The Sun. — London, England, 1866-10-25 00:00:00

VENETIA. (From the Times' Military Correspondent) VENICE, Oct. 18. The aspect of Venice has materially changed within the last few days. When the Generals of the commission set forth on their errand of freedom ten days ago the dead bones had already begun to stir but languidly, and with all the signs of their long sleep still conspicuously upon them. Preparations were being made bit by bitin a hesitating manner it is true, and convulsive efforts, in the shape of thea trical meetings and petard throwing, showed that life was entering in gradually ; but the general appear ance was one of hope in the future rather than rea lisation of the present, the frequenters of the cafes were listless, and a few journals only entered on sufferance. To-day there is real energy abroad, the soldiers are departing fast, and the irregular step of the citizen guard is heard more frequently than the measured tramp of the sentinel. The arcades of the Quadri, where Austrian officers sat in the evening discussing gloomily their coffee and cigars are now closed against them, and the crowds sweep over the marble pavement where the tables for the ledeschi formerly stood. The decorous gravity of the aristo cratic few is interrupted by a host of pushing people from all quarters of the civilised world who have come to see Venice unchained, and it will be long be fore sherecovers her quietness or returns to her nor mal condition as a city of the past. The American and the Londoner are not here to study art, nor to dream away hours among the architecture of the Gothic and Renaissance palaces, but to watch the fetters fall off and enjoy the excitement of the fetes. Even the air has becoming bracing, and the oily si rocco has given place to the biting north-eastern. Then the cries in the streets have increased in number and significance. It was a great thing formerly to hear even the monotonous "Il Cor riere della Venezia" with long accent on the " II," but now Milanese and Florentine papers are to be got, and you can have Garibaldi's head for a soldo. The workmen are pushing on with all their might, flag staves rise as if by magic, and seem to paint themselves ; the very face of Venice is being changed, for the mouths of the canals ,outwards towards the sea are being bridged overfor the troops to pass without that up and down move ment over the bridges which would break their march and spoil the general effect. As for the outsides of the houses, they have undergone such a cleaning and whitewashing, alas ! in many instances, as almost modernises them. But their interiors ! Who can describe the sweltering masses of rags and rottenness that have been poured forth into the canals from some of them lately, creating a smell between decaying flesh and dis turbed old dustheaps ? No wonder that there were six new cases of cholera yesterday, in spite of the happy change in the weather. Nobody is troubled about cholera now. What is a little disease when Venice is renewing her youth ? In a jubilant article of last evening the Gazette of Venice, no longer " official," sounds a flourish of trumpets for the acquisition of the Quadrilateral, but in its rejoicings for what has been done does not forget what yet remains to• be accomplished. One spot still remains under foreign protection, and until Rome is free and united to Italy the crown of the arch is wanting. There is no question about the immediate fruition of their hopes in Italian minds ; their only speculations now being concerning the future dwelling-place of the Holy Father. In the meantime the press stretches its limbs a little by lecturing the municipality for not moving fast enough, and being too civil to the stranger, that terrible stranger who has been so long to them a burden more than they could bear. The course to be followed to-morrow is already announced—flags to be hoisted at about 9 a.m., the troops to enter in three columns, about 12 noon, preceded by civic bands. It is the people who have called them, the people who will welcome them, the people who will do them honour. To-day a depu tation from the Municipal Council received from the hands of the Countess Comallo an embroidered na tional flag prepared for them in 1859, and long lying furled till the hour of their deliverance should strike. She has a right to their thanks and honour, for she has suffered for her political opinions. From articles in English papers there appears to be some misapprehension about the material of war actually remaining to be handed to the Italian Go vernment. The rule accepted by both parties was exactly that which prevails in England when a change takes place in the tenants of a house. All that has been built or set up so that its removal would become injurious becomes the property of the landlord, who in this case is represented by the municipality, and continues in its place for the use of the next tenant; all the furniture, such as guns, ammunition, tables, beds, gas-burners, &c., are are either to be removed or paid for by the Italians. The systems of rifled ordnance, heavy and light, differ in the two countries ; the Austrians using Wahrendorf heavy guns, La Hitte bronze medium, and bronze light on a plan adapted with some modi fications from Lenk's invention, intended to be used with gun-cotton. These are all to be taken away with their ammunition complete, for the Italians, who have adopted the French system of rifling,with their own peculiar size of grooves, and twist in the reverse direction to that of the Austrian La Hittes, could not make use of the guns or projectiles with out creating great complication in their arrange.. meats, and adding to their manufacturing establish ments. But smoothbore ammunition only requires a few new sizes of moulds for casting shot and shell, and, perhaps, an inexpensive adaptation of fuze-holes to fuzes. Austria is glad to leave these guns, as they would cost much to carry away, and Italy gains a large quantity of valuable material at a price far cheaper than would be the cost of manu facturing them. So the rifled guns and their stores go northwards, and the Italians retain most of the smoothbores. All is not quite plain sailing, how ever, in spite of the apparent simplicity of this ar rangement. The Italian commissioners have shown, let us say, a careful economy, and numerous ques tions have arisen requiring that reference should be made to Vienna and Florence. For instance, there were a large quantity 'of shells which Italy did not want, but which she might make use of. If sent to Vienna great delay in the departure of the last Aus trian detachments would be the consequence, so it was arranged that Italy should take them at one third of their value, but when the commission came to examine them, it appeared they were loaded and their fuzes fixed. Austrian and Italian fuzes differ ; and the artillery must either remove them from the shells, a dangerous operation, or learn a new sys tem in addition to their own ; so the commissioners refused to take them. Upon this General Moring said, " Name your own price, be it even that of old iron, rather than oblige us to continue the irritating presence of our men to ship them off ; you can throw them into water till fuzes are rendered unexplosive, and; i th e pow d er d estroye d , and after that clean and o,renthoetra.,, Whether this proposition is to be accepted areis yet uncertain, but in the meantime d e l a y s c reated and vo lumss of papers exchanged. It is don e l I Oct. 19. the Adriatic. itt 7is fre e a t l as t f rom th e Al ps to generals and half -past seven this morning the Venice met, and whe n they separated, i t was on military commandant one side to send forth the and th e last batt a li on on t h e i r way to Trieste, and on the her to ring th e i r b e ll s, hoist the flag of Italy from thet masts that o nce b ore up the triple gonfalons of Venic e , and the Morea, and proclaim " Venezia LibCeYal)tru3' Scarcely had the vessel in which General At e : l" staff embarked left the harbour, when the and his en the I tal . war ships began to come in. It was vain the vain the municipality had elaborated a scheme which was to give an artistica l app earan c e of unani mity to the decoration of the streets, in vain had they named 9 o'clock as the hour to watch for the sound of bells from the tower of St. Mark's. The people wanted no leaders in the matter. Enough for them that lo straniero was gone, their