The Sun. — London, England, 1865-10-03 00:00:00

The New County Court Rules, The " orders and rules" for the regulation of the new equitable jurisdiction of the county courts have been framed by five judges of those courts, and ap proved by the Lord Chancellor with laudable celerity. The manifest aim of those who drew them up has naturally been to assimilate the new to the earlier practice of those tribunals, and to divest, as far as I,ossible, equity, as law has there already been di -vested, of the character of an art or mystery, known and to be exercised only by trained professors. Throughout, pleading and the general conduct of the litigation by the suitors in person is evidently contemplated as a very ordinary incident; the plaints are allowed to be either written or printed, so that the amateur in equity will be able to dispense not merely with solicitor and counsel, but even with a law stationer ; and, as unless by special order of the judge, matters of equity are to be heard on the same days as those appointed for the transaction of general business, the profoundest problems of trust and real property law may, and doubtless often will, be treated and settled with as little cere- mony as a question on the items of a tailor's bill. Despatchwas the object aimed at in the establish ment of county courts, and despatch hasbeen hitherto the great glory of them. What was to be feared in giving them equitable jurisdiction was that this, their sovereign excellence, would be tarnished. The orders and rules obviously contemplate this very possible pitfall, and it must be confessed, do all that an a priori system of practice can do to escape it. Conciseness is the attribute they throughout recom mend. The suit is to open with a concise statement of the plaintiff's case; interrogatories are dispensed with altogether, and the defendant . is to reply, whe ther by disclaimer, admmon, denial, counter state ment of fact, or demurrer, but at all events concisely. A threat even seems to be implied as to costs should the defendant be so litigious as to say aught, at least before the hearing, on his own behalf; for, though be may answer the case against him in these specified ways, it is " provided always that, in exercising his discretion as to costs, the judge shall consider the fact of a defendant having or not having availed himself of the powers given by this rule." Again, with the like view of avoiding circumlocution, the evidence is to be taken in court viva voce, and the much-attacked practice of oral examinations out of court, and with solicitors as assessors, is re stricted (whether with or without the incident last referred to, the orders say not), to cases where the witness resides within the jurisdic tion of some other county court, when he is to be examined by the registrar of that court. and his an swers to be transcribed by that official. The use of affidavits to support plaints is not prohibited (it is made obligatory in trust petitions and applications for injunctions) ; but, as the other parties, who must be furnished with copies as long as 10 days be fore the hearing, are only " tobe taken to have con sented to the use thereof," if they do not give notice of objecting within five days, and no machinery is provided by the orders for the courtsconsidering the objection, and dismissing it if futile, the status of affidavits is left at present rather equivocal. We think the " orders and rules" likely to be suc cessful in the very essential article of promoting despatch of business. Doubtless, in some respects, they will be found vague, in others defective ; for legal practice, and, of all sorts of legal practice, prac tice in equity isleast amenable to fore-ordained lines of route. But time, while it will most surely bring such imperfections to light, will also best show the way to cure them ; practice must, in the end, be left to form itself. We may, however, be pardoned for noticing two or three points of detail. Thus, we are inclined to think that, by imposing on the court the duty of naming a conveyancer to settle contracts of sale of realty ordered to be sold, and also, in certain cases, to settle deeds, instead of establishing once for all a regular rota of retained conveyancing counsel, according to the precedents of the superior courts of equity, a rather invidious patronage will be found to have been conferred on the judges. Again, the pro vision for settling the personalty of married women appears to us capable of being interpreted so as to restrict the marital right beyond even the actual practice of the Court of Chancery. Again, we doubt whether, in ordering the transfer to the superior courts of all suits, of which, in the course of time, the subject matter is discovered to be more than £5OO, and thus, repudiating the option allowed by the statute itself (sec. 9) of retaining such suits in certain cases, the framers of the orders have not, in Lid, abandoned what they were bound to retain. Various other flaw's, or what appear such, would doubtless occur to the reader as he glances over the regulations ; such, for instance, as the absence of and provision for the examination of witnesses abroad, and - the omission, in the case of those living in this kingdom, but within the jurisdiction of a different county court, to give a party to the suit the opportunity, on guaranteeing the expenses, of bring ing them by subpcena to give evidence in person, in place of the cumbrous written examination before a registrar. But the " orders " must be judged, not by refer ence to the defects of detail, but by their capacity for bringing the new equitable jurisdiction into harmony at onto with the common law functions of the county courts, so as to insure equal expedi tion, and also with the actual practice of the superior courts of equity, to such au extent as to make, in the probably not rare contingency of an appeal, the previous hearing in the county court as useful an instrument for stripping off the mere accidents, and laying bare the real point at issue, as is the hearing before a Vice-Chancellor of the Master of the Rolls of some complicated case, afterwards appealed, - which was originally overloaded with irrelevant cir cumstances. The orders" have, to some extent, achieved the former result. But, as despatch is hardly at present the point of honour of the High Court of Chancery, orders which aim chiefly at the result are not likely so to mould a suit that the ap peal court will have nothing to do but to put the few finishing touches. It will be indeed be curious to re mark how the Vice-Chancellors will at first deal with these novel suits of equity, with their concise state ments often drawn by th e pl a i n tiff s th emse l ves, an d sometimes replied to by a counter-statement which, in the absence of interrogatories to compel a , 4 yes" or a "no," will often tell a perfectly independent story, and sometim es even not replied to at all ; since it must be re mem b ered - that a defendant, being under no obligation, but rather the contrary, to put in a written answer, may reserve his defence wholly to the hearing itself, and leave the judge to find out its salient points. Then, too, there will be all the evidence, not merely to sum up, but to collect afresh ; for, while in appeals from one judge of the Court of Chancery to another, the judge of the court above has (except in the compa ratively rare case of an examination of witnesses in court) in affidavits and the written evidence before the examiner, precisely the evidence on which the judge below based his decision, and has little to do ex cept compare the latter's judgment with th e evi dence which are th e premises whence it judge in Chancery will i was de duced, the have, n case of an appeal f rom a county court, none of the evidence on which that court decided, ex"Pt' it may be, in the shape of a few hasty notes. In fact, the framers of the, " orders" seem to have felt that the introduction into their courts of a suit likely to produce an appeal ought to be discouraged as an useless waste of time and money ; and this was doubtless their reason for ignorin g , as w e have already pointed out, the option given by the Legis lature for the prosecution before them of cases sub sequently discovered to devolve interests worth more than £5OO. But we believe that the machinery, viz., cases to be prepared by the partie s , or , i n the event ' of disagreement, by the judge, proposed by the " orders" to meet the contingency of appeals for which, whether many or few, it was necessary to p rov ide, is certain to prove unsatisfactory. The scheme looks as though the representatives of the county courts were ashamed of having their per functory equity-litigation revealed to the Court of Chancery in its own proper deshabille, and wished to shuffle over it a decent legal mantle before usher ing it into that solemn presence. But apart from the fruitful matter for controversy in th e original settling of these cases, the necessary absence ot . and means of restraining appeal ls courttem themselves j s u f d r g o e n - i controverting before the made statement of their case, and the extreme im probability that the judges in Chancery themselves will ever be persuaded to look at facts through the spectacles of other judges, are not to be considered as ineradicable vices in the plan. But the " orders" must not be blamed for having failed in constructing a practicable staircase from this sphere to that of the High Court of Chancery. The two are incommensurable ; the very atmosphere is different. Let the county courts administer their equity speedily without straining too fastidiously at the quality. If any of their suitors are dissatisfied, the courts are open. If the Legislature's attempt to save petty equitable interests half the expenses of proceeding necessary for realising them, sometimes issues simply in a bill of costs, a third more than it otherwise would have been, it is not the Parliamen tary measure, nor the rules framed for carrying it into execution, but human nature and human affairs which ought to bear the blame.—Solicitors' Journal. Naval and Military Intelligence. The following farewell address to the troops at Aldershot was issued by Lieut.-Gen. Sir J. L. Pen nefather, K.C.8., in a divisional order on Friday : "Aldershot, Sept. 29. " Lieut.-Gen. Sir John Pennefather cannot leave Alder shot without one word of farewell to his troops. Upwards of five years ago the lieut.-gen. received the Aldershot divi sion from Lieut.-Gen. Knollys in a high state of efficiency, discipline, and order. It has been his anxious desire to maintain it in the same condition, as well as to give effect to the numerous improvements which have since taken place in the kind consideration for the benefit and comfort of the troops on the part of his Royal Highness the Field- Marshal Commanding-in -Chief and the Secretary at War, and liberally sanctioned by the Government. If Sir John Pennefather has succeeded in these objects it is to be attri buted to the support and assistance he has received from the general officers, the officers, both staff and regimental, in all the departments, each according to his temperament and knowledge of war, and to the high tone of soldierlike feeling pervading the ranks, both among the non-commis sioned officers and soldiers. The lieut.-gen. requests the general officers, the officers of all positions, and the troops to accept his best thanks for their conduct, and his cordial wishes for their future honour and prosperity.—By order, E. NEWDEGATE, Lieut.-Col., A.A.G." Orders have been received at Chatham garrison directing the following officers to be held in readi ness for embarcation to join the service companies of the 2d battalion of the 10th Regiment in India, viz., Lieut. J. Carr, Ensign G. F. T. Parker, Ensign E. B. Burnaby, and N. P. O'Gorman. Alterations and improvements suggested during her Majesty's recent visit to the cavalry barracks at Spital, in the suburbs of Windsor, are being fast completed by the contractors, Messrs. Myers and Sons. It is expected that the wing which has been partly rebuilt and re-arranged will be ready for oc cupation by the troopers of the Ist Regiment of Life Guards (who in the meanwhile have been liv ing under canvas in the rear of the barracks) by about the end of this month. The length of the altered wing is 227 ft. 6in., and the height about 34ft. The stabling for the chargers, as before, occupies the ground floor of the building, at each end of which quarters for the non-commissioned officers have been erected. Above the stables there are two floors, on each of which there are six large rooms, each about 28ft. long by 40ft. wide, those on the lower floor being about 12ft., and the apartments on the upper 16ft. Bin. high, thus much loftier than on the occasion of the Queen's visit to the barracks. Each room will accommodate 14 troopers. Plenty of light and ventilation has been provided, the three light windows, both back and front, having 12ft. openings. The ventilation of the rooms is effected by five air shafts. Three of these admit a supply of pure air into the apartments through iron gratings in the walls. The foul air is carried away by two square grated wooden funnels placed near the ceiling, from which they hang close to the wall and communicate with a shaft leading to an opening in the roof. Tw o capacious verandahs, with thick slate floorings, 7ft. wide, supported by light iron pillars, with ornamen tal balconies of the latter material, have been erected in front of the building facing the barrack-green, and extending to thenon-commissioned officers' quarters. They will afford a ready yneans of access to the differ ent rooms on the floors. At the back of the various apartments are rooms for washing. The contrast be tween the quarters which have been altered and the opposite wing, which remains untouched, is very marked. Besides the improvements already carried out at these barracks, others are, it is under stood, contemplated at Spital by the military autho- rities. The Infantry Barracks at Windsor are to be greatly extended, and the old alms-houses in Sheet street have just been pulled down to make way for the new buildings. The deaths of the following officers have been offi cially reported at the War-office since Sept. 1: Gen. Sir J. Fergusson, G.C.8., Colonel of the 43d Light Infantry Regiment. Lieut.-Gen. H. W. Gordon, Colonel Commandant Royal Artillery. Major-Gen. W. C. Anderson, Royal Artillery; J. M'Duff, C. 8., and F. Meade. Col. C. Hogge, C. 8., Royal Artillery. Lieut.-Col. J. R. Hawkins, Royal Artillery. Majors W. H. Devon, Royal Marines ; G. Bayly and V. 11. MaiHs, 7th Royal Fusiliers. Capts. W. Robinson, 23 battalion 19th Regiment; E. J. Stokes, 39th Regi ment ; J. Sealy, 4th King's Own Regiment; H. Hol linsworth ; F. Comte de la Ville, Roel's Regiment ; and T. Gough, paymaster, Rifle Brigade. Adjutant A. E. Stabb, Ist battalion 16th Regiment. Lieuts. G. P. Alston, Royal Artillery ; J. Emmett, instruc tor of musketry, Ist battalion 17th Regiment, H.W. Hearne, 44th Regiment; R. S. Airey, 73d Regiment, F. Benthall, 3d West India Regiment : and W. 11. Buckley. Quartermasters P. F. Foley, 2d battalion 21st Fusiliers ; W. Jones, Ist lbattalion 22d Regiment ; and T. Walker. Deputy-Commissary- Generals Osborn and Spurrier. Assist. -Commissary- Gen. Beech, Deputy-Assist.-Commissary.-Generals Dashwood and Ingram. Inspector-General of Hospitals J. Forrest, M.D., C.B. Assist. -Surgeon Malarky, 27th Regt. P r i nc ip a l Pur ve y or W re f or d . _ _ Official intelligence of the deaths of the following officers has been received at the Admiralty since July 1 :—Admiral of the Fleet, Sir F. Austen, G.C.B. Admirals H. Meynell, M. White, and W. H. Smyth. Vice-Admiral G. Woolcombe. Capts. P. Cracraft, C. 8., S. Wreford, R. Mann, J. Tudor, R. Streatfield, J. F. Lascelles, J. Eager, and G. Hillier. Commanders C. T. Donch, H. Hawkes, J. B. Grove, H. Lawless, W. W. Oke, W. Brown, E. Steele, W. Somerville, T. Simpson, R. R. Sayer, H. P. Steele, C. W. Rawdon, E. Beavan, P. P. Cotgrave, S. Stirling, and R. Hodges. Lieuts. A. Luckcraft, R. S. Chisholme, H. C. Wogan, G. R. Keating, and P. J. Lucas. Sub.-Lieuts. J. H. F. Owen and R. B. Trollope. Staff-Commander R. B. Gregory. Surgs. D. Saunders, C. D. M'Carthy, R. Evans, J. Strang, M.D., R. Runciman, W. Ross, M.D., J. Greenish, and J. Smith. Assist.-Surg. C. Mortimer. Paymasters G. Lupridge, C. E. Phil- lips, J. Garby, and R. Wilson. Chief-Engineers W. Wotton and J. C. Grach. Royal Marines.