The Sun. — London, England, 1866-12-19 00:00:00

THE LTI7. The following is the weekly return of the Regis trar-General of births and deaths in London and in 12 other large towns of the United Kingdom : General Register-office, Somerset-house, Dec. 17. In the week that ended on Saturday, December 15, the births registered in London and 12 other large towns of the United Kingdom were 4,379 ; the deaths registered 3,028, The annual rate of mortality was 26 per 1,000 persons living. In London the births of 1,029 boys and 1,045 girls, in all 2,074 children, were registered in the week. In the corresponding weeks of ten years 1856-65 the average number, corrected for increase of population, was 2,084. The deaths registered in London during the week were 1,389. It was the 50th week of the year, and the average number of deaths for that week is, with a correction for increase of population, 1,469. The deaths in the present return are less by 80 than the estimated - number. Two cases of cholera and 25 of diarrhoea were registered last week. A boiler maker, aged 18 years, died Dec. 9 of bronchitis after cholera, at 17, Orchard-street, Woolwich. The son of a silk dyer, aged one year, died Dec 10 of cholera (21 hours), at 17, Fleet-street, Beth nal-green. Although the epidemic has subsided, isolated cases still demand the vigilant attention of the authorities. This is one of the lessons of the year, for while cholera raged between the Tower, the Isle of Dogs, and Victoria Park—over the area traversed by the Blackwall Railway, and the Great Eastern Railway as far as Stratford and West Ham—among a popu lation in uninterrupted communication, through lines of streets, the Regent's Canal, and the Thames, with the rest of London and the surrounding dis tricts, to which many of the infected persons living in the east of London fled, the conflagration was strictly circumscribed within well-defined bounds. The fierceness of the disease extended thus far and no further, although the movements of the people were as free as air. The futility of quarantine lines is so well known that their establishment was never proposed in London. The supply of impure water was at once arrested ; the water engineers grew care ful; the sewage was now less inefficient than it had ever been before, for South London was drained; the health officers became vigilant; premonitory diarrhoea was treated; every case as it occurred was published to the world, and the cholera excreta were destroyed by carbolic acid and other disinfectants. The disease was communicated by contact with the poison in a few cases, but its general diffusion was stopped. This is the secret of the success of London in con trolling an epidemic that during the year has been so fatal in continental cities. The annual rate of mortality last week was 24 per 1,000 in London, 33 in Edinburgh, and 26 in Dub lin; 20 in Bristol, 21 in Birmingham, 32 in Liver 13col, 28 in Manchester, 27 in Salford, 29 in Shef field, 24 in Leeds, 19 in Hull, 41 in Newcastle-upon- Tyne, and 31 in Glasgow. The rate in Vienna was 28 per 1,000 during the week ending the Ist inst., when the temperature was 2.9 deg. Fahrenheit lower than in the same week in London, where the rate was 25 per 1,000. At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height of the barometer in the week was 29 . 678 in. The barometrical reading decreased from 30 - 34 in. on Sunday to 29 . 19 in. on Saturday. The mean temperature of the air in the week was 43.4 deg., which is 2.7 above the average of the same week in 50 years (as determined by Mr. Glaisher). The highest day temperature was 55 deg., on Thurs day. The lowest night temperature was 28.6 deg., on Sunday. The entire range of temperature in the week was, therefore, 26.4 deg. The mean of the highest temperatures of the water of the Thames was 43 . 7 deg. ; that of the lowest was 42.1 deg. The difference between the mean dew-point tem perature and air temperature was 2.7 deg. The mean degree of humidity of the air was 90, corn ] lete saturation being represented by 100. Rain fell to the amount of 0.60 in. The general direc tion of the wind was south-west. Accqrding to a return furnished by the engineer of the Metropoli tan Board of Works, the average daily quantity of sewage pumped into the river Thames at the south ern outfall works, Crossness, was 208,033 cubic metres. State of Trade. MANCHESTER, Dec. 18.--. We have had a fair amount of business in shipping yarns at id. to id. per lb. advance in the prices of last Tuesday. There would have been still more doing but for the yet higher rates asked by rnanyspinners, and the market closes very strong, with au upward tendency. The market for home trade yarns has also been very strong, with rather more than an average business, at id. per lb. advance on Ihe lowest rates of last week. The market for yarns generally shows an improvement. The large sales of cotton at increased rates at Liverpool have also acted as usual on our cloth-market, but i the incre ase d prices manufac turers have been induced to demand have by no means been conceded by buyers. We still have a good general inquiry for cloth, but there is no dispo sition to operatefor more thansmall quantitieswateeag noticeable advance on the quotations of last sales. Prices are nominally higher, but we close w i t h business restricted within very narrow limits at the advance asked. Messrs. John Slagg and Co. report of this day's cloth-market :—‘‘ We have again an excited and advancing market in Liverpool, followed as usual, by increased quotations for yarns. In ap plying this advance to goods, however, we find busi ness at once checked. In few cases has any advan tage been realised on last week's rates, though quo tations are throughout nominally higher. CARDIFF, 17th.—The steam coal trade is active. The mail-packet companies are taking considerable quantities for their coaling stations abroad, and some of the foreign Governments are in the markets for supplies of Welsh steam. The docks are full of vessels chartered for coal cargoes on foreign account. There is a steady increase in the requirements of the metropolitan and midland markets, as well as in the quantity sent by railway to Birkenhead for ship ment. Active measures are being adopted at many of the works to sink to the lower measures, and new collieries are being opened. The reduction of wages at the ironworks will not effect the collieries ; in fact many proprietors experience the greatest difficulty in obtaining a sufficiency of skilled labour. The iron trade in the Aberdare Valley has hitherto been tolerably good ; but the continued depression is beginning to be felt most seriously, and a curtail ment of operations is being carried out. At the Cyfarthfa works upwards of 1,000 hands have been thrown out of employment in consequence of three of the furnaces being blown out. The works are chiefly employed upon foreign orders, the ma jority of which are on American account, and con tracts from that quarter keep gradually coming in. With the other foreign markets business generally of a quiet character. There is a slow sale for pig iron, and the demand for tin plates is less active. LEEDS, 18th.