The Sun. — London, England, 1865-11-29 00:00:00

The Insurrection in Jamaica. SOUTHAMPTON, Tuesday Night. The Royal Mail Company's steamship Shannon, Capt. F. Woolley, has arrived with the West India, Pacific, and Mexican mails. She bring advices from Jamaica to the 9th inst. The Jamaica Guar dian of the Bth publishes the following speech from Governor Eyre to the Legislature of Jamaica :- 4 , Mr. President and Honourable Gentlemen of the Legislative Council, 4‘ Mr. Speaker and Gentlemen of the House of Assembly,— o I n appearing before you to-day to open our Legislative Session, I cannot but feel that the sad and solemn events of the last few weeks impart to our meeting a deeper interest than ordinary, and they certainly make me more than usually anxious to seek your advice and co-operation. The present is indeed a most critical period in the history of Ja maica, and the session now being inaugurated will, in all probability, be one of the most important and momentous ever held in- this colony. The occurrence of a most wicked and unprovoked rebellion in the eastern division of the island has brought sorrow and suffering upon the whole community. The valuable lives of many noble and gallant men, who were ornaments to the land, have been sacrificed (while peaceably meeting in the discharge of their duties to the State) by a most savage and cruel butchery, only to be paralleled by the atrocities of the Indian Mutiny. A large amount of property has been destroyed, an immense expense has been entailed upon tfie country, and one of the richest and most productive districts of the colony has been left without resident proprietor or manager to reap the abundant crops now ready for the harvest. Through the hearty co-operation of the civil, mili tary, and naval authorities, and through the prompt ness and untiring zeal and energy of all, but, above all, through God's blessing upon the means used, this most diabolical conspiracy to murder the white and coloured inhabitants of this colony has been effectually subdued, the principal actors in, and chief instigators of it, havebeen brought under the punish ment of death, so justly due to their most heinous offences. To his Excellency Gen. O'Connor I am deeply indebted for the readiness and promptitude with which, on the occurrence of the outbreak, he met all my demands for troops, and co-operated with me in the various arrangements I proposed, as well as for the active, zealous, and able manner in which, in conjunction with the Executive Committee and with the civil authorities of Kingston, he car ried into effect many important and necessary ar rangements for the 'protection of Kingston, or to afford assistance to other localities where apprehen sions were entertained, while I was myself absent at the seat of the disturbances. To the senior naval officer, Capt. De Horsey, of her Majesty's ship Wol verine, we owe it that we are enabled to carry out with promptitude and efficiency the arrangements necessary to control and suppress the rebellion. The Wolverine and her gallant captain were kept almost unceasingly at work day and night, in all weather, and off a lee coast, but all was done with hearty good will, zeal, and cheerfulness. To Brigadier- General Nelson is due the greatest credit for the rapid and skilful manner in which he carried out the various movements of the troops which I wished to be made while personally superintending the opera tions in the disturbed districts. The admirable manner in which the Brigadier-General made all his arrangements, and his untiring zeal and energy, contributed largely to the successful results achieved, while the ability and tact with which he ordered the internal organisation of the places occupied gave confidence to, and commanded the respect of, the inhabitants. To Col. Hobbs the colony is indebted for the prevention of the spread of the rebellion along the line of the Blue Mountain Valley, and for the interception and punishment of many rebels who were driven westward by the operations under Bri gadier-General Nelson. Lieut. Brand, of the Onyx, is entitled to the highest praise for the unceasing and valuable services rendered by the little gunboat under his command. To the fidelity and loyalty of the Maroons it is due that the negroes did not commit greater devastations, and that the rebel lion has not been a more protracted one. It is owing to them also, under the able leadership of their indefatigable former Captain, now Colonel Fyfe, that the chief rebel leader, Paul Bogle, was captured, and the recesses of the mountain fastnesses were searched and the insurgents captured, de stroyed, or driven from them. To the members of the Legislature who accompanied me, and who upon my leaving still remained in the field, at great per sonal inconvenience and sacrifices, away from their homes and ordinary avocations, to carry on their arduous duties, the colony is deeply indebted. The Executive Committee and their indefatigable secre tary, Mr. Myers, laboured unceasingly and most anxiously to provide for the public safety. My Aide de-Camp, Colonel Hunt, rendered zealous and able service both to myself and to Brigadier-General Nelson. But to each and all of the officers and men of the civil, military, and naval services, as well as of the volunteers (who have done their duty nobly), the colony owes a deep and lasting debt of gratitude and thanks ; all vied with each other in zealously doing their duty, and that they did it well is evidenced by the successful results attained. Within three days from the first intelligence of the rebellion reaching Kingston, it was headed, checked, and hemmed in ; within a week it was fairly crushed, and arrangements made for scouring the entire dis trict, to capture and punish the guilty, who had not yet met their just doom. So wide-spread a rebel lion, so rapidly and so effectually put down, is not, I believe, to be met with in history, and speaks volumes for the zeal, courage, and energy of those engaged in suppressing it. To this prompt and de cise action I firmly believe we owe it, under God's Providence, that we are able to meet here this day. One moment's hesitation, one single reverse might have lit the torch which would have blazed in rebel lion from one end of the island to the other, and who can say how many of us would have lived to see it extinguished ! It is my duty to point out to You that, satisfactory as it is to know that the re bellion in the eastern district has been crushed out, the entire colony has long been, still is, on the brink of a volcano which may at any moment burst into fury. There is scarcely a district or a parish in the island where disloyalty, sedition, and murderous intentions are not widely disseminated, andin many instances op en l y expressed. The mis apprehensions and misrepresentations of pseudo philanthropists in England and in this country, the inflammatory harangues or seditious writings of political demagogues, of evil-minded men of higher position and of better education; and of worthless persons without either character or property toloae ; the personal, scurrilous, vindictive, and disloyal writings of a licentious and unscrupulous press, and the misdirected efforts and misguided counsel of certain ministers of religion—sadly so miscalled, if the Saviour's example and teaching is to be the standard—have led to their natural, their necessary, their inevitable result among an ignorant, excitable and uncivilised population—rebellion, arson, murder. These are hard and harsh words, gentlemen, but they are true ; and this is no time to indulge in selected sentences or polished phraseology. A mighty danger threatens the land, and in order to concert measures to avert it, and prevent so far as human wisdom can any future recurrence of a simi lar state of things, we must examine boldly, deeply, and unflinchingly into the causes which have led to this danger. I know no general grievance or wrong under which the negroes of this'colony labour. In dividual cases of hardship or injustice must arise in every