The Sun. — London, England, 1865-05-25 00:00:00

TEE UNITED STATES. (From the Times' Correspondent.) NEW YORK, May 12. To such a hopeful and energetic people as the Americans the task which has devolved upon Presi dent Johnson does not appear very arduous. Foreigners may see immense dangers in the future, and difficulties of which the contemplation might appal the bravest and distress the wisest of men; but the Americans stand upon so high a vantage ground of self-confidence that they see nothing but the glorious lights of the landscape and none of the shadows. Their country is so vast, their resources so ample and so imperfectly developed, and they are so enormously strengthened by the continually in creasing immigration from Europe, that, in the pride of youthful vigour, they believe they can suffer with impunity trials and reverses which would make an end of more ancient and more cramped nationa lities. They are strong with the strength of ado lescence, and see nothing before them but pleasure, success, and power. "The Union," they say, is re stored. That one fact is sufficient. The effort to restore it has developed an amount of strength and heroism on both sides which have somewhat asto nished ourselves, and we are proud to believe have somewhat alarmed the world. The one great object achieved, and the Civil War being virtually, if not entirely, at an end, all that remains to be done is easy of accomplishment. What is mainly wanted magnanimity, and no fuss upon the part of the new President, as if he thought himself better, wiser, or more powerful than anybody_else. If he will refuse to make - any martyrs in the South; if he will not render the tenure of land insecure and perilous in the States that produce cotton, rice, tobacco, and sugar, by persisting in the policy of confiscation, sanctioned by the last Con gress ; if he will issue a broad, generous proclamation . of amnesty to all but Mr. Jefferson Davis, and perhaps three or four others, and make their punishment exile and not death ; if he will act as if the Union had never been dissolved, either de jure or de facto; and if he will strictly adhere to the spirit and letter of the Constitution, and call upon the combined people of all the States to elect a National Convention for the legal amendment of the Constitution, he will do all that is necessary. The result of such Convention will be a better and more durable Constitution than the last—inasmuch as slavery and the right of secession will be formally and for ever abolished. No reconstruction is neces sary where there has been no destruction. The Union lives, because it never died ; and the South, benefited more than the North by the fiery ordeal through which it has passed, will enter upon a new and more splendid career than, under slavery, was possible for it. The freed negroes must work for wages, and therefore more cheaply to the planter than when they were enslaved ; or, if refusing to work, they must be elbowed out of the country by more energetic men, or left to starve, as all deserve to do who will not put their shoulders to the task appointed for them by God and Nature. As for the money cost of the war, great as it is, we have resources more than sufficient to meet it. We have in California, in Colarado, and in Nevada alone mines of gold and silver that only need half a mil lion of men to work them, to pay off our debt of $3,000,000,000, not in greenbacks but in specie, in less than ten years. And we shall do it. Look only at the immigration to our shores. Every able bodied man or woman in the prime of life who arrives from Europe into our Atlantic ports, and thence betakes him or herself to the fertile prairies of the West, capacious enough to welcome a hundred millions of them, is worth a thousand dollars to the State. Last year, at least 300,000 im migrants, mostly young and healthy people, with children destined, like their fathers and mothers, to aid in the development of the agricultural, mineral, and commercial resources of our country within a dozen years, arrived on our shores. They alone, if they brought no other capital with them than their labour, represent at the rate of $l,OOO per pair of hands a sum of 300 millions. This year the immi gration promises to be still more extraordinary. One vessel arrived last week, bringing 1,178 souls, the largest human cargo ever imported in one ship, and if the influx continue in anything like the same ratio the European immigration of the next 10 years alone will be worth to the Union the whole estimated amount of the National Debt at the present hour. These are cheering facts, and not to be disputed. And what is equally cheering, our people of all classes and pursuits have the most thorough and im plicit confidence in the value of our institutions and the stability of our Government. They are pouring their savings into the coffers of the State with a liberality and rapidity unprecedented in the history of civilisation. No less than $17,000,000 of the Seven-Thirty Loan were subscribed for yes terday, in addition to $15,000,000 the day before, and as many to-day. The whole loan of $600,000,000 is nearly taken up, and would be taken up if the Government were in need of the money, even if the amount of the loan were doubled. South and North will never be antagonistic any more. Nothing is left for them to quarrel about, and _ having got rid of slavery the North will forget and the South forgive the war, as a necessary evil that produced a superabundant good ; and both will unite in greater harmony and concord than ever." Such is a brief abstract of the opinions and feelings of the moment, as heard among men of all parties. It is not to be supposed, however, that there are no dissentients, and none who take a gloomier view of the present and the future ; but simply that the vast bulk of the people talk or think in this way, and are so pleased, elated, and hopeful as to see and admit no evil, and indulge in no anticipations but the brightest and most exhila- rating. No one, however, who is not an American—how ever much ho may have become Americanised by contact with and length of residence among so hope ful and impulsive a people—will deny that this pic ture is too brightly drawn, and that the dangers which still menace the republic are neither few nor serious. A great deal too much depends upon the individual action of the President to justify the ap prehension that his will and not the ordinary laws of the land, or the opinions and wishes of thepeople, may impress a fatally wrong direction upon the whole policy of the State. Mr. Johnson boasts that he is a plebeian ; that in early life he gained his honest bread as a journeyman tailor, and that he had strength enough of intellect and of will to emerge from that position into the higher one of an orator, a statesman, a military governor, and a Pre sident of the United States. These boasts are by no means unwarrantable, and no one has a right to com plain of them. But when Mr. Johnson, the plebeian, in his capacity of President of the United States, has it in his power, by virtue of the Confiscation Act Passed by the last Cong r e ss , su bj ec t to the par doningprivilege of the Chief Magistrate, to carry out the ante-aristocratic theory of land ownership by which during his whole political career he has been (1-4• • hed, it will easily be seen that without infringement of the laws he has it in his power t o inflict an immensity of mischief, and to inaugurate, if not to complete, an agrarian revo lution in the South. It his recorded conviction— recorded a thousand times in Congress and on the " stump"--that large landed estates are an aristro cratic institution incompatible with the liberties and a Democratic rights of the peopl e i n Republic, and that it would be for the interest both of the North and South if the large cotton and sugar plantations were all parcelled out int o small farms of 50 or 100 acres, to be owned and worked either by white men or by black. He asserts that had it not been for the aristocratic planters, owning large estates in the South, there would have been no war, and that every such planter, without exception, was a rebel. Mr. Lincoln had no such theory, and, had his innocent life been spared, would in all probability have par doned all such rebels—with, perhaps, two or three exceptions--on