The Sun. — London, England, 1865-09-11 00:00:00

The Cattle Disease. The following circular has been issued from the Home-office:— " Whitehall, Sept. 1865. " Sir,—l am directed by Secretary Sir George Grey to in form you that the Lords Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury will undertake for a period not exceeding three months from the date of the order of the Lords of the Council of the 26th of August, 1865, the payment to in spectors, appointed under the authority of the orders by the Lords of the Privy Council, dated the 11th and 26th of August, 1865, in districts affected with the cattle plague, or in which there is reason to apprehend the approach of that disease, of the sum of £1 ls. for each day that such inspectors are actually engaged in the pertorma.nce of the duties required of them by the said orders, with travelling expenses, at a rate not exceeding 3d. a mile each way, upon the condition following :—Their Lordships reserve to themselves the power of declining to make such payments in all cases in which the appointments may appear to have been made without adequate cause, or to have been unne cessarily numerous. Every application for payment is to be accompanied by a certificate from the authority by which the inspectors have been appointed, stating the cir cumstances under which the appointment has been made, and that the duties of the inspectors have been properly performed. "As, however, no provision has been made in the Act 11 and 12 Victoria, c. 107, for the payment of any officer who may be appointed by the local authorities, as in the present instance, in pursuance of the order of the Privy Council to carry into effect, in particular districts, regula tions made by such orders, an application to Parliament will be necessary for its sanction to such payment. A separate account will therefore be kept by the Treasury for each locality, of all expenses defrayed from public funds in respect of these payments to inspectors, which will be treated as an advance, in order that, if Parliament should so determine, such expenses may be charged on local funds.--I am, Sir, your obedient servant, " H. WADDINGTON." MEETING AT THE MANSION-HOUSE, On Saturday afternoon a meeting of the Sanita rium Committee was held at the Mansion-house, the Lord Mayor in the chair. There were present Mr. Gubbins, chairman of the Corporation Markets Committee, Dr. Tripe, Dr. Burge, Mr. Rudkin, Mr. Guerrier, Mr. Straker, Mr: James Brewster, and Dr. Ansell, medical officer of health for the district of Bow. The LORD MAYOR acknowledged the receipt of the following contributions to the Compensation Fund :—The Corporation of London, £l,OOO ; the Butchers' Company, £lO5 ; the Lord Mayor, £2l; Mr. James Brewster, £2l ; Mr. John Low, £52 10s. ; Mr. John Higgs, £25 ; Mr. John Giblett, £2l 10s. ; Mr. Thomas Rudkin, £lO 10s. ; Mr. Deputy Obbard, £5 ss. ; Mr. Edmund Burke, £5 55.; and F. 8., £1 is. The committee were occupied for some time in discussing the propriety of immediately establishing sanitariums, the general opinion being that they should only establish a few of those hospitals at first in the districts where the cattle disease is most virulent. Mr. GIBBINS said it was most essential in arriv ing at facts that the :committee should obtain cor rect returns of the number of cowsheds, and also the number of healthy and infected cows in every me tropolitan district. Mr. RUDKIN moved that three sanitariums be established, one for the north-west district, which would comprise Hackney and Islington ; one: for the north-west district, which would comprise Ham mersmith, Chelsea, Paddington, and St. Pancras ; and one for the south of London. He believed that if the committee set to work at once there would be no difficulty experienced in raising the necessary funds, and, indeed, now that the Corporation had headed the subscription list the money was begin ning to flow in. Dr. TRIPE seconded the motion. Mr. GIBBINS supported it. He thought they should make a commencement at once in establishing at least three sanitariums, and preparing for the estab lishment of others in addition, should the disease progress. The object of the Corporation in sub scribing the £l,OOO was highly laudable, and he had no doubt the example they had so very properly set in heading the subscription list would be generally followed up by the public. The motion was then put and carried unanimously. Dr. BURGE was of opinion that the sanitariums should be established on the most healthy, and not in the diseased, districts of the metropolis, and that the largest quantity of breathing room should be afforded to each of them. lie suggested that some of the railway arches might be rendered available for the purpose. _ _ Asub-committee of three was then appointed to view - the various localities and to select the best sites for the sanitariums, with power to negotiate. Mr. Gibbs, the private secretary to the Lord Mayor, was appointed the future secretary of the committee. Mr. GIRBINS moved that a circular be sent to the several cowkeepers in the metropolis, asking them to send a return of the number of cows, &c., iu their respective sheds. Mr. RUDKIN said the cowkeepers might give some thing like a return, but that it never could be de pended upon. He hoped the committee would themselves be able shortly to produce a correct statistical statement. The motion was adopted. Mr. JAMES BREWSTER suggested that the secre tary should be requested to write to Professor Dick, of Edinburgh, to inquire what success had. attended his mode of treating the diseased cows there. Mr. RUDKIN said that some gentlemen had re commended the propriety of fitting up a barge on the Thames as a sanitarium, but he understood it would take three weeks to erect a barge, and by the end of that time the disease might have progressed more even than it had hitherto done. He was, therefore, in favour of making an immediate commencement, in the hope that the hospitals would be found efficacious in checking the ravages of the fearful visitation. A desultory conversation ensued upon matters of detail, at the close of which the committee ad journed, ESSEX. The disease has made its appearance in the Ten tiring Hundred ; one farmer has lost his dairy, and estimates his loss at at out £lOO. It is supposed that the disease was introduced into the neighbour hood by some recently purchased cattle. In the neighbourhood of Colchester the disease has also extended, and several beasts which were being fattened for Christmas have been attacked and ear lied off. The dis ease has prevailed with considerable severity at Melford. All the cases are distinctly traceable, and Mr. Mutton, the local inspector, has no doubt that the disease was introduced into the neighbour hood by a number of Irish beasts which came from Bury St. Edmunds, CAMBRIDGEsn utE Lord G. Manners, , hasM.P• been a • p a iponted oltn chairman of the Cambridgeshire Cattle lv pl . ven g ,i u )er surance Association, and Mr. 11. vice-chairman. The Earl of Hardwieke, L„7 . Lieutenant of the county, has subscribed £lOO to _ wards the funds of the society. WORCE S TERSITIBE. On Saturday last, at a meeting of the Worcester shire Agricultural Society, after considerable dis cussion, it was resolved that no annual exhibition of stock should be held for the current year. The disease has manifested itsrlf at Stourbridge, in this county. HEREFORDSHIRE, It has been resolved that the Ledbury agricultural meeting, which had been lixel to take place on Wednesday, shall not be held this year, iu conse quence of the cattle plague. CU3IBEI:L AND The Carlisle Journal announces that a distinctly marked case of the disease has occurred at Stanwix, near Carlisle. NORFOLK A meeting of the Central County Committee was held at Norwich on Saturday, Mr. C. S. Read, M.P., in the chair. It appeared that, in answer to the application for information ordered to be made last week, returns had been received from 18 out of the 27 Poor Law UlllOll3 of the county. These returns showed that the disease prevailed infive unions, but not to any very alarming extent, and it appeared to be considered that the measures adopted had checked its progress. The Abyssinian Captives. The France has received the following letter from Count du Bisson, relative to the partial liberation of Mr. Cameron, English consul in Abyssinia : " PARIS, Sept. 6. I have just received from my intendant of sports in Abyssinia a report, from which I extract some lines which may interest your readers. ' Mr. Came ron, the English consul,' he says, ' will be at liberty and probably on his way home when this letter shall be in your