community, but, as a whole, the peasantry of J ama ica have nothing to complain cf. They are less taxed, can live more easily and cheaply, and are less under an obligation to work for subsister.ce than any peasantry in the world. The same laws as to the imposition of taxes, theadministration of justice, and the enjoyment of p olitical rights, apply t o t h em and to the white and coloured inhabitants alike. They ought to be better off, more comfortable, and more independent than the labourers of any other country. If it is not so it is due to their own in dolence, improvidence, and vice, acted upon by the absence of good exmple and of civilising influences in many districts, and by the evil teaching and evil a gencies to which I have already referred in all. It is a remarkable fact, too, that many of the prin cipal rebels in the late outbreak have been persons well off and well to do in the world—possessing lands, cottages, furniture, horses or mules, or other property, and with an education above the average of the peasantry. It is necessary to bring these facts before you in order to convince you how widely spread and how deeply rooted the spirit of disaffec tion „is ; how daring and determined the intention has been and still is to make Jamaica a second Hayti, and how imperative it is upon you, gentle men, to take such measures as, under God's blessing, may avert such a calamity. These measures may be summed up in a few words—create a strong Government, and then, under a firm hand to guide and direct, much may be accomplished. In order to obtain a strong Government there is but one course open to you—that of abolishing the existing form of Constitution (compensating the officers whose offices are abolished), and establishing one better adapted to the present state and requirements of the colony—one in which union, co-operation, consistency, and promptness of action may, as far as practicable, be secured. I invite you, then, gen tlemen, to make a great and generous sacrifice for the sake of your country, and in immolating on the altar of patriotism the two branches of the Legisla ture, of which you yourselves are the constituent parts, to hand down to posterity a noble example of self-denial and heroism." " Mr. Speaker and Gentlemen of the House of Assembly,— " It is impossible under existing circumstances to form any reliable estimate of either revenue or ex penditure. The returns and estimates which are being prepared, and would have been laid before you under ordinary circumstances, are now useless. I can only, therefore, invite you to place a generous confidence in the Executive by making a general provision for the ordinary and extraordinary expen diture, and leaving it to the Governor and Executive Committee to make the best and most prudent arrangements which circumstances admit of. We have already been under the necessity of assuming a large pecuniary responsibility in the steps taken to insure the security of the colony and protect life and property. It will be our duty and endeavour to adminster whatever funds you may place at our disposal faithfully and as economically as prac ticable." " Mr. President and Hon. Gentlemen of the Legis lative Council,— " Mr. Speaker and Gentlemen of the House of Assembly, "Looking upon one great question to be sub mitted to you as of paramount importance, and as indeed involving in itself, if adopted, the means of securing all other necessary measures, it is not the intention of the Government to bring before you during the present Session any but a very few Bills of the most pressing and urgent kind. Should you, after careful consideration, decide upon changing the constitution of the Legislature, there is no reason why the new Legislature to be called into existence in its place should not be organized and at work within a few months of the rresent date. Within that period, too, I trust, that the immediate security of the colony may be so far provided for, and con fidence so far restored, that there would no longer be any impediment to the careful preparation and mature consideration of many most necessary and important laws. Commending to your best atten tion the critical state of Jamaica, I pray you cordi ally to unite in endeavouring to devise the most appropriate and effectual means of meeting the existing emergency, and of preventing any similar recurrence. May the Almighty so direct, guide, and bless your labours that they may tend to the esta blishment of lasting security for life and pro perty, and largely promote the general welfare and prosperity." Mr. Speaker and the House then retired. His Excellency delivered his speech in a clear, emphatic, and forcible manner. There were present his Excellency Major General O'Connor, C. 8., Commander-in-Chief of her Ma jesty's military forces in this island, and suite ; Sir Leopold M'Clintock, Commodore on the station ; Col. llobbs, of the Gth Royal Regiment; Col. Hunt, A.D. C ; Capt. D. W h all , of the Wolverine ; Com mander De Ilorsey, of the Aurora ; Lieut. Cartes ; Lieut. Sinclair (of the Volunteers), Assistant Mili tary Secretary ; the Venerable Archdeacon Stewart ; the Venerable Joseph Williams, Archdeacon of Surrey ; the Rev. Duncan Campbell, Rector of Kingston ; the Rev. F. Reese Webbe, B.C.L. ; the Rev. Mr. Bull ; the Rev. M. Seires, chaplain to the General Penitentiary ; the Rev. James Gayleard ; Mr. Justice her ; Major-Gen. Jackson ; Mr. 11. B. Shaw, inspector of prisons, and a number of other officials. The members of the Legislative Council in attend ance were :—The Hon. John Salmon, President ; Hon. Sir Bryan Edwards, Hon. Louis F. Mackinnon, Hon. Hinton East, Hon. A. C. Logan, Hon. Ben jamin Vickers, Hon. R. Hamilton, M.D., M.A. ; Hon. Alexander Heslop, and Hon. J. IL M'llowell. The Jamaica Standard states that the rebellion is completely crushed, the measures of the Govern ment having been marked by the most complete success. All open manifestations of revolt have ceased, and the amnesty proclaimed by the Go vernor is producing an excellent effect on the minds of the negroes. Letters from Morant Bay, how ever, dated November 7, have been published which express the contrary opinion, and assert that cle mency was extended too soon. The writer com plains that 140 prisoners have been released-100 men and 40 women. Against the rebel leader, Bogle, clear and full evidence has been obtained of various acts of cruelty during the riot. Can it be, the writer asks, " that this cold-blooded wretch is to . escape ? I hope not. The Government must remember what is due, not to the inhabitants of the island generally, and in particular to those of St. Thomas-in-the-East, but they must remember what is due to the brave, the loyal handful of men who stood that day as volunteers in defence of their Queen and their country. Twenty-seven rank and file in face of nearly 1,000 armed rebels' The blood of the slain volunteers cries out for retribution on all active participators in the rebellion. Let us have mercy and peace indeed, but these must wait on stern justice." Of these leaders Bogle is singled out as the most guilty. It is remarked that at Morant Bay on the 7th " all signs of hanging had vanished for the present," and " even the pit that was dug last for the reception of rebel prisoners expected to have been executed had been filled up." The justices of the peace for St. David's and St. Thomas's have presented an address of thanks to Col. Hobbs and the officers of the 6th Royals for their services during the revolt. They commend the t u l r a e t t activity with which the rebels were tracked a,ndcap d. ran T ,l h u e llt yyliobserve that " the ringleaders have all been take n an d d u l y prov id e d f or, " an d t h ey trust is now restored. Col. Hobbs, in his reply, notices the excellent behaviour of the troops. No irregularities were committed on th e march, nor has a single man on the sick list during the operations. The Jamaica Colo n • a t S tandard rebellion has been effectivelyi suppr suppressed, The the f e w remaining fugitives among