The Sun. — London, England, 1866-01-09 00:00:00

The Cattle Plague. CORNWALL. The plague has made considerable progress in Cornwall during the past week, and there now ap pears to be a general conviction among farmers that severe regulations should be promptly enforced. The committee of magistratesappointed at the Quar ter Sessions on the 2d inst., to consider the best course to be adopted in the county with a view to the sup pression of the disease, have since devoted much at tention to the question ; and although all the details have not been completed by them, we are enabled to state that they have decided on carrying out the most stringent measures to prevent the removal of cattle from the farm of their owners, and that cattle now grazing on commons and unenclosed lands will be allowed only a few days for their removal after the issue of the new order, which will take place im mediately after the adjourned Sessions to be held on Friday next. Since last week's report in The Sun, Truro and neighbourhood have again suffered se verely. In the town of Truro Mr. Reynalds, the mayor, lost six; Mr. Brewer, dairyman, five; Mr. Collins one, Mr. Farley two, Mr. Drew one, and Mr. Pearce one; several cattle are in a very bad condi tion. Mr. Gidley, of Little Killiow, lost two, and has one bad; Mr. W. Keast, of St. Allen, five, and four bad; Mr. Vercoe, of Trispin, two, and one bad. The disease has made its appearance among a large and valuable herd belonging to Mr. Rundle, of Canines, and on Saturday two hopeless cases were reported. Mr. Ross, of Newlyn, had his loss aug mented to ten. A fres]) outbreak has been made on the farm of Mr. Oliver, of Park, who lost 15 bul locks, and who hoped that the dreadful disease had left his stock; he has now, however, a fine bull, valued at 70 guineas, very bad, and not expected to recover. On the home farm of Viscount Falmouth, at Tre gothnan, where is one of the finest herds of Devons in the west of England, the disease broke out on Tues day, when a cow, pronounced to be suffering from the rinderpest in an advanced stage, was killed without delay. Several fresh cases have occurred at Carlion, where until the last week the disease had been con fined to two farms, clearing 20 head of cattle ; four more deaths and seven fresh cases are reported. An outbreak was discovered on Wednesday at Bridg end, in the eastern part of the county, and two deaths have since taken place. In the Helston dis trict there is a decided improvement, although there are numerous cases under treatment ; the same re marks apply to the Padstow district. The West Penwith Cattle Plague Committee held their weekly meeting at Penzance on Thursday last. There was a large attendance, and the following views were embodied in a recommendation to the committee appointed by the Quarter Sessions :—That fat cattle be allowed to be driven from a farm to a slaughter house : that a farmer should have the liberty to drive his cattle from any one part of his farm to any other part under the same holding—instances being cited in which farmers present held lands as far distant as one, two, or even three miles from each other, and that provision be made that such persons be allowed to drive their cattle for ordinary farming purposes as heretofore. The inspector for the com mittee reported that 12 animals were bad at Ludg van, 11 at Palgreen, and one at Boskennal ; up to that date 20 had died at Palgreen and 16 had re covered, while at Boskennal 18 had died and one was bad. The 16 that had recovered had been under the muriatic acid treatment. Orders have been issued by the traffic manager of the Cornwall Railway directing that no cattle shall be received at any of the stations for conveyance until the pro duction of the certificate signed by two magistrates, At the Trecan-Gate Petty Sessions, on Thursday, there were two convictions for driving cattle into a prohibited district ; in one case the penalty inflicted was £lO and costs, and in the other £5 and costs. A fine of 20s. and costs was inflicted at Launces ton on the - same day for a similar offence. On Fri day the magistrates of the division of East Middle appointed three veterinary surgeons as inspectors, and allotted a district td each. CUMBERLAND, It was stated in The Sun of Friday that the Cum berland Court of Quarter Sessions had determined to put in force the whole of the restrictive measures which the Orders in Council enabled them to enact; but had appointed a committee to meet weekly and make such exceptions to the rule as the varying cir cumstances of different parts of the county rendered desirable and expedient. That committee met for the first time on Saturday, and considered various propositions. Sitting also as an adjourned Court of Quarter Sessions they made certain relaxations described below. The first business done was to re voke all orders made and notices given by any local authority in the county previous to Jan. 2. The next proposition considered was the re-opening, under certain restrictions, of auction marts for the sale of fat stock. Sir R. Brisco urged that there "would be less danger of the disease spreading if they required all animals taken to the marts to be branded, and slaughtered within 24 hours, or taken by rail out of the district, than if they required fat cattle to be butchered at the farms where they were fed, and so run the risk of butchers carrying the infec tion from place to place. Capt. James, of Barrock park, on the contrary, was opposed to all movement of animals in Cumberland. Cattle could be killed where they were bred, as pigs were now. Sir R. Brisco introduced a motion " to the effect that the auction marts be allowed to be opened for the sale of fat stock." After considerable discussion the motion was lost by 11 to 8. The next question that came under consideration was how to afford facili ties to farmers who are changing their farms to sell their stock by auction upon their premises. A great many sales of the kind usually take place at Candlemas. The Orders in Council do not prohibit such sales upon a man's own premises ; but the pro clamation issued by the Cumberland magistrates prohibits the removal of stock from one parish to another, so that without some relaxation of that rule were allowed these sales would be virtually . stopped. After a long discussion the following re solution was agreed to : " That in case of farm sales, on change of tenants, a certificate of two justices acting on the Cattle Plague Committee shall be sufficient authority for the removal of any cattle so sold or moved, and shall exempt the parties moving such cattle from any penalties under the Orders of Council." At the suggestion of the Chief Constable (Mr. Dunne), it was decided to prohibit the movement of stock from one parish to another between the hours of 6 p.m. and 6 a.m. until March 1. The Chief Constable applied for leave to employ a maximum of 30 additional men and ten horses to enable him to Carry out the regulations. The magistrates were doubtful whether such an expenditure as this would entail could be defrayed out of the county funds; and it was resolved to communicate with the Secre tary;of State upon the subject. Meanwhile the court undertook the risk of employing them. The:plague still makes progress in the county. In Cumberland 'Ward since the beginning of November there have been above 300 deaths of infected beasts, and 80 are now under treatment ; in the Wigton district, the only other infected district of the county, the deaths lave been 75, and 40 are under treatment. HEREFORDSHIRE. The cattle plague, which broke out some weeks ago among the herds of cattl e i n t h e neighbourhood of Bro m yard, in this county, h as proved most de structive. Mr. Dent, of Moreton Jeffries, h as l ost between 90 and 100 head ; Mr. Goo c h, o f Felton, has lost the w hole of his lierd ; Mr. O wers , o f Iring ton Bury, near Leominster, has loss 50 out of 51, some of the animals h av ing been purchased at from 50 to 80 guineas each, and in the particular district where the plague broke out deaths are occurring daily. A county meeting has just been held for the purpose of determining the most advisable measures to be taken to arrest the progress of the plague. Mr. King King, M.P., presided, and Lord Bateman and Sir Joseph Bailey, M.P., were among those present. The following resolutions were adopted, and a deputation was appointed to wait upon Sir George Grey, at the Home-office : " 1. That no cattle imported into this country shall be removed from the ports at which they are landed, and that no hides shall be removed from any such place unless Properly disinfected. 