The Sun. — London, England, 1865-09-27 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence. VALETTA, Sept. 22.—Her Majesty's :surveying steamer Firefly, Commander G. R. Wilkinson, re, turned on the evening of the 11th inst., after an absence of more than two months. She left Malta on the Bth of July, and called at Mazzara, but could not communicate, owing to the strict quarantine re gulations. She then proceeded to Cagliari, where she arrived on the 12th of July, and was detained seven days in quarantine, the surgeon having to report daily the state of health of the ship's com pany. She then went in search of the reputed Fox Rock. After an elaborate survey no indications of shallow water were found, the least depth being over 60 fathoms, with a coral bottom, on w hich about 50 boats bre employed fishing for coral in the summer months. The Firefly then returned to Sicily, and resumed her survey of last year, completing the coast from Castellamare, midway between Trapam and Palermo, to Cape St. Marco, east of Mazzara, including the islands Maritimo, Favignana, and Le vanzo. The new charts, when published, will show many important alterations, and it is highly credit able to the surveying officers of this ship to have ac complished such an amount of work in the short period in which they have been engaged on this im portant survey, the necessity for which had been re peatedly pointed out in The San. The Firefly leaves to-day to complete the:survey of the coast of Tunis, between Soussa, Sfax, and Jerbah. It is much de sired when this is accomplished that attention should be again turned to Sicily. The whole island re quires re-surveying. The inaccuracies of the present charts are constantly being forced into notice, owing to the increasing Italian trade,'and consequent more frequent navigation of these waters. It has only lately been discovered that Cape Granitola, the first land made by the Peninsular and Oriental steam packets leaving Malta for Marseilles, is placed on the charts now in use three miles west of its true position, and Cape St. Vito two miles and a half to the northward and eastward of whereitreally lies. Judging from these inaccuracies, which are being corrected, it may be fairly concluded that others of a similar kind exist on other parts of the coast. We know that till the visit of her Majesty's ship Marlborough in August, 1864, a very serious error existed in the plan of the Bay of Palermo, and gross errors are also known to have been made in the neighbourhoods of Licata, Cape Passaro, and Syracuse. The reason why more shipwrecks have not happened is doubtless owing to the general bold ness of the Sicilian coast. For the honour of Eng lish hydrography these errors, or rather blunders, should not be allowed to remain uncorrected ; for our surveys of Sicily are daily sneered at by Italian navigators, who say they are obliged to depend more upon the correctness of their eyesight than the Eng lish charts. Some time ago a story was published in the Patrie of an alleged act of vandalism on the part of some officers of the Firefly, in one of their late visits to the coast of Tunis. As might have been anticipated, this story turns out to be untrue. It was not at all probable that officers of a survey ing ship would wilfully destroy or deface any object of antiquarian interest they might meet with in their researches. The true circumstances which gave rise to the charge are stated to me to have been as follows, and some importance is attached to them, as they have been, I understand, the subject of a diplomatic correspondence between M. Drouyn de Lhuys, Lord Cowley, and Lord Russell. About the 20th of June an Arab named Gahbish, of Bab-el-Arabi, Soussa, coast of Barbary, met Mr. Gray, acting master of her Majesty's ship Firefly, then surveying on the coast, and offered to take him to the Arab's grounds and excavate some Roman tombs. Mr. Gray consented, and spoke to Mr. Carpenter, the acting chief engineer, as he had to go on duty in the country. Next morning Mr. Carpenter asked the surgeon of the ship to accompany him, which he did. They were taken about a quarter of a mile from the town on the main road, a few yards from which was a small tumulus on a kind of common, and unenclosed. This the Arab opened with the assistance of his two labourers. On the floor a mosaic representing se veral descriptions of fish was shown to them. This was then washed, and would - have been carried away by the party, but the hour was late, and the place was left uncovered. The officers intended to return next day, but on the following morning they heard that a French engineer, M. Daux, had the Bey's exclusive permission to excavate in that part of the regency. Mr. Carpenter immediately sent and had the spot covered in and everything replaced as before. This was done by the same Arab and his labourers, and the expense Mr. Carpenter paid. Before leaving Soussa, Mr. Levi, the Acting British Vice-Consul, assured the officers that he had settled the affair, and they were much surprised to read the unwar ranted charge in the letter published in the French newspaper. Her Majesty's screw corvette Pelican, Commander R. P. Cator, arrived on the 15th inst. from Spezzia. The screw gun-vessel Surprise, 4, Commander G. Tryon, left port on the same day, with a mail and despatches for the Commander-in- Chief, calling at Leghorn. The despatch vessel Caradoc, Lieut. E. Wilkinson, arrived on the 11th inst . ., from Constantinople, and left on the 18th for Trieste. Two Prussian ships of war, the Nympher, 17, and the Delphine, 3 guns, arrived on the 17th inst. from Gibraltar and Algiers, and left the fol lowing day for Athens and Constantinople. The Tunisian steam corvette Mansour, which had been undergoing extensive repairs in this port for some time past, left on the 14th inst. for Tunis. Yesterday the Italian mail brought letters from the squadron at Leghorn and Castellmare (Bay of Naples), the Commander-in-Chief, with the wooden ships, being at the former place, Rear-Admiral Yelverton, with the Caledonian and the iron -clads, at the latter. - The Victoria (flagship of Vice-Admiral Smart), Gib raltar, Orlando, and Chanticleer arrived at Leghorn on Sept. 13, the Psyche having passed them on their way from Spezzia, which port they left on Tuesday morning, the 12th inst. They expected to remain at Leghorn about a week, and then proceed to Castella mare to join the iron squadron. A notice was issued in the squadron on the 14th that letters for the Vic toria, Gibraltar, Orlando, and Psyche leaving London after the 19th inst. should until further orders be di rected to Castellamare. The works in course of con struction at Spezzia are very extensive. A large dockyard is being built, and the approach to it dredged, and the work appears to be pushed on with energy. Many of our naval officers were preparing for excursions to Pisa and Florence. The Resistance left Spezzia on the Ist inst. for Genoa. Capt. Cham berlain joined her on the Bth, on which day she was to sail for Ca s t e ll amare. T he Royal Oak left Spezzia for Castellamare on the 7th, and both vessels arrived at Naples on the 12th. The Magicienne joined the Commander-in -Chief at Spezzia on the 4th, and after remaining a week for pratique was to leave on the 13th for c u t e T Genoa on Aug. 13 o ar ' The Racoon ar r i ve d a t Pnrtemouth, and was to have received Prince Alf red some alteration in his Roy a l ounigbilard,s movements, but owing to , eft she left on his return to Portemouth, called at Spezzia on the 6th, taking home invalids Gibralt ar , . o n the 13th she passed through the Straits of and communicated with the Fortress by a —fglial, in tending to call at Tangier for provisions. Mr. R.M. Le Geyt, naval cadet of the Gibraltar, deserted from joining her; ship on the 6th inst., three days after nothing had since been heard of him. The Racer arrived at Leghorn from Malta on the 14th, and had a week's quarantine to perform. Three courts martial were held on board the Gibraltar at Spezzia on the sth inst. Capt. Coote was president of the first two, and Capt. Dickson of the third ; Mr. F. J. Fegen, secretary to the Commander-in-Chief, officiating Judge-Advocate. Mr. W. Flowers, act ing gunner of the Chanticleer, for drunkenness, was sentenced to forfeit all seniority and to be dis missed his ship ; John Weaver, boy, first class, of of the Pelican, for stabbing T. Beach, able seaman, to 48 lashes and nine months' imprisonment, with hard labour ; and T. Wall, ordinary seaman of the Gibraltar, for desertion, to only three months' hard labour, being a man of previous good character. The following appointments have been made by the Commander-in-Chief from the flagship :—Lieut. W. G. Le Cocq to the Royal Oak ; Mr. F. N. Howe, clerk, to the Hibernia ; Mr. H. Howell, assist.