The Sun. — London, England, 1866-09-06 00:00:00

THE DEFENCES OF VENICE. (Fronz 0 , 3 Times Military Correspondent.) VENICE, Aug. 26. To say that Venice is deserted would be an exag geration, for there are still plenty of inhabitants if one could only see . them, but it has the air of a half deserted city, and the sensation of being almost the nly guest in a fine hotel of 160 rooms, attended by a considerable staff of waiters who have nothing to do but serve breakfast and dinner for one, or play a game of cards on the public dining-table, is novel enough to make one feel as if the city had broken loose from her moorings and was far away at sea, equally free from money-turning merchants and curious visitors. But Venice is occupied by an unwelcome crowd, whose arms are powerful enough to keep out the hosts of Italians longinc , so wearily to pour in, and to repress the spirit of her angry citizens, who would otherwise throw open her gates to their friends out side. Nineteen thousand men organised and trained, occupy her strongholds, and are sufficient to pre serve to Austria the fairest jewel in her crown till the sacrifice shall have been completed, and the city of palaces handed over to the Emperor of the French, and by him to the new nation. The diffe rence between the unprepared condition of this really great military Power to resist invasion from the north, and the perfect organisation of her defences against an attack from the south, is very striking. Josephstadt, Koniggratz, and even Olmutz are old fortresses ill provided with modern artillery, almost incapable of standing a long siege, proved to be in capable of checkingthe advance of a hostile force to the banks of the Danube ; but here all is otherwise, and Venice is not only an interesting relic of past magnificence, but a great fortress capable of hold ing back an army from penetrating within her ports and canals, and also able to act as a point of con centration for a force that might assemble here and threaten the rear of a southern army marching against Goritzia or the Tyrol. After the battle of Custozza, when the Archduke Albrecht was retiring out of Italy, the Governor of Venice consideredhim self strong enough to spare 3,000 men, who went to swell the number of the troops interposing between the Prussians and Vienna. The place is provisioned for four months, and the works are capable of hold ing out for a still longer period, especially since Ad miral Tegethoff took the command of the sea, and thus insured the freedom of communication with Trieste. Now a fortress may be provisioned in dif ferent ways and on different scales, but the garrison of Venice would want neither fresh meat, bread, wine, oil, nor fruit. Three thousand seven hundred oxen assembled on various islands enjoy a tranquil and sunny existence, unworried by dogs or drovers, and having nothing to do but to fatten themselves for the tables of the soldiers, besides the usual stores of preserved meats, &c. The other wants of a be sieged place are provided for in like proportion. It cannot be too often repeated that Austria was tho roughly prepared to wage a defensive war against the Italian nation, even with the French at their backs, but was neither ready nor willing to sustain an attack from her Northern German neighbour. It is no wonder, therefore, that the Prussians, who were acute enough to perceive this, forced the cam paign in the north, nor that Austria, conscious of her vast strength in Venetia, wished to show the world that she was really the colossus she was sup posed to be by striking a heavy blow before giving up her possessions in the south. Even one day's ex amination of such works as it was possible to see in the time has shown that much science has been dis played and great care taken to render Venice im pregnable, except after a long siege, and even then she could only fall into the hands of an enemy who could keep the command both of the land and sea. Since the viaduct was built over the lagunes most travellers approach Venice by railway, aud, if their attention is not too much taken up by the towers and domes of the city, they can see on each side of the bridge, when the tide is high, a wide ex panse of water dotted over here and there with dark objects which have the appearance of small islands, but the water scarcely covers the land which reap pears at low tide, and the islands are strong forts. In olden times, before the famous Republic had arisen to excite the envy of the world as well by its maritime strength as by its riches, this corner of the debatable ground, half sea, half land, was formed by the debris brought down from the moun tains settling itself about the mouths of rivers, whose beds became choked up, so that part of the des ending water had to push its way seawards by numerous small channels which it burrowed in the soft soil, and another part flowed over the coast, mingling with the waves of the sea at high tide, and forming that blackish mixture the ex halations from which are so deleterious to health. But the inhabitants of Venetia dug deep courses for the fresh water, leading it round away from the city and forcing it to discharge itself by mouths prepared for it ; the old channels of the river mouths re mained, and are now the canals, but most of them end landwards in cols-de-sac, and it is the sea itself which fills them, and spread over the lagunes of high tide, retreating again with the ebb, and suf fering the land to appear. Thus true salt water encompasses the city, and the lagunes of Venice are only unhealthy in the autumn, when the weedy growths of the spring and summer are decaying. Except in the canals the water is too shallow to admit of the approach of boats carrying troops to the city, and an enemy must therefore advance by certain well-defined routes, unless he will wade through the water and soft mud, a dan gerous operation, and rendered, indeed, almost im possible by the elaborate network formed by the canals, which intertwine like the roots of a tree, and are of unequal and suddenly varying depths. In this letter I will only speak of the defences in the direction of the land, leaving those that look seawards to be described in my next. The great high roads and the railways to Venice approach the city through Mestre, a small unforti fled town to the north-west, only important as the junction of the routes from all directions. The railway is continued overthelagunesby a bridge about 2i miles long, - which also carries s treams of fresh wate r . P ara ll el to the bridge, and close to it, is the canal St. Secondo, the only one of the whole number which leads directly to the city without winding, and hence the probability that an enemy would choose these two routes for his ad vance. At the edge of the lagunes, and at the point where the railway and the canal St. Secondo first approach each other closely, stands the Fort of Malghera, or Fort Haynau, as it is also called, an irregular bastioned work with an exterior and inner line of defences, and redoubts beyond the exterior curtains ; the canal is led half round it, and sup plies water to all its ditches, while the railway passes within a few paces, having been prepared by its construction for such an occasion as the present, when the conveniebce of travellers would have to yield to the necessities of war. There has been no blowing up of the line, but the simple removal of a small bridge leaves a gap too wide to be passed over, while beneath shines the ever present water, and two guns behind a parapet stare in the face of an adventurous force approaching along the railway from Alestre. To the left of this slight defence is another fort smaller than Malghera, and called the , t Thum Redoubt," i in front of and to the left of which are podss enough to render ao considerable, marshes, and pits assault impossible. Wherever the visible ran ge is n t rifled guns of the largest calibre Possessed h eA I ousdterfieannoseguard intendedthe, way, and where the naturey h of t 1 shortens the distance required for the projectile to pass over, smooth-bore howitzers and shell guns stand ready to pour destruction upon