The Sun. — London, England, 1865-05-29 00:00:00

THE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA. (From the Times' Correspondent.) NEW YORK, May 16. The capture of Mr. Jefferson Davis must be re garded as a serious misfortune to the Northern people. His escape to Europe was the solution of the difficulty which above all others the Government ought to have prayed for, if it had not covertly en deavoured to facilitate. Even his escape across the Mississippi into Texas would have been less of a calamity to the North than his trial and execution for the crime of failure in an attempt, which only required success to elevate him into the position of one of the world's heroes. The manner in which the " sensation" journals gloat over his capture creates a feeling of horror, such as that which came over the hearts of most men when they heard of the assassi nation of Mr. Lincoln. Though there is not a par ticle of evidence, and probably never will be, except that suggested to or extorted from the lips of per jured villains, to connect him in the remotest man ner with the murder, his complicity with the assas sins is assumed, and every base and vile epithet is hurled against him by men who would have licked his boots had he been successful in founding a Southern nationality, if by so doing they could have secured his favour or received the promise of a place. An immediate trial before the military commission now sitting at Washington to unravel the tangled skein of Booth's conspiracy is suggested by the most violent as the speediest means of deciding his fate, and the best mode of degrading him to the level of a common felon. Others, with equal vindictiveness, but with more sense of the dignities and proprieties of the case, recommend his trial on the charge of treason be fore the Supreme Court—a trial which is certain to end in his conviction, and in which conviction is equally certain to be followed by sentence of death. It begins to be conceded by all moderate men, friends as well as opponents of the Administration, that Mr. Johnson was misled by false information, placed before him by an over-zealous, passionate, and too credulous public functionary, when he issued his proclamation against Mr. Davis and the five Southern refugees in Canada; and to be apparent as the trial proceeds that there is no valid evidence against them individually or collectively. Mr. John son, with a promptitude that does him credit, when he saw for the first time how all but unanimous public opinion was in denouncing the secrecy observed by the military tribunal in the trial of Harrold, Mrs. Surratt, and their accomplices, gave orders that the reporters for the public press should be admitted. He has done much to set himself right with the country, and to throw the disgrace of unconstitu tional and illegal action upon the violent men whom he found in office. Were he to go a step further, re call his ill-judged proclamation, direct Mr. Davis to be tried in open court before a jury for the treason which, by the fact of his failure, that unhappy gen tleman has undoubtedly committed ; and, after sen tence of death duly pronounced and recorded against him, magnanimously exercise his prerogative of pardon, or commute the sentence into banishment for life from the North American continent, Presi dent Johnson might not only rescue his Govern ment and his country from a great and fruitful peril, but surround his " plebeian" name—and as he is proud of being a " plebeian" there ought to be no offence in the word—with a halo of true glory and mercy, which any patrician or aristocrat in the world might envy. It must be said, however, that for the great mis fortune that has befallen him Mr. Jefferson Davis is himself greatly to blaine. Mrs. Davis and her children, if they had been left at Richmond, or even at Danville, would have been safe from harm. 'Though a few military amateurs have rendered them selves notorious by their petty tyranny towards ladies, the Northern people as a rule are noted for a deference to the fair sex. No one would have in jured a hair of Mrs. Davis's head ; no one would have thought even of directing an opprobrious epithet against her; no one would have subjected her to contumely or insult, or thought of her other wise than with respectful sympathy in her great mis fortune, if she had been left behind. But Mr. Davis not only retarded his own movements by permitting her to follow him in his darkening fortunes, but wasted precious days at Dan%ille and other places instead of flying as fast as circumstances would per mit towards the Mississippi. Had he succeeded in crossing the river he might have saved his life, and negotiated terms. of surrender as favourable as those accorded to Generals Lee, Joseph Johnston, and Richard Taylor. The fatal error of indecision seems to have been inherent in his character. He could not make up his mind to abandon Richmond, when he might have done so, not only without detriment but with advantage to the cause. He could not make up his mind to drill and arm, on the promise of free dom, 150,000 or 200,000 slaves, though he might by so doing have secured the independence of the Con federacy. Both of these measures were personally disagreeable to his pride, and he trifled with them until it was too late, and ended by sacrificing the great cause intrusted to his keeping. Unless it be for his wife and family, Mr. Davis has now nothing to live for, and may even court the doom with which he is threatened by his enemies. As the murder of Mr. Lincoln in his hour of triumph, when his work seemed almost done, has liftedhim for all time above the crowd of common men and enshrined his memory in the world's history as the representative as well as the martyr of a nation, so the judicial murder of Mr. Davis on the charge of treason will, if inflicted by the North, elevate him also to a place in the rever ence and affection of the South, which it is not for the present interest or the future peace of the North that any man living or dead should occupy. The trial of the conspirators does not excite so much curiosity as was anticipated, and far more sen sation has been created by the wordy war between the Court and the Hon. Reverdy Johnson, the Senator from Maryland, who consented to act as counsel for Mrs. Surratt—mother of one of the sus pected, but not yet arrested criminals—than by any details of the plot as yet elicited. It was attempted by General Harris to deter Mr. Reverdy Johnson from acting as counsel by a very unwarranted and unwarrantable imputation upon his loyalty to the Go vernment, in which imputation he was supported in an offensive tone and manner by General Hunter, the President of the Court. Mr. Johnson, like a practised debdter, both at the Bar and the Senate, foiledhis assailants most dexterously and completely on the point of fact, and took the opportunity to rebuke the military gentlemen for their arrogance, by the statement that had it not been for his vener able years and cooled passions, it might not have been so safe as it then was to assail his honour by false charges which his whole life and character were sufficient to refute. This was perhaps a mistake, a want of taste on the part of Mr. Johnson, but if it were, what is to be said of the retort of General Hunter, who angrily declared that "he hoped the day had passed when freemen from the North were to be bullied and insulted by the humbug chivalry of the South?" As the insults came from the Court upon Mr. Johnson, and as " the chivalry of the South" wer e i n no degree implicated in the question at issue, Which was one of his personal honour and veracity, the Military Court sacrificed more of its dignity in the encounte r than the fearless counsel whom it Bought to intimidate. The evidence up to this date implicates all the persons in custody, and the son of Mrs. S urratt, who fact to oisnot yet arrested, but had not elicited a inculpate Mr. Jeffer son Davis in any knowledge of the crime, or to fasten any reasonable suspicion upon Messrs. Thompson, Clay, Cleary, Sanders, and Tucker. A man named Weichman deposed that he heard Sur ratt, whose mother indubitably knew of an d aided tIA di a b o lical conspiracy of Booth, say that h e h ad been in Canada, and had afterwards gone to Rich