The Sun. — London, England, 1866-09-26 00:00:00

tilitary and Naval Intelligence. Notwithstanding the comparatively brief period which has elapsed since the commencement of the ironclad frigate Hercules, 12, 1,200-horse power, building at Chatham dockyard, considerable pro gress has been made in her construction, the rate of progress with which she is being built being alto gether without a precedent at either of the Royal dockyards. Although the first piece of iron for the keel of the Hercules was lowered into the dock in which she is building as recently as the 21st of June last, so rapidly has her construction been pushed forward that already the vessel is at least three-eighths built and at the present rate of progress she will be sent afloat with her armour bolted to her sides earl in the ensuing year. In addition to the frigate being entirely in frame, some few of her water-proof bulkhead compartments are completed, while the double three-quarter inch plating on both her port and starboard midship sides, which will form the inch and a half inner skin plates, is in place and ready to receive the 12-inch teak plank ing, to which the 9-inch and other armour plating will be bolted. Already a considerable portion of the timber planking is fixed in readiness to receive the broadside armour plates, and on Saturday, the 22d inst., or exactly three months from the actual commencement of the vessel, three of the mas sive 6-inch rolled armour plates, from the Atlas Ironworks, Sheffield, were bolted to the port broadside, and a similar number on her starboard broadside. Up to the present time the quantity of material worked into the Hercules has averaged between 90 tons and 100 tons weekly—a rate of progress which will appear the more remarkable when taken in comparison with the last iron ship built at Chatham dockyard—viz., the Bellerophon, on the construction of which the average material used was 56 tons weekly, the rapidity with which that vessel was completed and turned out of hand in rather more than 12 monthsbeing considered a mar vel in the history of iron shipbuilding. Notwith standing, however, the rapidity with which the Her cules is being built at Chatham, the important ele ment of strength is by no means sacrificed, and she will leave the dock immensely superior in strength, as well as for offensive and defensive purposes, to any vessel hitherto built for any of the navies 01 the world. With the singleexception of the Bellero phon no ironclad ship has yet been constructed carrying iron armour plating of a thickness of 6in., but in the case of the Hercules the broadside central battery, for a distance of about 200 ft., will be pro tected by armour plates of 9in. in thickness, several hundred tons of which are now at the dockyard un dergoing the planing, slatting, and boring processes in readiness for bolting to the frigate's sides. IVith an inner skin plating of Ifin. and 10in. iron frames, the total thickness of iron forming the sides of the Hercules, exclusive of her teak backing between her 9-in and the inner li-in plates, is 201 in. The num ber of guns which the Hercules is intended to carry is 12, eight of which will be mounted in her central battery, under the protection of the 9-in. armour plating. The character of the armament has not yet been decided upon, but the Admiralty are fully alive to the importance of giving a vessel of the Hercules class the most formidable guns she can possibly mount, and arrangements are therefore being made to enable her to carry eight 20-ton guns in her cen- tral battery, and 15-ton guns fore and aft, as well as in her bow battery. The cellularsystem of construc tion, first introduced by Mr. Reed in the Bellero phon, is carried out in the Hercules, which will, in fact, be a double vessel from end to end, while her waterproof bulkheads will render her secure against any ordinary accident. In order to impart addi .. tional strength to the Hercules, and render her, as she is intended to be, the strongest no less than the most powerful vessel of war in the world, an entirely new feature has been introduced in the construction of her keel, the space between her inner and outer bottom being divided into a number of cells, crossed longitudinally and transversely by wrought iron girders, the effect of which will be to impart enormous rigidity and stiffness in the entire struc- ture. This system of construction was adopted by Mr. Reed to a certain extent in the Bellerophon, _ _ and in the case of the Hercules will be still further improved upon, the experience gained since the Bellerophon was built showing the advantages arising from this system of construction. Like the other ironclad vessels designed by the present Chief Constructor of the Navy, the U shaped section has been adhered to in the Hercules, not the least merit of which is that in a vessel s 6 heavily armour-plated as she is designed to be her natural tendency to roll when in a beam sea will be much diminished. The Swallow, 9, 60 horse power, Mr. Wilde, mas ter commander, has been dismantled in the steam basin, and will be put out of commission and placed in the third division of the steam reserve in the Medway on Monday next. The Swallow has been in commission nearly five years. ..... The paddlewheel - steamer Virago, 6, 220 horse power, fitting for commission, has been admitted into the steam basin at Sheerness, where she is be ing completed for sea. Deputy Assistant Commissary General Shortt has been ordered to proceed from Chatham to Jamaica, and will be succeeded at the garrison by Deputy Assistant Commissary General Walton, from Alder bhott. STATE OF TRADE. MANCHESTER, Sept. 25.—The market for all kinds of yarns has been rather more active, buyers both for the home trade and Continental markets having operated with rather more freedom of late. The impulse has been given by the rising in the price of cotton at Liverpool, the holders of orders for yarn being to some extent compelled either to supply their wants at the turn of the market now, or wait some time before a better opportunity offers. The cloth market has not improved to the same extent. In shipping yarns the market has been strong, and a considerable amount of business has been done at strengthening prices. Home trade yarns have also been very firm, but business is a good deal checked by the advance required, which is one of about id. per lb. on the quotations of last Tuesday. Manu facturers and holders of cloth are a good deal embar rassed by this movement in the market. Yarns ar e dearer to them, yet theyfind no response from buyers. India merchants, in particular, decline to give prices for cloth which would cover this advance, and are keeping out of the market. The slightest attempt at an advance checks business generally. A manu facturer at Blackburn, with about 800 looms, has suspended payment. Messrs. John Slagg and Co. report of to-day's cloth market :—" The recent ad vance in the Liverpool market has imparted more firmness to goods, and a moderate business has been done during the week, but buyers still operate with timidity, and only for small quantities. Though there is little quotable advance to-day, we notice in creased firmness, and a fair business has been done in Printing-cloths, while India makes still remain neglected.,, CARDIFF, 2 4th.—Steam coal proprietors are well off for orders, and the active demand which fo r so l ong a Period h as characterised the foreign trade shows no signs of abatement. Welsh steam is also in increased request for m ar i time Purposes. The sever a l col lieries are in full operation and numbers of C orn i s h miners have been broughtcer, , and are turning thei r hands to the more profitablev employment of coal hewing. There is a stroll odemand for steam coal o n inland account, and the Londone prospect of the iron and midland mar k e t s s are taking large quantities. The trade are more favourable, and although buyers on home account are at present purchasing rather spar ingly, they are expected to give out orders more freely a fter the preliminary meeting of masters, to be held next Thursday. One of the railway companies h as placed a contract for 6,000 tons of rails in the di g _ trict, and other companies are expected to follow as circumstances will allow. The inquiries from the principal foreign markets are encouraging, especially from the States, Canada, and the Continent ; and a few orders have been received within the past three or four days. The pig iron trade is quiet, and for tin plates there is a better demand. At several of the works preparations are being made to increase the- make. LEEDS, 25th.