The Sun. — London, England, 1865-11-27 00:00:00

Lord Campbell on Foreign Policy• LIBERAL MEETING AT HARWICH. On Thursday evening the annual meeting of the Harwich Liberal Association was held at the Three Cups Hotel, Dr. Burt in the chair. The attendance was both numerous and influential. Lord Camp bell, who formerly represented the borough, had been invited to attend and address the meeting, and he had accepted the invitation. Dr. BURT introduced, in some appropriate obser vations, the noble visitor. Lord CAMPBELL, on rising, was received with loud and reiterated cheering. He said—Dr. Burt and gen tlemen, amid the many cares and disadvantages which belong to a political career, there are few greater pleasures than that of meeting from time to time a body of electors. When with that body of electors one has lately had the intimate relation of a mem ber, when that relation has not been put an end to by any difference of opinion, but has only ceased under inevitable circumstances involving no breach of friendship or regard, the pleasure is still greater. (Cheers.) I lied little hesitation, therefore, in obzy ing the summons to attend here with which I had been honoured. Dr. Burt has alluded to the cir cumstances of the recent contest. It would be out of place for me to touch upon them. But I have heard with satisfaction that in his judgment they ought not to damp the spirit of our party. (Cheers.) Gentlemen, when this association meets, as it has done to-night, a question must present itself, wider and more serious than even those which lately oc cupied the borough. The question must present it self, what ought now to be the aim of the reforming party in the country ? Ought that party to repose on the triumphs it has gained, or seek new dangers and exertions ? And if it is not doomed, if it is not permitted to stand still, what ought to be the field of its activity ? It cannot be denied that when great results have been attained, there is not so much as there was before to be accomplished. (Cheers.) We live no longer in the days when slavery existed in our colonies, when ratepayers had little voice in cor porations, when a demoralising poor-law under mined the capital and weighed upon the labour of the country, when foreign corn was driven from our harbours, when commerce was restricted as regards the vessels it employed, when children toiled without protection in our factories. (Cheers.) Whilst re flecting on the great objects which had then to be approached, and the great problems which had then to be adjusted, reformers may sometimes be tempted to cast on those days " a lingering, longing look be hind ;" to prefer the animation of the struggle to the honour of the victory ; to think pursuit more en viable than attainment, and to despise the charms of rest, amidst the torment of insatiate activity. Gen tlemen, the man would be a happy one who could point out safe and creditable, and at the same time suf ficient objects, to the passion I have pointed to, and which, unless in some degree exhausted and as suaged, must tend, from time to time, to prey upon the social fabric of the country. (Cheers.) In addressing his constituents, about a year ago, the member for King's Lynn enumerated a series of measures which, in his opinion, might yet be sub mitted to the Legislature. What they were I need not now consider ; but this I would not hesitate to say, that if, as we have heard, "The man who makes two blades of grass grow where but one grew before, is a benefactor to society," still more gratitude is due in our age, and in our country, to the person who explains a dozen possible improve ments when there appeared to be hardly any method left for occupying Parliament. (Cheers.) If lam not mistaken, the member for King's Lynn, amongst other plans for that great and necessary object, mentioned the assimilation of the marriage laws in England, Ireland, and Scotland. It ought perhaps to be considered as the privilege of our day that minor topics may be listened to. (Hear, hear.) It is only when great political anomalies have been withdrawn from the statute-book that questions which regard still more intimately the happiness of individuals and families are apt to be considered by the public. Amongst these a high place has justly been accorded to everything bearing upon the sana tory state of our cities. (Cheers.) Lord Palmerston, whilst at the Home Department, had the good for tune to lay down the principle that in great esta= blishments smoke ought to be consumed. (Hear, hear.) The principle has had as yet a partial and not unsuccessful application. One would like to !, see it carried out until a thorough change had been effected in the atmosphere of' cities. When you reflect on the masses they contain, the benefits of such a change would be incalculable. (Cheers.) Daylight is an advantage in itselZ, but it has this peculiar force besides, that every other benefit ap pears to be enhanced by it. Gloom and darkness are in themselves considerable evils, •but beyond that, they give an aggravated form and colour to all the other evils under which humanity may labour. To pass to another point of possible im provement, he could not help believing that some thing might be done in connexion with the official salaries of the subordinate appointments held by members of the Government in both Houses of Par liament, calculated to give merit and ability a mere sure, a more encouraging career, and to defeat the jobbery and nepotism by which they were occa sionally hindered. (Cheers.) It would not be judi cious upon his part to go into all the details of what had struck him on that question, since he had not had an opportunity of submitting to the correction of any other mind. And in a country like ours no scheme ought ever to be prematurely or incautiously submitted to a body of electors. (Hear, hear.) The general idea would be to reward administrative labour on the one hand, and to encourage Parlia mentary exertion on the other. (Cheers.) It seemed to him that a double obligation fell on public men in such an epoch as the present ; one to remind the country- that we had no such field as we used to have for legislative progress ; the other to rack their weary and exhausted brain's for such improve ments as might still be added to our system. (Loud cheers.) Eloquent encomiums have been passed on Lord Palmerston. (Cheers.) But