2. That all fairs and markets for the sale of cattle, sheep, and swine be immediately stoped. " 3. That no living cattle be allowed to be re moved from the premises of the owner for the time being for any purpose without the owner having first obtained the certificate of an inspect )r and the justices assembled in Petty Sessions that sw h cattle are free from the plague. That no living cattle, sheep, or pigs, and no hides of cattle, unless disin fected, be allowed to be removed from any parish or place within two miles of an infectcd herd upon any terms or for any purpose. "4. That a cordon be drawn round all diseased herds, from which no animal shall be removed, and that all cattle at present suffering from the disease shall be seized and slaughtered, and that the Go vernment pay two-thirds the market value of the animals so slaughtered. "5. That a national assurance association be set on foot under Government guarantee." A memorial to the Privy Council in support of the last-named resolution has also been adopted. At the Quarter Sessions Lord Bateman introduced the subject, and recommended the appointment of a committee to draw up regulations for the county of Hereford, under the Order in Council of December 16. Accordingly the committee, consisting of his lordship and three other magistrates, made their re port to the adjourned sessions, held on Thursday, in pursuance of which the following orders were issued to-day :—No. 1 revokes all petty sessional orders previously issued ; No. 2 prohibits the re moval of any cow, heifer, bull, bullock calf, sheep, or swine to any market or fair within their jurisdic tion except as thereinafter provided ; No. 3 pro hibits the removal of any animal as above beyond the boundary line of any parish except where a farm is in two parishes ; No. 4 forbids their removal from farms where the plague has broken out, or within two miles of an infected farm; No. 5, no animal to be slaughtered except within the limits of the farm where it has been fed; No. 6, the skins, hoofs, hides, or horns of animals not to be removed from any farm or land whereon the cattle plague exists. It was ordered that the above should be advertised. HERTFORDSHIRE. At the meeting of the magistrates of the Hertford petty sessional division on Saturday, Mr. Brandram, of Chapmore-end, and several other leading farmers attended, for the purpose of representing the incon venience to which they would be put by the recent order of the Quarter Sessions. Mr. Brandram said the farmers felt that very stringent regulations were necessary, but they thought there were inconsisten cies in the order which pressed with peculiar hard ship upon them. Cattle were allowed to be sent for any distance along the public roads to the nearest railway station, for the purpose of being carried " through or out of" the district ; but they were not allowed to be sent by the farmer to the butcher's slaughterhouse. This appeared to him to be an ab surdity, for there was no more danger in sending cattle along the roads for one purpose than for an other, and the farmer would suffer seriously if he were hindered from sending his oxen to the butcher who might want to purchase them. Mr. Baker (the chairman) said the Bench had no power to alter the order of the Quarter Sessions. Baron Dimsdale remarked that the Order in Council allowed cattle to be carried by railway, and the Quarter Sessions had merely made the necessary provision that they might pass along the road to the nearest railway station, if the owner had a certifi cate of health. Mr. Brandram—But there is this inconsistency in the order, that I may send my oxen to a railway station, but must not let them stop at the butcher's slaughterhouse, which they have to pass ontheroad. I think it would have been well if the magistrates had consulted some practical farmers before they issued their order. The Chairman acknowledged that there was a good deal of reason in what Mr. Brandram said, but remarked that the subject was surrounded with difficulties. Mr. Brandram—l wish to put a case to the Bench. Suppose I sell half a dozen bullocks to a butcher at Ware, the order allows me to send them by the most direct road to the railway station at Hertford, which is several miles from my farm ; and I want to know whether, when they arrive at Ware, I may take them out of the railway truck and drive them to the butcher's. I presume the order allows me to do this, - beeause it says that beasts may be driven along the road to the nearest railway station, for the purpose of being conveyed by rail way " through or out of the jurisdiction of the court." Does not the word " through," in contrast with the words " out of," mean that cattle may be conveyed through a portion of the jurisdiction of the court ? Mr. Robert Dimsdale said that the permission to take cattle along the public road only applied to the cases in which they were going to a railway station. Cattle could not be removed from a railway station along any highway or public road. Mr. Enever, a farmer and dealer residing at Es senden, said he had hired the feed in several parts of the neighbourhood in which he lived, and had a con siderable number of cattle lying about. Some were in the park of the late Baron Dimsdale, and some in other places. The term for which he had hired the feed in these places had not expired, but it would shortly do so, and he sought the advice of the ma gistrates as to what he should do under the circum stances. The order of the Quarter Sessions pro hibited the removal of cattle from one place to another ; and what he wanted to know was whether when the term of his hiring was up, and the owners of the lands where his cattle now were turned them out into the roads he might drive them home, or whether he must leave them in the roads to starve. Mr. Abel Smith—The order of the Quarter Ses sions comes in force from the 6th of January ; and, therefore, I should think you may take your cattle home to-day. Mr. Enever—l cannot do that. I have business in Hertford, and cannot get home in time. The Chairman said that the magistrates in Petty Sessions could do nothing in the matter, and that application had better be made to the adjourned Quarter Sessions on Saturday next. Mr. Enever—Well, gentlemen, if I get into trouble, I hope you will recollect that I have been here for your advice. Mr. Brandram intimated, on the part of the farmers present, that they would attend before the Quarter Sessions to present their remonstrances on Saturday next. NOTTINGHAM. A deputation from the butchers of Nottingham waited upon the Mayor at the police court on Satur day for the purpose of asking his worship if they would be allowed to slaughter cattle in the borough. There had been a large meeting of the butchers of the town on Friday evening in the hide and skin market to consider the question, but the meeting had been adjourned until Monday, in order that his worship's opinion might be first known. Mr. Everall, solicitor (who represented the deputation), said that the butchers of the town appeared to be labouring under an idea that peculiar restrictions were made towards them. They wished to know whether they, having purchased cattle from a dis tance, and obtaining from the place as it were a clean bill of health, complying with the new order in Council, could bring those cattle to Nottingham to be slaughtered in a given time. The county magistrates had issued very restrictive . orders ; and clause 18 of the order did not prohibit cattle passing through a district by rail. The butchers of Notting ham thought that this might be interpreted to bring them to Nottingham or to any other place for the pur pose of slaughter. He thought the caseswereparallel. The Mayor asked the deputation to illustrate a case. Mr. Everall said, supposing a butcher purchased cattle anywhere, and obtained from the inspector of the district a certificate that the cattle purchased were in a sa ti s f actory state of