troops who may have approached, within their range. The bar racks are casemated, loop-holed, bombproof' and cover ed with heaps of earth ; there are blockhouses, almost hidden unde r mounds of the sam e ever-read y defence, and against the walls of ma g azine s , bloc:- houses, and barracks are heavy beams leaning, also covered with earth ; indeed, so many .precaution s are taken for the safety of the men that one is almost led to wonder whether it would be possible for any soldier to be hurt. There are no embra sures, and the guns peer so closely over the parapet that they are almost invisible from outside, while their carriages are quite out of the line of fire. From 200 to 600 rounds, according to the position, are provided to satisfy the cravings of each piece for its natural food during action, though more could be forwarded from Venice if required. Wherever there is a fort, large or small, near Venice, there will be found rifled guns and smooth, traverses and bombproofs, lofty gun-carriages and lowly mortars, dry magazines and wet ditches, earth being piled up over everthing that will bear it ; and these forts cover all approaches, stand beside every canal. Around the city there are no less than 82, 58 of which are permanently armed, and the re mainder would receive their guns on the first tidings of the enemy's preparing to attack. Naval and Military Intelligence. The War Department transport Bomarsund, Mr. Spicer, master in charge, left the Ordnance-wharf, Chatham, yesterday, with the armament for the paddle-wheel steamer Virago, 6, 1,059 tons, 220- horse power (nominal), fitting for the first division of the steam reserve, consisting of one 110-pounder, and three 12-pounder Armstrong rifled guns, and one 10-inch and four 32-pounder smooth-bore cast iron guns, with platforms, carriages, and fittings complete. 'The Virago, since she has been in the shipwrights' and engineers' hands, has been almost rebuilt, and is now one of the strongest vessels of her class, additional stanchions and knees having been introduced in her frame to enable her to carry the heavy guns which will compose her armament. Her original machinery andengines have been taken out, and the engines lately belonging to the paddle wheel steamer Rhadamanthus fitted in their stead. The Virago is now ready for being commissioned, it being intended, it is understood, to despatch her to the West Coast of Africa. Yesterday the steam dredging machine employed in Chatham harbour was towed down the river to Sheerness, for the purpose of being used in clearing away a bank of sand and mud formed near the en trance to the steam basin. The chartered convict ship Corona will embark 100 convicts from the Chatham Convict Prison to day for conveyance to the penal settlement, Western Australia. She will call in at Portsmouth and Port land for convicts from those establishments. It is stated that the Admiralty is about to pur chase of Mr. Hay, of Sunderland, his new steam yacht Corra Linn, to be employed as a surveying vessel on the coast of Africa. On her trial trip a few days since, under the inspection of Government engineers, she passed over the measured mile, oppo site the Shornmead Battery, in 6 minutes 21 seconds. Her engines are by Clarke, of Sunderland, and her dimensions are-163f t. between perpendiculars, 26ft. extreme breadth, with Oft. draught of water, and 300 tons burden. She is now fitting out at Graves end for the coast of Africa. An order was received at Chatham garrison yes terday from the Horse Guards, directing the detachment of Royal Artillery, ordered to embark for Canada, to proceed this morning to Liverpool, for embarkation on board the steamer Moravia, for Quebec. The infantry troops under orders to em bark for Canada will join the vessel selected to con vey them to their destination, either at Gravesend or Portsmouth. Staff Assist.-Surd. J. E. Fishbourne, doing duty at Chatham, has been ordered to embark for Cal cutta, and will be relieved at Chatham garrison by Staff Assist.-Surg. G. Traynor. Staff Assist.-Surg. G. E. Wills, doing duty with the detachments of Royal Engineers stationed at the Isle of Grain, has received orders to embark for the Bahamas. The three battalions of infantry at Chatham gar rison having been now completed to their full esta blishment by the transfer to that station of the various depot battalions in Ireland, the whole of which are now absorbed in the English battalions, the following are the East India and other depots now attached to each battalion, viz., Ist Depot Bat talion-Ist and 2d battalions of the Ist (King's Royals) Regiment, Ist and 2d battalions of the 15th Regiment, 2d battalion of the 17th Regiment, and 109th Bombay Infantry; 2d Depot Battalion-Ist and 2d battalions of the 2d (Queen's Royals) Regi ment, Ist and 2d battalions of the Bth (the King's) Regiment, 29th Regiment, 30th Regiment, and 106th Bombay Light Infantry ; 3d Depot Battalion —lst and 2d battalions of the 10th Regiment, 2d battalion of the 14th Regiment, Ist and 2d batta lions of the 224 Regiment, 34th Regiment, and 45th Regiment. Mr. I.ethers, chief inspector of the Metropolitan Police doing, duty at Chatham Dockyard, has been appointed by Sir R. Mayne acting superintendent of police at Deptford Dockyard. Lieut.-Gen. Sir F. Graham, K.C.8., Colonel of the Plymouth division of the Royal Marines, has been appointed Colonel of the Artillery division, vice Gcn. Sir C. Menzies, K.C.B. and K. 11., de ceased. Major-Gen. Alex. Anderson has been ap pointed to succeed Lieut.-Gen. Sir F. Graham, as Colonel of the Plymouth division. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. MONMOUTHSHIRE. The report of the directors states that the traffic receipts for the half-year ending the 30th of June last amounted to £74,851, and for the correspond ing half of last year to £71,068, showing an increase of £3,783. The expenditure amounted to £34,248, or 46 per cent. of the receipts, against £35,521, or 50 per cent., showing a decrease of £1,273 ; and the net earnings amounted to £40,603, against £35,546 in the same half of 1865, showing an increase of £5,057. The re-laying account had been credited with £5,000, transferred from the general revenue account. The average rate of interest paid on the whole amount of borrowed capital was £4 Bs. Bd. per cent. per annum. The general revenue account showed a balance of £21,515, out of which it was proposed to declare a dividend at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum on the ordinary shares payable on the sth of October next. The dividend for the corresponding half of 1865 was at the rate of 61 per cent. per annum. An Act had been ob tained for constructing a railway from the London and North-Western Railway Company's line at Brynmawr to the Blaenavon Ironworks. The capital account to the 30th of June showed that £1,301,814 had been expended, leaving a balance of £90,000 to the credit of that account. TENBY AND WHITLAND. Yesterday the narrow gauge railway from the watering-pla ce of Tenby to the Great Western line at Whitland was opened to the public for passenger trafac, having been formally opened on Tuesday line was only 16 mileß y with great common in length , but by its an i d public rejoicing. The comple tion a saving of nearly 30 miles to Tenby was effected. to Up yesterday the rou t e was th roug h ferry, Milford and Pembrok e , w i th a delay of half an ' hour in crossing the hilnarveeange. The nthe narrow Great by be sides the additional Western Company propose laying ' dow gauge along the South Wales line from Whitland to Carmarthen. Direct communication would thus be obtained by the Manchester and Milford line with the north, and by the Llanelly and Vale of Towy line with Swansea, Neath, Cardiff, Newport, an d the midland counties. By the completion of this railway a through narrow gauge. railway from the north to the west would be carried out as soon as the Great Western Company had laid down the narrow gauge between Whitland and Carmarthen. There is a short tunnel and a handsome viaduct at Tenby. The contractors for the works were Messrs. Davies and Roberts, who completed the works 14 