The Sun. — London, England, 1865-04-21 00:00:00

THE bl3l/, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENIING, APRIL 21, 1865. The Royal Dublin Society's Spring Cattle Show. DUBLIN, April 20. Although the weather yesterday was of a very unfavourable character, the show-yards of the Royal Dublin Societe , were crowded with visitors, and every ?section of the show attracted general atten tion. The Lord Lieutenant, accompanied by Lady Wodehouse, and several members of his staff, visited it at three o'clock, and spent a considerable time inspecting the various departments. He expressed himself highly pleased with the exhibition generally. The meedxsg for the distribution—or rather the official awarding—of prizes was held last evening in the lecture theatre of the society's house. Amongst those present were, the Earl of Longford, theßight Hon. the Lord Mayor, Mr. Francis Macdonogh, Q.C., M.P. ; Dr. Owens, Mr. Longfield, M.P. ; R. J. T. Orpen ; W. J. Fitzgerald, J.P. ; James Cathrew ; the Hon. C. Trench, G. W. Maunsell ; J. H. Greene, Sir Percy Nugent, &c. About nine o'clock, his Excellency, accompanied by Mr. F. R. Wodehouse, and the Hon. John Wodehouse, aides-de-camp in waiting arrived. His Excellency having taken his seat on the dais, Lord DUNLO opened the proceedings with a speech in which he gave the history of the society, describ ing the objects for which it was established, its progress down to the present time, and the various alterations and improvements which had taken place in its management. The prize list was then read by the secretary, after which a vote of thanks was Pad to the judges, who, in returning thanks, said that the show was in general highly creditable, and that there was a very remarkable improvement in the stock. The Earl of CLANCARTY then ruturned thanks to his Excellency for having presided at the meeting, and for the interest he had taken in the show. He observed that he considered the breeding and rearing of cattle to be the most important de partment of husbandry in Ireland. It was said a large portion of the population had been thrown out of employment by the conversion of tillage land into pasture, but it was a great mistake to think so. At the time of the Devon COMMiSSiaI it was shown that a large number of the people were unemployed, and that those who were employed received miserable wages. The rate of wages was now three times as large, and a large number of people were employed all over the country. The condition of the labouring classes was greatly im proved. That, no doubt, arose in a great measure from the extensive emigration that was still going on. Should they lament that emigration ? De cidedly not. Would not the population have emi grated 20 or 30 years ago if theyhad had the means? Now there were the means of emigrating, and the labourer was enabled to carry his labour to the most remunerative market. It was not incidental to the rearing sad fattening of cattle that there should be 4 diminution of employment. He did not think the people were emigrating from want of manufactures. Neither those who were emigrating, nor the Celtic population generally of the South and West, were a manufacturing people like the Northerners, who were many otthein the descendants of the Huguenots. The germ of manufactures was not in this country. In the order of Providence it appeared to be ordained that the soil of Ireland should be turned into account as an agricultural country. The LORD LIEUTENANT them addressed the assembly in the following terms have witnessed the show which we have seen this day with the greatest satisfaction ; but I should not be led into inferring from that that the country is making any satisfactory progress ; because, if I were to do so, no doubt I should be met by the declaration that the whole country is absolutely ruined, and that these who would infer from progress in the breeding of cattle that any improvement has taken place in the general condition of the country would overlook a variety of other questions, and that if they had any knowledge of human affairs at all, they would come to a different conclusion. (Laughter.) I can only say this, that in so far as your show is con cerned, and restricting myself to those animals which we have seen today, I think the society at least hasreason to congratulate itself on the improve ment which has been shown. The show of short horns was very good ; but the show of Herefords, of Devons, and of some other breeds of cattle, although there may have been some animals that were far from bad, was not such as to prove that there has been any very great attention paid to those breeds in this country. Those who have been ac customed to see the beautiful Herefords and the magnificent Devons that are to be seen at our great shows in England would without hesitation say that to those particular classes of cattle there has not been any particular attention paid in this country. But, at the same time, I am convinced that you have begun at the right end ; for all men are of opinion, without exception, that the principal breed of cattle in the United Kingdom is the shorthorns ; and, beginning with shorthorns, I have no doubt if you find other parte of the country are adapted to other classes of cattle, you will introduce the best blood from England, and attain that eminence in those classes of animals that you have attained in the shorthorned breed. (Hear, hear.) As regards flax cultivation, I will only make this observation, that it appears to me to be of great importance to this country, not only because a ready market can be obtained for flax, owing to the extensive linen markets in the North, but because I think flax culti- vation is exceedingly well suited for small cultiva tors. The problem you have to solve in Ireland is this, you have not merely to establish a system of large farms, where the circumstances of the country will permit, with large capital, the use of machinery, the fattening of cattle, and other improvements, but also, as far as you can, to take care that the very small farmers, who predominate so largely in this country, shall, if possible, find the means to live. (Hear, hear.) Now, the small farmer, I be lieve, can cultivate the flax with considerable advan- tage. It, is the case in the North of Ireland, of Belgium, and other continental countries; and there- fore, I think, the Irish proprietors and the Irish Go vernment have done well to turn their attention to flax. (Hear.) I hope you pay attention to the dairy qualities of your cattle, because it strikes me that there is a large field open to Ireland in dairy pro duce. For whilst you send animals to us which are ag good, and in some respects better, for fattening purposes than cattle we can buy for store stock in England, I trust you will not forget that we can consume in England any amount of dairy produce you can send us ; and that in some parts of Eng- land we cannot attain that excellence in dairy pro duce which we do in cattle, and that those who will supply us with dairy produce will have a large field open to them. (Hear, hear.) It has bees observed that this is not the time for judging sheep. Indeed, to my unpractised eye, a deep in the wool is an animal that entirely puzzles me. (Laughter.) One looks very like the other, and I think an experienced judge would find it very difficult to say which of any two animals was the more meritorious. As re gards Pigs, I was glad to see that the white and black factions have both their partisans, and I am sure each is equally persuaded that his favourite animal is the best. (Applause and laughter.) I confess my prejutliee is in favour of white, because in that part of the country where I live such is the gross obstinacy of the peopl e that a black pig they will not buy. (Laughtez.) You may bring the most beautiful aninral to market, but the remark will be, " That is a very pretty pig, sir, but I don't like black pigs." There is no arguing against that. There are other parts where precisely the opposite feeling prevails, and where no white pig sells. (Re newed laughter.) lam glad that both white and black are produced in this country in great perfec tion ; so that whether you hit high or hit l ow, you are likely to hit to our satisfaction. (Applause and laughter.) I think I may say that those shows' are a great feature in the present progress in Ire_ land, because you have, at least, shown. this-- that bearing in mind the great advantages that Ireland possesses in producing cattle, you have known how to take advantage of the qualities of Your soil and climate ; you have produced animals which, in the opinion of the best judges, are qualified to compete with any which we can pro