The Sun. — London, England, 1865-07-07 00:00:00

ELECT LONDON. Mr. GASSIOT was called to the chair. On assum ing it, he said the meeting was one of the most im portant connected with the representation of the city of London that had probably ever been held in that house, for the result of the election for the city would, to a great extent, govern that of other con stituencies, and he urged upon the Liberal electors of London unanimity of action in the impending struggle. (Cheers.) The chairman referred in pass ing to the absence from ill health of Baron Roths child, reminding them that the Baron had ever been a true Reformer, that under his flag the Dissenters had obtained privileges, and that he had always lent his power and influence to promote the Liberal cause. (Cheers.) In Wednesday's Times an address Appeared in reference to the present contest, bear ing the signature of Mr. Thomas Baring, a gentle man of the highest character. He (the chairman) was astonished that a man who was the very soul of honour could have been so far led away by Tory principles as to put his name to such a manifesto. Alluding in particular to Mr. La wrence, M r. Bar i ng, as the chairman of the Conservative committee in the city, said : "We do not wish to call in question the individual merits of the four candidates whose collective election the Liberal Registration Association demand of the constitu ency. We readily allow that the social position and in fluence of Baron de Rothschild may, notwithstanding his continued absence from the House of Common; be of in finite value to the Liberal Registration Association ; we do not deny that the measures advocated and the votes given by Mr. Crawford and Mr. Goschen are in strict accordance with the doctrines and decrees of that association ; and if Alderman Lawrence were the acknowledged, and chosen representative of the body of Aldermen and of the Corpo ration of the city of London, instead of being the nominee of the association, we should be disposed to view his claims in a more favourable light." The fact was that, in the autumn of last year, Sir James Duke having suddenly announced his inten tion of retiring from the representation, Alderman Lawrence, who was then Lord Mayor, presented himself as a candidate without consulting the asso ciation. The Liberal party in the city had always felt that the Corporation, considering the great in terests committed to its care, should be specially represented by one of the four members. Alder man Sir James Duke was never a favourite member with the Liberal Association, and in the very last vote he gave he walked into the lobby against Lord Palmerston. He (the chairman) denied that the Liberal Association had ever, directly or indirectly, attempted to dictate to the electors in the choice of representatives. Its primary business was to attend to the registration in the various wards, and on the oc casion of elections to endeavour to select the candi dates most likely to enlist the confidence of the party, and having done that to impress on the Liberal elec tors, as they did now, the necessity for unanimity of action, if they wished to prevent the representa tion of the city being neutralised by the return of an equal number of Conservatives and Liberals. (Cheers.) Mr. CRAWFORD, who was well received, next ad dressed the meeting. He said his colleagues and himself had been prosecuting an active canvass, the general result of which was most satisfactory to them all. Alluding to the claim put forward by tbeir op ponents to a share in the representation, he said the Government of the country was conducted on the principle of a majority ruling a minority ; and be lieving that the Liberal party in the city were in a large majority, he held it was the bounden duty of the party to use all legitimate exertions to obtain the whole representation. ( Hear, hear.) Mr. Baring himself said :—" There can be little hesitation in believing that the spirit of parties in Great Britain prevails in a more subdued form than at any previ ous period during the present generation." (A laugh) Then Mr. Baring referred to what he called " a prevailing lethargic indifference." So far from that being the case, he (Mr. Crawford) thought there was never an occasion in the memory of living men when the Liberal party were more determined to wrest the representation from the Tories than at the general election on which the country was about to enter. Apathy might exist on the aide of their opponents, but not on theirs. The statement that " the treasures advocated and the votes given by Mr. Crawford and Mr. Goschen were in strict ac cordance with the doctrines and decrees of the Registration Association " was simply an imperti nence, and had no foundation whatever in fact. For himself, he had invariably declined to pledge himself to any elector or any question whatever, feeling that it would be degrading to a representa tive to be the mere advocate of crotchets. (Cheers.) Mr. Crawford reviewed shortly some of the more conspicuous measures carried by the Government during the expiring Parliament, dwelling especially on the financial policy of Mr. Gladstone, the effect of which, he said, had been to remove fetters which had embarrassed trade and commerce, and to de stroy monopolies, the Chancellor of the Exchequer having for his object the benefit of the many rather than of the few. He then read, as an electioneering curiosity, an anonymous letter which had been addressed to him from the Junior Carlton Club, as follows : " 1. " Sir,—A meeting of the el ec t ors of London will July be held at Gower's Horse Repository, in Cripplegate, on Monday next, at 7 o'clock, when the Conservative candidates will attend. Should there be a repetition of the Liberal tactics in Bishopsgate—namely, a hired, organised band of ruffians to disturb the proceedings—we give you fair notice that we shall consider you and the other candidates personally responsible for such a disgraceful proceeding, ar d we shall at your meeting at the London Tavern on Thursday, and at all your meetings, be forced to retaliate in a way you will perhaps be scarcely prepared for.—Yours, dm, "SEVERAL CONSERVATIVE ELECTORS. " A copy kept." (A laugh.) He could not understand why such a letter should have been addressed to him. When ever he and his colleagues had held meetings they had been announced in the usual way ; they were free to everybody, and were presided over by gentle men connected with the districts, while the resolu tions adopted at them were always carried unani inously. By way of contrast, Mr. Crawford read what he called a passport to one of the Conservative meetings, in which persons invited to a meeting at Radley's Hotel were requested to produce the letter of invitation in order to insure their admission. He concluded by reading an extract from the a idress of Sir Francis Baring to his constituents at Portsmouth on taking leave of them, in which Sir Francis said that at elections the worst enemy of the Liberal par t y w as disunion, and Mr. Crawford urged the Liberal electors at the forthcoming contest to make one united effort, and so return, not two or three, but all the four Liberal candidates. (Cheers, and " What about Westbury ?") Mr. GOSCHEN, who was enthusiastically ch eere d , said he was ready to be interrogated about Lord West bury, or about any other member of the Govern ment. He had not given any vote in the House of Commons of which he needed to be ashamed, and if he had to choose between respect to a Govern ment and respect to his constituents he should elect to go for his constituents. As to Lord West bury, his colleague, Mr. Crawford, and himself, voted for the adjournment of the debate, believing that where the character of so exalted a personage as the Chancellor was at stake the house was not then in a temper to do justice. Mr. Goschen then proceeded to refer to matters arising out of the elec tion, but his speech was for the most part a repeti tion of some he had previously made at ward meet ings during the contest. He remarked on the elec tion turning on no party cry, but upon the know ledge among the people as to which of