The Sun. — London, England, 1866-10-27 00:00:00

Banquet to Sir 1f . Caiins in Belfest. BELFAST, Friday Night. This evening a banquet was given to Sir H. Cairns. The chair was occupied by:Chas.Lanyon, Esq., J.P. Sir H. CAIRNS, on rising to respond, was received with prolonged applause. He said—Mr. Chairman, my Lords, and Gentlemen, it is a misfortune of lan guage that, owing to its poverty, the words in which we express our gratitude fcr the greatest favours are but the same as those in which we speak of the smallest that are conferred. Those who have honoured me with an invitation to this magnificent banquet have paid me to-night a compliment the highest which, to my mind, any public man can re ceive. To find that any act of a public life has re ceived the approbation of oat's fellow citizens must always to a public man be a source of gratification, but to receive an approval such as is indicated by this entertainment for the whole course of public conduct, and to receive that, not at the hand of strangers, but at the hand of those to whom I have been known from my earliest years—(hear)—l re ceive it not forashort or isolated period of time, but for the whole course during which I have had the honour of representing this town—is indeed a com- pliment of which I may justly feel proud, and for which I may well be thankful, add, gentlemen, thankful I am. I thank you most sincerely ; believe me I feel deeply your kindness—believe me I shall never forget it. (Hear.) You have said truly, Mr. Chairman, that this dinner, when it was originally contemplated, was not intended to be a farewell banquet. (Hear, hear.) It was at first proposed to me at the time when I accepted the office of Attorney-General. When I accepted that office— for although I would gladly avoid this subject of myself, I yet feel it due to you something of myself to say—l took the liberty of representing to Lord Derby that my earnest desire was to render to his Government every assistance in the House of Com mons in my power ; that I should be able so to do, as more within the compass of my strength, with out holding any office, but that it was his wish that I should accept the office of Attorney-General I would do my best to discharge its duties; yet that so strongly did I feel the tear and wear of Parlia mentary, combined with professional and official life, thatl trusted, should fitting opportunity arise, I might be allowed to make such services as I could render to the country available in a less laborious position. (Hear, and cheers.) Mr. Chairman, to this Lord Derby, with a kindness and consideration for myself of which I can hardly trust myself to speak, acceded, and thus it has come to pass that I appear before you to-night your representative still in point of form, but to address you in that character for the last time. Mr. Chairman, you have reminded us that it is now near 15 years since first I was entrusted with the representation in Parlia.nent of this great and important town. At that time I had as my col league my excellent friend your old and well-tried representative, whose presence to-night we hail with so much pleasure—l mean Mr. Davison. (Cheers.) Mr. Chairman, I remember well and I remember gratefully the cordiality and harmonious co-opera tion which existed between Mr. Davison and myself. (Hear, hear.) I know well how that cordiality, how that co-operation has continued to exist in the case of my present colleague, whose absence to-night, and the cause of whose absence, we so much regret. (Hear, hear.) I know that both Mr. Davison and Mr. Getty have laboured well and faithfully in your service. (Hear, hear.) But I speak for myself, and I think I may speak also for those who have been my colleagues, when I say that, looking back upon those 15 years, I own it is with umningled satisfac- tion that I reflect that our voices and our votes have, as you, Mr. Chairman, have stated, been given in- variably for the maintenance and the advancement of Conservative principles. (Cheers.) And Mr. Chair: man, it is with equal satisfaction that I eanitay I firmly believe that in pursuing that course we have acted in accordance with the opinions of the vast majority of the electors, aye, and of the non-electors of this town. Mr. Chairman, it is the faShion of those who desire to cast discredit onConservative principles to assert that those who hold them are opposed to progress and improvement, and are chargeable with narrow-mindedness and bigotry. Now lam and I have ever been an advocate for progress and for im provement, but I am Lot for revolution. I believe that the institutions of this country have developed and are capable of developing to an unknown degree that improvement and progress under any system of government. lam not for transferring our proper ties or our liberties to the tyranny of a multitude. I believe that if you transferred the government of this country into the hands of mere numbers you endanger property ; and I believe—for history and experience alone teach us this—tbat if you endanger property you must inevitably endanger liberty. And, Mr. Chairman, with regard to the charge of nar row-mindedness and bigotry, I repudiate the charge. I respect the rights, I respect the opinions, of every member of an English constituency. But for ano ther reason I look with satisfaction upon my tenure of office. It has drawn me into close connexion with a body of public men with whom it has been my great happiness to act, and of whom I will say this, that I believe they are actuated, they have been actuated, and iu all their measures of government they will be actuated, by a sincere and earnest desire for the welfare of their country. And in particular with regard to Ireland, I feel confident that her Majesty's Ministers will endeavour to treat her, not as the battle-field of a party, not as a splendid child in whom the mismanagement of one day is to be rec tified by the equal and contrary mismanagement of another, but as an integral part of the United King dom, entitled to the same measure of justice, to the same laws, to the same firm executive, to the same even and impartial hand, as is extended over to other parts of the United Kingdom. The great majority of the wealth, and the intelligence, and the education of this country acknowledge and cherish in their hearts these principles, whatever divisions of party m ay lie upon thesurface; and they arc opinions which the events occurring every day must lead us to acknowledge and to cherish more firmly. Mr. Chairman has styled me, just now, " ller INlajesty's late Attorney-General." I beg, in the first place, to say that I still have the honour to hold that office. As the proof of the intimate and complete union and incorporation of Ireland with England, and of the absence of any jealousy or narrow-mindedness towards Ireland on the part of the sister country, I appeal to the fact that I, an Irishman, an Irish re presentative, had been entrusted with an office which never before was filled except by a native of Great Britain. Nay, I respect even the prejudices of my fellow-citizens. It is one of the many ele ments of civil freedom that every one should be able to express his opinions freely, and that he should be enabled todo so without being exposed to the threats which of late I have seen public men exposed to that the multitudes will rise in their tens of thousands if he dares to express them again. 