duce in England ; all who visit our market must observe that Irish beaat4 will be as highly prized as English beasts, and a man buying for profit would as soon bring home a cross between a shorthorn and an Irish beast, for storing purposes for the Irish market, as any other beast. I hope you will not be led away by the arguna..nt, that by sending away cattle from Ireland y I are destroy ing the capital of the country, for I aprrehend when you send those animals away you receive something in return. At the same time, every one must be perfectly aware that owing to the very bad seasons which followed one another during the three years before 1864 there was a considerable and marked diminution in the stock in possession of the Irish far mers. In fact, in order to meet this difficulty our farmers were obliged to trench on their capital. Without saying that one or two more favourable seasons can replace losses so considerable as this country has experienced, yet we have seen that these losses are in process of being replaced. You have seen in the show to-day the large. number" of yearling animals, promising a fair season. I infer from this, which fact has been used, for other pur poses, a different state of things. The railway companies have not carried as much cattle to our ports for exportation as formerly, and I infer this, that more cattle having been in the country there is an inorease of stock, and I account for the circum stance of a less number of cattle being exported by the fact that during the last year there has been in England an extraordinary deficiency of " keep." It has afforded me great pleasure to attend your show this day and your meeting this evening, and I think when we look for the proofs that Ireland is improving, and is likely to improve, the best thing we can do is to look to the results of the practical exertions made by practical men, working for profit, and showing that profit can be obtained asthe result of that exertion. (Applause.) That you have shown, and I think you have a right to be congra tulated upon it. (Great applause.) The proceedings then terminated. The Duppel Monument. BERLIN, April 18. The eeremony of laying the first stone of the monument intended to commemorate the capture of the Danish entrenchments at Duppel took place to day, as the first anniversary of the exploit. At eleven o'clock three cannon-shots gave the sign to the troops and deputations from regiments who had been present at the theatre of war, with the visi tors invited to view the ceremony, to take up the positions assigned to them. Inside the square formed by the troops, and opposite the pavilion, were the clergy invited to take part in the ceremo nial. Behind them stood the band of the 2d regi ment of the Guard, the cathedral choir, and on both sides of the latter deputations from invalided veterans and such invalids from last year's cam paign as were able to be present. To the left of the pavilion were stationed the State ministers, the privy councillors, the presidents of both Chambers, the deputies from the city of Berlin, and the Austrian Ambassador, Count Karolyi, with the staff of his embassy. To the right of the pavilion were ranged, according to seniority, all officers who had been invited. As soon as the troops had taken up the above posi tions the flags and standards were brought forward to the foundation stone. They were fol lowed by the Generals among the deputations, the Knights of the Order pour le Merite, and the Gene rals of the troops in garrison. At half-past eleven, the King, Queen, and Queen Dowager, their Royal Highnesses, the Crown Prince. and Princess, with the Princes and Princesses of the Royal family, followed by their respective suites, entered the square. As soon as the King was per ceived , the troops immediately presented arms. The King rode round the lines, while the Queen and the Princesses entered the pavilion, and the Queen Dowager drove to the right side of the pavilion, whence she viewed the solemnity from her carriage. When his Majesty had made the circuit of the lines and approached the pavilion, the President of the Council, Herr von Bismarck, gave the signal for the commencement of the ceremony, which began with a chant from the cathedral choir. When this was completed Count von Itzenplitz, the Minister for Commerce and Public Works, advanced to the stone and read the following document : " We, William, by God's grace, King of Prussia, &c., hereby proclaim that, for the lasting memory of the exploits of our army in the war waged against Denmark during the past year, we have de termined to cause a monument to be erected out of the trophies of that campaign in our capital city of Berlin. We undertook that war in conjunction with our illustrious ally the Emperor of Austria, mindful of our mission to protect German right and German honour. God has graciously assisted us in the fulfilment of our duty ; He has aroused the spirit of our people to remembrance of their fathers' heroic deeds. Through the victories of our army the northern marches of Germany have again become German, and guarantee the future of our young fleet, which has honourably sustained its baptism of fire. That which Prussia's sword has freed, Prussia's sword will, with God's help, also protect. We render thanks to God in common with our people to-day, and lay our vows before the Most High this 18th of April in the year of salvation 1865, upon the day and at the hour when a year ago, under the chief command of our trusty and valiant General Field-Marshal Count von Wrangel, and under the immediate conduct of the commanding general, Cavalry General Prince Frederick Charles of Prussia, and in presence of the princes of our royal house, our army carried by courageous storm the last ramparts of the enemy on the German continent, and Prussia's sons, follow ing the summons of their King, sealed their fidelity with their blood. We shall have memorials of their heroism erected to the fallen upon the theatre of their fame, upon the ground they helped to conquer with their blood ; but here to-day, in conjunction with the Queen our consort, surrounded by our nu merous royal house, by our generals who led the army and set it the example of bravery, by officers and men of all divisions of the troops who took part in the war, and by the advisers of our crown, we lay the foundation stone of a monument which shall testify to future generations how, even after long peace, the spirit of their fathers lived among our people ; how our army—the people in arms—cou rageous and well disciplined, preserving its inherited warlike excellence in training and order, overcame the brave resistance of the enemy, and the hostility of the elements en land and by sea, retaining fide lity to its sovereign even unto death. The present document has been executed in duplicate, with our royal signature, and furnished with our chief royal seal, and we order that one copy shall be deposited in the foundation-stone, and the other preserved among our state archives. " Given at our capital city of Berlin, this 18th day of April, 1865. (Signed) WILLIAM." Acoompanied by a copy of the treaty of peace of Oct. 30, 1864, the war medals for 1864, the Dup - pel storm cross, the Alsen cross, the coinage of 1865 and 1864, and military reports and documents, the paper just read was placed in a casket and depo sited in the cavity , of the foundation -stone, which his Majesty immediately closed with mortar. The stone was then lowered into its appointed place by the pioneers and master masons, while the cathe dral choir sang, " Christ is the resurrection and the life," " I know that my Redeemer liveth," &c. After the chant was ended, Herr von Roon, the Minister of War, handed his Majesty the hammer, and the customary three strokes were given, the King exclaiming, " To the memory of the fallen, the recognition of the living, and for the emulation of future generations !" Meanwhile the troops presented arms, the bands played the National An them, " Heil Dir im Siegerkranz," and the batteries of the field artillery of the Guard, which had taken part in the campaign, fired salvoes. The hammer was next handed in succession to the Queen, the Crown Prince, and the other Royal Princes and Princesses, Field-Marshal Count von Wrangel, Prince Schwarzenberg, the Austrian General of Cavalry, Count Karolyi, the Austrian Ambassador, General of Infantry Rerwarth von Bittenfeld, the other generals of the active army, the Ministers, the Presidents of both Chambers, the chief burgomaster of Berlin, and other persons of the mobile army specially appointed by the King, particularly the Knights of the Order pour le Mirite, and one man from each