The Sun. — London, England, 1865-09-20 00:00:00

ALPINE TOURISTS. (Front the Times' Correspondent.) INTERLAKEN, Sept. 16 September is the finest month of the year all the world over—at least, north of the equator ; but I greatly doubt whether there ever was such a Sep tember as falls this year to the lot of Germany and Switzerland. With the single exception of the even ing and morning of my ascent of the Righi, I may well say that I have not seen a speck of cloud or mist on the mountains ever since I first came in sight of them. Indeed, even fine weather is a bless ing of which we may have too much. We drove up yesterday to the Grindelwald, and it was rather a novel than a pleasant sensation to be broiling so fearfully in the midst of all that snow and ice. A mere walk to the Upper Glacier, a short time from the inn, was too much for one of my companions, a well-knit middle-aged Scotchman, who well-nigh fainted from the unusual heat, and whom we had to leave behind in mid career. There was hardly any great relief within the greenish cave which Helvetian industry has dug into the solid ice-mass, flooring it with planks and gravel, so as to make it dry and unslippery for the tiniest satin shoe—hardly any shelter even there from the diaphanous vault as they would through a polished window-pane. Alas for the poor glaciers ! alas for the scanty waterfalls ! The Swiss have lately taken to lighting up their world-renowned cataracts at night withßengal lights. Crowds flock to Schaffhausen, to Meyringen and Brienz, to see the falls of the Rhine, the Giessbach, and the upper and lower Reichenbachs thus tricked out. I do not venture to say anything of the Rhine falls, because its supplies are almost as inexhaustible as those of Niagara, and because the sun will have to dry the Alps to their very core before it affects the main stream otherwise than by swelling it all the higher the fiercer it burns. But as to the poor silver thread of the Giessbach, which has only the parched rock-springs of the Faulhorn to depend upon for its wealth of waters, why I passed it the other day from the lake, and it had dwindled down to such meagre proportions that I could not wonder at the thrift of its exhibitors if they thought they could show it to the best advantage as a candle light beauty. As to the Grindelwald glaciers, their mud-stained slopes, which in my time used to come down to the stream far below the village, are now melting away like tapers in a Roman procession on a sirocco-day. Well it is for Switzerland and Europe that the year, however hard it may die, must come to its end ; else one would not give much for the ice-house of the Alps, in spite of its 9,000 to • 15,000 feet•altitude. Meanwhile, the effect of this prolonged drought on the rarefied atmosphere is something magic. From earliest dawn to latest twilight the naked eye lords it over the loftiest summits and scans the deepest chasms as if armed with the strongest tele scope. We followed yesterday every step of two adventurous mountain climbers, as, helped by four guides, they crept up the crags and cliffs of that stupendous pyramidal mass which is called the Wet terhorn. Up we saw them creeping, creeping, now half hidden, now hanging over the edge of the bare precipice. The sight took away our breath as if it had been that of Blondin on the tight rope above the din of the great Canadian waterfall, and, together with that intense feeling of awe, there came on our nerves a thrill of envy, a longing to be up with them, to leap from rock to rock, to tremble and totter on the brink of the yawning abyss. It is thus that one madman makes many. But, if such are the days, what shall we say of the nights—the lengthening nights, the touch of whose chill almost imperceptibly shrivels up the rich verdure of the walnut trees, setting off their embrowned boughs against the gem besprinkled vividness of the meadow-green ? What of the even ings with the pale twilight lingering in the pure heavens long after the brown mountains and their deepest shadows are blended into indistin guishable darkness ? What of the morning, when the diamond rays of the great winter stars pierce through the flimsy gauze of our window curtains, all fluttering, as it were, with the boding consciousness of the apprcaching death with which that first faint streak of dawn inevitably threatens them? What shall we say? Why, that the evening and the morn ing are only one more day added to our long holiday of enjoyment. _ SEPT. 17. The Hotel des Alpes at Interlaken is almost ex clusively an English house; at least, by keeping Eriglish hours, you can live here for weeks without hearing any other language spoken than the Eng lish. We have a 7 o'clock table (Rote here spread for us, with a view to accommodate the latest pleasure seekers, and allow them to see the last blush of the setting sun on the Jungfrau, before that lovelybride puts on her spotless attire, and withdraws for the night. Pleasant it is to sit at that English 7 o'clock table d'hote. We were no less than 60 or 70 last evening; the ladies, in their simple but neat and careful toilette, the men free from all traces of their day's toil in their unceremonious morning costumes. A fine set of people they were, with all their varieties of age and sex, rank, condition, and tastes, with one characteristic feature in common—self-respect and sell-control. Here a widow in deep mourning, a stately dame with a lot of grown-up daughters, whose bright eyes and rich complexion only receive fresh lustre from the uniform gloom of their sable apparel. There a father with his son, the fine old English gentleman and the chip of the old block, healthy-looking, cheerful, inseparable from and necessary to one another, here on the Continent, as in their old home in Hampshire or Oxfordshire, that old home where they are all in all to each other, probably, since a cruel death-stroke made the irre parable gap in their too happy household. Beside me, on the right, three young friends, fresh from college, full of hope, full of energy, looking forth earnestly and undauntedly into the world before them ; on my left, a more than middle-aged matron, a self-protected female, new to the world—to the Continental world at least, looking at things with obvious, though tolerably well-dissembled perplexity, the greatest wonder in the midst of all these peaks, passes, and glaciers being that of seeing herself among them all, the wonder whether it can indeed be herself, the same whom so many summers and so many winters have seen assiduous at her tea and gossip in her " small but select" circle at Brighton or Leamington, the very soul of book clubs arid Dorcas Societies, a pillar of her ultra-Evangelical chapel, a very king-maker among deacons, over seers, and ministers. Opposite to me a set of hob bledehoy brothers, at home from one of the Clapham academies ; further down a bevy of boardinc , school sisters, with bare arms and pink elbows ; at the head of the table, on the right, a weather-beaten Indian veteran, with grizzled beard ; at the other end a smooth-faced divine of the old school, with lank, glossy hair and unexceptionably starched white tie. Scattered here and there amid the groups, several unassumi n g, Alpine old-stagers, young in years knowing yet y e t m a tu re in mountain experience , bland, courteous, makin g no advances, yets ageneral meeting all politeness half-way ; com in g in late as rule, hardly looking round for acquaintance, but slightly nodding at a fellow clubman here and there as they sit down to their soup and look over the Wein-karte. There are no loud voices audible ; the very chil dren are awed or disciplined into order. Most of the assembled guests would have a great deal to say for themselves. Hardly one of them but comes from the Oberland ; has, may be, crossed the Furka and Grimsel within the last twelve hours, or woke this morning on the top of the Faul horn ; hardly one but is off to-morrow to the Scheideck or the Gemmi, or has bold aspira tions to Zermatt, and. the sea of ice round the Itiffieberg. But your il...aglishman travels to take in sensation ; to treasure them up, not to lavish them out in vain declamation a;nd verbiage. By and by the talk begins, warms up, becomes tolerably general, talk between friends, talk among strangers ; no one here grudges a kind atm Ter to a modest question ; no one stares