The Sun. — London, England, 1866-04-16 00:00:00

....______- RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. OTTOMAN (SA.IYRNA TO AIDIN). A special general meeting of this company was held on Friday at the London Tavern, to consider a proposition for raising further capital to complete the line ; Sir M. Stephenson in the chair. The notice convening the meeting having been read, The C EIAIRNIAN said that the necessity of raising further capital was explained by the delay in open ing the line occasioned by the " force majeure" of very difficult tunnel works ; and the means were suggested in the resolution which he would propose, to the effect that the directors be empowered to issue 6 per cent. preference shares not exceeding £300,000. The object of this preference stock was to enable the company to borrow upon better terms the amount (under £100,000) required t o complete the works, by the deposit of it as security, and this was the most advantageous course to pursue in the opinion of the Board, who had given the subject their best attention. T he question of the deben tures due on the Ist May would also be dealt with when the first question had been disposed of ; but, of course, they were unaffected by the preference shares, which would follow the debentures. Absurd rumours had been circulated as to the expiry of the concession from non-fulfilment of the contract. It was only necessary to state that the line would be opened by the end of June, that the opening would be within the period prescribed owing to and allow ing the delay in sending the last concession to the company, and that the shareholders might rest as sured that, even if the interest of the Ottoman Go vernment did not secure their continued co-opera tion, the strong sense of justice which that Govern ment had invariably shown would suffice to render groundless any apprehension on that account. Moreover, special provision was made in the origi nal concession to protect the company against any such contingencies arising from delay in the tunnel works, which were admitted to be exceptional. With reference to the future policy of the company, and to the measures to be taken to realise to the utmost the advantage of all that had been done, he hoped to be prepared with such a recommendation as would effect the object and meet their entire ap proval, so soon as the line should be opened through to Aidin, and the proposed financial arrangements should be satisfactorily concluded. In the mean time, and until the traffic over the whole line could be worked and turned to account, all interested must continue to exercise their patience and for bearance, and to render all the aid in their power to the directors in their endeavour to bring about such a state of affairs as would be acceptable to all Parties. He then proposed the first resolution, that the Council of Administration be empowered to issue G per cent. preference shares not exceeding £300,000. Mr. A. DEITAIM, deputy chairman, seconded the motion. In reply to questions by Mr. Billings and Major Beare, The CIIAIRMAN said the sole object of the reso lution was to enable the directors to raise the money on better terms than they could get by offering the stock to the shareholders of the public. With re gard to Mr. Deut, he might say that in compliance with the expressed wishes of the shareholders Mr. Dent resigned his seat at the board, and took the opportunity of giving some explanations upon points that appeared to have been misunderstood ; but, on the part of his colleagues and himself, the chairman stated that, while fully recognising the soundness of the principle of shareholders drawing a distinction between those directors who attended to or neglected the responsibilities they might have undertaken, they thought Mr. Dent's explanation deserved con sideration, and they regretted to lose his valuable services on the board. The resolution was then carried unanimously. Mr. J. E. COLEMAN remarked that Mr. Dent was a director in the Joint-Stock Discount Company for only four months, and on taking office was as sured that everything was right. The CHAIRMAN said the second question was in regard to the debentures on May Ist. The delay in opening the line, in obtaining increased revenue therefrom, and the full amount of the guarantee, £112,000 a-year, added to the abnormal state of the money-market, had hitherto preventedthe company raising the funds to meet the debentures except at exorbitant rates. It might be necessary to meet the question in the only practicable way, by obtaining further time for their payment, and giving an equi valent in an increased rate of interest, while the se curity would continue the same. The board would probably convene a meeting of the bondholders, and suggest that two or three of the principal holders should act as a committee to co-operate with the board in such measures as might be deemed most desirable in the common interests. He concluded by moving a resolution to the effect that the directors be empowered to enter into such arrangement, and make such terms and conditions with the holders of the debentures of the £250,000 as they might deem expedient. Mr. J. E. COLEMAN seconded the motion, and it was agreed to. It was also agreed that a meeting of the bondholders referred to be held that day fort night. On the motion of Mr. PACKER, seconded by Mr. KIRRY, Mr. Billings was elected a director of the company, and the proceedings terminated. :MELBOURNE AND HOBSON'S BAY UNITED. Thereport of the directors congratulated the share holders upon the general prosperity of the under taking. The revenue from the passenger traffic was steadily on the increase, a considerable augmenta tion of the number of passengers mid receipts hav ing taken place since the directors reduced the rates of transit between Melbourne and Richmond to the same fares as those to Emerald-hill. The receipts from merchandise were below those of the corre sponding period of last year, but th© directors thought the causes of this decrease were not perma nent. Superior shed accommodation for receiving goods to and from the vessels at the pier had re cently been provided at Melbourne hh station at a cost The profits for t of £20,000. the half year, after de ducting the interest on debenturesbeing iv and working o g ut a o t f the rate of ex penses, amounted to £ 27,284 , Dearly 101 per cent. per annum, which the directors deducted £26,735 for a divid end at the rate of 10 per cent. per annum, which was d ec l ared at the general meeting in Melbourne, leaving a ba lance of £549. The expenditure on capital account amounted to £925,787. The revenue account for six months and one day ending December 31 last amounted to £64,484, the working expenditure to £29,384, and the interest on loans to £7,816, leav ing a balance, as above, of £27,284. The traffic returns on this company's line, 17 miles in le ng end ins th amounted for the fo ur weeks end to £10,249 , against £10,620 for the cor responding four weeks of last year The , s h ow ing a de crease of £37 1, averaged £ l5l, a receipts per mile per wee k weeks of last a gainst £156 for the correspond in g ear GRAND fr - Ittlili. OF CANADA. The traffic receipts of this company's lines for the week ending the 24th of March amounted for local £2 for forei gn passengers to , 082 , ers for t mails , passeng 15,797 &c. , , to £ 9 76, f or l ocal freight and live stock to £14,683, for foreign freight and a gainst £26,310 live stock to £l,967—total, £25,505 , for the corresponding week of 1865, Showin g a de crease of £BO5. The total receipts from the Ist of January to the above date amounted t o £ 281,586, period last year to £2 65,552, and for th e same showing an increase of £16,034. MAURITIUS. The traffic receipts on amounted for the week ending the 11th of February to £1,328, against £495 on the north line, 31 miles in length, for the corresponding week last year, showing an increase of £833. The receipts for the week ending the 18th of February amounted to £1,255, against £282, showing an increase of £973. The receipts for the week ending the 25th of February amounted to £1,256, against £628, showing an increase of £628. The receipts on the two lines for the wee k endin g the 4th of March amounted to £1,273, against £ 619 onthe north line, showing au increase of .