first act of liberty was exer cised without hesitation, and the city blossomed like a rose. Innate gentleness, called forth by the wise advice of their magistrates, kept them quiet, for the most part, till the Austrians were well out of sight, but soon there broke out here and there gradually trial shouts of joy, swelling and gathering force from minute to minute, till at the sound of the first hammer stroke on the swinging metal high up in the air above the Great Piazza, the whole city gave one exulting roar, and strong men embrac3d with tears like children. One by one the Italian vessels swept in—the Garibaldi first, then the Fulininante, Con fienza, Vinzaglio, Sirena, and last, the ironclad Va rese. Then the people of Venice heard the ships salute —their own ships—with those bronzed Venetian sailors on board who had long been exiles from their homes. Even yet they seemed half to doubt, and the gusts of joyful noise were fitful, for they could not touch the sailors, and the Austrian flag still floated from gunboats in their port. Gondoliers silently pushed their gliding boats about the lagoon, the one magical word " si" displayed conspicuously in their caps, and the crowd began to gravitate towards the railway station, where the troops were to enter at noon. The municipality looked nervous lest their fete should go wrong. They need have had no fear, for the heart of Venice was moved, and only wanted expression. Along the Grand Canal the people were assembling in knots on the bridges, and gathering crowds on the quays, still without noise, except where, here and there, one bolder or more used to agitation than the rest, lifted a cry of " Viva Gari baldi !" or " Viva l'ltalia !" which always found ready response. The grand old palaces seemed unaccustomed to the bright flags and rich dra peries that drooped from their balconies,• or floated, sunlit, against the bright blue sky. Rich silks, Gobelin tapestries, everything that was beau tiful or costly, was displayed on the massive fronts, and men and women adorned themselves with colour and ornaments, for all, rich and poor, wished to give of their best to honour the arriving soldiers. The Rialto was well decorated by the crowd which covered it. Twelve o'clock passed, and all along the line there was expectation ; still they did not come. Is anything wrong ? Backwards and forwards uneasily shot the municipal gondolas ; a Garibaldian or offi cer of the commission was carried by, and elicited a few dropping cheers ; but yet they delayed too long, and the tapestries and banners were displayed for them in vain. At last, after long waiting along the canal, the sound of music began to be heard in the distance, and advanced boats came up to see that the way was clear. Then slowly, but steadily, a long dark column appeared winding through the turns of the waters that hung immovable about the marble steps, for the tide was at full. Two barges came first, towed by gondolas and carrying the civil authorities of Venice, with the National Guard and their band. After them came the soldiers, and were greeted with subdued warmth not with full enthu siasm as yet ; the people seemed awe-stricken ; there was so much daylight and the Austrians were not yet very far off. On one of the small bridges that cross the rii, just as they open on the Grand Canal, there was a woman with a lovely, sad sweet face like the Madonna di San Sisto, but she never once spoke nor clapped her hands, only gazing intensely at the troops as they passed. ____ _ Though the cheering was not great nor the excite- I meat such as to justify the Italian writers in calling it, as they surely will to-morrow, a " veritable de lirium," there was a heartfelt and deep contentment well understood by the army ; and, while the people cried " Viva l'ltalia !" " Viva larmata Italiana !" the troops responded " Viva la Venezia t" One of their bands played a well-known Venetian air, " Venezia; mia bells, non ti voglia pin. lasciar." Slowly, and therefore the more impressively, the black barges moved on with their light-hearted occupants, who, uncrowded, stood in easy attitudes or reclined in all the luxury of conquerors on a triumphal march. It is not in mortals to command success, and Austrian officers who met them on the field have told me that their valour deserved it. At any rate, Venice was right pleased with them, and they with their reception in Venice. Other troops marched over bridges, along the rive and through the calli and campi that stand forstreets and squares, not without welcome, but the procession up the Grand Canal was the chief and most impressive, and the line of dark boats, heavy with their military burden, could not be matched by any other display of the pomp of war. At the Palazzo Corner, the future residence of the Re Galantuomo, a force of the National Guard were drawn up and presented arms; the soldiers acknowledged the compliment as they were drawn forwards towards their destination. It was nearly 3 o'clock before they reached the I'iazzetta, and the flag of Italy and Victor Em manuel w as planted at last on the marble pavement o f V e nice, at the foot of the Lion of St. Mark's. By this time the spell that seemed tc hang over the people was dissolved, and when the little army was drawn up in the Piazza and began to march past, everyone's tongue was loosed, and they spoke plainly. A guard of honour had welcomed them clad in civil clothes, with nothing to mark their military charac ter but a cap faced with red. These were some of the municipal guard who had been in possession of the-town all morning, having relieved the Grentzers from guard at 4 a.m., and immediately caused the iron railings to be taken away, which had always fenced in the guard-room. As usual in all the late military pageants, the most striking part of the ceremony was the appropriation of the soldiers by the civilians, and the thorough acquiescence of • the former. To-day there was officers to march past and a point to salute, but all ceremony was swept away, the crowd gave them greetings from all sides, and the troops bowed and nodded right and left, officers saluting again and again the people of Venice. The Bersaglieri were as usual the great attraction, men and women broke the self-made rants and ran beside the merry little soldiers, who could not be said to be marching in any ordinary sense of the word, for their half run was made with waving ranks, and their wheel was often simply running round a corner. They looked, however, what they are, first-rate light troops, and their intelligent heads turned right and left with the rapidity and something of the attitude of birds. The cheering was now hearty and reckless. When the troops marched home to barracks there was leisure to see th a t t h e gon d ol i er world was worth looking at. For love of rich colour you must go to the African or Asiatic races or to Venice, whose people adopted it with their oldest form of archi tecture from Byzanti um , and revel in it still as an intense enjoyment. There white jackets and trou sers all embroidered with red cord, brown velvet I with red embroidery and green breeches, blue and silver, rich orange jackets over white, all with broad sashes of bright hues, commonly red, with many another contrast or harmony. In spite of a ll t h e world being abroad there were not wanting unem ployed gondoliers, and it appears as if the charm of the profession led to its being overstocked. The day was perfect in its weather ; a sunny sky and cool breeze made a combination of brightness and freshness that was delightful, and when the sun was on the horizon, looking to the left from Danielis the city was bathed in a flood of rich orange glow ; to the right the palaces of the Grand Ca na l and the Church of Santa Maria della Salute rose uncertain in outline amid a golden glory. But no one knows Venice till they have seen her illuminated at night. Whethersmall jets of flame are led round the lines of her Gothic architecture transforming solid strength into fairy fragility, or the lights be so arranged as to bring out the sheen of the marble shafts and the grace of the pointed arches against the depth of the sky and the blackness of the pene trations, the effect is to bring back the youth of the building before decay and fire had marred its beauty. The Piazza of St. Mark was brilliantly lighted, and as the great Mass of the Imperial Palace shut out the square from the side towards the Lido, on ap proaching