1 believe that just as the truest safeguard for civil freedom is to be fou nd in your mixed and balanced Constitution, so the safest guarantee for liberty of thought and opi nion is to be found in that free and unfettered spirit which i s em b odied in your Protestant institutios ; and depend upon it, Mr. Chairman, that these are our opinions which, whether you call them Conser vative or by any other name, we may rest assured that the questio n o f the general improvement of Ireland is a matter of no trifling importance to a commercial constituency like ours. '' Our interest is not in our locality—it is i n the kiuocloni at large. You cannot have prosperity w • I°l4 confidence__ you • cannot have confidence without order—y° canno t have order without obedienc e to thcl itti law you unless cann ot expect obedience to the la w is known that the law will be im p artiall y enforced, unkss it if; known that the .establishments and institutions of the country will not be sacrificed in order to obtain the Parliamentary support of a particular political party. But if you sec, as I have seen not long ago, a Prime Minister rise in the house of Lords and say, with regard to the destruc tion of the Protestant Establishmentiu Ireland, that in his opinion no worse or more fatal measure could be sanctioned by Parliamen t, and if, notwithstand ing when a motion is brought forward in the House of Commons having for its object the de struction of that establishment, you find the Minis ter entrusted with the Government of Ireland rise iL b.i~ place and wish that attack God speed ; if yo:: find, on the eve of sharp political contests in Eng land, a measure in its operation tampering equally with the rights of the tenants in Ulster and the rights of landlords in other parts of the country ; if you find under-pressure from this quarter, or from that authoritative declarations made indicating a willingness to surrender the system of education established by Parliament for the country after long contests and with great care— if, above all, and Ibe yond all, you see the executive Government, in hur -1 ried bustle, without the knowledge of Parliament, and even in opposition to the expressed pledges given to Parliament, by one stroke overthrow the whole University and system of education of the country; if these things are done, the end and ob ject for which they are done may be accomplished, the exigencies of the moment may be met, political support in a critical emergency may be obtained, but all confidence in the wisdoni, in the firmness, in the impartiality of the Government must disappear. Mr. Chairman, I have said this much in general terms, for this is not an occasion to detail the grounds for the course which I, in conjunction with my colleague, have thought it my duty—which we have thought it our duty—to pursue in the past year in the House of Commons ; a course which, if I rightly interpret your attendance here to-night, and the manner in which this toast has been received by you, has met with your approval. The hardest, but not the longest, part of my task remains. I have to say farewell—farewell at least in the character of your representative. How can I express to men of every class and of every opinion in this town my sense of gratitude for the long stream of unbroken kindness which for so many years I have received. How can I ask you in fitting words to overlook my many shortcomings and errors, of which I feel too well I have been justly chargeable. How can I tell you of the pride and interest I take in witnessing the prosperity of this town. (Hear.) Those finan cial difficulties to which you, Mr. Chairman, have referred, are now happily adjusted; with its num bers rapidly increasing; with its wealth, commerce, and manufactures swelling and increasing on every side ; with its place now firmly established amongst the foremost seats of industry in the empire, may loyalty and order, peace and virtue, abound with her. May her progress in years to come be such as to dis tance; and to reduce to insignificance even, the strides she has madein years past. May she and may her citizens stand forth, for private worth and for political wisdom, the ornament, the example, and the encouragement of Ireland. (Loud and protracted cheers, the whole assembly arising to their feet when Sir H. Cairns resumed his scat.) Miscellaneous Americ in News. The amount of internal revenue of the United States for the first quarter of the current fiscal year, which quarter closed on the 30th September—prac- tically on the 29th, as the 30th fell on the Sabbath —was $98,837,662.83. This is somewhat less than was expected, because on some days the returns were very great, but it is a fair amount. Calculations are made that a year hence the grea , Pacific Railroad west from Omaha will be corn. pleted within 150 miles of Idalia, Colorado ter. ritory. Canadians are agitated by the sudden removal of the seat of Government from Ottawa to Quebec, notwithstanding the choice of the former location by authority of the Queen. The New York Tribune says :—" One of the most painful tasks that could be given to Mr. Beecher would be the careful reading of his own sermons. flow shocked he would be to find in the volume for 1864 such passages as these :—" Any party that permits peace to come until they have set God's signet of indignation on this infamous war and in famous treason will themselves be guilty of that war and that treason. And when peace is made we mean that all nations shall understand how hateful, unjust rebellion is, and how despicable on earth among men, and in hell among the damned, are those who turmoil a nation with blood and re- volution. Now you can do what once you could not have done. Once you would have sacrificed the constitution if you had meddled with the loyal institutions of the States, but when by their own act the States have put themselves beyond the pale of the constitution and its privileges, and broken it, and we are obliged to go in with the hand of authority and penalty, then we can do and must do, and it is a crime not to do whatlo years ago it would have been a crime to have done." In com paring his recent letters with these bold words who will not feel sad at heart to think how easily the preacher had forgotten his own preaching? The commission to codify the laws, Messrs. Cush ing, James, and Johnson, has taken an office on 11 street, between Fourteenth and Fifteenth-streets, New York, for the transaction of their official busi ness. The Commissioners are closely engaged read ing up the statutes in order to determine where to begin upon the codification of the laws. Infortnation has been received that General Alfred Dockery, who had been selected without a dissent ing voice to represent the Union sentiment in the meeting at Raleigh, has declined the nomination of Governor of North Carolina. He advises the with drawal of all candidates for Congress who cannot take the prescribed oath. The following special order was issued Oct. 5 :-- "Navy Department, Washington, Oct. 4, 1866. — The Department announces to the navy and marine corps the death of Rear-Admiral Francis 11. Gregory. He died at the city of New York at one o'clock this morning, after an illness of a few hours, at the age of 77. Though more than 70 years of age at the commencement of the rebellion, Rear-Admiral Gre gory immediately applied for active service, and in July, 1861, was ordered upon arduous and respon sible duty, which throughout the war he discharged with signal zeal and ability, and in the closing up of which he was engaged at the time of his death, after more than 57 years of honourable service in the cause of his country. As a mark of respect to his memory it is ordered that at the New York Navy Yard, on the day of his funeral, the flags be hoisted at half-mast, and that 13 minute guns be fired at meridian.—(Signed) GIDEON WELLES, Secretary of the Navy." Postmaster-Gcneral Randall has received from Special Post -office Agent Laureuse a box contain ing specimens of mountain salt from the Pah Rage gat mining regions. They are fine, pure, and almost transparent. One of the pieces shows the face of the mountain from which all were taken. The other pieces were taken from the surface. This salt comes from a mountain of pure salt, several leagues in ex tent and several thousand feet in height. The whole mountain is pure, and is so situated in the extreme Southern part of Nevada, between the 115th and 116th degrees of west longitude. Mr. Laureuse says these pieces are not sent as fair specimens, but in his next trip to that region he will undertake to procure a block of a foot square of such transparency that a newspaper can be read through it. Commissioner Wilson, of the General Land-office, has just received a in communicationNl,chhifrhoemsaythseheShuard veyor-General of Colorado, just returned from the newly-discovered copper and lead mines, but had found the v eins not sufficiently developed to enable him to judge accurately of their value. The copper occurs in the shape of boulders imbedded in flur spar. These boulders are pure carbonate of copper, of a fine