The Sun. — London, England, 1865-09-30 00:00:00

FENIANISM IN AMERICA. (tom the Tinier' Correspondent) NEW YORK, Sept. 15. There is, no doubt, much that is ridiculous in the Fenian organisation, but at the same time it would be going to an extreme to suppose that it is too insignificant and contemptible to deserve notice. When at least 300,000 persons have formed them selves into a body for accomplishing a certain pur pose it is but reasonable to pay a little attention to their plans, even although the plotters be Irishmen. I have taken some pains to ascertain the truth about the Fenians, and the facts which have come to my knowledge show that the society is not only nume rous, but moderately rich. This city, for instance, is divided by the leaders of the society into districts, and in each of these districts a weekly meeting is held and regular subscriptions received from the members. The money thus raised is laid out in the purchase of arms or sent to Ireland, while a large part of it goes into the pocket of a being whom the Fenians call the Head Centre, and who is as invisible to common mortals as the Mikado of Japan. From the statements of the police and others lam con vinced that 300,000 is a moderate estimate to make of the numbers of the Fenians. They mean to free Ireland, and they believe they are strong enough to do it. In these ideas the New York papers warmly support and encourage them, partly because they think that kind of talk annoys England, and partly because they dare not offend their best customers, the Irish. Once a week, at least, every journal, with a creditable exception or two, indulges in that puerile abuse of England which animates the Ame rican breast on account of the fact that England somehow holds a nobler and higher position in the world than their country, and informs the Fenians that they may build as many vessels of war as they like in American ports, and that if they "go in" with spirit England is sure to meet the fate she so well deserves. To these stories Irishmen very readily lend their ears. They are undoubtedly sending money to Ireland regularly, and this fact may help to explain the midnight gatherings and daylight drills which I see reported of late in the Dublin and Cork papers. It is impossible to place a limit to the credulity of a stupid and ignorant " son of Erin," and, therefore, it is not surprising that a large proportion of the Fenians religiously believe they are going the right way to work to make their " Head Centre" King of Ireland. The other portion live upon the money which their san guine brethren subscribe. These expectations are fully shared in Ireland itself, and (as anybody may find out by a little inquiry), the lower classes of the population of Queenstown anticipate almost daily the arrival of a fleet from America, with an invin cible army, to take the country and shut up the Queen in a round tower. However absurd all this may seem, it would probably save future trouble if some measures were taken by the Government to show the dupes and the dupers here and elsewhere that the Fenians are industriously preparing a rod for their own backs. It would be a mercy to the masses in Ireland to let them see that the Government is prepared at any moment for the uprising which they so confidently look forward to. The Roman Catholic clergy here to a man do all in their power to discourage the mischievous and foolish delusion. Everywhere the pastors tell their people that they are laying up misery and sorrow for themselves. The Bishop of Philadelphia, Dr. Wood, has received a missive from Rome, in which a denial is given to the assertion that the Holy See has ever pronounced the decision, " Fenianos non esse inquietandcs." On the con trary, the Pope is known to disapprove the Society and its objects, and to be determined to " disturb" it. The clergy, however, seem to be powerless to prevent the spread of Fenianism, and very often they come into angry collision with their congrega tions for making the attempt to check it. The Irishman, however, as is natural to him, always puts his trust in the man who wants to plunder and.de ceive him, and consequently he disregards his priests for once and looks for consolation to the " Head Centre." From the furthest West come contributions to the general fund from emigrant Irishmen, and all through Illinois, Indiana, and Missouri—in fact, in nearly all the States—weekly meetings are held. I went to see one of thee meetings lately in this city. Two-third 3 of the audience were women, and the principal speaker was also a woman—a rather dirty and red-faced woman, voluble, enthusiastic, and bitter-tongued. The purport of her address— " oration," she called it--Was that England on ht to be " polished off" the face of the earth, and that the Americans and the Irish meant to do it between them. Her audience cheered with abandon, and paid afterwards their pennies to the fund with great cheerfulness. There is no secrecy about these meet ings—so far from that, the Fenians court publicity on every occasion. I believe that it pleases most Americans to hear England bullied and insulted by these poor creatures, or by anybody else. They like to re-echo cries about the wrongs of Ireland, although there is not one of them who can point out any wrong the British Government does to Ireland. As a rule, they are almost as ignorant of English history and the English Government as they are of their own, and that is saying a great deal. The Fenians feel themselves strengthened by this general and indeed universal encouragement, although some of them may perhaps wonder with what justice Americans complain of English infringements of neutrality when they are at the same timegiving every sort of support to 300,000 professed conspirators. Thus supported the Fenians make even their religious ceremonies a medium of political display. Passing down Fifth Avenue the other day I met a long procession of them. They were carrying a dead brother to the cemetery, for the bright career even of a Fenian seems to be sometimes interrupted by death. At first I thought the people had met to celebrate a marriage or some other happy event, for a band of music and gay banners went before the throng, and as the day was very hot and the music very lively it recalled for an instant those fantastic wedding pro cessions which it had often been my chance to meet in the East. But one glance at the countenances of the men in the procession dispelled the illusion, and assured me that I was in the presence of that emancipated and terrible being the American Irish man. Any one acquainted with the Irish character might have supposed that many of these Fenians had been celebrating the death of their brother in the punch bowl, for, whether owing to the fierceness of the sun Or the impairing influence of grief, the aspect of some of them was rather lively than fune real, and their gait was not such as becomes the place of mourning. The principle of the ballot-box---anti secrecy, that commonly carried out even in funerals here, the coffin being carried in a fine glass coach, so that the passers-by can have an uninter rupted view of its gilt plates and its brass handles. No one could wish for a braver funeral than was given to this regenerator of Ireland. All sorts of Fenian insignia were worn departed from by the people, and unless . they custom a Fenian oration was hear,asmade r over the grave. This, however, I did have I learnt how many of the mourners fou n d a lodging in the hospitable cells of the police that night. That seemed to be their destination when I met them. . Recently the Springfield (Illinois) " Circle of the Fenian Brotherhood " appeals for contributions to the American people. This address laid :—" Offi cers, American and Irish, who have served with dis tinction in your service, are silently moving into Ireland to assume control of the active operations to be inaugurated in a few moments —sooner, much sooner, than any of you can believe. All they re quire now is anus to enable them to meet the enemy on something like