—This has been a quiet day in the cloth halls, there having been a thin attendance of buyers, and only a small quantity of goods were sold. The goods purchased included a few assort ments of Plain cloths, mixture coatings, tweeds, and hair lists. The reports from the country clothiers are quit e as good as they have been for some time, and, though there is a feeling of quiet ness throughout the trade, there is a hopeful feeling as to an improvement after the Christmas holidays and the settlement of the present year's accounts. ROCHDALE, 17th. --At to-day,, moderate attendance flannelof emrsarbkieitt they there was :a purchased so sparingly that b ut a smallillt:q:iiiiiiyaunton-f ti ty goods changed hands. Fine and fancies keep their place wall, and fully as these goods were sold as of heavy ones. The manu facturers keep well employed, though their stocks are slightly on the increase, and it is not expected that there will b^ much increase in the demand till the commencement of the new year. I'Votwithstand ing the general quietness in both the flannel and the Yorkshire goods trades, prices keep steady. The local wool trade, too, is quiet. Late prices, however, are in most cases maintained, but they are lower than they were a few months since. Anthri lociety. Yesterday evening an ordinary meeting of this society was held in their rooms, in St. Martin's place—Dr. Charnock in the chair. The first paper, read by Col. L. Fox, described sore discoveries re cently made during excavations near London-wall, which seem to prove that so recently as the period of the Roman occupation of this country a large portion of London was built upon piles, and that, as an object of archmological interest, it may be com pared with the lake habitations of Switzerland. Be low the surface soil, at a depth of about 9 feet, there is a bed of peat, of nearly equal thickness, in which theunmistakable remains of "kitchen middens," and piles, driven apparently for the purpose of support ing habitations, were found ; and among the peat, at different levels, were found numerous objects of Roman manufacture, including urns, tiles, bronze and bone implements, and come made of iron. The piles were of oak, from six to eight inches square, pointed at the end; and in some instances they were driven perpendicularly a few inches into the substratum of gravel. Numerous bones of ani mals were mingled with the shells in the kitchen middens, most of which had been broken longitudi nally to extract the marrow. Among the bones, many specimens of which were exhibited on the table, were those of the bos longifrons and the rein deer, now extinct in this country, and the fossil bone of an ibex from the Pyrenees. These objects had apparently been deposited at various periods during the growth of the peat-bed, which it is supposed must have acquired the thickness of 9ft. during the Roman occupation of London. Two human skulls were also found, one of which was declared to be of the Roman type, and the other of a much lower organisation. The peat-bed was situated about 19ft. above the present high-water mark of the Thames, and it is conjectured to have extended to the river, and that while archaeologists have been exploring with great assiduity the relies of lake habitations in foreign countries, they have overlooked the exten sive remains of similar habitations in the city of Lon don. What gives peculiar interest to this discovery is that it shows the comparatively modern date of the construction of lake habitations, which, when first made known in Switzerland, were supposed to belong to a pre-Adamite period of man's existence. It shows, at the same time, the rapid accumulation of peat under circumstances favourable to its growth, and thus contradicts some geological speculations as to the length of time required for the growth of ancient peat beds. The puzzling circumstance is the discovery of the bones of animals supposed to have been extinct in this part of Europe ages before the invasion of the Romans, associated with bronze and even with iron implements, and with tiles on which the name of Vespasian is impressed. At the conclusion of the paper, the Rev. Dunbar Heath and Mr. Carter Blake, who had visited the excavation, confirmed the correction of Colonel Lane Fox's description, and Mr. Blake stated that the bone of the ibex was more ancient than the bones found in the "drift." Mr. Charlesworth sug gested that the bones of extinct animals might have been found and fashioned into implements by a race of men wh o li ve d su b sequently to the existence of those animals, and that would account for the apparent incongruity. All the objects were deposited in the peat, and were not found on the gravel beneath it. A second paper was then read by the Rev. Dun bar Heath, on the way in which large bodies of mute men. would acquire language from small bodies. of speaking men. The paper was an elaborate ex position of Mr. Heath's views respecting tho origin and dissemination of language, to accord with what is called Grimm's law. He contended that language could be much more easily taught to mutes than a new language could be acquired by men who had a language of their own. Mr. Pike refuted this opinion, and as several other gentlemen wanted to speak on the question the discussion was adjourned. Archaeological Investigations in Westmore- land. During thewhole of last week the Rev. W. Green well, of Durham, accompanied by the Rev. James Simpson, vicar of Kirkby Stephen ; the Rev. Chas. M. Preston, vicar of IVarcop; the Rev. T. Tasker, of Carlisle ; the Rev. Charl,!s Pixel], of Skirwith ; and Mr. R. Hewitson, of Ellergill, have made in vestigations in five sepulchral tumuli, situate in the mountainous country in the vicinity of Appleby, Brough, and Kirkby Stephen. The researches have been of the most interesting description, the excava- tions, yielding the remains of the ancient Britons, both burnt and unburnt, and in two cases showing the practice of the Anglo-Saxon adoption of older barrows for their burials, one of which was disco vered as recorded just 100 years ago, and another important illustration last week in a barrow slightly to the South of Kirkby Stephen, a British burial having been disturbed to insert the rough log coffin and body of, as shown by the funeral accompani ments, an Anglo-Saxon, of which the details were of value. The details of the openings show the follow ing results. The first barrow examined, at Sand ford, in the palish of IVarcop, was all of sand, 72 feet in diameter, and five feet high, but somewhat ploughed down. On the surface at the centre were one or possibly two unburnt bodies gone very much to decay to allow of position being traced, or anything more than to recognise that bone was pre ' sent. Some charcoal was under and about the bones, and with it a single flint chipping. Close by were once two other barrows and a circle of stones, one barrow and a circle being quite gone ; the other re mains, but was opened in 1766, slightly larger than the one opened last week. It is recorded that near c the surface at the apex were found an iron sword and some other iron articles--no doubt the accom paniments of an Anglo-Saxon later burial. Below this was a pile of stones (conical), and beneath was a cist containing a a depo s it o f b urnt b ones. T he next barrow opened was at Asby, o s b f Y ground. The m ound stones,'in ahollow on high ground. 34ft. diameter, igh w and 3ft. high, plac e d upon a slight gravel hill, and a circle of stones put round the base. Five feet E.S.E. of the centre, just above the surface of the ground, the remains of two b un urnt bodies were found, w hi c h had either been deposited after break ing up, or had been disturbed after burial and re interred--the latter seeming probable.lu the cen tre, an oval h o ll ow six inches deep and one and a half feet diameter, contained a burnt body. Th ere were a few animal bones in the cairn, but.not a ves tige of charcoal. The fifth barrow was of a very remarkable description. It was situate about a m il e south of Kirkby Stephen, on the crown of a hill, and was formed of stones and earth, was 28ft. in diameter, and one and a half feet high, but partly destroyed by the Ordnance Survey people. In th e centre, in a hollow 2ft. 3in. below the surface of the ground, a wooden coffin was found of a curious de scription, containing a burial. The coffin had been formed in this wise--a rough outer slab of a large tree had been fi rs t s li g htl y h o ll o wed, and at the head a piece of woo d was p l ace d u p r i g ht, and down each side from the head were similar slabs about 2ft. long, forming partial sides. The coffin lay north west by south-east, the head to the north-west. It was 6ft. long, 2ft. 3in. wide at the head, and aft. gin. at the foot. At 3ft. Gin. from the north-west end were two circular holes through the bottom, as if for binding down the body, which had gone thoroughly to decay. The