The Sun. — London, England, 1866-10-27 00:00:00

Banquet to Sir IT. Calms in BelLst. BELFAST, Friday Night. • This evening a banquet was given to Sir H. Cairns. The chair was occupied by;Chas.Lanyon,.Esq.,J.P. Sir H. CAIRNS, on rising to respond, was received with prolonged applause. He said—Mr. Chairman, my Lords, and Gentlemen, it is a misfortune of lan guage that, owing to its poverty, the words in which we express our gratitude fcr the greatest favours are but the same as those in which we speak of the smallest that are conferred. Those who have honoured me with an invitation to this magnificent banquet have paid me to-night a compliment the highest which, to my mind, any public man can re ceive. To find that any act of a public life has re ceived the approbation of one's fellow citizens must always to a public man be a source of gratification, but to receive an approval such as is indicated by this entertainment for the whole course of public conduct, and to receive that, not at the hand of strangers, but at the hand of those to whom I have been known from my earliest years—(hear)—l re ceive it not for ashort or isolated period of time, but for the whole course during which I have had the honour of representing this town—is indeed a com pliment of which I may justly feel proud, and for which I may well be thankful, and, gentlemen, thankful I am. I thank you most sincerely; believe me I feel deeply your kindness—believe me I shall never forget it. .(Hear.) You have said truly, Mr. Chairman, that this dinner, when 'it was originally contemplated, was not intended to be a farewell banquet. (Hear, hear.) It was at first proposed to me at the time when I accepted the office of Attorney-General. When I accepted that office— for although I would gladly avoid this subject of myself, I yet feel it due to you something of myself to say—l took the liberty of representing to Lord Derby that my earnest desire was to render to his Government every assistance in the House of Com mons in my power ; that I should be able so to do, as more within the compass of my strength, with out bolding any office, but that it was his wish that I should accept the office of Attorney-General I would do my best to discharge its duties; yet that so strongly did I feel the tear and wear of Parlia mentary, combined with professional and official life, that I trusted, should fitting opportunity arise, I might be allowed to make such services as I could render to the country available in a less laborious position. (Hear, and cheers.) Mr. Chairman, to this Lord Derby, with a kindness and consideration for myself of which I can hardly trust myself to speak, acceded, and thus it has come to pass that I appear before you to-night your representative still in point of form, but to address you in that character for the last time. Mr. Chairman, you have reminded us , that it is now near 15 years since first I was entrusted I with the representation in Parliament of this great I and important town. At that time I had as my col league my excellent friend your old and well-tried representative, whose presence to-night we hail with so much pleasure—l mean Mr. Davison. (Cheers.) Mr. Chairman, I remember well and I remember gratefully the cordiality and harmonious co-opera-I tion which existed between Mr. Davison and myself., (Hear, hear.) I know well how that cordiality, how ' that co-operation has continued to exist in the case of my present colleague, whose absence to-night, and the cause of whose absence, we so much regret. (Hear, hear.) I know that both Mr. Davison and Mr. Getty have laboured well and faithfully in your service. (Hear, hear.) But I speak for myself, and I think I may speak also for those Who have been my colleagues, when I say that, looking back upon those 15 years, I own it is with unmingled satisfac tion that I reflect that our voices and our votes have, as you, Mr. Chairman, have stated, been given in variably for the maintenance and the advancement of Conservativeprinciples. (Cheers.) And Mr. Chair man, it is with equal satisfaction that I can say I firmly believe that iu pursuing that course we have acted in accordance with the opinions of the vast majority of the electors, aye, and of the non-electors 1 of this town. Mr. Chairman, it is the fashion of those 1 who desire to cast discredit onConservative principles 1 to assert that those who hold them are opposed to progress and improvement, and are chargeable with narrow-mindedness and bigotry. Now lam and I have ever been an advocate for progress and for im provement, but lam not for revolution. I believe that the institutions of this country lave developed and are capable of developing to an unknown degree that improvement aed progress under any system of go verument. lam not for t r a n sf err i ng our p r oper- I ties or our liberties to the tyranny of a multitude. I believe that if you transferred the government of this country into the hands of mere numbers you endanger property ; and I believe—for history and experience alone teach us this—that if you endanger property you must inevitably endanger liberty. And, Mr. Chairman, with regard to the charge of nar row-mindedness and bigotry, I repudiate the charge. I respect the rights, I respect the opinions, of every member of an English constituency. But for ano ther reason I look with satisfaction upon my tenure , of office. It has drawn me into close connexion with a body of public men with whom it has been my great happiness to act, and of whom I will say this, that I believe they are actuated, they have been actuated, and in all their measures of government they will be actuated, by a sincere and earnest desire for the welfare of their country. And in particular with regard to Ireland, I feel confident that her Majesty's Ministers will endeavour to treat her, not as the of battle-field of a party, not as a splendid c hil d in whom the mismanagement of one day is to be rec tified by . the equal and contrary mismanagement another, but as an integral part of the United King dom, entitled to the same measure of justice, to the same laws, to the same firm executive, to the same even and impartial hand, as is extended over to other parts of the United Kingdom. The great majority of the wealth, and the intelligence, and the education of this country acknowledge and cherish in their hearts these principles, whatever divisions of party may lie upon thesurface ; and they are opinions which the events occurring every day must lead us to acknowledge and to cherish more firmly. Mr. Chairman has styled me, just now, " Her Majesty's late Attorney-General." I beg, in the first place, to say that I still have the honour to hold that office. As the proof of the intimate and complete union and incorporation of Ireland with England, and of the absence of any jealousy or narrow-mindedness towards Ireland on the part of the sister country, I appeal to the fact that I, an Irishman, an Irish re presentative, had been entrusted with an office which never before was filled except by a native of Great Britain. Nay, I respect even the prejudices of my fellow-citizens. It is one of the many ele ments of civil freedom that every one should be able to express his opinions freely, and that he should be enabled to do so without being exposed to the threats - which of late I have seen public men exposed to that the multitudes will rise in their tens of thousands if be dares to express them again. 