to state that the child's death was from the cause alleged ; but knowing something about these receptacles for putrid blood—technically called by the sugar re finers " spice" —we consider we are only indicating an obvious fact, and acquitting ourselves of an act of common justice to the community, by protesting against their existence in a densely-crowded neigh bourhood at this malarious season. In kgraveyard the festering remains are at least buried—covered with earth—and the purifying influence of earth is all but magical ; but in the establishments where blood is collected in tanks to await the sugar re finer's convenience the process of corruption takes place unchecked. There blood—the most readily putrescent part of animals—is subjected to condi tions favouring its putrescence in the highest degree. The air is laden with noxious particles which go wafted on the breeze God knows whither, after wreaking the full measure of their evil on the ill-fed squalor hard by. Again, we say, this protest against the " spice" tanks down east, in Bethnal-green and other neigh bourhoods adjoining the great sugar refineries, has only a collateral reference to the' death of young Cannel. That event, however, naturally prompts, to the advice which we now tender—namely, that the local officers of health see to .the abomination without delay. It would be consistent with the dic tates of sound hygienic principles if " spice" collec tors were obliged to change their premises to some . suburban site, not' te m p orar il y , b u t w h o ll y ; f or ` although the maximum evil of their calling developes itself just now, yet at no season can.the presence of large masses of blood in any densely populated neighbourhood be other than prejudicial. It is not without some effort that the mind of an individual; unacquainted' with the practice of sugar refining, can realise to itself the p resence o f su ch an abomin ation as putrid blood in a..manufaCtory having to deal with such a seemingly refined article of food as sugar. The fact is, however, that many refineries (not all) are, on account of the presence and the use of this agent, more disgusting to the sense of smell than any slaughter -house. • Professedly, all sugflr refined for exportation to Mohammedan nations IS manufactured without blood ; and this being so, we may be ptrdoned for expressing a wish that sugar refiners would - treat their Christian purchasers more like Christians. Be this as it may, reservoirs of putrid blood should no longer be allowed to exist. festering in Bethnal-green or any similar thickly' populated locality at this season. COUNTRY MARKETS BRIS T OLLT UESDAY. To-day's market was dull for English and foreign wheat, but importers ask rather more money, feeling confident that prices must be higher. Potatoes are going off very fast, as they aro nearly as bad as in 1846 in this district. All spring corn is rather clearer. LIVERPOOL-TUESDAY. At to-day's market there was, a good attendance, and Friday's prices supp or t e d. Flour met a slow sale, but sellers would not give way in price. Oats id per bushel, and old oatmeal is to 2s per load:dearer. Beans improved ,Gd to is per qr.,, peas brought extreme rates. LEEDS-TUESDAY. There was a fair show of grain at to-day's market. The trade for old wheat firm at last week's prices. The quality and condition of the new crop are decidedly inferior,_and prices most irregulv. Oats and beans as dear. The average prices for the week ending Aug. 28 were : Wheat, 46s 4id per qr. ; barley, 31s sfd ; and oats, 265 Od. MAR R-FIT ITARBOROUGIL-TUESDAY. New white wheat, 50s to 53s ; new red. 44s to 48s per 30 stone. Barley, fine, 355; other kinds, 29s to 32s per qr• Oats, new, 22s to 24s ; old, 25s to 28s per qr. Beans, old, 40s to 42s ; new, 34s to 58s per