mond. Upon this slim foundation the prosecution based its charge against Mr. Davis ; or if it has any thing further in reserve it has yet to produce it. Mr. Reverdy Johnson asked the witness if he ever heard Surratt say or saw him do anything which induced to think that Surratt's purpose was to assassi nate Mr. Lincoln, Mr. Seward, or anybody else? The question was objected to by the Court, and was not allowed to be pressed. The still continued excitement with regard to the filibustering expedition to Mexico, which has such extraordinary charms for all the rowdyism of the North not used up and exhausted in this awful car nage of the last four years, has caused more than usual interest to be taken in the formal speech which M. de Montholon, the new French Ambas sador, made to Mr. Johnson, on presentation of his credentials, and in the speech not quite so for mal in which the President replied. M. de Montho lon took occasion to say " that immense interests, which every day developed themselves more fully, will draw together more fully the noble and ancient alliance of France and the United States." The Pre sident, with an eye to the vindication of the Monroe doctrine--one of the main planks of the platform on which he may have to take his stand when he aspires to re-election—replied that "Your (M. de Montholon's) intimacy with the head of the French Government, which was the result of well-known antecedents, cannot fail to impart, perhaps, univer sal confidence to your representations in respect to his Majesty's purpose and policy with respect to the United States." This "perhaps" was not very diplomatic, but exceedingly significant. Nor was the next sentence less suggestive of the idea that the President was not quite satisfied in his own mind that mischief might not grow out of the presence of the Emperor Maximilian, supported by French bayonets, in Mexico. " The people of this coun try," said Mr. Johnson, " have a traditional regard for France, which was originally so deeply planted, and has been so universally and warmly cherished that it must continue to flourish and expand, unless it should be checked by events most uncommon, not to be anticipated by ordinary foresight:" These " events most uncommon" are understood by the President's friends to prefigure an irrepressible immigration of Americans into Mexico, and hint at the complications which might ensue if the Federal Government had neither the power nor the inclination to interfere with or direct it. Gen. Ortega, the envoy of the ex-President Juarez, re mains in this city, but conducts himself so much less ostentatiously than he did at first, and pursues whatever may be his objects with so much more prudence, as to make it probable that he has re ceived hints from high quarters not to compromise the Government. ELECTION INTELLIGENCE. CAMBRIDGESHIRE. At Cambridge Mr. W. D. Christie has announced himself as a Liberal candidate, and has issued a somewhat lengthy address. Mr. Christie sat for Weymouth from 1842 to 1847, and since 1848 has been employed in various parts of the world in dip lomatic service. He had charge for a considerable time of the British Legation in Switzerland, and served as Minister for three years in the River Plate. In 1859 he was appointed Minister in Brazil, and continued to occupy that position until 1863. Mr. Christie states that he is opposed to all civil disabi lities and distinctions founded on religious opinions. He thinks there is great room for improvement in the election of members of the House of Commons. He would warmly support a measure of Parliamentary reform providing for a lateral extension of the fran chise and the introduction of the working classes. Mr. Christie adds— " I have good faith in our Premier, Lord Palmerston, as a director of our foreign policy, and a great admiration for his character. His age, long career of great service, and noble English qualities entitle him to the proud respect of all his countrymen." As has been already stated in The Sun, the present Conservative sitting members will again offer them selves. As regards the county no definite announce ment has yet been made ; the present representa tives.will probably not be disturbed, although the Hon. E. T. Yorke, one of the sitting members, is not in a satisfactory state of health. DORCHESTER. Col. N. Sturt has issued the following address:— " Permit me to assure you that the fact that I have hitherto issued no address, but have allowed another candidate to anticipate me in soliciting your suffrage; is attributable neither to disrespect nor to an insufficient appreciation of the responsibility which you have thrice done me the hon our to commit to my hands. lam not without hope that your past experience has led you to withdraw none of your esteem and confidence from me, and, while yielding to no man in my desire to subserve your interests, I have na turally shrunk from intruding upon you with any prema ture utterance at a moment when even the date of the ap proaching dissolution is a matter of speculation. It has seemed to me that at a time when grave party differences have well nigh ceased to exist I should best reflect your opinions by abstaining from violent partisanship. While clinging with tenacity to the traditional and time honoured doctrines of the great Conservative party, I have deemed it my duty to accord to Lord Palmerston's Government upon several occasions during the past and previous sessions, an honest and independent support. Few measures during the last few years have appeared to me more deserving of consideration than the Union Chargeability Bill. Believ ing as I do that the interests of the upper are inseparably intertwined with the interests of the lower classes, it has seemed to me that injustice to the labouring man is con spiracy against the rich. In the interest of both I have given to the Union Chargeability Bill an emphaticsupport. My experience of foreign politics since I last appealed as a candidate for your suffrages has taught me to view - with increasing admiration and affection the well tempered liberty we have the happiness to enjoy. Manhood suffrage and arro gant vaunts of freedom have not preserved to the Americans even the semblance of liberty, nor do I observe • that despotism in France, however wisely conducted, has during the last seven years taken any steps in the direction of in creasing liberty to the subject. Our wise, temperate, and grateful enjoyment of the blessings we have will in my judgment best be evidenced by caution in undertaking measures which cannot but be tentative in pursuit of im provement. It has been my earnest desire to advance the local interests of my constituents whereinsoever they have been brought under my notice. With an increased sense of the responsibility which it entails, I solicit at your hands a renewal of the trust which you have already thrice confided to me. If it be your pleasure to dismiss me from my stewardship, I shall retain only a grateful recollection that for nine years you have permitted me to bo your steward. "London, May 27." DURHAM (COU N TY). Mr. Farrer, in a brief address to the freeholders and electors of the southern division of the county of Durham, has announced his intention of retiring at the end of the present Parliament, it being quite foreign to his nature to find himself involved in a contest. The Conservative party have taken no action so far to bring forward another candidate, and it is thought they will not do so. It is antici pated, therefore, that Mr. Henry Pease and Capt. Beaumont will be returned without opposition. It is stated that there will be a meeting of Conserva tive leaders in Whitsun week to consider the pro priety of bringing forward a candidate in the inte rest of the party, in opposition to the sitting mem bers for the northern division of the county, Mr W. D. Shaftoe and Sir Hedworth Williamson. HALIFAX. The letter of Sir Charles Wood, M.P. for this borough, intimating that it is not his intention to offer himself for re-election, is as follows : "10, Belgra.ve-square, May 22, 1865. "Dear Mr. Crossley,—As you were the chairman of the committee which conducted the last election of Mr. Stens feld and myself, and are now the chairman of the Liberal Registration Association for the borough