£654. The total receipts for the four weeks ending the 4th of March amounted to £5,112 on G 5 miles, against £2,021 on 31 miles for the corresponding period, showing an increase of £3,085. DEIIERARA• The traffic receipts on this company's line for the fortnight ending the 17th of March amounted to $5,287, and for the corresponding fortnight last year to $4,210, showing an increase of $1,077. CARLISLE AND SILLOTIL The report states that the contingent rent paid by the North British Company this half-year amounts to £2,433. This, with the fixed half-yearly rent of £l,OOO, less income-tax, and £53 brought from last half-year, after providing for the interest upon debentures and preference stock, leaves a balance of £897 available for dividend on the ordi nary stock of the company. The directors there fore recommend that a dividend of 1 per cent. per annum, less income-tax, be declared on the ordinary stock at the ensuing meeting. MANCHESTER, SHEFFIELD, & LINCOLNSHIRE. This company has completed its arrangements to run two of its new steamers between Grimsby and Rotterdam. The Leeds and the Bradford are the two steamers at present devoted to the trade. It is stated that a bi-weekly service to Antwerp is also to be arranged. ELY, HADDENHAM, AND SUTTON. The 'raffle on this line commenced to-day. The line, which is 71 miles in length, is to be worked by the Great Eastern. TELEGRAPH CONSTRUCTION AND MAIN TENANCE (LIMITED). The report of the directors states that the whole of the purchas e money d ue to the Gutta Percha Company had been paid to them, consequently this company is in full possession of all the property. The final award to Messrs. Glass, Elliott, and Co. for their business of telegraph contractors and manufacturers had been received, and made up the total sum of £163,471, payable to them for the pro perty and goodwill of the firm, being £11,529 less than the amount of £ 175,000 mentioned in the agreement. This property was now in possession of the company. During the past year the manufac ture of the Atlantic cable was completed, and the amounts received in cash and realised securities, and the market value on Dec. 31, 1865, of the securities undisposed of at that date had been brought the pro fit and loss account. The directors ha 4 entered into an agreement with the Anglo-American Telegraph Company to manufacture and lay a new telegraph line between England and America, and to endea vour to complete the line partly laid in 1865, in the success of which operation they had the greatest confidence. The net profits for the year 1865, after deducting the entire loss on sale of Atlantic Tele graph shares realised, and the depreciation in value of those in hand, amounted to £118,343, which with the balance from 1864 would make £161,668, from which a reserve had been made for repairs of the Malta and Alexandria Telegraph of £6,356 ; and the following further amounts had been de ducted—viz., interest on unpaid purchase money, £18,771;; third interim dividend to the shareholders on capital at 5 per cent. per annum, £9,298, leav ing a disposable balance of £127,243. Out of this the directors proposed to write off £2,431 for ex penses of valuation and awards, to pay £13,214 for interest on capital at 5 par cent. per annum, to carry £8,583 to the reserve fund, to pay a divi dend at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum (free of income tax), which with the interim dividend made up a total dividend of 10 per cent. per annum on the paid up capital, to carry to a reserve account in respect of the outlay on the Atlantic expedition of 1865 £60,000, which would make the amount in reserve £81,177, and to carry forward a balance of £16,589. The company had obtained a renewal of the lease of the Malta and Alexandria Telegraph. The balance-sheet showed totals en both sides of £1,239,736, including a share capital of £522,328. $1,751,000, on which there was an insurance of but $32.7,000. Private information received from Texas goes to show a greatly improved condition of things in portions of that State. The question of manhood suffrage is openly advocated in many places, and is receiving influential support. The crop of cotton, it is stated, will be greater the coming year than ever before raised in that State. The New York Tribune says :—" It is regarded as certain that at the next Papal Consistory one of the bishops of the United States will be created a cardinal. According to the prevalent opinion in Rome this distinction is to be conferred, not upon any of the bishops who, during the war, showed a warm sympathy with the cause of the Union, nor upon any one of those who kept a profound silence on the national question, nor upon any of the arch bishops, but upon the special envoy from Jeff. Davis to Rome—Bishop Lynch, of Charleston. Of course, this opinion resist only on rumours, and may yet turn out to be without foundation. It is also stated as probable that one of the Mexican biShops will be raised to the dignity of a cardinal." One of the clearest proofs of the returning pro sperity of the port of Charleston, S.C., is that the receipts from customs from that port in the month of February last was $31,618.71. A bill has been introduced into Congress, autho rising the establishment of an Ocean Mail steamship Company between Charleston, S. C., and Liverpool, via Queenstown. The Atlantic and Mississippi Steamship Com pany have twenty-three steamers constantly run ning between New Orleans, Memphis, and St. Louis. The amount of produce going down the river to New Orleans was never so large as at pre sent—cotton shippers preferring this route as the cotton undergoes but one transhipment. The manufacturing establishments of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, includes 50 glass factories, 58 oil refineries, 31 rolling mills, 46 iron foundries, 33 machine shops, 10 boiler works, six large steel works, 10 brass foundries, 16 potteries, five cotton' mills, 4 woollen mills, nine plough works, 10 establishments for heavy forging ; also a number of white lead factories, chemical works, saw, axe, copper, and other manufactories of only the great' staples of trade, turning out nearly one hundred million dollars in value of her own manufactures. There were in the United States at the begin ning of the present year 593 railroad companies running one or more railway routes. At the close of the year 1864, the date of the last official returns, there were nearly thirty-five thousand miles of rail way in the United States, supported at an annual expense of $1,264,336,000. We think few people are aware of the immense sums that have been ex pended in building some of our American railroads. The Illinois Central, 708 miles long, cost $28,610,000 ; the New York Central, 555 miles, $32,740,000; the Erie, 528 miles, $39,428,000; the Memphis and Charleston, 290, $67,450,000 ; the Chicago, Peoria, and Quincy, 400 miles, $39,270,000. Pennsylvania has more miles of railway than any other State, reporting 3,359 miles of the iron track ; Ohio, the second in order, has 3,310 miles; Illinois, third, 3,156. Massachusetts has 1,285 miles, costing $59,051,000. An interesting statement of the strength of the Federal army and its distribution over the country has been transmitted to the United States Congress. It appears that on the 9th January the army con sisted