hands. The Emperor Theodorus was still undecided and vacillating between clemency and severity (death). You said to his Majesty before your departure, " 0 powerful monarch, of what do you complain? Are you not victorious on every point of the question ? England menaced you and you have laughed at her. She landed troops at Massowah ; the war steamers were to bring an invincible army ; you left :the field open to them ; you went to triumph among the Yallas, saying to the British envoys, Come on, lam waiting for you; at my return, I hope to encounter your valiant batta lions.' And they do not dare come on. A woman, their Queen, has written to you with her royal hand ; she has asked pardon for her minister.' " (This is exact : I have seen and read the Queen's letter.) " ' When persons implore your mercy and invoke your magnanimity, 0 Emperor of the Abys sinians, how should the lion have any fear of the antelope ?' The Prince appeared to be in one of those critical moments when the life of a man, who ever he might be, would be of small account in the balance. We repeated to him your words in the interest of humanity. Well then,' said Theodorus, let him depart—the serpent, but before he goes he shall make every amend ; he shall swear by the Virgin Mary never again to re-enter my states." (A very useless oath, methinks.) "' On that condi tion my mercy shall be extended to him, and to all the other Europeans of his cursed religion. The order was immediately despatched to Magdala to set Mr. Cameron at liberty." For ourselves we took our departure for our sporting expedition, and were unable to be present, to our great regret, at the ex piatory scene—the famous anti-protestant oath. But the dejar A— has written to tell us that this long and incredible history has at length come to a pacific denouement, and that the words of a French man had a more powerful influence over the terrible Ernpe,ror than the threats, the military demonstra trations, the royal letter, the ships of war, and lastly, the prayers of the first nation in the world. COUNT R. DU BISSON. Mr. Stern, one of King Theodore's prisoners, writing from Amba Magdala on the 30th of May, says : " Our position has, since my last, undergone no change. Day after day comes to its close in the usual painful or reckless monotony of savage prison life. Sometimes tidings reach us which afford a thrill of joy, and perhaps for a week we ruminate on freedom and the blessings of civilised life ; and then, again, the vision of hope becomes damped, and the soul either seeks comfort and consolation in God and His Word, or sinks into the wonted state of apathy and indiffererice. As lam reminded of the approach of winter, I will give you a hasty sketch of the locality where we and upwards of 200 unhappy natives of all ranks and conditions may have to pass that inclement season. Just picture to your imagi nation an isolated locality, rising out of the midst of a jumble of conical hills, deep ravines, and ele vated ridges, and you have Amba Magdala. On the summit there are clusters of thatched huts occupied by about 1,000 troops. Not far from the church, which you recognise by an apex surmounted by a glittering brass cross, you gaze on a mass of wretched hovels that stand in mocking contrast around, close to which lie basking in the sun bands of unfortunates, loaded with galling fetters ; this is the royal prison. Those wretched huts outside the inclosure are occupied by the elite of the prisoners during the day, but towards evening all must re pair within the fence, where, after being counted, they are driven like wild beasts within the reeking walls of those conically shaped structures. Insects and all that is repulsive of whatever name or colour swarm in these gaols, and really, if Providence had not tempered human nature so as to render it capable of enduring every hardship, I believe even few Abyssinians would long resist the fatal influence of this poisonous atmosphere. It is as a special favour, which we have to thank our guards (into whose good graces we have wormed ourselves by the distribution of some simple medicines), that we are allowed to make our abode close to the walls of one of the houses ; and there under a black woollen awning, Captain Cameron, Rosenthal, Makerer, and myself pass the day and night ; and the rest, who have huts outside, only the night." RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. -_¢_ SCOTTISH SOUTH-EASTERN. The report of the directors states that the receipts on revenue account amounted, for the six months ending the 31st July last, to £142,430, including £80,580 for goods, minerals, &c. The expenditure amounted to £62,697, leaving a balance of £79,733, of which £47,441, or 59.5 per cent., was divisible among the Aberdeen portion ; £20,332, or 25.5 per cent., among the Scottish Midland; and £11,960, or 15 per cent., among the Dundee and Arbroath por tion of the undertaking. 'The available balance on Aberdeen account, including £1,095 from the pre ceding half-year, amounted to £25,962, out of which was deducted the dividends on the preference stocks, and £8,819 for dividend on the ordinary stock, at the rate of 2 per cent, per annum, leaving a ba lance of £1,199. The available balance on the Scottish Midland account, including £704 from the preceding half-year, amounted to £17,283, out of which it was recommended that a dividend be paid on the 30th inst. at the rate of 53- per cent. per an num on the ordinary shares, leaving a balance of £783. The available balance on Dundee and Ar broath account, including £1,447 at credit of re serve account, amounted to £11,295, out of which was deducted £9,918 for 5 per cent. dividend on preference stock, and 8+ per cent. per annum on the original stock, leaving at credit of reserve fund £1,378, all payable on the 30th inst. The gross ex penses of the amalgamated company were 44.02 per cent. as compared with 45.64 per cent. in 1864. The permanent way and works were being kept up in a full state of efficiency. The average rate of interest on the company's debenture debt was £4 Is. 3d. per cent. Contracts had been entered into for the construction of theDenburnValley Railway at Aber deen, and the works were being vigorously pushed forward. The capital account to the 31st of July showed that £2,602,646 had been received on shares and stock, and £820,128 on debentures and deben ture stock ; together, £3,422,774. The expendi ture on Aberdeen account amounted to £2,087,995, on Scottish Midland account •to £753,353, on Dundee and Arbroath account to £348,319, and on joint account to £203,396 rtotal, £3,393,063, leaving a balance of £29,711. The report ofMt(1:e:d11 0 ( i ) r u e r e i t ii o :l4 li sUes that the canal tolls amounted to The revenue account for the half-year ending June 30 showed that £71,068 had been received, against £69,570 in the co sponding half of 1864, sh ow i ng an i ' rre- increase of £.l 498, and the expenditure amounted t o £ 35 ' ,021, or 50 per cent., against £32,474, or 47 per cent., in the Eame half of 1861, showing an increase of £3,047. The net earnings in the past half-year amounted to £35,516, against £37,095 in the corresponding half of last year, decrease of £1 519 The showing a , . amount of 4 '1,000 had been transferred from revenue to the reserve fund. The balance of general revenue account amounted to £19,706, out of which the di rectors recommended a dividend, less income-tax, at the rate of 61 per cent. per annum on the ordinary shares for the past half-year, leaving a balance of £294. The bill for completing a line of railway be tween Pontypool-rcad station and Newport, by which the narrow-gauge traffic of the Great Western Railway Company might be diverted from the Monmou thshireCompany'sEasternValleyline,which was its legitimate channel, was unsuccessfully op posed by this company in both Houses of Parliament. The Act of Parliament having been obtained for constructing the Alexandria Dock, it would be ne cessary to subscribe £20,000 in aid of that work. The total expenditure on capital account amounted to £1,260,767,-leaving a balance of £7,063 against the account.