of Halifax, it seems to me that it is to you that I ought to address any communication in regard to the election which must soon take place, and I must request you to make it known to my friends and to the electors of Halifax in such manner as you may think best. It is now nearly a year since Mr. Akroyd declared himself a candidate for the representation of Halifax, and since, on this being made known, an una nimous vote of confidence in my colleague and myself was passed at a meeting of the Liberal electors presided over by yourself. As there was not at that time any prospect of an early dissolution of Parliament, it did not appear to me to be necessary, or indeed fitting, to take any step in the matter. It seems to me, however, that the time has now come when it is duo to my friends, and to the electors of Halifax, that they should be apprised of my intentions, and, painful as it has been to me to come to the conclusion which I have now to announce, I never entertained any doubt as to what that conclusion should be, if on the eve of an election the present state of circumstances should exist. The recollection of one sad event, deeply impressed upon my memory, as I am sure it is on that of the older inhabitants of Halifax, would render it extremely painful, if not impossible, for me to be personally opposed to the son of Mr. Jonathan Akroyd. I certainly never had contem plated the possibility of such a state of things, but as it has occurred I cannot hesitate as to the course which I should pAukrrsouyed. I s ca .ti n u n l o e t s s be c o i u )l l a d c e l cl d e i n s r p e, e , r o s r o personal e n o p e p: n s s i e t n i o t, n t t o o a M k r e . the place of my colleagu e an d persona l friend, Mr. st ans _ feld, the son, too, of another of my oldest and best friends. I must, therefore, decline to be put in nomination as a candidate for the representation of Halifax at the ap proaching election. I w ill not attempt to disguise from you or from my friends how much it costs .me to sever a connection which has lasted upwards of 32 years. Per sonally unknown at the time to any one iLI Halifax, I had the honour of being selected, on public grounds, by the Liberal party as one of the representatives of the borough on its first enfranchisement, and the confidence of the majority of the electors has maintained me in that position at 12 successive elections. I frankly confess that I had entertained the hope that for the remainder of the time for which I may have the strength and ability to do my duty in the House of Commons, I might have had the pride and satisfaction of representingthe borough inmy native county which has so long honoured me with its confidence. The considerations which I have mentioned compel me, however, in the circumstances which have arisen, to resign that hope. In taking my leave of you I must express my feelings of deep gratitude to those who have for many years been my tried and constant friends, and I can never forget the un varying kindnesswhich I have experienced on all occasions during a long course of frank and unreserved intercourse, from all classes and from all parties. I will only, in con clusion, beg you to accept for yourself my warmest thanks for your unvarying kindness on all occasions.—Believe me, dear Mr. Crossley, yours very sincerely, "Mr. John Crossley. CHARLES WOOD." Mr. Crossley, to whom the above letter was ad dressed, is the chairman of the Halifax Liberal Registration Assocation, and after he had communi cated the contents of the letter to the members of the association, they unanimously passed a resolution expressive of regret at the cause which had induced Sir C. Wood to tender his resignation. As has already been stated in The Sun, there is every pro bability that Mr. Edward Ackroyd and Mr. Stans feld will be returned at the ensuing election without opposition. Both gentlemen are Liberals ; but Mr. Stansfeld, who is now the colleague of Sir C. Wood, is of the more extreme school of politicians. They are both natives of Halifax. THE SETIV, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MAY 29, 1865. ESSEX. Mr. T. J. Miller, M.P., and Mr. P. 0. Papillon, M.P., have issued their address to the electors. They observe, inter alia— " We hope we may appeal with confidence to our conduct during the past six years, both in and out of Parliament, as a proof that to the best of our ability we have conscientiously discharged the duties then imposed upon us, and we respect fully invite you by returning us again as your representa tives to renew to us the opportunity of promoting by our continued exertions those great constitutional principles which have ever commanded the respect and admiration of your ancient and loyal borough. Foremost among such principles we would enumerate as most essential to the na tional welfare the defence of our Protestant institutions, and the maintenance of our Established Church in connec tion with the State ; education of the people, based upon the Bible ; peace at home and abroad, so far as it may be consistent with the ' safety, honour, and welfare of our Sovereign and her dominions ; ' and a wise economy, blended with a determination to preserve in efficiency the various departments of the State." Mr. J. Gurdon Rebow, whose address was noticed in The Sun of Saturday, will probably go to the poll, and a somewhat severe contest may be anticipated. The Conservative candidates for North Essex, Major Beresford, M.P., and Mr. C. Du Cane, M.P., ad dressed a meeting of their supporters at Brightling sea on Friday, and were well received. In South Essex the Conservatives have not yet secured a second candidate. GLAMORGANSHIRE. It is reported that that Mr. C. R. M. Talbot, M.P. the popular lohl-lieutenantof the county, is to be ele vated to the peerage, and consequentlythere will be a vacancy in the representation. The Right Hon. H. A. Bruce, M.P. for Merthyr, President of the Coun cil of Education, is talked of as likely to come for ward, and in the event of this being the case Mr. G. T. Clark, of Dowlais Works, will very probably seek the suffrages of the electors of Merthyr in the Libe ral Conservative interest. It is also rumoured that the Liberal party will bring forward either Mr. El derton, barrister, or Mr. R. Fothergill, a wealthy ironmaster. MANCHESTER. The Liberal party held a meeting on Friday even ing, Sir J. Watts in the chair, to select a candidate to take the place of Mr. Aspinall Turner, who re tires at the dissolution of the present Parliament. The names mentioned are those of Mr. Gladstone, Mr. R. N. Philips (brother of Mr. Mark Philips, a former representative of Manchester), Mr. George Wilson, Mr. G. Miall, Mr. A. Heywood, Mr. 11. Ashworth, and Mr. S. Pope, barrister. Those of Mr. Philips, Mr. Wilson, and Mr. Miall were received with the best feeling. The selection was ultimately referred to a committee, consisting of the chairman, deputy chairman, and secretaries of the 59 Liberal election committees of the borough, who are to re port to a future meeting. NEWARK. A requisition is in course of signature, requesting Lord Arthur Pelham Clinton, a brother of the late Duke of Newcastle, to come forward. This requisi tion has been already numerously signed. There was a rumour that Mr. Handley, the senior member, a Whig of the old school, would retire, but this has been dispelled, his committee having announced to the electors that Mr. Handley " will again solicit their suffrages, and hopes that his past Parlia mentary conduct will secure him a renewal of their support." Mr. G. Hodgkinson (the other Liberal member) will again come forward, and if both Mr. Handley and Mr. Hodgkinson should offer themselves for re-election it is said that the Con servatives have a second candidate ready to asso ciate with Lord A, Clinton. NORFOLK. The Norfolk politicians continue at present very quiescent. At Norwich no opposition is yet threat ened by the Conservatives to the re-election of Sir W. Russell, M.P., and Mr. E. Warner, M.P. The Conservatives have been defeated at every election since 1854, and it seems doubtful whether they will find any one ready to come forward in their behalf. At Great Yarmouth the Conservative candidates Sir E. H. K. Lacon, M.P., and Mr. J. Goodson, chair man of the