health, a proper mark being placed on a corresponding part of the certifi cate, and the cattle then sent by rail to Nottingham and slaughtered in a given time, would that meet with the sanction of the magistrates ? The Mayor said he believed Mr. Everall was right in his inter pretation of the order respecting the bringing of cattle from a distance, but the orders his worship had given had been wilfully thwarted and dis obeyed, rand were it indiscriminately allowed all orders from the bench would be disobeyed. Mr. Page (ex -mayor) gave an instance how the certifi cates of the bench had been thwarted. A butcher might receive 30 beasts from Liverpool, and, instead of their being all slaughtered in Nottingham, some were killed at Snewton, others at Bradford (vil lages adjoining), and some brought to Nottingham. To have kept faith with the magistrates, they ought all to have been slaughtered at Nottingham. Mr. Everall did not intend to defend such conduct as that, and he was sure respectable butchers would take the same view of the question. The Mayor said he foresaw the difficulty of depriving a large town like Nottingham of its supply of food, but his first orders had been very much evaded. It was a subject of the greatest importance, and he thought that the bench had nothing to do but to carry out the present order. The disease was very much on the increase in the country. He was anxious to discharge his duty, which he considered a national one under the present circumstances. He should ask the deputation to give their request in writing, so that he might be able to fully consider it, and he would then give them his decided opinion. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY •EVENING, JANUARY 9, 1860. RADNORSHIRE. The magistrates, at the Radnorshire Quarter Ses sions, at the quarterly meeting on Thursday, fully discussed the Order in Council of the 16th of De cember, and adopted a series of resolutions in conformity therewith, of which the following is the substance :—From the 4th of January to the Ist of March no bull, cow, bullock, heifer, calf, sheep, or swine is to be removed to any place within the juris diction of the Court, or to any fair or market for the purpose of sale or otherwise, save as afterwards pro vided. No bull, &c., to be removed across the boundary line of any parish, save in the case of oc cupiers of farms in two or more parishes. But cattle sold to be slaughtered may be removed to any town or place within the county on the certificate of the guardians of the parish where such cattle may be located, that they are free from disease and do not come from any infected place, such certificate to be countersigned by a magistrate. The cattle to be slaughtered within 48 hours after their arrival in such town or place. No such cattle to be re moved between 6 p.m. and 6 a.m. Where the cattle plague shall have appeared no such animals are to be removed from their respective farms. The fifth resolution forbids the introduction " from any place whatever within Great Britain into any place within this jurisdiction of any bull, cow, bullock, heifer, sheep, or swine, or any skins, hides, hoofs, or horns." The inspectors appointed heretofore by the magis trates acting in the several petty sessional districts of the county are reappointed as inspectors for the county in case the disease shall appear. SHROPSHIRE. On Saturday an adjourned meeting was held at Shrewsbury, Lord Hill presiding, when resolutions were adopted, calling upon the Government to sanction the establishment of a national insurance scheme. It was also resolved that, after the 15th inst. and until the Ist day of March next, no cow, heifer, bullock, ox, or calf shall be removed from any place whatever within their jurisdiction, save and except only from lands and premises in the said county adjoining to such first-mentioned lands or premises being in the occupatior of the same party or parties. STAFFORDSHIRE (NORTH). Since our last report many fresh losses from the plague have occcrred in this district, and in some cases the additional deaths have made losses very heavy, as in those of Mr. Tomkinson, who has lost 30 head of cattle altogether, and Mr. Glover, whose loss now amounts to 15 ; while Mr. Hammond, Bowerend, has lost during the last week or two 26 cows, Miss Bourne, Weston, 25, and the plague having appeared among the cattle of Mr. Sparrod, near Eccleshall, the whole of the stock, 26 head, have been slaughtered. WORCESTERSHIRE. The declaration or order of the Worcestershire Court of Quarter Sessions for preventing the exten sion of the plague in this county was promulgated on Saturday, whereby it is ordered that from that day (Jan. 6) all former orders made by justices in Petty Sessions shall be revoked, and it is declared expedient from that day until the Ist March next " altogether to prevent the removal of any cow, heifer, bull, bullock, ox, calf, sheep, lamb, goat, or swine to any market or fair, or to any place what ever within the said county for the purpose of ex hibition or sale," and that no animals (as above) shall be brought from any other part of Great Bri tain into the county. It is also ordered that no such animal, except under licence of a justice of the peace, shall be removed from one place to another within the said county, so or in such manner as to pass across or along any public pathway, or the sides thereof, except that every person ought to be at liberty, at his own discretion, to bring or send any such animal across or along any public highway or the sides thereof, either for the sole purpose of re moving such animal from land or premises in the said county, in his own occupation, to any other lands or premises not being distant more than one mile therefrom in the said county, and also in his own occupation ; or such animal being a cow or heifer requiring to be sent to a bull for the sole pur pose of taking her, - either with or without another animal as a companion, any distance not exceeding one mile each way going and returning to and from the bull." A duplicate of every licence issued by a magistrate is to be deposited with the Clerk of the Peace of the county ; and it is provided also that, in the construction of this regulation, the municipal boroughs of Dudley, Kidderminster, Bewdley, Droitwich, and Evesham are not to be deemed parts of the county. All persons offending against these regulations are to forfeit a sum not exceeding £2O. YORKSHIRE (NORTH AND EAST RIDINGS). In the divisions north and south of Malton the opening week of the year has shown little if any diminution of the plague. The reports are that in Buckrose (East Riding Wolds) there are fewer new cases of outbreak, but the mortality in old places has been severe. The reports in New Malton (North Riding division) are that there has been what is now strangely named " an average" mor tality, but the new outbreaks are numerous—par ticularly at Hatton. The disease still continues worst upon the heights and in the broad alluvial tracts of country, the middle elevations being free. This singular immunity is causing speculation on the effects of atmosphere—the disease ragest fiercest where the air is densest and lightest, the middle belt of country being exempt. The disease has now fairly gained a hold in the eastward division (Pick ering Lyth, east and west), and has extended to the moorlands. In Great Habton, Rookbaugh, Thornton Marishes, and Lund Forest the plague is raging badly, and new cases are breaking out daily. The alarm has been great, and in consequence the example set by Malton has been copied by Picker ing, where an assurance society is being formed. North of the Howardian range the plague is very severe, and it is reported that in the Easingwold district 733 deaths by the axe or disease have oc curred up to the present time. At Malton, on Saturday, a discussion was held on the proposal started by Sir T. Beauchamp, the vice-chairman of the Norwich Cattle Assurance Association, to eradicate the disease by killing every affected and suspected head of cattle on a certain day. Averse as farmers were from the poleaxe at first, they are now beginning to think Professor Gamgee's advice to kill was the best, and that cure is unknown, and the inspectors say a suggestion to destroy a beast is readily acted