— Major-Gen. J. Ashmore, and Second-Lieut. J. S. Lamborn. The screw steam troopship Orontes, Capt. Hire, with troops from Portsmouth, which arrived at Ply mouth on Thursday, landed supernumeraries on Fri day, embarked additional troops and some seamen on Saturday, and in the afternoon left the Sound for China. The Racoon, 22, screw frigate, Captain Count Gleichen, discharged her powder and shell yester day morning at Spithead, and afterwards weighted her anchor and steamed into Portsmouth harbour for docking and refit. Capt. A. C. J. M'Meekan, First-Lieut. L. G. men of the Chath am di visioncommissioned of Marine Light Infantry, left head quarters yesterday, and proceeded to the Govern of Royal Rodney ysi First Lieut. 11. B. Isaacso n , an d 90 non ficers and Milton to undergo a course of Govern went rifle range at ball practice prior to embarcation. Rocheste r th e Ad m i ra lt y h ave given directions for At the re q uest of the corporation of the city of one of the steam dredging machines employed in Chatham harbo ur t o b e towe d u p the river, near Rochester-brid ge , t o b e employe d i n d re d g i ng an d deepening the river at that spot. The soil dredged up from. the bed of the Aledway is used in making the best kinds of cement, and the whole of that ob tained by the Admiralty dredging machines is em ployed in the dockyard extension works, Chatham. It is with peculiar satisfaction that we notice an improvement in the official Navy List, just issued for the last quarter. In previous Navy Lists the names ,) i, rHE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY HYMNING, OCTOBER 3, lEEE. of sub-lieuts. have been given simply with the dates of their seniority, and the number of the ship in which they may have been serving at the time. In the new List there is given, in addition, the number of marks by which each officer obtained his class of certificate in seamanship, gunnery, and navigation, the list of names being headed by an explanatory paragraph, stating that " in the case of officers who havepassed the six yearly examinations in navigation the numbers obtained are given instead of the class of certificate. The numbers are, maximum, 270." In this list we find Mr. Hugh Cuthbert Dudley Ryder, with 255 marks for navigation, standing at the hezd of the list in point of merit, followed by Mr. Charles Saville Broome, with 243 marks, in the same cate gory of efficiency ; Mr. Henry Compton Aitchison, 239 marks ; Mr. Francis Hay Chapman, and Mr. Cecil Montague Turner, with 233 marks each ; Mr. John Llewellyn Heane, with 230 ; Mr. Archi bald Hamilton Duthie, with 226 ; Mr. E. F. Kep pell, with 224 ; and others lower down in number, until 3,2, and even only t mark is obtained. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. GREAT NORTH OF SCOTLAND. The half-yearly general meeting of this company was held on Friday at Aberdeen , Mr. J. Duncan in the chair. The report, an abstract of which has appeared in The Sun, was taken as read. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, said he was glad to say that the traffic was improving, although it had not produced so much as they could have desired, especially to meet the claims of the B preference shareholders. It was, however, better than in the - preceding half-year. The B shareholders would now have a dividend equal to per cent. for the past half-year, being a little more than was paid for the previous half-year. He hoped that during the current half-year they would see the resources of the line, in respect both of goods and passengers, so well developed that the preference shareholders would have a much better dividend than at present. The difficulties of the company had been considerable, the reduction in the traffic had been so much that it would have re quired more than ordinary management and im provement to enable them to give the full dividend to the preference shareholders. In the course of a very few half-years he trusted the holders of B shares would be placed in the position they all de sired. The goods traffic had greatly increased, and the passenger traffic, notwithstanding the great re duction in the fares, had produced less of a defi ciency than might have been anticipated. The de ficiency of £1,600, from the loss of the mail ser vice could not be made up, as compared with the corresponding half of 1864. That was, in fact, a permanent loss. With regard to the Denburn Valley line they had expended £61,000 out of the £lBO,OOO which the company would have to contri bute to that line, and it would be 18 months before it would be open for traffic. The directors had done what they could towards carrying out the recommen dations of the Committee of Investigation. They had made arrangements by which they would obtain the return, at a future period, of the £12,000 subscribed to the Montrose and Bervie Railway, and also by which they would offer a saving of £lO,OOO in the construction of the Strathspey Junction Works. They now expected to have a bridge as well as a connecting line between Abernethy and Boat of Garten for about £15,000. This would not only be an advantage to the Highland line, but also to the Strathspey line, of which the Company held £170,000, or nearly the whole of the stock. This and the Keith and Dufftown line ought, in his opi nion, to be amalgamated with the main line. The Forrnartine and Buchan line, in which the com pany had invested a large sum, would probably yield a dividend on the ordinary stock for this year of 11 per cent. The 5 per cent. preference stock of this company was held by the Great North of Scot land Company, and the very circumstance of that company being able to pay 11 per cent. on its ordi nary stock would increase the value of the prefe rence stock issued. Mr. MILNE seconded the motion for the adoption of the report, which was agreed to. Mr. Burgess was elected a director in the room of Mr. Rowell, resigned, and Mr. W. Leslie was elected to fill a vacant seat at the Board ; the divi dends recommended in the report were agreed to, and a vote of thanks to the chairman concluded the proceedings. steamers were available the harbour was ready to receive them. Sir A. AGNEW, in seconding the motion, alluded to the proposed new line from Girvan to Glenluce, sanctioned last session, and which would form a junction at Glenluce with the Portpatrick. The report was adopted, and a dividend at the rate of 1 per cent. per annum declared. parish, whereas she hadbeen really a parishioner in Bishops gate Without. The Lord Mayor, commiserating the case of the aPplia cant, gave her an order in writing on the relieving officer, Mr. Williams, for temporary relief, and directed Minshull, an officer of the court to accompany her and the • boys to the officer in Devonshire-square to see that they were re lieved forthwith. DU3IFEIES AND LOCKERBIE. This company having been amalgamated with the Caledonian, the last statutory general meeting was held at Lockerbie on Saturday ; Sir William Brown in the chair. The report stated that during the past half year the revenue from traffic had amounted to £4,483, and the expenditure to £3,058, leaving a balance of £1,503 available for dividend. There being several claims unsettled the directors recom mended an interim dividend at the rate of 2 per cent. The amalgamation with the Caledonian came into force on the 31st of July last, the condition of amalgamation being that the shareholders were en titled to a guaranteed stock equal to the amount of their paid-up shares, bearing a dividend of 6 per cent. per annum. The CHAIRMAN moved the adoption of the report, which was unanimously agreed to. BERWICKSHIRE. The Government inspector having expressed his approval of the works on this line, it was opened throughout yesterday for public traffic. The works included a long viaduct over the Tweed, immediately below Melrose, near St. Boswell's Junction with the Waverley route. The viaduct consisted of 19 semi circular arches of 40ft. span each, and the height from the river to the rails was about 130 ft. This new line, with the Dunse branch, formed a connec tion with the main lines of the North Biltisb, with east coast route at Aytoun, and with the Waverley route at St. Boswell's. HORS HAM AND GUILDFORD. This line, which is about 17 miles long, was opened for traffic yesterday. The first train left Guildford