The Sun. — London, England, 1866-02-01 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. METROPOLITAN. The directors of this company have resolved to recommend to the proprietors a dividend for the past half-year at the rate of 7 per cent. per annum on the ordinary stock and new ordinary shares of the company respectively. NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE. The directors of this company, at a Board meet ing held yesterday, determined on recommending that a dividend at the rate of 41 per cent. per annum be declared for the half-year ending the 31st of December. LLANELLY. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held yesterday at Radley's Hotel, Bridge-street, Black friars ; Mr. J. Biddulph in the chair. The report stated that the earnings of the under taking during the half-year ending the 31st of Dec. were £19,622, the working expenses, inclusive of hire and purchase of waggons, were £10,157. The receipts showed an advance of £1,456 over those of the same half of 1864, and the expenses an increase of £1,429. The receipts for the half-year showed a profit on the working of £9,465, to which was added a balance of £192 from the preceding account, making £9,657. After payment of interest on de bentures and rent of Vale of Towy Railway, together £3,427, there remained a surplus for divi dend of £6,230, out of which £1,943 was deducted for interest at 5 per cent. per annum on the A "pre ference stock andß preference shares, leaving /4,287, out of which the directors recommended a dividend for the half-year on the ordinarystock at the rate of 4 per cent. per annum, leaving a balance of £346 to be carried forward. The income of the under taking for the year was £37,787, being an in crease of 12,656 over that of 1864. The steady advance in the goods traffic was very satisfac tory, but had been attended with increased ex pense, owing in a great degree to the new arrange ments for the establishment of i through traffic with other companies. The cost of maintaining the permanent way and works had been enhanced. During the storm in Norember a portion of the line was carried away by an irruption of the sea. The Yale of Towy Company were seeking Parliamentary sanction for a lease of the line to the Central Wales Railway Company, with respect to which due efforts would be made by the directors for the protection of the interests of the Lla.nelly Company. The ex tension of the narrow gauge line:of the Carmarthen undertaking to the Great Western Railway near Carmarthen had not been proceeded with during the half-year, and remain still incomplete. The earnings of this undertaking from the opening of the line from Llandilo to Carmarthen on the Ist of June last to the 31st of December were £2,469, and the expenses, inclusive of tolls payable to the Car marthen and Cardigan Railway Company, were during the same time £1,409, leaving a balance of £1,060 applicable to payment of interest on deben tures. The opening of the Swansea lines under taking was seriously delayed by the non-completion of the works and the want of the requisite rolling stock. Goods trains had been running on it for some weeks on the contractor's account, but, owing to the incompleteness of the terminal works at Swan sea, it could not be opened for traffic. The capital account showed that £368,803 had been expended on the original undertaking. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of .the report, said he thought the proposed dividend, at the rate of 4 per cent. per annum was satisfactory. The expenses had been increased during the past half year owing to arrangements for through traffic with other companies, which forced them to keep up a larger staff than would have been necessary for the itsual traffic. The rates and taxes had been higher, and wages had increased. Re thought on the whole they had reason to be satisfied, and he trusted that on the completion of the new lines a large traffic would be developed. Mr. FOWLER, a director, seconded the motion. In reply to questions by Mr. Walker, it was stated that they could not tell when the Central Wales line would be opened for traffic. The works were progressing, but had been found more difficult than was anticipated. The company had offered the Vale of Towy Company 4 per cent., but the Cen tral Wales Company had offered them 5 per cent. after April, 1868. The report was then unanimously adopted, and a dividend at the rate of 4 per cent. per annum on the original stock, for the past half year, was declared payable on Ist March. Messrs. Blount, Kirkwood, and Barbury, the re tiring directors, were re-elected, and in the room of Mr. Jones and Col. Miller, who retired, Mr. Mur dock and Major Watkins were elected directors. The meeting was then made special, and the di rectors were authorised to raise, for the Swansea lines, £120,000 by the issue of 5 per cent. prefer ence shares of £lO each to that amount ; and the proceedings then terminated. COLCHESTER AND STOITR VALLEY. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held on Tuesday at Colchester, Mr. Ewen in the chair. An abstract of the report has appeared in The Sun. On the mction of the Chairman, the report and accounts were adopted, and a dividend at the rate £3 Bs. per cent. per annum was declared for the past six months. Mr. Dalton and Mr. Garrad were re-elected directors, and Mr. Fentonwas reappointed an auditor. The proceedings closed with a vote of thanks to the chairman and directors. TURIN AND SAVONA. The adjourned special meeting of this company was held yesterday at the London Tavern, Lieut.- General Tremenhere in the chair. The report of the London Committee stated that the agreements for the purchase of land for the whole length of the railway had been concluded, and that the land requiredfor the main line and stations from Savona to Carmagnola had been actually purchased. On the first section, from Savona to the Sella tun nel, 94- miles in length, nearly all the works of art had been executed. The Sella tunnel, upwards of 14 mile in length, was a difficult work, but now might be considered as completed. The third sec tion, 114 miles, from the Sella tunnel to the Belbo tunnel, was nearly half completed. The Belbo tun nel, 2i miles in length, was expected to be com pleted next summer. The fifth section, from the Belbo tunnel to Carmagnola, 48,1 miles, would be completed at the same time as the rest of the rail way. The works on the Cairo and Acqui branch had not been commenced. Mr. Abernethy, the chief engineer, reported generally that the works on the line had been well executed throughout its whole length. The CuArnm Ali 'd the English directors were I often obliged + .0 cro sal t which oTurin to consult with their I colleagues there, There had always was a very unpleasant task. been one feature in the company, and that was that the works had proceeded in a most satisfactory manner. The engineer had directed his s ole efforts to the constructionof the tunnels. There were about six miles of tunnels o between Turin and portions Savona, and all the other onsof the railway Engli s h had been examined by the directors and found to have been executed in a workmanlike man ner. The great thing needful was plenty of fu n d s The Italian Government had done everythi ng ' in their power to help the company. In March the capital was divided into a n umber of obligations and shares, and on the whole of that capital the Italian Government had guaranteed 6 per cent., which guarantee had not been enough to put them in pos session of sufficient funds. If they could only raise money sufficient to complete the main line they would afterwards be able to complete the branch. In a few years time there would be communication from France to Savona, and no doubt as there was an excellent watering place at Savona, French people would go there, which would bring a consi derable traffic on their line. Mr. KE3IBER said it had been agreed that half yearly meetings should be held in London. He was glad to say he could corroborate everything con tamed in Mr Abernethy's report respecting the works. Mr. HA RTRIDGE - Said the statement of the chair man and Mr. Kerner left some doubts in his mind. It was necessary that every inforn*tion should be given to the shareholders so that they might be able to understand the position of their affairs. Mr. KEMBER said they had spent more than £500,000, and they would be able to make the line for less than they expected. On the whole, they would require to raise £1,000,000, more to complete the line. Mr. FIELD said he thought they would find it almost impossible to raise the money they required on the guarantee. (Hear, hear.) Mr. HARTEIDGE hoped they would be able to work together with harmony. He had no doubt that the directors had done everything they could to promote the interests of the company. He moved that the thanks of the meeting be given to the di rectors, which was carried, and the proceedings ter minated. LYNN AND SUTTON. 