remains had been covered with sedges and flag leaves, and over them the branches and bark of birch. Where the chest should have been was found a bed of blue glass, speckled with red ard yellow, and on the south of the coffin, where the head should have been, was a shallow bronze bow or dish, much decayed and fragmentary, the rim and the centre of the bottom being nearly perfect, however. The bowl is about three and a half inches in diameter. Over the collin blue clay had been placed, with yellow clay on each side,both intentionally deposited as found. A few inches— six or eight—from the south side of the coffin, and about e i g h t inches above it, was a burnt body in a hollow in the natural surface, the bones beingat the south side of this hollow, and the place of burning being apparently to the north of it. Some charcoal and pieces of burnt bone were under the side and almost to the centre of the coffin. There seemed no doubt but that the burnt interment was the primary one, and that it was partly disturbed, as shown by the cut into it and the place of burning, to form the ! grave for the later burial in the coffin, and in so doing some of the burnt bones and earth fell to the bottom. The coffin burial is thought to be Anglo- Saxon, as is indicated by the bead and the bowl, both being not uncommon. Unfortunately no skulls have been obtained. There is one singular feature—there was a very slightly chipped arrow head of flint near the bronze. bowl, but it is possible and probable this fell down from the burnt British burial. It is of the leaf shape, but is so like a na tural flint that it is submitted to Mr. J. Evans, F.S.A., of Hemel llempstead, for opinion. THE SUN, LO.NIiON, WEDNESDAY EVEAING, DECEMBER 19, 1866. News from America through the Atlantic Cable. The intelligence we receive from America by the Atlantic Cable is almost wholly confined to a bare record of the prices of gold, of 5-20 Bonds, of Erie and Illinois Railway Shares, and of Middling Upland Cotton. A few words of the PRESIDENT'S Message to Congress were forwarded, and the start of the yachts in their race for Cowes was tele graphed : the former, perhaps, due to the Govern ment ; and the latter, in all probability, the private message of the owners of the boats. If the price of gold were a true barometer, which rose and fell only under the pressure of political events, we might endeavour by a careful study of its readings to obtain a clue to these events. But gold is not such a barometer, for the market is influenced by a strong clique of speculators, and may be car ried up and down by the combined action of this body. With gold rises and falls the bonds which represent the national debt. Even these prices are not known to the public till after the intelligence has been made the means of securing for speculators a profit on their priority of news. It does not ap pear to be anybody's business to obtain for the public early American intelligence. Not an effort with this object has been made by the press. When the excitement in Baltimore threatened to assume almost the dimensions of a revolution, the facts might have been guessed at from the sudden rise in the price of gold. We knew that the precious metal had gone up with so sudden a bound that something must be wrong ; and we were kept in a pleasing state of uncertainty what that something could be. Whether Pennsylvania had marched the militia of the State into Maryland, or the PRESIDENT had occupied the city of Balti more in force, we were left to guess, although each of those events were threatened, and either might have been attended with consequences as mo mentous as the world could well conceive. In strange contrast with our helpless ignorance is the fulness of intelligence spread over the Union by the American press. There the press has formed an association and taxed itself, for the purpose of obtaining news by telegraph in the ful lest detail. From all parts of the Union the news is forwarded and simultaneously issued in all the great cities of America. No sooner was the At lantic Cable completed than a negotiation was com menced by the representatives of this association for a daily receipt of news from Europe, comprising a given number of words. Nor were the leading newspapers content with the information thus ob tained. The London correspondent of a great New York " daily," forwarded through the cable for his journal the entire speech of the King of PRUSSIA when he opened the Chambers. While the meteoric showers were falling in trains of light that penetrated the gloom even of a London sky, " Our own Correspondent" had forced his way into the Greenwich Observatory, had there absorbed all the scientific knowledge he could gather ; and while the astronomers were still gazing at the heavens, the compositors in New York were build ing up an account as accurate and complete as any about to appear in the London morning papers. The revenue of the Times is something so im perial that it cannot be compared to any one journal, but to all the journals published in a capital city put together. A newspaper of such dimensions might at least follow the example set by the leading newspapers of New York, and give to the public, from whom it derives this royal revenue, the benefit of an early knowledge of the most im portant events occurring in the States. Its New York correspondent might surely be entrusted with this duty. It may be said that Americans are more deeply interested in the intelligence from Europe than are Europeans in the intelligence from Ame rica. Against this can certainly be put the fact that there is no one country on earth whose news to us is of equal im portance. The truth is that we have no com- bined system of action by which the expense could be borne by the who:e body instead of by an indi vidual newspaper, awl even the Times shies at the enormous cost that it would entail to receive through so expmsive, a medium intelligence for its columns. The Times has risen far above the level of competi tion, and its revenue coU.d scarcely be increase( though it might expend several thousands per annum thus to benefit the public. However plea sant such a state of things may be for the leading journal, the poiition is not conducive to the public interest. But we may live in h opes , f or ear l y next year the great influx will commence of Americans to this side, and they will be scarcely content to re- ceive such meagre news through the Atlantic Tele graph from the country they have left. —Anglo American Times. Drunkenness Among Women. -- ~-- Some months ago the Round Table, a leading weekly review of the United States, published an article on "Drunkenness Among Women," which created a sensation all over the country. This ar ticle was copied into scores of papers in Europe as well as in America ; it was transl a t e d i n t o severa l languages, and was commented on w h erever the English language is spoken, from th e H u d son B ay territories to the wild diggings on the western coast of New Zealand. Considering that the article brought grave charges against one-half of the human family—at least as confined to the United States— considering that these charges were made in the most unqualified and sweeping manner, it is little wonder that around the Round Table a furious battle should have raged. It is not safe to attack women in any country, but least of all in America, whe re th e sex assumes the most dignified position and exercises the most control. The boldness of our contempo rary surprised us as much as his assertions. We looked for little less than annihilation. But though the storm raged furiously, the Round Table remained unmoved. We were interested in observing in its issue of the 24th November last another article headed " Drunkenness Among Women." Although the Round Table now qualifie s an d a d m i ts the too sweeping nature of its former allegations, it still maintains the substantial truth of its statements. Perhaps a little startled by the effect produced, the writer, aided by its staff, began to collect