quality. In some veins the copper is bedded in a soft decomposed mass, differing from the walls of the vein, and easily worked with the pick. The crops on the plains had been safely harvested, and were fully equal to an estimate contained in a previous report of the Sur veyor-General as to the immense productiveness of the country. At least four million acres can be cul tivated, and thus far the productiveness fully meets the wants of the people. °(SI accountetess de l se n ri l p V t i i t e k n es's Spirit of the Times there is an animated 15 French of a boat race at Cherbourg, in which men-of-war's boats and one American The American was the smallest of the t o , k au p d ar p t. ulled but twelve oars to the Frenchmen's sixteen ; the favourites startinc , being a barge belonging to the Flandre ( ironclad), and a cutter belonging to Palace Napoleon's o y f the race, does aerri winner , s, j un a , d f thev,.ri writes s ni t navy, who steered th not convey a very elevated impression of the irench code of honour as applied to boa`-racing. First and foremost, the Flandre's barge tried hard to foul him, and then a couple of the beaten boats cut off a corner and endeavoured to mislead him out of the course, but in both these disloyal attempts they failed, and the American boat came in an easy win ner—a short ship's length ahead of the leading French boat, which belonged to the Magenta. The boats of the Flandre and of Prince Napoleon's yacht were " nowhere." _ _ Bell's Life publishes an account of the murder of a jockey named M'Keever, during a match at Chi cago between two celebrated trotting-horses named Cooley and General Butler. Cooley, a Western horse, was the favourite, and won the two first heats easily. Then M•Keever, the owner of General Butler, suspecting foul play, determined on dis placing the jockey by whom his horse had been driven, and on driving the animal himself. The result was that the General won the two next heats. By the time the horses were ready to start for the deciding heat it was almost dark ; the crowd of roughs assembled was immense, and their excite ment indescribable ; for Cooley had been the fa vourite at the beginning and had been backed heavily. The trotters started for the fifth heat. Riley, the driver of Cooley, took the outside track and was seen to bear hardly on General Butler, so as to force his antagonist close to the inside railings of the course. M'Keever's voice was heard shout ing to Riley to give him room, then came a crush and a cry, and General Butler emerged out of the darkness, and went steaming past the Grand Stand without a driver, followed by Cooley, steadily driven by Riley, who claimed the stakes. But it was soon discovered that a trap had been successfully laid for the driver of General Butler, by so arranging a beam taken from a neighbouring fence that it should strike him across the face as he raced close along the inside of the course. The judge therefore de clared the race to be void, and Riley and two ac complices named Hickey were arrested on a charge of murder. _ We take the following tabular statement of the number of schools, teachers, and scholars in the several Southern States, from the July " Report on Schools and Finances of Freedmen," by the Rev. J. W. Alvord, inspector, &c. STATES. Virginia —• ••• North Carolina ••• South Carolina ••. Georgia.. ... F10rida........ Alabama ... Mississippi Louisiana ... Texas ... ••• Arkansas ••• Kansas... ••• Missouri ••• ••• Kentucky* ... Tennesseo ••• Maryland ... District of Columbia... No. of No. of No. of Schools. Teachers. Scholars. 123 200 11,781 119 135 9,084 75 148 9,017 79 113 7,792 38 51 9 663 -, 8 31 3,388 50 80 5,407 73 90 3,389 90 43 4,590 30 28 1,584 15 24 1,500 38 46 2,698 35 38 4,122 42 125 9,114 86 101 8,141 74 132 6,552 Total... ... 975 1,405 * Studies reported in only five schools. 90 7 768 The Irish People, of the 22d of September, the Fenian organ at New York, announces that a Mr. David A. Sutton, a member of the committee ap pointed to inquire into and report upon the affairs of Fenianism, has bolted, carrying with him to England the papers of the society, which he pro poses to sell to the British Government. The Irish People assures us that the papers thus abstracted by Sutton contain information calculated to convict many of our friends and associates at present in Ireland, against whom there is merely a suspicion of complicity in the Fenian movement. They also contain such information as may lead to the arrest and conviction of many of our friends in Ireland and Great Britain who have not been even suspected up to this. The " Registry and Address Book" of the Fenian circles of America is also among the documents missing from headquarters, and is said to have been taken off by the absconder Sutton. The latter may be of great use to our enemy, in enabling him to estimate our numbers and resources. The whole pile is, no doubt, well worth a handsome sum of blood-money. The New Fork Herald has brought out a sensa- tion paragraph, associating Santa Anna and Colonel Roberts, the Fenian chief, in a movement on Mexico. The herald says the most remarkable circumstance connected with the new movement is the fact that the cunning old patriot has enlisted the powerful aid of the Fenian Brotherhood. He had protracted interviews with Roberts, Sweeny, and other Fenians, and had laid matters in such a favourable light be fore them that these gentlemen have shut their eyes to the advantages of Canada, and are now teach ing the Irish that Mexico is the country designed by Providence as that best fitted for the develop ment and nurture of the Milesian race. The Fe nians are certainly directing their attention South to the relief of Canada. Ridiculous as it appears to us in this country that the road to Ireland lay through Canada, the new route " via Mexico" ap pears still more absurd. The fact is, the necessity for conciliating these filibusters will cease with the elections when the American people will be in no humour to tolerate these wicked designs against a kindred people whom the tendency of events is to draw into their own Union, and add to the stars on their national flag. The National Bank of Virginia has been de signated by the Secretary of the Treasury as a depository for the Treasury, War, and Interior Departments. Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper is filled with spirited sketches of the Races at Jerome Park, New York. Pictures are given of Mr. Jerome, founder and proprietor of the park, and of " Kentucky," winner of the grand inauguration stakes. It is pleasant to see a sport that has so strong a hold on the English people taken up with such real earnest- _ . ness and enthusiasm by their American cousins. We little doubt that many who lose their money by Wall-street speculations will find a more pleasant and less hazardous excitement in betting on the event, and making up books, than in the degrading employment of " bulling" and " bearing" the Stock and Shares quoted on the Exchange. Thomas Gorsuch, Esq., Assessor of Internal Revenue, Fourth District of Maryland, tendered his resignation, to take effect from the Ist of Oc tober, or from the time that his successor may be appointed. The Frederick Examiner says—" His reasons for resigning so lucrative a position is that he cannot subscribe to the President's policy of making treason respectable by handing the control of the Government over to those who exerted their utmost for four years to destroy it. All honour to Mr. Gorsuch." The Hon. Louis V. Bogy, of St. Louis, was ap pointed on the sth October Commissioner of Indian Affairs, in place of Hon. S. N. Cooley, to take effect on the Ist of next month. This appointment is made in deference to the request of citizens of St. Louis, who claim that the Commissioner of Indian Affairs should be selected from among gen tlemen whose experience has enabled them to co.n prebend the interests of the Indian tribes ; and, tphapa sses besides, sieosdt iha i r t oo i u s Tg u ehr r r ie tt o d . r Ao h os a u t iiss m . t o r s al t ot si o sa f ostt t ea n dt e eodr b , uiansl also, nsooe, some s with ong other things, that co n t rac t s f or transportation, &c., &c., have been made by the Indian Bureau with the citizens of New York, to the exclusion