the Piazetta in a gondola, or wherever the view occurs, the Church of St. Mark glitters like a casket of jewels, and the tower that watches over it losing the strength of the light as this has to climb higher, seems to lose its top in the dark blue ,vault above. The square, which was large enough for a review in the afternoon, was now filled with all ranks and classes of people enjoying —yes, really enjoying the music of the national bands. There were men almost in rags, women .who carried two children in their arms and had others ciinginz to their skirts, Gari baldians with arms thrown over the neck of Bersag- Heti, countesses with their grace, and girls with their soft brown ey es, and for head o pessantrnament a crown of their black hai r ; high and low, rich a n d poor, met in that crowd with almost equal courtesy and kind feeling; they have been one in their long THE SUN, LO.NDO.N, THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 25, 1866 burning desires, and they are one now in the fruition of their hopes. There was little noise, much placid contentment, a clear intention to spend this one night in quiet satisfaction, whatever may be in store for the morrow, and not to allow any dis turbance to interrupt the smooth current of their tranquil happiness. This one sight must be satis faction enough for the years of danger and dark plotting anxieties, wherein so many Venetians have passed their best days, and even for the death of the friends who have been lost in achieving the freedom that now is theirs to use as they will. Then the strange solemn gliding up the Grand Canal, through ' one glittering and softly yielding field of light, almost deserted, against which the Rialto drew a sharp black outline above and cast dark uncertain shadows below. The soldiers, in one of the palaces consigned to them as barracks for the present, were singing a Neapolitan chorus sweetly, but not with such wild plaintiveness as the Croats and Hungarians, who have gone home now ; and suddenly a single strong voice rang out from a balcony near, with a cry as startling as that from the minaret at night, calling upon us to make this prayer, " Viva Roma it Capitale dell' Italia 1" Emerging from the open mouth of the Grand Canal our gondola came across a party of singers, whose music, sweet/by nature and their art, was rendered doubly so by coming to us over the water, and further on again, " La Compagnia di Veneziani Pittori e Gondolieri," larger in number than the first band of musicians, were pouring forth sounds of superior richness. " 0 Venezia," sang they in one sweet refrain, "Peace has been won by Italia for thee," Between one of their bursts of wild, yet soft har mony, the Italian bugle note sounded sharp and clear from San Georgia opposite across the water, to remind us that Venice will really sleep to-night under the protection of some of her own sons. The stranger has been driven out from her streets by perseverance and enlisting on her side the combined opinion of Europe ; her citizens would endure no ruffianly shouting to-night to interrupt the music which they wished to enjoy, they have nothing more to fear, and surely they have power enough to protect the persons of the few Austrian officers from insult, and not again call upon a gentleman and a soldier, as they did to-day, to leave his sword at home lest his life should be in danger. the Admiralty :—Lieut. W. M. Latham to the Cam bridge ; Henry Bond, master, additional, to the Fisgard, for the Semis ; A. F. Boxer, master, ad ditional, to the Fisgard, for the Crocodile ; George D. Perry, master, additional, to the Asia, for the Jumna ; Edwin John T. Behenna, second master, to the Lord Clyde ; Henry F. Saunders, engineer, to the Indus, additional, for service in the Euphrates; John Dinwoodie, first-class assist.-engineer, to the Excellent, for service in the Royal Sovereign ; and Edwin Theakston, assist.-paymaster in charge, to the Vindictive. ceiving the royal assent. Of this £200,000 I never received a single shilling. It all passed from the solicitors of the financial company to the solicitors of the London, Chatham, and Dover Company, and was applied by them for the pur chase of land for the Metropolitan city lines. At the time I borrowed the £200,000, there is a board minute of the company to show that I called their attention to my having borrowed this money and having given securities for it, and also to my having previously borrowed £500,000, and having given security for that and on the surplus land of the company. The whole of the money was applied to the purchase of land. On these city lines, between the Black friars-bridge and the Metropolitan extensions, the purchase of lands came to more than £1,000,000 sterling; while the works of my firm, irrespective of the Ludgate station, came to only £130,000. I stated to the directors that £16,000 was all the profit I could expect, and that it was quite in adequate to the responsibility I had undertaken ; and the board passed a resolution that I had undertaken this re sponsibility for them, and that they thought I was entitled to a commission for it. I want you to bear in mind that I had always treated this loan as my loan ; and the board did it also, and agreed to pay me interest for it. Now, what was done ? These documents—l cannot call them debentures--that were lodged with the financial com pany with my securities were not put on the company's register, were not filled up with any names, and were not entered into the company's accounts, and did not appear in the accounts as published to the proprietors. Thew is no doubt that the solicitors of the Company and every body else knew all about these documents, which were lodged with the financial company, and were informed by the solicitor to the company that the other debentures were the legal debentures; and the information which Mr. May nard gave to the Investigation Committee is now unchal lenged. The committee paraded in their report a certain amount of money received by my firm, £128,000 between certain dates, but they omitted to state that between those dates I had paid for the company £200,000 in hard sove reigns. Moreover, I met for the company during these dates £150,000 of acceptances which I had given for them, and which they ought to have met themselves, and could not meet. And the financial company had a quarter of a million surplus of my property in their hands, and these loans were not due, and it was.perfectly optional whetherl paid them. There was no occasion to mention this matter at all, and, as Mr. Newman said, these documents were simply placed for my sake to show the indebtedness of the railway company to my firm, and that I was at liberty to pay the financial company when I pleased, and it was not for the London, Chatham, and Dover Company, or any one else, to charge me with the over issue, when there could be none, when the documents placed in the hands of the public were the only legal documents, and nobody could have considered the others were legal. The com mittee stated in their report that a sum of money was due from my firm to them, instead of their being indebted to me, but they do not give any account to show how that is. It is simply an entry, and shows nothing. I sent them and the board an approximate statement, and that gives them credit for £128,000, while estimating the securities at a certain value they owed my firm £384,000. I told them, moreover, I did not desire any sharp practice ; I did not desire any law. If there was any question on the amount, or respecting any transaction of my firm, I was perfectly prepared to leave that or any other question to the appre ciation of third parties, they being men of high and hon ourable standing. (Cheers.) The hon. baronet declined asking for any vote of confidence, as he said the proceed ings could not be allowed to pass over without an inquiry elsewhere, but an unanimous vote of thanks was accorded to him for his explanation. Cotton Supply Association. At the usual meeting of the Executive Committee, held on Tuesday, Oct. 23, a letter was read from Patras reporting that the gathering of the new cotton crop in Lavadia had commenced, and that should the weather continue favourable it was expected that the yield in that district would be about 1,000 tons of clean cotton. Some few parcels for delivery have been bought at 10 1 id. per lb. free onboard at Patras. The quality promises to be fine. The old stocks in the