1 believe that just the truest safeguard for civil freedom is to be fou n d • safest your mixed and balanced Constitution, so the guarantee for liberty of thought and opi nion i s to be found in that free and unfettered spirit which i% e mbodied in died your Protestant institutions; and depend u . . Pon it, Mr. Chairman, that these are our opinions which whether you call them Conser vative or by a ny c ' t i i that the question oferthn"le, we may rest assured ',J a n,' is a matter of no general improvement of ioikterilling imortance to a commercial constituency not id our locality —it is in t 7 i Llrs.. Oar interest is N l y s i k li tngdon t at large, You cannot have , prosperity con fulence— you cannot have confidence without ut order --you cannot have order without obedience to t h e la you cannot expect obedience to the law w— is known that the law will be impartiall y e ll li n f l o e : S ce d i t and unless it is known that the establishment s and institutions of the country will not be sacrificed i n order to obtain the Parliamentary support of a particular political party. But if you see, as I have seen not long ago, a Prime Minister rise in the House of Lords and say, with regard to the destruc tion of the Protestant Establislimentin Ireland, that in his opinion no worse or more fatal measure could be sanctioned by Parliament, and if, notwithstand ing when a motion is brought forward in the -House of Commons having for its object the de struction of that establishMent, you find the Minis ter entrusted with the Government of Ireland rise in his place and wish that attack God speed ; if you find, on the eve of sharp political contests in Eng land, a measure in its operation tampering equally with the rights of the tenants .in Ulster and the rights of landlords in other parts of the country ; if you find under-pressure from this quarter, or from that authoritative declarations made indicating a willingness to surrender the system of education established by Parliament for the country after long contests and with great care— if, above all, and be yond all, you see the executive Government, in hur ried bustle, without the knowledge of Parliament, and even in opposition to the expressed pledges given to Parliament, by one stroke overthrow the whole University and system of education of the country ; if these things are done, the end and ob ject for which they are done may be accomplished, the exigencies of the moment may be met, political support in a critical emergency may be obtained, but all confidence in the wisdom, in the firmness, in the impartiality of the Government must disappear. Mr. Chairman, I have said this much in general terms, for this is not an occasion to detail the grounds for the course which I, in conjunction with my colleague, have thought it my duty—which we have thought it our duty --to pursue in the past year in the House of Commons ; a course which, if I rightly interpret' your attendance here to-night, and the manner in which this toast ha§ been received by you, has met with your approval. The hardest, but not the longest, part of my task remains. I have to say farewell—farewell at least in the character of your representative. How can I express to men of every class and of every opinion in this town my sense of gratitude for the long stream of unbroken kindness which for so many years I have received. How can I ask you in fitting words to overlook my many shortcomings and errors, of which I feel too well I have been justly chargeable. How can I tell you of the pride and interest I take in witnessing the prosperity of this town. (Hear.) Those finan cial difficulties to which you, Mr. Chairman, have referred, are now happily adjusted; with its num bers rapidly increasing ; with its wealth, commerce, and manufactures swelling and increasing on every side ; with its place now firmly established amongst the foremost seats of industry in the empire, may loyalty and order, peace and virtue, abound with her. May her progress in years to come be such as to dis tance, and to reduce to insignificance even, the strides she has madein years past. May she and may her citizens stand forth, for private worth and for political wisdom, the ornament, the example, and the encouragement of Ireland. (Loud and protractedad cheers, the whole assembly arising to their feet when Sir 11. Cairns resumed his seat.) Miscellaneous Americ In NCW.3. The amount of internal revenue of the United States for the first quarter of the current fiscal year, which quarter closed on the 30th September —prac tically on the 29th, as the 30th fell on the Sabbath --was 4398,837,662.85. This is somewhat less than was expected, because on some days the returns were very great, but it is a fair amount. Calculations are made that a year hence the great Pacific Railroad west from Omaha will be com pleted within 150 miles of Idalia, Colorado ter ritory. Canadians are agitated by the sudden 'removal of the scat of Government from Ottawa to Quebec, notwithstanding the choice of the former location by authority of the Queen. The New York Tribunesays :—" One of the most painful tasks that could be given to Mr. Beecher would be the careful reading of his own sermons. How shocked he would be to find in the volume for 1864 such passages as these :—" Any party that permits peace to come until they have set God's signet of indignation on this infamous war and in famous treason will themselves be guilty of that war and that treason. And when peace is made we mean that all nations shall understand how hateful, unjust rebellion is, and how despicable on earth among men, and in hell among the damned, are those who turmoil a nation with blood and re volution. Now you can do what once you could not have done. Once you would have sacrificed the constitution if you had meddled with the loyal institutions of the States, but when by their own act the States have put themselves beyond the pale of the constitution and its privileges, and broken it, and we are obliged to go in with the hand of authority and penalty, then we can do and must do, and it is a crime not to do what 10 years ago it would have been a crime to have done." In com paring his recent letters with these bold words who will not feel sad at heart to think how easily the preacher had forgotten his own preaching? The commission to codify the laws, Messrs. Cush ing, James, and Johnson, has taken an office on H street, between Fourteenth and Fifteenth-streets, New York, for the transaction of their official busi ness. The Commissioners are closely engaged read ing up the statutes in order to determine where to begin upon the codification of the laws. Information has been received that General Alfred Dockery, who had been selected without a dissent ing voice to represent the Union sentiment in the meeting at Raleigh, has declined the nomination of Governor of North Carolina. He advises the with drawal of all candidates for Congress who cannot take the prescribed oath. The following special order was issued Oct. 5 : "Navy Department, Washington, Oct. 4, 1866. — The Department announces to the navy and marine corps the death of Rear-Admiral Francis 11. Gregory. He died at the city of New York at one o'clock this morning, after an illness of a few hours, at the age of 77. Though more than 70 years of age at the commencement of the rebellion, Rear-Admiral Gre gory immediately applied for active service, and in July, 1861, was ordered upon arduous and respon sible duty, which throughout the war he discharged with signal zeal and ability, and in the closing up of which he was engaged at the time of his death, after more than 57 years of honourable service in the cause of hi s country. As a mar k o f respect t o his memory it is ordered that at. the New York Navy Yard, on the day of his funeral, the flags be hoisted at half-mast, and that 13 minute guns be fired at m eridian. —(Signed) GIDEON WELLES, Se p er o e s t t a m ry as o t f er th -G e eNnaevral"Randall has received from Special Post-office Agent Laureuse a box contain ing specimens of mountain salt from the Pah Rage gat mining regions. They are fine, pure, and almost transparent. One of the pieces shows the face of the mountain from which all were taken. The other pieces were taken from the surface. This salt comes from a mountain of pure salt, several leagues in ex tent and several thousand feet in height. The whole mountain is pure, and is so situated in the extreme Southern part of Nevada, between the 115th and 116th degrees of west longitude. Mr. Laureuse says these pieces are not sent as fair specimens, but in his next trip to that region he will undertake to procure a block of a foot square of such transparency that a newspaper can be read through it. Commissioner Wilson, of the General Land-office, has just received a communication from the Sur veyor-General of Colorado, in which he says he had just returned from the newly-discovered copper and lead mines, but had found the veins not sufficiently developed to enable him to judge accurately of their value. The copper occurs in the shape of boulders imbedded iu flur spar. These boulders are pure carbonate of copper, of a fine quality. In some veins the copper is bedded in a soft decomposed mass ; differing from the walls of the vein, and easily worked with the pick. The crops on the plains had been safely harvested, and were fully equal to an 'estimate contained in a previous report of the Sur veyor-General as to the immense productiveness of the country. At least four million acres can be cul ttiiihveeas e t w ed, t and ria: tiosnof thus the f ar the productiveness fully meets people. 