the rebels have availed themselves of the amnesty proclamation issued by Governor Eyre. The great heads of the rebellion and all the minor leaders have fallen under the power of the law and been executed, or are in custody awaiting their doom. The num ber of rebels that have perished by the executioner, or have been shot down, is very large. Their villages, houses, and settlements have been razed, and such terrible example given thermaeslliwoin. Thell prove a permanent check to any future eb confessions of the rebels, documents, and other proofs show that their intentions were to exterminate the white and coloured people, and to confiscate all pro perty for the blacks. Gordon, according to the confessions made, commenced agitating the plot three years ago, but most actively within the last three months. He founded secret societies, pro moted the formation of trained bands, and placed his followers under a terrible oath well calculated to awe the soul of the negro, and although most took it, all shrank with horror from revealing its terms epNr-The ju p ao r iv e n seaerinc of f e Gt o hl f zea t r l r i ,ei e gallows." biaenllis'oany,satnhadttGhaotrdthoen owes unbound e d t h anks to the Governor forcoc was u r the s t h r y_ ing it out. Naval and Military Intelligence. A steam boiler, which combines safety with economy, and possesses extraordinary generating powers, has been introduced by the Admiralty in the steam fire-engines fitted on the principle of the dockyards of Keyham and Portsmouth. In the boilers of these engines a number of double tubes, the inner tubes having trumpet-shaped tops and being open at the bottom, hang downwards, from a water and steam chamber, in the hottest part of the fire, and the water is thus made to circulate with great rapidity, the passage downwards of the currents of water by the inner tubes being facilitated by their trumpet-shaped mouths, unaffected by the steam which is generated between the inner and outer tubes, and carried off with great rapidity. By the rapidity of the circulation the boiler possesses self-cleansing properties, while the simplicity of construction appears to render any examination and repair easy of accomplishment. In the event of any shortness of water occurring there canbe no danger of explosion, and no part of the boiler can well be injured except the tubes, which, under such circumstances, would simply give way and extin guish the fires, and these tubes could readily be re newed at 'but small cost or trouble. It is also claimed for the boiler that it has entire freedom from leakage and unequal expansion, and occupies but a small space, while the saving of fuel is calcu lated at 20 per cent. as compared with the ordinary tubular boiler. The boiler has been brought to its present improved state by Mr. E. Field, C.E., is already largely adopted in private manufactories and steam fire engines, and is now being introduced into steamships. The fire engine supplied to Key ham dockyard; the Sutherland, is fitted, as we have said, with one of these Field boilers, and weighs only 2 tons 18 cwt. Its performance at the Crystal Palace trial of engines induced the Admiralty to purchase it for Keyham-yard, and to give an order for a similar engine to be. built for Portsmouth. When on trial at Sydenham the Sutherland raised steam from cold water to a pressure of 1001 b. on the square inch in ten minutes, and subsequently threw a jet of water from a It, inch nozzle to a height of 20ft., and maintaining it steadily to a height of 180 ft. for 25 minutes, with power to con tinue it as long as desired. As an auxiliary boiler on board her Majesty's ships, such as are now fitted on board all our ironclads for fire-engine purposes, washing decks, heaving up the anchor, hoisting out ashes, &c., the Field boiler possesses valuable pro perties, which promise to bring it largely into use in her Majesty's navy. The principle, under cer tain modifications, appears to be equally applicable to the main as to the auxiliary engines of ships. The iron floating battery 2Etna, 16, 200 horse power, until recently attached to the third division of the Chatham Steam Reserve, has had the whole of her internal fittings, engines, machinery, &c., re moved, preparatory to being fitted up as a residence for the married men attached to the metropolitan police doing duty at the dockyard, who have hitherto been accommodated on board the Nymph, 42, frigate. The %Etna was inspected yesterday by Capt. Hall, C. 8., Superintendent of the D ockyard, and she now occupies the moorings intended for her in the harbour. The Nymph is to be fitted up exclusively as a floating church, for the officers and men of the squadron belonging to the Roman Catholic commu nion. The Etna was built at Chatham during the Russian war. The Endymion, 22, 500-horse power, wooden screw frigate, unarmoured, recently launched at Deptford dockyard, has been removed round to the Medway, in readiness for being docked during the approaching springs, for the purpose of having her launching fittings removed, and to be brought for ward for service. Her engines and machinery have arrived at Sheeraess dockyard from the establish ment of Messrs. Napier and Sons, manufacturers. The Orestes screw-corvette, of 1,715 tons and 400 horse power of engines, in the Steam Reserve at Sheerness, is ordered round to Portsmouth to under go at that port the requisite repairs and refit to make her ready for commission. The officers, crew, and boys under training in the Boscawen, Com. M'Leod B. Cockroft, have been transferred to the, Bellerophon hulk in Portsmouth harbour, preparatory to their ship being pla cod i n dock for repair and refit. The Boscawen arrived a few days since at Portsmouth from her station in Southampton water. The Simoom screw troopship, Capt. Thomas B. Lethbridge, is progressing very satisfactorily in the steam basin at Portsmouth dockyard in her outfit for commission. The appointment by the Admi ralty of captains of ships fitting for commission to the flagship of the port to superintend their vessel's outfit has been generally attended with the most beneficial result in economy of time and ex penditure of material. In the instance of the Simoom, considering the unremitting personal at tendance and supervision Capt. Lethbridge gives to his ship, such results would be doubly exemplified. The Magicienne, 16, from Gibraltar on Wednes day last, arrived in Plymouth Sound yester day afternoon, with 102 invalids and supernume raries. Off Lisbon, on Friday, she spoke the Penin sular and Oriental Company's steamship Delta, for England. The weather having moderated, her Majesty's frigate Constance is appointed to sail to-day from Plymouth for the West Indies ; the Arethusa, for the Mediterranean ; and the Spanish frigate Gerona, with the Duke and the Duchess do Montpensier, for Ferrol or Cadiz. The Cherub screw gunboat, at Portsmouth, is ordered this morning, weather permitting, to make a trial of Dr. Croft's patent rudder fittings, for im proving the steering of ships propelled by paddles or single screws. The following appointments have been made at the Admiralty :—Commander George Poole, to be Inspecting Commander in the Coastguard service, vice Stone, whose period of service has expired ; Dr. Edward Dann, Assiet.-Surg., to the Medusa ; and Abraham Hogg, Assist.