The Sun. — London, England, 1866-06-21 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence. The Royal Sovereign turret-ship, Captain F. H. Herbert, is lying alongside the ship jetties of Ports mouth dockyard, where the present appearance of her after turret, at the points where struck by the steel shot from the 9-inch 12-ton gun on the recent trial, is being photographed for the Admiralty. The ship since the trial has, during dockyard visiting hours, had a constant succession of visitors, among whom the military and naval element has naturally enough largely predominated. Great surprise has been expressed by many officers who witnessed the firing at the turret, and also by others who did not witness the firing, but who have since visited the ship, at the apparently small amount of damage done by any of the three shots fired. The actual injury done to the turret plates is certainly far fro m bein g equivalent to the power of the gun, if judged only by ordinary target practice. It is, however, capable of very satisfactory explanation, a s not owing to the want of any power of the gu n, but to the form of projectile used and to the angles at which they were fired. The form of projectile we remarked upon sufficiently in The Sun of Monday. The angles at which the shots were fired was the fault of none who had the arrangement and charge of the pro ceedings. The Lords of the Admiralty were, in fact, two hours late, and the experiment was delayed for them. When the last shot was fired at the Royal Sovereign the tide had changed, and was taking off both the ships, and the turret was only struck at an angle of about 30 deg., with the gun on board the Bellerophon at extreme training aim, by the exercise of great skill and judgment. Enough, however, was done to prove the soundness of the principle on which the turrets are mounted, and to exhibit various defects in several of the fittings, which must be remedied in the promised Monarch and other turret-ships that are to be built. Cer tainly, no point-blank shot was fired to exhibit the true power of the gun, nor, indeed, do we believe this could have been developed by any number of shots against the curved surface of the Royal Sovereign's turret, unless with one of Mr. Whit worth's favourite " flat-heads." The Amazon, 4, unarmoured screw sloop, Com mander Hunter, from the westward, has joined the Pallas and Terrible at Spithead. The Royal Alfred, 14, armoured frigate, Capt. E. Tumour, is fast progressing in her outfit for commission in the steam basin of Portsmouth dock yard. The ship is now rigged as a bark, but the alteration of her mizenmast from a fore and aft to a square rig, as has already been done with her sister ship, the Caledonia, at Devonport, is desirable for several reasons. The ship would then gain the propelling power under sail she now evidently wants on her quarters. She would possess the requisite means for drilling the midshipmen and naval cadets aloft which she does not now possess, and the appearance of the ship altogether would be very much improved. The officers of the select committee and the Royal gun factories of Woolwich arsenal have been en gaged for some weeks past in testing the advantages of a cheap material for the manufacture of the ser vice guns introduced by Mr. Fraser, director of the Royal gun factories. Two guns made on the new principle, the one a 9-inch 12-ton gun, with wrought iron tube, burst at the 370th round, after firing charges of 441 b. of powder and 2501 b. shots and 451 b. of powder and 2601 b. shots. The second gun, a 64-pounder, fired 2,000 rounds without exhibiting any signs of weakness or injury. The charges were 81b. of powder and a 641 b. shot. After comparing these tests with that to which the gun at Shoebury ness was subjected, and which burst at the 402 d round with charges of 391 b. of powder and 2171 b. shots, the committee pronounced the reputation of the economical principle to be in a fair way of being speedily established. The respective costs of the two guns of equal calibre were £1,490 and £5OO. The saving, therefore, will be enormous, if thoroughly realised. An official report of the result of Mr. Richardson's experiments in burning petroleum and other oils as a fuel for marine and locomotive engines was yes terday forwarded from Woolwich to the Board of Admiralty, and it is stated that the report was ex ceedingly favourable. It is now suggested that a couple of boilers, one fed with ordinary fuel, and the other fitted up internally according to any method which Mr. Richardson may direct, should be tried competitively, and an announcement of the re sult should be drown up and laid before their lord ships. The hired storeship Ariel yesterday sailed from lVoolwich for Berniuda, laden with hutting mate rials, &e. ; and the Sir George Seymour, laden with Tower, victualling, and naval stores, also for Ber muda, is now in course of lading, and is expected to sail on Saturday. The right wing of the 80th Regiment, which ar rived at • Plymouth on Tuesday in the transport Durham, from Calcutta, was under orders to land yesterday at Devonport. The depot of the regiment is quartered at present in Tregantle Fort, Cornwall. A court-martial assembled yesterday, on board the Royal Adelaide, in Hamoaze, for the purpose of trying Philip Hare O'Brien Dessard, First Lieut., Royal Marines, charged with absenting himself for 24 hours without le . ave from her Majesty's ship Lord Clyde. The prisoner obtained leave from the Bth to the 9th of June, but did not return until the 10th. The court consisted of Capt. Napier, Canopus, pre sideitt ; Capt.. W. E. Rolland, Phcebe ; Capt. the Hon. T. A. C. Foley, Caledonia ; Capt. 11. T. Bur goyne, Wivern ; Capt. A. Will nshurst, Prince Albert; and Capt. T. S. Tremlek, Impregnable. The pri soner having pleaded guilty, was sentenced to for feit two days' pay, to be placed at the foot of the list for two years, and to be dismissed from the Lord Clyde. The screw steam sloop •Petrel, 3, in Plymouth Sound, is under orders to proceed to the Cape of Good Hope. The armour-plated screw steamship Prince Con sort, 31, Capt. George 0. .B , was removed yesterday from the Prince's.d Willes,Lek .in Devonport Dockyard, and plaeedalo e the hulk in Hamoaze. The iron armour-plated ship Defence, 18, Capt. Augustus Phillimore, w as s yesterday (Wed nesday) in No. 1 Dock, Dey P haemd yard, for the t s c e e a d: np Capt. d ; l e c o a t e d . purpose of having her bottom cleansed The iron turret-ship Wivern Burgoyne, now in the dockyard at Devonport, will w T ill . North - probably be prepared for service on the Ame rican Station. The depot of the 35th Regiment (head-c in „ tero and the depot of the 94th Regiment (head-quarters) have arrived at the camp at Colchester, and h ave been attached, the former to the 4th, and the latter to the Bth depot battalions. The depot 38th Regi ment is held in readiness to move from Colchester to Parkhurst, Isle of Wight, to-morrow, and will be relieved by the depot 2d Battalion, 18th Royal Irish. __Capt. G. A. Eliot, Capt. Crosier, Capt. W. A . Le Aa t t ia lle, and Ensigns Skinner and Powell are expected with e the d lBth depot, and Capts. Gaynor, Stansfield , and al ecot, Lieuts. Skey and Sinclair, and Ensign Conno r are the officers leaving Colchester with the depot 38th Regiment. The depot compani esnumbering of the 50th (Queen's Own) Regiment, seven officers, ten sergeants, and 111 rank a n d me together with 23 women and children, have arri ve d atc Chatham from Parkhurst, and have been attached to the depot battalion at the garrison. The following officers depot :—Major J. Thompson a u ini t nand), Capt. t r i(ei arrived with the F. Falkner, Lieut. C. R. King, Richmond, Ensign Van der-Meulen, Lieut. R. 0 . R o bi n son, and Ensign C. L. W. Reade. depot E. J. of the 34th Regime nt has also arrived at Ch at h am a . t h am from Colchester , for the p urpose of augmenting the strength of the garr ison ; the 34th depot numbers six officers, seven sergeants, three drummers, and 151 rank and file, with 33 women and children. The officers who accompanied the 34th are