15 French tonfena- In Wilkes's Spirit of the Times there is a n animated took part. The sixteen ; th e belonging to th e Fiandract i b la lo rr n i g s, in i g un t „ o of P t r h in e c ue men-of-war' race at Cherbourg, in which American boats and one American was the smallest of the lot, and p u ll ed but favourites twelve oars t i,a o the Frenchmen's United States starting being a barge (ironclad), and a cutter y Lieut. J.acht. navy, wh o stee re d the winner, and writes th e account of the race, does not convey a very elevated imp ress i on of the French code of honour as applied to boat-racing, Fist and foremost, the Flandre's barge tried hard to foul him, and then a couple of the beaten boats cut off a corner and endeavoured to mislead him out of the course, but in both these disloyal attempts they failed, and the American boat came in an easy win ner—a short ship's length ahead of the leading French boat, which belonged to the Magenta. The boats of the Flandre and of Prince Napoleon's yacht were " nowhere." Bell's Life publishes an account of the murder of a jockey named M'Keever, during a match at Chi cago between two celebrated trotting-horses named Cooley and General Butler. Cooley, a Western horse, was the favourite, and won the two first heats easily. Then M'Keever, the owner of General Butler, suspecting foul play, determined on dis placing the jockey by whom his horse had been driven, and on driving the animal himself. The result was that the General won the two next heats. By the time the horses were ready to start for the deciding heat it was almost dark ; the crowd of roughs assembled was immense, and their excite ment indescribable ; for Cooley had been the fa vourite at the beginning and had been backed heavily. The trotters started for the fifth heat. Riley, the driver of Cooley, took the outside track and was seen to bear hardly on General Butler, so as to force his antagonist close to the inside railings of . the course. M'Keever's voice was heard shout ing to Riley to give him room, then came a crush and a cry, and General Butler emerged out of the darkness, and went steaming past the Grand Stand without a driver, followed by Cooley, steadily driven by Riley, who claimed the stakes. But it was soon discovered that a trap had been successfully laid for the driver of General Butler, by so arranging a beam taken from a neighbouring fence that it should strike him across the face as he raced close along the inside of the course. The judge therefore de clared the race to be void, and Riley and two ac complices named Hickey were arrested on a charge of murder. We take the following tabular statement of the number of schools, teachers, and scholars in the several Southern States, from the July " Report on Schools and Finances of Freedmen," by the Rev. J. W. Alvord, inspector, &c. No. of No. of No. o f STATES. Schools. Teachers. Scholars. Virginia ... ... 123 200 11,784 North Carolina ... 119 135 9,084 South Carolina ... 75 148 9,017 Georgia... ... .., 79 113 7,792 Florida... ... 38 51 2,663 ~. Alabama ... ... 8 3L 3,388 Mississippi ... ... 50 80 • 5,407 Louisiana ... ... 73 90 3,389 Texas ... ... ... 90 43 4,590 Arkansas ... ... 30 28 1.584 Kansas._ ... ... Li 24 1,500 Missouri ... .., 38 46 2,698 , Kentucky. ... ... 35 38 4122 Tennessee ... ... 42 125 9,114 Maryland ... ... 86 101 8,141 District of Columbia... 74 132 6,552 975 1,405 90,768 * Studies reported in only five schools. The Irish People, of the 22d of September, the Fenian organ at New York, announces that a Mr. David A. Sutton, a member of the committee ap pointed to inquire into and report upon the affairs of Fcnianism, has bolted, carrying with him to England the papers of the society, which he pro poses to sell to the British Government. The Irish People assures us that the papers thus abstracted by Sutton contain information calculated to convict many of our friends and associates at present in Ireland, against whom there is merely a suspicion of complicity in the Fenian movement. They also contain such information as may lead to the arrest and conviction of many of our friends in Ireland and Great Britain who have not been even suspected up to this. The "Registry and Address Book" of the Fenian circles of America is also among the documents missing from headquarters, and is said to have been taken off by the absconder Sutton. The latter may be of great use to our enemy, in enabling him to estimate our numbers and resources. The whole pile is, no doubt, well worth a handsome sum of blood-money. The New York, herald has brought out a sensa tion paragraph, associating Santa Anna and Colonel Roberts, the Fenian chief, in a movement on Mexico. The herald says the most remark-11)1e circumstance connected with the new movement is the fact that the cunning old patriot has enlisted the powerful aid of the Fenian Brotherhood. He had protracted interviews with Roberts, Sweeny, and other Fcnians, and had laid matters in such a favourable light be fore them that these gentlemen have shut their eyes to the advantages of Canada, and are now teach ing the Irish that Mexico is the country designed by Providence as that best fitted for the develop ment and nurture of the Milesian race. The Fe -1 nians are certainly directing their attention South to the relief of Canada. Ridiculous as it appears to us in this country that the road to Ireland lay through Canada, the new route " via Mexico" ap pears still more absurd. The fact is, the necessity for conciliating these filibusters will cease with the elections when the American people will be in no humour to tolerate these wicked designs against a kindred people whom the tendency of events is to draw into their own Union, and add to the stars on their national flag. The National Bank of Virginia has been de signated by the Secretary of the Treasury as a depository for the Treasury, War, and Interior Departments. Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper is filled with spirited sketches of the Races at Jerome Park, New York. Pictures are given of Mr. Jerome, founder and proprietor of the park, and of " Kentucky," winner of the grand inauguration stakes. It is pleasant to see a sport that has so strong a hold on the English people taken up with such real earnest ness and enthusiasm by their American cousins. We little doubt that many who lose their money by Wall-street speculations will find a more pleasant and less hazardous excitement in betting on the event, and making up books, than in the degrading employment of " bulling" and " bearing" the Stock and Shares quoted on the Exchange. Thomas Gorsuch, Esq., Assessor of Internal Revenue, Fourth District of Maryland, tendered his resignation, to take effect from the Ist of Oc tober, or from the time that his successor may be appointed. The Frederick Examiner says—" His reasonslor resigning so lucrative a position is that he cannot subscribe to the President's policy of making treason respectable by handing the control of the Government over to those who exerted their utmost for four years to destroy it. All honour to Mr. Gorsuch." The Hon. Louis V. Bogy, of St. Louis, was ap pointed on the sth October Commissioner of Indian Affairs, in place of Hon. S. N. Cooley, to take effect on the Ist of next month. This appointment is made in deference to the request of citizens of St. Louis, who claim that the Commissioner of Indian Affairs should be selected from among gen tlemen whose experience has enabled them to co.n prehend the interests of the Indian tribes ; and, besides, it is urged that most of the business with the Indian Territories is transacted or in some way passes through St. Louis. It is stated, also, among other things, that contracts for transportation, &c., have been made by the Indian Bureau with the citizens of New York, to