The Sun. — London, England, 1866-12-28 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 28, 1866. Mr. T. Hughes, M.P. on the Prosecution Richard then went on to speak of the many dodges M ' Naval and Military Intelligence. of Governor Eyre. adopted by the Conservatives to win. Among the rest was that of bribery. He could assure them he did not think for one moment that Captain Talbot was aware of what his underlings were doing. He was sure he was far too honourable a man to connive at such practices ; but still he knew it to be the case, and could prove it, that they offered one farmer £2O to vote for Talbot. He un derstood that Captain Talbot was only coming for ward to act as a warming pan for a junior member of the house of Beresford—Lord Charles Beresford— (hear, hear, and cheers)—but he was sure Captain Talbot was too honourable a man and too gallant an officer to be spared by the service and by his country for such a use. (Laughter.) He concluded by proposing Mr. De la Poer as a fit and proper person to represent the county in Parliament. Mr. BAGWELL, M.P., seconded the nomination. The SHERIFF then asked if any gentleman had another candidate to propose, and there being no Yesterday a meeting, convened by circular, was held in the committee room of the Town-hall, Bir mingham, for the purpose of hearing an address by Mr. T. llughes, M.P., with respect to the proposed prosecution of ex-Governor Eyre by the Jamaica committee. The Mayor (Mr. G. Dixon) presided, and the meeting was a large one. The MAYOR, in opening the proceedings, expressed his opinion that at present there were two classes of people in the country. On the one band they had the Jamaica Committee ; and on the other they had a class of people who believed that if Governor Fyre had done wrong he had simply made a mis take, and therefore he deserved sympathy instead of censure. Apart from these there was a class of people who, though they had read much and thought deeply on the subject, were yet unwilling to com mit themselves to an opinion on the grave legal questions involved. To this class the Jamaica Committee appealed, mid for that purpose Mr. llughes bad been invited to come to Birmingham. Mr. T. HUGHES, after stating the circumstances attending the formation of the Jamaica Committee, said he believed it was owing to the pressure exercised by them that the Government had determined to suspend Governor Eyre, pending the inquiry which was made by the Royal Com mission appointed for that purpose. He thought that report disclosed a frightful state of things, which made the deliberations of the committee most serious. But when it became evident that they must face the probable necessity of placing Governor Eyre on his trial for having taken away life, which would, according to the English law, be murder, many who had previously acted on the committee withdrew their names. He thought they had acted in a harsh and unadvised manner, for nothing personal entered into the matter. It was not a question of Governor Eyre or Mr. Gordon, but one involving the most precious birth right of Englishmen. The present Government had refused to take up the matter, and Mr. Disraeli had given a refusal of the most contumelious kind to their request, his answer being that such acts were under martial law, and when martial law was proclaimed all other laws were suspended. The committee had determined, therefore, to take up the matter themselves, and they wished to obtain an authoritative judgment on the law as it bore upon the case. Their first position was the English law as it had been since the great Charter. The sove reign had no power to declare martial law in any of the English dominions, and that being the case had no authority to delegate it to any representative of the Crown in any of the British colonies. Mr. Hughes then gave quotations to show that the law in this country as founded in the great Charter and the Petition of Right remained unaltered, and that it had been declared so by the highest legal authorities. In Jamaica itself there had been a Militia Act, which gave authority to establish martial law, but as he apprehended it was martial law to be employed only in case of invasion by a foreign power, for by another statute passed side by side with that, and re newed from time to time, and which was then in existence, the ordinary civil courts were to remain open, and to them all civilians were to be brought to trial for criminal offences. Having referred to the proceedings in Jamaica, Mr. Hughes appealed to the country for aid in order that a question involving in such a great degree the rights and privileges of their fellow-subjects in all parts of the world might be set at rest, and expressed his opinion that the Chief Justice of England would repeat charges of other chief justices in stating the la iv to be that no exercising the prerogative, as in this case, could be made in violation of the law, for he considered the question was one of law as against prerogative. A resolution, expressing sympathy with the ob jects of the committee, and forming a local com mittee, was confirmed, and after a vote of thanks to the mayor for presiding, the meeting terminated. answer, The Hon. Captain TALBOT rose to address the electors, but was received with a perfect storm of groans. It was many minutes before he was allowed to proceed. When quiet had been comparatively restored he proceeded to say that he regretted that owing to a trick—an electioneering trick—of his opponents, the entire duty of answering all that had been said on the other side devolved on him. By this trick he had been deprived of the able assist ance of the two gentlemen of stake in the country (Sir R. J. Paul and Captain Pallisser), who had consented to propose and second him. With regard to the charge of Fenianism, which had been made against Mr. De la Poer, he (Captain Talbot) denied indignantly that he or any of his party ever had anything to say to the authorship or promulga tion of the statement. Neither he nor his party were in anywise accessory to it. (Cheers and groans.) He regretted that the hon. baronet who had proposed Mr. De la Poer had seen fit to make the very serious charge of bribery against his (the speaker's) party); but he begged, in the most emphatic and indignant terms, to repel a charge so gross and unconstitu tional. (Cheers and counter cheers.) He begged, with every respect for Sir R. Musgrave, to say that charge was a fabrication. (Uproar.) It was got up for a political purpose, the same as the incident that made such a serious charge against Mr. De la Poer had been turned to political ends by Mr. De la Poer's friends. He would repeat that neither he nor his friends had anything to say to the unfortu nate report which had been circulated respecting Mr. De la Poer. (No, no, Aye, and groans.) Neither had they anything to say to the foul charge of bribery. Sir It. MUSGRAVE—It can be proved. (Cheers and uproar.) Mr. TALBOT continued to say that he would defy any man to substantiate such a charge against him or his friends. (Great tumult.) He (Capt. Talbot) had to deplore the means taken at the other side to prejudice the mass against us by" stumping" from town to town, raising up exploded and senseless party cries to excite the fury of the people against him and the house of Curraghmore, with which he had the honour of being closely allied. The Beres fords had ever been good resident landlords, and spent immense sums in the employment of labour and the improvement of the country. (A Voice—" What of the pitch-caps and triangles ?") (Groans.) They had won the affection of their tenantry by their generosity and kindness to them. (Confusion.) What had the Whigs, to whom Mr. De la Poer gave his adherence, ever done for this unfortunate coun try during their almost uninterrupted rule of 25 years? They had increased the taxation inordi nately. They played with all the great questions, but