Captain J. L. Moore, Capt. J. F. Wyse, Lieut. L. Jordan, Lieut. C. M. Fox, Ensign H. W. Phillips, and En sign M. W. R. Rushton. Yesterday a numerous body of shipwrights were employed at Chatham dockyard in preparing the blocks for laying down the keel of the ironclad ship Hercules, 12, 5,226 tons, 1,200 -horse power, which is to be built in No. 2 dock, in which the Achilles and the Bellerophon, iron ships, were constructed. The delay which has taken place in laying down the Hercules has been turned to good account by the mechanics employed in the factory, wLere a keel has been some time in progress, the p'ates being prepared and ready for fitting in the dock, so that no unnecessary delay has been allowed to elapse. Railway Intelligence. SOUTH-EASTERN. A Wharncliffe meeting of this company was held yesterday at the Bridge-house Hotel, London bridge ; Mr. E. W. Watkin, M.P., in the chai r . Mr. Smiles, the secretary, having read the notice convening the meeting,' The CHAIRMAN said there were four bills to sub mit for their approval. He proposed to submit the two of least importance first, and then to submit those upon which discussion would probably arise. He then moved a formal resolution approving the New Romney Railway Bill, which was seconded and agreed to. The next was a bill for conferring further powers on the South Eastern Railway Company for the con struction of works in connexion with their under taking. 'The capital was £272,000 for obligations they had already undertaken. The Hon. J. BYNG seconded the motion approving the bill, and it was carried. The CHAIRNAN then moved a formal resolution approving a bill for authorising the South Eastern and London, Chatham, and Dover Railway com panies to make a railway from Beckenham to Lewes and Brighton. The opposition to the bill had been so persistent, every delay having been interposed to its progress by the London and Brighton Company, that it was kept before the committee of the House of Commons for twenty days, being about three times as long as the usual time occupied by contested bills in Parliamentary Committees. He was glad to say that, notwithstanding the opposition, the pream ble was proved. He explained that every effort had been made by him and other members of the board to come to an equitable arrangement with the Brighton Company for the accommodation of the district, but without effect. The Brighton Com pany had promoted a new line to Hastings, and were about to spend £300,000 on it. This line was pro jected in opposition to the South Eastern Company in violation of certain agreements between the two companies. The Brighton had been offered the use of the stations at Cannon-street and Charing_ cross, and to take part in making the proposed new line to Brighton, all matters in dispute to be settled by arbitration, but this proposal was rejected. The South-Eastern Company had about 600 of their shareholders who were also shareholders in the Brighton Company, and some of them had been exerting their influence against their brother share holders in the South-Eastern in favour of the Brigh ton Company. When the capitals of the Greenwich and Reading lines were added to that of the South- Eastern, it would amount to £20,000,000, and of that amount only £7,400,000 consisted of ordinary stock. He found that the largest amount of that stock ever represented as voting on questions at meetings of ' the company was £4,219,000. It was the holders of ordinary stock only that had the right of voting on any question affecting the interests of the company, and therefore about £2,500,000 of that stock had the controlling power. The minority against the bill did not amount to 2 per cent, of the whole. He contended that the public had a right to expect the user of the Cannon-street and Charing cross stations in connexion with a line to and from Brighton. They would, he had no doubt, get the bill for making the line to Brighton, which would be of great advantage to the public and utilize the stations he had mentioned, and about 9 miles of the South-Eastern Company's lines in and near London, upon which they had already expended a very large amount of capital. The new line would bring them a considerable traffic and be remunerative to the proprietors. He then adverted to the way in which the opposition to the bill had been got:up, seven shareholders having been recently introduced by £9O stock each being transferred to them. It had been admitted by their opponents that the traffic on the new line would yield 2 per cent. on the estimated cost. The manager of the Brighton had stated before a Parliamentary Committee that it was physically impossible for the Brighton Com pany to use the Charing-cross station. 'The chair man believed that the new line to Brighton was a necessity, and that, sooner or later, it would be made. When they looked back a few years to the state of the traffic, they could see how it had in creased up to the present time ; and considering the great progress now going on, the increase of popu lation, and the natural development of traffic, they might easily estimate what the traffic to and from Brighton would be at the end of five years from the -present time, when the new line would probably be open for traffic. The Bill had been strenuously opposed by the Brighton Company at every stage,. and the opposition had been completely defeated. He trusted that the South-Eastern shareholders who had no interest in the Brighton would unanimously approve the bill. _ _ The Hon. J. BYIG seconded the motion. Mr. C. BELL contended that the estimated capital would not be sufficient to complete the line, and that the South-Eastern proprietors would, in fact, have to provide the whole of the capital, about £3,000,000, for making the new line. It was a fearful time to undertake such a responsibility with money at 10 per cent., and when those liabilities came upon the shareholders he hoped they would remember that he had warned them against passing that unnecessary and wicked bill. (Hear.) Mr. NORTON, a new director, who was opposed to extensions, expressed his regret that the Brighton Board did not meet them in a conciliatory spirit,and under the circumstances he believed the South- Eastern had no other course than to proceed with the bill. Mr. G. SMITH, as an old shareholder in the com pany, hoped the proprietors would come to a unani mous decision in supporting the efforts of the direc tors to protect their property and develope its resources. Mr. ADAMS said if they went to Brighton by means of that Bill he expected next year to see a project of the Brighton Company for going to Dover or Folkestone. There were already three lines almost completed to Brighton, and this would be the fourth line. They would have to pay 6 per cent. on £2,250,000 capital for the new line before they could get their working expenses, which he contended would amount to more than the probable receipts they would receive from their share of the traffic. Mr. TEULON explained from his experience that it would be cheaper for the company to make the line than to reject it. Their line from Lewisham to Tunbridge was being constructed for a sum consi derably under the estimate of the engineer, and he. had no doubt whatever that the estimates for the new line to Brighton would be sufficient. The CHAIRMAN explained that the Brighton Com pany had brought this contest upon themselves by introducing the Surrey and Sussex line into the dis trict of the South-Eastern Company to deprive them of a portion of their traffic. He held proxies re presenting £3,000,000, in fav our o f the bill, and itwoulc. be carr ie d. he had no doubt .... On a show of hand s a lar ge number was he heldchair man upi in favour of the bill , and 22 a g ain st it. T m an declared the resolutio n carri ed , and stated that r- the poll would be open till 4 o'clock that day, and from 10 to 11 o'clock to-morrow (this day), and soon after this they would declare the result. Mr. Champness and Mr. G. Smith were elected scruti neers. On the motion of the CHAIRMAN, a bill for autho rising arrangements between the London and North \S'estern