-- There has been a moderate at tendance of buyers in the cloth-halls this morning, but not much business was done, except in tweeds, in the coloured hall, the bulk of the purchase com prising small selections of ordinary cloths and some few heavy goods. The demand for me/tons has not been active, but the stocks keep within a moderate compass. About an average amount of business was done in the coloured hall, chiefly in low witneys. The country manufacturers report that they are tolerably well employed, and that two or three good Government orders are in hand. All things con sidered, there is a fair prospect of employment for the manufacturing operatives for some months to come. Some advance of wages having recently taken place, and the price of wools having also in creased, the rates for all kinds of cloth remains very firm. The flax trade is rather quiet, but the hands are steadily employed, and prices of raw material, as well as those of yarns and threads, are without material change from last week. NOTTINGHAM, 25th.—A moderate attendance at our Exchange-hall. Business was done steadily in lace yarns at prices without alteration from last week. Hosiery yarns were in fair demand, and higher rates were asked. There was again but little doing in brown nets, and no change occurred in the quotations. Silks sold steadily at last week's cur rencies. ROCHDALE, 24th.—The manufacturers keep toler ably well employed, some shipping orders being in hand, but the public market to-day was a quiet one. The number of purchases was not large, and there was an absence of any disposition to purchase largely of any kind of goods. Upon the whole, fancy goods sell readiest, but the prices of all are firm. The de mand for Yorkshire goods keeps somewhat dull, but there is no giving way in prices. Wools are steady, at late quotations, and there is an average business. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. NORTH LONDON. A meeting of the residents of Bow, Hackney, and other districts served by this railway was held on Monday evening at the Town-hall, Hackney, for the purpose of considering the serious inconveniences caused by the changes of carriage and delay at the Bow station since the opening of the company's city branch to Broad-street. Mr. Churchwarden Gow land occupied the chair. The CHAIRMAN having opened the proceedings, a long discussion ensued, in the course of which it was contended that the object of the delay was to divert the traffic from Fenchurch-street station to Broad street station. Mr. ALLAM moved a resolution appointing a de putation from the meeting to wait upon the direc tors of the North London Railway calling upon them to adopt such measures as would tend to re move the inconveniences now existing from the de lays caused by the changing at the Bow station. Mr. MAssEY having seconded the motion, Another long discussion ensued, which resulted in the unanimous adoption of the resolution and the appointment of a committee. TENDRING HUNDRED. The report of the directors state that the large and steady increase of through and local passenger traffic between livenhoe, Colchester (St. Botolph's), and the Great Eastern system already proved the great utility of the lines and convenience of the new terminus. The traffic receipts for the last six months, notwithstanding the unfavourable effect of certain arrangements, were 50 per cent. in excess of those for the corresponding period of last year. During the 13 weeks ended the 2d of September 42,649 passengers passed over the railway, against 13,640 during the corresponding period of last year. The opening of the Brightlingsea, and Tendring Hundred extension lines had largely in creased the tonnage of goods carried over the line between Hythe and Wivenhoe. The work between St. Botolph's and i ffivenhoe, which had been car ried out to a greater extent than originally contem plated, would involve further payments on capital account ; but the progress of traffic left no doubt of a satisfactory return on the total expenditure at no very distant date, and the present net income considerably exceeded the interest payable on the mortgages. The capital account to the 31st of August showed that £53,276 had been expended. TENDRING HUNDRED EXTENSIONS. The selection of line from Wivenhoe to Kirby Cross (within three miles of Walton) was opened for passengers on the 28th of July last, but it was then too late to secure the main traffic of the sea son. The revenue, however, was very satisfactory, the gross number of passengers conveyed during the 13 weeks ended September 2 being 20,762, of which 4,414 were conveyed in June, 5,899 in July, and 10,449 in August, the latter being due to visitors to and from the sea-side. Notwithstanding the three miles of road intervening between Kirby Cross and Walton the influx of passengers had been frequently beyond the means of conveyance. The arrangements for passengers by ordinary trains between the metropolis, Colchester, and Kirby Cross and Walton had been liberal ; but the impossibility of providing road conveyance for very large numbers had prevented any special en couragement to visitors, but long before the next season the line would be opened throughout with improved service. The earnings, after deducting 50 per cent. for working expenses, were largely in excess of the interest payable on the debenture and mortgage capital. It would be advantageous both to the Great Eastern and to this €ompany to offer liberal arrangements to persons erecting houses at Walton, for which there would be great demand. The railway between Kirkby Cross and Walton and the terminuswere considerably advanced, and the direc tors hoped to see the line opened throughout in the course of next month. The capital account to Aug. 31 showed that £100,511 had been expended, leav ing a balance of £1,406. BUENOS AYRES GREAT SOUTHERN (LIMITED). The committee of investigation appointed at the general meeting of shareholders held on the 29th ult. have issued their report. It states that the directors and officers of the company afforded the committee every facility and the fullest explanations upon all points of the company's business. After the most careful inquiry the committee found the books to have been kept with faithfulness and accuracy. The £2,500 special shares of £2O each, subscribed for and t akertby the contractors for the railway, Sir S. M. Pet°, 11 .P. ' and Mr. E. L. B e tt s , were i ssue d b y the compan y to be entitled to dividend as follows : —" The amount available for dividend in any year the amount, if any , appropr i ated f o u f n a d be applied-1. I n or to dividend of 7 p er cent. per an ) is to (after setting apa r t for the p r a e y s m er e v n e t n w u a m rag on the ordinary shares of the compny. 2. In or towards the repayment to the Government of any their advances previously madebythem o funderdividend gu a _ endupon suchr a n t e s e p . e • per neverthelessor di c 3 ial ln sh o a r re t s ow to hartdg payment e extentof7pe o rcfent further annum. 4. As to any surplus, in payment dividend pari passu uponalslshrean shall res,whether nary or special. The special ha b e entitledthe line to on thereec i n v a e m interest manner t the other econs truetion of shares, and, except as above mentioned, shall be in all re spects on the same footing as the other shares." As to the construction of the railway, the com mittee reported that from the statements of Mr. Pa rish and the engineers, it appears to them that (sub ject to question as to rolling stock) the contractors had completed the construction of the railway and works in a very solid and satisfactory manner, and according to their contract. The line had been accepted by the Government for the purpose of the guarantee, subject to a requisition for two addi tional locomotives. Under the the terms of the con tract with Messrs. Peto and Betts, they werebound to place upon the line sufficient rolling stock to earn a net minimum dividend of 10 per cent. upon £750,000, the total capital of the company. Whether the rollin g s t oc k already placed there was sufficient for this purpose was to be decided by Air. George Parker Bidder, C.E , who was a pp o i nte d ar bi trator under th e terms of the contract. The for s e i o lc r t m r a o c n t t o h r s s were bound t o maintain the works from the date of acceptance. There was a question yet remaining unadjusted with respect to the amount to be paid to them for station accommodation pro vided beyond the terms of the contract: The com mittee had considered the question of station accom imodation for goods, and thought that it might be come advisable before long to erect a wool shed either at the Buenos Ayres terminus or Barracas. 