The Sun. — London, England, 1865-09-22 00:00:00

Mr. Disraeli, M. P., at Aylesbury. AYLESBURY, Thursday. The annual dinner of the-members and friends of - the. Royal and Central Bucks Agricultural Associa tion took place yesterday afternoon at the George Hotel. The Right Hon. B. Disraeli presided, and among the' guestiwere—Mr. S. G. Smith, M.P., for the borough ; the Venerable Archdeacon Bicker steth, Mr. T. Fremantle, Mr. P. Dauncy, Mr. Acton Tindall, Mr. J. Treadwell, Capt. Selfe, Mr. W. Lowndes, Mr. W. T. Morris, Mr. G. M. Allen der, Mr. Fell, Mr. J. Hale, Mr. G. A. Lepper, &c. After the usual loyal toasts had been proposed and duly honoured, The CHAIRMAN said—lt now becomes ray duty very shortly to call your attention to the circum stances under which we meet to-day, and the causes of our assembling. We have always held these meetings of the Royal Buckingham and Central Association after the harvest, and I think very wisely. At that moment the termination of great anxieties has arrived, and we are able to form some opinion as to our position. I know that the result of a harvest is a subject upon which a man must be influenced by considerable moral courage to offer an opinion before an assembly of Bucking hamshire farmers. At the same time I believe I may venture to say—l may venture to congratu late you upon a fair harvest this year. (Cries of " Hear, hear," " No, no," and cheers.) Gentlemen, I must say that I consider this an epithet which on the whole may describe the harvest throughout the country ; but if I were to mention, generally speak ing, a locality in which a warmer epithet might be used, and instead of a " fair harvest" say a good harvest, I should say that is the case in the happy and favoured county in which we live. (Cheers.) Remember this, that throughout the greater part of the county—l admit there are exceptions--but throughout the greater part of the county you stacked the wheat before the weather broke. (Hear, hear," and " No, no.") Generally speaking, in that part of the county in which I reside we had the satisfaction of stacking our wheat before the weather broke. (Hear, hear.) I admit that the brightness of our barley was tarnished by the gusts and showers. That was a misfortune. But it is an ill wind—you know the rest—(laughter)—and the gusts and showers-that tarnished the brightness of the barley renovated and recovered, and did more than that in some instances to the root crops. (Cheers.) And therefore I think we may find some consolation and compensation in that circumstance. Remember our root crops last year, and remember, when you were speculating in this room and other rooms in the county upon the price of meat in con sequence of the want of food and fodefer that would occur, I ventured then to warn you, -or rather I in timated—for I never presume to warn—that nothing was so unwise as to draw your conclusions from a contracted area of observation, and that I had reason to hope that the root crop of England generally was not like that of the county of Buckingham. That expression produced at the time considerable dissent, and some expressions of incredulity such as those we have heard this evening. (Laughter and " Hear, hear.") But what was the result? The result was that which you all know—that throughout the north of England the root crops, while our fields were almost blasted, were exuberant and productive ; and when you come to the great result—the price of meat— you find it was not affected in the degree in which it was supposed it would be affected, estimating the condition of the county of Buckingham. (Hear.) Having just arrived from the north, I can give you some news from that part of the country which may be considered important. Within the last few weeks I have passed over the breadth of the county of Durham, through almost the whole of the North Riding of Yorkshire, and over a great portion of the county of Westmoreland. Those districts, last year so distinguished by the exuberant condition of the root crops, are now in a state much more resembling that of the county of Buckingham last year ; and therefore, when I hear of calculations made from the mistake of drawing conclusions from too limited an area—as I did the other day in a neighbouring county -- mum, wiTula l.rc 11; 0 , tIV r,.. from the exuberance of the root crops, I beg to in form you that in the north of England, where such a considerable effect was last year produced on the price of meat from that cause, the reverse is now the case, and you may now sincerely congratulate yourselves on your own position. (Cheers.) And I say that, although the harvest of England is a fair harvest, the harvest of Buckinghamshire has been a good harvest. (Hear, hear.) But I admit that at this moment the agricultural mind, especially in this county, is not merely thoughtful of the result of the condition of the crops. We are in a state which na turally occasions the utmost anxiety to all men, not merely connected with agriculture, but to all the inhabitants of this country, from that mysterious plague which has appeared, and which has produced such disastrous results, and may occasion conse quences of the most fearful character. (Hear, hear.) I will not trouble you with any speculation as to the origin of the cattle pest. I believe that in this county—and I say it with pride —we have men as competent to give an opinion on the subject as any men in her Majesty's dominions. But it is a subject on which all must speak with great distrust and diffidence. Her Majesty's Government have made up their minds that it has not been imported, and they have framed a great many measures by which they hope the evil may be averted or, at least, palliated ; and although it may not be difficult to criticise sonic things that have been done or said, I must say that on their part there has been a sincere desire to do their duty, and that they are prepared to propose all such measures as may be considered necessary for the occasion. (Hear, hear, and No, no.) I admit that there are some measures which mightbe proposed which have not yet been proposed, but there may be differences of opinion on that head. There are a considerable body of men speculating on the calamities of the country, and who are tempted by low prices to buy tainted animals and circulate this fatal disorder. I should like to see such conduct on the part of such individuals ac knowledged by the law as offences against the realm, and made subject to a penalty. (Cheers.) But it is not in the power of the Government—of the Privy Council—to act in such a direction at present. They can only act in deference to the powers which Parliament has granted them, and it is a grave ques tion whether a Minister is to call Parliament toge ther to attain such an object and would be justified i n so doing. On the whole, I think there is an in clination on the part of the Government to meet the evil, and it i s our duty to support them as much as we can, and where they are wanting to supply the deficiency. (hear, hear.) I have watched the con duct of the county of Buckingham with feelings of great anxiety, but al so of justifiable pride. The manner in which the f armers of this county came forward at the beginning, showing their organising power, their capacity of self-govern tone to the g eneral conduct of ment, giving a the country, wa s highly to their praise and honour. There was no want of sympathy or feeling on my part as to the course which ought to be taken by the proprietors of the soil. I thought from the beginning that there ought to have been a county meeting at which the proprietors of the soil should have announced that they were prepared to acknow- ledge that the visitation was not a local but a na tional calamity, and I have no reason to believe that that feeling was not shared by others. But the time was pressing, the farmers were detennined to act, and they did so with great judgment and discretion. (I fear, hear.) They formed local societies, and it was obvious that it was totally impossible to follow them rip, if the disease did not enter the county, by anything like a county movement with any effect. If that great calamity occurs—if the pest