never attempted honestly to settle any of them. The Whigs always claimed to be the friends of the people, but what had they ever done for them ? They never seriously grappled with the tenant right question, and their late leader (Lord Palmer ston) said tenant-right was landlord wrong. (Groans.) Lord Derby's Land Bill of 1852 is now admitted to be the best land bill, and the justest ever laid before Parliament ; but the Whigs defeated the bill, and drove the Government out of office for their own selfish party motives. The Lend Lieutenant of the present Government recently stated, in reply to a deputation from the city of Waterford, that his Go vernment recogkised the deep and growing neces sity of dealing with the land question, and that the Government were preparing a bill on the subject, which they would submit to Parliament next session. Would it not be better to give a fair trial to such aGo vernment than go back to the old, vicious, mischie vous rule of the Whigs ? The true interests of landlord and tenant were identical, and the con duct of men who for pure party motives set them one against tho other should be stigma tised. (Great uproar.) What is beneficial to the landlord serves the tenant, and what is injurious to the tenant hurts the landlord. He (Capt. Talbot) was prepared, if returned to Parliament, to support any measure of tenant-right which would secure to the tenant his money laid out on bona fide improve ments of land and buildings. He felt it most im portant that every facility should be given for grant ing leases, and every inducement to landlords to grant them. (Cheers and counter cheers.) Mr. De la Poer might call himself an independent member, but he should side either with Lord Derby or Earl Russell. The last named Government had done irreparable injury to the country. (Great noise.) The speaker having referred at great length to - Whig rule, and to his own exertions when before in Par liament, concluded by asking a generous support, and announced that his canvass had been so suc cessful that he felt confident of victory. Mr. DE LA p oER, on rising to speak, was received with great cheering, which was kept up for several minutes. He said: on quiet being restored, that he was, in soliciting the sustainment of the Liberal party, no stranger in birth, property, or kindred, or political connection. (Great applause.) He should be false t o t he traditions o f hi s f am il y if he were untrue to the great Lib era l cause. (Renewed cheers.) He was too young a speaker to enter into a lo ng or elaborate discus sion of the great po litic al questions of th e day, and he would, therefore , s i mply confine him self to stating what were his v i ews , in additio n t o those contained in his address. He thought the first and most pressing question of the day wa s tenant right. (Cheers.) He thought a fair, com prehensive, and equitable adjustment of that ques tion would do more than anything else to settle the disturbed minds of the farmers of Ireland. (Hear, hear.) It would stimulate the industry of the farmer when he felt conscious of the certainty of en joying the fruits of his toil and capital. (Hear.) It would largely increase the prosperity, the capital, and peace of the country. (Cheers.) A measure to settle this question fairly, no matter from what Government it emanated, would have his warmest support. As to the church establishment, he looked upon it as an institution that in its present state was utterly indefensible. It was indefensible that the church of the minority should monopolise the entire of the ecclesiastical revenues of the country. These revenues were originally intended for, and belonged to, the Catholic Church—(hear, hear) — and the Catholic Church was still the religion of the majority. Ireland bad over four millions of Catholics to about 600,000 Protestants. He (Mr. De la Poer) thought every church should be self supporting. (Cheers.) He was also in favour of denominational education, and that the members of each church should be brought up in their own re ligion, and have equal opportunities of academical degrees. While he would, if returned, consider his chief support to be due to the great Liberal party in the House of Commons, still he should not hesitate to give an honest support to every measure that I would advance, improve, and render the country more prosperous and happy. (Great cheering.) The High Sheriff then took a show of hands, which was enormously in favour of Mr. De la Poer, and was so declared. - Captain TALBOT called for a poll, which was fixed for Saturday Svoatteurodfay thanksnext. t to the Sheriff' was proposed by Cap tain Talbot, seconded by M r . D e l a Poer, and the meeting separated peacefully. Several speakers addressed the mob in the even ing from Mr. De la Poer's committee rooms. The excitement is calming down, THE WATERFORD ELECTION. (From Saunders's News.) The election for a knight of the shire to represent the county of Waterford in the Imperial Parliament was held in the county Court-house on Wednesday. The court was densely packed at an early hour with the friends and supporters of the rival candidates. At half-past ten o'clock the High Sheriff, Mr. Robert Thomas Carew, D.L., accompanied by the Sub-Sheriff, entered the court. He was followed by the Hon. W. C. Talbot, R.N., conservative can didate, accompanied by Sir Robert J. Paul, Bart., (proposer), and Captain Palliser (seconder) and friends; and Mr. Edmund De la Poer (liberal candidate) accompanied by Sir Richard Musgrave, Bart. (proposer), and Mr. John Bagwell, M.P. (seconder), and friends. The writ having been read a long discussion took place as to which candidate should be proposed first when Mr. J. J. Shee, a supporter of Mr. De la Poer, rose and proposed the Hon. Captain Talbot in the following terms :—He said as there appeared to be a squabble as to which candidate should have the honour of being proposed first, he would put an end to it by proposing the Hon. Captain Talbot. (Groans and cheers.) Ile proposed him, although he hoped he would not win. (Laughter and cheers.) It might appear strange to them for him to do so, but he felt called upon to a'st thus from the turn affairs had taken. He concluded by proposing the Hon. Capt. Talbot as a fit and proper person to re present the county in Parliament. (Cheers.) Mr. M. A. ANTHONY, J.P., another supporter of Mr. de la Poer, seconded the nomination. He said he bad no idea he would be placed in the position he then stood in to-day, but when he found the business of the day was intended to be clogged by the opposing party, he could not stand by and allow it when asked to assent. He was about to second the nomination of the Hon. Mr. Talbot—(hisses) — who he trusted would be beaten—(groans, cheers, and counter cheers)—and he also also trusted that his tongue would fall from his mouth if he gave him a vote. (Laughter.) The hon. captain was not con nected with their county, and he hoped they would show him what they thought of him when the time came, by recording their votes in favour of the gal lant young Power of Gurteen. He could speak of Dungarvan only, and he could assure them that there they would do their duty. They had given example there in the election of Charley Barry, which it would be well for them to imitate. He wished to say be felt constrained to second Capt. Talbot to nzis-re present their county, and concluded by formally seconding the nomination of Capt. Talbot, amid groans, cheers, &c. - Sir RICHARD MUSGRAVE then rose, and was re ceived with vociferous cheering, which lasted some time. He said—Mr. High Sheriff and gentlemen electors of the county of Waterford, I have the honour to propose Edmund DelaPoer, betterknown to you as the son of Johnny Power of Gurteen— (loud cheers)—.as a fit and proper person to repre sent you in Parliament. [A Voice, " If I had a sister I'd give her to him."] (Laughter.) He did not wish to say anything