- rHE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVEMNG, SEPTEMBER 11, 1865. The Murder on Board a Montrose Vesse The Montrose Review publishes the following ad ditional details of the murder on board the Nymph, of that port, briefly reported on Saturday : "The vessel sailed from Montrose, bound for London, early in the afternoon of the day on which the murder was committed, and had proceeded on her voyage as far as Red Head, a promontory about eight miles from Montrose. At that time the vesselwas hugging the land, and was not over a mile from the shore. Everything had gone on smoothly up to the time of the murder, although when the vessel sailed it was seen that Brown was the worse for drink. The vessel was sailing with a side wind, and did not require further attention than to be steered. It was, moreover, the 'dog watch,' a listless time on board ship. Capt. Greig had therefore sat down on the deck close beside the steersman —viz., Pert—to whom, for a time, he made some remarks upon weather prospects, but afterwards, evidently over come by the warmness of the evening, he lay back at full length and fell asleep, a sleep from which he was never al lowed to awaken. Raeburn was forward in the round house, and Brown was walking about the deck. Pert, the steers man, was leaning listlessly over his 'tiller'—the vessel not having a wheel—with his back towards the captain, who was almost lying at his feet. Brown had gone forward to the round house, and either asked for or took up an axe which was lying beside Raeburn. As the murderer came aft on the side of the deck on which the captain lay, a flapping took place among the sails aloft, which caused the steers man to look steadily in that direction for a few seconds. He therefore did not observe the actions of the murderer until his attention was drawn towards him by hearing two dull heavy blows, when to his horror he saw Brown drawing the axe out of a deep wound in the captain'shead—and drawing it out, too, with evident difficulty—and ore he (Pert) could comprehend the horrible scene before him, the murderer had again raised the axe to repeat the blow. Instinctively Pert sprang forward and seized the murderer by the wrist, which, however, did not prevent the descent of the axe, but caused it to turn aside so far as only to graze the neck of the victim, who lay lifeless before them, with three deep wounds on his head and face, which were spoeting forth his' life's blood. Pert then with a powerful effort deprived the fiendish assailant of his mur derous weapon, and threw it overboard, and having re covered his composure so far, he put the inquiry- to Brown, " What's that you have done ?"' pointing to the bleeding and lifeless body of Captain Greig. Brown I've killed the —. He should have given me the whisky.' He afterwards remarked, ' This settles an auld grudge,' or words to that effect. Raeburn had by this time been made aware of what I?.ad taken place, but, like Pert, was for a time so much hbrrified that he could not do anything. He, however, after a few minutes, bethought himself of signalling a schooner, which had left Montrose with the same tide, and was not far distant at the time, and for that purpose he is said to have commenced to ascend the rigging ; but the murderer, divining his inten tion, ordered him to come down, or he would serve him the same as he had done the captain. Raeburn being a weakly man, and not nearly a match for Brown, who was a powerfully-built determined-looking fellow, complied, being afraid of losing his own lite, and also being in an exceedingly agitated state. Pert states that, although in other circumstances he would not have been afraid to have made an attempt to secure Brown, he was so much hor rified by the dreadful occurrence which had taken place that he was rendered quite powerless and passive. He was also afraid for the safety of the vessel, which he sought at once to put about with the intention of running for Montrose. Tho murderer, hower, demurred to this, but after some time he consented that tho ship should be run to Stonehaven, where he said he could visit his mother. The ship was accordingly put about, and a run made for Stonehaven, at which place she arrived at about mid night. A pilot was signalled for, and, strange coin cidence, his uncle, who is a fisherman at that port, came off. On seeing what vessel it was, and his nephew, he naturally inquired how they came to be there. Brown replied, " Oh, I've killed the master, and have run in here." The vessel was taken into the harbour, and as soon as he could, Raeburn sprung ashore and went in search of the police. Tho murderer observed him, and also immediately went ashore, but did not seek to molest Raeburn, and went straight to his mother's house. He is reported to have also told his mother that he had killed the master, and also to have given her some money, remarking that it would likely be the last Biller she would get from him. Raeburn had been fortunate in getting a policeman without much difficulty, and Brown was appre hended before he had time to leave his mother's house, if he intbndecl to do so. Drown made no resistance, and was soon lodged in the police cells, where it is said ho imme diately went off to sleep, and slept soundly for some time. An official post-mortem examination of the body of Captain Greig was made on Thursday by Dra. Martin and Thom. Three fearful gashes had been made on the head —one verb• deep wound across the forehead, and two very large and deep slanting wounds on the left side of the head, one of which had evidently broke the cheek and jaw bones. Any one of the wounds would have been sufficient to cause death, and there is no doubt the first blow had caused death. Captain Craig was a young man of about 28 years of age, and had succeeded his father (who is owner) in the command of the Nymph. It is said that his father and other friends strongly insisted upon Captain Greig putting Brown ashore, since he had rendered himself a notorious character for getting drunk and fighting when ever ashore, and at the time when the vessel sailed he was the worse of drink. He had also just been liberated from the police office, on leaving a pledge, for committing an assault ; and the police books also bear his name several times for like offences. Captain Greig was highly respected by all who knew him, and esteemed among his class as a persevering and excellent shipmaster. It is reported that ho was about to be married. Vacancies, Promotions, and Appointments (From the Civil Service Gazette) War Office—Mr. H. Strong has been appointed a tempo rary clerk in the Quartermaster-General's Office. Messrs. George Candy, 11. Owen, and J. P. S. Wilson have been appointed civil assistants, Southampton. Law Department—There are two vacancies in the Master of the Rolls' Office, ono caused by the death of Mr. Fox, and the other by the appointment of Mr. Hume to be taxing master in Chancery. The Admiralty—Commander C. G. F. Knowles has been appointed inspecting commander in the Coastguard, vice Dench, deceased. Mr. H. F. R. Yorke has been appointed to be a temporary clerk, Whitehall. Board of Trade—Mr. John Moffett has been appointed a temporary clerk in the Registry of Seamen's Office. The Post Office —Mr. A. H. Thorns has been appointed a temporary clerk in the savings bank, London. Mr. C. H. `Davey has been appointed a temporary clerk in the savings bank, London. Mr. W. S. Fisk has been appointed a clerk at Sheffield. Mr. Walcott has been promoted from the 2nd class of clerks to be Ist clerk, Gloucester. Customs—Mr. Robert M. Johns has been appointed a clerk for general business, Liverpool. Mr. G. Clayton has been promoted from the sth to the 4th class of examining officers, Glasgow. Mr. D. Frazer has been promoted from the 6th to the sth class of examining officers, Glasgow. Mr. J. Thomson, assistant examining officer, Perth, has been promoted to be an examining officer of 6th class, Glasgow. Mr. D. Dean, outdoor officer, Aberdeen, has been promoted to be an assistant examining officer, Perth. Mr. P. Reese has been promoted from the 2nd to the Ist class of outdoor officers, Liverpool. Inland Revenue, Excise Branch—Mr John Jolliffe, col lector, Lincoln collection, has been appointed collector of Southampton collection. Mr. John Davis, collector, York collection, has been appointed collector of Lincoln collection. Mr. Robert Hanson Brooks, supervisor, Bedford district, Aylesbury collection, has been appointed supervisor of Abingdon district, Reading collection. Mr. James Stull land, officer, Abingdon district, Reading collection, has been appointed officer of Biidgend district, Swansea collec tion. Mr. Wm. George Ames, supervisor, Bridgend dis trict, Swansea collection, has been appointed supervisor of Bedford district, Aylesbury collection. Mr. Wm. Wight, officer, Kelso division, Haddington collection, has been ap pointed officer of Dunbar division, Haddington collection. Mr. Allan Duncan Stewart, clerk, Dundee collection, has been appointed officer of Kelso division, Haddington col lection. Mr. Charles Duncan, officer, Rugely ride, Staf ford collection, has been appointed second clerk, Greenock collection. Ireland—Mr. J. Gordon has been appointed a sub-in spector of schools, National Education Commission. Mr. S. Joyce has been appointed a transcribing clerk in the Registrar of Deeds Office, Dublin. The East Indies—Mr. W. B. Buckle has been appointed to officiate as agent to the Governor-General at Moorsheda bad, during the absence on leave of Lieut.