at you if yo u break in upon matters with which you are unconirned, or even if you set him right on subjects with which he thought himself thoroughly convemiant. The Alps seem to create an unwonted expanisivene ss of heart and soul among English people, ty prq mote the readiest feeling of good fellowship. For the moment you are one of us bound to us by community of objects, habits, and interests. We are off to the Gemini to-morrow ; we mean to " foot it," over Spiez, Frutigen, and Kan dersteg ; or we wish to try a drive through the Sim menthal ; we want a fourth to make up a carriage full. You may be one of the party, if you choose. We are not afraid of peevish humours or exacting tempers ; this mountain air breaks down all selfish ness, smoothes down all asperities. It is difficult to ruffle minds which are thoroughly made up to be happy. The mutual confidence and benevolence be tween Alpine tourists is not the least charm of an Alpine tour. In most instances, perhaps, those whom the mountains have joined together the first step on the plain will put asunder. Knapsack acquaintance is dropped the moment the alpenstock is laid aside ; but, not unfrequently also, ties contracted for the hour will last a lifetime. Men find they have a great deal to like in each other, if they bare heart and soul, and for the lifting up of the Prome theus window under the seventh rib, commend me to a common rope tying three or four lusty climbers to twice as many sturdy guides, and to night-quarters on the Grands Mulets or the shel tered side of the Weiss Thor. Notwithstanding the advanced season, I hear nothing about me wherever I go but plans for excursions to the High Alps. Three of my neighbours on the right were to be off on the morrow to Zermatt ; two of my vis-a-vis were in a hurry to reach Chamouny. We saw a party on the Wetterhorn to-day, as I have stated. There has hardly been a day since the beginning of the month without some such experiment on the same mountain. People talked last evening of a lady's quite recent ascent of Mont Blanc ; nay, of another such ascent by a comfort-loving gentleman, who employed six stalwart guides only to take up his bed and bedding to the usual gite of the Grands Mulets. Moralise as you will as to the futility of the undertaking and the wantonness of the risk, there is always a good deal of the fire of true courage in the midst of all the smoke of foolhardi ness. It is in the heart of all men, and of all women too, worth their salt, to love danger for its own sake. There is no doubt that nothing acted as so strong an inducement for travellers to visit Switzerland this year as the tragic catastrophe of the Matterhorn. Such a godsend to innkeepers, guides, and horse hirers as that fatal slip has proved, no anticipation even of the most favourable weather could have vouchsafed. I never saw the Swiss rubbing their hands with so great a delight as they do this year"; such a harvest of gold pieces, bank-notes, and cash of all metals, and from all European mints, never was made by Tell's countrymen since the wars of Louis XII. and Francis I. Our landlord .of the Grand Eiger, at Grindelwald, yesterday declared himself thoroughly satisfied with his year's work. " Thoroughly satisfied," y pensez-vous? We have filled up the bottomless pit ! And as to the people of the Schweitzerhof, Hotels des Bergues, des Trois Couronnes, des Trois Rois, &c., they look upon new arrivals as a bore and a nuisance ; they curse the evil star that never sends a rain without a downpour, that spoils their business by too great an influx of cus tom, and enables an oberkellner to lay aside money enough to set up for himself, and build his new establishment right in the teeth of his old master's premises, taking the fair prospect, the very sun shine, and the English milch cows from him. From the dining-room of the Hotel des Alpes, which con sists of two long low apartments at right angles, all wainscoted in panels like the chief cabin of a Cu nard steamer, it is pleasant, after dinner, to walk into the large conversation room, and hear the con tinuation and conclusion of the table talk. There is more room for the expansion of lungs and the flow of souls in the grand salon; greater facility for joining fresh troops, or making new combina tions, more characters to study, more peculiarities to become acquainted with. I must say, for the truth's sake, that since I left Baden I have hardly mixed with any but English company, and seen thus but the respectable and pleasing side of summer holiday makers. Naval and. Military Intelligence. Major-Gen. Warde, C. 8., commandant at Wool wich, yesterday commenced his half-yearly visita tion of the district under his command, and which has this year been extended to the garrison of Maidstone. The General, accompanied by his aide de-camp, Capt. Williams, Capt. Nangle, Deputy- Assist. Quartermaster-Gen. ; Major Hay, Brigade Major, and other officers, commenced his inspection at Purfleet of the detachment and quarters of the Coast Brigade, R.A., in command of Capt. Ander son. He afterwards proceeded to Brentwood, where it was his intention to pass the night, and make an early inspection this morning of the troops and quarters of the 3d division depot brigade Royal Artillery, five hundred, in number, stationed at Warley, in command of Col. Hay. He will then re turn to head-quarters, Woolwich, and will continue his inspection of the brigades and corps throughout the garrison, concluding with an inspection of the depot Royal Horse Artillery, in command of Col. Turner, C. 8., and the detachment of the Guards, about 200 strong, at Maidstone. The sailing merchant vessel Louisa, 1,000 tons, Commander H. Scowcroft, belonging to Messrs. Duncan and Co., of East India-avenue, London, arrived at Spithead yesterday with invalided and time-expired soldiers on board, consisting of 118 , men from various regiments, accompanied by Lieut. Kelsey, 72d Highlanders, in military command ; Cornet Donnithorne, 17th Lancers, and Surgeon Pring in medical charge. The Louisa sailed from Bombay on the 23d of May. Au attempt to undock her Majesty's ironclad fri gate Bellerophon, 16, 1,000 horse-power, on being made at Chatham dockyard on Monday failed, in consequence of the tide not rising sufficiently high! to allow her to be floated over the blocks. Another attempt was made yesterdayafternoon, which proved successful, and the vessel was floated into the har bour. Her draught of water, when fairly afloat, was 22ft Gin aft and 16ft forward, her keel being about 18in from the top of the blocks. She was berthed alongside the floating sheer-hulk at the dockyard in the course of the afternoon, and at once proceeded to get up steam in her fore boilers, for the purpose of testing her engines, which have not been set in motion since fitted on board. She will receive about 100 tons of Welsh coals in her bunkers to-day pre paratory to being taken on an official trial of her speed at the measured mile. The screw gun vessel Plover, 5, 80 horse-power, recently sold out of service, was yesterday taken into No. 4 dock at Chatham, for the purpose of hav ing the copper removed from her bottom, and her hull payed over previously to being handed over to the Liverpool firm which has purchased her from the Admiralty. The price for which the Plover was purchased was £2,600, or at the rate of about £6 2s. per ton, being one-fourth the price actually paid for her a few years since by the Admiralty to the private firm by which she was built. In addition her engines and machinery cost nearly £4,000. The Plover has been only once in commission. Her Majesty's iron paddle-wheel vessel Oberon, i lo nchoiwih, arg e eof Mr. Robb, chief engineer, was yester day hauled un d er t h e s h ears i n t h e i nner b as i n, at Woolwich, to be ho p ra repared for commission. tons, and 0 linaie2BBtYls 6 -gun paddle sloop Spitef u l, 1,054 fo power, l7oo NV h a y s ich yesterday r d t , a a k n e n d ed receiving into the inner basin n readiness fo r se a . seohneniseenxcpeetreedcetio stores i hoist her pen nant i n a few days. The 3-gun paddle-wheel sloop Alecto, 800 tons' burden, recently paid off at Woolwich by Com mander Blake, from the south-east coast of America, w as w as taken into the river y esterda y to be broken up, condemned and stripped as unfit f h u a r v t i h n e g r to her outer hull, now lies