personal. This was the first time he bad taken any part in elections in the county, being a man of d mo erate opinions, although a Protestant. But when he saw an attempt made to tarnish the fame of a youn g entering • man just life, he felt he could not stand aloof. (Cheers.) This was not the course adopted by the Liberal party a hen another young man, just entering life, sought their suffrages a year or two since. (H ear, hear , and groans for Talbot.) The speaker then allud ed to M. tie la Poer's little affair with Sir E .Kennedy. Be proceeded to say that Mr. Talbot came forward as the supporter of Lord Derby's Government — a Government that was always averse to anything fair and just with respect to the people. It was the Derby Government who appointed Whiteside— (groans and cheers)—a fact which would speak volumes. Lord Tyrone was returned for the county, professing liberal sentiments, which were carefully ventilated by his supporters. But when he got into Parliament, after pledging himself on the hustings to give his vote in favour of abolishing the vexed question of the Roman Catholic Oaths Bill, he voted against the measure for abolishing it, and with Lord Derby's Government. (Hisses and cheers.) Sir and lft. 10in, at the feet, being lft. sin. deep. This contained fine gravel, and among it the bones of an adult male in perfect preservation even to the small bones of the hand. The body was doubled up, the face being towards the south. The femur measured 19iin., and the tibia 16in. In front of the heart was an urn laid on its side, and near it a flint scraper 24in. by liin. Unfortunately the skull of this body was not preserved. The bottom of the cist was carefully paved with small stones, and below and around it were fragments of human bones, all broken up, with some shreds of pottery and charcoal-- the whole appearing to show that the cist had been con structed to contain a secondary burial, destroying or disturbing earlier ones. A little to the east of the cist, and 7ft. below the surface of the barrow, was a large flat stone covering a deposit of dark, earthy matter, and somewhat to the south of this was another flat slab, covering a similar deposit, and also about sin. of sand. In neither case was anything found. At the east side of the barrow (in last week's work), and about 10ft. from the outside, was a deposit of burnt bones upon a flat stone, just above the natural surface, and 6ft. south of another similar deposit just upon the natural surface. Five feet south of the centre was an unburnt body, doubled up, laid on the right side, the hands up to the head, the head being to the south. Beneath this and touching the bones was the deposit of a burnt body, and the two, buried in opposite customs, must, to all appearance, have been deposited at the same time, and therefore present a very interesting feature in British sepulchral usages. At the back of the pelvic bones of the unburnt body, and lying upon the bones of the burnt body, was an urn of a very beau tiful type. It is 4fin. wide and 4fin. high, and is covered with a series of 27 thong impressions out side, and inside the lip of the rim are four thong markings. It is impossible to say whether this urn had been buried with the burnt or unburnt body. Similar urns have been found with both kinds of burials—in Westmoreland lying on the burnt bones on the Yorkshire Wolds in barrows containing only unburnt burials. The bones of the unburnt body were greatly decayed, and it is doubtful whether sufficient of the skull has been obtained to show the type. The unburnt burial was that of a man of mature age. In the centre of the tumulus and under the cist was a grave of 6ft. diameter and 2ft. 9in. deep, sunk into the natural limestone rock, doubtless the place prepared for the first burial, over which the barrow was built. At the west side of the grave a body was found lying on its right side, the hands up to the head, which was to the south-west. At the feet of this body was a highly ornate " drinking cup," 7in. high, laid on its side, and in the hollow of the knees—that is, between the tibia and the femur —was a bronze pin or awl, greatly oxidized. The cup was ornamented to ex cess with thong markings, the upper part having three sets of double horizontal lines, and between them vertical markings, and below one horizontal line ; then, in descending order, a zigzag line, the lower triangles filled horizontally, and a horizontal line below all. The bottom part had the ornamen tation of the upper repeated. There was charcoal about the body, and human bones (cktached) were in and above the grave and on the sides, apparently indicating still earlier disturbed interments. The skeleton was much decayed, and Mr. Greenwell doubts whether the skull can be sufficiently pre served to show the type. It is rarely that a bar row presents so many features of general interest, giving at one examination the burial customs of successive peoples. Unfortunately, the craniologi cal information anticipated is doubtful. CROWN LANDS. An order has been received at Portsmouth dock yard from the Admiralty to break up four vessels now on the steam reserve lists at that port,compris ing the Vulcan, iron built screw troopship, of 1,764 tons and 400-horse power ; the Medea, paddle sloop, of 135 tons and 350-horse power ; the Pelican, screw sloop, 952 tons and 200-horse power ; and the Shamrock, screw gunboat, of 60-horse power. The Vulcan was built by Charles Mare at Black wall in 1840, under contract with the Admiralty, and from designs furnished from the Surveyor of the Navy's office. When launched she was con sidered a somewhat wonderful vessel, but her sea going rate of speed and troop accommodation in these days have become a mere burlesque upon what we have now learnt to consider the ocean-going qualifications of a troop-carrying steamer. The Medea was built also from the Surveyor's office plans, at her Majesty's Dockyard, Woolwich, in 1838, under the superintendence of Mr. 0. Laig. The Pelican was built at Pembroke Dockyard in 1854, and the Shamrock was built in a private yard a year later. The machinery of all four ves sels will be utilised for other vessels built or building. Mr. Leather, C.E., the Contractor of Public Works, to whom the Admiralty and the War De partment consigned the execution of the Portland breakwater and forts, and who is now enaged under a similar contract in the construction of the foun dations for the marine forts at Spithead, has joined Mr. George Smith, of Pimlico, in his execution of the works for the extension of Portsmouth dock yard, which, according to the terms of the agree ment with the Admiralty, will occupy fully four years, and involves a first expenditure of upwards of a million and a half sterling. A naval court-martial assembled yesterday on board her Majesty's ship Victory, at Portsmouth, for the trial of Mr. George S. Boys, late sub-lieu tenant on board her Majesty's ship Pylades, doing duty at the time on board the hired steam gunboat Royal,on a charge of desertion from the latter - vessel on the 6th of September last. The Court was com posed of Captains Tatham, Bellerophon ; Egerton, C. 8., Aide-de-Camp to the Queen, Victory ; Chamberlain, Asia ; Fellowes, Duke of Welling ton ; Commerell, V.C., Terrible ; Burgoyne, V.C., Wivern ; Hire, Orontes; Henderson, Urgent ; and Goodenough, Minotaur. Mr. Hoskins was Deputy- Judge-Advocate, and Capt. Hood, of her Majesty's ship Excellent, and lately commanding tha Pylades, prosecuted. The Court having heard the statements for the prosecution and the defence, found the charge proved, but, in consideration of extenuating circumstances, only adjudged Mr. Boys to be dis missed from her Majesty's navy. Mr. Boys' ex ' planation of his conduct which led to the charge upon which he has been thus, we trust not perma nently dismissed from her Majesty's service, is given by him in a letter submitted by the defence. It