'This line is expected to be opened in about a fort night, on the completion of certain alterations or dered by Capt. Tyler on the part of the Board of Trade. It appears that the company will have to work the line, as negotiations with the Midland for working it have not proved successful. GRAND TRUNK OF CANADA. The traffic receipts on this company's lines amounted for the week ending the 13th Jan., for local passengers, to £4,894: for foreign passengers, to £1,570 ; for mails, &c., to £976 ; for local freight and live stock, to £12,896 ; for foreign freight and live stock, to £2,951; total, £23,287, against £20,129 for the corresponding week of last year, showing an increase of £3,158. The total traffic re. ceipts from the Ist Jan. to the above date amounted to £43,853, and for the same period of 1865 to £42,556, showing an increase of £1,297. RAILWAY BILLS. Yesterday the Examiners resumed their sittings, and declared that the Standing Orders had been complied with in the following cases :—Exe Valley, Severn Junction, Cannock Chase Extension, Caledonian and Scottish North-Eastern (amalga mation), Bridgwater, Vale of Crickhowell, Brecon and Merthyr-Tydfil Junction (Northern lines) ; London, Brighton, and South Coast (St. Leonard's and Hastings lines) ; Caledonian (Greenock and Gourock extensions) ; Knighton, Vale of Llangollen, Llangollen and Corwen, and Corwen and Bala (amalgamation) ; Kidwelly and Burry Port, and Burry Port Amalgamation ; Dub lin and Kingstown (Lease). In the undermen tioned cases the Standing Orders were not com plied with :—South Eastern, Skipton, and Wharf dale. The adjourned cases were the Salisbury and Dorset Junction, the Caledonian (Kilsyth branches), the Central Ireland, Solway Junction (branches), Great Western (farther powers), and the Devon and Cornwall. A notice was issued to the effect that the cases appointed for hearing (February 1) will on that day be postponed till Wednesday, the 7th of February, and the cases standing for Friday, the 2d of February, will be postponed till Thursday, the Bth of February. Naval and Military Intelligence. Lord Clarence E. Paget, C. 8., accompanied by Major Andrew Clarke, Royal Engineers, director of Admiralty Engineering Works, and other officials, was engaged until late on Tuesday afternoon in the inspection of the extensive works now in progress at Chatham for the enlargement of Chatham dockyard, by the construction of the proposed new basins, docks, factories, and building slips, preparatory to the annual statement in Parliament on the intro duction of the Navy Estimates. In the early por tion of the day Lord Clarence Paget, accompanied by the principal officials connected with the master shipwright's department, and other officers, made a lengthened inspection of the ironclad frigate Bel lerophon, on which a large number of hands are now employed. The ironclad frigate Lord Warden, in the adjoining dry dock, also attracted attention, but the chief interest was centred in the Bellerophon. After luncheon at the official residence of Capt. W. H. Stewart, C. 8., in the dockyard, Lord C. Paget and the other officials proceeded to the eastern ex- tremi ty of the dockyard, at the point where the exten sion works commence, over which they were conducted by Major Pasley, Royal Engineers, and Mr. Ber nays, the superintendent and assistant-superinten dent of the undertaking. After making a tour of the site of the new basins and docks, and ascertain ing the leading features and details of the works, Lord Clarence returned to the dockyard, where he spent a brief interval in the transaction of some official business. He left the establishment late in the afternoon for the Admiralty. In the prepara tion of the Navy Estimates for the approaching year, which, with the exception of a few minor de tails, are completed so far as the Chatham establish ments are concerned, a considerable sum will be taken for carrying on the dockyard enlargement works by means of contracts with large firms, in accordance with the decision of the Admiralty, and subsequently approved by the House of Commons. Under this arrangement a sum of £150,000 will be required for the year 1866-67 for the contracts pro posed to be made during the present year, in addi tion to a sum of £40,000 for convict labour, which, as will be seen, forms but a small proportion of £1,250,090, the estimated expense of carrying out the extension scheme in its integrity, this being an increase of £306,100 on the original estimate, the increase arising from the determination of the Go vernment to employ civil labour to a greater extent than has hitherto been found practicable. Her Majesty's screw iron-built troopship Simoom, 1,980 tons, 400-horse power, Capt. T. B. Leth bridge, made her official trial of speed, at light draught of water, over the measured mile in Stokes Bay, near Portsmouth, yesterday, under the super vision of the officials of the Steam Factory and Reserve Departments of the dockyard. The ship drew 17ft. forward and 18ft. 10in. aft. She was complete in rigging aloft, but required her stores and provisions, coals, officers, and crew, as also troops to be on board to bring her down to her deep load-line or sea-going draught of water. The wind was from S.S.W., on the ship's port quarter, in running over the course to the west ward, and on her starboard bow in running back to the eastward. The force of the wind was from 3 to 4, and the water, comparatively speaking, smooth. Six runs were first made with hill-boiler power, alternately with and against the tide, which gave the ship's speed in each run as 11.803, 11.215, 12.203, 10.846, 12.456, 10.434 knots, the mean speed of the ship as worked out from the six runs being 11.588 knots. The pres sure of steam was 201 b., the vacuum 25 inches, the revolutions of the engines, maximum, 62.5 ; mini mum, 51-5. Four runs with half-boiler power gave 11.841, 7.985, 12.080, and 7.860 knots, the ship's mean speed being 9.986 knots. The steam pres sure and vacuum were as in the previous full-power trials, and the revolutions of engines ranged from 55 to 52-5. The steering wheel of the ship and its connecting gear from before the mainmast to the tiller of the rudder aft has been fitted, on the sug gestion of Capt. Lethbridge, after the plan of the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamship Poonah's steaming gear, and has, so far, been found to answer most admirably. Yesterday, with six men at the wheel with full-boiler power, and five men with half-boiler power, circles were made as follows :—At power—Helm got up in 45 sec. to starboard, 52 sec. to port; angle of rudder, 29 deg. to starboard, 27 deg. to port ; turns of wheel, 2.5 to starboard, 2.5 to port; half-circle made in 3 min. 2 sec. to starboard, to port 3 min. 1 Sec- ; full circle madein 5 min. 52 sec. to starboard; to port, 5 min. 56 sec. The revolutions of the en gines before the helm was put up were 62.5 ; after wards, 61. At half-boiler power—Helm got up in 54 sec. to starboard, 32 sec. to port ; angle of rud der, 30 deg. to starboard, 32 deg. to port ; half circle made in 3 min. 32 sec. to starboard, 3 min. 15 sec. to port ; full circle made in 6 min. 59 sec. to starboard, 6 rain. 31 sec. to port. The revolu tions of the engines before the helm was put up were 52 . 