the exclusion of Western men who perform the work ; that the contractors afterwards sub-let their contracts at greatly re duced prices to Missouri men, thus pocketing a large amount of money without risk or the labour of performing the stipulation of the contract. E. W. Ililgard, the State geologist of Mississippi, calls the attention of cotton planters to the necessity of preserving the fertility of the cotton lands, and the danger threatening their pursuit from the illu sory advantages held out to them by the manufac turers of cotton seed oil as an inducement for the sale of their capital stock of fertility in the shape of cotton seed. Were this mode of disposing of the cotton seed to become general, and the exportation of the oil cake to be continued as heretofore, the cotton culture must languish, and finally disap pear from the South, as that of hemp and tobacco is gradually retiring from what once were the best lands of Kentucky and Virginia, and as grain cul ture has almost vanished from IN ew England, only much faster. There are reports of great strikes of oil in West . Virginia, in the valley of Kanawha. Some wells are said to be yielding fifteen hundred to two thou sand barrels a day. White Oak, Burning Springs, and Standing Stone are the localities most in repute. THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 27, ISM. A railroad is in course of construction, and the Little Kanawha River is to be made navigable, by locks and dams, to accommodate the increasing business of the region. During the present year, up to the 22d ult., the foreign export of petroleum from the United States exceeded forty-two millions of gallons. Last year, to the same period, it was only 15,503,986 gallons, or a little over one-third of this year's export. • A comparison of the September with the October statement of the public debt shows a decrease of twenty-two and a third millions—it now being $2,578,367,000.00. The amount of coin in the Treasury is over $86,000,000, or au increase of $10,000,000, while the currency has decreased four teen and a third millions. Tho following is a statement of the Public Debt of the United States on the Ist of Oct., 1866 : Debt bearing Coin Interest. Fivepercent. Bonds $108,091,30.00 Six per cent bonds of 1867-68 Six per cent. bonds of 1881 283,738,750.00 Six per cent 5-20 Bonds 798,162,250.00 Navy Pension Fund Total debt bearing coi❑ interest Debt bearing Currency Interest Six per cent. 80nd5.... $8,922,000.00 Temporary loan Three-year compound interest notes Three-year 7-30 notes 743,996,050.00 Total ---- 8930,930,190.06 Matured debt not presented for payment 23,302,372.14 Debt bearing No Interest. United States notes 5399,165,292.00 Fractional Currency Gold certificates of de posit ------ 487,252,205.33 Total Debt 52,701,530,709.27 Amount in Treasury Coin Currency --- 128,213,767.59 Amount of debt, less cash in Treasury 52,573,336911.68 The foregoing is a correct statement of the Public Debt, as appears from the books and Treasurer's returns in the department on the Ist of October, 1866. HUGH APCuLLocit, Secretary of the Treasury. The light at Sharp's Island, Chesapeake Bay, formerly exhibited from the bluff, has been discon tinued, and a new structure on screw piles has been erected in seven and a half feet of water mean tide bearing N.W. one half W. ; distant one-third of a mile from the bed light. The new structure was to be lighted for the first time on the evening of Octo ber 20th, 1866. Every railway and express company out of Chi cago agree to transport Western offerings and col lections for the great Paris fair to New York, free of expense. Tho Commissioner for Missouri says Chicago will be the headquarters for the North west, entering everything there for transportation or shipment. Part of the collections of Illinois were on exhibition at the Chicago fair. It is stated that public interest in that section is much excited on this important subject. We learn from Rhode Island that the Mount Hope coal mines at Portsmouth are employing 100 men, and producing 16,000 tons of coal per year. The main shaft has been sunk 1,265 feet, and another about one-half that distance. A copper mine in the immediate vicinity employs 30 men, and produces 1,200 tons of copper per year. Some of the ore yields 60 per cent of pure copper. The Manufacturers' National and State banks of Provi• deuce have declared 4 per cent. semi-annual divi dends, and the Liberty Bank of that city one of 3i per cent. The*Horse Associations of Boston, Hartford, and Providence have decided to combine their efforts, and to hold a union horse fair at the latter city on Monday, October 22, and continuing three days. The proposed second fair at Hartford will consequently be given up. REV. Ma. VAN METER.—We are glad to notice that this American clergyman, who has accomplished so much good by the establishment of the Howard Mission in New York, is now in London. We understand that he is interesting influential parties hero on behalf of his work —the free education of neglected childr©n (many of them born in Europe;, and their location in suitable homes at the West, in America. A monument, sixty feet high, of Scotch granite, and to cost $2.5,000, is about to be raised to Colonel Colt, inventor of the "Colt revolver." The Peabody Institute, a splendid marble build ing presented to the city of Baltimore by Mr. George Peabody, is to be dedicated on the 25th inst. _ _ 'The personal property of General Lee, has been restored to him.' We regret to record the death of the llon. Abraham Hanson, Commissioner and Consul-General for the United States to Liberia, which took place on the 20th July last. He had resided at Mouravia for the last four years. The first two as commercial agent, and for the last two as Commercial Agent and Consul-General, represent ing his own Government with great ability and impar tiality. Ho exerted himself to extend and strengthen friendly relations between Liberia and the United States, and to promote the welfare and happiness of the coloured man, both in Africa and out of it. Senator Patterson and Mrs. Patterson, son-in law and daughter of the President, were to leave on Sa turday, Oct. 26, for their home in Tennessee, there to re main for two or three weeks. A telegram from New Orleans states that 11I'Iver, the Knight of Arabia, now in the military prison in that city, has made a confession, implicating prominent per sons in the South. Charles P. Kimball has been appointed Surveyor of Customs for the Districts of Portland and Falmouth, Maine. The President, Oct. 5, made the following ap pointments :---Francis A. Hall, Register of Land Office at Monroe, Louisiana ; James F. M`Guire, Receiver of Public Moneys &c., at Monroe, Louisiana ; Slmuel T. Williams, of Maryland, United States Consul at Hamburgh. The numerous anxious friends of the Marquis de Montholon, whose son was supposed to have been captured and executed by the Liberals in Mexico, will be gratified to learn that letters received from the young man on October 5 gi%o evidence of his entire safety. NAVAL. Rear-Admiral Dahlgren has been ordered to take passage from New York on the Ist of De cember, to command the South Pacific squadron. We have reason to believe that H.R.H. the Prince of Wales will commence his journey to St. Peters burg on Monday, the sth of November, en route to be present at the marriage of his sister the Princess Dagmar to the Czarewitch. Edmund Kirke and Julia Ward Howe are to be editors of the new magazine about to be published in New York. Mr. Edwin Bates, Attorney-General under Mr. Lincoln's administration, is rapidly declining in health, and it is feared ho cannot long survive. THE UNITED STATES TREASURY.