The Sun. — London, England, 1865-07-11 00:00:00

THE UNITED STATES. (From a Correspondent of the Times) NEW YORK, JUNE 27. On the question of the restoration of the Southern States to the place they abdicated in the Federal Union, Mr. Johnson has left no doubt in any quar ter of the policy he would pursue. That policy was indicated in the proclamation appointing a Pro visional Governor for North Carolina, and further developed in the measures taken on the same basis for the gathering in of Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, and Florida to the Federal fold. There remains but South Carolina to be provided for ; and as South Carolina for social and political reasons was as hate ful to the Republican and new England party as Massachusetts has for the last thirty years been to the South, it was hoped by the ardent politicians who won the last Presidential election that this " hot bed," this " cradle," this " nurse," and " mothef of treason and secession" would not be permitted to return to her old place in the Republic until she had suffered a long probation of military Government, or been degraded into the position of an outlying territory, like Utah or Idaho, without a Govern ment of her own choice or any representation in Congress. Mr. Johnson, however, has suddenly dissipated these Republican hopes. He has received a deputation of eminent South Carolinians, treated them with marked kindness, and spoken to them in a tone and temper which won their hearts, and ex pounded to them his views of the situation with a frankness of expression and a breadth of statesman ship which made a favourable impression upon their judgments. The report of the Conference which took place at Washington on Saturday has been re ceived with shouts of approval by the Conservative and Democratic party, and has created something like a panic in the ranks of theßepublicans. Mr. Johnson owes no allegiance to the Convention that nominated him at Baltimore to the Vice-Presidency. The Con vention never intended or dreamed that he would be come President, or, with his antecedents as a slave holder and a State Rights Democrat, they would have set his pretensions very summarily aside. Knowing this, he is doubtless of opinion that he owes them nothing, and that in pursuing his present course he is guilty of no defection from A cause to which he never gave his adhesion. However that may be, he has rendered it impossible for the Re publican and pro-negro party to depend upon his action, and placed himself full and square at the head of the political organisation which prior to the secession of the South elected 13 out a the 16 Pre sidents of the Republic. Mr. Johnson's speech, a conversation with the South Carolinians, contained little which he had not previously said or written since he became President. Its merits consisted rather in its emphatic plainness and admirable lucidity than in its novelty. It laid down in the case of South Carolina the same princi ples which he had applied to North Carolina and other Southern States, but explained with greater fullness and precision the manner in which he in tended to work. He called upon South Carolina not only to admit the fact that slavery was dead within her limits as well as in the whole territory present and future of the Union, but to go still further, and by a Convention of her people to amend her State Con stitution to that effect, and so place herself in more perfect harmony with her sister States and with the irreversible decision of the sword. Thisdone, all the rest was easy and would follow in due course. There would be no interference on his part or on that of the Congress of the United States with the rights of the State to regulate the suffrage within its bounda ries. All that the Central Government had to do with South Carolina, or any other State, was to take care that its form of government should be Republi can, as the Constitution prescribed. Whether it granted or withheld the suffrage from negroes was no concern of anybody beyond the State limits. Personally, Mr. Johnson, who declared himself now, as ever, an enemy of monopoly and of aristocracy, was of opinion that the gift of the suffrage to the negroes would not be a good thing for the mass of the Southern white people, inasmuch as the negroes would inevitably vote as they were directed by their employers and former masters, who would thereby acquire more political power than if the negroes had no votes. To this consummation he was opposed, in the interest of what were once called the " poor whites" or " mean whites," a class from which he himself sprang, and whose votes and influence in the councils of the nation he would rather strengthen than weaken. Altogether Mr. Johnson's declara tion in favour of State rights and against negro suffrage are of a character that cannot fail to have a large influence on the reorganisation of parties, to confirm the wavering allpgiance of the Democrats, who would rather he had been elected on their plat form than on that of their opponents ; and to cause the extreme Radicals to detach themselves from his Administration, and take up a position of permanent and organised resistance to his measures. Judge Frost, the spokesman of the deputation, was as . frank and explicit in his reply as Mr. John son in his declaration. He admitted that several delusions in which the South had indulged had been dispelled by the stern realities of war ; such, for instance, as that State rights justified a dissolution of the Union ; that Cotton was King ; and that slavery was an element of political strength. With these notions scattered to the wind, and a new system of labour enforced upon them by those de cisions of war from which there was no appeal, the people of South Carolina had reconciled themselves to circumstances, and would cordially co-operate with the Federal Government in making negro labour as effective as possible, and in elevating the negro in the social scale to such a degree, as his capacities could reach. He contended, however, that this was a work not to be accomplished sud denly by enthusiasm and fanaticism, but by time and patience. The people of the South had a much larger interest in the question than the people of the North, and would be compelled to co-operate in the work for selfish if for no other or higher motives. The new system of labour would have to be inaugurated by sober counsels and discreet judg ment. The negroes were ignorant. Their mind s were inflamed with the idea of liberty, which they were much too apt to confound with license, or, at all events, with exemption from labour. The South would, for its own sake as well as for that of the nepoes, do its best for them as free labourers work ing for wages, and no one in the north would more sincerely rejoice than the South Carolinian planters and landowners if the experiment of emancipation should prove successful. He urged that freedom to the slave was freedom to the master, and accepted emancipation in that sense, not without a strong hope that blessings which no one had foreseen, or could now foresee, would grow out of the altered circumstances so heavily imposed upon a defeated but a high-spirited arid gallant people. He ended by promising that the same good faith which South Carolina had displayed during the contest towards the cause which it believed to be right would be displayed in their pledge of loyal support to the Federal Government now that cause was defeated and the war was at an end, and asked the President to nominate on as early a day as possible a Provi sional Governor of the State to carry out the ideas he had expressed during the interview. The Presi dent, still conciliatory, asked whom they would pre fer for that office, and five names of prominent South Carolinians were submitted to him who had all more or less been involved in support of the Con federacy, but who were all declared good men, and to be thoroughly depended upon in -the altered cir cumstances of the nation. ThePresidentreplied that there was no spirit of vengeance or vindictiveness on the part of the Government, and no other feeling than an earnest desire to restore the relations