-clerk, to the Gibraltar; Mr. C. E. Goulsbary, assist.-clerk, to the Chanticleer ; Mr. G. W. Russell, mid ship n • I h . ip- man, to the Chanticleer ; Mr. R. M. Le Geyt, naval cadet, to the Gibraltar ; Mr. R. L. Bayly, naval cadet, to the Resistance. Col. Kennedy, command ing the 3d Brigade Royal Artillery, inspected the troops under his command on the 20th inst., pre previous to his departure for Italy, on two months' leave of absence. He was much pleased with the good appearance of the men on parade, and with the steadiness with which the several evolutions were performed. Captain Astley, 49th Regt., has been appointed District Inspector of Musketry in this command, vice Major Hill, 40th Regiment. Her Majesty's steam tug Hearty yesterday con veyed the wing of the 29th Regiment, which, dur ing the summer, was stationed at Pembroke Bar racks, St. George's Bay, to its former barracks in the Cottonera district. Prince Frederick of Schles wig-Holstein arrived in the Syria from Alexandria, and proceeded in the same vessel for Marseilles. Capt. Norris arrived in the Ripon from Southamp ton and Gibraltar for this garrison. Capt. Willan arrived in the Massilia from Marseilles. Ensign Fitzherbert and Sergeant-Major Hibbert arrived in the Tanjore from Southampton. Quartermaster J. Nally, 84th Regiment, left in the Crimean Liver pool. Capt. Bower, 4th Regiment, and Mrs. Bower left in the Una for London. A review and field day—the last under the com mand of Lieut.-Gen. Sir J. L. Pennefather, K.C.B. —took place at Aldershot yesterday, in the presence of Lord Hardinge and others. The troops, to the number of nearly 7,000, formed on Eclmore-hill at 10 o'clock in contiguous column of brigades, and at half-past 10 Sir John Pennefather arrived on the field. The division, having been inspected, marched past the saluting point, the cavalry, Royal Horse Artillery, Royal Engineers, and Military Trains in open column of squadrons at a walk, arid the infan try in open column of grand divisions in quick time, the Horse Artillery and cavalry passing a second time at a gallop. A sham fight followed. The enemy mitts supposed to hold possession of the rifle ranges. The cavalry commenced the attack, co vered by a strong body of skirmishers, but they were driven in by the overwhelming numbers op posed to them, and retired in good order, the nine regiments of infantry forming square. Line was re formed, and the infantry, in line of brigades, com menced a rapid file fire, beating a retreat, meanwhile the lines retiring through each other until the banks of the Basingstoke canal were reached. The engi neers had two pontoon bridges rapidly laid down, and the troops retired over them in good order and in a very short time, their retreat being covered by artillery and a strong body of skirmishers. On reaching Cove-common line was reformed, and the troops were dismissed to their quarters about half past 1 o'clock. Lord Hardinge, after luncheon with Gen. Pennefather at Major-Gen. Russell's quarters, on the North Camp, returned to town in the after noon. The half-yearly inspection at Aldershot commences on Monday next. Major-Gen. Warde has just made an official visit of inspection to Warley Barracks, near Brentwood. The troops executed various manoeuvres, under the command of Col. Radcliffe, and the inspecting offi cer expressed his satisfaction with their appearance, and also with the state of the barracks. The chartered steamer Duke of Cornwall is ex pected to arrive in the Thames to-day from Dublin, having on board the depot companies of the 49th Regiment, consisting of 5 officers, 120 non-com missioned officers and men, 1 officer's wife and two children, 18 soldiers' wives, and 31 children. The troops will land at Tilbury pier, under the direction of the officers of the staff from Chatham garrison. On disembarking the depot will proceed to Colches ter, where the companies will be stationed. After a lengthened delay, the Admiralty have admitted the claims for compensation on the part of the workmen employed in the ronery at Chatham Dockyard, who were thrown out of work on the re cent introduction of the spinning machinery at that establishment, and an order was yesterday received directing the payment to each of the workmen dis charged from the yard of a certain sum varying in amount according tolength of service and other con siderations. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. - -- SCOTTISH CENTRAL. The directors state in their report that the bill for the incorporation of this company with the Cale donian Railway Company, after a lengthened oppo sition in the House of Commons, received the royal assent on the sth July. By its terms the Scottish Central was dissolved as from the Ist July last, and merely subsisted for the purpose of enabling the di rectors to declare and pay to the holders of stock and shares dividends for the past half year, and for winding up. The Caledonian Company had been in possession of the Elie since the Ist August, and it was now under their management and formed part of their system. By the Act of Amalgamation the Scottish Central ordinary shareholders were secured in a guaranteed minimum dividend at the rate of £7 per cent. per annum, and were entitled, in addition, to rank pari passu with ordinary shareholders of the Caledonian Company for any excess beyond 7 per cent. The first guaranteed dividend would be payable in re pect of the half-year ending the 31st of January, 1866. The directors had been engaged in taking the necessary steps to realise the revenue assets, and ascertain, with a view to liquidation, all the liabilities and outstanding claims of the company. To bring down the accounts to the date of amalgamation the locomotive and upholding expenditure for July, which had always hitherto been charged to the suc ceeding or January half-year, was now included in that of July There was also an increased expen diture for wages arising from the same cause. The aggregate extra expenditure incurred on these items amounted to £8,086. There was an increase of £9,802 in upholding suspense account. The Cale donian were bound to assume this account, along with the other suspense accounts, Tay ferries, and renewal of engines and bridges, as they stood on July 31, 1864. The amount at that date was £49,875, and the amount on July 31, 1865, was £53,870, showing an excess to be provided for by this company out of its own funds of £3,995. Those items being exceptional, increased the expen diture largely. The traffic receipts for the half-year and from other sources amounted to £14,390, and the expenditure to date of amalgamation to £121,778, leaving a balance of £21,612, but to this was added £42 surplus balance from preceding account, and £9,110 guarantee fund, making £34,154 avail able for a dividend, at the rate of fully 2i per cent. per annum for the half-year ; but as several claims had been made against the company which might be litigated, the directors recommended an interim dividend of 5 per cent. per annum, pay able on the 6th of October, leaving a balance of £8,029 on hand, till the whole liabilities and assets had been ascertained, and for this purpose the meet ing of the 30th inst. could be adjourned to the 23d of February next. WEST SOMERSET. The report of the directors states that the pro inotersauthorizin- of the railway from Watchet to Minehead obtained an Act in the last Session of Parliament amounted to e 30th of g its construction. The traffic receipts £3,503ai3t for the half-year ending the showing an increase of £705., ii,g half" June last, ) against £2,79t3f0r the correspond- I, which was princi pally r deri . ved from the goods traffic. The increase during the first tea 1 weeks of the current h a c i e f ipts e encou raging, as it only amount e d half-year not so The minimum rental for the past half-year, afte r p ayment of • terest on loans, left a balance of 2,702 appli In cable to dividend on preference shares and current expenses. The directors recommended a dividend at the rate of 21 per cent. per annum upon the 5,000 5 pe r cent. preference shares now issued, leaving a small balance. CARNARVON AND LLANBERIS. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held yesterday at the office, Victoria-street, West minster ; Mr. Turner in the chair. The secretary read the report, which stated that the works were being vigorously prosecuted, and the engineer reported there was every prospect of the line being completed within the time originally con templated. The bill for the extension of the line through the town of Carnasvon, and for a branch !THE SUB, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENIING, SEPTEMBER 27, 1865. up the Bettws Garvon valley, was passed last ses sion. Negotiations were pending with the London and North-Western Company for the working of the line. The guaranteed interest of 4 per cent. per annum on the paid-up capital had been duly paid by the contractor to the 30th of June last. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, said that within the last few days he had in spected the line, and was well satisfied with the pro gress of the works. He thought it would be one of the most substantial lines ever made. The embank ment was formed almost entirely of the large boulder stones found in the locality. By the ex tension of the line through the town of Carnarvon, and its junction with the London and North-Wes tern Railway, combined with the cordial co-opera tion of the residents in the locality, there was a cer tainty of the undertaking becoming highly remune rative. Mr. WiLsoN seconded the motion, which was adopted, and the proceedings terminated. NEWRY AND GREENORE. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held yesterday at the London Coffee-house, Lud gate-hill ; Mr. 0 verend in the chair. The report stated that the bill of last session had passed without a contest, the Dundalk and Greenore Railway Company having withdrawn all opposition on certain clauses being inserted in the bill. By this powers were obtained to raise additional capital for the pier at Greenore. The interest of occupiers along the line was settled, and £1,914 paid to them. The contract for the tunnel at Carlingford had been let, and the works were now in active operation. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, said he was at Carlingford last week, and was quite satisfied with the works. Mr. PARKER, in seconding the motion, said the line would afford an outlet at Greenore for the north of Ireland traffic. The Great Western, who ran trains to Birkenhead, had never yet been able to develope their traffic properly for want of such an outlet. The running of the line of steamers between Greenore and Birkenhead would give them that facility. The report was adopted, and a vote of thanks to the Chairman concluded the proceedings. GRAND TRUNK OF CANADA. The traffic receipts on this company's lines for the week ending the 9th inst. amounted for local pas sengers to £7,345 for foreign passengers to £4,325, for emigrants to £525, for mails, &c., to £829, for local freight and live stock to £11,552, and for foreign freight and live stock to £4,010 ; total, £28,686, against £25,506 for the corresponding week of 1864, showing an increase of £3,180. The total receipts from the Ist of July to the above date amounted to £253,281, and for the same period of last year to £230,541, showing an increase of £23,740, or 10.3 per cent. THE REGISTRATIONS. MIDDLESEX. Mr. Edmond Beales, the revising barrister for the metropolitan county of Middlesex, held his court yesterday, the third of his circuit, at the Court house, Edgware, for the purpose of revising the lists of voters having their elective franchise qualifica tion in or claiming to vote in the Edgware polling district. The lists revised were those of Finchley, Edgware, Great Stamnore, Little Staninore, Harrow, Hendon, Kingsbury, and Pinner. Mr. Wm. Albert James, of Parliament-street, agent for the Middlesex Liberal Parliamentary Registration Association, appeared for his party ; Mr. Thomas Alley Jones, of Clifford's Inn, and his son, Mr. J. Alley Jones, appeared for the Middle sex Conservative Registration Committee ; and Mr. Henry Smith, agent for the National Conservative Registration Association, appeared in support of that body. claimant, or gave greater facilities to effect his re gistration ? He thought the act had the opposite effect, and that this piece of legislation was a great mistake. The Revising Barrister—ln that I agree. Mr. James—There was no new power given to the revising barrister ; there were no means of in quiring into the claimant's right except through this court, and the court could only be set in motion to make that inquiry by the objection. If this course was to be pursued, there would come on the register a host of claims, and the agents would be afraid to object, not only on account of the expense, but of the disgrace which seemed to attach to making frivolous or groundless objections. The Revising Barrister at great length gave the grounds on which he based his decision, which was, that he was bound to give costs to the amount of their actual expenses to the new claimants, but he would further consider the question. saw the prisoner in custody on the Ist July in the presen t year, with another woman, for picking pockets in an omni _ bus, and she was sentenced by the Lord Mayor to six weeks' imprisonment. He had known her on and off for about four years, and had followed her into as many as six or eight omnibuses in a day in Oxford-street, the Strand, to Westminster Abbey, and several places. Mr. Payne said he would not sentence her to penal ser vitude then, but she would have that the next time she came. The sentence on her was 18 months' imprisonment and hard labour. Prisoner—Why not hang me at once ? She was then removed. The Revolt of the Portsea Guardians. A few days ago we gave some account of a singular dis agreement between the Poor-law Board and the Guardians of the Portsea Island union, comprising the parishes of Portsmouth and Portsea, For many years past it has been the practices of the guardians at their fortnightly meetings to adjourn for tea about 5 o'clock, the public business gene rally occupying their attention some four or five hours ; 14 out of the 21 guardians have been the average attendance at tea, and the character of the meal may be inferred from the fact that the cost per head has not exceeded 2id. or 2.1 d., and that the entire cost per quarter has never been X 3. This sum has for many years been paid out of the funds of the union, although not without remonstrance on the part of the Poor-law Board. At the meeting of the guardians on Wednesday fortnight a letter was read from the cen tral authority, in which it was certified that the item was again disallowed, and the rebellion then commenced. It was argued by several of them that the strictest economy had been observed, for they had had nothing with their tea but bread and butter, and that after spending four or five hours in the discharge of public business such slight refreshment ought not to be objected to. The Chairman (Mr. J. F. Pratt declared that he would be taken before the magistrates rather than pay the money they had been surcharged, and announced that he had made up his mind not to attend the Board again unless the same were allowed. At the close of the discussion it was unanimously resolved "That the Poor-law Board, having refused to allow the Guardians to take tea at their meetings, and having sur charged certain members of the Board with the amount, the members of the Board positively refuse to attend any future meetings to administer the poor law until the Poor law Board withdraw their opposition thereto." The Guar dians present attached their signatures to the resolution, which was duly forwarded to the Poor-law Board. A reply was shortly afterwards received from London, signed " Enfield, secretary," in which it was stated that if an auditor considers any expenditure which may appear in the accounts submitted to him to be illegal, he is compelled to disallow them, and that if the Poor-law Board, on appeal, should be of opinion that the audi tor was