31r. Rumball, previous to the appointment of the committee, had already prepared plans, drawings, and estimates for this purpose. It was stated at th. e general meeting that the contractors had not ha nded over the title-deeds for the lands purchased. rhe committee found that this was only prevented by some legal proceedings taken against them by Mr. Green. The company were, it appeared to the committee, sufficiently secured by the precautions that had been taken, and the local board at Buenos Ayres would, no doubt, take the necessary steps to bring the matter to a satisfactory issue. The com mittee fully agreed with the feelings expressed at the last two general meetings by the directors and share holders, that the line having been constructed, and the duties of the London Board thereby much dimi nished, the time had come for reducing the expenses of the London administration to the lowest level consistent with proper management. They had communicated with the directors on the subject, who had shown their readiness to meet the question fairly. The directors were prepared to propose the reduction of their number to five or six, and their remuneration to £l,OOO per annum. This appeared to the committee satisfactory. The other expenses of the London office did not seem to admit of reduc tion. After a very careful consideration the commit tee had come to the conclusion that it would not be prudent at present to make any alteration in the Local Board. They felt bound to express their high opinion of the valuable services the company had received from Mr. Parish. The committee thought highly of the ability, energy, and fitness of Mr. Banfield, the general manager. The Government having accepted the line would, under their guaran tee, be bound to make good any deficiency in the revenue to pay £7 per cent, dividend on £700,000 in December next. But, taking into consideration that the payment of an interm dividend, as originally proposed by the directors, could not be effected at the present moment without borrowing, and that the company already had outstanding loans to a con siderable amount, as stated in the balance-sheet, the committee recommended that the payment of a divi dend should be deferred until the completion of the fiscal year, when the Government guarantee would become payable. It appeared to the committee that the conduct of the Government towards the company had been entirely honourable, and gave every reason to believe that the company would receive at their hands a punctual performance of all their obligations. With regard to the issue of debentures and closing of the capital account it was shown by the balance sheet that of the company's debentures there bad been placed £22,750, and deposited as collateral se curity £96,2oo—total, £118,950. The amount owing upon the collateral deposit was only £80,582 ; the total amount, therefore, owing by the company was only £103,332. The articles of association of the company did not impose any limitation upon the di rectors' power of borrowing upon debentures, but it was satisfactory to find that they had exercised the power with moderation. The committee, how ever, thought that the construction havingbeen com pleted, the time had arrived when it was possible to define and limit the amount to be issued, a measure which would give the directors additional facilities for getting the remainder of those already issued taken by the public. The committee, therefore, re commended that the necessary alterations be made in the articles of association to render the consent of the shareholders necessary to any further issue o debentures. The committee trusted that the im proved condition of the money market will enable the directors to place the remaining debentures. The investigation they. had made satisfied them of the soundness of the security. As to the probable re sults of the future working of the line, however satisfactory it might be to have the Government guarantee of 7 per cent., that was not a return with which the shareholders should rest contented. The returns up to the present time were of too ex perimental a nature to afford any sufficient basis for calculation on this subject. But the opinion of Mr. Parish and the engineers was in favour of a large increase in traffic. Already villages were beginning to spring up at various points in its course where there were previously mere wastes. At Chascomus, the southern terminus of the line, 72 miles from Buenos Ayres, building had been stimulated, and the population along the line were beginning to un derstand the facilities which the railway presented to them. The duty of striving to make the dividend to the shareholders larger than that to be derived from the Government guarantee, imposed upon all concerned the obligation of the greatest economy consistent with efficient administration—an obliga tion which the committee trusted would be most rigidly observed, both here and at Buenos Ayres. The report was signed by H. Wheeler, chairman ; H. P. Bowring, A. Buckley, S. Herapath, and T. Moxon, members of the committee. ST. THOMAS FLOATING DOCK. The half -yearly general meeting of this company was held yesterday at the offices, Moorgate-street ; Mr. T. R. Tufnell in the chair. The report stated that since the last meeting the construction of the dock in this country had been completed; the whole of the work, with the excep tion of some portions of the machinery, had been despatched to St. Thomas, and the erection of the dock there was speedily progressing. Of the six pontoons which constituted the main body of the dock, five had been launched without accident of any kind ; the sixth was already in a forward state, and the erection of the girders which formed the sides of the dock was proceeding satisfactorily. Notwithstanding the recent monetary pressure, the calls had been promptly responded to, and the direc tors thought the shareholders would be glad to ob serve that the whole amount paid to them for inte rest, up to 30th of June last, was only £2,121 in excess of the amount that had been received for in terest on deposits. In the early part of the present year the contractor became involved in pecuniary difficulties, and in the month of May last his affairs were placed in the hands of inspectors. A long and difficult negotiation with the contractor, his sureties, and the inspectors ensued, and the progress of the work was delayed in consequence. The directors, however, were happy to state that in the end they succeeded in making such arrangements as would insure the completion of the dock without the com pany being subjected to any pecuniary loss beyond that occasioned by the delay. The directors felt that they could not speak too highly of the zeal and ability displayed by their legal adviser, Mr. Radcliffe, in his conduct of this most troublesome affair. The balance-sheet showed that £62,807 had been ex pended, leaving a balance of £10,435. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, said the first part of it explained the present position of the undertaking. The directors had made every exertion to complete the dock by the 31st of December next. lie had no doubt it would be ready by that time, and they might congratulate q tp e u e ni adequate db f e o y r o n nt d oo a t e 1_ a oc e mo inp a ev m , themselves that n o a ddi t i ona l out l ay would be re oc adelay a o l io . nl dAnycom pleting esoatuitonent them mt t h h o e f o i w r r the dock. The directors, t . • t . an icipa mg that there might be some delay, had made application to the Danish Government for an extension of time to complete the works, and he had great pleasure in stating that the Danish Minister kindly granted their request. With regard to the additional shares about to be issued he had received a letter from their acting superintendent abroad, stating that those who had taken shares there wished they bad taken more, and since they had seen the progress of the works several had applied for more shares. It was now proposed to issue the 1,000 shares of the com pany which had not been appropriated , tenders would be received from shareholders willing to take them, and they would be allotted in proportion to the applications for them. The proportion to those already issued was one share for every nine shares now held; but, as several