The Sun. — London, England, 1865-06-07 00:00:00

Bath and West of England Society's Meeting. HEREFORD, Monday. If wise men " came from" the East, by implica tion they migrated to the West ; and this may be one reason why agriculturists on this side of the kingdom have been in some respects ahead of their age. The western counties created our Cirencester College, started practical rural schools, were first to organise local committees in connexion with Uni versity middle - class instruction, and have intro duced genuine scientific study into some of our most valuable farmers' clubs. But they have also the honour of having originated the most vene rable agricultural association in England. In 1777, half a century before the birth of our Royal Agricultural Society, was established the " Bath and West of England Society for the Encouragement of Agriculture, Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce.;" and the earliest English ploughing match on record is that held by this society in 1788. Since 1780 the institution has published a Journal, replete with valuable* prize essays and papers on rural and kindred topics; and it has a consulting chemist, consulting engineers, a veterinary inspector, an honorary secretary of the fine arts department, and a paid staff, consisting of a secretary, editor, arts curator, and accountant. The Prince of Wales is the patron, and the manage ment is vested in the president, Lord Taunton, an influential body of vice-presidents, and a council of 48 members, most of them practical agricul turists. The society is indebted to Mr. T. Dyke Acland, M.P., for proposing, in 1850, the adop tion of migratory annual exhibitions in place of the Christmas shows in Bath city; for, since amal gamation with the Devon Agricultural Society most successful meetings have been held atTaunton, Ply mouth, Bath, Tiverton, Yeovil, Newton Abbot, Car diff, Barnstaple, Dorchester, Truro, Wells, Exeter ; the Bristol meeting last year attaining such dimen sions that no fewer than 88,055 persons were ad mitted to the showyard, while the receipts at the doors were within a trifle of £6,000. The finances appear to be flourishing, as there are about 1,130 members ; the towns visited contribute £9OO to £l,OOO each for the honour done them, and hand some donations also are always forthcoming for special departments and for local prizes. The Hereford meeting has opened to-day with a token of splendid weather. The showyard, about a mile north-west of the city, incloses within its hoard ing some 25 acres of the race-course and additional fields; the main entrance and offices being near the grand stand. To the right we find the implements, ranged in long lines of canvas-roofed shedding, with loftier booths for machinery in motion, the total length of covered stands being about three-quarters of a mile. On the further side of the ground are the tents for the poultry and for the horticultural exhi bition, with the council tent and the great Wimbledon marquee for a dinner pavilion. More to the left stand the erections for the art manufactures and the fine arts departments, and midway between those and the main entrance is the orchestra for the military bands. Central, also, on the broad green sward we have the cattle rings, each with its tasty cupola over the judge's desk, from which issue from time to time the smart rosettes to decorate the brows of winning animals. The live stock sheds occupy the space to the left of these rings, while beyond them are the rows of comfortable horse-boxes, with their roofs of felt and slate, and the great ring where the horses show off their points at certain prescribed hours. Though all the departments have been open to-day, of course the chief interest was evinced around the judges' rings; open adjudication proving here, as everywhere else, a most successful improvement upon the old system of shutting out or else fencing off the public from each class in succession till the umpires have made up their minds. As a whole, the show of cattle has great merit, and numbers 200 entries. The Devons—incompar able in their own district for patient endurance of team labour, for supplying - rich cream to the churn, furnishing Midland graziers with store-stock of quality, and adding their blood with excellent effect to native breeds in moist climates—have not come up in numerical force at this show; so that the judges, Messrs. Tapp and Forester, had only 28 entries to dispose of. Of the two aged bulls, Mr. Walter Far thing's bay, deep-framed, capital animal is placed second to Mr. Azariah Smith's younger beast, though many critics consider that the verdict should have been the reverse. The two-year-old bulls make a good class, Mr. Farthing's being first, Mr. Bodley's second, and Mr. Azariah Smith's third. Mr. Farthing has it all his own way in the admirable cow class. The ,3 shorthorns form a commendable show, considering that nearly all are from the South and West ; for good shorthorns are confined to no dis trict of the United Kingdom, and abound in parts of Somerset, Devon, and Cornwall, giving, also, most valuable crosses with the native races wherever an excessively wet climate may prove too severe a test for their refined constitution. Little can be said in praise of the bulls ; neither Mr. Robert Sharpe's first-prize aged bull, " Lord Chancellor," bred by the late Mr. James Webb, Mr. Game's first-prize three-year-old bull, nor Mr. Logan's two year-old-bull, is anything like first-rate. However, the standard of excellence in the female classes stands very high indeed. In the class of cows in calf or in milk, which have had a calf within six months of the preseent time, the honours go to Mr. Richard Stratton, whose first-prize cow " Diadem" is a model in every particular of form, of rare beauty, of immense size, and a prime handler ; to Mr. Sharpe, whose second-prize cow stands badly, and, therefore, shows at a disadvantage, but is ex tremely well made and handsome ; and to Mr. John Lynn, whose third prize cow would have equalled the second if a little less lumpy, better ribbed up, and wetter before the shoulder. Mr. Logan's beautiful first- prize roan heifer was closely run by Mr. Lynn's " Pamela," the perfection of the former being marred only by a slight deficiency between the hip and rump, and a trifling inequality in outline where the straight line of the back should be prolonged to the setting on of the tail. The heifers not exceeding two years old were all commended. Mr. R. Strat ton's first-prize roan " Garland" is a beauty, fairly beating Mr. Sharpe's second-prize red and white ; and Mr. Holt Beever's third-prize heifer and Mr. E. Holland's highly-commended heifer are fine spe cimens of what young shorthorns should be. The judges were Messrs. J. R. Singleton and J. E. Jones. . - That the Herefords would flock to their own me tropolis with an imposing show both for numbers and quality was to be expected, and the 120 entries are 10 in excess of the entries at the Royal Agricul tural Worcester meeting in 1863. In the class of aged bulls, the first prize goes to a wonderful bull of Mr. J. A. Hollings, of immense proportions, 9ft. girth, and great beauty. The beast was second at Bristol last year, commended at Newcastle, and first at Cheltenham and Hereford local show. Mr. W. Taylor's second-prize bull is compact, well-fleshed, and handsome, girth Bft. ; but, though without honours at the Bristol meeting, was first at Wor cester in 1863, and beat Mr. Holling's bull at New castle. Mr. Buckham's Commodore is the first in class of bulls not exceeding three years old. This very handsome animal has won a little fortune in prizes, having been first at Bn'stol, first at New castle, first at Coventry, first at Newport, and first at Hereford local show. Th grand class,Mr. Par amore eY winningoung bulls form a the first prize Mr. Gibbons the seco n d, and Mr. Judge the third: The cows are very numerous, and of great merit. Mr. W. Perry's first prize cow was first at Truro as a ca lf, first in the class at Leeds, and first at Wor cester. Mr. Farr's second-p r i ze Worcester as an in - calf heifer. cow was first at Mr. George Pitt takes the first prize in the heifer class with an ani mal rather plain in the hind quarter, with a high loin, and defective behind the shoulder, and we should here dispute the judgment of the umpires, Messrs. J. Ford and G. E. Gough, especially as Mr. Baldwin's second-class heifer, with wonderful girth and constitution, and only a slight over burden of flesh on the hind quarter, was never beaten before ; in fact, she was first at Bristol, first at Newcastle, and also at Hereford local show. There is a very pretty class of heifers not exceed ing three years old. Mr. Ridgley's first-prize heifer is very beautiful ; Mr_ P. 