and Charing-cross Railway Company and the Lon don and North Western Railway Compa n y and theSouth-Eastern Railway Company was una nimouslyf yoapproved,of thanks and te the the proceedings chairman. With a vote LONDON, CHATHAM, AND DOVER. Yesterday a Wharncliffe meeting of this company was held at the Victoria terminus ; Lord Sondes presided. Mr. W. E. Johnson (the secretary) having read the notice convening the meeting, The CHAIRMAN said the first bill he had to sub mit was a bill to authorise the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway Company to execute works in THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 21; 18616. Kent and Surrey, and to abandon their Farn borough Extension, to authorise the acquisition of additional lands in London, Middlesex, Surrey, and Kent, and of the Sittingbourne and Sheerness Com pany, to extend the time for completing and pur chasing lands for undertakings in London, Surrey, and Kent, to amend the Acts relating to the com pany, and for other purposes. Lord HARRIS, in seconding the motion, said that, although the works mentioned in the bill appeared numerous and important, there were only two of them which they were obliged to carry out, the others were only permissive, and would be proceeded with when necessary. They proposed to acquire additional land for the extension of the Ludgate hill station. There was no doubt that Ludgate would be their main station, as they might not have occasion to go on to Finsbury, for which they had a bill. After a long discussion, the bill was unanimously approved. The CHAIRMAN said the next bill was . to authorise the company to make new railways and alteration of authorised railways in Surrey and Kent, and new streets and alterations of streets near their Farring don-street terminus, and to use the West London Railway and West London Extension Railway ; to authorise the Kent Coast Railway Company to make a newroad at Ramsgate ; and to confer powers and impose obligations on the corporation of the city of London with respect to the new and altered streets. A:resolution approving the bill was adopted. The third bill was for authorising the company to make a branch railway to Chatham dockyard, and to make arrangements with the Admiralty, which was also agreed to. The CHAIRMAN then proposed the approval of the bill for making railways from the South-Eas tern and London, Chatham, and Dover Companies' Railways to various districts and places in Kent, Surrey, and Sussex, and to the towns of Lewes and Brighton. Lord HARRIS seconded the resolution, and con gratulated the shareholders that the preamble had been passed by the committee of the House of Commons, as he believed that it would bring a larger amount of traffic over the line into the metropolis, and afford great advantages to the public. After the rejection of two amendments, the ori ginal motion was carried with only three dissen tients amid loud cheers. A bill was then approved for making a railway from Maidstone to Ashford. A vote of thanks to the chairman and directors was passed for their management of the affairs of the company. troops crossed the Saxon frontier and began their advance towards Dresden. A large body of the army which advanced into Saxony passed by Strehla on the Elbe, and pushed forward in the direction of Riesa, the point of junc tion of the lines of railway which lead from Dresden to Berlin, and from Leipsic and Chemnitz to Dres den, Bautzen, and Zittau. As the advanced guard approached Riesa the wooden railway bridge on which the line from Leipsic to Dresden crosses the Elbe was blown up by the Saxons. This did not, however, much impede the advance, for the Prus sians took possession of Riesa, and pushed their co lumns forward in two directions towards Dresden to the front and towards Leipsic and Grossenheim on either flank. The object of this lateral movement is to gain possession of the line of railway which, run ning east and west through Saxony, would be of great use to the enemy for purposes of concentra tion, if allowed to remain intheir hands. Its posses sion does not give much advantage to the Prussians, for the retiring Saxons have in many places torn up the rails, and have cut the telegraph wires. On the western side of the theatre of war the Prussian troops have advanced from Minden and Holstein against Hanover, and from Wetzlar against Electoral Hesse, so that with the exception of the second army in Silesia under the Crown Prince, all the Prussian troops in the field have been put in motion almost simultaneously. Geu. Manteuffel, the late commander in Schles wig, is to have, it is supposed, the command of the Prussian corps in Hanover. At the same time, as an advance was made in Saxony from Strehla, another body of Prussians crossed the frontier from the direction of this town, where the headquarters of Prince Frederic Charles were yesterday established. A part of them entered the Saxon town of Lobau, which they found without a garrison. The railway bridge here was not blown up, although it had been mined. The lines of the railway were, however, torn up and laid in confu sion on the way. The Prussian commander imme diately employed the country people to restore the. railway, and they appear to have entered upon the work with great alacrity and goodwill. Near Baut zen the line was also broken, and here also it is being rapidly repaired. Prince Frederick Charles at the same time as his troops advanced issued a proclamation to the people of Saxony to the effect that the King of Prussia had found himself compelled to make war against the Saxon Government, but that it was not intended that the effects of the war should fall on the people ; on the contrary, that all private property would be strictly respected, and that no peaceful inhabitant would be disturbed. A report which has reached this town of a skir mish between a Prussian brigade and some Saxon troops near Bautzen appears to be without founda tion. The Austrian war manifesto has just been re ceived here, and has called forth an extra sheet of the local paper. The Lies of Circumstance. (From the Spectator.) The acquittal of William Smith for the murder of Mrs. Millsom, the housekeeper in Cannon-street, an acquittal which we may as well say at once was all but inevitable, but just, is in one respect unfortunate. It will deepen, and deepen greatly, the remarkable English distrust of circum stantial evidence, a distrust almost peculiar to the people of this country. Asiatics confide in no other form of evi dence. Accustomed to hear men, otherwise good, lie in the most deliberate manner, and aware of their own ten dency to imagine facts, they rely on circumstances alone for truth, think the judgment of Solomon which strikes Englishmen as a bit of shrewd oppression, proof of the King's love of justice, and invent stories by the roam in which a circumstance reveals the truth concealed by oral testimony. Even on the Continent the police rely on in cident far more than on eye-witnesses, and give to the facts of a man's past life a weight in proving his guilt which to Englishmen seems in the last degree oppressive. In England alone is there genuine confidence in testimony as opposed to facts, a definite belief that there is in events, as in nature, an occasional irony. Englishmen are, least of all mankind, inclined to fatalism, having a latent notion that Fate itself can be fought if only dogged enough, but they all believe more or less in that irony of circumstance, that unexpected and unreasonable departure from the ordinary sequence of cause and effect, which they call luck. A common jury, which is usually a microcosm of England, is therefore al ways frightened at convicting without witnesses, and the trial of William Smith will greatly deepen the alarm. Never did circumstances tell so terribly against an inno cent man. A. woman, known to have been subject to threats, was found murdered, and the man who threatened her was almost accidentally discovered. This man when traced proved to be a bad sort of scamp, not exactly of the criminal class, but still bad enough to extort money from