qr. NEWCASTLE-UNDER-LYNE—MoNDAY. At our corn market to-day prices were is per qr. higher. Barley maintained its value. Oats about the same Its here" tofore. Beans in demand and firm in price. Peas un" altered. MONMOUTHSHIREMaNDA.y. The following are the average quotations :—Wheat, 43 lid to 5s 8d per bushel • barley, 3s id to 3s 9d; oats, 2s 2d to 2s Bd. SHEFFIELD—TyEsnAY. A fair attendance of farmers, and business inactive for wheat, at late prices. Barley was arm. For oats the de mand was moderate, and former prices were established. Beans were disposed of at high prices. Red wheat, per load of 3 imp. bushels lfs Od to 18s 01 White do -do lBs Od 20s 01 New red , do do l6s 6d ,7s 61 New white - do do 7s 6d • 20s 0 1 Beans do per cir 30a Od 32s I'd Oats, .. a o . , 15, Od . , G'erains,dino. b per qr a . ley, Malting 6 barley, i o 3U Od 35ss Od do 248 Od 288 Od F10ur....18 8d to 2s Od per 141 b. 178 Od Mn. JUSTICE MONTAGUE SMlTlL—Yesterday, at the Judges' Chambers, Mr. Justice Montague Smith attended for the first time on his return from circuit, and heard a great many summonses. His lordship will attend twice a week during the long vocation. Numerous appli" cations were made for leave to appear to actions on bills of exchange, and in interpleader matters. In an action, "Morris v. Gaughan," tried at Leeds, in which £ 2O damages were given against the police of Bradford for the wrongful imprisonment of the plaintiff on a charge o f forgery, an application was made by Mr. Wills to stay the execution, on the ground that the verdict was against the weight of the evidence. Mr. Shepherd, for the plain" tiff, opposed the application. There were two actions against the chief constable, a detective sergeant, and & superintendent. Both were tried together. Mr. Justice Montague Smith, after hearing the learned Counsel at some • length, refused the application. Births. BARROW.—On tho 28th inst., at Blackheath-park, the wits of Robert P. Barrow; Esq., of a son. PICKERING.—On the 26th inst., the wife of Percival Pickering, Esq., Q.C., of a daughter. TASSELL.—On the 28th inst., at Faversham, the wifo of Mr. James Tassell, solicitor, of a son. STUART.—On the 28th inst., at Pentre House, Leightor 4 near Welshpool, the wife of Major-Gen era l Si r Oilseed S. Stuart, K.G.8., Bombay Army, of a son. 3LL H N i N g l i N g a. at — e- En 3 1..— P 0n the r M en a d rri erg 2 Marriages. inst at a E t sci S ., t o . f j An it n re ' t court-chambers, Inner Temple, to Cecilia Smith, young er daughter of R. Rawle, Esq., of Boscastle House, R i g' . gate-road. MASON—LIMBREY.—On the 29th inst., at St. Mary's' burn, Robert H. Mason, Esq., of Courtland-place, Ke n ington, to Mary, eldest daughter of Jas. LimbreY, 8.A., of Louise Villa, St. John's-wood. Deaths. BRowN.—On the 27th inst., at Linkwood, near Elgin, N -13 " General the Hon. Sir George Brown, G.C.8., K.R , t -t-e " GERRETT.—On the 27th inst., at 7, Old Cavendish-street, Mr. Thomas Gerrett, jun., aged 35. HALIBURTON,—On the 27th inst., at Gordon House , Isle' worth, the Hon. Mr. Justice Haliburton, aged 68. HEN - mm-0n the 28th inst., at Weymouth, Jas. lienn t i g: Esq. ' of 6, Upper Avenue-road, Regent's-park, Lo n aged 77. • JONES.—On the 26th inst., Coriv late of Plasissa, at Dover-street, Piccadilly,Reil Jones, Esq., Dolawen, l : aged 70. park, PALMER.—On the 26th inst., at his seat, Carlton _a a Northamptonshire, Sir John Henry Palmer, Bart., g 91. dw'sr a ROBERTS.—On the 28th inst., at Scarboroug h, E Tuffnell Roberts, eldest surviving son of the late Lie u General H. T. Roberts, C. 8., aged 25. ----------='--- --- .„„ London : Printed and Published byWiL LIAM ANDREU 0, of No. 112, Strand, Painter, at 'fru: SVN (Once, No. 112 i Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the COttnty o bliddlcsoc.--Wednesday, August 30, 1865.