The Sun. — London, England, 1865-12-06 00:00:00

Naval and Mitary. Intelligence. VALETTA, Dec. I.—On the 23d ult., when the last mail was closing for England, several of her Ma jesty's ships left for different destinations. The Pelican, 17, Commander R. P. Cator, as announced at the time, left for Bengazi, to attend on the tele graph steamer Hawk during the operations for the repair of the Bengazi section of the Malta and Alex andria cable ; the Cossack, 20, Capt. R. D. White, left for the Piraeus ; the Phoebe, 35, Capt. W. E. Rolland, left for Corfu (passenger, Lieut. Hon. E. Dawson, R.N.) to relieve the Gibral- tar, 81, Capt. R. Coote, now expected in a few days ; and the Orlando, 46, Capt. J. B. Dickson, took her departure for Gibraltar and Devonport, to be paid off. The Orlando steamed out of port with a man at each mast-head, amid reiterated cheers from the line walls, the band on board striking up " Auld Langsyne." Favoured -by the weather, the faulty part of the Bengazi and Alexandria cable was soon repaired by the able engineer of the com pany, Mr. Temple, assisted by Mr. Saunders, elec trician, and an adequate staff on board the Hawk, and the services of the Pelican being no longer required she proceeded to Tripoli, to communi cate with her Majesty's Consul-General there before returning to Malta, while the Hawk hastened back to this island to be ready for any fresh emergency. Business is now carried on again by the line as usual. Another submarine cable has lately stopped working—that between Sicily and Sardinia; so that the assistance of the Hawk Before Hawk maybe again immediately called into r equi sition. setting the Alexandria cable to rights, she repaired the Corfu and Otranto line, which continues to work in a very satisfactory manner. The Megmra, screw transport, Capt. M. D. Dunn, having discharged at the victualling-yard the stores she had on board for Malta, left on the 27th ult. for England, taking with her the following :—Lieutenant H. S. Hutchings, ; Lieutenant W. T. Freeman, 4th Regiment ; Mr. R. Sutton, R.N. ; Surgeon Donaldson, 100th Regiment ; 103 soldiers, 22 women, 41 childrenand 2 seamen. The Cockatrice, 2, screw gunboat, Lieutenant-Commander Gillson, left the day before yesterday for Tunis. The Caradoc, 2, despatch vessel, Lieutenant-Commander E. Wilkinson, ar rived on the 26th inst. from Marseilles, having on board the Right Rev. Dr. Trower, Bishop of Gib raltar, and family, who were admitted to pratique yesterday, after performing three days' quarantine on board in the Marsamucetto Harbour. The iron cased ship Caledonia, 31 (bearing the flag of Rear- Admiral H. R. Yelverton, C. 8.), which, together with the Resistance, 16, and the Enterprise, 4, has been stationed for some time past at Syracuse, has received orders to repair to Malta. All three vessels are looked for here about the 2d or 3d inst., and on their arrival will probably go into dock. The Terrible, 21, paddlewheel frigate, Capt. J. G. Napier, will leave Malta for Corfu about the Ist or 2d inst. The Assurance, 4, Commander Woollcombe, is being fitted with Orde's apparatus for lifting the screw, which is becoming generally adopted in the nav y. The Psyche, 2, despatch-vessel, Lieutenant- Commander R. Blane, is still under orders for immediate service, believed to have reference to the cruise of his Royal Highness Prince Alfred, who is at present on a visit to Madeira, in the Racoon, 22, Captain Count Gleichen. The Surprise, 4, Commander G. Tryon, after calling at Corfu and Scutari (Adriatic), to communicate with the British Consul, has orders to return to Malta. The Chanticleer, 17, Commander Fenwick, is to re main at the Southern Islands and Patras for the present. The Meeanee, 60, Capt. G. Wodehouse, is still at Athens. The Firefly, 5, surveying steamer, Commander G. R. Wilkinson, now on the south-east coast of Tunis, is expected back here about the 11th or 20th Dec. There is a rumour that it is not in tended to keep more than one surveying vessel in the Mediterranean, and that the Firefly will conse quently proceed home in the spring, to be paid off or be broken up. Considering the amount of impor tant work that remains to be done, and much that requires careful correction, it is earnestly hoped, in the interests of Mediterranean navigation, that no motives of false economy will cause any ill-advised reduction of the hydrographic staff in these waters, and that should this ship be removed she will be re placed by a more efficient class of vessel. The Racer, 11, Corn. L. Brine, sicce her arrival from the lo nian Islands, has been placed in the hands of the divers of H.M.S. Victoria, for the purpose of hav ing her bottom cleaned of an accumulation of weed and shell-fish which had formed on it during the 12 months she has been in commission. The Procris, gunboat, and the Redpole, tender, are at Gibraltar. Her Majesty's ships at present in Malta harbour are as follow :—The Victoria, 102, bearing the flag of Vice-Admiral Commander-in-Chief Sir R. Smart, K.C,8., K.H. ; Hibernia, receiving ship, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral IL Kellett, C.B. ; Royal Oak, 35, iron -clad, in dock ; Terrible, 21 ; Racer, 11; Assurance, 4 ; Wizard, 2 ; Tyrian, 1 ; Psyche, 2, and Caradoc, 2, despatch vessels ; and one or two smaller craft for harbour service. The French fri gate Renommee, 36 guns, bearing the flag of Rear- Admiral Simon, Captain A. Vrignaud, arrived here on the 27th ult. from Rochefort. She first en- tered Quarantine Harbour, but, on receiving pra- I tique, steamed round into the Grand Harbour and fired the usual salutes, which were duly re turned. The Rear-Admiral, immediately on landing, went to 'pay his respects to the Governor, by whom he was received with his Excellency's usual courtesy, and his Excellency returned the visit within an hour, as the Renornmde was to leave the follow ing day for Athens. Complimentary visits were also exchanged with the naval authorities. By the Italian steamer arrived yesterday information has been received that arrivals from Malta will be ad mitted into all the ports of Sicily, subject to a quarantine of seven days. At Tunis quarantine has been removed from vessels arriving from this island." Her Majesty's ironclad ram Pallas left Woolwich basin on Monday, at 2 o'clock p.m., under her own steam, and went down to Greenhithe. Before leav ing the basin she was inspected by a large number of officials, including Admiral Codrington, late Commander-in -Chi e f in the Mediterranean ; Ad miral Robinson, Controller of the Royal Navy, and others. Admiral Codrington, who was escorted over the ship by Commodore -Superintendent Dunlop and Capt. Randolph, expressed hi s • admiration of the accommodation for the officers and men. His atten tion was specially arrested by the commodious wash places and bath rooms provided for the seamen and marines. Yesterday, at 11 a.m., Mr. Reed, the Chief Constructor, Capt. Connolly, Mr. H umphreys and his son, with other persons interested in the ship, arrived from London. The charge of the ship had been given over by Commander Dillon, of the Woolwich Steam Reserve, to Capt. Randolph, porn manding the reserve at Sheerness, and she proceeded at full speed towards the Nora to ascertain at what number of revolutions the engines could drive the four-bladed screw with which she is fitted, the pitch of which has been reduced to 17ft. Owing to the fact that the boilers were filled with the river water, which was at the time foul, the priming was very considerable, and prevented the full pressure of Steam from being obtained in time for running the measured mile at th e hi g he s t s peed. It was obvious, however, that the four bladed screw is ill-adapted for the engines, and the ship will consequently be placed in dry dock immediately at Sheerness for the purpose of having two of its blades removed. The ironclad frigate Lord Warden, 20, 4,080 tons, 1,000 horse power, fitting at Chatham dock yard in dry dock, is ordered to be supplied with an armament of 16 of the new pattern 9-ton 8-inch r ifl e d guns, and four of the ordinary 110-pounder Arrastrongs, together with the usual number of smaller rifled guns for boat and field service. The work of armour-plating this fine vessel is proceed ing as rapidly as circumstances will admit, and con siderably more than half of her 5i and 4i-inch