The Sun. — London, England, 1866-01-25 00:00:00

'The Cattle Plague. The following letter from Mr. Fernie, recom mending the use of sulphur and calomel as a spe cific for the cattle plague was received at the Foreign-office on the 22d inst. :-•••• " Orkedal, near Drontheim, Norway, Jan. 8. " My Lord—Typhus fever, cholera, cattle plague, and Russian sickness, I consider to be a sudden partial decomposition of the blood. Dr. Tillner, physician to the Grand Duchess Maria of Russia, has expressed somewhat the same notions. " Deduction—At Birmingham, I believe, the cholera has never been very fatal. And why ? Per haps the immense quantity of sulphurous acid gas that is always coming out of the chimneys of the numerous works constantly charges the atmosphere with sulphur, and thus renders persons' blood in general incapable of sudden decomposition. " Proposed Antidote or Cure—A small quantity of flowers of sulphur, rubbed on every animal's tongue once or several times a day, may be an an tidote for the healthy or cure for the sick. I have seen the black typhus tongue rendered clean and healthy in a few hours, I myself having placed on the tongue every hour a powder composed of a very small quantity of flowers of sulphur combined with half a grain of calomel. It would be gratifying, in deed, should the foregoing prove useful against Lon don's most fatal sickness. A doctor's unbiassed opinion of this letter would be very interesting. The late sudden deaths in Paris and the increase of the plague in England has caused me to write, which liberty I hope your lordship will forgive.—l bave, &c., " KIRWAN J. FERNIE. " To the Right Hon. the Earl of Clarendon, Sce." CUMBERLAND. Since the returns were prepared, which appeared in The San on Monday, the disease has made con siderable progress in Cumberland. Since Satur day fresh outbreaks have taken plaee at Brunstock, Wallhead, Kingmoor, and other 'places on the northern side of Carlisle, in herds numbering altogether about 300, that had before remained quite healthy. The most serious case in their dis trict has been that of Mr. Hetherington, of Rick erby, who out of a herd of nearly 60 valuable cattle has now only half a dozen remaining healthy ; 20 of his stock have died within the last three or four days. On Monday night intelligence was received in Carlisle that the plague had broken out at the farm of Mr. Bell, of Kingwater, near Brampton— in a district of the county that had maintained an immunity from disease for three or four months. Two of Mr. Bell's stock have died, and 10 are ill. :DORSET._ The adjourned meeting of the justices of the county of Dorset in Quarter Sessions was held at the Shirehall, Dorchester, on Tuesday last, to con skier the best means to be adopted to prevent the introduction of the cattle plague into this county.. Lord Portman presided, supported by Mr. Floyer, M.P. (deputy chairman), and there was a full at tendance of the magistrates of the county. It was resolved that all previous orders made by the petty sessional divisions having been rescinded, the chief constable should be appointed county chief inspec tor, for the purpose of carrying into effect the rules and regulations of the Orders in Council, and that the superintendents and sergeants of police under his command should be appointed inspectors in their several divisions to assist him ; the chief inspector • was also empowered to engage the services of a ve terinary surgeon, when, in his opinion, the same should be rendered necessary. Also, that from Feb. 1 to March 1 no cattle or sheep should be brought from any part of Great Britain to within the juris diction of the justices, and it should be unlawful for any person to remove such animals from place to place within such jurisdiction without obtaining a certificate, signed by the owner of the lands on which they have been kept, that the animals were not in fected with disease, and have been under his care 28 days previously, and also that there had been no cattle disease there for a similar period ; this certi ficate is also to be signed by the inspector of the dis trict, as well as by two justices of the county, on I their being satisfied of the reason for such removal. That between the dates mentioned no animals shall be removed from any place within the jurisdiction of the local authority to any market or fair for the purpose of. exhibition or sale, provided that no per son shall be prohibited from exhibiting or selling on his own land or premises any animals belonging to him which had been in his possession for not less than 11 days previous to such sale. No animal is to he removed out of the jurisdiction to any other place along any public road or highway, provided that the place to which it is removed is not in the same occupation; that animals so removed must have been in the possession of the owner for four I weeks previously, and that the removal Fhxll take place between one hour after sunrise and one hour 1 before sunset. The person in charge of such animals is to produce a certificate dated and signed by the owner or vendor, as the case may be, to any inspec tor, police-constable, or person authorised to require the same, and the certificate shall be countersigned by such stock owner in the parish as may consent to act as the overseer of cattle, to the effect that there is no cattle disease in the parish, and also by a justice of the peace for the district, to the effect that the removal is made for reasons satisfactory to him ; such certificate to remain in force for three days and specify the number and kind of animals to which it applies. In the event of the plague appearing within the jurisdiction the chief inspector should give notice thereof to the clerk of the peace, who, on receipt of such notice, should duly advertise the same to the effect that from that date it should not be lawful for any person to remove any animal from the place where such disease appeared, or from the adjoining parishes, which are to be specified in the notice. The traffic of animals by rail within the jurisdiction has also been prohibited. LIVERPOOL. The cattle dealers and others of Liverpool and the district are memorialising the West Derby ma gistrates against the adoption of measures which will close the Liverpool cattle market. They argue that as it is mainly supplied from Ireland, where the plague has not appeared, and that as the cattle are carefully examined on landing, it is unnecessary in their case to enforce the Orders in Council to their full extent. MONTGOMERYSHIRE. An adjourned Quarter Session was held at Welshpool on Monday to take into consideration a proposal by Mr. Long, M.P., to the following ef fect :—" That from and after the 27th of January the removal of all stock, as defined in section 4 of the Order in Council dated the 16th of December, 1865, from any parish in the county of Montgo mery to any other parish in the county shall be prohibited, except for the purpose of immediate slaughter, in which case a certificate, to be signed by at least one magistrate, shall be necessary." Mr. N. S. Mytton, Deputy Chairman of Quarter Ses sions (who presided in the absence of Lord Powis), opposed this as unnecessarily stringent so long as the disease was not in the county, and Mr. Trevor pointed out how many small farmers would be injured by such an order. A vote was then taken, which resulted in Mr. Long's motion being lost by the casting vote of Mr. Mytton. In rela tion to the conveyance of stock out of the county, the Deputy Chairman thought the magistrates ought not to grant more certificates than they were c ompelled, as the less traffic at pr esent the better. NORTHUMBERLAND, to have The cattle disease appears happily near] left this county. Th e onl y p lace in the rural y dis trict where it prevails is u p on a farm at Miekley' near llexharn. Two more fat cattle are reported to have died there, and two have been severely attacked by the disease. At Newcastle-on- Tyne only one cow has died from the cattle disease within a week, while another has been slaughtered