same district amount to from 40 to 50 tons. A letter was received from Sao Paulo, stating that the hopes entertained with respect to some Sea Island seed which had been sown have been disappointed. The plants, after showing immense vigour up to flowering time, had suddenly fallen off when they should have made and developed the promised bolls, which failed to ripen. In what is called the " north of the province," however, that is the north section of the shore, better results were anticipated, the ground being nearer the sea. One grower had 480 acres planted with Sea Island seed, from which 4001 b. of clean cotton per acre were expected. The last season was a bad one on account of the weather, and from other causes ; but the planters are in no degree discouraged, but are sowing more this year than ever. Consular reports on the cultivation of cotton, forwarded by tile Foreign-office, were re ceived from Salonica, Swatow, Bangkok, and San tos. Her Majesty's Consul at Salonica reports that the cotton crop in Macedonia is being rapidly ga thered, and that some bales have already been brought to market. The quality is represented to be much superior this year, and the crop w ill yield a large increase, estimated by some at one-third, and by others at fully one-half more than last year. The sudden appearance of immense swarms of rats iu several districts and in Thessaly has occasioned some injury, and the havoc committed by these vermin on the grain crops of the last-named pro vince has reduced the rural population to great poverty. The Acting British Consul at Swatow states that cotton is not grown in the consular district. Her Majesty's Consul at Bang kok, in Siam, reports that at least 2,500 acres were planted in 1863 anti 1864, and 3,000 acres in 1865 for the crop of 1866. Some damage was occasioned by a heavy fall of rain while the cotton was in pod, and the out-turn was expected to be between 17,000 and 18,000 piculs. More than 500 acres of waste land were last cleared for cotton planting, and there is a large extent which might be made available. Her Majesty's Consul at Santos, in forwarding a report upon the cotton crop in the province of Sao Paulo, while promising additional information, enters into full details of the progress already made. There is every reason to expect that the growth of cotton will be greatly extended. Sao Paulo, with its line of railway now open, is admirably situated as a grand central depot. It only wants agents to be established there by foreign houses, and authorised to issue small advances upon real securities. The old mule traffic between the interior and the coast is doomed, and the animals taken off the main line will be put upon the branch roads, where there will be no railways for some years to come. At Sao Paulo, close to Santos and to the producing districts, the cargoes will be discharged from mules to waggons, and thus cotton can be readily, safely, and econo mically transferred to the port for embarcation. The climate of 59.0 Paulo is excellent for delicate plants, and especially for cotton. Frost is rare except in the upland hollows, and there is a long, cool, and rain less season from May to October. Hence it is said that cotton can be grown here at less cost than in the United States, where frequently one-third, and sometimes one-half, is lost from summer rains and October frosts. Every kind of soil is found, from the pure clay to the deep soft mould of the Terra Roxa (the red volcanic ground), under the genial suns even the sandy soils, apparently use less, produce magnificent pods, and the plant seems to prefer the " tired lands," which only want the plough and the incorporation of foreign substances to recover all their fertilit3. The ordinary medium staple cotton bears in five months and a half after planting, the Sea Island in seven months. The plant is not an annual, but lasts three and even four years. The first and fourth give poor growths, the best are the second and third. In 1862 Sao Paulo made her first modest appear ance in the English market, and there is every rea son to expect year by year considerably increased supplies from the same quarter. The exports from the port of Santos, which last year were 7,107 arro bas, will amount this year to 193,026 arrobas. EMBEZZLEMENT BY A COLLIERY MANAGER AT BARNSLEY.—On Monday, at the Barnsley Police-court, John Clarkson Sutcliffe, late manager of the North Gaw ber Colliery, near Barnsley, was brought up on remand, charged with embezzling certain money belonging to his employer, Messrs. Richard Thorpe and Co. The defalca tions amount to between £6,000 and £7,000. The prisoner was remanded to Monday nest, the bail being fixed at £lO,OOO. [ADVERTISEMENT.I —Holloway's Ointment and Pills.— Diarrhoea, Bowel Complaints.—The wet weather, defec tive drainage, and noxious vapours are now producing an unusual amount of sickness, which should have early at tention. In all complaints affecting the stomach, liver, or bowels, flollciway's ointment has a most salutary effect when diligently rubbed upon the abdomen. It penetrates to the seat of the evil, and soon removes the indigestion and flatulency which warn us of approaching disease. It is safer in urgent cases to take the pills while using the ointment, as both used together act more energetically. A few days of this treatment will stop every case of bowel complaint in its early stages or acute form, and spare the sufferer a long and tedious convalescence. Naval and Military Intelli;ence. The terrible, paddle frigate, Capt. Commerell, V.C., arrived at Spithead yesterday afternoon, on her return from the Atlantic telegraph cable-laying expedition. The Endymion, 21, 2,486 tons, 500 horse-power, Capt. C. Wake, formerly commanding her Majesty's late paddle steam sloop Bulldog, anchored at Spit head yesterday, on arrival from Sheerness, where she has been fitted out for foreign service, and ex changed the customary salutes with the flagship of the Port Admiral and Commander-in-Chief. The Imperial Russian screw corvette Garnaskey, Capt. Lutki, Aide-de-Camp to his Imperial High ness the Grand Duke Constantine, sailed from the Motherbank, off Ryde, Isle of Wight, yesterday afternoon, for the Pacific and the Amoor. The Imperial Russian screw corvette Grideu sailed from Portsmouth yesterday for Cronstadt. The Griden put into Portsmouth some little time b l ack on her way down Channel, from Cronstadt bound for the Amoor, to stop a leak. She was placed in the Corporation dock for examination and repair, but her defects have been found so serious that she has been only temporarily repaired, and returns to Cronstadt instead of prosecuting her voyage to the A moor. A good deal of dissatisfaction exists among a class employed at the dockyards, which, perhaps, only requires to be brought under the notice of the Ad miralty to insure its removal.- The class referred to is the masters of the Government steam-tugs and other vessels at the dockyards. Their pay is but 4s. per day, with £9 per annum in addition for " vic tualling charge." This rate of pay is but little more than half the rate paid under the War Department. It is also remarkable that, while the men placed in command of the Government tugs thus only receive 4s. per day, the engineers under their command receive from Bs. to 12s. per day. The value of the property in daily charge of the masters of Government tugs is also very consider able, and their position is altogether of a very re sponsible nature. The majority of the men are passed Trinity pilots. The following is an extract from a letter received by a Portsmouth correspondent from Montevideo— " At Montevideo the English men-of-war Spiteful, Spider, Dotterel!, Triton, Linnet, and Gleaner. The Spider and Linnet had been to Buenos Ayres, the former being nearly lost on her passage down, through a heavy gale coming on. The American and French gunboats were on their way to the seat of war in the Paraguay; therefore, if any trade is to be opened out or anything to be gained England will be all behind, as usual, for we have not a single man-of-war above Montevideo at present. The French Admiral is in the outer roads. The whole community in the River Plate have suffered a great loss through the splendid American steamer La Oriental sinking on an anchor whilst proceeding out to Buenos Ayres. The Shamakin, United States steamer, and the British gunboat Spider were alongside her on the sth, but there is little hope of raising her again." Her Majesty's iron steam storeship Supply, Staff Commander Bawden, on particular service, yester day sailed from Woolwich dockyard, calling at the red buoy off Woolwich Arsenal and shipping her powder, on her voyage to the Mediterranean with a cargo of victualling and dockyard stores for the fleet. Her Majesty's 17-gu❑ sloop Chanticleer, recently paid off by Commander William H. Fenwick, from the Mediterranean station, has undergone the neces sary repairs at Woolwich, and yesterday received her masts in preparation for recommission. The sister vessel Zebra, also ordered for recommission, is in a forward state. Her complete armament of 17 guns is in the Royal Arsenal ready for shipment on demand. A large number of the old pattern wood carriages, for ship's use, for temporary service, are in readiness for despatch at Woolwich for King William's-town, Jamaica, for the Colonial Governments of Mel bourne, Bermuda, and various out stations, to be eventually replaced by the new system of wrought iron carriages, ordered to be brought out without delay. Lieut.