of 26,587 regulars, 57,590 white volunteers, and 65,736 negroes—total force, 149,943. Of this number 41,744 have since been mustered out of ser vice, reducing the army to about 108,000 men. On January the 9th, 103,936 of these troops were dis tributed among the various Southern States, and those mustered out were taken almost excusively from Southern garrisons, so that now there are about 62,000 men in the Southern States. On the 9th January the distribution of men in the South was as follows :—Texas, 29,248 ; Missouri, 10,890 ; Tennessee, 10,684 ; Alabama, 10,623 ; Mississippi, 10,193 ; Louisiana, 10,153 ; Arkansas, 8,567 ; South Carolina, 4,768 ; Virginia, 4,641 ; North Carolina, 3,106; Georgia, 1,063. There were no troops in Maryland, Florida, or Kentucky. The ninth volume of Mr. Bancroft's " History of the United States" may be expected within a few days. - Governor Buckingham, of Connecticut, has issued a proclamation appointing March 30th as a day of fasting and humiliation in that State. There are indications that New Orleans and Key West are to be abandoned as naval depots. Nearly all supplies are being removed from them. The shipments of copper ore from San Francisco to Boston during 1865 were 10,614 tons ; to New York, 7,528 tons; to Great Britain, 10,762 tons. Total shipments, 28,934 tons. The Lake Superior mines produced 9,971 tons of copper in 1865, a gain of 915 tons over 1864. Iron county, Missouri, is tempting to capitalists. It contains more iron than any other equal area in the country, and also abounds in copper and lead I ores, accessible by rail from all points North and East via St. Louis. A co-operative store in Trenton, New Jersey, is doing a business of $50,000 a year, the stockholders making large profits, and buying cheaper than they could at the other shops. Some Philadelphia and Pittsburg capitalists have been incorporated as the Kentucky Lead and Zinc Mining Company, with a capital of $500,000. They propose to develope some veins of lead ore in Crit tenden county, Kentucky. The Missouri Pacific and Union Pacific Rail roads have made the contract for the transportation of some 10,000 troops destined for the plains, and for the vast amount of supplies and Government freight for Fort Riley and Western posts in Colorado and New Mexico. As the transit of these is to com mence about the first of April, the Missouri Pacific load must necessarily complete its connection with he Union Pacific, in West Kansas, about that me. TIIE UNITED STATES AND TILE PARIS EXIIIBI TlON.—General N. P. Banks, in his recent speech in Vie United States Congress, urged that some of the national vessels be used to transport American contributions to the Great Exposition. He said : " We want the people of Europe to see of what our navy is composed—our iron-clads and Monitors, as novel in naval architecture as was the yacht Ame rica. We want them to see 20-inch guns, and the thousand-pound projectiles we have fabricated. The naval authorities of our country, I am told, would not hesitate to challenge the navies of the whole world to discharge their batteries upon one of our irresistible and silent Monitors, if they will allow that Monitor to return the fire of each by a single shot." TILE PACIFIC RAILP.OAD.—A message from the President, communicated to the Senate, March 12th, inclosed a memorial of the Legislature of Colorado, with a letter from Governor Cummings, praying an amendment of the charter of the Pacific Railroad to secure its location on the Smoky Hill route, via Fort Riley, Denver, and Salt Lake. It represents that this route is two hundred miles shorter, with a present population of fifty thousand, and the most feasible pass through the mountains, while the other is an unpeopled wilderness for a distance of one thousand miles. A letter from Alabama says :—" I am happy to state to you that our free negroes are doing finely. We have no trouble with them ; they have all gone to work manfully ; they give an impetus to trade that we never before had. I have sold Jack Peters' negroes more goods this year and last year than I ever sold Peters, and he owned 450 negroes. So you see the free-negro system is working well with us." Anti-monopoly meetings are constantly held through the West. At Orland Cook county, Illinois, the farmers have formed a league for the purpose of working in concert toward the reduction of the pre sent evil. They insist that the only remedy for overcharges in freight is a ship canal around Niagara Falls. COUNTERFEITING TILE FENIAN BONDS. The business of counterfeiting the Fenian bonds has been carried on extensively in New York. Three presses in n re tiiat r eportedcity, atondhapveerhbapeesnlornugnenng r, i on f a or ve a ry f a o c r e tn u i r g a h te t counterfeit of bonds of various denominations. The spurious $lO bonds so closely resemble the genuine that it requires an expert to detect the MISCELLANEOUS AMERICAN NEWS. From the Insurance Commissioners' Report we learn that the domestic insurance companies of Massachusetts had outstanding, at the date of last official return, outstanding fire risks to the amount of $196,456,708, and outstanding marine risks to the amount of $13,282,730. The mutual compa nies had, at same time, marine risks outstanding to the amount of $31,207,219, and fire risks to the amount of $239,905,677. Foreign fire and marine insurance companies, doing business in Massachu setts, have insured in this State during the past year property to the amount of $277,220,371.31. There are parties at work endeavouring to per suade Congress to enact a National Insurance Act, based upon the same principle as the National Bank Act,—a principle which will oblige all insurance companies to base themselves upon Government stocks. There is no prospect of their immediate success. A new company, under the title of the Great Southern and Western Life and Accident Insurance Company, has just been established in New Orleans, with General Longstreet for President. FIRE INSURANCE COMPANIES.—During 18G5 the Losses by fire in the United States exceeded 343,000,000, and in the last eleven years the follow ing losses are reported :- 1855 513,040,000 1856 1857 1858 1859 1860 1861 1862 1863 1864 1865 Total losses 5214,588,000 For the ten months ending March Ist, 1866, $700,000 of internal revenue were collected in the 4th District of New York. The Lorillards paid in taxes, on manufactured tobacco, $375,754 for eight months business. The following named firms did business exceeding $5,000,000 in amount : Georffe Bliss and Co. .. 510,273,000 S. B. ° Chittenden and Co. E. S. Jaffray and Co. .. 7 000„ 000 Lanthrop, Ludington, and Co 8,209,000 A. T. Stewart and Co. Hoyt, Sprague, and Co. 6,872,939 Low, Harriman, 'and Durfee.. 6,000,000 Anthony and Hall G. Brewers and Co 5,863,172 H. B. Clafin and Co Garner and Co. .... 8,151,123 George A. Weeks and Co J. . 