'Turner's second-prize heifer is scarcely inferior; and both these beat Mr. Monkhouse's thi r d prize heifer, which was first in _~_.,, ~ _.._ the class at Newcastle ; one of the most interesting classes is that of Hereford bulls and cows, with their offspring ; and in still greater force are the classes for pairs of Hereford heifers. TUESDAY. Though the field trials of implements were cora menced to-day, the main interest has been still in the live stock department of the yard. The cattle we have already reviewed. In the sheep classes we find some prime Leicesters, the great prize-winner being Mr. Joseph Gould. The Cotswold are in good force, Mr. Gillett taking first and second prizes for year ling rams and Mr. C. Kearsey taking first prize for an aged ram—the noblest long-wool sheep in the yard. Mr. Lynn and Mr. Radmore win the honours for the other long-wool breeds. The judges were Messrs. J. Clarke and T. Stamper. There is a small show of Southdowns ; Mr. Farquharson, the Earl of Radnor, and Mr. Grenville taking the prizes. The judges were Messrs. H. Woods andH. Mayo. There is a capital show of the valuable Shropshire downs, the best pens being those of Lady Willoughby de Broke ; the judges of this breed were Messrs. Bowen and Cureton. The Somerset and Dorset sheep, with their heavy curling horns, attract much attention; a valuable breed for their prolific production of very early lambs. The Ryeland sheep make a famous show. They are indigenous to a tract of sandy soil in Herefordshire and on the border of Wales, some authorities attributing them to a Phoenician impor tation of merinos, a breed which they resemble for the fineness of their fleece. They have no horns, but are distinguished by a tuft of wool upon the forehead They have white faces and legs, a round compact body, and moderate size, and are noted for fattening readily and for the delicate quality of their flesh. Mr. J. B. Downing is the chief prize winner with this breed on the present occasion. The horses make a very inferior show ; not half a dozen good ones to be found out of the whole 74, and the judges of Hunters, Capt. Barlow and Mr. Thurnall, as well as the judges of cart horses, Messrs. Howard and Besley, had an easy task to perform in settling relative merits where nothing was first rate. Mr. W. Thorn's first prize cart stal lion Black Prince has won several local prizes, but is by no means superlatively handsome ; and Mr. Hyde's second-prize horse in the same class beat Messrs. Jas. and Frederick Howard's Clydesdale, because somewhat more powerful. Mr. Fowler's first prize cart mare has some merit ; but beyond these the classes are distinguished by want of sub stance and character. The thoroughbred stallions are a very inferior lot, and little better can be said of the mares and foals. Among the mares or geld ings foaled in 1861, Mr. Percy's first prize brown gelding is a good one ; and Mr. White's first prize bay gelding, foaled in 1861, is something like the right sort, though rather leggy. Sir Chas. Boughton's pony, too, is remarkably pretty ; but besides these and one or two colts in the local classes, there is nothing worthy of special mention. Horeflesh sadly needs improvement in the West of England, or else some greater inducement must be held out to pre vent breeders from'again sending up such a weedy assortment for the plough, the cart, or the saddle. Of agricultural products there is a creditable dis play, including fleeces of long lustrous wool, of the fine Ryland wool, and of Shropshire wool; and also a small competition in Herefordshire hops. We have also an interesting competition of our English vintage—for what are the brisk and grate ful beverages of the West, the perry and " fox whelp" cider, but Pomona's wine, cheaper than ale, and quite as refreshing as the French peasant's vin that is so very ordinaire? There have been many visitors to-day to the fine arts department. In fact, the picture-gallery and the Art Union lottery in connexion with it are so popular as to be worth a thousand a year to the so ciety's funds ever since the first exhibition at Barn staple in 1857. Last year, at Bristol, 40,000 persons passed through the gallery in one day. The gallery, 100 ft. in length, with every suitable adaptation for preserving the works of art from injuries of weather, and an admirable arrangement and lighting, con tains about 400 oil and water-colour paintings, most of them by living artists, and some of a high order of merit. The society has depots in the ten princi pal towns in its district, and also in London, where the pictures are conveyed to the show and back again free of cost to the exhibitors ; and this liberal encouragement of artists, byproviding such a ready opportunity for the display of their works on sale, is producing very satisfactory effects, more particu larly in bringing into public favour pencils that would otherwise have remained unknown. There are several crack pictures present, such as Hopkin's " Low-backed Car," a sporting scene and a battle scene toy A. cooper, ILA., Tidey's " Darthuia," Lucy's " The Man of Ross," and others: Among the works worthy of special mention are landscapes by John Syers, by W. H. Cublay, and by Sydney Hodges, the Arts Curator to the society, who has just finished a portrait of the Bishop of Exeter for Miss Burdett Coutts. The art-manufactures department is tolerably well filled; though, unfortunately, the firms most cele brated in ceramic art are now exhibiting at Dublin. Still the collection includes a series of carvings in wood and marble, marqueterie, woven fabrics, gold smith's work, fancy horological instruments, ma jolica, oriental porcelain, with a number of repro ductions from continental museums, and some splen did and valuable works from the South Kensington Museum. The main feature here is the display of Honiton lace ; consisting of exquisite specimens, stitched upon black velvet and framed and glazed—finely worked designs of fruit, flowers, leaves, insects, scrolls, and arabesques, giving grace and beauty to all sorts of airy delicate adornments which are the charming finish of female attire. Those who have studied the history of lace, from the " fine-twined linen and curious needlework" in the tabernacle of Moses and on the hem of the priest's ephod, the '• nets of checker-work" in Solomon's Temple, the veils and " cauls" of Homer's goddesses, the lace on Egyptian monuments and in Scandinavian barrows, down through the mefflaaval ages when the nuns worked the gossamer fabrics to the culminating ex travagances of frill and ruffle under good Queen Bess, and those who an admire the infinite variety of beauty in the three kinds of lace, " point" made with the needle, " pillow" woven upon pins on a cushion, and imitative machine-lace wrought in looms, will under stand how specially attractive to the lady visitors are these samples of Devonshire industry. The Society has done well to encourage a branch of manufacture which employs about 10,000 women ; one special aim being to provide occupation in designing for respec table and educated women in needy circumstances. But a much greater result is likely to flow from the stimulus given by this competitive exhibition. It is only by improvement in designing after nature, and by diligent attention to the quality of their fabric, that the artists of threads and bobbins can hold their ground against the skilful workers of France and Belgium ; yet the Honiton lace people, forgetting that their market is due to their surpassing machine-work for unique effects in pattern as well as for durability in the fabric itself, are actually lowering the artistic standard of excel lence in their lace. And the Society's efforts are directing greater attention to this matter of design ing, as well as to the social condition of the workers. Thus, the lace shown at Bristol last year afterwards formed a display in the South Kensington Museum, and by royal command was submitted to the inspec tion of her Majesty. A robe, specially ordered, of a beautiful honeysuckle pattern, has been manufac tured for the Queen —employing 30 people all the winter at Honiton and Sidmouth ; and these hands were paid in cash, instead of wholly or partially on the prevalent truck system. This robe, valued at 330 guineas, cost price, is now, by her Majesty's permission, a centre of interest in the fine arts pavi lion at Hereford. The horticultural exhibition is not quite so exte n aive and va r i ous as a t B r i s t o l l as t year , b u t owing to the contributions of Mr. C. Turner of Slough, Mr. Cranston of Hereford, Mr. Trusted of Hereford, Mr. G. Clive, M.P., Mr. Arkwright, Mr. Symons, the Rev. A. Clive, and the Mayor of Hereford, we find some of the finest geraniums and roses in the world, with a specially grand show of foliage plants, caladmms, and ferns. The tent is the very best we ever saw for protecting flowers, while affording a perfect ventilation, and a due ingress of light with out overheating even on a fervid summer's day, and WIWI niE SUIT, LON' it is to be noted that the whole display is, for beauty of effect and the credit of the exhibitors, without any awarding either of competitive prizes or honorary distinctions of merit.