The Sun. — London, England, 1865-10-23 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. HIGHLAND. The report of the directors states that by the act under which this company was constituted the In verness and and Aberdeen Junction and the Inver ness and Perth Junction Railway Companies was dissolved ; and it was provided that the revenue from the 31st of January last should form the re venue of the united company, and be applied, after meeting all preference charges, in payment of an equal dividend among the ordinary shareh9lders of the two companies. The period embraced in the accounts was seven months. The gross receipts amounted to £103,950, from which was deducted £5,395 for tolls to the Scottish North Eastern and the Scottish Central Railway Companies, leaving £98,555. To this was added £597, for mileage of carriages and waggons, £857 for rents, &c., and £725 balaance from the preceding account, making £100,734. From which was deducted £50,195 for working expenses, and £26,090 for interest on loans, leaving £24,449, out of which £15,675 was deducted for dividends on the 4f per cent., 5 per cent., and 6 per cent. preference shares ; and £8,516 for the proposed dividend on the ordinary stock at the rate of 2 per cent. per annum, leaving a balance of £247. The directors regretted that in this the first report of the united company they were compelled to sub mit a statement so much less favourable than the reports of the separate companies in previous half years. This result was owing to the expense of the works necessary for completing and efficiently working the two systems of railways comprised in the united undertaking, and also, in both cases, having very considerably exceeded the cost origi nally contemplated. The excess of expenditure and liability was about equally divided between the two companies at the date of the amalgamation. Owing to the non-completion of several works, and to many claims being unsettled, the directors had only recently been able to make up a full statement of the cost of the undertaking. In order to meet the excess of expenditure, it had been necessary to ob tain cash advances from the banks at the high rates of interest which had prevailed. As, however, these advances were considerably under the authorised capital of the company, the directors considered that, in fairness to the shareholders, they ought to charge against revenue only the dividends which would have been payable upon the stocks, ordinary and preference, represented by these advances, and to carry the excess to capital as part of the cost of the undertaking, legitimately incurred in order to make available the moneys already expended. They believed that by following this course they would represent in the fairest manner the real position of the company. The works of the undertaking had been completed in a manner so substantial as to render it improbable that any large amount would be required in repairs for many years ; while their arrangements were calculated to provide for a traffic much larger than they had at present, but one with which they were satisfied from experience they would soon have to deal. The extra plant and accommodation so provided had been a considerable cause of the large excess of expenditure. The traffic was increasing with a steadiness and regularity which fully bore out the directors' anticipations of the resources of the line. This increase would, in their judgment, speedily restore the undertaking to a position of prosperity. The traffic during the past half year, compared with the corresponding period in 1864, shows an increase of about £4OO per week, and since the books were closed the average increase had amounted to £647 per week, while the working ex penses during the latter period had not increased. The revenue of the half-year had suffered from the cattle disease and the snowstorm of February last, while the company were at the same time put to a large expense in clearing the line. Thq directors were glad to state that the works on the line from Bonar-bridge to Golspie were being actively pro ceeded with. This line would prove a valuable feeder to the company's undertaking, more espe cially when extended, as it no doubt would soon be, to Wick and Thurso. An act had been obtained, also by an independent company, for making a line I from Dingwall to Skye, which would throw a large amount of traffic on the line. The length of those lines was 172 miles, and through them the whole traffic of Scotland north and west of Inverness would be brought on the company's system. The directors regretted to state that they had endeavoured with out success to obtain from the Scottish North- Eastern Company a modification of the excessive toll paid for the use of that company's line between Stanley and Perth. They were glad to state that a line had been found which would reduce the distance, and at the same time give the company a route without interruption into the Perth station. This would effect a saving to this company, while it would be a great accommodation to the public. The Aberfeldy branch was opened for public traffic on July 3. This completed the Highland Company's system, whidh comprised 246 miles of railway. The capital account showed that £2,604,353 had been expended, leaving a balance of £201,460 against the company. LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN. The adjourned meeting of this company was held on Saturday at Euston Station ; Mr. R. Moon in the chair. The CHAIRMAN said he was sorry to say that the business for which the meeting had been convened was not yet ready, and it would be necessary to ad journ the meeting for a few weeks, by which time he hoped the lawyers would have the documents ready to submit to the proprietors. He then moved that the meeting be adjourned to Nov. 18 next. Mr. BROWN-WESTHEAD seconded the motion, which was agreed to, and the meeting adjourned. DRAYTON JUNCTION. The adjourned half -yearly meeting was held at Stafford on Saturday ; the Earl of Lichfield in the chair. The report stated that the working plans and sections had been completed, and the works could be commenced immediately after the possession of the necessary lands being obtained. The arrange ments with the land-owners were in a forward state, a considerable number having already been agreed with. The Wrexham, Mold, and Connah's-quay Railway Company, with whom this company were in close alliance, had nearly completed their line to Wrexham, and were proceeding with the extension to Whitchurch. An arrangement had been entered into between this company and the Mold and Den bigh, the Shrewsbury and Potteries Junction, the Wrexham, Mold, and Connah's-quay, and other companies, for a mutual exchange of running powers, which were expected to increase the traffic on those railways and render them of greater service to the public. Parlioment had conferred upon this company powers for the construction of a line from Frees to Betisfield, with the addition of running powers to Oswestry, in exchange for the Cambrian Company acquiring running powers to Market Drayton ; thus the Drayton Junction Company, would have access to the mineral district of Wrex bun and the Dee, and to Oswestry, Shrewsbury, Market Drayton, Whitchurch, and Stafford. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, stated that it was the intention of the direc tors to commence the works between Drayton and Staf ford immediately, and there was every prospect of their being finished simultaneously with the com pletion of the line from Wrexham to Whitchurch. The report was unanimously adopted. MID-ITANTS. The directors in their report congratulate the pro prietors on the opening of the railway from Alton to Winchester on the 2d in s t. The trathc on this por tion of the company's undertaking, so far as it could at present be ascertained, fully answered the expec tations which bad been formed of it, a n d the direc tors had no reason to doubt that it would be remune rative. The requirements of the London and South- Western Railway Company, with reference to station accommodation, had been reasonable, new tank en gines had been provided so as to work conveniently the gradients on the railway, and the carriages on the line and the train service were for the present satisfactory. So soon as the Medstead passing place las completed an acce l era ti on of the trains and a better communicatio n w ith th e Portsmouth, Salis bury, eyninouth lines at Bishopstoke,.wa i s pro mised.n.a ncial difficulties of the period dur- ing which the line had been under construction had increased the cost of the line, and this cause, toge ther with the necessity for a further expenditure in stations and arrangements for the development of the goods traffic, and the probable necessity of doubling the Alton and Winchester Railway, would render it necessary to apply to Parliament for an in crease in the capital of the company. The arrange ment with the London and South-Western Railway , Company for working, when cottatructed, the autho rised line from Ropley to Meonstoke, was on terms precisely similar to those for working the Alton and Winchester line, with the exception that the pro portion of gross earnings to be received by the pro prietors in this portion of the company's undertak ing was 55 per cent. instead of 571 per cent. The earnings on the Winchester line were in no way pledged to the construction of, or the payment of, any divi dend upon the shares of the Ropley and Meonstoke line. The capital account of the Alton lines showed that £195,919 had been expended, leaving a balance of £1,140 at the bankers. EAST NORFOLK. The contract for this line has been let to Mr. W. S. Simpson. The Great Eastern are to find one third of the capital, and to work the line when opened at 50 per cent. of the gross receipts. DOWN HAM, STOKE FERRY, AND BRANDON. A line is projected between these points. Mr. Harkness, the engineer, estimates the cost of the line, 161 miles in length, at £B,OOO per mile. Naval and Military Intelligence. The paddlewheel steam frigate Terrible, 21, Capt. G. J. Napier, left Plymouth on Saturday afternoon for the Mediterranean to relieve the Magicienne. The screw steamship Black Prince, 41, Capt. Lord F. H. Kerr, is expected at Plymouth from Ireland. The screw steam storeship Fox, 2, Staff-Corn mander H. A. Moriarty, left Plymouth on Saturday with stores for Pembroke. The screw steamship Revenge, 73, Capt. T. 11. Mason, left Plymouth on Friday for Coastguard duty at Pembroke. The Basilisk, 6, paddle, Capt. Hewett, V.C., is expected to sail to-day from Spithead for China, calling in at Plymouth Sound on her way down Channel. It certainly seems rather an incongruous proceeding on the part of the Admiralty to appoint a captain wearing the Victoria Cross to the command of a vessel that will have to perform tug duties in China. The Admiralty have given instructions for another of the iron mortar boats belonging to the squadron laid up at the eastern end of Chatham dockyard since the termination of the Russian war to be converted into a dockyard tender for service at Woolwich, where the work of converting her is to be carried out. Although several of the mortar boats have recently been brought into use for various purposes there is still a large number lying high and dry at Chatham. From an inspection of the squadron recently instituted the whole were found in generally sound condition, each boat being roofed in and the exterior coated with a thick mix ture of red lead, to preserve it from the effects of the weather. An admiralty order has been received at Chatham dockyard announcing that it has been decided to adopt throughout the naval service a new pattern of quill friction tubes, fitted with loops and studs, on the gun, the detonating hammers and tubes, as well as the friction tubes now in use, being accordingly withdrawn, and the new tubes universally adopted. The order further directs that all guns now in store at the home stations, whether in ships in commis sion or in the steam reserve, are to be fitted with the stud, and the vents enlarged at the top, as re commended. Ships on foreign stations will retain the present proportion of detonating tubes until put out of commission. Saturday last being the anniversay of the battle of Trafalgar, the ship that carried Lord Nelson on that occasion, the three-decker Victory, now and for many years past doing duty as the flag-ship of the Port-Admiral and naval Commander-in-Chief at Portsmouth, was decorated with laurel wreaths at each of her royal mastheads, and on the heads of her bowsprit jack and ensign staffs. At noon Capt. F. Scott, C. 8., A.D.C. to the Queen, the present captain of the Victory, provided a substantial din ner on board for all those who served under Nelson still remaining in the vicinity of the port, and who could put in an appearance on board Nelson's ship. We are informed that Lieut. Dundas, of her Ma jesty's ship Zebra, is not the son of an admiral, as has been stated, and also that many circumstances connected with the recent trial by court-martial of that officer have since the trial been greatly misre presented in the discussions that have arisen. The previous conduct of Lieut. Dundas while in her Ma jesty's service, it is said, fully warranted the lenient sentence passed by the Court before whom he was tried, and it would therefore be unfair to him to draw a parallel between his case and that of any other officer tried subsequently for a similar offence without all the matter bearing upon each case being fully gone into. A paymaster in her Majesty's navy was tried by court-martial almost immediately after Lieut. Dundas. While the latter was repri manded and allowed to retain his rank in the ser vice, in consequence of the high professional cha racter he bore, the unfortunate paymaster was dis missed from the service, but with a "recommenda tion to mercy." There is nothing to complain of in the treatment Lieut. Dundas has received, but if the paymaster of the Basilisk, who, we are told, is a man with a large family and no private income— has received an undue meed of punishment, owing to the faulty constitution of our naval courts-mar tial, it remains for the Admiralty to remedy the defect by tempering justice with mercy, and restor ing the name of the offending officer to the official Navy List, accompanied, of course, by such condi tions as they may see fit to impose. A naval court-martial assembled on board her Majesty's ship Victory at Portsmouth on Saturday for the trial of Sidney Bray, ordinary seaman, serv ing on board her Majesty's ship Basilisk, on a charge of having struck, on the 13th inst., Frederick Trent, captain of the foretop, in the same ship, while the latter was in the execution of his duty. The Court was composed of Capt. A. Herbert, . Royal Sove reign, president ; Commanders Sheers, Victory ; Simpson, Victoria and Albert ; Greville, St. Vin cent ; Arthur, Excellent ; and Brett, Asia ; Mr. E. Hoskins officiated as deputy-judge-advocate. The Court found the charge proved, and sentenced the prisoner to be reduced to the second class for con duct, to receive 36 lashes, and to be imprisoned for six months, with hard labour, in the Naval Gaol at Lewes. An announcement has been received at Chatham garrison from the Horse Guards thit the next exa mination for direct commissions will commence at Chelsea Hospital, before Major-Gen. F. W. Hamil ton, C. 8., vice-president, and the members of the Council of Military Education, on Monday, Novem ber, 6th, under the regulations dated the Ist of January, 1864. The examination of candidates for admission to the Royal Military College, Sand hurst, will commence on the 11th of December ; and that of candidates for commission in th e R oya l Artillery and Royal Engi neers admission for a to the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, on the 3d o f January. The next examination of candidates for the medical department of the army will take place in February, and that for admission to the Royal Staff College in July. BREAKFAST BEVERAGE.