which formerly existed. He further promised that at the next Cabinet meeting to be held on Tuesday (this day) he would repeat the substance of the inter view, and, if possible, select a Governor. All this, as before stated, is " gall and wormwood" to the philsosophical party, who use and would con tinue to use the negro for factious purposes, and who would rather hold the South by military power than permit any restoration of civil rights which might endanger now or hereafter their own enjoy ment of office and its emoluments. There only remains for the President to show by his treatment of Mr. Jeff. Davis, Mr. Clement C. Clay and the other gentlemen falsely accused of the assassination of Mr. Lincoln, that he is not animated by a spirit of vengeance ; that he will favour the trial of Mr. Davis for treason before a civil not a military tribunal ; and that, if found guilty, his life will be spared ; to complete the adhe sion of the Democratic party of all shades of opinion to his person and policy, and to convert the mut tered distrust of the Revolutionists, led by Mr. Wendell Phillips, Mr. Charles Sumner, Mr. Dana, and the Northern pulpit, into undisguised and un sparing hostility. Those who are best acquainted with Mr. Johnson axe those who are most confident that he will take this course, notwithstanding the reasons for a contrary expectation that might be drawn from the first ominous threats which he uttered against traitors in the week that succeeded Mr. Lincoln's murder. In confirmation of their view there comes this morning, from St. Louis, a speech just delivered by Major-General Francis P. Blair, one of the eminent Blair family, that ex ercised such occult but paramount influence in the councils of Mr. Lincoln ; and to all of whom, to the elder especially, the Nestor of American poli tics, Mr. Johnson has long been accustomed to look for advice on occasions of emergency—a speech which exhorts magnanimity and mercy as em phatically as Lords Derby and Brougham in the British Parliament, and, as all the lead ing newspapers of Europe that have written upon a subject so momentous to the honour of the United States and the personal character of the President. " There can," says Gen. Blair, " be no justification for any executions which are not demanded by the safety of the State. Any policy, my friends, which comes from hate and malice comes from hell, and is at the instigation of the devil." This vigorous ex pression was loudly cheered. "We may," he added, " have enemies abroad. We cannot afford to make enemies at home. As for retaliation, there has already been too much of it. If you talk of that, I advise you to follow in the wake of the army which marched from the Mississippi to the sea and thence to Washington. Who could speak of retaliation after witnessing that scene of devastation ? No punishment that we could inflict could equal that which the Southern people have already suffered. I trust that the wounds which the war has inflicted will not be envenomed, but healed, and that the freedom for all men which we have snatched from this terrible destruction and desolation, and which is all we have gained, will at no distant day be more than sufficient to repay both North and South for all they have suffered." When major-generals talk in this way there is hope that the fanaticism engen dered by the war may be as ephemeral as its parent, and when men who give such good counsel are known to be in the confidence of the President there is almost equal reason to hope that they speak with an authority higher than their own, and that they are systematically doing their best to prepare the popular mind for a more humane and Christian policy than has yet found favour with the men whose councils provoked the war and maintained it until its triumph. Naval and Military Intelligence. Yesterday the Duke of Cambridge visited Canter bury for the purpose of inspecting the cavalry depot and the riding establishment stationed at the garri son in that city. His royal highness, who was attended by Lord George Paget, Inspector-Gen. of Cavalry ; Capt. Fraser, as Aide-de-camp ; Lord William Paulett, Sir Robert Garrett, Gen. of Divi sion ; Col. Cox, Adjt. of Division ; Col. Curzon, Sir James Yorke Scarlett, and other staff officers, arrived at the barracks about half-past 9 o'clock, and proceeded to inspect the married men's quarters. He then proceeded tcT the drill field, where he was re ceived by the troops in complete marching order, under the command of Col. Custance, C. 8., com mandant of the garrison. Having marched past, the troops performed a variety of manoeuvres and marched past in parade order, when they received the commendation of his royal highness for their steadiness of drill. The hospital was next visited, and the internal arrangements of that institution were spoken of in terms of approval. Proceeding from thence to the riding school the Duke of Cam bridge inspected successively the establishment rides, under Major Blenkhorn, superintendent of the rid ing school. The whole of the garrison afterwards paraded, dismounted, in the Cavalry-square, and, after undergoing a minute inspection, marched past in slow and quick time. An officers' ride, which followed•the foot parade, terminated the inspection, his royal highness expressing himself to the com manding officer as highly gratified with the entire proceedings. After partaking of luncheon at the officers' mess, the Duke of Cambridge left the bar racks, and afterwards started by train to London. A model of the sea-going turret-ship, designed by Mr. Scullard, the Chief Admiralty Draughts man at Portsmouth dockyard, to meet the views of Capt. C. P. Coles in the construction and fitting of a vessel carrying one turret mounting two 600= pounders, as a competitive vessel with Mr. Reed's Pallas, has been completed at Portsmouth yard and forwarded to the Admiralty. The model has been greatly admired on account of the beautiful form of its hull, which gives promise of high speed, with su perior seagoing qualities, the clear manner in which the details of hull, fittings, and rig are shown, and the very careful workmanship. The Octavia, 39, screw-frigate, Capt. C. F. Hill yar, one of the experimental fuel-saving squadron, goes out of Portsmouth harbour this morning, pre paratory to her trial at the measured mile and cruise in the Channel. The wooden screw corvette Pearl, 1,460 tons, 400- horse power, was yesterday undocked from No. 5 dock in Portsmouth yard, where she has been nearly rebuilt, and placed in the basin to bring forward for commission. The Monarch, sailing liner (old target ship), was Yesterday morning towed from Portsmouth toWhite's Medina Dock and Building yards at Cowes to be broken up. The formal opening of the North Inlet, or No. 11 dock, of Portsmouth yard will take place this morn ing by the admission of the iron frigate Minotaur, of 6,621 tons and 1,350 -horse power. The new dock, which was designed by Mr. Scamp, Deputy Director of Engineering Works to the Admiralty, is one of the best executed works in masonry ever yet con strusted in any of the Royal dockyards. When this morning it has received on its blocks the largest ship in herMajesty'snavy, there will still be fully Bft. clear space between the ship's taffrail and the caisson on the dock's invert, with also an unusually large space for the workmen under the ship's bottom and bilges and around her bows and quarters for carrying out any operations required, even to the extent of re building the ship at any future time, should such an operation ever become necessary. The dock has been constructed by Messrs. George Smith and Co., of London, and has been performed with real faithful ness of detail. The dimensions of the dock and the materials, &c., used are as follows :—Length at floor, 400 ft. ; length at coping, 426 ft. ; width at invert, 70ft. ; width at coping, 99ft. ; width at broad altar, 75ft. 9in. ; width at floor, 35ft. The depth of dock is from coping to floor, 33ft. 10in., and from floor to broad altar, 18ft. The depth of water is in midships, at high-water spring tides, 28ft. 4in. ; on invert, at high-water spring -tides, 27ft.; on invert, at