-Gen. Sir George Buller, K.C.8., Lieut.- Governor of Portsmouth, and Commander-in-Chief of the South-West Military District, has left the Government-house, Portsmouth, for the Isle of Wight, Portland, and Dorchester, on an official visit of inspection of the troops, &c., in the district. The hired sailing transport, Isabella, 734 tons, W. G. Wills, commander, arrived at Spithead yesterday morning from Madras with the following troops on board :—Capt. W. H. M'Causland, R.A. ; Capt. T. H. Williams, 2d Regiment ; Lieut. A. H. Handley, 2d battalion 10th ; Assist.-Surg. E. J. O'Leary, R.A. ; 116 invalids and time-expired men, 9 women, and 12 children of various regiments. The Revs. C. Brighouse and,J. Skerratt, and Capt. Higginson, 105th Regiment. The time-expired troops were landed yesterday. The invalids will be transferred si t n o u gmrr t , h ehn e ehn Rde iron-sailingro t y vh a o elyVan voyage e e i ptfoowrsrihiallLi ship n o it,ndr s neo v i ne t e a .: a a t Hit l N y e afterwards t 1 e y this mor r n e yan, E. Gooch , com mander, arrived at Spithead yesterday afternoon, from Auckland, New Zealand, with troops on board, comprising a battery of Royal Artillery, and the 6th company of Royal Engineers—viz., Royal Artillery, Capt. Peile and Mrs. Peile ; Capt. Betty, Mrs. Betty, and children ; Lieuts. Campbell and Cary, and 151 non-commissioned officers and gunners. Royal Engineers, Lieuts. Ferguson and Halkett, 91 non-commissioned officers and privates, 14 men and 15 children. The other passengers comprise —Dr. Arden, 14th Regiment ; Dr. Turner, 431 ; Lieut. Robinson, R.N., Col. Macpherson, &c. The Trove lvan will disembark her troops to-day and after wards sail from Portsmouth again for London. The late Capt. L. Egan, 7th brigade, Royal Ar tillery, who died last week at Woolwich of con - honours,s con sumption, pt i o n n was the buried new ew o cemetery tTuesdaye Charlton, t full o n, military adjoin ing the garrison. A daughter of the deceased, of ery at tender age, and to whom he was much attached, died, it is stated, from the effects of excessive grief, and was laid in the same coffin. The fOlowing appointments have been made a Sir M. Peto and his Constituents. Sir S. M. Peto addressed a meeting of his political sup porters at Bristol, on Monday evening, in explanation of his connection with the affairs of the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway Company. After somo introductory re marks, he said—Until December, 1863, we were simply contractors, nothing more nor less, and we took in payment for our works in various instancesbonds and shares, and in some instances also Lloyd's bonds. A good deal has been said of our taking them at a discount. Well, we were bound to do so, because we could not ourselves take at par that which would not realise par. (Cheers.) In 1863 the com pany found themselves in great difficulty, and here I am very anxious you should quite understand that when I speak of the company being in great difficulties, it was not on ac count of that portion of the line which we were executing under a distinct contract and engagement, called the Me tropolitan Extension ; but with regard to the main line, my firm never did any work nor ever received a shilling from the company, therefore if they were in any difficulty it was not likely that we should know anything of it. (Cheers.) But a resolution was come to by the Board of Directors, which was to the following effect—that Sir Morton Peto be invited to attend all the meetings of this committee to assist the directors with his advice and counsel. I did attend, and I asked them to place before me a complete analysis of their position, and I found that they owed upwards of £1,250,000 upon what are termed Lloyd's bonds, that is to say, an engagement of the board and the company taking precedence of all debentures and every security whatever to that extent. Now, the advice I gave them was this : I found that they had £BOO,OOO of what they called Third Preference Stock which they had never been able to issue at all, and at that time they had only £700,000 of ordinary stock, notwithstanding their immense capital in preference stock, debentures, and other things. I said the best think you can do is to raise £1,500,000, putting that before everything, and also to raise £500,000 debentures to go alongside your present debentures, and with that you may pay off this debt. I think that every than of business hero will see that the advice I gave was that which any ordinary commercial mind would deem right and proper, and was sound itself. (Hear, bear.) lat once addressed myself after the Company had obtained these powers and issued those debentures and this stock to the task of taking up these Lloyd's bonds, and I was able on Nov. 23, 1864, to hand over to the Company's accountant the Provisional Bonds, amounting together to £1,275,950. In the report of the committee they paraded the fact that this £1,500,000 of stock was created, and that it was put into certain names, but this report doesn't tell you in respect to a single shilling what was done with the money, and anyone reading the re port will think that Peto and Co. have taken every shilling of this money for works. With that money I had taken up obligations for the Company which ought never to have been created. (Loud cheers.) It has been stated that this £1,500,000 of stock was created, and not a shilling of money was ever paid for it. I am not going to take the re sponsibility of any irregularities of the London, Chatham, and Dover Company. (Cheers.) If there is anything irre gular in connection with that, it does not rest with me or my firm ; but it was purely and entirely between the soli citors and the board of directors, and they must ansu er to the public. (Cheers.) Mr. Geo. Newman, the partner of Mr. Freshfield, was the person who gave the board advice from the very initiation of the whole undertaking until the breaking down of his health. Such was known to Mr. Surgey and to the board, and yet Messrs. Peto and Co. are held up to the public as the scapegoats for the whole com pany. (Shame.) Now, what was the arrangement with re gard to the issue of this stock ? It was this : —My firm en tered into the engagement that for the period of six months they would take this ordinary stock at 20, unless the board could say they could do better by their not taking it. What course did the board take ? They called in Mr. Surgey, and he advised, in the interest of the company, that it was better than selling the stock that the loan should be continued. Mr. Surgey was a party, not only consulted by the board, but assisting them most ener getically with regard to loans, and in the conduct of other business-; therefore it is that I foel it the more that Mr. Surgey should take it upon himself to censure my firm for that in which he, at any rate, was the prime mover, and which he and I believed was to the interest of the company. (Hear, hear.) The million and a half of stock was created by the board of directors with the sanction of the shareholders iu putlic meeting, under the sanction of the act of Parliament, upon a subscription loan, obtained in the same way that hundreds of other subscription loans are obtaine i iu the House of Parliament, and known to every railway director. All 1 have to say is this, that as far as my firai is concerned, those remarks in the commit tees