at 635 a.m., arriving in Horsham at 7 30. The new line affords the shortest route to Brighton from Guildford, Kingston, Chertsey, Richmond, Twicken ham, Putney, Windsor, Alton, and other stations on the South Western line. The new railway starts from a point on the Mid-Sussex line near Horsham, proceeding to Slinfold, and crossing the valley of the river Arun, with a high embankment. Passing the village of Rudgwick, the line enters the hill of Great House by a tunnel upwards of 400 yards long ; thence to Baynards and Cranley, along the valley,' and crosses the Wey and Arun Canal and the Godal ming Canal, and terminates by a junction with the Portsmouth line. The Guildford station on the South Western line will be used for the purposes of the new line, which will be worked in connection with the London, Brighton, and South Coast Rail way. There are four stations on the line--viz., Bromley, Cranley, Baynards, and Slinfold. MANCHESTER, SHEFFIELD, AND LINCOLNSHIRE, The total expenses of this company's railways and canals, including rents, tolls, duty, &c., from July 1 to Sept. 24, 1865, amounted to £106,798, as against £100,109 for the corresponding period of 1864. The proportion of the South Junction receipts accruing to the company, from July 1 to Sept. 24, amounted to £10,024, as against £9,742 for the corresponding period of 1864, and the expenses to £4,470, as against £4,450. PORTPATRICK. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held at Stranraer on Tuesday—Sir J. C. D. Hay in the chair. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoptiqn of the report, an abstract of which has appeared in The Sun, contragulated the shareholders that at length the undertaking had yielded a dividend,whicb, how ever small (at the rate of 1 per cent. per annum), was, he trusted, the commencement of a profitable return on their capital. Though the dividend had been received from local traffic alone, he was happy to say that arrangements were nearly completed by which they would have a daily service with the north of Ireland. Portpatrick harbour was now approach ing completion, and he had been assured that if DUTCH-RHENISH. The receipts for the fortnight ending Sept. 15 amounted to £14,090, and for the corresponding period of last year to £12,113, showing an increase of £1,977. The receipts since the commencement of the present book year, on May Ist, including the above, amounted to £122,968, showing an increase, as compared with the corresponding period of last year, of £12,358. The working expenses for the fortnight amounted to £5,021, or 35.63 per cent. of the receipts, and for the corresponding period of last year to £4,280, showing an increase of £741. The working expenses from May 1 to September 15, amounted to £43,206 or 35.13 per cent., and for the year 1864-65 to 34.82 per cent. of the receipts. NORTHERN OF FRANCE. The traffic receipts on this company' s lines for the week ending Sept. 16 amounted to £70,445 against £61,824 for the corresponding week of 1864, show ing an increase of £8,621. DEMERARA. The traffic receipts on this company's line for the fortnight ending Sept. 2 amounted to $3,720, and for the corresponding period of 1864 to $3,674, showing an increase of $46. Serious Charge against a Magistrate's Son at Stafford. DOLGELLY, Monday. Mr. G. F.Griffin, draper, of Stafford, in partnership with his father, who is one of the borough magistrates, was arrested last week on the charge of .1,11. 6 and .hotting Thirz Tunstall, his father's housekeeper, to conceal the birth of her female child, of which he is alleged to be the father. Thirza Tunstall, is a young woman, about 25 years of ago, who for the last five or six years had lived in Mr. J. Griffin's service as housekeeper. About noon on Saturday, the 23d ult., some children who were playing on the banks of the river Mawddych, about three miles from Dolgelly, observed a parcel floating on the water, and called a man who got it out. On the parcel being opened it was found to contain the body of a newly born female child, wrapped in the Manchester Examiner and Times, of the 16th September, on which was written in pencil, " Mr. G. F. Griffin." The outside wrapper was a piece of black cloth, like that generally used in drapers' shops. An inquest on tho body was opened and adjourned till to day. A post-mortem examination showed that the child had breathed, and marks of violence were found on the throat and skull. Upon Captain Clough making inquiries he found that Mr. G. F. Griffin was well-known at the Ship Hotel, where ho had stayed on several occasions. He, was also well known at the post office, where he had called for letters on his visits to Wales. Further inquiries showed that Mr. G. F. Griffin went to the railway station at Stafford and took with him a portmanteau about half-past twelve, on Friday week, and took a return ticket for Dolgelly, and the circumstance was especially noted as being the first through ticket issued at the station. About two miles from Dolgelly the railway passes close to the river Mawddych, and it is supposed that while passing this spot Mr. G. F. Griffin threw the bundle containing the dead body of the child into the water, and the tide must have carried the bundle down across the river to the place where it was found. It wax further ascertained that Mr. Griffin arrived at the Ship Hotel about half-past seven on Friday evening, ostensibly with the view of seeing algentleman from Manchester on some mining business, it appearing that he holds some shares in an adjacent mino, and hits re peatedly visited the district. He remained at the Ship Hotel until after the adjournment of the inquest, and on Wednesday Captain Clough proceeded to Stafford, and having put himself in communication with Colonel Hogg, the chief of the Staffordshire county constabulary, that officer directed Mr. Superintendent Oswell to take the necessary steps in the matter, and the result was the appre hension of Mr. G. F. Griffin and a domestic servant or housekeeper, named Thirza Tunstall. The woman ad mitted that she had given birth to a child on Thursday, the 21st ult. This morning the jury reassembled, but no further evidence was taken, it being understood that both the accused parties would be present on a future day, and the hearing was therefore adjourned. STAFFORD, Monday Night. The extraordinary excitement consequent on the disco very of the immoral delinquency of Mr. G. P. Griffin, n ru of the sons of perhaps the most respected magistrate in the town, has not been by any means lessened as the facts, aro - mere clearly made known. It has not boon previously stated that Superintendent Oswell went on Thursday last to the Shushions Farm, between Little Own and IVheaton Aston, where Mr. G. F. Griffin was shooting with some friends, and took him into custody. The woman Tunstall was also arrested, and on Friday morning they were taken before Mr. E. Moulsey (the mayor) and a bench of magis trates (Messrs. Jonas Pilling, Wm. Jones, Edward Lloyd, John Talbot, and W. Sylvester), and remanded on the charge of concealing the birth of the child. Mr. G.F. Griffin was admitted to bail, himself in £5OO, and two others in £250 each, Mr. T. Turner and Mr. J. Brookfield becoming his sureties ; and in the course of the afternoon the woman was also bailed, herself in £2OO and two sureties of £lOO each, Mr. John Cooper (the managing man lorMr. Griffin's business) and Mr. E. Lloyd (the son of one of the magis trates) being responsible for her. This morning, Mr. Nevitt, clerk to Mr. J. W. Hand, soli citor, applied for an enlargement of the bail, to the sitting magistrates, to somo future day, on the ground that the par ties implicated would not be able to attend before the coroner in Wales and also before the bench. Mr. Bowen, solicitor, on behalf of the prosecution, did not raise any objection, and the application was granted. The East London Union, Yesterday a poor woman, nearly blind, who was accom panied by two boys of the respective ages of 11 and 7, her sons, applied to the Lord Mayor, at the Justice-room of the Mansion-house, for advice in a state of distress. She stated in effect that she was the daughter of a freeman of London now dead, and chiefly through losing her sight about five years ago during an attack of fever she with her husband