high-water neaps, 23ft. The materials, &c., used .are :—bricks, 3,750,000 ; con crete, 6,5(0 cubic yards ; granite, 135,000 cubic feet; Portland stone, 26,750 cubic feet; timber, 81,000 cubi c f eet; an d t h e excavat i on remove d oc cupied 57,000 yards. The floor and sides of the dock as high as the broad altar is built of granite. From the broad altar upwards are laid, first, three courses of Portland stone set vertically, succeeded by four courses of the same kind of stone set back in the usual manner in steps, the whole capped by the coping of granite. The introduction of Port land stone is to be regretted. The saving in first cost as compared with granite can be but trifling, and it will necessarily prove the most expensive course, when, after the lapse of a few years, repairs are needed. The dock floor has a fall of nine inches, with a double water channel to keep it clear of water. The following appointments have been made at the Admiralty :—Commander Thomas S. Gooch to the Frederick William, for service in the Coast guard ; Commander Richard Roach to the Royal George, for service in the Coastguard ; Comman- ME SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 11, 1865. der S. B. Dolling to the Formidable ; Edward C. Smyth, master, to the Scorpion ; William C. Bick nell, master, additional, to the Asia ; Thomas F. Simmons, chief engineer, additional, to the Asia ; and James R. Keay, first-class assist.-engineer, to the Research ; Commander G. S. Nares, to the Salamander, vice Carnegie, invalided; Lieutenant Francis Durrant, to the Gannet; Lieut. Henry H. M. Magrath, to the Pembroke; Sub.-Lieut. Swin ton C. Holland, Sub-Lieut. Malcolm M'Neile, and Sub-Lieut. Charles V. Anson, to the Victoria and Albert ; James A. Miller, surg., to the Brilliant ; John T. Gabriel, surg., to the Scorpion ; John Hide, acting assist.-surg., to the Liverpool; Andrew Mullan, assist.-surg., to the Royal Adelaide ; and William J. Juman, assist.-surg., to the Scorpion. ferers. The latter had for many years refused to take new risks in this locality on account of the narrowness of the street. It is fortunate that a large number of steamers were on hand in the afternoon to tow off the vessels lying along the wharves, or we should have had to record the destruc tion of many valuable vessels. City of London Industrial Classes Exhibition Last night a public meeting was held in further ance of the above object, at the Sussex Hall, Leaden hall-street, City. It appears that some two months ago a portion of the artisans of the city of London raised the idea of an exhibition, to be confined to themselves, similar to those which, during the past few months, have been held in various parts of the metropolis. A requisition, signed by some 2,000 in dividuals, was transmitted to the chief magistrate ask ing him to preside, and his compliance resulted in the present inaugural meeting. It may be mentioned that the guarantee fund now amounts to £9lO. The LORD MAYOR, who was warmly received, ex plained the circumstances under which the gather ing was called together. He then went on to argue that such exhibitions as the one proposed were highly calculated to draw out the inventive genius of other men who laboured in similar lines of busi ness to those who exhibited articles, and concluded by stating that whatever steps might be taken by the committee to carry out the object he would cor dially give his support. The SECRETARY (Mr. Ramsey) read a short state ment of the origin of the movement, and also the rules. Prizes were to be granted to all works of excellence, and special ones, among other things, for any improvements in sanitary matters. The Rev. R. G. HARPER moved the first resolu tion, pledging the meeting to the support of the enterprise, and in a brief address stated his opinion that such exhibitions as that proposed were much calculated to raise the working man from the posi tion of comparative lowliness which he had so long occupied. Mr. J. RICHARDSON, a member of the Common Council, seconded the proposition in an animated speech, and it was unanimously agreed to. Mr. J. BENNETT, also a Common Councilman, urged the working men of London to compete ex tensively in this coming exhibition, since it would promote the progress of education and taste in the fine arts, in which, mechanically, they were so lamentably deficient. He concluded by moving a resolution appointing a preliminary meeting. The Rev. Mr. BLYTHE seconded the proposition. As to Englishmen being backward in the study of the fine arts, foreigners did not come to this country to make railways, steam enginei, &c., but to draw pretty designs. For all that John Bull had the same quality in his head. The motion was agreed to. A vote of thanks to the chairman terminated the proceedings. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT-July 10. The July sessions of the Central Criminal Court was opened yesterday morning before the Recorder, Mr. Russell Gurney, the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, Mr. Warren Stormes Hale, Mr. Alderman. Allen, Mr. Alderman and Sheriff Resley, Messrs. Davidson and De Jersey, the under sheriffs, &c. The first edition of the calendar contains the names of 85 prisoners. The Recorder, in charging the , grand jury, remarked that the number of cases was not very large, and the cases generally did not appear to bo of a nature to give them very much trouble, Thera was one feature, however, he could not help remarking, and that was the great number of charges for cutting and wounding and stabbing. There seemed to have been, during the last sessions, a great in crease in that class of offence. It was a short time back thought that there was a great decrease in crimes of vio lence, but he was sorry to observe that latterly the charges of stabbing had become very serious. There were no less than 14 cases of stabbing and six for wounding with intent to murder, out of a number not exceeding,Bo. There were two charges of manslaughter. In . the first, however, the circumstances were very simple. There, appeared to have been a fight between the two parties, in which the deceased fell and struck his head against the kerb stone. The other case was something peculiar. The accused was awoke in the night by a noise, and upon looking out of his window he saw, some one crouching down under the kitchen window. He . called out but received no answer, and then called his, assistant up, and in his presence called out again, " Who are you ?" and "if you don't answer I'll shoot." Receiving no reply, he fired a pistol which he had in his hand, and the man fell dead immediately. The accused appeared to have immediately given notice to the police, and there seemed to be very little evidence be yond his own statement of the facts as he had relatecT them. The recorder said if there was nothing more than appeared from that statement he was bound to tell the grand jury that it was a homicide which was not in any way excusable and justifiable. If a man broke into a house and attempted any violence, there might be some justification ; but in the present instance there was no appearance of any danger— there was no knife or any weapon found upon the man, nor was there any act dote by him to lead to the belief that he was going to enter the house. Whether or not the accrsed meant to kill deceased—or only meant to frighten he had fired the pistol in such a manner as might lead to danger, and he was therefore equally responsible. It would however, be for the grand jury to say whether the facts were of that nature to justify them in returning a true bill. His lordship then alluded to a charge against a merchant for obtainingmoney by false pretences, and said the serious charges of wounding he had alluded to would not require • any comment. _ _ The grand jury then proceeded with their duties, and the business of the court was commenced. Eliza Woodward, 19, was charged with feloniously kill ing and slaying Thomas Sime. The prisoner occupied an apartment in a house in Charles street, St. George's-in-the-East, alid it appeared that on the morning of the 26th April she and a man with whom she cohabited were quarrelling