off the dockyard at Wool wich,The iron be paddle en service. sloop Trident hav in g been stri pp e d in readiness to be sold by publicau ctio dis n. po H see er engines and a portion of her fittings will be of separately. The iron frigate Valiant returned into Portsmouth harbour yesterday morning on the conclusion of her trials of speed at the measured mile in Stakes Bay, and of her capstans, anchors, and cables at Spithead. The Arethusa, 35, screw frigate, Capt. R. J. J. G. Macdonald, sailed from Spithead for the Channel. The Octavio, 35, screw frigate, Capt. Hillyar, steamed out of Portsmouth harbour yesterday on the completion of her outfit for foreign service, and anchored at Spithead to take in her powder and shell previous to sailing westward. The presentation of the Victoria Crosses to Mr. Boys, midshipman, and two seamen of H.M.S. ship Euryalus on Southsea Common, Portsmouth, is appointed to take place on Friday next. The pre sent arrangements are that a marine force only will be paraded for the occasion. The force will form in review order on the common about 2 p.m., and will consist of a battery of six field guns, manned by seamen ; two battalions of seamen ; one batta lion of Royal Marine Artillery, and one battalion Royal Marine Light Infantry. Her Majesty's ship Victory, the flagship of the Commander-in-Chief at Portsmouth, will fire a Royal salute at the moment of the presentation of the Crosses by Admiral Sir Michael Seymour, G-.C.8., the representative of the Queen on this occasion. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. MIDLAND GREAT WESTERN. The report of the directors states that the receipts from the railway and canal amounted during the past half-year to £110,828, and the disbursements to £88,169, leaving a balance of £22,659, which, with £4,415, the surplus from the preceding half year, made a disposable balance of £27,074. Out of this the directors recommended a dividend at the rate of £2 ss. per cent. per annum, leaving a balance of £2,806 to the credit of the next account. The receipts on the extension from Athlone to Galway showed a deficiency of £9,328 on the working of the traffic for the past half-year, including as usual the interest on the Government loan. The extraor dinary expenditure in the renewal of the permanent way and bridges was now drawing to a close, and the directors, as advised by their engineer, had every confidence that the current half-year would see the termination of this heavy outlay, which would place the railway in first-rate condition, and thenceforth only the ordinary expense' of mainte nance would be required. The sum expended during the half-year on the repairs and maintenance of the permanent way and stations had amounted to £27,433. The directors felt that they would not be justified in placing the whole of this amount against the revenue of the past half-year, as it would take away the dividend ; but they recommended that an ample sum to cover ordinary maintenance and repairs (£14,502) should be placed against re venue, and that the remainder (£12,931) be divided into four equal parts, one-fourth (13,233) to be charged to the past half-year ending June 30th, and the remainder (£9,968) be distributed over the next three years, and be paid off in equal half-yearly in stalments of £1,616. In respect of the item of £6,363 compensation for losses and accident, the directors had resolved to charge £5,265 to the reserve ac count, which would then be exhausted, leaving the remainder, £1,097, chargeable against revenue ac count.. The sum of £16,073 had been expended on capital account during the half-year. The traffic re ceipts for passengers, goods, and cattle had increased largely since the commencement of the current half year, being for the first ten weeks £5,628 in excess of the receipts for the same period of 1864, and which gave the directors reason to hope for a more encouraging future. TEE Slfl, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 20, 1565. The Cattle Disease. Miss Burdett Coutts has written the following account of the ravages of the cattle disease in her herd of milch cows : " Holly 7 lodge, Highgate, Sept. 8. " Herewith I enclose my bailiff's report of the cattle plague which has visited my diary. I should have sent it earlier, but that my bailiff and herdsman went to the sea side for a few days, and that I have also been myself ex tremely occupied with the various orders necessary to be given to avoid perpetuating the disease. " In the presence of so alarming a visitation one feels an amount of individual responsibility for all one does or leaves undone. I therefore do not scruple to lay before you the reasons which induce me to adhere to the opinion that the disease is the Russian murrain, brought in by imported cattle. " The cenclusion as to the source of the disease, come to by a perfectly impartial person, who has been face to face with the disease, may not be without use, and it is need less for me to say that it is a matter of perfect indifference to me which of the three theories put forward may ulti mately prove correct : " 1. The state of the cowsheds of London. " 2. The state -in which imported cattle are allowed to come into our market. " 3. The Russian murrain. " Of the two first, allow me to say that it appears to me a disgrace to our legislation, and wholly at variance with our professed civilisation, not to say religion, that it should be possible even to advert to these as the most probable sources of this disease. But whatever other diseases these sources may by a retributive justice give rise to among us, I cannot myself look upon them as those of this present plague. Pos sibly a peculiar condition of the atmosphere may call into sudden action evil which has long lain dormant, and the cowsheds, cattle vessels, and railway trucks may, on this supposition, be connected with this outbreak of the evil, but it strikes me as singular that this evil should take the precise form of the rinderpest, when we consider that all the con ditions of life and climate in England and the Steppes of Russia are so wholly different. With the exception of the outbreak of 1745, England has not suffered from this dis ease, so well known in northern Europe. But I understand that, until lately, we have not imported cattle from Russia, and our immunity has been doubtless due to the pre cautions taken in Germany to prevent its ravages in that country. This year cattle have been im ported direct from Russia, and I have been informed that about three months since an inquiry was made at the Islington Market ' as to whether there were any restrictions upon Russian cattle.' The question implied a suspicion that such instructions should exist, and suggested the reason for them. It is surely a singular coincidence that the sources of disease, always existing among us, should cease to lay dormant, and burst forth into Russian murrain simultaneously with an importation of cattle from that country, and should exist with the greatest virulence in the very market to which it is generally supposed the largest portion of the herd was sent. lam aware that it has been reported that Hull, where the animals were landed, has not been visited by the disease, and that it cannot be traced with certainty into the London market from the sale of this herd. But as it is also asserted that there are no means whereby English and foreign cattle can be distinguished in the market, I do not see how the absence of the animals can be affirmed with any certainty. The one fact remains un contradicted, that a cargo came from Russia, and is dis persed somewhere about the country. Ido not, however, form my opinion as to the origin of our present distress upon this fact solely, but I also find in Dr. Budd's report upon the rinderpest an explanation of many of the peculiar phenomena it has exhibited, and for which we seek to ac count. I did not read, as I should not have understood, the purely medical portion of Dr. Budd's report, but I be lieve that though the symptoms of the disease in England may have been modified by climate, water, food, and other influences, yet its course during its progress and at its close in death corresponds to the course of the disease as described in Dr. Budd's report. His account of the rinderpest is the more significant and valuable from the circumstance that it was written without reference