--HOMCCOpahiC practitioners, and the medical profession generally, recommend cocoa as being the most healthful of all beverages. When the doctrine of homoeopathy was first introduced into this country, there were to be obtained no preparations of cocoa either attrac tive to the taste or acceptable to the stomach ; the nut was either supplied in the crude state, or so unskilfully manu factured as to obtain little notice. J. Epps, of London, homoeopathic chemist, was induced in the year 1839 to turn attention to this suhje t, and at length sue:ceded, with the wsistance of elaborate machinery, in being the first to proluce an article pure in its composition, aaci so refined by the pert et trituration it re:eives in the process it passes hrongh, as to be most acceptable to the delicate stomach. For general use Epps' cocoa is distin2uished as an Invigo rating, grateful breakfast beverage, with a delicious aroma Dr. riassall in his work, "Food and its Adulterations," says-_" Cocoa contains a great variety of important nutritive principles ; every ingredient necessary to the growth and sustenance of the body." Again, "As a nutritive, cocoa stands very much higher than either coffee or tea." Direc tions : —Two teaspoonfuls of the powder in a breakfast cup filled up , b withand l b. labelled bolting or milk. Secured i n ti n -li ne d packets, and sold at Is. 6d. per lb. by grocers, confectioners, and chemists. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 23, 1865. The Cattle Plague, The Journal de St. Petersburg publishes the fol lowing : " Various foreign papers and even official reports have stated that the cattle disease now prevailing in England was introduced by cattle imported from Revel. An in vestigation having been ordered by his Excellency the Minister of Finance, to examine into the condition of the cattle of Esthonia, and to ascertain the number exported to England in 1865, we are enabled to give positive data to correct the erroneous assertions of the foreign newspapers. " Since 1859, a period at which there were some isolated cases of disease introduced by cattle from Ukrania, no ma lady has occurred in that province, and the sanitary state of the cattle is excellent. During tho month of May, 1865, the steamer Tonning exported from Revel to England 321 oxen, 331 sheep, and three horses, which wore not affected by any disoaso whatsoever." the streets. A large portion of the cattle were con stantly passing either on their way to the Blackwall railway station, or from the river steam boats. Se veral steamers also discharged their cattle at Brown' s - wharf, in the same neighbourhood, and the large number of workpeople employed at the numerous factories on the Isle of Dogs were put to serious in convenience by the roads, especially at the narrow bridge at the entrance of the West India dock, being blocked up by the droves of beasts. The cattle were driven through the streets principally on the Saturday and Sunday, and owing to their heated state consequent on the excitement attending their landing, and being hurried on the road, many of them were really unfit for the market, and ought to be slaughtered. It was stated that this state of things could be remedied by the cattle being landed lower down the river on the Essex marshes. At Thames Haven there were facilities for discharging cattle steamers, and shortly there would be similar accommodation at Dagenham, where some docks were being formed, while the adjacent marshes would afford ample grazing ground for the oxen. The London, Tilbury, and Southend Railway gave direct communication from those places to the Cattle Market, and the nuisance of driving the cattle through the streets could thus be avoided. It was hoped that the Secretary of State would cause some alteration to be made in the present mode of land ing the foreign cattle and sending them to market. Mr. Coleman, Mr. Edgcumbe, and other gentlemen, having made some remarks upon the present system and the great inconvenience experienced by the public, especially on a Sunday, by the cattle being driven though the streets, Mr. Baring inquired whether there would be any objection to forming a market near the wharves for the sale of the foreign cattle. Mr. Coleman said some difficulty might be experienced where the business of an old cattle market was interested ; but no doubt, if such a market was recommended, many persons would be willing to enter into the undertaking. After some further brief discussion, Mr. Baring said that what had been urged on the subject should have every con sideration, and he would communicate with the com missioners of customs, and the commissioners of police, with a view of ascertaining whether any alte ration in respect to the present plan of landing the cattle and driving them through the streets to the market could be effected. The Poor Law Board and the East London Union. +-- Mr. Farnall, the Poor Law Board Commissioner, hold an official inquiry on Thursday into the case which, in the early part of the present month, excited much public atten tion—namely, that of Sarah Trusty, who alleged, before the Lord Mayor, that she, being ill, nearly blind, and quite destitute, had applied at the East Loudon Union for relief, and had been told by the relieving officer that she could not be relieved until inquiries had been made as to where she slept last. The inquiry was held at the parochial offices in Devonshire-square, Bishopsgate, and several of the guar dians were present during the proceedings. Sarah Trusty, a ragged, forlorn-looking woman, who, it was apparent, was wasted by disease, on being sworn by the Commissioner, gave an account of the circumstances under which she appeared, and some not uninteresting particulars of poor-law life wore elicited. She said :—I am 45 years of ago, and am at present an inmate of the East London Union at Homerton. I live in the "house." That is, I am not warded in the infirmary, and although I am very ill, I am not allowed to lie in bed of a day, but when I am exhausted I have to lie on the floor and rest my head on a form. My husband is 43 years of ago, and is a general dealer, or costermonger. I have known this Union for many years, and I became chargeable to it through my father, who was a freeman, and worked for the Trinity House, being drowned ; but for many years I never troubled the Union for anything, and I only did so when I was, about seven years ago, left by a former marriage with two children. I know Mr. Williams, the relieving-officer of this Union, that is, I know his voice, having applied to him six or seven times ; but I do not know his face, as my eight will not enable mo to see him. I applied to him for relief, and he refused me, on the 2d of October, on coming from the hop country ; but I had ap plied to him before going into the hop country for a few shillings and shoes for my children, and ho refused me. I asked him at other times to go before the guardians, but he refused to allow me—telling me to apply in Spitalfields for relief ; that is,to the Whitechapel Union ; but I did not apply there, as I was not renting a room in the parish ; we were merely lodging in ono place one night, and in another place the next. I was not then receiving relief. It cost us 100, a night for our lodging, 7d. for a double bed for my husband and me, and aid. for a single bed for the two children, who aro aged 11 and 7 years. We sometimes had Is. a day to live on besides paying for our lodging, and sometimes is. 6d., and this money my husband earned by dealing ; but he could not earn much, as he did not have much money with which to gc to market. I went with my hus band and children hop-picking. We walked all the way into the country to near Maidstone ; but we had a "lift " in a cart part of the way back, and we stopped at Eltham, about eight miles from London-bridge, on Sunday night, Oct. 1. Ido not know how much my husband earned in the country ; but I know that ho had only Is. 6d. in his pocket when we got to London, for all the money was spent in buying us food. We wero in the country 16 days, but he did not make all full days, and I was not able to work. We left Eltham, where we slept in a barn, at day break on Monday morning, and had some bread, which we had brought with us for our breakfasts before start ing, and that was all we had to eat. On getting into Lon don I missed my husband near the bridge, and I came direct to these offices. My reason in coming here was be cause I belong to Bishopsgate. I got here at half-past 11, and went into Mr. Williams's office. I did not speak to Mr. Williams, but it was he who first spoke to me. Ho said, " What do you want ?" I told him I wanted an order for the "house." Then ho asked me where I slept last night, and I told him at Eltham, and that I was houseless and without food. He said that he must make inquiries about mo at Eltham before he should give me an order, or do anything for me. I said, "Are we to be without food until you send to Eltham and inquire about me ?" and ho replied, ",Go about your business ; I shall do nothing