the disbanding of the last armies of the Confederacy, and on the sole condition of their taking the oath of allegiance. Another circumstance which causes apprehension, not only among foreign observers of events, but among Americans, is the determination - of Mr. John son, aided and incited as it would appear by Mr. Stanton, to try the alleged conspirators against the lives of Mr. Li nco l n and M r. Seward be fore a secret military tribunal. This is in direct violation of the Constitution, and is denounced by every respectable newspaper in the United States, whatever may be its political bias. The Democratic World and the philosophical 7ribnne are agreed upon the impro priety of such a course of procedure ; even the New York Times and the Evening Post, which have seldom since the war began found an occasion to say a word in opposition to the policy of Mr. Lincoln's or of Mr. Johnson's Administration, are unspar ing in the expression of their displeasure at so unconstitutional as well as so unnecessary and invidious a mode of trial. The Court, or Commission, has been in session for three days, and not a word of the evidence has been per mitted to transpire. The counsel nominated by the several prisoners to defend them, or see that they have a fair trial, have each and all refused to accept the office, some pleading pre-engagements, and some flatly refusing. It does not appear that the, Com mission has appointed any one on behalf of either of the prisoners, some of whom, if not all, may perhaps be innocent, to cross examine the witnesses, or take care that the forms of justice be preserved. And what must be considered a suspicious, or at best an unfortunate feature in the case, is that the War De partment, or the Military Commission it has created for the purposes of this trial, has appointed as its sworn stenographer and reporter, pledged to secrecy, a person known to fame as the impudent forger of a proclamation by Mr. Lincoln. For this offence or crime Mr. Joseph Howard, jun., was committed by authority of the late President and Mr. Stanton to Fort Lafayette. A person so branded in the eyes of the public should not have been entrusted with functions like these, or with any functions what ever in the gift of the Government. The question of the immigration of the disbanded soldiery of North and South into Mexico has lost none of its interest within the last few days. On the contrary, it has excited much speculation as to whe ther the President, known to be a thorough devotee to the Monroe doctrine, has either stimulated the movement, or designs to give it any encouragement. There can be no doubt that the idea is exceedingly popular, and that with slight effort such a rush for Mexico could be organised as would seriously threaten the relations of the United States with the Emperors Napoleon and Maximilian. Under the circumstances it is gratifying to know, not only for his own sake, but for that of the peace of the world, that Mr. Seward is rapidly recover ing from the combined effects of his severe accident and the infamous and cowardly attack upon his life, and that he is already in a position to advise the President on the affairs of his department. Mr. Seward, like Mr. Lincoln, has always been of opinion that one war was enough at a time, and does not, it is asserted by his friends, admit that the time has yet come when the Federal Government can de vote other than its whole attention to its own affairs, to the mighty task of a reconstruction of the Union, and the obliteration by wise statesmanship of the in evitable ill feeling and animosities engendered by a war of such bitterness and duration as that which is not even yet at an end throughout its whole territory. It is understood that some assurance of this kind has already been given to the new French Ambassador, the Marquis de Montholon, and that the President is preparing a *proclamation to warn the people of the illegalityof any invasion of Mexico, under the pretext of aiding President Juarez to restore the Republic— or any other whatever. If Mr. Johnson will go a step 'urther, and formally recognise the Government 0: _ _ the Emperor Maximilian, by despatching an ac credited Minister to his Court, he will do more to satisfy Mexico and France of his peaceable intentions than even by . the issue of a proclamation. CORONERS' INQUESTS. Dr. Lankester, the coroner for Central Middlesex, has sent in his second annual report for the central district of Middlesex, from August 1, 1863, to July 31, 1864, for presentation to the magistrates. The first portion consists of a table giving an account of the number of inquests held in the various parishes in the district in the years ending respectively on July 1, 1863, and July 31, 1864. From this table it appears that there were held 1,271 inquests in the year, making 191 inquests more in the last than in the former year. This increase has taken place principally in the parishes of St. Pancras, Maryle bone, Islington, Clerkenwell, and St. Giles's, and is due to two causes,—first, the natural increase of population ; and secondly, the increased vigilance of the summoning officers. The increase of the population of the year has probably been about 25,000, which would give, according to last year's average, about 40 additional cases. The latter cause has, however, acted most powerfully. In St. Pan cras, Islington, and St. Giles's, where the increase has been largest, new officers have been appointed, and there are no longer any complaints of the ne glect of inquiry such as he felt bound to refer to in his last report. So great, in fact, was the abuse and inconvenience of employing parish constables, ap pointed by vestries, that in the case of the parish of St. Pancras he had reluctantly to insist on his right to send his warrant for inquests to an officer of his own selecting. One of the most noticeable features in the returns, says Dr. Lankester, is the increase of inquests under the head of accidental deaths, which amount to the large number of 70 cases :—" While the increase of inquests under the head of natural deaths may be attributed to the causes I have mentioned, I cannot suppose that deaths from accident have been pre viously overlooked. I attribute the increase of ac cidental deaths mainly to these causes :—First, the increased traffic in the streets of London ; just as the metropolis increases on all sides does the traffic of its central streets become developed, and either the carelessness or foolhardiness of drivers of vehi cles and foot passengers become the source of acci dents destructive of life. Secondly, the enormous development of building in the centre of London, employing many thousands of men either in the destruction of old buildings or in the building of new ones of unexampled size and extent, undoubt edly contributes to a large increase in the number of accidents. In passing I may observe that, although in these cases it is seldom that criminal verdicts are returned, the moral influence of the Coroner's Court is immense. In a large proportion of deaths from accidental causes the verdicts are accompanied with recommendations for the better security of human life, which in the majority of in stances I have reason to know are attended to." The increase of verdicts under the head of suicide and homicide is not greater than may be accounted for by the increase of population. The diminution of verdicts of " deaths from unknown causes" may be accounted for by juries more frequently return ing verdicts of " wilful murder" in the case of newly-born children found dead in the streets. In a second table Dr. Lankester has arranged the in quests of the two past years according to the months. From this it will be seen that there are decidedly fewer inquests in the months of August, September, and October. In these months the average is 160 in the month. In the three follow ing months—November, December, and January— the average increases to 209, while the highest ave rage is obtained in February, March, and April, when they reach 216 in the month. In May, June, and July this number falls to 197 in the month. The greatest number of verdicts of " natural death" are given in the spring and winter months of the year. Old persons and children suddenly die from the effects of cold. The greatest number of acci dental deaths are