right, they wore bound to confirm his de cision, having no power to issue any order or regulation which would make such illegal expenditure lawful. But they also intimated that if the Guardians were not satisfied with this decision, they had the right of appeal to the Court of Queen's Bench, through any Guardian who might have been surcharged, and that it was competent for the court to order the costs of the persons prosecuting the certiorari to be paid by the union. A private meeting of the Guar dians was subsequently hold, at which 12 members signed their resignations, and it was understood amongst the body that no more duty should be performed until there were some satisfactory adjustment of the question. The conse quence was that on Wednesday last not a single member of the Board was present, and the clerk, the governor of the union -house, and the relieving officers were the only per sons in possession of the Boardroom. The clerk stated that it would be his duty to notify to the Poor-law Board how matters stood, and he advised the relieving officers also to write to that board for instructicns with regard to the out door relief. Fortunately, the out-door relief on this day was unusually light ; but no cheques were signed, and on Thurs day the relieving officers were unable to administer any pecuniary relief to the poor, who clamoured at their doors. Several of the Guardians were visited with a like result, and as the Guardians began to see the consequences of their act, several met during the morning at the offices of the clerk, and signed cheques for the dispension of outdoor relief. The fact of the revolt was communicated to the Poor•-law Board on Wednesday night, and a letter has since been re ceived from that body, in which they point out to the Guardians that they have no power to resign, and remind or rather inform them of the severe penalty to which they will render themselves liable if their conduct involves serious consequences to any of the recipients of poor-law relief. Thursday was the day appointed for the acceptance of what are called " the long contracts," for the supply of provisions to the union workhouse for the ensuing quarter, and of clothing for the half-year. But the Guardians again absented themselves and no contracts were taken. To morrow the old contracts will be at an end, and unless the Guardians change their determination, or the Governor accept the contracts on his own responsibility, the latter will be in the awkward position of having about 1,500 persons to feed and clothe, without having either food or raiment at his disposal.—Manchester Guardian. SPIRIT OP THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. --.- TIMES.—When the people of the Northern States elected Mr. Lincoln for the second time they were moved by a happy impulse to choose as the second magistrate of the country Andrew Johnson, of Tennessee. The office of Vice-President is in itself of little importance, and though on two former occasions a Vice-President has succeeded to the government of the Republic through the death of his superior, we may presume that the expectation of Mr. Johnson's accession to the higher office was hardly present to the mind of any one of those two millions of electors. Those who chose him wished to pay a compliment to the most energetic and zealous among the few Southern men who had re mained faithful to the Federal cause, and it may have seemed to them that by electing a Tennesseean they declared emphatically the non-severance of a seceded State from the Union. But the great crime of April last has given supreme power to the poli tician who otherwise would have filled for the next four years the dignified but powerless office of President of the Senate. All parties were startled at this sudden change of men, and there were pro bably few but the most extreme who looked on it without alarm. Mr. Johnson must now receive the credit of having disarmed groundless fears and disappointed extravagant hopes. We cannot tell what thoughts have passed through his shrewd and energetic mind during these five months of unex pected rule, how much he may owe to the sobering responsibilities of his high office, how much to the counsels of two or three able men who have been schooled to government amid the difficulties and calamities of the war, how much to his own Southern extraction, and to the fellow-feeling which he avows for the seceders in everything but their Secession. But, whatever the motives-which influence his policy, the Americans have found in Mr. Johnson an able and successful magistrate. Mr. Lincoln is said to have meditated in the last days of his life a large amnesty and the restoration of the South to its due place in the Union. When he fell it was not unnaturally thought in America that a sterner rule was to be instituted, and the zea lots of the Republican party hastened to accept Mr. Johnson as their leader, with the hope, perhaps, that they might use hi m as th e i r t oo l. These expec tations have, however, vanished. Within a month after the President's accession to office his leaning towards a moderate policy began to appear, and though it was received with marked disappointment by a strong party of his own supporters, the effect of it on the conquered South was so favourable and tranquillising that he has persevered in it, and it may be expected to characterise his whole term of office. There is no one on this side the Atlantic who will fail to rejoice at the prospects which this policy opens to the newly cemented Union. The Ameri cans, with the suppleness of a young people, are adapting themselves to their altered conditions. The Southerner who has fought so fiercely for dis union no sooner finds it impossible than he rises from the ground where the superior might of his enemy has prostrated him, bandages up his wounds, cakes off his tattered uniform, burns his Confede rate colours, and walks to the polling-booth to put in his ballot as he would have done before secession. The only true philosophy is to look upon the past as something with which we have no more to do, and to treat the present moment as the first of a new existence. The Southerners appear to be anxious to draw a pen through the history of the last five years, and to take up the Union where they left it. This is not entirely possible, since during this time a great revolution—the emancipation of the negroes—has broken the framework of society. But this the Southerners accept with a readiness remarkable even in Americans, and ask almost with unanimity that the Union shall be restored on its old footing. They , profess loyalty to it, and declare, doubtless with sin cerity, that they have no treasonable afterthought in demanding a restitution of their civil rights. Whether these rights should be restored; how far the Southern States should be permitted self government; what should be the interference of the Federal Government in the relations between white and black ; whether some organic law on negro suffrage should be passed and enforced over the whole Union •, when the military force which now maintains order should' be withdrawn—are ques tions on which men widely differ at the North, and they will be for some time to come the chief subjects of party strife. But we think Mr. John son, in his liberal treatment of the South in all these matters, shows political wisdom and a true appreciation of the differences which have divided the two sections of the Republic. The principles which he enounced in his speech to the Southern delegation at Washington the other day are con sistent both with his former acts and his present policy. They are simply that the Union must be maintained at all hazards, by any means, and ' against any men or party, but that, the Union once secured, the rights and political independ ence of the States are the best guarantees of na tional prosperity. Slavery is gone, and the re bellion is over. This being the case, the restora tion of all the States to their former relations with each other and with the Federal Government is desirable. " While I dreaded and feared dis integration of the States," says the President, " I am equally opposed to consolidation or con centration of power here, under whatever guise or name they bear ; and if the issue is forced upon us I shall endeavour to pursue the same