a poor woman, distrusted by I>ll own relations, and asso ciating with a very doubtful set of characters. He himself, moreover, not only admitted that he had extorted money from tho murdered woman, but that he had expected the police to arrest him on that charge, an admission the police probably thought extremely unlikely if the expectation had been genuine, while the device of ,confessing a minor offence to conceal a capital ono is exceedingly frequent. Then spots were found on his coat believed to be blood stains, though they were only stains from some material used in his trade, which might very well have been blood stains if Smith had cut himself in shaving or acciden tally touched a newly killed animal. Further, it seemed that he was long enough away from his home at Eton to have been in London at the time of the murder, about 10 p.m. on May 11, it was proved that he said he was going to London about 7 o'clock on that night, and that the remark excited some surprise. It was also deposed by a lamp lighter and another witness that they had seep William Smith going at half-past 7 on the 11th towards the Slough station, that they had spoken to him, and that he had oe tall hat and a dark coat. It was proved by a constable that ho was in the High-street of Eton about a quarter to 12, and it was shown by satisfactory evidence that there was ono train from Slough at 7.43, by which ho might have gone to London, and another by which ho might have re turned before the constable saw him. Finally, a respect able person, housekeeper in a neighbouring house in the city, swore that she saw him leave Messrs. Bovingtons' house just at the time when the murderer must have loft it. There was no reason whatever for suspecting this woman of any improper motive of any kind, and she firmly be lieved the accused to be the man she said, singled him out among 14 people, and swore most positively to a high hat and dark clothes. It would be almost impossible for cir cumstantial evidence to be more perfect. Here was a man of bad character who acknowledged himself guilty of a crime towards Mrs. Millsom, who was shown to have said ho was going to London, shown to have been seen going to a station which a London train would pass, and recognised by an honest witness as having left the house in which the murder was committed at a time which tallied exactly with its commission. Nothing but a motive was wanting, and in the face of undoubted facts the la w does not always require that motive should be proved. And yet there cannot bo a doubt, if evidence is worth anything at all, if in fact the very basis of every system of trial is not rotten, that William Smith was totally inno cent of the murder. The circumstances had lied against him almost as if they had boon sentient. There was but one train from Slough that evening by which Smith could by possibility have reached London in time to commit the "crime, and that train left Slough at 7.43. By that train the prisoner, though he did walk towards Slough " to meet a woman," as ho told ono witness, certainly did not go. Henry Harris, a hatter, met him in Eton-square at 20 minutes past 6, and did not leave him till 10.10 still in a beershop in Eton. Henry Coster, photographer, confirmed this statement in detail. So did John Starling, a brazier, so did Henry Holderness, a gardener, so did G. Dodner, a bootmaker, so did John Matthews, a photographic printer, so in fact did ten or twelve men, all of whom stated cir cumstances which induced them to recollect the day, and all of whom must have combined to perjure them selves if the accused was not in Eton while the murder was being committed in London. The theory of such combination is too absurd for consideration. In the first place, they had no motive for such a crime ; in the second, average English scamps abhor murder just as much as English rospectables, drawing a distinct line be tween it and every other crime ; and in the third, they were supported by a very remarkable bit of moral evidence, and an equally remarkable bit of physical testimony. Tho accused from the first said he had never left Eton that night, this point being fully admitted by the police. Now, we take it to be almost a certainty that had Smith com mitted the crime, he would not have denied going to Lon don, but have invented some story to account for his going, sure that the mere fact of his journey would be traced. The physical evidence was merely that, as Smith certainly was in Eton at 7.30, ho must have run the whole way to the Slough station, while the Windsor station was quite close, and the same train stopped there. Nobody, aware how a man like Smith detests exertion, would believe any asser tion of the kind, unless supported by positive evidence, in stead of being deniecLby a cloud of independent witnesses. The evidence for the defence is unanswerable, so perfect that no one who reads it will doubt that Baron Bramwell, in declaring Smith "not only acquitted, but innocent," was right, however they may question the wisdom of a remark the omission of which in any similar case will raise a pre sumption that the Court disagrees with the verdict. William Smith being innocent, the old problem revives, and the theory advanced in the Times to help its solution is certainly very shrewd. The writer evidently supposes that Smith bad revealed the secret of his extortions to some one who resolved to use it for his own purposes, and killed Mrs. Millsom either to got her keys, or out of rage at her refusal. It is certain that he did not rob the house, and extremely improbable that a refusal of that kind would tempt a man to risk hanging, but still the theory is plau sible. Either Smith or Terry may have mentioned the possibility of obtaining money to some one, who planned a robbery, but not a murder, allowed Mrs. Millsom to go quietly to wards the staircase, and then tried to stun her with a life preserver, capable of concealment as he retired. Alarmed at the effect of his blow, he retreated, carrying the weapon with him, and was seen by Mrs. Robbins. That theory meets every point in the case, except that Mrs. Millsom expected her visitor, and stood talking a consi derable time. As a rule, after a trial the police slacken their efforts, but they have at this moment just as many clues as over They had, and the great additional advantage of being headed off the false scent. KENT COAST. A Wharncliffe meeting of this company was held yesterday at the offices, Victoria station; Mr. Tootal in the chair. The Solicitor read the heads of a bill to authorise the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway Com pany to make new railways, and alterations of authorised railways in Surrey and Kent, and new streets and alterations of streets near their Farring don-street terminus; and to use the West London and the West London Extension Railways ; to authorise the Kent Coast Railway to make a new road to Ramsgate ; and to confer powers and im pose obligations on the corporation of the city of London with respect to the new and altered streets. On the motion of the Chairman a resolution ap proving the bill was carried unanimously. SHREWSBURY AND POTTERIES JUNCTION. A Wharncliffe meeting of this company was held yesterday at the offices, Westminster Chambers ; Colonel the Hon. R. T. Rowley in the chair ; when a bill to amalgamate the Shrewsbury and North Wales and Shrewsbury and Potteries Junction Rail way Companies was submitted and unanimously approved. HALESOWEN AND BROMSUROVE. A Wharncliffe meeting of this company was held yesterday at the office, 6, Westminster Chambers, Lord Lyttelton in the chair, when a bill was sub mitted and approved empowering the company to make branch railways and extensions of their line. TEE PRUSSIAN ARMY. (From the Times' Military Correspondent) NEISZE, June 16. In this fortress, situated upon the river of the same name, the Crown Prince of Prussia has now fixed the headquarters of the army of Silesia. The town itself occupies one of the most beautiful of tha many picturesque sites of Upper Silesia. The river which flows past the walls has in this part of its