to the existence in England of the disease now prevalent among our cattle, and that the similarity between the two diseases has not ever been, to my knowledge, denied. I therefore assume this to be the case, and I cannot but think Dr. Budd's observations offer a clue to much that perplexes us in the manifestation of this complaint. He states that these animals suffer most from the rinderpest who have never had it in their race ; for instance, the young of animals who have gone through the disease take it more mildly and transmit the tendency to its influence in a modified form. He also observes that no animal takes it twice. In these two points it bears an analogy to diseases common among us, such as smallpox ; and as in these diseases there are exceptions found to rules otherwise general, so similar exceptions might possibly be found in the rinderpest; still the rule remains. Another im portant piece of information to be found in the report is this, that while sheep, dogs, and other animals are imper vious to the disease, they can convey its . poison. Now it seems to me that these observations would account for the phenomena we have observed:— "1. The sudden breaking out of the disease in various parts of the country and under very different conditions. "2. The immunity of the animals of one shed and the virulence with which it attacks those of an adjoining shed. "3. The severity with which it has usually attacked English bred cattle. " We could thus account for the circumstances observed in Hull. Of the 300 beasts landed, there is no reason to suppose that all were sick, and the healthy may have re mained at Hull or in that neighbourhood, or all may have been sent away, the sick to carry pastilence, while of the healthy no trace would be found. The infected cattle might herd with home-bred cattle peculiarly liable to take the dis ease, or with imported cattle less likely to take it for the reasons assigned by Dr. Budd; and possibly some of our own herds of home-bred cattle might take it less severely from its having been in their race, for we should bear in mind that we have had the disease in England in 1745, and that it then lasted 14 years, notwithstanding the strongest measures taken by the King in Council to prevent it. Of course it would require long and patient investigation and observation to prove or disprove these suggestions. The same train of reasoning would also apply to the Dutch cattle imported from Holland, which have suffered cruelly. Most of them would be, like our home-bred cattle, peculiarly liable to the complaint. Holland is usually guarded, like ourselves, from its inroads by the precautions of Germany for its own safety. We know, however, that in 1857 the disease penetrated into Prussia. Ido not know how far it was checked by the strict cordon kept to exclude it, or how far its influence extended ; but during a time of war such cordons are not easily maintained, and some animals con voying the plague may have come to our shores either through Prussia or Holland, where the cattle have been said to be sickly for some cause or another for some time past. " My own conviction, that we have the riuderpest among us, is so decided that I venture earnestly to press upon your attention the urgent necessity for a systematic attempt to discover an effectual mode of treatment. We cannot alto gether prevent importation, and when this panic has died out people will again become careless; and though I heartily hop that the system of bringing the poor creatures to market may be humanised, and the state of our cattle-sheds permanently amended, still efficient inspection can never be relied on except under the pressure of danger; and the signs or the disease are so peculiarly subtle as to elude even careful and self-interested watching. "I might have sold innocently the day before its seizure the worst case. I had in my dairy a cow with a calf I was particularly anxious to save, and which had remained ap parently healthy throughout the previous fortnight, while the disease was at its height among the other cattle. Would it be impossible for the Government to select a certain number of chemists' shops as depots in different parts of the town (such as Savory and Moore, in Bond street), where information as to the signs, especially the early signs of the disease, could be procured, together with certain information as to the medicines and modes of treatment which had been found curative or even which mitigated the form of the disease? It would be import ant to alleviate the sufferings the animals endure, and to render their bodies less dangerous when dead. lam about to set some inquiry on foot myself on these points. A few gentlemen kindly give me their help. May I hope for any assistance from Government in carrying out my pro ject ? There are several other very grave subjects on which information is'greatly needed. Is the meat of diseased ani mals fit food for man or for animals in any stag© of the dis order? I have heard of sickness lately in kennels. Can this be attributed to the meat given to the dogs ? The milk also ; is it fit for use either during the attack or im mediately after it? Some of my cows gave milk after doses of bisulphate of soda. I did not allow it to be used, but it could scarcely be expected that others should do this whose livelihood depended upon their supply of milk ; and if un necessary to be done, the waste would be equally to be de plored. On the recovery of the only cow saved out of my herd of 20, the milk was given to some pigs. They rejected it at first, and after taking it sickened slightly. I forbad its use for a week. Surely it is a point of great importance to the public health, and should be ascertained, and inspectors should have the power of certifying that an animal is or is not in a fit state to be milked. "At present no one knows where to turn for any advce, and it seems to me, and I believe I may add that I repre sent the opinions of many, that on such an occasion as the present our Government should take the lead in guiding us how to act, and in assisting us to meet an emergency which is full of difficulty and danger to all classes. According to the account of the murrain drawn up in 1745, the spring months proved the most severe, whilst it slumbered in the winter. We must not, therefore, reckon upon its ceasing with the year; nor should we forget that we have not the cold which in Russia, I presume, checks the infection, and the absence of which accounts for the still gloater severity with which it is said that the disease has visited Egypt, which is afflicted with this as well as with cholera." PORTPATRICK. The report of the directors states that the traffic for the half-year ending 31st July last showed a moderate increase over that of the corresponding period of last year, and the balance of £3,107, which remained after payment of interest on debentures and general expenses, would be sufficient for a divi dend on the ordinary shares at the rate of 1 per cent. per annum free of income-tax, leaving £873 for next account. The directors congratulated the shareholders on the prospect of at length obtaining some return on the capital embarked in this under taking. The working agreement with the Caledonian Company had been carried into effect by them in a liberal and enterprising spirit, and the beneficial effects of that agreement were already apparent. The dividend which had been earned this half-year was solely from local traffic, and it might reasonably be anticipated that when the through traffic with Ire land became available a much larger return wouldbe realised. Measures were in progress for the estab lishment of a daily steamboat service between Stranraer and the north of Ireland. The improve ments in the harbour of Portpatrick were at length approaching completion, and the directors would use every endeavour to get the short sea passage by Portpatrick and Donagadee established on a satis factory footing. The capital account showed that £546,467 had been expended, leaving a balance of £10,033. The revenue account for the past half year showed that £8,934 had been received, and £4,183 expended, leaving a balance of £4,751. To this was added £989 from the preceding half-year, making £5,740, out of which was deducted £2,633 for interest on loans, leaving a balance as above of £3,107. COWBRIDGE. The railway