5 ; afterwards, 52. The machinery of the Si moom is new, having been constructed for her by the steam factory department of Portsmouth dock yard since the period of her last commission. The engines are of the ordinary two-cylinder pattern,the THE _SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 1, UM cylinders having a diameter of 62k in., and a length of stroke of 3ft. They drive a two-bladed screw fitted with Maudslay's shifting blades, having a range of pitch from 22ft. 6in. to 27ft. 6in. The present pitch is 26ft., the diameter 16ft., and the length 2ft. si-in. The engines worked in the most satisfactory manner throughout the trial, no hot bearings or delay of any kind occurring from the time of starting from alongside the dockyard in the morning to the time of the shipbeing made fast again alongside the dockyard after the trial. If compari son be made between the results obtained yesterday with the Simoom's new engines and what was ob tained with her former set the balance will be found greatly in favour of those employed yesterday. The ship had previously to yesterday made six trials at different dates between 1850 and 1856 over themea sured mile, but four of these were reported at the time as imperfect from stated causes. Selecting, therefore, the two favourably reported trials of the ship, we shall find that on the 25th of February, 1854, the ship was tried at a mean draught of water of 17ft. 63-in., and attained a mean speed of 7.926 knots. On the 25th of November, 1856, she was tried at a mean draught of water of 15ft. Min., and attained a mean speed of 10.861 knots. Yesterday she was tried at a mean draught of water of 17ft. llin., and attained a mean speed of 11.588 knots. The admirable 'internal arrangements of the Simoom have already been fully described in the Naval In telligence of The Sun. In common with all other of her Majesty's troopships, however, the Simoom has no accommodation provided onboard fora chap lain, although she will necessarily at times have a large number of sick military officers and soldiers, with women and children, on board, returning to tng land from foreign service. She willalways have, when freighted with troops, upwards of 1,000 people on board. Wehavealready observed thatit is one of the strange anomalies of our navy that while a 21-gun corvette, with a crew of about 300 men, carries a chaplain, a troop steamer, with upwards of 1,000 people on board, is allowed no chaplain, her captain being supposed to be always ready to administer religious consolation when required by the sick or dying, notwithstanding the many and unceasing duties which must always attend upon the com manding officer of a ship carrying troops. The Conqueror, screw line-of-battle ship, Capt. Luard, sailed from Spithead on Tuesday after sun set for the Nore and Sheerness. The Woolwich portion of the Royal Marine Brigade returned from Japan arrived at headquar ters on Tuesday evening, and were played up from the railway station by the divisional band with the appropriate air " Here we are again." They en tered the parade, where Col. Maxwell and the whole of the officers and men of the division, were in wait ing, when a loud shout of welcome was given, in which they vociferously joined. They were yes terday paraded under shelter in consequence of the rain, and each man desiring it was granted a pass for the night for London. After receiving their pay they will be allowed to go on furlough. Those whose friends or relatives reside in England will obtain six weeks' leave, and natives of Ireland or Scotland eight weeks'. The health of the detach ment appears to be very good. The Chatham contingent of the Royal Marine Light Infantry which formed a portion of the Japan battalion was also inspected at headquarters, Chat ham, at which the officers and men had arrived the previous evening from Portsmouth, after disembark ing from the Conqueror, 78, Capt. W. G. Luard. On marching into the barracks on Tuesday evening their comrades turned out on the parade-ground, and gave them three hearty cheers. The inspection of the officers and men of the detachment was made yesterday by Col. J. 0. Travers, C. 8., the com mandant of the division, who expressed himself well pleased with the appearance of the non-commis sioned officers and men after their lengthened ab sence. At the same time a letter from the Admi ralty was read to the detachment, in which their lordships expressed their sense of the exemplary manner in which the officers and men had carried out the duties in which they had been engaged since their absence from England. The non-commis sioned officers and men will be paid their arrears of pay on the arrival of the lists from the Royal Marine-office, immediately after which they will be granted several weeks' leave of absence for the pur pose of visiting their friends. The following medals and gratuities awarded by the Board of Admiralty to the Woolwich division of Royal Marine Light Infantry for good conduct and long service were yesterday presented by Col. Maxwell, Commandant : Colour-Sergt. Jonah Holder, a medal and £l5 ; and Drummer Charles Hines, a medal and £5. Capt. Allen, Lieut. Rutherford, one sergeant, one corporal, and five privates Royal Marines yesterday left Woolwich by rail to join the Doris at Plymouth for service. The Royal Marine detachment told off for the Island of Ascension yesterday went up to Deptford from Woolwich in the steamtug Monkey, and took up their berths on board the Megmra in readiness for departure, the order for their embarcation at Wool wich having been cancelled. The depot of the 4th Regiment, consisting of two captains, six subalterns, eight sergeants, four drum mers, 242 rank and file, 21 women, and 11 children, is held in immediate readiness to proceed from Col chester to Dover, to await the headquarters of the regiment on its arrival from India. Major Gregory, Lieut. Rennie, Lieut. O'Niell, and Ensigns Foster, Chappell, and Freke will accompany the depot from Colchester; and Lieut.-Col. Robinson, Capt. Hodg son, and Lieuts. Halahan and Bald will join the re giment at Dover on the expiration of their leave of absence. The depot of the 56th Regiment, consist ing of three captains, three subalterns, seven ser geants, four drummers, 178 rank and file, 12 1 women, and 16 children, is held in readiness to pro ceed from Colchester to Portsmouth on or about to day, the headquarters of the regiment being expected to arrive from India early in the ensuing month, and to be stationed at Gosport or Portsmouth. Major Anderson, Capts. Godley and Huskisson, Lieut. Bell, and Ensigns Walmsley and Prickett will proceed from Colchester with their depot ; and Capts. Couran and Bradley, Lieuts. King and Campbell, and Ensign Knox will join headquarters at the expiration of their leave of absence. The troops brought to England in the hired sailing transport Talbot, from Bombay, were disembarked fram that ship at Spithead yesterday morning, by one of the Portsmouth dockyard steam tenders. The detachment of the 72d Regiment (two cora panics) under the command of Provost-Major Hastings, were landed at Gosport and quartered in barracks, there to await the arrival of the head quarters from Bombay, now expected daily at Spit head in another sailing transport. The time-ex pired soldiers were landed at Portsmouth and sent on thence by railway to the depots of their respec tive regiments. The invalided men were forwarded to the Royal Victoria Military Hospital at Netley. The authorities at Deptford dockyard were yes terday engaged, in pursuance of instructions from Somerset-house, in testing the powers of a steam fire-engine ordered by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, for Bermuda, and supplied by Messrs. Shand, Mason, and Co., to supersede the use of fire-engines worked by manual labour. The experiments took place in the presence of Captain Chads, the Captain Superintendent ; Mr. Robert son, R.N., chief engineer and inspector of machi nery ; Mr. Gossage, from Somerset-house ; and the various officials of the yard. The water was drawn from a depth of 12ft., and was projected in various streams with different sized jets. The fire was laid with wood and shavings, and was kindled at 2 45 p.m. Steam was obtained in 11m. 10s. of 601 b. pressure to the square inch, at which pressure the engine was started, when the water immediately issued from the jet, and was projected high above the roof of the building slip adjoining. The best re sult obtained was with a jet 15-16ths of an inch in diameter, which reached a height of 218 ft., the steam pressure being 1251 b., and the water 1051 b. to the square inch. The following appointments were made yesterday at the Admiralty :—Lieut. Cottrell B. Powell, to the Cumberland, vice Barnes ; Lieut. Philip N. Tyrwhitt, additional, to the Princess Royal, for dis posal ; Francis C. Alton, chief engineer, to the Doris ; Geo. Grandidiw, paymaster, to the Prince Albert ; Julian P. Taplin and William li. Leeson, engineers, to the Doris ; George Metcalf, engineer,. to the Indus, for charge of the engines of the Repple; G. Tyrer, second-class assist. -engineer, and John T. Trickett, acting second-class assist.