-Surg., to the Oberon. Capt. and Brevet-Major E. L. Pym has been ap pointed Musketry Instructor of the Plymouth divi sion of Royal Marines, vice Richards, promoted. THE GALES. The forecasts of probable weather issued from the meteorological-office, London, for yesterday on the southern coasts were fully confirmed again by- a fresh gale from S.E. round to S.W. It commenced about midnight, and continued in great strength until this afternoon, when, having veered in to about S.W., the wind moderated. The barometer fell half ah inch between 3 p.m. on Monday at 10 a.m. yester day. At 6 p.m. last evening it marked 291, having fallen rather less than a tenth during eight hours. The wind had again veered round to nearly S. " moving against the sun"—and the weather alto gether remained very unsettled. No casualties had been reported, with the exception of the arrival of a derelict vessel in tow, but several vessels of large tonnage have put in at the Motherbank and St. Helen's-roads for shelter. The recent gales have in the North and East Rid ings been accompanied with a heavy fall of rain, and on Monday, for the first time for 18 months, the rivers Rye, Leven, Costa, and Derwent overflowed their banks. In the low country traversed by these streams and their tributaries there is a considerable tract of land, grass chiefly, under water, rendering the herbage useless until the spring. Although the flood is not a h eavy one, the N orth-Eastern R a il way C i o a m it p on an . y T w h • e i will o b m e p p a n u y t t i is) replacingm uch inconvenience thelong viaduct Railway over the Der went Valley with a permanent structure of stone and iron, and for the purposes of the foundations a coffer-dam had been made much below the bottom of the river. The flood waters have broken over this, and it and the other works are submerged. Frost prevailed on Monday night, and the waters were receding. Except to stacks, the recent gales have done no damage in the North and East Ridings. A frightful attack of neuralgia in the face and mouth cured by a kw doses of MORISON'S PILLS, the vege table universal medicine of the British College of Health, Euston-road, London, after other means had failed. Sold by the hneian agent aid all medicine vendors. Railway and other Companies. LONDON, CHATHAM, AND DOVER. This company have given notice of intended ap plication to Parliament in the ensuing session for power to make junction lines at Knight's-hill, in Streatham and Camberwell ; at Denmark-hill in Lambeth, a curve at Peckham, junctions with the East London line in Camberwell, and a deviation line in Greenwich. They also propose to make new streets at Blackfriari, one commencing near the north end of the bridge, over Earl-street, and terminating on the south side of Ludgate-hill, at a point opposite the southern end of the Old Bailey. A new street commencing at the point where Union-street joins Water-lane, thence in an easterly direction, a distance of 25 yards, terminating by a junction with the intended new street above-mentioned ; another new street from the west side of Church-entry, running parallel with the southern boundary of the graveyard of St. Ann's for a distance of about 35 yards, and termi nating by a junction with the first mentioned new street. They propose to alter the levels of Union street, to alter the course and levels of, or to stop up and extinguish rights of way and other rights in Pilgrim-street, Cobb's-court, Shoemaker's-row, Playhouse-yard, Dark-alley, Printing-house-lane, Huish's-court, Stonecutter-alley, Dolphin-court, Little Bridge-street, Meeting-house-court, Evange list-court, Water-lane, Ship -yard, Glasshouse-yard, Union, and other streets. They propose to make a road at Ramsgate, terminating near the front of the entrance to the east pier of the Royal harbour. In the various powers they propose to improve the Queenborough-pier throughout its whole length, to alter levels of road at Queenborough, to make new roads at Ewell and Battersea, and to deviate a line of railways in Battersea. To purchase lands and houses in the parishes of St. Martin, Ludgate, St. Bride's and St. Ann's, Blackfriars ; St. George's, Hanover-square, Camberwell, Battersea, Lambeth, Newington, and Southwark ; Bromley, Ewell, Sit tingboarne, and Queenborough. To extend the time for the purchase of land and completion of works, to purchase the Sittingbourne and Sheerness Railway, and to make arrangements with the South- Western, Great Northern, and Metropolitan Rail way Companies, and co authorise them to subscribe money, to create a debenture stock, and to postpone or make alterations in respect of certain preference shares. They also by another notice propose to make a line into Chatham Dockyard. SCINDE. It appears from the statement of the company's acting agent, dated the 24th of October, that the traffic on the line continued to improve, and that the expenses would show a reduction, which would be mole apparent in the next half year ; that much satisfaction was expressed by the military authorities at the efficient manner in which several regiments had been conveyed along the line, and that great interest continued to be felt both in Scinde and the Punjab for the extension of the line along the Valley of the Indus to Mooltan. FRENCH RAILWAY RECEIPTS. The traffic receipts on the French railways for the first three months of this year amounted on the old and new lines to £4,831,685; for the second three months to £5,532,688 ; and for the third three months, to £6,055,011; making together for the nine months £16,419,384 on 8,274 miles of railway, against £15,462,023 received on 7,823 miles of rail way in the corresponding nine months of last year, showing an increase of 451 miles, and of £957,361, or 6.2 per cent. The total receipts on the old lines included above amounted on 4,873 miles for the first quarter to £3,883,744, for the second quarter to £4,411,368, and for the third quarter to £4,824,860; making for the nine months £13,119,972, against £12,548,454 on 4,772 miles in the corresponding period of 1864, showing an increase of 101 miles, and of £571,518, or 4.55 per cent. in the receipts. The total receipts on the 3,437 miles of new lines amounted in the firstquarter of this year to £947,941, in the second quarter to £1,121,320, and in the third quarter to £1,230,851, making together £3,299,412, against £2,913,569 for the corresponding nine months of 1864, showing an increase of £385,843, or 13.3 per cent. The receipts for the nine months on the 8,274 miles averaged £1,984 per mile, against £1,977 on 7,823 miles for the same period of 1864, showing an increase of £7 per mile, The receipts on the 4,873 miles of old lines averaged £2,692 per mile, against £2,629 per mile on 4,772 miles for the correspond ing period last year, showing an increase of £63 per mile. The receipts on the 3,437 miles of new or branch lines averaged £960 per mile, and for the corresponding period of last year, on 3,051 miles, £955 per mile. This shows the vast difference be tween average receipts on branch lines as compared with the average receipts on main lines of railway, the former being in this case little more than one third of the latter, and indicates also the . commer cial necessity of constructing and working branch lines at very much less cost than main lines. GRAND TRUNK OF CANADA. The traffic receipts on this company'slines for the week ending the 11th inst. amounted for local pas segers to £7,941 ; for foreign passengers, to £3,268 ; for emigrants, to £407 ; for mails, Sce., to £829 ; for local freight and live stock, £15,485, which is £5,840 more than for the corresponding period ; and for foreign freight and live stock, to £2,900 — total, £30,830 ; and for the corresponding week last year to £21,826, showing the large increase of £9,004 or 41.3 per cent. The total receipts from the Ist of July to the above date amounted to £535,135 ; and for the same period last year to £455,756, showing an increase of £79,379 or 17.4 per cent. HUDSON'S BAY. The annual meeting of this company was held yesterday at the offices, Fenchurch-street ; Sir E. Head in the chair. There were no accounts or report submitted. The CHAIRMAN said it was entirely owing to a misapprehension of the opinion expressed at the last meeting that no report was submitted on the present occasion. In future, however, the complaint in that particular would be removed, as the directors were anxious to meet the wishes of the proprietary. With regard to the prospects of the company they were most encouraging. In the fur trade its pros pects for the present year were better than he had ever known, and there was every reason for congra tulation. The ships from the Hudson's Bay and Labradorhad returned. One ship had been repaired. He