facts and figures through various channels to support his as sertions. As the storm at one time threatened serious results, the editors were induced to fortify their position by securing overwhelming proof, not necessarily for publication, which would bring shame and misery upon innocent persons, but to be ready, in case of necessity, to hold the post they had taken up. When the facts had been obtained, the result was calmly awaited ; but the storm blew over, and the second article is evidently written more with the object of qualifying the first than with the intention of reviving a disagreeable subject. "By careful inquiry and investigation," says our contemporary, " we.are now satisfied that " it would be possible to print the names of a " greater number of respectable females—that is, " of reputable families—than would fill the space " occupied by this article, who, within the last five " years, in the city of New York, have fallen victims "to drink." Considering that the article occupies more space than a page of this newspaper, the num ber indicated must be enormous. " The Belmont " Retreat, which is advertised so extensively and " was opened in 1864, is only one of a large num " ber of private asylums, where women are received " who are the victims of dipsomania. There are " cases easily pointed out in this city where females " 6 arc habitually subjected to physical coercion by " their families who feel unwilling to send them to " asylums. Much of this unhappy state of things " has been brought about by the war. The nervous " excitement incident to Darting with fathers, bus " hands, brothers, and lovers, the horried anxiety " as to their fate during the protracted cAmpaigns ; " sometimes the freedom from restraint produced " by their absence, all have combined to lead " women astray, on this wise, who, under normal " circumstances, would never even have felt tempta " tion." Undoubtedly in America the sex assumes and maintains in society a higher position than elsewhere. The " rights" of women are there more fully asserted and more generally recognised. To be admitted to the franchise, to stand as candidates for Congress, to become members of the learned pro- Merchant Taylors' School. The winter speeches were delivered yesterday— familiarly called " The Doctors'-day"—at the con clusion both of the half-year and of the half-yearly examination, held as usual by the Venerable Arch deacon Browne, the Rev. Charles Matheson, and Professor Hall. At two o'clock the Rev. Dr. Hessey, the head-master, introduced the Master of the Company, the Wardens, the Examiners, and the members of the Court into the large school room, where a vast gathering of old pupils and of the boys and their friends were assembled to receive them. Dr. Hessey announced the prizemen for the half year, and adverted to the satisfactory circumstance that at Oxford in 1865 and 1866 Merchant Taylors' men had appeared ten times in the first class lists. In the evening a grand banquet was given by the Master and Wardens in honour of the day. After the toasts of " Church and Queen," "The Royal Family," " The Army and Navy" (for which Colonel Beadle and Sir C. Nicolson responded), and " The Lord Mayor, the Magistrates, and Sheriffs," The MASTER proposed "The Two Houses of Parliament," coupling with the toast the name of a gentleman who, in spite of the clamour of faction, and of all that professional demagogues were able to say, had deserved well of his country, and earned the gratitude of his fellow-citizens—Mr. Lowe. (Cheers.) Mr. LOWE said—There was a time when no man could have thrown upon him an easier or a more agreeable office than that of returning thanks for the House of Commons. It was, in fact, a sort of rhe torical bed of roses. The sympathies of the audience went so heartily with the efforts of the orator, his feelings and those of the nation were so entirely in unison, that the man must indeed have been a novice in his art who could not command a cordial approval from every assembly while descanting on such a theme. But times are changed. The House of Commons, which used to be the admiration of most foreign countries, and the pride and glory of our own, the cynosure of our institutions, thegem of our history, so that at the very name of it every English heart beat more proudly--that institution which we have cherished for 600 years, and which in these 600 years has ripened, matured, amplified, expanded until we thought we had made it an instrument of Government such as the world had never seen before placed in the hands of any nation—that noble insti tution is becoming a scoffing and a by-word among certain classes inthis country. (Hear, and laughter.) It has become among those persons the target at which every shaft is aimed, the flag which they like to drag and trample upon. It is with no common emotion, then, that I rise to return thanks for the toast you have so kindly received. In my humble judgment the House of Commons has not during the recess received that treatment from assemblies of Englishmen to which its glorious past and its most useful and industrious present fairly entitle it. (hear, hear.) I have never asked more for the House of Commons than this, that it should be tried by the same test as is applied to all other institutions in this country ; that if it is objected to people should point out in what respect it has failed ; if it is thought to have failed, that the specific faults which have led to its failure should be pointed out, and that retneciies should also be suggested, not vaguely and at large, but specifically and definitely. This is the challenge I have given. It has never been replied to, and therefore, n twithstanding all the obloquy poured upon us—notwithstanding that some critics have not been satisfied with passing in review our intellectual defects, but have even described our physical Lk:fora:ides, that we, who for our ages, are, perhaps, as good-looking as others, are pub licly denounced as little-minded, hump-backed, one- • eyed semndrels—(laughter)—notwithstanding all this obloqity, I will venture to speak up for the House of Commons, and will say that you will pro bably get a worse before you geta better. (Cheers.) I say further that in the House of Commons you have an assembly eminently intelligent, and that no one acquainted with its debates can fail to be sur prised how admirably members who are not in the habit of addressing the house acquit themselves with ability when it is necessary that they should speak, though they may not have had sufficient energy or adequate inducement before to display that ability. It was also eminently business-like, and I do not believe there is an assembly in the world which goes through the same amount of la bour with the same amount of care, attention, and ability. (Hear.) Then it is an orderly assembly. Though it is more numerous than any other assem bly, it keeps its members in order, or assists its Speaker so to do, better than any assembly which ever existed ; and this, without the aid of a bell, without the necessity every now and then of sus pending the sitting for half an hour ; in short, with out any of those mechanical devices which are re quired elsewhere. (A laugh.) I will say, moreover, that as a body we are pure ; our hands are clean ; no " wire-pullers," no " lobbyers" frequent our lobbies to induce us to prostitute our high offices for the purpose of individual gain. (Hear.) Then I think I may also say that in the course of the last 30 years the House of Commons has erected a dur- able monument to its own memory in the improve ments which it has made in our Government. No institution is perfect, and we have our defects. But I recur to the point I started with—before you change us away make quite sure that you are going to get something better in exchange. (Cheers.) Re member, the House of Commons amalgamates with all parts of the Government. If you injure it you injure every department of the public service, from _ _ _ the highest to the lowest. My voice was therefore raised strongly not