course much resemblance to the Thames near Wind sor. It is of about the same breadth, has the same sluggish stream, and the same grassy banks, studded with willows, while the sluices here erected for mili tary purposes do not fail to remind one of the lock gates of our English rivers. From the fortress itself the view is charming ; in the foreground lie the gentle undulations that mark the extreme points to which the advanced spurs of the Riesengebirge pene trate into the plain ; a little beyond steeper and more swelling slopes are seen, and in the distance, through the hazy summer air, the eye can distinctly trace the dimmed outlines of the Moravian moun tains, beyond which the Austrian advanced posts are supposed to lurk. thetesshoihgar ti e, Last evening Neisze was alarmed by a report that the Austrians had broken through the mountains and had advanced to ICoppenig , within five miles of this fortress. In the town this was fully believed, especially as the troops who form the garrison were seen running at full speed as to parade. This as sembly was, however, soon found to have been caused only by an excessive zeal of the troops themselves. The Crown Prince knew too well how carefully his outposts were placed to believe such an inflated report, and quietly went out for his ordinary ride, while his chief of the Staff, General Blumenthal, trotted to the front, and soon dis covered how little foundation there was for the rumour. Although the report proved to be thoroughly without foundation, an opportunity was afforded for observing the readiness with which the troops were inclined to rush to arms. The men of Silesia who comprise in a great part the army which the Crown Prince commands have strong anti-Austrian feelings. Excited by the idea that their native province had been invaded, having a great affection for the Prince who commands them, and great confidence in his Generals, they showed an eagerness to be led to battle, which augurs well for their success in case another report of an Aus trian advance should prove to be true. We are now in the lull which precedes the storm of war. At any moment the tempest may break forth, but at what point no one yet can tell. It is quite uncertain whether the first shot will be fired on the plains of Saxony or Hanover, or in themoun tain frontier of Silesia. No one now entertains the slightest hope of peace being preserved, and all pre parations for the contest are being rapidly hurried on. At such a time to give detailed information of the movements of troops or of the position of bri gades would not only be injudicious but might be extremelf i detrimental to the plans of those conduct ing the operations, who, as they afford every faci lity for a record of past events, can only in justice expect a strict silence on the subject of combina tions which may materially influence the future course of the campaign. Yet, without entering upon the broad features of presentterisf uofigood go militaryroedanature , interest rready landscape, iandythep obedience, ru there ssia i n s much aanr mdycx. detail sobriety whileof the but soldiers,a slight acquaintance be possessed of an endurance of fatigue and a power of making long marches on dusty roads and in hot weather which are quite surprising . With ranks closed up and without loss -of interval, they trudge along even under the June sun at a rate which most eve one shs p t o h n t e r n ifiTe extreme men unencumbered and walking singly could hardly hope to keep up for any distance. The Crown Prince and the officers of his Staff have left off their epauletees, as is the universal cus tom in the Prussian army in time of war. Shav ing has been campaigning kits show abandoned,their e x a p n e d eta l t o i n on g ofbvooortys soon taking the field. GORLITZ, June 17. Yesterday morning before daylight the Prussian The Reform League. The following address has been issued by the president to the members of the Reform League : ".My Friends—The vote of last Monday in the House of Commons has cleared the political atmos phere. The enemies and the friends of all real re form stand now in undisguised antagonism before the country. That vote has released you from the obli gation you had undertaken, in a spirit of kindly and conciliatory compromise, to suspend for a time your advocacy of the complete enfranchisement of the working classes, and support the more limited measure of Parliamentary reform brought forward by the Government. That measure, moderate as it was, far as it fell short of the full and just rights of the people, has been pertinaciously obstructed night after night, and at length defeated, by a combina tion of treacherous Liberals with the Tory opposi tion. You gave your consent to support that mea sure in good faith ; you gave it in order to disarm the virulence of factious hostility to a Government which was honestly seeking to amend, though not to the extent you desired, the representation of the people. You gave that consent, too, in order to show that the working classes were not the unrea soning and impracticable advocates of what had been, however erroneously, described as extreme and revolutionary projects; in order to show that you could respect even the prejudices of honest op ponents, and exercise the self-control of voluntarily abstaining from insisting upon your legitimate par ticipation in the political privileges which are en joyed by your brethren in the colonies, and to which the constitution of your own country, forbidding any man to be taxed or legislated for against his own consent, entitles you. You gave, further, your consent to support the Government bill as an answer to the foul insults and calumnies poured forth against the working classes in that assembly, whose conduct during the late discussion has been, on many occasions, such as a meeting of working men would have been ashamed to exhibit. All has been in vain. The attempt to extend the right of voting to only a small fraction of the millions still disfran chised has encountered the most reckless hostility, has been met in a spirit of determined antagonism to any real extension of the constituency ; whilst at the same time artifice after artifice has been had recourse to, and at length successfully, to place the Government in a minority. The true and gene rous principles upon which Mr. Gladstone so nobly advocated the throwing open the portals of the constitution to fellow Christians and fel low men have been the subject only of jest and ri dicule in the present Parliament. That Parliament must be altered if the people are not content to remain disfranchised. How is this to be accomplished ? What is to be clone in the present crisis ? The answer seems to me to be plain and simple. There must go forth a resolute demand for a new and larger measure of reform—a measure to be based upon some principle which shall, under present circumstances, gather together into one com pact body the scattered forces of the great Liberal party. Is there anything which can form this bond of union ? It seems to me there is, and that it was furnished in the course of the late discussion in Par liament, furnished by the general admission that the principles upon which the Government measure was founded led necessarily, in their full application, to household, if not to manhood or universal, suffrage. Household suffrage was distinctly advocated in that discussion by the present greatest and most un daunted champion of popular rights, Mr. Bright. It received the sanction of the Attorney-General as the especially constitutional franchise ; it forms the essential portion of the programme of the National Reform Union ; it is a link between London, Man chester, Birmingham, and Bristol, both as regards the great bulk of middle-class reformers, and, probably, the majority of the working-classes; for it is notorious that many intelligent working men, whilst fully adhering, as do the members of the League, to the abstract justice of manhood suffrage, are not agreed as to its present practicability. Household suffrage, in combination especially with the lodger franchise, is, in fact, practically and sub stantially all but equivalent to what the advocates of residential and registered manhood suffrage re quire. Here, then, as it seems to me, the mem bers of the League, whilst not abandoning in prin ciple the full claim of the people to manhood suffrage, may cordially unite with all other real Re formers in making the vote of last Monday the basis of an organisation that shall eventually secure a true and solid representation of the people in the Parlia ment and government of our country. The Times of to-day alleges that the Opposition cannot be charged with refusing to enfranchise working men, cannot be charged with the exclusion of a single ratepayer from the franchise, and they are ready to apply the principle and the privilege of scot and lot to the entire population of England. Let these allegations be at once put to the test, my friends. Let there go forth the resolute, unanimous deman d for a new and larger Reform Bill, based upon the principles of the household and lodger franchise. Let that be your answer to the vote of last Monday. —I am, yours most faithfully, " June 20." " EDMOND BEALES. STATE OF TRADE. LEICESTER, June 20.