report in which they call serious attention to those debentures being raised without the capital being paid up on the million and a half now stock applies to Mess.Fresh field and 14,..wman, in the conduct of the company's affairs, and not to Peto and Co. (Loud cheers.) The whole of the money was applied to the taking up of those Lloyd's bonds. With regard to the sale of this stock, it was said that my firm sold into the market at £27 10s. Such was the fact ; but my firm originally undertook to take this stock a. £2O, in connection with a specific arrangement with the board, and to give them an opportunity to determine within six months whether they would take the stock or whether they would place it themselves ; and it was elected to continue the loans, and upon the loans fall ing due at the beginning of last year I called the very serious attention of the board to the then state of the money market, and suggested that they should take it into their serious consideration whether this stock should or should not be sold. The board thereupon desired theif solicitor, Mr. Newman, myself, and the general manager anndsuuwith those secretaryoo f se best qualified, the e Company, to go h.to the City an d co to advise whether it was better to place the stock on the market, or that the loan should be continued. I should say that the loans were taken then at 20 on the stock. I find from the Finance Committee's accounts that Mr Surgey himself attended and advised the board, after looking at the whole question, and the fact of the soon approach, as he hoped, of the opening of the line into the Great Northern, of the development of the company's traffic, from the completion of the metropo litan extensions and from other things, that it was a great deal better that the company should take the loans for ano ther year, and the consequence was that I got those loans renewed for 12 months at 30 on the £lOO instead of 20. Those loans became due just before the setting in of the money crisis. I applied to the company, but they were unable to pay those loans off, and I had no alternative but to sell the stock. I sold the stock at £27 10s., and I did bettor for them, for that was a better sum than they were originally sold to my firm for, and a better price than they have ever been able to realise from that time to this. I refer now to the eastern section. An agreement was pre pared between my firm and the company for the execution of this section by Messrs. Freshfield and Newman. That agreement my firm and its liquidators are prepared still to carry out to its fullest possible extent. (Hear, hear.) The stock which was placed in my own name at the request of the board, communicated to me by their officers, I, on my suspension, returned to them without anything being bor rowed upon it ; in fact, the whole as it was. (Loud cheers.) But now a most important thing with regard to the eastern section, and that which has created so much discussion, is the creation of debentures. The hon. baronet here read a correspondence for the purpose of showing that I the forms of receipt adopted between his firm and the com pany were prepared under Mr. Newman's express direc tions. He con inned—l will read to you the board's resolu tion by which the board created the debentures. "At a meeting of the finance committee held Aprill, 1864, as to issuing debentures as to the eastern section, resolved that the issue be authorised." Now Mr. Newman was summoned to attend this board, and the whole of this thing was for warded to him, and the whole of the proceedings were car ried out under his direction. Now, gentlemen, 1 ask you this, whether, if Mr. Newman thought it right on passing those receipts as against the immense sum of money owing by the company to my firm, if he considered it aright thing in issuing those debentures? It is not a question for the solicitors of the company. It is a question which cannot stop with the discussion of to-night, but it must be pro ceeded with elsewhere ; and I am prepared to say this to you, gentlemen, if no other member in the House of Com mons, on the assembling of that house in February, will move for a committee of inquiry, I will be that member. (Cheers.) I am prepared to yield, with regard to the London, Chatham, and Dover Company, that there is much to condemn in that over sanguine view of things I might have taken, and which led me to pledge my own name and the name of my firm to such an enormous ex tent for them ; but I am not prepared to admit an imputation on my character, which is dearer to me than my life. (Cheers.) If this thing was done, it was done under the advice of the solicitors of the company, those solicitors being the solicitors of the Bank of England. With your permission I will 'proceed to the next point, which I think has occasioned amongst you a great deal of painful anxiety in regard to myself. (Ilear, hear.) That is the question of the over-issue of debentures. I begin, then, by telling you there is no over-issue at all. My firm borrowed for the London, Chatham, and Dover Rail way Company of a financial company the sum of £200,000. We gave securities for that ourselves; we gave our ow❑ notes of hand. The Act of Parliament when it was arranged had not passed the House of Lords. The solicitor of the financial company and the solicitor of the London, Chatham, and Dover Company (Mr. Newman), entered into a correspondence. It was agreed and arranged that on the passing of the act the forms of the debentures should be deposited with this company. These forms were so deposited on the passing of the act on its re- SPIRIT OF THE PDBLIO JOURNALS. TIMES. —Sir Morton Peto has been down to Bris tol, and has delivered to his constituents a very long but by no means luminous explanation of his tran sactions in the matter of the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway Company. As the proceedings com menced with a promise to Sir Morton of something better than an impartial hearing, and as they con cluded with an emphatic declaration from one of the authorities present that a railway could not be made out of nothing without some breach of correctness and propriety, the public at large will probably be disposed to attach little weight to the resolutions of the audience. More important matter should be found in the deliberate statement made by Sir Mor ton himself, but we are compelled to say that the questions at issue are obscured rather than eluci dated by the involved and prolix exposition before us. The best that an ordinary reader could make out of it, if he made anything at all, would be that in Sir Morton's opinion there were people who were more to blame than himself. However, as Sir Mor ton courts attention, we will endeavour to show him what it is that the public desires to know, and what it is that he, if he wishes to exculpate himself, should more clearly explain. The explanation, in stead of occupying th ree co l umns , m ight be con veyedin as many paragraphs. On the 17th of De cember, 1863, the finance committee of the London, Chatham, and Dover . Railway Company passed a resolution to the effect that as regarded future financial arrangements Sir Morton Peto should be invited to attend all the meetings of this committee, to assist the directors with his a d v i ce an d co u n sel. This invitation Sir Morton accepted, and as we must needs conclude, placed himself by so doing in the position of financial adviser to the company. On the duties of this office, in fact, he entered without an hour's delay, obtained from his clients a " com plete analysis of their financial condition, and pro ceeded to give them his advice under the cir cumstances disclosed. The company owed some £1,250,000 on the securities known as Lloyd's bonds, which securities took precedence of all other claims upon the property. Virtually, in fact, there was a first mortgage on the line to this extent, and Sir Morton judged that this encum brance must be cleared off before the company could go into the market to borrow any more money. 