regiment, battalion, ship, and division of the fleet. This portion of the ceremony being terminated, the drums and trumpets sounded to prayers. After another chant Field-chaplain Thielen advanced to the foundation-stone and delivered the consecration sermon, taking for his text Ps. 1, v. 14—" Offer unto God thanksgiving ; and pay thy vows unto the Most High." When the blessing was spoken fifty guns were again fired, while the whole assembly joined in singing " Now let all praise God." The troops thereupon again presented arms and formed for the march past, which took place in the chesnut avenue before the King, and at its conclusion the Royal party returned to the capital. The St, Giles's Union and the Poor Law Board, Yesterday Mr. Fantail, the Poor Law Board Commis sioner, continued and concluded the inquiry into the case of Richard Gibson, the pauper inmate of the above union, whose death a coroner's jury had stated had been greatly accelerated by the neglect the said Richard Gibson received at the hands of the whole of the officials -connected with St. Giles's workhouse. Mr. Bennett, the medical resident officer, was now re called. He was examined on the second day's sitting of the inquiry, and his evidence was then interrupted in order that Dr. Craig should be examined. On that occasion he stated that Gibson went from the body of the house into No. 47 ward of the infirmary, on Oct. 27th, with a bad leg, and was then able to help himself. On Dec. 17th deceased passed from his care to Dr. Craig's, witness having been attaoked by typhus fever, and Dr. Craig had charge of the deceased until his death on Feb. 10. Gibson was not bed ridden while under_ witness's care, but could walk about, aid was under treatment for skin disease. Mr. Bennett now said—The statement made by Dr. Craig yesterday that I told him not tokeep the books is hardly correct. I think the fact is he found that I had not kept them and he did not keep them. I do not think any conversation took place on the matter, and it should be remembered he only acted for me while I was away ill. The reason I did not keep the book according to the form prescribed by the Poor Law Board is that I thought the cards would do as well. Mr. FARNALL here asked Mr. Robinson, the vestry clerk, if the Poor-law Board had not issued regulations for the governance of this workhouse, and which had been after wards withdrawn under peculiar circumstances. Mr. Robinson replied that the Poor-law Board had twice issued for this workhouse rules and regulations which had been successfully resisted in the Court of Queen's Bench. Mr. FARNALL--Then, in point of fact, the rules and regu lations of the Poor-law Board have been twice refined to suit this house, or the authorities of this parish: The court of law decided, I suppose, that the local Act superseded the rules of the Poor-law Board where the guardians did not care to act up io them. Mr. Robinson assented that it was so. Mr. FARNALL went on to say that he believed many parishes acted under a local Act, and that where such local Acts existed the rules of the Poor-law Board and the Act Parliament often clashed together. There was in this parish a double authority, the vestry and the Board of Guardians ; the vestrymen were elected by the ratepayers, and the guardians were elected by the vestrymen from their own body. Mr. Bennett resumed—l have had nothing to do with the rules of the Poor-law Board, and I really do not know what the rules awl regulations of the Poor-law Board are with regard to my duties as medical office; so I cannot say whether or not I have carried out my duties in coinci dence with those rules. I heard the report of the policeman Manners with regard to the state in which he found Gibson, and I cannot say that it was intentionally exaggerated. If he had gone into the ward and seen Gib son himself, with no one to point him out, he would not have noticed anything wrong. The report Manners made is substantially correct, for Gibson was very dirty. It is the nurse's duty to see that the patients are kept clean. I do not think the master had anything to do with this. We consider the nurses are under the matron. I can say that the present master is the first master who eve; as a matter of duty, has gone into the wards of the infirmary. He has been here since 1839, so that the rules and regulations of the Poor Law Board ordering the masters of workhouses to inspect the infirmaries was not acted up to until that time. I saw Gibson the day before he died, when he was brought from 47 ward to 42. He was being washed when I saw . him. I saw his shirt, and it certainly was very dirty. It had excrement and corruption upon it. When I saw the shirt I did not notice any vermin upon it ; but I was not close enough to see vermin. I saw Gibson's body the Tuesday after death, and then there were vermin upon it. Some had crawled down as far as the chest from the head. Vermin may be generated after death both in rich and poor, in certain forms of disease. I believe the patients get all the food that is served out to them. I have heard Mrs. El som say that she has been several dinners short, but that is her own fault ; she ought to have gone to the kitchen. A Guardian here said he wished Mr. Farnall to ask whether the 42 cases of typhus fever referred to as having been in the infirmary of the workhouse at one time were brought in, or had been generated in the house. The question was asked, and the answer was that the cases were brought in. The Guardian then requested Mr. Farnall to ask for some returns showing the percentages of deaths in those treated in the Fever Hospital as compared with the same of those treated in the infirmary of the workhouse. Mr. FARNALL—Why do you want to have this ? The Guardian—Just to show how successfully the fever oa.ses,have been treated. Mr. FAnxALL—What will you get by that ? Youarenow sending fever cases away from here to the Fever Hospital, and what will it benefit you to show that you are sending them to where you "say they are less successfully treated ? The Guardian—Well, we are sendingxem away now because we have no room for them. Mr. FARNALL--Well, I only hope that when you have room you will not keep them here. The Guardian—But Our treatment has been very good. Mr. FARNALL—But you find that you have had people catch it here. Your two doctors, your matron, your nurses and }patients—that is all against your keeping the fever cases in this house. The Guardian—But our average percentage of deaths has been only 6f, while the Fever Hospital is about 15. Mr. FARNALL then referred to a written comparative re turn of the cases in the Fever Hospital during several years with those in the infirmary. This showed that the num bers in the Fever Hospital during the years 1861,1862, and 1863 were respectively 86, 1,778, and 1,267, and the mor tality, decucting the deaths 48 hours after admission, was 15.8, 17.3, and 12.5. There was no return for 1864 from the hospital. The infirmary return showed that in 1861 there were 24 cases and an average mortality of 16.6 ; in 1862, 359 cases and mortality of 7.5; in 1863, 141 cases and a mortality of 7-1 ; and in 1864, 346 cases with a mortality of 12.13. M'Gee made some remarks to the effect that he believed more died of typhus in the infirmary than was supposed. The remark was not noticed at the time. Mr. FARNALL, addressing the directors of the poor, said —You must remember that the Fever Hospital is the place for fever, and the workhouses are the domiciles• for the poor, and you should not bring fever into your workhouse among the pc.or. I can only advise you not to bring fever into the workhouse, and I do most earnestly advise you not to do so. I can assure you that the workhouses of London have become the homes for the sick poor. They are filled from the top to the bottom with the aged, sick, and infirm, for the system of giving outdoor relief has so operated as to keep out of the workhouse nearly all the able-bodied poor. There is a certain class of women who come into the workhouse to be delivered, and this class and that large class of persons who only come into the workhouse to end their days form the inmates of all the workhouses, and it does seem to me to show a want of judgment to bring fever cases among these people. We have the Fever Hospital, where you can have your cases taken in at a merely nominal charge—at something like a shilling a day—and this can only be done by the assistance of the charitable public. I cannot see why, under these circumstances, youshould wish to keep the fever cases here. Mr. Bennett was then cross-examined by different guar dians, and he stated, in answer to different questions—We were compelled in 1863 to keep