—The New York Times editorially says :—" Secretary M'Culloch has just given to the public another most encouraging exhibit of the national indebtedness. They show a net liquida tion of $22,346,226 during the month of September; of $96,951,425 since June Ist, 1866; and of $184,916,334 since August Ist, 1865, when the debt was largest. The net indebtedness..of the country, August Ist, 1865, was $2,757,253,276; October Ist, 1863, it was $2,753,336,942; net liquidation in fourteelk months, $183,916,334. Thus it appears that the debt has been cancelled at the monthly rate of over $13,000,000 since August 1, 1865. It is quite confidently anticipated that this rate of liquidation can be easily maintained until the public burdens shall have been redui::ed to moderate proportions, and until the legal pri vileges of premature redemption of the interest bearing bonds and notes shall have been exhausted. Through the summer and early autumn of the current year, the progress of liquidation has been very rapid, having averaged over twenty-four millions a month." We read in the New York World of the 6th :—" The official statement of the public debt on the Ist of October, which we print this morning, shows that its amount on that day, less cash in the Trea sury, was $2,573,336,941. Going back two months, and comparing this with the corresponding statement made on the Ist August, \ye find there has been a reduction of $59,762,335, or about $60,000,000 in sixty-one days. At this surprising rate the whole debt would be extinguished in less than seven years. It is obvious that the rate of reduction will be rapidly accelerated as the debt approaches extinction, inasmuch as large sums now annually paid to keep down the interest will then go towards the liquida tion of the principal." COST OF A CRIMINAL—In Massachusetts it costs some $ tog) to support a person in gaol. The productive period of life is usually reckoned as 55 years—from 15 to 70. It would cost the community at this rate $22,000 to support a person in gaol during the productive period of life. Noris this all. For, if the tame person is transferred from the dangerous to the productive class, and earns an average of $l2 per week, his earnings for the same period will be $34,320. This makes a difference, in the produc tive period of a single person, of $56,320. The loss does not stop even hero. For, while parents are in gaol, their children are either vagrants or paupers—learning to become criminals at a present cost to the public. To repress crime we must begin at the beginning, and use every effort to save the children. Let every city look well to this duty. It will pay, from whatever point of view we look at it. The financial gain in saving the children of the street is groat, but the moral and spiritual gain is greater still.— Watchman and Reflector. STATE OF TRADE. MANCHESTER, Oct. 26.—A telegram from New York received in Liverpool this morning reporting " a killing frost" has not bad much effect here, nor apparently at Liverpool, though early accounts of the cotton market indicate a heavy speculative movement. In shipping yarns our market has been rather better to-day, and some little business has been done at a slight advance on what could have been obtained at the depressed state of prices yesterday. We have certainly less depression at the close than we have had for same days past. The market for home-trade yarns has been very quiet for all numbers. In these, the firm feeling at Liver pool does not seem to have caused more business, though it may have been a check to the downward tendency of prices to some extent. In cloth the mar ket was quiet from Tuesday, and the subdued tone of the cotton-market yesterday further depressed prices. To-day, under the influence of a better feel ing at Liverpool, we have had a little more disposition to do business. There has been a fair inquiry for India shirtings, and some offers have been made, but at rates too low to lead to business. Manufac turers fail to get up their prices to the rates of yarn —say, to within 6d. per piece. The short-time move ment is progressin2; among manufacturers, so as to promise a large decrease in production. Spinners are following the same course. In the district of Lees and Mossley alone it is expected a million spindles will be on short time next week. Messrs. J. render and Co.'s monthly circular of yesterday from India and China, via Marseilles, says : " Our last circular was dated the 9th inst., when this market was generally pretty firm, but not active, nor at all in correspondence with the movement in Liverpool. Throughout the whole fortnight since we may say that business has been on the most limited scale, and this state of things continues, with somewhat lower prices, and these, of necessity, to a large extent nominal." The same circular quotes China shirtings in very light demand — standard makes quoted, 39in, 71b, lls 9d to 12s ; 841 b, 14s 3d to 14s 91; T-cloths in rather better demand, but chiefly for nearer markets at is 5d to is sid per lb ; medium Mexicans, is 7d, and best makes is 91. India shirtings, 39in, 511 b, 8s 9d to 9s 3d ; 61b, lOs to 103 3d ; 71b, lls 3d to 12s ; wide shirtings, is 8d to is 9d per lb. T-cloths, 29in, 41b, 5s 9d to Gs lid; 32in, 51b, 7s 3d to 7s 9d; 61b, 8s 3d to 9s ; 71b, lOs to lOs Gd. Long-cloths, Is Sid to is 6d per lb. Grey Madapollams, 32in, 31b, 5s lid to 5s 3d ; 50in, 511 b, 9s to 9s 3.1. Green-end mulls, sales at 6s Gd to Gs 4ld. Yarns rose about ld. per lb. between the 9th and 16th inst., but the , advance not being generally fol lowed by buyers, was'soon lost. At present there is considerable depression, and short-time working having been resorted to. by a few large spinners is on the increase. Smo .ing in a Railway Clrriage. - 4.- Yesterday Mr. Lewis Lovinsky, 1, Portland-cottages, Forest-hill, who described himself as a colour and bronze merchant, appeared before Mr. Elliott at the Lambeth police court to answer a summons charging him with assaulting sir. Thomas Adams, of Grove-villas, Forest-hill, and 5, Duke-street, Adelphi, merchant, in a railway carriage. A cross summons had also been taken out by Mr. Lovinsky against Sir. Adams for an alleged offence on him by that gentleman. Mr. Lewis, jun., of Ely-place, attended on behalf of the defendant, and during the hearing of the case the court was much crowded by the friends of both parties. 'rho investigation occupied the magistrate for nearly an hour, and the evidence was taken at great length, but the brief facts were those. On the morning of the 12th inst., the defendant and several of his friends travelled by a third class train front Forest-hill to Laudon-bridge, and lin:tie diately after entering the carriage commenced smoking. Ur. John Baddely, an elderlygentlernan, and solicitor, com plained of the excess of smoking, when the defendant, Mr. Lovinsky, said he hal the privilege of the directors of the company (the Loudon, Brighton, and South Coast Railway) in his pocket, and that nothing but an order from the chair man should prevent his doing so. Mr. Bad (clay replied that his only privilege was his assumption, for that smoking was contrary to the rules and regulations of the line, but the defendant and his frion 14 still coutinued to smoke. At this point Mr. Adams, who was also a passenger in the same compartment, interfered, and said it was a great hamo that the sal ilring sh null be contiau ,d to the at), aoyance of the geatlem tn who had just complained, when Ar. Lovinsky exelaian 1, ° Oh, does it annoy you too ?" Mr. Adams replied " Yes, and there is none bal . , a foreigner would attempt to do it." Me. Lovinsky re torted by saying that a foreigaer vas (pito as good as a " Seotehman." ,Mr. Adams said he should have him put out of the carriage at New-cross. The defendant asked him if he could turn him out, and getting up and leaning quite close to him, said it would take half-a-dozen like• him to do so. At this time his hands and face were quite close to his person, so close that Mr. Adams was obliged to put his hands to his chest to Push him away, and instantly defendant let fly, hit com plainant a desperate blow on the nose, which knocked the skin off, and gwe Mr. Adams a black eye. Mr. Adams threw off his hat, and had partly got his coat off to fight it out in the carriage, but the parties present prevented any more blows.