equality." I do not doubt that plenty of money would be subscribed, the ordinary run of Americans putting the matter before them selves in this light—" Let the Irish have a try at England ; if they beat her, so much the better. If they do not, it is no concern of ours." I have heard scores of people talk on the subject, and this is the gist of their remarks. " All we want," says a daily papers, " is an opportunity to exchange com pliments with John Bull in the matter of neutrality when the proper time arrives." It is perfectly astonishing to the American mind that John Bull is not frightened out of his wits at all these threats. The illustrated papers keep up a pleasant belief that he is, by publishing illustrations of John Bull on his knees before Brother Jonathan, suing for mercy and forgivenness. On the 4th of this month an im mense meeting of the Fenians took place at Troy, in this State. The Mayor and " other prominent citizens " took part in the proceedings. In the New York Tinges of yesterday there is the following state ment :—" We are informed that the Fenian Society is largely engaged in waggon manufacture up town. The vehicles already built are marked as the pro perty of the Order, and they have very much the appearance of the conveyances which go to make up an army train." It would be easy to quote a hundred other state ments which show that the Fenian movement is really a thing of vitality in this country. I certainly do not write' of it in the spirit of an alarmist ; it would be very-easy to turn the whole affair into ridicule ; but in pity to the poor and ignorant in Ireland it would be well to give them a timely warn ing of the fate they are courting for themselves. While they incessantly complain of poverty they can give their hardly earned money in order to keep in profligate laziness a band of harpies who profess to be their liberators, and who only take to Fenianisin because it affords an easier means of subsistence than an honest calling, and is less dangerous than housebreaking. The King of Prussia in Lauenburg. RATZEBL'RG, Sept. 26. The King of Prussia arrived at the frontier of Lauenburg at five p.m. yesterday. A triumphal arch had been erected, and Count Kielmansegge, the President of the Government, with Land-Mar shal von Bulow, received his Majesty upon his entry into the Duchy. Both gentlemen, at the King's invitation, entered the royal carriage. Upon reach ing Buchen, where the station was very tastefully decorated with shrubs and flags, the King left his carriage and entered the saloon. His Majesty was receivedby Councillor von Linstow and State-Coun cillor Walter, the Amtmann of Lauenburg. Two young girls dressed in white presented his Majesty with a copy of verses commemorating the occasion. The King then made the following speech : " Unusual circumstances having brought us together, I rejoice to be present for the first time among you, sooner indeed than I could have expected after your representatives had expressed a wish that I should come in person. I meet you with full confidence, and feel gratified at the words from which I understand that you also place trust in me and my Government. This is an assurance of happiness for the future, and it is a good omen that the union of your beautiful country with Prussia takes place in the same year when four of my provinces have thanked me that the pro mises my illustrious ancestors made them at the time of their union with the Fatherland we have now in common have been so fully carried out. The prosperity, opulence, and contentment of those four provinces gives me greater confidence in coming to you, for I entertain the best wishes for your welfare. May this omen also be a happy presage for your future !" His Majesty was received with loud cheers by the crowd assembled. The train proceeded shortly after five, arriving at Molln in about half an hour. The King left the carriage again here to receive the greet ing of the Municipality through their President, Town-Captain Dalun, and to inspect a squadron of dragoons drawn up on foot with a tastefully-uni formed company of volunteers. Towards six o'clock the Royal train arrived at the Ratzeburg station, which was handsomely decorated for the occasion, where his Majesty was received with a flourish of trumpets and enthusiastic cheer ing. The functionaries of the district of Ratzeburg, the clergy, and the entire staff of officials were as sembled to meet the King. Upon ascending the staircase, the Amtmann of the district of Ratzeburg requested his Majesty to make a short halt at the triumphal arch erected upon the road to the town, to receive the salutations of the mounted peasantry. The King readily granted the request, and then proceeded with his suite in the carriages waiting for the Royal party to the triumphal arch, where his Majesty was received with enthusiastic cheering. Some hundreds of peasants, each with a nosegay in his hat and carrying a small black ant white flag, were here drawn up in line close to the road. Th... Auattnann then made a short speech, in which he observed that the Lauen burgers 11 ad al ways displayed loyalty, allegiance, and attachment to their rulers. The King alighted from his carriage amidst hearty cheers of the people assembled, and replied to the speech of llerr von Cossel, expressing a hope that, as the Lauen burgers had always faithfully adhered to their former sovereigns they would now transfer their allegiance and attachment to him, whom a conjunc tion of circumstances had made their ruler. His Majesty re-entered his carriage amid loud cheering, and the procession then moved towards the town, preceded by the mounted peasantry. A small flotilla, with black and white flags flying, was drawn up where the road approaches the sea, and received the procession with a salute. At the entrance to the town a second arch was erected, where the magis trates, volunteers, and corporation were assembled. Town Commissioner Adler here addressed a short speech to the King, after which the Royal procession entered the town and proceeded to the house of the President, which had been prepared for his Majesty's reception. The judges of the district had assembled in front of the building, with the officers of the bat talion in garrison, one company of men, and their band. Upon alighting, the King addressed several of the gentlemen present in the most cordial manner. His Majesty's suite and the highest officials of the duchy were the only persons present at the dinner given in honour of his Majesty's visit. The torch light procession of the Singing Club assembled at eight o'clock and proceeded to the King's residence, where they sang two songs. During the perfor mance his Majesty appeared on the terrace in front of the house, after avhich a member of the club delivered a short address to his Majesty, express ing the joy of the Lauenburgers at being now under the rule of the House of Hohenzollern, to whom they would always be faithful and loyal subjects. The speaker concluded with a cheer for the King, which was taken up by the assembly with much enthusiasm. At a later period of the evening his Majesty drove through the town and inspected the illuminations. The solemn act of homage to his Majesty as Duke of Lauenburg by the nobility and gentry of the country took place at noon to-day in the Church of St. Peter. His Majesty, accompanied by the Crown Prince, Count Bismark, and a brilliant suite, re paired to the Church on foot from the house of Count Kielmansegge, where he had taken up his quarters. The King was received at the entrance of the sacred edifice by Superintendent Bromel, and escorted to a throne covered with red velvet upon a dais erected immediately in front of the altar. The Crown Prince stood upon the King's right hand, and Count Bismark upon the left, while the members of the nobility and gentry of the province occupied the space between the throne and the altar upon one side, and that upon the other was filled up by the Prussian generals, officers, chief functionaries, and high dignitaries. After a psalm ,had been