smallpox cases here, as the hospital was full, and our percentage of deaths was very low. The typhus fever was not generated in No. 47 ward. The nurse caught it, but she was about the house. I con sidered Gibson's case was one more for nursing than for active medical treatment. With respect to Gibson having two dinners occasionally, I do not think that did him any harm ; but Ido think the gin ho had did. When he went under Dr. Craig's treatment he had a very extensive ulcer on the left leg ; but it had been so reduced that it was only of a small size when he died. The patients having more diet than was ordered would sometimes do harm, as it misled the doctor. Mr. Farnall remarked that Gibson's extra dinners, which he bought, did him no harm. In answer to Mr. Farnall, Mr. Bennett said that he could state most distinctly that he could have any medical com forts for the sick poor which he chose to apply for. A Guardian (to Mr. Bennett)—How did you first hear of Gsbson having gin given him the Sunday night before he died ? M'Gee—lt would not have been known at all but for me. I was seen by the paid nurse, Mrs. Elsom, writing on the back of Gibson's card, and she ran at me and took the card away. When the card was seen by Mr. Bennett I was called on for an explanation, and I told him. My object in writing that was to prevent any other poor fellow from falling into the hands of drunken nurses. Mr. Famell—How are the spirits brought into .the house ? Mr. Bennett—Well, the Roman Catholics and other Dis senters go out on Sundays, and then bring these things in. Mr. FAitsaLL—ln many of the workhouses I know the people are searched, and so they should be here. M'Gee said—l want to ask Mr. Bennett if a person comes into the infirmarywith one disease and catchts the fever, if his death is not put down to the disease with whichhecams in. There have been many I could name who have gone into the infirmary with a disease like mice, for instance, and have caught the fever and died. How are their deaths entered ? Mr. Bennett replied, " Death from fever." Mr. FARNALL asked if any patients had so caught the fever and died, and received an answer in the affirmative ; but the number of persons who had so died the witness could not tell. M'Gee—l wish to draw your attention, Mr. Farnall, to the fact which has been shown, that Dr. Craig, though attending on Gibson from day to day, as he says, did not know that the man had had any gin until after death had taken place, and that he did not order him any beef tea or wine, or any other stimulant to sustain him. Mr. FARNALL—I have taken a note of that. Do you know how much gin was given to Gibson —was the cup full ? M'Gee—Ah, that I cannot tell. I don't know about the cup being full; you see, they are very fond of it them selves. (A laugh.) To Mr. Bennett—Did you not express indignation when you saw the shirt of the man Gibson the day before his death ?—I did. M'Gee—l know you did, and 1 give you credit for it. Did you not indignantly ask the nurses why they hadn't changed it ?—I did ; I was quite taken by surprise. M'Gee—You say you didn't see vermin, but when you came in they had nearly done washing him—was it not so ? —Well, he was very dirty when I saw him. Some dirt might have been removed from his person. M'Gee—Did you not say that the corner where his bed was stunk like the Black Hole of Calcutta ?—I do not re member saying that, but I was very much annoyed at find ing the man in such a state. M'Gee—Did you see any vermin on Gibson when he was removed to No. 42 ?—No ; but there might have been vermin on him. M'Gee—Perhaps you will tell Mr. Farnall whether you did not discharge a nurse from 42 ward on my proving that she had been cruel to a patient there ?—Well, I have an impression on my mind that I did so. Mr. FARNALL—Now, M'Gee, let me ask you a question. You saw the state of Gibson from day to day, and you have told us that the nurses smoothed down his bed when the master Came—why did you not complain earlier?—Dr. Craig answered you yesterday, sir. He told you that when a complaint was being made to him he said he would not have one patient speak about another. Mr. FARNALL—Bta why did you not speak to the master ; you seemed to have had confidence in hid humanity?— Well, sir, we were all afraid, and then I thought that the whole of the infirmary was under the doctor, like inn mili- ;ary hospital. I should not have written to Sir Thomas Henry if Dr. Craig had taken notice of me when I reported the nurse for taking a patient's beef-tea and giving it to another. I should have told him instead of writing. A pauper named Morris, who during Gibson's illness slept in No. 47 ward, next to M‘Gee, was then called. His evidence in chief substantiated all that had been advanced by M'Gee as to the want of attention on the part of Dr. Craig and the nurses, and he went so far as to say that he did not see Gibson's bed made for a fortnight together. He stated that Gibson frequently and bitterly complained of his treatment, and that he never saw the leg of deceased dressed by any of the nurses, but that it used to be done by M'Gee, who used also to wash the man. The witness, in cross-examination by M'Gee, stated—On the Sunday night before Gibson died I remember the nurse coming in tipsy and giving Gibson gin. Ido not remember that she said, " Here, Gibson, old fellow, you shall have some gin though there are spies here," but I saw her give him the gin. I know that you were once sick after washing him. I remember your coming to 47 from 42 ward, and that two boys had to be put into one bed so as to make room for you. Ido not remember the nurse saying that there had been " something very unpleasant in ward 42," thereby referring to your having got a nurse dismissed for cruelty; but I know that the nurses of 47 said something like, " We must look out, we've got a spy among us." M'Gee—l am going to ask a question, 31. r. Farnall : I do not know whether you will take it (to witness). Do you think on the Monday morning, when you called Dr. Craig's attention to Gibson being delirious, that if there had been a chump of wood in the bed and a nightcap upon it, instead of the man, that Dr. Craig would have seen that Gibson was not there ?—Well, Dr. Craig mostly passed by. M'Gee wanted then to cross-examine the witnesss to show that Gibson was a good-natured man and of a jocular turn, and that, though he used a low expression habitually in his conversation, that he was not a blackguard. Mr. FARNALI y however, urged that it was unnecessary, and expressed his deep regret that, Gibson's state had not been reported earlier, and before he got into the state in which it was proved he had. He (Mr. Farnall) hoped that inmates would write to some authorities, as M‘Gee had done, if they saw anything wrong, but that they would write earlier. A pauper named Gregory, a printer, was then called, and his evidence was to the effect that he was an inmate of 47 ward when Gibson was there, and that he was convinced Gibson received every care, attention, and nourishment— that, in fact, he was a favoured, or "good" patient, and had more attention than the others. The witness also stated that Gibson was a swearing man and irritable, and a man that he did not at all like, and that the food was plentiful and quite sufficient for any man. 11'Gee proceeded to cross-examine the witness, who be came very irritable and excited himself, and bad to be called to order by the Commissioner. He said the statements he had made he should "stick to." The following colloquy then ensued : M'Gee—ls your wife a nurse in the married ward ?—Yes, she is. M'Gee—When you were in 47 ward, did not your wife bring you every night a good jug of tea and a plentiful supply of bread and meat ?—Certainly not. MGee—Please and just make a mark there, Mr. Fantail, and I will call some one to prove that she used. The witness here got into a passion, and said that M'Gee wanted to catch him. In answer to Mr. Farnall, he ad mitted that his wife used of an evening to bring him a "drop of soup and a bit of bread," which she had saved from her dinner. M'Gee—And some meat ?—Well, there might have been some in the soup M'Gee—And you don't know how mush? (Laughter.) —Well, there were some bits? 31Gee—And did you ask her where she got it from ? Not very likely. I supposed she saved it from her dinner. APGee—And did you not think it improper to take the food from a woman when you had had plenty, as you told us just now ? The witness again became excited, and would not answer, but said, " You want to get at me ;" to which the reply was given, "And I will, too." 3PGee then tried to elicit that the witness had tried "to keep in with" the nurses in order that he might not be sent out of the infirmary until the season when his trade as a printer became busy, when he could go out altogether, and not intu the body of the house. The witness gave evasive answers, and allowed that he might have smoked a pipe in the nurse's room after the inquest, but he did not remember telling them , that he had not let out anything "concerning the house," and he did not remember the nurses voting him a good fellow for keeping back his evidence. 