the most eloquent of all is, perhaps, that which facts are daily heaping upon him. (Hear, hear.) His loss is teaching us his value. Where there was tranquillity and confidence, we now observe a certain restless expectation. "Where there was contentment and repose, excitement and distrust appear to have re placed them. (Cheers.) We thu s h ave ascertained the space he filled, because we see the chasm he has opened. We know the luminary - which has gone, because we feel the darkness which succeeds to it. At such a moment it is not uninteresting to glance at the peculiar difficulties to which the country i s ex posed, not with a view to any exaggerated sense of their importance, but in order more clearly to remark the remedies which they admit, or the securities which balance them. (Hear.) Every political society has certain dangers of its own, and difficulties which beset it. It is enough for us if those which relate to our country are less serious and grave than those by which other countries are frequently encom passed. (Cheers.) From the exalted place which com merce occupies amongst us, the first of these stand ing difficulties which. naturally strikes our attention 13 the liability to those monetary panics which alarmed us in 1847 and 1857, and unhappily on .many more remote occasions. The mischief they ix t olve can hardly be imagined, because it threatens only every class, but every individual in society. When credit suffers: when permoney is felt to be no longer convertible, when pa celebratedbanks are closed, when great establishments t ff are ruined, i the labour market cannot fail ~e r,, ,,a nc no man feels secure as to the income he su s. (Loud cheers). The evils of invasion a p . r u e_ s i e n 's s e ome de4ree those evils the most salient produced, becaisse among is the blow which monetary conficlenrt, livsatsleaartl.yticetro tain to sustain from it. (Ch eers.) these serious calamities tha t the Bank Chalarterylet of 1811 was designed by Sir R o b ert Peel, yiindatieia car ried by the Legislature. (Hear, hear.) men are still in doubt -as to its policy, and as the panics of 1847 arfd 1857 took place under its pro visions, one cannot say that it has yet fulfill e d i ts admirable purposes. At the same time, it may have rendered the Bank of England more cautious than it used to be. (Cheers.) it may have taught them by a well considered elevation of the rate of interest on certain given symptoms to prevent that rapid efflux of the precious metals from the country, which must occasionally tend to non -convertibility. (Cheers.) The principle appears to be indisputable, because all the facts unite in its support ; that a high rate of interest compels gold to find its way into the country where such a rate of interest is known to exist. And so long as the reserve of the precious metals was abundant these panics have never been known to be serious. (Hear, hear.) On the other hand, a high .rate of interest can never he regarded as encouraging to speculation and to industry. Ingenious argumentshave been employed against it, both in England and France, and there is no appa rent end to the controversies which still prevail on the subject. In the .present Chancellor of the Ex chequer we have a statesman friendly to the act of 1844 becuuse he was a party to it, and a disciple of the great man who proposed it •, a statesman far too eager for improvement and discovery to be blind to the defects which time may have revealed in that arrangement, perpetually watching over our monetary system, and therefore giving every hope to the community that it may by-and-by obtain whatever possible stability the law can give it. (Loud cheers.) The celebrated Mr. James Wilson was also well known as a master of the subject, and he has left behind him as his successors a financial school imbued with his ideas, informed by his ex perience, and who can never fail to c3utribute to the lights of any Government by which the subject has to be considered. Gentlemen, another standing difficulty to which the country seems to be exposed arises from the uneasiness which habitually prevails as to the proper basis of the representative assembly. If the house of Commons happened to be merely an auxiliary body in the State , _ such a circum s t ance would be of little moment. But inasmuch as it is known to be, in point of fact, the seat of govern ment and empire, the questions which affect the manner of electing it must, in reflective minds, as sume a paramount importance. (Cheers.) At this moment all parties have professed an inclination to amend and alter the well-known Act of 1832. The question still to be considered is whether general reform or separate reform should be the principle adopted. Experience has given no doubtful voice in answer to this question. (Hear, hear.) In 1852 a general reform was tried, and in a few days it overturned the Government who offered it. (Cheers.) In 1854 a general reform bill was tried, but instead of ever being read a second time it soon became an object of derision and resentment in the country. (Hear, hear.) In 1859 a general reform was tried, and was in a short time decisively rejected in the House of Commons, and also on the hustings. (Loud cheers.) In 1860, for a fourth time, a general reform was tried, and after a long series of unan swerable criticisms from avowed supporters of the Government was ignominiously defeated. (Cheers.) Experience has thus pronounced against the project of a general reform. And experience is that teacher to which the people of this country have always been inclined attentively to listen. (Cheers.) But if the proposition of a general reform has been exploded by the past, the proposition of a separate Reform has been encouraged and confirmed by it. (Cheers.) The only innovation we have seen yet in. the act of 1832 has been accomplished in this manner. It was by a separate reform that in the year 1850 the Irish fran chise was extended. (Cheers.) The bill was pro perly discussed and temperately handled in both Houses of Parliament, and all parties finally con curred in its adoption. Since that time it has given satisfaction to the people it was framed for. (Cheers.) And in Ireland, disturbed as it may be, you never hear of any movement on that subject. The prin ciple of general reform has, therefore, been con demned. (Cheers.) The principle of