—Times. Naval and Military Intelligence. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, as Field-Marshal Commanding-in-Chief, held a levee yesterday afternoon, at the Horse Guards. Upwards of 100 officers had audience of his Royal Highness. On Monday the horses of the 16th Lancers were given over to the 17th Lancers, and yesterday the 16th Lancers were encamped under canvass in the Abbey Farmfield, Colchester, pending their depar ture from that town en route for Bangalore. The 9th company Royal Engineers, some time under orders for the Mauritius, yesterday left Wool wich for Chatham. The company consisted of Capt. Rimington, Lieut. Pillean, and 83 non-commis sioned officers and privates. The company was in readiness for embarkation, and the men had under gone the necessary medical attestation, when the order for their departure for the Mauritius was can celled, and they were despatched to Chatham for the present, their ultimate destination being Ber muda. The Midsummer public examination of the cadets at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, and the distribution of prizes by the Duke of Cambridge, Governor, Field-Marshal Commanding-in-Chief of the Army, is fixed to take place on Thursday, the 22d inst. The Research, 4, screw iron-cased sloop, Capt. Arthur Wilmshurst, arrived at Spithead yesterday morning from the Nore. Her four 9.22 inch 100- pounder smooth-bore guns are mounted on diffe rent carriages for experimental purposes, two being of the old Woolwich pattern, one on the improved Arsenal pattern, and, like the old pattern, of wood, and the remaining carriage of the four of iron, on the plan submitted to the Admiralty by Commander Scott, R.N. So far as the trials of the carriages have yet gone, the plan of Commander Scott has proved superior to the others in all respects. It re quires only nine men as the gun's crew, while the otheis require 19, and at the same time it enables its gun to be discharged 15 per cent. quicker than the others. According to these results it therefore appears to be very superior to any other ship broad side gun-carriage we at present possess. The Royal Sovereign, 5, iron-cased turret-ship, steamed out of Portsmouth harbour yesterday morn ing and anchored at Spithead preparatory to a series of trials being made off the Isle of Wight with her guns and turrets, under the superintendence of Capt. Astley Cooper Key, C. 8., of her Majesty's gunnery ship Excellent. The general nature of the arrangement is that the ship shall anchor at the close of each day's trial at Spithead or St. Helen's, so that Capt. Key may not neglect his other and multifarious duties connected with the Excellent and the Royal Naval College. It is not contemplated in these trials to do more than seek a swell to test the guns and turrets in their general working, such as would be met with in the Channel in a seagoing ship. As regards these proposed experiments we may observe that Capt. Sherard Osborne completely exhausted the subject during the period he com manded the ship on her cruise between the Isle of Wight and Portland, and would suggest that the best course to pursue now to obtain new and valu able data on such an important matter would be to allow Capt. Key to take the Royal Sovereign on a cruise as far as Lisbon, and pick up the materials for his report in the Bay of Biscay. The Orestes, 21, screw corvette, 1,715 tons and 400-horse power of engines, Capt. Alan 11. Gar dener, arrived at Spitehead yesterday morning from the Cape of Good Hope, on the completion of her term of foreign service, and will proceed round to Sheerness to dismantle and pay out of commission. On anchoring she exchanged the customary salutes with the Victory, lying in Portsmouth harbour, the flagship of Port-Admiral and Naval Commanaer in-Chief Sir Michael Seymour, G.C.B. The Orestes sailed from the Cape on the 15th April and called in at Ascension on May 3. Commander C. G. Nelson has been appointed to the command of the screw gun vessel Torch, on the West Coast of Africa station, vice Douglas, in valided. The Basilisk, 6, paddlewheel sloOp, 1,031 tons, 400-horse power, having completed extensive altera tions and repairs in her machinery in Sheerness dock yard, was yesterday taken to the measured mile off Maplin. Sands, for an official trial of her engines. The vessel was in charge of Commander J. Barrow, Commander of the Sheerness Steam Reserve ; Mr. J. irn i Lair‘rt, sen., chief engineer, and Mr. S. L. Townsend, foreman of the factory, being likewise present. The following were the results of the trial: —Average speed at full boiler power, 9.651 knots ; ditto, at half boiler power, 8197 knots ; draught of water, forward, 16ft. 7in. ; aft, 15ft. lin. ; load on safety valve, 121 b.; pressure of steam, 121 b.; vacuum, 251; revolutions of engines, full power, 16.75 ; ditto, at half power, 13.5; force of wind, 1 to 2. The time occupied in turning the circle, at full power, with helm to starboard 34.5 deg., was 5 min. 17 sec. —the diameter of the circle being 420. At half boiler power the time occupied was 6 min. 33 sec., with helm to port 36 deg. The vessel had 280 tons of coal on board and six months' stores. The engines worked satisfactorily, and there were no hot bearings. The boilers produced agood supply of steam without prim ing. The result of the trial was highly satisfactory. The screw steam tender Dapper left Plymouth on Monday for Dartmouth. The Channel squadron, under command of Admi ral Dacres, passed down off Plymouth on Monday afternoon. The following appointments have been made at the Admiralty :—Staff Commander F. J. E. Evans to be chief assistant to the Hydrographer ; W. Mayes, master, to the Fisgard, additional, as superintendent of compasses; G. Tucker, promoted to be inspector of machinery afloat, and appointed to the Cumber land as additional for service of the Reserveat Sheer ness, vice Williamson • Jesse Bridgman, chief engi neer, to the Cumberland, as additional in charge of engines of the Charybdis; Commander W. 11. Fen wick, to the Chanticleer, vice Commander Risk, pro moted; Commander the Hon. F. W. Charteris, to be an Inspecting Commander in the Coastguard, vice Agnew, whose period of service has expired. SOUTH WALES COAL IN THE LONDON MARKET.— During the year 1864 the quantity of Welsh coal consumed in the metropolis did not exceed 3 per cent. of the total consumption, although the district is considerably nearer to London than the north of England coalfields, and the quality of its coal is generally admitted to be ex cellent. Taking the aggregate total of coal raised in the United Kingdom, South Wales ought, in proportion to the quantity worked in the district, to send at least six times the quantity to London. Want of railway facilities is the sole cause of this state of things ; but if two bills promoted in the present session of Parliament are successful this will not be the case long. The bills referred to aro the Great Western and the South Wales Direct, and the Severn Junction—the chief object of the promoters of which is to develop° the coal traffic from South Wales to the metro polis. At present the tonnage rates• for coal from the Aberdare Valley to London average from 10s. 6d. to per ton, but if the new schemes are carried out the rates will be reduced to from Gs. 6d. to 75., being a reduction of 48. per ton, which will enable the Welsh colliery proprie tors to compete successfully with Newcastle coal. There is no doubt entertained that once South Wales coal is sold in London at 3s. to 4s. per ton below present quotations there will bo a largo increase in the demand, and the con suming public of the metropolis will he materially bene fited by the competition that will thus arise between Welsh and North of England coal. SUICIDE OF A PAWNDEOKER.