-engineer, to the Doris ; C. F. A. Broadway, clerk, to the Prince Albert ; E. P. Rimell, clerk, to the Royal Adelaide ; J. Barnes and T. Guard, assist.-clerks, additional, to the Duncan, and E. W. P. Edwin and F. B. J. Matthias, assist.-clerks, additional, to the Topaze ; Capt. Roderick Dew, C. 8., to the Royal Adelaide, additional, for service in the Lord Clyde ; Capt. J. J. Kennedy, C. 8., to the Frederick William, vice Heathcote, whose period of service has expired ; Capt. C. Vesey, to the Doris, commissioned ; Com mander Iltid T. M. Nichol], to the Ddalus, vice Field, whose period of service has expired ; Sub- Lieuts. C. W. Atkinson, J. H. E. Parker, and A. P. Watson, to the Caledonia, as supernumeraries, for disposal ; T. W. Haverfield, paymaster, to the Trafalgar; S. G. Robison, paymaster, to the Si moom ; W. S. Chambre, second master, to the Topaze ; E. 0. Hallett, second master, to the Vic toria; C. H. Stone, assist.-paymaster, to the Simooin; J. Rothery and W. Ross, engineers, additional, to the Princess Royal; J. Aitken and W. Thomas, first-class assist.-engineers, additional, to Princess Royal ; and Henry D. King, clerk, to the Simoom. The Volunteers. -+--- CENTRAL LONDON RIFLE RANGERS. The fifth annual general meeting of this corps (40th Middlesex) was held last night at the drill shed, King's Head-court, Gray's-inn-lane, for the transaction of business. In the absence of Lieut.- Col. Somerset, the senior officer present, Captain Walters, occupied the chair. The Chairman called upon the hon. secretary, Mr. R. T. Taylor, to read the annual report. It adverted to the continued prosperity of the regiment. Al though during thepast year there had been increased expenditure, through the rent of the range having been raised from £5O to £BO a year, yet, by the exercise of strict economy, the expenditure had been kept within receipts, leaving a balance. In consequence of the increased payments to the members of the instrumental band the balance-sheet was not so favourable as that of the general fund. Apprecia tion was expressed relative to the services of Cap tain and Adjutant Cooper and Captain Isaacs, hon. treasurer to the band fund, for having organised the annual theatrical performances, which now formed an institution of the regiment. Allusion was made to the continued interest in the corps evinced by the inhabitants of the neighbourhood, by whom the committee were again enabled to offer many prizes to be shot for by the members ; and the members were urged to obtain recruits to fill up the blanks, which, from many causes,were constantly occurring in a body of men like the 40th ; and also stimulated to increased energy so as to render the corps, both in number and efficiency, second to none in the country. Captain Lowe and Captain Lumley proposed and seconded that the report be adopted ; and on the motion of Captain Woods, seconded by Quarter master Scott, it was unanimously carried. The following gentlemen were then elected the committee for the ensuing year :—Messrs. Relley, Sherrard, Wilton, Wilson, Jones, Phillips, Bell, Cromar, Walker, Phillips, Wigley, and J. G. Taylor; with hon. members Messrs. Clark, Bray, and Horsley. Captain WOODS, having previously given notice, moved, " That the uniform of the regiment, namely, the tunic and trousers, be in future made the same as those of the 60th Rifles, and that all members be expectedAto provide themselves with the uniform in time for the Easter review." He explained that the cost of altering uniforms recently made would be 55., and that new uniforms, tunic and trousers, could be obtained at an expense of £2 7s. 6d. He advocated the change on the ground of harmony of colour and personal convenience. Voting papers having been circulated amongst the members, the result was declared by the Chair man. There was not one-fourth of the efficient members in favour of the motion, whereas it re quired three-fourths of " efficients." After votes of thanks to the office-bearers, and to Captain Walters for his conduct in the chair, the meeting separated. Commissioners of Sewers. ~. --.......• The Commissioners of Sewers of the City of Lon don met in the Court-room at the Guildhall on Tuesday, under the presidency of IL De Jersey, Esq. (Deputy), the chairman. After the disposal of certain applications, one of the contractors to the commission, named Stephens, was summoned for neglecting to remove the dust from a house in his district for six weeks. The case was proved by one of the inspectors, and the con tractor was fined £lO. A very numerously-attended deputation waited upon the commissioners and presented a memorial signed by all the leading occupiers of premises in St. Paul's-churchyard and Ludgate-hill, urging the Court to carry out a public improvement by remov ing the house No. 1, St. Paul's-churchyard, and widen the thoroughfare at that spot. It w as stated that a favourable opportunity now presented itself for carrying out the improvement, as th e gro und was now vacant ; and it was further stated that the improvement was one of such importance that the Corporation, as well as the Metropolitan Board of Works, would, doubtless, consent to contribute to :wards the cost of carrying it out. Deputy FARRAR warmly supported the prayer of the memorial. The CILUR3IAN observed that this question had received very careful attention at the hands of the Improvement Committee, who were prepared to bring up a report that day in reference to it, and perhaps it would be as well that it ..should be at once read. Mr. DAw, the p r incipal clerk, th en rea d th e re p o rt of the committee, stating thatthey had been in nego tiation with a view to carry out this improvement by rounding the corner at No. 1, St. Paul's-church yard, but the sum demanded for so doing was £2,500, and that a still further sum would now be required fcr the ground necessary for the purpose. They thought, however, that the present opportunity for carrying out the improvement should not be lost ; and they therefore recommended that the necessary notices should be given for taking the whole plot of land of the owner. After some remarks by several members of the Court, the majority of whom advocated the carry ing out of the improvem en t, the report of the com mittee was put and carried, and the necessary no tices for taking the ground were ordered to be served accordingly. It was then referred back to the com mittee to carry out the improvement as they might be advised, and to confer with the Improvement Committee of the Corporation thereupon, with a view to obtain the assistance of the Court of Com mon Council by a g ran t i n aid of the cost thereof. Mr. JOSEPH DAW, th e principal clerk to the com missioners, laid befor e th e court a letter he had re ceived from Mr. G. Dickins, the assistant-secretary at the Custom-house, upon the subject of the report presented at the last court by Dr. Letheby with re spect to the intended sale at the Commercial Sale rooms, in Mincing-lane, of a quantity of damaged tea, which had been recovered from the ruins of the fire in