does enter the county and ravage our herds, I will be the first to sign a requisition to the High Sheriff to call a meet ing, in order that the whole county may take such steps as they think will enable them to bear their share in the visitation, which must be looked upon as a national calamity, and not as a local visitation. (Hear, hear.) The result of the cattle pest has been this—it has shorn the exhibition to-day of some of its greatest ornaments. I cannot entertain a doubt as to the wisdom and discretion of the committee in declar- Lz, that the exhibition of Lome(' cattle ahould uot talic place. Indeed, on my arrival from the North, where this pest is greatly ravaging the country, and where they are deeplyimpressed by incidents of ain t fright ful character which occur at every mom •nt, I was on the point of writing to the secretary to snake the sug gestion, had I not been anticipated by the decision of the committee. (Hear.) Although we have not had an exhibition of horned cattle, the committee have wisely in their printed programme of proceedings given us a perfect knowledge of what that exhibition would have been, and you are as competent to form an opinion as to what the Royal and Central Bucks Association can produce at its annual exhibitions as if the cattle pest had not occurred, and it is for you to decide whe ther on the whole, looking over that catalogue, it is one which is satisfactory to yourselves. That is a very important consideration. These annual meetings mean something more than congratulating ourselves on a good harvest, or condoling with each other on a bad one. They mean something more than drinking the healths of our noble selves. They mean that we who, in a certain sense, represent the county, should make some calculation of the posi tion of the county--whether it is increasing in wealth and reputation, and whether the proceedings we are taking are calculated to produce that result. If I look technically over our usual authorised catalogue and compare it with those which have been published for the last three, four, or five years—even from the time when the junction took place between the two societies, to which I may afterwards advert, and which it was supposed would give increased energy and greater exertion to the county--I cannot see that there is any material feature to call your atten tion to. The aggregate entries of the last five or six years is not reduced, the number of exhibitors is not diminished, the amount of money given in prizes is not decreased, and one might make a very plausible popular appeal upon each, and come to the conclu sion that, if not progressive, we are at least conser vative in our position. (Cheers and laughter.) But when I analyse this catalogue I find some results and circumstances which, to me at least, are not satisfactory; and although I know it is not a pleasant thing to be critical or captious, except when you complain of a bad harvest—and probably lam taking an unwise course—l hope you will pardon me on this occasion if I briefly refer to it. (Hear, hear.) If I look to the number of contributors to the exhibition, I find that nine-tenths of them are furnished by the county of Buckingham. That does not look as if there were any great competition with other counties. But what is more, These nine-tenths of the county of Buckingham consist of dwellers within a parti cular district of the county. That has a tendency as little as in the former institution to competition, which is supposed to be the mother of excellence. That is one feature well deserving attention. There is another which I do not like. Ido not see that the landed proprietors of the county are included in the increase in the manner which we have a right to expect. (Hear, hear.) Indeed, with the exception of one who is absent--the squire of Aston Clinton (Sir Anthony de Rothschild)—whose boundless liberality and good natured energy have exhibited themselves on these occasions with so much effect, I scarcely find any individual of that order doing what I conceive co be his duty to the county of Buckingham under these circumstances. (Hear.) And what is the cause of this ? I cannot believe that the landed proprietors are deficient in a sense of duty. I know they are the reverse. I cannot believe that among the tenant occupiers of Buck inghamshire there is any want of emulation. I know from personal experience that the contrary is the fact. (Hear, hear.) There must be some reason for the present state of things. Why is the state of Buckinghamshire different from that of the county of Northampton or any other county? We have here a county association. It is invested with the halo of Royal patronage ; it meets, and you know the consequences of it meetings. They are different from those which occur in contiguous counties. A gentleman has recently given me a description of the show in the county of Northampton which may be interesting. Now there is nothing in the county of Northampton which should give it an advantage over the county of Buckingham. Its soil, the dis tribution of it 3 estates, its general tenure of land, aura of are ancehie,.,.o tvtlavou of the county of Buckingham. But the Agricultural Association of the county of .i - N - ortliampton met the other day in the city of Peterborough, and I have been told by more than one gentleman that there was an exhibition of stock like that of the Royal Society in miniature, and hardly in miniature. There were contributions from men in distant counties compet ing for prizes ; there were hundreds of pounds taken in the show yard from those who were anxious to view the exhibition. The first gentry of the county of Northampton were present, and there were troops of tenant-farmers, not only from every part of Northamptonshire, but from the bordering districts, full of animation, of the spirit of rivalry, and of the creative spirit of competition, and such were the numbers, and such was the interest and excitement created, that the show was kept open for two days. (A Voice : " And the ladies attended too.") I should have thought that the show would have been kept open for another day when the ladies were ad mitted. (Laughter.) When we arrive at that point in Buckinghamshire I hope that will be the result. (Cheers and laughter.) But I want to know why these things don't happen in the county of Buckingham. (Hear, hear.) Gentlemen, I want to put the question before you in a business-like point of view. (Hear.) It is not always viewed in that way, and can only be viewed properly through the medium of an enlarged and consider able experience. Now, what was the consequence of the great change in the laws which regulated agriculture some years ago ? We are not here now to question the propriety of those changes which we have witnessed, and which have entered into the controversy ; but we have a right, and it is our duty to ascertain the results of that change, and I say that the results of that change are no doubt these, that the owner and the occupier of the laud can no lcnger count upon the price of wheat as the princi pal source of his revenue or his profit. Well, though you are placed in a different position, you have less cause to complain than most Men have, for a boun tiful Providence has favoured the county of Buck ingham in possessing the finest pastures in the coun try. It is not a local exaggeration when I say that there are pastures in this county not equalled by any in England, such as the pastures of Creslow, Broughton, &c., and when I mention the dairy farms of this county, which are so considerable that, by the last returns of Parliament, I observe that Buck inghamshire produces much more butter than any other county in England ; and in the south of your county, where you depend more upon what is tech nically called the agriculture of land—though, no doubt, there are some distinguished exceptions, for there are some portions of land perhaps unequalled in England for their grain produce and their wheat produce—l say, especially as to the south of the county, it is quite notorious that any man of energy and action who holds land in South Buckingham shire finds he can only make money by being a stock