for you until I inquire about you." He fur ther said, , c Will you go ?" And then turning to a man he said, " Throw het out if she don't go." A man pu t hi s hand upon my shoulder, and I said, "Touch me at yourperil ; or you either, Mr. - Williams. I will save you the trouble and go to the Lord Mayor." I went out and the door was slammed after me. I made used of no bad language, and I was never drunk. An officer was sent by the Lord Mayor back with me here, and Mr. Williams told the officer that I and my children should have food. But we never had any food here. I had an order given mo to go into the house at Homerton, and I and my children had to walk there before we had any food. Homerton is a distance of three miles from hero, and it was half-past 6 before wo got any tea. On the following Monday my husband came to the workhouse to see the children, and the:master detained him and would not let him go without he took us with him. The children were sent for from Hanwell, and we all went the next morning ; but have since become charge able. •In reply to further questions put by the Commissioner, the woman said that she and her children had no food be tween daylight and the time they got to Homerton, and that when the order was given her she asked the porter if they were not to have food, and the reply given was, "That will rest with the master ;" and, though cross-examined by Mr. Williams, she still adhered to the truth of her story. A statement made by Mr. Williams was then put in as depositions. It has appeared before, and was, in gffect, that on the woman coming for relief, he asked her where she had resided, to which question, he said, she replied by abusing him and making use of bad language, for which he ordered her to leave the room, telling her to come when she was quiet, and on sending her an order for admission to the workhouse he found she had gone. Thomas James Poster, the son of the woman by a former marriage, an intelligent-looking lad of 11 years of age, who has become an inmate of the Hanwell school, and had been separated from his mother for some time, was questioned by the Commissioner relative to the proceedings of the 2d of October, and his replies were apparently so straightfor ward that the Commissioner said there was no reason to doubt them. He corroborated his mother's statement about walking into Kent, riding back part of the way in a cart, sleeping at Eltham in a "place like an arch," and coming to the relieving-officer's room. He said his mother asked for an order for the workhouse, and Mr. Williams asked her where she had slept the night before. When his mother told him Mr. Williams told her she was to wait while in quiries were made. He did not hear his mother make use of any bad language. In cross-examination by Mr. Williams, the boy said that his mother talked loudly, and Mr. Williams asked where the husband was, which the woman had denied he had done. Ho further said Mr. Williams told a man to turn hismother out. Henry Kelloway, the messenger and porter at the office, was called to prove that the woman made use of bad lan guage, which he swore she did, and gave evidence in corro boration of Mr. Williams's statement. He said he wont to the waiting-room with an order for the workhouse for the woman and children a few minutes after the woman was ordered out of the room, but she was gone. The COMMISSIONER asked to see the order-book. This was produced, and on turning to the counterfoil of the order given to the woman, he read out as written on it, "A very disreputable woman," and, turning to Mr. Wil liams, asked if those words wore written on the order given to the woman. Mr. Williams replied in the affirmative. The woman here exclaimed, " Then that accounts for the treatment I have in the house." The Commissioner, addressing the relieving officer, said he should like to impress upon officers".the:fact that star vation had nothing to do with character. The fact of im morality or want of respectability had nothing to do *ith cases of relief, and the treatment of a person in the house had nothing to do with character. The poor-law officers were not magistrates that they were to punish ; but they were to take care of the people. Mr. Williams had no right to send a hint of an applicant's character to the master of the workhouse. The guardians would give no such instruc tions, and the Poor-Law Board would not allow such a thing to be done. The witness Kelloway then went on to give evidence in general denial of the woman's statement, as did another witness, a pauper, whom the boy pointed out as the man who was told to turn his mother out. Mr. Williams was then examined, and he adhered to his statement, that he had not asked the woman whero she slept, but where she last resided. The Commissioner—Did you on this Monday give the woman and children any food ?—No ; because I had none to give. We have bread, but it was all gone, or I should have given her some. The Commissioner—But I suppose you have it in your discretion to purchase any ?—Yes. The Commissioner—And if you had had bread you would have given her some ?—I should. The Commissioner—Then I consider you should have purchased some for her, and not allowed this woman and her children to tramp about from morning until night with out food. Mr. Williams—But she did not make any application for food. The Commissioner—But you saw her at 11 o'clock, and she told you she had walked from Eltham, which you must know to be a long distance. She then comes back to you at 3 o'clock, and you don't know that she has had any food, and yet you send her a three miles journey without offering her anything. Other evidence was heard, and the Commissioner said he would report the proceedings to the Poor-law Board, from whom the guardians would probably receive a com munication. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. --•- THE " SPECTATOR" ON THE WORST SERMON THEY EVER HEARD !—The present writer has heard, in the course of a pretty considerable experience, many good sermons—by which we mean sermons which assist us to feel the revealing power of divine truth, and to remove the shadows which time manages to throw over even the greatest and most prophetic words many mere useless ser mons, which repeat the ordinary cut-and-dried platitudes in the ordinary cut-and-dried manner, and are mischievous only in filling the listener's conscience with that meaningless mechanical drone to which religious subjects are but too liable—and not a few bad sermons, which if their nonsense were not almost instinctively rejected by healthy minds, would have a very strong tendency to re-impose the veil which revelation is meant to remove, and make the face of God more and more dim and unreal as the cloud of their false phrases and foolish com ments drops over the great scenes of the divine his tory. But he never heard a sermon quite so bad in this sense, so carefully adapted, if it were not pure silliness, to obliterate the living form of Christ's words, so certain to induce either impatient con ' tempt in those who listened to it with any true feel ing for the subject, or a hollow and heartless man nerism of thought in those who may have been too passive -minded for a grave act of spiritual repudia tion, as last Sunday, in a church not very far from town, from the lips of some clergyman who was a complete stranger in the place, and whose very name even the writer did not and does not know. We will give a brief account of it, simply in order to realise the tyranny on which every independent mind anxious to pray in the Church's words, and not anxious to be fed with stones afterwards as an indispensable condition of such prayer, is subjected. The text was the parable of the Good Samaritan, which if the preacher had merely read it out with feeling, would have produced its own uniform impression of profound beauty and simplicity. The mere tone of the reading, however, might have warned any intelligent ear that it was going to be walled up in some living grave of forced ecclesiastical symbolism. And so it was. With not a word to point out the very purpose for which our Lord delivered this parable, the rebuke to the exclusiveness implied in the lawyer's question, " Who is my neighbour ?"