separate reform appears to be triumphant. No doubt, at first sight, large and successive measures have something cap tivating in them ; but separate reform which finds its way into the statute-book is more productive and more practical than the grandest schemes which merely roused a speech or agitate a Parliament. The slow and melancholy wave which winter after winter lurks under the cliff and steals new limits for the waters is more important in its consequences, or if you will, more fatal in its march, than the springtide which, full of joy and ebullition, but ever certain to exhaust itself, at given moments dashes over roofs and terrifies marine municipalities. (Cheers.) In 1848 the European powers were submerged in revo lutionary movements ; and in 1850 the very trace of those movements disappeared. Great Britain stood immovable and passionless amidst the wreck of dy nasties and crash of thrones ; but as soon as order shone again upon a troubled world she took her very first step in the path of representative improvement. (Cheers.) It may, therefore, well be asked, why should not the step so happy and successful be re peated ? (Hear.) if you inquire what might now be done with safety and advantage, I should not scruple to reply without going too far into detail, that the next separate reform which seems to me to claim attention would be a measure to extend the franchise in our counties. (Cheers.) It is ad mitted by all parties that beneath the present limit, viz., £5O, a considerable mass of householders are qualified to vote. (Loud cheers.) To enable them to do so would merely be to pay a debt which has not been contested. (Cheers.) It may happen in political, as it often does in private life, that one sep as to the policy of which no doubt exists may be the means of dispersing various perplexities which seem to be beyond it. (Cheers.) As regards the borough franchise, no doubt it is entitled to the gravest possible attention. (Cheers.) Unfortu nately the subject is overwhelmed with complica tions. (!fear, hear.) Two systems have been ad vocated under the titles of vertical and lateral reform. The vertical reformers wish simply to lower the £lO qualification. (Cheers.) The lateral re formers desire to establish means by which deserving men would be admitted to the register whether or not they had houses of their own. (Hear, hear.) The vertical reformers have conceived a violent an tipathy to lateral reform, which they never missed an opportunity of holding up to popular derision. (Cheers.) The lateral reformers have contended with great ability and eloquence that vertical reform would lead through democratic change to military despotism. While such a contest rages a dead lock is the inevitable consequence, and some inquiry ap pears to be essential in order to pave the way for legislation upon that part of the subject. (Cheers.) No time, however, would be lost, because in the meanwhile the county franchise might be settled. (Hear, hear.) For my part, it may be rash to say so, but still I am convinced that those who resist inquiry as regards the borough franchise are, in point of fact, resisting le g i s l a ti on on it—( c h eers )— because in the present temper of the country and Parliament you have no right to look for legislation on that vital point—(cheers)—until inquiry has preceded it. (Hear, hear.) Gentlemen, I will now allude to but one further topic. Happily the stand ' ing dangers of a country like our own are very soon enumerated. And whoever attempts to touch upon them will always be near the end of his remarks. In common, however, with nearly every other State, we have liability to war more serious to us on account of the extensive frontier on which we are assailable. No one ought to wonder that there should be a strong desire of avoid ing war among the people of this country. We have no objects which cannot be pursued by other methods, our large and complex interests are threatened by it, and there is always this considera tion, that we may very possibly impair, and can never much increase our reputation by embarking in it. (Cheers.) We all know that ages must elapse before, in the common tenor of the world, we can hope to see on land another Wellington, or another Nelson on the waters. Against the risk of war there are doubtless many circumstances to defend us. (Cheers.) The strength of our navy, the discipline of our army, the number of our volunteers, all tend to save the country from hostilities. In addition to such material defences there used to be that of an enlightened foreign policy, which, by giving us alli ances and credit in the world, made it far less pro bable that any other power would be dispoSed, directly or indirectly, to attack us. (Cheers.) About languagea seclusion oa year ago it cannot be denied that foreign policy becam e in some degree discredited amongst us. The at influence in with absolute affect the balance (Hear, hear.) N o of not made a brillia E n u t : la the moment was to repudiate attempts Both in Denmark andruir.:. the treaties of which fi rpe to be content with insular watch with patient resignation, if not indifference, the movements which different powers in the world. doubt during the year 1864 we had on the continent. (Cheers.) we V we l r a e nd h foree overwhelmed us gliuu t seten caappeared patrons, and o bein other parts of the globe our d i i diminishing. A natural transactions, together with the disposi tion ro se f rtoom believe these that foreign policy ought no longer to engage thoughts and our exertions. Had there beernothoinr to explain the reverses which we met with that view might might have been reasonable. But now that we are able to look back with greater coolness on the facts, we may see that they admit of easy explanation, and are not such as to warrant in tl , ie long ru n t h e great despondency they led to. 11 e see, by look ing back, that foreign policy has never been suc cessful in this country, un less—vbject , of course, to popular opinion out of doors—one mindin some degree inspired and controlled. That mind may be centred in the Sovereign, as it was in Elizabeth, in Cromwell, in William 111., by all of whom our foreign policy was ably conducted. (Cheers.) It may be centred in the Prune Minister, as it was in Sir 11. Walpole and Lord Chatham, both of whom increased our reputation on the conti nent. (Cheers.) It