and fighting, and the wife of the deceased, who was related .to the man with whom the prisoner was cohabiting, went up for the purpose of making peace, or endeavouring to do so. The prisoner was very violent, and observed that she would murder any one who came into the room, and, upon the deceased attempting to enter it, she struck him a blow on the head with a glass bottle, and inflicted a somewhat serious wound. He was removed to the hospital, where erysipelas came ou, and he died shortly afterwards. The prisoner seemed to have expressed her sorrow for what had occurred almost immediately, and it also appeared that she had been in custody since the beginning of May. She was found Guilty, and the Recorder sentenced her to bo imprisoned and kept to hard labour for four months. George Harwood, 21, bricklayer, and George Ray, 28, labourer, were indicted for robbery with violence on Chas. Reed, and stealing from his person six sovereigns, a breast pin, a necktie, a knife, an ivory rule, and other articles, his property. The facts of the case were somewhat singular and pecu liar. The prosecutor, by profession a lawyer, residing at Nunhead Lodge, Peckham-rye, on tho 25th of April last, after a stroll over the rye, went into the Belvedere Tavern, and eventually found himself in the skittle-ground, and after some time engaged in the game. In the course of the exercise the prisoner Harwood offered to toss prosecu tor for a bottle of wine. It was alleged that the prosecutor lost the toss, but refused to pay for the wine on the ground that Harwood had not tossed fairly. The prosecutor indig nantly denied that he had refused to pay because he had not got any money about him, and to corroborate his as sertion he produced, most incautiously, his money, con sisting of six sovereigns and a quantity of silver. A con troversy ensued, which was ended by the landlord of the house turning the whole party out of his house. The pro secutor proceeded homewards along the London-road, and when about 200 yards from the tavern he was suddenly struck at the back of the head and rendered prostrate. The prisoners, whom he recognised from their voices, then fell upon him, and kneeling on his chest and dash ing his head upon the ground, proceeded to rifle the whole of his pockets. They attacked him with such violence that his waistcoat, shirt, and flannel shirt were torn into ribbons. He entreated them to let him go, and at last he succeeded, and getting upon his legs he seized Harwood by the throat, and held him tightly until Police constable Whable, 337 P, came up, and the prisoner Har wood was conveyed to the police-station. On being searched, the necktie, breastpin, tobacco pouch, penknife, and ivory rule were found in his possession, and were now identified by the prosecutor as his property, From the description given by the prosecutor of the second assailant, the prisoner Ray was taken into custody, and, when presented to the prosecutor, was at once identified by him. The evidence of several witnesses, including the police constable, corroborated the prosecutor's testimony, all declaring that the prosecutor was sober, though he had partaken of something to drink, and the evidence of Mr. Jones, a surgeon, who had been called in to attend the prosecutor for the injuries he had received, stated that the prosecutor had been confined to his bed under his care for a period of eight days. Mr. Lilley addressed the jury on behalf of the prisoner Ray, and contended that the question of the identity, which was the important issue, had not been established, and hence he was entitled to a verdict of acquittal, espe cially as it would be shown that the prosecutor was so inebriated at the time that no reliance could be placed on his testimony. Several witnesses were called who gave Ray a good cha racter for honesty, and the landlord of the tavern and other persons deposed to the prosecutor being in such a state of intoxication as not to be competent to speak to the facts which had occurred. Mr. Pater replied on the whole of the case, and The Recorder summed up the evidence with his usual care and clearness. The jury, after a short consultation, returned a verdict of guilty as against the prisoner Harwood, but acquitting the prisoner Ray. The prosecutor intimated to the court that he had made inquires as to the antecedents of the prisoner, and the re sult of those inquiries induced him to recommend the pri soner to the merciful consideration of the court. The Recorder said that but for this recommendation ho should have felt it his duty to have passed a sentence of lengthened penal servitude ; as it was, tho sentence was 12 months' imprisonment with hard labour. The Wimbledon Meeting for 1865. During yesterday, traditionally known as "settling down day," the Volunteers flocked into camp in considerable numbers, and afforded ample occupa tion during several hours to the Staff charged with the duty of assigning them their proper quarters. The heavy showers which fell during the earlier por tion of the day interfered somewhat with the process of moving into their temporary habitations, but the old campaigners might have been recognised in a moment by the promptitude which they showed in establishing that fairy ring of comfort—the circular trench—to carry off the rain water poured down from the canvas. On this and kindred subjects, to the outside world trifles apparently, but to the ini tiated matters vitally affecting the enjoyment and even the health of a camp, the long experience of Captain Ruxton, the camp Adjutant, enabled him to afford valuable hints to the new comers, while Colo nel Colville, Assistant-Inspector of Volunteers, who is responsible for the wellbeing and good government of the camp generally, was indefatigable in the dis charge of the various duties which these functions impose upon him. In the afternoon fortunately the heavy clouds cleared away, and the sun shone out so brightly as to cause inconvenience to some of the squads, which were under the necessity of firing across the common with a strong light directly in their faces. The principal competition of the day was that be tween the representatives of Oxford and Cambridge Universities for the bronze medal, which singularly enough fell to one of the Cambridge six, although the aggregate score of Oxford exceeded by four points that of the sister University. The following are the details of the shooting, from which it will be perceived how vastly superior was the score of Private Dyer to that of all the other competitors, .with the single exception of Private Kolle OXFORD. 200 500 600 yards. yards. yards. Total. Colour-Sergeant Ward 12 ... 13 ... 6 ... 31 Sergeant Honey ... ... 10 ... 7 ... 6 ... 23 Sergeant Allen ... 10 ... 7 6 ... 23 Corporal Blackburn 11 8 ... 10 ... 29 Private Kolle 11 16 ... 10 ... 37 Private Carslake 14 12 ... 4 ... 30 Total ... ... ... 173 CAMBRIDGE. Capt. Lord Lorne ... 12 ... 5 ... 10 ... 27 S erg. Hon. B. P. Bouverie 10 ... 7 ... 11 ... 28 Private Hon. W. Powlett 10 ... 8 7 ... 25 Sergeant Grieve ... 8 •• • 5 •• • 9 ... 22 Sergeant White ... ... 12 ... 11 5 ... 28 Privt. Dyer (the winner) 11 ... 1G ... 12 39 Total 169 Hitherto it has been usual to hold the competition for the Middlesex Bronze Medal on the opening day of the meeting ; but yesterday, in addition to the Middlesex contest, two others of a similar character proceeded simultaneously between the Volunteers of the City of London and the Tower Hamlets respec tively. These additional contests had their origin in the rules connected with the new and tempting prize of 500 guineas offered by the Volunteers in China. Under these rules it became indispensable that some settled interpretation should be given to the phrase " county" Volunteers, and, after much consideration, it was agreed to define " county" as the district or tract of country comprised in a sepa rate lieutenancy. The City of London, however, is a lieutenancy in itself ; so also the Tower Hamlets, and hence the necessity for giving additional bronze medals to both. In some of the northern counties the rule will be attended with singular results, for Yorkshire, forming three divisions, will now be en titled to three bronze medals, while Lancashire still can claim but one. As regards the China Challenge Cup, however, which has given rise to the alteration, the issue is not likely to be materially affected, since in each case the field of choice will remain the same. The competition for the Middlesex Bronze Medal was attended with the following results 200 500 GOO yards. yards. yards. Total. Sergt. A. Anderson, 22d Mid dlesex (winner of Bronze Medal, £5)... 