efforts to dissuade from this doctrine running to extremes, but I say let the same rules be applied. Let the Constitution be our guide. Let the preservation of that and the Union of States be our principal aim." This theory undoubtedly tends to give the South an earlier and larger possesiion of political power than is thought safe even by moderate men of the Republican party. But we think that the confidence of the President, and the bold liberality of his policy, are not likely to be in vain. The secession of the Southern States was the natural termination of a condition of things which had its origin in the foundation of the Re public. The jealousy between North and South, which deepened at last into hatred on the part of the latter, had several causes, the chief being the existence of slavery in one region and the at tacks upon it in another, and, furthermore, the anger with which the Southern States found their proportionate importance yearly diminished by the stream of emigration which continually flowed into the more temperate regions of the North. The first of these causes exists no longer ; and as to the second the South must every year become more powerless to give effect to any chagrin it may cause. The chief grounds of quarrel are removed, and those that remain are henceforth innocuous. The worst evil the Federal Government can fear is that the Southerners, in their political intercourse with the North, may become factious and perverse. This, indeed, is not unlikely; but it is an inconvenience which can well be borne, and which is sure to de crease with time. All the better instincts of the people will.be against carrying on a war of words or of votes when the war of weapons has failed, and they will surely find their interest in submitting cheerfully to the destiny which has linked them for ever to the Northern States. After all, it is no grievous doom to form part of the American Union, even though State patriotism may be vexed by the insignificant part which Virginia and South Caro lina must play in comparison with the time when they were leading republics in the Union. Presi dent Johnson probably sees that both necessity and interest bid the conquered States to be loyal, and for this reason restores to each of them its in stitutions, and to its citizens their liberties and property. HERALD.—The Annual Wreck Register is one of the saddest and most suggestive of official docu ments. Many an ower true tale of death and doom, of dreadful danger and fearful fate, is told in the few dry and formal sentences by which the com pilers of the Register record the loss of gallant ship and well-built barque in the stormy seas that wash our island home. By increased precautions and vigilant supervision we have been able, in many cases, to reduce the risks of those engaged in dangerous occupations on shore. Our coal and iron miners work amid fewer perils than those which every moment threatened their grandfathers. Labour limitation acts have kept alive myriads of factory workers who, under the system of laissez-faire poli tical economists, would long ago have been in their graves. We have done away with climbing boys, and mitigated the old enormities of bleaching-grounds. But it is not in our power thus to stay the havoc which ocean every year makes of our merchant navy. The waves will pay no more respect to.an Act of Parliament than they did to the command of royal Canute, that they should not wet his feet. Our ships go down in ever increasing numbers and in every conceivable variety of circumstances. They strike on sunken rocks when skies are clear and winds are fair, and they drive helplessly to destruction when the raging tempest makes skill and courage of no avail. They " tail on" to dreaded quicksands, and come to grief on fatal bars which impede access to many of our rivers. They go down unnoticed and unknown," when heaven is all tranquillity," and they fratricidally cut each other to the water's edge, when they meet in sudden and violent collision. The wrecks and other maritime disasters during the past year amounted to 1,741, of which 351 were oc casioned by collisions, while in 467 cases the casualty was followed by a total loss, and in the others by differing degrees of damage. To this mor tality ships of every class•furnish their contingent. The proportion of English to foreign ships on the Wreck Register is 1,434 to 246, so that, in memory of the latest shipping returns; our seas are propor tionately far more fatal to home than to foreign built vessels. Among foreign going ships, however, , the disproportion, though still considerable, is not so great, seeing that 454 British ships were injured as against 179 foreigners. But our own coasters are the ocean's peculiar prey. Upon them does Neptune levy his heaviest and most distressing tribute. Run ning at all time s o f th e year, manne by a race pe culiarly stout and hardy, to whom every mile of their voyage is familiar, they yet furnish the wreck re corders with something over five-eighths of their occupation. It is only putting the same thing some what differently to say that nearly half the accidents of the year occur to ships of the collier class, and that the immense majority o f th e i n j ure d vessel; were of less than 300 tons burden. Eight hundred and forty-four colliers came to grief within the twelve months, their unseaworthy and ill-found condition being too often the procuring causes of their danger. And, asshowing that the increased willingness of our coasting sailors to put to sea in small craft is not without its drawbacks, we read that 323 of the 1741 injured vessels were under 50 tons burden ; 432 more were under 100 tons ; while 658 range from 100 to 300 tons ; so that, in 1413 out of 1741 in stances of damage, the vessel sustaining it was not above 300 tons burden. Judging from the statistics one would imagine that with ships, as with men, there were peculiar dangers incidental to youth. With good luck and good management a well-built ship will last a hundred years or more. But more than half the casualties reported in the last six years have happened to vessels under 14 years old. Within that time, out of 8,220 disasters at sea, 757 have occurred to vessels that have only been built three years, 2,252 more to vessels whose ages varied from 3 to 14 years. In the range between 14 and 50 years was iticluded a fleet of 3,894 injured ships of all classes. Thenceforward they go on in a rapidly dwindling ratio, till those between 90 and 100 years may be counted on the fingers of one hand, and only three centenarians remain to bring up the rear. A perusal of the report in question suggests some very obvious, but very painful, queries. Much of our loss of shipping can in no sense be represented as an unforeseen calamity. Every one knows before hand that we shall lose a large number of our coast ing fleet, and that the major portion of our loss will occur upon our eastern coast. And, making every allowance for defective seamanship and for that carelessness which is part of a sailor's nature, there remains an immense residuum of cases in which the calamities chronicled in the Wreck Register and laid down on the Wreck Chart are not preventible by individual effort. Our readers will remember periods (at which our columns have for days and days been occupied with condensed notices of moving incidents, which might easily have been ex panded into many volumes. After all the labours of our meteorologists the occurrence of stormy weather remains involved in great uncertainty, the effect of which is but too plainly shown in sundry pages of every year's Board of Trade report. At regular intervals we have a succession of'gales, which alarm ingly swell the number of shipping casualities. In 1861, from this cause alone, 460 were reported ; in 1862 the number rose to 540 ; in 1863 it rose again to 930 ; and though the devastation was happily much less in 1864 the compilers of the Re gister attribute no fewer than 400 casualties to the gales of January, February, March, October, and November. In the face of these figures we feel constrained to ask whether all this enormous waste can be called inevitable. Have we done all that was to be expected of us as a maritime nation, with an exposed and dangerous coast, to preserve those who thus venture their life and