may reside in the Secretary of State, as it (lid when Lord Bolingbroke, when Mr. clrs. Cannin g , leel and a s it did i n l ater t i mes w h en L or d n presided at th e F ore i gn - o ffi ce. (L ou d But foreign policy has never been success ful whenwere boththoef P t r h i e m m e a A n 1 l i b n i i s ta t . o e u r s a n ot d c S o e n c t r e r o t l a l r i t y l g o f it, S ta h a t d e b of or i i sof own,them pretensions so to do, had each opinions while lmic le e it rh h oo e w r f bowed to the ascendancy of the other. tion from the summer however, was down n to exactly al,e r o y u r posi recent moment. (Hear, hear.) The Foreign-office was divided in point of fact between Lord Russell and Lord Palmerston. (Hear, hear.) Neither of those distinguished men could be expected to renounce an aspiration which only one could gratify with safety to the public. Was it to be supposed that the First Minister, who had been more prominent than any one in guiding foreign policy—(cheers)—since 1830, was likely to withdraw his mind from the very field in which he was a master? Was Lord Russell, who had filled the highest offices in the State, who for many years had been the leader of his party, in the department he consented to assume, to become the second and the instrument of any governingsuperior? (Cheers.) Gentlemen, you well know that two artists at the same picture would be likely to com pose a daub, and that two pilots at the helm would be pretty certain to contribute to a shipwreck. But when equal and competent minds distract the Foreign office you have another inconvenience besides the conflict of opinion which is certain to arise. In such a case, when a question reaches a certain pitch of difficulty and perplexity, each is ready to devolve the burden of adjusting it on the other. (Cheers.) The result is, that every transaction bears the trace of a divided will, and also of a faint or scarcely felt responsibility. (Loud cheers.) Ifunder circumstances so exceptional our foreign policy had been more disastrous than it was, it ought not to be inferred that we should henceforward abandon and renounce it. (Hear, hear.) Some, however, are inclined to disparage foreign policy, not only the-ground of late events, but from a vague and general impression that it increases the risks of war instead of adding to the chances of tranquillity. An opinion of this sort will not bear the light which facts can throw upon it. (Cheers.) I have already mentioned in cidentally the most distinguished men who have pre sided at the Foreign-office. As regards Lord Boling broke, the first of them in point of time, he gained 'his credit and exerted his ability in withdrawing Great Britain from a long and tangled war—on the Continent. (Cheers.) From 1822 to 1827, Mr. Canning, the Secretary of State, was perpetu ally averting war, now by caution and reserve, now by audacity and eloquence, now by breaking up alliances, now by forming combinations, now by concealing the resources, now by exhibiting the arms, now by restricting the engagements, now by blazoning the duties of his country. Three times Lord Palmerston presided at the Foreign-office. (Cheers.) In none of these three periods was any war occasioned. (Cheers.) When Belgium was created, when the Quadruple Alliance was estab lished, when the Queen of Spain was settled upon her throne, when Portugal was rescued from Don Miguel, when Turkey was defended against Egypt, Great Britain avoided war, and its risks were con stantly diminishing. (Hear, and cheers.) It is not, therefore, as a road to war, but as an antidote to war, that foreign policy deserves attention from the country. (Cheers.) Among those who see it in that light there can be little doubt as to the prin ciples by which it ought to be directed. They are, in point of fact, the principles which guided Mr. Canning when in 1822 he sat as member for your borough. (Loud cheers.) The first principle of Mr. Canning at that epoch was moderation and re serve when a difficulty happened in rvhich Great Britain was not called to interfere, or could not in terfere without a hazard disproportioned to the ob ject. (Cheers.) This great principle he illustrated in all the tenor of his conduct during the war between France and Spain in 1823. The next principle he had occasion to exhibit was that of a sagacious vigilance to restore the balance of power when some inevitable blow happened to descend upon it. He acted upon this principle in his famous recognition of the South American Republics. (Hear, hear.) His third great principle was alacrity and vigour when good faith and treaties called upon Great Britain to exert herself in defence of an ally whom other Powers were assailing. (Cheers.) This principle was admirably exercised by his prompt and bloodless expedition to the Tagus in the winter of 1826. (Renewed cheering.) The last principle he illustrated was that of temperate and steady zeal for civil and religious liberty in countries formerly enslaved and just awakened to a love of independence. (Loud cheers.) The struggles of Greece against the yoke of Turkey formed the adequate occasion for it. (Hear, hear.) These principles belong to no single time, to no limited conjuncture. (Cheers.) The grand transactions in which Mr. Canning has em bodied them ought to be contemplated by all men who mix in foreign policy, as the sculptor contem plates the marbles of antiquity, with a view to ani mate his efforts and to raise his mind above the standard of the practices which may happen to sur round him. (Cheers.) In our day, however, a re source has been discovered which, unfortunately, never fell into the hands of Mr. Canning. The French alliance hardly came into existence as a fact or I. conception until the elder branch of the House of Bourbon was dethroned. (Cheers.) It existed in the midst of interruptions and of difficulties until the younger branch had passed away. Its operations were l ricarious and feeble under the usurpinc , chamber which fell before the coup d'état of 1851. 