against all change, but against any change that was hasty and ill-considered, be- cause every change is irrevocable ; and if a wrong step be taken, it is by no means to be measured by the direct injury which it occasions, but the mis chief which it works indirectly cannot be calculated. (Cheers.) As this, therefore, is the first opportunity which I have had for many months of speaking in public on this subject, I am most anxious to express the hope that these things will be well considered and cautiously dealt with. Like every good Eng lishman, I am prepared to bow to the majority of the intelligence and property of the country ; and l have no doubt that whatever they do, if deliberately done, will be well done. But let nothing be done in a hurry. Let us think well before parting with the certain good we have and accepting the very doubtful good whi c h is promised i n exc h ange for it. (Cheers.) The House of Peers is, of course, in volved in every consideration 1 have mentioned. O n e great problem to be thought over is this —are you prepared to part with the House of Peers ; and, are you not bound to s ee th at any change you may make in the constitution' o f t h e House of C if o l t i n o i t n ; ons is of such a nature that it will be enabled still to work on in harmony with the Hous3 of Peers'? (Hear, hear.) lVith these obser va ti ons I beg to return my most sincere thanks fur the favour which you, at least, are still inclined to show to those most venerable and, I think, most beneficial institutions. (Loud cheers.) The Examiners," "The Masters and Wardens of the other City Companies," anti " The Visitors" were the next toasts. In responding to the last, Archdeacon HALE sad to had regretted and oppo - ied the removal of Charterboue, but he now received consolation from the thought that the glorious playgrounds would still be occupied by young boys, and that the great work of a public school education would still prosper in the midst of the metropolis. Choy Cuni Chung is the name of a Chinese school-teacher in San Francisco. fessions, to wear the Bloomer costume, are positions taken up by the more strong-minded, and urged with much force and ability by the more advanced female parties. Those who claim an equal right in the Government of the country, and who aspire to all the business relations of men, may also urge that they have an equal right toget drunk. We have not seen any such arguments used, but if " man being reasonable must get drunk," women, who assert an equal amount of reason, may fairly assume this measure of superiorityand distinction over the brute creation, guided only by instinct. If the greater exercise of the reasoning faculties leads to a greater consumption of alcohol, we would certainly depre cate and deplore a change which would not advance the position of the sex. If it be disgusting in a man to get drunk, there is something horrible in the drunkenness of women. It is asserted that the evil is spreading in England as well as in America, and if it be so, and the Round Table be right in the statement it has made regarding the drunkenness of women in the United States, it is the duty of society to curb with a very tight rein so fearful a tendency. But we are not aware that drunkenness is on tile increase here, and the Round Table admits " that the article called Drunkenness Among Women' was too sweeping, too unqualified, and, considering the gravity of its imputations, not sufficiently guarded against wholesale conclusions and miscon structions." Nor do its admissions stop here ; for it adds that it published the article before ascertain ing the facts, and then obtained the facts to justify the article. It is well known how statistics can be obtained to strengthen any conclusion. In prying into the social relations of private families facts can be assumed and conclusions jumped at which would turn out to be wholly or partially untrue if a fuller means of information were in the power of the in quirer. We have little doubt, however, that the facts are sufficiently startling, and though the article in question may have shocked society in New York, we can readily believe that the good it did, was in proportion to the shock it communicated.—Anglo- American Times. SFIRI E OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TISIES.—At the end of last week the stock of the South-Eastern Railway experienced a rapid fall of about two per cent., followed at the beginning of this week by an almost equally rapid recovery. So great are the fluctuations to which railway shares are liable at a time like the present that such a cir cumstance would attract but little attention, espe cially as some other Companies participated in the depression and reaction. We have now reason to know, however, that it was not wholly due to legiti mate causes, but that a mice .ssful attempt had been made to depreciate the value of South-Eastern stock in the market by an act of deliberate fraud. The correspondence which appeared yesterday in our City Article places this in a very clear light. On Friday afternoon Mr. Watkin, M.P., Chairman of the South-Eastern Railway, being then in Manches ter, learnt to his dismay that a report of his own failure was being circulated on the Stock-Exchange is that city. He immediately wrote to Mr. Raw son, Chairman of the Manchester Stock Exchange, emphatically denying the truth of the rumour, and requesting that steps might be taken to discover its author. The result was that a telegraphic message was found to have been received by Messrs. Field ing and Hayes, of Manchester, from a Mr. Grise wood, in London, of which the following is a copy :—" Grisewood to Fielding,—l hear the B Chairman has failed •, please say if true or no." The reply was to the effect that no such event had been " named" in Manchester. But the story thus suggested was not allowed to drop. On the contrary, it was spread busily and widely enough to , be " thoroughly discredited," as Mr. Rawson says, on the Manchester Exchange, and to reach the ears of M r . W a tki u himself. That gen tleman, having succeeded in tracing its origin so far, very properly applied to the Chairman of the London Stock Exchange, of which Mr. Grisewood appears to be a member, calling upon him to insti tute a further inquiry, with a view of identifying the " real author." A searching investigation was at once promised, and we can only hope that it will lead to the detection and punishment of all parties implicated in so infamous a transaction. We infer, however, from the circular addressed to the share holders of the South Eastern Railway, as well from Mr. IVatkin's letter to the chairman of the London Stock Exchange, that the canard produced the de sired effe.:t before it exploded, "enabling a number of unprincipled persons to realise large dishonest profits." A panic was actually created for the time, and the first consequence of a panic is that deben tures falling due must be renewed on unfavourable terms. Unhappily, it is much easier to excite dis trust than to remove it, and long after falsehoods of this class have been exposed, the impression left by them continues to operate injuriously. It may be said that, at all events, this is quite an exceptional case, and that such conduct, once brought to light, will be effectually put down on the Stock Exchange. We cannot for one moment assent to either of these opinions. We do not believe that a wilful falsifica tion of facts, with the fraudulent intention of low ering the price of shares, is an exceptional, or even a rare, piece of sharp practice ; nor can we affect to have much confidence in the disposition of the Stock Exchange Committee to adopt stringent measures against it. The peculiarity of the calumny in this instance is, not that it was morewicked or unfounded than usual, but that it took somewhat too definite a shape, and was embodied incautiously in a telegraphic message. The system of "bearing" the share mar ket, which inevitably arises out of time bargains, in evitably leads to the fabrication of statements equally