- Mr. Adams expressed his determination to give Mr. Lovinsky into custody at London-bridge station. On the train reaching there, and before it hadquite stopped, the defendant jumped out and ran away, and on the com plainant's attempting to follow him the friends of the de fendant prevented his doing so for some time. His cries of "stop him—stop that man," caused ono of the railway. servants to follow him from one railway station to the other, where he stopped, and he brought him back to the station master. The parties want from there to the police station, but there the inspector on duty refused to take the charge, and getting the names and addresses of each left them to adopt what course they thought proper. On the case for the complainant closing, Mr. Lewis addressed the magistrate, and said that the whole affair was very much to be regretted; admitted that his client had, under strong provocation, and having himself been assaulted first, struck the complainant; and suggested whether it would not be much better for the parties to settle the matter without calling on his worship for his judgment. Mr. Elliott, how ever, directed the case to go on, and the parties changed places. Mr. Lovinsky, when sworn, said Mr. Adams had given him a violent blow with his clenched fist before he struck him. He also said that his object in getting out so quickly at the London-bridge station was to procure the assistance of a metropolitan policeman to give Mr. Adams into custody for the assault, but hearing the cry of "stop thief," ho was glad to hide himself so that he might not be seen. In reply to the questions of his solicitor, he said that his reason for saying chat he had the privilege of the directors for smoking arose from the fact of the chairman of the Brighton company having stated in his speech at a recent meeting, that the second and third class carriage passengers were privileged to smoke, and that ho (the wit ness) had read the speech. He (Mr. Lovinsky) further said that himself and his friends travelled by the third class carriages on purpost that they might smoke. Mr. Elliott here remarked that he could not sae why the passengers in a second or third class carriage were to be annoyed by smokers any more than the first, and called Mr. Carpenter, a respectable officer of the company, who said that, by the rules of the company, no such privileges wore allowed to the second or third class carriages any more than the first. Four or five witnesses were called on the part of the com plainant in the second case, and all except one swore that Mr. Adams gave Mr. Lovinsky a violent blow on the chest before the latter retorted, by a violent blow on the eye and nose. Mr. Elliott said that in all cases in railway car riages lie held that they should bo subjected to a search ing investigation, with the view of ascertaining the real offenders, and therefore it was that he felt it necessary to go into the present investigation at great length. He much regretted to see on the part of the apparently respectable witnesses called on behalf of the last complainant a dis position to exaggerate that which really took place, and magnify a mere push into a violent blow on the chest with the clenched fist, and a cry of " Stop him" into one of " Stop thief." In fact, it was not at all difficult to say on which side the truth lay, and that the conduct of Mr. Lovinsky was highly improper in committing so violent an assault, and for which assault he must pay a penalty of £5, or be imprisoned for a mouth. The penalty was at once paid. The Pall Mall Gazette remarks :—" According to the New rok: Times, a paper called the Sunbeam has just been started by the convicts in the State prison at Trenton, New Jers.y. In the absence of communication with the outer world, we presume the convicts fill their paper en tirely with original articles and poems. Does the estab lishment of a paper by convicts in America prove that the intellectual condition of the people generally is superior to the English, or that more clever people get into prison ou the othe?'side of the Atlantic than in this country ? [ADVERTISEMENT.) —Holloway's Ointment and Pills. — Dangerous Chest Complaints. —Tim enumeration of these diseases is scarcely necessary, as unfortunately most Eng lishmen know them to their cost. Whooping cough, croop, common colds, influenza, bronchitis, asthma, pleurisy, in flammation of the lungs. and even consumption in its earliest stages, are bast treated by rubbing Holloway's ointment upon the chest and upon the back between the shoulders. It penetrates internally, checks the cold shiver ings, relieves the over-gorged lungs, gradually removes the oppression from the chest, and restores the obstructed res piration hitherto so depressingly disagreeable and highly dangerous. In treating this class of diseases, Holloway's pills should always be taken while using his ointment ; they purify the blind, promote perspiration, and allay dan gerous irritations. SPIRIT OP THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TIMES.--Mr.. Snider will trouble the War-office no more. The poor man is dead. At the moment when the arsenals of the kingdom are ringing with the labours concentrated upon his invention the in ventor has expired in penury and affliction, without ever having touched a single sixpence of remunera tion or profit. As he lay dying a lump sum of £l,OOO was thrown to his creditors, and the debts which be had contracted in the pursuit of his secret are lessened to that amount, but there, as far as he himself was concerned, ends all that was done by a grateful country. His solicitor now writes to apprise us that the Department was really preparing to do something at the very minute that it became too late, and that if Mr. Snider could but have lived till this morning he might have heard of what was coming to him. Unfortunately, he died on Thurs day. The feeling created by this melancholy story is very strong, and it will not be much allayed by the defence and explanation offered on behalf of the Government. It is, indeed, not . the least impressive feature of the tale that, whereas a great public bene factor has died in helplessness and misery without having received any recompense for his service, the authorities who thus dealt with him should be able to represent their dealings as not only just and re gular, but even most liberal and generous. In reality, we do not doubt that the War-office has for the last few weeks been taking up the case with, unwonted will, and General Peel's promise to bring it to an end before the close of the month represents, we can well believe, an amount of consideration and de spatch not customary with the Department. But this, we repeat, does but make the case the harder, for if such has been the fate of Mr. Snider when the officials were doing what they regard as their very best for him, what under ordinary con diti ons mus t be the lot of starving though successful inventors? The public went straight, as it always does, to the broad facts of the case. Mr. Snider's invention bad been recognised as so valuable and precious that it was engaging the whole strength of our Government establishments without stint or re spite. Mr. Snider himself .at that very time lay upon a bed of sickness, paralysed and prostrate, harassed by creditors, and pining in poverty and want. Could such a contrast between merit and reward be justifiable in a country like this? The question to which the Press gave utterance was first answered in true professional style by the Solicitor to the War-office, who almost proved that Mr. Snider was in debt to the nation instead of the na tion being in debt to him. Yet, as that notable letter probably contained the true law as well as the hard facts of the case, it is worth while to look again at its purport. When Mr. Snider asked the Government to give him some remuneration for an invention which the Government was actually turn ing to such good 'advantage, he was told to separate his claim on account of the patent from his claim on account of personal services and expenditure. lie lid so, and, havin , e estimated the latte r d eman d at £2,700, he was told that he had asked three times as much as he ought to ask, and that £l,OOO was a handsome payment. On that proceeding we offered some remarks a few days ago, and so we say no more at present ; bat the story of the patent is, if possible, more striking still. It was, in fact, at this point that Mr. Clode might have found his loop hole for escape. It really was competent to him to argue that the actual or substantial value of Mr. Snider's invention must be represented in the esti mate put upon the patent. A patent, as our readers are aware, has no legal force against the Govern ment, and the question of compensation, therefore, is entertained not in the shape of contract, but