—the preacher began im mediately, in the dry sing-song of the pulpit, to electro-plate the parable with the most forced and incredibly unreal tissue of commentatorial double meanings. The " certain " man who went down from Jerusalem to Jericho and fell among thieves was shown to be humanity going from Jerusalem (the city of peace, equivalent of Paradise),—from the state of innocence—to its fall ; and this was of course clearly indicated by the use of the very un usual word " certain." Jericho in the valley of the Jordan is deeply depressed below the level of the adjoining country, and hence the going down to it, intended to represent the downward course of the soul of man from his innocence to his fall. (The preacher did not explain why the decent was gradual,—" the fall " being, as we supposed, sud den). Then the ' certain' man,—' Humanity '— thus downward going—fell among thieves—evil angels, to wit—who "stripped him, and wounded him, and departed,. leaving him half dead. We anticipated some little difficulty, for the preacher's purpose, in the compulsory and apparently volun tary character of these injuries. Sin, we thought, was voluntary, and that " the certain man," in spite of that universal character which the word certain appeared to confer upon him,—did not in any way assent to the stripping and wounding, seemed to us beforehand tolerably plain. Our preacher, however, was particularly strong on this very point. 'Sin,' he said, with some emphasis, is always voluntary ; man fell voluntarily into sin at the fall. And so, he re marked, this certain man' fell voluntarily among the thieves—the evil angels. He had apparently ar ranged an assignation with the brigands on his way to Jericho in order to be robbed. This was new to us, but so were many other features of this elogwent interpretation. Then the evil angels " stripped him" —that is, robbed him of his innocence'—and " wounded him"—" mark the word ' wounded,' " said the spiritual orator, " not only were man's vir tues and innocence taken from him, but his natural powers were also wounded, enfeebled, disordered, inflamed by the fall"—and then—this was the strik ing point of -the parallel—" departed, leaving him half dead." " The evil angels," said the preacher, " when they have once rifled man of his innocence and destroyed the natural balance of his powers, leave him in his helplessness, leave him to his fate, to perish if he may." This leaving him on the part of the evil angels was, according to the orator, a peculiarly aggravating element in thd matter, and we inferred that if they had stayed with him, and done more for him in their own.peculiar line of use fulness, say, poured the poison of their own evil nature more - completely into him, or wounded him further so as to leave him quite dead, it would have been a much less scandalous arid heartless business. " And by chance there came down a certain priest that way." The priest, said our teacher, also " a certain priest,. mind, which shows he was a type," was the representative of the moral law of nature in the time of the patriarchs. This moral law of na ture, administered by the ante-patriarchal priests, could do nothing for fallen humanity, and so it passed by " on the other side"—' as far as possible from the victim.' Simple people had hitherto sup posed that the priest's neglectwas due, not to inability but to reluctance to help the wounded man, and the preacher therefore in this instance took a more charitable, though more pointless, view of the priest than the ordinary man. The Levite, we were told, " who came and looked on him, and passed by on the other side," represented the Law of Moses, the sacred rites of which were comm itt e d to the tribe of Levi. The Levite, though he was as helpless as the priest, represented, we learned, a higher and purer law, containing anticipations of the mightier agency. The Levite was thus more dignified than the priest, contrary to the common impression,—but as the preacher did not explain how he was, more than the priest, " a shadow of things to come,"—we supposed the difference must have been in the " looked on him,"—the specific inspection perhaps being a shade nearer assistance than mere seeing. We offer that contribution to the preacher for the . next time he may deliver this sermon. But the conceits at once most puerile and to our minds most like blasphemy are yet to come. ' A certain Samaritan as he jour neyed came where he was.' Note, my brethren, said the preacher, that unlike the priest and Levite, the Samaritan does not come by chance; he jour neyed hither expressly to find the wounded man ; for the Samaritan is our Lord. The Jews called him a Samaritan, and said he had a devil. He denied having a devil, but never repudiated the title of Samaritan. His being a Samaritan indicates, too, a difference of race. He is not of the race o f man, but of divine lineage, of a different race ; yet not so different but what he can be a neighbour to him who is fallen and bleeding, and needs his help. " And when he saw him, he had compass i on on hi m, and went to him and bound up hi s woun d s, pour i ng in oil and wine, and set him o n hi s own b eas t, an d brought him to an inn, an d t oo k care o f hi m. " Of course this described the me th o d o f re d emp ti on; the oil and wine were the sacraments,—in other words, we suppose, the same as bread and wine ; after wards, however, the preacher said the wino was the styptic 'repentance,' which cleansed the wound, and the oil the soothing grace which softened and refreshed it : and here there was a little discrepancy and double interpretation. For some time we had been wondering whether the preacher would find a mystical meaning for the beast. He did not hesitate at all. Our Lord's " own beast," on which suffering humanity was raised and borne to the inn,"—the Church of course—was, " Ilis humanity !" The Samaritan lineage being His divinity, the orator had to descend below man altogether, to an animal natiire, a beast of Intrclen, for . Christ's humanity. We confess we were both stirptified and disgusted. Then, " On the morrow, when he departed," re ferred to the time between the resurrection and ascension—the departure being the ascension—the twopence which he gave to the host—the ruler of the Church—were the Old and New Testament— spiritual coins stamped upon the image of the spiri tual King 1 But what the additional payment was to be when " he came again" the preacher omitted to say—new chapters in the divine revelation, we suppose, if we are to judge by analogy, Of course when the preacher came to " Which now of these three was neighbour to him who fellamong thieves ?" and the answer, " He that showed mercy on him," and the rejoinder, " Go and do thou likewise," he broke down—for to tell ordinary men that they were to do the work of the Redeemer, to bind up the wounds of man's moral nature, to give it of their, own strength, to bear it on their human na ture, and then deliver the Old and New Testament to the Church for its instruction, is sheer nonsense. So when the preacher got to our Lord's own appli cation, he was obliged perforce to drop his own non sense, and take up the natural meaning of the parable. Now no doubt one does not often hear the words of Christ beclouded, and made absolutely inane, by such nonsense as this. But to hear them made much less clear than they are at first sight to the simple mind, to be choked by the dust of cut and-dried moralities, to be vexed by the artificial manoeuvres of pedantic learning, to be deadened with the drone of words that mean nothing fresh or living, is quite as common, in sermons, as not. And will any say it is a religious duty for all who wish to join in social prayer to listen reverently to these things, whatever they be, and from whomsoever they come ? We say that such a tissue of dull, meaningless falsehood as the divine parable of the Good Samaritan was incased in, last Sunday, is mischievous to all—to those who see its silliness be cause it is irritating—to those who do not, because it envelopes divine realities in a cloud of unmeaning words and phrases. THE " SATURDAY REVIEW" ON PIETY OUT OF PLACE.