sung, Superintendent Bromel preached a sermon, taking his text from the Ist Epistle of St. Peter, chap. v. 13-16. The preacher stated in the course of his address that the Lauenburgers had found it difficult to reconcile themselves to the idea of changing their allegiance, b ut took stance sincerity in taking then to point out that from that very circuit oath of homage they were about to render was the more to be relied upon. He thanked his Majesty in the name of the community at large f or his pro mise to uphold the just rights of every individual in the country, dwelling upon the fact that rights and their exercise could not exist without dgties an d their conscientious fulfilment. The preacher finally called the attention of his hearers to the importance of the oath, comparing it to an anchor, not intended for good times and fair weather, but to be used in the hour of peril and adversity as a means of security and salvation. At the conclusion of the sermon Count Bismark requested his Majesty's permission to proceed with the ceremony. This being granted, the Count, in his capacity of Minister for the Duchy, summoned the nobility and gentry to take the oath of homage to their Duke, King William of Prussia. He read theformula, asking if they were ready to acknowledge, themselves faithful subjects of the King, in which rHE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 30, ISU. case they were to come in succession before the throne and ratify their allegiance by the oath. Land-Mar shal von Bulow then came forward, read over all the titles of the King, and administered the oath to each member separately. The ceremony closed with another verse of a psalm, a prayer, and the blessing, after which the King returned to his residence on foot, and in the course of the afternoon was present at a dinner given at the Rathskeller. A display of fireworks and a ball will take place this evening. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. __,:,_ OTTOMAN (SMYRNA TO AIDIN). The half-yearly general meeting of this company was held yesterday at the London Tavern ; Sir Macdonald Stephenson in the chair. Mr. Cooke, the secretary, having read the notice convening the meeting, the report, an abstract of which has appeared in The Sun, was taken as read. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, said that few lines of railway had been con structed under so many and great difficulties as, from the outset, had beset the works which were at length drawing to a conclusion, between Smyrna and Aidin. Few undertakings had been so reso lutely persevered in, in the face of apparently in surmountable obstacles, and few, perhaps, had been undertaken on a foreign soil which were likely to be attended with more impOrtant results in their beneficial influence upon a large population, or in their pecuniary return for the outlay incurred, of time, labour, and money. They had all been mis taken in one respect, when assuming, as might reasonably be supposed, that 50 miles of railway would divert all the camel traffic. Experience had shown that not more than half the produce had been conveyed by rail, notwithstanding the costly agencies at the towns in the interior. But the working of the 50 miles to Ephesus had also shown conclusively that the completion of the through line to Aidin was alone required to bring all the produce and goods upon the railway, and to provide the camel owners more profitable occupation in collecting and distributing at and near the termini what was transported by the rail. The unsatisfactory fea tures in the half-year's working were the heavy , charges for traffic agency in the interior, for re pairs of engines, for consumption of fuel, and for maintenance of way and works. In explanation it might be said that the traffic agency charges must not be impugned until the system had had a fair trial, that the heavy repairs to the locomotives were due to the use of the engines for the contrac tor's work under his contract, that the state of the engines regulated the consumption of fuel, and that although the maintenance of the way was high, the engineer was gradually renewing with Shperior sleepers the whole of the open line. The more en couraging subjects for consideration were the assur ance of the near completion of the through line to Aidin, first by the temporary works over the moun tain, and eventually through the tunnel under it; of the certainty that this alone was required to secure the whole trade of the country, and that, with the advantage of past experience, the increased traffic would be worked with scarcely any increase in the working expenses, and without any augmentation to those fixed charges which were independent of the amount of traffic. At the tunnel works the deaths had amounted to 12 Englishmen, two Eng lish women, and three children, one Italian, and nearly 40 natives ; but the worst had passed, the cholera had ceased, and active operations were to be renewed about the 15th of this month. The latest accounts received yesterday from the manager men tioned the returns of the fig trade alone to the 17th September as exceeding 9,000 loads, or 2,000 tons, against about 3,000 loads, or 70() tons at the same period of 1864. (Hear.) Mr. Charlton, their mana ger, also fully explained the increased traffic agency charges, by reference to the additional quantity of goods brought by that means upon the railway, and amounting to 4,775 tons for the past half-year, as compared with 1,654 tons in 1864. He also reported by a telegram that the receipts had exceeded £l,OOO a week for two or three weeks together. He (the chairman) could only repeat his conviction that with the excellent staff the company had on the spot, and from the known perseverance of the contractor, and of his efficient agents, the time was fast approach ing when the shareholders would see an end of their annoyance and discouragement, and recognize in their half year's accounts the dawn of a prosper ous future. Mr. W. DENT seconded the motion for the adop tion of the report and statement of accounts. Mr. G. SMITH said he thought the report was encouraging. The undertaking had been carried out by indefatigable perseverance under great difficulties, but he thought their prospects would soon improve. The exertions of the directors had been well backed by the pluck of the contractor, who had not only to encounter many difficulties, but to surmount them with success. He thought it easy to understand that when the camels were once loaded at Aidin that the owners would be unwilling to unload them till they got to Smyrna. It was satisfactory to the sharehol ders that the directors had acted with so much pru dence in carrying on the undertaking, which would prove of great value to the country through which the line passed; there was every probability that the traffic would yield a profit, and that therefore the Turkish Government would not be called upon for the whole amount of the guarantee. Mr. BILLINGS concurred in the observations of his friend Mr. Smith, and congratulated the shareholders on the fact that the railway would soon be completed. Mr. T. CRAMPTON, the contractor, in reply to some remarks, said that the staff of the company, and also the staff of the contractor, were entitled to the thanks of the shareholders for the great energy, talent, and determination with which they had carried on the business for the company. During the visitation of cholera at the tunnel works Mr. Drew and other officers had kept the men together till the disease left them. If they had gone away it would have been very difficult to have collected such good men together again, and considerable time would have been lest. They had got the temporary line over the hill, and everything possible was being done to com plete the railway throughout at the earliest possible period. The temporary line would enable the railway to be opened throughout in March to Aidin, and in May the lagt tunnel would be ready and the main line would be completed. (Hear.) The thanks of the meeting were then voted to Mr. Purser and