15 ... 15 15 ... 45 Sergt. W. Michie, London Scottish (winner of £5) ... 12 ... 16 13 41 Private G. James, 22d Mid dlesex (Winner of £4) 14 14 ... 12 40 Private J. Ivory, 19th Mid dlesex (winner of £3) 14 15 ... 11 40 Cap. H. W. It. Crowle, 37th Middlesex ... 8 ... 16 ... 15 39 Sergeant-Inst. Milner, 2d S. Middlesex ... ... 13 ... 14 ... 11 ... 38 Ensign R. Garner, 9th Mid- dlesex ... 15 13 10 ... 38 Private F. W. Reilly, lion. Art. Co. (winners of £2 each) ... 13 ... 12 ... 12 ... 37 Colour-Sergeant Cross, London Rifle Brigade, was the winner of the City of London Bronze Medal with a total score of 43. The Tower Hamlets Bronze Medal was carried off by Private Birkley with a total score of 32. In addition to the foregoing contests, an All Comers' county match took place between eight re presentatives of each of the following counties— Aberdeenshire, Glocestershire, Lancashire, Middle sex, Surrey, and West York. The prize, consisting of one half the entrance fees, to be paid to the win ning squad, was carried off by Lancashire with a large majority. The following are the details of the match, which was carried on with spirit until shortly before gun fire : ABERDEENSHIRE. 800 yds. 900yds. Total Mr. Wilkin 36 84 ... 70 Mr. Forbes ... 31 ... 29 ... 60 Lord Aberdeen ... 32 ... 33 ... 65 Hon. J. Gordon ... ... 37 34 ... 71 Major InnAg 27 32 ... 59 Major Jopp ... 32 ... 30 ... 62 Mr. Grant ... 32 ... 24 ... 56 Captain Fordyce: 17 24 ... 41 Total... 214 240 484 GLOCESTERSIIIRE. Lord Dude, H. Mem., Bristol ... 31 ... 30 ... 61 Sergeant G. Gibbs, Bristol Rifles 37 ... 35 72 Private Baker, Bristol Rifles ... 33 32 ... 65 G. Miller, H. Mem., Bristol ... 35 ... 29 ... 64 Colonel Bush, Bristol Rifles 25 ... 14 ... 39 Sergeant Lane, Bristol Rifles 30 ... 81 ... 61 Sergeant Bingham, Bristol Rifles 86 ... 27 63 Gunner Hanson, Bristol Artillery 26 ... 20 ... 46 Total ... 253 218 471 LANCASHIRE. Captain Heaton, 3d Man. ••• 36 ... 38 ... 74 Hon. Mem. Fletcher, L.R.B. ... 32 ... 31 ... 63 Hon. Mem. Rawson, de. ... 31 ... 34 ... 65 Captain Costin, do. ... 31 ... 37 ... 68 Ensign Sprott do. ... 35 ... 25 ... 60 Sergeant Kemp, 3d Man. •.. 33 ... 32 ... 65 Private Halsall, 21st Lanc. ... 30 ... 36 ... 65 Captain Fenton, 24th Lane. ... 37 ... 32 ... 69 Total ... 265 265 530 MIDDLESEX. Lieut. Ranting, St. George's ... 29 ... 26 ... 55 Sergeant M. Smith, Victoria ... 37 ... 32 ... 69 Private Barnard, Victoria ... 29 ... 33 ... 62 Private Thornbury, Victoria 30 23 53 Private E. Ross, London Scottish 31 ... 37 ... 68 Corporal Pell, Inns of Court ... 28 ... 31 ... 59 Private Dunlop, London Scottish ... 34 ... 26 ... 60 Capt. Hawker, South Middlesex ... 35 34 ... 69 Total 253 ... 242 ... 495 WEST YORK. Lieut. Thomas, 4th West York ... 31 ... 36 ... 67 Colour-Sergt. Marriott, d 0.... ... 31 23 ... 54 Private T. Dawson, do. 32 29 61 Ensign Cockerham, do. ... ... 31 ~. 28 ... 59 Sergt.-Major Hawley, do. ... 28 ... 32 60 Lieut. Emmett, do. ... 27 19 46 Capt. Harrison, 19th do. ... 31 ... 33 64 Lieut. Watson ... 30 ... 14 44 Total ... ... 241 ... 214 ... 455 To-day the match between the Public Schools, which never fails to attract a large and fashionable array of spectators, will be contested, and the In ternational Enfield maatch between the representa tives of England, Ireland, and Scotland is also included in the programme. There is a rumour to the effect that the captain of the Scotch twenty at the last moment has protested against the intro duction of the Irish team, as a departure from the conditions on which the match was instituted. It is to be hoped that in the interests of good fellowship and of volunteering, which ought to be a synony mous term, such a protest, if actually forwarded, will be withdrawn. Capt. Mackenzie, even should his view be borne out by the strict letter of the agreement, would find it difficult to satisfy the public that Scotland was acting worthily in seeking to exclude the sister country from a match expressly called "International," when from the very nature of the case Ireland must labour under peculiar diffi culties in bringing forward a band of picked shots at all, and yet is willing to make the venture in a gallant and patriotic spirit which ought to be re ciprocated. In the competition for the Elcho Challenge Shield, regarding which no similar questions have happily been raised, the following will probably be the re presentatives of England and Scotland : ENGLAND.—Captain Heaton, 3d Manchester Volunteers; Lieutenant-Colonel Halford, Ist Leicester Volunteers ; Sergeant Martin Smith, Victoria Volunteers ; Ensign Banting, St. George's Volunteers : Private Fletcher, Liver pool Rifle VoluntezrsPrivate Cunliffe, Lancashire Volun teers ; Captain Bland, 76th Regiment ; Lieutenant Pur chase, Worcester Volunteers. SCOTLAND.—Captain Horatio Ross, Private Ross, Private C. Ross, Private Earl of Aberdeen, Captain Mitchell, the Hon. J. Gordon, Private Forbes, Private Wilken. The Irish Eight will not, it is understood, be finally completed till Saturday next. In the second stage of the approaching Queen's Prize competition there will be this remarkable feature, that the Whitworth rifle will no longer be in the hands of Volunteers, its place having been taken by the Rigby rifle, which by its perform ances at the official experiments, won the confidence and approval of the Council. Great Fire at Quebec. The Toronto Globe has a letter from Quebec of the 23d ult., giving the particulars of the great fire in that town as follow : " The conflagration which took place here yesterday afternoon ravaged both sides of Champlain-street, from the schoolhouse, on the line of the street itself, or Flanagan's wharf in the rear, to Martin's-wharf on one side, and to the residence of Mrs. P. Kelly, No. 132, Champlain-street, run ning thus from west to east. With the exception of a few buildings in the immediate vicinity of the spot where the fire originated, all the houses on both sides of the street were of brick or stone, the latter predominating consider ably. Where the flames broke out there were a few wooden houses, and on the wharves in rear, all along the riverside, ranges of wooden tenements were erected. Champlain street is the only thoroughfare between the base of the over hanging cliff of Cape Diamond and the river St. Lawrence, and all along the whole line followed by the devastating flames it is extremely narrow. Under these circumstances the difficulty of making headway against the fire, after it had communicated to both sides of the street, or even saving life and property, may be easily understood. The residents of the districts ravaged by the fire are, almost without exception, connected in some way with, or in terested in, the shipping trade of the port. The lower stories of the houses on the street itself were, almost with - out exception, occupied as taverns, groceries, ship chand leries, marine stores, and boarding-houses, with a few boot and shoemakers' stores, &c. The upper stories and attics were occupied by stevedores, timber towers, timber swingers, ship labourers, and other persons following similar occu pations in connexion with the shipping. The tenements on the wharves were, with hardly an exception, occupied by labourers. All the houses and tenements were filled to their utmost limits with residents. We heard in some cases of as many as six or seven farailies residing in the same house, and as many as 16 families in a small row of wooden tenements. The fire involves tho destruction of between 90 and 100 substantial houses situated in Champlain-street, and 40 or 50 wooden tenements situated on the many wharves and slips running down to the river. It is calculated by those bast acquainted with the