contains the following passages : "In consequence of my ship having been paid off I beg to report to you for information of their lordships the distressing circumstances under which I left the hired gunboat Royal, attached to the Pylades, at Cornwall, Canada West, on the even ing of the 6th of September last. I appointed the late firm of Hallett, Ommanney, and Co. to be my agents, when they agreed to my drawing upon them to the extent of £5O. Of this permission, in part, I had availed myself by drawing upon them for two bills, for £2O and £l5, when, in consequence of their failure, my bills were dishonoured with pro testing charges, and I became involved in pecu niary embarrassments which I could not surmount. One party, shortly before my ship was ordered home, issued a writ against me which was my ruin —a moral death, in fact, for it involved incarcera tion in a Canadian prison in company with rebels and outcasts, where I must have been left a total stranger when my ship sailed for England. Then it was I fled, not from the profession of my choice, but from my hard-hearted creditors, preferring to trust to that mercy from my superior officers these people denied me. I then proceeded to New York for passage to England, but was stopped by a severe illness at St. John's House, the recovery from which exhausted all :my means, so that I was obliged to work my passage in the Prussian barque London, of Dantsic, to Antwerp. We were seven long weeks at sea, and here I will recount one incident of the voyage. I was at the wheel, when, from an inadvertence which would have elicited from me a simple caution to one of our men, the mate of the barque .knocked me senseless upon the deck by a violent blow from a belaying pin. This was the cause of my detention a few days at Antwerp before I could at length pass on to England to discharge this imperative duty." Her Majesty's iron steam storeship Megera, 4, from the Mediterranean stations, having discharged her war stores at Woolwich Arsenal, yesterday went alongside the Hebe hulk, to clear out the dockyard stores and prepare for ,her return voyage, in com mand of Capt. Simpson, who has succeeded Capt. Montagu B. Dunn, appointed to the command of the new Indian transportship Euphrates, 4,173 tons and 700-horse power, recently launched at Birken head. The War Department steam vessel Lord Pan mure, Master Commander Spriddle, yesterday com menced discharging at the powder buoy off Wool wich Arsenal 4,000 quarter-barrels of condemned ball-cartridge ammunition from Marchwood. The following appointments have been made at the Admiralty:—Commander H. C. Harston to the Saturn, additional, for packet and transport service at Liverpool, vice Leycester, whose period of service has expired ; Lieut. W. Howorth, to the command of the Heron, vice Stevenson, superseded ; Lieuts. It. W. Davies and M. M'Neile to the Excellent. The annual report of the Department of the Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues, just issued, shows that in the year ending with March, 1866, the income of valuable property under their charge amounted to £449,677, and the expenditure to £116,523, or more than a fourth of the income. There was a further expenditure of about £29,000, voted by Parliament for the maintenance of the offices and establishment of the Department. The property is of three classes. There is, first, the land re venue, consisting of Crown rents from lauds and !nines, with dividends on the produce of sales invested and the amount of the year's sales of produce, mak ing a total of £400,219 in the year, the expenditure amounting to £72,439, above £28,000 of it going in repairs and improvements, and above £B,OOO for rates and taxes. Next, there is 'Windsor Park, which cost £20,257 for maintenance and management in the year, sales of produce bringing £7,118 in reduction of this expenditure, and about £l,BOO being ex pended on new works and improvements, £1,328 of it being devoted to the completion of the Royal Chapel. Last come the Royal forests and wood lands—the New Forest, Dean Forest, Highmeadow Woods, Alice Holt Woods, Woolmer Estate, Bere Woods, Parkhurst Woods, Hazleborough Wood, Salcey Wood, Delemere Woods, Chopwell Woods, and Epping Forest, or what remains of it. The in come of these amounted to £42,338 in the year, and the expenditure to £22,877, reduced to £18,700, if we deduct so much of the expenditure as was for planting and improvements. The result of the year was that £320,000 was paid over to the Exchequer as surplus income. The most important sale of Crown property in the year was of a large number of houses and cottages at Egham, almost all old and of an inferior class, not considered a desir able property for the Crown to retain ; it pro duced above £20,000. The chief purchases of the year were the Rosenau property, opposite the Home Park at Windsor, a house and nearly 12 acres of land, bought for £7,000 ; and Hawfield, a house and above 102 acres of land, adjoining the Crown's Hagloe estate in Gloucestershire, purchased for 17,146. Among the property let on lease are por tions of the bed of the sea let to oyster fishery companies, six square miles, let on a 60 years' lease to the Herne-bay Oyster Fishery Com pany, at a rent rising to £5OO after ten years, but subject to a reduction according to the profits. Several portions of the foreshore were also sold or let for various works of a public character. But, by an act of last session the rights of the Crown in the shore and bed of the sea, and of navigable rivers as far up as the tide flows, have been placed under the management of the Board of Trade after the close of the year 1866, except the foreshores of the Thames, the Tees, and the county palatine of Durham, which are other wise provided for. The Board of Trade being charged with the duty of protecting navigation, it was thought desirable that the duty of dealing with the foreshore as a matter of property and revenue should also be transferred to that Department. The foreshore below ordinary high-water mark is considered to be vested in the Crown, subject to all public rights of navigation, and to such grants as have been made or are presumed to have been made ; and the right of jurisdiction for the pro tection of public rights remains in the Crown, although the territorial right of property may have been granted away. THE SEA SERPENT.—The 7oidonnai,s gives an account of the recent capture of the "sea serpent," which, it says, can bo vouched for by pretty nearly the whole po pulation of thetown. It has for a long time been believed that the sea serpent had never been seen except in the co lumns of the American papers, and those on this side the Atlantic which might not object to insert a questionable story. Sea snakes of a moderate size are, however, known to exist, and it seems to be a large specimen of these crea tures that was captured on Sunday week. The specimen in question is about 13ft. long, and was caught on the line of some fishermen in the waters of Capo Cepet. It was brought up by the captors, while yet living, to the Boule vard de la Riviere, in Toulon, and there was visited by crowds of persons during the greater part of the day. The body is perfectly cylindrical, and is about 41in. in diameter terminating iu a sharp point at the tail. Its colour is a uni form deep grey on the upper part, and beneath is of a yel lowish white. It has no fins nor scales, nor is there any projecting bone or horn in any part. In colour it much resembles the conger, but could never be mistaken for that fish, for in these seas the latter never attains to a greater length than about six feet or so, and is, moreover, when of such size, fully double the girth of the snake. The great difference also is the shape and aspect of the head ; that of the snake is flat and broad, and resembles the head of a huge viper; tho jaws, armed with powerful fangs, are elongated, reaching to a length of about llin., and terminating in a sharp angle. The eyes, which are re markably bright, are surrounded by a fine thread of a flaming rod colour. The discovery of this snake, for snake there can be no doubt it is, if the description be accurate, is one of a highly interesting character ; but it must not be considered as a proof of the existence of such a mon ster as has been described as the great seaserpent. Of the existence of this creature there is doubtless a certain amount of evidence, but not as yet sufficient to satisfy the sceptical minds of many of tho best known naturalists. It may be argued that the Mediterranean serpent being 13ft. in length, the serpent of the Atlantic may be larger in pro portion to the greater size of his ocean home. It is likely, nevertheless, that the naturalists of London and Paris will wait for more direct evidence of the monster before they inscribe his name " Serpens Atlanticus Giga.s" in their zoological lists.