upon now. There seems to be just one difficulty in the way of the wholesale slaughter suggested by the Norwich baronet—that of compen sation ; a Government promise to pay would go far to secure a general experiment for burying the affected cattle, and with them the plague. Thenotion has certainly found very considerable favour. Another peculiarity of the week is the demand that has sprung up for rock salt and tan. The former is readily licked by the cattle and is stated to have yielded benefit ; and the latter is regarded as a disinfectant or preventive from the singular fact that some cases of entire escape from plague have occurred where the land was dressed with tan, and that no case of plague has been reported near a tannery. Be this as it may, an enormous accumu lation of spent bark outside Malton—which for many years has been daily increasing—has suddenly acquired value, and quantities are being led away for the purpose of strewing over the land. The re solutions at Quarter Sessions come to last week hav- puzzled farmers very much, and on Saturday the magistrates at the Norton-court were waited upon for interpretations of the orders. The North and East Ridings have not uniform regulations, but it seems quite clear that in both the removal of cattle is, as far as possible, suppressed. Mahon being the border town of the two Ridings, is peculiarly affected by the orders, the town being in the North, but the railway is the East Riding ; thus the North Rid ing cannot take cattle to the railway, and the East Riding cannot send in for slaughter. The pecu liarities of the case and the hardship and incon venience likely to arise were admitted, but without special legislation to meet the Malton case there is no remedy. The Superintendent of Police at Mal ton also waited upon the bench to report that con trary to the North Riding order prohibiting the sale of " sheep, lambs, pigs, and goats," in addition to cattle, the market was held on Saturday, every attender being liable to a penalty of £.2o—equally enforceable against seller and buyer. Ignorance of the order was pleaded in every case, and the bench thought as so limited a time had elapsed no proceed ings could in fairness be taken. A regret was ex pressed that " sheep, pigs, &c.," were not included in the East Riding regulations ; and during the dis cussion a person in court vehemently called out for the suppression of fox-hunting, protesting that " the foxhounds were worst of all." A proposal has been made in the North Riding to restrain the move ments of dogs. It is now certain that a disease similar to the rinderpest has attacked the pigs--in stances having occurred in Malton last week. Senate Debate on the President's Re construction Message. Owing to the interest everywhere felt in the subject we append a report of the brief but spirited debate in the United States Senate on the President's Reconstruction Message. Mr. Sommt.—l wish to make one remark with refe rence to the business before the Senate. I wish to know whether the report of Major-General Carl Schurz is annexed to the Message of the President ? Mr. FOSTER (in the chair.) —The Chair understands that it is. Mr. SIININER.—Then I think it had better bo read. Several Senators—lt is too long. Mr. Smarm—At any rate we can begin it ; it is a very important document. The Senate will remember that when the report was made out on the condition of affairs in Kansas every word was read at that desk. Now the question involved is much more important. We have a Message from the President, latch is like the whitewashing Message of Franklin Pierce with regard to the atrocities in Kansas. I think the Senate had better listen to the report of General Schurz on this important subject. Mr. JOHNSON said ho was surprised to hear the Senator from Massachusetts characterized the Message as an attempt to whitewash. There was no whitewashing about it. It was a fair and clear statement of facts, called for by the Senate. He thought the report of General Schurz had better be printed, together with the other documents. The reading of General Schurz's report was commenced, but the Clerk had not proceeded far when Mr. SHERMAN moved that the further reading be dis pensed with, and that the report be printed. Mr. SUMNER—I shall not object to that if the Senator from Ohio thinks that it is proper we should, on this im portant occasion, dispense with the reading. I think the Senate could not listen to anything of more impor tance than that accurate and authentic report regarding the actual condition of things in these States. Here is an eminent citizen, lately a Major-General in the Army of the United States, sent on a special mission by the President to visit these States and report upon their con dition. Ho has made a visit, not hasty, like General Grant, for instance, or some other officers or citizens, but a visit occupying time, and extending through the diffe rent States, and ho has recorded the results in an elabo rate document. Now, sir, if the question were a trivial one, if it were a transitory question, I would think with the Senator from Ohio that it had better not be read. If 'the Senator insists upon his motion I shall not object. Mr. SIT:ERMAN objected to the reading of the report as not being in accordance with custom. Mr. DOOLITTLE—The Senator from Massachusetts gave expiession to one remark which brought, it seems to me, injustice to himself, and which he ought to qualify, if not altogether to retract. Speaking of the Message just re ceived from the President, he said it was like the ►white washing Message of Franklin Pierce .to cover up the transactions in Kansas ; and that the affairs in these States sought to be covered up and whitewashed by the Message of the President were much worse than those affairs in Kansas. Now, Mr. President, I think the Senator from Massachusetts must have let fall that ex pression without giving it sufficient thought. I cannot believe that the Senator, occupying the high position he does, representing the great State he does wishes to be understood as stating here in the Senate and to the country, that this Message just received from the President is a whitewashing Message, seeking to cover up or conceal certain transactions—a state of things in finitely worse than the transactions in Kansas. That terrible affair, which was the beginning of all our troubles, was a civil war iu itself—the prelude to the great war from which we have 'just emerged. I believe, sir, that the honourable Senator from Massachusetts will at least qualify, if he does not wholly retract, this strong expres sion. Mr. SUMMER—I have nothing to qualify ;. nothing to modify; nothing to retract. In former days there was but one Kansas to suffer under illegal power. Now there are eleven liansases suffering only as ono suffered ; there fore, sir, as eleven are more than one, so is the enormity of the present time more than the enormity of the days of Franklin Pierce. Mr. Dixox.—The Senator from Massachusetts says the enormities in the States lately in rebellion are greater than those of Kansas in former days. I beg leave to remind that Senator that that is not precisely the question raised by the Senator from Wisconsin. There is no question here as to the misconduct of anybody in Kansas, or in the Southern States. The charge has been directly made in the Senate that the President of the United States has sent in a whitewashed report with regard to these enor mities. Now, sir, I cannot pass that in silence. What is a whitewashed report ? It is a report intended to cover up by falsehood and misstatements certain facts. That is a whitewashed report. Now, sir, as a friend of the Pre sident (and I express no exclusive or peculiar friendship for him) I cannot sit quietly and listen in silence to such charges. I sustain the policy of the President as I under stand it ; not because it is the President's policy, but because it is right. I believe in the truth of the state ments he has made, and although he needs no defence I cannot suffer such charges to go to the country without a protest. Mr. DOOLITTLE spoke again at this point. Mr. SUMNER—I am sorry that I have given pain to my honorable friends ; I certainly did not intend to do so. They suggest that the question has been raised as to the policy of the