was glad that no losses had occurred from their shipping. It was for the Canadian Government to make offers to them, and not for the company to offer its property to the Government. Turning the property to profitable account was an operation beset with great difficulties, and if the board did move at the rapid pace some thought it ought gentlemen should make themselves masters of all the circum stances before they expressed a decided opinion. (Hear, hear.) The arbitration suit was progressing, and he saw no reason why it should not be settled during the next six months. From the land in Vancouver's Island they could not hope much unless a new discovery of gold occurred. The quantity of land sold had realised $34,584. The directors were, however, in a position to recommend the payment of an ad interim dividend of the same amount as was declared last January. Mr. MORRISON, as chairman of a meeting of share holders held on Friday, proposed a resolution, de claring it to be the wish of the shareholders to have a half-yearly report, and also a by-law appointing two shareholders as auditors. • Mr. SEWELL seconded the propositions. Mr. DA NIS insisted that the infusion of newblood in the managing committee was essentially necessary. Ile said that more than one-half of the paid-up capital was lOcked up in securities, yielding only a low rate of interest. The CHAIRMAN, in answer to a question, said the by-laws were poised before the present governor and committee came into office. He and his colleagues could only consider the resolution proposed as a vote of non-confidence, which, if passed, would leave immediate retirement the only course open to them. (No, no.) Mr. SCHROEDER, as one of the committee of management, said the views expressed by the chair man were shared in by himself and his colleagues, and would be acted upon. Mr. WATKIN, M.P., suggested the adjournment of the question for a month, the mover and seconder in the meantime to confer with the committee and make a joint recommendation. After some further discussion, in which several shareholders took part, the motion was withdrawn, and Mr. HEATH, chairman of the International Finan cial Association, moved a resolution requesting the Board to appoint a professional auditor to audit the accounts, in conjunction with Mr. E. W. Watkin, M.P., which, having been seconded, was unani mously adopted. . The governor, deputy-governor, and committee were unanimously elected, and a vote of thanks to the chairman concluded the proceedings. The South after Restoration. The great political revolution the South has boon pass ing through the last four years will be followed, undoubt edly, by a greater ono in the social, industrial, and material condition of that section of the country. The tide of enterprise and emigration, from the North and from Europe, only waits a full restoration of peace and politica privileges to flow with a steady and constantly increasing volume. It has set in already from the North, and it will soon swell by additions, both from here and from the Old World, when political demagogues and sectional fanatics cease to obstruct the progress of that rich portion of the United States. Not only is the climate of the Southern latitudes more genial, and more attractive and enjoyable, but the soil is more prolific, and there is a greater variety of productions. Who, then, would not change the sterile rocks of New England or the cold climate of the North for the rich and sunny South, as soon as peace and harmony shall be restored ? The institution of slavery and the sectional conflicts it created, which had a tendency to make people of the same race alien to each other, are things of the past. The cause is removed, and the effect will soon cease to exist. Tho very war which has produced this change, and for the time excited bitter animosities, will within a short time make the people of the two sections more friendly than they ever were. They have learned to respect the bravery and high qualities of each other. Each fought for a political object, not for antipathy of race; one for separate existence, in order to preserve, as they be lieved, their domestic institution of slavery; the other for union and to avoid present and future disintegration. The former with their institution have succumbed, and the latter have triumphed in the grandest and most decisive war. The defeated accept the arbitrament, and, the cause for which the war was made being removed, they desire to forgot the past, and to identify themselves with the grand destiny of this reunited country. This is evident from their declarations and conduct, as well as from a common-sense view of their interests. For these reasons the Southern people are inviting and will welcome Northern immigra tion and enterprise. Both see that their interests aro iden tical ; and, from necessity, interested motives, and identity of institution and race, they will work together hereafter in developing the immense natural resources of that section of a common country. Tho idea of making another St. Domingo or Jamaica of the magnificent territory of the South—of giving the negro possession of and control over that fairest portion of the American content, as our Jacobin republicans would, is the most insane and impossible ono that ever entered into the mind of man. The negro, however, will become a useful element, though a subordinate one, in this great work of development and progress. His labour will be made available and be rewarded, throughout the whole South, where the race is now scattered. Within the area of the Southern States nearly all the productions necessary for the subsistence of man, or that enter into commerce, are found. The best flour comes from the wheat fields of Virginia and other parts of the South. It is the best and greatest tobacco growing region in the world. The Gulf Stream and a suitable soil make it the only country where the long staple cotton can be grown. Corn will grow luxuriantly and yield abundantly, with little labour, and in many places by scratching the earth. The sugar cane rises and swells to an enormous size, full of juice, from the teeming soil of Louisiana ; and where is there any rico found like that of South Carolina and Georgia? Look, too, at the grazing lands, the fine stock, and the wool of the South. How valuable, too, are the forests of oak, of pine and other timber which our ship builders appreciate so much. The mountains are full of the finest iron, coal, copper, and gold. Fruits of every description grow abundantly. Nowhere, perhaps, do the peach, melon, grape, pear, and pineapple thrive butter or with as little trouble. In the far South they have even the orange and banana. The late Governor Hammond of South Carolina, and other gentlemen of that State and Georgia, who a few years ago began to turn their atten tion to the culture of the grape, succeeded in making very fine wine. In fact the productions of the South are so varied and valuable that we cannot enumerate them all within the limits of this article. Here, then, to this rich and prolific country, nearly half as large as Europe, will emigration from the North and the Old World finds its way. The field is most invit ing, and no longer obstructed by slavery or a hostile and jealous population.