shareholders held less than nine shares, it was thought better to offer them to the shareholders as proposed. About half the £9 share would be required immediately, and the otherhalf in about a month, after which the remain ing £1 per share would be called up. Mr. KEMSHEAD seconded the motion. Aftersome observations by Mr. WILSON and other THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 26, 1866. shareholders, it was stated that the directors looked most carefully into the expenditure, and that no ad ditional outlay beyond the capital of the company would be required for the dock. The report was then unanimously adopted ; Mr. J. P. Kennard and Mr. Tufnell, the retiring direc tors, were re-elected, and also Mr. T. B. Jones, the retiring auditor. The proceedings concluded with a vote of thanks to Mr. Radcliffe, the solicitor, and to the chairman and directors. Court of Aldermen, A Court of Aldermen was held yesterday at Guildhall, at which the Lord Mayor presided. THE CITY PRISONS. Mr. Alderman and Sheriff GIBBONS Made a report to the court of the number of prisoners at present confined in the City prisons, by which appeared that there are at present in Newgate, 97 ; in the Debtors' Prison, Whitecross-street, 105; and at Holloway, 293 prisoners. Mr. Alderman GIBBONS at the same time said ho thought it right to bring before the court a subject in connexion with some proceedings at the Central Criminal Court that had attracted a good deal of public attention. At the July session of that court, in consequence of public business, only one of her Majesty's judges was able to attend, a n d M r . A very, the Clerk of the Court, in consequence, sent a communica tion to Mr. Commissioner Kerr, apprising him of the fact, and requesting him to attend and preside in one of the courts on the following morning. In order that there might be no mistake Mr. Avory gave this letter to the messenger of the court, and paid him specially to deliver it, and upon his return he stated that he had done so. Mr Kerr did not attend to perform the duty, and some very severe remarks appeared in several of the daily journals in consequence of this supposed neglect of duty. Mr. Avery did not have an opportunity of communicating with Mr. Kerr until some days afterwards, and in consequence of what he then stated the messenger was again questioned on his original state ment that the letter had been duly delivered. During the last session of the Central Criminal Court, the matter was again inquired into, and the messenger at last admitted that he had not delivered the letter personally, but had posted it and kept the money that was given to him for delivering it. The sheriffs considered it was due to Mr. Commissioner Kerr that these facts should be made known, and they had felt it their duty at once to suspend the messenger from his office, and they now reported the facts to the Court, in whom the appointment was vested, and they would take what steps they thought proper in the matter. The matter was referred to the General Purposes Com mittee. THE NEWLY APPOINTED ALDERMAN. Mr. Alderman Cotton, who, it will be remembered, was unanimously elected as alderman in the place of Mr. Mechi, who had resigned, was introduced to the Court by his pro poser and seconder, Mr. C. White, jun., and Mr. J. Chap man, for the purpose of taking the usual oaths required upon taking the office. Mr. WRITE said he had the honour of introducing to the Court William James Richmond Cotton, Esq.,who had been unanimously elected Alderman for Lime-street Ward. He was not a stranger to them, and the great services he had rendered in the matter of the Lancashire Relief Fund, and more recently in that of the cholera relief, made him most favourably known to the public. The inhabitants of Lime street Ward felt that in electing such a gentleman as Mr. Cotton as their alderman they were not only electing one who would perform all the duties of the office in the most zealous and efficient manner, but who would at the same time do all in his power to uphold the privileges and the dignity of the greatest corporation in the civilised world.— (Hear, hear.) Mr. CHAPMAN also made a few complimentary observa tions to the newly-elected alderman; after which that gen tleman took the usual oath, and subscribed the formal sta ,utory declaration. After this Mr. Alderman Cotton was introduced to all the members of the Court, who were presented by Mr. Sewell, the sword-bearer, and he then took his seat on the bench with his brother aldermen. The TOWN CLERIC read a letter from one of the relatives of the late Mr. Cope, who was for many years engaged in the service of the Corporation, originally as City Marshal, and afterwards for many years governor of the gaol of Newgato, announcing his decease. The Court shortly afterwards broke up. City Sewers Commission. Yesterday the City Sewers Commissioners held their usual weekly meeting at Guildhall, Mr. Deputy Do Jersey in the chair. Mr. DAVIS called attention to the state of Three King Court, Minories, and said he had been informed that during the last week three or four dead bodies had been carried out of that court. If that were so, ho thought its neglected sanitary condition reflected groat discredit upon some of the officers. Inspectors WILLIAMS and PARSONS were called in and examined. They admitted that the court in question was in a very dilapidated unditiou, that its windows and duo' s were broken, that there were twelve houses in it belonging to three different landlords, who refused to repair the pro perty because they had sold it to a railway company, who had purchased it for the purpose of pulling it down for railway purposes, but who had not as yet paid the purchase money. There were 100 persons inhabiting the houses but they had only hoard of two persons who had diedthero during the last fortnight. Mr. DAVIS said his information was derived from a very trustworthy informant, who told him he had seen a waggon brought up to the court in the dead of the night, and carry away three or four dead bodies. (Laughter.) Ho thought an inspection committee ought to be appointed to inspect the court for themselves. The CHAIRMAN said he that day received a report from the East London Union, and that report did not bear out the statement of Mr. Davis. It admitted that the property was in a very dilapidated state, but denied that the deaths were so numerous as had been represented. Dr. LETHEBY stated that the instructions given to the inspectors wore to attend to every case of complaint in stantaneously. No complaints had been received from Three King-court. If there had, he should have seen them, for he looked carefully at every return, particularly at the mortality returns, and if there had been two or three deaths reported from any court in any one week, his attention would have been called to it as an undue amount of mortality, but there had been nothing of the kind. He believed there was an immense amount of ex aggeration in the account given by Mr. Davis's informant, but he admitted that at a time like the present, when there was an unusual extent of sickness and death, and also an undue extent of anxiety prevailing upon these subjects, it was the special duty of the inspectors to make a systematic report of all the districts of the City. Kelloway, the superintendent of the hospital of the East London Union, said thathe was in charge of that hospital, and that no case of cholera had come to it from Three King-court. Mr. DAVIS called attention to Dr. Fowler's report, pub lished in the papers last week, touching the state of tho Bishopsgate district. He thought that if the inspectors employed by the commissioners, who were sufficiently numerous to attend to the whole of the City, had done their duty, such a report as that of Dr. Fowler's would never have appeared. In his opinion, if Dr. Fowler's re port were true, the inspector of the Bishopsgate district should not be continued in office for a single day. The CHAIRMAN said the report of the inspectors, in re ply to Dr. Fowler, would be presented that evening to the sanitary committee, and that then it would be seen whe ther the inspectors were in fault or not. Mr. DAVIS moved that tho matter be referred to the sanitary committee. Mr. RUDKIN secnded the motion. Mr. CHAPLIN moved, as an amendment, that Mr. Davis be respectfully requested to attend before the sanitary committee that evening, and bring his witnesses with him to prove his case. The amendment was agreed to. The CHAIRMAN announced that ono of the contractors, Mr. Starkey, had