months before the expiration of the contract. Capt. Rich, the Government inspector, made his official inspection of the line on Saturday, and at once passed it. MADRAS. The traffic receipts on this company's lines for the week ending 7th of July amounted, on 611 miles of railway, to £9,104, and for the corresponding week last year, on 571 miles, to £7,113, showing an in crease of 11,991, or 28 per cent. GRAND TRUNK OF CANADA. The traffic receipts on this company's lines for the week ending 18th of August amounted for local passengers to £6,658 ; for foreign passengers, to £4,369 ; for emigrants, £137; for mails, &c., £1,007; for local freight and live stock, £9,915 ; and for foreign freight and live stock, to £2,353—t0ta1, £24,439, against £23,997 for the corresponding THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 6, 1866. week last year, showing an increase of £442. The total receipts from Ist of July to the above date amounted to £179,265, and for the same period of 1865 to £173,108, showing an increase of £6,157. tary condition of that district, the Rev. G. T. Drif field, rector of Bow, writes to say that the body from whom those. statements emanated was not the Bow and Bromley Cholera Relief Committee, of which he is chairman, and in which representatives of all religious denominations are combined to carry out the work, but a comparatively small and pri vate committee connected with the congregation of George-street Independent Chapel, Bromley, of which the Rev. H. Lance is minister. Mr. Driffield states that he makes this statement with a view of vindicating in some degree the local authorities, and also of avoiding confusion between the two Com mittees, as that with which he has the honour of acting would not have been a party to some of the allegations made. He and his Committee freely admit the defective drainage of the locality, but the remedy for this, he says, is simply dependent on the completion of the low-level sewer. The poverty and destitution prevailing in the neighbourhood, he adds, are also undeniable, and this has been the ground of their appeal to public sympathy, as well as to the kindness of the Mansion-house Committee, who on Tuesday made them an additional grant of £lOO. It is right, he says, to add that the District Board of Works have been most energetic in their efforts to fulfil their duties during the prevalence of the epidemic, and any complaint made to them from any quarter as to the use of offensive materials in roads, or of any similar nuisance, would have been attended to without the loss of many hours. On behalf of the Woolwich Local Board of Health we are asked to contradict the statement of the Registrar-General, that the authorities there are negligent. We are assured that at the very first outbreak of cholera in London the Local Board ap pointed a sanitary committee, which has since met every alternate day, and which, aided by the Garri son Sanitary Committee, has been unremitting in its exertions to remove every nuisance which was calculated to injure the public health. Their deaths up to Tuesday during the epidemic had been 12, out of a population of more than 41,000. Of these one was an imported case, and in nearly every one of the remaining 11 some gross error of diet, or long neglected diarrhoea, had been clearly estab- lished. The few cases that had occurred had been essentially sporadic, no second case having oc curred in the same house, nor even in the same street. A cholera ward has been open for nearly two months, but it has not received a single patient ; and the house-to-house visitation which had been projected has not been carried into effect, simply because there has been no prevalence of diarrhoea to justify its adoption. We are also as sured that the Registrar -General is wrong in stating that " the deaths happen chiefly by the river," the fact being that in Woolwich not one death has oc curred " by the river," and the majority has been on the upper levels. The following is the official return of deaths from cholera and diarrhoea in London, registered on Tuesday, Sept. 4:-- - - Cholera. Diarrhoea. West districts 3 ~. ••• 4 North districts 3 ... ... 4 Central districts... 1 ... ... 3 East districts 13 ... 2 South districts ~. 9 ..• ... 8 Total ... ... 31 ... 21 • The return for the sub-district of St. George's, Bloomsbury, was not received in time for publica- Lion. Beaumarchais in London. (From the Pall-Mall Gazette.) It is stated in the newspapers that the alleged MS. play in four acts of Beaumarchais, said to have been discovered in England by M. Fournier some years ago, will, after many delays, be actually produced at the Theatre Francais. Its authenticity will no doubt have been carefully ascertained by the proper autho rities, for the names of Beaumarchais and mystifica tion are by no means incongruous. The most amus ing scamp of the 18th century—concerning whom M. de Lomenie has written rather a solemn book, and who ought to be specially dear to this genera tion, inasmuch as he was the first man to whom was revealed the great truth that everything which is serious and everybody who is earnest are " slow"— was certainly often in England, and manuscripts of his are preserved here, some of them of rather equi vocal character. He came on divers Bohemian missions, as an agent, to make matters smooth be tween Madame Pu Barri and the libeller Thevenot de Morande ; as a spy, commissioned by the French Court, to look after the epicene Chevalier d'Eon, and on sundry contraband financial projects of his own. What particular mischief he was after in London in May, 1776, we do not know, but on the Gth of that month he addressed a letter in French to the Morn ing Chronicle, which reminds one so much of his own immortal " Figaro," that it may be worth translat ing and presenting to our readers. It is reprinted in a collection of his works along with other jeux d' esprit, but these works, except his two famous plays, arelforgotten, and few will search for it there. " To TIIE EDITOR of TIIE MORNING CHRONICLE (Or MAY 6, 1776). " Sir,—l am a foreigner, a Frenchman, and a man of honour. If this information does not fully apprise you what 1 am, at all events it shows what I am not, and in times like these that is something. " The evening before last, at the Pantheon, after the concert and while the dance was going on, I found under my feet a lady's cloak, of black satin, lined with the same, and with a lace border. Ido not know to whom this cloak belonged. I never saw tho porson who worn it—there or elsewhere ; and all the inquiries I have since made have failed in ascertaining anything about her. " I beg you therefore, Mr. Editor, to announce the dis covery of the cloak in your journal, in order that it may be faithfully returned to the owner. But, in order to avoid mistakes, I have the honour to inform you that the lady who lost it wore on that occasion pink feathers. I think she had diamond drops in her ears, but of this I am not so certain. She possesses a very good figure. Her hair is blond argente. Her complexion is brilliantly fair. Her throat is long ; her waist rather long also. She is tall, and has the prettiest foot in the world. I have even satisfied myself that she is very young, lively, and rather absent ; that she is very quick in her movements, and that she has a decided taste for dancing. "If you ask me, Mr. Editor, why, as I observed her so closely, 1 did not immediately give her back her cloak, 1 have the honour to repeat to you what I said before, that I never saw this lady. I know neither her eyes, nor her features, nor her dress, nor her demeanour. "But if you persist in asking how, never having seen her, I can describe her to you so closely, I, on my side, must express myself surprised that so accurate an observer as yourself does not know that the mere inspection of a woman's cloak is sufficient to convey all those paiticulars which are required to identify her. " But without boasting of an accomplishment which is scarcely one at all, since the late Zadig gave so admirable an explanation of it, suppose, Mr. Editor, that on examin ing this cloak I found in