Great Eastern Railway, are not yet threatened with any opposition ; Mr. E. W. Watkin, M.P., who in 1860 announced his intention to con test the borough, having been re-elected in the in terim for Stockport. At Thetford Mr. - R. J. H. Harvey will probably be returned, Lord J. Fitzroy, his successful opponent in 1863, being about to re tire from the representation of the borough. At King's Lynn there is no doubt that Lord Stanley, M.P., will be re-elected without opposition. Mr. J. H. Gurney, M.P:, who has been his colleague since 1854, will, however, retire. The Hon. F. Walpole has offered himself as a candidate in the Conservative interest; and will probably be returned. In East Norfolk it is understood that Sir 11. J. Stracey, M.P., who retires from the representation of Great. Yarmouth, will be a candidate in the Con servative interest. NOTTINGHAM. There are now four candidates fairly in the field —Mr. Paget and Sir R. Clifton (the present mem bers), and Mr. R. Matteif (Conservative) and Mr. S Morley (Radical). Sir R. Clifton • has just issued his address, in which he makes allusion to " No. 30," an assembly of Liberals, who fortaely selected candidates for the suffrages of the electors. In the course of Sir Robert's address he says : " His pledges to support an extension of the suffrage, the abolition of church-rates, vote by ballot, and an adequate legislative provision for the education of the people have been faithfully and conscientiously redeemed; his votes had been given in defiance of party inducements ; and hold ing himself aloof from faction, and so escaping Parliamen tary entanglements, he had made good government his solo purpose. He regrets that his Parliamentary experience should not have increased his faith in the present Ministry. The liberal professions which enabled them to eject their predecessors from office had been miserably evaded, if not culpably falsified. The pledge then given by Lord Pal merston was a solemn compact between the Premier and the people ; and this debt of honour, long evaded, should be vigorously exacted." Alluding to the influence of " No. 30" he says : " The poisoned shafts of our common enemy aro hurled at you through me. They have combined and conspired to destroy your independence by depriving you of my humble advocacy. To this end they have avowed their intention to prevent my re-election as your member, while seeking to force upon you their too compliant nominees as your representatives." The contest will be In all probability very severe. RADNORSHIRE. Sir John Walsh, the sitting member for Radnor shire, in anticipation of the expected dissolution of Parliament, has issued an address to the electors soliciting re-election at their hands. He says : "After the long and intimate connexion between us, which it has been the pride of my life to have established, Amiumg - Ni6m you will not, I conceive, require from me any lengthened exposition of my political opinions, with which you are all probably acquainted. Such a task would be the more diffi cult since there are actually no practical measures of press ing urgency demanding a prompt solution. I can only refer you to those general principles of attachment to the British Constitution in Church and State on which I first eolicitedyour suffrages, and which I have ever maintained." OLDHAM. R is expected that Mr. John Platt, of this borough, will be invited to offer himself at the next election, in opposition to Mr. Cobbett, with whose conduct in Parliament some of the Liberal constituency are dissatisfied, SOUTH-WEST YORKSHIRE. Since the announced retirement of Sir Charles Wood from the representation of Halifax a strong feeling has been expressed that in the event of his not being called by her Majesty to the House of Lords he should be requested to stand for the newly constituted district of. South-WestYorkshire, which embraces many large towns, including Wakefield, the nomination town, Sheffield, Barnsley, Ro therham, Doncaster, and other manufacturing boroughs. Sir Charles Wood is very popular with, the farmers of the district, and he has been promi nently before them for many years, having taken a foremost position in the election of the Liberal candidates for the West Riding, particularly in 1859 when Sir. J.W. Ramsden and Mr. F. Crossley were opposed by the Hon. J. Stuart Wortley. The register is such as to justify the Liberals in bringing out two candidates. The choice of the Liberal party will, it is thought, fall upon Sir Charles. Neither political party has yet taken steps to bring candidates before the constituency. The choice of the Conservatives will, there is every reason to believe, fall upon Lieu tenant-Colonel Stanhope, of the 4th Administrative Battalion of West Riding Volunteers, and Mr. Mon tagu, of Melton-hall, has been named as a second candidate. Mr. James Brown, of Rossington-hall, and one of the present members for Malton, has been mentioned as a candidate in the Liberal inte rest, but it is authoritatively said that he does not intend to sever his connection with Malton. His po pularity would materially add to his chances of elec tion. TAUNTON. The candidates who will contest this borough at the next election are Mr. Mills and Mr. E. W. Cox (Conservatives), and Lord Hay and Mr. Barclay (Liberals). The contest is expected to be severe. Mr. Cox is a native of Taunton. He is niost san guine as to the result of the contest, for in answer to an elector, inquiring whether there was any truth in in a rumour circulated that it was not his intention to offer himself, he says : I hasten to answer your question. I have no intention whatever to retire. On the contrary, I intend positively to go to the poll, and to poll to the last man ; and, more, I shall win by a large majority. I shall be obliged by your so informing your friends. You may on my authority give the most decided and unequivocal contradiction to the report of which you so kindly notify me. Launch of the Ironclad Frigate Lord Warden, On Saturday last another important addition was made to our fleet of iron-clad vessels of war by the launch from Chatham dockyard of the fine wooden armour-plated frigate Lord Warden. The ceremony attracted an unusually large concourse of spectators. Minute descriptions of the Lord Warden and the improved plans on which she has been built by her designer 7 Mr. E. J. Re e d, th e Chief Constructor of 0 the Navy, have so frequently appeared in The Sun, that it will only be necessary on the present occa sion to recapitulate the leading particulars connected with her, and the improvements which have been introduced during the vessel's progress under her builders' hands. Glancing at the Lord Warden, as her hull towered above the thousands of - spectators who crowded on each side of her, the first thing which struck the visitor was her general appearance which differs from that of any other vessel yet in troduced into the navy, with, perhaps, the single exception of her sister ship, the Lord Clyde, recently launched at Pembroke; and the Bellerophon just completed at Chatham. The midship section of the Lord Warden, for example, is utterly unlike any seen in the British navy since the time of Sir William Symonds, the designer of all those " crack" frigates which may now be seen rotting at Chatham and our other ports. Until recently the Admiralty have maintained, with the utmost pertinacity, the sharp section and rising floor in the face of an unanimous condemnation of the principle on the part of all our naval architects, and long after it was discarded by other nations. Even when iron armour was introduced for the protection of ships of war , and naval constructors seemed driven to the adoption of flat floors, the old principle was adhered to, and the Warrior's bottom, if not one of the sharpest in the navy, is certainly devoid of every thing like an approach to flatness. In the Lord Warden, however, all this is reversed, and the navy has now obtained, what has long been sought— namely, a very broad, flat floor, well calculated to sustain the ponderous armour encasing the sides of the ship, and one which can hardly fail—if the naval view of the subject is correct—to keep her upright and steady even in a beam sea, when vessels of the old type would be rolling violently. This