—The hosiery trade in most departments has been, on the whole, rather quiet during the past few days. The Continental war and the high rate of discounts check trade to a con siderable extent. In the country districts business remains without much change. Wools are very quiet, and prices are irregular. There is a fair amount of business doing in cotton yarns at recent currencies. Worsted yarns are a dull sale, and spinners make only to order. NOTTINGHAM, 20th.—There has been less doing in lace goods for shipping during the ,p ast few days than for some time past. The outbreak of hosti lities on the Continent is acting very prejudicially to the German branch of the Nottingham trade, and several merchants here are experiencing great in convenience, one firm, which has an establishment at Leipsic, having received intelligence from that place announcing that their premises had been taken for barracks for the Prussian soldiery, and that it would be necessary to suspend, as far as pos sible, their business engagements in Nottingham. From Saxony, also, intelligence has arrived that a hosiery manufactory there (connected with the Not tingham trade) was likely to be required for mili tary purposes, and that owing to the stoppage of all traffic on the railways, which had been taken possession of by the authorities, it would be impos sible to despatch any more goods. There is a little doing for France. The home trade continues quiet, plain silk Mechlins being almost the only class of goods at present required. There is no improve ment in the demand for narrow edgings, and black laces do not meet with a free inquiry. The hosiery trade is not so active as it has been of late. There are, however, some good orders on hand, and the workpeople are well employed. Yarns are selling at late rates. [ApvEnTisEmErr.l—Holloway's Pills and Ointment.— Physical Strength. —F o r tho proper development and nourishment of the human body it is essential that the functions of the stomach, liver, kidneys, and bowels be performed with order and regularity. Holloway's remedies readily insure both. The powers of the stomach are greatly augmented and good gastric juice secreted in abundance when this ointment is diligently rubbed twice a day over the pit of the stomach. The pills and ointment enable it to extract all the food's nutritive matter, and to thoroughly digest most articles of diet. Holloway's preparations not only preserve the frame from " wear and tear," but stimu late it to store up nervous energy, as 11000M3ry to vitality as tho mainspring to a watch. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TlMES.—Across the whole breadth of Germany, from the frontiers of Poland to the Rhine, the forces of Austria and the States in alliance with her are mustering for an extended series of operations, but as yet the actual gains have been all on the side of their adversary. The despatches of the last two days announce that the occupation of Saxony is almost complete. The Prussians hold Leipsic, Meissen, Dresden, and Zittau, and the Salon army has been forced to fall back on Pirna. In the mean time the Austrians maintain a profound silence as to their intentions. Whether they will march directly on Dresden, or throw the bulk of their forces against the wing of the Prussian army commanded by the Crown Prince of Prussia, may be known in a few days, but it is in vain to speculate on it now. We only know that Field-Marshal Benedek intends to take the offensive, and that the reconquest and occupation of Silesia are avowed as the purpose of the Austrian campaign. In the centre and west of Germany the States of the Austrian alliance are straining every nerve to make head against Prussia. It is announced that Prince Alexander of Hesse has taken the command of the Bth Federal Army Corps, and that 60,000 Federal troops are concentrated near Frankfort. The position of the Hanoverian army is uncertain, but, if it can escape the Prussians, it will still further swell the considerable force which is opposed to Prussia on the Maine. Bavaria and Wurtemberg have been stirred by the fate of their northern neighbours to take energetic measures against the invader, and in a few days a still larger army than at present will be in the field to prevent, if possible, the further advance of the Prussians. But a*Federal army on the defensive at Frankfort and Aschaffenburg, though it may save Southern Germany, will not prevent the Prussians from keep ing all they have, and even possessing themselves of more. They have invaded Hanover at once from the northward and from the side of Minden, and it is now as much their own as Brandenburg ; they have seized Elec toral Hesse with the acquiescence of the people, to whom no change of government could be an evil ; and a large part of Grand Ducal Hesse is by this time in their power. The Duke of Nassau, a Prince scarcely less unpopular than the Elector of Hesse, and a member of the Austrian alliance, may also be dispossessed at any moment. It remains to be seen whether the Prussians will be content with these gains, or will attack the army of the Confede ration. It is stated that they are close to Frankfort, and if they advance a collision can hardly be avoided, in which the Prussians have, at least, the advantage that they are a united army, fighting against mixed contingents, which may have very different views abotit the war, and very varying zeal in the cause. There are signs that the people in some of the States show indifference, if not hostility, to the anti-Prus sian policy of their rulers, and an unsuccessful campaign might develope still more the desire for a prudent neutrality. Yet, when the resources of the Austrian alliance are considered, it must be acknow ledged to be a most formidable association. So powerful are the forces arrayed against Prussia that we cannot but believe that if Austria were able to put forth her whole strength in Germany the Berlin monarchy would succumb. What would be the position of Austria in Germany were she at peace and amity with Italy, and able to bring a quarter of a 'billion of men from the shores of the Adriatic to Bohemia ? It is not too much to say that her Gene rals might reconquer Silesia, and perhaps enter Berlin in triumph. But the Imperial pride and the love of territorial dominion, however useless, forbid such a success. Venetia is there to paralyse the strength of the Empire, to exhaust its resources, and perhaps to destroy for ever its authority in Germany. War has now been declared by Italy against Austria. Gene ral Cialdini has announced it to the enemy, and it will begin at once. The Italian army is formidable from its numbers, its enthusiasm, and the skill of some of its leaders. It will have a difficult task, and no one will be surprised to hear that it has met with checks either before the fortresses in the plain or among the mountains to the northward. But the Italians are 22 millions ; they have 300,000 men ready to