of *Western men who perform the work ; that the contractors afterwards sub-let their contracts at greatly re ldaur c g e e d a o p i o r i o c o e s t f t o n A o l o i e s y s o w u i t h m o u e t n r , stkh or r s t r e e l k a pocketing r o a f performing the stipulation of the contract. E. W. Hilgard, the State geologist of Mississippi, calls the attention of cotton planters to the necessity of preserving the fertility of the cotton lands, and the danger threatening their pursuit from the illu sory advantages held out to thcm by the manufac turers of cotton seed oil as an inducement for the sale of their capital stock of fertility in the shape of cotton seed. Were this mode of disposing of the cotton seed to become general, and the exportation of the oil cake to be continued as heretofore, the cotton culture must languish, and finally disap pear from the South, as that of hemp and tobacco is gradually retiring from what once were the best lands of Kentucky and Virginia, and as grain cul ture has almost vanished from New England, only much faster. There are reports of great strikes of oil in West Virginia, in the valley of Kanawha. Some wells are said to be yielding fifteen hundred to two thou sand barrels a day. White Oak, Burning Springs, and Standing Stone are the localities most to repute. A railroad' is in course of construction, and the Little Kanawha River is to be made navigable, by locks and dams, to accommodate the increasing business of the region. During the present year, up to the 22d ult., the foreign export of petroleum from the United States exceeded forty-two millions of gallons. Last year, to the same period, it was only 15,503,986 gallons, or a little over one-third of this year's export. A comparison of the September with the October statement of the public debt shows a decrease of twenty-two and a third millions—it now being $2,578,367,000 - 00. The amount of coin in the Treasury is over $86,000,000, or an increase of $10,000,000, while the currency has decreased four teen and a third millic ns.. The following is a statement of the Public Debt of the United States on the Ist of Oct., 1866: Debt bJaring Coin Interest. Fivepercent. Bonds ...... 6108,091,34.00 Six per cent bonds of 1867-68 Six p-r cent. bonds of 1881 283,738,750.00 Six per cent 5-20 Bonds 7! - )8,16 - 2,250.00 Navy Pension Fund Total debt bearing coin 18,323,591.80 $1,310,065,911.81 Debt bearing Currency Interest Six per cont. Bonds 58,922,000.00 Temporary loan Three-year compound interest notes Three-year 7-30 notes 743,996,030.00 Total -- $930,930,190.00 Matured debt not presented for payment 23,302,372.14 Debt bearing No Interest. United States notes 5399,165,292.00 Fractional Currency Gold certificates of de posit 487,252,205.33 Total Debt 52,701,530,709.27 A mount in Treasury Coin Currency 128,213,767.59 Amount of debt, less cash in Treasury $2,573,336,911.68 The foregoing is a correct statement of the Public Debt, as appears from 'the books and Treasurer's returns in the department on the Ist of October, 1866. HuGii M‘Ctu.Lour, Secretary of the Treasury. The light at Sharp's Island, Chesapeake Bay, formerly exhibited from the bluff, has been discon tinued, and a new structure on screw piles has been erected in seven and a half feet of water ; mean tide bearing N.W. one half W. ; distant one-third of a mile from the bed light. The new structure was to be lighted for the first time on the evening of Octo ber 20th, 1866. _ Every railway and express company out of Chi cago agree to transport Western offerings and col lections for the great Paris fair to New York, free of expense. The Commissioner for Missouri says Chicago will be the headquarters for the North west, entering everything there for transportation or shipment. Part of the collections of Illinois were on exhibition at the Chicago fair. It is stated that public interest in that section is much excited on this important subject. We learn from Rhode Island that the Mount Hope coal mines at Portsmouth are employing 100 men, and producing 16,000 tons of coal per year. The main shaft has been sunk 1,265 feet, and another about one-half that distance. A copper mine in the immediate vicinity employs 30 men, and produces 1,200 tons of copper per year. Some of the ore yields 60 per cent of pure copper. The Manufacturers' National and State banks of Provi• deuce have declared 4 per cent. semi-annual divi dends, and the Liberty Bank of that city one of 3f per cent. The Horse Associations of Boston, Hartford, and Providence have decided to combine their efforts, and to hold a union horse fair at the latter city on Monday, October 22, and continuing three days. The proposed second fair at Hartford will consequently be given up. REV. MR. VAN METER.—We are glad to notice that this American clergyman, who has accomplished so much good by the establishment of the Howard Mission in New York, is now in London. We understand that he is interesting influential parties here on behalf of his work —the free education of neglected children (many of them horn in Europe', and their location in suitable homes at the West, in America. A monument, sixty feet high, of Scotch granite, and to cost $25,000, is about to be raised to Colonel Colt, inventor of the "Colt revolver." The Peabody Institute, a splendid marble build ing presented to the city of Baltimore by Mr. George Peabody, is to be dedicated on the 25th inst. The personal property of General Lee has been restored to him.' We regret to record the death of the Hen. Abraham Hanson, Commissioner and Consul-General fur the United States to Liberia, which took place on the 20th July last. Ile had resided at Mouravia for the last four years. The first two as commercial agent, and for the last two as Commercial Agent and Consul-General, represent- ing his own Government with great ability and impar tiality. Ho exerted himself to extend and strengthen friendly relations between Liberia and the United States, and to promote the welfare and happiness of the coloured man, both in Africa and out of it. Senator Patterson and Mrs. Patterson, son-in law and daughter of the President, were to leave on Sa turday, Oct. 26, for their home in Tennessee, there to re main for two or three weeks. A telegram from New Orleans states that 11PIver, the Knight of Arabia, now in the military prison in that city, has made a confession, implicating prominent per sons in tho South. Charles P. Kimball has been appointed Surveyor of Customs for the Districts of Portland and Falmouth, Maine. The President, Oct.:, made the following ap pointments :—Francis A. Hall, Register of Land Office at Monroe, Louisiana ; James F. M'Guire, Receiver of Public Moneys &c., at Monroe, Louisiana ; Samuel T. Williams, of Maryland, -United States Consul at llamburgb. The numerous anxious friends of the Marquis de Montholon, whose son was supposed to have been captured and executed by the Liberals in Mexico, will be gratified to learn that letters received from the young man on October 5 giNe evidence of his entire safety. NAVAL. Rear-Admiral Dahlgren has been ordered to take passage from New York on the Ist of De cember, to command the South Pacific squadron. We have reason to believe that 11.R.R. the Prince of Wales will commence his journey to St. Peters burg on Monday, the sth of November, en route to be present at the marriage of his sister -in-law, the Princess Dagmar to the Czarewitch. Edmund Kirke and Julia Ward Howe are to be editors of the new magazine about to be published in New York. Mr. Edwin- Bates, Attorney-General under Mr. Lincoln's administration, is rapidly declining in health, and it is feared he cannot long survive. THE UNITED STATES TREASURY.