ar mour plates have been bolted to her broadsides. Inboard the joiners are busily engaged in fitting up her cabins, offices, &c., and otherwise getting h er forward. The whole of the engines and machinery have been fitted by the contractors, Messrs. Maude lay, Sons, and and steam can Field, whenev er be got on board required. About three months will elapse before the Lord Warden is completed to en able her to leave the dock, when Mr. Reed's new ironclad frigate Hercules will be at once come eneed in the same dock, a considerable portion of the iron to be used in her construction having already been received at Chatham dockyard from the contractors. The paddlewheel steamer Virago, 6,1,( 59 tons, 300 horse power, attached to the Steam Reserve in the Medway, is ordered to be docked at Sheerness, where she is to undergo a very extensive repair, at an estimated cost of about £lO,OOO. Her engines and machinery have been removed to the factory where they are to be repaired. She will also require new boilers. The repairs ordered to be executed will detain her in dock for some considerable time. The Research, 4, ironcased corvette, Commander R. A. E. Scott, arrived at Spithead yesterday, from the Coast of Ireland. The arrival of the Research will enable Commander Scott to superintend the completion of the fitting of her iron carriage and slide, and the mounting of the 12-ton gun, on board the iron frigate Minotaur in readiness for the com petitive trials at sea, ordered to be made immediately on board that ship. The trials will most probably take place at Portland, under the superintendence of Capt. A. C. Key, C. 8., commanding the gunnery ship Excellent. Mr. Cunningham's method of training heavy guns on a ship's broadside, which has been in use on board the gunnery ship Excellent since August last, is now being fitted by Admiralty order to one of the 12-ton gun carriages on board the Minotaur , at Portsmouth, for further trial at sea during the forthcoming competitive carriage trials. On board the Excellent the working of Mr. Cunningham's plan, fitted to a 12-ton gun, has been singularly successful. The average time taken in the extreme training of the gun under all circumstances may be very fairly stated as nine seconds with two men at the winch. One of its main recommendations is that the training gear on board the Excellent has been fitted and the gun brought fully under training by it in less than one hour. However violently the ship may be pitching at sea when the crew are at quar ters Mr. Cunningham claims that his controlling stoppers hold thegun at perfect control at any degree of training and in rapid changes of angles in firing. Some very interesting experiments took place yes terday on board the Mersey screw frigate, at Ports mouth, with West's electrical apparatus fitted on board as a warning indicator of possible danger to the ship from fire or water. A 10-cell battery fitted in the captain's cabin, with an indicator dial plate and an alarm bell, is placed in communication with 20 isolated copper wires, each of which communi cates with a numbered section of the ship's hold, the latter being set off in 20 sections. Calorimeters con nected with each wire are set at a given temperature —say 50 deg. above the normal temperature of that part of the ship—and the ever-watchful sentinel for fire is then placed on permanent duty. If the tempe rature afterwards becomes increased from spontane ous combustion, or from a smouldering fire raised by other causes, the temperature has no sooner reached the heat at which the calorimeter has been set than the circuit is completed, the alarm bell violently and incessantly rung in the captain's cabin, and a number displayed on the dial showing the section of the ship in which the dangerous heat is being generated. The rise of water in a ship's bilge beyond a fixed height is also indicated by the ringing of 'the alarm bell and the display of the section number. The calorimeter is a small metal vessel, some three inches in length, three-fourths filled with mercury. The outside of the vessel is in contact with one part of the copper wire of the section; the other part being suspended through the boxivood stopper in the neck of the vessel, the distance between the point of the latter part of the copper ►•ire and the mercury being re gulated according 'to the temperature considered dangerous. Should this latter event ever occur the mercury necessarily expands, and, bringing the end of the wire in contact, the circuit is com pleted. The water signal is a piston enclosed in a chamber with the signal wire fixed at a certain distance, say 2ft., above it. If water finds its way from any cause into the ship's hold the piston rises with the water, and on coming in contact with the wire the circuit is here completed, and the signal transmitted to the indicator dial and alarm bell. The signals yesterday were sent from all parts of the ship with unerring certainty and with calorimeters set at various degrees of temperature, and with the water signal at varying heights. As the use of fire to raise the temperature of the ship was out of the question, hot water at the required tempera tures was used for testing the question and the manner in which it had been applied on board the Mersey. Her Majesty's ship Valiant is already fitted on the same principle, which is also to be I applied on board all of her Majesty's troop ships. The hired sailing transport Bombay, Sellers master, belonging to Messrs. G. G. Tyser, of London, arrived at Spithead yesterday after noon from Auckland, New Zealand, with officers and troops, invalided and time-expired, from regiments serving in the colony, and a number of private passengers. The troops on board . are in military charge of Major Mould, R.E., and in medical charge of Dr. Henry Titterton, M.D. Capt. Vere ker, Ist battalion, 12th Regiment; Lieuts. Clark son, King, and Pownell, Deputy Commissaries- General Robertson and M‘Dermot, 135 invalids and time-expired men, 13 women, 23 children, and three naval invalids. The rough weather prevailing yesterday prevented the disembarcation and trans fer of the troops from the Bombay, at Spit head, to the Military Hospital, at Netley, and the regimental depots, but, weather permitting, it will be effected this morning. The Bombay sailed from Auckland on the 3d of September last. On the 15th of the same month she fell in with heavy field ice, which three days later, by its density, compelled Capt. Sellers to retrace his vessel's course, and make a considerable detour to clear it. From the same date to the 25th of September a large number of immense icebergs were in sight, some of them pparently upwards of 400 feet in height. The following officers at Chatham garrison were yesterday placed under orders to embark for Cal cutta to join the service companies of their regi ments in India, viz.:—Capt. R. Doyle: Barrett, Ist Battalion 19th Regiment, and Capt. F. L. Edridge, Ist Battalion 20th Regiment. An order has also been received for the embarcation of Lieut. J. W. G. Telfer, 2d Battalion 4th King's Own Regiment, in charge of draughts for Malta. THREE BODIES FOUND ON THE LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE RAILWAY.