11‘Gee pronounced the man a " mallingerer"—i.e., one who came into the house in the slack seasons, and schemed to get into the infirmary. Mr. Farnall here said the evidence, with respect to the neglect of Gibson was very clear, and that nothing could be clearer, so that it was not needful to prolong the inquiry. He should report to the Poor Law Board, and would let the guardians know his decision. M 'Gee wanted to have another witness called to show how Mrs. Elsom let the pauper nurses do as they liked in return for favours which they did for her, but Mr. Farnall said he had seen and heard quite enough. The inquiry then closed. In reply to Mr. Farnall, M‘Gee, who was always racked with a terrible cough, and presented -the appearance of a man in the last stage of decline, said that he should be glad to get into St. Bartholomew's Hospital, for which institu tion the Commissioner had been promised a ticket for tho man by some charitable lady. He also said that he had been well treated in the workhouse since Gibson's death, and had had meat every day. HORSEWHIPPING A CLERGYMAN.—At the Leices ter county court, on Wednesday, the Rev. Mr. Roberts, officiating minister of Frowlesworth, sought to recover from Mr. J. Spencer, of the firm of Messrs. J. and T. Spencer, booksellers, Leicester, the sum of £5O, as damages for a horsewhipping inflicted on the plaintiff by the defendant at the Leicester railway station, on Saturday evening, the 18th of February last. The defendant,• in reply to the action, put in the plea, " served him right." It appeared that the plaintiff, a clergyman of the Church of England, is the author of some pamphlets reflecting upon the public and private character of several Leicester shire gentlemen, one being entitled " Lutterwort, an Un fortunate Village in a Fortunate Age," and the other "Frowlesworth, a Dark Village in an Enlightened Age," which were compiled from a diary of the plaintiff's while he was curate in the latter village. In the latter appeared a paragraph reflecting on the conduct of the defendant and his brothers, and their "filthy, low, vulgar, and imperti nent language," &c., On the evening of the 18th Febru ary the defendant met the plaintiff at the railway station ; asked whether he was the author of the pamphlet which he held in his hand ; called him a villain, a slanderer, a vagabond, &c. ; and then gave him a horsewhipping. The learned judge, in putting the case to the jury before whom it was tried, remarked that an anonymous letter had been sent to him to prejudice his mind in reference to the mat ter. He promised to commit the author to prison for con tempt of court if he should be found ; regretted that the plaintiff did not devote his time better than to the prepa ration of such pamphlets, and suggested to him the pro priety of discontinuing them for the future. The jury, after a few minutes' deliberation out of court, returned a verdict for the plaintiff—damages £5. [AnvEnnsEmENT.l—Holloway's Ointment and Pills.-- Bad legs, bad breasts, ulcers, abscesses, wounds, and sores of all kinds, may be thoroughly healed by the application of this ointment, after they have been duly fomented with warm water. The - discharge should not be checked at once, but rather encouraged, for sudden check must of course be always dangerous—nature is the noblest of physicians, and must not be opposed, but seconded. All sores are for a time the safety valve of the constitution, and should not be closed or healed until they aasume a healthier character. Under the action of this powerf‘d oint ment, together with the pills, the depraved humours of the body will be quickly removed. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TIMES.-It would be nothing new in the history of the American War if the proportions originally ascribed to a Federal victory were reduced by later and more accurate reports, but the disasters sus tained by the Confederates at Richmond could admit only in a single respect of exaggerated colouring. It is possible that Lee's army suffered less than was supposed, and that the Southern General retired with a force still capable of keeping the field against his enemies. This, too, is a point of great Cmportance, for it is mainly in conjunction with the destruction or dispersion of the Confederate garrison that the capture of Richmond would affect the war. Of this fact the Northern people were perfectly aware. At the commencement of Grant's campaign in May last, the destruction of the Army of Virginia was spoken of as its principal object, and no sooner was Rich mond occupied than the Federal journals entered upon calculations of the losses which that army had sustained. It was computed that if 25,000 prisoners remained in Grant's hands, andls,ooo men had been placed hors de combat by the three days' fighting, the remnant could not represent a force competent to renew the struggle upon a fresh scene. That this estimate was excessive is by no means improbable, but since that time Lee has suffered another defeat, and the numbers of his army have been again dimi nished. It was even rumoured that he had capitulated, and in this event the feeble force with which John ston was' confronting the victorious troops of Sher man would be the only Confederate army remaining in the field. The capture of Richmond has been rendered unexpectedly decisive by the events of last year's campaign. Twelve months ago it would have been regarded by the South without much alarm, as a contingency which had been always in prospect, and so imminent, indeed, was the danger thought in May last that preparations were made for trans ferring the seat of Government to Columbia, in South Carolina. But at that time " the interior" of the Confederacy was an unknown or inaccessible country. No Federal force had burst through the frontier armies of the South, or penetrated into the territories beyond. True, there were men in the councils of the North who had re commended such tactics, and who had described the Confederacy as an egg, hard only in its shell or circumference, and utterly unsubstantial within. But until Sherman proved the truth of these views they passed only for speculations, and nobody knew how an invading army might fare. The great States of Georgia and South Carolina had never felt the war, Alabama had been scarcely touched by it, and this immense territory offered a secure retreat to the Confederates if they should determine to abandon Virginia and retire upon the resources of the interior. In those days, if we had been told, as we are told now, that Augusta would take the place of Richmond as the capital of the Confederacy, we should have regarded the statement not only as indicating the unbroken resolution of the Southern people, but as portend ing the indefinite prolongation of the war. Now, however, all this is changed. Before Grant took Richmond Sherman had accounted for all the country behind it, and had dissipated the illusions prevailing on the subject. He had marched through these remote regions from end to end, without en countering resistance or falling short of supplies, and had led his victorious army by a prodigious cir cuit from the borders of Tennessee through the heart of Georgia up to the southern frontier of Virginia itself. The Confederates, therefore, have now no " interior" to retire upon. Sherman is there before them at this minute, and just as he marched from Savannah to Goldsborough, so Grant might march at his pleasure from Petersburg to Savannah. There is no point of Southern territory which may not be reached by a Northern army, and the North has armies at its disposal for any enterprise suggesting itself. president Davis asserted some time since that the Confederacy had no vital point, and that its existence was independent of any regular capital or fortified position. These words were true when they were spoken, and they might be thought true even now but for the evidence given by Sherman's campaign. It certainly did not signify on what line the great Confederate armies were fighting, or from what town the orders of Government were issued ; but if there are no Confederate armies to fight anywhere, and no resistance is offered any where to the march of a Federal army, the vitality