and a young family had been reduced to poverty. Her parish was that of Bishopsgate Without, and she had now and then received relief there through the East London Union. A few weeks ago she and her husband, with the two boys, left the Union and travelled into Kent to work at hop picking. She herself, being blind, could do little or nothing in that way, and her husband had only met with occasional employment, by which they earned a few shillings a week, barely sufficient to keep them in food, and they slept mostly in barns at nights. At length they determined to return to London, and on their way back they passed the night of Sunday in a barn at Eltham. At daybreak yester day morning they set out to walk to town, a distance of eight or nine miles. They got a lift ina cart part of the way and when they reached London none of them had broken their fast. While crossing London-bridge she missed her husband in the crowd, and had not since seen him. She had no fear that he had deserted her. With her two lads she made her way to the relieving office of the East London Union, in Devonshire-square, Bishopsgate, sinking for want of food. It was then about midday, and she and they had had nothing to eat since the previous evening. Doing well known to Mr. Williams, the relieving officer, she stated the circumstances to him, telling him they were homeless and without food, and asked him to relieve them ; but ho refused, saying he could do nothing for her until he knew where they slept the previous evening. She told him they had passed the night at Eltham, to which he replied that he must make inquiries there, as he could not take that for granted. She asked what they were to do in the meantime, and whether they were to be left to starve. He still declined to entertain her application, and on her pressing it upon him with still more urgency he became very angry, and turning to a porter said, " Throw her out, throw her out." She told him she had often heard of his having ordered poor people to be thrown out of his office when they ap plied for relief, but could hardly believe it until now. She then left, and had come to ask the Lord Mayor what she was to and doun th de e r y circumstances. had ednot tastedfood that tawt day. was then after two o'clock, The Chief Clerk told the Lord Mayor that this was not the first complaint that had been wade there by poor people of the conduct of Mr. Williams, the relieving officer of the East London Union. Only a few days ago a poor woman carrying an infant afflicted with fever came to the justice-room for advice in a state of distress. She had, she said, applied to Mr. Williams for medical aid for her child, and he granted her an order, telling her at the same time to take it to the surgeon named in it by a certain hour and she would find him at home. She went accordingly at the time mentioned and saw the medical officer, who said, "Oh, we've heard of your case before," and the result was that she did not receive the medical relief for the child she had been led by Mr. Williams to expect, and there was reason to believe that Mr. Williams had in the interim countermanded his own order which he had given tho applicant. Mr. Oke added that ho had observed a disposition on the part of the Guardians of this particular Union to screen their officers whenever the conduct of any of them had been called in question at the Justice-room, and so long as that was the case they might expect to have poor people making com plaints of hard usage in that quarter. In the case of the woman and her two boys, as to Mr Williams telling her he must make inquiries at Eltham where she slept, she was only passing through Eltham when she passed the night there, and could only have boon a casual pauper in that SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TIDIES.—So much pains have been taken to expose the folly of the Fenian Conspiracy that the public have little or nothing to learn in that respect from the revelations of the Government prosecution ; but there are few persons who will not be astonished at its atrocity. We seek in vain for a parallel for the objects and intentions of this monstrous conspiracy since the Jacqueries of the Middle Ages. Will it be believed that the intention of the movement was not only to separate Ireland from Great Britain, and establish a Republic instead of a Monarchy, but involved a scheme of wholesale assassination which might have made Marat, " the friend of the people," shudder and turn pale ? The Fenians seem to have contemplated nothing less than a complete slaughter of the aris tocracy, including in that comprehensive term all possessors of realised property. The Duke of Leinster, the Marquis of Sligo, and the Marquis of Ormonde were pitched u po n by name as victims to be offered up to the Moloch of Communism and fraternal equality. The prize which was kept before the eyes of the members of this society was nothing less than the division among them of all the property of Ireland. It is a misnomer to call it a conspiracy against England; it is a conspiracy against every thing that is wealthy, intelligent, or respectable in Ireland itself. Amongst those primarily marked out for slaughter are the Roman Catholic priests, partly, we presume, as constituting a sort of aristocracy, and partly because they have exerted themselves with vigour and success in opposing this insane movement. The intention. was to make a clean sweep and to reconstruct society from its very foun dations. How little suited for the task were these Gamines of the counter we need not say ; what we are now considering is not the probability of suc cess, but the nature of the undertaking/. The middle classes had their attempt in 1848 ; the movement just detected and suppressed was entirely the work of the lower classes, and as such is signalised by many features closely resembling the rebellion of Jack Cade. None were to be spared save those who " go in clouted shoon," the rest were to be extir pated without mercy. We need not say how much all this detracted from the possibility of success, could we concede for a moment that a possibility of success ever existed. The undertaking of the Fenians was nothing less than to conquer, not only the whole force of England, employed with perfect vigour and unanimity ; it was also to overcome all the property, all the rank, all the intelligence of Ireland, fighting for existence against an enemy the very first step in whose policy was to be their utter annhilation. Such a scheme could hardly have originated in Ireland itself, and many circumstances show that it did not. It has been the nature of Irish insurrections at all times, though never peculiarly well concerted or deeply planned, to rely for success mainly on external aid. The rebellion of 1798 looked for its support to the French Republic ; the insurrection of 1848 drew its confidence from the same source • and it is reasonable to suppose that the Fenians relied on some similar assistance. We cannot believe that a plot of purely Irish extraction would have contemplated such a measure as the assassination of all the priests in Ireland ; nor do we believe that the doctrines of Communism have been so far developed in that country as to make it probable that the idea would ever occur to a knot of purely Irish conspirators of massacring all the proprietary class of the country. The native Irish have not yet divested themselves of all love and veneration for their priests, nor carried their desires far beyond a wish for the possession of the land which they consider an imaginary race of people called the Saxons have wrested from them. All these things point clearly to a foreign origin, and the evidence as well as the probabilities of the case confirm the conclusion. Ireland has follies and blunders enough of her own to account for, without being called upon to bear the greatest share of the blame of this last and most wonderful escapade. The truth is that Ireland has lost the control of her own destiny, we do not mean by being absorbed into E n land, but by the connexio n w hi c h s h e h as f orme d with another and more distant country. The con stant emigration from Ireland to America has pro duced its results. There are more of the Irish race in America than in Ireland itself. They have not achieved any very brilliant success in the home of their adoption, but the conditions of the new country are so favourable to those who have to I dispose of the commodity most in demand there —coarse anti rough labour—that the American Irish have not failed to achieve a degree of pro sperity much higher than that which they attained at home. The character of this volatile and impul sive race has been altered, but, we fear, not im proved by its expatriation. They carry with them that burning hate for England which it has been the policy alike of their political leaders and their reli gious instructors to inculcate into their minds, and to that hatred they add yet deeper aversion for the class of landed proprietors, whom they have been taught to regard as cruel and wicked monopolists as often as they have ventured to oppose the slightest obstacle to the original curse of Ireland—the minute subdivision of the land. The happy institution of universal suffrage, the foundation on which Ame rican institutions repose, has given to the poor igno rant and prejudiced Irishman: a power which he never could possess under any other circumstances. The Irish vote has become a matter of consequence, and American newspapers and American politicians have not been slow to pander to the weaknesses and delusions of those who dispose of it. They are perpetually telling a people who have left their native country, simply because it is overpopu lated and cannot support them, that they are the victims of the tyranny of a heartless aristocracy and of the oppression of an alien Government. Nothing is more agreeable than the crown of martyrdom without its thorns, and the Irishman revelling in abundance and prosperity is never so happy as when he is told that his imaginary miseries spring from the tyranny and cruelty of others. It is in the assemblies of these mer, held openly and without interference from the constituted authori ties of America, that the Fenian plot has its origin. Money is freely subscribed, for it is lightly come by and lavishly spent, and an organisation is created which probably takes its full toll of the funds that pass through its hands, according to the most re ceived precedents on such occasions. Thus is created a sort of hybrid opinion, half Irish, half American, and probably more absurd, wicked, and atrocious than either Ireland or America would have produced alone. The business of those Irish who still remain in their native country is evidently very subordinate and secondary. They will, indeed, probably have to take the lion's share of those very disagreeable consequences which are apt to dog the steps of un successful conspirators. The American Brother hood have held many enthusiastic meetings and sent over a few agents, who may be counted by tens, to get up a movement. They have been profuse in promises ; they are building imaginary fleets, and raising problematical armies ; but while they are doing all this they leave their wretched dupes to fall without an effort into the hands of justice, without even as much glory as could be gained by the siege of a single farmhouse, the stealing of a single horse, or the valiant defence of a single cabbage garden. The honour of the Fenian conspiracy is due to the American, and not to the native Irish, and we con gratulate the members of the Brotherhood on the other side of the Atlantic on the noble scheme they have planned and the brilliant success which has attended it. It is early, as yet, perhaps, to seek to draw a moral from this strange story, but one or two reflections are so obvious that we cannot withhold them. We beg to call the attention of our critics on the Continent and in America to the kind of grievances which England inflicts upon Ireland and which the Fenians conspire to redress. England, after all, is a mere pretext. What it is sought to annihilate is the existence of property, aristocracy, and religion in Ireland, and that religion not the religion of the Saxon, but of the Celt, not of the conquering, but of the conquered race. So little has Ireland really to complain of that the only device by which an insurrection can be raised is by offering the poor the plunder of the p roperty o f th e r i ch. We are constantly hearing from Irish members of Parliament of the discontent of Ireland, and, some times with menaces, sometimes with entreaties, are urged to do away with the causes of that discontent. The discontent at last assumes a tangible form, and it turns out that the real objects of it are not the remote English, but the very - possessors of property in Ireland who have so often striven to intimidate us by pointing to the disaffection of men who had already singled out, not us, but our monitors them selves for their victims. It has been the policy of the Roman Catholic priesthood to keep up within certain bounds a spirit of discontent in the people of Ireland against England and against the owners of the soil in their own country. The priesthood have succeeded a little beyond their wishes ; there is no lack of discontent, only they themselves are marked out as the first victims of the popular com motion they have so largely contributed to raise. The spirit they have raised has broken the charmed circle, and proposes, according to the approved prac tice in such cases, to commence operations by tear ing the enchanter to pieces. POST,--"Yellow fever in Swansea!" is confessedly an alarming announcement ; and it is not one the truthfulness of which we are prepared at present summarily to deny ; Let it be admitted that the announcement has beeii shade; OR reliable data, by the newspapers and medical journals; but at the same time let the public calmly look at the intelli gence in the light of history and medical experience. It will then most probably be admitted that there is no gittind at this time for alarm at the invasion of a foreign pestilence, but rather cause of thankful ness for a mild warning to the municipal authorities of many of our towns as to their shameful unpre paredness for outbreaks of disease incident to parti calar localities under the favourable influence of ex ceptional atmospheric conditions such as have lately existed. Twenty-two years ago, in the hot Septem ber of 1843, a contagious fever broke out in the slums of Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dundee, and other Scottish towns, In the December of that year, a physician of the Edinburgh Fever Hospit a l, after careful observation and reporting of hundreds of cases, published a minute account of that memorable epidemic; and it appears to us very probable that the language in which he described " the highly con gestive form" of the fever which then prevailed will be found pretty accurately descriptive of the Swan sea cases, now so properly attracting the notice of the Privy Council. In the work referred to the author remarked—" One of the most common symp toms in the highly congestive form of the disease is yellowness of the conjunctivae, and of the whole sur face of the body. It generaly appears between the third and seventh day, and is always most intense on the face, neck, chest, abdomen, and thighs. The hue of the neck and chest is the most vivid. . . . Associated with the yellowness there are generally depression, less or more delirium . . . and hemorrhages from some of the mucous membranes. In the worst of the cases black, coffee-ground-like matter is ejected, In some cases the black vomit occurs without the yellowness ; and on the other hand, at the autopsy of yellow patients who have had no black vomit, this matter" has been found in the stomach and other parts of the alimentary canal" Such were many of the cases of the Edinburgh epi demic of 1843, in its first and second month, when the temperature was high ; such, in all probability, are the Swansea cases of the unusually hot Septem ber of 1865. Prior, as well as subsequent, to 1845 a very similar fever has appeared-in different places, generally, we believe, during hot autumnal weather. To the medical profession, and to a large section of the general community interested in public health questions, the milder form of this disease is pretty familiar under the common and appropriate name of "relapsing fever," the usual occurrence of relapse being one of its well-marked features. The "yellow fever" now at Swansea is, we apprehend, an aggra vated form of " relapsing fever ;" just as the yellow cases which occurred at the commencement of the Edinburgh epidemic of 1843, and a vast number of milder " relapsing" cases, in which no yellowness appeared, were truly and essentially cases of the same epidemic. Till the facts are before the public) in a more detailed and unimpeachable form than we now posssess, it would be premature to give a posi tive opinion as to the origin of the present Swansea fever. It is, however, important, whilst the ques tion is undergoing investigation, to express a hope that evidence will be rigidly taken and fully pup lished, not only as to all the circumstances con nected with the state of health of the crew of the barque Hecla on its arrival, and the intercourse between it and the Swansea residents who have had yellow fever, but likewise as to the type of disease in Swansea at the date of the arrival of the Hecla, and subsequent to that event. In particular, it[will be essential to ascertain whether cases of the more usual form of relapsing fever have occurred simul taneously with the yellow cases. In the meantime, it is important to recall attention to the fact that the Scottish epidemic of 1843 was never supposed to be of foreign origin, and that it almost simulta neously sprang up in several towns, and that chiefly among the crowds of Irish reapers and those asso ciated with them in localities always filthy and overcrowded, but then far more crowded than usual. This filth and overcrowding, combined with the high temperature of the season, no doubt stamped the fever with an aggravated type, though it is not cer tain that it originated in these conditions, as some maintain. While it spread from top to bottom of lofty "lands" in the High-street, scourged the ad jacent closes, and reigned for months triumphant in the lodging-houses of the Grassmarket, West port, and Cowgate, it did not cross the bridges to the New-town. No doubt a few scattered cases did occur in the airy streets of the New-town, but they were all cases clearly traceable to contact with congregated sick in the Old-town. Physicians, medical assistants in the hospitals, missionaries, and nurses were those only who suffered in the New town. In the other Scottish towns visited by the epidemic, the exemption of the districts under good sanitary conditions, and of the well-to-do classes, was equally marked, as in Edinburgh. Taking into account, therefore, all the circumstances as at present before the public, we hold that the announcement of yellow fever at Swansea, truthful though it be, is not very alarming, and that it ought to be accepted by the municipal authorities of that and other towns as a warning to conform, with all convenient speed, to nature's laws of health, which cannot continu ously be infringed with impunity. The terrible dis ease known as " yellow fever" in the tropics has never established itself in the British isles, though in numerous instances ships with cases on board have come into our ports. It ought to be reassuring to the public to know that the real " yellow Jack" is incapable of propagation in our temperate climate, and that it is only amid rotten vegetation and ex cessive humidity in countries with a mean tempera ture of 82 F. that this scourge has prevailed: " THE EXAMINER" ON THE FENIAN FLEAS.-1.11 " Nicholas Nickleby," Smike and another represent a general rebellion on a country stage. In the present performance of the " Plot Discovered, or Erin Preserved," the absurdity is reversed, and it is not the duality but the plurality of the rebels that makes the affair so ludicrous. They are so very many and so very little, or, as the Americans would say, " cruel small." Government lays hold of traitors of the size of fleas, but their name, forsooth, is legion. And it is their boast that, as there is as good fish in the sea, as ever came out of it, so there is a fine stock of Fenians left, notwithstanding the captures made. And this may be true, for fools, knaves, and dupes always abound. The idea of this conspiracy was derived from the exhibition of the Industrious Fleas. Those fleas marched like p soldiers, fired guns, and performed various evolu tions in admirable order. Why should not Irish men do as much and as well—or even surpass the fleas, upset a mighty Government, and establish a republic under a green flag ? So the fle as indus triously commenced drilling, organising, and con spiring, They appointed Captains of hundreds, Colonels, Generals, and what not in that line ; and so bold did they feel, so confident of their own strength in disciplined numbers and the coming armada from America, for which a bright 100k -out is kept, that they made no secret of their great designs, and thought indeed to strike terror by boisterously proclaiming their treason. Could they realise that. unanimity of fleas which Curran thought must be irresistible ? And hard to deal with, in one sense, it must be confessed are the fleas, for catching them is not a very nice or dig nified business, nor much advancing total sup pression. Government gets hold of what it wants, but what is it? A flea, a traitorous flea, a flea of the worst intentions, a flea that would overthrow the throne, a flea that would set up a republic, a flea that would unfurl that green flag ' appro priate to the sovereignty of the greenest of people. It vexes us to see treason reduced so low' that the law cannot stoop to deal with it without some compromise of its dignity. Is there no arti ficial way of raising the affair, and giving it some show of consequence, fictitious though it may be ? Bulwer Lytton tells us of a Hidalgo of mighty pride and small means, who used to wear magnifying glasses when he dined off a bunch of cherries, to the end that he might seem to be eating fruit as big as pumpkins. By similar process could the fleas be magnified to the size of elephants ? No, their num ber forbids, and fleas will be fleas, Fenians Feniael no matter what i s d one to ma k e more of then2'' the"uu. there is one e x p e di en t b y w hi c h ma y be escaped humiliation of con f ess i ng that the treason g ra pp led with has no t mounte d a b ove the condition of a lawyer's clerk, and has its general level in the de gree of shop-boys. It is to give the prisoners their rank in the Fenian army posse. There is a in colonel now in custody w ho was in a Union poor house last winter. By all means give him his Fenian rank to sink other circumstances. There are Generals, too, no doubt, whose capture would sound well but for the mention that one is a tailor, another a costermonger, another a muffin-man, and so on. We are told, too, that there is a Field- Marshal, nothing less, who escaped from the Widow Cormack's cabbage garden (when rebellion suc cumbed to a sergeant's guard of policemen) dis guised as a lady's maid. Let him have his bacon. Why indeed grudge anything that can elevate this egregious nonsense ? Assume their honours if they have them not. Perhaps there is a President of the coming Irish Republic in some mean calling, and would it not dignify the prosecution to set forth his high pretensions in the indictment ? The thing is now insufferably low and mean, and something must be done to give it, if not the reality, at least the show of some elevation. But alas ! we fear it is impossible. " Fleas are not lobsters, -- their " eyes," swore Sir Joseph Bankes, according to the witty Peter Pindar ; and fleas will never be any thing but fleas or Fenians, nor is it possible to make decent traitors of such poor stuff. The Alleged Manslaughter of a Woman by a Tradesman. Yesterday Mr. Richards, deputy coroner, resumed at the White Horse Tavern, White Horse-street, Com mercial-road, the inquiry relative to the death of Elizabeth Newland, aged 34 years. Mr. Stoddart, solicitor, appeared on behalf of Mr. Blin dell, tobacconist, residing at 2, Suffolk-place, Commercial road, with whom the deceased had cohabited. The evidence taken on the previous occasion was gene rally to the effect that the deceased had complained of be ing dreadfully ill used by Mr. Blindel], and had shown marks of injuries. On Sept. 21 she died after a very brief illness, the commencement of which was attributed to blows given to her by Mr. Blindell, but