the two great political parties in the State was the more likely to promote the general interest of the country. He adverted to work which yet remained for a Liberal Yesterday an aggregate meeting of electors, con vened at the instance of the four Liberal candidates, was held at the Lond , an Tavern, to afford them an opportunity, on the eve of the election, of meeting a larger number of the constituency than has usually assembled at the ward meetings which they have been addressing nightly during the last ten days. The meeting was numerously attended, and the candidates, Mr. Crawford, Mr. Goschen, and Al derman Lawrence, with Mr. Leopold Rothschild, representing his father, Baron Rothschild, were accompanied to the hall by a large number of their committee. .GENCE. presiding over the meeting, which then dispersed. MIDDLESEX. Yesterday afternoon Mr. Robert Hanbury and Viscount Enfield attended a meeting of electors in the Uxbridge division of the county of Middlesex, for the purpose of explaining their past conduct and soliciting re-election. As this was the first meeting the late members had attended, and as one of them has accepted office in connection with her Majesty's Government since the last general election, the in terest excited by the meeting was very great, and " the public rooms" in which the electors assembled were well filled. Mr. DANIEL NORTON, of Ruislip, presided, and in a few words introduced the candidates. Mr. R. HANBURY said it gave him the greatest pleasure to meet the electors once more. Since the last time he had the honour of addressing them six years had passed away, and he had consequently had six more years of Parliamentary life. He thought he might without hesitation confidently refer to his votes and his past conduct as having fully carried out the views which on his election he had set forth. It would obviously be impossible for him at the present time to touch even upon the measures which had been brought in by the present Liberal Government, and he thought he should hardly be doing what was right if he did advert to them at length when a member of her Majesty's Government was present. In the House of Commons he had con stantly watched all those measures, and he believed they were thoroughly in accordance with the views of his constituents, while at the same time he believed they were calculated to advance the welfare and hap piness of the country. (Hear.) He need not dwell on the financial measures of the Government. If they looked to the National Debt they would find that six years ago it amounted to £823,000,000, whereas now it was £808,000,000, showing a de crease of £15,000,000. That was one benefit that had been derived from the policy of the present Government. The income tax was 9d. in the pound when the late Government began its sittings —now it had been reduced through the financial policy of the Chancellor of the Exchequer to 4d. Then if they looked to the commodities chargeable with Customs' duties they would find that at the begin ning of the last Parliament there were 419 such articles, but the number had now been reduced to 14. With regard to duties repealed, he believed he might say that taxes to the extent of £9,000,000 had been repealed since 1850. Soon after the assembling of the late Parliament there was, as they were aware, an advanced measure proposed in the shape of a commercial treaty with France. All knew that they were indebted for that great measure to that estim able and valuable man whose memory they looked upon with so much respect and esteem, and whose loss they so deeply deplored. He need scarcely say that he alluded to the late Mr. Cobden. (Cheers.) He had always considered that intimate commercial relations between this and other countries would cause the best understanding between them, and ne cessarily prevent those unhappy differences of which they had had experience in former years. (Hear.) He believed that the annual value of the commerce between the two countries last year was 24 millions, whereas during this year it amounted to nearly 50 millions sterling. These were some of the benefits which, as a member of the House of Commons, he had assisted in carrying out. (Hear, hear.) He (Mr. Hanbury) had given up as much of his time as he could well spare to the promotion of this object, for they must all be aware that in Middlesex it would be impossible for a man to give up the whole of his time and attention to one object. He had given up much time from his commercial pursuits in order that he might be ready at the call of his constituents to confer with them as to their local and individual interests, and he trusted that he had always been ready to serve them and advance their objects. He thought that during the last few years they had seen an almost unrivalled state of prosperity in the coun try. Notwithstanding the war in America, not withstanding bad harvests, the cotton famine, and other depressing circumstances, he thought they could scarcely look back to any six previous years and say that there had ever been so much prosperity in the land. (Hear, hear.) He attributed that state of things greatly to the patient industry of our hard working population ; but he thought also it was essentially due to the careful administration of a wise and paternal Government, who had done all they could to raise the people by education, by rais ing a band of Volunteers, by establishing Post-office savings -banks for the labouring classes, and many other efforts, all having the same object, and all of which had been crowned with eminent success. The hon. gentleman concluded by saying that, if the electors thought well to re-elect him, he would give his time and whatever ability he possessed for the benefit of his constituents. An ELECTOR—If you are returned will you sup port an extension of the suffrage—Mr. Baines's bill, for example? Mr. HANBURY—I voted in favour of that bill. An ELECTOR..-Will you vote for the repeal of the malt tax? Mr. HANBURY—I have voted for the repeal of al most every tax. I don't remember at this moment whether or not I voted for the repeal of the malt-tax. (Cries of " Oh, oh !") At all events, Ido not think the time has come to do away with direct taxation. An ELECTOR-Will you vote in favour of an in spection of nunneries, both Protestant and Roman Catholic ? Mr. H ANBURY—YeS ; I voted with Mr. Newdegate on that subject. Viscount ENFIELD then rose, and was received with cheers. He said the electors chose him as their representative in 1857 and again in 1859. He now sought at their hands a renewal of that trust. He believed his political sentiments were pretty well known to them, for there had been no vote in the House of Commons in which he had not participated. (Hear.) It would be for the electors of Middlesex to say whether or not those votes were in accordance with their expectations. ("No," and loud cries of " Yes, yes.") The old watchwords of the Liberal party still remained, and to them he should continue to give his firm and unflinching adherence "Peace," " Retrenchment," " Reform," " Civil and Religious Liberty." He did not lightly or without considera-: tion enroll himself under the banner of the Liberal party, but having done so it was his duty to main- tain those wathwords of his public life. Since February last, by the favour of the Crown, he had assisted in working out the laws relating to the poor, and in his capacity of Secretary of the Poor-law Board had helped to carry through Parliament two Acts which he believed would prove of essential benefit to the country. The first of these was the Metropolitan Houseless Poor Act, which would affect London alone ; and the second the Union Government to do—such as the amendment of the Chargeability Bill, which he believed would bene bankruptcy laws, of the law of partnership, and the ficially affect the country at large. On another gradual diminution, if not eradication of pauperism, point, that of peace, he thought he need not say He asked, amid some cheering, who began free trade anything when they looked back upon the course and who opposed it ; and whether or not the meet- which Lord Palmerston's