-Col. W. A. A. Thomson, or until further orders. Lieut. W. W. Pember ton, assistant commissioner, 2il grade, has been promoted to be assistant commissioner, Ist grade, British Burmah. Capt. W. Munro, Ist assistant, Revenue Settlement Depart ment, has been appointed assistant commissioner, 2d grade, British Bunnah. Lieut. W. G. llughes, assistant commis sioner, 3d grade, has been appointed assistant commis sioner, 2d grade, British Burmah. Lieut. G. A. Stroyer has been appointed supernumerary assistant commissioner, 2d grade, British Bunnah. Mr. C. Phillips, extra assistant commissioner, let grade, has been promoted to be an assivtant commissioner, 3d grade. British Burmah. Mr. J. Hind, extra assistant commissioner, Ist grade, has been promoted to be an assistant commissioner, 3d grade, British Burmah. Lieutenant A. W. Roberts, officiating assistant, has been appointed assistant to th e G overnor- General's Agent for the States of Rajpootana, subj ec t t o pa . s s si . n A g l t e l x le an ex d t e tm r hinaastiobneefooratphpeoPinotleitdictaol offici Department. ate as magi strate N and leave. collector m• R of r Pt . u N ne . al, Shorec luH h n a g s t b h e e en a b a s p e p n o c i e; it o o f d M t r o . Beames on officiate as commissioner of revenue and circuit of the Nud- dea division, during the absence of leave of Mr. H. L. Dampier, or until further orders. Mr. W. H. Thompson has been appointed to to be an assistant to the magistrate and collector of Mymensing, and to etereise the powers of a subordinate magistrate of the 2d class. Mr. A. Boulder son, joint magistrate and deputy-collector of Moradabad, has been appointed to officiate as magistrate and collector at that station, during the absence of Mr. R. Manderson, or until further orders. Mr. H. B. Henderson has been ap pointed civil and sessions judge of Benares. Mr. G. OUse ley, magistrate and collector of Goruckpore, has been ap pointed to officiate as civil and sessions judge of Goruck pore. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOTTR,NALS. THE "SATURDAY REVIEW" ABOUT THE QUEEN. —Rosenau is said to be a very pleasant place, and the memories with which it is associated may well possess a melancholy charm for the august person who was recently an inhabitant of the castle. The memorial ceremonies of Coburg are terminated, and there is a general hope or wish that, having followed on many similar celebrations, they may be the last of their kind. Excess even in the feelings which command the most universal sympathy provokes an inevitable reaction, and the regret which is fitly sym bolised by an escutcheon or a tomb becomes dissi pated and vulgarised by laborious association with a hundred monumental structures. In the consider able interval which has elapsed since the death of the Prince Consort, almost every possible tribute has been paid to virtues which were perhaps unsuffi ciently recognised in his lifetime. Poetry, and such plastic art as faintly survives in England,have com memorated the dead, and striven to comfort the survivor. The whole community was anxious to make good any previous want of full appreciation, and a warmer feeling prompted the expression of public sorrow as an echo and a solace to profound personal grief. There will be proportional disap pointment if the mourning of a nation proves to have been misunderstood and wasted. There is profound truth in the divine paradox that the dead must bury their dead, for the living have ever duties to discharge beyond the boundary of the graveyard. Even when slaves and captives were sacrificed on the funeral pile of a hero, his survivors and successors inherited his task, instead of furnishing an ignoble contrast to his career. Prince Albert's conscientious devotion to business, combined with varied intellec tual activity, almost amounted to genius ; and if a mind so manly and simple had yearned for posthu mous worship, he would assuredly not have selected his votaries among contemplative anchorites. Nor would it have been less repugnant to his tastes that his political and social experiments should become petrified, like fragmentary sectarian dogmas, into authoritative and inimitable insti tutions. Sensible men wish neither themselves nor their opinions to become idols, instead of acting as living energies or germinating as pregnant sug gestions. Only pedantic and selfish testators attempt to control future generations. There is sufficient time for activity, whether judicious or mistaken, during the daytime in which alone any man ought to work. The English taste is not averse to the pre servation of organic forms after they have wholly or partially lost their primitive vitality. Nor is it merely with the superstitious instinct which induced the Athenian Republic to elect every year a titular king, that the titles and ostensible prerogatives of mediaeval royalty have been sedulously respected while the Constitution has passed through incessant changes. Experience has shown that a ceremonial primacy, restrained within certain invisible limits, serves as• well for use as for decoration. While imaginative loyalty attends on ancient descent and on pre-eminent station, the divinity which hedges a King is conveniently tempered by the undisputed mortality of his Ministers. Although the mechani cal necessity for the original arches and buttresses has been largely superseded by hidden cramps and supplementary contrivances, it might be dangerous to depart altogether from the old constitutional de sign. In popular estimation, as in conventional language, the State is represented by the Crown, and the Sovereign performs a simple duty in re nouncing the immunities of a private person. Despotic rulers have often affected a plainness of habits and manners which only served more for cibly to remind their subjects of their unquestioned power ; but monarchs who reign instead of govern ing cannot afford to dipense with etiquette. If form, as they pass into fictions, were absolutely empty, it would perhaps be prudent to allow the dead leaves to fall ; but it is difficult to ascer tain whether a latent capacity for usefulness still remains in an ancient institution. The negative advantages of English royalty may perhaps not exhaust its valuable functions. • The Grand Elector, whom Siciyes vainly attempted to reproduce in one of his imaginary constitutions, affords exemption from a Presidential canvass, as bishops supply a happy alternative to General Assemblies. With a • • ---- permanent King it is possible to endure a moveable Cabinet, and consequently to vest the real direction of affairs in a Parliamentary majority. Even when party feeling runs high, the chief authority in the State stands above the attacks of faction. An able incumbent of the throne would probably convert into an instrument of political influence theimpartial position which is at the same time his duty and his privilege. If the Prince Consort had lived to old age, he would have survived all hi s teac h ers an d early advisers, and, with the aid of his characteristic modesty and discretion, he might have exerted the authority of a statesman who for 40 or 50 years had never for a day been out of office. The Crown has still, .in some cases, a power of personal selection among rival 'leaders of the dominant party ; and, in the few public questions which are supposed to in terest the Court, the eager conformity of Ministers and candidates for office has long served the House of Commons as a standing joke. A mere favourite would be intolerable toParliament, but a statesman inspires additional confidence when he is known to command Royal support. South Kensingtonitself is principally obnoxious because it is not adminis tered by recognised servants of the Crown. If Lord Palmerston had been in earnest, he might perhaps almost have carried his proposal fo r s t ucc i ng h a lf a mile of brick wall in honour of an august memory. The country has never haggled about the large debt of gratitude which it has incurred during the present reign. The Court has been a model of dignity, of prudence and of all domestic virtues ; and in the performance of political duties, whether serious or ceremonial, the Queen Las been conscientiously indefatigable. Al though uo previous quarter of a century has, on the