important change in the vertical sections of the Lord Warden, which may be described as being constructed on the U, in contradistinction to the V shaped principle— renders it obvious that in a plunging sea the vessel will be greatly obstructed by the water in its descent, while vessels formed with V sections will cleave it like a hatchet. But perhaps the chief novelty noticeable in the Lord Warden, as she lay on her cradle, was her long bow, thrust out far in advance of the stem of the frigate. But for the recent un toward accident in the dockyard this feature would have been more striking, as the bow would have exhibited the enormous metal cleaver with which it is to be covered. This protecting prow, hidden as it will be under the water, will take fatal effect on any ship with which the Lord Warden may be brought into contact should she ever be used as aram for running -down purposes, for which her enormous size, weight, and strength eminently fit her. This projecting prow, while adapted for offensive pur-, poses, also plays the double part of giving strength and buoyancy to the heavy bow above the water, on which is placed a battery, which again is a new fea tnre introduced into this vessel. Hitherto it has been the practice to give greal bluffness to the bows of our ships of war above the water, for the purpose of affording the necessary space there for guns cap able of firing ahead, while the ship's lines were fined away almost to nothing belowthe water immediately beneath the heavy bow, in order to obtain a fine en trance for speed. The consequence of this has no toriously been a great disposition to plunge in all our war ships, and in none more so than in most of our iron-plated frigates, especially those of the Prince Consort and Hector class, in which the full bow above, unlike that of the Warrior, for instance, is burdened with armour. In the Lord Warden, how ever, all this has been corrected by the introduction of the long under-water bow. It possesses such buoyancy that although the armour is to be carried all round the bow aloft, and over two decks, so that no less than four 110-pounder guns firing right ahead are protected, yet the entire fore part of the ship is probably more satisfactorily " water-borne" than the bows even of those frigates which carry no armour at all. Unlike most of the iron-clad frigates hitherto constructed, the Lord Warden was launched on Saturday with a considerable portion of her armour-plating already bolted to her sides. The remainder will be placed in the frigate as soon as sho is docked. The whole of it, supplied by the firm of Messrs. John Brown and Co., of the Atlas Works, Sheffield, is of the best description of rolled iron yet sent out by that firm. It is the heaviest hitherto applied to a wooden sea-going vessel of war. Hitherto the difficulty of supporting the armour of our iron-plated f r i ga t es , by g iving the requisite displacement to the ship, while retaining other es sential qualities, has been so great that the de signers have been glad to reduce the quantity of it in every possible manner. Hence it has been car ried but little below the water, the ports have been kept as low as possible, and the armour has been saved in every other practicable way. In the Lord Warden, however, provision is made for plating the hull well down under water, the port sills being nowhere less than Bft. bin. above the load line, and alnaost the full thickness of armour will be main tained all round the bow. The armour-plating itself is sfin. inthicknessfrom the lower edge to 2ft. above the water's surface, and all round the battery, where the usual 4fin. armour is placed, an extra iron skin plating, an inch and a half in thickness, has been worked upon the frames of the ship behind the outer planking. The total thickness of the sides of Lord Warden, therefore, along her broadsides is 37in., or nearly half a foot greater than that of any other armoured frigate yet constructed. This thick ness of wood and iron is obtained by 5/in. of iron, 10in. of teak planting, 131 in. of solid oak frame, and Bin. of wood planking. The thickness of the sides in the wake of the gun-battery is 33in., which is thus obtained-4in. of armour plating, 9in. of wood backing, liin. of iron plate, 12in. of solid oak frame, and, lastly, 6in. of planking. It will thus be seen that the Lord Warden, from the experiments made on the Lord Warden target at Shoeburyness, is capable of resisting any ordinary gun brought against her, for it willbe remembered that, although the target mentioned was ultimately knocked to pieces by ponderous ordnance of a kind not likely to be used in actual warfare, it was found capable of withstanding even the 300-pounder Armstrong gun firing round solid steel shot with 501 b. of powder. As thereis no gun at all approaching in efficacy this weapon in:use in:the:French navy, nd as thelargest Federal guns proved ineffective against iron-plat ing, it cannot be doubted that the Lord Warden will be perfectly impregnable to the existing ordnance of other nations ; while she herself is capable of carry ing the largest guns yet in use. The total quantity of armour which the Lord Warden will carry will be about 1,400 tons. Notwithstanding this enormous weight, the important element of speed has not been sacrificed. On the contrary, her speed is to exceed that of any wooden-built frigate yet afloat, whether with or without armour, the stipu lations of her designer being that she shall average, at a trial speed, 14 knots per hour. Her engines, which are now in course of manufacture, are to be of a nominal horse-power of 1,000, but to be cap able of being worked up to six times that power, or, in other words, are expected to develope no less than 6,000 indicated horse-power, which is equal to en gines of 1,500 horse-power constructed on the old model. This large increase of power will be pro cured by means of great expansion, surface conden sation, super-heating, and other modern steam -1 engine improvements never before applied to an armour-plated frigate in this country. There seems, therefore, no reason whatever to doubt that the Lord Warden with these advantages will be supe ; rior in point of speed to the entire ironclad fleet of this country, with the exception of vessels of the Warrior and the Achilles classes, which are very much larger. It must be remembered, however, that the Lord Warden is a wooden ship, and the 'placing of such powerful engines in a wooden hull would have been a very doubtful and even danger ous measure, if the ordinary modes of strengthen ing the stern had alone been resorted to. This con sideration has not been lost sight of by Mr. Reed ; on the contrary, the after part of the ship has . been braced and strengthened by a system of iron decks, knees, bulkheads, and flats, so arranged as to add enormously to the security of this portion of the hull, rendering it, in fact, nearly as stiff and rigid as an iron vessel. The . bow of the ship—which, being built on the ' tumble-home" principle, gives the frigate an exceedingly unsightly appearance— has likewise been- greatly strengthened by the introduction of enormous masses of timber, braces, beams, and iron. knees. We a short time since pointed out the 'extraordinary rapidity with which the iron frigate Bellerophon had been con structed at Chatham Dockyards, and the same re marks would also apply to the Lord Warden, which has been built and launched in little more than 16 months, a rate of production the . more remarkable when it is remembered that within, the same period an iron vessel of equally large dimensions has been completed and sent afloat from the same establish ment. The launch of the Lord Warden was fixed to take place at 2.30, but long before that time the gal leries erected at the head and sides of the vessel were crowded with spectators, who occupied every inch of ground from which a sight of the vessel could be ob tained, the concourse of spectators being computed at about 20,000, the greatest number ever recollected to have been present at a launch at Chatham. Among the distinguished visitors for whom special accom modation had been provided were the Dowager Countess Mount-Edgecmnbe, Viscount Sydney, G.C.8., Lord Chamberlain; the Earl of Albemarle, the Earl of Darnley, Lady Plumridge, Vice-Admi ral Sir C. Talbot, K.C.8., Naval Commander-in- Chief at the Nore ; Major-Gen. Sir Robt. Walpole, K.C.8., Admiral S. R. Robinson, Controller of the. Navy; Capt. Stewart, C. 8., Superintendent of Chat ham Dockyard; Col.