met with in the winter and spring months. The number of inquests in the first six months of the two years is 408 against 354 in the last six months. Suicide appears to be the most con stant of all the causes of death into which the in= quests are divided as far as season is concerned. There is a slight excess observable in the autumn and winter quarters, being 78 against 64 in the spring and summer quarters. Another table gives the number of inquests held in hospitals, prisons, and lunatic asylumns in the central district of Middlesex. This table shows that while the number of inquests held in St. Mary's, Middlesex, and University College Hospital have been nearly the same there has been a large increase at the Royal Free. The Great Northern, which dur ing the previous year had been removed from King's cross to the Caledonian-road, Islington, and received FRE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 25, 1865. no in-patients, has reopened its doors, and gives for the past year five cases. This hospital is now very conveniently situated for receiving cases from the large and increasing population of Islington. The increase of cases in the prisons is remarkable. In these places an inquest is held on every death, from whatever cause. The number of prisoners in the House of Correction has been considerably in creased, but this does not account for the great in crease of mortality in that institution. Supposing the constant number of prisoners in the House of Correction to have been 1,700 during the year, the number of deaths, which was 34, gives a mortality of 20 in the 1,000, which must be regarded as a high mortality for men of the ages of prisoners in the House of Correction. This list does not include workhouses. The in quiries in these places are perhaps fewer in propor tion to their inhabitants than the asylums; and this may be accounted for by the fact that no notice of death occurring in workhouses is required to be given to the coroner—so that cases which might to him appear to need inquiry are passed over by the usual method of sending certificates of death at once to the registrar. As the coroner's inquiry is no doubt a great protection to those who die in prisons and lunatic asylumns, Dr. Lankester thinks it a question well worthy of consideration, in view of the helpless condition of the great majority of the inhabitants of workhouses, as to whether the coro ner's inquest should not be held in all cases on per sons dying in workhouses, or at least that all certi ficates of death should be referred to the coroner. " There is one class of accidents," says Dr. Lan kester, " which it is gratifying to find presents a decrease, and that is the class which occurs on rail ways. The great majority of these accidents occur to men who are employed on the railway. The num ber of deaths in 1862-3 was 24, against 14 in the year 1863-4. A majority of these accidents occur from the carelessness of the workmen themselves, while a large proportion are due to the neglect of rules laid down by the companies for the protection of the lives of their servants. There is one cause of these accidents which appears to me susceptible of mitigation, and that is the cases of death occurring from the bursting of boilers. In two cases of acci dent from this cause—one on the Great Western Railway and another on the North London—which have come before me it appeared from the evidence that no regular system of testing the strength of the boilers is pursued. It appears very evident that if a regular system of testing the strength of boilers were adopted, as recommended by Capt. Tyler, one of the Government Inspectors of Railways, a considerable diminution of the dreadful accidents which take place from this source alone might be anticipated. The difference between the number of deaths from suicide in the two years is so slight as to indicate on the whole that the causes which lead to this disas trous occurrence have been the same in the two years. The methods of self-destruction employed have differed very considerably in the two years. Thus, in the year 1862-3 there were 19 cases of poisoning, while in 1863-4 there were but nine. There was but one instance of poisoning by opium in the latter year, against four in the previous year, and two cases of poisoning by oxalic acid in the second year against five in the first year. The only poison employed in the second year which was not used in the first is corrosive sublimate, while strych nine, sulphuric acid, prussic acid, and potash, which were answerable for six deaths in the first year, do not appear in the list of the second. Our legislation was at one time ferocious with regard to the destruction of human life. A reaction took place, which has placed us in our present position, in which upwards of 150 dead children are annually found in the streets of London. It is not too much to suppose that where one child is found another is successfully hidden for ever. In cases where the mothers have been disco vered their ages averaged about 20 years ; as it is not to be supposed the same woman commits this crime a second time, and as the expectancy of a woman's life at 20 is 40 years, this would give the large num ber of 12,000 women living in London alone who have thus secretly destroyed their offspring." Dr. Lankester is not prepared to discuss the ques tion of what measures might be adopted for the pre vention of this crime, but it appears to him that it is sufficiently extensive and alarming to demand special inquiry. There is one fact, he adds, "to which, however, I think I ought to draw attention, and that is, in inquiries into the causes of the death of illegi timate children, that the putative father of the child very seldom contributes to its support. In an insti tution in London where the illegitimate offspring of poor girls are supported, it has been stated that of 75 children provided for there were only two in stances where the father had contributed anything to their support." In conclusion, the Coroner draws attention to the general want in London of better and more conve nient houses for the dead, those attached io work houses and for parochial use being generally incon nient and deficient in light, ventilation, and the re quisites for making post mortem examinations. He thinks it -wouldbe most desirable to erect deadhouses in every parish, so that the poor who have but little room in their residences might be able to deposit their dead until the time has arrived for the corpse to be buried, thus avoiding the production of disease, and the tendency to demoralisation produced by the presence of the living and the dead in the same room. Charge of Murder in St. George's•in-the. East. Yesterday afternoon Mr. John Humphreys, Middlesex coroner, held an inquiry at the Wellington Tavern, Cannon street-road, respecting the death of Catherine Hurley, aged 80 years, alleged to have been murdered by her husband. Mary Ann Vinch, 13, Raymond-street, said that the deceased was the wife of John Hurley, a labourer, who lodged in witness's house. Both were addicted to drink, and deceased was particularly intemperate. Between the hours of one and two o'clock on Tuesday morning witness saw her looking out at the window, waiting for her husband to come home. When he made his appearance in the street she screamed at him. He asked her to let him in, and she told him the door was ajar. She then went down and let him in, and they began to quarrel directly. Shortly afterwards deceased called out for witness. Wit ness went into the room, and found the husband had hold of her round the waist, and was trying to get her on to the bed. She was dead. Witness said to the husband, "1 am afraid your old drinking habits have come back." Ho merely answered "No ; send for the police." He was sober at the time. Mary Young, the wife of a soldier, said that she lived in the room next to that occupied by the deceased, and on the morning she heard deceased and her husband quarrelling she thought she heard the sound of blows. When the hus band entered the room deceased said to him, "Have you got money ?" and upon his stating that he had not a dread ful row commenced. When the policeman came the hus band said to him that he;was quarrelling with his wife and that he had killed her. Coroner—Did he say he had killed her? Pray be