and passed as food. Mr. Siuton, the inspector of butchers' meat at Newcastle, has seized the beef of two beasts which was deemed by him diseased and unfit for human food. It has been destroyed. SUFFOLK. The Mayor of Sudbury has issued a notice in accordance with the last Order of the Privy Council, that no cattle or sheepwill be allowed to be exhibited for sale within the limits of the borough, nor will any be permitted to be brought into the town with out a certificate by two justices. The Ixworth dis trict is clear of the disease. On Tuesday the Suffolk Agricultural Society held a meeting for the purpose of discussing the question whether a show of stock should be held this year. Tho Norfolk Society has resolved not to have any exhibition. After some conversation, it was decided by the Suffolk Society to hold a show of horses, sheep, swine, poultry, and implements at Bury St. Edmund's. The meeting will take place on Friday, July 6. WESTMORELAND. At a meeting of the Appleby Mutual Cattle Assur ance Association, held at the county town on Satur day, a discussion took place upon the desirability of introducing vaccination as a preventive of the cattle plague. The Rev. James Simpson, vicar of Kirkby Stephen, in advocating the experiment, said he had some cows of his own vaccinated about ten days ago. He had a milk cow, in full milk, and two calves vaccinated at the same time, and they had all taken admirably. They all took their food as usual; the milk was just as abundant as it had been before, and perhaps more than might have been expected under the circumstances ; it had been used exactly in the same way as the other milk was used, and no percep tible difference could be detected. It was satisfactory to him, at all events, that no harm could arise from introducing vaccination into their stocks. His cow was vaccinated in the dewlap. A thread was charged with lymph, a knot was made, and then it was drawn through the dewlap and there left, and it produced the desired effect. The reason the doc tor chose that particular part was that there was no other part of the cow from which the matter could better circulate through the system. The animals he had had vaccinated since had been done in different parts of the body with other objects in view. He wished to ascertain whether lymph could be pro duced from cows in such a form and condition as to be used in vaccinating other cows. He had had a heifer done in the back, and a bullock done in another place ; and he found that if the vaccine matter took, and lymph was formed, the matter could be obtained. He saw a cow vaccinated ten days before, belonging to Mr. Williams, of Langley-house, who had chosen a place a hand's breadth from the root of the tail upon which to introduce the vaccine matter. He removed the hair, and caused the place just to show blood, and having deposited the vaccine matter there it formed a very large pox, nearly the size of half-a-crown, and from that place the matter might easily have been taken. With respect to the experiments tried near Aspatria and at Carlisle, he thought there had been sufficient evidence at all events to lead them, as prudent men, to adopt vaccination as a means of stopping the plague, if it could be done at such an ' expense as would not be of much consequence. A resolution was adopted by the meeting to the effect that vaccination should be tried, and authorising the directors to get the cows of members of the association vaccinated. Railway and other Companies. MANCHESTER, SHEFFIELD, AND LINCOLNSHIRE The half-yearly meeting was held yesterday at Manchester, Mr. Watkin, M.P., in the chair. The report, an abstract of which has appeared in The Sun, was taken as read. The CIIAIR3IAN, in moving the adoption of the report, analysed the increase of traffic, which re sulted in the improved dividend of 31 per cent. It was the logical consequence of arrangements made in previous half-years for the working of the line, interchange of traffic with other companies, and access to new districts. The loss on the South Yorkshire, supposing it were accounted for sepa rately-, would be about £3,000, but the Sheffield line had received many times £3,000 on the additional traffic the South Yorkshire had brought upon it. iVith regard to capital, the admission of the Great Northern.and Midland into partnership with the Sheffield, as proprietors of the Liverpool and Cheshire lines, had reduced the liability of the Shef field Company to £1,061,000 for the completion of the whole of these new undertakings. The map on the wall of the room showed the section, not at all distorted or out of form, of the intended new line between Buxton and Sheffield, in the interest of the London and North-Western. The sight of that section had dissipated from his mind any feelings of alarm he might have entertained with reference to the contemplated aggression. The route would be about the same length as the Sheffield company's, but its terminal stations would be less conveniently placed. The line was divisible into three engineer ing sections—tunnels, viaducts, and embankments or cuttings. The tunnels were only 5 1-3 miles out of a total length of 27 miles ; the viaducts would be 2f miles; and the embankments and cuttings would be 19 1-6 miles. There was no " level" at all, anywhere ; the highestgradient was 1 in 80 (for 18 miles) and the lowest was one in 300. One of the viaducts was 260 ft. high ; the lowest of the viaducts was 57ft. high. An estimate had been put forth that the line would cost the London and N orth- Western £1,000,000 ; but the depositors of the bill had taken care to provide for £2,400,000 of capital, or £77,450 a mile, and he was assured, on most competent engineering authority, that the line could never be made for less than £3,000,000. One of the North-Western directors had stated that the object was to retaliate for the Sheffield Company's new line to Liverpool, though the Parliamentary case for that line was an overwhelming case in the interests of the public, for so inadequate was the accommodation between Manchester and Liverpool that the North-Western, on an average, took a longer time to run its express over the 31 miles of level than it took the Sheffield Company to work its expresses over the 41 miles of steep gradients be tween Manchester and Sheffield. (Hear.) The chairman quoted statistics to show there was not sufficient traffic to make the proposed competing line remunerative, and pointed out that the London and North-Western had possessed for years running powers over the existing Sheffield line, though it had never found it worth while to use them. The Nort h had over and over again refused the pro posal of the Great Northern and Sheffield to make return tickets between London and Manchester available by both routes, so as practically to double the public accommodation without a farthing of cost to the companies. (Applause.) The motion was seconded by Mr. Fenton, and after some remarks from Mr.Wylesaml Mr. Roberts, was adopted unanimously. The guaranteed dividends were declared ; also a ' dividend at the rate of 31- per cent. per annum on I the ordinary stock for the past half-year. Mr. J. IBrown was elected a director to replace Mr. A. 1 M'Dougall, who had retired; and after some 1 dis cussion, resulting in a vote of 42 to 13 for allowing 1£3,400 a year as remuneration to the directors, the 1 proceedings concluded with thanks to the chairman. CENTRAL ARGENTINE (LIMITED). The report of the directors states that the capital expended to Dec. 31 last amounted to £426,010, and that £427,758 had been received on the 50,000 shares of the company, leaving a balance of £1,748. The balance remaining to be paid on theshares would probably be called up at intervals of three months. The works on the line and shipment of sleepers and rails were proceeding satisfactorily. Every means would be used for ensuring the completion at the earliest possible period of the 124 miles of railway extending from the port of Rosario to the town of Frailey Muerto, when the line could be opened for passenger and goods traffic. The site for the station buildings at Rosario had been chosen, and would occupy a river frontage of 1,093 yards by 131 yards wide----about 30 acres. The Boatd recommended the proprietors to empower the directors to take the necessary steps to sell, let on lease, mortgage, or otherwise dispose of the lands ceded to the com pany on each side of the railway, or any part of them ; also to borrow any sum, not exceeding £lO,OOO, for bringing under cultivation, or other,- wise developing, the resources of the lands. The directors, in conclusion, expressed their increased confidence in the undertaking, and belief that it would prove highly remunerative to the proprietors. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 25, 1866 and at times one of the most touching it has ever been the lot of a reporter to witness. The bodies lay on an extemporised platform formed by means of a few boards and boxes in a work-room, from which the light was excluded, in order to prevent the crowds of spectators from gazing through the windows of the charnel-house. Preservation of Commons and Open Spaces. Yesterday a public meeting was held in the Egyp tian-hall of the Mansion-house, with the view to promote the objects of the society recently estab lished to assist in maintaining, preserving, and im proving the commons and open spaces in the neigh bourhood of the metropolis, to further the passing through Parliament of a measure for defining and amending the law, in accordance with the resolu tions of the committee of the House of Commons, and generally to watch the interests of the public in respect to all commons and open spaces which it is important should be preserved. The meeting was exceedingly influential, and was remarkable, more over, for the great unanimity which prevailed upon the subject. The Lord Mayor acted as chairman, and there were present besides, among others, Sir T. F. Buxton, M.P., Sir W. Fraser, Mr. J. Locke, Q. C., M.P., Mr. Shaw Lefevre, M.P., Mr. Chambers, M.P., the Deputy-Recorder; Mr. R. Hanbury, M.P., Mr. C. Buxton, M.P., Mr. T. Hughes, M.P., Pro fessor Fawcett, M.P., Mr. Alderman Lawrence, M.P., Mr. Alderman Lusk, M.P., Mr. T. Alcock, Sir R. Carden, Mr. Le Breton, Mr. J. P. Gassiott, Mr. C. Pollock, Mr. Taylor, Mr. Toynbee, Col. S. Adair, Aldermen Besley, Hale, Rose, Finnis, Allen, and J. C. Lawrence, Dr. Laukester, Mr. Scott, the Chamberlain of London, and Mr. Nelson, the City Solicitor. The LORD MAYOR, lu opening the proceedings, dwelt upon the great public importance of the sub ject, having regard to this vast city with its 3,000,000 inhabitants, its narrow streets, confined courts, smoke, and other evils. Referring to the proposition to invest the Metropolitan Board of Works withthe control of the open spaces in and about the metro polis, he said he had great faith in the efficiency of that Board, but he held this was rather a matter for the Government to undertake, if it was to be dealt with efficiently, not merely for the present, but for all time. Mr. LOCKE, M.P., moved the first resolution, that the preservation of the commons and open spaces in the neighbourhood of the metropolis was absolutely essential to the health and recreation of the people. He adverted to the great unanimity in favour of their preservation shown in the House of Commons on the motion of Mr. Doulton in 1864, and to the recommendations of a select Parliamentary committee of last year, after sitting for 16 days and hearing many witnesses familiar with the subject —among others Mr. W. Cooke, a gentleman of great talent, who had devoted much time to its consideration, and whose loss they had since had to deplore ; Mr. Ridley, an Enclosure Commissioner, Sir John Thwaites, and others. That inquiry established be yond doubt the urgency of some legislation on the subject. It was a popular notion, he said, that the interests of a lord of the manor were much greater than they really were. For instance, some people fancied that he had a right to all the game, but, in fact, he was only entitled to the game on the waste of his manor, and before he could enclose any part of the manor he must take care that he did not infringe any rights of the commoners. In the metropolis it was extremely difficult to ascertain who those commoners were, and to that very uuccr tainty we owed at this moment the numerous com mons and open spaces all round London. (Hear.) There was a proposition to empower the Metropo litan Board of Works to purchase all the rights of the lords and commoners of manors around the metropolis for purposes of public recreation and en joyment, but to sell certain portions of the existing commons and open spaces in order to meet the ne cessary expenditure, which was a most objectionable part of the scheme. The committee of the House of Comnions in effect protested against any portion of them being sold. 'hat, in fact, was the objection raked to the proposition of Lord Spencer, and which led him eventually to abandon it. What the community wanted was au act prohibiting in future all enclosures with respect to commons and open spaces within 15 miles of the metropolis, and he believed the Government would bring in such a bill if pressed by public opinion. The motion was seconded by Mr. Alderman LAW RENCE, who dwelt in indignant terms on the manner in which open spaces and commons in and about London were being filched away, bit by bit, and on what he called the great dereliction of duty on the part of the Government, when they gave up the Crown rights in the forests of Epping and Hai nault, in not securing the rights of the people. Mr. Alderman ROSE commented upon the vague ness and uncertainty of the rights attaching to the lord of the manor, and held that some legislative enactment was urgently wanted to define what those rights really were, for in many cases the lord of the manor was selling that to which he could given° title. He also protested against the Metropolitan Board of Works or any other body who might be intrusted with the management of open spaces having power to sell any part of them for any purpose whatever. Mr. LE BRETON, member of the Board of Works, explained that it was not from any desire of aggran disement that the Board wished to have the control but solely b ecause as th e repre great metropolis they had the s o e f n t t h a e t i o v p e s e n o s f p a t c h e i s s , deepest interest in seeing that they were preserved. Mr. Scow, the Chamberlain of London, observed that it would not be taking a fair view of this ques tion to presume that only a population of 3,000,000 was concerned in it. They should look a few years in advance. According to the Census of 1861 the population of the city and metropolitan police dis tricts, about 16 miles on an average from Charing cross as a centre, was 3,222,717. The ratio of in crease of population since 1801 had been very steady, and had averaged 19 . 