locality which has suffered this fearful visitation that between 600 and 600 families, comprising at the ordinary average about 2,000 and 3,000 souls, have thus been left houseless. The flames broke out in the backattic of a two-story wooden house situated on the south or river side of Champlain-street, a short distance below the build ing known as the Bishop's School. It is not known with any degree of certainty how the fire originated. A variety of stories were in circulation as to the probable cause of the conflagration, but none of them could be traced to any reliable foundation. There was a strong westerly wind blowing at the time, which soon fanned the first jet of flame into a large volume, and the combustible material of which the building was composed was in a few minutes enveloped in flames. The progress of the fire was favoured in a great degree, not only by the wind but by an additional advan tage in the result of the recent exceeding hot weather, which had reduced shingles, weatherboards, fences, window frames, &c., to the consistency of match wood. The flames found congenial material in the woodwork of the neigh bourhood, among which they revelled for some time, beating up, strange to say, dead against the wind, and destroying three or four houses until they found a barrier in the stone building used as a school-house. By this lime thewind and had extent increased, and the fire increasing in strength swept across to the north or rock side of the street, communicating with the build ings on that side, and began to retrace its steps down ward. Almost at the same moment it extended to the rear, and began to envelope the buildings on the wharves. Detachments of the Royal Artillery Rifle Brigade and Royal Fusiliers came upon the scene of the disaster in quick succession. The firemen and police worked manfully, but in vain. The soldiers also worked well, but the flames were not finally arrested until half-past five o'clock p m., after causing she amount of damage above stated. Ono of the most striking incidents of the fire was a panic which took place about half-past 4 o'clock. The rumour of a proposal to blow up a house or two in order to stop the fire got abroad among the crowd, and spread rapidly from mouth to mouth, becoming fearfully exaggerated as it went: In one place it was stated that the magazines of the citadel were in danger, and that a fearful explosion might at any moment take place. In another it was believed that the cliff had cracked with the intense heat, and was about to roll down in crushing masses upon the narrow street below, with its sea of human life. While these reports were being circulated an order was given to clear the street, in order to give room to the working parties. A detachment of the Royal Artillery dashed down the road at full speed for this purpose, dragging with them a covered waggon. The panic reached its height. A wild cry of vague terror arose from the throats of thousands, who laboured undor the belief that some new and undefinable horror was about to occur. Acting under the impulse of the moment, they rushed headlong down the street, a confused, entangled mass of human beings, horses, and vehicles. Nothing could with stand the shock of such an awful human wave. The more prudent managed to slip into gateways and lanes, but those who were in the centre of the crowd were borne along unresistingly. Many were knocked down, and not a few were seriously hurt by being trampled upon, or by articles of furniture falling upon them. The panic passed like an electric shock through the Lower Town, and hun dreds ran through St. Peter, Sault au Matelot, and St. Paul streets, not knowing why they ran. It was felt on the lead ing thoroughfares in St. Roche, and many took to flight in the streets, fearinga general blowing up of the city. Even in the back streets the fear of something horrible made itself felt. We are assured that even so far down as Belair street people hastily debated the propriety of crossing the St. Charles to avoid the shock. But, like all panics, it soon subsided, having the beneficial effect of clearing away a very large proportion of the idle spectators who thronged the street. Throe or four persons were thrown into the water by the rush upon the wharves, but were at once rescued. Others wero hurt or stunned by the falling of heavy pieces of furni ture. One man had his hands burnt while being dragged out of a burning building on a wharf. There wore at least a dozen cases of slight injuries from burning. It is only surprising, considering the confusion, the vast crowd, and the narrow limit within which it was packed, that we have not to deplore fatal accidents. During the conflagration sparks ignited the dry top-hamper of three or four vessels lying at the wharves, and the destruction of the whole lot, numbering over a dozen, which were in immediate proximity at the time, seemed imminent. By the activity, however, of the crews they wore soon cast loose from their moorings and hauled out. Several moved down the stream to other berths; 15 vessels had thus to be moved in order to avoid the fire, and on board as many more it re quired the constant exertions of the crew to prevent the rigging from igniting. A quantity of timber alongside some of these vessels got adrift during the confusion, and floated down with the tide, but was afterwards re covered. The loss of the property alone is estimated at over $BOO,OOO, averaging each house at $BOO. The loss of stock and furniture destroyed may be calculated at half as much more. A comparatively small portion of the loss is covered by insurance—little over one-fifth. The Royal, the London, and the Quebec are the principal suf- SURREY. Capt. Jacques, S.L.R.C. ... 30 ... 29 ... 59 Private Parsons, H.A.Co. ... 17 ... 13 ... 30 Capt. Bonus, 2d Surrey ... 27 ... 27 ... 54 Private Tarn, 4th Surrey ... ... 13 ... 29 42 H. Radcliffe, Surrey Light Horse ... 29 ... 32 ... 61 Private A. Carpmael, 4th Surrey ... 26 ... 32 ... 58 Sergeant Loy, 2d Surrey ... ... 29 22 51 Annison, S.L.R.C. ... 25 2(1 45 Total ... 196 ... 204 ... 400 SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TIMES.—The mysteries of medical etiquette have seldom been more unfavourably exposed to public criticism than during the late trial of Dr. Pritchard. It will be remembered that Mrs. Pritchard was visited during her illness by no less than three me dical men, at the request, or at least with the full approbation, of the prisoner. One of them does not appear to have observed anything to arouse his suspicions; another was so far " puzzled" that he thought it right to communicate with the lady's brother; but the third, Dr. James Paterson, divined from the first the true cause of her sufferings. Being called in on the 24th of February to attend Mrs. Taylor, the mother of Mrs. Pritchard, he was at once struck and startled by the appearance of the latter. Nothing can be more explicit than his own language in the witness-box. " I must say I could not banish from my mind the conviction that her symptoms betokened that she was under the de pressing influence of antimony." On the 2d of March, after her mother's death, he saw her again, and not only was his former impression confirmed, but he " prescribed for her accordingly." On the 7th of March he attended her for the last time, and we infer from the vivid description which he gave of her condition at that time that his former surmises must have ripened into moral certainty. In short, he was virtually in possession of this terrible secret for three weeks, and yet kept it to himself. He prescribed certain things, and then felt that his duty was done. " The etiquette of the pro fession" i'estrained him from inquiring further, even as to the effect of his own medicines. He did not venture to whisper his 'suspicions to Dr. Pritchard himself, for " it would not have been a very safe matter to have done." And so the poor woman was poisoned by slow degrees, we may say, in the presence of a witness. That witness, however, was no accomplice of the murderer, but tongue-tied under the duress, not of bodily terror, but of pro fessional etiquette. The remarks of the Lord