Mr. Drew, and the other officers of the contractor, for their indefatigable exertions, who, despite cholera and difficulties, had kept the men together. The proceedings concluded with a vote of thanks to the chairman and directors. wharf at Kotree ; 3,000 bales of cotton has just arrived from Ferozepore and Mooltan. There were on that day 82 waggons laden with produce which had to be sent by special train to Kurrachee. The manager felt confident that commercial matters had improved, that produce would continue to be sent forward to Kurrachee. With regard to the flotilla, the present boats of the company were inadequate to carry the traffic from Mooltan. They had now, in accordance with his original suggestion, confided the building of three steamers, one steamer to each of the three most eminent firms in this country, and by so doing he fully expected the most difficult of problems would be solved, that of constructing ves sels to successfully navigate the Indus. Should this be successful the number of the vessels in the flo tilla would be greatly increased, but, if otherwise, it would be an additional argument in favour of progressing with the Indus Valley railway as soon as possible. The Punjab railway opened in April throughout from Umriseur to Mooltan. The goods traffic in May and June, the hottest months of the year, had been very satisfactory, that of June being double the amount of that in May. The traffic on the Punjab railway was for the week ending the 2d of July £2,100, and considering the hot season, the newness of the line, and other matters, it was per fectly satisfactory, and that was the opinion of the local authorities. By telegram dated 14th Aug. a large amount of merchandise was reported as waiting at Mooltan for shipment at Sher Sha, the shippng place of Mooltan. The present estimates for the com pletion of the Punjab Railway would little exceed £2,000,000, but he (the chairman) felt certain that when the stations, sidings, and other works were completed, together with an adequate supply of roll ing stock that must be provided, the cost would be, as he had stated on former occasions, £2,500,000, and even then it would be one of the cheapest rail ways in India. As to the Delhi Railway, Mr. Bras sey was making great exertions to forward materials. The company had now four important undertakings on their hands, to which he had just adverted, and that brought him to the missing link which was pro posed to be made from the Scinde Railway to Mool tan. The map at the end of the room showed the trace of the line, which formed a junction with the Scinde Railway near Kotree, then proceeded along the valley to Sukkur, where it crossed to the left bank of the Indus to Mooltan, the total length being 480 miles. This route was of great importance for military and commercial purposes in every respect. When weekly communication was established be tween Suez and Kurrachee he thought it must force on the Government the necessity of the Indus Val ley Railway, as opening up direct railway commu nication with the Punjab and interior of India. He hoped, at all events, by that time next year the in auguration of the Indus Valley line would be com mitted to their hands. (Hear, hear.) Mr. WILLIAMS seconded the motion for the adop tion of the report. In reply to questions, it was stated that the Delhi Company had £BOO,OOO in hand, and although large checks were being drawn for Mr. Brassey nearly every week he did not think the directors would be able to take any more money in anticipation of calls before five or six months, or until the balance in hand was reduced to £300,000. The report was then adopted. The CHAIRMAN next moved a formal resolution authorising the directors to create additional capital of £500,000 by the issue of 25,000 shares of £2O each for the Punjab Railway, and upon which the Secretary of State for India in Council had guaran teed 5 per cent. per annum. Mr. WILLIAMS seconded the motion, and it was carried unanimously. It was then agreed that all of the Punjab shares, as and when paid up in full, be converted or consoli dated into Punjab capital stock. On the motion of Mr. Sergeant TOZER a vote of thanks to the chairman and directors concluded the proceedings. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. -+-- TIMES.—Mr. F. Chesson, we must remind the public, is Secretary to the Aborigines' Protection Society, and Mr. William Fox was formerly Secre tary to the Government of New Zealand. To these two secretaries we have recently opened our columns, with results which have appeared during the last fortnight, and will be visible once more this morning. Unfortunately, the grain bears but a moderate pro portion to the chaff in this correspondence, and the public question is in danger of being swamped in personal charges and recriminations. We must take the liberty, therefore, of premising that there is but one subject before us, and that is the conduct of the Aborigines' Protection Society in despatching to the Maories of New Zealand, then in arms against her Majesty, a certain missive, or address. This address has been denounced as seditious, wicked, and nonsensical ; and Mr. Fox advanced this further charge against it, that it had been introduced into the colony surreptitiously, and secretly circulated among the rebellious natives, without the knowledge of the Colonial Government. Mr. Chesson's last words on these imputations will be found in another column. There is but too little necessity for re marking that we are, and have for some time been, at war with the natives of New Zealand. At the close of last year we were maintaining an army of at least 10,000 Imperial troops in the colony, and the costs of these wars, which have been incessantly renewed and uniformly protracted, are felt by all the taxpayers in the kingdom. Most people, too, understand that the cause of these wars, however modified by pretexts, is always the same. The native tribes are jealous of the growth and expansion of the colony, and, in order to restrict its development 'and confine its power, they have refused to allow the colonists to acquire the land necessary for an increasing population. Well, then, in the very heat of a war thus originating, the Aborigines' Protection Society concoct an address, which tey transmit, not to any of the colonial authorities, but directly to the native tribes. In this address they intimate pretty clearly that the colonicts are in the wrong, and they distinctly advise the natives not to part with their land on any account, or even to let it out on lease, except under the most rigorous restrictions. They even go so far as to recommend that a law should be enacted among the natives, absolutely forbidding any man to alienate laud, even if he should be de sirous of doing so. As we published this document at full length in our columns of the 23d inst., the public has had an opportunity of observing and estimating its character, but Mr. Chesson now offers an argument or two in arrest of judgment. He admits that the address was not communicated either to the colonial government or the English journals. Explaining the first omission by the can did observation that the government was hostile to the views of the society, and the second by the ex traordinary assertion that the document " raised no question upon which public opinion here would be likely to pronounce a judgment," he urges that the communication was addressed, not to the rebels, but to the Maories generally," and finally unfolds what he calls " the case" of the society with respect to its opinions on the land question. On these points we need only say that the first must go against Mr. Chesson and his friends absolutely. When they admit that the colonial government was " hostile" to them, they confess that they were abetting savages then in arms against the Crown in a policy which they knew to be condemned by the Crown's representatives. Nor is it of any avail to say that the rebels were not addressed exclusively. Anybody who will be at the trouble to consult the text of the document will