6 per cent. on each decennial period from 1811 to 1861. The population of Lon don, taking the police districts, would therefore be in 50 years' time 8,532,000 souls. In 60 years it would exceed 10,000,000 at the same ratio of in crease. Then as to proximity of inhabitants one to another, or density of population, for that was in creasing in the same ratio. In 1801, each inhabitant (if population were tlistributed over the area at equal distances) would be distant from his neighbour on an average 21 yards ; in 1851, 14 yards ; in 1866 over nine yards only ; and in 50 years' time there would only be standing room for the popula tion in the given area. (A laugh.) His argument, therefore, was that a wider radius of protection of open spaces than one of 15 miles should be enacted by Parliament—that an area of breathing ground and standing room of at least 50 miles radius was indispensable. (Hear, hear.) Mr. Scott also called attention to the active enclosure of portions of Leatherhead-common, just beyond the area of 15 miles, which was now going on, and to the cutting • down of much of the stately timber there, and lie urged that there should be immediate and decided action. The resolution of Mr. Locke was then put and carried unanimously. Mr. G. S. LEFEVRE, in moving the second re solution, dwelt upon the great use which the public had for - years past made of the commons of London, thousands of persons leaving their crowded haunts on holidays to recreate themselves there. The la w , h ow ever, had been very chary of allowing anythi ng like a public right to grow out of all that user. It recognised the right of a village to its green, acquired by user, but hesitated to draw an analogy between the village and its green and the great city and its commons, however natural that might appear to ordinary men ; the ground being that customs must in their nature be local and confined to the inhabitants of a village, and that the custom of all London was too large to be good at law. So again the law had shown regard for the great interests of cattle and sheep, but little or none for grown people and children in respect to com mons. The position of the public, however, was not quite so hopeless as might seem, because when re gard was had to the condition of the other parties interested in the commons—viz., the lords of manors and the commoners, it was seen that their relations were such as to render it very difficult for any one to enclose the commons. It was almost impossible RAILWAY BILLS. Yesterday, Messrs. Frere and Smith, the exami ners of Standing Orders proofs, held courts at Westminster, and although only a few bills were set down on the lists, the sittings were prolonged until 5 o'clock. In Mr. Smith's court, the Standing Orders were declared to have been complied with in the case of the Hoylake (Extension) line. There was no appearance made in the case of the en - zance and St. Just and the Manchester and North Lancashire schemes. The consideration of the City, Kingston, and Richmond line was further postponed until to-morrow (Friday), and the opposed bills of the Birkenhead and Liverpool and the Salisbury and Dorset Junction lines were adjourned until this day (Thursday). Mr. Frere presided in No. 16 Com mittee-room, and disposed of the subjoined list. The bill of the Central Ireland lines was postponed until the 31st inst. ; in the case of the Shrewsbury and Potteries Junction the Standing Orders had been complied with, and in that of the Shrewsbury and Potteries Junction (Extension) no appearance was entered. The Standing Orders were declared not to have been complied with in the cases of the Ely Valley and Vale of Neath Junction, and the Aberdare Valley and Caerphilly Junction Bills. The consideration of the joint scheme of the South- Eastern and London, Chatham, and Dover (Lon don, Lewes, and Brighton) was ordered to stand over until this day (Thursday), and the following bills —the Ross and Tewkesbury, the Mid-London, and the Crystal Palace and South London Junction —were also adjourned until a future day. HUDSON'S BAY. A special meeting of shareholders in this company was held yesterday at the London Tavern ; Mr. L. M. Bonar in the chair. Mr. DODDS at some length went into the history of the company, and described its territory. He said it occupied the central portion of British North America, and was supposed to contain 2,500,000 square miles. It was divided into three portions, called the granite, lake, and prairie regions. The granite region was the seat of the fur trade, and the country proposed to be immediately dealt with was the fertile belt of Rupert's Land, commencing at the United States' station of Pemina, containing about 65,000 square miles of the most fertile land, which presented the appearance of an English park. Mr. Dodds next went into the question of the title of the company, and contended that it was a freehold, ex facie, standing on the same basis as the freehold es tates of noblemen in this country. The company took their stand on the charter, and challenged the whole world to dispute it. Eminent jurists said the title was a pure freehold, as good as the best in Eng land. He thought the ultimate settlement of the question could not be delayed beyond two years. The company must either find a purchaser who would give an adequate compensation, or else they must take staps to form a well established plan of coloni sation. (Hear.) In conclusion he urged the share holders not to part with it without due consideration. Mr. GOSTENBERG then moved to the effect that as negotiations were going on for_ the purpose of the territorial rights of the company, and that the lands immediately available for settlement were at least 40,000,000 acres, besides the other enormous tracts of country possessed by the company, they were of opinion that the price or compensation to be accepted should not be less than £5,000,000, being at the rate of 2s. Gd. per acre, otherwise the company should carry out a plan for the colonisation and settlement of their territory. Mr. SEWELL seconded the motion, which was carried. A vote of thanks to Mr. Dodds and to the Chair man closed the proceedings. Terrible Colliery Accident near Wigan. ~-. THIRTY LIVES LOST. One of those appalling calamities which too fre quently occur in extensive colliery districts took place on Tuesday afternoon in the Wigan coal field. The spot was Messrs. Mercer and Evans's Highbrook Colliery, situated about a mile from the high road leading from Wigan to Ashton, in Mackertield, and about three miles from the boundary of the borough, and here on Tuesday 30 men and boys were in a moment ushered into eternity by an explosion of fire damp. . The colliery in question consists of two shafts, known as No. 1 and No. 2, both sunk to the Orrell 5-feet seam, which here lies at a depth of 290 yards from the surface. Below this, about GO yards, lies the Orrell 4-feet. On Tuesday morning, some where about 50 colliers, drawers, and day labourers descended to follow their employment. They were lowered into the shaft by the eng;neer between 5 and 6 o'clock, and the fireman, William Marsh, who had been in the pit from 4 o'clock, reported that the pit was free from gas. All went well till noon, at which hour the fireman, who had not left the pit during the morning, proceeded to the pit-eye to get some thing to eat. His repast over he started to return to the farther workings, but he had not moved more than a few yards when there were indications of an explosion, a blast of wind coming along the road with such strength as to lift the hooker-on at the mouthing off his feet, to whirl his cap into the shaft, together with a cloud of dust which was carried some distance upwards. The underlooker, HenryAshcroft,was down the other pit at the time, in the five-feet seam, and information of the explo sion being promptly conveyed to him, he joined Marsh in a few minutes, and an examination of the workings was at once made. They first explored a slant to the right of the main jig brow, but it was soon evident that the gas had not fired here as the men, about a dozen in number, who had been wOrk ing in the district were met running towards the mouthing. They then proceeded along a brow run ning straight from the pit-eye until-they reached a tunnel which runs through a number of vaults until the seam is struck again, and in this tunnel three lads were found, two almost in the last stage of suf focation. Their names were Thomas Morris, a boy who attends to the waggons at the bottom of the jig brow, John Ashcroft, a pony driver, and Thos. Watkinson, and though they had sustained some few bruises they quickly recovered on being con veyed into the fresh air. It was soon placed beyond doubt that all who were alive in the pit had now been recovered, for a short distance farther in the tunnel it was found that an arch over the return air course, and forming part of the floor of the tun nel, had been blown down by the explosion, and the ventilation of ,tke mine was completely impeded. Before any further steps could be taken to examine the remainder of the workings this arch had to be repaired. By this time, there being no lack of assist