whole, been so tranquil and prosperous, there have been times when discontent would readily have fastened on any act of royal misconduct. Since 1837 there have been several changes of ministry, and it was impossible that all statesmen should be equally acceptable at Court ; but neither the Queen nor the Prince in hi s lifetime was ever accuse d o f withholding the proper support from the Cabinet of the day. The e d uca t e d c l a s ses can, per h aps, h ar dl y judge how far the general loyalty is still ideal and personal. In remote districts, th e s i mp l e constitu tion of the Old Te s t am ent still sa ti s fi es t h e popu l ar mind ; and some years ago, old women in the East ern Counties, hearing that vaccination was made compulsory, told one another, with regret rather than with surprise or disapproval, th a t th e Queen, in imitation of Herod, had commanded, in virtue of a recognised prerogative, a general murder of the innocents. Republican artisans in Northern towns have sufficient objects for jealousy in master manu facturers, and in the less known monopolists of land, who are supposed to constitute a corrupt aris tocracy. The Crown is known to have allied itself in other countries with the democracy, and one elevated landmark in a fen rather illustrates than disturbs the prevalent equality of level. As mis conceptions of the true character of English royalty diminish in proportion to the advance of . knowledge, the beneficent operation of the ancient form is more thoroughly appreciated. Foreigners have often re marked with surprise that the wealthiest and proudest peers considered themselves honoured by employment in the service of the Court. To the country at large the display of royal splendour, as long as undue extravagance is avoided, has always been agreeable. Among many proofs of the pro found respect which i s felt for the reigning Sovereign may be counted extreme unwilling ness to offer censure, criticism, or advice. Those who are most fully convinced of theinexpe diency of a partial abdication are nevertheless re luctant to tender any suggestion which might seem unpalatable or intrusi ve . To a great extent it is true that by common estimation, as by legal rule, the Queen can do no wrong. The credit which has been earned has not yet been exhausted by long retirement from public life. Excess of fidelity and earnest feeling would readily be excused if it were checked at last ; but the nation may in time become tired of monotonous grief, and tombs enough have been built. A King or a Queen is only life tenant a of an estate, with moral right in the reversioner to impeachment of waste. If the dues are allowed to fall into desuetude, they may not hereafter be easily resumed. It is true that levees and drawing rooms are not institutions of the highest importance, and that they are probably more tedious to the principal performer than to the crowded guests ; but a general who despises salutes, or a bishop who loses temper at the sight of a white neckcloth, is no tmore anomalous in hi s tastes than a king who dislikes the obeisances of his subjects. For several years various members of the Royal family have been employed to recei ve th e h om age which belongs exclusively to the p erson of t h e Q ueen . It is im possible to deny that a Peeress, a Lady Mayoress, or a wax doll might di sc h arge the material duty of standing in the corner of a room while gentle men or ladies defil e past in unwonte d sp l en d our of attire ; but the essen ce o f the transaction is the acknowledgment that the Queen is the head of society, owing reciprocal duties to those who come to offer their respectful salutations. Except under the pressure of heavy affliction, the Queen has set an admirable example to privileged idlers who attempt to cheat the community of a trivial consi deration for their abundant wages. Young officers who shirk parades, and young peers who shirk select committees, ought not to be able to allege, in procedent or excuse, the eccentricities of a nobler character in a more dignified station. It is the duty of a Queen to go to a drawing-room, as it is the duty of a curate to go to church. The losses which sadden life scarcely justify the disuse of pleasure, and they can never excuse the abandonment of official func tions. THE " EXAMINER" ON PRUSSIA AND AUSTRIA.— Prussia, after all, it appears, is not to have the guard and garrison of Kiel town, which, as part of Holstein, falls to Austria. This is remarkable, as it completely eliminates the Prussians from the more southern Duchy. When one enters from the Bal tic the waters which form the harbour of Kiel, those waters are•found to divide into two basins. One of them, the northern, runs up to the canal by which there is communication with Rendsburg ; the other runs four or five miles up the estuary till it reaches Kiel. The outer harbour, adjoining the canal, is all that is required for a naval station. The harbour that runs up to Kiel is purely commercial. The giving up this latter to Prussia would have been in dicative of giving up Holstein. But this the ar rangement of Gastein seems carefully to have avoided. Still the whole arrangement is most dis gusting to the Duchies. Their first wish was to preserve Kiel as their administrative capital, to as semble the States there, the University, the Go vernment offices, the Courts of Appeal. For this they cared more than for any political considera tion. It was one of their few old griefs that the Danes would not allow Kiel to be the centre of any thing. The Austrians and Prussians are, however, doing precisely that which rendered Denmark odious to the Holsteiner and South Slesviger ; and the result of the joint policy of Bismark and Mens dorf is to create a foyer, as the French say, of future insurrection. in fact, they are doing at Kiel what Bismark has been doing at Cologne, augmenting the unpopularity of the Prussian Government to a de gree that really weakens it. As long as there is peace, indeed, the Liberals will not rise. But let there be war or turmoil, or an uncertain future, and the many springs of disorder and anarchy, which are only stopped for the moment, will burst forth and inundate the land. Whilst Prussia is thus sow ing trouble and hostility in the north-west of Ger many, Austria is not pacifying Hungary. It ap pears from the official circular that the aim of the new Government of Vienna is to fully satisfy the Magyars, but in so doing to dissatisfy the other races. Thus the quasi dependence of Transylvania is to be sacrificed to Pesth, and of course it is in tended to treat Croats and Slavons in the same way. This will not pacify Hungary. It may re store Pesth to a kind of loyalty, as long as the Vienna Government remains true to its principle, but it will create amongst the Turk Slavons of the Empire a great deal of dangerous effervescence. These will not obey the Magyars, and they will even find another Jellachich to lead them in resist ance. The organisation or reorganisation of the Austrian Empire is thus a task most difficult of ac complishment. To satisfy one class of malcontents is almost certain to raise up and provoke another ; and as long as these feuds and disorders remain flagrant in the population, it will be impossible for the Government to turn its attention to the great questions of finance and trade, through which it might hope to find relief from its pecuniary embar rassment. People exclaim against the overgrown army of Austria, but how without it keep its scat tered and discontented provinces together. The Emperor and the army form its only links, and the attempt to supersede them by a Reichsrath or Central Assembly has by no means hitherto succeeded. TIIE "LONDON REVIEW" ON THE LATEST ELOPE MENT.