—Morning Post. THE CHRISTMAS TRAFFIC ON THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.—We understand that the traffic on the Great Western Railway during the latter part of the past week has been unprecedented, and has taxed the " carrying" powers of the company to the utmost. On Saturday alone there could have boon but few, if any, short of 25,000 or 30,000 passengers through the Swindon Station. With the exception of some very few intervals during the day, the platforms and refreshment-rooms were crowded with persons who had arrived or were waiting to leave by the trains which were constantly running in and out of the station. The ordinary number of trains, even with extra engine power, was anything but sufficient to meet this extraordinary emergency, and it was therefore found necessary to more than double the number of trains, in some instances it was found necessary to despatch as many as three trains for the conveyance of passengers who had booked themselves for one ordinary train. This was the case with the train which leaves Swindon Station at 1.37. The passengers booked by this one filled three monster trains, and we were informed that when the 6 p.m. train was despatched from Paddington there was not a single available carriage left in the station with which to form the next . train. Of course many trains were late, and the weather (a heavy fog) was exceedingly unfavourable, but up to the present we have heard of no accident whatever. At our own station everything passed smoothly under the admirable direction of Mr. Holmes and his staff of officers. There was of course a great deal of bluster during the day on the part of fussy people, who either had to wait, had gone too far, or could net go far enough, and actions innumerable were threatened, but just in proportion as disappointed travellers lost their tempers urbane officials commanded theirs, and nothing serious happened.—Swindon Advertiser. The Eastern Counties line runs through rather a desolate display of landscape. Essex is certainly not a favourable specimen of English scenery, though here and there one finds a pretty village with picturesque lanes, and a river winding through it. But such villages are not on the line of railroad, but lie away from it ; and let us hope they may long be spared the effect of its progressive influ ences, despite the seeming illiberality of the sentiment. Passing from the Shoreditch Station, through, or rather over, miles of houses, the line takes its way through sub urban retreats, and out into more decided though flat and uninteresting country. A wondrous sight those miles and miles of houses, closely packed together, tall, dark, gloomy, and one enters into a calculation of what might be the average allotment of dwelling room to each of the three million inhabitants of the wonderful city —of how much coal is burned to send up so much smoke, that rolls itself into clouds that hung in dingy ca nopies between earth and heaven, never aspiring to soar aloft to their whiter and more transparent brethren. In deed, they appear to have a decided antipathy to fleeing away in an upward direction, their genius being not to rise but to extend themselves, and so they stretch away north, south, east, west, over turret, steeple, tower, palace cathedral, abbey, bridges, and river; short and tall chim neys puffing up reinforcements in the shape of voluminous columns that, twisting into fantastic wreaths, crown the brows of the mighty metropolis.—From " Joyce Dormer's Story," in Once a Week. [ADTERTISEMENT.] —Holloway's Pills.—These Pills are better lfor strengthening a debilitated constitution than any other medicine in the world. Persons of a nervous habit of body, and ali who are suffering from weak diges tive organs, or whose health has become deranged by bilious affections, disordered stomach, or liver complaints, should lose no time in giving those admirable Pills a fair trial. Coughs, colds, asthma, or shortness of breath are also within the range of the sanative powers of this re markable medicine. The cures effected by those Pills are not superficial nor temporary, but complete and permanent. They are as mild as they are efficacious, and may be given withoonfidence to delicate females and young children. MIMI THE FERRY-BRIDGE TIIMITLUS. The large tumulus crowning one of the high points overhanging the river Aire, near Ferry bridge, in the West Riding, has been three times dug into during the present century, the first two exca vations being mere ridings of its contents ; the last, just completed, being a scientific exami nation of the remaining portion of the mound by the Rev. Canon Groenwell, of Durham, and. Lord Houghton, various other gentlemen attending. The tumulus was situated on rising ground, in the " Roundhill Field," above the river, a natural out break of the limestone having been selected, just as on the wolds and moors the burial mounds of the same period all occupy prominent positions. The remains of the mound were 54ft. in diameter and ea Th e mound in the ' 71t. hi g h, b u t th e tumu l us ha d or i g i nally been a greatvng a deal nof s t ones i ir larger. centre. w as m made e n 81 o 1 fe 1 the arthha then tenant began its removal in order to cultivate the site, but desisted on finding a great number of bones, which, being found to be human remains, were re-interred in Fryston h h c urc yard. At that period a man in armour is said to have been found, but from the traditionary story it would appear to have been the now well-understood Anglo-Saxon burial, with sword, spear, and boss of shield, this last being the supposed helmet. Another, but only partial, attack on the barrow was made in 1863, when, at the centre, immediately under the surface (not a foot deep), two skeletons were found, one overlying the other. Near them were portions of red deer antlers, and with them were fragments of two urns, one a cinerary urn, 10in. high, and the other a smaller urn of 3in. high, of the type usually found with the interment of a burnt body. The feet of the two bodies were gone—they had probably been dug away in 1811. The urns, too, were not in their proper places—had no doubt been removed and replaced at the same period. The upper body was of a large male adult, the under one of a shorter but apparently stronger framed person, and both were inserted burials of a later date than the bar row—most likely Anglo-Saxon. About 18in. to the left was a third body buried a little deeper, but, like the other two, laid at full length east and west, the head to the west, as in the modern Christian practice. So far this narrow resembles the large one on Langton Wold, where the Anglo-Saxons had made use of a British burial mound to insert their later interments very shallowly beneath the surface. Below the above-mentioned burials, and 4ft. fromthe surface, was a cist of four stone slabs, with a cover aft. sin. long, 2ft. wide at the head, MINING STATISTICS. A report issued by the select