Justice Clerk on this extraordinary piece of moral obliquity deserve to be recorded. The counsel for the - prisoner had dexterously endeavoured to represent Dr. Paterson as actuated by a strong animus against the prisoner, and thereby to discredit his own state ment that on first seeing Mrs. Pritchard the idea of poison was forced upon him. After disposing of this suggestion the Lord Justice Clerk proceeded : " He said distinctly, in answer to a question I put to him, that what he intended to state in the wit ness-box was that he was in the decided impression, when he saw Mrs. Pritchard on this occasion, that somebody was then practising upon her with poison. Now, he thought it consistent with his professional duty, and I must also add with his duty as a citizen of this country, to keep that opinion to himself ; and in that I cannot say that I concur. I care not for professional etiquette—for professional rule. There is a rule of life, and a consideration which is higher than rule, and that is the duty which every citizen of this country, which every right-minded man owes to his neigh bour to prevent the destruction of human life, and in that duty I cannot see but that Dr. Paterson failed." Few of our readers will be disposed to think these observations unduly severe upon the in dividual concerned. The conflicting relations of professional men towards each other and towards the public have often been discussed, but we never heard of any theory which would justify such reticence as Dr. Paterson practised and avowed. There are many situations in which a doctor may reasonably doubt what he ought to do, but a situation in which he has reason to believe that a brother practitioner is poisoning his wife is assuredly not one of them. Much, of course, must depend on the strength of the belief, and something on the nature of its grounds ; but here nothing was wanting to render the path of duty clear. Not only was the conjecture of February 24 strengthened in a high degree by the visit of March 2, but in the interval Dr. Paterson had been requested by the Registrar to certify the cause of Mrs. Taylor's death, and had positively re fused to do so, stating in writing that it was " cer tainly sudden, unexpected, and to me mysterious," and referring the officer to Dr. Pritchard. So far his conduct was that of a man who felt his responsibi lity, and we are glad to notice that even his notions of professional etiquette do not cover the signature of a false certificate ; but then his caution on this point makes the rest of his conduct the more inde fensible. Unfortunately this conduct, though it transgressed the furthest line of veniality yet traced by medical casuists, is not so wholly unlike what is done every day by respectable medical men as we could desire. Most of those who have been long in the doctor's hands must have become conscious of certain sentiments and traditions which are not dictated by the interests of the patient. The use of some particular remedy is discouraged because, how ever successful, it is unprofessional, and savours too much of some obnoxious " quackery." A physician called in to give a second - opinion does not like to change the method of treatment too abruptly, lest he should damage the credit of the family apothe cary, whom he knows to have mistaken the case. Smiles and compliments -are exchanged during con sultations at the bedside, when the sequel proves that a difference of opinion, involving a question of life and death, really existed between the doctors. These are familiar instances of what we mean, and they indicate the existence of an unwritten code governing the medical profession, of which a sense of ' duty to the patient is not the only principle. No doubt this very sense of duty may often give rise to much perplexity. A patient must often be protected from his own fears; the truth must always be told him, but not always the whole truth ; and the question whether he should be made aware of his real danger, where it would be aggravated by disclosure, is one that must for ever remain open. But these are difficulties of a dif ferent kind, since they turn upon a regard for the patient's welfare, and on that alone. The motives which lead medical men to back each other up and conceal, if possible, the errors of their fellow craftsmen, belong to a class by themselves. They are motives which operate, more or less, in all pro fessions, and spring from an honourable feeling of loyalty towards those whose trials we have shared and can appreciate. There is an instinct of weak ness in all bodies which possess a special character ; a clergyman is apt to remonstrate when a brother clerk is called a parson ; b arr i s ters do not like to hear even solicitors abused, except by themselves ; and no true soldier will allow before strangers that a regiment which he often runs down in the mess room actually turned its back to the enemy. There is no profession in which thiS instinct is stronger than is is among medical men. Their science is far from being exact, their art is little more than empi rical, there are powerful heresies to combat, and a dangerous spirit of scepticism abroad ; they stand together, therefore, like one man. Nor would it be fair to deny that the public benefits, in some re spects, by the esprit de corps thus created. Like the etiquette of the Bar, medical etiquette fosters a kind of honour which is a safeguard against baseness. Still it is often carried much too far, and operates, in the same way as official routine, in crushing indi vidual conscientiousness. To allow a life to be lost lest undue discredit should be brought on the faculty resembles the cruel bonhommie of the Scotchman who saw his next neighbour sink back in a fit at the supper table, but gave no alarm, for fear he should spoil good company. POST.—It should be fully understood beforehand that the return of an anti-Liberal majority to Par liament signifies a great deal more than the mere negation of progress. Her Majesty's Opposition has been hitherto comp e ll e d, by th e f or ce of cir cumstances over which it has had no control, to confine itself to the nega ti ve f unc ti on of opposing the good measures introduced by the Government. True it is that when those measures have been car ried against the effOrts of the Opposition, that body has been wise enough in its generation to make a virtue of necessity and accept the legislation thus forced upon it. It has even gone the length of de claring that such legislation must be regarded as an accomplished fact ; indeed, as part and parcel of the institutions of the country which it is the first principle of its creed to uphold. This, we would beg leave to point out in passing, is an exceedingly elastic and convenient creed. To oppose every good measure while its success is at all uncertain, and, when it is carried, to declare it is part of the institutions of the country, and that your aim above all things is to uphold the institutions of the country exactly as they are, is convenient in a variety of ways. It does not commit you to support any other good and liberal measure for the future. You are only concerned with the past. The past is an accomplished fact. You are for supporting the institutions of the country as they are and keeping them as they are. Woe be to those who add to or take from the great book of the con stitution. But the book of the constitution is just just what you find it at any given time. There was a time when it included rotten boroughs ; there was a time when it included protection. Rotten boroughs and protection were to be maintained for the simple reason that they existed. When rotten boroughs were abolished, still the constitution was to be main tained as it was. When the corn laws were repealed the constitution thus modified was to be accepted, and no other improvements were to take place. The constitution is the constitution, and her Majesty's Opposition, though they oppose every improvement, still profess themselves ready to take it with all its improvements just as it has been altered for the better by their political opponents. Her Majesty's Opposition take credit to themselves for this nega