—The IVew York Times editorially says :—" Secretary 111‘Culloch has just given to the public another most encouraging exhibit of the national indebtedness. They show a net liquida tion of $22,346,226 during the month of September; of $96,951,425 since June Ist, 1866 ; and of $184,916,334 since August Ist, 1865, when the debt was largest. The net indebtedness of the country, August Ist, 1865, was $2,757,253,276 ; October Ist, 1863, it was $2,753,336,942 ; net liquidation in fourteen months, $183,916,334. Thus it appears that the debt has been cancelled at the monthly rate of over $13,000,000 since August 1, 1865. It is quite confidently anticipated that this rate of liquidation can be easily maintained until the public burdens shall have been reduced to moderate proportions, and until the legal pri vileges of premature redemption of the interest bearing bonds and notes shall have been exhausted. Through the summer and early autumn of the current year, the progress of liquidation has been very rapid, having averaged over twenty-four millions a month." We read in t th i e s Newmn morning, l i - n or g k , World of the 6th :—" The officia l statement of the public debt on the Ist of October, which we print shows that its amount on that day, less cash in the Trea sury, was $2,573,336,941. Going back two months, and comparing this with the corresponding statement made on the Ist August, we find there has been a reduction of $59,762,335, or about $60,000,000 in sixty-one days. At this surprising rate the whole debt would he extinguished in loss than seven years. It is obvious that the rate of reduction will be rapidly accelerated as the debt approaches extinction, inasmuch as large sums now annually paid to keep down the interest will then go towards the ligttida of the principal." COST O r A CRIMINAL—In iNfassachusei,ts it cost some $lOO to support a person in gaol. The productive period of life is usually reckoned as 55 years—from 15 to 70. It would cost the community at this rate $22,000 to support a person in gaol during the productive period of life. Nor is this all. For, if the same person is transferred from the dangerous to the productive class, and earns an average of $l2 per week, bis earnings for the same period will be $34,320. This makes a difference, in the produc tive period of a single person, of $56,320. The loss does not stop even here. For, while parents are in gaol, their children are either vagrants or paupers—learning to become criminals at a present cost to the public. To repress crime wo must begin at the beginning, and use every effort to save the children. Let every city look well to this duty. It will pay, from whatever point of view we look at it. The financial gain in saving the children of the street is great, but the moral and spiritual gain is greater still.— Watchman and Reflector. STATE OF TRADE. MANCHESTER, Oct. 26.—A telegram from New York received in Liverpool this morning reporting " a killing frost" has not had much effect here, nor apparently at Liverpool, though early accounts of the cotton market indicate a heavy speculative movement. In shipping yarns our market has been rather better to-day, and some little business has been done at a slight advance on what could have been obtained at the depressed state of prices yesterday. We have certainly less depression at the close than we have had for some days past. The market for home-trade yarns has been very quiet for all numbers. In these the firm feeling at Liver pool does not seem to have Catl33l more business, though it may have been a check to the downward tendency of prices to some extent. Iu cloth the mar ket was quiet from Tuesday, and the subdued tone of the cotton-market yesterday further depressed prices. To-day, unler the intiaence of a better feel ing at Liverpool, we have had a little more disposition to do business. There has been a fair inquiry for India shirtings, and some offers have been made, but at rates too low to lead to business. Manufac turers fail to get up their prices to the rates of yarn —say, to within 6d. per piece. The short-time move ment is progressing among manufacturers, so as to promise a large decrease in production. Spinners are following the same course. In the district of Lees and Mossley alone it is expected a million spindles will be on short time next week. Messrs. J. Fender and Co.'s monthly circular of yesterday from India and China, via Marseilles, says : " Our last circular was dated the 9th inst., when this market was generally pretty firm, but not active, nor at all in correspondence with the movement in Liverpool. Throughout the whole fortnight since we may say that business has been on the most limited scale, and this state of things continues, with somewhat lower prices, and these, of necessity, to a large extent nominal." The same circular quotes China shirtings in very light demand— standard makes quoted, 39in, 71b, 11s 9d to 12s ; 811 b, 14s 3d to 14s 9d ; T-cloths in rather- better demand, but chiefly for nearer markets at is 5d to 'is Sid per lb; medium Mexicans, is 7d, and best makes is 9d. India shirtings, 39in, 511 b, 8s 9d to Os 3d ; 61b, 10.3 to lOs 3d ; 71b, lls 3d to 12s ; wide shirtings, is 8d to is 9d per lb. T-cloths, 29in, 41b, 5s 9d to 6s lid; 32in, 51b, 7s 3d to 7s 9d; 61b, 8s 3d to 9s ; 71b, lOs to 10s 6d. Long-cloths, Is Sid to is Gd per lb. Grey Madapollams, 32in, 31b, 5s lid to 5s 3d ; 50in, 511 b, Os to Os 3d. Green-end mulls, sales at Gs 6d to Gs 4id. Yarns rose about Id. per lb. between the 9th and 16th inst., but the advance not being generally fol- [owed by buyers, was soon lost. At present there is eonsiderable depression, and short-time working having been resorted to by a few large spinners is on the increase. Smo'iins in a Railway C Arriage. Yesterday Mr. Lewis Lovinsky, 1, Portland-cottages, Forest-hill, who described himself as a colour and bronze merchant, appeared before Mr. Elliott at the Lambeth police court to answer a summons charging him with assaulting Mr. Thomas Adams, of Grove-villas, Forest-hill, and 5, Duke-street, Adelphi, merchant, in a railway carriage. A cross summons had also been taken out by Mr. Lovinsky against Mr. Adams for an alleged offence on him by that gentleman. Mr. Lewis, jun., of Ely-place, attended on behalf of the defendant, and during the hearing of the case the court was much crowded by the friends of both parties. The investigation occupied the magistrate for nearly an hour, and the evidence was taken at great length, but the brief facts were these. On the morning of the 12th inst., the defendant and several of his friends travelled by a third class train from Forest-hill to London-bridge, and imme diately after entering the carriage commenced smoking. Mr. John Baddely, an elderly gentleman, and solicitor, com plained of the excess of smoking, when the defendant, Mr. Lovinsky, said be had the privilege of the directors of the company (the Loudon, Brighton, and South Coast R tilway) in his pocket, and that nothing but an order from the chair man should prevent his doing so. Mr. Baddeley replied that his only privilege was his assumption, for that smoking was contrary to the rules and regulations of the lino, but the defendant and his friends still coatinuid to smoke. At this point Mr. Adams, who was also a pasanger in the same compartment, interfered, and sail it was a great shanie that the stroking should be continu Jd to the an noyance of the gentleman woo had just complained, when Mr. Loviusky exclaimed,. " oa, does it annoy you too ?" 11r. Adams replied " Yes, and there is none bat a - foreigner would attempt to do it." Mr. Lovinsky re torted by saying that a foreigner was quite as good as a " Seotchnen." Mr Adams said he should have him put out of the carriage at Now-cross. The defendant asked him if he could turn him out, and getting up and leaning quite close to him, said it would take half-a-dozen like him to do so. At this time his hands and face were quite close to his person, so close that Mr. Adams was obliged to put his hands to his chest to push him away, and instantly , defendant let fly, hit com plainant a desperate blow on the nose, which knocked the skin off, and g tve Mr. Adams a black eye. Mr. Adams threw off his hat, and had partly got his coat off to fight it out in the carriage, bat the parties present prevented any more blows. Mr. Adams expressed his determination to give Mr. Lovinsky into custody at London-bridge station. On the train reachingthere, and before it had quite stopped, the defendant jumped out and ran away, and on the com plainant's attempting to follow him the friends of the de fendant prevented his doing so for some time. His cries of stop him—stop that man," caused one of the railway servants to follow him from one railway station to the other, where ho stopped, and he brought him back to the station