property? We are afraid we must answer in the negative. A perusal of the Register, a glance at the Chart, shows how many a good ship might have been saved, how many a valuable life might have been preserved, had there been some place of refuge between the Tyne and the Humber to which a vessel in distress might run for safety. But though the subject has been fre quently pressed upon the attention of Government nothing has yet been done. At Bridlington, Whitby, and Filey, but especially at the last named place, nature has done much towards forming . ananch in age in which any number of ships might ride n eed only safety during the roughest weather. We e size and to construct a breakwater of adequate strength at the mouth of the bay, and we should have done a work which would last for all time. In many places such a work would be desirable, but is a positive at some spot on the east coas t t o i go on from year to neces sity. Yet we are content is at least as ob v i ous year neglecting a duty which as the erection of lighthouses or the maintenance of a fleet of lifeboats. The representations of t h ose who tell that harbours of refuge would be certainly , costly, and probably useless,. are best answered by a reference to another portion of the report which now lies before us. While the number of maritime casualties shows a steady increase the deaths result ing from them show a most rema r k a bl e diminution. From 4,000 to 5,000 lives aro annuallyplaced in peril by shipwreck upon or near our coasts, and of these till recently from 800 to 1,000, or about one-fifth, were actually lost. But coincident with the esta.blishment of lifeboat and signal stations has been a decline of the loss of life to 516, or about one-eighth ; so that nearly five hundred lives are annually saved by means which some people would tell us only serve to make our sailors rely rather upon the help of others than of themselves. When we read narra tive after narrative of gallant deeds performed by those who struggle " life' and that alone, to save,' we may well join with Miss Nightingale in believing that the age of heroes has not passed away. But remembering how often these efforts, with all their daring, prove unsuccessful—and remembering, also, that even the saved ones often lose all they possess in the calamity which spares their life, we feel the action of the Government upon this matter has been too long delayed. We have little hope that the present Ministry will voluntarily change its policy in this particular, but we hope that, early next ses sion, some representative of the shipping interest will bring the subject under the notice of the house and of the country. THE POLICE AND THE REGISTRATION COURTS. In the report of the first day's revision in the Uxbridge district, the new act, directing that a police-constable should be present and ready, if necessary, to keep order in and expel or take into custody any person disturbing the revising bar rister's court, was adverted to ; and at the Edgware court yesterday the auxiliary power of an officer of " the force," was very nearly being called into ac tion. The revising barrister, in the exercise of the discretionary power vested in him to award or re fuse costs, exercised or withheld that power as the aspect of the case appeared to him, and the " free and independent electors," as his Honour's decision pleased or displeased them, signified the same by a loud " Oh !" or a not less clamorous exclamation of '• That's right !" " Good again !" &c., thus disturb ing the gravity of the decision and the dignity of the Court. The Revising Barrister, reproving the irregularity, and reverting to the power of the new act, said,—l wish it to be understood that if I hear any further expression of that kind I will have the court cleared. The police were on this occasion present in court, as at Enfield, and ready to act if necessary. At Edgware the caution had the desired effect. Peace and order were the consequences, and marked the remainder of the business of the court. COSTS ON NEW CLAIMS. Samuel Ingoll was a new claimant, and was ob jected to on both sides. He proved his qualifica tion, and claimed costs, and the revising barrister awarded him ss. from each agent. Mr. James stated that his objection had been withdrawn, and the revising barrister then ordered Mr. Smith only to pay ss. Claimant stated that would not compensate him for his loss of time. The Revising Barrister said he could not in the case of new claims allow anything for time, but simply the expenses. He took this opportunity of stating that if persons objected to write to the ob jector and give him satisfactory evidence of their qualifications, and the objector then persisted in the objection, he would give full costs. He should give the minimum of costs in the cases of new claims, but if the objections were to names on the register he should probably adopt a different course. A GOOD INVESTMENT. Wm. Charles Baker claimed for a freehold plot of land at Harrow. It appeared that claimant bought the plot of a land society for £24, and he stated, although he had never let it or done any thing with it, that he believed it was worth more than 40s. a year. The Revising Barrister thought he could not take it that land costing only from £2O to £25 was of a yearly value of 40s. The overseer said that land in Harrow had be come very valuable lately. There was no building land in Harrow worth less than one shilling a foot frontage, and this plot was 45. Mr. Smith contended that £5O had been laid down formerly as the sum of purchase-money, the payment of which should be regarded as evidence of the land being worth 40s. a year. Mr. James said that view had been taken by the Court of Common Pleas, though it was not laid down there as a fixed rule. Claim allowed. THE QUESTION OF COSTS AGAIN. Francis Morris, on the list for Harrow, claiming for a share in freehold villas, said he was a new claimant, and had, to his surprise, been objected to by both parties. He furnished the Conservative agent with proof of qualification, and that objection was withdrawn. He not having communicated with Mr. James, the Liberal objection was pressed. Mr. Morris proved his claim, and asked for costs. The Barrister gave ss. _ _ Mr. James said this was the first time he had been called upon to pay costs on the new practice, that of giving costs to new claimants, and he therefore wished to call attention to the act. Mr. James at some length analysed the act of Parliament, com'- paring its clauses, and argued thatthere was nothing in the act which should interfere with the practice heretofore pursued in thi s court of not giving costs to new claimants, the on l y extension of power being that of increasing the amount of costs the revising barrister was might give fro m £ 1 to £5. A clear dis tinction drawn new between the obj ec ti ons to the register and the claim ; the old practice as to the form of objection to new claims was retained. The question was, was there anything i n thi s act the qualificati on of a that facilitated the proof of BOROUGH OF LAMBETH. Yesterday Mr. P. H. Le Breton, the barrister appointed to revise the lists of voters for the borough of Lambeth, held a court for that purpose at the Sessions House, Newington. The revision this year, like that of previous years, was, in a great measure, of a formal character, no agents being engaged on either side ; so that the matter was left entirely in the hands of the officials of the different parishes comprising the borough. There were several new claimants in each of the parishes, but these were chiefly caused by omissions on the part of the parish officers. In the parish of Camberwell there were some 30 new claimants, and 7 objections taken to persons already on the register. The claims were all sustained, and the persons claiming placed on the register, while the names of the persons objected to were struck off. In the parish of St. Mary, Newington, there were 4 new claimants, all of whose claims were sustained, the names having been inadvertently omitted in making out the list, the overseers at once admitting the genuineness of them. In the parish of St. Mary, Lambeth, there were 23 new claimants, and no objections having been lodged to either of them, they were all placed on the register. There were no objections lodged to