Government had adopted. ing was willing to back Lord Palmerston against With regard to Italy, Denmark, and Austria, the Lord Derby, Earl Russell against Lord Malmesbury, noble lord had preserved the peace of the country, and Mr. Gladstone against Mr. Disraeli. In reply and in no sense whatever had the honour of the to a taunt that the Liberal party was revolutionary, country been tarnished. (Loud cheers.) On the he denied that any great organic change could be subject of reform he could•not but feel that it had suddenly brought about in this country. He cited been bandied and knocked about from one party to the questions of church-rates and the ballot to exem- another, and he hoped that in the next Parliament plify the slow process in Parliament by which the measures would be takan to secure a fair extension change was ordinarily effected, and he said the of the suffrage, not legislating for one class solely, greater danger arose from obstructiveness. With or by a bill brought in by any individual member respect to reform, he said there could be no satis- of the Government, however estimable he might be, factory measure which did not assign a fair portion but supported by the whole weight of the Govern of the representation to the working classes, and he ment. (Cheers.) denied that they were democratically inclined. In reply to questions, the noble lord said he did The meeting was afterwards very briefly addressed not vote with Mr. Newdegate on the inspection of by Mr. Leopold Rothschild and by Alderman Law- nunneries, and he should not do so in the next Par rence, and some questions having been asked by liament ; and he explained why he voted with the Mr. Drake, an underwriter, and answered by Mr. Government in the late discussion relating to the Goschen, explanatory of statements reflecting on the Lord Chancellor. Government of Lord Derby in his printed address Mr. D. RUTTER moved and Mr. F. SIIELBOURNE to the constituency, a resolution was passed, on the seconded a resolution affirming that Mr. Hanbury motion of Mr. Hankey, seconded by Mr. Guthrie, and Lord Enfield were worthy of the confidence of that the meeting was of opinion that Baron de the electors of Middlesex, and pledging the electors Rothschild, Mr. Crawford, Mr. Goschen, and Mr. present to use their best exertions to secure their Alderman Lawrence were fit and proper persons to return to the new Parliament. represent the city of London in Parliament, and The resolution was carried with only three dis pledging themselves to use their best efforts to secure sentients, one ardent oppositionist holding up both their election, the chairman declaring that it had hands. been carried unanimously. A vote of thanks was passed to Mr. Gassiot for BRIDGWATER. Mr. Binglake has issued his address to the elec tors, in which he says "In the course of ten sessions of Parliament I have happily found myself able to be constant at my post ; and the result is that upon most, if not all, of the questions which are likely to be interesting to you my opinion has been declared by my votes and speeches. By that—the best of all tests for trying the worth of a candidate—it will soon be your duty to judge me." __ _ Sir John Villiers Shelley, the other Liberal can didate, in his address, says : "I have sat in Parliament during the last 13 years as a member for the city of Westminster, and I may refer to the votes I have given during that period as having been inva riably in support• of measure which may be designated as the key notes of Liberalism. I have on every occasion supported propositions for extending the franchise, for giv ing the electors the protection of the ballot, for economy and retrenchment in the public expenditure, for the great policy of freedom of commerce, and the removal of restric tions on industry, and in favour of the right of local self government, and I entirely approve the principle of non intervention in the affairs of other nations." BUCKINGHAMSHIRE. The Right lion. B. Disraeli last night ad dressed the following circular to the electors of this county : "Gentlemen,—Parliament being now dissolved and a new one summoned, I again solicit the honour which on six pre vious occasions you have conferredupon me, of being elected your representative in the House of Commons. It is a dis tinction which I prize, and which I will endeavour to de serve. Having recently addressed you at length on the state of public affairs, I will only now remind you that, on the com pletion of the new Parliament, the character of our future policy for years, and that of our institutions perhaps for ever, will mainly depend. I fervently pray, therefore, that the country will unmistakably decide on securing our happy constitution in Church and State.—l remain, gen tlemen, your obliged and faithful servant, " Hughendem Manor, July 6. B. DISRAELI." CAMBRIDGE (BOROUGH.) All parties will hear with regret that Mr. Macaulay, Q.C., has been prevented prosecuting his election for the borough of Cambridge by sudden illness. Mr. Macaulay had on Tuesday night addressed a local meeting of the electors, convened in the Conservative interest, at the Bell, in the Newmarket-road. After his addresS the learned gentleman resumed his seat, but was suddenly struck with aparalyticfit. The previous state of Mr. Macaulay's health had led to no anticipation of such a result ; but, not withstanding the advice of his medical attendants, he per severed in his canvass and exertions to carry Cambridge for the Conservative party. Once known, however, and that on the best authority, that Mr. Macaulay was prostrate, his friends (under his sanction) announced his retirement ; but with such announcement appeared an address from Mr. Forsyth, Q.C., who is now the Conservative candidate. CARDIGANSHIRE. Last year Col. Powell announced that he would retire from the representation of the county at the dissolution, in consequence of his failing health. Sir Thomas Lloyd, of Bronwydd-hall, was at once selected as the candidate of the Liberal party, and it was generally understood that Mr. I. Jones, of Deity Ormond, would be brought forward by the Conservatives. Col. Powell has, however, within the last few days been prevailed upon by the Conservatives to seek re-election, his health, being, it is said, materially improved; and as Sir Thomas Lloyd had entered into a sort of con tract not to oppose him, ho is thus debarred from coming forward, to the great disappointment of the Liberals, who now claim to have a large majority in the county. DEVONSHIRE. The present members for South Devon, Sir J. Palk and Mr. Kekewich, have issued their addresses, soliciting re election. There is no opposition. For the northern division Colonel Acland and the Hon. C. Trofusis will be again elected, it is believed, without opposition. FALMOUTH. There is, after all, to be a contest for this borough. Gen. North will come forward as a Conservative, and will, it is said, go to the poll. The Liberals will have no fear as to the result of any contest, although it seems clear that their opponents will do all in their power to gain one of the seats. The announcement of the new candidate has occa sioned considerable excitement. HIGH IVYCOMBE. Mr. J. R. Mill, Liberal, has issued his address, soliciting re-election; but Mr. M. T. Smith, the other Liberal mem ber, has retired. In his place the only candidate is the Hon. C. R. Carington, son of Lord Carington, of Wycombe Abbey, also in the Liberal interest. MANCHESTER. Mr. E. James, Q.C., Attorney-General for the County Palatine of Lancaster, having been invited in London to stand for Manchester, is reported to have stated his readi ness to do so, provided a requisition were sent him, and yesterday Messrs. Slater and Barling, solicitors, on behalf of the Conservatives, were promoting such a requisition. It will probably remain over to-day for signature. NORWICH. The Conservativeshave found a second candidate to stand in conjunction with Mr. R. E. C. Waters, The gentleman selected is not Mr. Vesey Fitzgerald, but Mr. Augustus Goldsmid, who yesterday issued an address. in which he avows himself a member of the Protestant Church and strongly