10,000,000 flames L. Littl© and Co 5,179,000 Tefit, Griswold, and Kellogg, 126, Duane-st 6,141,000 Woodward, Laurence, and Co.. 91, Chambers-st. 6,546, 000 Hunt, T illiudha s t, an d C o., 7 0 and 72, Reade-st. 6255000 The Central Illinois Wool Growers' Association met at Springfield on the 15th inst. The Associa tion passed resolutions recommending Congress so to adjust the tariff that all foreign wool shall pay a duty of 15 cents per pound, irrespective of qua lity or grade ; 30 cents per pound on washed wool ; 45 cents on scoured wool, and 25 cents per pound on foreign shoddy and rags. The subject of pro viding for the sale of wool so as to enable the grow ers to have something to do about establishing the price was taken into consideration, b u t no planed. The members present were th e owners of, w as present 45 300 sheep, and naturally felt a deep interest in everything pertaining to wool raising. The number of persons engaged in manufacturing employments in Ohio is estimated at 300,000 e ; and the manufacturing products for 1865 wer valued at $67,000,00 0 . The Rochester Express says that all the merchants of that city were notifiel to call at the Collector's to pay afine of fifty dollars for neglecting to offi ceß b t o es receipts given on the Express Company's the delivery of wares, merchandise, or money, '3ll A great fire occurred at Cincinnati on the 2 2 d instant. The splendid opera house built by Mr. Pike, and of which he was the sole owner, was 'com pletely destroyed. The loss of Mr. Pike will foot up $1,000,000. He had only $37,000 insurance on the opera house. Several others of those among the sufferers lose to the amount of over $lOO,OOO. The fire extended across the wide thoroughfare known as Fourth-street, injuring the Buckeye Billiard Saloon to the extent of $lO,OOO, but not extending to other buildings on the same block. The total 1 055 was THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 16, 1866. cheat. The engravers and printers of these coun terfeit bonds are said to have been employed by men of large resources—and it is, moreover, alleged that the backers of the counterfeiters have employed a gang of adventurers• to distribute their bonds, and that already many thousands of the false tokens have been sold to hundreds of incredulous Irishmen and hard-working servant girls, and that the interior of the State, and New England and the West, have been flooded with the counterfeits, or arc to be flooded within a fortnight. CONFESSION OF ONE OF TIIE WASHINGTON CON SPIRATORS.—A man named King, arrested at Louis- vine, Kentucky, a few days since for a theft re cently committed in Ohio, and who is in gaol await ing a requisition from the Governor of Ohio, has confessed to Harris, a recently-confined Govern ment detective, that he (King), and not Payne, was the man who attempted to assassinate Secretary Seward in Washington, in April last. This confes sion being repeated to Major-Genvral Jeff. C. Davis, temporarily commanding the department, he telegraphed to Washington for parties who were acquainted with the facts of the assassination con spiracy to come and investigate the affair. King is identified as a rebel spy during the rebellion. When the American war began, or a little later, many Americans converted their property into gold, and sent it to England. The amount of money thus thrown into English business is variously esti mated, the highest figures being $500,000,000, and the lowest $300,000,00 0 . The burning oil or gas well, twelve miles below Franklin, on the banks of the Alleghany River, has not yet been extinguished, but apparently burns as fiercely as ever. THE GREAT MINERAL SPRINGS.—The Lelands, of the New York Metropolitan and Saratoga hotels, have addressed Robert G. M'Creary, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, a letter, soliciting the lease of the summer hotel, which they learn is about to be erected in the vicinity of the mineral springs found on the battle-field, of which they understand he is the proprietor, providing the hotel will be large enough to accommodate the summer visitors to the battle-field, the National Cemetery, and the springs. To this Mr. M'Creary replied that the springs have been visited by thousands, that the water is daily carried away in large quantities, but no definite arrangements have yet been made to erect the hotel and put the water in the market, though there is an increasing public demand for both. THE GOLD AND SILVER-BEARING ORES OF LAKE SUPERIOR.—The Houghton Gazette has a long article on the gold and silver-bearing ores in the " Silver Lead" region. It says :—" During the past six months repeated assays of the rock ob tained from the Silver Lead vein shows a value of $7OO per fathom in gold and silver. Supposing three-fourths of this amount can be obtained by the present methods of extraction the yield would still be over poo per fathom. It is a good copper lode or vein which yields 400 pounds of refined copper per fathom, which, at present prices, would only be worth $l6O ; at the average price for the past two years, say 25 cents, it would be worth poo per fathom, or only one-fifth of the silver and gold rock. A VOICE FROM THE SOUTII.—A numerous and influential meeting of the citizens of Norfolk, Vir ginia, was held a few days since, the Mayor in the chair, at which resolutions were adopted strongly endorsing the restoration policy of President John son. In respect of reconciliation it was, among other things, resolved :—" That, having in good faith ac cepted the result of the late contest between the North and the South, we desire that all traces of alienation shall be obliterated, and we cordially invite enterprising men from every State of the American Union to settle among us, assuring them that they will be received as fellow-citizens of our common country, and co-labourers in building up that commercial greatness which we believe our city is destined to attain." This is the proper spirit, and we hope similar meetings will be held in other por tions of the Southern country. A large number of enterprising people in the North are deterred from going South and engaging in the labour of develop ing the vast resources of that part of the country, in consequence of apprehending that their presence will be unwelcome, and that they will be subjected to irritating taunts and insults from the native re sidents. We do not believe that this feeling pre vails to any extent among intelligent communities in the South ; and if expression be given to the Southern voice in the manner it has been in Nor folk, much good will accrue to the people of both sections.—New York Times. llon. Solomon Foot, a member of the United States Senate from Vermont, died on the 28th March, in Washington, after an illness of several weeks. Mr. Foot was a native of Cornwall, Addi son county, Vermont, and was born November 19, 1802. On his graduating at Middlebury College he adopted the profession of law, and soon rose to eminence at the bar of his native State. In 1833, '36, '37, '3B, and '39 he was a member of the Ver mont House of Representatives, and was Speaker during the last three years. Ile was also chosen a member of the State Constitutional Con vention, and held the office of State's Attorney for Rutland for six or seven years in succession. In 1843 he was elected a member of Congress, and on the expiration of his term was re-elected. In 1850 he was appointed a United States Senator, and in 1856 and 1862 he was again chosen by the Legislature to fill the responsible position of Se nator, and during the latter part of the Thirty sixth and through the entire sessions of the Thirty seventh Congress lie presided as President pro tem over the: deliberations of the Senate. In early political life Mr. Foot was a Whig, and an ardent admirer of Webster and Clay. Slavery in its grasp of power found in him one ready to meet and sturdily oppose its advance, and when the rebellion was inaugurated he stood forth earnestly battling in defence of right, truth, and the unity of the States. Mr. Foot was a man of rare integrity and worth. No one possessed more the confidence of his com peers than did he, while those opposed to him held him in the highest esteem. In his decease Vermont and the nation experience a great loss ; for where a good citizen and an honest statesman dies the coun try at large will appreciate his death as a public calamity. Movements of Cotton in America. THE COMING COTTON CROP. —The Columbus (Georgia) Sun, in reviewing the speculations con cerning the earning cotton crop, estimates the amount to be 1,200,000 bales, or one-fourth the quantity produced in 1861. In Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, West Tennessee, and Alabama, there is not one-half the required labour available to raise the usual crop before the war. One-fourth of the South Alabama field labour has gone, and about one-half only of the customary produce will be realised by what is left. About one-third of a crop can only be expected in Georgia. In the Sea Island districts little cotton is expected to be raised as com pared with the quantity heretofore p roduced. Still, in the face of all these specula tions, cotton I recedes in price, and it surely cannot do so with out good cause. THE COTTON CROP IN LOUISIANA. --We have a letter dated Baton Rouge, March 6, in which the writer, who has good opportunity of obtaining in formation, the coming season is promising, and ev en at this says:—" The prospect for a g ood cro p early day the planters are making preparations to plant the largest amount of land they can find hands to work. Cotton will be the principal crop this year in this part of the State, and I am in formed that nothing but cotton will be raised throughout the State." CORN AND COTTON.