enter on the campaign, and nearly as many more to supply the places of those who fall. Such an enemy must be formidable. The adhesion of the minor German States can hardly counterbalance the hostility of Italy, which will not only oblige the Emperor to keep a great army in Venetia, but also make it necessary to watch the whole Austrian coast of the Adriatic. From Italy we shall doubt less have early news. Itsfinancial necessities forbid it to delay, and the army demands an immediate advance. In the meantime proclamations and ma nifestoes are the order of the day. In the despatch which Count Bismarck has addressed to the Prussian representatives on the hostile vote of the Diet, he declares the Confederation to be dissolved. The Prussian Government, in this despatch and in its proclamation to the German people, declares that the old Confederation has come to an end because it did not faithfully represent Germany, because it fostered division instead of union, and, because it has been turned unlawfully by one Power to the in jury of another. " The King's envoy," it is said, " announced in the name of his Majesty the dissolu tion of the Federal Pact" after au act in which the majority of envoys represented States that had al ready previously combined in measures hostile to Prussia. Prussia would hardly have hastened to pro claim the Confederation for ever dissolved if she did not believe her interests were incompatible with the existence of the Diet. She might have complained that the States bad acted illegally, and yet have professed her adherence to the laws which all were bound to obey. But she announces that the viola tion of the law amounts to the abrogation of the law itself. The whole country is now reduced to its political elements ; it is no longer a federation, but a number of States, great and small, which, according to the declaration of Prussia, are no more connected than any others on the Continent. The despatch in explanation of the entry of the Prussian troops into Hanover, Saxony, and Elec toral Hesse is equally decided in tone. The Minor States are menaced in a fashion of which we should hardly have thought even Count Bismark capable. The King's Government, it is said, proposes to the Northern Governments a new alliance, the accept ance of which would avert the dangers with which, according to Count Bismark, they threaten Prussia. But it must be on the condition that they restore their forces to a peace footing or unite them with those of Prussia, and that they assent to the con vocation of a German Parliament. "If these mode rate conditions be not accepted," says the candid statesman, " the Government will feel itself obliged to have recoarse to force, and to employ all the means in its power against those Governments which show themselves its decided adversaries." A Power which uses this language is evidently prepared to go all lengths. Austria must crush her imperious rival by force, or see her influence in Germany pass away for ever. The long rivalry of the two States—a rivalry which showed itself as soon as the pressure of the great Napoleon's power was removed, which has broken out at intervals during the whole life time of the Confederation, and which brought the two armies almost face to face in 1850—can no longer be suppressed,, and the leadership, if not the sovereignty, of Germany must fall to the lot of one of them. POST.—Those who would appreciate the difference of the public feeling on the subject of Reform in 1831 and 1866 must turn to Mr. Roebuck's " His tory of the Whigs." There they may learn how, when the House of Lords rejected the bill, the city. of Bristol was set on fire by a frantic and uncontrol lable mob ; how the castle of Nottingham, the pro perty of the Duke of Newcastle, was assailed and burned by the insurgents ; how the political unions came into active operation ; how the people refused to pay taxes ; how sedition, anarchy, and terror overspread the land ; and the cry, not for a bill, but for the bill, was raised in every city throughout the kingdom. Such was the state of the country in October, 1831. Look on this picture and on this." In June, 1866, a Reform Bill is withdrawn by the Government on grounds reasonable or unreasonable, it matters not ; but for the time there is no prospect of any Reform being carried. The announcement of this withdrawal is, contrary to all precedent and to all rule, received with loud acclamations, even in the gallery the very " strangers" rivalling with the Opposition in joy at the relief from this incubus on all useful legislation; and on Tuesday night, when it was known that the Chancellor of the Exchequer was to announce the intentions of the Government, and mere curiosity might have attracted' a large crowd, a few dozen idlers, who gave Mr. Disraeli a warm greeting, re presented the agitated thousands which at the in stigation of the arch-agitator were to fill Parliament street, and who, with banner unfurled, were to march on the House of Commons and proclaim the imperial will of the time-honoured Demos. We said from the first, and never have found reason to change our conviction, that the people are pro foundly indifferent to any Reform whatever, and that Reform was the mere stock-in-trade of decayed and bankrupt politicians. Mr. Bright agitates the question on the same principle as the fisherman troubled the water. It is, said he, " by agitating the water I gain my living." Agitation is a trade, and public opinion frequently a manufacture. Given time and associates enough, you may create a kind of demand, but this no more represents the earnest requirements of the country than the unintelligent cry of the child does the deep utterance of the earnest man . There are good and sufficient reasons below the surface why Reform is not only uncalled for butis regarded with aversion by two classes of society, while it only receives the support of a few Democrats. The two classes are the employers of labour and the work men themselves the few earnest Reformers are the men who organise and lead the strikes. Whoever visits the great centres of manufactures will find the, wealthiest employe rs more a l arme d than ail Conservative at the prospect of Reform, which may result in placing power in the hands of those who are the mere instruments of designing demagogues.. Left to himself, the working man is moderate in his views and kindly in his sympathies, but he can not resist the force of association, and he becomes a part of a machine terrible in its force and most dangerous when in motion. It may be said that we have no evidence that the working men would abuse the power entrusted to them. This is quite true ; but we can only judge by analogy, and We do not know how they have been made use of in the case of the trade unions, and the result is not en couraging. We• have before us a report from the National Association for the prevention and SuP pression of Strikes and Turn-outs, and it is any' thing but agreeable. The report says :—" The history of turn-outs is indeed a most painful and disgrace ful one ; there is scarcely a crime, however horrible , which has not at one time or other been committed by trade unions. Many of us can remember that vitriol-throwing, blinding, maiming for life and even murder have been their common accompaol ments, and more particularly among the best trades of the country. It is true none of these things hay ? disgraced the cotton operatives during the Pas! twelve years in their disputes with their employer' but they have organised and carried out a regular system of coercion and intimidation more sever° than was ever known. The levy ordered 11 the committee must be paid, or the party re fusing would be held up to public scorn, au'', yelled and hissed to his home. The cost of strikes is incalculable. Suffice it to say that the cost of the Preston strike is no less a 031 than £400,000, exclusive of immense losses to employers and tradesmen connected with the cotton districts." No wonder, if this be true—and papers quoted by Mr. Baillie Cochrane during the Reform debate prove the accuracy of this deserlP: tion from the rules of the unions themseves—th at the capitalists regard with ill-disguised alarm all proposition which may transfer this formidable organisation, embracing four-fifths of the whole working men in great Britain, from without to within the walls .of Parliament. What legislatio n might we expect ? What proportion of taxes would be placed on the upper classes? What chance would wealth have in this contest with labour ? As it 1! 