see that it speaks gene rally as to a people engaged in war. Whether an address framed on such principles, and circulated in such a manner and at such a period, did not de serve the censure it has provoked, the public will decide. We turn, however, from the consideration of these gentlemen and their doings to the broader question at issue in the whole controversy ; and, for the information of those who may never have looked into the subject., we will state two or three facts first. New Zealand comprises two great islands, one as nearly as possible of the size of Ire land, the other not much smaller than England. Together, they contain about 90,000,000 acres, of which it is said that two-thirds, at least, are fitted for the purposes of agriculture. On this immense and apparently inexhaustible territory there are settled upwards of 100,000 of our countrymen, who have transferred their energies to the Antipodes in search of profit and competence. But these settlers find on, the soil a certain population of natives num bering, according to a census taken seven years ago, just 31,667 males and 24,303 females; in other words, about half the population of Brighton. These are the " Aborigines," under the protection of Mr. Chesson and his coleagues, the " natives" who are at war with Great Britain—the "Maories," who pretend that our colonists shall have no land, and that New Zealand, with its ninety millions of acres, belongs to themselves alone. Mr. Chesson now says the society was misrepresented when it was described as " discouraging the natives from the sale of their lands." Here are the very words of the Address : —" Instead of the tribes having their lands in com mon, every man must have his own piece for him self and his family to use, which nobody should have the right to interfere with. Its boundaries should be clearly marked, that no one should meddle with it, but to prevent his being robbed by selfish and dishonest persons, he should be unable to dispose of it, and this rule should be made quite strong and safe. Even the letting or leasing of land should be discouraged, and never sanctioned without caution and registration. Colonists out of New Zealand have had lands let to them by natives, and then the colonists have kept possession and driven the natives out. It will be quite right to keep some of the land as common property in every native district which may be turned to great advantage for public and private purposes." If this does not mean that all the land now claimed by the Maories in tribes should be divided among the mem bers of the tribes personally, and rendered inalienable, words have no signification. What are the " lands" of the Maories, and where ? A member of the Protection Society has actually stated that, in the opinion of himself and his fellow members, the title of these savages to their lands is exactly equi valent to that of the Duke of Bedford, for instance, to his estates. Instead of this, it is exactly equiva lent to the title of the Australian Aborigines to the gold diggings, that of Bushmen to the Cape of Good Hope, or that of the Choctaw Indians to the State of Arkansas. If it is good for anything, it covers the whole soil of . New Zealand, though it is founded only on the fact that this handful of cannibals landed on the shore of the country about 98 years before we did. " But," says Mr. Chesson, " they are subjects of the Queen, and are as much entitled to her protection as the inhabitants of Auckland or Wellington." Exactly so ; just " as much," but no more ; and we must now once again ask the Society's secretary what would become of the inhabitants of Auckland or Wellington if they rose in arms against the Government, defied the Queen's troops, and levied open war against the Crown ? Mr. Chesson is careful to impress upon us, little thinking how it damages his case, that these Maories are neither ignorant nor even uncivilized. He makes out quite a character of respectability for them ; for though a Maori has not yet " kept a gig," some of them, it seems, have " owned flour mills." If they have made these advances in knowledge, they must be respon sible subjects, and may be expected to understand that they are not the lords of the soil, and not jus tified in making war upon the Government. There are two theories of the case, and Mr. Chesson may take his choice of them. The Maories may be savages like the Indians of California. or Florida, possessed with the belief that white men are , in truders upon their inheritance, and resorting, in the rudeness of their nature, to rifles and tomahawks in defence of their rights, without the least conception that they are doing any wrong ; or they may be intelligent and responsible subjects of the Crown, entitled to the same consideration in all respects as any other subjects. In the former of these cases it is preposterous to talk about settled estates ; in the latter, the estates have been forfeited a dozen times over by treason and rebellion. The Protection So ciety would like to take half of one theory and half of the other, and give their clients the benefits of both. Their ideal Maories are " aborigines" in so far as they may claim the whole soil of the country, and savages in so far as they are not to be held ac countable for rising in arms against the Queen, but when their title to land is in question they are at once promoted to the rank of civilised men and re sponsible subjects. That is a very ingenious view of the case, but it will never be accepted by the people of this kingdom. HERALD.—In this time of autumn holiday, in which the British statesman, wearied with the toils of the senate-house or the labours of government, retires for a brief season, like Cincinnatus to his plough, it is pleasant to note the zeal with which our public men are wont to engage in the discussion of agricultural topics, to observe the ease and the grace with which they harangue the practical farmers, who, however well versed in the subject, and " to the manner born," seem best pleased when sitting at the feet of the man who can arrange their ideas for them, and tell them of things which they all seemed to know before, but never fully to under stand till now. We do not, of course, imagine that any educated Englishman can be altogether a stranger to agricultural lore. It is said that of all people the Englishman is the only one who is thoroughly at home on the sea. He is also pretty generally at home inthe farmyard and the cornfield. The veriest cockney has frequently his model farm, and opinions of his own on the question of the value of manures or the rotation of crops. If genius for in vention and taste forenterpriso have made our coun - trymen producers, manufacturers and merchants, those who call us a nation of shopkeepers have not proved our character to its core nor rightly appreciated the source of our great prosperity. Every English man is at heart an agriculturist. The desk and the counting-house never usurp for very long that place in his affections which naturally belongs to the soil which gave him birth. When the merchant has made money he turns to farming, aspires to be an owner of land, and to found a county family which may some day forget that its ancestors soiled their hands with trade. Whether of gentle descent, or belonging to the commoner class of newly-risen men, the great majority of our statesmen are men of landed property and rural experience, who seem quite at home when surrounded by farmers and discussing improved methods of tillage and the rearing of stock. If the fact that the greater portion of their time and atten tion is engrossed by other and more pressing cares may seem to place them at a disadvantage in com parison with simpler men of a larger experience, this is more than counterbalanced by the readiness with which a trained mind can be brought to bear on questions which are surrounded with difficulty, and the right treatment of which demands a large habit of thought. It may be the fashion of some to sneer at agricultural meetings, as though they busied themselves with topics