the hood attached to it two or three hairs of a beautiful light colour, and also a few ends of rose-coloured feather adhering to the lining;. you per ceive that it required no great effort of genius to conclude that the plume and the locks of this blonde lady must have answered to the specimen. Thus much is plain. _ "And inasmuch as such locks as these never grew on a dark forehead, or even one of impeachable complexion, analogy would have taught you, as it did me, that the per son in question must have possessed a skin of dazzling fairness, which no observer can dispute without casting discredit on his judgment. "Again, a slight ebrasion or fraying on each side of the interior lining of the hood, such as could only have been produced by the continual rubbing of two little hard bodies in motion, proved to me, not that she wore earrings with drops that day, neither have I affirmed it, but that she is in the habit of wearing them. Although, between youandme it is not at all likely that she would have omitted to put on such ornaments for a day of conquest. But never mind this, if I reason badly, Mr. Editor, do not spare me ; rigour is not injustice. "The rest needs no explanation. It will be seen that it wa.s enough for me to examine the ribands which fastened the hood round the neck, and to tie them together in,.a knot just at the length where they were crumpled by ordinary tying, to satisfy myself that, the space encircled by the knot thus formed being inconsiderable, the throat usually encom passed by it is very slender and elegant. No difficulty on that point. Next, measuring attentively the spice comprised between the top of the cloak behind, and tlp marks of horizontal folds, formed just below the waist by the action of the wearer in tightening the cloak about her in order to bring the charms of ber figure into greater development and exhibit the fall of its lower portion with the lace border at bottom, no amateur would doubt for a moment, any more than I did, that the lady was tall, rather long waisted, and finely shaped. This is self-evident ; the form is visible beneath the drapery. "Now suppose, Mr. Editor, that in examining the body of the cloak you had found on the black satin the impres sion marked in dust of a very pretty little shoe, would you not have reflected that if any other woman had trodden on the cloak after the fall, she would certainly have deprived me of the pleasure of picking it up ? You would therefore have concluded at once that the impression was made by the shoe of the loser of the cloak. Then you would have said if her shoe is very small her pretty foot is still smaller. Ido not claim any merit for having ascertained this. The simplest observer might have done the same. "But this footstep, made in passing, and evidently un perceived by her who made it, indicates not only extreme quickness of step, but also a preoccupation of mind, of which grave, cold, elderly people are seldom susceptible. Whence I simply conclude that my charming blonde is in the flower of her age, full of liveliness, and distraite in pro portion. "Again, reflecting that the spot where I found her cloak was on the way towards the place where the most active dancing was going on, I inferred that she was very fond of that amusement, since no less attraction would have suf ficed to make her forget her cloak and tread upon it. It was impossible, I think, to arrive at a different conclu sion. And, though a Frenchman, I boldly refer the ques tion to all the honnetes Bens of England. "Also, when I remembered next day that in a place where so many people passed I had picked up this cloak without interruption (which proved that it had just been dropped), and without being able to discover her who had dropped it (which proves that she was already a long way off), I said to myself, Surely this young person is the most alert beauty in England, Scotland, and Ireland, and if I do not add America, it is because people have become of late diablement alert in that country.' "Had I carried my researches further I might perhaps have learnt in addition, from her cloak, what is her rank and quality. But when ono has discovered that a woman is young and handsome, does one not know nearly all about her that one wishes to learn ? Such, at least, was the notion in my time in some good cities in France, and even in some villages, such as Manly, Versailles, and the like. "Do not, then, be surprised, Mr. Editor, that a French man who has made the fair sex the object of his special and philosophical study all his life should have found out, on the more view of the cloak of a lady whom ho never saw, that the beautiful blonde with the rose-coloured plume to whom it belonged unites to the dazzling beauty of a Venus the slender neck of a nymph, the figure of a Grace, and the youth of Hobe ; that she is vivacious, ab sent, and so fond of the dance that she forgets everything else as she hastens to join it, on the feet of a Cinderella, with the swiftness of an Atalanta. " And be still less astonished if, occupied all night with the sentiments inspired in me by so many charms, I made for her, on my awaking, the innocent little verses, for which her cloak and your paper, Mr. Editor, will servo as a passport." We spare our readers the versos, which aro of the com mon-place order of gallantry. The writer signs himself, "Amatur Francais," and says that a letter addressed to C. 8., at the coffee-house, St. James's, shall bo duly answered. The Chronicle carries the romance no farther. The Pan theon, it will be remembered, was in 1776 the novel and fashionable place for public balls. Serious Forgeries by a Parish Contractor. CIRCULATION OF FORGED BILLS OF EXCHANGE TO THE AMOUNT OF £15,000. Yesterday at the Marylebone Police-court, before Mr. Burcham, George Curnock, a contractor, em ploying a large number of persons in the parish of St. Pancras, and who has his offices at 250, High street, Camden-town, was charged with knowingly uttering a number of forged bills of exchange. Mr. G. Lewis, jun., who appeared for the prose. cution, said that the prisoner had for a number of years been the principal contractor for the scavenging work for the parish of St. Pancras, and until latterly had been a man of some repute in the parish. The prisoner had a brother named Thomas Curnock, a farmer, at North Hyde, Middlesex, and, as he would show, the prisoner had forged his brother's name to bills of exchange for a large amount, of which not less than £5,000 worth had been dishonoured. Mr. Wm. Aspinall said he was a stone merchant, at 280, High-street, Camden-town, and had known the prisoner about 14 years as being a contractor holding a good position in the parish. On the Bth March last Mr. Anderton, one of the prisoner's clerks, came to him and asked him to discount a bill for £198115., purporting to have been accepted by Mr. Thomas Curnock. After some persuasion he consented to discount the bill, and (less the usual percentage for discount) gave a cheque on the Lon don and Westminster Bank, payable to Mr. George Curnock. Feeling somewhat suspicious, he followed the clerk to the door of his master's office, where he met the prisoner, who, in answer to his inquiries, said it was all right, and that he had drawn the bill on his brother Thomas for some dung he had sold him. The bill, which was due on the 11th of June, was dishonoured, and on the following day the prisoner came into his office, and on learn ing that the bill was locked up in the desk, he ex pressed his satisfaction, and hoped it would remain there until he got some money from the parish, when he would take it up. At that time he (wit ness) feeling ill, left town for about 10 days, and on returning found that the prisoner had become a bankrupt. Ile (witness) was chairman at the first meeting of the prisoner's creditors, and had the pri soner called into the room, when he confessed that the whole of the signatures to the bills of exchange produced were forged. The prisoner's brother sat at the table during the meeting, and at the same time other creditors said that they held similar forged acceptances for sums varying from £4OO