attached to the " time-honoured institutions" of the country. On Wednesday night the Liberal party had an influential meeting at the Royal Hotel, at which Mr. Warner and Sir W. Russell, the Liberal candidate; de livered addresses. Mr. J. H. Tillett, one of the local Libe ral leaders, also stated that Mr. Waters, one of the Conser vative candidates, was a Roman Catholic, and that a few months since he offered himself as a candidate for Poole in the Liberal interest. PEMBROKE BOROUGHS. On the appearance of the Conservative candidate, Mr. Hardwicke, and the support he has unexpectedly received from the local Conservatives, to whom he was a stranger, Mr. D. J. Jenkins, the second Liberal candidate, has, in ac cordance with a pledge made by him at the outset of his canvass not to endanger the Liberal interests in the boroughs, withdrawn from the contest. Mr. Jenkins, who had been most successful in his canvass, throws his influ ence and support upon the side of Sir Hugh Owen, whose return may now be considered certain. In his retiring address Mr. Jenkins says : . _ _ "I do not regret having come among you, for I feel that I have made many friends, and, in taking my farewell, allow me to hope that I may at some future time have the high honour of representing you in Parliament." RIPON. Sir Charles Wood is now fairly before the electors of this borough. On Wednesday he addressed a large meeting of the electors and non-electors, and met with a very cheering reception. Having stated that the canvass in his favourat Halifax was not at;thorized by him, as he had resolved to stand for Ripon only, he reviewed and defended the past conduct of the Government. As to the extension of the franchise, he said that was a question which at least had been before the public in various shapes for some time. In the last 12 or 13 years four Reform Bills had been intro duced by Government, and separate measures had been proposed by individual members. He did not think it worth while to discuss the latter, for the plain and simple reason that it was impossible upon a subject of that im portance that any measure could be brought to a suc cessful issue which was not introduced upon the responsi bility and supported by the authority of Government. (Hear, hear.) Of these four measures, three lowered the franchise, and combined with that various other mea sures for introducing classes of electors who were now excluded from it. One did not do so ; that was the bill introduced by Lord Derby's Government, which the House of Commons rejected ; and they equally refused to enter tain any of the series. In the last case there was no divi sion, but nobody who was in the house of Commons could mistake the almost universal sense of that assembly, that they were not prepared to go on with the bills for that pur pose. The one which was rejected did not go far enough ; the others, he believed, went too far. The Ilduste of Com mons refused to entertain them, and that opinion was clearly backed up by the country. The three elections we had had during the pendency of this question showed, he thought, indisputably, that to whatever cause it might be owing, the country at large was not prepared to support an extensive Reform Bill. (Hear.) He did not think that was any reason why there should be no Reform Bill at all. (Cheers.) There was one great defect in the original Reform Bill, valuable and good as it was—that it excluded from the exercise of the franchise large numbers, sometimes in the shape of householders of a lower value, sometimes in the shape of freemen, among whom were to be found consider able numbers of the working classes. He did not think it was right that the working classes should be excluded from the franchise. (Hear, hear.) He was one of those who wera not afraid of them ; he had great faith in his fellow countrymen. He thought it would bo desirable, for the benefit of the country, that the principle of the Reform Bill of 1830 should be reconsidered as speedily as possible, and that a fair proportion of the working classes should be admitted to the suffrage. (Hear, hear.) That was one of the objects he had in view ; but at the same time provi sions were made for introducing classes not householders, but equally entitled by wealth, education, and intelligence to be admitted. It was notorious that there was a large body of men possessed of all these qualifications who did not happen to be householders, and why men of consider able income, of good education, and great intelligence should be excluded from voting merely because they did not lice in £lO houses no reason could be given. Measures, as he had said, had been framed for the purpose of giving these parties a vote, but there were many diffi culties in bringing them into practical execution. Upon this question he knew they had been reproached by ardent reformers for not having persevered with the bill they had introduced; but the reason was plain. A great power which had arisen in this country of late, commonly called public opinion, was against Reform. It was utterly impossible and absurd to suppose that any measure could be carried in Parliament against which the deliberate public opinion of the country was expressed. He did not mean any tem porary opinion ; but in this case the question had been ventilated before the country for some time, and he thought public opinion was abundantly expressed against any sweeping measure. Depend upon it, that if public opinion said the measure should be carried, it would be carried ; and if a measure were introduced into Parliament which public opinion demanded, depend upon it the public would get it—neither more nor less (hear, hear), but to strive and struggle against that general expression of the country was like throwing their caps against the wind. It would be impossible to carry such a measure, and it would be un satisfactory if it were carried. In answer to a question regarding his opinions on the game law, Sir Charles Wood said he thought the present law was a very good one. (Hisses and groans.) He did not see why, if he liked, he should not preserve game on his own estate. (Hear, hear, and hisses.) Mr. JOHNSON asked whether Sir Charles Wood would vote for an extension of the franchise ? Sir CHARLES WOOD—I have told you that already. Mr. JouNsoN---How far will you go ? Sir CHARLES WOOD —That will depend upon the full consideration to be given to any measure when it is pro posed. (Hear, hear.) Mr. Greenwood, the other Liberal candidate, who offers himself for re-election, also addressed the meeting, and he, as well as Sir Charles, was well received, and the speech of each candidate was followed by three hearty cheers. SHEFFIELD. A new candidate to oppose Mr. Roebuck has been found in the person of Mr. T. Campbell Foster, barrister. He addressed a meeting of electors ani non-electors in the Council-hall on Tuesday night, and was requested to ad dress a meeting in the open air last night. He declared against the ballot. Mr. ROEBUCK was present at a meeting of his supporters on Tuesday, and ho alluded to Mr. Foster. He said the question is between Mr. Hadfield and myself and a Mr. Foster. Mr. Hadfield and myself have been many years the representatives of this town, and I think we have represented the opinions of a large majority of the people here. (Hear, hear.) We have invariably supported everything in favour of Liberal government, of the im portance of education, of the liberation of trade, and of the purity of morals. I w an t t o k now w h o M r. Foster is. _ _ It will be said, no doubt, that Mr. Foster possesses greater intellectual endowments than belong to either Mr. Had field or myself. Nobody will be more ready to bow to that decision than myself ; but still I have an answer to that. There are on my side sixteen years of very profound and active service on your behalf, and on the part of my col league, Mr. Hadfield, thirteen years. (Hear, hear.) I want to know what we have done to forfeit the confidence of the people of Sheffield. (Hoar, hear.) No doubt, there are gentlemen connected with the law, as I am, who consi der that to stand for Sheffield is an honour—and so it is. If Mr. Foster makes a good fight, I have no doubt some will say, who happen to have a job at the Sessions Court, " Thatis the matt for mo and for my work ;" but that is not my view of a representative of this great country. What I purpose is to lay before you my whole life—(hear) —and that has been a life spent in the service of my coun try. (Cheers.) It has been a life devoted to the advancing of great opinions, withoutregard to whether those opinions were favoured by the great masses or not. (Cheers.) I have the gratification to know that I have lived to see opinions which I advocated when there wore but two or three to support me now in the ascendant. (Hear.) I say these are services which the people of England will not forget— (hear)—and I am emboldened so to believe of the people of Sheffield. (Cheers.) And I must say that my feeling to wards Mr. Foster for interfering in this election is that of supreme contempt. (Cheers.) Ido not believe that he will get one man of staid mind and of established reputation to support him. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JULY 7, 1865. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TIMES.—On the resignation of Lord Westbury the Great Seal will be for the second time intrusted to Lord Cranworth. At the present conjuncture no better appointment could be made. Lord Cranworth, though arrived at the age of 75 years, still retains his judicial faculties unimpaired. He is a sound and painstaking lawyer, and in the many offices he has successively filled has acquitted himself always with the highest credit. After having been Solicitor- General, a Baron of the Exchequer, a Vice-Chan cellor, and a Lord Justice of Appeal, he was made Lord Chancellor in the Aberdeen Ministry in 1852, and retained his high office until the resigna tion of Lord Palmerston in the spring of 1858. There was a complaint at the time that Lord Cran worth did not show himself sufficiently sensitive to the necessity of legal reform. It seemed that his mind belonged to that order, so common among successful lawyers, which is content to work a tra ditional system, mending it from time to time by overruling this or that decision, or legislating on matters of detail, ra th er t h an to the class which would reform whole departments of jurisprudence on the basis of reason and experience. But though Lord Cranworth would not move very fast, he was a sure footed lawyer, and seldom- proposed anything the objections to which had not been adequately consi dered and removed. In the ordinary duties of his office he gave general satisfaction. He was ac quainted with the law of equity which he was called upon to administer, and though succeeding the most accomplished master of that branch of legal learning, he ably maintained his reputation and the efficiency of his court. On the Woolsack he was, we believe, uniformly respected and liked • and he has prese rve d the gorA opinion of the Lords during the eight years that he has been among them in a private capacity. A still more important recommendation to Lord Cranworth is the high character he has always borne. No man who ever sat on the Woolsack was more free from all suspicions of favour or nepotism. His appointments were almost always good ; the judges, especially, whom he placed on the Bench were beyond doubt the most able men who could be found at the bar. We may, therefore, at a time when it is necessary that the Lord Chancellor should be above all suspicion, congratulate the country on the appointment of Lord Cranworth. There is a general feeling that serious irregularities are continually taking place in the lower departments of the judicature. The Bankruptcy Courts are, it is believed, especially. tainted. The number of persons against whom de linquencies have been proved is considerable, and it is due to the rest, as well as the public, that a close examination of this depa r t men t should be made by severe and impartial inquirers. Even to deal with the persons implicated in the scandals which have recently occupied public attention is a delicate and difficult task, and one which requires that he who undertakes it should be a man of known probity and purity of motive. Inquiries of this kind involve something more than a mere affirmative or negative decision. After the precise degree of blame is de termined, there then remains the question of punish ment, and it must be that where the magistrate who dismisses an official appoints his successor there will be a tendency among the expelled delinquents to ascribe improper motives to their judge —a charge to which many will be willing to give ear if they find relatives or favourites appointed to the vacant posts. No one is less likely than Lord Cranworth to give occasion to any such remarks. No office in decently grasped, no pension carelessly bestowed, is likely to mark his administration. It is clear also from the cases of Messrs. Edmunds and Winslow that the watchfulness of the Chancellor must not be confined to Bankruptcy. Lord Cranworth will pro bably have to show himself for some time a stern en forcer of official morality, and to do this it is fitting that no one should be able to speak lightly of him or of any one upon whom he has conferred office. For these reasons we think that Lord Palmerston has wisely advised the Queen to call Lord Cranworth again to her councils. There are other men whose appointment would have been approved by the country, but hardly one who is so well fitted for the post at the present time. The Great Seal will, we believe, be surrendered by Lord Westbury at Wind sor to-day, and-be at once delivered to Lord Cranworth. For the present, the number of Law Lords in the House is not increased, and however much we may respect the eminent meu who have risen from the bar to the peerage, we must confess a feeling of satisfaction that it is not necessary to ennoble another lawyer's family. Recent events make us more than ever regret the decision of the Lords against the legality of peerages for life in the case of the chief dignitaries of the law. The lawyers on that occasion, headed by Lords Lyndhurst and Campbell, succeeded in alarming the house by the prospect of its independence being destroyed by an influx of Crown nominees. So the old doctrine that the Sovereign could make a peer for life, though not for a term of years, was overthrown, or interpreted to mean the conferring of a merely honorary title, giving no seat in Parliament. Yet the Lords, in common with most thinking people, must know that it would be a good thing, to lawyers at least, if this ennobling of middle-class professional families could be brought within narrower limits. The state of things is this—that whereas there is no positive necessity to place men of other callings in the house, it is necessary for the conduct of the judicial as well as the legislative business that a certain num ber of lawyers should have seats. Other men are advanced to the house for extraordinary claims; the lawyers as a necessary part of the machinery of the State. If, then, it be unavoidable that a number of lawyers should sit in the house to act as judges, they should sit there under other conditions than those men who are raised to it for extraordinary ser vices in war, or government, or diplomacy. Under the present system, either the number of law lords must be restricted and the interests of suitors suffer, or a number of lawyers' families must be unnecessa rily ennobled. The difficulty might occasionally be avoided by choosing for a high appointment a man who has no son; but few will deny that the necessity for such a selection is the severest condemnation of the system. With every precaution, however, it cannot be avoided that a number of new families should be in trochiced into the order of nobility, and at this time, though there are only three or four law lords in the house fit for regular work, the number of men who have inherited or will inherit law peerages conferred within the present century is very considerable. It is not only in the interests of the House of Lords that we speak ; but we believe it is not for the public benefit that every lawyer who rises to eminence should have to choose between foregoing the highest honours of his profession and burdening his children with use less dignities. Hereditary peerages might, as now, be given for very distinguished services, but a sys tem by which the leading lawyers should be placed in a position analogous to that of the bishops would, we think, be found advantageous to themselves and to the public. If the Queen had the power of at taching peerages for life to certain high judicial offices, a sufficient supply of able lawyers would be provided for the house, and these, possessing as they would a large professional income, would be free from that urgent temptation to provide for needy but ennobled descendants which now besets every Chancellor who has a family. If the life peerage for the great offices of Lord Chancellor and Lord Chief Justice were the rule, and the hereditary peer age, given for lono• and extraordinary services, were the exception, the happiness and mora lit y of the lawyers and the interests of the public would all be advanced. HERALD.