President. I have raised no such question, and have expressed no opinion in regard to it. The Senator from Wisconsin dwells on that point, and reminds the Senate that the policy of the President was not in question. I knew it was not in question, and, therefore, expressed no opinion on it ; for when I speakj in this body I try to speak directly to the question. There was then no question directly before the Senate. Had there been I should have been ready to meet it. The only question was on the character of the document read, and that I characterized as a "whitewashing document." My honorable friends rose one after another, and like two lexicographers proceeded to give a definition of the word " whitewash." I do not accept their definition. I intended no such meaning as either the Senator from Connec ticut or the Senator from Wisconsin has attempted to give. I have no reflection to make on the patriotism or truth of the President of the United States. Never in public or in private have I made any such reflection, and do not begin now. When I spoke, I spoke of a docu ment that had been read at the desk, and I characterized it and thought it ought to be characterized. My memory goes back in this chamber further than that of many I see about me. I remember the other scene when a white washing Message did come into this body from Franklin Pierce. We all called it a whitewashing report, and lam not aware that any one then on the other side undertook what my honorable friends from Wisconsin and from Connecticut have undertaken to do to-day. We all felt then that Mr. Pierce's Message was a whitewashing docu ment. I simply undertook to-day, after hearing the docu ment read at the desk, to characterize it as the patriotic party of 1856 characterized the Message of Franklin Pierce. PRESENTATION TO M. BENJAMIN MORAN.—We learn from a letter of the London correspondent of the Chicago Tribune, one of the most ably-edited newspapers in the United States, that Mr. Moran, the United States Secre tary of Legation to this Court, has been made the reci pient of an original and really splendid portrait in oil of General Washington. The correspondent states that the donor is an English gentleman, in whose family the portrait has remained since the original sat for it, and who presents it to the Secretary of Legation as a mark of high personal esteem, and because, in his opinion, such a relic should be in possession of an American before all others. An ancestor of the donor, an Englishman, was on intimate terms with the General, who became godfather to his third child, and sat for this portrait to the eminent artist Pyne. The painting was brought away to Europe, and during the present century has remained at the family seat in Wales, lost, as it were, to the whole world. Now, however, it is in the hands of a gentleman who will prize it at its full value, a gentleman who, notwithstanding the very delicate position he has to fill in this country, appears to change all acquaintances into warm and endearing friends. It is peculiarly appropriate that such a portrait should be in such hands. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TIMES.—It is to be feared that a Bank rate of discount at eight per cent. has lost its terrors. Ten years ago the payment of such a price for the loan of ready money meant a panic in the Discount market ; merchants on 'Change would shake their heads over the catastrophe, the wildest rumours of old-established houses toppling to a fall would be put in circulation, and everybody would be afraid of his neighbour. To-day it almost seems as if the rise in the Bank rate was a matter of no conse quence whatever. Business has become so profit able that any sum may be paid for the ready money required in carrying it on without seriously affect ing the gain of the merchant. Orders continue to be executed on credit as though the supply of dis posable capital in the hands of money-lenders was unlimited, and no one cares to think of what would happen were the stream once interrupted. Our ex port trade increases, our imports are at a standstill; and though a prudent man of business here and there asks what is to come next, the unthinking majority are as ready to deride his caution to-day as they will be to-morrow to denounce the Bank Charter Act, or some other harmless enactment, for evils which are the direct consequence of their own imprudence. There has been, no doubt, much in the last six months to tempt exporters to push trade to the utmost, especially those exporters who carry on business with the United States. The close of the war left the markets of the Federation empty, and partly on account of this scarcity of commodi ties, partly through the influence of an inflated cur rency, prices were enormously high. Every one be lieved, with reason, that there was a magnificent prospect before the American nation, now happily reunited, and every onewas confident,without, how ever, the same warrant, that the restored prosperity would continue to increase without a break. It is true, as Mr. M' C ulloch, the Secretary of the Treasury, has since confessed, that the trade of the United States has been and is in an exceedingly feverish and unhealthy condition ; it is true, that our ex porters got little money in return for their goods, and that there was a very slender import of commo dities by way of exchange; the few merchants who attached any importance to these facts hoped they would be able to realise their gains before any in terruption of the apparent prosperity happened, and the rest were content to ignore the existence of cir cumstances which ought to have inspired them with caution. Accordingly, our trade with the Union has increased enormously since the peace. Prices have remained so high within the States that, in spite of the disadvantages our manufacturers suffer in consequence of their goods being loaded with heavy Protectionist duties, large profits have been made by exporters. In the month-of October, 1864, the whole value of British produce exported to the United States was less than £496,500 ; in the same month of 1865 it amounted to £2,510,750. The increase in the total value of our exports in Novem ber, 1865, oyer the same month of 1864 was more than £3,500,000, and of this increase the greaterpart is due to the increased trade with the Union. The value of cotton piece goods, for example, exported to the States, the trade in which is perhaps more than any other affected by the prohibitory legisla tion of Congress, shot up from £33,834 in Novem ber, 1864, to £641,712 in the same month of 1865 ; the value of haberdashery and millinery rose in the same way from £11,233 to £114,045 ; of linen manu factures, from £136,199 to £535,162 •, of woollen goods from £34,500 to £560,000 ; and the rise in the value! of metals exported in the same month was more than £265,000. It is believed that a compari son of the trade of December, 1865, with that of December, 1864, the returns of which are not yet issued, would show a similar increase in the value of the goods exported to America. An abstract of the trade between Liverpool and the principal ports of the United States confirms the belief, since it states the number of packages of British textile manufactures exported in the last six months of 1865 to have been 131,804, against 34,138 in the same half of 1864 ; while the number in the month of December alone was 26,698, against 5,414. The increase in foreign silks and fancy goods exported from Liverpool in the latter half of 1865 has been still more remarkable ; the number of packages in the six months rose from 12,906 to 62,335, and in the month of December from 1,967 to 12,103. These last figures exceed the corresponding num bers in the year before the Civil War in the States, but there is little or no reason to suppose that the extent of our trade with the Union is greater now than we may fairly hope it will permanently be when the nation is completely restored to its former condition. The magnitude of the trade is dangerous just at present, because it is a trade carried on al most wholly on credit. The computed real value of the wheat imported from the Federation in the first ten months of 1865 was only £450,107 against £3,547,858 in the same months of 1864, and the value of wheat-meal