tive and certainly not consistent line of policy. They would prevent any improvement from taking place, but, when it is once made, they are glad enough to accept it, and even to make what political capital they can out of it. Their creed seems to be —improvements must needs come, and woe be to those by whom they come ; woe be to the improve ments themselves, if we can only prevent or mar them ; but, when once they are accomplished, be ours the task to make the most of them, and, if necessary, to assert boldly that they are part and parcel of our political faith. This is easily enough demonstrated, as has been indicated above. We, they say, are for maintaining the con stitution as it is : these improvements are part of the constitution, therefore we ,are for maintaining them, although we would have defeated and pre vented every one of them if we had been able, and we look upon it as a great misfortune for ourselves and the country that we were not able. Now, it is obvious that a party whose policy is what we have described could not attain to power, and hold power, without using it to undo as many of those obnoxious improvements as possible. Such a party, while in opposition, can do no more than seek to prevent improvements from being carried. It has no alternative but to accept these improvements when they assume the form of accomplished facts. To continue decrying an improvement after its merits have been demonstrated, and after the coun try have proved its excellence, would ke a sort of self-stultification which her Majesty's Opposition are too wise in their generation to venture upon. But that which it is impossible to do while in oppo sition would be a necessity to attempt if in power. It would be impossible for her Majesty's Opposi tion, if in power, to keep things just as they are. To go forward or to go backward would be a neces sity under such circumstances. To keep things just as they are would be to do nothing, to ini tiate nothing, to abdicate the primary functions of government. No Ministry could hold office on such a tenure as this. A Government must go forward or backward. But the Opposition, by opposing every improvement that has taken place, is not only pledged not to go forward really and virtually, but it is pledged to go backward. How could her Majesty's Opposition, if once in power, abstain from undergoing those measures which they strained every effort to prevent from being carried when they were introduced ? We will take as illus trations the two measures already alluded to—the Reform Bill and Free Trade. To both of these mea sures the Opposition offered the most determined resistance. To every other great improvement they have also offered resistance. Would it be possible, under these circumstances, not to seek to carry out in the present those principles and professions which formed their distinguishing characteristics in the past ? If the principles of the Opposition are right and true, the Reform Act and Free Trade, and every other good measure introduced by their oppo nents, and which they have so strenuously opposed, must be as bad now as they were before. Her Ma jesty's Opposition, by their resistance to all improve ments in the past, are pledged not to introduce any improvements in the future. They are, by the same guarantee, equally pledged to undo, if they can, all the improvements they formerly opposed, but could not prevent from being carried. This is the policy to which they are pledged. It is a policy of nega tion, and something more. It is a negative policy as regards the resistance to all improve ments—it is a highly positive one as regards the accomplishment of legislation, which is the reverse of whatever constitutes improvement. The country should therefore fully understand what it was to expect from an anti-Liberal majority being—if that were possible—returned to Parlia ment. If they had the power they must of necessity undo the improvements of the past. But as this is out of the question they must content themselves with doing nothing. Let the country ask itself, what good measure—not borrowed from their op ponents—her Majesty's Opposition have ever intro duced, whether they were in power or not ? They have been tried again and again and have been found wanting ; and to what purpose would it be to try them at the present election ? The country will continue to trust those who have served it so well and so long at home and abroad ; not those who would have prevented all improvements at home, and who would have embroiled us, for party pur poses, in foreign wars with which we had no concern. COUNTRY MARKETS .1. - COLCHESTER-Jury 8. The supply of wheat very fair, but a slow demand at barely last week's prices. Spring corn at late terms. Wheat, white 42s 46s Beane, 81azagan......338 368 red 3Js 42s Middle and 5ma11..35s 40s Barley ........ 'efil 34s Peas, white 35s 38s Oatt.... ...... ...20s 25s grey ...35s 383 GRANTHAM-JULY 8. Old white wheat, 41s - to 465; old red, 37s to 42s ; new white, 44s to 47s ; new red, 37s to 40s per 36 stone. Bar ley for malting, 29s to 33s per qr. ; grinding, 24s to 268 per 30 stone. Oats, old, 25s to 27s ; new, 22s to 24s per 24 stone. Beans, old, 398 to 41s; new, 36s to 388 per 38 stone. Peas, 34s to 36s per 36 stone. 3)—JULY 7. )ld moderately at about the )r articles were firm at for- CHELMSFO With a fair supply wheat quotations of last week. Ott mer quotations. Wheat, old white.... 416 48s Peas, Partridge 368 384 new ..41s 48s White ...30s 348 old red 406 42a Bulling 388 420 new. 38s 42s Dun.... ..... Bls 350 Barley... 2ss 32s dit o, new... --s — 0 Chevalier 261 13s Beans, Tick, 01d......3 is 376 Grind ng ,Os .8s Malt 61s 67s new. ...—a Harrow ricks.3sa —a Chevalier 64s 68i Oats ••• 2os 26s new....--a - 0 Mazagan . 333 363 NORTHAMPTON.--JULY 8. New white wheat, 38s to 42s ; new red, 88s to 40s ;. old white, 39s to 44s ; old red, 38s to 41 s per 36 stone. Barley for malting, 31s to 33s per qr. ; grinding, 26s to 31s per 30 stone. Oats, old, 25s to 26s ; new, 18s to 24s per 24 stone. Beans, old, 36s 440 s ; new, 35s to 38s per 38 stone. Peas, 33s to 38s per 36 stone. ABERDEEN-JuLy 7. At this day's market there was a good attendance, and prices tending downwards ; but no quotable change ill prices. White wheat 35s Od to 40s Od Red wheat 35 5 Od t o 36 s Od 621 b 11 bushel. Potato oats 20s Od to 21s Od 19s Od to 20s Od Common oats 4olb 13 bushel. Bere 21s Od to 22s Od Barley 21s Od to 22s 6d 531 b lit bushel. Oatmeal 15s 6d to 16s 6d Ifl boll of 140th. Flour, fine 31s 6d to 32s Od ? sack of 280th. KIRKCALDY—JULY 8. Small supplies of barley and oats; fair of wheat. Sales quick, at the same prices as last week. Wheat. Barley. Oats. First...... 38s Od I 28s 6d 1 22s 6(1 .szecond.... 39s ed —s Od 23s ed Third ..... 41s Od —s Od 25s Od COAL MARKET. Price per ton at the dose of the market. _ s. d. s. d. Eden Main Hetton l9 0 Caradoc lB 6 Hastings Hartley l6 9 Walls End Haswell... 19 0 Tunstall Heugh Hall l7 0 Braddyell's Hutton.... 18 3 - - - - - Ships at x market, 32 ; sold, 19. Birth s. BURNAND.—On the 9th inst., at Croydon, Surrey, Mrs. Ls Bransby Burnand, of a son. GWYN.—On the 9th inst., at The Hollies, Twickenham, Mrs. John Kobell Gwyn, of a son. STUART.—On the 9th inst., at 25, Wilton-crescent, the wife of Lieut.-Col. Crichton Stuart, of a daughter. VAYASSEUR.—On the 4th inst., at Knockholt, Mrs. VayaS. seur, of a son. Marriages CLARKSON — HARDWICK.—On the sth inst., at Sullington, Frederick France, fifth son of the late William Clarkson, Esq., of Westfield Lodge, Brighton, to Louisa Mary, eldest daughter of Mr. H. Hardwick, of Sullington. NICHOLS — STUTELY.—On the Bth inst., at the Church Of St. Philip, Granville-square, Daniel Cubit Nichols, of 33, Mocklenbur g h- square' Esq., to Eliza, second d aug ht er of Martin J. Stutely, of No. 4, Doughty-street, Mecklen-• burgh-square, Esq. Deaths. BATHER.—On the Bth inst., at East Lodge, Bedford, Thos• Bather, Esq., of Great Ness, Shropshire, aged 51. GREER.—On the Bth inst., at Surbiton-hill, Kingston-on- Thames, Wm. John Greer, aged 48. GRIFFITH.—On the 7th inst., at Llangunnor Vicarage, the Rev. 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