—New York Herald. Tlio Pacific Railroad. Our British readers (says the New York Iron Age), who have lived all their lives within the narrow limits of that small but powerful island, can have little idea of the im mense extent of the United States, and the vast distances that aro now traversed by the railroads of the country. From John O'Groat's House in Scotland to the Land's End, in Cornwall, is the extreme length which it would be possible to have a railway in the British Islands. Such (if there were a continuous line) would extend about six hundred miles. But here wo have in process of construction a railroad which will extend from the Pacific to the Atlantic Ocean, a distance of near three thousand miles, and enable the traveller, arriving at New York, to proceed direct and with out stopping to Sacramento or San Francisco, on the Pacific coast. Already has railroad communication been oponed for near fifteen hundred miles westward from Now York, and the line necessary to connect this point with the Pacific shore is in rapid process of construction. The United States Government has afforded the most liberal encouragement in the donation of money and of land for the completion of this groat work, and wo aro happy to be enabled to announce that already from Sacra mento (one of its western termini) in California eastward, more than a hundred miles have been completed, and west ward, from Omaha city, in Nebraska territory, the work is going forward energetically, the condition of the charter requiring that the western end be constructed at the rate of at least fifty miles a year, and the eastern at the rate of at least a hundred miles a year, but the great probabi lity is that it will be proceeded with much more rapidity than this. This gigantic work, when completed, will produce effects not only on the development of the resources of the United States, but on the industry and commerce of the world, which it is now impossible to compute. It Will open up to easy access the groat North-western Terri tories, with their vast fields of gold. and silver, and other valuable minerals, and this will induce hundreds of thousands of hardy minors to go in quest of certain for tune in that land of unfathomable wealth. And the same cause that makes it easy for men to go will also make it easy to send food for their support, and this will cause a great demand fur the bread and meat that are raised in the Western States. The mining population, which is already accumulating in the territories of Idaho, and Montana and Colorado,. and Nevada will be greatly increased by the facilities of transportation afforded by the opening of the Pacific Railroad, and this population will have to be sup ported by supplies from the nearest of the Western States. Thus the farmers of Minnesota, and lowa, and Missouri, and Kansas will derive the most substantial advantages, and the further West theagriculturist goes the better price he will get for his produce. The effect of this pitsperity'on the miner and the farmer must, 'of course, be beneficial to the manufacturer, who will have an increased demand for goods to be supplied to this great and thriving population, and a new field is therefore opened to the industry of the mechanic. Nor is it only in its effect on the industry of the United States that the opening of the Pacific Railroad will Welt. It will have a most powerful influence on the commerce of the world. Tho Halfway House between Eastern Asia and Western Europe, the United States will intercept the commerce of China and Japan, and become a great emporium of East India trade. A mighty commercial interest will grow on the Pacific seaboard, and through the powerful agency of this railroad the rich products of tho East will bo scat tered through all the United States. This brief outline may give some idea to our British readers of the magnitude of this great work and the stupendous results it is destined to accomplish.. Detu mined upon by the Government of the United States, and actually commenced while the country was engaged in the late struggle for its existence, it is not likely, now that peace is solidly established, that the efforts which were then made will now bo abandoned or relaxed. The indica tions are, so great is the manifest necessity of the work, and so certain the profits to bo derived from it, that it will be pressed forward with great rapidity. A BOY COMMITTED FOR MANSLAUGHTER.—Uri Saturday, a boy, John Pleasant, 11 years of ago, charged with tho manslaughter of Thomas Fenwick, in a little house at Southwick, was brought up on remand before the Sunderland magistrates. The coroner's inquiry terminated with a verdict that deceased died from a blow of a stone thrown by Pleasant, but without malicious intent. The magistrates, however, committed the boy for trial on the charge of manslaughter. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. - 0.----_ TimEs•—A standing army is a necessity to an esta blished Government. This is a doctrine which has now acquired, it may be said, a catholic character, having been accepted by all nations, having received overwhelming proof by recent events, and being only disputed by political enthusiasts. But then comes the question of degree. If the army could grow out of the nation by a sort of natural process and in fitting proportion, like the hand or the arm, to which it is often compared, then we should only have to accept a general doctrine and leave the rest to the laws of development. But, unfortunately, the development in this case is apt to assume the most preposterous proportions ; and the army is apt to become a huge wen, which exhausts the body with out rendering any adequate services in return. So there continually arises the further and only practi cal question--whether an army of a given size is an absolute necessity or not. That question does, or does not, admit of a consideration. If it be simply asked whether the army is necessary to the present position, the present designs, the present difficulties, and the whole policy and temper of the hour, then it is impossible to say what army may not be justly considered necessary. There are situations for which nothing less than an armament en masse will be sufficient. If everything is to be done by force, if the nation will abate nothing of its claims or its pride, if the Government is to be con d uc t e d i n a high-handed manner, with an utter disregard 'of moderate counsels, Statecraft, and common sense; then by all means plunder and degrade half a nation in order to arm the rest and sustain a continual menace against the peace of the world. But the alleged necessity depends entirely on the policy to be maintained. There are modes of bearing in private life which make it a necessity to carry daggers and revolvers, or to fortify your house, or to go nightly rounds with an army of watchmen and keepers. But if the object is to be considered, as well as the scale of the defence, then the inquiry into the necessity of a large army admits of being carried very far. Nay, it may start with a strong presumption in its favour. It is a strong presump tion against an army if it is beyond a certain ratio to the population or the revenue. Its necessity must then be justified by special and extraordinary circumstances. Nor is it enough just to point them out, as if the fact closed the inquiry. It might be true that a man had valid reasons for thinking his life or his property in danger ; but that would not justify him in parading a whole armoury of wea pons, in putting everybody to inconvenience about him, or in neglecting all his public and social duties. Perhaps he might meet the danger another way. Perhaps he might fare quite as well if he ignored 4 alt )gether. The argument of necessity is supposed to b most unanswerable, but is at the same time most absurd, when it is urged in favour of two ar maments alleged to be required by one another. The expenditure of Austria is yearly running further away from the means of ultimate payment ; and Italy, hard by, is running into bankruptcy. They both maintain:armies whose maintenance can only be defended by the fear of invasion or internal dis turbances. The Austrian empire has to hold to gether the many incongruous elements that compose its political unity, and in one of them it secs a pos session all but falling out of its grasp into the lap of a hated rival. It has several immense provinces, still haunted by the traditions of independence, and one with a strong affinity to a neighbour. If ever a standing army might be excused, this, we are told, is a case. Italy, on the other hand, had to complete a union, still partial, to create a common loyalty, and to educate a nation into obedience and order. Under ordinary circumstances and by common rules she would disband half her