master. The parties want from there to the police station, but there the inspector on duty refused to take the charge, and getting the names and addresses of each left them to adopt what course they thought proper. On the case for the complainant closing, Mr. Lewis addressed the magistrate, and said that the whole affair was very much to be regretted ; admitted that his client had, under strong provocation, and having himself been assaulted first, struck the complainant; and suggested whether it would not be much better for the parties to settle the matter without calling on his worship for his judgment. Mr. Elliott, how ever, directed the case to go on, and the parties changed places. Mr. Lovinsky, when sworn, said Mr. Adams had given him a violent blow with his clenched fist before he struck him. He also said that his object in getting out so quickly at the London-bridge station was to procure the assistance of a metropolitan policeman to give Mr. Adams into custody for the assault, but hearing the cry of "stop thief," he was glad to hide himself so that he might not be seen. In reply to the questions of his solicitor, he said that his reason for saying that he had the privilege of the directors for smoking arose from the fact of the chairman of the Brighton company having stated in his speech at a recent meeting, that the second and third class carriage passengers were privileged to smoke, and that he (the wit ness) had road the speech. He (Mr. Lovinsky) further said that himself and his friends travelled by the third class carriages on purpose that they might smoke. Mr. Elliott here remarked that he could not see why the passengers in a second or third class carriage wore to be annoyed by smokers any more than the first, and called Mr. Carpenter, a respectable officer of the company, who said that, by the rules of the company, no such privileges were allowed to the second or third class carriages any more than the first. Four or five witnesses were called on the part of the com plainant in the second case, and all except one swore that Mr. Adams gave Mr. Lovinsky a violent blow on the chest before the latter retorted, by a violent blow on the eye and nose. Mr. Elliott said that in all cases in railway car riages he held that they should be subjected to a search ing investigation, with the view of ascertaining the real offenders, and therefore it was that he felt it necessary to go into the present investigation at great length. He much regretted to see on the part of the apparently respectable witnesses called on behalf of the last complainant a dis position to exaggerate that which really took place, and magnify a mere push into a violent blow on the chest with the clenched fist, and a cry of " Stop him" into one of " Stop thief." In fact, it was not at all difficult to say on which side the truth lay, and that the conduct of Mr. Lovinsky was highly improper in committing so violent an assault, and for which assault he must pay a penalty of £5, or be imprisoned for a month. The penalty was at once paid. • The Pall Mall Gazette remarks :—" According to the New York Times, a paper called the Sunbeam has just been started by the convicts iu the State prison at Trenton, New Jersey. In the absence of communication with the outer world, we presume the convicts fill their paper en tirely with original articles and poems. POO3 the estab lishment of a paper by convicts in America prove that the intellectual condition of the people generally is superior to the English, or that more clever people get into prison on the other side of the Atlantic than in this country ? [ADvEltzisExExT.l—Holloway's Ointment and Pills. — Dangerous Chest Complaints.—The enumeration of these diseases is scarcely necessary, as unfortunately most Eng lishmen know them to their cost. Whooping cough, troop, common colds, influenza, bronchitis, asthma, pleurisy, in flammation of the lungs. and even consumption in its earliest stages, are best treated by rubbing Holloway's ointment upon the chest and upon the back between the shoulders. It penetrates internally, checks the cold shiver ings, relieves the over-gorged lungs, gradually removes the oppression from the chest, and restores the obstructed res piration hitherto so depressingly disagreeable and highly dangerous. In treating this class of diseases, Holloway's pills should always be taken while- using his ointment ; they purify the blood, promote perspiration, and allay dan gerous irritations. . THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 27, 1866. SPIRIT OF THE PDBLIO JOURNALS. TIMES.-Mr. Snider will trouble the War-office no more. The poor man is dead. At the moment when the arsenals of the kingdom are ringing with the labours concentrated upon his invention the in ventor has expired in penury and affliction, without ever having touched a single sixpence of remunera tion or profit. As he lay dying a lump sum of £l,OOO was thrown to his creditors, and the debts which he had contracted in the pursuit of his secret are lessened to that amount, but there, as far as he himself was concerned, ends all that was done by a grateful country. His solicitor now writes to apprise us that the Department was really preparing to do something at the very minute that it became too late, and that if 11r. Snider could but have lived till this morning he might have heard of what was coming to him. Unfortunately, he died on Thurs day. The feeling created by this melancholy story is very strong, and it will not be much allayed by the defence anal explanation offered on behalf of the Government. It is, indeed, not the least impressive feature of the tale that, whereas a great public bene factor has died in helplessness and misery without having received any recompense for his service, the authorities who thus dealt with him should be able to represent their dealings as not only just and re gular, but even most liberal and generous. In reality, we do not doubt that the War-office has for the last few weeks been taking up the case with unwonted will, and General Peel's promise to bring it to an end before the close of the month represents, we can well believe, an amount of consideration and de- spatch not customary with the Department. But this, we repeat, does but make the case the harder, • or if such has been the fate of Mr. Snider when the officials were dding what they regard as their very best for him, what under ordinary c on diti ons mus t be the lot of starring though successful inventors? The public went straight, as it always does, to the broad facts of the case. Mr. Snider's invention had been recognised as so valuable and precious that it was engaging the whole strength of our Government establishments without stint or re- spite. Mr. Snider himself at that very time lay upon a bed of sickness, paralysed and prostrate, harassed by creditors, and pining in poverty and want. Could such a contrast between merit and reward be justifiable in a country like this? The question to which the Press gave utterance was first answered in true professional style by the Solicitor to the War-office, who almost proved that Mr. Snider was in debt to the nation instead of the na- tion being in debt to him. Yet, as that notable letter probably contained the true law as well as the hard facts of the case, it is worth while to look again at its purport. When Mr. Snider asked the Government to give him some remuneration for an intention which the Government was actually turn ing to such good advantage,. he was told to separate his claim on account of the patent from his claim on account of personal services and expenditure. He lid so, and, havinc , estimated the latter demand at £2,700, he was told that he had asked three times as much as he ought to ask, and that £l,OOO was a handsome payment. On that proceeding we offered some remarks a few days ago, and so we say no more at present • but the story of the patent is, if possible, more striking still. It was, in fact, at this point that Mr. Clode might have found his loop hole for escape. It really was competent to him to argue that the actual or substantial value of Mr. Snider's invention must be represented in the esti mate put upon the patent. A patent, as our readers are aware, has no legal force against the Govern