farmer. (Hear, hear.) You mainly depend upon your herds or flocks, but when you form socie ties like the present, the principle of which—to use the language of your constitution, and better lan guageeevoerrrebeetflyorbeuetnlit , sp t ir ho it ug o h f l it 7a t y o no t clu:ta: itn employed, promote the cultivation and im tof improvement agri culture and husbandry, to improve stock to encou rage and foster all experiments that may tend to the advantage of the soil, to offer premiums for the emulation of all classes, and for the improvement of all implements in agriculture, I ask what does that can ? What do those fine language , m sentences mean ? They mean this—that the society i 5 f ormed nd increase the sources o f your really to maintain a wealth. (" Hear" and cheers.) Well, then, it is not ou have before you, and - a trifling question which y these societies whether you must consider in forming - you attain objects by which your w e alth is to be maintained and increased. (Hear, hear.) e r tle men, I must say I do not think that the present system is one which will effect this object. (Hear, hear.) I say this with diffidence, but at the same time with a conviction of its truth. I will tell you why. The reason is that the position which we have taken is by far too local. (Hear, hear.) The Royal Bucks Agricultural Association is the oldest agricultural society in England. It was established before the Royal 6oaiety of Agriculture, cad all tail agricultural societies in England are merely imita tions of it. The objects which it proposed when formed were limited in their character, but they were excellent as far as they went. The society worked well in its generation. To recognise humble merit, to reward humble skill, we may now with our more enlarged skill look upon as very inferior objects, but they were very important objects in those days, and they brought all classes of society belonging to the agricultural world together, and created feelings of mutual good will which from time to time have ever increased. (Hear.) Well, gentlemen, as time advanced, there was a fresh feeling of dissatisfaction in the county as to the state of the Royal Bucks Association. It was considered to be too local. Now, I should be the last person to speak with any depre ciation of the local sentiment ; for the local feeling is the deepest and most precious, as well as the most captivating and enduring influence that can govern men. But for all things there is a season. There are transactions in which the local feeling is predo minant and effects all that you can desire ; but there are certain circumstances of life in which the local influence ought not to be unnecessarily appealed to. The hedger, the thatcher, the dairymaid, the ploughman, the cottager who is encouraged to practise habits of cleanliness by rewards—these are persons who can very fairly be brought under the influence of a local institution. But when you come to the exhibition of stock—stock which is to be the source of your worldly prosperity— what you want is excellence, and you can only obtain that excellence by competition. Therefore I describe your position as somewhat unsatisfactory; for really you have been attempting to do two two things at the same time which are perfectly incompatible —to reward local merit, and to aspire to national and general excellence. (Hear.) A few years ago there was a feeling that the results of our labours were not sufficiently satisfactory, and the Central Bucks Association was founded by gentle men of great spirit and enterprise. The consequence was that the Central, though aiming at general ex cellence, was after all founded on a limited system ; for it was only limited to the centre of the county, and it was felt that the society could not effect its object, and so, with an admirable temper and dis cretion on both sides, which could not be too highly praised, the Royal united with it. That was the reason. (" Hear, hear," from Mr. Fowler, and " No.") I should be very sorry to misrepresent the facts of the case. " You're quite right," from Mr. Fowler.) No one appreciates more than Ido the conduct of the Central Society ; but I believe what I said was correct—namely, that you were trying to do two things which were incompatible. (" Quite true.") There is no want of sympathy, one society with the other. (Hear, and cheers.) There is no want of sympathy with agricultural pursuits. There is no want of landlords of the county to come forward to do that which is not only for their awn interest, but for the honour of the county. But the thing has been so done that that which has been and ought to be in its consti tution a great county and a national society has been mistaken by the landlords of the county for a mere Aylesbury ploughing match. That is a state of affairs which ought never to have been brought about. I remember there were half a dozen places —Amersham, Slough, Salthill, Risborough, Buck ingham, &c. There was nothing but distracted effort and no concentrated energy. So far as the constitution of this society, after it was united with the Central Bucks, was concerned, nothing could be more perfect in theory. In theory now it is the most perfect in the world, and one would have supposed that a great agricultural county like Buckingham—purely so--(no)—well, eminently so —would have been willing and anxious to show all England the first stock and the most successful ex periments in agriculture, and the most skilful machi nery, thus taking the lead and giving a tone to public opinion. (" Hear" from Mr. Fowler.) Only read the objects of your society as set forth in your rules, which are :—" To promote and extend a knowledge of the theory and practice of agriculture and husbandry, the improvement of live stock in the district, and particularly to excite by premiums and otherwise a spirit of industry and emulation lax as t to encourage generally all useful improvements, expe riments, and inventions, and to promote the better construction of implements in agriculture." These are the most noble objects men can propose to themselves. (Hear, hear.) Is there any want of feeling on the part of the county to realise these objects ? I deny it. I appeal to this society, to this meeting, to show the desire. But you see the result of these contracted schemes is that you can have no real competition, and you cannot, there fore, approach the realisation of the excellence spoken of in the objects of the society. You will consequently have inferior crops and stock, and find in the long run that you have not maintained or increased the sources of your wealth. (Hear.) I think the time has come when we ought to consider how we shall meet the difficulties of our position. (Hear.) How should we answer the questions, Why is the great county of Buckingham inferior to Northampton ? Why have we not those great ex hibitions which are an example and excitement to all England ? There are landlords of this county most skilful and practical—who are occasionally members of the Royal Society of Agriculture, who take a leading part in its proceedings, and gain prizes elsewhere than in this county. (Laughter.) Now, I ask, why do not these events take place in this county ? (Hear.) I do not believe that it is possible for us to shun this question. (Hear.) We ought to maintain the excellence of our county, but this we shall not do by falling into the error of other counties, and thus diminish the sources of our prosperity. This is the practical point before us. I know there are difficulties in the subject. My opinion is this, that you have made a mistake in mixing two things together which ought never to have been united. I know there is some jealousy in talking about a general society throughout the county, where there are local societies, to say that that would interfere with their duties, arrangements, objects, &c. ; but I assure you that is a complete delusion, for it would be impossible for a general society to reward the most skilful thatcher, for in stance, of any given locality. There are, of course, local qualities, accomplishments, and virtues which only those who are on the spot can recognise and reward. Let those be