—The propensity which some people have to make bad worse is so curiously illustrated by a police case which was reported in Thursday's papers, that we may narrate the story to our readers, as a warning to " parents and guardians." It will point its own moral ; and, as it savours strongly of the romance of real life, we will plunge in nzedias res without further preface. The Rev. Robert Crosse is rector of Ockham, Surrey. Amongst his other comforts he possessed a groom and a daughter ; the groom, George Smith, a boyish-looking lad, about eighteen years of age ; and the daughter, Alice Caroline Crosse, according to the police reporter, " a slight lady-like young woman," aged twenty. Miss Cross had tolerable expectancies in. the way of money ; and, as grooms are not usually indifferent to such considerations, it may be that " George," when he found that he had obtained that warm place in his young mistress's heart which grooms in general can only hope to find in the female occu pants of their masters' kitchens, considered that fortune bad dealt very generously by him, and that it was worth an effort on his part to raise himself from the position of the rector's stable-boy to that of his reverence's son-in-law. But, as far as the story of his wooing has yet been told, it does not appear that he exercised upon Miss Crosse any of those subtle blandishments which grooms of more advanced years and mo re ma t ure p erce pti on o f their opportunities have occasionally employed with suc cess. It is open to grave doubt whether he ran away with Miss Alice, or whether Miss Alice ran away with him. It is clear, however, that on the morning of the 26th ult. they left Ockham together, and after a moonlight walk of five and a half miles to Weybridge Station, took the mail train to London. Mr. Crosse pursued them, and after several days' search discovered them at No. 1, St. Ann's-place, Wandsworth, and gave George into custody on the charges of abduction and robbery. The charge of robbery is based on the allegation that Miss Crosse, in leaving her father's house, took away with her some things which belonged to her mother, under George's per suasion. Whether it can be maintained will of course turn on the question—did George abduct Miss Alice, or did Miss Alice abduct herself ? She is in her 21st year—she was 20 in June last—and if we may believe her account of the elopement, both charges must fall to the ground. Her story is this :—George had been nearly two years in her father's service, and .the intimacy between them commenced about Christmas last, " a little before, perhaps." It began in this way I went out riding with him, and he accompanied me as groom." Mr. Ingham, the magistrate, asked, " Who made the first advance ?" " I don't exactly know," said Miss] Alice ;. but when his worship pressed her for an answer, she said, " I think we were about equal." In an infatuation of this kind, when the first step has been taken, the other steps follow rapidly. " Did you ever go into the stable ?" asked the astute magistrate, " Oh, yes," said ingenuous Miss Alice, " I have often gone into the stable to see the horses cleaned." The ways of love are mysterious, and defy reduction to any fixed laws. One woman loves a man because he is mild and sentimental, another because he is rough and outspoken. Beauty allies herself with ugliness, and the success with the fair sex of men who are plain, broken-nosed, pitted with smallpox, low-born, or otherwise apparently unpromising, is well known. It may be that even in the unsentimental art of cleaning horses there may be a grace and mastery which will touch some sympathetic chord in the breast of a refined woman that neither the influence of kindred or station, nor the fear of the world's scorn will be strong enough to resist. Not to dwell on so profound a subject, we may take itfor granted that by some fascinating influence or other George became that one male mortal with whom alone Miss Alice thought she could unite her fate for better or worse ; and, unless she has fibbed monstrously in order to shield him, it was she who first proposed that, on the 26th ult., they should take the wings of the morning and flee away together from Ockham. " I think I proposed that," she says. "There had been a great row ; and I was unhappy, and I wished to leave. Then there was a great row when it was found out"—her going into the stable to see the horses cleaned—" about a week before I went away." M r . C rosse says th a t h e di sc h arge d t h e prisoner because it had been reported to him that she had been in the stable with him. That was on the 24th—on the 26th they decamped. " I arranged it," says Miss Alice. " He was sent away at a moment's notice. I saw him in the pas sage when he was leaving, and I merely told him to come the night after to my bedroom window. I used to light paper in the window." The poet says that " Love will find out the way," and accordingly on the night of the 25th or the morning of the 26th, after papa had gone to bed, which he did at mid night, Miss Alice folded a piece of paper with her dainty fingers, and, like another Hero,gave her lover the signal. Luckily, or unluckily, her Leander had no Hellespont to cross. " I think he was in the lane," she says. At all events, he " came up out side," and then "I told him I should go away; I put my things out of the window, and then I got out myself. I sc ram bl e d out some h ow, as I had no assistance,"—the window was 14 feet from the ground. "I think he helped me a little when I got nearly down. I think I was slipping down, and he held me. Nothing further took place, you know, e xcep t th a t we wa lk e d together to the station. I did not know where I was going, but I thought I was going to L on d on . I propose d walking to Weybrilge Station. It is a distance of about five miles and a half along the road. We walked there together. We took a mail train to London, and I paid the fare." We need not folloy7 the fugitives further in their career. Their story is a mixture of romance, bad taste, and, we regret to say, of grossness on the lady's part, which over shadows its romantic phase, and forces us to regard Miss Alice as a heroine who has not thrown herself away, even ttpoft a groom, When she found that a license could not be obtained at Doctors' Commons without her father's consent, she went straight to Wandsworth, and took the lodgings in which she lived as his wife with " George" till the latter was taken into custody on Tuesday, upon the charges We have mentioned. But now turning from her and her ill-selected mate, what possible good could the rector of Ockham propose to himself by a pro ceeding which exposes to the world this lamentable story. A little reflection might have convinced him that it would be better to make the best of a bad business, rather than to make bad worse. How long Miss Alice will continue under the fascination of George Smith it is impossible to say ; but that she is not only a perfectly self-possessed young woman, but is determined to go through with this unfortunate love affair, is clear from her bearing and evidence in the Wandsworth police-court. As a question of morality, there can be no doubt that the right course for Mr. Crosse to have adopted was to give the sanction of marriage to an intimacy which, for the present at least, seems certain to continue, with or without it. And, though we should be loth to urge in favour of this course au argument which might seem to challenge his own prudence in the government of his family, we can not but think that it was a blunder on his part to allow his daughter to ride out as he did, if she has spoken the truth, with his groom for her only com panion. It seems strange, also, that she could have been in the habit of going into the stable alone, as she says she did " often," if there had been that strict watchfulness which the most indulgent and confident of parents should never omit. It is not a thing heard of now for the first time that young ladies will fall in love with music -masters, riding-masters, dancing-masters, or even grooms, when the oppor tunity for such ill suited attachments has been given by parents exemplary in every other respect except in that caution which bars every approach to danger even where it seems most improbable. THE "COURT CIRCULAR" ON OUR LATE NAVAL VISITORS.