of the Confederacy will be sorely tried. Still, the Southern people have it undoubtedly in their power to make their country a Mexico or a Poland, and thus to ruin all the hopes of the North in prose cuting the war. This was the stage of the contest to which all political observers looked forward as charged with elements of greater trouble than the mere struggle in the field. If it should actually fol low, a work infinitely more difficult than even the capture of Richmond may now be at hand to try the patience and test the policy of the North. We can hardly suppose, after the fate intelligence, that the resistance of the South by means of organised armies can be protracted much longer ; but Southern resistance may easily take other forms, and the course of events in this respect will probably soon be shown. It appears to have been hoped, we might perhaps say anticipated, by the Northern people that the South might be willing to bury in oblivion the whole of this desperate war, or to think of it only as a memorable incident of national life. On its own side the North would be ready with a complete amnesty and with open arms, asking nothing from the South but a return to that Union and those institutions which it had for a time unhappily repudiated. Bygones should be bygones. The Civil War need only live in national memory as a grand struggle in which the heroism and en durance of all classes of Americans astonished the world. Neither belligerent need be ashamed of the retrospect. Federals and Confederates alike had maintained larger armies, and fought more desperate battles than any other people. If the South had done more with smaller means, the North had borne, up with incredible tenacity against discomfiture and discouragement, and had outstripped imagination by the magnitude of its efforts. Let both parties forget and forgive. If the South will banish from its mind this vision of an independent Confederacy, and forego an idea which it has been found impossible to realise, the North will forget the trial of its resources and its strength, and both sections of the Union may live together as before. These seem to be the hopes of the North, and extraordinary as such expectations may appear, we believe them to express the only basis on which peace can be really established. Unless the south does consent to re-enter the Union, the end is as far off as ever. But will this phenome- I non occur? We can only say that it is, perhaps, less improbable among Americans than among any other people in the world. It appears as if the North, which, though actually victorious, has as much to forget as the South, is not unwilling to perform its own part in the reconciliation. Its triumph has made it jubilant, and brought out the good nature of the people. They are proud even of the achievements of their Southern brethren. They forget their moun tain of debt and all the terrible sufferings of the four years' war. They are urging their Govern- nAlat to offer the most liberal terms to their late enemies on the single condition of submission and agreement, and in this they are guided pro bably more by feeling than by any deep political calculation. What the Government, however, may ultimately do, or how the South may accept such overtures as are made, remains to be seen. Slavery need no longer be any stumbling-block in the way of union. This fatal institution is already half extinct, and is verging on its final doom. But there are the passions of desperate men, inflamed by the recol lections of the war, there is the conflict of interests out of which the war arose, and there are questions of the deepest significance which the war has created. For the issue we can only wait, as we waited for the event of the struggle, with the steady forbear ance of neutrals, and with an earnest wish for speedy and lasting peace. POST.--The prosecution of the manager and of the ' secretary of the Unity Bank has resulted in their ac quittal ; but the refusal of the jury to stop the case on Monday afternoon, when the presiding judge inti mated that the counsel for the Crown had failed to establish the charges advanced against the accused, furnishes an indication of the unwillingness with which they regarded the prospect of a great fraud going unpunished. A deceit was practised, and was successful; a trap was laid, and the victim entered it unhesitatingly; and it is therefore not surprising that twelve hardheaded men should have found it very much against their grain to pronounce by their verdict that the only persons apparently responsible for, and cognisant of, the deceptiod should go un scathed. But as it appeared in the course of the case that two auditors were appointed by the share holders—both men of the highest respectability, and one of them a professional accountant—the issue vir tually became whether it was the intention of the de fendants to deceive the auditors as well as the share holders. That the balance-sheet issued in the month of June, 1862, did not faithfully represent the condi tion of the bank at that time there can be no doubt, since it showed a surplus at the disposal of the share holders • whereas, in fact, the back was at the time hopelessly insolvent. The deception was manifest ; the only point on which doubt could exist was re specting the persons who were chargeable with the deceit. The secretary and manager were prosecuted, but they replied to the charge by showing that they were only instruments in the hands of others, ani that the directors and auditors, if they understood their business, must have seen that the results set forth on the balance-sheet were entirely fallacious. If they entered as assets securities which were en tirely worthless, it was absurd to charge them with an attempt to deceive when the bank books were submitted to the inspection of persons whose busi ness it was to test the accuracy of their report, and who might easily have detected either the errors into which they had fallen or the misrepresenta tions they had made ; and so the prosecution fell to the ground. The saddle was put upon the wrong horse. Whether the right horse could be found, or still can be found, is a different matter. The jury acquitted the defendants, but at the same time expressed the opinion that the accounts of the bank had been kept on a very vicious principle, and that the directors had neglected their duty in not more carefully investigating the statements sub mitted to them by their servants. In this opinion every one will readily concur. The history of the rise, decline, and fall of the Unity Bank is not un interesting and is certainly not uninstructive. It was established at the beginning of the year 1856, but on the very threshold of its career met with obstacles, which it needed not only time, but a large outlay of capital, to overcome. Some difficulties arose in respect to the confirmation of the charter of the bank, and it was not until nearly the middle of 1856 that the establish ment commenced operations. The manager of the bank when first opened was a gentleman named Chambers, but after a short time he was re placed by Mr. Terry, one of the defendants, whilst the office of secretary was filled by Mr. Burch, the other defendant. Some twelve months after the opening of the bank its business would seem to have been in a condition far from satisfactory, its losses having amounted to some £38,000 ; and a state ment made about this time by one of the directors was relied on by the prosecution, as showing that • the state of the bank was not so sound as its balance-sheet would seem to imply. Everything, however, went tolerably smooth until June, 1862, when the balance-sheet which furnished the subject matter of the recent prosecution was published. From this report it appeared that the current ac counts open amounted to the sum of £159,392, whereas, in truth, they were £170,000 ; that the cash in hand was £38,715, instead of being only £29,000 ; and that the bills under discount were £207,600, instead of being about £160,000. The net result shown being a sum of about £l,OOO in favour of the shareholders, whereas, in truth, the bank was deeply in debt. Bills which, as stated in evidence by Mr. Howell, the accountant of the liquidators of the bank, were utterly worthless, and I in some instances which had been proved to be for geries, were brought forward in the balance-sheet as assets, the entries referring to these securities being shown to be in the handwriting of one or other of the defendants. Two balance-sheets were pro duced in evidence which were in the handwriting of the secretary, one of them being a precise copy of the balance-sheet of June, 1862. Several bills which had been dishonoured