1 But no sooner was the French Empire established than the alliance reached a power and efficiency which had not hitherto been dreamt of. (Cheers.) Since then it has been felt in the Crimea, in China, and on the other side of the Atlantic. (Cheers.) It has aspired and contributed to nothing uncon nected with the freedom or the order of the world. (Cheers.) It has a natural foundation in the circumstance that at present neither Power has an aim which ought to be obnoxious to the other. (Cheers.) The alliance of the Western Powers is not unlike the conflux of the rivers by which your harbour is created. The Orwell and the Stour are far removed from one another in their fountains. They race towards the ocean as competi tors. (Cheers.) Perpetually the distance vanishes between them, until at last their waters are com bined into a sheltering expanse in which the tem pest-driven vessels of the main may find the refuge they are seeking. (Hear, hear.) So, too, France and England, distant in their origin and rivals in their course, have gradually approached one another un til their union offers to the world a prospect of re pose against the movements which disturb it. (Cheers.)• It is not possible, however, to maintain that the alliance has, as yet, produced its natural results, or that there is not much more to do than it has hitherto succeeded in accomplishing. The Ita• Tian difficulty, as far as Venice is concerned, is not likely to be settled until the diplomatic force of the alliance has been brought to bear upon it. (Cheers.) On that melancholy theme perhaps it will be found that more blame is justly due to Great Britain than to Austria. (Hear, hear.) In 1815, yielding to the blindness which induces States and individuals to pile securities and barriers against evils that are passed, and to leave an unguarded front to those which are impending, Great Britain became an in strument of planting Austria in Venetia. (Hear, hear.) Since then dungeons have been fitted, for tunes ruined, families dispersed, a country trampled down. (Cheers.) The interest and duty of Great Britain both prompt her to concur with France at 1 some well chosen time in the solution of this ques tion. (Cheers.) Her duty must be to repair so far as she is able the calamities her former errors had inflicted on Venice. (Cheers.) Her interest at any time may lead her to require from Austria that cordial adherence which Austria will never give to either of the Western Powers while Venice forms a portion of her territory. (Cheers.) While that state of things remains Austria will always lean — she does so at this moment—on Powers who favour ' her possession of it, and not on those who wish her to renounce it. (Cheers.) That question happily disposed of France and England would be able to put an end to the sinister combination of the two German Powers which has lately trampled upon everything sacred in freedom and in publiclaw —(cheers)—and which forms a standing menace to the honour of the larger States and the existence of smaller ones. (Cheers.) Whenever such a fatal combination has been altered, it may not be impos sible, although it will certainly be difficult to repair in Scandinavia some of those evils which the recent fall of Denmark has occasioned. (Cheers.) How ever that may be, the alliance of the Western Powers will never want employment in the East so long as Turkey holds Constantinople. (Hear hear.) These, at least, are among the objects to which the alliance of France and England may contribute. (Cheers.) But while some minds have a passion for great things surpassing every other passion in intensity, some minds regard them with indifference or aver sion, and will never admit that foreign policy is just unless you prove that we should be endangered by its absence. (Cheers.) The proof, however, is too easy—(hear, hear)—that if Great Britain withdraws entirely from Europe, as has sometimes been pro piooonisiggedeerr, 18 herl ecekr sesagtf regarded r t diyrei influence cd thee be compromised. (Cheers.) 1..,et us supp ose f or a m i nute that Great Britain no the ally o continent,f any an Powerd can it n con tains, what inevitably happens ? In consequence of The German Powers geographical position If P uce requires an ally. n (Cheers.) e aagneayrisomshtoativiniece:inrbt:ootibll cohnduct. leas lately had occasion different times, and rosy at ow rivals. (Bear, hear.) w protest in an emphatic (cheers.) Site wants support against them, dan gerous as they have often been to her existence or her policy. (Cheers.) Where is she to find it, when Great Britain has retreated altogether from the Continent ? Not, certainly, in Baden, in Wurtern berg, or in Bavaria. (Cheers.) Spain no longer exercises influence in Europe. (Hear, hear.) France is therefore driven to connection with St. Peters burg. (Cheers.) The tendency is strong enough when Great Britain balances and checks it, as you may see by many indications if you look at them. (Cheers.) But let that balance be withdrawn and that control entirely exhausted, France and Russia are compelled to divide in some measure the THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 27, 1E65. Continent between them—(cheers)—the German Powers generally following the latter, the maritime communities being more disposed to range them selves unier the former. Whenever differences arise, such a system must be formidable to Great Britain. (Hear.) But it becomes far more so if a great Power on the other side of the Atlantic is sure to gravitate towards it. (Cheers.) The United States have always leant to Russia, from a curious propensity which leads one grasping and ambitious Power, if they are not too near, into support and admiration of the other. They have always leant to France from a probable gratitude for the aid she gave them in their war of independence against England. (Cheering.) The withdrawal of Great Britain from all activity in Europe thus tends to bring about the union of these Powers, although for no immediate purpose of attacking her. But so long as she has various and remote possessions there are many seeds of controversy and collision. (Cheers.) The wrongs of individuals or of ships may be the pretext for hostilities. (Hear.) The united navies of France, Russia, and America must, according to the chances which Governments are required to weigh, drive Great Britain from the Channel. (Cheers.) Such is the position to which at least we should be liable ; beyond that point it is better to draw a veil over the picture. (Hear.) We should reap the proper fruit of a degenerate and isolated policy born of selfishness, aspiring to ease, renounc ing principle, and ending in destruction. (Cheers.) It is true, however, there are