attended to. Let us in this district maintain and fulfil those objects of a local nature ; for I must confess my belief that all those local rewards which have been offered have hitherto been perfectly successful. At the same time let us by some decided step appeal to the county, so that we may have an annual exhibition of stock and skill which will test the position of the county of Buck ingham in the country to which it belongs. That is what is wanted. I believe that such an appeal would be heartily responded it. Only make the proprietors of the soil understand that the society is not merely a local society—confined to Aylesbury and its vici nity—and they will come forward and support it, and with a very small amount of effort your funds will be able to command the competition of all Eng land. (Hear, hear.) You know we do not give prizes merely to reward a fewfarmers of this county but to improve their stock and skill, and thus to improve your wealth ; if you open your society even to all England you will not be sorry for the result, for you may depend upon it that the people of Bucks ought to be able to compete with those of any other county, and carry off a goodly number of prizes. I have at several other dinners of this sort intimated these views. Placed in the position of your president, I could not from a sense of duty be silent to-day ; but I hope that you will maintain the respectable position which you now occupy as a society, and increase your wealth by maintaining a high character for your produce. I place this matter before you, and I hope my suggestions will be years be a n n efi d eial. amid Or: many society ' , a s s , b e u x s w t e h d a t f e o v r e r m m a n a y y have been its faults, it has effected some good. That is a reason why it should continue to exist. What we ought to aspire to is(Hnoetarm.)ereTlyhetocoeuffnetcyt on which o ug ht to o g f o o ß d u , c h ic i u n t g t h h a e m gr i e s a t in agpooost en able it to take the lead. It ought not to remain in the position which it now occupies, which is scarcely to follow. The county does not take that position which it ought to do, considering it possesses the aw , i ki it urco , Fo ducc the greaten awouht of . THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 22, IRE. butter, and contains some of the finest stocked farms that can be found. It remains for you to decide whether you will take a step in advance. But do nothing in a hurry. Well consider everything. Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time, and therefore it is for you calmly to consider what I have said to-day. I have thrown out these rough hints, but I hope you will ponder over them, and I trust they will have the result which I sincerely desire. I ask you to drink " Prosperity to the Royal and Cen tral Bucks Agricultural Association. (Cheers.) Mr. J. TREADWELL responded. Mr. DAUNCY, in highly eulogistic terms, proposed " The Health of the Chairman." The toast was drunk with the greatest enthusiasm. The CHAIRMAN, in responding to the toast, said—l have taken the great liberty to-night to give good advice, and it is said that every one who does that is sure to repent it. But my confidence in my consti tuents is so great that I have broken through that general rule. ''Mr. Dauncy says that if it should turn out that my account of the state of the wheat crop be correct, it would be, to translate his eloquent and graceful language in prose, something in my favour. Allow me to suggest, what I did not remind you of before—the first prize cup to-day has been given to a cross between a Down and a Cotswold. (Cheers.) And the observations which I made at one of your meetings last year—not in the proud position of a president, but in the humbler capacity of one of your representatives—have been sanctioned and confirmed by the decision of your admirable judges. I think, therefore, that you may place confidence in the re port which I have given you on the root crops in the north of England. I was much pleased with the remarks of Mr. Treadwell in responding to the toast of " Prosperity to the Institution." I certainly agree with him in Ihe hint he threw out, that if we could establish this Buckinghamshire association totally independent of all little associations interfer ing (mind that) with no little associations, it would be most desirable that it should visit periodically different places in the county. It should go to New port, to Eton, to Amersham, to Buckingham, and other places, and this would create an excitement, an emulation, something like what we hear of at Peterborough, and, instead of receiving a few pounds as entrance money to view the yard, we should re ceive very considerable sums. I also entirely agree with Mr. Treadwell that, whatever may be our views on this subject, it is impossible to act with any energy or decision at this time, when this terrible cattle cala mity is impending over us. I would not venture to speculate on the origin of this great pestilence ; all I can say is, that when I read the account of the cattle plague published by the Privy Council, and the remedies that were to be applied, it seemed to me that it was not a plague of recent origin. I thought I had read in the third Georgic of " Virgil" —unfortunately a long time ago—an account which in the minutest details touches this question. My idea was that as her Majesty's Ministers are obliged to rethain in London—at least some of them—and some of them at least being men of classical habits and tastes, they had given us a free translation of the third Georgic, by way of a description of the cattle plague and the remedies to be applied. We have the sighs and moans, the tears and groans, the withering of the flesh, and the ultimate corruption—all symptoms exactly the same as have been described. But what is most remarkable is that the remedies are also exactly the same. You are to kill the beasts, dig a deep ditch and bury them immediately. Well, even the very hide is to be sacrificed—neque erat coriis uses—so that you see even in the time of Virgil they had the same com plaint, although they did not call it the Russian plague, no doubt because they had never heard of Russia. (Laughter.) But the symptoms were the same, they bUried the animals in the same way, and they even included in the destruction that hide to which the farmer and the grazier might naturally cling, even with disease and corruption, as some thing which could not be infected. (Cheers and laughter.) I thank you, gentlemen, for the way in which you have drunk my health. It is something to represent such men, and to preside over such a meeting ; and it is something to have one's health proposed by a gentleman who is not only a pro prietor in this county zntwlt iespectci, who is not only a first-rate scholar, but a man who lives in the hearts of all those who know him. (Loud cheers.) Several other toasts were afterwards given, and the company did not separate until a late hour. THE UNITED STATES. (From an American Correspondent of the Times) PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 8. One week ago I informed you there was indubita ble evidence that the Mexican Republic was nearly at an end, and although since then there have been some vague rumours of Juarist successes in minor contests in the neighbourhood of Matamoras, the in telligence of the waning fortunes of the Liberals in their last stronghold, the north-western Mexican States, is overwhelming. Some time since Juarez, with a devoted band of followers, retired to Chihuahua and fortified himself in the city. Maximilian's troops gradually closed around it, and although we have yet received no details of the final contest, the latest news we hear is that Chihuahua has fallen ; the Impe rialists have occupied it, and Juarez, with a hand ful of troops, has fled to El Paso. Thither his enemies are following him, and the probabilities are strong that he will soon be driven even from this last halting-place, and forced to take refuge in the United States. The days of the Mexican Re public are numbered, for not only in the north-west but everywhere else, excepting around Matamoras, its cause is waning. Its