parties on the register in either of the two last-named parishes. The lists of each of the parishes for the present year show a large increase in the number of voters over the number in the lists of last year. In the parish of Camber well there is an increase of 300 to 400 over the previous year ; while there are this year on the lists of the parish of St. Mary, Newing ton, 9,765 voters, being an increase of 400 over the number on the list of last year. In the parish of St. Mary, Lambeth, there is also a very large in crease in the number. Middlesex Sessions—Sept. 26. - - (Before Mr. Sergeant Dowling, Deputy Assistant Judge.) EMBEZZLEMENT. James Fisher Hill, 30, clerk, was indicted for embezzling the several sums of £l4 2s. 5d., £lO, and £3 lls. Bd., re ceived by him for and. on account of Francis Mordan and another, his masters. Mr. Besley prosecuted ; Mr. Sleigh defended the priso ner. The case occupied several hours, but the main facts, as detailed by the prosecutor, were as follows : the prosecutor carries on busineis with Join J. Crosslie, under the style of F. Mordan, at 386, City-road, as gold pon manufacturers, and also as sealing-wax manufacturers in Watling-street, City, under the title of Boatright, Brown, and Co. The prisoner had been in the service of the firm for 10 years at a salary of £2OO a year. He was at one time in the prose cutor's service as traveller only, but up to August last he served as traveller and collector. In May last the prosecu tor told him he was to be taken as town traveller, but not to collect money, and that his salary was to be £2OO year, to be paid monthly. At that time the prosecutor was not aware that there was any deficiency in his accounts, as quarterly accounts were sent in to the customers. There was a book produced, which was ono of the prisoner's col lecting books, used by him during the months of April, May, June, and July, and the prisoner's handwriting was found on every page. It was the duty of the prisoner to account for moneys he received on Monday and Thursday, and no entry was found of an account from Biddell on August 30, and he did not accountfor money received from another customer on that day. There were several other omissions of sums of money which had been received from other customers. On August 31 the prosecutor saw the prisoner in a private room, when the prisoner produced a detailed account of sums amounting in the aggregate to £330, and said that he had appropriated the whole of it to his own use. The prosecutor, although somewhat amazed at the announcement, said to him, "Bo candid ; don't trifle with me. Is that an accurate account ?" and lie said it was. He further said that his defalcations at Watling-street could not exceed .£loe ; and having ex pressed his sorrow for what he had done, said that he would sell off his furniture, and hand over the proceeds of it to make good some portion of the amount. On this statement being made, the prosecutor said, "Provided your defalca tions do not exceed £420, I won't prosecute you ; but if they do, I certainly shall." The prisoner then went away, but he came regularly to the office up to the 31st of Aug. On that day the prisoner handed the prosecutor an account for £235 19s. 11d., the amount of defalcations, and he said he did not think it would be so much by £lOO. At this time they were talking of the defalcations on the Watling street account. The total defalcations of the prisoner amounted to upwards of £6OO. Several witnesses were called to make out these facts and there were frequent references to books and vouchers' . Mr. Sleigh cross-examined the prosecutor at considerable length, for the purpose of showing that there was a running account between the prosecutor and the prisoner. Mr. Sleigh then proceeded to address the Court on behalf of the prisoner, and urged that he had made a clear and explicit declaration that ho was indebted to the prosecutor ; that he had sold all his furniture, leaving his wife and family destitute, in his endeavour to meet the demand made upon him ; and would, if time had been allowed, have fully paid the whole sum that was duo to the prose tutor. The jury found the prisoner guilty. The Deputy Assistant-Judge said it was impossible with the evidence before them for the jury to have come to any other verdict than one of guilty, atd although the learned counsel had urged that ho had maintained a good character for ten years, on the other haul it must be stated that there had been great forbearance on the part of the prosecutor, and the very length of his servitude had induced the prosecutor to place confidence in him. In his case there was no excuse whatever, as he was not a man driven by want to become dishonest for the purpose of rescuing a wife and children from starvation ; but, on the contrary, he had a good situation, with a salary Of £2OO a year, and therefore there was no temptation to him to deal with the property of other persons. As ho had for ten years had a good character, and in consequence greater confidence was placed in him, he must receive a greater amount of punishment. The Court would not go to the extent of passing a sentence of penal servitude, but he must have a severe sentence. The offence of embezzle ment was increasing to a fearful extent, and the public must be protected. The sentence of the Court upon him was that he be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for eighteen calendar months. (Before Mr. Payne.) POCKETPICKING ON A STEAMBOAT. Mary Brown, 32, was indicted for stealing a purse and the sum of 17s. 6d., the property and moneys of Myrtille Bowring, from her person. Mr. Warner Sleigh prosecuted ; Mr. Pater defended the prisoner. The prosecutrix, a single lady, residing at 3, Grange court, Carey-street, said, on the 13th of September she was on board the steamboat Waverley, between the City and Temple-bar Pier. The prisoner came on board and sat down close to her on the right-hand side. The prisoner pressed so close to her that she two or three times pulled up her dress from her, and when she rose up for the pur pose of leaving the boat a boy belonging to the boat spoke to her. Upon this she put her hand into her pocket and found that her purse was gone. The purse contained 10s. in gold and 17s. 6d. in silver, and it was safe in her pocket when she went on board the boat. When she missed her purse she believed her dress was in the same state as when she went on to the boat, but when she got home she found that a hole had been cut in the bottom of her pocket, and through which she had no doubt hor purse had been taken. (The pocket was produced.) James Iloyard, mate of the steamboat Waverley, proved seeing the purse fall from under the prisoner's shawl. Sergeant Spittle, detective officer of the City Police, proved having arrested the prisoner on board, when she dropped the purse. The jury immediately fount the prisoner guilty. In answer to Mr. Payne, Sergeant Spittle said he watched the prisoner because he had seen her charged at the Man sion-house before. Samuel Jeffreys, principal warder at Birmingham Borough Gaol, said ho knew ;he prisoner, and 15 months ago she was convicted by the stipendiary magistrates at Birmingham for picking pockets in an omnibus, and sen tenced to six months' imprisonment. Jeffreys said ho received the prisoner into custody on her commitment, and during the six months he might have seen her two or three times a week. Sergeant Chas.