careful. Witness—What he said was, "She is dead." Police-Constable Petty, 96 K, said ho heard a great noise in the house No. 13 Raymond-street, on Tuesday morning, and there was a large crowd outside. Witness was called into the house, and saw Hurley there. Hurley only said, "My wife is dead." Witness then went up stairs, and saw the deceased dead on the bed. He cautioned Hurley, who then stated that when he told deceased ho had no money she quarrelled with him and throw half a pail of water over him. He pushed her and she fell, her head striking against the door. Witness apprehended him on the charge of murder. Michael Hurley, a ragged and neglected child, of about eight years of ago, said—l remember father coming home after 12 o'clock on Monday night. When ho came into the room mother took the railing off the top of the bed stead and struck him with it. She then took a pail of water and threw it over him. Father pushed her about, but gave her no blows. She was knocked up against the door and she fell upon the floor. Father picked her up, and as he was carrying her to the bed she died in his arms. The Coroner said that no jury would convict the ac cused after such evidence from the only eye-witness of what took place. Dr. E. Wood, 13, Globe-street„ said that theft 'was a bruise underneath the deceased's right eye. That would not account for death. Tho post-mortem examination proved that death had resulted from extravasation of blood on the brain. The extravasation might have resulted from a blow, from a fall, or from excitement, or even from natural causes. The place was in a state of extreme poverty ; the deceased had hardly a rag to cover her. The Coroner having summed up, _ _ _ The Jury returned a verdict—" That deceased was found dead from the effects of extravasation of blood on the brain, but how the said extravasation was caused there is no evidence to show." The War in Bhootan. (We (Times) have been favoured with the following Letter : " Rungeeah, April 9. " Long before this reaches England the telegraph will have been told of the capture, destruction, and evacuation of Dewangari, a landmark in the history of one of England's perpetual little Indian wars. " From March 21, the date of my last letter, until the end of the month, nothing of any importance took place. The camp at Soubaukhotta was still kept up, and the forts and buildings there finished, to de ceive the enemy as to our projected line of advance. The bait took admirably, and this pass was found afterwards to be one succession of stockades, with heavy abattis completely closing up the ravine. " On March 30 the right wing of her Majesty's 55th Foot and another battery of Artillery marched in from Gowhatty, and everything was at once got ready for the advance. The force was told off into two columns—the one, under Col. Richardson, 44th N. 1., about 800 strong, with the Sappers and a bat tery of Artillery, being the advance guard, while the other fomed the main body, under Col. Hume, 55th. " The Soubaukhotta force was suddenly with drawn on the night of March 81, the ,tents being left standing, and at 2 on the following morning Colonel Richardson's' column left camp for the mouth of the Darunga Pass, each man carrying three days' cooked provisions with him. The hills were reached about daylight, and the column ad , vanced up the pass and found the first three stockades deserted. About 41 miles from Dewangari was a place where we had taken and destroyed a stockade on the 19th of March, with the loss of 12 killed and wounded, and here we found stockades reconstructed. However, they were not held in force, and a few shells from the howitzers drove the defenders out without the loss of a single man on our side. " After this the column advanced steadily until within 14 miles from Dewangari, where it halted for the day, while a small party went on to reconnoitre. A half-built stockade was found burning about 400 yards to the front, and had evidently just been fired. Beyond this was a steep hill, on pushing up which it was found that its summit had rashly been left un defended by the enemy. At this place, which was about 700 yards from Dewangari, a sandbag breast work was at once thrown up, and a strong picket brought up to hold it for the night. " On the following morning, April 2, the main body arrived about 7 o'clock, and the force advanced. From the sandbag breastwork the whole position could be clearly seen. On the proper right was a high hill, which resolved itself into a spur running nearly north for three-quarters of a mile. This range was defended by seven stockades and the Rajah's house—a substantial stone fort, surrounded by a bastioned stone breastwork. The key of the position, however, was not this place, but a large stockade about 500 yards from it, and 200 yards from the left of the spur. This was some 50 feet square, two-storied, with walls of loose stone 4 feet thick between log framing, and had evidently been constructed with much care. " A company of the 55th advanced in skirmishing order, sheltering themselves as much as possible be hind trees, while the mortars and howitzers were taken to the front and commenced playing on this stock ade, and on two others on the extreme left which flanked it. A party under Captain Macdonell, of the police, was detached to turn these last named stockades by climbing a steep hill beyond them, and in the meantime the artillery and Enfield rifles tried to keep the fire down from the main stockade, but with little success. The guns made very poor practice, probably because their position was changed several times, so that they had not a fair chance of getting an accurate range, and, on the other hand, the loopholes of the stockade were very small targets for the 55th to aim at. From immediately below the stockade a steep spur ran towards us. Under cover of this the 55th were brought more to the front, but even from here they could not keep down the enemy's fire to any consi derable extent, and probably the Bhooteas had not more than a dozen men disabled, nor we more than twice as many, when Capt. Macdonell's party ap peared over the hill, and Gen. Tombs instantly formed up a storming party of the 29th Punjabees, the 12th Native Infantry, and one company of the 55th, and sent them at the stockade. The Sikhs, who were in front, climbed upthe almost precipitous hill and went on with a yell, but when they reached the stockade they could find no way into it. There had been but one small door, and that was effectually closed ; the rats were caged, but the cage kept off the dogs. At last Capt. Trevor, R.E., and Lieut. Dundas, R.E., the two engineer officers accompanying the column, climbed up the poles of the stockade and showed the way in. Both officers are recommended for the Vic toria Cross. "Of course the defenders were doomed. Some few may have escaped, but the rest were shot down where they stood, and lay in heaps. If Englishmen had not been present, even the 45 prisoners whom we took would not have escaped with wounds, but would have been numbered with theirdead comrades, for neither Sikh nor Pathan has the vaguest idea of mercy to an enemy. "This stockade gave us Dewangari. On seeing their stronghold, which they thought impregnable, in our hands, the Bhooteas rushed down the hill sides and divided into the dense jungle, where it was im possible to follow them with any effect. On the left Capt. Macdonell got possession of a stockade, which he—personally gallantry itself —was vainly endea vouring to get his police and some other soldiers to storm, instead of firing at. Here Weldon, an officer of the police, was badly wounded, but in no other place did we meet with any opposition. The Rajah's house was taken almost without a shot, and in about an hour the Sikhs were scattered in every direction, looting what little there was left to be taken. " Our total loss in the attack was about 70 or 80 killed and wounded. Upwards of 170 Bhooteas were counted dead on the field ; 45 badly wounded were taken prisoners, and the number of wounded who escaped to die in the jungle must have been very large. One rajah of importance,the Dyagur Penlow, was found among the dead, but the Tongsoo Penlow himself took good care to get away with a whole skin. '• It is impossible to say with accuracy how many men we had opposed to us. Our prisoners say