—On Saturday an inquest was held in Poplar respecting the death of Mr. french, aged 65 years. Deceased was a pawnbroker, and recently had experienced a heavy loss by his houso and premises being burnt down. The death of his wife affected his mind, and on Thursday night last he was found with his throat cut, and died from the injuries, after having pre viously made an attempt at self-destruction. The jury, having heard all the evidence, returned a verdict that de ceased committed suicide while in a state of unsound mind. [ADVERTISEMENT.] - Holloway's Pills.—Protectors of Health.—ln the hand-to-hand struggle for existence in the present day, good health is everything. Holloway's purifying, digestive, and gently laxative pills are admir ably adapted for restoring soundness to invalids whose functions are so feebly performed that life itself seems most precarious. The stomach has its many maladies removed by a judicious use of these pills • tho torpid liver is roused by them to active secretion, and every other organ sub serving digestion is placed at its natural standard, and better fitted for its duties. It is impossible to have a doctor at our elbow at all seasons and places, but these pills will supplant that loss, for they universally act beneficially in every ailment. RAILWAY AND OTHER COMPANIES. NORTH BRITISH. 'DON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE 7, 1865. An adjourned meeting was held at Edinburgh on Monday, Mr. Sprot, deputy-chairman, presiding, when the bill for the great Forth-bridge scheme re ceived the approval and sanction of the shareholders. The meeting was adjourned to consider the Carlisle station and the North British and Edinburgh and Glasgow Amalgamation bills. BELFAST. A special meeting of this company was held yes terday at the office, Westminster Chambers, Vic toria-street, Mr. Alderman Dakin in the chair, to consider a bill now before Parliament authorizing the company to make a new railway and tramway at Belfast, and also empowering the Harbour Com missioners there to make a new tramway. On the motion of the CHAIRMAN, a formal reso lution approving the bill was unanimously agreed to, and a vote of thanks to him for presiding con cluded the proceedings. DUBLIN AND KINGSTOWN. A special general meeting of this company was held in Dublin on Friday to consider the terms of an agreement entered into with the Dublin, Wick low, and Wexford Railway Company, and a clause in a bill promoted by the latter company for confirming the same ; Mr. J. Hone in the chair. The CHAIRMAN explained that the line was at present leased to the Dublin and Wicklow Railway Company for 35 years at a fixed rental of £32,000 a year, in addition to which there was a contingent rent in respect of the traffic on the line between Harcourt-street and Bray ; but by the new arrange ment they had entered into the Dublin and Kings town Company would pay them a fixed rent of £36,000 a year for 999 years. That would give the proprietors a dividend of 9i per cent. per annum on a capital of £350,000. He believed the arrange ment would be very desirable and beneficial to both companies. The Solicitor having read the heads of agree ment for modifications in the existing lease, and the clause in the Bill confirming the same, The CHAIRMAN moved a formal resolution ap proving them, which was seconded byMr. GRESHAM, and after some objections by Mr. HOGAN, was agreed to, and the proceedings terminated. BAHIA STEAM NAVIGATION. The general meeting of this company was held yesterday at the offices in Bridge-street, West minster—Mr. J. Watson in the chair. The report stated that the amount to the credit of the company, after payment of £375 for insu rance, was a net balance £3,450, out of which the directors proposed to pay a dividend at the rate of 4 per cent., which would, with the previous divi dend, make one at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum in respect of eight months of the year. The report congratulated:the proprietors on the satisfactory condition and future prospects of the company. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, was glad to inform the shareholders that by the previous day's mail they bad received £5,000 of the subsidies in arrear from the various Govern ments, leaving a balance now-due of between £6,000 and £7,000, which would be paid by instalments. The expenditure had:been large, owing to four of their steamers being in dock for four months, but they had since reduced the expenses. Mr. J. OVEREND seconded the motion, and in answer to Mr. Cole, said that the whole of the vessels were now in first rate condition. By the last mail they had received the definite document granting an extension of the concession from the Government at Rio for another ten years. (Hear.) The motion was carried unanimously, and, after the re-election of the directors and auditors, a vote of thanks to the chairman closed the proceedings. State of Trade. MANCHESTER, June 6.—The market has been very firm for all descriptions of shipping yarns, and from the length of time for which spinners have taken contracts they are not by any means anxious to sell, being under the impres sion that prices will advance, and that they will gain by waiting. The amount of business has not been large. Many buyers are absent for the holidays, and it is generally anticipated that business for the week will terminate with the operations of to-day. In home trade yarns the market has been very flat, and prices are weaker. Were offers to be made uo doubt easier terms would be conceded, but there has hardly been business enough to fairly test the disposition of spinners. Yarns made for long-stapled cotton nra atilidipr than others. Tha sellers of short-stapled yarns have thought it prudent not to seek the advance they were desirous of establishing towards the close of last week, under the influence of an excited and rising cotton market. Since our last market day cloths have been in very little demand, and the operations have been small. Buyers show no spirit of enterprise, no•disposition to operate, but there has been little alteration in prices, if we except the lower qualities of cloth. To-day the market has partaken of the holiday character of the week, and the buyers who have been present have shown a disposition still to hold aloof. There has been some business in printing cloths, which remain very firm, but the business in other fabrics has been of inconsiderable amount. Messrs. Slagg and Co. report of to-day's cloth market :—" The business of the week has been of insignificant amount, and prices are almost un changed since last Tuesday. To-day the general unwill ingness of buyers to operate, combined with the holiday character of the season, leave us but a very limited business to report. _ _ _ LEEDS, 6th.—There was a small attendance of both buyers and sellers in the cloth-halls this morning, the Whit suntide holydays keeping both parties away. So far as business transactions are concerned they were of a cheer ful order, prices being well supported, and anticipations of a good autumn trade being generally entertained. The great mass of the working classes are well employed at good wages, the rates of provisions, except those of animal food, are low, and harvest prospects are good. All these things combine, with improved commercial relations with different parts of the Continent and the cessation of civil war in America, to a hopeful expectation that the woollen trade of the West Riding of Yorkshire, in common with other great industrial pursuits, will be prosperous for some time to come. Some strikes in different branches of the building trade here are an evidence of there being work for the classes of operatives comprised in that trade, inasmuch as the strikes have been made by the men, who want an advance of wages; and it would be difficult to find any class of operatives in this part of the country that are really unable to procure work, and that, too, at wages which, if properly laid out, would procure comforts unknown even to the middle classes of the last generation. NOTTLNGHAM, 6th.