—A Macon exchange states that little or no corn will be raised in the South this year, owing to the enormous profits which arc ex pected to be realised from the growth of cotton. In view of the fact that the South must buy all the breadstuffs it needs, the same paper says :—" The L West must now feed us ; and if the freedman turns ; out to be a faithful labourer, the trade between the South and West will exceed anything before known." There is scarcely any doubt but that the South will devote its whole energies to the raising of cot ton. It cannot possibly cost more than eight cents a pound in gold to grow it, while, if the crop turns out at all fair, it must sell for over twenty-five cents a pound in gold. So large and so certain a margin is rarely offered for an agricultural pro duct, and all accounts agree that, With the freed men or without them, a very large amount will be raised if the season is at all propitious. TOTAL RECEIPTS OF CorroN.—Mobile, March 13.—The receipts of cotton since the close of the war to date at all ports are 1,860,000 bales. It is thought that up to September 1, the close of the year, the total will reach, if not exceed, 2,100,000 bales. At this port alone 100,000 bales are yet looked for prior to that date. A New Orleans despatch of 20th says the number of vessels now engaged at different ports in loading cotton for Europe is 138, of which 108 are loading for England, and 30 for France. The exports from New Orleans the previous week were 15,800 bales—the greatest portion for Great Britain, and the balance for France and Spain. The receipts at all the ports since the Ist September last are put down at 1,500,000 bales. COTTON IN ILLINOIS.—The great increase in the production of cotton in Illinois, during the last three years is worthy of note. In 1862 the Illinois Central Railroad carried only 1,410 pounds of Illi nois cotton ; in 1865 it carried 1,579,000 pounds. It is estimated that last year's crop will foot up fully 10,000 bales, and that the average profit per acre is po. The following figures show the pro duction of several counties for 1865 :—Jefferson county, 435 acres, 240 bales ; Perry county, 661 acres, 639 bales ; Jackson county, 3,280 acres, 1,876 bales ; Williamson county, 1,678 acres, 1,000 bales ; Union county, 2,700 acres, 1,458 bales ; Johnson county, 1,600 acres, 800 bales ; Massac county, 723 acres, 270 bales ; Pulask county, 127 acres, 200 bales; Alexander county, 310 acres, 270 bales ; Pope county, 350 acres, 190 bales ; Haidin county, 45 acres, 30 bales ; Gallatin county, 300 acres, 200 bales ; Franklin county, 625 acres, 352 bales. The average yield per acre is a trifle over 800 pounds. This is an estimate made from cotton in the seed, but it takes from 3 1-3 to 3I in the seed to make one pound in lint. The average weight of bales is from 350 to 375 pounds. Shocking Murder at Tunbridge Wells. A shocking murder has taken place at Tunbridge Wells. The woman who is charged With the crime is named Ann Laurence, twenty-nine years of age, and lives at 2, Ebury-cottages, London-road. She has been living for some time with a man named Walter Higham, who obtains a livelihood by hawk ing vegetables. On Saturday morning the man and woman and two young children were in bed to gether, and about five o'clock the woman got out of bed, went down stairs, and got a billhook, with which she set upon the man, striking him over the head several times. He made his escape into an adjoining house. The woman then seems to have got a razor and cut the throat of a boy about four years of age. Dr. Davy, who was the house sur geon to the Infirmary, was called in, and the man was removed to that institution. He was found on examination to have four large wounds on his head, and about a dozen cuts on his back. His right arm was quite cleft through, while on his left hand there was a large wound, and his left wrist was dis located. When taken into custody the woman denied the charge, and imputed it to the man Higham. It is said that the man has a wife and the woman a hus - - band, though they have been living from them for a considerable time. The prisoner was brought before the magistrates on Saturday, and remanded till to day. • The first witness called was a woman named Mary Taylor, wife of a bricklayer's labourer, living at No. 3, Ebury-cottages, who said—About half past 5 o'clock this morning I heard a noise of " tas selling" in the bedroom of No. 2, occupied by the prisoner and the man with whom she was living. I don't know the man's name. There were two child ren living in the house also—a baby and a little boy. At about 20 minutes before 6 o'clock I heard a great screaming of " Murder." There were two voices screaming—a man's and a woman's. I took no no tice of the screaming for a minute or two, and then I heard the man calling out, " Missus ! missus ! come in and assist me. Go for a doctor, or I shall die." I then got up and came downstairs, and went into the back yard. There I say the man at Mrs. Mowcum ber's, of 1, Ebury-cottages. I went to the front of the house, and saw prisoner outside. When I went round the house she said, " I want you to come in." When I went in there was a policeman there. There was blood all over the house. The prisoner was co vered with blood. Prisoner spoke to me, and said, " Will you take my baby, Mrs. Taylor ?" I took the child, and washed it, and dressed it. The child was spotted with blood. The prisoner said, "He has killed my child ; it was not his, and he never liked it." She said, " The man has killed my child." I suppose she meant the man she was living with when she said " The man." I heard her say to somebody, " You dirty -- I said I would do it, and you have driven me to it." See what it has brought you to. Live like this I won't." That was at half-past 5 o'clock. This was said before I heard the cries, " Missus ! mis sus! come iu," and before the cries of "Murder." The man was in Mrs. Mowcumber's wash-house when I went into the prisoner's house. I think he went out of the front door of the prisoner's house into Mrr. Mowcumber's house, but I did not see him. When I washed and dressed the baby the prisoner was in the room, just going to wash and dress herself. The baby was in her arms when I went into the house, in its night-gown. During the time I was doing this the prisoner was washing herself and tak ing off her things, which were covered with blood. The prisoner had a dark stuff dress and an apron on. Both these things were saturated with blood. Her sleeves were stripped up, and her arms and face were covered with blood. I was in the house altogether about an hour. Prisoner did not speak either to me or the policeman. I did not see the child. I did not go upstairs. Police-constable May said he went to the prisoner's house, about 6 o'clock that morning, and in a bedroom he found the body of