and flour was only £139,000, against 1.1,014,115. The falling off is due to no redundant harvest at home, for our importations from Russia, France, and our other corn-markets in the same period have actually increased in value ; the difference is owing simply to the diminution of the surplus produce in America itself. The impor tation of bullion and specie from the Union has declined in the same way. In the eleven months of 1865 it amounted to £4,138,000, against £6,530,000 in the corresponding period of 1864 ; and in the single month of November the importation fell from £871,800 to £337,221. It is evident that the balance between the Union and ourselves must remain as a debt, unless it has been indirectly paid by some third country, against which there has been a balance of exchange with America. There is every reason to disbelieve this, and the truth is that the balance has been in part provided for by the purchase of Federal obligations on this side—in other words, by a permanent loan—and in part by large extensions of credit on our exporters' books. The exporters have been forced to have recourse to discount houses in their turn, and as long as they did not, in competition with foreign Governments and the projectors of Limited Liability Companies, create a demand in excess of the supply, their profits were large, but the sharp advance of the rate of dis count ought to remind them of the risks they run. In the present state of the American currency mer chants trading with the Union have to contend with more than the ordinary chances of commerce. The capital of their customers is estimated on a medium which is liable to unlooked-for fluctuations of its own, and the trade of the country is abnormal and irregular to a degree which we find it difficult to realise. The effect of the inflated issues of paper money on the mercantile spirit within the Union is, perhaps, a still graver source of danger, since a love of reckless speculation has been generated which the easy credit afforded by European exporters can only serve to encourage. The present condition of the money market is but one more illustration of the truth often insisted upon, but too rarely recognised, that our national savings are insufficient to meet all the possible demands of the world. We do, indeed, accumulate a considerable mass of capital every year, although of late we have probably been in duced by the introduction of new financial agencies to over-estimate the amount of our gains ; but the recurrence of 7 and 8 per cent. at short intervals is a conclusive proof that the demand exceeds the sup-, ply. In the case of the money market the only way to cure the evil is to lessen the demand, and this is the fait which merchants and shippers ought to learn. There is no necessity for raising a cry of alarm, but there is clearly a call for prudence in making arrangements for the coming year. Mr. M'Culloch has warned us of the dangers which threaten the mercantile world in America, and the intimate connexion between the two countries will allow no calamity to befall the States without affect ing us. The Secretary of the Treasury hopes to remove one source of danger by reducing the exag gerated currency of the Union, and we ought to second his attempts by curtailing credits which in volve the same evil in another form. _ POST.—One of the most important distinctions between extreme politicians and moderate politicians consists in the circumstance that - what the latter re gard as a means to an end the former regard as an end in itself. The moderate man is generally a prac tical man, and if he seeks to bring about a political change, it is not merely for its own sake qua change, but for the sake of accomplishing some substantial good, some useful object, distinct from the means employed. The extreme man is gene rally not a practical man, but an enthusiast, with one idea, who scorns anything so material as mere utility, and thinks that to reduce his favourite theory to practice is in itself, and irrespective of results, the highest of all ends, and, indeed, the realisation of the sovereign good. This is as if a man should take medicine not as the means of at taining health, but for the mere sake of taking it. Extreme reformers, for instance, appear to look upon political change not so much as the means for attaining a specific object—unless, indeed, it be a still further change of the like kind—but as the very end and aim of human existence. In a Legislature containing such men as the late Mr. Cobden, Mr. Bright, and those who follow his lead—such men as Mr. T. Hughes, Mr. Foster, and Mr. Stansfeld--we only mention a few—it cannot be said that the opinions and interests of the working classes are unrepresented. Unless the working men are to be represented by working men—which would neces sitate a law for giving effect to that point of the Chartist's creed which provides for payment of members—it would be difficult for them to return to Parliament more able and zealous members than those who are now, and, indeed, any time this cen tury have been, ready to plead their cause. If this be not so, how came the Reform Act to be framed and passed ? And if, as Mr. Bright will have it, the Reform Act deprives the working classes of representation, how. comes it that free trade, the laws in favour of factory workers, the post-office savings banks, and Government annuities and assurances, the abolition of taxes on the necessaries of life, the great and increasing reduction of taxes on the comforts and luxuries of the poor, the repeal of the laws against strikes, and a number of other measures having for their express object the welfare and elevation of the working classes--have been carried through Parliament by large majori ties ? It is impossible to read a debate in which the interest, the well-being, the opinions, and feel ings of the working classes are discussed, either directly or indirectly, without seeing that those classes are very powerfully represented by some of the ablest men in Parliament. It can hardly then be accurately said that the object of the political changes which extreme reformers desire are requisite for the purpose of giving to the working classes that representation in Parliament of which they are des titute at present. As little can it be logically urged, in the face of the numerous measures which have become law within the past thirty or forty years— all of which have had for their object to promote the well-being of the working classes—that political changes are needed to give those classes the means of getting justice done them, and securing that their interests shall be duly consulted and cared for. This being so, there is no other alternative left than that political change must be desired for its own sake—as the be-all and the end-all of political and social life, and not as the means of attaining some other object—always excepting, of course, the particular one of further and more sweeping changes. Still political change and nothing else appears to be the sole end and object in view. There are not wanting political philosophers who maintain that change is good, irrespective of any specific result—not, indeed, for its own sake, how ever, but because old habits, and customs, and in stitutions, if they remain too long the same, are apt to produce a general torpor and stagnation. It is not that they get worn out—according to this theory—if they did there would be an end of them, and all would be well, as new and better ones would take their place. But, instead of this, they get crystallised and hardened ; they grow into the mind of a nation, and warp and distort it, till at last they are looked upon as the laws of the Medes and Persians were by those ancient peoples, or as the Chinese look upon their antiquated customs. Institutions and laws are no longer regarded as made for the nation, but the nation for the express purpose of giving effect to and reverencing its laws and institutions. These things, which, it is urged, originated in early ages of ignorance and barbarism, are not like the clothes of childhood which will wear out and be outgrown ; they are like a suit of armour put on in youth before the stature has attained the proportions of manhood, and kept on for ever afterwards, thus dwarfing and stunting