—A visitor is travelling towards us from the East whese approaches are of awful meaning. Nearly 200 persons died of cholera on Sunday week last in the hospitals of Alexandria. To Egypt the malady has come, singularly enough, from the hot regions of Central Asia, where it has rarely been known, and, considering the rapidity with which it has propelled itself westward, we must expect a recurrence, more or less severe, in the autumn, of the disease that, a few years ago, affrighted London especially. If, however, we allude to this probability it is with no view to the creation of any panic. They talk in sanitary journals of predisposing causes, and fathomless was the science expended, not many weeks ago, on the Russian recurrent fever, in con nection with this question; but there are spine coarse truths which all the world will admit. We are draining our towns, well or ill as the result may prove ; but we have generally settled that refuse and dirt accumulations of putrid animal and vegetable matter, the blood and offal heaped up in slaughter-houses, the outpourings of gas, che mical, bone, an d g l ue wor k s , breweries, distilleries, and the thousand nameless pollutions infecting a great city, are unwholesome. When the cholera comes, itiastens and feeds, as a matter of course, upon them. Well, with the prospect of a danger ous, or at all events a critical autumn before us, h ow do we stand ? The Thames is not so corrupt as formerly. The main-drainage works are beginning to operate beneficially, although their valu e h as been , prodigiously overrated. The River Lea and the Chadwell springs have been partially reclaimed from filth, and the open channel of the New River is under better supervision ; but we tell th e pu bli c, with this spectre of an epidemic menacing it from th e E as t, that death lurks in the cistern no less than in the drain: It is latent in slate tanks, old wine, pipe, and butter tubs coated with lead and pitch ; it is cultivated by a process of poisonous vegetation, blended with soot, dust, and dirt, not to speak of young birds, rats, and cats; and unsophisticatedhouseholders or lodgers complain that the wate r supp li e d t o th em b y the companies is often impure ! When is it not ? When is it even sufficient ? The disgust and misery of the poorer classes in the metropolis might answer that question ; but, let the rich leave them to suffer in the dark, and they themselves would soon shudder in the light were the Asiatic cholera landed from a Mediterranean fruit or wine ship upon our shores. Of course, it is easy to deal out precepts to the wives of mechanics, and preach liberalism to the com panies. The art of concealing dirt, however, is familiar to the lower orders of the London popula tion, and what are the results ? Plainly, that when epidemics are imported into England they attack and ravage the east end of the capital with a severity double that which is felt in the west ; that they follow poverty and squalor; that they make themselves at home amid vice and discomfort ; and that whether as fever, consumption, or scrofula, they assail the neglected districts. From those districts, however, their influence expands. In 1843 and in 1850 the radiating centres were Bethnal-green and Whitechapel, Shoreditch and Rotherhithe ; =but how long was it before the infection reached St. George's and St. James's, Highgate, Hampstead, and Marylebone ? It is far from being an ascertained fact that the cholera, in its most terrible form, is on its way directly to Eng land. Still, the probabilities are calculated to justify alarm, and to suggest the utmost precautions which the Administration or the public can adopt. After a spring and summer of irregular temperature these maladies work with very capricious and often deadly effect, and it is as well to remember, before the curse is upon us, or near us, what the cholera actually is. They call it a new malady—that is a question for the doctors to settl e among th emse l ves . What we know is, that in the fourteen years pre ceding the year 1831, it had suddenly burst forth and destroyed fifty millions of the human race, desolating the brightest regions of the globe, mas tering every variety of climate, surmounting every natural barrier, conquering every people, and taking root in the soil, so to speak, as the small-pox and plague have done. We are bound, then, to regard even the faintest possibility of this epidemic among us, after all our fatal experience, as a most serious matter. Any lascar may bring it from India, where it is now intermittent, though not general. Any sailor may introduce it from Egypt, where it is eat ing up the population. History records how the pestilence ravaged India ; passed thence to Ceylon, swept over the Red Sea, was carried to the Mauri tius in a French vessel freighted with oil, scattered itself over the Levant, and at last broke forth, from the latitude of Golden-square to that of Kiatchta, on the Siberian borders, with a virulence which will never be forgotten. When the tenants of houses in Brewer-street, near Piccadilly, were dying by half dozens, ten or twelve years ago, the same ravage had crossed the great Chinese wall, and was deso lating the tent cities in the desert of Gobi, the flat roofed houses of Muscat, the Delta of the Ganges, and the little towns on the coasts of the Persian Gulf. But how did it invade Europe ? Always from Asia, and at a hundred points at once. It touched us first in the Valley of the Volga. It took the warm and the cold climates impartially ; and it is at this moment assailing the Egyptian and the Baltic shores. And its progress, be it noted, is extremely rapid—the more rapid where the means of communication are complete. It depends not on heat, humidity, vapour, or elec tricity ; it clings to unclean and crowded popula tions ; to the badly fed and clothed ; and it is never extirpated except through the extirpation of corrupt and odious habits among the people. This is a topic worth considering, no matter how the political questions of the time may preponderate. The cholera has within a period of three months slain nearly sixteen hundred people in the town of Alexandria. It travelled thither a distance of more than 2,000 miles. Now, with that city many of our large ports hold frequent communication. The country of Lower Egypt is our high road to India, and from it we had the pestilence which decimated our population in 1832. No doubt, a mystery exists with regard to the exact nature of the malady at present epidemic there. The country is in a generally healthy state ; its climate, whin not affected by malignant influences which have passed over entire continents from the uttermost corners of the world, is rather invigorating than otherwise ; but this is an exceptional and transitory visitation, which, when it comes to us, if ever, will be cholera of the well-known type. Strange t o say, it has not attacked Cairo, a much more unhealthy city than Alexandria, but this fact only suggests that it is upon a course of progress or migration from the East towards the