a child with its throat cut, and the razor, which he produced, remaining in the -wound. Police-con stable Henley corroborated the evidence of the pre vious witness, and produced a billhook, which he found behind a portion of a faggot in the prisoner's house. Ile asked the prisoner if she bad wounded the man Walter, and she said, " Yes, I did." He showed her the billhook, and she said "That is what I did it with. I meant to do for him, for he has brought me into all this trouble." She said it was all through another woman coming to see him who lived at Mailing. Superintendent Emery, who took the prisoner into custody, deposed to the following statement made by her. He said after he had been upstairs and seen the dead body of the child he asked her the name of it, and she said, " His name is Jeremiah Lawrence, and he was four years old last March. It is my husband's child." He then went and saw the man Higham. On his return he told the prisoner he must take her into custody for the murder of her child, and attempting to murder Higham. She said, " All the man got I gave to him ; I meant to kill him, and I am sorry that I did not. I did not kill the child." Just before this a man named Holland came in and asked for a shirt for Higham, and prisoner said, " Don't let that man come in here. He shan't come in. He has been the cause of all this. He has gone with my husband to the woman's house who has caused all this mischief." After prisonerhad been locked up for some hours she called the superintendent, and asked him if she should have an opportunity of saying anything before the magistrates, and expressed her determination to tell the truth, provided it was taken down in writing. He told her she would be able to say what she pleased then, but advised her to say nothing about the crime to him. rAm-ErnsEmENT:l—Holloway's Ointment and Pills. — These potent remedies constitute a naateria medics in themselves, for there is no internal or external disorder controllable ty medicine for which the one or the other of them is not a positive remedy—eruptions, tumours, scro fula, scurvy, cancer, asthma, rheumatism, gout, and dropsy entirely subside and disappear unde r the action of these joint medicines ; and in cases of indigestion, sick head ache, bile, liver complaints, debility , and other disorders originating in the internal organs, the pills. pro duce the most astonishing results imaginable. The students of na ture know how simple are her ways ; if one preparation can throw out all impurities from the blood, disease is con quered, art triumphant, because it adopts the simplicity of nature. „..... SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. how many new voters the Franchise Bill would add -----4,- THE "LONDON REVIEW” ON POLICEMEN IN PLAIN number of voters would belong to the working CLOTHES.—In the early part of February last a classes, or how many boroughs the working classes, deadly enconnter took place near the Crystal Palace, if united, could control, unless it is known in wh at one Saturday morning, between two persons, each localities the voting is to go on. Let us suppose of whom appeared to the other to be a malefactor that, if the present constituencies were preserved, of some kind. As it turned out, one was a police- there would under the Franchise Bill be an increase man, whose sole object was the protection of the to the whole number of voters of 400,000; the Re public ; and the other was a pianist, who had been distribution Bill may, for all that any one knows, professionally attending an evening party, and increase this enormously. If 20 large northern whose only aim was to go home and get to his bed towns were substituted for 20 small western towns , as speedily as possible. If each had known who the the total number of electors in the English boroughs other was, nothing could have been more fortunate might easily be raised in a most marked manner. than their meeting at such an hour, and in such a The more extreme advocates of reform think tha t place. For the place was lonely, and the hour the Government measure is far too moderate, an d about two in the morning, when a timid wayfarer that the working classes, even if the franchise were would be glad to know that there was a policeman reduced to £7, would form much too feeble an e le- . at hand in case of accident ; and when a policeman, ment in the constituencies. Who can tell at pres ent with a due sense of his position as a public guardian, whether this is so or not ? If the Redistributio n would feel pleased that there was some one for him Bill takes away seats from boroughs where the to protect. But two circumstances tended to dis- working men are few, and transfers them to the . arrange this fitness of things—the pianist carried a b oro ughs where working men predominate, the bill bag, and the policeman was in plain clothes, Why may be made to go . very much further than it is a man carrying a bag at night should be a more supposed to go by its friends or its foes. Then' suspicious object than a man carrying a bag by day, again, calculations are made to show that such or a we have never been able to understand. But it ap - such number of boroughs will be completely under pears that, to the eye of a constable, this is one of the control of the working classes. These calculation s the facts which demand further inquiry ; and so Mr. are ingenious enough as far as they go, but they only Maddocks, the policeman in question, seeing that go a very short way. No one who makes the cal - , Mr. Ferguson, the pianist, carried a bag, at once culation has the necessary data. A few strokes 01 followed him. This startled Mr. Ferguson. If the pen in the framing of a Redistribution Bill there is one man who may be supposed to be more would double at once the number of these boroughs. inoffensive and less dangerous than any other, we The fallacy of the whole argument of the Govern should say it is a pianist coining home after profes- ment as to the moderate nature of their pleasure sional attendance at an evening party. To say lies in this, that they draw their estimates from the nothing of the tendency of his art to civilise, and give present constituencies, and reserve to themselv es gentleness to his disposition, there is the the power of changing the constituencies, and 5° somewhat servile position lie has been filling. furnishing an entirely new set of data. If the Go- He has had to 'pipe while others danced, to change vernment openly said that it made no matter hoW his tune at command, to be servant to a merri- . ment which he has not shared, to be an inferior many men voted, and that all Britons and Ch ri. . tians might as well be voters as not, then it. won't' to persons to whom on his own ground, and not a lter the calculation of consequences very Inti ch ! perhaps, their wealth excepted, upon theirs, he how the seats were distributed. But this is not to is superior. Very possibly he has had to endure all the line which the Government adopts. It offers the discomfort of being laughed at, or of hearing us a moderate bill, a bill based on figures, a 131 ' his playing criticised as too slow or too fast, or of guar di ng aga i ns t a su dd en t rans f er of political being told that his selection shows want of taste. power, and then it reserves to itself the privilege or All this he has had to bear meekly, with a grin, if bringing in another measure of which no one know ° not with a smile; feeling that for the nonce it would the provisions, which may make the present bill a u be better to be the waiter who has been hired for extreme one, entirely alter the figures, and transfer the occasion, and who, ministering to the creature in a few months the great political preponderance to comforts of the assembly, has had guests and com- a c l ass th a t h as now b u t a sma ll