ment, and the question of compensation, therefore, is entertained not in the shape of contract, but by way of " bounty," just as in old days - certain classes who could not be taxed were expected to enrich the Exchequer by free gifts of money. Nor did the War-office repudiate this obliga tion. It estimated very closely indeed the claims of the patentees in this case, and arrived in August last at the conclusions following :—As soon as a good title to the patents could be shown to the satisfaction of the law officers of the Crown, the Department was to pay down to the possessors the sum of £5,000. After this they were to receive one shilling per rifle for all the rifles converted under their system above £lOO,OOO, until a second sum of £5,000 had been reached ; and then, for every rifle converted over 200 , 000 , a sum of 6d. per rifle, until a third sum of £5,000 had been reached, with which payment all remuneration for the patent was to cease and determine. Mr. Clode, the War - office Solicitor, was at the pains of explaining as well as justifying this calculation in the letter which he addressed to us. The patents covering the in vention were two in number, and, as is only too usual in such cases, had been more than once sold and resold before the Department came into the field on behalf of the State. Mr. Clode, therefore, was enabled to approximate to the commercial value of the articles by observing that the best of the pa tents had been three times in the market, and that a moiety of it had been parted with first for a nominal consideration, then for £3OO, and then for £2,000. The last bargain was made in February, 1865, bu it did not escape Mr. Clode's acknowledgment tha the marketable value of the property had heel] greatly enhanced by the adoption of the invention for the public service. We cannot consider, then, that a prospective payment of £15,000 by three in stalments, at uncertain and perhaps remote periods, was any very handsome price for a property which had been worth £4,000 as a mere speculation some time before. Mr. Clode observed that if the new arm, when tried in actual campaigning, should prove a failure, the Government would be a loser of the first instalment of £5,000. No doubt ; but Go vernment had taken time enough already in all conscience for testing the invention, and, if it felt sufficient confidence in its conclusions to set all Woolwich and Enfield at work upon the article, it might have carried this assurance into the question of compensation also. But the moral which we de sire especially to point in all this concerns the.treat ment of the actual inventor himself. Poor Mr. Snider only appeared at first as half-proprietor in the patent, and it was this, his half-share, which was disposed of for " a nominal consideration." However, he and another person together did contrive after wards to purchase the other half-share, which had come into the market, and so one fourth part of the property still vested in the person who had originally created it. Consequently, at some distant and not discernible date after the value of the inven tion had been tested and established by successful war and national triumphs, the inventor might re ceive the sum of £3,750. Now, would that have been a just or worthy recompense for his services? We are sure that nobody would say so, and the in sufficiency, therefore, of the former payment to Mr. Snider becomes all the more conspicuous. It was precisely because Mr. Snider could not be remu nerated by the. patent that he should have been remunerated at a point where there was more scope for generosity. It does not seem to have occurred to the Department that even the aggregate sum of £16,000—£15,000 for the invention, £lOOO for the outlay, toil, and personal service of the inventor — was no great amount for the-discovery on which the relative position of the British army depended for a time. Still less was it remembered that beyond all question Mr. Snider deserved to be recompensed, and speedily,• and that if he was not likely to get much from the patent there was a good opportunity of remunerating him on the score of personal exer tions. Instead of embracing this opportunity, the Department cut down by two-thirds even the poor man's modest charge of £2,700 ; and the entl is that, by a series of transactions which are presented to us as models of liberality and consideration, the author of this invention gets £l,OOO himself, and leaves a dim prospect of some £3,000 more to his heirs. We are not so well satisfied as the War Office with the character of the proceeding, the less so as it now appears, in spite of Mr. Clode's denial, that Mr. Snider was sued by the War Department for the paltry sum of one pound one shilling and twopence. POST. —The final liberation of Venice is one of those events in contemporary history which cast a poetic halo around the dull occurrences of ordinary poli tical existence, which strengthen our faith in a higher and purer ideal of statesmanship, which com pensate for many past disappointments, and nerve the intellect and heart to further and fresher and more untiring struggles and sacrifices in the cause of progress and civilization. The plebiscite by which the sons of the oldest Republic in Europe—many of them born before that Republic had been ov'erthrown —have proclaimed their desire to be united to the monarchical government of King Victor Emmanuel has a value infinitely greater than the mere legality with which it invests the last addition to the Italian State, and the numerical adherence which it fur nishes of the Venetian population to the cause of constitutional rule. It serves at once to cancel the errors of Palermo. In that magnificent passage of the history of the Middle Ages in which Hallam has dwelt on the germs of desolation in the Italian Re publics, he has told us how the serpents of discord were ever hissing behind the shrine in the temple then erected to civil liberty. If there be one circum stance more encouraging and cheering than another in the present spectacle of Venetian liberation, it is the civil prudence which, during so many years, the Venetian people have displayed, the patience and fortitude with which they have been content to abide their time, the self-respect which they have preserved in their unanimous social protest against the presence of their foreign masters, and the deaf ear which they have turned to the Mazzinian charmers, who were constantlyurging them to the commission of revolu tionary excesses, worse than useless to themselves, and likely to have damaged the common Italian cause. When Manin was finally, after the long and heroic, but fruitless, defence of his native city, com- pelled to leave Venice in 1849, it almost seemed as if he had left behind him his grand civil wisdom as 3 joint possession to all his fellow-citizens, and that, armed with this talisman, they were enabled to tread safely their dark, and doubtful, and most dangerous path. They resisted all personal fascinations, they repelled the warm, sincere, well-meant political ad vances of the Archduke Maximilian ; they would make no peace, not even a truce, with the Austrian. The baleful astral influences which presided over the birth of the most accomplished and intelli gent member of the House of Hapsburg had , it would appear, foredoomed him to the hop it task of still attempting to reconcile irreeo n " cilable elements, and made him as unsuccessful 3 dozen years ago in the Lombardo-Venetian king dom as he now is in the ancient empire of Monte zuma. The national, instinct which made Ven ice repel the advances of the liberal Austrian Archduke was not more remarkable than the political sagacity which made her contemn the temptations a the Republican conspirators. The national interests which she refused to surrender to Austrian blandish ments she just as emphatically and unmistakab l y refused to divide and weaken at the bidding of 3 mere factious animosity. When, therefore, King Victor Emmanuel, in his telegram to General Revel, after expressing his satisfaction at the completion of the Venetian destinies, adds that it must now be the care of the Italian people themselves to mainta in the unity which they have achieved, the exhortation is clearly directed not to the north-east but