to £5OO. He (witness) knew that at the present time there were forged bills of exchange out, signed by the prisoner, amounting to upwards of £5,000. Mr. William Johnson, a timber merchant, at Kentish Town-wharf, spoke to having been swindled in a similar manner, and was induced to discount a forged bill for £2OO. Mr. Richard llillsdon, another tradesman in Kentish Town, who had known the prisoner over 20 years as a contractor in extensive business, also deposed to having discounted a bill for £137 11s., the acceptance of which had been forged by the pri soner. The witness added that he held other forged acceptances amounting to upwards of £570; and he had ascertained that the prisoner had forged bills to the amount of £15,000, about a third of which had been met. • Police-constable John Doudney, 172, said that in consequence of information received he, at 5 o'clock the previous afternoon, apprehended the prisoner at Iligh-street, Camden Town, and conveyed him to the police-station in a cab. On the way to the sta tion the prisoner said it was his clerk who had done all the mischief. Mr. Burcham remanded the prisoner for seven days. THE CHOLERA. MANSION-HOUSE RELIEF COMMITTEE. Yesterday at 2 o'clock a special meeting of this Committee was convened at the Mansion-house by the Lord Mayor, to confer with the chairmen of the various local committees in the East of London, who had been specially invited to meet them, in reference to the distribution of the money which the Committee has set apart with the view to aid the recovery of convalescent patients. The Lord Mayor occupied the chair, and there were also present Sir Mordaunt Wells, Mr. John Abel Smith, M.P., the Rev. W. Rogers, Mr. H. W. Ripley, Mr. C. Hutton, Mr. R. B. Wade, Mr. R. N. Fowler, Dr. A. Clarke, physician to the London Hospital, Mr. R. Wigram, and Mr. R. Hoare. The local committees and bodies repre sented on the occasion were those of Bethnal-green, Bishopsgate, Bow, and Bromley, the German Hos pital, Dalton ; the Great Northern Hospital, Hack ney, Limehouse, the Metropolitan Free Hospital, Mile-end Old-town, Mile-end New-town, the Jew ish Board of Guardians, Devonshire-square ; Pop lar, Ratcliff, Spitalfields, Stepney, St. George's-in the-East, and Tower-hill. The LORD MAYOR, addressing the delegates, ex plained that the committee he had the honour to represent had the subject of dealing with convales cents from cholera, which was a pressing one, under consideration for some time, and had set apart the sum of £2,000 for that express purpose. That being so, they had thought it desirable to invite the at tendance and co-operation of the chairmen of the local committees in its distribution. They were in duced to believe that by means of the public bounty they and the Bishop of London's Committee toge ther had been the means of arresting the spread of the epidemic, and so of averting what might other wise have become a great national calamity. The disease having now materially subsided, the case of the convalescents pressed for immediate action, and the committee wanted to know from the local autho rities the number of persons in their various locali- ties coming - within that category, and to discuss with them the best means of sustaining and strengthening the many unhappy creatures who had suffered from this severe visitation, and restoring them to their homes and families, or to such of their families as were spared to them. The committee had a certain sum of money intrusted to their care by the public for that and kindred purposes, and the great object they had in view was to apply it strictly to those purposes, taking care at the same time, in the exercise of what they believed to be a wise dis cretion, that they did not add pauperism to pau perism—(hear, hear) and desiring, on the other hand, as the wiser course, to assist those who were disposed to assist themselves. They had considered the matter in all its various phases. Some gentlemen had thought it desirable to erect conva lescent hospitals. 'That might well be a question for future consideration; but the Committee were unani mously of opinion that they had first to deal with the present, and having, as they believed, under God's providence, been instrumental in mitigating, if not entirely abating, the disease they might hope, with the co-operation of the local committee, to whom the public at large owed the deepest gratitude for the services they had rendered in the emergency, to ap propriate the money in such a way as not only to afford satisfaction to the subscribers, but confer lasting good on the poor. The committee afterwards made the following grants for assisting convalescents, leaving in every instance the money to be dispensed for that purpose at the discretion of the local committees, who are composed of ministers of religion and other princi pal inhabitants of the infected districts—namely, Bethnal-green, £2OO ; Bishopsgate Ward Visiting Society, £5O ; Bow and Bromley, £lOO . ;. the Ger man Hospital, £5O ; Limehouse, £l5O ; Metropoli tan Free Hospital, Devonshire-square, £25; Mile end Old Town, £l5O ; Mile-end New Town, £5O ; Jewish Board of Guardians, £100; Poplar, £5O; ltatcliff, £5O ; Spitalfields, £l5O ; St. George's-in the-East, £lOO ; and the Tower-hill district, £5O ; making in all voted yesterday for this special pur pose, £1,275. Lon» MAYon intimated that the next object of the committee was to provide for the maintenance of the orphans, for which purpose they had set apart £5,000, and to that end they would hold another conference with the local committees on an early day. They had only one object in view, he said, and that was to do the greatest possible good with the money which the public had so generously placed at their disposal and to do it promptly, adding that nothing could be more gratifying than the cordial manner in which the local committees, one and all, had co-operated with them. The local authorities then took their leave. Sir M. WELLS, referring to the ravages of the dis ease in the district of Limehouse, with a population of 26,977, said it appeared from a return sent to him that from the week ending July 14 to that ending Sept. 1 there had been 182 deaths from cholera and 98 from diarrhcea, or 280 in all ; in other words, in six weeks, 100th part of the population of Limehouse had died of the pestilence. Dr. A. CLARK, physician to the London Hospital, took occasion to refer, from his own knowledge, to the great good which Mrs. Gladstone was doing for convalescent children. At one time, he said, the hospital was nearly choked with convalescent chil dren. They had no homes to go to and no clothes to put on, and the hospital was fast becoming a sort of poorhouse,; but Mrs. Gladstone stepped in and re moved 28 of these children to the house of charity in Greek-street, Soho, and afterwards took a tempo rary home at Brighton. He had that morning paid a visit to the House of Charity, and was pleased with all he saw. The children were happy-looking and joyous, and altogether the institution was being con ducted in a systematic and business-like manner. The promptitude, he added, with which these poor children had been dealt gave to the boon twice its value. While the subject of affording means to enable con valescents to go into the country for the benefit of fresh air was under consideration, a member of the committee related a circumstance which had come under his own observation during the epidemic, to show how the poor are wedded to their own homes and modes of life, wretched though these often are in the last degree. On Saturday while the cholera was prevalent he visited a poor widow who bad been taken with the disease, in a room she occupied with her children in one of the poorest parts of Spitalfields. He called again on the following Mon day and found she was dead and buried, and that her youngest Child, who had caught the epidemic, had been taken to the hospital. She had died leaving nine orphans. He went to see after the family, and found that four of them had been to a workhouse, one, the youngest, was in the hospital, and the re maining four, three of whom were girls, 