—Since Saturday morning last three bodies—two of men and one of a boy—have been been found lying on the rails of the Lancashire and York shire Railway, the men near Bootle Station, and the boy at the Sandhills Junction. All these presented marks of having been run over by trains. BRITISH COLUMBIA AND VANCOUVER'S ISLAND. —A. meeting of merchants, traders, and others interested in the prosperity of Vancouver's Island and British Colum bia was held on Wednesday at the London Tavern, Thec ho p s g , ate - street, city. M r. B a ll as was ca ll e d t o th e chair.hairman, recentlyt h h o a m t he efrshoulde e h e a e v e e v b e e l:e n I glad an in openin g th e b us i ness o f th e mee ti ng, re been called to the ch a i r , d i f t h Balmehimself one mhadore Ile described the present posi tion and future prospects of tho colonies as very gloomy. Trade was depressed, the population decreasing, and land could not be sold at any price. The taxation was very h eav y, amounting to no less than $lOO per head, as against $29 per head in Queensland and contiguous places, down to $2 12c. in Prince Edward's Island. Tho reason of this was that the island, with a small and decreasing popula whole burden of a distinct popula tion, bad to bear the .legislative mode of levying taxes was also machinery. The very ma onerous, more especially the export tax upon gold, whi c h, fwas made a tax u p on from the peculiar mode o its levy, capital and labour, instead of uponprofits. its results or The only remedy for the evils complained of Vancouver's Island with British of was a union Columbia, as the one legislation would bo quite sufficient . for both colonies. Mi. moved as Selim Franklin, a member of the Legislature, follows :—" That the interests of the colonies of British Columbia and Vancouver's Island will be best consulted by a union based upon such terms as shall appear just to the Imperial Government." In a speech of some length he urged the desirability of the proposed union, which he stated to bo in accordance with the wishes of the whole of the colonists. He considered that it would pave the way for a general confederation of the whole of the British North American colonies. Mr. Burnaby seconded the re solution, which was supported by several gentlemen who had been long resident in the colony, and carried unani mously. Mr. Drake moved the appointment of a com mittee to draw up a memorial embodying the sentiments of the meeting for presentation to the Colonial Secretary. Mr. Southgate seconded the motion, which was unani mously adopted. The committee and deputation were then appointed, and a vote of thanks to the chairman brought the prococdinga to a close. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 6, 1865. The Cattle Plague. BUCKINGHAMSHIRE. There was a numerously attended meeting of the magistrates of the Petty Sessional Division of the Hundred of Aylesbury, held on Saturday last, at the Magistrates' Chamber, in that town, to consider the last issue order of the Privy Council, as affecting this important agricultural district. Some of the justices, including the chairman, considered that the provision which required advertisements of prohibi tory intention on their part to be inserted in the newspapers of the counties adjacent to as well as of those in which the veto of the import of cattle was to be enforced would be difficult in its working, chiefly on account of the improbability of unanimity among the whole of the justices of the various juris dictions to be affected by the prohibition. It was thought by others that the new order would work hardly on such districts as did not produce much animal food. Ultimately the Bench made the fol lowing orders :—" 1. That all animals exhibited in the metropolitan market or sold -within the metro politan police district be excluded from this jurisdic tion. 2. That no animals shall be brought from any other part of Great Britain into this jurisdiction except with a certificate of an inspector of the juris diction from which such animals have been brought or in which they may have passed, such inspector to certify also that such animals are free from the dis ease and have not been in contact with any animal suffering therefrom, and that such animals so sold have been in possession of, and located on a farm or farms of, the vendor or vendors of the animals for 14 days prior to the removal thereof ; and every animal bought for the purpose of slaughter must be slaugh tered within 24 hours after such removal, and the vendor of such animal shall certify the day and hour of the removal of any such animal from his charge." The report of Mr. George A. Lepper, the inspec tor for the Vale of Aylesbury district, issued on Saturday, is more encouraging than it has been for some weeks past, for, owing to the willingness of farmers and others to submit to the temporary hard ships put upon them by the Orders in Council, and adopt the precautionary measures prescribed by their veterinary surgeons, such as isolation, &c., the Vale of Aylesbury is at last pronounced " free from the cattle plague." As, however, the disease is raging with fearful virulence in other parts of the county, and Aylesbury is close to the lines of rail way along which cattle are brought from the metro politan Markets, the justices are, as will be seen above, fully determined to enforce the Orders of Council. perplexing case which has yet occurred east of the Derwent. There seems no doubt whatever but that the disease will traverse the whole of the Folds and the North Riding districts. The apathy of the farmers has been effectually stirred up this week. At Helmsley, with Lord Feversham as president, a Ryedale Assurance Association has been formed. Another has been formed in the Melton Union where about 70 cattle have died in a month ; another has been formed and commenced its work on Saturday. A similar society has been formed for Lord Carlisle's estates, and a very flourishing one at Driffield, where as yet there is no plague. The Driffield society only requires adeposit of Id. in the pound, and £50,000 are now issued, Sir Tatton Sykes entered for £lO,OOO and Mr. C. Sykes, M.P., for £5,000. A similar society is to be formed for the Pocklington district. The rapid spread of the plague has induced the magistrates of several divi sions to extend the prohibition of the markets and fairs under the recent Order in Council. The Stokesley Bench have prohibited the markets and fairs in the Langborough west division until the 25th of February; and the Thirsk Bench those in the Birdforth division until the Ist of March. They prohibit all removal of cattle without licence except by rail, in terms of the Order in Council. On Saturday the plague was reported spreading at Norton Conyers, Myton, and Aldborough. A Missionary's View of the Jamaica Revolt. The Scotsman publishes a letter from a missionary in Jamaica, dated Nov. 3, which has been received by a gentleman in Edinburgh. The writer says— " You will be interested to know something of the fearful outbreak of popular violence which took place so unexpectedly in the eastern part of the island a few weeks ago. The savage ferocity with which they attacked and murdered the chief magistrate, ministers, and other gentlemen assembled in the Court House of Morant Bay, when deliberating on the affairs of the :parish, will be in all the public prints. I will therefore endeavour to give you some idea of its probable cause. The diabolical idea ap pears to have first entered into the mind of George Wm. Gordon, about three years ago, of murdering or banishing from the island all the white men and respectable and influential brown men, and putting it into possession of the blacks. He was a manwho had a pretty good standing in society, and was member of the Assembly for the parish of St. Thomas-in-the-East, now almost desolated. He made a great profession of religion, and was for a time a leading member of Mr. Watson's church. He was kind to ministers, and I have more than once spent some time with him, and was pleased with the Christian way in which he conducted his family, ge nerally presiding at worship one part of each day. After he was elected member of Assembly he became a loud and constant advocate for all popular rights. On this account, and by his interminable harangue, he disgusted many, and raised up a host of enemies for himself in the Assembly. It was generally thought that he was harshly treated both by the Governor and the Custos of his own parish, now murdered. Ar.d he got into violent quarrels with the clergy and leading men of the parish. I have no doubt he was mightily puffed up by the notice that was taken of him, and especially as being gene rally accounted the leader of the popular party. In all his ambitious designs, finding himself constantly thwarted and contemptuously treated by his oppo nents, the thought of getting rid of his enemies ap pears to have taken possession of his mind. To accomplish the infernal design, he seems to have imagined that the only way was by an outbreak of the people ; and that this led to the mad and horrible thought of destroying all the present in fluential men in the island. It now appears that for the last years he has been making preparations for this general massacre, and for the last three months has been indefatigable in maturing it * * By the admirable skill and promptitude of the Governor the power of the rebels was in three days annihilated, and in three weeks almost every vestige of