the malady had certainly developed into delirium tremens before her death. Geo. Hardway, a fire-escape conductor, who had deposed to seeing black eyes and other injuries on deceased's per son, and to her complaints of ill treatment, was now cross examined by Mr. Stoddart. He said he had never seen her intoxicated. She first complained of Mr. Blindell's ill treat ment after her confinement, about seven months ago. She never said she fell down stairs. He had never drank with her at a public-house. He used to take down the shutters for her, and she used to give him half an ounce of tobacco but never money. He never brought her brandy in the evenings, but on a few occasions he had fetched small quantities for her in the mornings. She never was drunk. He did not know that Mr. Blindell was married till lately. He had never seen Mrs. Blindell till Saturday last. Mrs. Edgecombe, 17, York-place, Commercial-road, said the deceased was her cousin. Witness saw her a month ago. She had then a black eye, and she said that Mr. Blindell gave it to her. She made no complaint. She used to say that he behaved very kind to her. She was never tipsy. Mrs. Fanny Blindell was then sworn. She said that she was the wife of William Hudson Blindell. She kept a tobacconist's shop. She knew that Mr. Blindell very much ill-used her—used to kick her. The Coroner—But that has nothing to do with deceased. Did you know her ? Witness—Only by seeing her as I was passing in an omnibus. But he used to ill-treat her in such a manner— Mr. Stoddart—Yon were separated from your husband under this deed ? Witnesc Yoa, thieugh his cruelty. Coroner—l cannot take your evidence. You know nothing of the deceased's treatment. It is .unfair to pre judice the case. After hearing further evidence the Jury returned a ver dict that the deceased died from congestion of the lungs brought on by excessive drinking. COUNTRY MARKETS NORTHAMPTON-SEPT. 30. We had a fair supply of wheat at our market to-day, mostly of the new crop. There was an improved tone in the trade generally. A good show of oats, at late rates. The show of beans not large. The show of peas middling, and demand slow at late rates. New white wheat, 36s to 426 ; new red, 36s to 39s ; old white, 40s to 465; old red, 40s to 458 per 36 stone. Barley for malting, —s to —s per qr. ; grinding, 26s to 35s per 30 stone. Oats, old, 28s to 30s ; new, 22s to 25e per 24 stone. Beans, old, 44s to 48s ; new, 38s to 43s per 38 stone. Peas, 34s to 37s per 36 stone. COLCHESTER-SEPT. 30. A good supply of wheat, which met a ready sale at 18 per qr advance. Fine barley rather dearer. Beans and peas scarce. , Wheat, white 40s 548 Beans, Mazagan......338 38s red 368 48s Middle and small _.358 40s Barley ... 2Bs 40s Peas, white. 38s 42i Oats ..... ..20s 25s grey ...368 408 CHELMSFORD-SEPT. 29. At this exchange there was a fair supply of wheat, and millers and merchants seemed more eager to buy. Best samples made is per qr more money. Spring corn very . dull. Wheat, old white....44s ses Peas, Partridge 37s 39s new c,.420 48s White ....30s 34s . old red 403 43s Boiling... .38s 42s new ..36s 408 Dun.... ..... ...3ls 366 8ar1ey...... 25s 32s ditto, new....-5 —s Chevalier 26a 338 Beans, Tick, 01d......3is 37s Grind.ng Ws 88 new. ...—s s Malt 61s 67s _ . Barrow licks.3sB —s Chevalier 64s 68i Oats new —s -s Mazagan 34s 370 GRANTHAM-SEPT. 30. Old white wheat, 48s to 525; old red, 44s to 48s ; new white, 42s to 49s ; new red, 38s to 43s per 36 stone. Bar ley for malting, —s to —s per qr. ; grinding, _2Bs to 30s per 30 stone. Oats, old, 25s to 27s ; new, 20s to 24s per 24 stone. Beans, old, 39s to 475; new, 36s to 38s per 38 stone. Peas, 35s to 39s per 36 stone. ABERDEEN-SEPT. 29. There was a fair show of new grain to-day, but trade was dull, and prices the same as last week. White wheat 33s Od to 36s Od i 621 b ? bushel. 32s Od to 34s Odj Red wheat Potato oats 6d to 21s 6d Common oats I 6m iii bushel. 205208 Od to 21s 61 . 23s Od to 24s Od j Barley . 40th 1 bushel. Bere 23s Od to 24s Od Oatmeal 16s 6cl to 17s 6(l' Ift boll of 140Ib. Flour, fine 33s Od to 34s Od sack of 2801 b. KIRKCALDY-SEPT. 30. Good supplies of all kinds of grain. Wheat sold readily at is to 2s dearer. Barley and oats sold at about last week's prices. Wheat: Barley. Oats. First. 3As 6d 21s Od I 21s Od 1.-econd 423 d 253 6il i 233 Od Third COAL MARKET. Price per ton at the close of the Market. s. d. gs s. d. Staffordshire 16 6 South Hartlepool.... ,, 19 9 Hough Hall l9 9 B ra ddyell's Hetton.... 20 3 Carway and Duffryn . ....... . Holywell Main......... 17 6 Malting Peusher Primrose 19 24 0 0 HartlepoolHastings South Ke1100 ..... . itin 20 6 Hartley l9 0 South Hetton .. .. .20 9 Russell's Hetton Byass's Bebside West East Hartlepool Hartley l9 0 Evenwood l7 3 Ships at market, 61; sold, 58. Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton Oct. 19. Ditto, via Marseilles Oct. 13. Brazil and Cape Verde, by British packet Oct. 4. Ditto, by French packet Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena Oct. 22. China, Penang, and Singapore. via Southampton—Oct. 2. Ditto, via Marseilles Oct. —. Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton Oct. India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Oct. 2. Ditto, via Marseilles India (Bombay), via Southampton. Oct. —. Ditto, via iarseilles ....0ct. 5. Mauritius, via Southampton Ditto, via Marseir e 3 Oct.*s. Newfoundland Portugal Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon. United States and British North Xmerica, byßri tish packet .. Oot. 5. Ditto, by United States packet, via Southamp ton Ditto, via Cork Ditto, by Canadian packet, via Londonderry—Oct. 6. West Coast of Africa. Madeira, and Tenerife West Indies and Paciiio (exeeptßahamas, Cuba, and Mexico Oct. 14. Bahamas, via New York. Oct. 19 Bermuda, ditto Oct. 25. Cuba and Mexico Oct. 30. securingfar ind thesef LADTERTISEMENT.I—HoIIoway's Ointment and T Pills.— Enjoymenthespeerif)ielelst,opfaonLsdsifeest.sh—emWnaer marvellous nerves ls t o h ui e ns b p ;0 00lo o vd d e riosridnpeurer, we, its are circula tionwe well secrets of health, by purifying, regulating, and c s o tr n e fi n a g e t u h t e l n y in iv g e fLui tu ds en a d n e d d P th 6r e s l: n v s er s , u a ff n e d n' a n c g t ordered digestion, or worried by nervous fancies or s to ol a id ll s. Holloway ' s pills can b f , neural gic pains. They correct acidity and heartburn, dispel sick headache, quicken the action ofr altera tives and gentle aperients. The weak and delicate may take them without fear., H olloway's pills are em i nently serv iceable to invalids of irritable constitution, as they raise the action of every organ to its na t ura l standard, and universa lly exercise a calming influence. Births. METCALFE.—On the 29th ult., at 14, Queensborough-terrace Kensington-gardens, the wife of Colonel Metcalfe, C. 8., of a son. SIDNEY.—On the Ist inst., at Bowes Manor, Southgate, the wife of Alderman Sidney, of a daughter. SUTTON.—On the 29th ult., at Laugharne, South Wales the Ron. Mrs. Sutton, of a son. Marriages. MEDwAY—BuoxErtsmn.—On the 30th ult., at Kensington, James Medway, Esq., of Gibson-square, to Ellen, daugh ter of the late Johh Brokenshir, of Truro. • RUTTER—PmrsoN.—On the 30th ult., at St. Mary's Church, Putney, London, Henry Rutter, LL.B. of the University of Loudon, only son of J. C. Rutter, of 63, Mornington road, Regent's-park, Esq., to Emmeline Claridge, elder daughter of S. R. Phipson, Esq., of The Cedars, Putney, Deaths. ALEXANDER.—On the 30th ult., at Clive House, Becken ham, Kent, Lieut.-Colonel Henry Alexander, 96th Foot, aged 71. COSTELLO.—On the 30th ult., at 54, Acacia-road, St. John's wood, Dudley Costello, Esq., aged 62. CROOME.—On the 30th ult., at Blackheath, Frank Edward Croomo, R.N., late of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Sierra Leono, aged 19. . GLEDSTANES.—On the Ist inst., at his residence, Cheshunt, Herts, John H. Gledstanes, aged 83. HOADLY.—On the Ist inst., at 28, George-street, Portman.. square, Mr. S. Hoadly. RAGLAN.—On the 30th ult., at Wimbledon, the Lady • Raglan, aged 33. Loudon : Printed and Published by WIL LIAM ANDREWS, of No. 112, Strand, Punter, at Tit-. SUN (Au, No. 11'2. Strand, in the Precinct q the Savoy, in the County Middlesex.—Tuesday, October 3, le&S. ''7 :