there were between 5,000 and 7,000 men on the range the day before the attack, and that during the fight the Tongsoo Penlow with 2,000 picked fighting men was waiting close by the Rajah's house on the look out for any signs of disorder or wavering among our troops, but that, as our advance was so bold and our success so complete, he saw no opportunity for ac tion, and took to his heels. " During the next three days D evangari was com pletely destroyed, the Rajah's house blown up, the temples pulled down, the trees felled, the stockades burnt ; and on April 6 the place was abandoned, and the force returned to Koomrukhotta, to be broken up into detachments and go into quarters for the rains, in barracks which are now being built for' them at Rungeeah and otherplaces. It is to be feared that the troops will suffer much from fever here. The rains have not yet fully come, and yet the num ber of sick is appalling. The 29th Punjabees, 600 strong, have 140 men in hospital ; the company of Sappers, 90 strong, has 37 men sick, and so on. "It has still to be determined whether the Bhooteas or we have lost the more 011 this side of their country. On the one hand, they said, If you do not give us the tribute you have hitherto given us we must take its value ;' so tht ly turned us out of Dewangari, built stockades at the mouths of the passes to cover their foraging parties, burnt and destroyed all the neighbOuring villages, ca rried off very large supplies of grain and many hued redhead of cattle into the interior,then burnt their stockades and retired, having in the meanwhile, caused us at great cost to bring down some of our best regiments to die of jungle fever in the Dooars. On the opther hand, we have taken and destroyed Dewangari and killed some 400 of their men, at a co st to ourselves of about one-fourth that number. D, )es the balance hang even? 4 , R. E." - - A GALLANT SAILOR'S REWARD. —Ed-1,7 d Cleary, the soldier, who saved the lives of tho captain. and crow of the Govindpore, during the cyclone at Calcutta, last Sep tember, has been presented with the Royal Hun tano So ciety's gold medal. Its - presentation, along with son. '° other gifts, was mado by the Lieutenant-Governor in Bengal, in preseeico of tho Viceroy, and a number of spectator, Times of India. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. METROPOLITAN. The adjourned meeting of this company was held yes terday at the office, Duke-street, Westminster, Mr. J. Par son in the chair, for the purpose of considering a bill now before Parliament conferring further powers on the Great Western Railway Company for the construction of works and acquisition of lands in relation to their own and other undertakings. The CHAIRMAN said the bill contained a clause confirm ing the agreement between the'Great Western and the Me tropolitan Companies, the object of which agreement was to make proper provision for the conveyance and traiis missicn of the Great Western traffic over the Metropolitan Railway. He then moved a formal resolution approving the bill, which was unanimously adopted. LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE. A meeting of this company was held at Manchester yes terday, in compliance with the standing orders of the House of Lords, for the purpose of considering a bill now before Parliament. Mr. GEORGE WILSON, the deputy chairman, presided, and moved:— " That the bill conferring powers on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company for the construction of branch railways and works, and the acquisition of railways, and for other purpoges, be approved, subject to such alterations as the directors might consider desirable, and as the Legis lature sanction or require." Mr. DUGDALB, director, seconded the motion. The CITATIOLLN observed that the whole of the exten sion sought for by the company this session would only increase the capital account by about £160,000. The motion was agreed to unanimously. The CHAIRMAN said that the bill for the construction of new railways near Bradford, with a branch to Thornton, in connection with the Great Northern Company, had been withdrawn, and they should probably apply for another bill to meet the wishes of the neighbourhood next year. The meeting then separated. NORTHAMPTON AND BANBURY JIJNO:rION. A special meeting of this company was held yesterday at the office, Victoria-streef, Westminster—Dr. Beattie in the chair. On the motion of the CHAIRMAN two bills were approved, one authorising the company to make a branch railway at Blisworth, and to raise additional capital; and the other authorising the company to extend their railway to Chip ping Norton and Blockley. WEST SUSSEX JUNCTION. A special meeting of this company was held yesterday at the London-bridge Station, Colonel Barttelot, M.P., in the chair, for the purpose of authorising a bill now before Par liament, authorising the company to make deviations in their authorised line of railway, and for other purposes con nected with the undertaking. Tho Solicitor having read the heads of the bill, The CHAIRMAN explained the advantage of the proposed deviation to the company, and moved a resolution approv ing the bill. Mr. G. HOOD seconded tho motion, which was agreed to, and the proceedings terminated. MID-WALES. A special meeting of this company was held yesterday at the office, Bank-building, Lothbury, Mr. Whalley, M.P., in the chair, to consider a bill empowering the Manchester and Milford Railway Company to make certain new railways in substitution of their authorised railway and the Aberyst with branch, and to extend the time for the purchase of land and the completion of works. The CHAIRMAN said there were only three clauses in the bill which affected the interests of the company. The first gave running powers to the Mid-Wales Company over the Manchester and Milford Railway; the second conferred the joint use of stations, and the third authorised traffic ar rangements. He moved that the bill be approved, which was seconded and agreed to unanimously. EASTERN BENGAL. The report of the directors states that the traffic for the half-year ending Dec. 31 last, as compared with that for the two preceding half years, showed a steady and gradual in crease. The gross receipts for the half-year ending Dec. 31 amounted to £46,732, against £42,603 for the corresponding half of 1863, showing an increase of £4,129. The working expenses amounted to £25,080, or 53.66 per cont., against £22,127, showing an increase of £2,953 ; and the net re ceipts to £21,652, against £20,476 in the corresponding half of 1863, showing an increase of £1,176. The total number of passengers conveyed during the half-year was 539,700, against 514,990. The number of first-class passengers was 21,181, against 20,054, and of second-class passengers 24,425 against 20,692 in the corresponding half of 1863. The tonnage of goods, minerals, &c., had been 31,663 tons against 23,679 in the corresponding period, showing an in crease of 7,984 tons. The receipts per train mile amounted to 7s. old. against 6s. 101 d. in the corresponding half of 1863. The traffic receipts per mile of railway open were £425 against £387. The expectations held out by the com pany's agent in the last half-yearly report, that many of the native merchants and shippers would make the terminal station at Kooshtee the point of arrival and departure for their boats carrying cargo consigned to Calcutta, were now being realised. The result had been that the merchandise traffic for the first 13 weeks of the present year amounted to £15,157, as against £4,561 received for the same period of the previous year. The receipts from both the passenger and merchandise traffic during the said 13 weeks as com pared with those of the corresponding period of last year showed an increase of above £B,OOO, and of above £19,000 as compared with the same period of 1863. The works and permanent way wore in good order, and the rolling stock had been maintained in an efficient state. The report of the agent stated the expenditure incurred in maintaining the line continued to show a saving of 32 per cent. by this work being carried on by the company's staff, instead of by contractors. The expenditure on capital account in the construction and equipment of the line amounted to £1,512,438. PUNJAB. By advices received by the directors of this