unworthy the attention of statesmen. Men of science tell us that these topics are among the most interesting which present them selves in the domain of knowledge, that no amount of logic and learning is thrown away upon them. The problems which suggest themselves to the thoughtful mind in connection with the tillage of the soil and the breeding of stock are such as really re quire a most extensive reading, a large acquaintance with chemistry, physiology, and others of the ab struse sciences, to enable a man to grapple with them with any prospect of success. We are not surprised, then, to find that men whose minds are characterised by the quality which the Germans expressively term " manysidedness," are often singularly happy in dealing with matters of this kind. In the course of a week we have put on record two most in teresting speeches at agricultural meetings, each delivered by a leading Conservative states man. Mr. Disraeli is a statesman, a poet, a novelist. Sir E. Bulwer Lytton is a statesman, a poet, a novelist. Each of them makes his appearance, not for the first time, but still with a becoming diffi dence, as if the subject were novel to him, and some what foreign to his studies, as a teacher or adviser on matters of agriculture to a crowded meeting of his agricultural constituents. The farmers in the Vale of Aylesbury and in the rich lands which surrounded the quiet town of Hertford have been anxious to hear what Mr. Disraeli and Sir E. B. Lytton could have to say to them on the subject of the cattle plague. The fact that these so-called agricultural shows are devoted as much to the exhibition of live stock as of the more immediate products of the tillage of the soil reminds us, on the one hand, of the revolution in farming that has been taking place of late years ; and, on the other, of the sudden check which has been put to it by the late calamity. Many farmers, having found it more profitable to raise stock than to pin their chances of profit to a yield of cereals, which is liable to such strange fluctuation in our variable climate, have of late years been converting their arable into pasture land, and raised root crops on fields that once waved with golden grain. But " this lowing of oxen and this bleating of sheep in our ears " will cease to be so common if it should seem that our cattle are in danger of being perennially decimated by an incur able disease. When beef and mutton shall come to be sold at eighteenpence the pound the most meat loving of mortals must be content to revert to bread as the staff of life. That which formed the most. prominent feature in former shows was " conspicu ous by its absence" in the shows of Aylesbury and Hertford, where the play of " Hamlet " was acted with the part of Hamlet left out. There were no horned cattle. The prevalence of the infectious disease, so mysterious in its origin and so uncon trollable in its spread, has made it dangerous to assemble large numbers of oxen or cows in close proximity with each other. Mr. Disraeli and Sir E. Lytton cannot tell us, any more than any one else, of any likely method of putting a check to this alarming plague. Each gives a faint support to the " kill or cure " policy of the Government. It may be a wise system, though a desperate one, to blow up the houses around a con flagration to prevent it from extending to other buildings at a distance. After all, the flame, if fierce enough, may leap over the gap. We are inclined to think that the cattle plague has done its worst by this time, and that the remainder of our herds may tide over the danger for the present. But, for the same reason that the dread of cholera puts all our sanitary boards on the qui vine, this cattle plague should incite us to greater vigilance in all that con cerns the health of our horned quadrupeds. This is equally necessary whether we regard this disease as spontaneous in its origin, or as due to an epidemic poison which has reached us from abroad. Thus, in the case of men, we do not imagine that the essence of cholera is generated in the filthy lodging house or the stagnant cesspool ; that the miasma of typhus is literally bred in the crowded and ill-venti lated emigrant ship. We only know that in such abodes these poisons find their readiest habitat; that by accumulating in them they gain strength with which to invade airier and healthier places. The weed could not spring up without a seed, but it grows with most richness in the rank soil and on the dung-heap. In speaking of the cattle pest, Sir E. Lytton pointed out most forcibly to his audience at Hertford the importance of guarding against the " predisposing causes" by which the progress of the disease is rendered more rapid and more fatal. Among these he specified, firstly, the cruelty and suffering which cattle are subjected on board ship and on arri val in our seaports; secondly, the unhealthy manner in which cattle are too frequently transported by rail way, and, we may add, driven along the roads; and thirdly, which he regarded as the chief cause, "the pestilential mode in which milch cows have been huddled together in places reeking with filth by the London cowkeepers." The earliest specimens of the cattle disease in England were found in the cowsheds of the metropolis. There can be no doubt that this last is a crying evil, and that the human as well as the bovine race should benefit by the attention of the Legislature being so strongly directed to the question of the health of our cattle. SOINDE, The half-yearly meeting of this company was held yesterday at the London Tavern—Mr. W. P. Andrew, the chairman, presided. The reports of the Scinde, Punjab, and Delhi Railways, and of the Indus flotilla comprised in this company's undertakings, abstracts of which have appeared in The Sun, were taken as read. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, said he was happy to state that by the re cent mail intelligence of a much more favourable nature had reached them. The traffic receipts, both on the Scinde and Punjab Railways, had re cently received an impetus that was likely to con tinue. When he had the pleasure of addressing them on the last occasion they had 137 miles of railway open for traffic, 531 miles under construction, and about 500 miles under survey, making an aggregate length of 1,168 miles confided to this company, without reckoning anything for branches that would have to be made. But, instead of having only, as they had at the end of last year, 137 miles of railway open, they had now 358 miles of railway open for traffic and in fair working order, 310 miles under construction, and the same length as last half-year under survey. The improvements of the port of Kurrachec were going on, and upon which the ulti mate succes of their undertaking depended. The im provements going on had had the effect of reducing the height of the bar at the entrance by two feet, so that they had that much more depth of water for ships passing over the bar than they ever had be fore. He had received a letter from their manager, dated the 19th of August, stating that a great in crease had taken place in their Scinde traffic. Cot ton, oil, and other produce was piled upon their TENDRING HUNDRED, The half-yearly meeting of this company was held at Colchester on Thursday; Mr. W. W. Hawkins in the chair. An abstract of the directors' report has appeared in The San. On the motion of the CHAIRMAN, seconded by Major BERESFORD, the report was adopted, and the directors were authorised to borrow money to an extent not exceeding £8,300. In reply to questions, Mr. BItUFF, the engineer, stated that the section to Weeley would certainly be at work within a month, and with a continuance of the means placed at his disposal chain.- the last few weeks he had no doubt that the whole line to Walton-on-the-Naze might be completed by January, 1866. Mr. W. H. Bland was elected an auditor in the room of Mr. E. Tydeman, deceased ; and a vote of thanks to the chairman concluded the proceedings. Railway Traffic Returns for the Week, Mlles Opened. Receipts. Railways. - -, r----^--- 1861 1864. 