p or ti on of politica l , forts much at his command, with at least the smiles power . It i s on l y, th ere f ore , i n a s pi r it of courtesy of the kitchen to console him for his labours upstairs. to the Government, and from a desire to s eem Therefore. if it were necessary for us in the loneliest t o th e i r cons tit uen t s to be doing and Wri n g time of the night, and in the dreariest season of the something, that members can pretend at present W year to have to come face to face with a stranger ana l yse the effects of the bill now under discussion " carrying a bag," and we were allowed to choose what upon inquiry the stranger should turn out to Those who, like Mr. Lowe, object to all reduction; of the suffrage can discuss the bill thoronghlY, for be, we should say, " Let him be a pianist returning their case is clear before them, but the vast mar; home after six or seven hours' labour at the piano, rity of the house wishes to have a reform bill, an d ._ accompanied with that exquisite humiliation which only asks to know the objects and the limits of, t" the British matron and British misses and their measure proposed. This the Government declines swains know so well how to inflict." But none of to let them know ; they shall know soon, but th e first thing is to pass a complimentary vote, as a _s or ,.. these merciful and considerate thoughts occurred to of testimonial to the Government. The meinm'" Maddocks. He saw before him only a man with a man with a bag. The man, alone, might have for small boroughs will then be told how they a passed muster • ' but the suspicious appendage re - to be affected by the complete measure, and w il : 4 quired explanation. So he followed him ; and as naturally begin their resistance if they f ir he followed him the man with the bag quickened their interests endangered. It was, as 1 - I° . o his pace, and presently began to run. The accute Stanley o b serve d , very art l ess art c• suPP. ° 4 „' Maddocks saw, without any doubt whatever, that he that these members would be entrapped ' 3l. was on the track of a subtle and obdurate burglar. carrying a Franchise Bill, and then, when th_ e t t And now, girding up his loins, he set off at full h a d ma d e th emse l ves p ow e r less, would meekly swag speed to run the scoundrel down, and presently t h e i r con d emna ti on . It wa s making this art s ' e a overtook him. - After a short parley there came a struggle, in the midst of which Ferguson whipped out more artless when Mr. Bright kindly explallea beforehand the secret to those who were intend a knife and stuck it into Maddocks. Then he released to be taken in. But the whole of this artless "„ himself, and, rushing back, took out his watch, laid it will be quite at an end when the Redistribu tl 7 on the pavement, and cried out, " Take that if you Bill is laid on the table. Lord Stanley, hoo ts : s e i want it, but do not hurt me." The truth of the suggested that the Ministry may have an art that matter is that the trrified pianist thought he was in is by no means artless, and that those members ' d the hands of a-Philistine when, in fact, he was fly- questionable boroughs who vote for • the s eccn ir ing from, and then stabbing, a public guardian. reading may find themselves rewarded by tbe.ii. But nothing could be more natural than the reason- borough being spared in the Redistribution )31'ci ing by which he arrived at his conclusion. A Nothing is more easy than to do a friend a g i ro policeman at two in the morning is only to be dis - t urn i n suc h a case , this 1 unless the borough he sits f or a tinguished from a civilian or a thief by his uniform. o notoriously and ludicrously bad. Ando The constable whom Mr. Ferguson stabbed was so mode of exercising pressure or influence tha t tr io unlike a policeman that he looke d uncommonl y scarcely be . detected. No one will know' vi fter changes are made in the Redistribution Bill ( L ae like a foot-pad. He was dressed in a grey top-coat the Franchise Bill has been read a second tie, and a low-crowned deer-stalker's hat. Such a cos and the bargain will be made, of course, in 3 V t o tume, at such an hour and in so lonely a place, might easily excite alarm in the breast of a man of indistinct and vague way. Or, more probablY?,. it t stronger nerves than a pianist. And then all the bargain will be made ; but as it is obvious n i t attendant circumstances favoured Mr. Ferguson's the members who sit for boroughs that oug itv idea that the policeman in plain clothes was a foot- to be disfranchised have now a great opport ll3 „ a i` i pad. For as Mr. Ferguson quickened his pace, the of rendering a last service to those wh° r '..t man in the grey topcoat quickened his also, and began to run as soon as Ferguson, so that there was make or destroy, the Government could t 3 7 i to their calculation of their own interests. _; no hope for him but to give the enemy leg-bail. In more unsatisfactory state of thinas can scarcelyVe the result both parties suffered. The policeman was be imag i ned ; and although great allowance must' bio stabbed, and Mr. Ferguson was prosecuted for ma de for those who think the best thing is at feloniously wounding him. Fortunately, Maddocks momen t to go with their party, and to keep in o ffice v recovered, and on Monday last the Grand Jury a Ministry which is probably as efficient as 51 '4 ignored the bill against Ferguson ; but " they at party or combination could now produce, yet .. , o the same time expressed their opinion that in all must be owned that the Ministry scarcely , deser:,, cases where policemen in plain clothes were employed to be treated so leniently, and that the mistake thl some unmistakeable means should be adopted, have made in throwing away the opportunity ~uii either by staff or a warrant card, to show who they passing a moderate and complete measure has be are, with a view to prevent the recurrence of a a most serious one. similar proceeding to the present." We quite agree with the protest here conveyed against the practice of sending out police in plain clothes. But we can not agree with the Grand Jury in thinking that the staff or a warrant card, or anything short of the uniform, will effectually guard against the recur rence of a similar misadventure. THE " SATURDAY REVIEW" ON TIIE REFORM DE BATE.—The house has resumed the discussion of the Reform Bill, without any change having been made in the position of parties or in the attitude of the Government. In different forms the old arguments have been stated and restated, and the same appeals have been made to the passions, the fears, and the hopes of opponents and supporters. The question has been once more asked, Shall we pass a Reform Bill ? and the answer has once more been given, that, although to pass a decently good Reform Bill would be an excellent thing, to pass a thoroughly bad one—a mere fragmentary, one-sided, incom plete bill—would be a very unwise thing. The great meeting of the Liberal party produced nothing but an appeal to that party to remember Lord Russell's services, to vote as lie wished, and to be lieve that he would take care that no harm should happen from the bill being read a second time. The Government, by using every means of pres sure,wh by satisfying one lukewarm supporter with one sup_ one sort of promise and another h wa s luke do m ne its porter with another sort of promise, a very utmost to secure a majority on the seco nd com e the deluge. No r eading. After that is to the Franchise Bill is to Minister even suggests how is taken • • d through both houses when it in be came conjunction with several other bills on which the G overnm ent is ple aged to stand or fall as much as on the Franchises4l. The Government is always standing or falling now. It is always crossing its Rubicons, breaking its bridges, and burning