was opened for passenger traffic on Monday. The line extends from Cowbridge to Llantrissant, where it forms a junction with the Great Western Railway and with the Llantrissant and Taff Vale Railway. It passes through a rich agricultural and mineral district. Arrangements have been entered into with the Taff Vale Railway Company to work the traffic, and it is believed they will ultimately either lease or purchase the Cow bridge line. Cholera and the Plague. It was in 1665 that the great plague devastated London. It appeared in Europe 45 times during the 17th century, but it only raged violently in England three or four times during that period. About the time of the plague a disease prevailed called the " plague of the intestines," similar to the Indian cholera. In 1829 the plague broke out in the Russian army in Bulgaria, and cholera soon afterwards appeared in the Russian southern pro vinces. During the Crimean war there was a malignant fever similar to the plague in Odessa, and the cholera broke out at the same time in the Rus sian army. The recent plague in St. Petersburg came from the north of the Himalayas and passed through Tartary and Siberia to European Russia, the same route which the plague followed in 1333, when it destroyed a fourth of the population of Europe and three-fourths of that of England. It is singular that while the plague was passing through Russia recently the cholera broke out in Arabia, passed through Egypt on to Constantinople, Jeru salem, Malta, and Tuscany, and even reached Mar killes and Paris. In 1832, 1834, 1849, and 1854, the cholera visited the United States. From 1849 to 1852 a particular epidemic prevailed in Europe and America. Since 1854 the prevailing diseases in America have been in the lungs, throat, and nasal passages, and influenza, pneumonia, and consumption have been destructive. During 1856 and 1857 diphtheria was fatal. From 1661. to 1664 the diseases prevalent in England were ague ; from 1664 to 1666, lung affections and the plague ; from 1667 to 1669, small-pox and fever ; from 1669 to 1672, cholera and dysentery ; from 1673 to 1675, measles, cough, and catarrh. During the second quarter of the present century there was a tendency in London to diarrhoea and diseases of a choleraic character, which were more fatal from 1827 to 1831. Diarrhoea continued fatal up to 1837. A pestilence follows low levels, made lands, places where sewer age is defective, where population is crowded, as in tenant houses ; where debauchery prevails, as in brothels and liquor houses ; and where various exhalations arise. An epidemic is fearful, because its movements seem to be almost incomprehsible. Its supersedes e y : s c t e o rm other p c l o i n e a s t t di i n t i u sge t ae their es t ro t ersrfiy somehowmbpl e t n o m e ss s . ;c o F amn o bd ra naeftimestewri with has apparently disappeared a peculiar influence often disease takes the lead. The a n g s u , e a a n n d d t s h o e m c e h o o l t e h r, e a r , remains, till a new cycle b i existence has e at those periods of thei r d estructiveness when their unequivocally nat e ex exhibited, it observed, m g o e s n t generally ral terini d of their victims often without the accompanim en t o f pain. Few perish, except been n acter was those who have by age, exposure, fear, or in some other manner, lowered the tone of their vitality, and then the hand of death touched them gently.—American Paper. SUFFOLK. A case of considerable importance came on for hearing at the petty sessions held at Ixworth, Suf folk, on Monday last. Mr. William Robinson, of Rickinghall, was charged with having allowed a certain heifer to leave his premises without the_sanc tion of the inspector appointed by the magistrates. The Order in Council provides that no person shall allow an animal which has been in the same shed, or been herded or in contact with any infected animal, to leave his premises without the sanction of the inspector, and non-compliance with this provision is punishable with a penalty not exceeding £2O. Mr. Robinson, in the month of August last, purchased 30 store beasts in Norwich market, and removed them to his farm at Wattis field, where the disease very soon made its appear ance, and spread with fearful rapidity, the result being that 28 of the 30 beasts either died or were destroyed by the inspector. Kept by itself in an enclosed shed, the door of which was almost con stantly closed, Mr. Robinson had an heifer fatting, and this animal he never showed to the inspector, but it was suspected that some of the infected ani mals had been driven past the shed where the heifer was, and it was proved that the heifer herself when leaving the premises was driven past a shed where there were some diseased beasts. The defence to the charge was that there had been no contact within the meaning of the Order in Council, but the ma gistrates held that its provisions had been infringed, and fined Mr. Robinson £lO and expenses. It is a little singular that the only two animals of the 30 now living were condemned by the inspector, but as they happened at the time to be in a part of the meadow situated in a parish beyond that officer's jurisdiction, Mr. Robinson has not had them de stroyed ; they have not fallen victims to the disease, but remain in perfect health. During the last few days five cows on the farm of Mr. S. R. Gooding, near Ipswich, have been de stroyed by order of the borough inspectors. All these animals were suffering from the disease. LEEDS. Yesterday, at the petty sessions of the West Riding magistrates, held at Leeds, Mr. J. T. Fenton, I colliery proprietor, of Thorp Stapleton, was charged by Mr. John Mitchell, a duly appointed veterinary inspector, with having on the 15th inst. removed 18 head of cattle without the licence of the inspector, after they had herded with an animal labouring under the cattle plague. Mr. Eddi son, solicitor, who appeared for Mr. Fenton, took the objection that the Act of Parliament had expired under which the Privy Council had assumed power to make the order on the 11th of August last. Mr. Darwin, the chairman of the bench, said it must be taken for granted that her Majesty's Government had consulted their law officers before taking the steps which they had done under that act of Parliament, and the magistrates would take the act to be in existence, it having been recognised by the Privy Council. It was rather for a superior court than for the magistrates to de cide whether the act was operative or not. It was then proved by the inspector that a Dutch bullock, which was herded with 100 other cattle in Thorp hall pastures, near Leeds, was seized with the cattle plague on the 11th inst., and he gave orders to John Pawson, the farm-bailiff, and also to Mr. Fenton, the occupier of the pastures, that no animal should without his licence be removed which had been herded or been in contact with the bullock labour ing under the disorder. However, on the 15th, Paw son, without Mr. Fenton's knowledge, and in viola tion of both his and the inspector's orders, suffered a Mr. G. Lamb, of Leeds, to remove about 20 cattle because a private veterinary surgeon pronounced them to be in good health. In the course of his evidence the inspector said he had five undoubted cases of the cattle plague in the same pastures. He had seen the disease in London, and that at the Thorp-hall pastures was the same, and of a very malignant kind. Mr. Eddison, the defendant's soli citor, contended that Mr. Fenton should not be held culpable, because it was in contravention of his orders that the cattle had been removed. The farm bailiff (Pawson) was called, and he admitted that he had received orders which he had broken. The magistrates therefore dismissed the case. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TIMES.