rebellion obliterated. I doubt not, that in addition to the wide-spread desola tion it has occasioned to the parish in which it broke out, and to the misery of untold multi tudes, whose houses have been burned, and they themselves forced to hide in dens and thickets to preserve themselves from military execution, more than a thousand persons have been either shot or hanged, and a great multitude severely lashed. Such appears to be the end of this wicked revolt. Gordon, some time ago, joined the Baptists, and became a preacher among them, but I fear he was a wicked hypocrite, and a savage at heart. He was hanged at the Court-house, where the slaughter commenced, unpitied by all, and leaving a name to be execrated by all good men. What gave Gordon considerable influence was the distressed state of the colony. For some time the price of sugar in the home market has been very low, which has occasioned great loss to the planting interest ; and they were compelled to reduce wages to the lowest possible rate. Then the high rate of clothing, and a great drought with which the island was visited, brought the labouring classes into great misery. Many public meetings were held through out the island, and the distress of the labourers brought very prominently into view, and also many remedies suggested. Unfortunately little sympathy was expressed by the leading men of the island for the people. Though the rebellion is now quashed, and will probably not be renewed, after the fearful example made of the rebels, yet I fear that there is no small disaffection still in the minds of many of the people. The planters being brought into great difficulties have been latterly peculiarly severe upon the labourers. Many of the overseers are magistrates, and often are severe in punishing the people by fine and imprisonment, while the people have no redress. At present a great multi tude are undergoing punishment for what no man in the island ever considered an offence. The com mon fruits of the country, growing near the road, in open pastures, were freely taken by all classes, I suppose, since the British landed upon the island. This was a great help to the labouring classes, and I believe did little injury to any bne. It was like the law among the Jews, by which any traveller was permitted to pluck ears of standing corn as they passed through the fields. Depriving the people of such privileges, after their long enjoyment, pro duces a most powerful impression on popular feel ings. And I cannot help believing that the hundreds, or perhaps thousands, who are now undergoing punishment for disregarding the orders of the plan ters in this matter are becoming prepared for any seditious movement." The Rev. David King, formerly pastor of a United Presbyterian Church at Kingston, Jamaica, writes to the Daily Telegraph as follows regarding Mr. G. W. Gordon : "He was a member of a United Presbyterian Church in Kingston, of which I filled temporarily the pulpit. He aided and cheered me in the fulfilment of my duties. I stayed with him occasionally, and we had excursions toge ther. He gave me his mind very freely on all sorts of topics, secular and sacred, evincing no excitement or ex travagance in his views. I had every facility for knowing what was thought of him by judges, magistrates, clergy men, and society in general; and at that time every one, from the highest to the lowest, spoke of him with esteem. Mr. Wemyss Anderson, a gentleman well known in Jamaica, was one of the first who called my attention specially to him by characterising him as "a man of princely generosity and unbounded benevolence." To the best of my recollection these were the very words he used —they were certainly to that effect. A brief sketch will indicate what foundation there was for this sort of eulogy. Mr. Gordon was the son of a white gentleman, one of the custodes of the island, much esteemed for his dignified, hospitable, and obliging deportment. Like many in ele vated position and of refined manners he had children by his slaves—born to slavery as their heritage. This was the birthright of poor George Gordon. Being a very smart boy, he taught himself with very little aid to read, write, and cast accounts. By his diligence and intelligence he continued to gather money, with which he bought his freedom. Once free himself he gained enough to emanci pate his sisters, and afterwards sent them to Europe for their education—first, I think, to London, and then to Paris. Through the reverses of the colony, the father, from being very rich, came to lose all, and the coloured son bought his estate—not, however, to deprive him of it, but to leave him in occupancy, surrounded by the comforts he had been accustomed to enjoy. So acted the son of the bondwoman when the feelings of his father's white wife and her children would not allow him to enter the paternal abode. Yet ho always spoke to mo with deferential regard for his father, and never uttered a disrespectful word re garding Mrs. Gordon. Ho was tenderly sensitive. One day as we were walking together he became pensive and absorbed, and, after ceasing for a little time to speak or listen, he requested mo to step aside with him. He stopped before a slight elevation of the grass, and said to me, with much emotion, 'Sly mother is buried there; she was a negro and a slave, but she was a kind mother to me, and I loved her dearly.' As he uttered these words his tears trickled down upon her grave. The efforts of the son could not make the impoverished father happy in Jamaica, where he had long held a high position, and it was arranged that Mr. Gordon, senior, with his family, should leave for the mother country, chiefly or exclusively by the aid which George's filial munificence provided. When the day of departure was at hand the son said to me, You know that I am not permitted to give my father valedictory attentions. I have promised him that you will do so for me, and will acco m p any hi m an d hi s w hit e f a mily to the ship.' I did so, an d I waS struck to find that through a distance of eight or nine miles the road, as we drove along, was lined with groups of negroes, who had assembled to pay their parting respects to their quondam civic superior. Some bowed, some knelt, some waved handkerchiefs, some, perhaps former servant; oven wept ; and it was touching to witness such an exhibition of spontaneous, disinterested obeisance. The late George W. Gordon was married, but he has left no children. His widow is a white lady : she travelled with my family in the United States of America, and endeared herself to us by her Christian excellence." In reference to the characteristics of the negro in Jamaica, Mr. King says:—" As regards the alleged indolence of the black race I may mention that I never met a negro begging, and bad never the least difficulty in getting work done for adequate remuneration. I took up house and engaged black servants, than whom I never had any who gave me more satisfaction. I observe that negroes from Jamaica are in great demand in Honduras, and are repre sented as working there vigorously for sufficient pay." SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. -------.ok- TlMES.