--Portsmouth, though rather hard put to it, on the whole performed its duty well, as regards our gallant naval visitors. For once at least, a corporate body, in the provinces, was content to merge its municipal dignity in the greatness of the occasion, and play a subordinate, though by no means insignificant part in the festivities and re joicings to which they themselves largely contri buted. The Mayor and his colleagues, to their honour be it recorded, magnanimously resisted all temptation to get up deputations and addresses, and wisely expended all their energies in a grand ban quet and ball, which, as the fitting reward of muni cipal virtue, proved a great success, and delighted everybody. In the merely ornamental part of their hospitality the authorities were more fortunate than was anticipated, and, even compared with the lumi nous splendours and artistic demonstrations at Cherbourg and Brest, we have, at least, the satis faction of escaping national discredit. In the matter of oratory we fear there is not so much reason for congratulation. At the dinner given by the Admi ralty to the French officers the speech of the Duke of Somerset was by no means up to the mark, being far too stiff and official for an interchange of na tional friendship. It was terribly commonplace as an expression of good feeling, and strange to say, as emanating from so able a man, destitute of a leading idea beyond a general declaration of wel come and kindness. Far better and more dignified in tone was the speech of the French Minister of Marine, commencing with the words, " Happy days are these, in which the officers of the navies of Great Britain and France have it in their power to become acquainted with and to appreciate each other." The enviable gift of giving a graceful colouring to a complimentary dinner toast, by associating it with lofty thoughts and suggestive allusions, was clearly on the side of the French Minister; and in the brief speeches which accom panied the toasts in honour of the navies of France and England, the merits of terseness and point, to our thinking, were on the side of our Gallic visitors. Nothing, however, could exceed the cordiality exhibited on both sides ; and that, after all, was the main point in such a demon stration as that which took place at Portsmouth. We have already awarded praise to the Mayor and his colleagues in the corporation for their modesty and reticence, and as regards the municipal banquet, in which the chief magistrate was all in his glory, we are bound to say that his speech was a clever oratorical effort, all things considered. In spirit it was altogether unexceptionable, and that being the case, we may well excuse the swelling epithets with which it abounded. The Mayor, on behalf of the town, laboured hard to do justice to his distinguished guests on so great au occasion, and if his command of language sometimes failed him—if he had occa sionally to substitute big words for large ideas—the fault was pardonable enough. The French officers who shared the hospitality of the Corporation and the Admiralty, have, we are assured, carried away with theta many happy recollections of the kindness they have experienced ; and without placing any undue reliance on evanescent feelings arising from the temporary excitement incidental to a lavish display of hospitality, we cannot but believe that such a demonstration must be productive of good, as affording an additional assurance, and being, so to speak, an open proclamation of the excellent understanding which prevails between the govern ments and people of the two countries. As a fitting termination of the recent festivities, it is deserving of mention that the inhabitants are so well pleased with their Mayor and the graceful and efficient manner in which he represented and carried out their hospitable wishes in reference to their late visitors, that they have decided on presenting him with a testimonial in recognition thereof. This is right and proper enough, if only as a stimulus and incitement to future mayors to do likewise when the occasion demands. A committee has been formed, and a public meeting is to be called, to sanction and ratify this grateful resolve, which at least shows that Portsmouth, in its own opinion, has proved itself equal to the occasion—a very fair subject for con gratulation, when we bear in mind that failure would have entailed national as well as local discredit. Revolt of a Board of Guardians. An alarming scene ensued on the meeting of the Board of Guardians of Portsea Island on Wednesday, when it was discovered that they had been surcharged the sum of two pence three farthings per week per head for their tea. This surcharge was made by the Poor Law Board, which impe rial institution had previously disallowed the cost of buns and cake provided for the pauper children on Good Friday. When the board met, the Clerk called attention to the fact that the Poor-law Board had refused to:allow an item in the board's audited accounts for tea supplied to the guardians at their fortnightly meetings, and ho also said that the Poor-law Board had surcharged the guardians for the amount. Mr. HOWELL said it would be something novel for a board of guardians to "mutiny" against a poor-law board, " but," said ho, " I am going to propose that all do so now. It is a hard thing, after sitting here so many hours trans acting public business, to be denied the small privilege of restoring ' fallen nature' with a cup of soothing tea. (Laughter.) I say it is a hard thing to come hero and pay attention to the poor-law business and then be called upon to pay for a slight means of refreshment. I say, let us meet the Poor-law Board face to face, and refuse to pay for the tea. Let us pass a resolution that we positively refuse to attend here any more to carry into effect the operations of the poor-law until the Poor-law Board think proper to withdraw their vexatious opposition. (Hear, hear.) Mr. DA:VEY—It is not often that Mr. Howell and myself row in the same boat, but I will row with him now and second his motion. The CLERK—I cannot outer that resolution on the mi nutes, because it is an illegal resolution. Mr. DAVEY—My idea is that we direct the clerk to write to the Poor-law Board, and inform them that we will not act until tha cup of tea is conceded. The cost has nothing to do with it ; it is upon principle only that I advise this course, I do think that, as men elected by the people to do their business, we ought to make such a stand now that the Poor-law Board will be quite satisfied that it is our intention not to carry on business any longer. (Hear, hear.) The CLERK again urged the illegality of any such reso lution as that suggested by Mr. Howell. He would not enter it on the minutes. Mr. DAVEY—Then let us write a note to the Poor-law Board, without regard to Mr. Devereux—l'll sign it. Mr. KENT—SO will I. Several Guardians—So will we. (Loud laughter.) . Mr. HowELL—I think the clerk is quite right not to act in this mutiny—let us act for ourselves. It would be bad grace on the part of the clerk to enter such a resolution. But we are a board of guardians, and it is for us to say that wo will not stay here under such circumstances, and that as a body wo pledge ourselves not to sit again until the restriction is removed. Mr. DAVEY—I second the proposition that the Poor-law Board shall bo written to, calling their attention to the disallowance of the 21d. for tea, and informing them of our intention not to attend again until the restriction is removed. Mr. HOWEII (who had been busily writing) --I beg to propose "That the Poor-law Board having refused to allow the guardians to take tea at their meetings, and surcharged certain members of • the board with the amount, the mem bers of the board hereby positively refuse to attend any future meetings to administer the Poor-law until the Poor law Board withdraw their opposition thereto." Mr. DAVEY.—I quite agree with that, and I'll second it. The CHAIRMAN—I have made Up my mind not to attend here again while the restriction lasts. Mr. DAVEY—We'II all stick to you —you know we do. (Hear, hear.) The motion was carried neon. con. This terminated the proceedings. COUNTRY MARKETS. NOTTINGHAM-SATuRDir. There was a good supply of new wheat and a few samples of old. The demand was slow, and old sorts were is, new 2s to 3s per qr. lower. Barley was in limited supply, and sales were made at quite as much money as heretofore. The show of oats was short, and samples had a tendency to advance in price. Beans met a ready sale at Is per qr. Old white wheat, 50s to 54s ; old red, 46s to 50s ; new white, 49s to 52s ; new red, 46s to 49s per 36 stone. Bar• ley, new malting, 27s to 35s per qr ; old grinding, 26s to 28s ; new, 24s to 29s per 30 stone. Oats, old, 26s to 31s ; new, 22s to 27s ; old foreign, 22s to 26s per stone. Beans, old, 43s to 46s ; new, 41$ to 448 per 38 stone. NORWICH-SATURDAY. There was a liberal supply of wheat at this market to-day but millers manifesting little disposition to purchase, the trade ruled dull, even at a reduction of 2s per qr. of the best descriptions of old and new. A few samples of new barley were offered, the quality of which was various ; the trade has not yet opened. The harvest in Norfolk has now been completed. White wheat (weighing 631 b to 641 b), 48s to 528 ; red ditto (weighing 631 b to 641 b), 42s to 48s ; best malting barley (weighing 551 b to 561 b), 30s to 33s ; runs ditto (weighing 541 b to 551 b), 28s to 30s ; distilling ditto (weigh ing 521 b to 531 b), 24s to 268 ; oats, 24s to 26s ; beans, 37s to 89s; peas (maple), 36s to 38s per qr; flour, 26s to 32s 6d per sack. YORK-SATURDAY. Owing to the very magnificent weather of the past week farmers have been enabled to secure a large quantity of grain. The wheat crop is varied, but in many places good samples