-Mr. Bright has very wisely refused the invitation of a meeting at Glasgow to address it on the subject of Reform. We say this, not from our own point of view, nor yet in the spirit of political opponents sneeringly attributing to another that dis cretion which is the better part of valour, but simply with reference to the prospects of the question, and the part that Mr. Bright has taken and is likely to take in its consideration. There is force in the ar gument which he uses—that if he consents to speak at one place he must speak at another, and that he will thus, whether he will or not, be involved in the turmoil and excitement of a great agitation. We regret to learn that such turmoil and excitement would be injurious to Mr. Bright in his present state of health. Clearing the matter from personal con siderations, there is no doubt that Mr. Bright judges as wisely in this instance for the cause of Reform as he does for his personal comfort and well-being in declining to enter on such a course. There is a period in which a cause gains by agitation ; there is a period in which it can do nothing but lose by it. When a truth has been demonstrated with some thing very nearly approaching to the cogency of abstract science, and yet that truth is denied in theory and repudiated in practice by great and powerful political interests impervious to argument and to reason, resting only on the strong conviction that they have got a good thing and mean to keep it, there seems to be no remedy but a s t ea d y an d we ll-sustained political agitation. Those who will not hear reason invite an appeal to their fears, and if there be any risk of a change more violent and revolutionary than that which the agitators them selves contemplate, the responsibility rests, very rea sonably, not so much on those who mak e it as on the privileged interests which have set themselves in direct opposirion to the public goo d. Th e m ost perverted mind, however, cannot assert that this is at present the state of the question of Reform. No private, local, or personal interest is formally set up against the general interest of the public. Reform is not res i s t e d on th e groun d th a t the vested interests of existing constituencies are opposed to the interests of the public. Such an argument would not in these days be listened to for a moment, and to put it forward or rely upon it would imply the certain ruin of the cause which it was brought forward to support. There needs to do that for Reform which was so effectually done for Free Trade. The argument for Free Trade was concluded before the agitation for Free Trade began. It was the fact that all thinking men, whose minds were free candidly to consider the arguments laid before them, had come to a perfect unanimity on the subject which gave an irresistible weight to the cheers of crowded meetings and the denunciations of popular orators. The first thing Mr. Bright and his friends have to do before they commence an agi tation is to do for Reform what was done so effi ciently for Free Trade. Let them create a science of politics, reasoning logically from acknowledged principles, so as to form a fair counterpart of the science of political economy ; or, if such a science does already exist, let them refer us to the works in which it is contained. When the educated part of mankind have given a general assent to the doc trines of that science, and when it has been shown that the Reform solicited comes fairly within its principles, Mr. Bright and his friends will be in a condition to commence agitation with very fair pro spects of success. We are justified in saying that this is not at the present moment the situation of the Reform question. It has, indeed, been assumed that the rights of mankind on this subject are so clear and incontestable that no one, unless he is actuated by narrow selfishness and class prejudice, can fail to admit them, and this, indeed, has been the staple of all the debates on Reform up to the present time. Now, however, Reform has been challenged to show its credentials, the very basis of the argument of its supporters has been questioned, and, to say the least of it, the force of argument is not at present on the ultra-democratic side. The controversy is by no means over, but Mr. Bright and his friends have undoubtedly all their work to do. It is con tended that the question is one not of abstract right, but of expediency, and the Reformers are challenged to show wherein that expediency con sists. When this work has been done it will be time to talk of agitation ; till it has been done, any attempt at agitation is obviously premature. 'While agreeing, however, with Mr. Bright in the wisdom of postponing any agitation on this subject, we cannot equally acquiesce in the personal comments with which he accompanies the statement of his views. Mr. Bright expresses faith in the triumph of Reform, but says it should be postponed till the close of the official life .of Lord Palmerston; " the only men in the Liberal party able and willing to betray it. One sentence from Lord Palmerston in 1860 would have passed the Bill, but Lord Pal merston refused to utter it." Hardly one of these statements is true ; but, without disputing any one of them, we may remark that the state of things they purport to disclose is absolutely inconceivable. If Mr. Bright has faith in the future success of Reform, as he understands the word, it must be because he thinks there is in the classes already possessing the franchise so strong a conviction in its favour as to overpower all possibility of opposition. If the triumph of Reform is sure, it is because Reform—always speaking in Mr. Bright's sense-- is, or at any rate is rapidly becoming, the faith of the intelligence and property of England, by which she is at present governed. If this be so, how does it come to pass that England permits her councils to be swayed with almost unexampled authority by a Minister willing to betray a question on which she is so much in earnest ? Whence does Lord Palmerston obtain the power to thwart the inclina tions of a nation by whose will alone he occupies the foremost place in her councils? How comes it that, after what Mr. Bright considers his treason in 1860, Lord Palmerston has been permitted to retain office for five years, and has recently gained an accession of support by the result of a General Election ? If the Liberal party are so enamoured of Reform, how can they tolerate such a leader? If they have chosen for themselves, and adhered to such a leader, how can they, on Mr. Bright's own showing, be zealous in the cause of Reform ? But is Mr. Bright justified in accusing Lord Palmerston of betraying the cause of Reform ? We have no reason to suppose that he is a zealous partisan of any large organic change in the Constitution, but Lord Palmerston acted with perfect fairness when he introduced a Reform Bill in accordance with the pledges under which he took office. That bill was probably no more agree ' able to Lord Palmerston than to the rest of the Liberal party ; had he heartily approved it he would have stood alonein the House of Commons. Nothing is more certain than that the bill was defeatedrather by the exertions of the Liberals than of the Conser vatives, that its defeat was received by the great mass of the country with indifference, if not satis faction, and that no petitions were sent up and no meetings were held in its favour. There is no reason to believe that Lord Palmerston would have thrown any obstacle in the way of his bill had it been acceptable either to the House or to the coun try. Nor do we think that had he attempted to do so it would have been in Lord Palmerston's power to offer to the bill any efficient resistance. To assert that he holds in his hands the means of defeating a measure which the great mass of the people are re solved to pass is to over-estimate the power of any Minister. He is powerful so long only as the coun try is willing to follow him, and the country will only follow him so long as his will is the exponent of its own, or so long as he is ready to bring his sentiments into accordance with those of the coun try. When the mind of the country is once made up it will not lack Ministers ready to give effect to its decision ; till it is made up the peculiar opinions of any individual Minister matter very little. Let us look the thing in the face. The Reform Bill of 1860 did not pass, because Mr. Bright and his friends had failed to persuade the country that it would conduce to the public good. This is what they have got to do. When they have done this it will not be in the power either of Lord Palmerston or of any other Minister to prevent the passing of the bill ; till they have done this they are doomed to perpetually renewed disappointment ; they will be " betrayed" successively by every Minister who happens to be at the head of affairs, and will look in vain to the close of one official career after another. The work of persuasion and conviction has yet to be done ; till that is accomplished nothing is accom plished. That once over, everything else will be smooth and easy. HERALD.