its boats. It is to go out if the Franchise Bill is not carried, and so it is if the Redistribution Bill is not approved ; and every argument used by the more independent of its supporters is met' by the unvarying threat that if it does not receive a blind unwavering support, through thick and thin, right and wrong, it will go out of office. Some advantage will probably be derived from this, and the Government will perhaps get a majority—a ma jority largely composed of reluctant and unwilling supporters—on the second . reading. The Rubicon and the bridges and the boats will then be done with, and the Government may think it will stand with credit ; ;but the real discussion will only then be begun, and the Opposition, as a mere party manoeuvre, might perhaps have reserved their strength with advantage until the Redistribution Bill had been produced, and the whole scheme of the Government revealed. The _debate on the whole scheme must be equally long, discursive, and elaborate whenever it is produced ; and the only question now is, whether the Government shall re ceive such a condonation for bringing in a mere fragment of Reform as will enable it to retain office. The Opposition, therefore, might have waited until the real subject of discussion arose. But the most direct and effective course, perhaps, is that which bas been taken, and if the Govern ment claims the approval or pardon of the House for having attempted to treat Reform bit by bit, the Opposition is entitled to point out and insist upon the magnitude of the mistake that has been made ; and those Liberals who, like Lord Gros venor, strongly disapprove of the 'policy adopted by their leaders, and dare to call their souls their own, give an example of honesty and independence by opposing the second reading, which they could not have given if they had waited for the produc tion of the complete scheme. We may take it for granted that there are no argu ments against Lord Grosvenor's Resolution ex cept those which are derived from such vague and remote considerations as the duty of supporting Lord Russell, the necessity of redeeming Ministerial pledges, and the expediency of winning t he a pp roval of the working classes. Mr. Gladstone made a long, a fierce, and a declamatory speech, but he did not adduce a single argument against the Resolution. Lord Stanley, on the other baud, made point after point in support of the Resolution, and there is no reply possible to his arguments except that, however strongly reason may be in favour of the resolution, general expediency is against its being adopted the present crisis. That a bill for the redistribution of seats is much more wanted than one for the extension of the franchise, and that it is impossible to calculate the effects of reducing the franchise unless the effects of redistributing the seats are taken into account, is as plain as daylight. There is no use in discussing COUNTRY MARKETS. NORWICH— SATURDAY. nd The supply of wheat was fair at this market to-dm:7111"J being in improved condition, it met a more ready s"L'3,4 fully the rates of this day week. The barley tra de is n: c , g becoming quite a nominal one, the few samples 00°;A-a being taken on late terms. The weather i s now In"— and dryer, and is very favourable for barley sowing. ,„ White wheat (weighing 641 b), 50s to 546 ; old` ed ditto (weighing 651 b), 48s to 50s ; new red ditto :e!g 11 ,1 1 : 3 1 601 b to 631 b), 42s to 47s ; bast malting barley welg,o, - 521 b to 531 b), 36s to 38s ; runs ditto (weighing 511 to sb' to 34s to 365; distilling ditto (weighing 501 b to 521 b), 3 , 115 3 6$ 32s ; oats, 24s to 26s ; beans, b7s to 39s ; peas ( maple)' to 38s per qr. Flour, 31s per sack. NOT T INGHAM—SATURDAY. be There was a moderate supply o f wheat to-day, t mand for which was goo d, at an advance of is per c i l i a There was not much life in the demand for barley, ' l l ,. sales were made at ratherunder the currencies of last we d 0 Oats met a steady sale , and prices were quito as high h ere tofore. Beaus were in short supply, and very dear. Old white wheat, 56s to 59s ; old red, 49s to 52s ; white, 53s to 57s ; new red, 45s to 49s per 36 stone. old, 30s to 35 s ; new, 24 s to 3 0 s per 24 stone. Beans, °' bOs to 53s ; new, 42s to per 47s 38s stone. LEIOEST ER SATURDAY. ieat At to-day's corn market there was not much - foe showing ; condition of samples somewhat varied. es s young wheats are looking he a lthy aroun d h er e. 1 1 °1 0 0 was firm, and a rise of is per qr. was generally male' ott ses demand for barley was quiet, and prices were in some r ies. easier. There was a s h or t supp l y o f oa t s , a t recent P New white wheat, 50s to 52s ; new red, 46s to 496 ; white, 55s to 5Gs ; old red, 49s to 52s per 36.5t01!e• to 900 ley, for malting, 35s t o 39 s p er qr . ; g rinding, 275 , s n or 14 per 30 stone. Oats, o ld, 30 s t o 33 s ; n ew, 27s to 3 t 8 4 00 5. stone. Beans, old, 50s to 52s ; new, 44s to 465 per YORK—SATURDAY. ke t tO" We had a limited supply of wheat at our corn m ar ise , 10 day. There was a fair inquiry, and farmers real t iv u oe r • per qr. more money. Barley about the same as la sfair ae- There was a small supply of oats, which met 0, f w oo 'nand, and late rates were e as ily ma d e . The show were was short, and the extr eme p r i ces of last wee' realised. „ p or New white wheat, 46s t o 52 s ; new red, 44s to ' 2 u - Idiosf stone. Barley, for malti ng , 38 s to 40s. per (1r• + r gr ol ston e. 32s to 34s per 30 ston e . O a t s , new , 26s to 28e Pe Beans, new, 44s to 48s per 40 stone. THE LONDON COAL DUTIES AND THE (If -- 1 It is understood that at Friday's sitting of the cc)tro, mitteo on the local government and taxation o f polis a resolution was carried recommending the 1 1 °L - l or ys Commons to continue the coal duties in their pres eu i t nt he for the completion of the Thames Embankm ent anu:ll,e improvements instituted by the Board of Wo rks, an" late. wise the improvement in Holborn Valley and 'Wg street, recommended by the corporation. Births. • ASHBY—On the 13th inst., at 23, Holland-roa d ? Brighton, Mrs. W. G. Ashby, of a son. -Pale r BEszox—On the 14th inst., at 10, Kensington gardens, the wife of E. L. S. Benzon, Esq., of a soll'_ i fe L IDDELL —On the 14th inst., at 72, Chester-square, tb,,oirier. of Commander J. Li ddell, H.M.S., Aurora, of a daub the Mossor —On the 13th inst., at Oakley-square, Cholsett, wife of Mr. C. Mossop, solicitor, of a son. Marriages. 31 C LARK— HAVELOCK —0 n the 14 th inst., at St. Stenni;, Hammersmith, G. W. Clark, of Notting-hill, to P 6 - 6 , ,,c , only child of the late J. Havelock, Es q ., of the Stock change, and Manor House, Stakesby, Yorkshire. IlAunlsos—HAmmoND -On the 14th lusty S tigatp o „ w ah- BriXtoD, J. T. Harrison, Esq., of Orton Villa, 14° 11J 0 borough-park, to Elizabeth, youngest daughter of to !. late J. W. Hammond, Esq., C.E., of Kingsdown, 131.1 s Deaths. ~,T nti ll nn the the 13th10th inst., lie at at e ekin t g, Essex, 11— CL1: 31 : 1 10 0 Devon, the Right Hon. Lord Clinton,e ann aged' 5. Go - J• Gooliat Esq., aged 63. HOYSON— On the 12th i ns t at Surbiton, W. IL 31°115°Iji Esq., late Major 26th Caieronians, aged Fleetlands, 45. 0 0 $ 1. HALL—On the 12th inst , a n t his residence, o rs Fareham, Hants, G. B. Hall, Esq., late of 10th Lall an J.P. for the county, aged 67. LAW d —On the 13th inst , at Vansittart House, Torgirry': Devon, A. S. Law, son of Sir R. and Lady 31outgoni° aged 20. . ir scott , Scorr—On the 12th inst., at Greenwich, Bent, l, • Es q., .D., aged 41. TREMAYN M E—On the 11th inst., at Carder', CornW o, tho Lady Frances Tremayne, aged 34. No. Lo ndon: Printed and Published by WILLIA.II AD l9 . ni Th 111 , , of No. 112, Strand, ranter, at Tray SUN Oinao , Strand, in the Precinct of the sawn , .111 the C O Middlesa4-316nday, April 16,1866. t