previous to this date, and dis honoured loans to the amount of £50,000, had been included in the good assets as set forth in the balance-sheet. When the liquidation of the Unity Bank was ultimately effected, no less than £170,000 had been called up out of a nominal capital of £300,000, and of this sum as much as nine-tenths were totally lost. Each shareholder paid up £6O per share, of which sum he finally recovered only £6. It is, however, so far as it illustrates the func tions of the directors of joint-stock banks, and the mode in which the business of those banks is occa sionally conducted, that the evidence adduced on the recent trial will speedily rivet attention. Mr. Alderman Mechi, who at one time held the office of chairman of the board of directors, gave some very curious testimony on both of these points. In com pany with his brother directors he heard the weekly statements made by the manager and secretary, but he does not seem to have considered it any part of his duty to test their accuracy. Directors, as he told the jury, are not clerks ; and in banking, as in every other commercial pursuit, implicit reliance must be placed on confidential servants. It also I appeared that Mr. Mechi and his partner, Mr. Bazin, kept accounts at the West-end branch f the Unity Bank, as well as in the City branch, and that when their accounts in the latter were overdrawn, money was withdrawn from the former and placed to their credit, so as to make their accounts, as Alderman Mechi stated, " look a little better ;" or as Sergeant Ballantine, in less euphuistic language, expressed it, " for the purpose of falsely representing a balance which did not exist." In fact, from the day when the Unity Bank opened its doors to that on which they were finally closed, all the ingenuity of the directors and the manager appears to have been exercised to make things " look a little better." A new bank has, as Mr. Mechi tells us, great difficul ties to contend with—a vast quantity of doubtful paper is offered to it, and the manager, however efficient, must purchase his experience at a cost I which is paid out of the pockets of the shareholders. The manager of the Unity Bank, unfortunately, seems to have allowed his desire to increase the business of the bank to overstep his discretion in testing the character and means of his customers, and the result was what might have been antici pated. But the question which interests the public is not whether the Unity Bank was well or badly conducted with a view to the interests of the shareholders, but whether the latter were made aware from time to time of the position in which they stood. The balance-sheet of June, 1862, it is now abundantly clear, created a delusive opinion in the minds of the shareholders and of the public on this important point, and it follows almost as a matter of course that some persons must have been to blame for the erroneous impression which was thus created. The manager and secretary have been acquitted of the criminal offence with which they were charged ; but it will reflect little credit on the present condition of the law if none of the persons connected with the management of the Unity Bank can be made responsible for the pub lication of such a balance-sheet as that which furnished the basis of the recent prosecution. Shocking Death through being Refused Medical Attendance. Yesterday afternooon an inquest was resumed by Dr. Lankester, - at the Royal Oak, St. John's-road, near High gate Archway, relative to the death of Mary Green, aged 31 years, who died as alleged from being refused the at tendance of a medfcal man while she was on the verge of confinement. John Green, the husband of deceased, said he was a car penter, and that they had five children. His wife was con fined of the sixth child at eleven o'clock in the morning of last Friday week, and died about half-past one on the same day. Witness thought she died through the neglect of Mr. Butler, the medical man. Mr. Thomas John Bake; M.R.C.S., deposed to being called to deceased at eleven o'clock on the day in question. He found her in a state of collapse. She was in great pain, and on examination he found an irregular birth. He suc cessfully delivered her, but the child was dead. She never rallied, and died at half-past one. He had made a post mortem examination, and found that the posterior wall of the uterus was softened and ruptured. The contents had escaped into the cavity of the abdomen. The cause of death was rupture of the uterus. John Green, recalled, said his wife spoke to Dr. Gardiner` six weeks before. Mr. Butler was his partner. The labour came on on the Thursday evening, and wit ness went for the doctor at half-past twelve at night. Mr. Butler arrived about 1 o'clock. He went away almost as soon as he came. He sent for him again about 7 o'clock, but he refused to attend. He said they must go to the parish. Witness went to Islington workhouse, and got there about a quarter past 9. He saw a man at the gate. He said that he (witness) could have no doctor, as he had not brought his marriage certificate. He returned at half past 10, and then went for a midewife and also Mr. Baker, who was passing at the time. Mr. Bake; on being recalled, said he thought deceased lost her life through not having earlier attendance. He thought that if she had been delivered four hours earlier her life would have been saved. Mr. Alfred Butler, M.R.C.S. and M.D., said he was not engaged to attend deceased, nor had he heard of any en gagement with his predecessor, Mr. Gardiner. He kept a book for the purpose of entering such engagements. He was sent for on Thursday night at half-past 12. He saw her and found labour had commenced. She was quite in an early stage, for the os uteri was not dilated. He asked the woman if she was in a position to pay,when she said "No ; she thought She could pay by instalments." He then de clined to attend, and recommended them to send to some one else. They sent again about 9 o'clock on the Friday morning. He was not then at home, but when he returned at a quarter to 10 he understood from Mrs. Butler that Mr. Baker had been sent for. Mary Edwards said that she was with Mrs Green when the doctor came. She was with her from the first. The doctor after examination asked deceased if she had engaged, and she replied. " Yes, with Mr. Gardiner six weeks ago." He told her he could not attend her as she could not pay, and that she ought to get assistance from the parish. He said he would rather decline having any thing to do with her. She continued vory ill all night, and at seven o'clock became very bad. Witness went to Mr. Baker between seven and eight, and he recommended her to go to Mr. Butler. She did so, and saw Mrs. Butler, who said Mr. Butler would not come. She came back and sent Green (the husband) to the parish. During the time he was gone the poor woman was raving mad. She never saw any one suffer so dreadfully. Mr. Alfred Butler recalled, said he had seen Mr. Gar diner and asked him if he had been engaged to attend the deceased. He said he had no recollection of it. By a Juror—Mr. Gardiner had a book of engagements, but witness had not got it. The engagements which his predecessor had made were handed over to him, but he did not feel bound by them. Witness had a copybook in which he entered such engagements, but he could not find Mrs. Green's name entered. He considered his responsibility to attend M.S. Green when he left her on Friday morning at 1 o'clock. He should probably not have attended her at all if Mr. Gardiner had made the engagement. The copybook was passed round to the jury, when, one of them said it appeared that those entries were all made at one time. The Coroner remarked that, when Mr. Butler gave uP the , case, some hours elapsed before medical attendance was again sought, so that Mr. Butler might not altogether be blamed. Mary Edwards said Mr. Butler gave them to understand there was plenty of time. The Coroner said no medical attendant was obliged to attend without payment. Mary Edwards then informed the court that Mr. Butler was told that half a sovereign would be paid down, but as the husband had been out of work the remaining ss. would be paid at the end of the week. The engagement With Dr. Gardiner was 15s. A juror asked Mr. Butler if they (the jurors) were to understand that he would let the woman die because be did not get his fee. The Coroner suppressed such a question. • He said there was no apprehension of death when Mr. Butler left. Had such been the case, it would be inhumanity and amount to manslaughter ; but such was not the case. The jury felt disappointment at Dr. Gardiner not aP" pearing. The Coroner said that he