various securities against our sinking into such a dangerous isolation. (Cheers.) We have the history and traditions of the country, and the part it has sustained abroad ever since 1688 its liberties were settled. We have the inextinguishable lights a free Press can always offer on the subject. In these days of international connection we have the voice of Europe to admonish and to arouse us. (Cheers.) Above all, as a secu rity against the error I have pointed out, we have the deep, the genuine, and universal grief of which Lord Palmerston was recently the object. (Cheers.) It is not Consistent with the laws which govern nature and affairs that a people should pour out their sorrows on his tomb, and then at once repudi ate the elevated mission he always laboured to im press upon them, as the instruments of which he won their admiration and enthusiasm. That nation who had just united to do honour to Palmerston are hardly ripe as yet to sacrifice their own. (Loud cheers.) Hypocrisy itself would not have ventured to bear his dust to Westminster, in order there to bury with it the views of policy and duty with which in every port of the globe his name will be identi fied. (Cheers.) The more, gentlemen, we glance at those views of policy and duty, the more we shall convince ourselves that they are not less essential to the safety, and tranquillity than they are con nected with the name, the character, and the gran deur of the empire. His lordship then resumed his seat amid enthusi astic and prolonged cheering. Railway and other Companies. it TRENT AND ANCHOLME This line, which connects the South Yorkshire and Manchester:and Sheffield Railways at Barnetby, will, it is expected, be opened for goods traffic during the ensuing week. The Government In spector has passed over the line, which is rated an important one, as bringing the South Yorkshire coal fields in direct communication with the Lin colnshire ironstone district. SAFFRON WALDEN. This line has been opened for traffic. It branches from the Great Eastern Railway at Audley End, to Saffron Walden, and is to be worked by the Great Eastern Railway Company. BUFFALO AND LAKE HURON. The report of the directors states that certain items in the accounts required modification, and with that object in view the Board were in com munication with the directors of the Grand Trunk Company. The absence of the president of that company in Canada, and the consequent postpone ment of their half-yearly meeting, had necessarily retarded the settlement of points of difference. The report and accounts of the Grand Trunk Company showed a balance of £13,788 to the Credit of the Buffalo and Lake Huron Railway Company. The traffic of the joint lines had recently undergone a marked improvement, and would be much larger were the rolling stock adequate to the requirements of the line. It was gratifying that a large propor tion of the increased traffic was earned without ma terial increase of expense, the net earnings of the three months to the 30th of Sept., being 66 per cent. over those of the corresponding months in last year. A circular was issued on the 25th of July to the preference shareholders, advising the immediate consolidation of the arrears of interest due to them. The subject, which met with a ready adhesion, would be brought before the ensuing general meet ing, counsel having expressed an opinion that legis lative sanction was necessary to its accomplishment. The several series of the company's coupons then due might be presented for payment on the Ist February ensuing. The abundant harvest of the past season in' Canada, and the relinquishment of hostilities in the United States of America, had tended to create a considerable activity in the trade and commerce of the country, which had a marked influence upon the traffic of the whole railway system of the province. Possessing as the Grand Trunk did a vast tributory territory, and access to varied markets, that section of the country served by the Buffalo and Lake Huron Railway could not fail to participate in, as it would to contribute to, the general prosperity of the united companies. The capital account showed that £1,488,167 had been expended. The statement of revenue account for the 11 months ended the 30th June last, showed that £23,416 had been re ceived and £7,749 expended, including £5,064 for interest, leaving a balance of £15,667. GRAND TRUNK OF CANADA. The traffic receipts on this company's lines for the week ending the 4th inst. amounted for local pas passengers to £3,653, mails, &C., to £829, for local efreightemigrants 7 a , nt 7 0d 23 11 , i3v f 6e o o r foreign for stock to £14,240, and for fo reign freight andlive stock to £2,349 —total, £29,064, and for corresponding week last year to £24,010, showing an increase of £5,064. The total traffic re ceipts from the Ist July to the above date amounted to £504, and for the corresponding period last year to £433,930, showing au increase of £70,375, or 16.2 per cent. PANAMA, NEW ZEALAND, AND AUSTRALIAN ROYAL MAIL. A general meeting of the company was held on Friday at the London Tavern--Mr. E. Colville in the chair. The report, an abstract of which has appeared in The Sun, was taken as read. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the re port, said they had incurred a considerable outlay, but he hoped that at the next meeting the share holders would hear of a considerable diminution in that respect. The receipts of the company for the six months ending the 30th of June were—for freight and passage money /60,429, - and for Go vernment subsidies £20,534, making a total of £80,963. The disbursements, exclusive of charges to repair, renewals, &c., were £65,155, leaving a surplus of £16,808, which surplus would have been larger but for the further loss sustained in working the new line between Melbourne and the northern and central provinces of New Zealand. This line had been discontinued, and as the loss incurred was included in the disbursements above mentioned no further charges on this account could occur. Notwithstanding this loss the directors were in a position to recommend a dividend at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum clear of income-tax, leaving £8,500 otherwise available. The Government of Now South Wales had agreed to pay an equal moiety of the subsidy for the service between Mel bourne and Otago, which had