have been obtained. Barley is a more even crop. Potatoes in some instances are suffering from the disease. The wheat trade was inactive, and prices were 2s to 3s per qr. in buyer's favour. The demand for malting barley was fair at fully late rates ; grinding steady. Oats 6d per qr. dearer. Beans scarce, and is per qr. dearer. New white wheat, 44s to 48s ; new red, 42s to 46s per 86 stone. Barley, for malting, 32s to -- s per qr ; grinding, 28s to —s per 30 stone. Oats, new, 23s to 27s per 24 stone. Beans, 43s to 44s per 40 stone. Malt, 58s ; rye, 30s per qr. Flour, 35s to —s per sack of 2801 b. LEICESTER-SATURDAY. The wheat crops arc now mostly secured in this county, and in many places the yield is much better than was ex pected. Barley is generally a good crop, but the late rains have in some instances discoloured the grain. Beans a fair crop ; oats deficient. The show of wheat at our market to-day was tolerable, there being a fair show of new sorts. Old white wheat, 48s to 51s ; old red, 43s to 48s ' • new white, 44s to 50s ; new red, 41s to 46s per 36 ston e . Bar ley, malting, 32s to 35s per qr. ; grinding, 26s to 308 per 30 stone. Oats, old, 28s to 32s ; new, 25s to 29s per 24 stone. Beans, old, 40s to 44s ; new, 398 to 42s per 38 stone. CORK-FRIDAY. The following were the quotations this morning :—Red wheat, 6s 4d to 8s Od ; white, 7s Od to 9s 6d ; barley, 4s Od to 7s Od ; oats, 5s 10d to 6s Od ; black oats, os 10d to 6s Od; here, 6s Od to Gs 6d. DIIBL IN.-FRmAr. Fair supplies of all new grain. Wheat prime quality, and sold freely at full prices. Oats and barley were the turn lower on all except top qualities. Foreign wheat the demand slow ; could have been easier bought. Indian corn steady. Oatmeal lower to sell Currencies :—White wheat, 23s 6d to 258 Od ; red do., 21s 6d to 23s Od; grinding barley, 12s Od to 13s Od; malt ing do., 13s to 148 6d; white oats, lls to 12s; black do., 10s Od to lls Od. Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton.. Sept. 18. Ditto, via Marseilles Sept. 12. Brazil and Cape Verdi!. by British paotet Oct. 4. , Ditto, byFrench packet Sept. 22. Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena.. —Sept. 21. China, Penang. and Singapore. via Southampton—Sept. 18. Ditto, via Marseilles Sept. 12 Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Sept. 18. Ditto, via Marseilles ........... . —....Sept. 12. India (Bombay), via Southampton. Sept. 10. Ditto, via Marseilles Sept. 19. Mauritius, via Southampton Sept. 10. Ditto, via Marseir e 3 Oct. 4. Newfoundland I Sept. It. Portugal 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..Sept.ll3. West Coast of Africa. Madeira, and Teneriire Sept. 10. West Indies and Pacific (except Bahamas, Cuba, and Mexico. Sept. 13. Bahamas, via New York. Sept, 13. Bermuda, ditto Sept. 27. Cuba and Mexico Sept. 28. TIIE ATTEMPTED DOUBLE MURDER AT HASCOMB. —On Saturday afternoon a special county bench was held at Guildford, when James Oliver, labourer, aged 64, was placed at the bar before the Hon. F. Scott, the Hon. W. Brodrick, Mr. D. Macdonald, and Mr. A. S. Mathison, charged with attempting to murder Wm. Underwood, and Mary Ann Underwood, his wife, at Hascomb, on the night of Thursday last, the 7th inst. The proceedings were of a preliminary and merely formal character, the wounded per sons being unable to attend, owing to tho severity of the injuries inflicted on them. Superintendent Parr, deputy chief constable of Surrey, applied for a remand, stating that she still lay in a very precarious state. Mr. Smallpeice, the clerk, asked the prisoner if he understood the nature of the charge against him—if he understood he was charged with attempting to murder two persons whom he had seriously injured, and whose lives were despaired of. The prisoner, who is a man of somewhat wild and peculiar demeanour, made no answer, but looked about him vacantly, and ap peared to take no interest in the proceedings. He was re manded for a week. It appears that the prisoner Oliver has been for some years under-gardener in the service of Mr. Hockley, solicitor (of the firm of Hookley and Russell, of Guildford), at the Raswells, Hascomb ; and that he was in the habit of taking his meals at the house of Mr. Under wood, who keeps one of those little establishments known i t country villages . under the g ener i c t erm o f " genera l s hops• Oliver was always regarded as an ill-conditioned, peevish sort of fellow ; but he was esteemed thoroughly honest, trustworthy, and not unskilful in his peculiar capacity. On the night of Thursday last he was having his supper at about half- past 8 o'clock at Mr. Underwood's, when he made some observation of a rather disparaging character respect ing his employer. Mr. Underwood immediately checked tam, and said that he should bo the last man to say a word against one who had always been a kind master to him—the fact being that Mr. Hockley and his family were always parti cularly indulgent to the prisoner. Without further parley Oliver jumped up and, rushing at Underwood in an in furiated manner, stabbed him several times about the throat with a gardener's large clasp-knife. Alarmed by her husband's cries, Mrs. Underwood ran to his assist ance, when Oliver darted upon her with equal ferocity, and inflicted a fearful wound in her neck, almost severing the jugular vein. She fell instantaneously as if dead, on which Oliver again turned on Mr. Underwood and renewed his attack upon him, aiming a blow direct at his heart, which, however, his victim warded off with his arm. Underwood and his wife then succeeded in running out of the house, screaming and bleeding as they ran. They were closely fol lowed by Oliver, knife in hand, who had nearly come up to them, when Mr. Hackley's coachman fortunately came UP , and, perceiving in a moment the state of matters, felled Oliver to the ground with one blow of his fist, and after considerable exertions succeeded in wresting the knife from his grasp, and handing him over to the police. The ia" juries are very serious, and it is extremely ddubtful whether Mrs. Underwood can survive. [ADVERTISEMENT.] - Holloway's Pills. Weakening, Weather.—The sultry summer days strain the nerves_°' the feeble and decrepit, and this state eventuates in cus.,, - ease unless some restorative such as these purifying P" be found to correct the disordering tendency. Holloway medicine gives ease to the nervous system, which is the source of all vital movements, and presides over every s e " tion which maintains the growth and well-being of the: body. None therefore can over-estimate the necessity 01 keeping the nerves well strung, and the ease with whic h these pills accomplish that end. They are the most un failing antidotes to indigestion, irregular circulation, Pt": pitation, sick headaches, and costiveness that were eYe' invented, and in consequence have attained the largest sal ° and highest reputation. Births. BURTON.—On the Bth inst., at Walmer, the wife of Col. F. . _ Burton, of a daughter. CAYLEY.—On the 9th inst., at 34, Princes-gardens, the Wife of George A. Cayley, Esq., of a daughter. COLEBY.—On the Bth inst., at Parkhurst, Ealing, the wif e of John J. Coleby, Esq., of a son. DARRAIL—On the Bth inst., at Carringtons, L ym ingtoof the wife of Capt. Darrah, Roy a l E ng i neers, of a so n. Marriages. CONSOLLY—KEMBLE.--On the 7th i ns t., at the Ab be l: Church, Bath, Capt. M. Connolly, RN, H.M.S. P ali r, to Harriet, eldest daughter of the Rev. C. Kemble, rector of Bath. NORFOLK — WALLIS.—At St. GOOrge's, Hanover-square, Horatio Edward, se con d son o f Wm. J. Norfolk, r-41; of 26, St. G eorge ' s - square, B elgravia, S. W ., to &ITO Elizabeth, eldest d aug ht er o f F. J . W a lli s, E sq ., of Customs. Bi s eK to NE urt im on .— R O e n ct t o h r e y 7 , t 1, 11 ii Deaths.lot s s t , ~ Henryat h e Bresidence E of s o s f S V: Queensborough-terrace, London, aged 70. Kenf, GOODMAN.—On the 4th inst., at Blackheath - par k, John Goodman, Esq., aged 62. lIARYEY.—On the 6th inst. at Queen's-road, Guernsen Harvey, Esq., Col. Ist Regt. Royal Guernsey Militia. r MILLER.—On the 21st ult., at Spring Valley Villa, l'elof Edinburgh, Miss Matilda Miller, youngest daughter the late P. Miller, Esq., of Dalswinton, in Dumfries, PARRY.— On 14 the sth inst., at Hawthorn Hill, Brack nell ' Berks, Miss Parry, at a very advanced age. WOOD.—On the sth inst., at Herne Bay, Wm. Wood Egli of Chertsey, aged 62. —not London : Printed and Published by WILLIAM ANDSOOI,S' of No. 112, Strand, Pi inter , at TIM SIJN offiCe, NO. l' n 2 i Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy. In the Count/ " Middlesex.. —Monday, September 11, 1865.