ance, the works progressed rapidly, but still it was not until a couple of hours after the explosion that the exploring party could advance. Thcpoint where they had been stopped was 140 yards from the pit eye, and 240 yards more had to he traversed before the end of the working was reached. As they moved forward they were joinedbypeveral gentlemen from the surrounding collieries, who had learnt of the catastrophe and were desirous of lending all the assistance they could. Mr. Watkin, the manager for Messrs. Blundell and Sons, was one of the vo lunteers, and Mr. Clark, the milling surveyor for Sir Robert T. Gerard, another. Between two and three o'clock the first dead body was found a few yards from the top of the jig brow. At the top of the brow three or four more were l y i n g. The scorched corpses were not to be recog nised in the dim light of the mine. Beyond this lay the working places, and the discovery of the re mainder of the bodies now progressed slowly but steadily, as the places could not be ventilated. As each body was found it was forwarded to the pit's eye, where, shortly after ten o'clock, when the whole of the mine had been examined, lay a grim row of 30 corpses, some calmly reposing as if they had died without a struggle, and others so hideously dis figured as to be almost unrecognisable. On the pit bank had been witnessed heartrending scenes, but towards evening the crowd was thinned. Mr. Mercer was present during the afternoon, and was wishful to join the searchers below, but was in duced not to do so, especially as the staff at work was already sufficiently numerous and competent. By 11 o'clock all the bodies had been drawn up to bank, at the central portion of the works, where they were laid out, and preparations made for their identification the following morning. The cause of the explosion is at present enveloped in perfect mystery, and it is scarcely expected the coroner's inquest will throw any strong light on it. The scene in the fitting shop yesterday morning, when the crowds of relatives and friends assembled to identify the deceased, was one of the most ghastly to describe those relations. They varied in every common, but it might be safely said that without the sanction of Parliament there was probably no common which could be enclosed, or which, if enclosed, could be built upon by any prudent man. What the public had to fear was the entire en closure of any common, but the gradual operation of what he might call sweating the common—(hear) —the taking from them bit by bit, so that they grew beautifully less every year, often by unauthorised persons under the operation of what was called " a rolling fence." It had also to fear the deterioration of the commons by accumulations of nuisances and the encroachments of railway companies, with many of which evils the lords of manors admitted they were quite unequal to cope, and with respect to which they could not be expected to lay out money for the benefit of the public. Two propositions for dealing with the common came before the com mittee of last Session. The first was that the matter should be handed over to the Metropolitan Board of Works, who should have compulsory powers of purchasing all rights over the commons and pay for them by selling portions of them. The objection to that was that on the supposition that the public had no right at law large sums of money would have to be given for the rights of the lords and commoners when bought under com pulsion, however little in value they might actually be. Everybody connected with the commons would expect to be compensated. As an illustration, he took the case of the Richmond Railway, which in passing through Barnes-common had to pay £4OO an acre for the purchase of the rights of the lords and commoners, and if that was to be taken as a measure it was clear that a very large sacrifice of the commons would have to be submitted to. The other proposition before the committee was the ap pointment of trustees, who should not at first have these - wide powers, but who should have power to represent thepublic in all matters affecting the com mons, to accept surrenders of rights of all kinds from those interested in them, and to mediate be tween the lords of the manors and the commoners and the public. The commoners had long ceased to value their rights over most of the commons near London except for the powers which they afforded of preventing enclosures. He believed they would be found willing in most cases to surrender their rights if it was clearly understood that the commons were not to be enclosed. Many of the lords of the manors, again, were disposed to act in a liberal manner towards the public. Mr. Alcock, for example, had offered to surrender to such a board as referred to his interest as lord of the manor of Banstead Downs, a succession of beautiful commons between Croydon and Epsom, extending over 1,400 acres, and he made that handsome offer without any cou dition except that the commons should not be en closed, and should be protected from nuisances. If such a body had been in existence he could not doubt that the case of Wimbledon-common might have been effectually settled to the satisfaction of Lord Spencer and the commoners, as it would have pro vided the means of raising money for drainage and other purposes, without necessitating the sale of portions of the laud, on which point Lord Spencer and the commoners could not agree. He moved a re solution, in effect that it was incumbent on the Legis lature to deal with the question of commons and open spaces, and pledging the meeting to support the Commons Preservation Society in its efforts to press the subject on the attention of Parliament. The motion was seconded by Mr. T. HUGHES, M.P., who, in doing so, taking up what he called the sentimental side of the question, dwelt upon the peculiar attachment which the people of the country had for it when it was free and open, compared with those of a country cut up into pieces and enclosed. The resolution was put and carried apparently without a dissentient. The meeting was also addressed by Mr. J. P. Gassiott, Mr. Taylor, a conservator of Barnes-com mon, Mr. Charles Buxton, M.P., Colonel Adair, Sir Thomas Buxton, M.P., Mr. Hose, Alderman Besley, and other gentlemen. Sir WILLIA3I FRASER, in moving a resolution authorising a subscription in furtherance of the object of the society, took occasion to refer to the case of liainault Forest, where, he said, as many as 100,000 oak trees had been uprooted. Mr. TOYNBEE dwelt upon the fact, stated on the authority of the Itegistrar-General, that 15,000 people died annually in the metropolis of lung diseases alone—in other words, so many were poisoned by bad air. Eventually petitions to both Houses of Parlia ment embodying the resolutions were signed by the Lord Mayor on behalf of the meeting, and with that the proceedings terminated. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TI3IES.