malicious and equally criminal, but it is generally conducted with greater skill. A stockjobber sells a number of shares which he does not possess in a per fectly sound undertaking for delivery on a future day. Thenceforward it becomes his direct interest to damage the credit of the concern by every means in his power • and unless his co n s c i ence b e more scrupulous than that of his neighbours, he will not stick at trifles. It is not as if categorical assertions, capable of prompt refutation, were at all necessary. A question or innuendo will serve the purpose just as well, and a great deal may be done by a tacit shrug of the shoulders or shake of the head, judi ciously timed, and set off by an air of sincere regret. Even here the interrogative form of insinuation was employed, but it was preceded by a distinct intima tion that Mr. Grisewood, the sender of the telegram, had received certain information about a certain gentleman. He will, of course, be expected to name his informant, and as positive " failure," such as was alleged to have befallen Mr. Watkin, is not so vague a thing as mere embarrassment, it is not im possible that the invention may be at last brought home to some individual. At the same time we cannot forget that on a recent occasion the com mittee of the Stock Exchange expressly declined to co-operate with the public in checking the abuses of time bargains. It is contended, on behalf of the " bears," that, after all, thersonly act in self-de fence, and do but neutralise the shameless efforts of others to raise the value of shares by rigging the market. There is just enough truth in this plea to deceive those for whom it is intended. It is true that new enterprises are often got afloat by shame less and wholesale puffing, sometimes aided by ficti tious purchases of the shares by the promoters. We have not a word in excuse of these persons, but, after all, the maxim " caveat eniptor" applies to their machinations, and their victims must take the consequences of fancying that exorbitant interest can be realised on good securities. To compass the ruin of an innocent and solvent company or firm by persistent attacks on its credit, and to do this for the sake of getting a higher profit on a speculative sale, is a very different thing, and those who live by such a trade are public enemies. It is absurd to pretend that well established concerns are proof against assaults, however ingenious, and that only those already destined to fall can be thus undermined. A business which depends but little on short credits, and from which money cannot be suddenly with drawn, may, indeed, defy the arts of the " bears," while hardly any bank, however stable, could sustain a, general and simultaneous run on its deitosits. Rail ways are less at the mercy of the Stock Exchange, but railways may find it impossible to borrow money at a reasonable rate if their stock is unfairly depre ciated, and this may easily be effected by an orga nised conspiracy of sharejobbers. In short, the power of an exclusive body, like the members of the Stock Exchange, to injure the rest of the com munity is almost unlimited, and it is high time to consider what restrictions can be placed upon the exercise of it. Nothing short of a resort to the cri minal law, and, if necessary, the enactment of new provisions against new kinds of knavery, will put a stop to an evil so highly organise,l, and supported by interests so powerful. This is not a question for select circles in the City; it is a question for the country and the Legislature. Our complaint is that commercial morality, so far as it tolerates such proceedings as we have described, is several degrees behind the standard of national morality, and even behind that recognised in our penal code. Men who deserve to stand in the dock of the Central Criminal Court, and whose offences are notorious, do not always forfeit th e i r p os iti on i n th e mercantile world, but often contrive to keep up appearances until the ugly tales about them have blown over. The reason is, that many others are inwardly conscious of hav ing been privy to acts but a shade less dishonest. Were there a public prosecutor, whose duty it should be to proceed against all who conspire to defraud their neighbours, without respect of persons, can any one doubt that i‘ highly respectable parties" would be more frequently missing from their accustomed haunts ? In the meantime, we can but make an example of those who, perhaps not more guilty than others, have the misfortune to be found out. The South Eastern Railway Company is, happily, strong enough to protect itself, and we heartily trust that its directors will yield to no private representations, but patiently track their cowardly assailant, and fearlessly drag him, be he who he may, to justice. POST.—The British public are now well aware, from painful experience in various ways, that ha perfectlydrained towns and villages are very liable to be visited by epidemics which frequently spread from house to house. Bad water and noxious exhalations are the predisposing causes of cholera and of other complaints. If the mere refuse water of towns were turned into rivers, it would cause little injury to their purity ; but when, as is now the case, the execreta of thousands of human beings are mixed up with it, the result is that hundreds of English streams have been terribly polluted, to the detriment of man and beast. Absolute failures and terrible expenses, including in some cases law costs, have convinced local authorities in various parts of the country that any attempts at deodorising and clarifying town sewage previous to its being cast into a river are delusions so far as they are con cerned, and have not lessened the nuisance to those below them. Under existing arrangements the irri gation scheme, so successful in many place , especi ally where ryegrass is grown, evidently commends itself to public notice in this country as a rough and ready way of disposing of town sewage, and is being extensively adopted. It is not to be inferred from this circumstance, however, that all arguments on the subject are exhausted, or that the best way of collecting and utilising the valuable refuse of urban populations has been finally settled. Captain Liernur, of Holland, has within the last few weeks given partial publicity in this country to his plan for dealing with this matter. His scheme is altogether distinct from and independent of the water supply and of the facilities for drain age within the reach of towns. These may in every instanee remain as they are at present. The name of the Pneumatic Sewage System is given to the various appliances by which Captain Liernur hopes to improve the existing state of things. The equal pressure of the atmosphere on all parts of any given object lies at the foundation of his plan, which is perfectly familiar to the pro moters of abortive railways got up on this principle, as well as to the originators of pneumatic tubes for the conveyance of. parcels. Captain Liernur ac knowledges that cesspools on the Continent have for many years been emptied in the way now re commended by him. His project is an extension of an existing practice. He has succeeded in getting his plan adopted at the Hague, a city containing a population of 80,000 ; and as the Dutch are a prac tical people, the authorities there must have been favourably impressed with the utility of the scheme, or they would not have undertaken to carry it out, which, however, they have, and it will be in actual operation in the course of a few months. Captain Liernur proposes to insert reservoirs, made of boiler plate, under the street crossings, at such intervals as may be required. Connected with these a main pipe runs up every street, with branches diverging into each house. The present water closets are to be modified ; the water turned off and the branch pipe from the main continued throughout every storey in the house until it reaches the height of the roof. A stone ware pipe without bottom or valve, and removable, would take the