died, and was to bo interred that day, and that, of course, the summonses standing against his name must be postponed. Mr. Stephens, a contractor, was summoned by Superin tendent Kelloway for having allowed a quantity of dust to remain at a cholera hospital for 11 days, from the sth to the 16th of August. This hospital belongs to the East London Union, and is situated at 24 and 25, New-street, Bishopsgate. The CHAIRMAN thought this a very serious case, seeing that the hospital from which the dust ought to have been removed was a cholera one, a place where, above all others, cleanliness ought to be observed. Mr. NIND moved that, under the circumstances, the full penalty of £2 a day—X22 in all—ought to be imposed upon the contractor. " The motion was agreed to, and the fine of £22 was imposed. The CUAIRMAN expressed his approval of Mr. Kelloway's oonduct in bringing the matter before the board, and said that whenever be made a similar complaint again it should receive instant attention. Mr. DA,w, the chief clerk, read a letter from the Great Central Gas Contpany, to the effect that the last report of Dr. Letheby, in which ho complained of an excess of sul phur in the gas supplied by the Groat Central Company, had received the serious consideration of the dirociors, and that they were desirous, if possible, to remedy any complaints, and with that object they asked the commissioners toallow Dr. Letheby to visit their works for the purpose of examin ing their proe%s of manufacture, and of making any sug gestions that night appear to him desirable, which sugges tions the company would most readily adopt. Mr. BAYLIS, the solicitor, thought it would be very dan gerous for the !ommissioners to give their sanction to any suggestions of this kind. Mr. Deputy FARRAR wasof a different opinion. Ho asked what the Great, Central Company could do more than they had done now They honestly said " If you think there is too much sulphur in our gas tell us how we are to remedy it." That seemed lair and reasonable on their part. Mr. Cox sad he Should be glad to see Letheby in communication with them for the purpose of showing how the sulphur could be reduced. Mr. PEDLAR did not believe that the chemical officer of the Great Central Company could be ignorant of the mode in which the reduction could be effected. Some discussion ensued, and eventually, at the sugges tion of Dr. Lethoby, it was resolved that the Central Com pany be informed that Dr. Lotheby, being an officer ,of the commissioners, it would be desirable that some independent person, such as Mr. Hawksley or Mr. Barlow, should bo consulted on the subject. Dr. Letheby then read the following report :—" Two hundred and twenty-eight houses have been inspected during the week, and I submit a list of 51 places, 30 of which require improvements in various particulars. I sub mit a certificate of the indecent and unwholesome over crowding of the houses, Nos. 3, Montague-court, and 5, Sandys-street, Bishopsgate, and I recommend that the ne cessary proceedings should be taken, and that they should be registered as common lodging-houses. The markets and slaughter-houses have been duly inspected, and the officers have condemned 1,7831 b. of meat as unfit for human food. It consisted of 7 sheep, 8 pigs, and 7 quar ters of beef, all of which has been destroyed. The mor tality returns for the last week have been below the average for the last 10 years. Last week there were 53 deaths re gistered in the City, 18 of which were among children of less than 5 years of age, and 8 among persons of 60 and upwards. The chief causes of death were as f o ll ows : Phthisis, 6 ; mesenteric disease, 2 ; bronchitis, 2 ; pneu monia, 2 ; continued fever, 1; scarlet fever, 1; measles, 2 ; cholera and choleraic diarrhoea, 9 ; infantile diarrhoea, 3 ; making together 8 deaths from mesenteric disease, 4 from inflammatory affections of the lungs, and 11 from diseases of a zymotic character." This report was adopted, and shortly after the commis sioners adjourned. Mr. Ward Hunt and Mr. G. O. Trevely an. The following correspondence has passed between Mr. G. Ward Hunt, M.P., and Mr. G. 0. Treve lyan, M.P. : Sept. 17, 1866. Dear Sir—l have read with considerable surprise, in the Newcastle Daily Chronicle of the 11th inst., a letter to Mr. Green of Tynemouth, purporting to be signed by you, in which appears the following passage :—" I enclose a copy of a letter which I lately wrote to Mr. Corry. From his answer, and from an interview I had with the Financial Secretary of the Treasury, Mr. Hunt, I gather with cer tainty that their refusal to grant us the boon which we desire proceeds from the determination to ensure the country districts from a recurrence of the plague at the risk of any inconvenience to the towns." Your interview with me took place about a month before the date of your letter to Mr. Corry, and I could hardly have expected any allusion to it in a letter written for publication, much less an inference based upon it consi dering that what passed was entirely unofficial, as I have had nothing whatever to do with the making or the relax ing of regulations respecting the movement of cattle. remember that I referred you to Mr. Corry as the member of theGovernnient to whom you should apply, and, to save you trouble, I told you what I had understood to bo the intention of the Government with respect to the restric tions of which you complained, but I feel certain that no thing which fell from me could have justified you in coining to the conclusion that the country districts were to be favoured at the expense of the towns. Mr. Corry, whose attention I have called to your expres sions quoted above, desires me to say that his reply to your letter of 27th August contained nothing which could war rant your drawing such an inference. You appear to be unaware that the main tenance of the present restrictions upon the movement of cattle (and in many countries of sheep also) entails enormous inconve nience upon the inhabitants of the country as well as of the towns, and to overlook the consideration that, should the plague again spread and become general, the conse quential rise in the price of meat would soon bring the ex tent of the calamity home to the pockets of the dwellers in towns. If the "many instances" which occur to you by which Lord Derby's Government has manifested "a policy" to " sacrifice the towns to what they suppose to be the inte rests of the districts" will stand examination no better than the ono which has called forth your letter, I think the towns need not feel much alarm.—l am, dear sir, yours faithfully, GEORGE WARD HUNT. G. O. Trevolyan, Esq., M.P. I send a copy of this to the Newcastle Chronicle. Urrard, Pitlochrie, Sept. 22. Dear Sir,—l received your letter, expressing " consider able surprise" at some remarks which I addressed to the mayor of the borough which I have the honour to repre sent. As you have sent a copy of that letter to the New castle Chronicle, it may be well if I say somotihng in expla nation of a sentiment which has affected you with a feel ing of astonishment not shared by the butchers of North and South Shields, or by the majority of their customers. In the hot days of the past summer our tradesmen suf fered great hardship and loss from the prohibition to ins . port live cattle from the Newcastle market. When the late Government relaxed that prohibition in the case of Stiuderla,nd, wo applied for the same boon. The central authorities sent down an official to inquire into the circum stances, and we have reason to believe that the matter was under favourable consideration when the change of Minis try took place.: As the course adopted with regard to Sun derland was attended by no recurrence of the disease, we naturally looked for immediate relief. But our petitions and memorials produced no effect whatever, and I was urged to have recourse to other measures. 