Beal's Wharf, which the medical officer stated was quite unfit for human consumption. In reply, it was intimated to the commissioners thatthe Board of Customs had no power to interfere with the sale of the goods in question. Mr. W. J. BAYLIS, the solicitor to the commission, stated that he had, in accordance with his instruc tions, served notice upon the auctioneers, Messrs. Brown and Roberts, that the tea was unfit for hu man food, and also upon the superintendent of the Commercial Sale-rooms, and had given notice of the facts to the Commissioners of Customs. The sale, however, was proceeded with by the auctioneers on the 25th inst., and a portion of the tea was knocked down at prices ranging from lid. to 101 d. per lb., but he had since heard that none of the tea was really sold. After some conversation, the solicitor was in structed to issue a summons on behalf of the com missioners against Messrs. Brown and Roberts, for offering the tea for sale. Dr. LETHEBY reported that the markets and elaughterhousea of the City had been duly inspected during the past week, and the officershad condemned 4,2641bs of meat as unfit for human food. It con sisted of 5 sheep, 5 pigs, 6 calves, 24 quarters beef, and 4 quarters venison. He also directed attention to the fact that recently a large quantity of animals affected with the prevailing rinderpest had been sent to the City markets for sale as human food ; but in the opinion of the inspectors it had not been fit for food, and it had therefore been seized and con demned. He also reported that the day previously a large quantity of boiled meat unfit for human food was condemned in Newgate-market, and he submitted that the case required further considera tion, with a view to legal proceedings being taken. He also stated that the day previously four pieces of meat from an animal that had died of the rinder pest had been condemned in Newgate-market, and the inspector had condemned nine quarters of beef in a very diseased condition, both of which cases, it was urged, required further inquiries. There were 51 births and the like number of deaths in the City during the previous week, and Dr. Letheby stated that the mortality returns were greatly below the average for the corresponding period of the last ten years. The Commissioners subsequently adjourned. Foreign Enlistment. Two English seamen who recently shipped on board tho Independencia attended yesterday at the Guildhall and made, before the Alderman, solemn declarations of the truth of the following statements, prepared by Mr. Thos. Beard, solicitor. They were forwarded through the hands of the Spanish Consul to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and Mr. Beard has transmitted a copy to the Spanish Minister in this country. The result is not yet known. The declaration of King, ono of the seamen, is as follows :—'• I, George King, of the Peruvian man-of-war Independencia, now lying off Greenhithe, hereby declare that I am an English subject; that on Saturday last, the 20th inst., I was engaged by the captain of the ship Independencia as an ordinary seaman, to proceed from London to Peru, or any other port, for three years, at $l6 a month wages, being £3 4s. English money. That 1 signed articles on the 25th inst., and was ordered to go on beard the ship at Greenhithe ; that I ac cordingly went on board at that date, and remained on board until this morning, when I came on shore by leave of one of the officers, in consequence of the ship not being ready to sail, and received instructions to hold myself in readiness to return immediately the ship was ready to sail; that while I was on board the ship I heard the captain call all hands aft, and heard him say that they would have to fight their way to Peru against any Spanish vessels they might fall in with ; that there would be another vessel join them after they loft the coast of France, and that this vessel was now in London. The captain also asked all hands if they wore agreeable to fight their way out to Peru at the same wages they were then getting. The men re plied that they were. The Peruvian flag was flying when I left the ship, and had been for three days. The vessel is a man-of-war, an ironclad ram. I have seen her guns : they are marked Armstrong. I have seen a large quan tity of shot, shell, and powder taken on board every day since I have been there. The captain and his officers wear a uniform, and call themselves officers in the Peruvian navy. I asked the boatswain (an Englishman) what num ber of hands there would be : he told me between 250 and 300 men, and that they were 20 short. There were then a great number of men on board, consisting of English, Ger man, French, Peruvians, Norwegians, Portuguese, Greek, and Americans. The captain and his principal officers are Peruvian; all speaking the same language. The captain told me that I should be required to assist in working the ship and fight as well if necessary to do so. He told all the men the same. The captain read from a paper to the men that any Spanish ship they fell in with they would take. I heard the able seamen say they were to get $2O a month, the second class $lB, and the ordinary seamen $l6. The gunner's mate was to have $3O a month. All the uniforms and bedding are on board the ship. The seamen's uniform consists of a blue flannel shirt, blue cloth pants, and a red sash to wind round the waist, with the tassel attached ; a blue cloth navy cap, and ribband with the ship's name on it. I hav e seen between 300 and 400 men on board night and day at work for the last three days. They appeared to be in a great hurry to get the ship ready. E I have also seen the other ship spoken of by the captain ; she is a wooden ves sel, now lying in the East India Docks, and has the Old ham flag flying. I have been paid two months' wages in advance, and I make this solemn declaration." James Thompson, the other seaman, made a similar declaration. AQUATICS. UNIVERSITY BOAT RICE. The public will be gratified to learn that notwithstanding all that has been written and said upon the subject, there is no doubt that the Oxford and Cambridge boat race will take place this season at the usual time and place. Pending the presentation of the memorial from Cambridge—pro posing to Oxford to confine the selection of honour . men for the contending crews to those whose residence in the university had not exceeded four years—the Oxonians lost no time in commencing the selection of a crew to maintain the nobly-earned aquatic fame of their university, and the following were in hard practice during the whole of last week :—Messrs. Raikes (Merton), Crowder (Brasenoso) Marsden (Merton), Willan (Exeter), Mason (Trinity), Wood (University), Goodden (Trinity), and Brown (friuity). Two or three changes have just taken place. Mr. Brown has boon relieved from the stroke by Mr. H. P. Senhouse, and the latest news of the crew leaves him in that position, although it is fully believed that Mr. W. M. Brown will resume it ; with the remainder of the crew composed of Messrs. Raikes, Crowder, Willan, Mason, Wood, Freeman and Henley (Oriel), one of last year's crew, who has been unable to take his'place in the boat sooner. The Cantabs, notwithstanding their long series of de feats, are evidently anxious to retrieve their lost laurels; and, although not nearly all the gentlemen are yet up at the university, so desirous is the president C.U.B.C. (Mr. Kinglake) to be up and stirring, that he has already got the following crew together, who at present are in daily prac tice :—Messrs. Lavers (Queen's), Still (Caius), Bidwell (Trinity), Foster (Trinity), Fortescue (Magdalen), Bourke (Trinity), Watney (St. John's), and Jerwood (Trinity Hall). Mr. Selwyn, an old 'Varsity hand, steers themin practice. In the course of a few days after the meeting of the offi cers of the C.U.B.C. we understand the usual challenge will be officially forwarded to Oxford, and, we need hardly say, will be promptly accepted. Of course alterations at this early stage may be looked for in both crows. TUE SAILING BARGE REGATTAS. Yesterday nearly 100 of the most influential men, includ ing the churchwardens of the parishes of Clerkenwell, St Luke, and St. Leonard, Shoreditch, entertained Mr. Henry D o dd, contractor, City-wharf, Regent's Canal, Hoxton, the originator of the great barge regattas of the last three years, to present him a ith a pair of very handsome signal guns, on which was inscribed, " Presented by a few friends as a small tribute to Henry Dodd, Esq., in appreciation of his exertions in the establishment of sailing barge races with a view to the improvement of topsail and stump-rigged barges and bargees ;' also in recognition of the hospitable kindness shown by him to those whom he invited to wit ness the recent sailing barge matches on the Thames." TILE BITE OF A RAT. ---The Sussex Advertiser states that about a week ago a little boy named Parsons, 11 or 12 years of age, was at work for Mr. Howell at Sco bell's farm, Barcombe, and, having procured some bricks, constructed a trap for the purpose of catching some larks. Before going home ho visited the trap, the lid of which had fallen, and putting his hand in to grasp what he sup posed to be a lark, an enormous rat that had been captured caught him by the little finger and bit it severely. The boy contrived to stanch the bleeding, and little notice ap pears to have been taken of the circumstance until a few days ago, when he was taken seriously ill, with every symptom of hydrophobia, or of persons afflicted with deli rium:tremens. At times the paroxysms have been so violent that the combined efforts of four men have been almost unable to keep him in bed, while he struggled hard to seize their hands or arms with his teeth, and at these times his cries have been dreadful to hear. Mr. Gravely, surgeon, of Newick, was sent for, and ho administered some remedies, but little hope is entertained of his recovery. Whether the rat was mad, or had eaten something poisonous, it is im possible to determine. ADYERTIBEMENT.} -Avoid medicines: they always aggra vate chronic complaints, but Du Barry's Delick'us Health- Restoring Revalenta Arabica Food, which yields three times the nourishment of the bast meat, saves fifty times its cost in other remedies, and invariably restores perfect digestion, strong nerves, sound lungs, healthy liver, pure blood, re• freshing sleep, functional regularity, and energy to the most disordered or enfeebled. We extract a few out of 60,000 Cures :—Cure No. 58,216, of the Marchioness de Brehan, of seven years' liver complaint, was:in; away, debility, nervousness, with a nervous palpitation all over, bad diges tion, constant sleeplessness, and the most intolerable nervous agitation.—Cure No. 1,771. Lord Stuart de Decies. Lord Lieutenant of Waterford, of many years' dyspepsia.—No. 49,832. " Fifty years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms, sickness, and vomiting.—Maria Jolly."—Cure No. 46,270. Mr. James Roberts, of Frimley, Surrey, of thirty years' diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver derange ment, and partial deafness.—Cure No. 47,121. Miss Elizabeth Jacobs, of extreme nervousness, indigestion, gatherings, lox spirits, and nervous fancies.—Cure No. 54,b16. The Rev. Jas T. Campbell, Fakenham, Norfolk, "of indigestion and torpi dity of the liver. which had resiste 3 all medical treatment.' In tins, 1 lb., 2s. 9d. ; 21b., 4s. ed ; 51b., lie. ; 121 b., 225. ; 241 b. IN.—Barry Du Barry and Co., No. 77, Regent-street, London;, also Phillips, tea dealers, 8, King William-street ; likewise at 61, Gracechurch-street ; 4, Cheapside ; 49, Bishopsgate street Within ; 63, 150, and 298, Oxford-street ; 3.30, Strand ; 54, Upper Baker-street; 103, Tottenham-court-road; 96, Upper-street, Islington, N.; Harvey, Notting-hill; Close Brothers, 65, High-street ; and Stubbs, Queen's-terrace, St. John's-wood, London; and all respectable grocers Itlld MiStl.-7RVIMe of spurious imitations, SPIRIT OP THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TIMES.—It is to be feared that we are losing our last hopes of a cure for the Cattle Plague. Vacci nation promised well at first, but it seems now to have been ascertained that it offers no infallible or permanent protection against the disease. Like all the of her systems of treatment attempted, it has ap parently succeeded in some cases, but has clearly failed in others. All we now know is that some ani mals, either from predisposition, or breed, or other circumstances, escape attack, and that others, though attacked, nevertheless recover. These re sults, however, appear to be substantially indepen dent of all methods of treatment. In proportion, then, as cure becomes hopeless, prevention rises in importance. We are not sure that even prevention is quite so practicable as it was thought to be. That the plague is essentially a contagious disorder is beyond a doubt, but that it can occasionally be propagated otherwise than by actual contact appears unquestionable also. Perhaps in cases where the deaths have been numerous the infection becomes strong enough to be carried by the air, but we have the satisfaction of knowing that, as a general rule, the stoppage of traffic and intercourse will certainly prevent the plague from spreading. We think, in deed, that the weekly returns, alarming as they are, contain evidence of the benefits derived from our present precautions. The disease advances, but it has obviously a strong drag to contend against. Had so subtle and deadly a pestilence been left to spread without control, our losses would not be limited to 100,000 in six months. Wherever mea sures of precaution are rigorously applied, the plague is more or less stayed. In Aberdeenshire, indeed, it seems to have been absolutely conquered and " stamped out," and it has by the same vigorous precautions been prevented from spreading into the Northern Counties of Scotland. The great object, therefore, now is to exert to the ut most the only means of arresting the disease which are visibly in our power, and it is not to be disguised that we are brought by this conclusion to the recommendations made by the Royal Com missioners three months ago. The resolutions passed at county meetings are simply repetitions, for the most part, of the conclusions of the Report. Isola tion at home and regulated importation from abroad form the staple of the suggestions now pressed upon Government, and in these doctrines is con tained the essence of the Commissioners' advice. With respect to isolation, it might fairly be urged that the example of Aberdeenshire is conclusive as to the sufficiency of local authority, if duly exerted. Government could never have done more for that county than it has done for itself, and yet that county had no more power of action than any other. But though this may be true, it does not decide the question. The question is, not what all the counties of the kingdom could do if they chose, but what they might be expected to do under actual circum stances. They did not all take the alarm, or take it at the same time, or act with the same energy. The " uniformity" of action so much to be desired might have made every county an Aberdeenshire by superior authority. As it is, though magistrates and farmers are sufficiently in earnest when the plague actually appears, the local authorities are under strong temptations to suspend their action till the latest moment. The stoppage of cattle traffic is a very serious affair, and everybody would be glad, if .possible, to escape such an inconvenience. Unfor tunately, it is not the evil, but the remedy, which is postponed by delay. The evil comes only too surely in the end, and then the remedy is too late. At this moment, even, as a correspondent points out, there is a wide difference of feeling between the agriculturists in certain districts and the public at large. No words can be too strong for the speakers at county meetings who have had the ravages of the plague before their eyes, but in places yet uninfected, and in towns still well supplied with meat, the dangers of the crisis are less adequately appreciated. All England has not suffered like Cheshire ; in fact, the murrain is not yet brought home to everybody's door. It