—One would think that an erotic ode is the very last place in which to expect any talk about heal , enly things. To combine the slightly hetero geneous styles of Anacreon and Dr. Watts seems a feat which nobody would be particularly eager to execute. Yet there is one celebrated personage so determined to make religion popular that he does not even shrink from working it into a sort of hymen mai song. An epithalamium with the fag end of a hymn tacked on to its conclusion is really not a bad example of this strange tendency among the truly pious and regenerate to thrust in religion at every turn. We do not often see it in so exag gerated a form, but characteristics are best observed on a large scale. Need we say that it is Mr. Spur geon to whom we are indebted for this grotesque composition ? Nobody but he would ever have thought of mixing the style of " Verses to Chloe" with the style of " Jerusalem, our happy home," and publishing the unique result in a religious jour nal noted, as we are told, for " sound, searching, practical divinity." A certain morning newspaper, long famous for its great erudition and singular delicacy of taste, declares that " there is not only in this poetic effusion from the most popular preacher of the age overflowing conjugal affection, but fine ideas and beautiful imagery." And then, with an enthusiastic burst—" Thrice happy would every married home be did the same feelings glow in the bosom of every husband as those which are here so felicitously expressed by Mr. Spurgeon in relation to the partner of his life." This singularly terse and neat eulogy—quite up to the mark of Sam Weller or Mrs. Gamp—naturally fills the reader with expectation, and sends him eager to the verses themselves in which the most popular preacher of the age felicitously expresses his conjugal affections in relation to the partner of his life. We may have some misgivings as to the exact propriety of people felicitously expressing their conjugal affections in relation to their wives in religious magazines. But perhaps this is a foolish squeamishness on our part. The Anacreontic verses are entitled " Married Love —To my Wife," and are dated from Hull, the in habitants of which town were lately so fortunate as to have an opportunity of sitting under Mr. Spurgeon. Mr. Spurgeon first compares himself to a stream, then distinguishes himself from a swallow, and from a wooer, and from a water colour painting, and from glittering dewdrops. As his friendly but Gampish critic remarks, the poem really abounds with fine ideas and beautiful imagery. Mr. Spurgeon's skill_ in the mechanism of versification is quite surprising to those who have only thought of him as a learned and thoughtful divine. The lines trip on like the best of Tom Moore's. And the rhymes are unexception able, particularly in the last stanza but one, where " grows old" corresponds to " of old." We defy the most snappish and ill-conditioned of critics to say that old does not rhyme with old. Our only fear is that Mr. Spurgeon's facility in the composition of amorous poetry may endanger his popularity with the saints of the Tabernacle. These- charming gambols, this talk of glittering dewdrops, and " love dyed ingrain," and the wooer's precious stone, must surely strike the converted man, who has thrown out the old Adam, as sadly frivolous and worldly. It is quite as unregenerate as the writings of the reprobate Prior ; for instance : The pride of every grove I chose, The violet sweet and lily fair, The dappled pink and blushing roso To deck my charming Chloe's hair. But Mr. Spurgeon knows what he is about. The main part of his poem does, it may be admitted, exhibit a spirit of levity rather deplorable in such a man. It has too much of the ring of a valentine about it. Printed on a piece of laced paper, and with one or two very slight verbal alterations, it would do capitally for the next 14th of February. But, as we have said, Mr. Spurgeon knows that even a valentine, in the circles where he is read and admired, would be thought to be redeemed from its essential wickedness if it were seasoned by a little pious talk. To say simply, " The rose is red, the violet's blue, the pink is sweet and so are you," would be frivolous and worldly, and unseemly be yound expression. But to tack on to it something from "Twinkle, twinkle, little star," and it in stantly becomes a felicitious effusion of holy joy in relation to a future partner of your life. So Mr. Spurgeon winds up his amorous song in that way. To an ordinary person there is something uncom monly startling in the sudden appendix of the hymn to the valentine. But to - anybody accustomed to the usages of pious circles it is quite a familiar de vice. Show as much as you like of what they call worldliness or self-indulgence or frivolity, but let it be served with a sauce of godly phraseology, and your character is quite safe. Mr. Spurgeon has managed the mixture.admirably. He has not spoiled the worldly portion by clumsily infusing the heavenly into it. The union is merely mechanical, and not chemical. Those who prefer it may take the purely erotic part without having it spoilt by the incon gruous religious part. Nobody would ever suppose, while he was in the midst of all the fine things about sapphires blue and early dewdrops and young wooers, that there was a pious tag to come. So our enjoyment is not impaired. But Mr. Spurgeon is not the only public character who tries to make re ligious talk a part of daily life. It seems that Mr. Montgomery, the actor, has taken the Nottingham theatre ; so he issued an opening address, enume rating the various attractions which he proposed to offer for the entertainment of his patrons. But this was not enough. The worldliness of a dramatic pro gramme stands as much in need of being varnished by religion as the amatory ode. " Recognised as our profession is," says Mr. Montgomery with theatrical grandiloquence, " by the highest in the land, we have little to fear from the clouded intel lects and narrow prejudices of a limited few ; but even they shall be convinced, if they will come among us, that there is nothing inconsistent in fol lowing our profession and wearing the light yoke of that Lord of love who stilled the rolling wave of Galilee." How amazingly gratuitous! Then, to make bad worse, some local divine anathematised the coupling of the programme with this reli gious talk as " immoral and blasphemous." One can scarcely go this length, but still it would be hard to imagine a piece of worse taste than to combine in one document the rather incongruous statements that the boxes had been newly decorated, that every attention should be paid to the scenery and costumes and that the actors all wore " the light yoke," &C. H we are not mistaken, it was Mr. Montgomery who a few weeks ago announced in his bills of the Haymarket Theatre that " among the actresses would be found some of the loveliest women in England." At Nottingham people are probably not so alive to the force of this recommendation. The provinces are more open to religious considera tions. Mr. Montgomery is very wise in varying his attractions —lovely women in one place, and the light yoke in another. Suppose a doctor were to advertise himself on the same principle, asserting that the old proverb, Übi tres medici ibi duo athei was a vile calumny, and that, if anybody would come to him, they would see the compatibility between selling pills and draughts and feeling pulses, and wearing " the light yoke," &c. What can be more objectionable than this ruthless ostentation of piety in season and out of season, whether by players or preachers ? THE " ATHENEUM" ON HEINRICH ERNST.