immense army and restore some hundred and fifty thousand men to the occupa tions of peace. But, besides what she professes to fear from Austria, she does not venture to dismiss the men, who must carry arms either for or against her Government. At present there is not the occupation for these men. They would have nothing to betake themselves to. They can fight and that is all. They arc like the old Highlanders—good soldiers, or bri gands. They extort their pay, and rob the State by compelling it to accept their services. This policy is favoured by the geographical features of the country, and by its ancient and unaltered variety of races. Local feeling still excuses the man who defends a spot or a pass against the more distant and almost foreign Italian. Such is the strongest plea for an overgrown army. But if this amounts to a necessity, it is also a necessity that Italy should educate twice as many soldiers as she ought to re quire upon the common scale ; it is necessary that she should spend every year twelve million pounds sterling more than she can raise by the severest finance ; it is also necessary that in a very few years she should find herself without money, without credit, without the means of retaining in her service several hundred thousand men who will have learnt by that time that they are necessary to her existence and that they are the actual masters of Italy. It cannot be necessary that any should ruin itself and fling itself down an abyss with open eyes. Neither can it be necessary that any nation should maintain an army which it cannot possibly pay. Nothing whatever can be necessary which leads to speedy ruin. Necessity cannot mean more than the law of self preservation' and neither Aust r i a nor It a l y w ill con sult thislaw by destroying their credit and plunging themselves into hopeless embarrassments. With the prudent and honourable, necessity means nothing more than duty. In both the States before us there is a great work to be done, and there are immense difficulties to be overcome, but that is not to be done by mere force or by an immense army, gratifying as it may be to the pride or to the self-will of the ruler. It is remarkable, indeed, how disastrous standing armies have proved to Austria, and how little they have had to do with the fortunes of Italy. The whole history of Austria is a history of huge armies and great defeats. As to Italy, its late union under the Sardinian dynasty was brought about not by standing armies but in spite of them, and in utter defiance of them. It was the people themselves who received Garibaldi and Victor Emmanuel, and the army found itself powerless in the presence of a united nation and unarmed invaders. The present necessity cannot be really greater than that which was successfully met, one may say, without a wea pon. The Italian Government cannot really have more to fear from its own soldiers than from those of the Bourbons. There is, indeed, a necessity, but it is the necessity that an active, restless, and proud population should be employed for their own lasting good and their country's. Something must be done with that immense superfluous host, now kept to gether, it is grandly said, to teach them they are citizens of Italy, and to make them jealous for its greatness. As Englishmen, we shall be accused of not appreciating such rhetorical appeals, but if 3,000 years of progress and glory have left the Italians still in a condition to require this teaching the les son will not now be learnt in a day. What re mains, and what no argument can affect, is the fact of two larger armies than either Austria or Italy can support, retained because from one cause or other it is said it would be dangerous to disband them. Every day these overgrown masses are kept together they add to theweight of that burden which is paralysing enterprise and destroying civil life. An armed body of multitudinous proportions de mands food and pay. It is fed and paid at the ex pense of industry, and by a continual drain on those savings which are the fund of returning enterprise. The coming age is robbed of its heritage and saddled with a huge debt. The repayment of that debt may prove a sorer trial both to Austrian and to Italian unity than any they have yet been exposed to. Who contracts it ? For whose advantage ? Who has pledged the word, and who has reaped the be nefit ? These are questions that one day will be asked from many different provinces and meet with very different replies. POST.—The circular note which has been ad dressed by the Minister of Foreign Affairs at Madrid to the various representatives of the Spanish Go vernment at foreign courts is said not to be reas suring in its tone. With the text of the note we are not as yet made acquainted, but, if its substance is accurately stated in the telegram which we pub lished yesterday, it would certainly seem that we were precipitate in assuming that the remonstrances of the French and English Governments would have the effect of inducing Spain to reconsider the policy which she has thought proper to pursue towards the Republic of Chili. The conduct of Admiral Pareja was so unprecedented that we were willing to believe that it was unauthorised by the Spanish Government, and that the latter would lose no time in declaring that their representative had exceeded his instructions. The story of the origin and pro gress of the quarrel between Chili and Spain is, it is true, rather obscure, but we were justified in ex pressing our astonishment when, without a single note of warning, we were told that hostilities had commenced between the two Powers. According to the strict code of international law, one State may, whenever it pleases, declare war against another ; but, according to the usage of civilised nations, so extreme a course is never resorted to until every means of securing a pacific solution has been tried without avail. • It is with States as it is with individuals—redress for alleged grievances should be sought by friendly representation before violent measures are adopted. That negotiations took place between Spain and Chili a few months since, with a view to the adjustment of existing differences, we are aware, but we also had reason to suppose that they had been brought to a satis factory issue. The Spanish Minister at Santiago in May last had declared himself satisfied with the explanations given by the Milan Government, and the other members of the diplomatic body in that city considered themselves in a position to assure their respective Governments that the quarrel be tween Spain and the Republic had been definitively terminated. When, however, Senor Tavira, the Spanish Envoy, had communicated to the Ministry at Madrid the arrangethent which he had effected, the latter pronounced themselves dissatisfied, repu diated' the acts of their ambassador, and proceeded, as every one in Europe supposed, to resume the ne gotiations at the point at which they had been thus unsatisfactorily broken off. Another Envoy was sent, the person selected on the latter occasion being an admiral, who proceeded to Valparaiso with a not insignificant fleet. This circumstance, however, did not excite alarm. The differences were not of a. serious character, and the fact that the negotiations of Senor Tavira had been so nearly successful led persons not unnaturally to imagine that those of Admiral Pareja would not prove unavailing. The assumption that the Spanish Admiral would nego tiate at all, however, proved to be entirely errone ous. From the approbation accorded to Admiral. Pareja by his superiors it now appears that it was never their intention that he should go to Chili in the character of a diplomatist. What the Spanish Government wanted was, not reparation for - alleged insults to their flag, but purely and simply war. This is manifest from the conduct pursued by the Admi ral on his arrival at Valparaiso, coupled with the sub sequent ratification of that conduct by the Govern ment at Madrid. Admiral Pareja did not, on arriv ing in Chilian waters, open