—Whether the Head Centre of the Fenians be now in Paris, or on board a westward bound American packet-ship, or, as is more likely, is still lying hidden in some out-of-the-way nook of Dublin City, the Government seem determined, at all events, that none of his companions shall join him. The Lord-Lieutenant has ordered all the Fenian prisoners who are now awaiting trial to be removed from Richmond Bridewell to Kilmainham Gaol, which is the county of Dublin prison, and is presumed to have a better management and a more trustworthy set of warders. This operation was effected in the night of Saturday last, when the pri soners were escorted by a strong military guard to their new place of detention. The Government, resolved that no more steeds shall bo stolen, is shutting doors with praiseworthy energy. Kilmain ham is described as presenting more the aspect of a fortress than a gaol. There are soldiers every where, inside and out. The prison has just been again inspected to see that all is right, and that proper arrangements have been made for guarding the conspirators. In the central-hall and in the passages soldiers are under arms ; the warders are kept close to their respective stations, and sentries patrol without the walls. It was, indeed, time that the prisoners should be removed from Richmond Bridewell. How far the disaffection among the warders and other attendants may have gone it is impossible to say ; but it is at least believed that the prison is a nest of Fenians. When such a thing is even suspected, the Government could not leave the prisoners in the place a day longer than was necessary. The prison appears to be managed with very insufficient strictness. The correspondence with the Board of Superintendence with regard to the man Denis Byrne shows how little attention has been given to providing the place with trust worthy servants. Byrne was a soldier of the Pope's Brigade, and, though that circumstance by no means explains his Fenianism, yet we think that politicians so ardent that they leave their own land to fight foreign battles are not the fittest men for situations of such trust as the wardership of a prison, and that Byrne's charac ter might well have induced his patrons to provide for him in some other way. It is also evident that independently of his political principles he was an inefficient person. Yet he was forced on the gover nor of the prison in spite of repeated remonstrances. If this is the way in which one of the chief gaols in Ireland is administered, the office of inspector can be no sinecure. The Government will now, no doubt, take the matter in hand, and insist that only men of tried services and character shall be ap pointed. It is quite natural that the efforts of the Fenians, when they found they were likely to come within the grasp of the law, should be to tamper with the warders of the metropolitan prison. The Fenian organisation has served Mr. Stephens very well. It would have been just as easy to let out Luby or O'Leary, or any of the other prominent members of the Association, but the call of duty prevailed, and Stephens, in his character of Head Centre, received the preference. The thing that will most affect the public mind in the matter is, not the escape of this man or that, for, provided a Fenian is got rid of, it does not much matter how, but the apprehension that in other departments of administration there may be public servants affiliated to this dangerous conspiracy. This, we must ad mit, is a matter for consideration and watchfulness. There is not, indeed, reason for alarm, and we should be the last to wish to excite any undue disquiet. But there can be precaution without panic. It is improbable that the corruption of public servants can have gone very far; but it is quite possible that it has begun ; indeed, there is strong evidence of it. There will always be vain and restless spirits for whom the romance and self-importance of conspiracy will have a vague charm. There is much of this feel ing among the Irish, who also are attracted by all sorts of vague expectations of worldly advancement and by their own gregarious instincts. These things reign for a while like an epidemic, but it is just as well to take care that the malady does not spread. A strict supervision of the people in the lower ranks of the public service, the summary dismissal of any who mix themselves up with known conspirators or consort with them secretly, and a solemn warning that any one who may be detected in improper prac tices will be dealt with in the severest manner, will be probably sufficient to put an end to the fashion of disaffection. We have no fear for the more steady and responsible class of officials. There are few Irishmen with a good income and a respectable cha racter to lose who will enrol themselves among the citizens of President O'Mahony's Republic. It is for the good of the poorer and more ignorant men that they should be guarded against the machinations of the conspirators, and not by their own folly bring down severe punishment on themselves. The kind of man who is caught by Fenianism is described in our Irish intelligence of yesterday. Mr. Alfred Aylward is a patriotic young lawyer's clerk, who, in spite of his master's warnings, has taken upon himself to join the association for regenerating Ire land by invasion and rebellion. Conspirators ought not to get drunk, but Mr. Aylward not only drinks himself into a state in which he commits breaches of the peace, but actually goes about with the whole scheme of revolution in his coat pocket. In transpontine melodramas murderers carry about manuscript confessions of their crime, which are seized and read in the last act, but we have never known anything like it in real life except the case of Mr. Aylward, As for the document itself which fell into the hands of the police, it may be presumed that the writer had not abstained wholly from whisky when he penned it. It opens with the sen tence that " powder and lead are the only remedies for the country." If . the Fenians were quietly "to usurp authority," they would be supported by the constabulary, the majority of the military, and the people. The millennium which would then be esta blished may be judged by the circumstance that the Fenian Government " will hang all who say Boo!' " It is interesting to know that the Republic will send an account of its proceedings to the five great Powers, and that all English prisoners will be mer cifully sent home. Perhaps Mr. Aylward's scheme, being drawn up in a moment of convivial excite ment, may not express the real purposes of the Fenian leaders ; but it is at least not more absurd than others which have been made known, or than that which is being carried into practice at the Fenian Capitol in New York. The Fenians all seem men of pretty much the same stamp. They are O'Mahonys, Lubys, and Aylwards multiplied indefinitely. ach is very paltry in himself, but, unfortunately, Ireland possesses so many thousand specimens of the race that their combination may be exceedingly troublesome to the cause of peace and order. POST.—Much has been said against Governor Eyre, of Jamaica, in regard to the treatment which the inhabitants of that colony have received at his hands in suppressing the recent outbreak. He has been accused of illegality in the execution of Gor don, as well as in other cases, and a popular crusade seems on the eve of being made against him and his coadjutors, who are now accused of murder. De mands are made that the Government shall order him home, and put him upon trial, and these de mands are backed by prominent and influential members of Parliament. But in all this excitement and commotion we should not lose sight of that great characteristic of the English nation—fair play. There are always two sides to a question, and when the other side of the case may be presented it may be ascertained that all the charges made against the Jamaica officials are unfounded. We hope so for the good fame of England ; for if there has been illegality in the trial and execution of the rebels, we could not and would not offer a defence of any official therein engaged, even though the guilt of the persons executed should be rendered more patent than the glaring facts now prove. The question in Jamaica is one which may come home to any English family hereafter. It may involve the life of one most dear to any of us, and destroy that precious fabric, which it is easy for mortals to dissolve, but never to re-establish. There may be commotions and tumults in England ; and mili tary officials having the temporary power may order the trial of offenders by court-martial, and execute them upon conviction. This power must be defined, and the present is as goad an oppor tunity as any which could be presented. Un doubtedly, it is the duty of her Majesty's Government to uphold any subordinate who has performed his difficult task with credit. Lord Palmerston always supported au official against charges until they were distinctly proven, and the will of the nation shown. His motto was that of English law, always to deem the defendant innocent until his guilt was proven. So in the present case we have not evidence to show what were the causes of action or the motives which prompted an apparently illegal action. It is as serted that Governor Eyre transcended his powers in trying Gordon at Morant Bay instead of in Kingston. And, without waiting to impartially examine into the case, a sweeping verdict is given by a large portion of our population