by way of " bounty," just as in old days certain classes who could not be taxed were expected to enrich the Exchequer by free gifts of money. Nor did the War-office repudiate this obliga tion. It estimated very closely indeed the claims of the patentees in this case, and arrived in August last at the conclusions following :—As soon as a good title to the patents could be shown to the satisfaction of the law officers of the Crown, the Department was to pay down to the possessors the sum of £5,000. After this they were to receive one shilling per rifle for all the rifles converted under their system above £lOO,OOO, until a second sum of £5,000 had been reached ; and then, for every rifle converted.over 200,000, a sum of 6d. per rifle, until a third sum of £5,000 had been reached, with which payment all remuneration for the patent was to cease and determine. Mr. Clode, the War office Solicitor, was at the pains of explaining as well as justifying this calculation in the letter which he addressed to us. The patents covering the in vention were two in number, and, as is only too usual in such cases, had been more than once sold and resold before the Department came into the tield on behalf of the State. Mr. Clock, therefore, was enabled to approximate to the commercial value of the articles by observing that the best of the pa tents had been three times in the market, and that a moiety of it had been parted with first for a nominal consideration, then for £3OO, and then for £2,000. The last bargain was made in February, 1865, but it did not escape Mr. Clode's acknowledgment that the marketable value of the property had been greatly enhanced by the adOption of the invention for the public service. We cannot consider, then, that a prospective payment of £15,000 by three in stalments, at uncertain and perhaps remote periods, was any very handsome price for a property which had been worth £4,000 as a mere speculation some time before. Mr. Clode observed that if the new arm, when tried in actual campaigning, should prove a failure, the Government would be a loser of the first instalment of £5,000. No doubt; but Go vernment had taken time enough already in all conscience for testing the invention, and, if it felt sufficient confidence in its conclusions to set all Woolwich and Enfield at work upon the article, it might have carried this assurance into the question of compensation also.. But the moral which we de ' sire especially to point in all this concerns the treat ment of the actual inventor himself. Poor Mr. Snider only appeared at first as half-proprietor in the patent, and it was this, his half-share, which was disposed of for " a nominal consideration." However, he and another person together did contrive after wards to purchase the other half-share, which had come into the market, and so one fourth part of the property still vested in the person who had originally created it. Consequently, at some distant and not discernible date after the value of the inven tion had been tested and established by successful war and national triumphs, the inventor might re ceive the sum of £3,750. Now, would that have been a just or worthy recompense for his services? We are sure that nobody would say so, and the in sufficiency, therefore, of the former payment to Mr. Snider becomes all the more conspicuous. It was precisely because Mr. Snider could not to remu nerated by the patent that he should have been remunerated at a point where there was more scope for generosity. It does not seem to have occurred to the Department that even the aggregate sum of £16,000-115,000 for the invention, £lOOO for the outlay, toil, and personal service of the inventor— was no great amount for the discovery on which the relative position of the British army depended for a time. Still less was it remembered that beyond all question Mr. Snider deserved to be recompensed, and speedily, and that if he was not likely to get much from the patent there was a good opportunity of remunerating him on the score of personal exer tions. Instead of embracing this opportunity, the Department cut down by two-thirds even the poor man's modest charge of £.2,700 ; and the end is that, by a series of transactions which are presented to us as models of liberality and consideration, the author of this invention gets £l,OOO himself, and leaves a dim prospect of some £3,000 more to his heirs. We are not so well satisfied as the War Office with the character of the proceeding, the less so as it now appears, in spite of Mr. (Node's denial, that Mr. Snider was sued by the War Department for the paltry sum of one pound one shilling and twopence._ POST. —The final liberation of Venice i s one o f those events in contemporary history which cast a poetic halo around the dull occurrences of ordinary poli tical existence, which strengthen our faith in a higher and purer ideal of statesmanship, which com pensate for many past disappointments, and nerve the intellect and heart to further and fresher and more untiring struggles and sacrifices in the cause of progress and civilisation. The plebiscite by which the sons of the oldest Republic in Europe—many of them born before that Republic had been overthrown —have proclai.ned their desire to be united to the monarchical government of King Victor Emmanuel has a value infinitely greater than the mere legality with which it invests the last addition to the Italian State, and the numerical adherence which it fur nishes of the Venetian population to the cause of constitutional rule. It serves at once to cancel the errors of Palermo. In that magnificent passage of the history of the Middle Ages in which Hallam has dwelt on the germs of desolation in the Italian Re publics, he has told us how the serpents of discord were ever hissing behind the shrine in the temple then erected to civil liberty. If there be one circum stance more encouraging and cheering than another in the present spectacle of Venetian liberation, it is the civil prudence which, during so many years, the Venetian people have displayed, the patience and fortitude with which they have been content to a bid e their time, the self-respect which theyhave preserved in their unanimous social protest against the presence of their foreign masters, and the deaf car which th e y have turned to the Mazzinian charmers, who were constantly urging them to the commission of revolu tionary excesses, worse than useless to themselves, and likely to have damaged the common Italian cause. When Manin was finally, after the long and heroic, but fruitless, defence of his native city, com- KIM pelled to leave Venice in 1849, it almost seem as' • he had left behind him his grand civil wisdom as 3 joint possession to all his fellow-citizens, and that, armed with this talisman, they were enabled to tread safely their dark, and doubtful, and most dangerous path. They resisted all personal fascinations, they repelled the warm, sincere, we ll- mean t politicafad vances of the Archduke Maximilian ; they would make no peace, not even a truce, with the Austrian. The baleful astral influences which presided over the birth of the most accomplished and intelli gent member of the House of Hapsburg ha d ' it would appear, foredoomed him to the hop e less task of still attempting to reconcile irrenon" cilable elements, and made him as unsuccessful a dozen years ago in the Lombardo-Venetian king dom as he now is in the ancient empire of Monte zuma. The national instinct which made Ve nice repel the advances of the liberal Austrian Archdu ke was not more rema r kable than the political sagac i h t Y, which made her contemn the temptations of t Republican conspirators. The national inter ests ' which she refused to surrender to Austrian bland ist , l- ments she just as emphatically and unmistak ah l refused to divide and weaken at the bidding 0 ! mere factious animosity. When, therefore, NI Victor Emmanuel, in his telegram to General Wye after expressing his satisfaction at the c ompletio n of the Venetian destinies, adds that it must now be the care of the Italian people themselves to maint ain the unity which they have achieved, the exhortation is clearly directed not to the north-east but to th e south-west of the Peninsula. It is a warning n ote addressed to the inhabitants of Palermo. it 