—The closet observers of mankind have been quick to discover that infirmity of purpose is not unfrequently associated in the same individual with an intemperate demeanour which stimulates force of character. The author of Philip Van Artevelde sketches one of his historic personages in three words, as " a weak, inconstant, violent man." It is an unfortunate thing for any country when its leading statesmen, those charged with the conduct of its affairs, and with the maintenance of its posi tion and influence with the outer world, are men who cannot be looked to for any vigorous action in snpport of its state and dignity, for any consistency in their attitude towards foreign nations, who are only eminent in denunciation, in prophecy, in mere word warfare. It is a doubly unfortunate thing when that country happens to be great, proud, and sensitive, when it has a position which it does not wish to lower, a history which it would not sully. Alexander kept a slave at his bedside to remind him every morning that he was mortal. Our legis lators keep Lord Russell in the Foreign Office to remind us every now and then that even England can be made ridiculous, else perchance we should be puffed up with overweening vanity. We write on the reasonable presumption that the document which has oozed out in the lndependance Belge, purporting to be a circular on the subject of the astein Convention, is the genuine production of Lord Russell. If not his, it is an admirable imita tion of his style. It is likely enough that it was intended to be kept secret, that its publication is most unwelcome to its author. It cuts away the ground from under Lord Russell's feet ' • it leaves him naked and exposed to all the shafts of his enemies. It is an admission from first to last of the justice of the vote of censure proposed by the Opposition in the British Parliament. It tells our Ministers abroad that the Treaty of 1815 has been broken ; that the Convention of 1852, which settled the Danish succession has been ruthlessly set at nought by two of the Powers who were parties to it, and who promised us, even in 1864, that they would remain true to it ; that the wish of the populations of Schleswig-Holstein has been dis regarded, and the vote of the Germanic Diet openly defied ; that violence and conquest are the only basis on which the dividing powers have established their convention. It tells them that all this has been done in despite of England, and to her deep discontent. And then comes the sequel—an extra ordinary climax, indeed, to such a fierce harangue. Will England even now go to wa r o n behalf of the despoiled King, whose bereaved Schleswigers are approaching his throne with tears ? Will she not at least enter a public protest in behalf of the out raged populations of the three Duchies ? Nothing of the sort. These querulous lamentations, these indignant utterances, are meant simply for the sympathising ear of the British representative, to whom only they are addressed. Some irritation might be occasioned, some risk incurred, were Lord Russell to tell Bismarck or Mensdorff all that he feels on a topic which makes his sensitive heart swell almost to bursting. " The present despatch," he writes, " does not authorise you to address ob servations upon this subject to the Court to which you are accredited." Lord Russell on a former oc casion was compared to a little boy who having scrawled " No Popery" on the wall, ran away with out looking behind him for fear of the police. This despatch is another notable sample of that singular humour of his—that peculiarity attributed by Collins to the most ignoble of the passions which " Back recoiled, it knew not why, E'en at the sound itself had made." Such being the opinions of an English Foreign Minister, and such the manner in which he is pre - pared to assert them, who can say that that sentence was too severe which, in consideration of the conduct of the Government in the Danish question, pronounced that " the just influence of England" had been " lowered in the councils of Europe ?" There was a time when we took the lead in those councils, but that time is past. We are reduced to whispering in the ante-chamber, to muttering terrible things on the backstairs. While condemning, as we do most unreservedly, the writ ing of despatches which, if Prussia were more acces sible to us or we to Prussia, would amount to an actual declaration of war, we do not wish to com mit ourselves to so positive a verdict on the justice or injustice of Lord Russell's criticisms on the tenor of the convention between Prussia and Austria at Gastein. It is one thing to think a man a cheat and a rogue ; to tell him so, or to tell another so, is to invite him to knock you down. There are some who are privileged to give their opinions on political events without fear for the consequences. A writer in a newspaper may condemn a foreign Government in terms just as strong as he thinks it right to em ploy, it being well understood that no threat is im plied in what he writes ; that he stands on the neutral ground of one who has nothing to gain and nothing to lose, and occupies, in a manner, the position of public arbitrator. The same may be said of orators and statesmen who do not occupy a posi tion of responsibility. But an opinion from a Minister of the Crown should not be lightly given. It being well understood that it is not only in his power to use stronger arguments, it is absolutely his duty to do his best to carry out his views ; his deci sion on any foreign question, if adverse, amounts to a threat. This being so, we hold it among the most obvious and tritest of axioms that no threat should be used, without some intention of following up words by deeds. Lord Russell, in habitually disregarding this precept, has brought his country to such a pass, that this, which is still actually the greatest and most powerful of nations, is spoken of contemptuously in every other country in Europe. In the eyes of most reasonable men the great fault of the German Powers consisted in their violent rending of Schleswig-Holstein from Den mark, in despite of their obligations to the treaty of 1852. England would not interfere to prevent this wrong, and, having suffered the Duchies to lapse to Prussia and Austria, it is per haps the more becoming part to observe a dignified silence as to the manner of their further disposal. The German Diet, with which Lord Russell sympa thises, as its only power consists in its immense capacity of talk, had little or nothing to do with the conquest, and has no more right to concern itself in the ;natter than England or France, who looked on with folded arms. It is doubtful whether it would be a gain to us or to any one that a petty in pendent dukedom should be established in the Baltic under an Augustenburg or an Oldenburg. We have no cause to fear the development of Prussia ; on many grounds we might even think it desirable. The inhabitants of Schleswig-Holstein, united to Prussia, would have something like a future before them. We may presume that Count Bismarck is steadily aiming at the annexation of these countries. When Savoy and Nice were an nexed to France Lord Russell declared petulantly that the French affiance was at an end. It took years to heal the breach occasioned by these thought less words. The absorption of Savoy and Nice is now accepted as a fact. Why does not Lord Rus sell admit now what seems to be inevitable, particu larly as he has no intention of interfering with the progress of events ? COUNTRY MARKETS LIVERPOOL-TUESDAY. At this day's market there was a fair attendance of the town and country trade, but the weather being fine little disposition to do business was evinced. Wheat maintained its value. Flour neglected, but not easier to buy. Oats and oatmeal 2d per 561 b. and 2s per load down. Barley, beans, and peas the turn lower. Indian corn not much in quired for, but 3d to Gd per qr. dearer on the week. LEEDS-TUESDAY. Our arrivals this week are not large. The wheat trade is firm to-day, and last week's prices are supported for both old and new qualities. Barley is per qr. lower. Oats and beans slow sale. The average prices for the week ending Sept. 18 were : Wheat, 46s 4-fd per qr. ; barley, 29s 81d ; and oats, 22s 1014. MARKET HARBOROUGH.