-Commandant J. 0. Travers, C. 8., and others. As the tide:rose to its full height the operations of the master shipwrights' staff, under Mr. Thornton and Mr. Dawson, for splitting away the remaining blocks of the frigate, werehurried for ward. They were completed by 2.30, when Mr. Thornton, the master shipwright, who has ably supe rintended the construction of the frigate, led Lady Geraldine Edgecumbe, sister of Lord Mount-Edge cumbe, to the prow of the vessel, and explained to her the ceremony of launching the ship. Her lady ship then severed the cord which held the last remain ing shores, and these, falling, released the huge mass, which instantly commenced moving down the ways into the water, amid the cheers of the spectators, repeated again and again. A large bower anchor checked the further progress of the vessel, and ;:she was subsequently brought up alongside the Chatham hulk. In proof of the solidity of her construction it may be mentioned that her " break" at launching was represented by the smallest fraction. The following are the prin cipal dimensions, &c., of the vessel : Ft. In. Length between perpendiculars 2BO 0 Length of keel for tonnage 233 111 Breadth, extreme Breadth for tonnage 57 2 Breadth moulded 56 4 Depth in hold Distance between ports Height of midship ports Bin don, 4,067 26-94 tons ; displacement, 7,675 tons. The Lord Warden will immediately receive her iron masts, which have been manufactured by the Woodside Graving Dock Company, and also her boilers, condensers, and other heavy portions of her engines and machinery, after which she will be placed in one of the vacant docks at Chatham, to have the remainder of her armour-plating bolted to her sides, and to be equipped for sea, an operation which will occupy from four to six months. One of thenew class of Amazon steam frigates, unarmoured, to be named the Blanche, is to be commenced on the slip at Chatham Dockyard from which the Lord Warden was launched. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC jOITRNALS THE " SPECTATOR'S " ESTIMATE OE CHARLES DICKENS.—M the dinner of the Newspaper Press Fund on Saturday last Mr. Dickens gave a very amusing reminiscence of his life as a reporter for the Morning Chronicle during the six or seven years— the years, we conclude, from 1829 to 1836, or there abouts—previous to the success of his " Sketches by Boz ' and the consequent recognition of his original genius by the English public. The brief autobiographic sketch had more;we think, than the ad captandum interest of recommending to the generosity of the public a profession which had been distinguished by once numbering a man of genius in its ranks ; it throws some light on the merits and defects of his own great powers as an author. If, as is most likely, it were Mr. Dickens's original genius for ob servation which made him so good a reporter, it seems pretty certain that his habit of reporting re acted on his genius fOr observation and moulded it in a particular direction ; for the greatest character istic in all his works after their humour (which of course reporting could neither give nor strengthen) is deeply marked by the influence of this profession in that more exciting and eager form which in those days of few conveniences it assumed. There is pro bably no other novelist in English literature who can catalogue all the minutia 3 of every scene he wishes to describe with anything like the accuracy and effect of Mr. Dickens. It has been said that if he goes down a street he will note involuntarily every piece of orange-peel or loose paper which he passes in that street, but he uses this power with nothing of the tediousness of literal observation, and also with nothing of that kind of not infrequent,) [ art which uses outward associations as the mere paints with which to externalize an inward mood. What Mr. Dicken does in painting is, to let the im pression of a scene fill his mental retina, and then selecting any distinguishing feature, whether fog, or clink, or rapid motion, squalor, or cold, or what you will—which gives a character and unity of effect to the whole—to throw all the emphasis of his de scription on that, and make all the subsidiary touches centre in that and return into that. He is in this only an ideal reporter, whose business it is to keep strictly to what he sees, and yet introduce if he can sufficient perspective into his picture to prevent his sketch from falling into an auctioneer's catalogue. In general Mr. Dickens is wonderfully effective in this sort of work. No one who has ever read the de scription of a London Christmas Eve in his " Christ mas Carol" will be likely to forget his picture of the gaslit streets and their plethora of preparation for high feeding; and still better is the picture of the utter dismalness of Snow-hill and the neighbourhood of the Saracen's Head on a wet Sunday. In fact the ex amples of admirable realistic reporting of this kind in his works are almost innumerable. But there are not a few cases in which the reporter's instinct for getting a point of sight, a centre for his picture, has not been corrected by any artistic instinct, and the consequence is a vulgar sort of emphasis on some one external string, caught at in a hurry, as it were, and twanged at with a triumphant sort of pertinacity till, as he makes Mrs. Gamp say, " fiddle-strings is weakness to expredge my nerves this night." For example, there is the famous drive in " Martin Chuzzlevvit, ' when Tom Pinch goes up to town outside the coach, and Mr. Dickens con sidering that fast motion and high spirits were the true leading features to dominate the variety of that changing picture, insisted upon putting ' Yoho !' before every sentence for a matter of three close pages of description, after this fashion :—" Yoho past hedges, gates, and trees, past cottages and barns, and people going home from work. Yoho past donkey-chaises drawn into the ditch, and empty carts with rampant horses whipped up at a bound upon the little watercourses and held by struggling carters close to the five-barred gate until the coach had passed the narrow turning in the road. Yoho by churches dropped down by themselves in quiet nooks," and so on, and so on, yoho ad infinitum. Now, if any one will try to read this passage aloud he will feel so heartily abashed and humiliated at about the third or fourth yoho that he will, we venture to say, break down long before he gets through the thirty or forty to which the author condemns him for the sake of this artificial effect. The same fault may be remembered in the passage where " the Temple fountain sparkles " with such iteration "in the sun" to keep time to Ruth Pinch's love-making. If Mr. Dickens throws far more than the art of the reporter into most of his scenery, he throws far more than his artificial trickery into a few scenes, where his genuis is merged in the mere glaring trade-effects of catch-word style of descrip tion. THE " EXAMINER" ON COLONEL DAWKINS'S CASE.—CoI. Dawkins's professional career is ruined on the ground that he is an ill-conditioned, quarrel some man, unfit for a command. He has had many disputes, and it is therefore concluded that he must be contentious, and always in the wrong. Was this rule applied to Lord Cardigan, commonly called the hero of a hundred squabbles ? There is a presump tion, we admit, against an unpopular man, but there are very disagreeable men who are very good officers, and, on the other hand, popular men who are ex tremely bad ones. One man may exact duty in an unpleasant way, and so make himself disliked ; and another, with an easy, indulgent disposition, may win favour at the expense of discipline. The fact, therefore, of popularity or unpopularity should not go for much without some knowledge of the circum stances which have made the one or the other cha racter. Now in this case of Col. Dawkins we are enabled in two instances to judge whether or not he captiously made complaint, or whether or not there was, on the other hand, a disposition to construe whatever he did amiss. An invitation to a ball given by her Majesty was sent to Col. Dawkins's residence in so careless a way that he had not the opportunity of formally notifying his obedience to the com mand ; but as soon as he heard of it he conveyed a message to the transmitter, the adjutant, that he should avail himself of the honour, in reply to which he was cavalierly informed that as he was not in the way the invitation was transferred to another officer. Now this, to say the least, was sharp,practice, such as might nettle a temper more even than that attributed to Colonel Dawkins, and he wrote a letter of remonstrance : May 15, 1860.