—At our Exchange-hall to-day there was a very limited attendance owing to its being the Whit suntide holydays. The demand for lace yarns was quiet, and prices remained about the same as last week. The business done in hosiery yarns was small, and late rates may be quoted. Silks of all descriptions were dearer. There is a better demand for brown nets, and prices are again higher. An advance of 10 per cent. has taken place in the value of musquitoes. ROCHDALE, sth.—The market has to-day had very much of a holyday appearance, but the ton:of trade generally is undoubtedly improved. During the whole week since our last report the buyers on behalf of the home merchants have been well engaged, to the satisfaction of the merchants. Manufacturers were very obstinate in opposing all offers to do business on lower terms than those improved ones which have been current during the last fortnight. The trade in Yorkshire goods does not at all seem to rally, and the season is now getting late. There is still great caution among the purchasers of wool, and though there is a deter mined effort to bring down the prices of English wool there seems very little chance of its taking effect. THE FORGERY ON THE BANK OF IRELAND.—It was stated yesterday that a forgery upon the Bank of Ireland to the amount of £B,OOO had been attempted. Tho name forged was that of tho Chief Secretary for Ire land. A cheque, purporting to have been drawn by Sir Robert Peel, was forwarded from London on Monday. But tho amount being so considerable tho idea of fraud was suggested, and it was thought prudent to communi cate by telegraph with the right hon. baronet. It was then found that the signature was a forgery. The person accused of the forgery is a clerk in the bank of 15 years' standing, who bore an excellent character, and who was never before charged with any irregularity, or even sus pected. lle obtained leave of absence a few days before the forgery was committed, and proceeded to London, having abstracted a blank cheque from the book of some other customer of the bank. The cheque he filled up for the sum of £B,OOO, drawing it in the name of Sir Robert Peel, and dating it about a month back to avoid suspicion. It was then passed, as if in the way of business, by a per son whom the absconding clerk called his cousin, and intro duced as a customer. From the London bank the cheque was forwarded for collection to the Bank of Ireland at Dublin. It was referred to the secretary, who on examin ing Sir R. Peel's account, found that the number was not consecutive, or nearly so. On making this discovery a tele gram was sent to Sir R. Peel, and thus was frustrated an attempt at fraud as artful as it was daring. Her Majesty's Ship Donegal. It is only within the last few years that the people of Liverpool have had the permanent opportunity of culti vating friendly relations with the royal navy, as the visits of her Majesty's ships to our port were few and far between. Since, however, a man-of-war has been stationed in the Mersey a very sincere entente cordiale has been established between them, owing to the happy selection made by the Admiralty in their appointments to the guardship here. We think it was Capt. Mends who first inaugurated the good feeling, which was further cemented by Capt. Ingle field. We have now a most worthy successor in Capt. Paynter, who is equally successful in maintaining those friendly relations which render the navy so popular. On Saturday afternoon, by invitation of Capt. Paynter, the commodore, Rear Commodore of the Royal Mersey Yacht Club, and a large number of the members, embarked on board the gunboat Goshawk, Lieut. Cheek, which was gaily decorated with flags, and were conveyed on board the Donegal, where they received a courteous welcome from Capt. and Mrs. Paynter. After the company had assembled on the poop, a portion of which was made into a cheerful and commodious luncheon room by means of bunting, a number of the blue jackets were put through the cutlass exercise on the main deck; they displayed admirable pro ficiency, and .the flash of the steel in the sunlight was particularly striking. Next followed bayonet exercise by the marines, a particularly effective performance, which did credit to their officers. At the close of this the company perambulated the vessel, diving down into the deepest re ceases of the vast ship, the various parts of which were explained to them by their guides. Nothing could exceed the order and cleanliness which prevailed everywhere, and the ventilation is perfect. The Donegal is, we believe, the finest and fastest ship of , her class, and it was pleasant to stroll along her well-lighted and roomy decks, where there is a place for everything and everything in its place. After luncheon, Capt. Paynter said they would all remem ber when the Channel Fleet visited the port two or three years ago, the most magnificent banquet ever given to the petty officers, seamen, and marines, was the one given by the members of the Club. Ho had, therefore, taken the opportunity of inviting Commodore Graves, Roar-Commo doreTetley, and other members on board the ship that day, in order that they might witness the great gun exercise as performed by the men to whom they gave the magnificent entertainment. It was impossible to read the descriptions in the papers of the magnificent banquets given to the fleet ' without being convinced that the port of Liverpool out shone every other in the kingdom. The crewof the Donegal does not at present exceed 300 men, consequently only a certain number of guns on ono side were manned by blue jackets, marines, and a detachment of the Royal Naval Reserve. It was a sight to see these fine stalwart men, most of them with bare feet or in stockings, dressed in flannels, and with handkerchiefs round their heads, standing silent and ready at a word of command to handle the immense 68-pounders like playthings. Previously to commencing, Captain Paynter called the captain of each gun round him, introduced them to Commodore Graves with an allusion to the reception of the seamen of the Channel Fleet, and stated that the best crew of the blue jackets and the marines would compete for a prize given by himself, and that the Royal Naval Reserve detachment, under Captain Fisher, would have the option of tackling tho winners, an opportunity which they ac cepted with alacrity and apparent confidence. Commodore Graves announced an additional prize. The guns at this time were secured on board for sea. Tho exercises then commenced by Lieut. Cay giving the words of command, "Cast loose the guns ; run in ; search ; load with reduced charges, and run out. Enemy supposed to be passing from the bow along the beam. Three rounds of independent firing." In a moment all was activity and excitement, the various detachments working with heart and soul, inspired by a spirit of rivalry. In a few seconds the guns were cast loose, sponged, loaded, run out, trailed right, beam, and left, and three rounds were fired in a wonderfully short time. All this time the powder monkeys were as active as cats. The detachments were then ordered to man the guns on the port side, and in a moment swarmed across the deck and were ready for firing. Changing again to the starboard side, they received the order from Lieutenant Boyle, "Secure guns and crews from a raking fire." In an instant the guns were secured, and the men were silent and crouching down between the guns, so that a storm of shot entering from the bow or stern would have been com partively harmless. On the caution, " Enemy supposed to be close alongside and abeam," the crews sprang up and commenced quick firing with reduced charges. The next order was "Arm bow and stern." Instantly a gun from each side was run back, trailed round, and the captain of each mounting on the carriage, one was dragged rapidly off to the stern, where the bulkheads had been removed, and the other to the bow port. They were replaced with equal rapidity. An interval of rest then took place preparatory to the prize contest beginning. Tho following were the conditions of the match, which excited great interest on board :—" Exercise against time. Two prize crews, 14 men each. Seamen Ist, 68-pounder ; Marines 2d, 68-pounder. Fire one round with reduced charge. Gun disabled. Dis mount the gun. Mount and fire one round from the gun ; reduced charge. The best of three trials wins the prize given by Capt. Paynter." The blue jackets went in first, and fine lot of men they were. After a very exciting con test the marines won, and were then tackled by the men of the Royal Naval Reserve, in whom the spirit of emulation was strikingly displayed. And well they did their work, although not with the rapidity of their opponents. It could scarcely be expected that they should, considering that they were at strange quarters. At the termination of the prize contest the guests took their departure under a salute of seven guns, the mon manning the rigging. And so ter minated one of the pleasantest fetes, thanks to Capt. Payn ter, we have ever attended, and which was thoroughly appreciated by all the yachtsmen present, and also, we are sure, by the men of the Donegal.