'Phis advice he now says' he is prepared to stand by, as being of " a sound commercial character." Very good ; but how was the clearance to be effected ? It does not require much commercial ability to see that money cannot easily be raised on property pledged already, and that the best way to " re establish credit" is to discharge debts. But in what manner were the debts to be discharged? Sir Morton says quite truly that the directors could not as honest men go into the market to borrow money on debentures when the lenders would not be aware of their position, and . he argued with equal truth that thejudicious course was to relieve the company's property of its encumbrances, so that it might be fairly pledged; for further advances. Less experi enced financiers might have said as much as this, but then came the ,real question—How was the thing to be done ? Sir Morton advised the com pany to create £1,500,000 of ordinary stock ; on which, when £750,000 had been actually paid up, £500,000 could be borrowed by an issue of deben tures, the outstanding claims on the score of Lloyd's bonds being paid off out of the proceeds. But where were the subscribers to be found for the stock ? No doubt, if people would come forward and take shares to this amount in the encumbered concern, it would greatly improve the position of affairs, but were they likely to do so any more than they were to take debentures? In point of fact,they did not, or, at least, they were not asked to do so. This large amount of stock was " created " by simply placing so much paper in the hands of Sir Morton Pete himself. Sir Morton then took it into the City, and by lodging it as security for loans raised money enough to pay off the Lloyd's bonds. The company, therefore, no longer . owed the million and a quarter on those securities, but it owed the money with which those securities had been called in, and was not, so far as we can see, in any better condition for raising money fairly in the market. Sir Morton was distinctly accused of an over issue of debentures, in that, whereas he received from the company so much money wherewith to clear off old debentures for which new had been issued, he ap propriated part of it to other needs of the company, and so left old and new debentures to that amount outstanding together. As we understood him on a former occasion, his defence was that the purpose to which he did apply the money was more urgent than the purpose to which he should have applied it, and that the company owed him thanks for the service. But as far as we can now apprehend his explana tions, presuming him to be speaking of the pine transaction, there was no legal over issue whatever, nor was the public in any degree wronged. He tells us that he took some documents." he could not call them debentures"—and lodged them with a finan cial company among other securities ; but that they had not the force of a statutory document," nor were they, indeed, " documents which were in force as against the company." By this we understand, that although debentures were, in consequence of proceedings, outstanding in excess of the legal limit, some of them were so informal, so imperfect, or so defective that they could not be regarded as genuine debentures at all, and that therefore there was not really any over-issue of valid documents. On this, however, we must ask, what, then, was the nature of the security which they conveyed to the financial company ? How was it that this company received in pledge for money lent documents which had "no force" against those who issued them ? Somebody must have come off poorly in such a transaction. If Sir Morton Peto wishes to attain as favourable an opinion from the public as his Bristol friends were already provided with before he opened his lips, he must understand that it can be earned only by dif ferent arguments from those which he here employs. It is no justification of a transaction to say that so licitors allowed it ; still less to say that other people have done the same, or that nothing under the cir cumstances could have been "done better. The Lon don, Chatham, and Dover Railway Company may have been in desperate straits when Sir Morton was enlisted as its financial adviser, but this position he accepted and retained, and he cannot be held as ir responsible as he claims to be for its financial ar rangements. POST.—The appointment of Mr. Rolt to the office of Attorney-General shows that Lord Derby, in the distribution of legal patronage, is disposed to pay greater regard to professional qualifications than to political services. The office of Attorney-General, which places its holder at the head of the bar although rich in emolument, carries with it duties which are equally laborious and responsible. The Attorney-General is not only the authority in whose name important criminal and civil proceedings are instituted, but he acts as the chief standing counsel of all the public departments, and not unfrequently as the adviser of the Cabinet as to the mode and manner of giving effect to a particular policy. He ought to be equally well acquainted with inter national law as with every branch of English municipal law. When cases occur like those of the Cagliari and the Trent, the Attorney-General, in the first instance, gives the advice on which the Ministers of the Crown act. It is therefore a matter of the highest importance that the person selected for the office should possess that legal training and those legal acquirements which would enable him with comparative ease to master every branch of jurisprudence, and always be ready to give sound and safe advice to the Government of which he is a member. We cannot speak of Mr. Rolt's qualifica tions either as a common or as an . international lawyer, but he is beyond question an equity lawyer of great learning and experience, and he has given abundant proofs of a capacity which will enable him to deal satisfactorily with the multi tudinous questions which daily engage the atten tion of the chief law officer of the Crown. Lord Derby, therefore, could not have made a better selection, althougb perhaps the members of the common law bar may treat as a grievance the pro motion of Mr. Rolt over the head of the Solicitor- General, Sir William Bovill, an able common lawyer. The practice has undoubtedly been, at least in modern times, to appoint a law • officer of the Crown from each branch of the profession, and to permit the process of promotion to go on so long as this rule was observed. Thus, when Sir Alex ander Cockburn became Lord Chief Justice of Eng land, Sir Richard Bethell became Attorney-General, and a common lawyer was appointed Solicitor- General. It has, however, sometimes happened that two equity lawyers have held the offices of Attorney and Solicitor-General. This was the case during a portion of the Duke of Wellington's Ad ministration, when Sir Charles Wetherall and Sir E. B. Sugden were law officers, and more recently when Sir John Romilly and Sir W. Page Wood held similar appointments. Occasionally two com mon law lawyers have been selected, as when Sir Frederic Thesiger and Sir Fitzroy Kelly were At torney and Solicitor-General under Lord Derby's former Administrations. It is .stated that Sir William Bovill accepted his present office on the understanding that if the Attorney-Generalship fell vacant an equity lawyer would be selected to fill that appointment, and if . this be so neither Sir Wil liam Bovill nor the common law bar can have a right to treat as a grievance an arrangement which has been solely made with a view to the public ser vice. Mr. Rolt has for several years represented West Gloucestershire in Parliament. He is a Liberal Conservative in politics, but he has never taken an active nor distinguished part in the discussion of general or professional questions. He certainly has not aisled the cause of law reform ; but this indiffe rence may be attributed to his enormous court business, which his new office will at once double. Next session the public may reasonably expect to see a bankruptcy bill, as well as a measure converting the Land Registration-office into a Landed Estates Court. The competency of Mr. Rolt to deal with the legal bearings and details of such bills cannot be doubted, but whether he has sufficient energy and strength to conduct them through the stormy debates of the House of Commons remains to be seen. It may be hoped also that the new Attorney-General will direct his attention to a matter connected with the Court of Chancery which requires early and careful consideration. In conse quence of the many disastrous failures of joint-stock companies which occurred during the late panic, the Judges' Chambers in Chancery are overwhelmed with winding-up business. During the vacation most important questions respecting the making and e enforcement of calls have been settled by the Ch ie f