the body to its own narrow dimensions. But the ex treme reformer has no such far-fetched and trans cendental theory as this to adduce in support of his favourite political changes. He does not propose to traverse the Alps for the sake of some object be yond, but for the mere sake of traversing them. Pope's traveller thought and hoped that the first clouds and mountains were the last ; and when he saw hills peeping over hills, and Alps on Alps arise, he began to tremble at the difficulties of the journey. But the extreme reformer has no such misgivings, for it is the journey, the whole journey, and nothing but the journey, that has any attractions for him. The members of the Alpine Club appear to climb their favourite mountains in quest of new sensations or discoveries, or wonderful prospects and landscapes not to be found elsewhere. But it is hardly so with the extreme reformer. The only one thing he really seems to have in common with the Alpine climber is the love of peril and danger. His proximate Alps appear just now in the form of a £lO county franchise, and a franchise of half that amount for the towns ; but beyond these arise in succession household suffrage, manhood suffrage, universal suffrage—including, of course, a female franchise. Before the franchise is done with, however, the question whether 21 is not too advanced an age for people to wait before they begin to exercise their inalienable and unprescriptible birthright, as free citizens, will have to be debated and settled. All these, how ever, are no more than the first ridge of Alps. There are free and secret voting to be se cured by the ballot-box; the equalisation of consti tuencies, involving a redistribution of seats ; as every man and perhaps every woman—at least un marritd women, maintaining themselves by their property or business, and paying taxes—will vote at elections, it would be inconsistent not to let every one be also voted for and returned to Parlia ment ; and as poor people cannot live upon nothing, members will of course have to be paid. Then again, seven sears, or even three of the mono poly of power and pay, would of course be too great an abuse to be tolerated, so that there is nothing for it but to introduce annual Parliaments. 'These other five points of the Charter are so many more ridges of Alps, and by the time they were all sur mounted and passed, the occupation of the extreme reformer would be gone—and, it is feared, a great many other things, which most people consider of value, with it. But, to be logical and consistent with himself, he will not, and indeed cannot, stop with the transit of the first ridge, or any other in the series, until he has left the very last Alp behind him. As to what he will find beyond he is appa rently quite indifferent ; he wants to make a cer tain progress through a given series of changes, not to arrive at any specific result, but for the sake of the transit. We see something very :like this in one of the extreme parties in America. Free dom is the means of happiness; but they are for freeing the negro irrespective of his real happiness and good—irrespective of all consequences what ever. He may be free to starve, free to degenerate into something worse than his original barbarism ; no matter, so that he be only free. As to a period of tutelage or apprenticeship and transition, that is not to be thought of ; loose him and let him go whithersoever he listeth (even though he should choose the worst of all possibl e roa d s ) . Ab so l ute, unconditional, immediate emancipation is to be loved and carried out for its own sake, no matter whether it involve the negro and his late master in one common ruin or not. Perhaps it is good that there should be this surplus and super-adequacy of impulse and motive power ; but it would be bad if there were not a strong vis inertia to prevent the world from sharing the fate of a train attached to a runaway engine. Fenianism in the Kitchen Area. We see that "Ellen A. Mahony, H.D.F.S." (which is said to mean Head Directress of the Fenian Sisterhood), is out in a letter to the " intelligent Irish ladies " of America, urging their co-operation in " the glorious work of Ire land's regeneration." She tells them what is wanted, for the most part, is money —which is not difficult to understand. But the Head Directress is no less explicit upon the purposes for which these funds are needed. " Money must be raised to fit out a fleet and to equip an rmy ;" and the c heerful assurance is proffered that " soon tireen Erin will be a battle-field ; soon the sunburst will stream over every hill and valley of our land." Now, we all know what " intelligent Irish ladies " means ; it means Bridget. "Only this, and nothing more." Poor, honest, hard-working, affectionate Bridget, who has already sent half, perhaps three-quarters, of her scanty earnings to the never-to-be forgotten circle in the dear old home, and become thereby a proverb of faithfulness throughout the world. To Bridget, thus depleted, comes Mistress Mahony kindly protesting : " We only ask a portion of your worldly goods," and lays hands on two-thirds of the qsarter that remains to her. " Ten dollars," says she, " will purchase an Irish Revolu tionary Bond. Surely, surely, in view of the good to be accomplished, I need not," &c. "And what good, thin ?" asks hesitating Bridget. Is it credible, the impudence of the reply ? "An army is to be equipped, and a fleet to set sail " from this country "for the hallowed shores of Erin !" And now, to show that we are not wrong in our surmise of the class whom this shameless imposture is intended to affect, hear the Head Directress further :—" It is hoped that each sister will endeavour to possess one of these bonds. If impracticable now, as in some cases, make a payment during each week, or at each meeting, requesting the treasurer to credit you for amounts thus paid in. . . I need not speak more at length to intelligent Irish ladies." "And again, do not consider your work accomplished by liberal donations upon your own part. Each sister should consider herself a bond agent, and work as she has never worked before, in furtherance of the grand and holy work to which we are pledged; a work so holy, that I call upon you unhesitatingly ; nay, if need be, I beg of you, by every tender, every endearing memory, to give even more than you can spare." We will not attempt to define the limits beyond which this outrageous Fenian organisation may safely go, in thus boldly proposing the equipment of an expedition (on American shores) hostile to a foreign power with which we are at peace. Perhaps the very transparency of the humbug, becoming daily more apparent, is making the whole movement a matter for the cognizance of the police rather than of the Secretary of State. It is quite useless, too, trying to arrest the fatal alacrity with which the common class of Irishmen rush to the snare of every sharper who would lure them to their ruin. For many a day yet, we fear that the Irishman's best, as well as his worst qualities will be played upon by designing men, to bring him to mischief and to grief. But this new phase of the nefarious game—this attempt to abuse the finest traits of the Irish character' with pretexts for levying onerous tribute upon the monthly earnings of the poor and indus trious women, we have some hope will find a check in the sound sense of the contemplated victims. We have much faith in Bridget ; and we sincerely trust that when Mistress Mahony, or any of these mousing bond agents, comes fumbling round her strong-box, or sniffing at her savings bank-book, she will rise in the majesty of her wrath and turn the trollop out of the kitchen.