that the Gover nor acted from improper motives, and preferred to send his victim before a court-martial, where he knew a conviction would be prompt and execution speedy; and that in sending Gordon out of a dis trict where he could have been tried before a civil tribunal, to one where martial law prevailed, the Governor has judicially murdered the prisoner, and is himself accountable to the law for man slaughter, if not for murder. But this is not at all a necessary sequence. One point seems to have been entirely overlooked in this matter. It may be that Governor Eyre has acted in perfect and strict ac cordance with law. When a criminal is to be tried for any offence committed against English law, it is imperative that his trial should take place in the district or locality where the imputed crime has been committed. This is always done in England unless a change of venue is granted for some good and sufficient reason, either to the Crown or to the pri soner. If any rebel from Jamaica should surrender in London we should not try him here, but certainly would send him back to the jurisdiction of Jamaica authorities. If he should be executed there in ac cordance with law, no charge could be preferred against the Colonial Secretary here for judicially slaying him. In the ex parte evidence presented against the Governor, the fact seems to have been entirely overlooked that Morant Bay was the scene of massacre and crime for the incitement of which, though not actual participation therein, Gordon was tried and executed. The question then will be, could the Governor do otherwise than remit the pri soner to the jurisdiction prevailing in that district, where the slaughter had been committed? If this be the case, the whole charge of illegality falls to the ground. The district being proclaimed, civil law ' was ignored, and the court martial was the only tri bunal which could have jurisdiction, and the prisoner would have had no more right to a trial in King ston than in London. We do not absolutely assert the correctness of this hypothesis, but it is one which strikes the mind as the probable solution and explanaticn of the case. There is at the present moment a parallel case in the United States, which gives rise to great perplexity on the part of the United States authorities. There, as in Eng land, the law compels the trial of a prisoner in the district where a crime has been committed. Mr. Jefferson Davis must therefore be tried in a Southern State. But as no jury can be found to pronounce him guilty, his trial and acquittal would be a virtual endorsement of the theories of secession. And the difficulty of getting around this imperative clause of constitutional law, so as to carry out the theory of the successful party, is and has been so great that the prisoner has remained for months in close con finement. The great misfortune in this Jamaica business has been that in the outcry raised by a number of persons whose zeal in favour of the negroes perhaps induces a prejudice against the whites, who have had to contend for their lives, the main facts of the great atrocities committed and in contempla tion may be lost sight of in the smoke and dust about the so-charged illegal transfer of Gordon to Morant Bay. In all outbreaks, especially where savages or semi-savages have to be dealt with, stern and prompt measures must be executed. Rebellion must always be nipped in the bud, if its consequences and wide-spread outrages are to be checked. The speediest and most approved method is to execute the ringleaders. And this seems to have been done by the military authorities. Of the guilt of Gordon, so far as we have seen, there can scarcely be a doubt. He seems to have been the chief conspirator, and to have been constantly consulted by those who actu ally participated in the massacre at Morant Bay. And there is not a doubt that he was aware of or counselled the intended massacre of the white popu lation on the 26th December next. We trust that the horrid scenes perpetrated by the savage and in furiated negroes will not be lost sight of, and that a false sympathy will not be engendered for them under the agitation of the legality or non-legality of the trial and execution of any individual. " Fiat justitia, ruat coelum," is the motto for our guidance. Let us neither commit grave injustice against the unfortunate white victims of negro barbarity, nor consent to brand Governor Eyre with perversion of law, until the whole facts can be presented and all sides be heard calmly and impartially. The Confederate Etate Debts. The debts of the Confederate Government, contracted for the purposes of war, and for all other purposes, were swept away when the Confederacy fell. All its currency, bills, bonds, treasury notes, and "promises to pay" of every kind, became worthless to the holders, even though those holders had given for them real property or services of a positive value. After the fall of Richmond, hundred dollar bills, based on the faith and credit of the Confederacy, were sold for a nickel cent a piece, and thousand-dollar notes were exchanged evenly for three-cent shinplasters. There is little' if any talk in any part of the South about assuming any part of this debt. Its magnitude is appall ing, and the States of the South did not become respon sible for it in their individual capacity. On its face it was declared to be payable upon the establishment of the inde pendence of the Southern Confederacy—thus linking its fortunes with that of the rebel government; and it was but logical that the Confederacy's credit should cease to have a value when the Confederacy itself ceased to have an existence. But thorn has appeared in many of the States, and still appears in some of them, a strong party desirous of assum ing the payment of the debts contracted by the various States individually, in aid of rebellion, and while members of the Confederacy. It is the repudiation of these which has been effected in Mississippi, Alabama, North Carolina, and, in Georgia, at the suggestion of the President ; and it is the failure to repudiate this debt by South Carolina which has disappointed the intelligent supporters of the President's policy of reconstruction. This debt has been the subject of earnest debate in the Georgia State Conven tion now in session at Milledgeville ; and it was in refer ence to this debate that the President sent a despatch to the Provisional Governor of Georgia, in which was pointedly and vigorously set forth the course that ought to be followed by the convention. He remarked : " The people of Georgia should not hesitate one single moment in repudiat'ng every single dollar of debt created for the purpose of aiding the rebellion against the Govern ment of the United States. It will not do to levy and collect taxes from a State and people that are loyal and in the Union to pay a debt that was created to aid in taking them out and subverting the Constitution of the United States. Ido not believe the great mass of the people of the State of Georgia, when left uninfluenced, will ever subm to' the payment of a debt which was the main causekif bringing on their past and present suffering, the result of the rebellion. Those who invested their capital in the creation of this debt must meet their fate, and take it as one of the inevitable results of the rebellion, though it may seem hard to them. It should at once be made known, at home and abroad, that no debt contracted for the purpose of dissolving the Union can or ever will be paid by taxes levied on the people for such purpose." We have in the Georgia papers reports of the convention debate on this topic. It originated in a resolution intro duced by a member on the 28th ult., in the following terms : Resolved—That the President of the Convention ap point a committee of five, who shall wait upon his Excel lency the Provisional Governor and inquire of him whether he knows, from his official connection with the authorities at Washington, that the repudiation of the debt incurred by the State of Georgia during the late civil war is essential to the resumption of amicable relations with the United States Government. The debate was one of great interest and not a little ex citement, but it covered very narrow ground. The argu ments, on one side, were simply protests against disgracing the State by repudiation, and, on