1865 1864 £ E Belfast and N. Counties . 01i 99i 2,204 1,841 Belfast and County Down.... 441 4 , i 7i4 818 Blyth and Tyne 2B 28 2,497 1,165 Brecon and Merthyr ........ 61 69 1,314 677 Bristol and Exeter l2ll 1211 7,581 7,204 Caledonian. Scottish Central 4OB 408 28 338 27,335 Cambrian Cock ermouth K & Penrlth .• 31i 443 Cockermouth and Workin .• 9 9 363 3;6 oork and Bandon . 20 48, 3.0 Cork, Black rock, & Passage 61 f 248 179 Cork and Youghal Cornwall 6si 651 1,889 1.761 - - Deeside l7 17 571 3:3 Dublin & Belf as t Junction.... 63 63 1 ,762 1,5 8 Dublin and Drogheda 75 75 2,045 1.664 Dublin and Meath Dub. & Wicklow and Wextd lO6 Olt 3,609 2,843 Forth and Clyde Junction Furness, &c 5O 5 / 3,528 3.335 Glasgow & South-Western Gt. Eastern,Nrik.,&E.Union Great Northern 4Ol 365 39.378 37,336 Great North of Scotland 5B 53 1,645 ' 1.712 (3 t. Nort lin. & Westn. (Irel.) 7ll 711 600 572 'it.Southn. & Westn.(lrind.) 3B7} 381 14,278 10.703 Great Western l2BO 1236 76.742 75,505 Hull & Hornsca Highland Irish North-Western 145 145 2,0 2 1,608 Lancashire & Yorkshire 403 403 43.671 40.328 Limerick and Ennis... 241 20 297 295 Limerick and Foynes 261 261 298 2co Llanelly 461 461 819 521 Llynvi Valley London & North-Western London and Blackwall 6l 51 2,097 1,977 London & South-Western Lond. Brighton, &S. Coast 272 2671 25,153 23,214 London, Chatham, & Dover; f 134 121 l3. 84 11.5e6 all Metropolitan Extension 112 111 5 2,620 2,1..0 Do. Kent toast Lon., Tilbury, & Southend llan.,Sheflield, & Lineolnsh Ranch. S.J un.& Altrincham 9} 91 1,822 1,662 Maryport and Carlisle Metropolitan Midland (incl. N.-Western) 6721 611 50,511 49,412 Midland G t.Westn. of Irind 2601 2601 60 85 4,836 ilonmouthsh. Rail. & Canal 44 44 2,815 2,670 North British, Edin., Perth and Dundee N-Eastern and Stock. & Dad 11941 11601 73,9 7 63 602 North London 9 9 3,596 3,160 North Staffordshire 258 258 8,327 8,522 Pembroke and Tenby lll 111 170 116 ithymney l9l 191 - 1,038 935 Scottish North-Eastern l3B 138 6,11/ 6,085 Somerset and Dorset 66 66 ' 1,12) 9 9 South Devon 9B 791 4.581 1,254 South-Eastern 315 308 30,621 30,436 Taff Vale 6l 61 6, 105 5,510 Ulster lost 105 2,773 2.392 . . Vale of Clwyd. - 10 217 224 Waterford and Kilkenny 3l 31 555 338 Waterford and Limerick 77 77 1,671 1,502 W'haven,Cleator,&Egrmnt lO 10 640 570 Whitehaven Junction l3 13 961 1,012 Whitehaven& lourneseJun 35 35 1005 920 FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. Austrian 828 828 41,874 40,283 I _ , Bahia and San Francisco 76, 76 361 391 Belgian Eastern ittnction. — 26 i 26 4,2 360 Bombay, Baroda, & Cen. India 306 185 3,t86 2,227 Detroit and Milwaukie lB9 189 8,700 6,672 Dutch Rhenish l9Bl mit 7,511 13,767 Eastern of France Eastern Bengal East Indian Grand Trunk of Canada 1377 1335 28,686 25,503 Great Central of Belgium 285 261 7,188 5,709 Great Indian Peninsula 590 553 16,319 7,876 Great Luxembourg 134 134 6,054 5.035 Great Southeen of India Great Western of Canada 345 3.5 16,294 13,037 Madras Madrid, Saragossa &Alicant 68'► 650 18,082 20 565 Northern of Canaaa ... 94 94 1,852 1,632 Northern of France 728 728 Norwegian Truuk Ottoman __ ... . 481 _ln .._ 9 75 641 . _ .. Paris, Lyons. & Mediterrn 1087 1781 146, •64 141,462 Paris and Orleans 1616 1614 80,282 72.528 Recife and San Francisco. &c 772 7 7h 474 577 Sc.nde lO5 105 1,438 1,022 Do. Punjab, ttc 253 32 1.346 117 South Austrian, .4cc . 2107 1527 8049 57,612 Southern of France i23 770 34,828 34,664 Victoria Welland 25 25 872 593 West Lt N-Wn. of France .. 1119 959 65,689 58,013 I ADTERTISEMENT.I—HoIIoway's Pills are decidedly the best remedy for all disorders of the stomach and bowels, the liver and kidneys. They act with so decided an effect, and yet so gently that people of the most delicate consti tutions may take them with the most perfect confidence. They do not contain a single grain of mercury or other noxious substance, being composed exclusively of rare balsams. They are therefore equally safe and efficacious, and, as a family medicine, nothing yet invented or dis covered can - be compared with them for a moment. With these inestimable Pills at hand, together with the printed directions affixed to each box, ro other medical advice or assistance can be needed in any ordinary case of sickness. The Birmingham Bank Forgeries. • At the Mansion-house yesterday Mr. Wyatt, the solicitor who defended the prisoners Benjamin Taylor and Henry Kelly, who are charged with committing a series of extensive frauds and forgeries upon the Birmingham Bank, attended before Sir R. W. Carden, the presiding alderman, to offer two persons as bail for the defendant Benjamin Taylor. Mr. G. Lewis attended to oppose the application. It will be remembered that the prisoners were tried at the last ses sion of the Central Criminal Court upon several indictments for forgery, but the Common Sergeant, who presided, was of opinion that this particular offence had not been estab lished. There were several other charges of conspiracy against the defendants, and they were postponed to the October session, but the Common Sergeant driected that the defendants should be admitted to bail upon finding re cog,nisances to the amount of £250. Two persons had offered themselves as bail in the beginning of the week, but they were rejected as not being sufficiently responsible. One of the persons who now offered himself as surety was the father of the defendant, an aged grey-haired man, of most respectable appearance. He stated, in reply to ques tions put by Mr. Wyatt, that he resided at Birmingham, and had retired from business and lived upon his property, and he said that he was worth more than the amount re quired as surety, after all his debts had been paid. Mr. Lewis then proceeded to put some questions to him, and, in reply, he said that his property consisted principally of a number of the Midland Banking Company's shares, which were worth £l6O each, and in the whole were of the value of £5,000. He said that he had been surety to the same bank for his son to the extent of £3,000, and he sup posed his shares would be liable, but they were still in his possession, and he had not mortgaged or incumbered them in any manner. Mr. Lewis inquired whether he was not aware that the total amount of his son's liabilities was something like £40,000 ? He replied that he was not. He had paid the bank £l,OOO account of his liabilities to them. In answer to further questions the applicant said that since these transactions he had let his house and sold part of his furniture, but he denied that his son's difficulties had anything to do with this proceeding. The poor old gentle man burst into tears, and complained of the course of ea amination to which he was subjected. Mr. Lewis said it was painful to him to have to put such questions, but he had a duty to perform, and he could not avoid doing so. The two prisoners under charge were accused of a very serious offence, and had obtained large sums of money by means of fraud, and nothing was more probable than that, if they were once at large, they would never be heard of again. Under these circumstsnces his duty to the public, and as the solicitor for the prosecution, left him no alternative but to take all the precautions in his power to prevent any other than responsible sure ties from being accepted. quite for the sum of £5OO, which was the amount of the recog nizances required upon the two remainingindictments.responsibly Mr Lewis said upon hi s own showin g it was not so. It was clear that he had been ruined by his son, and while he commiserated his position he felt bound to submit that his bail ought not to be accepted. Sir R. Carden observed that the circumstances were he un doubtedly very painful , but upon the facts before felt bound to refuse the bail. The parties then retired. An American View of the Feniane. (From the New York Times, Sept. 15) By the news from Europe this morning, it will be seen the British Government are becoming so , alarmed at the progress of Fenianism in Ireland that they have determined to increase the military force stationed