1_, 313 1 , implied censure on the Sicilian constituencies wni c ,. o persist in re-electing Mazzini as a deputy to Ol Italian Parliament, after Mazzini has proclaim ed anew his hostility to constitutional g overnnien",', and announced that he will neither take the oa th of allegiance to the King nor sit in the Italian Legislature. Italy is now, the King says, exc lii ; sively dependent on the exercise of Italian cour a g and discretion. When, within a few weeks, the last French soldier shall have quitted the Roman terri tory, the sixth great European Power will be at once left to its own resources. The era of foreign sympathies and sympathisers—English or Frown' Russian or Prussian—will have closed with the ern of foreign occupations. To every Italian possessing the most common feelings of self-respect, such sY ta ; pathies and sympathisers must henceforth apP ea t. utterly uncalled for, if not supremely impertine n Militarily, Italy, with the transfer of Venice, has be ; come a commanding Power. It would be altoge ther understating her gain to say that she has only Oy u tained all that Austria has lost. She has got a s that, and a hundred times more. The fortresses of the Quadrilateral in Italian hands, plus the Pa trc ; tism and loyalty of the entire Lombardo-Vene t i ,1, kingdom, form a vastly different element of streng th compared with the same Quadrilateral in Austr la he hands, minor those national forces. Freed from t, oppressive presence of any foreign dictator, i ta !til if she rightly understands her real interests, e.. lose no time in availing herself of her free and in pendent position to develope her internal resourc e ; reform her administrative abuses, instruct her Lc ° rant poor, educate her half-educated middle classes' and enter on that race of pacific commercial coa t i : petition with the othe r na ti ons o f th e wor ld to wb ie , j d in truth, during the middl e ages , s h e a l re ady c w ',. - c her chief power and glory. Her sons possess now than they could boast of even th en , f o r to nitrel independence of the Republic they now unite a c i ,1, 1 1 0 freedom never e n joy e d un d er , or t o l era t e d by old Venetian olig arc hy ; an d it w ill b e their o `, o faults if all these inc rease d b ene fit s an d oppo rtunit lt " be not turned sucessfully to account. COUNTRY MARKETS. WAKEFIELD.—FRIDAT. r re ' Wheat, with a fair consumptive demand, was 2s de r ' Fine barley is dearer. Other articles unaltered. LINCOLN.—FRIDAY. icb Our market to-day was fairly supplied with wheat, changed hands at 2s per qr. advance. With a firm detst for barley, of which the supply was fair, prices f°l " D a sorts were fully as high as thOse of last week. Oats foli,d buyers steadily at still better rates. Beans limited, dear. 3 6 New. white wheat, 53S to 60s ; new red, 50s to 55s stone. Barley for malting, 42s to 49s per qr ; griir, 2 7io 34s to 38s per 30 stone. ° Oats, 22s to 325, Beans, "'" 50s per 38 stone. LIVERPOOL.—FRIDAY. • We had the usual . attendance at our market to-(11,1 and wheat was not in active demand,_ ld to 2d o n 1 1 4 ;t and 24 to 3d per cental on white. Flour steady, a t ;ro Tuesday's rates. Oats ld per bushel dearer. Indian L . , 1 , 0 in good request, and has advanced fully 2s per qr. °Vol late quotations. Oatmeal in fair request. DERBY—FRIDAY. qfla The supply of wheat on offer to-day was tolerable , `?,5 the trade healthy, business being d one i n fine samples "sed to us per qr. more money. A steady inquiry for barley , re . choice lots realised a trifling advance. Oats in steady quest at late terms. Jinn , New white wheat, 62s to 66s ; old red, 56s to 6 18 ,rd; i3 ,5, stone. Barley for malting, 44s to 48s per qr. ; b n 2 c o , to 37s to 38s per 30 stone. Oats, new, 27s to 295; 0 1,1 7 503 34s per 24 stone. Beaus, old, 50s to 525; new, 466 to per 38 stone. S TAMF ORD—FRIDAY. Wel l Wheat was a tolerable show to-d a y, and sale s effected at 2s to 3s p e r qr . a d vance . Barley a fair suProo and prices were rather in sellers' favour. For beans demand was firm. N ;Gs TO 86 ,ew white wheat, 5Gs to GOs ; red do., 52s to 5 , - 38 4 stone. Barley, malting, 42s to 48s; grinding, 34s t° oo o per qr. O a t s , new, 24 s to 28 s; o ld , 28s to 32s per 24 51 Beans, 52s to 54s per 38 stone. Peas as of late. RIPON—FRIDAY, #o White wheat, 8 s Od t o 8 s 3d per b us h e l ; re d, 6s 3cl 9d; beans, 6s 9d to 7s 3d; oats, 27s to 32s per qr ; 35a to 41s Od. COAL MARKET. Price per ton at the close of the market. a. 9 s. d. Walls End Hetton 22 0 West Hartley ....... 1 1 7 9 , Hetton Lyons 19 0 Davison's W. HartleY 1 / 6 Bradyell'sfietton 20 9 Holywell Main .....••• Ships at market, 18—sold, 18. • Captain Semmes, of Alabama notorietYl editing a paper in Mobile, from which we extract a VIII graph :—" We have been beaten in all our contests ``arethe Northern people by want of energy. While 'age day-dreaming or sleeping they are at work; at work so many beavers or bees in a hive. If they have 3 rail road to build they set Energy at work, and it is 1.3 , 11 ,,iff witness the great Pacific railroad, now stretching ;t like an immense serpent across the Rocky Mounta in o' l work scarcely retarded by the war. They are as en en ' e tuo in politics as in political economy. We picked ° Pot Detroit Post the other day, and among other thing s energetic worker in the great beehive of ldi c , /1 ; ' 0 politics informed us that it was putting out a 0° 4 7 ia paper,' and that it had received 1,100 subscribers one day. At the last census (1860) Detroit contail3ceer population of 45,000, and was therefore a little IttirrPost than Mobile. The Post is a Republican of the pi ac i - stripe. This is the way in which the Republican Na ,b. ties aro maintained, and even increased in the 14 % aS Every man subscribes to a newspaper and reads; t tlj , f the newspapers are Republican machines—nine - te ntd ' 1t them—run by the giant Energy, do we wonder that people aro Republicans ? What a pity it is that this g,1, 1 0 does not live among us." There is no doubt of i t ' t iri newspapers are generally Republican machines, but n ° s o the narrow, partisan sense in which the ex-sea-rover it.—Frank Leslie's Illustrated Paper. President Johnson has presented a silver 13:1 _ . ,, e to a certificate of merit, and one hundred silver d ollw 1100-ke-Op, an Indian chieftain of the Blackfoot trinilits recognition of that savage's gallantry in rescuing W woman from capitivity amongst the Sioux. Births. Gmsox—On the 26th inst., at 6, Milner-street, Is Mrs. F. R. Gibson, of a daughter. th e HUNTER —On the 25th inst., at 8, Westbourne - P ar " , wife of R. H. Hunter, Esq., of a son. s°l v4 ,ro- A KITCHING —On the 21st inst., at 156 St. r au. , j a o°- Canonbury, Mrs. Wm. Kitching, of twins, v. °- daughter. 13 LECKIE—On the 24th inst., at P a l ace - roa d, Strew the wife of P. C. Leckie, Esq., of a daughter. Marriages. the the . h 0 1 '0 BORRER—FRESIIFIELD—On the 25th inst., at 6 - t d church, Brighton, Cliff or d B r E l a te ofwel ' - —or Jorrer, Esq., Rifles, to Christin a S o phi a , d aug ht er o f C. l ire6 ' Esq., M.P. Dowsox—RicH - the 2Gth inst., at Littlebaln -c ' i , CO:,{ mouth, Thomas E. H. D owson , E sq ., d of Greystoßtior Berland, to S o phi a L ou i sa Jacinth i a , only " Rear-Admiral Edwin L. Ricb, Exmouth. Deaths. s , 00 01 BURNETT—On the 25th inst. at Westbrcoko HolOe' Hants, C. M. Burnett, M.D., aged . 60. t' 0 t' BELL—On the 25th inst., J. T. Betl, Esq., of 23, a lcgic place, Hyde-park-gardens, aged 82. nistct. CONQUEST— On the 24th inst., at Tho Oaks, ,F l T , u s , ' t " common, Kent, J. T. Conquest, Esq., M.D., ''''.. . late of Finsbury-square, aged 77. ~,,,' SA . ' EYKYN—On the 26th inst., Maria, wife of B. s '''''' M.P., of The Willows, Windsor. , f , f 16 0 1 GRAHAM—On the 24th inst., at Stonehouse, I) .„ el Vral l ' i 11 Fortescue Graham, wife of Lieut.-Gen. Sir x• K.C.B. gti jor JENKINS—On the 28th inst., at Gowhatt, in Ass f. “ l , l 'd 7 4 •.,,. Gen. Jenkins, late Commissioner of Assam, t,., 6 1".4,y, '. NEWBOLD On the 23d inst., at The Hardwick, vv.' Thomas Newbold, aged 49. -------- London: Printed tnd Published byWIL LIAM - 14- "' -.le. .. 2 1 of No. 112, Strand, ranter. at Tin SUN (Itri'Cr ' O n( - Strand, in the Preoinct of the Say ill tile -13 Blideilesez.— Saturday, October 27, 1830.