-TUESDAY. With a liberal supply wheat sold slowly at the quotations of the previous week. Barley rather in favour of buyers. Oats a fair show at late rates. Beans unaltered, except new sorts, which declined is to 2s per qr. Old white wheat, 4200 50s ; new red. 37s to 45s per 30 stone. Barley, fine, 3651; other kinds, 27s to 29s per qr. Oats, new, 23s to 25s ; old, 27s to 31s per qr. Beans, old, 40s to 425; new, 34s to 36s per qr. MONMOUTHSHIRE-MONDAY. The attendance at the local markets was not large dur ing the last few days, and only a limited business done. Old home-grown wheat has held its ground better than other descriptions, while foreign is less inquired for. Malt ing barley in fair demand. No alteration in the price of oats. The following are the average quotations :—Wheat, 4s lld to 5i 6d per bushel ; barley, 3s 2d to 38 8d ; oats, is lid to 2s 7d. SHEFFIELD-TUESDAY. There was a plentiful supply of wheat at our corn mar ket to-day, including a large show of new samples. The demand was moderate at late rates. In the price of barley there was not much alteration. The demand for oats was fair at previous rates. Beans tended downwards. Flour a quiet trade at is 6d to 2s per stone. Bed wheat, per load of 3 imp. bushels 16s Od to 17s 61 White do do lBs 8d 20s Od New red do do l5B • d 168 (d New white do do l7s Od 19s Od Beans do do l7s Od 19s Od Peas, per qr. Grinding barley, per qr 30s Od 32s Od ➢lalting barley, co 32s Od 38s Od Oats, do 24s Od 28s Od F10ur....1s 6d to 2i Od per 141 b. Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton..... Sept. 18. Ditto, via Marseilles Oct. 13. Brazil and Cape Verde, by British packet Oct. 4. Ditto, by French packet - . Sept. 22. Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena... .Sept. 21. China, Penang. and Singapore, via Southampton.. Sept. 18. Ditto, via Marseilles Sept. 26 Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Sept. IS. Ditto, via Marseilles .. Sept. 26. India (Bombay), via Southampton. Sept 25. Ditto, via Marseilles Sept 12. Mauritius, via Southampton Oct.:lo. Ditto, via Marseilles, Oct. 4. Newfoundland . Sept 27. Portugal Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon. . United States and British North America, by Bri tish packet . . .Sept 27. Ditto, by United States packet. via Southamp ton • • Ditto, via Cork • _ _ _ Ditto, by Canadian packet, via Londonderry. Sept. 22. West Coast of Africa. Madeira, and Tenerife Oct. 11. West Indies and Pacific (except Bahamas, Cuba, and Mexiact • • Sept. 28. Bahamas, via New If ork. Oct. 11. Bermuda, ditto Cuba and Mexico Sept. 27. Sept. 28. CAREER OF A HOUSEBREAKER.—We understand that an officer from Chester was present in the cir cuit Court of Justiciary held at Perth on Friday, a rmed with a warrant for the apprehension of Thomas Morgan, ono of the three men charged with being concerned in the burglary at Wellfield, near Ladybank, on the morning of the 18th August last, in the (went of the case against the burglars breaking down. Morgan, it appears, is in request for no less than four burglaries in the neighbourhood of Chester ; and although on Friday no previous con victions were charged against him, on which gr ound he escaped with a lighter punishment by five years penal servitude than his companions, the fact that he is - a notorious thief and housebreaker, and has been so for the last 20 years, is now well known to the police, although we believe the facts were not ascertained in time to permit of their being used at the trial. Thos. Morgan , which is only one of his many aliases, the name by which he is best known being Newcastle Mick, began his criminal career in Newcastle in 1844, when he was not more than 15 years old. In that year he was twice sentenced by th e Newcastle magistrates to short terms of imprisonment O f petty thefts, and next year he was three times imprisoned. In 1846 he was imprisoned for three months for one offence, in 1847 ho was seven months in gaol on three terms, and in 1858 he was again convicted three times. In the following year he was concerned in breaking into a warehouse, for which he was sentenced to seven years' penal servitude. He seems, however, to have got away on a ticket of leave , as in 1854 we found him at his old practices, with his old bad luck, and sentenced to four years' penal servitude for larceny. From 1860 to the present time; his time, with A rare few intervals, seems to have been spent in gaol. Dur ing 20 years of a career he had been at least 30 times con victed -he had been whipped, imprisoned, and sentenced to penal servitude—the country's money had been lavished upon him, but with no remedial effect. He seemed to have been a daring cracksman, but always unlucky. The only piece of good fortune that ever came between him and the just reward of his crimes seems to have been that his cha racter did not become known to the Crown authorities in Scotland before the indictment against him and his fellows in the Wellfield burglary was served. Morgan is also a noted gaol breaker, and has made his escape from severa l English prisons. In the spring of the present year he Was indicted to appear before the Chester assizes on a charge of breaking into the Bishop of Chester's palace, but 1 10 managed to break the prison before the assize, and could not be put upon his trial. His manner of prison-breaking , which has been discovered by the confession of one of English "pals," is extremely ingenious. He carries in th d e collar of his coat a watch spring properly tempered, an converted into a fine saw, with which he saws asunder th e iron bars of his prison, and so makes for himself a meal s of escape. At present there are standing against Morg in the police-books at Chester, four burglaries and tire charges of prison-breaking.—Scotsman. [ADVERTISEMENT.]—HoIIoway's Ointment and To the Rescue.—Disease, with all its dangers, troubles, el l tribulations, may be conquered and cast out by the use these reliable remedies, which cleanse the blood, strengthe i n the nerves, and regulate disordered action. One exatelN e will suffice—one case represents many. A lady writes.:": . . " I have derived the greatest possible relief from your ment and pills. I was long afflicted with ulcerated m Ol l O and gums and •angry spots all over my body. . . •, curing all these maladies your remedies acted like a ell , " — ; and I in common with so many poor sufferers shall ° feel grateful for my restorationito health, after expeed u t: so much out of my very limited means uselessly on d° tors." B rths. ---- GURNEY.—On the 15th inst., at Claremont, Bradford, t he wife of John Gurney, Esq., of a son. KINLOCH.—On the 13th inst., at St. Andrew's, the NYif ° of Lieut.-Colonel Kinloch, R.A., of a daughter. LYrroN.—On the 19th inst., at 22, Rutland-gate, the W if° of Robert Bulwer Lytton, Esq., of a son. WESTON.—On the 15th inst., at Stafford, the wife of E dssr. F. Weston, Esq., of a son. Marriages 11 GORDON—BUCHANAN.-011 the 16th inst., at Si- -1 :001 % Paddington, William F. P. Gordon, Esq., Captain 14. Regiment, to Elizabeth J. G r iffi t h s, widow of the to S. Buchanan, Esq., of Knockshinnoch, N.B. ld PEEL—WELCH.--On the 14th inst., at Edgbastoll t he Church, Captain Robert Moore Peel, eldest son 01 t he late Right Hon. Wm. Yates Peel, to Ann Auguste a youngest daught er o f the late Joseph Welch, x'°`"l" Merlin's Grove, Carmarthenshire. Deaths. Colone l BEATSON.—inst., On the 16th at Dieppe, France, A : i s 1 ' Theodore F. B. Beatson, late of H.M.'s Indian 44'..- aged 56. a CASTLE.—On the 15th inst., M a j or W m . C as tle, forlii ° of the Cavalry Depot, Maidstone, aged 64. ~,,e 8 DEmrsTEß.—On the 18th inst., at Boulogne-sur-Mer , It i db - of Colquhoun, wife of Dr. Dempster, Inspector-0 00h- Hospitals, H.M.S. job ° GRABHAM.—On the 18th inst., at Rochford, Esse r, Grabham, Esq., M.D., F.R.C.S., aged 71. S 3 ' KING-CHURCH.—On the 16th inst., Henry J. Icing-- (112 Esq., of Albury, Surrey, aged 79. NT; WO PURCELL.—On the 17th inst., at Barnet, Mr. J---c Purcell, formerly of Brixton, aged 52. —....e"-, London : Printed and Published by WILLIAM A.NDO of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Tuz BUN Ofnee, 14°. ..4 0 / Strand, in the Precinct of the Bayoy. in the C oo Middlesex.—Wednesday, September 20,156