—New York Times. The Loss of the Maribelle. OFFICIAL REPORT. The following is the report of a Marine Court of Inquiry, held at Singapore, relative to the loss of the British ship Maribelle : We, the undersigned, having inquired into the loss of the British ship Maribelle, of Liverpool , official number 45,925, 1,019 tons, Joseph Everson Martin, Master, holding a certificate of competenel as master, No. 20,819, from the Board of Trade, and after a careful examination, find :—That the Maribelle left Singapore on Sept. 5, 1865, bound to Batavia, in ballast, and that she was wrecked 0 0 Sept. 18, 1865, about 5 a.m., on a shoal in the middle of the Montaran group of islands, in the Carimatta Straits, whose position is marked doubt ful on the charts used by the master of the Mari belle. We are unable to fix the exact position of the shoal, as the master took no bearings afte r the vessel ran ashore ; and those taken by th e chief mate appear to be incorrect, and his judg ment of distances rather vague. We are of opinion that Mr. Martin, master of the. British ship Maribelle, was decidedly wrong in approach ing so closely a dangerous group of islands 1 1 day or night, even had he been in a steamer, which the chart shows to be surrounded by dangeret and some of them marked doubtful. We also thing that, instead of leaving the vessel himself, Mr. Mar' tin should have sent one of his officers to seek as" sistance, as it is distinctly the duty of the master of a vessel to remain by her to the last ; and still wor e do we consider Mr. Martin to blame in not return' ing to the wreck in the steamer which was dispatch ed by the purchaser, thereby showing such a want (I ` , regard for the comfort and safety of the crew, 'lit r e ° he had left with only about three days' water. II! are of opinion that the Maribelle was lost through i the carelessness of her late Taster, Mr. Martin, an d therefore cancel his certificate of competency, 20,819, as master, held from the Board of Trad e We consider the conduct of Mr. Mark, chief ofEce r • of the Mirabelle, to have been satisfactory through" out, as he stayed by the ship to the last. In con: elusion, we would beg to express our high sense Of approbation of the protection and hospitality shown' in their usual kind manner, by the Dutch authori' ties to the shipwrecked crew. H. BURN, Lieutenant (late 1.N.) Master Attendant and Marine Magistrate, WILLIAM LONG, Master H.M.S. Coquette. Singapore, Oct. 28, 1865. (Confirmed) ORPHEUR CAVENAGH, COlOileb Governor Straits Settlement. COUNTRY MARKETS NORTHAMPTON—JAN. 6. The trade in wheat ruled languid, the supply was fs i4 and prices had a downward tendency. Barley good 5 1 1; ply, and sold at recent currencies. Oats a fair trade at 1* rates. For beans late rates were maintained. old New white wheat, 44s to 52s • new red, 40s to 47s ; white, 48s to 53s ; old red, 45s to ' 50s per 36 stone. Bar l s el o for malting, 36s to 40s per qr. ; grinding, 26s to 37s Per. stone. Oats, old, 30s to 34s ' • new, 20s to 28s per 24 st Beans, old, 46s to 50s ; new, 36s to 40s per 38 stone. r eal ' 34s to 40s per 36 stone. COLCHESTER—JAN. 6. The supply of wheat was fair, trade dull ; but a all qualities made last week's prices. Wheat, white 40s 54s Beans, Mazagan...... 330 400 rod 36s 488 Middle and small 358 4 2i Barley `BB 40s Peas, white. 38 8 Ao s Oats ...... ..... 2os 25s grey ..,368 CHELMSFORD—JAN. 5. Icet There was a moderate supply of wheat at this ino'r A to-day, which was disposed of at about late rates• similar report may be made with regard to barley. 42 , Wheat, tad white....4ss 52s Peas, Partridge ...... 37 8 go new 43s fOs White . 31.0 30 old red 393 43s 13 , Bing ........ 380 1 5 0 new. 35s 39s Dun.. ....... .• . 310 „A Barley.... 24s 31s dit.o, new.. - -- „, 8 3 18 Chevalier 27e ,9s Beans, Tick, 01d...... 019 , I Grind,ng ',3s 6s new. ... -6 ..-0 Malt sBs COs Harrow ticks. 3ss .0 Chevalier 65s t2s new.... -0 371 Oats .. 2os 26s Mazagan . ..... 320 GRANTHAM—JAN. 6. ma Rather more wheat on offer to-day, and sales were - a at barely late prices. Barley unaltered. Oats scanty, at former quotations. Beaus unaltered. Old white wheat, 54s to 58s; old red, 48s to 545; lIdA white, 50s to 56s ; new red, 45s to 50s per 36 stone. J 31(1. ; ley for malting, 35s to 39s per qr.; grinding, 28s to 300 4 4 30 stone. Oats, old, 28s to 30s ; new , 20 s t o 26 s per stone. Beans, old, 46s to 50s ; new, 40 s t o 44 s per 38 stol l " . Peas, 35s to 39s per 36 stone. ABERDEEN—JAN. 5. There was a good attendance at mark e t to-day, and i , n t u t general general tone of the trade for all kinds was d u ll at a." last week's rates. White wheat 42s Od to 48s Od} 621 b V bu shel. Red wheat 40 s Od t o 45 s Od Potato oats 22s Od to 23s 6d j_ mAi %I bushe l ' Common oats 22s Od t o 22 s 6df --- Bore 27s 6d to 28s Od t cgth zi bushel . Barley 27s 6d t o 28 s 6df "-- v - A 011) . Oatmeal 18s Od t o 19 s Od ? boll of l'„, - D . Flour, fine 37s Od t o 38 s Od V s ack of 2°"' IRKCALDY—JAN. Small supplies o K f wheat and barley, good of oats. . d a y quick. Wheat and barley 6d per qr. dearer than tbls week. Oats brought late prices. Wheat. Barley. Oats. First 46s Od 3os 6d 24s Od second 48s Od 31s 6d ',ss (d Third 49s Od 33s 6d 208 Od COAL MARKET. Price per ton at the close of the market. a. s. d. '' 0 Holywell Main lB 0 South Hetton ......... 1 .?. 0 N.Staffordshire l° 17 0 Heugh Hall ............ ~ 0 Carway and Duffryn South Kelloe ......... ; i: 8 Malting 24 0 West Hartley ......... ;°, _ Hartlep00l i ;`,' 0_ Shaw's Hartley lB 6 East Hartlepool ..... lli 6 Tunstall ' l7 3 Lambert's W. Hartley 1 1 ° " 6 Pensher Primrose 0 Buddle'sWestHartley 18 3 Stewart's ... 1 8 New Belmont l7 6 Wylam Ships at market, 59 ; sold, 56. Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. JS• Australia and New Zealand, via So u th am pt on Jan- 2 , Ditto, via Marseilles Jam j Brazil and Cape Verde. by Briti s h p ac k e t Feb' ",: Ditto, by French packet Jan. 2- • Cape of Good Hope, Ascensio n , an d St . H e l ena .. • .. i a -,, • 21'' 18. China, Penang, and Singapore, v i a Southampton.,Tall' 27. Ditto, via Marseilles Jag. Falkland Islands Jan 21. Gibraltar, via Southampto n ....is India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton.... Ja il ' 7 Ditto, via Marseilles Jan. 2 . . - . . • • ii. India (Bombay), via South amp t on. Jan. Ditto, via Marseilles Jan. ..- Mauritius, via Southampton .Ja n. Ditto, via Marseilles. JO' - ri Newfoundland 4 .... Jart• ^ . .. 4, Portugal .. .... .. ..........Jan Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon ..... United States and British North America, by Sri- j, tish packet ' Ditto, by United States packet, via Southamp ton Ditto, via Cork 10* Ditto, by Canadian packet, via Londonderry—da—' 1 0. West Ccahl of Africa. Madeira, and Teueriffe ...... Jan' West Indies and Pacific (except Bahamas, Cuba, js and Mexico Jan' 9% • Cuba And Mexico Of 40' Bahamas, via New York Bermuda, ditto .Jo. 1' Births. ilfr ia BROUGHAM.— Vir At Tuddenham, Suffolk, the wife of - Brougham, Esq., 17th Lancers, of a daughter. w ife GOSLING.— On the 6th inst., at Wellbury, Hertel t ile of Francis Gosling, Esq., of a son. Or' 1. HITCHIN.—On the 7th inst., at Margate, the wife °- f W. Hitchin, of a son. f a M t' YouwG--- .On the 3d inst. at Spring-grove, the w.e - Admiral Young, of a daughter. • Marriages. 1/21" DYER BRIDGER.—On the 6th inst., at St. James', weri Edmonton, James William, elder son of Mr. Jarg e tter °" of Finsbury and Pimlico, to Ellen, eldest daugvaao the late Mr. Bridger, of Bishopsgate and Upper ton. fri •aS' HOLMDEN—WINTERBOTHAM.—On the sthl-1-woe combo Church, Gloucestershire, William J. B. 47 i,ode eldest son of Wm. Jaques Holmden, of Radn or tha t ' Plymouth, to Brenda, daughter of Rayner Win te): Esq., of Field House, near Stroud. Deaths. P A T BUDDEN. On the 6th inst., at 1, Gibraltar-place , t d' - „I "; J. Budden, Esq., Captain of the 9th Kent R. v „ PI C CAI-rm.—On the sth inst., at his residence, Deed Dock, Deptford, Mr. D. Capelin, aged 52. pee CIIAPMAN.—On the 7th inst., at Grosvenor Vil la. Clare road, Windsor, Mr. Edward Chapman, aged P 62 ode' CHURCHILL.—On the 7th inst., at The Ranger's „a 6 5 ' Charlbury, Frances, Dowager La d y Churchill, ac/200. HYDE.—On the 6th inst., at The Triangle, Hackney' S. Hyde, JOHN aged the 50. 0, 9. 4th inst., at Mill Brook, Ec cles° Johnson,SON.—On of St. Helen's, solicitor. LIMERICK.—On the sth inst., W. H. Tennison Pe* of Limerick, aged 53 - _.--.......................................................""--'-- g --- - -------- if' .„,,i0 ‘, i . London : Printed and Published by WIL LTA."' A' Mo. t' - of No. 112, Strand, Punter, at Trtz Sure 0 16 ' ° 0 00 °- Strand, in tbs. Precinct of the Savoy. in the C° Middlesex.--Tuesday, January' 9,1886. r . 03 R at g y Theatre ~~1~~ TniB Prize 31 It I Sold i the Aize at 8, Obser Kimlth Ay 11 , RM. 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