is still argued that the loss of 80,000 or 100,000 cattle is not a thing to be regarded as a national calamity. This might be true if that were the whole loss ; but it may represent only a sacrifice of the ultimate sacrifice. The fore bodings of prophets have been hitherto verified, substantially, if not completely. Many alarmists anticipated, no doubt, a far larger return than 10,000 for the twenty-fifth week of the plague, and the march of the disorder must be greatly accelerated before its victims can be reckoned by millions, as in Continental visitations. But it is plain that no medicine, no treatment, no change of season, nor any measures of preca u ti on ha ve y e t p reven t e d the plague from growing and spreading. Every week sees it more destructive than before. We have checked it for a time here and there, but we have never got ahead of it altogether. Upon the whole we fear it may be said that we have only done enough to show how much more might have been done by timely, vigorous, and uniform action. We believe that the mischief has been materially cur tailed by our precautions, and it follows, therefore, that the system should be pursued. It does not appear that we can cure, but it does seem we may may prevent. Even if we should be unable to " stamp out" the plague utterly, we may save our selves from the terrible losses experienced by other countries, and the attempt will be all the more reasonable as well as easy from the advance we have already made. The suspension of cattle traffic would be a great public inconvenience, but great inconvenience is felt already, and without the re compense which stricter and more uniform mea sures would bring. A visitation like the cattle plague must produce trouble, and probably most people now regret that the short, sharp, and effec tual action recommended by the Commissioners was not attempted at the time. By that course we might, perhaps, before now have been rid of the plague ; three months hence the case may be still more difficult than it is at present. At the same time ,we cannot but observe that the local authorities who complain most loudly of the inaction of Government are the very autho rities who might, had they so pleased, have acted for themselves. Boards of magistrates in censuring Government do but cast ce nsure u p on eac h o th er; for their argument amounts only to this, that Mi nisters ought to have done that work which the local authorities could not, as the event shows, be trusted to do for themselves. If any counterpoise of advan tage is to be gained from this calamity, we hope it will be found in an improved system of markets and slaughter-houses. If foreign cattle are to be killed at the ports of landing, it is clear that British cattle ought to be dealt with on similar principles, so that in the end the traffic in live cattle would cease to a great extent, independently of the exigencies of the cattle plague. This, which would be advantageous in many respects, would be especially so as regarded any future visitations of the disease. It is thought not impossible that our liability to these inflictions may continue, and in that event a well arranged system of dead-meat markets Would find us always provided with those barriers against contagion which we have so much difficulty in establishing now. No ox need go to the butcher when it is a settled prac tice for the butcher to go to the ox, and it is only for the want of so wholesome a practice that we have been thus perplexed with a conflict between present interests and imminent necessities. Posv.—The miseries and hard treatment endured by the pauper class of the community have lately furnished a fruitful theme for declamatory and com miserating writing. Poverty, hunger, and dirt have been described with a profusion of detail hitherto unknown. Disease has been photographed in its most ghastly and revolting shape, and brought be fore the eyes of those whose only ideas on the sub ject were derived from the discreet returns of the Registrar-General, and perhaps the chance perusal of the circular of some charitable institution. There has been perhaps a little too much of the sensa tional element introduced into these highly wrought pictures, but there can be no doubt that it is desir able that those who fare sumptuously every day should know what is actually meant by poverty and pau perism. It is an impossibility with most well-to-do people to realise the misery of their poorer neighbours, or to fill up for themselves the ghastly picture of starvation and disease. Clothing to them means only a method of personal embellishment, and hunger is known to them only as a desirable addition to the pleasure of dining. But there are few of these who, if they had been taken to Timothy Daly's bedside in the workhouse, would not have given their coats from off their backs to alleviate his sufferings. Could Dives always seo Lazarus lying at his gate, he would not often refuse him the crumbs from his table. Unfortunately, in modern life, each section of society lives so completely within itself that it seldom looks even so far as its gate ; and it is use less to speak to it in general terms of the sufferings of any other section. But once invest the case with human interest, by filling up the details of the pic ture, and dwelling upon a particular phase of suffer ing, and the appeal to the feelings will not be made in vain. From time to time there appears a short paragraph in the newspapers detailing the death from starvation of some poor wretch—too proud, perhaps, to beg, too weak to work—who has lain down to die by the roadside ; and such an account awakens more sympathy and pity than all the suf fering and misery in the returns of the Registrar- General for a whole year. And when pictures so startling as those we have already seen are put under men's eyes it is not in human nature to remain indifferent—least of all in this country, where the purse-strings are but loosely tied, and where every daily paper bears witness to the prodigal and often unwise generosity of the charitable. It is not, there fore, at all surprising that the public mind should have received so profound a shock at the recent ex posures of the workhouse system, nor that those 1,:w 0 - - who were thought to be more Immediately blamable should have incurred so much reprobation. In truth, of late the guardians of the poor have been in a less enviable position than the poor them selves. Mr. Farnall has explained laws to .them, and visited them with stern—and n ot en tirely unmerited —rebuke. The press has con demned them, coroners' inquests have threatened them with verdicts of manslaughter, and a storm has been raised against them through o ut the count r y before which such considerations as the advantage of lowness of rates or the propriety of selecti on in granting relief have been entirely lost sight of, and we are now in a fair way of giving before long some practical affirmation to the doctrine that every per son who chooses to apply is entitled to be taken into a comfortable lodging, and have his hunger satis fied and his morals strictly cared for at the expense of his fellow-citizens. While the disagreeables in • cidental to the condition of those who have the ; mis fortune to wish to be maintained at the expen se other people have been so strongly insisted upon, the paupers themselves have discovered that they. .are . an object of interest to the world at large, any. it is instructive to notice what their conduct /Ito, been.. Their satisfaction at the altered state 0 i things, it would seem, has been chiefly shown by t . caring up their clothes, in order, probably, t.o.raa" it clear that, as there seems to be a disposition. to grant them relief, they will get as much of it t they can. Scarcely a day passes but cases of thi s sort are reported, and almost invariably the perpe trators calc ulate show an overbearing insolence not calc ulat impress to the reader with a great sense of their d gratitude to anybody for their night's lodging a n breakfast. Two women who were brought before the . magistrate at Marylebone on Tuesday had {bet it as