• Cole, 23 C, said he knew the prisoner at the bar, and he saw her in custody at the Lambeth Police court with another woman in 1862 for picking pockets ; he thought it was in an omnibus, She was sentenced to three months' imprisonment, but she appealed against it, and the conviction was quashed. John Shore, detective-sergeaut of Scotland-yard, said he HEALTH OF LONDON. (From the the Registrar-General's Weekly Report.) In the week that ended on Saturday, Sept. 23, the births registered in London and ten other large towns of the United Kingdom were 3,996 ; the deaths registered 2,528. The annual rate of mortality was 23 per 1,000 per sons living. In London the births of 992 boys and 970 girls, in all 1,962 children, were registered in the week. In the cor responding weeks of ten years, 1855-64, the average num ber, corrected for increase of population, was 1,917. The deaths registered in London during the week were 1,143. it was the 38th week of the year, and the average number for that week was, with a correction for increase of population, 1,183. The actual return is less than the estimated amount by 40 deaths. The deaths from diarrhoea were 83. It can hardly be said that the number shows the slightest variation on any of the three preceding weekly returns. it also corresponds with the corrected average for the 38th week in 10 previ ous years. Three deaths were referred to cholera. They occurred to two young children, and a boy aged 15 years. Five cases of murder or manslaughter were returned in the week. On the 13th instant a woman, aged 60, died in the work house, Bethnal-green, of disease of the lungs, accelerated by want and privation. A girl nearly four years old died, it is said, from being frightened at church by the sight of the minister in his surplice. The following six cases are recorded in which accidents on the streets by horses and conveyances were attended by fatal consequences :—ln Old-street-road, on Sept. 20, a fish-dealer, aged 60 years, by the wheel of a van ; died in Guy's Hospital. At North-end, Fulham, on Aug. 27, the daughter of a tailor, aged 5 years, run over. On Sept. 14, a carman, aged 47 years, run over; died in the German Hospital. In Newport-street, on Aug. 30, a girl, aged 4 years, run over by a cab; died in Charing-cross Hospital. On Sept. 15, a traveller, aged 43 years, run over; died at Hackney-wick. In Long-acre, on Sept. 3, the son of a porter, aged 4 years, run over by a cab. The annual rate of mortality last week was 20 per 1,000 in Lyndon, 25 in Edinburgh, and 20 in Dublin ; 84 in Liver pool, 34 in Manchester, 22 in Salford, 23 in Birmingham, 33 in Leeds, 20 in Bristol, 24 in Hull, and 25 in Glasgow. The rate in Vienna was 25 per 1,000 during the week end ing the 2d inst., when the temperature was 3.5 deg. Fahren heit higher than in the same week in London, where the rate was 20 per 1,000. In Liverpool the births in the week were 376, the deaths 306; in Manchester the births 281, the deaths 231; in Sal ford the births 76; the deaths 47; in Birmingham the births 282, the deaths 143 ; in Leeds the births 234, the deaths 142 ;in Bristol the births 98, the deaths 62 ; in Hull the births 82, the deaths 48; in Edinburgh the births 108, the deaths 83; in Glasgow the births 333, the deaths 202; and in Dublin the births 164, the deaths 122. There were 272 deaths in Vienna during the week ending the 2d inst. At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height of the barometer in the week was 30.167 in. The mean read ing was above 30 in. on every day except Wednesday. The reading fell to 29.88 in. on Wednesday, and rose to 30.32 in. Saturday. The mean temperature of the air in the week was 60.9 deg., which is 4.9. deg. above the average of the same week in 50 years (as determined by Mr. Glaisher). The mean daily temperature was above the average on every day except Saturday, the excess having been consi derable till Thursday. The highest day temperature was 81.2 deg., and occurred on Wednesday ; the lowest night temperature was 40.2 deg., and occurred on Saturday. The range of the thermometer in the week was 41 deg. The mean daily range was 21.8 deg. The range on Thursday was only 9.7 deg. The difference between the mean dew point temperature and air temperature was 7.7 deg. The mean degree of humidity of the air was 76, complete satu ration being represented by 100. The general direction of the wind was north-east. The rain was 0.16 in., which fell on Thursday. COUNTRY MARKETS. LIVERPOOL-T UESDAY. At our market to-day there was a larger attendance than we have had for some time past. An extensive business was effected in wheat, at an advance of fully 3d per cental. There was a very active business in French flour at is to is 6d per sack more money. Indian corn more saleable at last week's quotations. LEEDS-TUESDAY. Not much old wheat offering, and dry new not plentiful. Fully Friday's rates made for both descriptions ; but in ferior samples of new little noticed. Fine dry qualities of barley realised late rates. Oats, beans, and other articles unaltered. The average prices for the week ending Sept. 25 were :-- Wheat, 448 51 , 1 per qr. ; barley, 33s 31d ; and oats, 26s 6d. MARKET HARBOROITGH.-TUESDAY. A moderate show of wheat, which met with a better in quiry at rather more money for best sorts. Barley sold at former quotations. Oats at former prices. Beans m ade full prices. Old white wheat, 46s to 52s ; new red. 43s to 49s per 30 stone. Barley, fine, 36s ; other kinds, 27s to 29s per qr. Oats, new, 23s to 25s ; old, 27s to 31s per qr. Deans, old, 40s to 425; new, 34s to 36s per qr. SHEFFIELD-TUESDAY. We had a tolerable supply of wheat on offer to-day there was a better inquiry for the finest samples, and an advance of is per qr. was realised. The d eman d for bar ley ruled firm at previous prices. The supply of oats mo derate, and prices about the same. Beans unaltered. Red wheat, per load of 3 imp. busheis....l6s 6d to / 78 6 1 White do do ....18s 6d 20s od New red do do ....15s d 163 td New white do do ....17s Od 19s Od Beans do do ....17s Od 198 Od Peas, per qr Grinding ha , ley, per qr _ 30s Od 32s Od Maltinebarley, v o 328 Od 3ss Od ' Oats, do 24s Od 28s Od F10ur....1s 6d to 2i Od per 141 b. Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton Oct. 19. Ditto, via Marseilles Oct. 13. Brazil and Cape Verde, by British packet Oct. 4 . Ditto, by French packet Sept. 22 • Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena Sept. 2 2 • China. Penang. and Singapore, via Southampton—Oct 2 Ditto, via Marseilles Sept. 26 Faikland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton Sept. • 25 India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Oct. 2. Ditto, via Marseilles India (Bombay), via Southampton. Sept. 2 5 . . Ditto, via Marseilles Sept. Mauritius, via Southampton Oct. 10. Ditto, via Marseil'e;,.. Oct. 4. _ Newfoundland ...Oa. 4. Portugal Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon United btates and British North America, by Bri tish packet Ditto, by United States packet, via Southamp ton Ditto, via Cork Ditto, by Canadian packet, via Londonderry. Sept. 29. West Coast of Africa. Madeira, and Teneriffe. ..... Oct. 11. West Indies and Pacifio (except Bahamas, Cubs, and Mexico ............. Sept. 28. Bahamas, via New 'York ........................... Oct, 11. Bermuda, ditto ..................... . .............. Sept. 27. Cuba and Mexico .................................. Sept. 28. Births. ATWOOD. On 1110 25th inst., at Gloucester, the wife of the Rev. F. J. Atwood, 8.A., of a daughter. BOUTCHER.--OU the 26th inst., at 12, Oxford-square, Hyde" park, N i rs• E. Boutcher , of a son. CoLns.-0n the 26th inst., at Stre atham-common, the wif e of T. Horsman Cole; Esq., of twin sons. LEVESON-GOWER.—On the 25th inst., at Titsey-park, Set rey, the Hon. Mrs. Leveson-Gower, of a son. Marriages DENSHAM—DOUDNEY.-0 11 the 23d inst., at St. James' s Clapham, Edward, e ld est son of J. B. Densham, Esq. , ;$ Forest-hill, to Eli za Weeks, eldest daughter of J 3lll- Doudney, Es q ., o f C lapham. ' GARLAND—VEZEY.—On the 26th inst., at St. Jan' el Church, Bath, Th omas, only son of Th o mas Garlan d, Esq., of Richmond House, Hackney, to Elizabeth, only daughter of the late Joseph Vezey, Esq., of Bath. Deaths. BARTHOLOMEW.—On the 24th inst., suddenly, at his rect er ii Morchard Bishop, J o hn Bartholomew, A rc hdeacon ° Barnstaple. CALLANDER.—On the 24th inst., at Folkestone, John 21 .-. 1 4: ander Burn Callander, of Westerton and Freston aged 26. GUINNESS.—On the 22d inst., at St. Ann's, county Dl i . 131 Elizabeth, wife of Benjamin Lee Guinness, Esq., 31 , A0 . e , HERRING.—On the 23d inst., at Meopham-park, Tunbrl" Kent, John Frederick Herring, aged 71. ',ondon : Printed and Published by W 8. 1L LIAM ANIA B ts. of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Trrz SUN Office, NO. o - Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy. in the COO" Middlesex.—Wednesday, September 27, 1865. Ir j () FRRIS It ii Bold the Az Obs( "Sins IVI LEN of £2O one; tv tlon eu No inq Digeou directe Ti Of thi: dors men Sir Sil Ban. Samue Rail J. B. ) ance Georg ahti U. A. vine Georg Colons Harve Josepl J. H. 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