1 accordingly asked Mr. Walpole in the house why a distinction wa s drawn between the two neighbouring- boroughs of Sunder land and Tynemouth ? His answer was very courteous, but failed to satisfy my constituents. About the same time I had the honour of an interview with yourself, which you describe as " entirely unofficial." As you have had "nothing whatever to do with the making or the relaxing of regula tions respecting the movement of cattle," I am sorry you disclaim that which the world considers to be the most notable achievement of your public life. I consider that interview to be official in which a member of Parliament calls, in the office, during office hours, on an official who does not exchange with him at other times and in other places the ordinary signs of social recognition. My constituents now began to evince a just impatience, which showed itself, among other symptoms, in an appeal to their late representative, who is a sound Conservative and an excellent man of business. He tried his luck, and failed. He, however, accompanied the report of his failure with the natural observation that if he had been member for Tynemouth he would not have rested without obtaining at least an explanation ; and all who know him believe him to the full. And, therefore, sir, being by ex traction a Cornishman, and actuated by our provincial de termination to " know the reason why," I wrote to Mr. Corry, begging him to tell me the conditions under which Sunderland obtained the relaxation, in order that Tyne mouth might endeavour to satisfy those conditions. Mr. Corry sent me a very civil letter (which I regret to say I am not at liberty to publish, unless I obtain his leave), in the last sentence whereof he acknowledges to a fear lest I should find his reply unsatisfactory, but informs mo that he has directed Colonel Harness to write me full particu lars. Since that day (now a month back) I have not re ceived a line in explanation, good, bad, or indifferent. It was evident that though reasons might be as plentiful as blackberries within the walls of the Privy Council-office people outside were to have none but those which they could find for themselves. I found one accordingly, in a generalisation about Lord Derby's government, which ap pears to have aroused your indignation and astonishment. It shall, however, servo its purpose, until some member of that government chooses to provide me with a better. Sunderland has been relieved for some two months. No evil results hare followed. Why aro North and South Shields to be left in the lurch? The question of the respective interests of town and country was argued out in February last by abler wits than mine. You took one view ; but men do not forget that John Stuart Mill took the other. It was the general opi nion of the borough members on our side of the house that the total prohibition of the movement of live cattle by rail way was harsh and uncalled for. It was the almost univer sal opinion of the county members on your side that that prohibition was equitable and necessary. The conserva tive theory of compensation prevailed against the advanced liberal theory ; and what was the consequence ? Stockport which endured five years of the cotton distress without making a call upon the rural purse, which now out of one pocket pays compensation to the farmer in the advanced price of butchers' meat, has the other emptied by the in terest on a vast debt incurred to indemnify the rural dis tricts of Cheshire for sacrifices and losses which, if Mr. Mill had succeeded in convincing your party, would have been borne by the cattle owners of the United Kingdom, who in their turn would be as a class indemnified by the rise in price. lam writing in the Highlands, at a distance from statistics ; and the inhabitants of Stockport are too impoverished to penetrate to Killiecrankie on their autumnal tour ; but those of their friends who have got thus far are loud in their sympathy. I dare say that the ratepayers of Stockport would accept the remark which I have borrowed from Mr. Mill with surprise less consider able than you have experienced. I well remember that you tacked on to your first speech about the cattle plague a peroration disparaging in strong terms the general policy of the late Ministry, an attack which appeared to our side. of the house at least as ill timed and unfounded as my observations have appeared to you. It seems very hard that a north country member cannot have a quiet grumble with his constituents in the corner of a local paper without receiving a crushing re buke from. the Financial Secretary of the Treasury, but you apparently think that the fountains of vituperation were dried up upon your own accession to office. Political invective is one of those games which aro proverbially not confined to a single player. If it had been the province of your predecessor, Mr. Childers, to call to account every Conservative who charged Lordßussell's government with preferring the interests of the towns to those of the coun- ties, he would have had scanty leisure for more pressing business. There is some probability of a revival of the reform question next session ; and, should you imagine it to be incumbent on you to express "considerable surprise" whenever a Liberal member gives vent to the opinion which has caused you so much umbrage, you will live in a state of chronic bewilderment hardly compatible with the effi cient performance of your official duties. I shall follow your example in making your correspon dence public. lam sorry to find myself engaged in an altercation with a gentleman of your high character, but I am sure that you already regret having sent a captious, personal letter to a young member on account of an expres sion of opinion not stronger than much which has been written and said on both sides during the excitement of the past session. Such conduct is not consistent with the traditional courtesy of Conservative statesmen.-1 am, &c., The Right Hon. G. W ar d H unt, M G. 0. TREYELYAN. M.P. SPIRIT OF THE PDBLIO JOURNALS. TlMES.—After so many years of discussion the arguments for Parliamentary Reform do not admit of much novelty. The cry for it is deep and strong rather than varied. No reasoning in its favour can be more effective than that which presents itself to the mind of every man who can understand a page of statistics, and has before him a list of the coun ties and boroughs with their constituencies and members. When one can show that a place little larger than a village, and far less innocent, returns as many members as a vast seat of industry ; that the majority of the House of Commons is elected by a small minority of the population ; that members of the same family are returned in a county Par liament after Parliament and generation after gene ration, ho has what no impartial person can deny to be a strong, and, indeed, an unanswerable, case in favour of Reform. The task of exposing these ano malies and shortcomings is so easy that no gifted advocate is wanted ; the dullest among the briefless would be almost as effective as a Scarlett or a Fol lett ; the mediocrities of a provincial meeting can strike as heavy a blow as the most approved orator and statesman. But the very obviousness of the chief arguments for an improvement in our electoral system tend to give Reform demonstrations an air of sameness. A great multitude of people all over the kingdom are convinced that the number of Parliamentary electors is far too limited, and that the apportionment of members to population is not only anomalous, but absurd and mischievous. The changes that :have taken place in foreign countries, and the general extension of the fran chise even among our Continental neighbours, cause numbers of the English people to believe, not without reason, that the time has come for our own country to bring within the electoral pale a large class of editeated men. In various ways the Liberal party has been maintaining this principle for years past, and it is now supported by great gatherings of the labouring classes who urge such a measure as would include the mass of themselves—namely, the adoption of what is called Manhood Suffrage. But, whether it be a moderate Reformer or a Manhood Suffrage-man who speaks, the arguments are pretty much the same, and they are the old unanswerable ones derived from the abuses and anomalies of the present system. The rhetoric of the speakers is rather directed against the tangible defects which the Parliamentary Companion reveals to every one who chooses to look at it than employed in positive reasoning of the philosophical order in favour of the rights of man, or of the statis tical kind in favour of any definite lower franchise. For these reasons the speeches delivered at Reform meetings do not display much originality, or tell us much that we did not know before. We do not say that they are on.that account less effective, for a crowded meetin g is not a place where su s t a i ne d argument has the best chance of success ; and, as these demonstrations are gatherings to insist on cer tain well-known principles, the fewer, the broader, and the plainer the arguments advanced the more aptly does the speaker