—Dear Monck,—Thanks for your letter of explanation about the invitation. You knew I was in town very lately. I may be mistaken, but it seems unlikely and unusual that you did not know what officers of each rank could be invited before the day their names go in ; and if so, then you make my receiving the invitation depend on my being accidentally at home between eleven and three o'clock, or thereabouts, on one day ; and, instead of making any acknowledgment of having perhaps accidentally or negligently sent me a notice of which it was not probable any one could avail themselves, you actually tell me it is my own fault altogether. I send your first envelope that you may see that you did not put " Guards' Club" on it, or " To be forwarded," &c.—Yours truly, W. G. DAWKINS. Now really we can see nothing in this note but the displeasure allowable upon a vexatious disappoint ment, and any generous, candid mind would have refused to take umbrage at the strain of complaint so provoked, though exceeding the occasion. Capt. Monck might, with a good grace, have expressed his sorrow for the contre-temps, and there would have been an end of the matter. But no, he replies : Guards Club, Mayl7, 1860.—Dear Sir,—l beg to acknow ledge the receipt of your private letter of the 15th inst. The contents being of such a nature as, in my opinion, an officer in my position ought not to receive from another, I shall feel it my duty, unless you withdraw tfie whole of it (which I now wish to give you the opportunity of doing), to lay the correspondence before the commanding officer.— Yours faithfully, RICHARD MONCK. Lieut.-Colonel Dawkins. And so this grave affair was brought before Lord Rokeby, who decided that the adjutant was right, and Colonel Dawkins quite wrong. Colonel Daw kins had no right to complain of any inattention. There had been some coolness between Lord Rokeby and Colonel Dawkins, and at a luncheon at Alder shot his lordship made some advances to reconcilia tion, which Colonel Dawkins met with the salute required by military etiquette. It might have been that he did not understand Lord Rokeby's overture, or it might have been that he did not choose to give his hand—a churlish refusal perhaps, but a matter of right. But for this Colonel Dawkins was placed under arrest for 11 days, against the Article of War, which provides that no officer or soldier shall be kept in confinement more than eight days, or until a court-martial can be conveniently assembled. Now if these two cases are specimens of the quarrel some disposition making Colonel Dawkins unfit to command they certainly do not sustain the charge, but prove it rather against his enemies. Captain Monck captiously took offence at a remonstrance not unnaturally provoked by his own omissions. Lord Rokeby might justly feel displeased at Colonel Dawkins's withholding his hand, but did he show his temper by making a private grudge a matter of public punishment, and did he show his sense of duty by a violation of a most important Article of War, the soldier's habeas corpus? On the whole, so far as we see the case, Colonel Dawkins is more sinned against than sinning. But at the same time we must say that there has seldom been a case so incomplete in parti culars brought under Parliamentary notice, and the attempt to eke out information by Col. Dawkins's solicitors has not been very adroitly performed. There is nothing charged against the character and conduct of Colonel Dawkins beyond incompatibility of temper, and the upshot of the inquiry so strangely instituted and mysteriously conducted is, that he has been at variance with so many officers as to be unfit to command. These officers were five, four of them men of high position and influence. But when this officer is shelved, notwithstanding years of meritorious service, because he could not get on harmoniously with his brother officers, we are most unpleasantly reminded of the very different treat ment of Colonel Crawley. He, too, was at variance with several officers of his regiment, but he was not made to give way to them. They were made to give way to him, and were removed from the regiment that he might return to it. But Colonel Dawkins had none of Col. Crawley's peculiar claims to favour. He is chargeable with no tyranny, and with no breach of military law, and, above all, has not to reproach himself with severities which embittered, if they did not hasten, a good soldier's end. THE " READER'S " ESTIMATE OF CHARLES FECHTER.-It is not a very long time since play goers were surprised and amused by the news that the Princess Theatre, then in some distress,was about to seek the assistance of a " brilliant Frenchman." The idea of bringing a jeune premier of the Vaude ville and Porte St. Martin to Oxford-street, there to make him act to us in our own language, was novel, but seemed to have nothing to recommend it except its novelty. Frenchmen are proverbially audacious, but a Frenchman who can speak Eng lish at all is a phenomenon, and a plan for making a Parisian actor perform in English plays before stolid British tradesmen seemed to combine every element of failure, and accordingly those frequenters of our theatres who had any knowledge of the French stage, prophesied for the bold adventurer a singularly prominent fiasco. But nothing daunted, Mr. Fechter came, and saw, or rather was seen, an d conquered. His first character, as most people may remember, was Ruy Bias ; not a very well chosen part to start:with in England, since the whole plot turns on the intense passion of a rather unscru pulous lover, and English audiences are apt to get bored if there is much lovemaking, and like the hero to be above all delicately moral and particular. But, nevertheless, Ruy Blas was a success. People complained of Mr. Fechter's foreign , accent, and could not quite make out whether the Queen of Spain was married or not at the time when she allowed herself to listen to the eloquent speeches of the lackey Minister, but the force, and. the grace, and the finished style of the new actor had their effect, and though the play had not a long run, Mr. Fechter took at once a leading position on the London stage. Then he acted in "The Corsican Brothers," which play he spoiled by some injudicious changes ; then in " Don Caesar," in which he was justly much admired ; and then, with happy auda city, he attempted Shakspere, and his attempt at Shakspere was all but unanimously pronounced 3 great success. All but unanimously, for the public, and particularly the educated portion of the public, and particularly Mr. Fechter's great merit, and felt especially grateful to the actor whose performance of Hamlet gave evidence of thoughtful labour. But in his own profession it was otherwise. Some of our charming actors, and some of our refined and gen tlemanly burlesque writers, took pleasure in gibing , in their own graceful manner at " the Frenchman who acted Shakspere, and on several occasions a very malicious feeling has been shown towards Mr. Fechter by the small deer who in the present degraded state of dramatic art are able to put themselves pro minently forward at our theatres. After Hamlet the actor was less fortunate ; he played Othello, and in this most trying of all'Shaksperian characters he, failed, and failed utterly. Next he acted lago, and his lago was as good as his Othello was bad ; so good indeed that some thought it the best of all his impersonations, and a nearly perfect repre sentation of the character. Unfortunately, the public were still under the impression produced by the unlucky attempt at Othello, and a very remark able exhibition of dramatic power passed