—The long agony—for to such did the last years of Herr Ernst's life amount—is at last over. The Times of this day week recorded that his.career of suffering closed at Nice on the Bth of this month. This is one of the cases in which departure can only be wel comed as relief. His long-protracted bodily pain had been long known to be past the power of medi cine to alleviate ; and it is to be feared that the princely munificence with which the artist dispersed the gains made by him during his career of public exhibition left him to face sickness in its most de pressing form, under narrow circumstances. It may be added, however, that the active kindness of those to whom his admirable qualities had endeared him failed him not to the last. A more amiable man never breathed than Ernst ; nor one of a better heart, a finer intelligence, and a more generous and unenvying nature. A certain languor of tempera ment, approaching to indolence, and of late years aggravated by illness, prevented him from doing full justice to his powers, either as a creative cian or a member of society ; but his friends win recollect him not merely by his nobility of nature, i nca p ai lift of intrigue, jealousy and suspicion, bu t also by his quit.7.lr and delicate sense of humour. As an artist he cannot be (2, :Terrated among the violinists. At the moment of writing are without any bio graphical data to tell us under 471 Ernst, born in 1814, at Brunn, in Moravia, acquired his mas tery over his instrument,—a - mastery, hov,-ever, accompanied by a singular drawback, which wa probably organic,—not a defect arising from in complete study. During his entire career Ernst was always more or less liable to play out of tune ; in this resembling the greatest singer of modern times, Pasta, who could not, even by her indefa tigable industry and indomitable will, control her tendency to imperfect intonation. In his best days, Ernst's tone was rich and grandiose, with a touch in it of that vibratory Italian quality, characterising Paganini and the players of the Southern school, as distinguished from the more solid—perhaps less e% - pressive—countrymen and followers of Spohr. If W e mistake not (but the facts to fall back upon, we re' peat, are singularly meagre), Ernst made himselfi hearing, even in the teeth of the frenetic successwhich attended Paganini • and this, in some degree, by meeting the wonderful-Genoese virtuoso on his own ground. Less perfect in his polish, less unimpeach able in the diamond lustre and clearness of his cone, than De Beriot, Ernst had as much elegance as that exquisite violinist, with greater depth of feeling. Less audaciously inventive and extravagant than Paganini, he was sounder in taste, and, in his m usic, with no lack of fantasy, more scientific in construc tion. He wrote for his instrument too sparingly, owing to the placid carelessness of his nature, Of which mention has been made ; but his great con cert pieces will stand. The allegro of his unfinished " Concerto in F Sharp Minor," of an almost insur mountable technical difficulty, is based on those clear, impassioned, and noble . phrases, and con ducted with a thorough science which ensure it per manence in the repertory of violinists of the very highest class. Probably there is no movement of its length which has lasted so long, and had so deser vedly wide a currency as his " Elegie." Of Ernst's stringed quartetts, and his grand violin studies, we were speaking only the,other day. The secret, how ever, of Ernst's success, whether as a composer or a virtuoso, lay in his expressive power and accent. There has been nothing to exceed these as exhibited by him in his best days. The passion was carried to its utmost point, but " never torn to tatters"' the freest use of tempo rubato permitted, but always within the limits of the most just regulation. Thi s is an excellence granted to few—measured abandon ment (if such a term may be employed) being one of the rarest graces in art. Those who have exhi bited it in perfection could almost be counted off on the ten fingers. Ernst possessed it in the highest degree. We recall certain of his cadenzas (one espe cially, to Mayseder's graceful, varied air in E m ajor), certain readings (as those of Beethoven's Second Razumouffsky Quartett,and of the " Cavitina" in hi s , posthumous quartett in B major ; of Mendelssohn s quartett in E minor, and the adagio of his posthura: ous quintet* which " stand out," after their kin° , as distinct and superior as anything to be cited in our not too long list of first-class musical treasures . Themis none of the exaggeration which the death of a great man is too apt to awake in the Oa? praise. As an example of certain of the very highes t qualities•which can be combined in a musical pee: and interpreter, Ernst must always be• rated, if no t the first, among the first. NORFOLK. On Saturday a crowded and influential meeting was held in St. Andrew's Hall, Norwich, to consider the expediency of stopping all fairs and markets in Norfolk for the present. The Earl of Leicester, lord-lieutenant, presided, and among those present were Lord Sondes, M. E. Howes, ALP., Lord Suffield, the Earl of Albemarle, Lord Bury, Mr. C. S. Read, M.P., Sir T. Beauchamp, Major Hare, &c. The Earl of LEICESTER, in addressing the meeting, said the measure proposed would no doubt occasion to all great inconvenience, but he thought the meet ing would come to the conclusion that the evils which were likely to arise were not to be compared with the dangers and disastrous losses which would probably occur if the markets were kept open. As Norfolk was mainly dependent upon distant markets for the supply of its stock, the large por tion being imported into the country and com paratively few being bred in it, he thought that if it had not been for the wise decision arrived at in August for temporarily suspending purchases in Norwich market, and the precautionary measures then taken, the country would probably have suf fered more from the disease than perhaps any other county in England. The resumption of purchases in the third week in September had had the effect of disturbing the disease throughout the country. It would be for the meeting to consider whether it would not be the wisest course again to close the markets. Although every precaution might be taken to prevent the disease spreading he feared that from time to time we should be liable to periodical outbreaks ; and he would strongly impress upon veterinary surgeons and upon his brother farmers the absolute necessity of their using every exertion to find a remedy for at least a portion of the beasts attacked. To say that after the disease had been amongst them for a few months it was incurable was unworthy of the science of the present age, and to condemn every beast which was affected was, in his opinion, a most unjustifiable sacrifice. We wanted to know more than that when a beast was affected it must be condemned to die ; we required to know what were the remedies to be applied— (hear, hear)—and if under certain circumstances the life of an animal could not be saved, we wanted to have an opportunity of slaughtering it while it was fit for human food. To the man who would find a remedy for the disease sufficient glory would appertain ; but he (Lord Leicester) would be happy to place at the disposal of the committee of the county association a piece of plate of the value of £lOO, to be given to the first man who, in their opinion, was able successfully to compete with the disease. (Cheers.) Sir T. BEAUCHA3IP moved the first resolution : " That in the opinion of this meeting it is desirable that all cows, heifers, bulls, bullocks, oxen, calves, sheep, lambs, goats, and swine should be excluded from any market or fair to be held in this county until the 22d of December next." The Earl of ALBEMARLE seconded the resolution, which was put and carried. Mr. E. HowEs, M.P., moved " That a memo rial be sent from this meeting to her Majesty's Government that powers be given to the magis trates in petty sessions to prevent the importation into their respective districts of any manure from any district which they have reason to believe is infected with the cattle plague." Major HARE, in seconding the resolution, which was carried unanimously, recalled the fact that in 1857 the three great agricultural societies of the kingdom sent Professor Simonds out to the Conti nent to investigate the disease. It appeared from the professor's report that the measure now proposed was one of the measures adopted on the Continent. The Mayor of Nonwicii assured the meeting that the citizens and authorities of N orwich were anxious to do everything in their power to stop the progress of what was a most grievous calamity. (Hear, hear.) Mr. C. S. READ, M.P., a member of the recently appointed royal commission, moved a vote of thanks to Lord Leicester for his conduct in the chair. The hon. gentleman expressed his cordial approval of the objects of the meeting. BERKSHIRE. The Maidenhead district inspector's report showed that since the last meeting, at which time 33 cattle were suffering from the disease, 24 animals had been attacked, 21 died, and 11 recovered. There was no sign of the disease among the sheep. From another report it seems two animals (not sheep) had been attacked, but had not died. The reports seem thus more favourable, the number of recoveries being encouraging. The numbers in the district referred to are 21 