supporters are dispirited and mutinous, and in several cases have joined the Imperial standard ; and the States that once ad hered to Juarez are being overrun by French and Austrians almost without opposition. Cortinas, near Matamoras, has succeeded lately, inhis erratic wanderings, in capturing a small Imperial waggon train with its guards, but this solitary victory is blotted out by the swelling tide of misfortune else where. Guerilla bands, such as will always infest Mexico, wander over the country, but Maximilian is now the only ruler of Mexico, though the people will always be on the look-out for a chance to raise another revolution. Juarez's misfortunes have not suddenly come upon him, for he has been fearing a forced flight to the United States for some time. Part of his family have for several months resided in New York, and one of his younger children died there about a month since. There is very little doubt that he has long before this laid up provisions in the United States for an honoured retirement, and the people of the North, who hate rebellions in their own country so cordially, but are always ready to encour age rebellions elsewhere, will receive him with marked distinction. But the most significant fact connected with the fall of the Mexican Republic is the virtual death of ali attempts by the United States to practically enforce the Monroe doctrine. Hereafter it will be a subject to prate about, but be yond that no one will go ; the newspapers will be filled with fierce denunciation of England and France, and earnest appeals to President Johnson to send huge armies to redeem Mexico, but except ing as a sort of safety valve to let off some of the extra excitement America is always so full of, the Monroe doctrine will be a thing of the past. Secre tary Seward, and possibly some other members of the Cabinet, are full of the idea of recognising Maximilian's Government, and putting Mexico in a fixed and certain position towards the United States. Although the Republic has much sym pathy in the United States, and Juarez is regarded with high favour, no one here has been willing to send him any material aid. All the Mexican sym pathy meetings have ben failures financially, and should President Johnson, who keeps aloof from the question, lean towards Seward's way of think ing, recognise Maximilian and receive his Minister, there will be a little grumbling on the part of the Radicals, but that will be all. The ship-owners will start lines of steamers to Vera Cruz, the Yankee cotton and woollen manufacturers will turn a penny by sending goods there, and so long as trade is prosperous Radicals and all will hail Maxi milian as the lawful rater. Juarez will be handed about the country a travelling show ; he will be dined and toasted, Maximilian will be " resolved" the usurper, but his usurpation will be considered the lawful Government. The bugbear of the Monroe doctrine need no longer frighten foreign countries. Several prominent English merchants and finan ciers arrived at New York on Sept. 5, by the Scotia, and their visit has created much interest. On Sept. 6, some of them, Sir S. Morton Peto and Messrs. M. Henry, Satterwaite, and Kinnaird being among the number, had a lengthy interview with the directors of the New York and Erie Railroad, in which they urged the construction of a double-track broad gauge railway from New York to St. Louis, and offered to furnish the money necessary to build it. The New York and Erie road will of course be the beginning of this new railway, and the English gentlemen urged that its extension should be at once begun. They also announced that it was their in tention to double the track of the Atlantic and Great Western Railroad, and they wish it and the Erie to be integral roads and placed on an equal footing. The gentlemen are now in the oil region of Western Pennsylvania, and before they return to Europe they will visit and closely examine all the railways in the United States and the British provinces. The woollen manufacturers of the United States on September 6 held a council in Philadelphia, at whichsome very important statistics connected with the American woollen trade were made public. For the year ending June 30, 1864, the value of the woollen goods manufactured in the United States was #121,868,250. Of course dnring the war the Government was the greatest consumer of woollen goods ; for in 1862 it bought 21,715,382 yards of kersey, in the manufacture of which 51,431,7701 b. of wool were used, and in 1863 it bought 26,885,515 yards of kersey, in which 61,273,8941 b. of woolwere used. The amount consumed by the Government in 1864 was about the same as in 1863. The following are the sheep and wool statistics of the United States for various years Sheep. Pounds of Wool. 1850 ... 16,777,468 ... 44,460,380 1860 17,198,219 51,766,439 1862 ... 18,880,340 ... 66,081,190 1864 24,346,391 91,298,965 1865, Jan... 28,647,269 ... 114,589,076 In 1863, 48,744,9011 b of wool were imported into New York, and in 1864, 56,874,1281 b. In 1865 the production of wool averaged about 41b. for each sheep. The Government has also promulgated some in teresting statistics. In August 575 patents were issued, and 3,902 invalid pensions were granted. The number of pensioners now on the rolls is 55,000, and the list is increasing at the rate of from * 3,000 to 4,000 a month. At the last Session of Congress, the aggregate amount of money appropriated was $822,076,523. It is now positively stated that the Government will not have to resort to any loans until after Congress meets, that the Treasury works very easily, and that this promising state of the fin ances results from the largely increased revenues of the Government over the estimates that have been made. The receipts of internal revenue for the quarter ending Oct. 1 were some time since esti mated at $65,000,000; it is now thought they will amount to $110,000,000. The receipts from sales of war material no longer needed also add large sums to the Treasury. During August the revenues of the Government just paid the current expenses, which were about $80,000,000, or a little over $2,500,000 a day. The Secretary thinks he can very soon bring the expenses below the receipts, and he feels confident that the public debt has reached its maximum. Mr. Joseph Aspinall, President of the Detroit Board of Trade, has published some very interest ing tables, showing why the exportation of Ame rican grain to Europe is not remunerative to the Western farmer. In Liverpool a bushel of corn sells for about $1 22c. in greenbacks, while the freight and charges of transportation from the Western States amount to $1 11c. in greenbacks. The farmer thus gets but 11c. for his bushel of corn. Mr. Aspinall urges the construction of a ship canal from the Mississippi to the Lakes, so that vessels can sail direct from the Western States to Europe. In that case the charges will be but 61ic., so that the farmer can sell his bushel of grain for 60ic. This subject has been very thoroughly studied, and the entire North-w-4 ;.a favour of the canal, but as they wish Congress to construct it as a " war measure," the project hangs fire. As the reports from Europe do not show very good harvest pros pects, and nearly all our American grain crops are enormous, shippers are preparing for an immense export trade. As the matter now stands, however, the farmer gets no benefit whatever, and in many interior counties of the West the small price of his corn will not pay the expense of reaping it. This autumn will probably see many a field of corn rot ting because the price offered for it will not pay for the harvest. Such has been the case before this when crops have been abundant. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. UXBRIDGE AND RICKMANS WORTH. The directors in their report regret that circumstances had delayed the commencement of the works of the railway, although agreements had been entered into and.some pay ments made for land at different points of the line, which would allow the contractor to proceed with the works. The original estimates were found to be insufficient for the con struction of the railway on the mixed gauge. The directors, however, deemed it essential for the prosperity of the under taking that the narrow gauge should be laid down, to avoid any break in the through ccmmunication with the important systems north of their line. After much deliberation this point was conceded by the Great Western Company, but subject to the withdrawal of their authorised subscription of £20,000 toward tho undertaking, and subject also to a perpetual lease of the line being granted to them, instead of the proposed working agreement. The directors could not recommend the shareholders to agree to these terms, and they failed to induce the Great Western Company to agree to any alteration of them. The directors much de plored this state of things, as the line would complete a through communication between the Great Western, North Western, Great Northern and Great Eastern systems, via Rickma,nsworth, St. Albans, and Hatfield. Since the close of tho session the directors had, however, renewed their negotiations with the Great Western Company, with the strong hope that such an arrangement with that company might now be made as would enable them promptly and without further delay to proceed with the works. The call made in July last was responded to by the proprietors. BALA AND DOLGELLY. A special meeting of this company was held atWorcester on Monday ; Mr. Adcock in the chair. The CHAIRMAN, having stated that the object of the meeting was to consider the expediency of increasing the capital of the company, moved, " That under the powers and provisions of the company's act, 1863, there be raised, by the creation and issue of 3,800 shares of £lO each, the sum of £38,000, and to form part of the ordinary capital of the company." This resolution was adopted,!and it was stated that the contract for the construction of the line had been let to Messrs. Brassey and Field, who had commenced the works. NORTHERN OF BUENOS AYRES. The adjourned general meeting of this company was held yesterday at the London Tavern—Mr. Lawrie in the chair. The CHAIRMAN stated that the committee had withdrawn all tho imputations against the directors. The resolutions proposinv, certain alterations in the articles of association would require the approval of the Government authorities, and it was important that there should be as fow altera tions in their articles as possible. The contractors had sent in a claim against the company amounting to £60,000, but the directors thought that the account was nearly ba lanced, because the contractors had been paid money as the works proceeded. It was not the intention of the directors to ask the shareholders to adopt the report, as it contained many allusions to tho report circulated by the committee of investigation. The directors placed their seats at the disposal of the shareholders, and it would be for the meet ing to elect gentlemen in their places. After some discussion, Messrs. A. Lawrie, F. Harrison, J. Greene, 'Jayne, Collum, Strawbridge, Lees, and Capt. Thorburn were elected directors ; their remuneration to be £l,OOO per annum. Messrs• Welch and Spratt wore re-elected auditors, and the proceedings terminated with a vote of thanks to the chairman. GRAND TRUNK OF CANADA. The traffic receipts on this company's lines for the week ending the 2d inst. amounted for local passengers to £7,368, for foreign passengers to £3,535, for emigrants to £459, for mails, &c., to £829, for local freight and live stock to £11,504, and for foreign freight and live stock to £3,772 ; total, £27,467, on 1,377 miles, against £23,942 on 1,335 miles, showing an increase of £3,525. The total receipts from the Ist July to the 2d inst: amounted to £225,596, and for the corresponding periodof last year to £205,036, show ing an increase of £20,560, or 10 per cent. BREWERS AND DISTILLERS.—There are, accord ing to a public do.mment just issued, 38,261 brewers licensed in the United Kingdom, and the amount of duty in the year ended the 31st March last was £332,851 and cii4tillers 302, and the duty paid, £3,171. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TIMES.—The versatile leader of the Opposition has made his annual appearance in the capacity of a Buckinghamshire farmer. The characters are various in which Mr. Disraeli delights to appear. He is everything, not by starts, but periodically, and has been poet, statesman, churchman, and far mer with the regularity, as well as with the varia tion, " of each revolving moon." He is now, indeed, scarcely peculiar in this ambition, for there are few of our leading public men who do not from time to time turn their hands to scholarship, to art, to science, to farming, or even—most perilous of all subjects—to theology. Mr. Disraeli ventured boldly into that disturbed arena last year, and, being " on the side of the angels," rushed in unhesitatingly where less privileged persons fear to tread. He is not less courageous in his personation of a farmer than in his character as a theologian, and he ven tures on predictions and advice with a happy con sciousne-ss of his ability to get out of a difficulty, and with a thorough-going confidence to which even Mr. Henley does not aspire. That gentleman, though possessing eminently the experience and the qualifications of what Mr. Disraeli called at Ayles bury " the agricultural mind," confessed the other day his inability to advise the tenant farmer on the mysteries of his craft. Mr. Disraeli's genius is not so easily held in check, and he has just received a particular encouragement in his agricultural studies. He ventured last year to advance a theory for im proving the breed of Buckinghamshire sheep, which was somewhat keenly criticised. The very cross which he recommended, however—that of a Down with a Cotswold—has this year received the first prize of the Backs Association. We shall not grudge him such a testimonial to his agricultural judgment, though he himself informs us that the competition has not been very severe • but we must demur to the logic with which h e infers from this success that we may " therefore place confidence" in his estimate of the crops of the year. It must be allowed, however, that his estimates are founded on a very safe principle. It consists in simply remem bering that Buckinghamshire is not conterminous with Great Britain, and that it will not do to argue from the character of the crops in the county to the value of the crops in the whole countty. • It is a simple principle, but no doubt a very important one, and it would appear from Mr. Disraeli's speech that it is one of which the Buckinghamshire farmers peculiarly need to be reminded. They seem, in his representation of them, to be very " local " in all their habits and ways of thought, and if one of them fails in his wheat or his root crops he imme diately jumps to the conclusion that the wheat crop or the root crop of the country is below the aver age. It is a very British peculiarity, and Mr. Dis raeli employs his cosmopolitan capacities to a useful purpose in correcting such a misapprehension. Last year the Buckinghamshire root crop was extremely meagre, and until the appearance of Mr. Disraeli at the annual meeting of the association the farmers, he tells us, " were speculating on the price of meat in consequence of the want of food and fodder that would occur." But then Mr. Disraeli " ventured to remind them" of the great philosophical truth that " nothing was so unwise as, to draw your con clusions from a contracted area of observation ;" or, in other words, that there are other counties in England besides Buckinghamshire, and that the root crops in them were more successful. This sagacious warning proved to be well-founded, and this year Mr. Disraeli bas to make the converse re mark. *The Buckinghamshire root crop is good, but that in the north of England, he tells us, is bad, and when Mr. Henley, therefore, the other day, argued that the price of meat might be kept down by the excellence of the root crops, he, too, com mitted the great philosophical blunder of " drawing his conclusions from too limited an area." From such a judicious observer it is satisfactory to be as sured that while the harvest of the country is " fair," that of