place of the existing pan in water closets. The result would be that the whole faecal matter of an entire household would fall to the bottom of the tube and remain there for the day, while the vapours arising therefrom would escape by the chimney-like contrivance just alluded to. This chimney, moreover, answers another pur pose, viz., supplying a column of air for expelling the contents of the pipes during the night, which it is pro posed thus to accomplish. The reservoir is air tight, and at a certain hour a travelling steam engine with tank of requisite size for holding the cont en t s o f the adjoining pipes, pumps out theair from the reservoir; a hose is screwed on to it, a elide removed, and the pressure of the atmosphere in the chimneys a'ready alluded to instantly forces all the excreta into the tank, which can be either conveyed to the land at once, or packed in barrels, and removed to any dis tance. The plan appears to be simple as well as in genious. It professes only to deal with excreta, and there are many particulars connected with it which we cannot now describe. If it should succeed in practice, it will be a great boon not only to towns, but also to agriculturists, by furnishing them with a valuable manure, unmixed with water and other substances, for stimulating the growth of cereal, root, and other crops. The results of the experi ment at the Hague will be looked forward to with considerable interest. Large sums of money have been expended in this country in the drainage of towns, and in arranging the present water-closet system in c:mnection with the sewers. Without prunouncing, any (lecidal opinion upon the merits or demerits of Captain Liernur's p'an, we at the same time think it deserves the attention of the Bri tish public. Municipal bodies not yet comm:tted to any scheme for freeing their sewage from faecal matters would do well to make themselves familiar with the specific objects which it proposes to accom plish. In large establishments, such as gaols, work houses, hospitals, and the like, and which already possess motive power for pumping purposes, Capt. Liernur's scheme deserves consideration. The value of the material is rated at a very high figure, suffi cient not only to pay all expenses but also to leave a profit on all capital employed. As to this we have no means of judging ; but we have little doubt that our readers will be glad to find that human in genuity is still busily engaged in trying to devise effectual methods for removing and utilising sub stances which the land could absorb with advan tage, but which at present too often prove only a nuisance to all those who have to deal with them, as well as a fruitful cause of disease and death. THE AMERICAN PRESS. Probably the most remarkable of the financial movements now in progress in this city is that in real estate. People are buying buildings of all kinds, but dwelling houses in particular. The in quiry for residences of the better sort is very brisk. it is said by those who know that more real pro perty has changed hands during the past month at private sale than in any similar period since the beginning of the war. The feature of the business which will attract most attention is the increased price asked and obtained for the property disposed of. A rise in value was not anticipated. It is quite true, however, that rates have generally gone up, and the amount of the increase varies, according to the estimates of the real estate men, from five to ten per cent. to forty per cent. The comparison is with the prices of a year ago ; but there is, of course, no ab solute standard. Nearly all the agents who have had property for sale for several months are forbid den to sell it at former prices, the owners declining to recognise the offers they made last year, or in the early part of the year ; and, in many instances, the agents cannot, they say, guarantee rates from day to day. There are various causes for the excitement in regard to real estate. The recent depression of general trade here and in other parts of the country has tended to unsettle the public confidence concerning the financial prospects of the future, which was so manifest a few months ago. The stagnation of business is supposed by some persons % indicate a change of values at an early day, and attention is directed to real estate as a comparatively safe basis of investment. These persons think that, although the prices of real pro perty are high, the decline cannot be so great as it may be in other kinds of property. The fact that real estate in good locations has risen to double or triple its former valuation does not deter them from taking it freely at rates that good judges consider no criterion of its worth. The great cost of putting up buildings now has its full share of influence upon these persons, and they reason that any property which can be obtained at less than the present ex pense of construction is necessarily cheap. They take the risks. There is at the same time a willing ness on the part of a large proportion of the property owners of the city to sell ; ani they often get prices consid era bl y above thir expecta tions. Builders are very active, and they will make this year probably two thousand houses, stores, &c., and most of these not built upon private order are put in the market and sold. The transactions in real estate are in a great measure speculative. Operators are b us y w ith their money ; and some of them are making quick and heavy re turns.—New York Evening Post. The intelligence that a second telegraph line has been completed to California will be received by the business community with more than ordinary pleasure. The new line extends to Denver City, Bridger's Pass, and is continued over the old over land stage route. Thus, there are two lines of tele graphic communication with the Pacific, and by that means we may always expect to receive direct and speedy intelligence. The construction of a branch line from Montana to Salt Lake City will assist in keeping us advised of affairs in the Mormon territory, from which, before long, we may expect some trouble. The telegraph lines are now connected with the principal mining districts of the West, and a most important national interest is thereby afforded free means of communication with the centres of capital and business. In a few years the amount of communications sent over the Pacific lines will be tremendous. The completion of the Pacific Railroad will give occasion for numerous despatches between the East and West. The country between, will be settled more thickly than it is at present, and there will be of necessity much local business. By that time may be that two lines of telegraph will not be sufficient for the speedy transmission of messages, and others will be necessary. Indeed such is the wonderful growth of the country that even the enlightened and far' seeing men of the present day are not able to pre; diet the vast changes which must take place.- - Philade/phia Inquirer. 0 OUN TRY MARKETS. LEEDS-TUESDAY. Moderate arrivals into Goole this week. The trade to day is rather inactiv e , b u t f u ll pr i ces h ave b een o btained for good qualities of whe a t. B ar l eys me t a s l ow sa le, and s per qr. lower. Beans also is lower. No alteration in other articles. Average prices: Wheat, 59s 3d; barley, 44s lid; oatA 26s 21d. LIVERPOOL—T UESDAY. To-day's market was fairly attended, and the tone of the trade was somewhat eas i er th an l as t F r id ay . Wheat was in good request at pr ev i ous ra t es . Fl our stea dy, and unchanged in value. ludian corn in fair request, at ft , l l prices. Beans and peas dull. Oats and oatmeal at barely late rates. LYNN-TUESDAY. There was about an average attendance of buyers to-!1 8 9 at our market. The demand for wheat was rather active• Oats fully as dear as last week. Beans and peas firm. Now wheat, 54s to 58s ; new rsd, 40s to 48s; old 67s to 71s ; old red, 59s to 63s per 36 s t one . Barley for malting, 46s to 52s ; secondary, 37s to 38s. Oats, no r ' 24s to 28s pee 24 stone. Beans, small, 42s t o 445. root 36s to 40s per 28 stone. white, MARKET HARBOROUGH.