-Mr. Milner Gibson approaches Reform with that wisdom of experience which all should have by this time, and that official reserve to which he is specially bound. As a man of business—and he is speaking to men of business—every member of an important concern ought to keep to his own depart ment. This he does, and something more ; for not only is he diffuse, cheerful, and judicious upon the French and Austrian Treaties, and the further openings they offer with other nations, but when he comes to Reform—which he could hardly escape—he treats it as a President of the Board of Trade should do, arithmetically and statistically. He carefully avoids all the topics upon which knight-errants break heads or lances, and gives us the logic of figures, irrefragable as far as it goes. Since 1832 the popu lation has increased, education has increased much, not only absolutely but in proportion to the num ber of the qualified age ; the savings -banks' deposits have increased also relatively; and it follows that not only more people, but also a larger proportion of the people, are fit for the franchise now than at the passing of the last Reform Bill. It so happens, however, that the constituency barely maintains its existing proportion, arid increased education, wealth, and personal fitness go for nothing. It is time to rectify . this backwardation in the working of the machine. The watch is slow, and wants regu lating. Lower the franchise i n t own an d coun ty. Perhaps this might be postponed—we have managed to exist without it for some time ; but four Prime Ministers--names and dates given —have tried their hands at Reform, and failed, and when the duty is thus acknowledged all round it is diffi cult to escape the conclusion that Reform is coming. If Lord Russell does not tackle it, another will. But he is not bound to propose a bill which, however good, will not pass. Ile may do what is plainly right, or, at least, unavoidable, and leave something for others to do if they like ; and Mr. Gibson intimates that he could die happy even if he did leave that little bequest to his heirs and executors. Such is Mr. Gibson's view of the subject, and it harmonises singularly with Mr. Bright's, though the latter does not always bow to the les sons of experience and is under no official restraint. Lord Houghton, too, has spoken in much the same tone. He trusts the people, smiles at those who don't, and wishes to see a greater proportion ad mitted into the constituency. But let us be prac tical, he says, and moderate ; let us eschew theories and needless divisions. A new popular constituency is offered you, he seems to say ; accept it and be thankful. Have no hobbies of your own i and we see in the margin, as a various reading to hobbies, redistribution of seats, &c.. This is all very wise, if indeed it be practical. That is what it pretends to be. It is that or nothing. So far as regards a de precation of all such controversies as lodging fran chise, savings bank franchise, or assessed taxes fran chise, we are inclined to agree that they are not prac tical. But we beg to doubt entirely the practicable ness, not to say more, of dealing with the franchise ourselves, leaving the seats to those that come after. There is nothing so easily simulated as the practical tone, and no doubt the advice given in this tone would often be good, if it were likely to be received, or could even be followed. But there's the rub. Mr. Gibson appears to think a complete Reform . Bill has no chance of passing. We see greater difficulties in the way of one which is confessedly incomplete. These gentlemen appear to assume that their work is so well cut out for them, and lies so handy o n the ground, that they may take it as they please, . in any order, or by any instalments. With this supposed command of the material and of the area, they very naturally proceed upon the ordinary contractor's plan of doing that first which will most facilitate what comes after. This would be very well if we had only material and the elements of nature to deal with ; and philosophers who live in a little world of their own are very apt to fall into the way of re garding their fellow-creatures as so many stocks and stones, or like the cabbage-stalks the young preacher had practised upon. But the contrary is the case here. We have to deal with antagonists quite as intelligent, quite as capable of forecasting the future, quite as sensitive, and quite as interested as we can possibly think ourselves. They see the whole mat ter in question as well as we do, perhaps better, as : being more conservative, more selfish as we may think, and, therefore, more susceptible. But deal ing, as we are about to do, with ten thousand tender susceptibilities and quickened understandings, it is quietly proposed to protract the sufferings of the patientby repeated operations of increasing severity. The Reformers of the last generation used to laugh at the process, calling it " bit by bit Reform," and comparing it to the amputation of a dog's tail joint by joint. The simile did not apply very closely to the succession of small repairs which the Tories once stood out for in place of reform, for it would have been possible, though slow and very irritating, to disfrancise one borough, then another, and be stow the seat on the foremost claimant. But it does apply with singular exactness to the plan of opera tions recommended by the speakers before us. If we began with the franchise and attempted to postpone the distribution of seats, we should im mediately find ourselves dealing with the seats twice over, and thus repeating the most painful part of the process. At least a hundred constituencies would be placed in a double peril—the peril of changing hands by the immediate lowering of the fran chise, and the peril of annihilation or absorption by the coming redistribution of scats. It is need less to instance boroughs, but every constituency now consisting of four hundred or five hundred £lO-householders, with some freemen, would find itself liable to be swamped with £6-householders this year, and next year placed in Schedule A. In common phrase, it would find itself about to be " robbed and murdered." The would-be operators propose this precise succession of stages for their own convenience. The victim, however, would see a perfect unity in the transection, the final catas trophe involved in the opening scene. The battle for dear life would begin at once, and it would be felt to be useless to haggle about qualifications, rents, rates, and such details, when the conclusion of the bargain was to be the signal for execution. Now, it is idle to be at the cost of expensive repairs when the house is to be pulled down as soon as the repairs are completed. It is idle to retrench with elaborate uniformity when. it is intended to break up the establishment altogether, and perhaps to go into the Bankruptcy Court. It is like the old re cipe, how to dress a cucumber, which finishes with throwing it out of the window. The representa tives of the threatened boroughs will decline to trouble themselves with statistics, and, if they are not in the plot, will altogether oppose the bill, which is only the preliminary of their destruction. Thus, whatever the terms of the measure itself, and however carefully the promoters may chart out the course to be taken, the House of Commons will go at once into the very thick of the question, and ad dress itself to the most important points of the pro posed Reform. A hundred constituencies, more or less, are to be put on their trial, and they feel, as every accused person does, that much depends On the constitution and composition of the Court. They are to be told plainly,—so it is urged in some quarters,—that the existing Court of Parliament cannot quite be trusted to do justice upon them; while another sort of Government would find no difficulty in hanging them, and, indeed, would rather like to do so. So the hundred threatened constitu encies and their representatives are to be invited to assist in creating a new Parliament, quite safe to make an example of them. Are they likely to respond to this appeal ? Will they, like Mrs. Bond's ducks, " come to be killed ?" If the reduction of the franchise is to work as intended by good Re formers, will it make even the small boroughs more ready to pass measures of general good at the cost of their own petty and exceptional interests ? But the question in Parliament No. 2 will not be decided by the small boroughs. The populous constituencies, still more popularised by the first instalment of the contemplated reform, and safe themselves from schedules A and B, will have every interest, public and private, in the extinction of the small boroughs. It is they that will constitute the new tribunal to which the threatened constituencies are invited to appeal, or, rather, which they are invited to create for their own surer and speedier condemnation. Of course, they will see all this as plainly as their worst foes. There is nothing in this world that is wiser than selfishness for the purpose of its own ends. It makes no plans, and has none except that which is dictated by Nature's first instincts, of which self preservation is foremost. There is not a borough in this kingdom which does not contain a few heads that can play a rubber of whist as well as Mr. Gibson or Lord Houghton, Mr. Bright or Lord Russell ; and that is quite head enough for the game before them, which is to get and keep what they can. IJERALD.