18, 17, and 16 years of age, and one a boy of 13, were living in what he called a piggery belonging to a railway, and in which there was not a single pane of glass. One lived by making braid, and the three others by mak ing lucifei-match boxes, at which they earned 2d. a gross, and they could make perhaps three gross a day. Not one of them could read or write. They were utterly and absolutely ignorant. They could not sew, and none of the girls had even a shift. He offered to clothe them decently, and to give them a dinner every day, provided they would do a little sewing in return, but every one of them refused, saying they would rather live as they were. That (said the inember of the committee who related 'the story) was more deplorable, to his mind, than the prevailing' distress. It may interest the persons having the care of the s i d u i n o t o boy y e recovering yby from B ch o o r l r e a r d a m mle e: t t o i o n k e n d o wi that th ch e ar L l o es rd ß A e f e a d y , o a r g h o a d v e s r i :o c r e oreceivedn s a y 1 1 e u t m t e r f o fr r om ld M iot r. Idiots at Earlswood, and son of the founder of that insti tauntdiodno, h s t is a t b i p e g s t t t h o a s t e h on e r w e i h l i l s a a t d m o n is c s e io n n o . min at e him, In reference to certain statements made at the Mansion-house a few days ago by a local committee from Bromley and Bow as to the drainage and sani- Fatal Affiay between Two Tradesmen. SOUTHAMPTON, Wednesday. At the Guildhall, this day, Samuel Ballantyne, a draper, of South-front, Kingsland-place, Southamp ton, was charged with killing Henry Russell. The case was of a very painful character. The parties were near neighbours, and were both highly respectable, the deceased, who was a painter by trade, being much respected in the town. It appeared that a little before 12 o'clock on the previous night the two parties were in the parlour at the " Unicorn" inn, and commenced " chaffing" each other. Mr. Ballantyne introduced the question of religion, and deceased told him to go home to his wife, as he was drunk. Mr. Ballantyne said, " I can go home to my wife ; she is a virtuous wife, and I have stuck to her. When Igo home to my wife, I don't go home to a woman." The deceased then said, " What do you mean ? You area blackguard." At the same time he rose and struck the accused , open-handed on the cheek. The accused was about to return the blow, when the landlord prevented it, and they both left the house. The deceased then struck Mr. Ballantyne about the head with his umbrella, and the latter then struck out right and left, and gave the deceased some very severe blows. The deceased defended himself as well as he could, and in the skirmish he fell very heavily to the ground, quite insensible. The deceased was taken into the public-house, and on recovering consciousness Mr. Ballantyne apologised to him, and they both shook hands. There was a cut on the deceased's left cheek from which blood was flowing ; a large lump on the back of the head, but no blood flowing ; and a large lump over the right eye. Mr. Russell walked to his home, but died about seven o'clock the next morning. The accused, who seemed to feel his position most acutely,was remanded, in order that a post-mortem examination might be made. During the past few weeks numbers of families have left the iron and coal districts of South Wales for the United States, and this mania for emigration has taken such a permanent hold of the miners and ironworkers that the exodus is expected to keep up for some time, notwith standing the improved prospects of the staple trades of the district. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TIMES.—The Census of 1861 revealed the remark able fact that in the whole south-west of Ireland there were but two Jews. One of these ancient people abode in Munster, and the other in Con naught, so that they sufficed between them for a population of nearly three millions. That little piece of statistical intelligence may be valued, perhaps, for its curiosity, but it is really of greater worth. We fear it is instructive. Jews can find no occupation in a land of poverty, without manufactures, with out trade, without any of those commercial demands which provide them with employment. And the truth of this deduction is seen by a comparison of the north-eastern provinces of Ireland with the south-western. In the metropolitan districts of Leinster 200 Jews were found, and a Jewish colony had settled about Belfast. These are the rising dis tricts of Ireland—the counties in which remunera tive industry is taking root and prosperity gradually developing itself. The inhabitants themselves con fess as much, and the fact explains the three impor tant addresses received by the new Lord-Lieutenant on Monday last. The known excellence of the Dub lin School of Surgery accounts for the professional deputation which headed the list. The Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland represents almost a special Irish faculty, and its compliments to the new Viceroy were naturally paid. But after this deputation came two others of singular importance—one from the Dublin Chamber of Commerce, and the other from the Corporation of Belfast—the two centres of Irish progress. The spirit of these two addresses is identi cal, though the language and arguments differ. The Ulster people have nothing to fear, and there fore nothing to deprecate. There is no disaffec tion or conspiracy in their part of the country. On the contrary, they justly boast of their loyalty, and express a hope that the value of this spirit, and of " habits of contented and honour able industry,", will now be recognised by their fellow-countrymen. Fenianism has no place by the side of diligence and thrift. Prosperity goes hand in hand with loyalty and work, and all the Belfast people ask for is a quicker mail service between their town and London. They could not have preferred a more satisfactory request. It is the best possible evidence of improvement when com munications are found insufficient, and postal ser vice too slow for the enterprise of trade. The repre sentatives of the commercial and manufacturing interests of Leinster entertain, of course, a similar appreciation of the benefits of industry, but they cannot make the same report of tranquillity and progress. They do,' indeed, " discern evidence of increasing enterprise in all quarters of the land," but the signs of improvement had been clouded by political follies. A " senseless and wicked combination" had alarmed the country for its se curity, and the apprehensions of disturbance had scared away capital and injured trade. Naturally, therefore, they desire to see the evil removed. They ask simply for a strong Government. They want no favour for any religious or political party; on the contrary, they expressly ask for " impartial .justice" without respect to persons or creeds, and only desire to see the law maintained against the enemies of order. On this one condition they predict a good time for Ireland. " Aided," they say, " by returning peace and security, and pro tected by firm and impartial government, the trade and commerce of our country will be gradually and largely developed." With this development will disappear the chief difficulties of Ireland. The great evil of Ireland is poverty. That the country suffers also from religious and political dissensions is true, but such dissensions prevail in other coun tries without material injury to the economical inte rests of the people. The mischief is that in Ireland they break out into the lawless outrages which frighten away capital, paralyse trade, and keep the population poor. Then this poverty reacts upon the people, and disposes them in their misery to break out again. Wealth can only come by industry, and industry can only be maintained by capital. When a well-known Irish writer remarked of his country, in 1782, that the only things then wanting to her prosperity " were capital and enterprise," he did not reflect how very great and fatal the deficiency really was. It is simply because " capital and enterprise" have not been forthcoming