in that portion of the United Kingdom. It can hardly be any business of ours to reflect upon the disposition that may be made of the British army on the home stations. But it is noteworthy that a so-called political organisation, the strength and character of which is so well known here as to ex cite only good-humoured jest, is magnified on the other side of the Atlantic into a formidable league, demanding immediate suppression by military force. In the city of New York alone we could probably turn out more " Fenians" than could be mustered in the whole of Ireland. And yet, were the purposes of the order as hostile to our Government as they are ostensibly to that of Great Britain, we should hardly think of any measure of repression that might not, with the utmost safety, be left in the hands of the metropolitan police. The trouble with the Queen's Government, we suspect, is that they are not altogether satisfied that they are in the right. Let them declare absolute religious freedom in the sister island— let them abolish the scandal of a pampered State Church, which is not the church of one-twefth part of the population of Ireland—let them trust the yeomanry of Ireland as they trust those of England and Scotland when volunteers have to be raised— and let them give the Irish people a fairer and fuller representation in Parliament. Having done this the British Government could afford to reduce the con tingents in the Irish garrisons at pleasure, and whistle at the universal Fenian brotherhood in both hemispheres. It strikes us forcibly as lookers on that this in crease of the British forces in Ireland gives to the Fenian order a pivstige which its most sanguine leaders in this country never dreamed of its acquir ing in the present century, We may be mistaken as to the sincerity of the more ignorant members of the society. But that those of them who have any intelligence soberly believe that they can take even one practical step towards securing the independ ence of Ireland we utterly discredit. The leaders of the association are perfectly well aware that a crusade for the " liberation" of Ireland would encounter the fiercest, the most desperate, and the most effective opposition from the Irish people themselves. The entire hierarchy—without a single exception— are the avowed enemies of the order. The lower orders of the clergy, almost to a man, denounce its declared purposes, and have placed their ban upon its membership. The landlords of the coun try, with few exceptions, are; from self-interest, the determined foes of revolutionary uprisings. And the great middle class—the well-to-do farmers, the merchants, and master mechanics, content them selves with a steady, patient, and persevering advo cacy of constitutional reform. To suppose that a few partially organised bands of ignorant peasantry, prompted as these may be by non-resident propa gandists, are to rise up against the wishes and interests of the sober, industrious, and educated majority in Ireland, and are to rise up with even the remotest chance of disturbing the existing Govern ment, is simply preposterous. The best section of the Irish people—without distinction of faith— might be safely left to-day to dispose of Fenianism in Ireland, were there never a British soldier in the island. No Irishman of ordinary intelligence or of ordinary honesty doubts this. But every true hearted Irishman longs to see the day when the British Government will find it to be its own inte rest to terminate that vicious system of class legis lation and sectarian favouritism under which the country has groaned for centuries, and against which the noblest and the best of Ireland's sons—. both Protestant and Catholic—have contended, at the risk of fortune, of political advancement, of court patronage, and of all that intelligent and high-minded men might, under other circumstances, honestly covet. It is the solemn protests of such patriots as these that the British Government have to fear to-day—much more than the bravado and nonsense of these Phcenician madcaps. The wrongs of Ireland are solemn realities which must some day be atoned for ; the fanfaronade of her liberating leagues simply furnish a subject for sport. COUNTRY MARKETS LIVERPOOL.--FRIDAY. We had a good attendance at our market to-day, with a moderate business passing. Wheat ld to 2d per cental dearer than on Tuesday. Flour is per sack and barrel dearer. Indian corn unchanged. DERBY-FRIDAY. Wheat a tolerable supply,which sold at an advance of 15 per qr. on the prices of last week. Barley a good supply, and in fair demand at top prices, Oats a middling supply, and the trade steady at last week's prices. Beans came sparingly to hand, and maintained their value. New white wheat, 42s to 45s Od ; red, 38s to 42s per 36 stone. Barley for malting, 32s to 33s per qr. ; grinding, 27s to 28s per 30 stone. Oats, new, 21s to 258; old, 27s to 31s per 24 stone. Beans, old, 48s to 50s; new, 48a to 465 per 38 stone. STAMFORD.-FRIDAY. Our market was fairly supplied with wheat, which sold freely at an advance of is per qr. Barley a good show a nd sold at former currencies. Oats maintained their value. Beans firm. Old white wheat, 44s to 49s ; new do., 42s to 47s per 36 stone. Barley, malting, 32s to 35s ' • grinding, 27s to 29 s per qr. Oats, new, 18s to 26s ; old, 24s to 28s per 24 stone, Beans, 41s to 47s per 38 stone. Peas as of late. WAKEFIELD.-FRIDAY Show of wheat not large. Factors hold firmly, and higher prices obtained for old and the best new. Barley steady. Oats and beans rather lower. Averages, Sept. 25--Wheat, 2,398 qrs, at 41s lop barley, 1,040, at 335 11Id ; oats, 320, at 22s 20. LINCOLN.-FRIDAY. About the usual supply of wheat, and ruled firm at an advance on late rates. Barley a liberal show with an im proved inquiry. Oats limited, and the trade moderate at last week's quotations. Beans sold at last week's prices' Peas unchanged. New white wheat, 40s to 45s ; new red, 36s to 40s per 86 stone. Barley for malting, 32s to 85s per qr; grinding/ 27s to 31s per 30 stone. Oats, 21s to 295. Beans, 4 2 s t° 52s per qr. BRISTOL SUGAR-FRIDAY. - - - The demand is very active, and a considerable business has been done on the spot in raw and refined at a furthe r advance of is to is 6d per cwt. COAL MARKET. Price per ton at the close of the market. s. d. s. cl• Staffordshire 17 6 Carway and Duffryn Heugh Hall l9 9 Malting 24 0 Hetton 2.0 9 Pensher Primrose ... 19 2 Wylam l7 0 Tunstall Eden Main Tees Ships at market, 27 ; sold, 27. Births. BERICHARDT.—On Friday, the 29th of September, at No. 7, H9rnton-terrace, Holland-street, Kens i ng t o n, W., the wife of Frdderic de Bernhardt, Esq., of a daughter. DevrEs.—On the 28th inst., at Windsor, th e wife of Lieut. Col. Davies, Grenadier Guards, of a son. SOMERVILLE.—On the 23d inst., at Drishane, co. Cork, the wife of Lieut.-Col. Somteiri-evilwleff,eoof fa Johnson. Whitehead,WmerEnsimingAtno.n7gOanrdtehnes,27wt h., i n st., at 30 , lnverness-terracet Kensington-dens, Esq., of Lincoln's-inn, of a son. WHITEHOUSE.—On the 25th inst., at Brighton, the wife of Wildman Whitehouse, Esq., of son. Marriages, ".-On the 28th inst., a t St . Anne ' s Brook' TEI3BS—aEDD_. t e' Harry V. Tibbs, o f W est - h ill, High" c fleld ' in 'ThOinit ligb D ga octor's-commons, to Emily, d aug ht e r of t?: fittes Seddon, Esq., of The Grove, Higbga road. W I LLIAMS—LomAx.—On the 28th inst., at Clifton Churet R o land Vaughan Willi ams, barrister- a t-law, of Lino,i n u inn, fourth son of th e Ri ght Hon. Sir Edward Veuc r _ a Williams, to Lau ra S usanna Lomax, of Tanhurst, rey, youngest d aug h ter of the late Edmund Lomax: of Netley, in the same county. BU LKELEY.—On the 28t D h e i a ns t t h8 , at Gosport,Bulkehl' Commander RN., aged 75. Jas. CLAM—OiI the 29th inst.,. at 31, Bryanston-squa re, the Countess of Clare. FITZMAURICE._On the 2d ult., at Landour, Mat c ie Henry Fitz Maurice, Captain and Adjutant 11th Bri 6- . T .. RA., eldest son of Major-General Fitz Maurice, of Draq ton-green, Ealing, Middlesex. 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