West. At any rate, the proxi mity of such an epidemic to the great commercial outlets of Europe is a subject for serious considera tion. The policy of our law and the necessities of our trade are hostile to all principles of quarantine, which, after all, are only adaptations of artificial systems to purposes they fail in securing ; but it is never too soon to be upon our guard, and the prospect of a hot autumn renders even the remotest hint of a general cholera formidable. What are we doing with our great towns? There is a vest amount of brag in the market of popularity, and yet it is a fact of serious import to all, that the Cholera Morbus, the hereditary scourge of Asia, might visit us again, and find us again unprepared. Let it not be so. TAUNTON. Mr. Arthur Mills, one of the present Conservative candi dates, retired from, the contest yesterday, but Mr. Cox has expressed his intention of going to the poll and polling to the last man. TIVERTON. There will bo a contest in this borough. The Hon. G. Denman, the noble Premier's colleague, announced his in tention more than a week since of offering himself for re election. It was supposed up to within the past few days, that he would be allowed to walk over the course ; but the Conservatives of the town and a section of the Liberals, who are dissatisfied with Mr. J. H. Amory, presented a nume rously-signed petition to Mr. J. W. Walrond, a county magistrate, living at Bradfield, in the neighbourhood of Tiverton. This gentleman, who professes to be a Liberal Conservative, has allowed himself to be put in nomination. Of course, the opposition is directed solely against the Hon. G. Denman, who is said to be Mr. Amory's nominee, having been introduced to the constituency by the late Mr. Heath cote, on that gentleman's retirement from the representa tion, six years ago. Mr. Denman was on that occasion returned unopposed; in fact, there has been no contest in Tiverton since the passing of the Reform Bill. WOODSTOCK. A crowded meeting of Mr. Henry's supporters was held in the Town-hall on Tuesday, Mr. Golden in the chair. Mr. Henry gave an exposition of his political views, which was enthusiastically received. Addresses were delivered by Messrs. Parker, Noble, Banbury, Money, Mr. Rogers, Professor of Political Economy in the University of Ox ford, and Mr. Underdown. Resolutions in favour of Mr. Henry were unanimously carried. Charge of Embezzlement, CANTERBURY, Thursday Afternoon. Mr. S. Greaves, late secretary and actuary to the Canter bury Savings Bank, was this morning brought before the city magistrates, charged with embezzling certain moneys, the property of tho trustees of that institution. The calling in of the depositors' book has led to the discovery that the defalcations greatly exceed the amount at first stated, and that instead of being about £5,000 they will probably reach £lO,OOO. Since the stoppage of the bank Mr. Greaves has been allowed to remain in his own house, but under sur veillance, until yesterday, when, after a meeting of the trustees, he was given into custody. This morning, when placed in the dock, he had a very careworn and haggard appearance. Mr. Callaway, of the firm of Frubery, Callaway, and Frubery, appeared for the prosecution ; the prisoner was undefended. Mr. Callaway said he only proposed to tender evidence of one act of embezzlement, and then ask for a remand. So far as the investigation had proceeded the prisoner had pursued the same system of fraud in all cases. The money paid into the bank had, in the first instance, been correctly entered, both in the depositors' pass books and the ledgers; but sums were afterwards entered in the ledgers as having been withdraw; when no withdrawal actually took place, the prisoner appropriating the money to his own use. Sarah Prett, a domestic in the service of G. Gipps, Esq., one of the trustees of the bank, said she had been a deposi tor since 1845, and had never drawn out any portion of her capital during that time. She had drawn out the interest on two occasions. Her pass-book showed £167 6s. 9d. standing to her credit on the 20th May last. She did not draw out or authorise any one to draw out£Bo on the 20th November, 1862, or £65 on the 20th December, 1862. Win. A. Abram, clerk in the savings bank, produced a ledger in which Sarah Prett's account was kept. On Nov. 20, 1862, the balance in her favour was £156 6s. 9d. On Nov. 29,1862, there was an entry of the withdrawal of £BO, and on Dac. 20, 1862, another entry of the withdrawal of £65. The entries in Sarah Prett's pass-book (produced), from May, 1862, to the present date, were in the prisoner's handwriting, and those in the ledger were made by witness from a pass-book (not the one produced) given him by the prisoner. In the pass-book produced the interest was cal culated on the larger sum, but in the ledger it was calcu lated on the balance after the withdrawal of the £BO and the £65. The pass-book from which he made the entries in the ledger he returned to the prisoner, and he had not seen it since. Mr. Callaway said he did not propose to call further evi dence on the present occasion. The prisoner, who declined to say anything, was re manded for a week. Court of Common Council, A Court of Common Council was held yesterday at Guildhall. The Lord Mayor presided. THE ADDRESS TO THE QUEEN. The LORD MAYOR announced to the Court that he had accompanied the deputation to present the Address of Congratulation to her Majesty, and that they had been received in the most gracious man ner. (Hear, hetr.) Mr. F. MAYNARD, the Chairman of the City Lands Committee, moved that the Address and her Majesty's answer be entered on the minutes, and printed in the journals of the Court, which was agreed to. BREACH OF' PRIVILEGE. Mr. J. FINLAY, in reference to the late election for sheriffs, said that notwithstanding the order to the contrary persons who were not liverymen were allowed to be upon the hustings, and one gentleman, who stood in that position, appeared to have been made a liveryman upon the spot for the express pur pose of his being proposed as one of the candidates. (Hear, hear.) He considered that this was a most improper proceeding, and that no man should be made a liveryman at a moment's notice for political purposes. Upon the occasion of a common hall being held all the City offices were closed, and no business could be transacted; but Mr. Sewell, one of the Corporation officers, had taken upon himself to make a gentleman a liveryman of one of the com panies for the purpose he had mentioned. He con sidered that the subject was one that ought to be inquired into, and he moved that the question be referred to the Law and Parliamentary Committee for them to consider and report. Mr. BENGOUGH seconded the motion. Mr. BENNETT said 'that, as he was the person re ferred to, he thought it right to explain that he had done nothing more than had been done by other gentlemen on many similar occasions. He applied to Mr. Sewell, and was told that it was a customary proceeding, and one that was perfectly in accord ance with ordinary practice. With regard to the election, he said that on his part it had been con ducted in a perfectly honourable and straightfor ward manner ; and, although defeated, he was certainly not dishonoured, (Hear, hear.) Mr. MEDWIN said he believed it was pretty well known by what means Mr. Bennett had been de feated. (Hear, hear.) He considered that the pro ceedings which had taken place were most disgrace ful, and he should move the committee be instruct ed to inquire how certain votes might have been purchased, and the names of the parties who acted as the agents in those transactions. He considered that the character of the Corporation was at stake, and that for their own sakes an inquiry such as he suggested ought to be entered into. (Hear, hear.) Mr. BENNETT said that so far as he was con cerned what he should say was, " Peace, peace, and let bygones be bygones." Mr. RICHARDSON said he should support the pro position of Mr. Medwin, and he hoped that the effect would be to break down the system of excluding the public from the hall, and that they would not, as on the