negotiations with the Government by declaring the nature and extent of the satisfaction which he required, but he peremptorily demanded that the Chilians should, in the first in stance, salute the Spanish flag. When this was done, but not before, he would declare the nature of the reparation which would be required and accepted by his Government. The Foreign Secretary at Madrid is reported to have stated in his circular note that the reception given by the Chilian Government in the first overture made by Spain in the course of last summer was such as to preclude the possibility of further negotiations ; but surely it would have been worth while at least to have stated the nature of the satisfaction which was demanded before hav ing recourse to measures which must entail injury not only on the supposed offenders, but on others who it •is conceded are strangers to the dispute. If, as the Spanish Minister for Foreign Affairs states, further negotiations were rendered hopeless by the reception given in May last to the representations of Senor Tavira, surely it was the duty of the Spanish Government to have given notice of their intention to declare war against Chili at the time they despatched Admiral Pareja to Valparaiso, and thus afford to neutral States the opportunity for making preparations for the suspension of their trade with the Republic. That Spain intends to prosecute the war with vigour seems manifest from the instructions which have been given to the cap tains of their vessels of war. Anticipating the pos sibility of cruisers sailing under the Chilian flag being equipped and manned in neutral ports, their naval officers are instructed to treat as pirates all vessels not officered and manned byChilian citizens, or sail ing under a commission not directly derived from the President of Chili. If the object of the Spanish Government is to visit with the penalties of piracy all persons found on board vessels of the Alabama class, we need not say that they will introduce a new and disagreeable feature into naval warfare as carried on between civilised States. The Chilians are entitled to buy ships just as they are entitled to buy other munitions of war, and they may, by the laws of war, put those ships in commission when on the high seas. It is probable that the instructions to which we refer amount only to an empty threat, and are not intended to be acted upon. If, however, the Spanish Admiral should understandhis Government au serleux, the Chilians would unquestionably have recourse to reprisals. That such instructions, how ever, have been given would seem to show that something more than a blockade enters into the programme of the hostilities resolved upon. It seems to be assumed that English or French inter vention will not exceed the limits of quiet complaint. Every one now takes it for granted that, henceforth, no State will trouble itself about the quarrels of others. France and England allowed Denmark to be despoiled : it is therefore reasonable to conclude that they will not interpose to prevent Chili being bullied. The Spanish Government should, however, recollect that we are considered a nation of shop keepers, and, as such, may be driven to protect our trade against wanton and unnecessary injury. COUNTRY MARKETS BRISTOL-TUESDAY. Our market to-day was well attended and more business passing. Wheat sells in retail at full prices. Barley in larger supply and very firm in price. Oats fully as dear. Beans and peas held for more money. LEEDS-TUESDAY We have a quiet market to-day but late rates are sup ported for both new and old wheat. All except the finest samples of barley give way in price. Beans, oats, and other articles fully as dear. NEWCASTLE-UNDER-LYNE—MoNDAy. There was a fair show of wheat at our corn market to day, and the inquiry was dull at about the rates of the week previous. The demand for barley was moderate, and re cent rates were maintained. Oats very firm, and beans made rather more money. SHEFFIELD-TUESDAY. Red wheat, per load of 3 imp. bushels....l7s Od to 'Os Cd White do do ....I9s 6d 21s Od New red do do ....16s ,d )7s 61 New white do do .... 8s Ott lUB 6d Itcans do do ....17s Od 19s ud Peas, per qr Grinding bailey, per qr 3us Od 32s rd Malting barley, 4 o 32s Od 3Ss Od Oats, do 26s Od 29s Od F10ur....1s 6d to 24 Od per 111 b. LIVERPOOL-TUESDAY. At this day's market there was a fair attendance of the town and country trade, and rather more disposition to buy was evinced. Wheat met with a fair retail sale at Friday's rates, or id to 2d per 1001 h. under this day week. Flour more inquired for, and recovered a portion of the de cline established during the week. In oats and oatmeal more doing at rather better prices. Barley, beans, and peas in moderate request, and without change in value. Indian corn was more inquired for, and all the parcels of prime mixed American offered at 29s 6d per 4801 b. cleared off. MELTON MOWBRAY.-T UESDAY. White wheat, 52s to 56s ; red, 41s to 52s'per 36 stone. Barley for malting, 34s to 37s per qr - food, 29s to 31s per 30 stone. Oats, 19s to 308. Beans, Old, 44s to 50s; new, 38s to 41s per qr. Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Australia and New Zealand, via Boutinllngton Deo. 19. Ditto, via Marseilles Dec. 13. Brazil and Cape Verde. by British paoket Dec. 4. Ditto, by Nrench packet Dec. 24 Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena... Dec. 22. China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton Dee. 2. Ditto, via Marseilles Nov. 26. railland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton... Dec. 2 Ditto, via Maraeilles India (Bombay), via Southampton. Nov. 26. Ditto, via klarseffies ....N0v. 26 Mauritius, via Southampton Dec 12 Ditto, via Marseire; Dec. G. Newfoundland Portugal • • ....Deo 4. Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon United tastes and British North America, by Brl- . . tish packet Nov. 30. Ditto, by United States packet, via Southamp ton Ditto, via Curk Ditto, by Canadian packet, via Londonderry Dec. 1. West Coast of Africa. Madeira, and Teneriffe Duc. 11. West Indies and Pacific (except Bahamas, Cuba, and Mexico Nov. 24 Cuba and Mexico Nov. 28. Bahamas, via New York. Dec. 14. Bermuda, ditto * Deo. %O. HOMCEOPATIIY AND THE CATTLE PLAGUE.--Th o committee of the Norfolk Cattle Plague Association h 35 voted £5O to assist in the prosecution of further experi ments in tho county by homoeopathic veterinarians. Births. CAIRNS.— On the 28th inst., at 79, Eaton-place, Lac Cairns, of a son. DRUMMOND.—On the 13th inst., at Nynee Tal, NAVY. , India, the Hon. Mrs. Robert A. J. Drummond, of a son. LURGAN.—On the 26th inst., at 11, Rutland-square, Dub" lin, the Lady Lurgan, of a son. ASHTON.—OR the 22d inst., at Dresden, the wife of Major Ashton, of a son. Marriages. Btrullows—PULLEY.—On tho 28th inst., at St. Thoma s'el Stamford-hill, John Stamford Burrows, Esq., o f Straw', berry Valo, Twickonham to Emily, only aug hter 0 " Samuel Horton Pulley, isq., of Upper Clapton. LLOYD LOCKWOOD.—On the 23d inst., at East Bridgford/ Notts, Edwin Lloyd, Esq., 31. D., of Worksop, to Lizzi e ' the daughter of William Lockwood, Esq., of Burnham House. Deaths. • BEAUFORT.—On the 25th inst. in Dublin, Misi liarriet Beaufort, tile last surviving sister of the late Admiral Slr Francis Beaufort, K.C.8., aged 89. CLOSE.-011 the 26th inst., at the Deanery, Carlisle, Cli es 6 i Samuel Close, fourth son of the Dean of Carlisle, ag e 81. 1, HixcKLEY. 7. -On the 27th at Beacon House, Liclifie-` Richard Hinckley, aged 73. NELTHORPE.—On the 22d inst., at Scawby Hall, Lincoln shire, Sir John Nelthorpe, Bart., aged 51. RussELL- T On the 27th inst at Newton House, Bedsle, Harvey Vane Russell, aged 'D. SELBY.—On the 20th inst., John Selby, Esq., of Colorab°' aged 45. • ----- London: Printed and Pubiished by WIL LIAM AMA r- 4 of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Sum Office, Strand, in the Precinct of the Swop. in the Count/ - Mitdiesex.--Wednesaay, November 29, 1685. TilE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 29, 1865.