—The Spanish insurrection is at an end. After marching about in the mountains for 16 days, General Prim and his friends have retired across the frontier into Portugal. Pursued somewhat closely by the loyal troops under Major Camino, the insurgent force seems to have followed the course of the Guadiana river, and escaped from Spain at a point about half way between Badajoz and Xeres de los Caballeros. There is but little doubt that they have surrendered to the Portuguese au thorities at Bananco, according to one account, or at Encenazola, if we may trust another. The Portuguese have, of course, disarmed them, and put it out of their power to do further mischief for the present. It was said that a strong detachment had been detailed for the purpose of intercepting this retreat ; but, if so, General Prim has succeeded in evading it, and he, too, for the time, is safe from his enemies. The only hope of success for this rash movement lay in the co operation of the friends of Prim, the enemies of the O'Donnell Government, the Progresistas or Libe rals, throughout the country. The elements of dis order are generally so rife in Spain, the tenure of the existing Government is so insecure, the minds of men are so unsettled, so dissatisfied with things as they are, and so eager for any change which may give a chance of better, that the least spark of dis cord is enough to kindle a conflagration, and any attempt at revolution has a fair prospect of success. Spain is not governed by political parties, but by soldiers, as Rome was iu her degenerate days. Prim, as a soldier, was universally popular with the army. He had fought for Queen Christina and Queen Isabella ; he has fought with Espartero and against Espartero ; he had plunged into the struggle between Turks and Russians on the Danube ; he had signalised himself by acknowledged daring in the war between Spain and Morocco ; had acquitted himself bravely in the combined operations in Mexico, and withdrawn in a dignified manner when his purpose and that of his country seemed to have been accomplished. He was the idol of the lower classes, the favourite of the soldiers. Any one who has walked, during the last year or two, along the smaller streets or in the suburbs of Madrid must have been soon convinced of this by ocular and oral evidence. In the shopwindows were flaring prints, representing hosts of Russians or Moors in hot re treat, and the chivalrous Spaniard charging them at the head of his troops. By the footway men chanted ballads which told how the Paynir fled from him as from a destroying angel; how his arms, like that of the Cid, was resistless in battle ; how Prim had but to unsheathe his sword and shout Viva la Reina, and the enemies of Spain were scattered as the chaff before the wind. From north to south, and from east to west ; from the slopes of the Pyrenees to the turrets of Medina Sidonia ; from the mouth of the Ebro to where the Gudiana enters Portugal by oft beleaguered Badajoz, in the length and breadth of Spain, but a fortnight ago there was no hero to be compared to Prim. But if the Count de Reus had gained the hearts of the commonalty and the private soldiers, his rival, the Duke of Tetuan, a stronger and more taciturn man, as ambitious as he, but less demon strative, had founded himself securely in the attach ment of the great military chieftains and officers of state, whom he had interested, by pensions and honours, in the maintenance of the present order of things. In the revolt of 1854 against Sartorius half at least of the general officers sided with O'Don nell and Espartero. In this late abortive movement Prim stood absolutely alone. Espartero, Liberal though he be, stood apart and aloof from the move ment of the self-constituted champion of the Pro gresista party. The officers of the army, with scarcely one exception,, were firm in supporting O'Donnell. The Spanish lord lieutenants, the cap tains general of the provinces, suppressed with a vigorous hand the attempted imeutes in Catalonia, Aragon, and elsewhere. The demonstrations in Madrid, in Barcelona, and Saragossa, were of the feeblest description. Prim, with his two battalions, having utterly failed in his endeavour to excite a mutiny in the army, and a rising throughout the country, had no choice left him but to retire as speedily as possible. It may be supposed that no thing remains for him but impeachment, disgrace, and a sentence of confiscation and perpetual banish ment. But Spain is a strange country, and the course of events there is not so easily anticipated. Another turn of the wheel, another shuffling of the cards, and the fortunes of Prim, which are now unpromising, may be in the ascendant. Ile may be condemned as a traitor to-day, to-morrow he may be Prime Minister. General Prim has survived so many vicissitudes of the sort that he may fairly hope to tide over this momentary check. At the close of the year 1842 he escaped into France, an order having been issued for his arrest, in conse quence of his being suspected of complicity in the rising at Saragossa. Next year he was more suc cessful in the pronuncianziento of Reus, which issued in the triumph of the Christinos and the fall of Espartero. Raised to the pinnacle of prosperity in 1843, when he was made Governor of Madrid, he was disgraced in 1814, and put on his trial for his life for having conspired against Narvaez. He was condemned to six years' imprisonment, and released in six months. The hero of Inzeutes and revolutions;he managed to be on the winning side in 1853, but his Liberal principles have made him dissatisfied with the rule of O'Donnell, which suc ceeded to the short-lived restoration of Espartero. In England a political opponent makes speeches, convenes public meetings, indites pamphlets or lead ing articles, and heads the assault on his enemy in the House of Commons. In Spain political life is a dead letter, a form without meaning, a body with out spirit. In Spain the leader of the opposition issues a proclamation, and takes the field at the head of what troops he can muster. The masses of the people look on with about the same indifference that they do on a debate about the Reform Bill among politicians in England. The inconvenience of this form of procedure is, that if the Spanish politician is taken by his enemy he is in some danger of being shot. General Prim trusted in his star, and though all Spain would follow it. He had something a the faith which his wife seems to have had when she boasted that " her Juanito failed in nothing." l ie has failed, however, and it is lucky for him that he has got across into Portugal. It does not seem a 3 if the enemy was very anxious to catch him. In deed, the hesitating and dubious action of the O'Donnell Cabinet, and the strange evolutions el, General Prim, who was allowed to wander a bout almost unmolested for 16 days, have given rise , e curious conjectures of some deep political design, In which men higher in authority than Prim are sup posed to have been implicated. However this may be, and whether or not Marshal O'Donnell eneee; raged this demonstration with some ulterior and! sinister purpose, whoever were the conspirators , I . t is enough for us at the present that the plot has failed. Prim is a refugee in Portugal, and Isab ella 11. still reigns in Spain. COUNTRY MARKETS. HULL.