last occasion, see only a few half-starved look ing men in front of the hustings. (Laughter.) Mr. Bennett certainly, although defeated, was not dis graced, for he was at the head of the poll until the fourth day, when the money was forthcoming. (Hear.) The Corporation' was constantly talking about its rights and privileges, but such proceedings as those that took place at this election were calcu lated to destroy all confidence in them, and no inde pendent man would ever have a chance of being elected to the office of sheriff unless he had a long purse. (Hear, hear.) He believed that at the last election 200 votes were paid for. (Hear, hear.) Mr. STEWART said that although in his opinion it was most unadvisable to have brought the subject forward, he could not help saying that it was most improper for any of the Corporation officers to create liverymen in this manner. With regard to the terms of the motion of Mr. Finlay, it appeared to him they were not the proper ones to be used. The question was not what might have been paid for votes, but what was actually paid. (Hear, hear.) Mr. LAWLEY said it appeared to him that if the motion was carried it would have no effect. The ,charge of corruption only applied to a particular section of the Livery, and if they had sold their votes they were liable to punishment, and it was not likely that they would convict themselves, and the committee would have no power to compel them to give information. (Hear, hear.) If the Livery was corrupt, their privilege to vote ought to be taken away, but he did not think that this Court was called upon to interfere in the way suggested. Deputy DR JERSEY took the same view of the subject, and reminded the Court that, with regard to the first portion of the question, which alleged that Mr. Bennett had been improperly made a liveryman, this had nothing to do with his eligibility for the office of sheriff, as he was equally eligible without being in that position. (Hear, hear.) He did not think that the Court was justified, as it was called upon to do, in assuming that votes had been purchased, without any evidence of the fact ; and, as it was clear the committee could do nothing if the matter was referred to them, he suggested the propriety of the motion being withdrawn. Mr. FINLAY said he felt it his duty to bring the subject before the Court, but after what had taken place he should withdraw his motion, and the same course was taken by Mr. MEDWIN. CITY IMPROVEMENTS. Mr. STEWART moved that it be referred to the Improvement Committee to consider whether any steps can be taken in reference to the present con dition of the property on the north side of the Poultry to widen' and improve that important thoroughfare. Mr. R. N. PHILLIPS seconded the motion. Deputy DE JERSEY, the Chairman of the Sewers Committee, said that the attention of that body had been directed to this important question on several occasions, but they found that it would take such an enormous amount of money to purchase the pro perty that would be required to carry out the im provement that the commissioners could not ven ture to tax the ratepayers to such an extent. He did not, however, see any objection to the motion ; and if the committee could devise any plan for car rying out the improvement he should be happy to hear it, and the Commissioners of Sewers would do all in their power to assist in so desirable an object. (Hear, hear.) Mr. H. LOWMAN TAYLOR said that the question had been mooted at the Metropolitan •Board of Works a considerable time back, and the great diffi culty then was the enormous amount that would have to be paid for the property that would be re quired on the north side of the Poultry to carry out the proposed improvement. He believed that several of the houses that had been pulled down were now in the course of re-election, and he was afraid that they were too late to take any steps in the matter ; but he believed he might state that the Metropolitan Board were fully sensible of the great importance of the proposed improvement, and that if any plan could be devised for carrying it out .they would contribute liberally towards the expenditure. (Hear, hear.) The motion was then agreed to. Mr. DE JERSEY next brought forward a motion having reference to certain improvements that had been effected by the Commissioners of Sewers, by setting back several of the houses in Newgate-street, and with a view to obtain a contribution from the Corporation funds in aid of these improvements. This gave rise to some discussion ; the motion being opposed by Mr. Rudkin, Mr. Lawley, and other honourable members, principally, as it ap peared, upon the ground that the improvement had. _ _ been carried out under the sole responsibility of the Commissioners, of sewers without consulting the Improvement Committee, which it was alleged was in contravention of a resolution of the court under which the present application was made. In the result the motion of Deputy de Jersey was agreed to by a large majority upon a division. The Court shortly afterwards adjourned. THE CUNARDSTEAMERS.--Tuesday was the 25th anniversary of the running of the first steamer belonging to the British and North American Steampacket Company, and during these 25 years Mr. M'lver enjoys the proud• satisfaction of being able to state that not a life or letter has keen lost by this great line of mail-boats.—Liverpool Daily Post. COUNTRY MARKETS 3LINCIIESTER-THURDAY. During the present week wheat has changed hands at previous rates. Barley unaltered. Oats in improved de mand. Beans and peas quite as dear. At this day's mar ket there was a short supply of wheat, and the turn in fa vour of- sellers. Barley less in request. Oats quite as dear. Beans and peas held for quite as much money: BIRMINGHAM—TRunsDAY. Our market was thinly attended. For wheat the demand was limited, but last week's currency supported. Flour at late rates. Oats advanced id per 451 b, and oatmeal in fa vour of sellers. Beans fully as dear. Indian corn without change. Currencies :—English wheat, white, 43s to 47s ; red, 390 to 44s per 36 stone Malting barley, 30s to 35s ; grinding, 22s to 25s per qr. Oats,• 24s to 30s ; Irish, 21s to 248 per 30 stone. Beans, 42s to 45s ; and peas, 40s to 42s per qr. BRISTOL-THURSDAY. On our market to-day there was a short supply of Eng lish wheat, with no alteration in value. A good consump tive demand for feeding barleys, at the rates of last week. Oats in bettor supply, and prices barely supported. More inquiry for maize. Beans dull. EDINBURGH-WEDNESDAY. At to-day's market supplies were small. Wheat a good sale, at fully last week's prices. The small supply of bar ley was readily sold at last week's rates. Oats a brisk sale. Beans good sale. Average prices. WhAt, 42s ld ( Oats, 25s 1d Barley, 2Bs bd 1 Beans; 41s 9d . - - Wheat on the top, Os 3d up average, Os 6d up. Barley on the top, is Od down average, is Od down. Oats on the top, Os 3d up average, Os 5d up. Beans on the top, Os 6d up average, is 10d up. Total supply and sales. Wheat 897 qrs sold 766 Barley lB6 qrs sold 186 Oats BOl qrs sold 577 Beans 5B qrs sold 56 Town -made flour sells as follows :—White, 37s Od; extra superfine, 35s Od; superfine, 33s Od; fine, 31s Od. GLASGOW-WEDNESDAY. Imports moderate. Wheat met a slow sale at fully late rates. Barley steady. Oats firm, and prices favoured sellers, Beans and peas held firmly for more money. Flour unchanged. BIRTH IN THE STREET.—AS a poor work woman, named Delcour, was walking along the Boulevard St. Michel, Paris, on Monday, carrying a child in her arms and leading another by the hand, she was suddenly seized with the pains of labour, and—sinking down on the pave ment—immediately gave birth to a male child. Some police agents, who were attracted by the crowd, promptly procured a stretcher, and conveyed her as well as the children to the lying-in hospital attached to the Ecole de Mddecine. [ADVERTISEMENT.j—HoIIoway's Pia—Bilious affec tions and stomach complaints induced by atmospheric heat or too liberal diet, if not early checked, are often at tended with serious consequences. 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