take hold on the sympathies of his audience. But even Mr. Bright is unable to avoid something like repetition. When we read his address at Manchester on Monday evening we cannot help thinking that we heard all this before. The million and a quarter of men who have the franchise are contrasted with the five millions who are without it. The boroughs under 20,000 people are put in the scale against the boroughs over 20,000, and the income-tax of the one is weighed against .the income-tax of the other. The county repre sentation is declared not to be an honest represen tation, but a dead body tied to the living body of the borough representation. The remedy for the evils of the State is, in Mr. Bright's opinion, the establishment of large constituencies and the taking of votes by ballot. We have again the denuncia tions of the malignant and discreditable opposition made to the bill of the late Government, and Mr. Lowe's remarks on the present ten-pounders are again recommended for general circulation among working men. Beyond these topics there is little to be found in Mr. Bright's speech, except that he is more than usually vehement against Lord Derby and the Tory party. It may be that Mr. Bright felt it necessary to confine himself to the generalities of the Reform question, inasmuch as the demonstration was under the patronage of the Reform League, and most of the speakers were Manhood Suffragemen, while he does not commit himself to so extensive a change. There is no reason, indeed, why a political body should not comprise men who differ as to the extent of the measures they demand, but it is evident that such a divergence must make the speakers who have to face the House of Commons a few months hence somewhat shy of descending to details. Mr. Bright does not think it necessary to state his own views of a reform bill, or to consider whether such a bill as even his own pojitical friends in the House of Commons would propose is likely to accord with the principles advanced by Mr. Beales and his fellow agitators. But of one thing he appears to be cer tain—that Lord Derby cannot, and indeed ought not, to be permitted to deal with Reform. Mr. Bright's anger against the party now in office seems to have deepened during the recess, and his personal attacks on the Premier form the most striking fea ture of his late address. Af ter i nc i dentally describ ing him as " not the wisest of men," Mr. Bright takes occasion to give a short sketch of the noble earl's career, and to say that he is not the leader of his party in a high sense—not its educator, not its guide, but its leader in all foolish contests in which in its ignorance and selfishness it involves itself with the people. All this was to be expected, and in the usual style of platform oratory. But Mr. Bright, who can be polite to noblemen when he pleases, is not likely to go out of his way to make an invective on the chief of the Conservatives, unless with a definite object in view. It is plain that in the Radical ranks a reform bill from the present Government is expected, and it seems as if it were thought desirable to raise a cry against it beforehand. Mr. Bright hopes that no Reformer will dream of such a thing as that the Conservatives will pass a Reform Bill. Any such measure will only be some juggle, some dishonest trick, something base, like the means by which they overthrew the bill of Lord Russell's Govern ment. We think it would have been better if Mr. Bright had followed the example of Mr. Glad stone, and declared his readiness to judge any forth coming measure on its merits, and to support it or oppose it irrespective of party. What the intentions of the present Ministry may be is only known to themselves, but their policy, no less than their duty, is to propose to the House of Commons an efficient measure of Reform, which, without being less broad and liberal than that of the late Government, shall avoid the gross defects which made that hastily con structed measure intolerable both to friends and foes. This there is no reason that they should not do, nor can we think that any impartial politician would stigmatise the bill of 1859, which Mr. Bright holds up as an example of Tory legislation, as a "Reform Bill of a most fraudulent character." That bill pro posed notlaing less than the reduction of the county franchise to £lO, which would have added 200,000 voters to the county constituencies alone, and fully revivified that " dead body" of which Mr. Bright speaks. It also proposed a lodger franchise, which would have added a large and respectable class to the borough electors. There is nothing at all in the bill of 1859 which should make us believe that a Con servative Ministry is unable to frame such a measure as shall satisfy the country. At any rate, the Go vernment are entitled to the forbearance of the pub lic until its measure is before Parliament. We fully admit that the settlement of the Reform question can be no longer delayed, and that if the Government propose any measure justly chargeable with ineffi ciency and evasion, they will deserve the downfall that will overtake them. But there will be time enough to rail against them in February next. To begin now will seem as if it was Lord Derby's suc cess rather than his failure that was feared. POST.—" The summer has set in with unusual severity" is a saying to which the perpetual inver sion of the seasons to which we are in this country accustomed has long lent the sanction of an acknow ledged truth. But we generally hope to see in the I course of the months which form the season so designated some little gleam of sunshine, some cheering and ripening rays, and in our wildest mo ments perhaps even such a glimpse of blue sky as may last for the greater part of a morning ; in short, the hope that springs eternal in the human breast generally whispers to us with the first cutting and dashing blasts and rains of spring that even an English summer has some fine days in it ; that Mr. Kingsley's beloved north-easter, if it brings cold, also brings sunshine, and that the south wester is laden with a little warmth as well as much rain. This present year, however, has not even done so much for those of us who endeavour to find some thing good in our native clime. The summer has not only set in, but appears determined to go out, with severity, and we are driven back upon the des perate hope that it cannot last for ever, and that the autumn may perhaps yet have a few unclouded days in store to gladden the heart of the farmer and the sailor. The accounts of agricultural prospects are most disheartening. On every side is heard the same tale of crops which have been spoiled, and which even then cannot be gathered for the hear/ rains. Indeed, for a long time past the harvest has not been reaped under such difficulties, nor been of such an inferior quality ; an d t hi s year will be long remembered as having been one of peculiar misfor tune for the agricultural interest, whose herds were decimated in the spring by the Rinderpest to as extent perfectly appalling, and whose crops ore no/ blighted beyond hope by the unparalleled succession of storms which has marked the season, on the nature of which they are so entirely dependent. The loss will be most enormous, and the farm have a strong claim on the sympathy of the public at large —a claim so much the stronger that the evil is of the nature of those which cannot possibly he averted by any prud ence , i n d ustry, or foresight (11, those who are victims to it. It is precisely in the same category as the cott on f am i ne i n Lancashire/ and the sufferers in this case have not as they ha', in that the consolation—a poor one, it is true, but still a consolation—of knowing that the evil 1 occasioned by a course of events the tendency of is in accordance with their own opinions. The Lancashire operatives sympathised all through with the very measures of repression which deprive d , them of the means of earn i ng t h e i r li vel i hoo d , a nd were intelligent enough to find some comfort in the reflection that, although their industry was for the moment annihilated, it was in order to the advance ment of opinions identical with their own. But the Yorkshire farmer and the Dorsetshire labourer have no such consolation ; their evil for them is all Pur, e loss ; so far as it goes th ere i s a b so l utely no reme l for it or comfort in it, and they can but fall back upon the hope of . better times in the future. The Lancashire operatives rece i ve d muc h pra i se — a nd ,. deservedly so—for th e peacea