almost un noticed. Some time after this, Mr. Fechter left.the Princess's, and, in due course, came again before tha world in the position, now so common, of actor and manager, having assumed the direction of the prettiest and most ruinous theatre in London. Ilia management was undoubtedly at first a perfect suc cess, so far as the mere filling of the theatre went. "The Duke's Motto" ran for an enormous number of nights, but the more discriminating amongst his admirers felt great regret at finding that he appa rently colitemplated nothing more than reproducing here, with elaborate scenery and "startling effects," that least satisfactory of all kinds of French literary works, the " Drame du Boulevard." It was hoped that the actor who had shown so much intelligence, not only in his own impersonations, but in teaching, so far as they could be taught, the rather dull per formers who surrounded him; who in almost every thing he had done in London had appealed to culti vated, not to vulgar taste, would, when he came to manage a theatre, collect around him competent actors, and would attempt to produce, in a fitting manner, plays of sterling merit. Nothing of the kind happened. Mr. Fechter, as manager, proved not one whit better than other managers, and in some respects rather worse. Some known theatri cal names were announced in his playbills, but the owners of these names did not appear on, his stage, and in these same playbills the manager's name standing out in tyre three times as large as that which served for the other performers, showed , in a sufficiently vulgar way, that the Lyceum re lied on the attractiveness of one actor only. For a time the system prospered ; Mr. Fechter had j nstlY achieved considerable renown, and people went in crowds to see him 'in an indifferent translation of a very poor melodraina ; 'for such small point as there was in "Le Bossu" was entirely wanting in " The Duke's Motto." But, clever as he is, Mr. Fechter could not keep a series of bad plays living. " Bel Demonio" was even more extravagant and feeble than its predecessor. Londoners eau stand a good deal at the theatre, but a hero wh°, apparently cut his way first through an army, anti afterwards through a stone wall, was too much col for Londoners, and the play, without failing, had but feeble life in the uncongenial climate on the north side 'of the Thames. Mr. Fechter then altered his course, and resumed the character in which Il e •• had won a legitimate triumph, appearing as Haw' let, and bringing back many whom the noisy melo dramas had driven from his theatre. In " the King's Butterfly" Mr. Fechter once more brought out an elaborately -mounted absurdity, which NW"' utterly ; and since then has varied his characters , his new assumptions having been in " The Road - , side Inn" and " The Mountebank." These plan owed their celebrity to the exceptional genius of Frederic Lemaitre, and, though Mr. Fechter playa' • exceedingly well in both, they cannot be said to. have added anything to his fame. At present his old admirers prefer to see him as Hamlet, or if he • takes a lower line, as Huy Blas or Don Caesar de Bazan. In the last of these characters especially, the merits of this strangely-transplanted actor are seen to particular advantage. To use Macklin'S emphatic phrase, The part hits him, and he hits the part." Nothing can be better than the first entry of the drunken, ragged Don Caesar, and his half defiant, half contemptuous manner towards the angry mob around him. Very admirable, too, is his quarrel with the surly lieutenant, and the last impetuous burst in which he determines to fight his duel coute qui coute. COUNTRY MARKETS -----v , ----- NORWICH-SATURDAY. There was but a thin attendance at this market to-dal , and only a fair supply of wheat offering. Few transac tions took place, at from 6d to is per qr. less than last Sit turday. Barley, oats, beans, and peas remained with.ou ti alteration. White wheat (weighing 631 b to 641 b), 48s to 49s ; re d ditto (weighing 631 b to' U4lb), 40s to 42s ; best malting barley (weighing 551 b to 561 b), 30$ to 33s ; runs ditW .(weighing 541 b to 551 b), 28s to 30s ; distilling ditto (weig.,r s f) ing 521 b to 531 b), 24s to 26s ; oats, 24s to 26s ; beans, „, to 39s ; peas (maple), '36s to 38s* per qr • flour, 26s to 6d per sack. ' ' • NO T TiNGHAR—sATuRDAy. of At our corn exchange to-day,there was a fair supply ~0 wheat for the time of the year, The tone of the trade iv `a flat, and a limited business done at about is per qr. les ; money. The supply of barley limited. There was 1 24 much inquiry, but sellers held out fo r the cu rre ncies of week preceding ;" coarse samples a . shade lower. Th er „ - was a thin supply of oats, fo r w hi c h re cent rates Ive, i ," mostly made. Beans small show, with a small rise on Pr vious rates. Peas-scarce, and flour unaltered. S q Old white wheat, 42s to 47s ; .old red, 40s to 435 ; !- white, 42s to 47s ;- new, red, 38s to 40s per 36 . stone. P ar t ; ley, new malting, 28s to 35s per qr ; old grinding, 26 0 ,, s 28s ; new, 25s to 27s per 30 stone. Oats, old, 25s to new, 22s to 25e ; old foreign, 240 to 26s per stone. 1 3 °''' old, 405 to 43d ; new, 37s to 40s per 38 stone. LEIOES TER--SATuRDAY. The show of wheat at our market to-day was t o lerabl e ' The inquiry was languid, and holders had to submit to.* small reduction: Barley dull, and late rates qiffi c uit t ° support. Oats a middling show, and business d ull at re" cent prices. Beans sold readily ; prices tended upwar ds i . i r Old white wheat, 41s to 46s ; old red, 38s to 435,; white 41s to 46s ; new red, 37s to 41s per 36 stone. ley, Malting, 31s to 34s per qr. ; grinding, 27s to 29s Pe r 0 , stone. Oats, old, 24s to 27s ; new, 22s to 24s per 24 AO Beans, old, 39s to 41s ; new, 36s to 38s per 38 stone. YORK—SATURDAY. The. dulness of tho corn trade generally throughout th country, coupled with the forcing weather, has had a pressing effect upon our market to-day, and the demon is very slow at is per qr. less money. New white wheat, 41s to 47s ; new red, 37s to 40s P e e , 36 stone. Barley, for malting, 30s to 32s per qr ; griO int : 26s to 28s per 30 stone. Oats, new, 20s to 24s per 24 ston er Beans, 38s to 40s per 38 stone. Malt, 58s ; rye, 28 8 qr. Flour, 29s per sack of 2801 b. DUBLIN. FRIDAY. ;, 1 There was a very dull market for everything, and PrA n . - a . o e of all kinds tending downwards. An auction of fo re ;7o oats to-day prevented business in this article. C " 3d lower. Flour and oatmeal in nominal dethand oulYa o ,, Currencies :—White wheat, 22s 6d. to 24s 6d ; red sit . 20s 6d to 22s Od; grinding barley, 12s Od to 13s Od; In t o, ing do., 13s to 14s 6d; white oats, 11s to 12s; black 108 Od to lls Od. Births. ATHERLEY.—On the 25th inst., at 14, Cromwell-road , ° Kensington, the Lady Isabel Atherley, of a son. ARCH.—On the 26th inst., at Sydenham, Mrs. JoseP ll of a son. Wi ld° BROWNE.—On the 26th inst., the wife of Captain Browne, of a daughter. 10 ° DEBENHAM.—On the 26th inst., at 42, Wigraore-street) wife of Frank Debenham, of a son. Marriages. PATTERSON—HEATON.—On the 25th inst. a t at Ilemiart, es, bighshire, George Patterson, Esq., .RN., to Fl e tlio fourth daughter of the late John Heaton, En./ °— lion. A. E. Heaton, of Plas Heaton. , TARRATT—STEWART.—On the 26th • inst., at rg to Daniel Fox Tarratt, Esq., late of ll.M.'s 63d 11 °g" a Mary, eldest daughter of John Lorn Stewart, Bsq'' Coll, Argyleshire. eath. Comm.--On the 26th in D st , at s Foregate-street, Hugh Colley, Esq., of Chu . rton-heath, and Ilolrao Cheshire, aged 85. " BAILER.—On the 25th inst. a t Yorke-terrace, NONV 13105 ton, J. W. Baker, Esq., Clerk of Works, Royal Department, aged 41. BAYLEY.—On the 25th inst , at Southshore, B lackpool, s tc Bayley, Esq., late of Prestwich - wood, near Dlan che aged 42. ELoT.—O Gilbert nthe lio2Estlhitr a t o ., ed 39. at11 .... Hastings, Lieutoolo the Hon . 0 ~,„ of Fiscumt.—On the 25th inst., J o h n Philip Fischer, xVilie Great Tower-street, City, and Pebble ea Coomto, at.o Oaks, Walton-on-the-hill, Surrey, ag 64. zscOt London: Printed and Publibhed by WIL LIAM ANDI.'' , of No. 112, Strand, Pinter, at THE Surf Office, Dio Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the County Bliddlesex.,Monday, May 29, 1865.