the other side, assevera tions of the absolute necessity of this action, if Georgia were to be admitted to the Union as one of its loyal and trusty members. One speaker got upon broader ground, in putting forth the idea that the legitimate State Govern ment of Georgia being overthrown when this debt was contracted, and an unlawful combination having usurped the functions of the State, the debt had no legal basis what ever, and, without any action of the convention, was in itself null and void. Notwithstanding the warmth of the debate, Georgia has prudently adopted the course previously pursued by Ala bama, Mississippi, and North Carolina. President John son said that " it should at once be made known, at home and abroad, that no debt contracted for the purpose of dis solving the Union can or ever will be paid by taxes levied on the people for such purpose ;" and the wisdom of this view no doubt commended itself to the convention. The entire amount of the debt contracted by the State during the war was about eighteen millions of dollars ; and the greater part of it was in the bands of a few holders, so that the people of the State will be no losers by its being wiped out. It is a noteworthy fact that of the three or four great subjects before the various State Conventions for their action this has been the only one upon which there has been any very marked division of opinion or any very vigorous debates. The repeal or nullification of the ordi nances of secession has been effected in each State almost without discussion, and by nearly unanimous consent. The abolition of slavery in the respective States has been recognised by each of them without contention or opposi tion. But in every State there has been a strong effort made to secure the recognition and payment of the State debts contracted during the rebellion.—New York Times. A frightful attack of neuralgia in the face and mouth cured by a few 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 hydeian agents and all medicine vendors. ESSEX. The cattle disease, which had abated somewhat in North Essex, has reappeared with severity. Mr. Hedge, of Reedhall, has had some animals attacked, and the disease has also shown itself at Manningtree, Ardleigh, St. Osyih, &c. Mr. J. F. Butler, of Childerditch-hall, near Brentwood, has lost 12 beasts, and several other animals which have been attacked are not expected to recover. GLOCESTERSIIIRE. In the division of Lawford's-gate the cattle plague has been confined until the last few days to Upton Beach and the neighbourhood. In that district, unhappily, 81 head of cattle have either died of the plague and been buried, or have been killed and buried. The disease has now broken out in the parish of Horfield, in the same division, but some eight or nine miles distant from Beach. From a report made to a meeting of magistrates there can be little doubt it was brought from the Bristol market into the parish of Horfield. NORTH AND EAST RIDINGS. This is the fifth week of the prevalence of cattle plague in the districts north and south of Malton. A few days ago the disease seemed to be very slightly, if at all, on the increase, and no new cases were reported. This was attributed to the frosty weather which prevailed. Wet and mild weather has since set in, and with it the disease seems to have broken out afresh. Hitherto all cases in the Mal ton district have been directly traceable to the York market, which the ex-Lord Mayor declined to close, but there are several cases of outbreak this week of which it is impossible to trace the origin. In the North Riding the plague has continued to spread at Flaxton, Sutton, Farlington, Sheriff Hutton, Eas ingwold, &c. At the latter place 128 deaths are reported. These are all old centres of the plague. A fresh outbreak occurred among a herd of 22 beasts belonging to Mr. Abel, of Farlington, and many are dead. The origin is not known. At Las tingham on the Moors, the most easterly place the plague has yet reached, a serious outbreak has occurred among a herd of crossbred steers, bought by Mr. Helm chiefly on the Moors and in the north. These were brought to Malton market after it was closed, and thence driven back to Newsham. They were again removed on the outbreak of the plague among the large herd of Mr. Robinson's, brought from the eastern counties and York. The infection is supposed to have been taken from Mr. Robin ! son's beasts. The statistics of the plague in Mr. Robinson's herd are now, at Newsham, 14 dead, 6 diseased, 18 sold to]Leeds butcher ; Old Malton, 7 dead, 2 remaining, 10 sold ditto. At Newsham the disease has crossed the river to Mr. Frank's farm, where the fat English cattle have been attacked. One is dead, four are bad. The disease has also spread to the adjoining farms at Blackwater, where the milch cows have taken it, and is also said that several pigs are likewise in the disease. The dis ease has also broken out at Halton, the village ad joining Newsham, on the farms of Mr. Barker and Mr. Stockton. It seems likely that the plague will thus spread through Ryedale. These cases seem clearly traced to the herd of travelled beasts brought into the district from York. At Bourton-le-street the disease continues, and on Saturday a heifer and a cow of Mr. Hickes', of Slingsby, three fields dis tant from Mr. Carr's farm, caught, the infection. All Mr. Soulby's herd is now dead at Hutton, but it is singular that a steer which had been on the farm all summer, and was placed with the strange beasts, has not caught the disease and,is now quite well. On Saturday, however, the plague broke out on Mr. Wilson's farm, adjoining. On Saturday, also, the plague was reported on the farm of Mr. Harding, Pickering Marishes, among a fine herd of cattle bought at Malton fair nearly eight weeks ago. These beasts have since that time never been within half a mile of the road. In the vicinity of Thirsk, Boroughbridge, Helmsley, &c., the disease is spread ing. In the East Riding Mr. Cross, of Norton, has lost all his milch cows, and a special subscription is being made for him. At Mr. Kirby's, at Welham, 11 beasts are dead, and 7 are under treatment. On the adjoining farm Mr. Pexton has lost six, and ten have the disease. Mr. Jordan, of Weaverthorpe, has 15 ill and 7 dead. Mr. Botterill, of Sledmere, has 6 ill and 10 dead. At Beverley, Market Weigh ton, Pocklington, Holm-on-Spalding-Moor, and in Holderness, the plague is increasing. These are all old cases, traceable to York or Beverley markets. On Saturday, at Beverley, before the East Riding magistrates, the inspector of cattle for the division of North Hunsley Beacon, Mr. George Holmes, veterinary surgeon, of Beverley, was asked for an explanation with respect to an information laid by certain of the inhabitants of the parish of Kilnwick, within his district. The allegations set forth that by his orders certain beasts belonging to them, grazing in a field atLockington, and which had beenin com munication with a bull that had died of the rinder pest,impo r h t a ea d b t e h e e n d r i e s m e a o s v e . e d o t o n Kl e i o f n w t h i c e k , e o a t nd ta g h e a r s d , there s so taken had been slaughtered slaughtered by its owner to pre vent the contagion spreading.giveThimepinersapteicvteor orders' s an - swer was that he did not that the cattle should be removed, but that he stated permission might be given to the owners to remove them if they liked, as he did not consider they had been sufficiently near the diseased bull to be in danger, and when he spoke about it the animals were well. The Bench considered that he must have known the great danger of permission being given, and were bound, for the safety of the public, to dis miss him froth his office as inspector. New cases, of which it is impossible to trace the origin, broke out at Mr. Grundon's, of Croombe, and at Mr. Green's, of Rookdale. In the latter case the plague is among the young stock, which has never been off the farm all the summer. This is by far the most Losses and Gains of the Southern States. The South (says the Memphis Bulletin) had invested in negroes, at $5OO each, a moneyed capital of two thousand millions. The ownership of the negro's labor subsists, and no longer that of the negro. Is the South a loser by this avoidance of title to the one incident of African slavery ? Heretofore