3 1 there are not wanting voices which are raised 0 , 1 . behalf of the people, and the danger is rather, a .. present, that we shall over legislate instead of unt,`, legislate in all questions of a popular character. V I do not wish now to call attention to the inou_ e working man. He is fast becoming as great a 10; as the intelligent foreigner or Lord Macaulay's N e it Zealander. Too much has been already said abot the genuine, frank, sober, industrious, intelligen: artisan. If there is one thing more repulsive !l e the adulation of rank, it is the adulation o f no people. The worst periods of the Greek and Itor°; c i Republics were those when the mob were flatter into becoming the tools of ambition and of Pa rt y' The world is, unhappily, not one " entire and P, feet chrysolite." We have so to legislate as to PZt tect the rights of property, and still more to pro. men against the consequences of their own asp 0; 1 And all the delay and annoyance of this def 0, 3 % Reform Bill need not be regretted, because It ' 4O proved to the most ordinary capacity that the P ee a e , are satisfied with things as they are—that they _ ..to sire no change—that they can see through the 4t of the democratic leaders—and that for the pr es i o r they do not desire to exchange their old lanaPs new ones. COUNTRY MARKETS. NEWCAS TLE- N- T YNE—TUESDAY. ,h e at At our market to-day them was a small supply of wm fty from the growers and coast, and only a moderate (1113:vid from abroad. A good demand being experienced, week opts vance of from 3s to 4s on the rates of this day lire e ' A obtained en both British and foreign. Barley 1s a u s' a 0 6d dearer. Malt was is higher. Beans and peas w et. " chanT hgee d. Flour advaned 38 to 4s r sack. average prices of Br British grain pe for the week been—wheat, 49s lid ; oats, 27s Od; barley, --8 pe r q MONMOUTHSHIRE--TuEsDAY. The markets have been better attended, and business more active than for some time past. The inclui r Y in home-grown wheat was spirited, and a general advances , quotations took place from 2s to 2s 6d per qr. There.': a good trade done in the better sorts of foreign ; and in rior samples met with a tolerably fair demand. nal, sold more freely, and current rates were fully maintaille_ The sul of beans was hardly sufficient to meet theer!t quiroments of buyers, and superior sorts realised at 1 3 1 is per qr. more money. Oats were also in more reque'" and prices tended upwards. real e following are the average quo tations:—Wlloawi ; 5s 9d to 6s 6d per bushel ; inferior ditto, 5s 3d to Os. d. white, 6s 3d to is ; malting g barley, 36s to 40s per qr ; g r , i ; ' • ing ditto, 27s to 295 ; beans, 44 s ; w hite oats, 25s Gd to 2l black ditto, 24s 6d to 25s Gd. LYNN—TUESDAY. t o- daft There was a small attendance at this Exchangot and a short show of wheat. Prices were fully 3 3 to 4s Pet;, qr. higher, with brisk demand from our local miller Barley and oats each ls per qr. dearer. bite, New wheat, —s to —s ; new red, 47s to 52s • old w for '—sto —s ; old red, 51s to 54s per 36 stone. Barley' malting, 37s to 40s ; secondary, 33s to 355. Oats, ue .o, 24s to 26s per 24 stone. Beans, small, 43s to 465. r e ' 36s to 40s per 28 stone. • SALISBURY.—T trEsDAT. r got A moderate supply of wheat was pitched at this` argot to-day, but, in consequence of the war news many 0 ",.. e 0 farmers declined to open their sacks. Much higher f16: 1 _,, 0 were asked, and the business done was at an sdv -reY , ranging from 2s to as much as 4s per qr. Grinding Nude. as well as oats, beans, and peas, likewise advanced in P rio s In flour a r i se o f f rom 2 s to 3 s per sac k took place, Pricy The 358, 38s, and 40s per sack. to 54s ; and peas, The following are the quotations :—Wheat realised fr:81 6d per bushel ; 36s to 52s ; barley, 30s to 40s ; oats, 24s to 32s ; be ans ' 73 per 81b loaf. Flour, 35s to 40s per sack. Beat 42 s bread,to 50s pi!3rdq;r household Ta vs , fr o d t i t G o 2 J. HL.—TUESDAY. At our market to-day UL very little wheat mers keeping it back in hopes of higher prices ~,n „ t wee' of the war which has just commenced on the "70 0 a sales mad e needy was also held back, and the few needy millers were at an advance of fully 3 5 Pe r q r. 5 36. 50s to 2 55. English old white wheat, 535 - to 565; old red, 24$ t° Barley, English, 36s to 375. Oats, Russian, s, , h blue, Beans, new English , 43s to 445. Peas, English to 41s Od ; grinding, 40s to 41s Od per 36 stone. was shosavic3c,oluft COAL MARKET. Price per ton at the close of the market. Walls End Haswell 19 0 S ou th K 11oe .. ''' 158. (1. °:4 e .... , a Soath Hetton V. o Holywell Main l6 6 Hetton Lyons ... ••• 1 6 Hough Hall lB 3 Bates' West Hartley.. Ships at market, 33 ; sold, 30. 014 11 ' ADVERTISEMENT.]. -Avoid medicines: they alwal/...,r 10' vate chronic complaints, but Du Barry's Delicious ii`s_co Restoring Revalenta Arabica Food, wh ich yields threctstimicoo the nourishment of the best meat, sav es fifty times i ,„, in other remedies, and invariably restores perfect dioged.ouv.; strong nerves, sound lungs. healthy liver, pure bl 0 : s y freshing sleep, functional regularity, and energy to the_ l ' o oo tion, constant sleepleso ness ' Cures :—Cure No. 58,216, of the Marchioness de 13: Tr, disordered or enfeebled. We extract a few out of eu ei ; av, of seven years' liver complaint, waslinl away, d bi l l y, nervousness, with a nervous palpitation all over, bad cal and the most intolerable nen4 agitation.—Cure No. 1,771. Lord Stuart de Deoles• lia Lieutenant of Waterfor d. of many years' dyspepsia*:olo, 49,832. "Fifty years' indescribable agony from dY B Pf_ Y ..cv. oatille P i e , nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation , spasms. sickness, and vomiting.—Maria Jolly. 46,270. 46,270. Mr. James Roberts, of Frimley, Surrey. T,.. ti age' years' diseased lungs, spitting of blood, "NO' o us v — s betlf ment, and partial deafness.—Cure No. 47,121. MI im • 6 _.., jos/ f Jacobs, of extreme nervousness, indigestion, gat herll 7. il ltU spirits, and nervous fancies. -Cure No. 54,616. Thel t d e tor P i. T. Campbell, Fakenham, Norfolk, " of indigestio n nmetlV fifty or the liver, which had resisted all medical tr esw 241 0 In oc t_in ß s ar , ilk, u 2s ßa 9 r d ry ; an 2l d b, C 4 o s ., N 6d 0 ; .7 5 7 1 , b R , also Phillips, tea dialers, at 61, Gracechurch-street ;4, Chea side 40, 13114- -tl street W ; S ods Within ; 63, 150, and 298, Oxford-street ; '''"'_.A • 1 " r°*- Cl ' 54, 1 Upper Baker-street ; 103, Tottenhara-004r,itt. : °°.: pper-street, Islington, N. ; Harvey, Notting 4 m:.." a ce, P- Brothers, 65, High-street , -tex. ; and Stubbs, Queen 6 0 0 .!_ohn' s - woo d. London; and all respectable gr° °6lll. wista•—Beware of BDUrIOUS imitations. 8, King wileglinaesmn;t:sistree2tribee:tt,l2jus:ol22o:loo:: Births. the 11 ,1 . DEWSNAP—On the 19th inst., at Barnes, Surr e Y' n s• ter --tl4 of Mark Dewsnap, Esq., of Lincoln's.inn, 1)31.-- law, of a daughter. v . 0 I Ciftl FITZGERALD—On the 18th ult ,at Dees. 3 3 ° 11- ' l4 " ' ill s, of Major Fitzgerald, 49th Regiment,. of a son• , ,c.ifo of MACLAGAN—On the 20th inst., at Edinburgh, t' () . Lieut.-Col. R. Maclagan, R.E., of a daughter. Marriages. Go org°':' BOUVERIE—CHAPLIN—On ;the 19th - r ie, o H e anover-square, the Han M Pleydell Helen l c en he M pl a i t n i , ld o a f , R only yiaa ii Rutland.surviving. r daught e r clb Clfi r " t MAnTry—EGGirrrox—On the 19th inst., at TrinitY elde o eon of Capt. T. H. M. Martin, Bora N 3 -17 0 :10 :f nof Admiral Ma rtin o f Bittern Lodge ' $. , Charlotte Roadley, eldest daughter of the ' l ilt° E ggiratob, Esq., of NorntheaFtehrrsib.y, Yorkshir. 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