just been commenced, and for which the company were to receive £4,800 a year. The Government of New Zealand had de cided in favour of the higher rate of speed. He was sorry to have to speak of the . lawsuit which was awaiting judgment in the Court of Queen's Bench. It was an action brought' against those persons who had taken shares but who had refused to pay up. He only hoped the judgment would be in their favour, but he had not much doubt of that. Several shareholders asked how much the cost of this suit was likely to be. The SOLICITOR said he thought the cost would amount to about £l,OOO. The report was then unanimously adopted, and a divident at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum was declared. • A vote of thanks to the chairman con eluded the proceedings. EAST INDIAN IRRIGATION AND CANAL. The report of the directors states that the past season had in India been specially obstructive to open-air operations ; nevertheless, most praise worthy exertions had been made by the staff gene rally, and so that the anticipated satisfactory state of things had been delayed only for a short period. The commencement of irrigation only to a small extent before the end of the current year was confidently expected by the chief engineer, who stated that further portions of the canal between the Hooghly and Midnapore, and of the canal be tween the Roopnarain and Balasore rivers would be opened before January next, and other reaches in continuation before June next. All in the service. of the company appeared to have worked with dili gence and energy. and the result had been the ac complishment of a very satisfactory amount of work. According to the statements by the chief engineer, it would appear-1. That an early realisation of profits from irrigation may with certainty (though to a small extent at first) be anticipated ; 2. That by July next the company would be able to supply a large area of land with water for irrigation from the three main irrigating canals in the Cuttack Delta ; 3. That by the same time further portions of the canal intended to connect Calcutta with Midnapore, and of the tidal canal intended to con nect Belasore with Calcutta, would be opened for traffic. 4. That the tolls upon the still unfinished first section of the Calcutta and Midnapore Canal (the Oolaberiah Canal) had steadily increased, al though from the scarcity of boats, caused by the cyclone of October, 1864, trade had become re strained for a time. 5. That the tolls on theßanka Nulla Canal—the first section of the tidal canal— had also increased. 6. That an arrangement had been concluded with the Bengal Coal Company for the carriage of their coal through the Oolaberiah Canal by the boats of this company. And 7, that the remainder of the company's boats had been fully employed with other freights. The receipts on ;ac count of tolls and other sources in India to June 30 last, and in England in respect of interest upon un expended capital to the 31st ult., showed a total of £17,917. The six several works now in course of execution would be more than provided for by the present capital of £1,000,000 ; on the 31st ult. a sum of £582,737 had been received on account of capital ; and the expenditure in England and remit tance to India amounted to £519,109, leaving a balance in hand in England of £63,628, of which £lO,OOO had since been forwarded to India. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. -4, TIIE "SATURDAY REVIEW" ON THE DYING OUT OF MINISTERIAL JAUNTINESS.-Sir Robert Peel did not care a straw for the mass of his colleagues, but he was staunch in his admiration and loyalty towards Lord Palmerston. This, however, is a quality which Lord Russell is commonly supposed to set an extremely small value upon. The poet's injunction, " To thine own self be true," has contained the whole of his simple faith, and it does not appear to have gone unrewarded. If Sir Robert Peel had acted rather less disinterestedly on this not very exalted principle, he too might perhaps have been on the winning side in the new arrangements. had he but served himself with half the zeal with which he served or imitated Lord Palmerston, he would not have been left naked to his enemies. Most characteristic of all his services was his onslaught upon the contumacious elector at Tamworth some two years ago. This was a vastly successful asser tion of the great principle so fashionable at the time, that, in politics, nerve and muscle are more important than soundness of views or liberty of private judgment. The fallen elector may be taken as the unconscious representative of earnest convic tions, and laborious searchings after what is best, and of the gravity of politics. All these disap peared before the muscular impetuosity of the Irish Secretary. But the thrashed elector is avenged. Muscular politics are in their decline, and, in the nascent revival of political earnest ness, how are the jaunty fallen ! Jovial Privy Councillors are not to chaff Chartist butchers ' nor administer lickings to r e cusan t vo t ers . Perhaps Lord Russell will even interfere to prevent Sir George Grey's continued patronage of his muscular friends, the garotters ; and, if the new Government is really going to consult the bodily safety of the lieges, it will well either to remove Mr. Milner Gibson, or else to urge him to give up aiding and abetting the railway companies in their misdeeds. After all, a Privy Councillor who occasionally re freshes himself by knocking down an elector, is pre ferable to one who lets other people sacrifice holo causts with comparative impunity. We cannot but think that the retirement of Sir Robert Peel will . act in some measure 'as a *al-din& to Mr. Gibson.' He, too, has on many occasions betrayed a fatal leaning towards the jaunty style, and jauntiness is for the future to be a mortal sin in British politics. We are all going to turn over a new leaf. Lord Russell deems it unworthy of a member of his illus trious family to crack a joke or to assume an air of gracious gaiety. Mr. Gladstone is so sore perplexed with those " humble faculties' and " feeble efforts" of which he is never tired of speaking, and alto gether life . presents itself .to him in so dread fully serious an aspect, that he cannot have any inclination ever to take things a little easily. Under these circumstances it would be very unbecoMing in obscurer