bl e an d i nte lli g ent spirit in which they e n d ure d th e calamity which u upon them. The nation was continually called upon to bear a willing witness to the fact that there were no riotings, mill-burnings, or violence of any kind in consequence of th e co t ton f am i ne. T he agricul tural class is not less intelligent, and certainly no less law-loving than the operative class, and the pro priety with which the heavy misfortune of a ruined crop of home produce is met and borne with by those whose livelihood depends upon it is certainly not less deserving, in its degree, of sympathy than a similar propriety in the case of foreign produce; Mr. Bright alluded to the absence of violence and disorder, in the present instance, in his speech at Manchester on Monday evening, and, with charac teristic modesty, took all the credit to himself and his party, but it wo u ld h ave b een at l east grac eful if he had but recognised the existence in the agricul tural classes of those classes which he so con stantly, paraded as existing in the manu f ac t ur i ng c l ass es 0 1 those qualities which he so constantly paraded as existing in the manufacturing classes on the slingsr occasion to which we have referred. But it is We peculiarity to perceive only the interests and the virtues of the class of which he has especially consti: tuted himself the represe n t a ti ve , an d i n th e p r een instance he sees the question only as it affects the consumer, while in the for mer h e saw it on ly as !, affected the producer, and i n eac h case h e twists 1" round to prove the enormous superiority of his clients to all other created bei ngs . N or has th e summer been unfavourable alone to the harvest,: Commerce has also greatly suff ere d. Th ere is suc h a thing as landsmen's foul weather, which is sailors fine weather, but this summer it has been univer sally bad both ashore and afloat. A low barometer/ gales of wind, and that greatest enemy of the sailor, thick rain, have been the rule; and the average dura; tion of voyages has not f or y ears — regar d being ha! to the increased facilities—been so great during the summer months as it has this year. The wren.' chart, too, has received far more than its usual ad' dition for the season, and those who go down to the sea in ships will long remember the delays an d dangers which they have encountered this season during the months when fair weather is expected to be the rule. On the Continent, even in the spo t ! usually most favoured, the same state of things he' prevailed, and the effects will be there even wer e sensibly.felt than in England. The maize and wheat are beaten down by continual rains, and the vines, which at this time should be burnt up and cover with ripened fruit, are as green as i n spr i ng , an laden with nothing but decayed and tasteless graPl In the Medoc the vintag e , w hi c h b y thi s ti me s hout be long over, is but now be gun , an d th e quality °, the claret of 1866 will be such as to place it among the worst of the years that have ever been knolv e. In the Sauterne di s t r i c t, an d i n d ee d everywhere, the same state of things exists. The graP e A e ' drenched with rain, h ave fill e d out to bursting, au'" having had no sun t o r i pen t h em, are e i ther a l r eady rotting on the earth or will yield but a tasteless, bodiless liquid, utterly valueless for wine making' In fact there has been no summer at all, and th e season which bears that name has brought but olis" appointment, discouragement, and in too many stances ruin, to those who depend upon it for their _ bread. The predictions of th e con ti nen t a l weatber seers are not more reassu r i ng f or th e au t um n, but there is some hope, even f rom th e very sev erity of . : the past months, that we ma y ye t se e a St Martin's summer, which, although it cannot mas- e up to the crops what they lack, will yet gladde n our hearts and lead us to hope for better thing s next year. COUNTRY MARKETS. GAINSBOROUGH—TrEsDAY. Our market was moderately supplied with wheat to-c 1 9 1 1; There was an improved t ra d e a t ra th er more mon ey tbi . t o this day week—old, 55s to 57 ; new 50s to 545. Barl e gts moderate show, and b u y ers as k e d f u ll y late prices. - and beaus scarce, and quite as dear. LIVERPOOL —TUESDAY. At this day's market there was a good attendance town and country trade, who showed considerable anO it , to get into stock. Wheat and flour were in brisk denial' and may be quoted 3d to 4d per 100 lb, 18 per barrel, aII 2s per sack dearer on the week. Oats and oatmeal were ve . `i i , scarce and brought our extreme quotations. Beans W e f t/ 1s 6d per qr. and p eas 2 s per qr . hi g h er, and b ar ley 0 7, also be noted ld to 2d per 601 b up, but at present there, o none hero. A larg e bu s i ness was reporte d i n I n dian F_,, (l. at from 28s 6d to 29 s p er 4801 b f or m i xe d Amery' showing an advance of is to Is 6d per qr. MARKET HARBOROUGII.—TrEsDAY. 36 Old white wheat, 54s to 60s ; new red, 49s to 55s Pe„r st . stone. Barley, fine, 42s ; other kinds, 28s to 38s per av id Oats, new, 22s to 32s ; old, 30s to 34 s p er qr . Beans, ° 46s to 50s; now, 48s to 50s per qr. LEEDS—TUESDAY. TO -dal We have not a large s h ow o f grain this week. Tuts is fine, but we have h a d very h eavy ra i n since Tut„tie last, holders of goo d d ry w h eat consequently co1.1",;$0 very firm, and fo r s uc h qua li t i es m ill ers have to gl'ir ils advance of fully is per qr. over last week's rates, W o f soft parcels sell a t ver y i rregu l ar rates, the best samPlesro barley bring quite as much money, but secondary so are lower. Oats and beans fully as dear. SHEFFIELD—TUESDAY. At ourmarket to-day there was a t o l era bl e atten- ,ll ' C oCP t Wheat was in middling supply, and busi n ess was d011°,,, prices tendin g u p war d s . B ar l ey met a tolera bl e DIV' and brought better prices. Oats firm. 01 Red wheat, per load of 3 imp. bushels 20s Od to 21 0 o d White do 2 4 od New red do do ...aft Od h . ",,. od New white do do 2ls Od ... 2 '„' 0,1 Beans do do lgo Od xv• osi Peas, per qr. .. . 3Bs Od 4 08 o d Grinding barley, per qr 34 s Od 3 7,s o d Malting barley, dO 2 58 78 8 0 0 d d 0 4 : od Oats, do F10ur....1a 10d to 2a od per 141 b. BS T OL—TuBsDAv. Ana At market to-daythere was the usual attendanc° , oo E'o a fair business d one i n w h eat at i s per qr. over l a st v.: 00 0). prices. Barley, gr i n di ng, f e t c h e d 35 s per qr . of Indian corn firm. Oats, beans, and peas quiet. Births. BYRON—On the 22d inst., at Stoke Talmage, Oxfords hire/ the Hon. Mrs. Wm. Byron, of a daughter. 1;, HILL On the 24th inst , at the Royal Mint., the wife o f A. Hill, Esq., of a son.' t, KNOLLYS—On the 21st inst., at Y or k Town, San,u t Ti a r le the wife of Captain W. Knolly s , 93d S u th e rland landers, of a daughter. Of WALTERS—On the 25th inst., at Ewell, Surrey, th ° Tter• Wm. M. Walters, Esq., ofLincoln's-inn, of a ditug" Marriages. PLUMMER—BAxER--On the 24th inst., at St. V g ,-0 13- 0 - ToPl e ' Fleet-street, W. Plummer, Esq., of Mitre-court , A ' u ihte r London, solicitor, to Hester Pullen, younge st ,to a ' of tho late G. Baker, Esq., of Banbury, near 13+w -- pot+ SMYTHE —ROUTLEDGE—On the 24th Wet , at Ct ilirl tiecls e ' Arthur S. Smyth; of Northileet, to . Jane itolj o cX , eldest daughter of the late Henry Routledgel of Herts. • Deaths. . b tolit AYLMER—On the 24th inst., at Marino - the Hon. Sophia Aylmer, wife of Chas. A. Allo w ' and daughter of the late Lord and Lady Real• C ur ling' i v CURLING — On the 20th inst. Denmark - hill, ,at l, • Esq., aged 86. de' DONALDSON—On the 24th inst., at 21, - b ill ' --- E7 4 Craven ed ' park, Betty, widow of the lato S. Donaldson, ag ir VS' parade, B r i g E64'' Nurr On the 23d inst., Samuel E. Nutt, of the Ste c ' . change, aged 56. ' 4 _ O f ROSSE'TER—On the 22d inst., at 3, Cleveland -gar 71• James M. Rosseter, Esq., J.P. for Surrey, age d 7 ,. JOV I SMITH—On the 23d inst., at Belvedere, Harrogn 70._ Smith, Esq., of Burley House, Leeds, banker, ag e e ll, E• WHITE—On the 25th inst., at West Hatch, ell i g lc W. White, third son of T. White, Esq., aged 23 ' _....-- A., n il 7 London : Printed and Published by WILLIAM of No. 112, Strand, Punier, at Tun Surf 01 110 ° , — op Q . Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the C °tl hildesseirm—Wednesday, September 26,1869, Som `` Ki P 1 it ce eoli - 1 Iron " 3Slat alth A Ofn, the Of ( lett Die the in;; lIA OfA Veil] due in 8 rat( bon last the or I gre unl Otte not iroi Wit on prii nec by fro pro Ad: the Ey( Sot