—Liverpool Albion. HEALTH OF LONDON, (From the Registrar-General's Weekly Report.) In the week that ended on Saturday, June 3, tho births in London and 10 other large towns of the United Kingdom wore 3,839, the deaths, 2,542. The annual rate of mortality in the week in those 11 towns was 23 per 1,000 persons living. In London the births of 969 boys and 891 girls, in all 1,860 children, were registered in the week. In the corres ponding weeks of 10 years 1855-64 the average number, corrected for increase of population, was 1,871. The deaths registered in London were 1,187. Tho average number for the 22d, that is the corresponding week in 10 years corrected for increase of population, is 1,183. There is a very close agreement, therefore, between the actual result and that obtained by calculation. The mortality from diarrhoea increases, as is usual with that disease under summer heat ; but the increase is not rapid, the deaths from it in the last four weeks having been 22, 25, 27, and 38. Its development assumes more formidable dimensions at a more advanced period of the summer, but at any time it may be controlled by duo regard to the whole some condition of houses and localities, and by the judicious management of young children, to whom the complaint is chiefly fatal. The deaths from typhus in the week were 44. This disease has been less fatal since April. The following fatal carriage accidents were registered in the week : A labourer aged 63 yoal s was killed by a waggon at Southond, Eltham. On tho 26th May, a labourer's widow, aged 65, died in St. Thomas's Hospital from injury by a waggon. On the 12th of May, in London Hospital, tho daughter of a wino cooper, aged 4 years, from the same cause. A man was poisoned by bad mackerel, a woman was burnt by her crinoline taking fire, and a labourer died on the 24th ult. in St. Thomas's Hospital, after three days' illness, from hydrophobia caused by the bite of a dog. The rate of mortality last week was 21 per 1,000 in London, 28 in Edinburgh, and 28 in Dublin, 28 in Liver pool, 30 in Manchester, 20 in Salford, 20 in Birming ham, 24 in Leeds, 21 in Bristol, 21 in Hull, and 31 in Glasgow. The rate in Vienna was 39 per 1,000 during the week ending the 20th ult., when the temperature was 10 deg. Fahrenheit higher than in the same week in Lon don, where the rate was 21 per 1,000. In Liverpool the births were 380, the deaths 252; in Manchester the births, 232, the deaths 206; in Salford the births 82, the deaths 43 ; in Birmingham the births 239, the deaths 126 ; in Leeds the births 144, the deaths 104 ; in Bristol the births 110, the deaths 64 ; in Hull, the births 78, the deaths 42 ; in Edinburgh the births 128, the deaths 94 ; in Glasgow the births 375, the deaths 255 ; and in Dublin the births 211, the deaths 169. There wore 415 deaths in Vienna during the week ending the 20th ult. At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height of the barometer in the week was 29.707 in. Tho barome trical readingdell to 29.44 in. on Friday, and rose to 29.90 in. on Saturday. The mean temperature of the air in the week was 58.3 deg., which is 1.7 deg. above the average of the same week in 50 years (as determined by Mr. Glaisher.) Tho highest day temperature was 73.8 deg and occurred on Monday—the lowest night temperature was 47.2 dog., and occurred on Thursday. Tho range of the week was there fore 26.6 deg. The moan of the highest temperatures of the water of the Thames was 64.7 deg. ; that of the lowest was 634 deg, The mean degree of humidity of the air was 76, complete saturation being represented by 100. On Tues day the humidity was as low as 55. Tho wind blow gone rally from the south-west. The rainfall was Hi in., nearly all of which occurred on Thursday and Friday. BOLDNESS OF THE ROBIN.—In a summer-house or arbour in the rear of Mr. Tuffill's, wine merchant, Rochester, a couple of robins commenced to build their nest in the early part of April last on the ledge of the framework. Mr. Turn 11, seeing there was not sufficient room, placed a cigar-box at the spot, in which they built their nest, and brought forth young ones. During the time the house-painters wore at work, and painted the arbour inside and out without the birds being the least disturbed. But the most wonderful part of the story is yet to come : Mr. Tuffill Was advised to remove the old nest as soon as the young ones had flown, which he did, when the old birds built another nest, which soon contained four eggs. The pair went in and out of the arbour without taking the slightest notice of any one who might be there. - 7 -Chatham News. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TlMES.—Nothing in the marvellous history of the American War is more marvellous than its inci dental operation on the cotton trade of this country. As President Johnson said in America, so we may say in England, that if any person had attempted four years ago to predict events as they have actually occurred, his prophecies would have been regarded as the utterance of a madman. To begin with, this cotton question really counted for much among the manifold causes in which the war itself originated. Except for cotton it is more than probable that secession at the sword's point would never have been proclaimed. The Confederate leaders believed, and not without a certain degree of reason, that in con trolling the supply of cotton they controlled the policy of Western Europe, and that they could put such a pressure upon us as would produce an inter vention favourable to their views. This was the first delusion dispelled. We refused to interfere, and boldly faced the alternative of a cotton famine, but although we did so it was with the deepest alarm and misgiving. We fully anticipated such a shock to the trade of the nation and such a terrible con vulsion of our whole social system as had never before been experienced,—in fact, the prospect before us appeared almost equivalent to impending ruin. This was the next error that vanished. To our unbounded astonishment we found that cotton was no King at all ; that the great cotton industry itself could be lost without being missed in the enormous aggregate of the national business ; that our revenue would still be ample and our resources abundant ; and that we should have a surplus of profit disposable for the relief of local suffering. What was even more surprising was that this very local suffering proved unexpectedly light and en durable. Impoverishment there certainly was, but there was neither destitution nor disease, and the cotton operatives actually discovered that their loss of work was not without its compensations and advantages. The mortality of the manu facturing districts positively decreased and the public health improved as the cotton famine advanced, and we are now told—strangest news' of all—that many of these workmen have no wish to resume the occupation from which they were suddenly debarred. It is said they actually prefer the outdoor labour to which they have become accustomed, and set its superior healthiness against its lighter wage. If such a spirit should commonly prevail, and if the old cotton hands should voluntarily return to the agri cultural labour from which it was thought that a more intellectual and remunerative employment had permanently raised them, it would be one of the strangest results of the whole struggle. How ever, we need anticipate no such phenomenon. Sooner or later, and in some way or other, our manufacturers, who have been less at fault than any other class in their speculations on the future, will regain, we have no doubt, their old trade. It may appear in an altered form and under new con ditions, but it will be there, and' there the Lanca shire millowners always expected it to be. In the very darkest hour of the famine they enlarged their mills and built new ones, dissuaded the emigration of the unemployed hands, and waited with charac teristic confidence for the return of commercial. prosperity. They must be right, for the general conditions out of which