it appears, composed a song in glory of their achievement. From these cases, and from tt authentic descriptions of the interiors of east': wards with which we have latterly been favo ur e d, it would appear that the great majority of the In mates by no means conduct themselves in the man" ner which might fairly be expected of those vih° are being provided with the necessaries of life I)y.. other people free of expense. On the contrary, it seems that not only is the conduct of casuals of the most riotous and revolting description, but that they have a most thorough-paced contempt for everY official connected with their relief. As for than kful ; ness for everything, that seems to be quite out of the question ; and it is impossible to avoid coming _ the conclusion that the casual paupers are, asar ul n the most degraded, turbulent, and ill-condition -condition part of the population. Surely there must be some thing radically wrong here. It could not have bin intended that the hard-working and rate-Tall community e should tax themselves to maintain t idle and degraded. Paupers incapacitated by, afi c i sicknesss, or infirmity have a claim in a &lit% . country to be maintained by their fellow-11102i; but a country where so many branches of inal ls A 7 t , are open it is impossible to believe very fulls 'Th those who can work and will work cannot get wur to do. If it be so, however, it cannot be the do of those who are charged to relieve them goingu° .more than find them work and pay them for it. But if none is demanded—if it ever is elearli settled that anybody and everybody who chooses!: apply are to be entitled to bed and board at t u public cost—then let us not make our workhousel too comfortable. The labouring man has a b ar , task to make both ends meet, and it would be grave discouragement to the independent bu t struggling labourer if it were to be once known t. 1 . 1 , 1 1 10 he would be as well lodged and fed were he an 1' andinsolent pauper. COUNTRY MARKETS. HULL.—TUESDAY. 1 . 01 1 At our market to-day there wa s a f a ir show of Eng -1 ,4 wheat, but very little business was done. For all samples holders were firm, but no advance. Barley sc are ! no malting descripti ons b e i ng l e ft. O a t s fully aline asrs: peas and beans nothing d o i ng . Li nsee d a li m ited bu e , ss. English old white wheat, 49s to 54s ; old red, 44s to „,. Barley, English, 37s to 425. O a t s , Russian 24 s to xf. Beans, new English, 43s to 445. P eas , E ng lish blue, 3 " to Ils Od; grinding, 408 to 41s Od per 36 stone. S ALISB ITRY.—T UESDAY. The moderate supply of wheat offered to day will ?to much out of condition. Dry parcels taken freely dear . rates, but other sorts unsaleable. Barley quite a s n t Oats steady at last week's prices. Beans and pea s I ' i° previous rates. Flour less firm in price. The following are the quotations :—Wheat realised fr 4 ° o l l 38s to 52s ; barley, 35s to 40s ; oats, 22s to 32s ; bean s, to 52s ; and peas, 42s to 50s per qr. Tares, from 6 3 w io d 3d per bushel ; Best bread, 13d ; household ditto, -La' per 81b loaf. Flour, 34s to 40s per sack. MELTON MO WBRAY.—T ITESDAY. About Ihe usual supply of wheat, the trade in ruled at former quotations. White wheat, 50s to 58s ; red, 48s to 54s per 36 stone:. Barley for malting, 33s to 37s per qr ; feed, 28s to 30s Pe; 30 stone. Oats 22s to 395. B eans , o ld, 48 s t o 525; 40s to 44s per qr. MONMOUTHSHIRE—TUESDAY. Taking the various markets throughout the district thel has been a liberal supply of grown wheat, and prices r u t an upward tendency. Best sorts at last week's rates, inferior sorts in favour of sellers. Barley rather deale' Oats at former quotations. Beans and peas unaltered. LYNN—TUESDAY. There was a small show of wheat at market to - a* i ll ] ; condition being somewhat bett e r; a ll descriptions f ilUa maintained last week's prices, except old, which 111x Y at quoted is per qr. dearer. Malting and grinding barley improving prices. Beans and peas unaltered. ite, New wheat, 46s to 48s ; new red, 42s to 445; old Iv- f o r 51s to 52s ; old red, 46s to 48s per 36 stone. Bar le Y . malting, 34s to - 36s ; secondary, 26s to 325. Oats, 18s to 24s per 24 stone. Beans, small, 43s to 46s ; 40s to 42s per 28 stone. COAL MARKET. Price per ton at the close of the market. 5. d. s. d. Hetton ... 13 0 Bates' West Hartley- 1 , 7 5 6 6 N.S taffordshire 17 0 East Hartlepool ...... ,',L A , 6 Shaw's Hartley lB 6 Kelloe .. . .............. .- 1 ,-,`; 6 Holywell Main l7 6 Hartlepool . ............ -1 1 6 6 West Hartley Tanfield Moor Butes 15 3 Walls End Harton ••• ;,/ 6 0 Eden Main Cassop Buddle'sWestilartley 16 3 Stewart's ......... ••' 16 6 Heugh Hall • l7 0 Hetton Ly0n5......... Ships at market, 104 ; sold, 64. Foreign Mail Packet List MAILS DUE. ' Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton...• • - • N' t e b 43 10 Ditto, via Marseilles Feb. Brazil and Cape Verds, by British p ac k e t -s• eb ' 4 v 04-4 Ditto, by French packet 2 - Cape of Good Hope, Ascensio n , and St. Helena.. • -A eb. China, Penang, and Singapore, via S out hampton. • F ew ' ji. Ditto, via Marseilles .... . . . Faikland Islands Gibraltar, via South am pt on .................... Feb' 2 India (Calcutta), and C ey l on, via SO.u.t.han i pton.... F,el::. Feb' 13 „. Ditto, via Marseill es India (Bomba, via Southampton.. ............... 13 y) 7 Ditto, via Marseilles .. . Feb 13 Mauritius, via Southampton Ditto, via Maraeite ................. Fe b. ......... • - 1 1. Ne wfoundland .•4 ....... Portugal Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon... ....... United States and British North America, by Bri- b 8 . .Fc • tish packet . • • ......... Ditto, by United States packet, via South&or ton .. ....... • Ditto, via Cork .... 2. Ditto, by Canadian packet, via Londonderry.• F e b,: i f, West Coast of Africa. Madeira, and Tencriffe ...... Feu* West Indies and Pacific (except Bahamas, Cuba, i s and Mexico ........ F- b ' 25" , Cuba and Mexico Fel). :i Bahamas, via New / ork. Feb. 7 Bermuda, ditto Feb' THE PARIS JOCKEY CLUB.—AII the old inber4 of the Paris Jockey Club have been re-elected. The '%' 0 1 ( .1 quis de Goutaut-Biron continues to be the presidellt" Viscount Paul Daru vice-president. Births. CLARKS.—On the 29th ult., at Copse-hill,Winablednot go. Frederick Clarke of a 7 son. DALYELL.—On the 22d ult., at Ayr, the wife of Lieut... Col. Dalyell, 21st Fusiliers, of a son. ERE.—On the 22d Dec., at Flamstead, 0 of Governor Eyre, of a daughter. ~t. O f . GARFORD.—On the 29th ult., at 10, Devonshiro-Stre— Mrs. John Garford, of a daughter. Marriages. rijOrC ll ,' EENNITT SAMUDA.—On the 30th ult , at TriuitYaillin Paddington, William Ward 13 '. Gth inl i " - alit e ` mutt, Dragoons, to Augusta Joy D'Aguilar, second 01101,'ster of Joseph D'Aguilar Samuda, Esq M.P. 7 7 (-11°° 1 ' square, Hyde-park. Jamaica, the virillio' frs t FAGAN—WELPLY.—On the IGth ult., at Upton' o ung s " Fagan, Assist.-Commissary-General, to Fan n pi l Upt on daughter of the late Daniel Welply, E 5 11.7 .2 " House, co. Cork. e a ti t t r h i s s . a, H ilo A m : i). - -., 0 0K n n.o t .t l ih i l e .e, 17th nit., n gall, K i j i o ci t n . I 2 n B s t p:e n to it r ., G a e t ne D ra u l h o v f ich il_o c s o p ra i t e, n, i tro i, I s O li n o t r h e e E 3 scl Ot . h ' a n g l e t. d , a 3 t o. his residence, Pr i. " 311 t0 061:4 i 0 0, arsjerset, Richard M. King, Esq., a Deputy Lieu Italy, Sir jellna v. d Magistrate for the county, aged 90. ROGERB.—On the 28th nit ., ' at Kington, ore S. Rogers, Esq.,aged 73. Treed Simm . s.—On the 29th ult. 16 C be 11 g rove, A u ~at 1, am rwe - Siinms, Fsq 1 4 ~ ate of Hamburg, aged 78. ratl i g er WAL - RER.—On the 24th ult , at Oxford, William Ga d I .v• Walker, Esq., late of the . Manor House, Brill, ege_....... -----"'____—=---- II fordshire, • rll••••••••••.rammom•mmmao•••m•••••••••••OM...•••••IIM...d••••..a........" London Printed and Published by WILLIAII AND .„ 116, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at T its SuN Oleo, I fn ""ty 01 Strand, in the Precinot of the Savoy. in the Ca'-- Aliddleieirrnuroday, February 1,1888. 11 111 DI, j E I R ~ ~a t