company, dated the 20th ult., the Government had sanctioned the opening for public traffic of the line between Lahore and Mooltan on tho 24th of April. The section from Lahore to Umritsur, 32 miles in length, had been opened for a con siderable time, and the remaining portion, 220 miles, was no doubt opened for traffic on the 24th ult., making tho total length from Umritsur, whero it joins the Delhi Rail way, to Mooltan, 252 miles, now in operation. The steamers of the Indus Steam Flotilla continued the communication from Mooltan to the Made Railway at Kotree. It was stated that the grain crop this .season in the Punjab was one of the largest ever known, and that cotton was being retained there until better prices were offered at Kurrachee. BUFFALO AND LAKE HURON. The report of the directors states that the railway in Canada had been worked by the Grand Trunk Company for five months ending December last. The next accounts would, therefore, bo made up to June 30 for six months. The division of net revenue was £7,241 for the five months, or at the rate of £8,689 for the half-year, in comparison with tho corresponding period for 1863 of £8,668, and for the last half-year of a.debit of £6,708. The rate of exchange between Canada and the United States fluctuitted consider ably during the past half-year, and the price of gold varied i from 190 to 240, thus making the loss arising from dis count on American currency X 78,413 on the united sys tern of the Grand Trunk and Buffalo and Lake Huron Railways. A very heavy charge of £81,540 had also been made for renewals. Assuming £lOO,OOO a year sufficient to cover ordinary renewals of way, the charge against the present half-year showed an excess of £31,540 expended by the Grand Trunk Company, of which the Buffalo Company's proportion would amount to over £l,OOO. Adding to this sum the loss on currency borne by the company, say £lO,OOO, the net earnings of the Company would have been equal to an income of £22,689 for the half-year. Considering the very favourable alteration in the rate of the American exchange, it was thought the net earnings henceforth ought to present a very satisfactory contrast to the accounts now furnished. In consequence of the interruption in the Parliamentary Session in Canada suspending for this season the ratification of the agreement with the Grand Trunk, the company's existing administra tion must be continued. The amount of coupons repre senting back interest sent in for capitalisation under the arrangement with the bondholders amounted to £48,830. A deed of trust had been entered into for the &posit of the coupons with Messrs. Rawson, Holland, Hy de, and Moxon ILLINOIS CENTRAL. The financial statement of this company for the month of April shows that the total sales during the month disposed of 12,525 acres of land for $148,642. The cash collectedin April amounted to $145,782. In the traffio department the receipts on the railway in the month of April amounted to $491,297, and for April, 1864, to $423,787, showing an in crease of $67,500. HORRIBLE WIFE MURDER.—John Clarke, a pit man, at Leadgate, between Durham and Newcastle, was committed by the coroner on Saturday on a charge of murdering his wife. Ho is a native of the county of Wexford, Ireland, and came to reside at Leadgate a short time ago. On Saturday evening week his wife went to seek him at a public-house. She met him in the street, when it would appear some angry words passed between them. The husband then commenced a violent assault on his wife, knocked her down and kicked her repeatedly. She managed to get home, whether she was followed by her husband. Angry words were again exchanged, and the husband took up the poker, and, after using threatening language, throw it at his wife. It entered the left cheek, knocked out four teeth, penetrated under the tongue to the root in a diagonal direction, and fixed itself in the throat. On Wednesday last dangerous symptoms manifested them selves, and on Friday afternoon she died. The husband, when apprehended and charged with the wilful murder of his wife, replied, " I did it; I did it with that" (pointing to the poker). SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS TIMES.—A very few words will suffice, after the debate of Monday last, to place the public in full possession of the question at issue in the case of Lieutenant-Colonel Dawkins. The official explana tions of Lord Hartington and the independent re marks of General Peel have cleared the general transaction of all obscurity, though the actual merits of the case itself, as involved in the true deserts of Colonel Dawkins, are by no means so completely unravelled. Nobody can have forgotten that in the reorganisation of our army after the Crimean War the principles which should regulate the appointment of commanding officers formed a prominent and most important subject of discussion. The efficiency of an entire regiment may depend on the fitness of its commander for his place, and it was urged with much reason that preferment of such importance should not be determined by the mere accidents of service. The ordinary operation of seniority and purchase might place at the head of a battalion an officer who, though not actually suffering under any professional imputation, might still be incompetent to fill that particular position with advantage to the corps. The service, in fact, had notoriously suffered from the incidents of promotion as thus determined, and it was argued that the opportunity was now pre sented for effective reform. General P eel reminded the House that it had been attempted to press upon the Commander-in-Chief not only the approval, but the actual selection of officers for regimental command ; but that his royal highness had naturally declined so invidious a duty. Nobody can wonder at the objection. The difficultyandresponsibility of such selection would be almost intolerable, especially under the probable circumstances of erroneous or defective informa tion. There was still, however, an alternative re maining. If the Commander-in-Chief could not be expected to pronounce an opinion upon the pro fessional competence of every officer succeeding to the command of a battalion, he might, at any rate, interpose his veto in cases of presumed incom petence brought specially under his notice. An officer might have done indifferently well as subal tern br captain, and yet have given good reason for supposing that he would do very ill at the head of the corps. Why, then, should not the Commander in-Chief, when duly moved in such cases, interfere to prevent mischief by barring the road to pro motion, and intimating to the officer concerned that, for his own sake as well as that of the service, it would be well for him to stop short of command, and bring his professional career to a timely close? The thing could be done without stigma or scandal. The Major, instead of purchasing the Lieutenant- Colonelcy, would retire, and nobody need be any the wiser or any:the worse. There is certainly nothing unreasonable in this ; and it is precisely what is alleged to have happened in the case of Colonel Dawkins. In the ordinary course of things the Co lonel would have succeeded to the command of a bat talion of the Coldstrean Guards, but the authorities were moved to inquire into his competence for such a post. So a Court of Inquiry was orde red ; it con ducted its investigations and made its report, and on that report the Commander-in-Chief acted. His Royal Highness " came to the conclusion that it would be for the interest of the service that Colonel Dawkins should be placed on half-pay, and he gave Colonel Dawkins the opportunity of retiring." At first sight of the case nothing could be more proper or justifiable. The Guards form a corps and it is of obvious importance that their actual efficiency should correspond withtheir professional distinction. It was not necessary to establish any grave charge of misconduct against Colonel Dawkins, or to bring him to a court-martial for trial. If it could be cer tified by any fair process of inquiry that the service would suffer by his accession to the command of the battalion, it was for the good of the army that he should be debarred from that preferment. That is exactly the aid which the service might expect from the Commander-in-Chief, andfor which the country