—TUESDAY. A fair quantity of wheat, and prices were in favour of the seller. Trade good. Barley very little altered. 034/ scarce. Beans declined slightly. Old white wheat, 55s to 72s ; new red ,150 s to 67s per 36 stone. Barley, fine, 52s ; other kinds, 23s to 36s per 30 St. Oats, new, 22s to 23s ; old, 30s to 34s per q r. Beans, old, 50s to 55s ; new, 46s to 48s per qr. SHEFFIELD—TUESDAY. There was a middling show of wheat to-day, and trade ruled firm at rather over former rates. Barley slow, an d rather lower in pries. Oats firm. Red•wheat, per load of 3 imp. hushels 23s Od to 21s 61 , White do do 2ss Od 27s 0., New red do do 2ls Od 23s ea New white do do 24s Od 26s Od Beans do do 2os Od 225 0,1 Peas, per qr. l's 6d 10 Grindinged bet ley, per qr 35s Od 350 ou,, Maltinebarley, , o 4OB Od 48s od Oats, do 2's Od 32 8 vd F10ur....1s 10d to 2s bd per 141 b, Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Australia and New Zealand, via Southamptoo...„Dee. Ditto, via Marseilles Jan. IX Brazil and Capa Verde, by British packet ...... —Jon. t Ditto, by French packet Cape of Good Hope, Asceneion, and Bt. Helena Deo. 28 . China, Penang. and Singapore, via Southampton Dec 20. Ditto, via Marseilles Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton Dcc. 14. Endia (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Do. 2 7 . Ditto, via Marseilles . Dec. 27 India (Bombay), via Southampton. ....... .........Dec. 2 0 Ditto, via Marseilles ... _Dee. 2 3 Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Dee 21 • Ditto, via Marseilles Dee. 23. Mauritius, via Southampton Ditto, via Marseilles Jan 9 Xewfoundland • 4 Jade 2 " . Portugal Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon ... United States and British North America, by Bri tish packet. Ditto, by United States packet, via Southamp . ton Ditto, via Cork Ditto, oy Canadian packet. via Londonderry „Deo. 1 ' West Coat 4 of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe ~..Jan. 3 West Indies and Pacific) (except Bahamas and Honduras) Dec. Baharm.J, via New York. Jan. 1 ' Cuba aad Mexico Bermuda, via Halifax BRITISH PROFESSORS.—The members of the British Cabinet talk very fairly in regard to this country, and representations of their kind and jus t intentions towards us are made everywhere but In the place where they would be of some importan ce —to wit, in Downing-street, London. The London Times promises all sorts of pretty things day aft er day, and in article after article. Lord Statile); speaks very temperately and ad m i r i ng ly of US public dinners. Lord Derby says that the Amer': cans are a fine people, and that he is rejoiced that that they are doing so well ; that peace has b een restored, and we trust that our Government is ja situation to settle all its troubles. He believed, c) . : course, that the post vellum co n t roversy, w hi c h had arisen upon the Reconstruction question, would be settled agreeably and sensibly. The Atlantic cable , he averred, was a proof that England was " mis tress of the seas." She once ruled the waves , by means of her viuodeu walls and cannon, but. of late years she has had to surrender to iron sides, and she has not cannon large enough to con tend with some of the maritime powers. Sh e ' therefore, gives over the idea that her greatness may depend upon a navy, and binds it by a wire. She may be mistress of all the news which g ee ' under the seas, but she is not mistress of the waves' as it was assumed she was in the old bragging lad. According to, the report of Lord Derby 0 speech, it contained nothing more than a few plati tudes and congratulations, but the Times construe! it to mean that a " proposition for the arrangenle" of the differences between England and Am y with respect to the Alabama claims would °` favourably entertained, and that the duties of neu trals in maritime war might be reconsidered." /I : hope that Earl Derby said all th a t. But we mkt suggest that the meagre report of his speech do e not justify the prof use d e d uc ti ons o f the comment. —Philadelphia Inquirer. DR. LIVINGSTONE.—The following intelligence ° C the movements of this distinguished traveller is Africa has been received :—" After fifteen days at the °ill fluence of the Rovuma and Niende with the chief N'dee" ° ' the party marched wastwards, through the country bed tween the two streams, keeping out o f s i g ht o f both, e ll ie passing for three days a desolate forest cleared of peOP through slave-hunting. The first villages reached w er rs e l those of the Walolo, a sub-tribe of the Makoa. SO I , e days were spent in passing f rom v ill age t o v ill age of the se people ; the country became more e l eva t e d as they ad vanced, vanced, and the mornings p rove d qu it e c hilly to a natives of the expedition. Another band of desert lag was passed, and they then came to th e R ovu ma, w hic , they followed on its south bank for some distance. To tb north the Mazite had carried war and desolation. L ee ' V ' ing the ROVRIIIa, lir. Livingstone passed among 161 1 villages of the Waiao tribe, by w h om h e was we ll receiv ed. When last seen he had set out from the village of lib t3 :i (where he had abundance of food, including rice ancl i b e i e for the people have large he r d s ), en route for ll Nyassa, distant four days' journey. Livin g stone Wes /le and making onward progress when last heard of. [ADVERTISEMENT.' Holloway's Pills.—Wi n teriy Leis backs.—Whence fogs spring or whither they retire 1 00 not our present purpose to explain ; we desire to poin t .,d, how their ill effects on the human frame c a n bo The blood must be freed from supe r fl uo us carbou, a, o mephitic taint by some purifying medicine like pills, which not only thoroughly cleanse the circuhl ti l y but adjust in every organ the defects imp o sed upon 1 i llB that fluid when it has become foul or slu gg ish. These p or n prevent stagnation, congestion, and are the best reguj a itr and preservatives against internal inflammations, l_ rr to rs tions, and ulcerations; while expelling morbid t from the system, they cool it by their gently aperityle tion, and strengthen it by their tonic virtues. Births. wife ° FABRER—On the 18th inst., at 41, Rutland-gate, th e 6 of Capt. Farrel-, D.L., late of the Ist Life Guard s, daughter. 7 ,r tbe KINNOULL —On the 15th inst., at Dupplin Castle, Countess of Kinnoull, of a daughter. TtAa CO l MILLER —On the 18th inst., Mrs. G. W. Miller, A- - Rill, Camden-road, of a son. the RICE—On the 10th inst., at 27, Eaton-place Sou th, Hon. Mrs. C. Spring Rice, of a daughter. Marriages. CIIAPMAN—NEwmix—On the 15th i ns t., a t St. AL ‘4. R--.11„ 111 of Church, Richmond, Surrey, Thomas Beach ChaP in— lar. Shepley, Yorkshire, to Emily, second daughter of Joseph Newman, Hill-street ,Richmond. ms s, Pmcz—Gß.EEN—On the 17th inst., at Dane-bill, Su to Frederick W. Price, E sq ., Highbury-terrace,Lo nd°,l :: Emma Chatterton, e ld es t surv i v i ng d a ughter of t--r Green, Esq., formerly of Handsworth, Birmingbaca. Deaths. .fire, • BURROWS—On the 17th inst , at 22, Lorrirnoro-F4l— C. Burrows, Esq. E 01ES' Cown—On the 15th inst., Charles a CoWie, Grange&ld, Oxtou, Cifeshire, aged 54. T. ter/ FOLLETT—On the 17th inst, at Mount Wear, near ..:40 John Follett, Esq., aged 60. HorwonTiry—On the 16th inst., at 5, P en l ee Villas, St° l ' ei Devon, O. D. Holworthy, aged 78. JOHNSON—On the 17th inst., at Brixton, W. Johnson, Vciq late of Bishopsgate, aged . 73. too t , MITCHELL —On the lith inst., at 6, Glasshoug e-s Regent-street, Mr, H. G. Mitchell. London of No. : Printed ~'itra tnd Pullished by WILLIAM UN A.NDBNV: 112, and, Punter at Tan S OTOC , oi Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the CiOugu AildniseeX.—Wednesday, December 19, 15i1e. NE 1' ~~ most all o ec nl easu chase:tw OV. C=o l U° L;,,,, Ov Lu g 9 V ,utign I ___Ju - d k r z O v 1.10„,„ Ovj Lud g . i ~v: hil 0 V hill 17 Rat e .h L ~)V: O rj ~V~ Vi 1, 114 ;,, Aga tOdj R,ate-14 I.4lldga hi; gt 14 Rho 1, 43 up o s 04 VP"