the trade arose must pro bably recur, and with them the general result. The basis of the whole reasoning is this—that cotton makes the best clothing for the chief part of the human race, and that cotton goods can be manu factured more cheaply in Lancashire than anywhere else. Given the material, and the Lancashire mill owners will find all the rest—capital, energy, skill, and organisation. It was only for want of mate rial that their trade was paralysed, and the mate rial will certainly be forthcoming some day or other. The world's trade is too good to be lost. The profit is not all ours. Some must grow while others spin ; and the growers may make as good a thing of it as the spinners. Only it concerns them both" that the material should be cheap as well as excellent. It must never be for gotten that we owed our marvellous command of the world's markets to the low prices at which we sold our wares. Cotton clothing satisfies the wants of millions by its convenience and its suit ableness, but unless we can undersell all native manufacturers it will be manufactured on the spot. To set Lancashire on its legs again we want not only good cotton, but good cotton cheap. How are we to get this article supplied once more, and sup plied, too, so steadily that the trade may not be dis turbed by any violent or unaccountable fluctuations of prices ? That question is somewhat of an enigma still. Cotton is coming in, and the anticipation of unknown supplies from America enhances, artifi cially, the cheapness of the material. But the pro spects of industry in the - cotton States are as obscure as ever. The industrial condition of those coun tries must be determinedby their political condition, and what they may be no observer of American affairs would be very willing to predict. Still, there will be the strong temptation of gain on all parties. To restore so lucrative an industry will be every body's interest. Already we see that in the specu lations of American financiers cotton is sure to find a place. Then there are other countries which have been so enriched and fertilised by our purchases during the last four years that they ought now to have an organised industry of their own. Neither Turkey nor Egypt could well afford to lose its cotton plantations, though they might well afford to ship cotton for Liverpool at a less price than they have recently received. But somehow or other the ma terial will come, and all the more surely for the end of •the American war. But then there is the ques tion of laboura question just now coming into prominence. We trust this will soon right itself. If the old hands stand out, new hands will come in, and machinery will supersede manual labour more and more, probably year after year. At the same time the cotton operatives in this hour of their ad vantage might fairly be asked to remember the days of their adversity and the active sympathy which they then experienced. Of course they are entitled to the benefit of their position. The cotton famine, by causing an emigration of skilled operatives and an interruption in the supply of appren tices, has reduced the amount of labour in the market, and rendered it proportionately more valu able. In fact, the state of things which seems now to have arrived was actually anticipated a year or two ago by a distinguished public man as that in which the good sense of the operatives would be most severely tried. They had shown themselves possessed of fortitude, patience, and endurance under difficulties—would they show as much intelligence and equal wisdom when the time came for going to work again ? Would they be moderate in their de mands when the turn of trade gave them an advan tage ? These are questions which they must answer for themselves. We can only remind them that if the great fabric of the cotton trade is once more to be raised it must be by the concert of all parties. That trade depends entirely upon cheapness, and cheapness cannot be secured while any. element in volved in production is unreasonably dear. Sooner or later things will settle themselves, but whether they do so smoothly or otherwise must be decided in a great measure by the sagacity of the operatives at this new crisis of affairs. HERALD.—For some time past we have been an xious to learn what part Lord Russell would take up on behalf of this country in view of the actual crisis of affairs in North America. Our doubts are at last cleared up, and our fears are verified. At the com mencement of the war belligerent rights were con ceded to the South by England and other neutral Powers, on the intelligible ground that acts of war, levied against them by the North, necessarily im plied the possession of such rights. The declaration of blockade was a recognition of the South as a bel ligerent; the regular exchange of prisoners was a further recognition. The allowance of belligerent rights by neutrals, however much it may have been called in question by unreasoning partisans, was a simple and inevitable consequence of this attitude of the North. Supposing that the struggle is not over, but is to be continued in the vast regions to the west of the Mississippi, we have to inquire whether the relations between the combatants have so far altered that the laws of civilised warfare are no longer to be observed between them, or whether the logic of events does not force upon us now, as heretofore, the concession of right which by international law may be claimed from neutrals by both parties in the struggle. In his letter dated June 2, published last night, ad dressed to the Lords of the Admiralty, the Lords of the Treasury, and his colleagues, the other Secre taries of States, Lord Russell has openly declared himself on this question of the further concession of belligerent rights to the South. The declaration is at least premature. In the present position of affairs it is most illogical and most unstatesmanlike. It is probably intended as a sop to Northern politicians, but it will only encourage them to press with more energy their demands for compensation for the losses caused by the Alabama and other vessels. i It com mits this country to an attitude which, n a legal point of view, is untenable. " Her Majesty's Go vernment are of opinion that neutral nations cannot but consider the civil war in America as at an end. Her Majesty's Government recognise that peace has been restored within the whole territory of which the United States of North America, before the com mencement of the civil war, were in undisturbed possession." This resolution is acted upon by the formal refusal of belligerent rights to Southern vessels at sea. There was once an astronomer who, having discovered that the earth went round the sun, instead of the sun round the earth, had the ex trgordinary temerity to publish the fact to the world. There was certain ecclesiastics so strongly convinced of the contrary that they forced this astronomer, at the peril of torture and death, to affirm with them that the earth did not move but stood still. Galileo recanted, but muttered, "It moves, notwith standing." Lord Russell tells us that the war in America is at an end. We may hold our tongues with the respect due to so high an autho rity. We cannot help whispering, "Eppur si muove." Our Foreign Secretary, if he will condescend to glance at the map of America, will find that the great river Mississippi, in its course from the neighbourhood of Lake Superior to the Gulf of Mexico, separates one-third from two-thirds of the area of the late United States. The two-thirds are to the west, the one-third is to the east of that river. If in the eastern third the war is at an end for the present, in the western two-thirds it is just now only beginning. With the exception of a belt of land on the Pacific, known as California, the whole of this vast region is open to the Confederate armies, which, under Kirby Smith, Magruder, and Stirling Price, have declared their resolution of still doing battle for the South. A vast portion of this terri tory is a desert, and but thinly inhabited. But Lord Russell may have heard—if he has not heard, we beg leave to acquaint him with the fact—that between the Mississippi and the Rio Grande, on the Mexican frontier, there is a vast and fertile region, known as the State of Texas, with a territory of 280,00 0 square miles; the State of Louisiana, with 46,00 0 square miles ; and Arkansas, with 52,000 square miles. Adding to it the Indian territory of 71,000 square miles, sparsely peopled, and which dovetails