Buckinghamshire is " good ;" that throughout the greater part of the county the wheat was stacked before the weather broke ; and that if the barley was somewhat tarnished by the rain, the misfortune was compensated by the benefit done to the roots. Mr. Disraeli pays a handsome tribute to the conduct of the Government in reference to the Cattle Plague, and such an example is particularly opportune at the present moment. The regulations of the Go vernment may not be altogether correct, still less sufficient, but they are the best to be had, and the first necessity, when dealing with such a danger as now alarms us, is that every one should obey orders. Farmers are quite sufficiently disposed to neglect the most ordinary precautions, and it should be the aim of all persons in authority to support the Government in the measures which, after good advice and careful consideration, they have thought it proper to adopt. Mr. Disraeli, therefore, does a public service at such a moment in expressing his conviction that " though it may not be difficult to criticise some things that have been done or said, there has been a sincere desire on the part of the Government to do their duty, and that they are prepared to propose all such measures as are neces sary for the occasion." "It is our duty," he adds, " to support them as much as we can, and where they are wanting to supply the deficiency. Buck inghamshire, happily, has hitherto been free from Cattle Plague, aild considering to how large an extent the prosperity of the county depends upon its stock, it is especially to be hoped that its im munity may continue. With the same prudence which has been observed in other parts of the coun try, the Association consented to deprive its meeting of half its attraction by not allowing horned cattle to be collected for exhibition. With regard to this subject, too, Mr. Disraeli has to make a cautious suggestion on the " local" tendencies of Bucking hamshire farmers. They have, it appears, founded numerous local societies in anticipation of the plaugue ; but he reminds them that if it should in vade the county an effort must be made on a much larger scale. Mr. Disraeli is very cautious in finding fault with this bump of locality. Indeed, he praises it, as " the deepest and most precious, as well as the most captivating and enduring, influence that can govern men." This is what we should call, to use his own language, " a local. exaggeration," but it is evident he thinks there may be too much even of such a good thing, and it is instructive to observe that his whole speech is more or less directed to moderate this Buckinghamshire propensity. It seems that the Royal Central Bucks Agricultural Association is much too local. It has been formed by an amalgamation of two societies, the Royal and the Central. The former was the o ld es t soc i e t y o f the sort in 'England, and it was constructed, there fore, with the somewhat antiquated object of en couraging " local" qualities, humble merit and humble skill, such as those of " the hedger, the thatcher, the dairyman, the ploughman, and the cottager." It was p erce i ve d th a t more than this humble and local encouragement was wanted in the present day, and the Central Society was therefore founded to encourage more general excellence, and the two were subsequently combined. But the Buckinghamshire local habits proved too strong for the success of the society. The Association is treated as though it had nothing to do with any other part of the county but the district around Aylesbury, and the local rewards for clean cottages and good character do not attract general exhibitors of agri cultural produce to the central show. In this state of things Mr. Disraeli gives some advice which it is peculiarly gratifying to receive from his mouth. Looking on the matter, he says, from a business point of view, what is wanted is, not these humble and local qualities, but wealth. The real purpose of the Society is to improve stock and crops, which are " to be the source of worldly prosperity ;" for this purpose what is required is excellence, and " you can only obtain excellence by competition." " You have been attempting," he says, " to do two things at the same time which are perfectly incompatible—to reward local merit and to aspire to national and general excellence." In effect, therefore, he tells the Buckinghamshire farmers plainly that if they want to advance the general and national prosperity, and, by consequence, their own, they must abandon their ideas of local protection and encouragement, and must compete with the whole county, and, indeed, with the rest of England. Admirable advice ; but, we are inclined to ask, is it Mr. Disraeli or some enthusiastic Freetrader to whom we are listening ? Has Mr. Disraeli really dis covered that general and national prosperity cannot be advanced by schemes of local encouragement, and is he about to convert Buckinghamshire farmers to principles of Free trade and general progress ? He appears himself to be conscious that his advice might be taken for a political apologue, for he remarks that in consequence of this local policy the Bucks Asso ciation has been " not progressive, but at least Con servative in its position." We welcome so candid an admission: that Conservatism is not progress, and are still more happy to see that Mr. Disraeli associates standing still with a local and restrictive policy. We trust he will for the future be better able to appreciate the precisely similar arguments which he still opposes in Parliament, to the effect that if we wish to increase our national wealth we must increase the excellence of our productions, and that if we would increase the excellence of our pro ductions we must admit the most unrestricted com petition with the whole world. We venture to hope in short, that, with his peculiar capacity for seeing great philosophical truths in very trivial matters, he will generalise these observations upon Buckingham.. shire agriculture into maxims of political conduct, and that we shall soon see him giving as good advice to his followers in Parliament as to the members of the Bucks Agricultural Association. POST.—Mi. Bright has declined to attend a Re form meeting in Glasgow, partly on the ground that the state of his health compelled him to shun en gagements Which would entail a goo d d eal of exer tion and excitement, -but principally, as we hope, because he feels it would be inconvenient to enter at once into any agitation for the extension of the franchise. Political friends, and political opponents would alike regret to hear that Mr- Blight was physically unequal to undertake a mission that would be to him a labour of love. But while to a certaint extent we agree with Mr. Bright as to the importunity of forcing the Reform question, we cannot thi n k th a t h e has at all honestly explained the reasons which have led him to form the opinion he avows. Mr. Bright says he is not anxious that this question should be dealt with during the official life of the present Prime Minister. Lord Palmerston, he says, is the only man connected with the Liberal party who is at once both able and willing to betray the cause of Reform. Mr. Bright assumes that one sentence from the lips of the Pre mier would have passed the Reform Bill of 1860, and that sentence he refused to utter. " His col leagues preferred their places to their honour as public men and they consented to the greatest poli tical fraud of our times rather than leave the Trea sury bench for a season." Now, in passing, we must be permitted to remark that this sweeping attack, including as it does every member of the Administration, from Lord Russell to Mr. Milner Gibson, should be made, if made at all, in the House of Commons, and, as may be reasonably desired, in the presence of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. But we are entirely unable to believe that Mr. Bright is serious in making such a charge. At all events, there can hardly be another man in England who would venture to accuse Mr. Gladstone, we will say, of having forfeited his public honour, and, merely to retain a seat on the Treasury bench, of having consented to