thought they might 11 0 v revert to the case respecting the workhouse, when William Trass, house porter of the Islington workhouse, was examined—He recollected a man coming for an order for a midwife. Having no marriage certificate he told him he must go and fetch it. William G. Leftley, relieving-officer at the Islington workhouse, said that Trass was a doorkeeper recently er pointed, and his duty was, in a case of emergency, to bring the applicant to him instead of sending him away. There was no book of rules. Mary Edwards was recalled, and, in answer to the ill* said that Mr. Butler did not positively decline to attend the case, but he said he would rather not. Witness told him she had been bad five or six hours. lie said it was a case for the parish, and there would be plenty of time to apPli at nine o'clock. The Coroner then summed up, and the jury, after a short deliberation with closed doors, returned the following ver dict—" That the deceased Mary Green was found dying, and did die,from the mortal effect of a rupture of the womb during childbirth. And the said jurors further say that the said death was accelerated by the refusal of assistance by the surgeon to the said Mary Green after having com menced his professional services." Mr. Butler wished to make some remarks, which the coroner disallowed. He concurred in the verdict, and the proceedings terminated. COUNTRY MARKETS BRISTOL—THURSDAY. On our mark e t t o -d a y th ere was a s h ort supp l y, an d 501C1 at about last week's values. Foreign scarce and more in quired for at full prices. Barley fully as dear, but without much activity. Oats were firm, but the trade was far from buoyant. Indian corn is per qr. dearer. BIRMINGHAM —THURSDAY. At this day's market there was a short supply of English wheat, which sold slowly at an advance of 6d to is per qr . Barley unaltered. Beans and oats 6d to is per qr. dearer. Peas only taken in retail. Currencies :—English wheat, white, 40s to 44s ; red, 360 to 42s per 36 stone. M a lti ng b ar l ey, 28 s to 34s ; grinding, 22s to 25s per qr. Oats, 24s to 30s ; Irish, 20s to 24s per 30 stone. Beans, 38s to 42s ; and peas, 38s to 40s per qr. BURY ST. EDMUND'S—WEDNESDAY. There was a short supply of wheat at this market to day, and the prices of last week were barely maintained . The supply of barley was good, at last week's rates. Oatt4 beans, and peas without alteration. Talavera wheat, 43s to 475; red ditto, 36s to 38s; barley, 30s to 325; secondary ditto, 27s to 29s per qr. Averages : Wheat, 574 qrs., 40s 4d ; barley, 453 qrs., 29s 9d; oats, qrs., —s Od. MANCHES TER--TilunsDAY. Although the demand for flour during the week has re, mained lifeless, h o ld ers h ave nevert h eless adhered firmly to late rates, while spring corn of all sorts has further Ili!: proved in value. Our market this mor n i ng was well at" tended. E ng li s h w h eat was taken more freely at 6d per qr. over th e ra t es o b tainable on this day se'nnight, foreign brought extreme prices. There was not much T s quiry for flour. O a t s ld and oatmeal 3d higher. Beans per qr. higher. Indian corn was also is per qr. higher. EDINBURGH —WEDNESDAY. At our market there was a small supply of countrl wheat, which sold quietly at about 6d decline on the rat of last week. Wheat on the top, is Od up average, is 8d uP Barley on the top, is Od up average, Os 3d dorm• Oats on the top, is Od up average, Os lid uP• Beans on the top, 3s Od up average, Os 2d duvill' • Average prices. - Wheat, 40s 8d 1 Oats, 24s lld Barley, 29s 4d 1 Beans, 38s 4d Total supply and sales. Wheat 776 qrs sold 61 1 Barley 917 qrs sold 611 Oats 1945 qrs sold 1157 Beans lB4 qrs sold 85 Town-made flour sells as follows :—White, 36s Od ; extra superfine, 34s 6d; superfine, 33s Od; fine, 31s 6d. GLAS GOW—WEDYEsDAY. This day's market was pretty well attended. Wheat was in better inquiry, and 3d dearer per 2401 b. Flour firm• Barley, beans, and Indian corn improved 3d to 6d per re spective boll, and oats and oatmeal 6d per boll and load. Foreign Mail Packet List. Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton May 1 9 . Ditto, via Marseilles May 13 Brazil and Cape Verde. by British pac et May 4 • Dit o, by French packet Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and •!,t Helena April 2 " China, Penang, and Sing tpure, via Sou. hampton May 2. Ditto, via Marseilles April 26, Falkland Islands Gibraltar, ,ia Southampton India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Snuthamoton....Mal 2 Ditto, via Mar-.eilles • •••• April 26. India (B mbay), via Southampton. Apr i l 26 ' Ditto, via darseilles Mauritius, via Southampton Ditto, via Marseil.e + • . may 6 ' Newfoundland . Ma y 10. Portugal • • • Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon.. ...... United Mates and British North America, by Bri tish packet.. Ditto, by United States pficket, via Southarap t• n Ditto, via C rk Ditto, by Canadian packet, via Londonderry.. April 21. West Ccast of Africa, Madeira, an d Tenerife ..Apr i l —. West Indies and Pacific ( except Bahamas, Cuba and Mexico April 2 3 ' Bahamas, via New 1 o r k . May 4 Bermuda, ditto.. 314 0. Cuba and Morino Apr , ' 2' SENTENCE OF DEATH.--The trial of George Stephen for the murder of a woman in the woods a t Thainstone, near Aberdeen, was concluded at Aberdeen on Wednesday. The defence set up was that the prisone r was insane at th e L i me, b u t th e assert i on cou ld no t v° proved. The jury found the man guilty, and he was there" upon sentenced to be hanged. THE RECENT BANK FAILURE, BIRMINGHAM!' Two extraordinary general meetings of the share holders in the Birmingham Joint-Stock Bank Company (Limited) were held yesterday, in the Exchange Assembly' rooms ; Mr. L. P. Muntz in the chair. The object of the first meeting was simply to confirm a resolution passe d i't a meeting held on th e 3d i nst., authorising an increase of the capital of the company by the creation of 10,000 addi tional shares of £lOO each. The resolution was unsu e. mously confirmed. The object of the second meeting, which was called half an hour later than the first, was to approve the off er recen tl y ma d e f or the purchase a estate and effects of Henry Marshall (surviving partner d ° R. Spoo ner , H . Marshall, and T. Attwood, late of Birinint . ham, bankersand copartners), and to authorise the dirente' r to carry th e same into effect, or alter, vary, or ann ul all ° , l any of the terms and stipulations therein contained ; an also, if and so far as necessary for the purposes aforesa" to make any arrangements or agreements with the reps" sentatives of the deceased p ar t ners, an d t o carry th e sa me into effect. The resoluti on , w i t h ou t any quest i on being asked or remark made, was passed unanimously. Births. BENNETT.—On the 19th inst . :, at Campbell-road, BOW, th e wife of John Bennett., Esq., of a eon. RADCLIFFE.—On the 16th inst., at Warley, the a, Of - Colonel R. P. Radcliffe, R.A., of a son. ItarLEy.—On the 19th inst., at Surbiton, the wife of P llll Anthony Ripley, Esq., of a son. • Marriagetk MEADE—LASCELLES.—On th e 19th inst., at Saint Pa o'ol Knightsbridge, th e H on. Robert H. Meade, second „,0 E of the Earl of Cl anw i lliam, to Lady Mary E. Lascell fifth daughter of the late Earl of Harewood. WAINWRIGHT—RANKING.-011 the 18th hut, a t Ch Church, Battersea, James Gadesden, eldest son a on ji Wainwright, E sq ., of Clapham- common , to Eanna, daughter of John R an ki ng , E sq., of Wandsworth-p ota 111011. Deaths. ----- Brats.—On Good Friday, at Covington Rectory, Hunt urg d donshire, Corneliu s A. Bi nns, rector of the pa risht 68. BLAND.—On the 19th inst., at Islington, William Esq., aged 66. CORDING.—On the 17th inst., George Cording, 231, aged 51. ft Iste ' Cox.—On the 9th inst., Th omas Co; Esq., of stoke ington, aged 79. n ot DOUGLASS.—On the 18th i ns t., a t B a dd ow Court, 'oral Chelmsford, Mary, widow of the late Major-a° ll Douglass, aged 89. I A MILLIGAN.—On the 19th inst., at Bankton, near Cr sw. Sussex, Charles Millig an , E sq . , l ate of Itung° l4° Wharf and New Corn Exchange, aged 76. „,,et, TOWNSEND.—On the 17th inst., at 48, M or timer-ebili e cl Cavendish-square, Stephen Townsend, Esq., 5 r° Colonel :O f London : Printed and P u bli s h e d b y WIL LIA M AN I, a 1 0, of No. 112, Str an d, P i inter, at THE SUN 0 111 ' , :e , 14° 01 %m Strand, in the Pr ec i nc t o f t h e Savoy, ill tile , d "'i' — Middlesex—Friday, April 21, 180. r ee o will PU' May and Dowd( etiarnE the br street. With o !leek, lorsi ~_ SP P tn l7o 4lll s, On rf, TAB, 6ze ; 1101 b, A' toni c Elool C' 0 11 Item F ' l l a Ti b d a ' 'MPG! ralogi lir AT 13 1 1 1e 1 1 7( aad co ,PRJ n&L( ~o; S. t The young have t Con Mr. I) Buell SA: N