—TUESDAY. Since our last the business done in the grain trade 1 18 s been rather limited. The transactions in foreign whe t were confined wholly to fine dry samples, and as tho lir English offering was of poor condition, a small trade was done, at barely late rates. At our market to-day there w 0 a fair show of English wheat, but only a limited business was done, as farmers declined to sell undor last We e ": prices. In foreign nothing was done. Malting barley wa - c i in good request, at 375. to 425. per qr. Beans, pens , and oats —all slow of sale. In linseed very little business wa, done, holders being extremely firm, as the small quantity' reported as on the way gives expectations of better price s ' English old white wheat, 49s to Ms; old red, 44 s to S. Barley, English, 37s to 425. Oats, Russian, 24 s to 255• Beans, new English, 43s to 445. Peas, English blue, 403 to 41s Od ; grinding, 40s to 41s Od per 36 stone. S ALISBURY.—TITESDAY. The wheat offered at this market to-day was most part out of condition. There was rather a Olt supply and attendance, and last week's rates were barely supported, excepting for best qualities. In the barley a partment there was likewise a scanty show, with but ' l l few prime samples. Business ruled inactive, but 1 10 , r '; portable diminution in rice took place. Oats were rabic' f more inquired for, and slightly dearer. Beans and pea,s , which there was about the usual supply, changed hallos ' previous quotations. The following are the quotations :—Wheat realised fr Aos 38s to 52s ; barley, 35s to 40s; oats, 22s to 32s ; beaus, ' eg to 52s ; and peas, 42s to 50t; per qr. Tareq frord6s to ,„a 3d per bushel ; Best bread, 13d ; household ditto, i" per 81b loaf. Flour, 34s to 40s per sack. for that MELTON MOWBRAY.—TIJESDAY. h About the usual supply of wheat, the trade in whin ruled at former quotations. White wheat, 50s to 58s ; red, 48s to 54s per 36 stole' Barley for malting, 33s to 37s per qr ; feed, 28s to 301 30 stone. Oats 22s to 395. Beans, old, 48s to 5 2 5; lie 40s to 44s per qr. • MONMOUT }IS LRE—T UESDAY. There has been but a limited supply of wheat at sau ci ly of of the markets throughout the district ; still, it was .'", 10 equal to the demand. Buyers continue to hold back 1° ", r .. expectation of a decline in quotations, and they only chase for immediate requirements. For malting b' ir g the inquiry was good, and the best samples sold full); 1 ; 0 dear as at recent markets. Secondary sorts viou lt ' e re bought on slightly easier terms. Grinding qualities Will-, scarce, and late rates remained without change- lu lias oat trade there was not much business transacted, scn.o refusing to submit to a reduction. There was an avv int 'd supply of beans on offer, with au improved demand, at °1 rates. COAL MARKET. Price per ton at the close of the market. (1 s. ' s. d. ot 0 East Hartlepool Hetton ... 18 6 South Hetton 1 ...... 1 6 9 - ..... . N.Staffordshire 17 0 Pensher Primrose .•• i.i 0 Carway and Duffryn Russell's.Hetton ...... „ 3 Malting 24 0 West Hartley ......... t`i• 6 South Durham l6 9 Cassop ................ .. 6 3 Kelloe ` 7 . 6 Iletton Lyons l6 0 Braddyell's Hetton.... 6 Shaw'sliartley lB 6 Stewart's ......... ••• ' is - 3 Hartlepool Kepler Grange l7 0 Walls End Riddell ... 15 Ships at market, 63 ; sold, 52 Foreign Mail Packet List - MAILS DUE. b Laistralia and New Zealand, via Southampton Fe-. 10, F ee Ditto, via Marseilles Feb. 4 Brazil and Cape Verde. by British packet b. 2 Ditto, by French packet Fe b Cape of Good live, Ascension, and 6t. ilelena..••} e • China. Penang. and Singapore. via Sou hampton..Fo b • '4‘' Ditto, via Marseilles Jan. Faikland Islands Jan- 2 1 ' Gibraltar, via Southampton India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton.... Ditto, via Marseilles India (Bombay), via Southampton. JAIL Ditto, via Marseilles F eb. ' Mauritius, via Southampton Ditto, via Marseire a Feb' 14 Newfoundland •• f 1....... Feb. Portugal Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon.. ... United States and British North America, by Bri tish packet Ditto, by United States packet, via Southamp ton Ditto, rla Cork Ditto, by Canadian packet, via Londonderry.. J a n" i t, West Coat ot Africa. Madeira, and Teneriffe ...... Feb• West Indies and Paciiio (except Bahamas, Cuba 2 9 and Mexico Jas• 29. ...... J Cuba And Mexico Bahamas, via New Y ork. Feb • Feb' Bermuda, ditto ,tv [ADVERTISEMENT.]—That or the fearful annual moria , De 60,000 young chi dren and delicate pers.nis of all ages T a ., / n es. arrested, if, instead of flying blindly to pills and lath e ; is which, though a, p Lrently relieving, the patient, 113 : ii ity, reality no o her tendency thin that of increasing d ',, - 100 and with it the danger of life, we were simply to still'', loo d, to increase the vital force by imparting new and pure tatile upon which the harmonious dev e l o p men t o f the whole depends, has been successfully proved by Du Barry's its lids' and Infants' Food, the Itevalenta Aralotea , 611- oh thousands of cures annually. It yields three times as dfor easily assimilated nourishment as the best meat. " pr. children it is the best substitute for human sad Rout'', physician to the Samaritan Hospital for Wonc;rotr udidren —the best authority on such matters —in his r, able publication on Food, says—Amongst the vegetaiNe 400 stances, th .t which comes closest to milk in its conillior is, without doubt, Du Barry's Revaienta Arabica Fo c 'n' c i e of tabling both phosphoric acid in abundance and chlaP Doi potassium ; it also includes casein, the same princiP le , 1 „„re• is fpund in milk in its constituent parts. No wonder, ";‘,"09 fore, that under its influence many children affected i atrophy (wasting away of the body), and marked d eb r aco have completely recovered. I have given it With the g rew 01 advant.ige in such cases ; and so far as I may judge fr°- cori' own experience, practice fully carries out ivhat from a knowledge of its composition, led us to antia l2s ol9. In tins, 1 lb., 2s. 9d. ; 21b., 4s. ed ; 5,b, lls. ; 121 b , 2 °' ; ,,joa; 40s.—Barry Du Barry and Co., N o. 77, If egent-street,Vorpa also Phillips, tea dealers, 8, King William-street ; 111 ,„te• at 61, Gracechurch-street ; 4, Cheapside; 49, BishoPs',d; t 96 street Within ; 63, 350, and 298, Oxford-street ; 330, 5r a 54, Upper Baker-street; 303, Tottenham-court-road 0000 Upper-street, Islington, N. ; Harvey, Notting-hil l Brothers, 65, High-street; and Stubbs, Queen's-ter ra yoe' John's-wood, London; and all respectable grocers A ll mists.—Beware of spurious imitations. Births. v iDO A'Courr.—On the 23d inst., at Upham Cottage, .-,-ficorty Waltham, the wife of the Hon. W. I. Hobues of a son. w et lIUGHES.—On the 22d inst., at Cambridge 1 1015e 'a,1 0 Cowes, Isle of Wight, the wife of Captain J.W.." . of a son. esD icel PAYNE.—On the 23d inst., at Oughtrington Chciaa the wife of Arthur Frederick Payne, Esq., of . ter. Marriages. g o t CONDRON —BISHOP.—On the 23d inst , at St. - c sfic - i ; South Hampstead, Henry A. Condi.; n, of gaccthe is to Johanna L. Augusta, youngest daughter of Sir Henry B. Bishop. Pa i t PLUMPTRE—BECHER.—On the 24th inst., at ter -- f „,ris Camden-square, Charles J. Plumptre, Esq., b''" law, of 1, Essex-court, Temple, to Adelaide, 'lies, rgo the late R. Becher, Esq., of Wynaad, East In i 1 11° daughter of Major J. Denson, late of the ROY' 0. 0/ Artillery and Deputy Commissary of Ordnance' nore, Deaths. 5 Wet' n ot' BEDINDFIELD.-011 the 17th inst., at 37, Bonill- ° of , Lieut.-Col. Bedingfield, aged 62. ; I et BLAKENEY.- On the 22(1 inst., at Chelsea liospit6oll6. wife of P. M. Sir E. Blakeney, and daughter a ged .re , Gardiner, of the East India Company's Servi ce ' Or ' HAMPER.— On the 21st inst., at his residence, are 6 • ltel l Batheaston, near Bath, Charl e s Hamper, age d char SzArNToN.- On the 19th inst., in London, IV* 11‘" Staunton, of Staunton H a ll, N o tts, aged 3 1 . e ora 3 SABINE.- On the 18th i ns t., a t hi s r esidence , „ l - ' ; 4 . hill, Camberwell, Mr. Ed war d S a bi n e, aged,,,l r. Jobil SINDALL.- On the 21st inst., at Itotherhithe , Sindall, aged 57. WILLIAMSON.—On the 21st inst., at Brighten( son, Esq., late of 41, Porchester-terrace, j g,0 7 , 8 London : Printed and Puthuhed by WIL LIAII $ O . o: r No. 112, Strand, Planter, at Triz Surf 01M1°„,api) - Strand, in the precthet of the S f .voy, in th e m t id td dleser.—Thursdiy. January 25, 186E3, _ ,4 k \