committee ap pointed last session to inquire into the operation of the acts for the regulation and inspection of mines, and into the complaints contained in the petitions from miners of Great Britain, states that a great number of witnesses havel been examined, but that on certain points it may, perhaps, be desirable to hear further evidence. It was therefore recom mended that the committee should be re-appointed next session. According to a return prepared by the Government Inspector of South Durham, it appears that the deaths from explosions of fire damp in Great Britain in the ten years, 1856 to 1865, were 2,019. Out of this number 412 occur red in South Wales, 340 in Yorkshire, 238 in North and East Lancashire, and 126 in South Stafford shire and Worcestershire. The total number of explosions from fire-damp in Great Britain was 235 in 1856, and 377, 215, 95, 363, 119, 190, 163, 94, and 168 successively on the nine following years. The deaths from falls in Great Britain in the same period (185 G-65) amounted to 3,953, 745 of which occurred in South Staffordshire and Worcestershire, 530 in South Wales, 358 in West Lancashire and North Wales, and 238 in Yorkshire. In the ten years the number of deaths from accidents in shafts was 1,710, and from miscellaneous causes on the surface of the earth and in mines, 2,234. The total number of deaths from all violent causes in the ten years was 9,916. Out of this number 1,357 occurred in South Wales; 1,302 in South Staf fordshire and Worcestershire ; 1,141 in North umberland, Cumberland, and North Durham ; 970 in West Lancashire and North Wales ; and 787 in Yorkshire. In 1856, 1,022 deaths occurred from all violent causes in Great Britain ; and 1,122, 931, 905, 1,109, 936, 1,133, 907, 867, and 9E4 succes sively in the nine following years. Of the 9,916 deaths, 2,019, or 20 per cent., were from fire-damp explosions; 3,953, or 40 per cent., were from falls of roof and coal ; 1,710, or 17 per cent., were shaft accidents; and 2,234, or 23 per cent., were mis cellaneous accidents in mines and above ground. In the last two years (1864 and 1865) the returns for Great Britain show a 'reduction of 991 deaths in proportion to the increased quantity of coal raised, or nearly 35 per cent., as compared with the fatality in the two years 1856 and 1857. In the five years, 1856 to 1860, there were 5,089 deaths from colliery accidents in Great Britain, and during the same period of 381,067,047 tons of coal were raised. In the succeeding five years, 1861 to 1865, 468,518,905 tons of coal were raised, so that if the deaths. had in creased in the same proportion as the quantity of coal raised the deaths in the latter quinquenniad would have been 6,257, whereas they only amounted to 4,827, being 1,430 less than in the former quinquenniad. This shows a redaction of fata lities to the extent of 23 per cent. in five years, being at the rate of 46 per cent. per annum in rela tion to the coal raised. In the three years imme diately succeeding the passing of the Duplicate Shaft Act (1862) the deaths in Great Britain were 690 less in proportion to the quantity of coal raised than they were in the three years immediately preceding the passing of the act. In 1856 the number of tons of coal raised in Great Britain was 71,787,552 ; in 1865 it was 98,911,169. Taking the several groups of inspection districts into which the coal-fields of the country are divided, the return shows the following results for 1865 :—To one death the number of miners employed was 182 in South Wales ; 238 in West Lancashire and North Wales ; 258 in Northumberland, Cumber land, and North Durham ; 296 in South Stafford shire and Worcestershire ; 325 in Monmouthshire, Gloucestershire, Somersetshire, and Devonshire ; 330 in Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Leicester shire, and 'Warwickshire ; 340 in the western dis tricts of Scotland ; 356 in North and East Lan cashire ; 403 in North Staffordshire, Shropshire, and Cheshire ; 414 in South Durham ; 450 in the eastern districts of Scotland ; and 636 in York shire. A WORD ABOUT ICELAND.--The whole island, which belongs to Denmark, is divided into three ampts ; each ampt has its own ecclesiastical and political govern ment. The clerical head of an ampt is a probst, respon sible to the bishop; the political head is an amptman, who is answerable to the Governor at Reykjavik. Each ampt is divided into so many syssels, and each syssel has its sysselman, while each syssel is sub-divided into harps, each with its legal officer. Under the probst of an ampt are the pastors of their different parishes. In Reykjavik aro 13 merchants and tradesmen ; there is an apothecary, who is also French Consul ; a printer and bookseller, who edits and publishes a monthly paper chiefly filled with local news ; there is a silversmith, who hammers out dol lars into trinkets for females, and a watehmaker.—Once Week. SPIRI r OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TIMES.—The lull in our daily intelligence which ordinarily marks the brief period of our Christmas rejoicings is broken in upon by rumbling threats of war in the East. The Porte, we learn, has com plained to the Greek Government of the volunteers in Greek uniform landed in Greek steamers on the shores of Crete in aid of the Candian insurgents, and also of the several corps concentrated by the Greek Government on the frontier of Epirus and Thessaly. These, as our readers are aware, are no new remonstrances. The tone of the Sultan's diplo matists may be more emphatic, but the substance of their message is already familiar to King George. Explanations, reproofs, o r ap o l og i es wou ld e 'be perfectly superfluous on either side. Between Athens and Constantinople there has been, indeed, for weeks and months, more than sufficient ground for au open declaration of hostilities. The eager ness to come to blows is very obvious ; but the would-be combatants are under the influence of a feeling stronger than the most ardent desire—a very wholesome fear. It has become a rule of late years that the party which, no matter under what provocation, venture on an appeal to arms, by that very act puts himself in the wrong, and com mits a political blunder which it takes no trifling amount of the most signal military suc cess to repair. Thus in the dispute between Piedmont and Austria in 1859, or in the more recent contest between the two great German Powers this year, diplomatic preliminaries were so adroitly conducted on all sides that, although we are quite sure there was war, and although we have ma terial certainty as to when, where, and by whom the first shot was fired, we are obliged to leave posterity , to decide on whom the moral weight of original ag gression should justly be laid. In the case of Greece and Turkey the guilt of disturbing the peace of Europe would involve even greater responsibility, since the former State was made and the latter was spared by the Powers who look upon themselves as guardians of the public tranquillity. It was with a view to avert indefinite dangers that the little Hel lenic kingdom was suffered to come into existence ; and it was for the purpose of putting off to the latest possible moment the solution of the most intricate territorial problems that the tottering Ottoman em pire was precariously propped up. Both Abdul Aziz and George I. live in glass houses, and are bound to refrain from throwing stones. This is not a case, indeed, in which any doubt need be entertained as to the first cause of contention. Judged by the com mon canons of international law, the whole odium of the aggression must be thrown upon the King of the Greeks and his Government. The question is, however, whether there is anything like a Govern ment in Greece, and in what else besides the name the young Danish prince may be said to be a King. The Athenian War Ministry, we take it, exercises no more control over the men and officers of the