Clerk. The Chancery Amendment Act of 1 852 t which abolished the Masters, never intended to sub stitute for those officers gentlemen of less profes sional standing and experience. Chief Clerks now exercise judicial functions, not only in winding-u? cases, but in Chancery business generally. Tbo was never contemplated by the Legislature, and when the circumstance was brought before the House of Commons several years ago the late Sir James Graham and Mr. Henley, two members of the Chancery Commission, stated that the intention of the framers of the act was that the Chief Clerk. should only make preliminary inquiries, and that if . the judicial staff of the court were not sufficient it would be infinitely better to appoint an additional Vice-Chancellor than to have judicial business con ducted by inferior officers. The state of the wind ing-up business must soon force itself upon the con sideration of Parliament, and we commend this question to Mr. Rolt, who is specially qualified to deal with it. Mr. Rolt's career at the bar afforqo another example of the success which almost uni formly attends ability, perseverance, and industry He was called to the bar by the Society of the Inner Temple in the year 1837, having previously studied in the chambers of the late Mr. Sutton Sharpe. His merits were at once recognised by the solicitors, and from the day of his call he may, be said to have enjoyed a large and increasing practice; He owes his success entirely to his own exertions, anc! not to any of those adventitious circumstances of birth and connections which sometimes give undue prominence to mere mediocrity. While he may be t. congratulated upon having reached a position of wll, lOll any man may be proud, the country and the Cin; vernment may be congratulated on having secured the services of so able and distinguished a la w officer. COUNTRY MARKETS. NE WCAS TLE- ON-TYNE—TUESDAY. At our niarket to-day there was a fair supply of wile st i from the growers and the coast, but only a small arr vil ! from abroad. The trade ruled very firm, and a good bu g " ness was done in new English and foreign at an adva n g e of 3s per qr, while old commanded an improvement of 26 on the rates of this day week. MONMOUTHSHIRE—TumuIt. The supply of wheat at the various markets has been ell average one, and the samples in very fair condition. demand was rather active, and on the whole an i m prove business was done. The following are the average quotations:—Wheat,re d ' 6s 3d to 6s 9d per bushel ; white, 6s 9d to 78 Od ; I T 4s 6d to 5s Od ; malting barley, 38s to 43s per qr ; griu n . ing ditto, 32s to 35s Od; beans, 44s ; white oats, 258 to 2 , black ditto, 24s 9d to 26s 6d. GAINSBOROUGH—TuEsDAY. A fair show of wheat, trade very brisk, and prices 1s 2s higher than last week—old, 62s to 63s ; now, 54s to b.° per qr. Grinding barley scarce, and very firm, with an, upward tendency. Spring corn a good demand, with litt'e offering. SALISBURY.—T UESDAY. This being Michaelmas fair day, the general attendencl in the Corn-exchange was unusually largo. The offer to wheat was about an average one, and the samples mol e hand in an improved condition. The following are the quotations :—Wheat realised fro 181 48s to 60s ; barley, 35s to 465; oats, 24s to 32s ; beaus, 's to 545; and peas, 42s to 50s per qr. Tares, from 66 to : :1 6d per bushel ; Best bread, 13d ; household ditto, 12 per 81b loaf. Flour, 39s to 45s per sack. HULL.—TUESDAY. Since our last the wheat trade in this neighbourhood b 0 been somewhat excited, the demand running chiefly on 8t samples of newEuglish, which advanced 3s to 4s per clr• our market to-day there was a small show of English wile which sold at about 3s per qr over last week. The sal ae advance was obtained on good samples of foreign. Deb t. English white wheat, 50s to 638; red, 45s to 58s ; „ sic and Konigsberg, 458 to 608 ; Baltic red, 48s to 510: Danish and Hamburg, 46s to 50s ; Russian, 48s to 5 "„ Barley, English, — s to —s ; grinding, Mediterra nea"' 31s to 31s 6d. Oats, new English, 27s to 28s; Ross i L l - 1 1; 26s to 27. , . Beans, old English, 508 to 51s; foreign, to 475. Peas, English blue, 40 , to 41s Od ; foreign w_h lte ' 38s to 40s; grinding, 36s to 37s Od per qr. • MELTON MOWBRAY.—TUESDAY. ago Wheat came tolerably to hand, and may be quote 0, to 36 per qr higher. Barley a good show, at extreme or tations. Oats were more inquired for. Beans were rat, ' dearer. White wheat, 50s to 62s ; red, 46s to 58s per 33 st ° ,r Barley for malting, 40s to 48s per qr; feed, 32s to 3 76 4 30 stone. Oats old, 29s to 335; new, 22s to 28s per 2" Beans, old, 52s to Ms; new, 44s to 49s per qr. COAL MARKET. . Price per ton at the close of the market. (I. a. • Wylam —l7 9 West Hartley ......... 179 0 Lambert's W.Hartl e y 17 6 Hetton Lyons .....••• 1 Walls End Hetton ... 22 0 Ships at market, 9—sold, 8. Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Australia and Now Zealand, via Southamptegi. _Jiff. Ditto, via Marseilles Nov. 1 ' Brazil and Cape Verde, by British paoket Nov. 8 ' Ditto, by French packet Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena oct. -8 China, Penang, and Singapore. via Southampton NoV 3. Ditto, via Marseilles Oct. 2 raikland Islands , Gibraltar, via Southampton India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Sbuthampton NoV. 31 Ditto, via Marseilles India (Bombay), via Southampton. Oct. 29 ' Ditto, via Marseilles .. Nov. 1 Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Oct. 28 ' Ditto, via Marseilles Oot. 23 9 1 , 1 Mauritius, via Southampton Nov Ditto, via Marseil.e 3 Nov iv iewtoundland ••• . Nov 5 ' Portugal Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon... united States and British North America, by Lid dell packet .... .... .....0ct. 29' Ditto, by United States packet, via Southamp ton Ditto, via Cork Ditto, oy Canadian packet, via Londonderry _Oct. Meet Colust of Africa, Madeira, and Tenerifre West Indies and Pashto (except Bahamas and Honduras) Oct. 29 ' Cuba and Mexico Out .29 ' Bermuda. via Halifax Out. 24 16 Bahamas, via New York. Nov. CURIOUS PHENOMENON.—It is a curious fact coi l ; nected with deep mining, that from the hours of 12 night till ,3 in the morning the disturbing influence ill bowels of the earth obtains increased activity. lit t „ 116 0 time it is observed by miners that water falls from raw:,, where none is observable during the day. The volume ig the wheel is perceptibly increased, the atmosphere 0 charged with gases which often prevent the lights frf e a burning, and small particles of earth and rock are oboe" 0 to fall from the tops of the drives. Whether this O°3:A menon is to be attributed to the diurnal motion of the el* - 6 . or other causes, it is worthy of the attention of the Cur ° —Geelong Advertiser. Births. c uBI TT—On the 23d inst., at Kingston-on-Thata e- c, 1 th wife of Charles Cubitt, Esq., of a daughter. fhbl/0/ KENNEDY —On rie - the wi Oft T. Kennedy, Esq., M.P., A• MAJOR 1 n he 22d inst., at Reigate, the wifo of Pri v " Major, Esq., of Reigate-hill House, of a son. ffic le- WEsrEus—On the 23d inst., at 7, .Gloucester-placeL, A r. park, the wife of G. A. Western, Esq., of a daug'" Marriages. 1 03 KNEvirr—JoNEs—On the 23d inst., at the parish OS to Lewisham, Herbert P. Knevitt, Commander niscp Isabella Ellen Hardman, stepdaughter of H. Jones' of 19, Granville-park, Blackheath. ,„,403 1 NELL —SmiTH—On the 23d inst., at St. Giles', Cara,v''..% " Frederick, youngest son of 133 late B. Nell, Tower-street, City, to Alice Clara, second datigl7-001. the late R. A. Smith, of Surrey-square, Old Kent' Deaths. h CRANE—On the 22d inst., John Crane, Esq., of Hig berloy, near Kidderminster, aged 77. goad FERGUSSON —On the 22d inst., at Boulogne-sur-Man „asoOt D. Fergusson, fifth son of the late Sir James Fe r g — Bart., of Kilkerran. L° l3 PLUNKET—On the 19th inst., at Tourmalcady Lodg e ' a 1 6 ' Plunket, Bishop of 'Tam, Killalla, and Achotull 9ge ea `V. TOWERS—On the 21st inst., at St. Leonard's-ou-S,e9: C. Towers, of Laggan House, Maidenhead , aged IT,OIOOI UccioNt On the 22d inst., at Brighton Ern estina— Comtesse de Lrecioni, aged 50. 1 . a e WALDEGRAYE-011 the 21st inst., at 4, park -00- Hon. Isabella Elizabeth Waldegrave. fe WAYTE—On the 22d inst., at Apploshaw, C. Wai' aged 86. 91l 0" London: Printed and Published by WILLIA.bI H t of No. 112, Stran, Piiner, at Trim SUN ° 114 tf Strand, in the Pr d ecinct of the Savoy, in the v v — 0 ' Middleiez.—Thureday, October 25, 1850.