deaths and 11 recoveries—over 50 per cent. of recoveries in proportion to the deaths. At Oakley-green, at Mr. Johnson's (of Windsor) farm, five fresh cases had occurred, a cow and heifer hav ing died. Since yesterday week there had been no fresh case at New Lodge, the residence of his Ex cellency the Belgian Minister. There had been one death, five animals having recovered. At Mr. Hall Say's two have recovered in the week and one has died. BUCKS. At the Bucks petty sessions, held at Langley, a deputation of gentlemen attended the court for the purpose of obtaining a modification of the prohibi tory order of the magistrates which prevented cattle being sent to the market at Slough and the other markets and fairs in the hundred of Stoke. Their desire was to be enabled to sell fat stock only for the butchers. Some discussion took place. Mr. Long, the magistrates' clerk, produced a letter from the clerk of the peace, enclosing a communication from the Home Secretary, urging uniformity of action by the magisterial beaches, with a view to the effectual exercise of the powers conferred by the orders in council. The final consideration of the subject was, however, deferred. OXFORD. We regret to find that the plague has reached the city of Oxford. Mr. William Howse, dairyman, residing in the north part of Oxford, has lost two fine beasts, and has five more ill with the disease, and if they are not better this (Monday) morning they are to be destroyed. The Government inspec tor was at Oxford on Saturday, and saw the cows, and at the urgent request of Mr. Howse, who thought he could cure them, allowed him two days to try to get them better. At a meeting of the Cattle Plague Association for the district, held on Saturday in the Council-chamber, .Oxford, the mayor announced that the Cattle-market Commit tee had that day determined to discontinue the cattle market for this month and the second week in December, but that it would apply to horned cattle only. THE LANDING OF FOREIGN CATTLE IN THE PORT OF LONDON. A deputation from the Poplar district of the Board of Works had an interview with Mr. Baring, M.P., the Under Secretary of State at the Home office, on Friday afternoon, for the purpose of ob taining some alteration in the present system of land ing foreign cattle at Blackwall and driving them through the streets of that section of the metropolis. The deputation, which was introduced by Mr. C. S. Butler, M.P., consisted of Mr. Ed. Coleman, Mr. Henry Edgcumbe, Mr. Robert W. Sherrard, Mr. C. Hoare, Mr. Edward Symmons, Mr. Philip Edinger, and Mr. Charles C. Ceeley (clerk of the board.) It was stated that a memorial very nume rously signed by the inhabitants of Blackwall, Pop lar, and the neighbouring district of Bromley, had been presented to the Poplar Board of Works com plaining of the serious nuisance arising from the present mode of landing foreign cattle from the steamers at Blackwall, and driving them through COUNTRY MARKETS - L EIOES TER--S ATURDAT. At our market to-day the show of wheat was moderate- Business was healthy, and sales were made at is per c 11 .: over late currencies. A fair demand for barley, and sales were over the rates of last week. Oats in request and fu lll in price. Beans sold readily, and prices very firm. Old white wheat, 47s to 51s ; old red, 43s to 48s ; 116.° white, 42s to 49s - new red, 36s to 42s per 36 stone. B 3r ; ley, malting, 32s to 34s per qr. ; grinding, 26s to 28s per 3' stone. Oats, old, 26s to 29s ; now, 22s to 25s per 24 stone- Beans, old, 44s to 49s ; new, 40s to 42s per 38 stone. NO T T INGHAM—SATURDAY. Our corn oxhange was pretty well supplied with vrbeft The condition of the grain was - irregular. The deni al, was fair, and prices advanced nearly is per qr. There Wt a good supply of barley, and the demand for best sorts fir o4 at rather more money ; in other kinds not much doingd Oats commanded high prices. For beans the inquiry rul e firm at extreme rates. Old white wheat, 50s to 55s ; old red, 45s to 495 ; white, 44s to 50s ; new red, 39s to 43s per 36 stone. Ba r t ,: ley, new. malting, 27s to 35s per qr ; old grinding, 265 28s ; new, --s to —s per 30 stone. Oats, old, 27s to Bus new, 20s to 25s ; old foreign, 22s to 27s per stone. Bea u g ' old, 48e to 52s ; new, 40s to 43s per 38 stone. Super flour) 37s to 39s ; fine, 35s to 36s per 20 stone. NORWICH—SxrunDAY. The supply of wheat at this market to-day was small from the farmers, and the trade ruled about la per qr. or' this day se'nnight. No alteration in barley, the supply ' 11 .: creasing, and the best malting sorts limit e d, f or which law prices were fully maintained. White wheat (weighing 631 b to 641 b), 50s to 52s ; red ditto (weighing 631 b to 641 b), 38s to 52s ; best malting barley (weighing 551 b to 561 b), 30s to 338 ; runs dit h t ! (weighing 541 b to 551 b), 28s to 30s ; distilling ditto (vreig,,,, B ing 521 b to 531 b), 24s to 265 ; oats, 24s to 265; beans , "' B to 39s ; peas (maple), 36s to 38s per qr; flour, 31s to Od per sack. YORK—SATURDAY. There was not much wheat on offer to-day, and sal le l changed hands freely at an improvement on the rates last week. Barley of fine quality in active request at tol d vanced prices ; inferior kinds as before. Oats came to hal l somewhat sparingly, and the demand ruled tolerable at top prices. Beans moved off at advanced rates. New white wheat, 44s to 48s ; new red, 40s to 43s P° r 36 stone. Barley, for malting, 28s t. 32s per qr ; grinding' 26s to 27s per 30 stone. Oats, new, 22s to 24s per 24 stell_t Beans, 40s to 42s per 40 stone. Malt, 58s ; rye, 28s pi qr. Flour, 33s to 34s per sack of 2801 b. CORK—FRIDAY. The following were the quotations this morning wheat, 7s 4d to 9s 4d ; white, 7s 6d to I.os Od ; barley, 65 , d; to 8s Od; _oats, 6s 7d to 7s 2d ; black oats, 6s 2d to 6s bare, 6s Od to 6s 6d. DUBLIN.—FRIDAY. Market advancing, with diminished supplies of all hon?,l grain. Wheat fully 6d dearer. Oats scarce, and 3d to es % dearer. Barley steady at last day's prices. Foreign W h o. advanced 6d to is on this day week. Indian corn sto.,„vd Flour without change in value. Oatmeal in better deal''' . at full prices. Foieign Mail raoket List. s MAILS DUE. Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton Oct. Ditto, via Marseilles Nov. 12 ' Brazil and Cape Verde, by British pactet Nov. 6. Ditto, by French packet Oct. 2 2. Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena Nov. 2 1 ' China, Penang. and Singapore, via Southanipton—Oct. Ditto, via Marseilles Oat. 27 ' Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton Oct. —• India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton..., Oct. • • Ditto, via Marseilles India (Bombay), via Southampton. Oct. 27 ' Ditto, via Marseilles Mauritius, via Southampton Ditto, via Idarseil.es. Nov. Newfoundland Portugal 5• Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon... United states and British North America, by Bri tish packet Births. ABBOTT. — On the 20th inst., at Grove House, Totten the wife of Arthur Robert Abbott, of a son. of _ A m RICHMOND.—On th e 20th i nst., a t H amps t ea d, the wee Richmond, Esq., of a daughter. WOTHERSPOON.—On the 19th inst., at Denmark-h. - 7 the wife of John Wotherspoon, Esq., of a son. Marriages. G ORD ON — LOWNDES.—On the 19th inst., at Preston, CO: mander William Elrington Gordon, R.N., to Emily 13 ee „ bara Gorst, youngest daughter of the late E. C.Lown Esq., of West Cliff, Preston. WATSON — CHADWICK.—On the 21st inst. at at Saint P eteri6 t, Islington, William Watson, Esq., of . 20, Milk - s tye to Cheapside, and of Melbourne, Australia, merchart,t , ,,., Sophia Jan e , w id ow o f th e l a t e William Chadwick, f.'" sohcitor, of Sise-lane, Bucklersbury. Deaths. ARTAUD.—On the 19th inst., Mr. William Artaud, of Townshend-road, St. John's-wood, aged 74. o r BAYLY. —On the 18th inst., at the Royal Laboratory, port, Major N. S. K. Bayly, R.A. v4l COFFIN.—On the 20th inst., suddenly, Edwin Coffin, aged 73. eof GREIG.—On the 20th inst., sudd en ly, a t S ur rey -"" - Lambeth, Woronzow Greig, F.R.S., aged 60. fol r ' HORNER.—On the 18th inst., at Mells-park, Margaret V ces Homer, aged 84. ilatit e WALLACE.—On the 12th inst., at Chateau deßagenl - Garonne, Pyrenees, W. Vincent Wallace, aged 50. ,o, WasoN.—On the 18th i ns t., a t 1, Fl orence - s t ree t, Isling i Capt. J. M. 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