Greekarmy, orover the steamers and gunboats of the Greek navy, than Agamemnon possessed over the chiefs and ships assembled before Troy in olden times. An open declaration of hostilities against Turkey is more than the noisiest of the patriots besetting the palace of Athens would be prepared for. But in the mountains of Crete or in those of Epirus are nar row gorges where a few volunteers can harass and wear out whole armies year after year. To smite the Turk at every vulnerable point, and offer him no firm ground for attack, has been the strategy of Greek warfare ever since the earliest efforts for national emancipation. For skirmishes behind rocks and bushes no formal declaration is needed, and war in the open field is no part of Greek policy. A desire to break through the cobwebs of trea cherous diplomacy would seem more natural on the part of the Turk; but the Turk is borne down by the consciousness of impending doom. He is aware that he is only in Europe on sufferance. He knows that his Mussulmans are not more than one to four to the Christians on the European side of the Straits ; he is convinced that Roumania only wants an opportunity to shake off even that last shadow of allegiance it has lately sworn to ; that Servia merely bides her time to take that Belgrade for which she now affects to negotiate. The Turk's faith in himself has long been shaken, and the coun tenance of friendly Powers is only given him on one condition—that he should afford no cause for foreign intervention ; that he should keep for ever on the defensive : or, in other words, that he should slowly and surely execute himself. Already the al ternative between a natural and a violent death— one from mere internal disorders, and one from out ward injuries —presses itself forcibly on the " Sick Man." His forces are going to waste in Crete ; in surrection is rife in Thessaly ; Montenegro and Servia bid him open defiance. A position more hopeless is hardly to be conceived. Should, how ever, the contingency—in our opinion, as yet re mote, but daily becoming less improbable—of an open collision between Turkey and Greece be realised, it is far from certain that it would at once bring all the rest of Europe within its scope. There is no Power in this part of the world, as we have often asserted, prepared at a moment's notice to face the " Eastern Question." The result of the Crimean war put an end to all alliances, broke up all possible combi nations, and gave rise to that isolation of every State ich the wars of Italy and Germany subse quently brought into full evidence. Should the war with which we are now threatened actually break out, France and Germany might find it necessary, Russia might deem it expedient, for some time at least, merely to look on. The real interests of Rus sia, no less than her present social and financial con ditions, would seem to advise a temporizing policy ; for the Christians of Turkey, she thinks, are win ning her battles while fighting their own. France and Prussia are watching one another on the Rhine, and lie a long way from the Danube. Austria, whose aims should be eastwards, has neither a home nor a foreign policy; she has neither a Sovereign, nor a statesman, nor a people. Should she be true to her destinies, she might, perhaps, still find in the German elements within her Empire, and in her alliance with Prussia and United Germany, the means of making up in the East for her losses in the West. As it is, however, Von Beust and the Mag yars are more likely to involve her in the downfall of the Ottoman Empire than to enable her to share its fragments. The mere attempt at an alliance with France would entail her ruin, for it would, as if by main force, throw Prussia into the arms of Russia, win the Upper Danube for the former, and leave the Lower at the mercy of the Czar, or of a League of Roumanian, Servian, and other Princes, his dependents. As to England, we trust she would be the last to join in the melee. Faithful to our con victions that the fall of Turkey is certain, and that it is equally inadvisable to hasten or to retard it, we should, for our own part, be most willing to let events take their own course ; and, although we have as yet no great faith either in Greeks or in Roumans, or in any other of the races once subject to the Porte, we could wish nothing better than that they alone sh ou ld w i n w h a t th e Porte must lose, and that they should so grow in strength, in wisdom, and in union as to be able to hold their own against all comers. MORNING POST.—Yachting is an amusement the whole purpose and object of which is usually con sidered to have been fulfilled by a cruise from Cowes to Southampton and back again. The more adventurous spirits, it is true, do sometimes stretch across the West Bay as far as Portland, and solace themselves with considerations of the advantages - to be derived from the approaching completion of the breakwater, or with a contemplation of the counterfeit presentment of an English monarch on the shores of Weymouth. There have even been known some who, after a long preliminary course of study of the barometer, and the drums and cones (uow alas ! obsolete), have fixed upon a likely looking day in July, and have succeeded in induc ing the captain of their craft even to take them across to Cherbourg. As a rule, however, the gold laced officials who rule supreme in yachts discourage all such foolhardy ventures ; and as the owners are in nine cases out of ten governed by them with a rod of iron, the crews generally contrive to pass the yachting season either in sweet communion with their wives and families, or in improving intercourse with the public-houses ashore. To proclaim an in tention or even a desire to make anything like a voyage in such a craft is to invoke the untying hatred of every seaman on board; and if the project is not summarily disposed of by open mutiny among the crew, it will inevitably be frustrated by frequent and ominous references to the " dirty" look of the weather and by predictions, supported by any amount of experience, of forthcoming hurricanes. Thus those who go down to the sea in yachts are kept during the whole of their cruise in a sort of moral quarantine ; and, unless they are impressed with the superior comfort and magnificence of liv ing on the water as compared with living in an hotel or furnished lodgings ashore, they will probably come to the conclusion that there is on the whole less plea sure and less excitement to be got for the money out of that kind of amusement than any other that ever was devised. There has, it is true, arisen an intelligent race of owners who have discovered a means of reducing to a minimum their own per sonal discomforts in the pursuit, and who, sending their craft from one place to another on its native element, go themselves by the railway to the port of destination, and, by appearing in rough jackets and tarpaulin hats, get all the required credit without any of the inconveniences attending a voyage by sea undertaken for the purpose of pleasure. This, no doubt, is the most intelligent, as it is the most recent, idea of the means of utilising a yacht ; but then it requires the exercise of caution not to arrive before the vessel, and it is necessary also to be quite certain that she will not be forced by stress of weather into another port, in either of which cases the deserted owner is the victim of a painful situation. Seriously, however, it is an unhappy fact that in England yachts are, as a rule, kept for the mere purpose of ostentation. and not by any means with the object of indulging that love for the sea, or of exercising practically that knowledge of nau tical affairs to which the taste for yachting is con ventionally supposed to be referable. It is pleasing, therefore, to come across instances in which the pur suit is put to its proper and legitimate use, and which shows that there are at least some owners of yachts