might well be grateful. There is the case on behalf of the authorities, and at first sight it is certainly not a weak one. When we look, however, a little further into it our satisfaction rapidly diminishes. It is, to say the least, an extraordinary circumstance that this discretionary power of the Commander-in- Chief should have been invoked for the first time on an occasion like the present. As far as our recol lection serves we have had no such case before, or, at any rate, no case has acquired publicity. Yet it is only reasonable to suppose that many an incom petent or disqualified man must have stood first on the list for the Lieutenant-Colonelcy of a bat talion—many a man whose merits were represented exclusively by the influence -of his family or the contents of his purse. It is not too much to assume that scores of officers must have merited the inter vention reserved for Colonel Dawkins. Such inter vention is admirable in theory, but it may become questionable in practice. Here is the first instance to the knowledge of which the public has been ad mitted, and it is impossible to deny that it is full of suspicion. Not a single allegation is advanced against Colonel Dawkins which will not bear an interpretation unfavourable to his accusers. In point of fact he is charged with nothing but unpopularity. Charges of professional importance, which would be tangible, are not so much as insinuated. On the contrary, the testimony given to his merits in this respect is quite remarkable :—" He is a man who has passed through a long period of service with unblemished honour," said an officer in the House of Commons who had actually served under him. " I have heard," said another speaker, " from many quarters that he is an officer of great ability, and that he greatly distinguished himself in the Crimea. Indeed, no one, I believe, will venture to assert that he is not an officer of the first-class ; and the only charge, as far as I can see, against him is that he has failed to make himself so agree able as he ought to do." That is, indeed, the sum of the whole case. Now; it is not to be denied that " infirmities of, temper," such as are alleged against Colonel Dawkins, may really be serious enough to disqualify a man for a position requiring social tact as well as professional knowledge. A man with whom nobody can get on is certainly not the man for a commanding officer, but it will not escape the notice of the public that this is precisely the kind of charge under which personal or private animosities might be concealed. We do not say, nor do we mean it to be implied, that the case is so, but it unfortunately happens that it easily might be. If a set were made in any regiment against any par ticular officer, and it was desired to get rid of him as an unpopular man, this is exactly the shape which the proceeding would assume. Colonel Dawkins is charged with " unfitness for command," though, for all we can see, this may mean nothing more than that certain officers do not want him to command them. This is what gives the case its suspicious aspect. In theory the transaction itself is unimpeaChable. It would be for the interest of the public if the Com mander-in-Chief would intervene in every case to remove an incompetent officer from the path to high command. But it is very unfortunate that in the single case brought prominently into notice there should be so much room for imagining improper motives. We have never heard of an officer of high degree being told that it requires something .more than lineage or wealth to qualify a man for com mand. All that kind of promotion seems to have taken its course just as in former times, without any invocation of the Commander-in-Chief's authority. Not a word do we hear of such appeals until an officer in the Guards is unfortunate enough to incur the dislike of three or four other officers, and then the guardian of discipline and efficiency is at once called in. When called in he, of course, had no option but to act on the report of the regular tri bunal ; but the case is so remarkable and the circum stances so suggestive that we should much like to see the judgment of the Court of Inquiry subjected to some careful revision. POST.—There is one fact which, though it is no where specifically stated in the recent news from America, is nevertheless apparent on the face of the intelligence which is brought by every succeeding mail. This fact is, that though the war may be at an end, the contest is just where it has been at any time within the last four years. The war on this side of the Mississippi, at least, has been closed for a month. But we really search the news which has come to hand since in vain for any of the usual fruits of victory or peace. If the Federals had been fighting with a foreign enemy, they might have exacted the costs of the war or the cession of territory, or both. They might have imposed con ditions profitable to themselves. They might even have annexed the conquered country altogether, and held it. But as the case stands they cannot do any of these things. As the Federals have all along proceeded on the assumption that the Southern States are part of their country—part of the United States—it follows that- to extort the cost of the war from the Confederates would be no gain at all in the long run. Whether the North pay its own expenses itself, or whether it compel the South to pay them, the money must come, first or last, out of the wealth and capital of the United States. In like manner, for the same rea son, the acquisition of territory is out of the ques tion. The conqueror has asserted throughout that the South is part of his country. He has made good his claim so far as the argument of force can pos sibly make it good. But, according to his own showing, the possession of the South can be no gain at all, simply because, as he contends, it always belonged to him, and is part of his country. If he succeeded in subjugating the South, and is now the " monarch of all he surveys," from the Potomac to the Gulf, and from the Mississippi to the Atlantic, he has also succeeded in so effectually desolating it that the conquest is a barren one ; and he might truthfully say, with the ancient king, that " such another victory would be his ruin." When a foreign country is conquered and annexed it may be a gain, even though it be desolated in the process of acqui sition. It may serve as a colony for surplus popu lation—it may possess valuable ports and harbours, which, even though ruined for the time, may be reinstated, and when so reinstated will be of great value. It may be profitable in a variety of other ways. But in the case of America the facts are quite otherwise. Impartial spectators saw all this fro the first, and took the liberty of freely pointing it out. It has lately been much the custom of the Federals and their European friends to talk of the false predictions which have been made from time to time as to the course of the war. But if, as it cer tainly appears, the war is only at an end in the sense that the chief Southern armies on this side of the Mississippi have laid down their arms, while the war of principles and the antagonism of interests are just as great as ever they were, it still remains to be seen how far those predictions really are falsified. But the expectation that the conquest would be a barren one, and of no value to the victor, appears to be confirmedby the telegrams which every vessel brings to this country from New York. Of course twenty millions of people can overpower less than a third of their number if they have the obstinacy to per severe in a fruitless struggle, and this was always foreseen and acknowledged; but the question is,what are they to take by their conquest ? Will they find their conquest worth having, or will they find it worthless, and be compelled by the force of circum stances to abandon it ? Notwithstanding the con fident and sanguine utterances of the Federals and their friends, it is by no means clear whether his story will have to answer these questions affirma tively or negatively. We would understate the case rather than overstate it. It is mere rashness, un mindful of facts and experience, which would per suade us that the Union is restored, and that things have returned, or are immediately about to return, to their old channels. The