that Ireland has remained what it is. Ulster alone has possessed these sources of prosperity, and Ulster is well off and contented, without a single complaint to make, except against the Post-office. Leinster, the metropolitan pro vince, is making progress ; but the Fenian agita tion created an alarm, by which the pleasing pro spect was for a time obscured. It is well for Irish men to look the truth in the face, and the great truth before them just now is this—that the only substitute which has been so much as proposed for the British Government is a Communistic Republic founded on murder and pillage, and administered by men who, even in the abundance of the New World, cannot refrain from cutting each others' throats. That is the alternative to be completed ; nor should it be forgotten that the faults of the British Government, whatever they may have been, are now things of the past. No Government could be imagined more sincerely anxious to do good to Ireland than the Governments, whether Conserva tive or Liberal, of the present day ; nor could any people be more ready to help another people than Englishmen to help Irishmen. We have a super abundance of the capital and enterprise which Ire land needs. These things are quite at Ireland's service, but Irishmen always make the mistake of applying to Parliament instead of dealing with the people. No mistake could be greater, for public economists are niggardly, while the people are lavish. It is not by a local subsidy that Ireland can be enriched. Parliamentary grants are grudg ingly made and hotly disputed; but private capital will flow in abundant volume through channels once opened. Look at the example of Scotland. Apart from questions of trade and industry, look at the resources found in scenery, sport, and untutored nature. A Highland " forest," a moor, a wild unnavigable stream, prove to be the most lucrative property. . The demand for these things expresses the reaction from intense devotion to business. If there are parts of Ireland where no energy can make crops grow or herds flourish, which are tenanted only by the wild creatures of nature, and characterised only by natural won ders, those are the very parts to which Eng lishmen would go. We work so hard, and our crav ing for periodical diversion becomes so strong, that no price is too high to pay for the alternative re quired. We go to the Scottish isles, the Orkneys, or the coast of Norway for the most absolute change procurable. The time will probably come in our own island when a wood full of game will he about the most valuable species of landed property. Other countries cangrow corn for us. Thatquestion was settled by Free . Trade, and when Free Trade brought inexhaustible supplies into our ports and at the same time doubled the profits of commercial enterprise, the spirit of the age took a new turn. Where there was formerly one man with money in his pocket there are now fifty, and those fifty are exactly the people prepared to spend it. They work successfully for 11 months iu the year, and for the other month they claim the recreations which were once the monopoly of a small privileged class. They want travel, field sports, som e a b so l u t e contrast to intense civilisation and brainwork at high pressure. Now, what a field is Ireland for wants like these ! Why is such a chance thrown away ? Why should a moor in Scotland fetch a fabulous rent, while moors in Ireland are left without a tenant? If Ulster and Leinster have commercial advantages, the advantages of natural scenery and attractions belong to Munster and Connaught. Turn both to account, • and the face of Ireland would soon be changed. Nor is anything wanted to accelerate this change, except the public tranquillity and con tentment which all kinds of enterprise require. POST.—The refusal of the President of the United States to recognise the validity of a procla mation issued by the Emperor Maximilian, declar ing certain Mexican ports to be in a state of block ade, furnishes a striking illustration of the applica tion of one of the most important canons of inter national law as laid down in modern times. The Emperor of Mexico, having hitherto failed to establish his authority throughout the entire ex tent of hislnewly-acquired dominions, has thought proper to declare in a state of blockade 'certain ports in the possession of the Republican party. Now, the right of blockade is one which only pertains to a belligerent Power, and such declaration on his part is tantamount to an admis sion by him of a belligerent status in those to whom he is opposed. The exercise of the right of blockade is one which operates almost as harshly against neutrals as against the particular Power whose ports are closed, and as, according to the fundamen tal principles of international law, commerce is per fectly free, and every State is entitled to trade with every other, no State can be deprived of that right without the previous establishment of a state of war, and the consequent investiture of at least two dis tinct Powers with a belligerent character. No Power, for example, can declare a blockade of its own ports, though, if it pleases, it is at liberty to close them. The difference between a closure and a blockade is very material as regards foreign Powers, since the former proceeding involves no penalties on ships which attempt to enter the closed ports, whereas the latter entails under similar cir cumstances liability to capture and forfeiture. During the late American civil war the Government of the United States proclaimed a blockade of the ports of the Southern States, and by so doing re cognised the belligerent status of the Confederacy. And it is worthy of remark that as such blockade was proclaimed previous to the recognition by Great Britain of the belligerent character of the revolted States, the charge of precipitation so persistently advanced by the Government of the United States against that of her Britannic Majesty was entirely groundless. In declaring Matamoras and other. ports to be in a state of blockade the Emperor of Mexico consequently only followed the example set him him by the American Go vern ment, and thus rar his conduct is free from censure. If proper to recognise the belligerent status of 1 1 insurgent subjects, he is at liberty to do so, an, his best justification for the course he has adopted would consist in the fact that he had employea what he conceived to be the most effiea c i °llS „ means of reducing his adversaries to subjeete',: The objection, however, which has been ta",.., he thinks by the Government of the United States to, the proclamation of blockade by the Mex ica ., Emperor rests on a ground which is admitted international law to be substantial if clearly est a " blished. The President declares by his proclarnation that the Emperor, or, as he terms him, Prince iNlax l l ; milian, has not a sufficient naval force to main a strict blockade, and that in consequence neutral w hich States are not bound to observe re,strictions the belligerent imposing them is not in a position 1 1 enforce. This, of course, is entirely a question t ot fact, but, assuming that fact to be as stated by W c i Johnson, there can be no question that he is entitled to disallow the right claimed by Maximilian to inter rupt the trade of the United States, amongst other* with the ports declared to be blockaded. The ille gality of what are termed paper blockades was vde termined a great many years since, and it is 11 % accepted law that no Power is entitled to acquire the right of stopping and capturing neutral v essel ; bound to a hostile port by simply declaring th a such port is in a state of blockade. No one ev er attempted to carry the theory of paper blockade to such an extent as the First Napoleon, when, on memorable occasion, by a decree he dec lared British ports to be blockaded, though at the without a single vessel in British waters. A ll the reason why such blockades should not 1.3 e recognised must be sufficiently obvious. The riel" of blockade is one which, in its exercise, pressl very heavily upon neutrals, and they have a rig, to demand that