to the south-west of the Peninsula. It is a warning not e addressed to the inhabitants of Palermo. It is 8 2 implied censure on the Sicilian constituencies which persist in re-electing Mazzini as a deputy to tial Italian. Parliament, after Mazzini has proclaimed anew his hostility to constitutional governmen t :. and announced that he will neither take the ()au of allegiance to the King nor sit in the Italian Legislature. Italy is now, the King says, exclu sively dependent on the exercise of Italian courage._ and discretion. When, within a few weeks, the ia ? French soldier shall have quitted the Roman terri tory, the sixth great European Power will be " once left to its own resources. The era of foreign sympathies and sympathisers—English or French , Russian or Prussian—will have closed with the era of foreign occupations. To every Italian possessing the most common feelings of self-respect, such sYlv' pathies and sympathisers must henceforth apPea i r utterly uncalled for, if not supremely impertin ent ' Militarily, Italy, with the transfer of Venice, has be come a commanding Power. It would be altogethe r understating her gain to say that she has only 01 :; tallied all that Austria has lost. She has got that, and a hundred times more. The fortresses of the Quadrilateral in Italian hands, plus the patrio tism and loyalty of the entire Lombardo-Venet ian kingdom, form a vastly different element of strength compared with the same Quadrilateral in Austria hands, minor those national forces. Freed from the oppressive presence of any foreign dictator, Italy' if she rightly understands her real interests, lose no time in availing herself of her free and nc. e. i pendent position to develope her internal resource s ' reform her administrative abuses, instruct her igno rant poor, educate her half-educated middle classeo7 and enter on that race of pacific commercial Orl y petition with the other nations of the world to whi ni e l i in truth, during the middle ages, she already 0 % 0 her chief power and glory. Her sons possess mor e now than they could boast of even then, for to tP ii independence of the Republic they now unite a cil o freedom never enjoyed under, or tolerated by old Venetian oligarchy; and it will 'be their of; faults if all these increasedbenefits and opportunitl' be not turned sucessfully to account. COUNTRY. MARKETS. WAKEFIELD.—FRIDAY. Wheat, with a fair consumptive demand, was 2s dear er ' Fine barley is dearer. Other articles unaltered. LINCOLN.—FRIDAY. Our market to-day was fairly supplied with wheat, w -1 d changed hands at 2s per qr. advance. With a firm demo° t for barley, of which the supply was fair, prices for be B d sorts were fully as high as those of last week. Oats found buyers steadily at still better rates. Beans limited, $ll dear. New white wheat, 53s to 60s ; new red, 50s to 55s pe :n r stone. Barley for malting, 42s to 49s per qr ; 'i" rci 34s to 38s per 30 stone. Oats, 22s to 325. Beans , 50s per 38 stone. LIVERPOOL.—FRIDAY. We had the usual attendance at our market to-clls and wheat was not in active demand, at id to '2d ° El lo t and 24 to 3d per cental on white. Flour steady, at or n Tuesday's rates. Oats id per bushel dearer. ludian coo in good request, and has advanced fully 2s per q r. over late quotations. Oatmeal in fair request. DERBY—FRIDAY. fiva The supply of wheat on offer to-day was tolerable , . t the trade healthy, business being done in fine samples e n d to 3s per qr. more money. A steady inquiry for Wien ' 0 - choice lots realised a trifling advance. Oats in stead,' quest at late terms. v er 56 New white wheat, 62s to 66s ; old red, 56s to 61 , s stone. Barley for malting, 44s to 48s per qr. ; gr' ll o 9 s to 37s to 38s per 30 stone. Oats, llew, 27s to 295; old, 503 348 per 24 stone. Beans, old, 50s to 525; new, 46s to per 38 stone. S T AMF ORD—FRIDAY. Wheat was a tolerable show to-day, and sales WI, effected at 28 to 3s per qr. advance. Barley a fair suilhia and prices were rather in sellers' favour. For bea° s demand was firm. , r ,8 6 New white wheat, 56s to 60s ; red do., 52s to 568 P" 560 stone. Barley, malting, 42s to 48s; grinding, 34s per qr. O a t s , new , 24 s t o 28 s; o ld, 28 s t o 32s per 2-1 St em. Beaus, 52s to 54s per 38 stone. Peas as of late. RIPON—FRIDAY.- t 7.4 White wheat, 8s 041 to 8s 3d per bushel ; red, Gs 3" 9d ; beans, 6s 9d to is 3d ; oa t s , 27s to 32s per qr I* o 35s to 41s Od. COAL MARKET. Price per ton at the close of the market. J. s. d. Walls End Hetton ... 22 0 West Hartley ......... 111 97 Iletton Lyons 19 0 Davison's W. Hartle' 1 7 Bradyell's jletton .... 20 9 Holywell Main ......... Ships at market, 18—sold, 18. Captain Semmes, of Alabama notorietY+l°.. editing a paper in Mobile, from which we extract 5 graph :—" We have been beaten in all our contests "so the Northern people by want of energy. While 100 day-dreaming or sleeping they are at work; at sv°"" tail' so many beavers or bees in a hive. If they bays a u nt; road to build they set Energy at work, and it 15 e witness the great Pacific railroad, now stretching:,,-,° like an immense serpent across the Rocky Mountsl%tio work scarcely retarded by the war. They are as ()Orgill° in politics as in political economy. Wo picked 11 , ba t Detroit Post the other day, and among other things energetic worker in the great beehive of gi cb , L iz ?e ' s politics informed us that it was putting out a es° 3l ' .l lo paper,' and that it had received 1,100 subscribers to it a 0 one day. At the last census (1860) Detroit coutnioe, r population of 45,000, and was therefore a little 13vr'eeo than Mobile. The Post is a Republican of the bi3c;cf stripe. This is the way in which the Republican 11123-ib• ties are maintained, and oven increased in the r' ° , l ' $ s Every man subscribes to a newspaper and reads; 9 , 11 : of the newspapers are Republican machines—nine-tent";oo them—run by the giant Energy, do we wonder that el'. o t people are Republicans ? What a pity it is tha t this grb,,t does not live among us." There is no dou bt of it ' t its newspapers are generally Republican machine s, but rio,ioeo the narrow, partisan sense in which the ex-sea-rover it.—Frank Leslie's Illustrated Paper. President Johnson has presented a silver Ine dati a certificate of merit, and one hundred silver dollsrsiu 1100-ko-Op, an Indian chieftain of the Blackfoot trib bi te recognition of that savage's gallantry in rescuing 5 w woman from capitivity amongst the Sioux. • Births. Voo°ll' G IBS ON—On the 26th inst., at 6, Milnor - stre et, Is Mrs. F. R. Gibson, .of a daughter. yarY, th HUNTER—On the 25th inst., at 8, Westbourne-r -wife of R. H. Hunter, Esq., of a son. ro d, ICITCHINGOn the 21st inst., at 156, St. reason 016 Canonbury, Mrs. Win. Bitching, of twins, a „ daughter. AO, LECKIE—On the 24th inst., at Palace-road, Streatlol the wife of P. C. Leckie, Esq., of a daughter. Marriages. 1 011 BOBBER— FRESIIFIELD —On the 25th inst., at ill,,r0601„; church, Brighton, Clifford Borrer, E q , late of t'4011" Rifles, to Christina Sophia, daughter of C. Fr Esq., M.P. ra lr DOWSON —RICH - On the 26th inst at Littlehato-cil cull mouth, Thomas E. H. Dowson, Esq., of GreY 6t6l' a e itte f ° herland, to Sophia Louisa Jacintha, oulY < l3 ' l ' Rear-Admiral Edwin L. Rich, Exmouth. Deaths. 0001 BURNETT—On the 25th inst., at W tb ko iletise' es rco r' Hants, C. M. Burnett, M.D., aged 60. BELL—On the 25th inst., J. T. Bell, Es of 2 9 , 61/°i#6te i •cl.: place, Hyde-park-gardens, aged 82. , 6 tet CONQUEST— On the 24th inst., at The Oaks' ,11: - $., sel common, Kent, J. P. Conquest, Esq , M.D. ' • late of Finsbury-square, aged 77. . EA'' EYKYN —On the 26th inst., Maria, wife of It• Y irjlj' 0 LA 3I M.P., of The Willows, Windsor. GRAHAM—On the 24th inst., at Stonehouse, ntra tab eill' Fortescue Graham, wife of Lieut. - Ge n. 511 '. •or K.C.B. 11 114 JENXINS—On the 28th inst., at Gowhatt, in As sa ,,. /I? e ' d 74 ',fr Gen. Jenkins, late Commissioner of Assam , L l , l, -op ~'" .• NEWBOLD On the 23d inst., at The Hardwick, me Thomas Newbold, aged 49. _.--- - " "'--4 , -- - , / v, i p. London: Printed tad Published by WILLIA°,', , ;S O ', of of No. 112, Strand, Painter . at Trio SIIN o,l'''''' 00' + he CO 4 Strand - , in the Precinct of the Savv , in th e Saturday, October 27,180. I