all profits of Southern industry were invested in the double character of the negro. To own his labor, it was neces sary to own his person. The former was all that was profitable ; the latter, worse than valueless. The profits arising from cotton and sugar fields were absorbed by mode of investment which yielded no income. To buy labor, the planters bought a consumer of the products of labor. Under the present system he will have no such capital, worse than dead, in that it lived. The life of a planter was a dead circuit. He toiled to make money to buy negroes, and bought negroes to make more money. The proceeds of each crop was anticipated and invested in negroes, who made cotton to discharge " acceptances," again renewed to buy more negroes, to make more cotton. The industrial life of our farming population moved ceaselessly in this tedious circle. Very suddenly the planters' mode of thought and existence - have been changed. The ship in which they sailed along the tide of time is suddenly anchored, and all on board are staggered by the shock. It has occurred to us that the damage done is imaginary. It consists chiefly in the fact that the people are left_ on an unknown shore. If they calmly look around them they may discover that nothing has been actually lost. It may even prove that they are in better condition than when following the Gulf Stream of established national habits. This flowed steadily on ward, enriching most remote islands and continents, like the great river of the Atlantic, which adapts the climates of England and France to the seat of magnificent civilisa tions. The products of land, the real capital of Southern far mers, will be more abundant, because the black gulph of absorption is filled. The two thousand millions of money invested in the bodies of negroes is not lost. It still hoes corn and digs potatoes ; while these products will be used, not in buying negroes, but in giving value to land and comforts to life. The old system of industry was destruc tive to real property ; the new will parcel out and enrich it. The negro no longer the object of purchase, the pro ceeds of industry will be expended in manufactures and schools. The negro himself will squander his gains in towns, villages, and on railways. The four hundred thousand former slaveholders feel the blow which loosened the negro's bonds. They will soon recover from the shock, while toiling millions of whites will hardly recog nise the change. We write of the future and not of the present. To make it what we have anticipated every citizen must at once adapt himself, his modes of thought and action, to his new relations in life. COUNTRY MARKETS BRISTOL-TUESDAY. At our market was a fair business doing in wheat, at the extreme prices of last week. Barley quiet, beans and peas firm, oats 6d per qr. dearer. LEEDS-TUESDAY. Factors firmly demand an advance for wheat, qut millers are not disposed to acquiesce, and purchases are restricted to immediate requirements. A good inquiry for barley, and better prices realised for the best dry qualities. Oats and beans fully as dear. Other articles as before. SHEFFIELD—TUESDAY. At to-day's corn market we had a fair quantity of wheat on offer ; many of the samples were only in secondary con dition ; the finest qualities were a trifle dearer ; other kinds a slow sale. Barley steady at last week's prices. Oats little or no alteration. Beans and peas higher. Red wheat, per load of 3 imp. bushels....l7s Oa to ,98 Od White do do it's 6d 218 Od New red do do l6s td )7 s 61 New white do do :88 6d 19s titi Beans do do l7s Od 19s Od Peas, per qr. Grinding - pa: ley, per qr 30s Od 32s Od Halting Oarley, t o 32s Od Ks Od Oats, do Ns Od 20s Od F10ur....1s Od to 210 d per 1111. L IVERP 0 OL-T UESDAY. At this day's market there was a good attendance of town and country who showed considerable disposition to buy, but the advanced prices asked restricted business. Wheat may be quoted 3d per 1001 b. higher on the week. Flour is per sack more money. Oats and oatmeal ad vanced ld to 2d per 451 b. and 1s 6d per load. Barley and beans maintained their value, and peas 1s per qr. dearer. Indian corn in good request. , MELT ON MOWBRAY . — TUESDAY. With a meagre supply the trade in wheat ruled firm at rather over last weeks rates. Barley disposed of at rather higher rather. Oats and beans maintained their value. White wheat, 47s to 57s ; red, 41s t o 52s per 36 stone. Barley for malting, 34s to 37s per qr ; feed, 29s to 31s per 30 stone. Oats. 19s to 30s. Beans, old, 40s to 525; new', 88s to 44s per qr. NEWCASTLE-UNDER-LYNE-X[ONDAY. 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 moderato, and re cent rates were maintained. Oats very firm, and boans made rather more money. Foreign Mail Packet List. . MAILS DUE. Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton Dee. 19. Ditto, via Marseilles Deo. 13. Brazil and Cape Verds, by British paa.ct Dec. 4. Ditto, by French packet Dec. Cape of Good lope, Ascension, and St. Helena.. —Dee. 1.2 China, Penang, and Singapore, via Sou hampton D a. 2. Ditto, via Marseilles Dec. 13 Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Dec. 2 Ditto, via Marseilles India (Bombay), via Southampton. Dic. 11 Ditto, via, Marseilles Dec._6 Mauritius, via Southampton Dec 12 Ditto, via Marseil.e 3 Dec. 6. Newfoundland 4 I Dec 6 • —.Deo 4. Port ugal Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon... United States and British North America, by Bri tish packet Ditto, by United States packet, via Southamp ton Ditto, via Curk Ditto, by Canadian packet, via Londonderry ..Dec. 8. West Coast of Africa. Madeira, and Teneriffe. Dec. 11. West Indies and Pacifies (except Bahamas, Cuba, and Mexico Dec. 4. Cuba and Mexico Deo. 29. Bahamas, via New Y ork. Deo. 14. 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We find it the safest remedy. Androv Ure, M.D., F.R.S. ; Dr Harvey; Dr Wurzer ; Dr Shorland ; Dr Campbell. We quote a few out of the 62,0 0 cures :—Cure No. 57,314. Tittenson - I cannot express my gratitude for the benefit I have derived from Du Barry's food. My aP' petite is perfectly restored, the pains in my leg, back, an d chest are quite gone, and I am fast gaining strength and flesh. Mrs A. Owen.—Cure No. 54,812. Miss Virginia Zeguers, cured of consumption, after her medical advisers abandoned all hopes of recovery.— Cure No. 49,832. 01 fifty years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, nervousness , asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms, sickness at the stomach, and vomiting. Maria Joly, Wortham, Ling, near Diss, Norfolk.—Cure No. 47,121. 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MTlE:gur.—On the 25th ult., at Oak Lodge, Addison- I ' o ° 4 'd Kensington, the wife of James M'Henry, Esq., of a son•. Marriages. FAWCETT CLAYTON.— 011 the 7th at St. Peter'° Church, Eaton-square, Pimlico, Mr. Oct.,R. W. Fawcet t ' eldest son of Mr. Thos. Lee Fawcett, of Victoria, I r e ~.1 1- couver's Island, British Columbia, to Emma Louisa, We second daughter of Mr. John Clayton, of Wreckwer" dine, in the county of Salop. H ORNM E—DORNFORD.-011 the sth ins'. at. the TereP le Church, Arthur, second surviving son'of the late Job?. Hornby, Esq., of The Hook, Hants, to Esther Dornforclf second daughter of the Von. the Master of the Temple. Deaths. GIBE.—On the Ist inst., at Cannes, Colonel Charles JODI' Gibb, RE., aged 43. GURNEY.—On the 4th inst., John Gurney, Esq., of Wee l '' street, Maidstone, aged 82. MACARTNEY.—On the 3d inst., at Great Torrington, Nora' 'Devon, Major James Nixon Macartney , late 7th Drag Guards, aged 63. n n el lIPTON.—On the 26th ult., at Ventnor, Isle of Wight, i v / Ropes Bulhad Upton, Esq., of 88, Beaver-street, -1-`e_f York, and Clifton, Staten Island, U.S., eldest son v Benjamin Upton, Esq., of New York, U.S. -- --- --- ...-7:---__ , London : Printed and Published by WILLIADI W 2! ANDRE of No. 112, Strand, Printer , at Tit:: SUN Ofnoe, No. 11 Strand, in the Precinct of the Ssvoy. in the Counts of laiddlcses.—Wednesday, December 6, 1665. ON Eva R EVN/s/.: w 14, liU:: IDITJ Freehol fee, or ; three ye discounl Made to 15 years er,veiop S A 1 This The p inaltatiO on Wrap So'd tester ; Sons, L versan y , THE 14 . ALortga, having secured Ijost( 43 ,228 zquir Elie n o Pay; Sir S. JameE Railway IV. F Railway a. J. 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