work of reconstruction not onlyhas to be done, but it has to be commenced. As yet it has not even been begun • and it certainly would appear as if the victors hardly knew how to set about attempting it. So far as it is possible to come to any certain or definite conclusion from the vague and confused masses of news which reach us from the North, it does not appear that the Federals have any fixed or settled programme of reconstruc tion at all. They do not seem even to have decided what to do with the Confederate leaders, should these fall into their hands. Some are for clemency; some are for what they call justice • others are for vengeance, pure and simple. Then there is the question of how the great mass of the Southern white population is to be dealt with. On this point we do not find very many suggestions, practical or the reverse : we suppose for the reason that nobody knows exactly what to suggest. With regard to the blacks we certainly do find one suggestion, and that owes its authorship to no less a personage than the President himself. Mr. Johnson, in an address to the. coloured population, tells them he trusted the time would come when all the negroes would be assembled in one country best adapted to their condition, if it should appear that they could not get on with the whites. He also declared that man could not hold property in man.. If we ar° to infer from this that the blacks are to be at once emancipated, and are to remain in the South until an uninhabited country has been found for them, and they have been conveyed thither, it is obvious that the difficulty which the Federals are likely to experience from the negroes in the mean time may be considered, for all practical purposes' as infinite. But a much more matter of fact and business-like proposal has been published. It is that these negroes, though unconditionally email" cipated, shall by no means be allowed to be idle, but shall be compelled to work to maintain themselves and families. What difference there is between any possible system of this kind and slavery will no doubt be seen when it is carried into practice. There will probably be less difficulty in finding negroes for whatever work there may be to be done than in finding work for the negroes. At present it seems hardly too much to say that the South is in a state of political and social chaos. It has been so poverished and devastated that we cannot be so' prised if the conquerors are sadly perplexed to know how to set about the work of reconstruction, or where to begin. Elaborate forms of oath are fog' gested as the means of making the Secessionist a stanch and loyal Unionist. This is a very compen dious method of reconstruction undoubtedly, but men's principles, and feelings, and beliefs are no t changed by a formula of words uttered under pre' sure and duress. The fact is that the South may be now described as drifting. It has been drifting ever since the main armies surrendered • and am; rently it will continue drifting still. Where it will drift to of course remains to be seen. That it will ever of itself drift back into the " Union as it was' . does not appear very 'probable. That the Federals will be able to steer it back, or tug it back, does not seem much more probable. Meanwhile it drifts. Nothing is doing, nothing is attempted. We hear of one more Southern general surrendering in this place, while in that, other generals declare they will maintain the Confederacy to the last on the other side of the Mississippi. The Southern States, accord: to a reported official statement, are to be governed by military law until the inhabitants are reconciled toimmediate emancipation. If the military rule of the South is to be continued until this contingency is realised, it would seem as if there was never to be constitutional government within its confines again' But what is to be done with the blacks until the whites are thus reconciled ? We suppose they are to be free, while the whites are to be under a despotism. How this will work, and how the blacks can be utilised and put to profitable employment, are problems the solution of which must be left to t he future. One thing is certain—the real difficulties of the situation do not appear to have been muc h diminished by the military successes of the North. COUNTRY MARKETS HULL.—TUESDAY. at Since our last a fair business has been done in the w l - Ic ,l trade, and for choice samples of English an advance a per qr. may be noted. At our market to-day there 30, 61 ,, moderate supply of English wheat, and the trade was s l ,°",, at a decline of is per qr., except upon choice sainP,,, e ll which realised about last week's rates. Oats, beans, 3 ", t peas without alteration. The arrivals of linseed anioll'i c to about 10,000 qrs., principally from Calcutta, or the 1 313 c Sea. A slight improvement upon last wee k' s pr i ce s Intl m '- noted, and a fair inquiry for fine qualities exists. SALISBURY.—TUESDAY. Notwithstanding the flatness of the wheat trado Mark-lane yesterday, holders asked more money here t i. ll „`; morning than a week ago. The supply offered was rstn. larger than at last market, the quality generally being go d There was a pretty numerous attendance of buyers, fair business was done, the rates of a week ago being Pa l s ; In barley very little doing. Oats at previous quotetiona In beans and peas no alteration. ,For flour a better (leve rs prevailed, and for first and second-class qualities niii-` 0 asked an advance of is to 2s per sack. The following are present prices :—Wheat realised frZ 36s to 44s ; barley, 26s to 30s ; oats, 21s to 30s ; beans, 3 . 9 g to 465; and peas, 34s to 489 per qr. Winter taros, fronl„A to lls per bushel ; Best bread, 10d ; household ditto, 7' per 81b loaf. NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE.—TUESDAY. At to-day's market there was a mod era t e supply of WY e a l from the country and the coast, an d a goo d f oreig n aro" e t The weather being fine and warm caused buyers tolittle cautiously ; but holders did not press sales, and the business done was at late rates. Grinding barley 6d low(e,t , Malt quiet ;* beans firm ; peas is hi g h er ; oa t s 6d lovrch Flour dull at late rates. LYNN.—T UESDAY. hstet Now wheat, 45s to 47s ; new red, 40s to 43s • old w — f o r 42s to 43s ; old red, 38s to 41s per 36 stone. 'BarleY 2 so malting, 32s to 35s ; secondary, 30s ; ordinary, 26 8 to 040 per qr. Oats, 20s to 22s per 24 stone. Beans, largo , u toi3Bs ; small, 38s to 40s per 38 stone. MONMOUTHSHIRE—MoNDAv. The local markets have been well attended. For °ll ,„t e ; rior samples of wheat higher prices are asked, and io,r,:itle instances conceded. Inferior met a moderate sale. -Li,' 0 inquiry for malting barley. No change in oats. 13eam— request ; and there is no alteration to report in flour. 40 The following are the average quotations :—wh eat " 10 lld to 5s 6d per bushel ; barley, as ld to Bs 7d ; 03-1 10d to 2s Gd. Births. CmusTlE.—On the 24th inst., at 7, Wilton-street, 0 113,1 1 : nor-place, the wife of W. J. Christie, Esq., of a u 3 ter. o n th STAL/N - TON.—On the 22d inst., at Fallapit nous° '" 11 11- the wife of Major-Gneral Staunton, Devon, o f a'datig ter. tb° WALKER.—On the 23d inst., at 69, Chester - scl ua-0 ' wife of James Walker, Esq., M.P., of a son. Marriages, GRANT—STATHAM.—On the 24th inst at Saint . 1 " - he l Amersham, Montagu Henry Stuart, ioungest soli, to late General James Grant, of The Firs, Hillingo2°„"-400 Mary, youngest daughter of the late Thomas 01°' Statham, of IO Amersham, Bucks. Die rco TAYLOR—ELLT.—On the 18th inst., at Chelsea', '.- 0 to G. E. Taylor, Esq., of Ogwell House, DevonspnirjLiot Anna Maria Elizabeth, daughter of the late }O' E. Elliot, of 29, Cadogan-place, Belgrave-squ o,re. Deaths. D iatia ELAND.—On the 19th inst., at Islm' 1;I' Esq., aged 66. DENT.—On the 21st inst., at The Mall, bath Dent, relict of E. J. Dent, of the Strand. stew DuNN.—On the 20th inst., at 4, Stamford-grove -6011, phen Dunn, Esq., aged 63. 1 681° DIFFANGER.—On the 23d inst., at 5, Molina-P-Ve John's-wood, Thomas D'lffanger, Esq., ag ed 50. 1 , 0 0 ERSKINE.— On the 21st inst., at Brighton, Hol d I,in - Bayswater, °it'''. Erskine, Esq., of 8, Norfolk-street, Park -lane, and coln's-inn, eldest son of the late Right Hon. Erskine. 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