such exercise shall not be eaPr l " cions or nugatory. A neutral Power is bound W respect a blockade, and such of its vessels as attempt to enter the closed ports do so at thew peril, since, if captured, they may be condemned a° lawful prize of war. If, however, by simply Pr ° : claiming a blockade, a belligerent could inter dio commerce with a port, it would be enabled, of though not a maritime Power, to employ indi re l a means of warfare to which, from the necessi t y ° things, it would be disentitled to have recourse. The trade of neutral States would be impairedißbY. the mere assumption of a power which the b e ' s gerent would not in fact enjoy, and no me a l s would exist of ascertaining whether in fact v ess el s might enter the blockaded ports with safety o r no ; It is therefore established by i n t ern ational that a blockade, to be recognised, must be ew.,,,ec; tive, and not only effective, but continuous. blockading squadron, for example, quits the v ..d l cinity of the blockaded port for twenty-four ho d (unless driven off by stress of weather), the bloca,u o is considered raised, and, if resumed, fresh notlc must be given to neutral States if the belligerent sires to enforce his rights against vessels atternP'°", to enter such port. The belligerent cannot ex erels° his rights capriciously or at intervals ; he must r e " main constantly at his post if he intends to iot er.* fere with the trade of neutral vessels. COUNTRY MARKETS. NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE—TUESDAY. At our market there was a fair supply of wheat from P . ? growers, but a moderate coasting and a small f ore ! g' arrival. The trade ruled firm for old, but holders asiFul more than buyers were disposed to give, only a limitos business was done at an advance of is per qr on the ra te d of this day week. New wheat wss in small supply, an ry and was from is to 2s per qr. dearer. Barley w as Q om scarce, and brought more money. Malt, beans, and were unchanged. Oats of fine quality maintained 15",, ' rates, but secondary foreign, of which there was a lag supply, was is per qr. cheaper. MONMOUTHSHIRE—TUESDAY. At most of the markets old wheat was scarce, but theme was a good supply of new, which was generally in condition. • A fair amount of business was done ill hun i o grown, at a decline of about 2s per qr. in prices. 13usinere in oats was rather brisk, and heavy descriptio ns we worth is to is 6d per qr. more money. red? The following are the average quotations:—Wheat, 5s 9d to Gs Od per bushel ; white, 6s 6d to 6s 9 d ; infel„s d!. 5s Od to 5s 3d ; malting barley, —s to —s per qr ; gr`.7. ing ditto, 29s to 29s 6d; beans, 44s ; white oats, 25 s to 2u black ditto, 24s 9d to 25s 6d. MELTON MOWBRAY.—TUESDAY. With an average supply, wheat sold at fully late rata' Trade firm. ston°_; White wheat, 484 to 53s ; red, 44s to 46s per 36 Barley for malting, 36s to 40s per qr; feed, 2 8s to 33s,,P't. 30 stone. Oats old, 30s to 335; new, 22s to 30 s per 4' Beans, old, 48s to 525; new, 45s to 48s per qr. S AL IS BU RY.—T UESDAY. The business done at this market was only modal and the supply shoe t. Prices generally were firmer, s'L there was a disposition on the part of sellers to take a, vantage of a brisk demand to obtain better prices, a lthoP o the quotations of the day have scarcely shown any Chang... from those of last week. It was evident'that a good buslA ness might havo boon done if purchasers had been a lloWe' to '1 have their own way a littlo. he following are the quotations :—Wheat realised frB'ns 45s to 58s ; barley, 30s to 425; oats, 24s to 32s ; beans, Ts to 54s ; and peas, 42s to 50s per qr. Tares, from Gs T o d 6d per bushel ; Best bread, 13d ; household ditto, per 81b loaf. Flour, 37s to 41s per sack. HULL.—TUESDAY. shoif At the market on Tuesday there was a very goo- - of farmers' wheat, which met with ready sale at 49s Po,Plit for white, and from 46s poi-qr. for reds. Foreign " i ° was quoted at from 40s to 56s per qr., but there was onLYie LY ie small retail business doing. Barley continues exceeding scarce, and all descriptions are sold rapidly at full prices. say, for foreign kinds, at from 35s to 37s per qr. Oats art, in improved demand, and the best qualities were sold I°o more money than for some weeks past. Scotch o ats ‘ 7 5 6s quoted at from 30s to 31s per 24 stone, and Danish at "„ii to 275. Tho import of all kinds of corn has been this week, and the unsettled weather interferes with har ms vest operations. no English white wheat, 49s to 525; red, 46s to 50s; • sic and Konigsberg, 40s to 56s ; Baltic red, 45s to 8,: Danish and Hamburg, 44s to 48s ; Russian, 458 to 46 ' 1 ; Barley, English, —s to —s; grinding, Mediterran e . s o : 31s to 31s 6d. Oats, new English, 27s to 28s; 26s to 275. Beans, old English, 50s to 51s; foreign, ? tei to 475. Peas, English blue, 40: to 41s Od ; foreign W ill 38s to 40s ; grinding, 36s to 37s Od per qr. Russif,so COAL MARKET. Price per ton at the close of the market. a. s. d. 21 0. 9 Hetton Lyons ........ 20 3 East Hartlepool Hartlepool Cassop Tyne Main... l5 6 Trimdon Grange 2B 6 Hastings Hartley lB 0 Tees Now Belmont 2O 9 20 9 Russell's a Hetton... • - 0 South Hetton Ships at market, 25—sold, 25. The Rev. Petroleum V. Nasby is cheered by P u i political prospects of his party. He is f ee ling sangeit) to soon getting that "post orfis "in Kentucky. The lout election in that State will fill his pious Democratic So with delight. He anticipates great things from the i' lbile° t in Philadelphia of the two wings of his party. Ina rete st io the " Dimocratic bretherin" he says with g re- i unction :—" I notice a revival uv the work in this par t the Democratic vineyard which cheers me. The &Mel"; strashun our friends made in Memphis, the 100 Abolitionists in New Orleans, and the call for a Jo to son Convenshun in Philadelphia, all, all hey conspire' to comfort the souls uv the Dimocrisy, and encourage oof renewed effort. It is bringing forth fruit. Only last 11,-.,n0 five Northern men were sent whirlin' out uv this ec,oir —they dusted in the night to escape hangin', leavice tPhio goods as a prey for the righteous ; six niggers hoV "". killed, and one Burow officer shot. Trooly there is . 01re-- thing to encourage us." eh Births. M a jor CLARKE—At Tetbury, Gloucestershire, th e wife of W. C. Clarke, Madras Cavalry, of a daug hter.tha HAmiLTov—On the sth inst at 18 Eccleston-sci ll—e ' wife of Lt.-Col. Robert Hamilton , of a daughter. fO , OXENFORD—On the 4th inst., Mrs. Alfred Oxenforat ° daughter. . h URQUHART—At Kinturk House, county of Westl3lesti,ter• lady of W. Pollard-Urquhart, Esq., M.P., of a datio Marriages. MOP ' AMBROSE—JONES--On the Ist inst , at St. John 's ; stead, Wm. Ambrose, of the Ikon S oc i e ty of Linc-figest inn, barrister-at-law, to Georgianna Mary Anne, rwti-haril daughter of the late Wm. Jones, of Collego Camden-town, London. Chu g WiLsox—Lono—On the 4th inst., at St. Pet er's Belsize-park, Owen S. Wilson, Esq., of the Middle %ire ple, barrister-at-law, and of Cwmffrwd, C ar marthe n ! of to Eleanori, only daughter of C. F. J. Lord, L'4'' Hampstead. —- Deaths. 140. Astinunic—On the 3d inst , at his London residence, sst 9, Sussex-place, Hyde-pa•rk-gardens' a ft e r a short illnebio John Ashbury, Esq., of Manchester and London, in 61st year. Friends will kindly accept this intimatioo• BOWEA —On the 4th inst. • Wm. A. Bowra, late of Hongkong, Chi aged aO. d, D YMOND— On the 4th • t E Hobert Dy mond, at D laringtoll Lodge, ins . 7 at • xeter, Esq., aged 68. FELTOE —On the 3d inst. John S. Fence, Esq. , 0f SP3r row's Herne, Bushey, lierts, aged 44. ..- 41 LOYELL—On the 2d inst 7 at Chelmsford, Francis LO` .all, aged 53. • Araira l Riots--On the 4th inst at 119, Pall-mall, Irice-Au.'-- '7 Charles Rich. hir' TnEvon—On the 4th inst , at White Friars, Chester, Alderman Trevor, J.P., * god 65 Sirbitoo, . g vi 0, London : Printed and Published by WILLIAM AN9C of No. 112, Strand, Punter. at THE SUN Otr oe, 'ic o lil f Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy , in the Coon Micidleses.—Thursday, September 6, 1560. 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