in with the rest, this region covers a surface of 450,000 square miles, making one-fourth of the whole area of the Union, and nearly equal in extent to the Eastern States. Texas by itself is as large as the Austrian Empire, and three times as large as the six States of New England put together. Without counting negroes these trans-Mississippi States had by the last census a population of 1,200,000. This population has been immensely increased by an im migration of planters from the Gulf States during the war. On the information of a traveller lately returned from Texas we learn that Kirby Smith, Magruder, Price, and Btickner, are determined to carry on the war in this trans-riverine region. General Smith has 150,000 men on his muster rolls, and issues rations daily for 85,000 effectives. The fertility of the country is well known ; its re sources are inexhaustible. There are no rivers in Texas deep enough to float a gunboat, and the ne cessary organisation of waggon-trains would pre sent an insuperable difficulty to the advance of an army into the interior. Except Brownsville, at the mouth of the Rio Grande, the whole of Texas is now in the hands of the Confederates. In Louisiana, beyond the Mississippi, the Southern army is strongly posted on the Red River, from Alexandria to Shreveport. In Arkansas the Federals have no footing but at Little Rock. The State of Missouri lies open to the defenders of the West, and at any moment they may scour through it and ravage it with impunity. In these States of the West the Confederates have a strong poinkl'appui, from which, if successful in their resistance, they may carry the war again into the Eastern States. The armies of the North have been for the most part disbanded, and it is at least doubtful whether Sheridan, in his mission to the West, can be spared a sufficient number of men to give him any chance of prevailing against a resolute antagonist in such a country. The war is certainly not over, if we are rightly informed that the chiefs to the west of the Great River are re solved to continue it. So long as it goes on it milst be waged in accordance with the usages of civilise ( ' nations,and the Southern will be lawful belligerents. in spite of Mr. Andrew Johnson and his friend Lord Russell. Texas has seaports, which are not yet i n possession of the enemy. Besides Galveston, she has Quintana Matagorda, Espiritu, Santo, Aransas , Corpus Christi, and Point Isabel. Having ports she has a right to a navy, and to cruisers on the ocean. It is equally absurd for Lord Russell to refuse belli gerent rights to these cruisers, and for Mr. Johnson to declare that vessels attempting to enter these ports shall be treated as pirates. So long as the South belligerent, so long as war is levied upon her, an d she possesses seaports, her navy has ipse facto bed" gerent rights. As for Mr. Johnson, either he bloc ades these ports, or he does not blockade them. I f he blockades them neutral vessels attempting to ente r will be liable to forfeiture if seized, and nothingmor ° ' If he does not blockade them, they are to be re garded as ports of the United States, and foreign vessels are at liberty to enter them without molesta tion or hindrance. Lord Russell, who declares the war at an end when it is vgry manifest that nothing of the sort is the case ; and Mr. Johnson, who Con siders all the ports of the Southern sea coast to be ports of the United States, but announces that all vessel trading with them before the Ist of July is to be treated as a pirate, have . both placed themselve s in an absurd position, and edified the world with a n exhibition of statecraft: which might be very nai" chievous were it not so utterly contemptible. COUNTRY MARKETS ----- - - LIVERPOOL—TUESDAY. At this day's market there was a thin attendance of the town and country trade, and only a small business .' done. Wheat and flour met a slow sale at Friday's pric e 5 ,;. Oats and oatmeal were difficult to move, and if anyt h i ng easier to buy. Barley and peas lower. Beans also low-er: Indian corn in fair demand, and some fine Danube sold to 29s per 4801 b. SHEFFIELD—TUESDAY. There was a limited demand for wheat to-day, and saleS took place at quite as little money as last week. 1 110 ° II mand for barley was quiet at late prices. Oats a s lu3 show, and about the same. Red wheat, per load of 3 imp. bushels....lss Od to '6s 1/ White do do 16s Od • • •• 188 O. New red do do '6B 6d 37 8 6 4 New white do do Beans do do ....1 7 55 8 6cl " rg i • ‘6 ; d ~i Peas, per qr. . 4os Od 420 v A Grinding btu ley, per qr 30s Od 328 Od Maltinebarley, c o 32s Od 3 s B `„ A " Oats, do 23s Od 270 v " F10ur....1s 6d to is 9d per 141 b. LEEDS—TUESDAY. W The arrivals this week are not large. Wo have a sIO ioss trade in wheat to-day ; our millers being very c 3 , re t b e r about buying, the trade may bo called nominal. articles without change. The average prices for the week ending June 5 V re ott Wheat, 41s 111 d per qr. ; barley, —s Od ; and 24s 100. MELTON MOWBRAY.—TUESDAY. c 9, The weather has been very fine during the past few-scior and vegetation is doing very well indeed. Wheat to- to met a dull sale at a reduction of 1s per qr. Of barlaY n l i a show was scanty, and previous rates may be quoted. n il demand for oats was slow at late prices. Beans a 5111 show and steady in price. Peas as before. tope' White wheat, 41s to 46s ; red, 38s to 43s per 36 s Barley for malting, 32s to —s per qr ; feed, 25s to 30 0 . 0 1- 18 ., 30 stone. Oats. 18s to 255. Beans, old, 41s to Us 36s to 43s per qr. MONMOUTHSHIRE—MosnAv. The local markets of the county have been m odell t , , attended, and an average business has been tran s° iv Buyers demand a further reduction, but in very fe Vr n igti stances has the same been conceded to. Arrivals of f°l.bar wheat not large, and only a limited business doing. Aera te loy dull, and prices difficult to support. Oats a mode sale, and superior samples maintained last week's P l 3 inferior less inquired for. Beans are firm. The following are the average quotations 10 9d to 5s 4d per bushel ; barley, 2s 11d to 3s 6d ; 4)4- 10d to 2s sd. According to the American Government tural report for March last, the diminution in fore f t ° - 0 1 except sheep, in the loyal states is very great. Th e "„:s clip for 1865 is estimated at 114,589,0761 b. The report 5- c ' t, —" The decrease of hogs is so large that the hog Prl: - oven with favourable crops of clover and corn. mus t °n 11 '0 thiue high. The inducements to their increase, eire -- iti l ,a the face of the present high price of grain, are gre tit ", if farmers should look forward now to such an i ncl. , c-,, 1 rice they would avail themselves of the P most rofitable for pork when there shall be a decline in the price gi ADYE.—On the 4th inst., B at ir F t otstone, the wife of C°l°ll°l Adye, C. 8., R.A., of a daughter. BLUNT.—On the 6th inst., at 110, Fenchurch Blunt, of a a t da 3 r w te e r s . tbouruol _ g, ..... ...strooti the BOLTON.—f Mr. a E tlie j. 6t ß h , ii . ill ° wife of Thomas Bolton, Esq., of a daughter. of Oar NEWBOLT.—On the 3d inst., at Woolwich, the Wife fain R. H. Newbolt, R.H.A., of a daughter. Marriages. , i , u rClif BETTY—HUGHES.—On the 3d inst., at Marylebone'rt,oo William Thomas Betty, Esq., Capt. 6th Dragoon i ,";', • of (Carabiniers), to Cordelia Frances, eldest dan,g*,-(;,1o401 William M. Hughes, Esq., late Captain sines v—° Guards. if° i ' HEDGES—MANBY.—On the 3d inst., at St. And to born, Thomas, second son of J. Hedges , Esq., t° ' f Ellen, eldest daughter of J. J. Manby, Escl• . Deaths. DOUGLAS.—On Whit-Sunda at Ashling , SeSs°' 0 11. ii° ' widow of Admiral Stair Douglas, aged 85. L GIBBS.—On the 6th inst at 3, Lansdown e V E sq, s , ,g O ea downe-road, South Lambeth, R. W. Gibbs, 1 , 68. MADEWELL.—On the sth inst., at Hertford, William wood fi()C wood Madewell, Esq., aged 63. iL v er' RYDER.—On the sth inst , a t Princes-park-terrace, pool, James Ryder, Esq . ., aged 64. __ap) . SHURMAN.—On the 4th inst at Swindon, C a pt. Ow / aged 81. o. 1, as ° ' VANDoME.—On the Ist inst., Mrs . Vandonae, Oak Belvedere, Kent, aged 72. d N g_ V. W J AL . T W ON al . ;n o , n E t s h g e . 2d inst., at 47 , Crawndale-roa o , nry 0, WNoonothod poRDrEO.—, psq. n tho 2d inst., at Ramsg vo a te, ii________ London: Printed and Pub lished by WILLIAMA*' No 1 of No. 112, Strand, Pai nter , at VIZ SON Olece, _ i v o Strand, in the Precinct of the Ba;ay, in the CO I ' ' Middlesex. —Wednesday, Jane 7, 1805. 1 1 1 612. A, A Po 11 . 0 .:, 14e.