a great political fraud. If the statement were in any sense true, the House of Commons that gave its confidence to the Govern ment of Lord Palmerston would not deserve the con fidence of the country. For our own part", too, we very much doubt if even the weight of Lord Palmerston's influence would have persuaded Parliament to pass a measure which nobody, except Mr. Bright and his im mediate followers, cared for. But, be that as it may, we are quite certain it was no part of the duty of the Prime Minister to exercise any personal authority he possessed to control or coerce the representation of public opinion in the House of Commons. Further, it is not difficult to under stand the objections which Mr. Bright entertains to pressing the Reform question. The " Advanced Re formers," as they are called, seem to be half afraid that the Government will ask Parliament to con sider the expediency of amending the representative system. We ventured to state some short tune since that whenever the present Administration brought in another Reform Bill, it would be carried, and we say now that we are by no means sure that it is de sirable to consult Mr. Bright's convenience. To speak plainly, we are inclined to think that the sooner the subject is examined the better. It will take some time to collect and analyse the informa tion which is required to frame a measure for ex tending the franchise so as to admit many persons who it may be assumed are capable of appreciating electoral obligations without disturbing the consti tutional balance of Parliamentary power ; and look ing at the general unanimity which exists in point of principle, it might be advisable to pass a Reform Bill through its first and second stages in the House of Commons and see what could be made of it in committee. This, of course, is what Mr. Bright most particularly objects to. He is sensible that Lord Palmerston's Government could settle the ques tion. He is aware that it might be settled by com bining the " lateral" and the " vertical" theories in a practical scheme. He knows that he and his po litical friends stand well nigh alone in the way of an arrangement. Moreover, now that the Conser vatives cannot hope to embarrass the Government on the Reform question, they may be willing to assist in disposing of it. Mr. Bright perceives all this, and, wisely in his sense, he calls to his followers to halt. Some of them do not appear to comprehend the com mand ; still, no doubt, it will be obeyed. But what course her Majesty's Ministers and the House of Commons may see fit to pursue is, we con ceive, altogether another matter. We cannot discover that there is, or that it is probable there will be hereafter, any necessity whatever for agitating this question. Nor, on the other hand, do we take it that the principle involved in an extension of the franchise is contested. It is true that there is no intelligible claim to be consi dered, and that therefore any measure extending the franchise would be, so to speak, gratuitous, but under the actual circumstances we are not convinced that it would be judicious to wait for a formal, or possibly a clamorous, demand. Mr. Bright's suggestion is in itself significant. The real difficulty is one that will not be abated by time. Ten years hence, as now, the question would have to be resolved by a process which may hardly be described as argumentative. Put shortly, we have to ascertain whether the fran chise may or may not be extended on the basis of the subsisting constitutional equilibrium. The expe diency of its extension may be said to be conceded on the condition which the word implies. We have not to determine if it would be expedient to change our form of government. There can he no argument on such abstract points. What we have to require is —how, if at all, the franchise may be safely and equitably extended; and that is a question which admits of a certain and conclusive answer. The Government of Lord Palmerston will act upon its proper responsibility, and the decision will rest, not with Mr. Bright, but with the House of Commons and the country. COUNTRY MARKETS BIRMINGHAM—THuRsDAY. At our market to-day the supply of wheat not so large se last week, and the tone rather over last week's rates. The price of barley remained unchanged. Oats met a limited demand at about previous prices. Beans and peas the turn in favour of the buyer. Currencies :—English wheat, white, 45s to 50s ; red, 395 to 48s per 36 stone. Malting barley, 30s to 35s ; grinding , 22s to 25s per qr. Oats, 24s to 30s ; Irish, 21s to 24s per 30 stone. Beans, 42s to 45s ; and peas, 40s to 42s per qr. BRIS T OL—THURSDAY. On our market to-day there was a moderate supply of wheat, which sold slowly at . barely last week's prices. Foreign is per qr. lower, with very few buyers. 3,lalting Farley more freely offered, and the turn in buyer's favour. Grinding little inquiry. Oats restrictod, and declined 6d. per qr. Beans quiet; Indian corn dull, and 6d per qr. lower. MANCHES TER—THURSDAY. At this day's market there was a fair attendance, and good dry samples of English wheat commanded the full rates of this day week, but inferior neglected. Foreign no alteration. Flour maintained previous rates. Old oats and oatmeal rather easier, and new 2d to 3d per 451 b. and 2s per load cheaper. New - beans offered at a decline of is to 2s per qr. Indian corn at previous rates. BURY ST. EDMUND'S-WEDNESDAY. There was a good supply of both old and new wheat at this market to-day, and the prices of last week fully main tained. Barley large show, but quality inferior; the few samples offerin g were t a k en off quickly at high prices. Talavera wheat, 45s to 50s; red ditto, 38s to 425; barleit 30s to 325; secondary ditto, 27s to 29s per qr. averages :—Wheat, 1,120 qrs, 42s 3d ; barley, 140 qrs., 30s 2d ; oats, qrs, —s Od. EDINBURGH—WEDNEsDAv. At to-day's market supplies of grain were very go° d, and sold at about last week's prices. Average prices. Wheat, 41s 9d Oats, 23s lld Barley, 27s 7d Beans 44s Od Wheat on the top, 3s Od down average, Os 5d up. Barley on the top, is Od down average, 1s ld down• Oats on the top, Os 9d down average, Os 10d down' Beans on the top, Os 6d up average, is id down• Total supply and sales. Wheat 783 qrs sold 473 Barley 1780 qrs sold 1419 Oats 1375 qrs sold 1058 Beans B3 qrs sold 7 3 Town-made flour sells as follows :—White, 39s Od; OW' superfine, 37s Od ; superfine, 35s Od; fine, 33s Oct. GLASGOW —WEDNESDAY. The market was fairly attended. Wheat steady, but. only a limited business was done at late rates. Barley an d oats dull at 6d per qr. decline. Beans and peas firm, and met a fair demand ; maize the turn lower ; flour quiet. B rths. ALDERSON.—On the 19th inst., the wife of E. S. Alderson, Esq., of Bury St. Edmund's, and 10, King's Bench-walk' Temple, London, of a son. HUNT.—On the 20th inst., at Leeds, the wife of Capesill Hunt, of a daughter. Luseocx..—On the 19th inst., at Chiselhurst, Lady L 111) ." bock, of a son. • Marriages, DALTON—WILLIAMSON.—On the 21 s t i ns t ., a t the pa- - Ash church, Reigate, A. Dalton, Esq., of Glover's Lodgeiy. Redhill, and 44, Poult r y, London, to Christiana, fo urt ' daughter of Win. Williamson, Esq., of Redhill. PARKER—PHILLIPS.—On th e 19th inst , at Royston, 111)bt i Lesley Parker, l a t e C apta i n 15th .Hussars, eldest soil ° Samuel Parker, Esq.,. of Firby Hall, Yorkshire, to Ame lia, second daughter of John Phillips, Esq. , Royston. Deaths.• APPLEBBE.—On the 18th inst., at Kensington, John Bur nett Applebee, Esq., aged 78. BROOM.--On the 19th inst., after many years' suffering; Joseph Broom, aged 70. GORDON.—On the 19th inst., at Southampton, Lieut.-1; Henry Wm. Gordon, Colonel Commandant 3d B ri g a Royal Artillery, aged 80. HART.—On the 20th inst., at 7. St. Mark's-crescent, Ilati gent's-park, Mordecai Hart, late of Canterbury' , ag e 68. +he HEATHCOTE.—On the 18th inst., at Chingford, Es seA, Rev. Robert Boothby Heatheote, rectorjof Ching'°'l"7 aged 60. Loudon : Printed and Published by WU, LIAM AN WIENS' . 8 ' of No. 112, Strand, Pi inter, at Tnz Sum o ffice, No. 11 Strand, in the Precinct of the Bs v oy. - in the Coati° Middlesexowniday, September 22, 1645.