who are not positively afraid or ignorant of that for which they profess to have a special affection. Such an instance is certainly met with now and then. There is the well-remembered case of the little Spider, which crossed the Atlantic, and quite re cently an English gentleman has returned from a cruise round the world ; but the latest achievement in this way, and the most remarkable of all, is that which has just been accomplished by our cousins across the. water, and which is nothing less than a yacht race across the Atlantic. Before this the annual regatta • inside the Isle of Wight becomes contemptible, and even the sea race to Cherbourg, of which so much was thought at the time, fades into insignificance. At one o'clock on Tues day, Dec. 11, there started from New York, bound for Cowes, three yachts—the Henrietta, the Fleet wing, and the Vesta—the largest of which was only 204 tons hurthen, the other two being of nearly the same size. The Henrietta reached Cowes at half past five o'clock on Christmas-day, having per formed the passage of over 3,000 miles in the incre dibly short time of fourteen days and four hours, while the Fleetwing arrived only eight hours, and the Vesta not more than ten hours, after. The fact .of their having all performed the passage so very nearly in the same time, and that so short a time, shows what fine craft they must be, and how well they must have been sailed, and it will behove our yacht-builders and navigators to ask themselves if they can turn out craft capable of such a perform ance, or so handle them as to have any chance against any one of these three vessels. At present it is much to be doubted whether anybody will be found in England ready to accept the challenge which, it is said, the Henrietta offers for another ocean race ; and it is probable that, with all our boasted knowledge of naval architecture and sea manship, we shall again, as we did when the America first came over and took the conceit out of us, have to recognise our inferiority in these matters to our acute transatlantic cousins, and to set about making such improvements as may be suggested by what they have done. The log of the Henrietta shows that a race across the Atlantic at this time of year is no child's play. Throughout the passage she ap pears to have met with strong winds and heavy squalls, which necessitated much work in setting and taking in sail. On Wednesday, the 19th, she en countered a heavy gale of wind from the southward and westward, but was still pressed on under a close reefed foresail until she was struck by " a heavy sea, completely burying us, filling the forecastle and staving the boat," when she was for the first time hove to, and so continued for 10 hours. Notwith standing this, however, the average distance run per day was as much as 218 miles, and on one occasion she actually did 280 miles in 24shours. The other two yachts appear also to have had their share of foul weather ; and in the same gale as that which delayed the Henrietta, the Fleetwing was struck by a sea which unfortunately carried no less than six men overboard, an event which casts a gloom over what would else have been a most prosperous un dertaking. The Vesta, too, felt the gale, but does not appear to have been so much delayed by it as either of the others, and but for a blunder of her pilot, who unaccountably mistook St. Katherine's Light for the Needles, would probably have been second instead of third in arriving. The value of what has been accomplished, as showing what can be done with small craft by good handling, is great, and there is in it a lesson which is to be com mended not only to yachtsmen, but to navigators in general, and which, if well learnt and properly applied, may avail to prevent the perpetuation of many blunders, both in the construction of vessels and in their management. COUNTRY MARKETS. BIRMINGHAM-THURSDAY. At to-day's market wheat was in fair supply, and there was a steady demand. Prices for the finest sorts were the turn higher. The demand for barley was moderate, and recent rates were supported. For oats extreme prices were obtained. There was a slow demand for beans, which declined is per quarter. Peas were also in buyers' favour. BRISTOL-THURSDAY. On our market to-day there was a short supply of Eng lish wheat, which sold readily at an advance of Is. per qr. to foreign not much doing, but a similar improvement was generally realised. Malting barley firm, and fully as dear. The demand for grinding has considerably fallen off, and last week's prices were with difficulty supported. Oats 6d. per qr. lower, and the inquiry was very limited. Maize and beans quiet, and rather cheaper. BURY ST. EDMUNDS-WEDNESDAY. There was a small show of wheat to-day, and last week's prices were fully supported. The quantity of barley offer ing was the smallest which has been seen since the com mencement of the season. Prices were quite as high as on last Wednesday for all sorts. Oats, beans, and peas were inquired for. MAN C HE S TER-T HURSDAY. The day's market was well attended, and holders ob tained an advance of ls. per qr. on the finest descriptions of English wheat in the business transacted, but this im provement did not extend to other sorts. Flour was in limited request, but without alteration in value. Oats de clined ld. per 4.51 b; oatmeal 6d. to ls. per load cheaper Beans and Indian corn were each rather easier. EDINBURGH—WEDNEspky. Wheat on the top, Os 6d up average, is 3d down• Barley on the top, 7s Od down average, Os ld down. Oats on the top, Os 6d up average, Os 10d up. Beans on the top, 3s Od down average, is 2d up. _ . Total supply and sales. Wheat 856 qrs sold 524 Barley 1825 qrs sold 1447 Oats 1488 qrs sold 1070 Beans 99 qrs sold 45 Average prices. Wheat, 60s 3d 1 Oats, 26s 9d Barley, 3Bs 2d 1 Beans ...42s 3d Town-made flour sells as follows :—White, 53s 6d ; extra superfine, 52s Od; superfine, 50s 6d; fine, 49s Od. GLASGOW-WEDNESDAY. To-day's market was thinly attended ; wheat and dour met a moderate demaud. Prices unaltered. Barley was a fair sale, without change in value. Oats, oatmeal, beans, peas, and Indian corn the turn in buyer's favour. Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton Jan. 19. Ditto, via Marseilles Jan. 13. Brazil and Cape Verde, by British paoket Jan. 4. Ditto, by French paoket Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena Deo. 28. China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton—Jan 3. Ditto, via Marseilles. D e o. 28 Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton Deo. 29. India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Jan 3 Ditto, via Marseilles India (Bombay), via Southampton. Dec. 29. Ditto, via Marseilles . Jan. 7 Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Dec. 2 9 - Ditto, via Marseilles Dec. 28. Mauritius, via Southampton Jan. 1 9 . Ditto, via Marseilles. Jan. 19. Newfoundland ... Jan. 2. Portugst Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon. United States and British North America, by Bri tish packet. Ditto, by United States packet, via Southamp ton Ditto, via Cork Ditto, by Canadian packet, via Londonderry .. Dec. 8 iTest Coai•t of Africa, Madeira, and Tenerlire Jan. 3• West Indies and Pacific (except Bahamas and Honduras) Dec. 2 9 Behan:v...4 via New York. Jan 1 Cuba aid Heston Dee. 29 • Bermuda, via Halifax ... Jan. 16. Births. GoNNE —On the 21st inst., at Manor House, Tonghatn, t b° wife of Capt. Gonne, 17th Lancers, of a daughter. rs Gooch—On the 21st inst., at Dover, the wife of Capt. ". C. Gooch, Paymaster 44th Regiment, of a daughter. I ROSE n the 20th ult., at Gondah, Oudh, the wife Major J. S. Rose, Deputy-Commissioner, of a claughte" Marriages. • NATHAN —PIAZZA— On the 16th inst., at Florence, Henry A. Nathan, sou of the late M. Nathan, Esq., of Ity ddel i ton-square, to Caroline, eldest daughter of G. Piazza) ° Florence. 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