mortals to introduce anything like levity into discussions which concern, however remotely, the interest of the com monwealth. Every member of Parliament must always be conscientiously recognising the responsi bilities of his august position. From a vast question of peace and war which affects the whole empire, down to a nomination:to a competitive examination for a berth in the Irish constabulary or a tide waiter ship, every public act is to be performed in a prayer ful and conscientious spirit. A privy councillor who should use his fist will deserve impeachment at least. A pun or a jest of any kind will be an out rage upon the public sensibility, a mark of disre spect to the grand principles which arc going to govern the universe. Anybody who is so basely indifferent to the truth as to think that each of two courses has about as much to recommend it as the other; will be held a wicked and reprobate Gallia. Considering this revolution in the orthodox official tone, . Sir Robert Peel is wise to leave Ireland to her fate and to retire from office. The grand old doctrine that " it will be all the same in a hundred years" has, so we are assured by our instructors, ceased to be a rule of our national administra tion. As Sir Robert Peel's tenure of office could only be justified, and his administration of it I could only be explained, on this comprehensive principle, it is natural that as soon as the principle is abandoned, or said to be 'abandoned, the Minister for whom it in a manner ac counted should be sacrificed also. Still the humane will feel some commiseration for the scapegoat of jauntiness, thus sent forth into the wilderness of unofficial life. Sir Robert Peel was always believed to take an interest in his work, and even a Conser vative opponent - has voluntarily come forward to protest that he always answered letters by return of post. But industry and a kind of will-o'-the-wisp enthusiasm are not enough in themselves. They are very good in their way, but in a man without discretion they are as a pearl in a swine's snout. And not even office could make Sir Robert Peel dis creet. Probably, when we are finally handed over to a too earnest Government, a sort of political Serious Family, we may occasionally look back to the days when statesmanship was none the worse for being a little free-and-easy on the outside. Still second-hand jauntiness, based on that of a great master of the art, is not a very good thing, as Sir Robert Peel's official career showed. The best that can be said of it is that it is better than the solemn priggishness and overdone humility which may take its place. THE " EXAMINER" ON THE NEGRO RIOTS IN JAMAICA.--Philanthropy will never make black white, or change one race into another. The reader, however, may prefer having the facts stated in an other form ' and in more detail, and this we do from the colonial blue-books. In 1850 the value of the sugar exported from Jamaica was £585,096, of Bar badoes £596,551, and of the Mauritius £892,840. In 1861 the value of the Jamaica sugars was £595,084, or in twelve years' time it had increased by a good deal less than 2 per cent. The sugar exports of Barbadoes in 1861 were of the value of £751,170, or had increased by better than 25 per cent. The sugar export of the Mauritius in 1861 was of the value of £1,771,867, or had in creased by better than 98 per cent. But this is not all. The returns for the two West India colonies come down only to 1861, while those of the Mauri tius come down to 1863, when the value of the sugar exported was £2,494,526, or above four-fold the value of the produce of Jamaica, which is seven times its size. The distress of Jamaica is partially ascribed to two years of extraordinary drought. But Jamaica is a well-watered land, and if it has been injured by unusual droughts, that is a calamity from which other countries have suffered, and this even in a far higher degree, as, for example, Aus tralia ; yet those countries make no bemoaning poverty-stricken cry on this account, but go on flourishing in spite of such ephemeral calamities. The misfortunes of Jamaica, according to Dr. Underhill, are coeval with the American Civil War, the very- event which has benefited other countries similarly circumstanced. During that war the price of cotton increased at least threefold, and, in consequence, millions of English capital were poured into India, Egypt, and Brazil ; but money would not go to Jamaica, because in that island there was no effective labour to till an exuberant and plentiful soil. Dr. Underhill, in his bill of indictment against the authorities of Jamaica, insists that the taxes are onerous, but his own facts do not prove this. The only example he gives does not prove this. It is a tax on the cottons with which the negroes are clothed. This, he says, is 38 per cent. on the value. If it were so, that would be a great deal too high, but not a starvation tax, for the people of the Southern States of the Arne rican Union paid their brethren of the North one of 12 per cent. higher, and did not on that account go naked, as Dr. Underhill says that negroes of Jamaica often do. But his statement is a blunder. The tax is, just as it used to be, 12i per oent., but the cotton famine produced by the American Civil War so raised the price of goods that the ad valorem duty became, like the price, as 38 to 121 upon the former cost of the article. As to Dr. Underhill's empirical notions of governmental help by precept and example, we must take leave to tell him that they are obsolete. The worthy doctor does not, in fact, understand the first rudiments of the science in which he hazards to give advice. The truth is, that the Baptist and other over-zealous friends of the negro are mortified and disappointed at the utter failure of their predictions. They are hoping against hope for better results than have yet come, in the elevation of the negro race, after 32 years of emancipation. The negroes of our West Indies, free for a generation, and the negroes of Hayti, not only free, but their own masters for two genera tions, are still, in despite of generous hopes and vaticinations to the contrary, barbarians of Africa who have but changed their sky. THE " ANGLO-AMERICAN TIDIES" ON IMPORTED BEEF.—We are now paying in England an average of about tenpence per pound for beef, and proportionately high for other varieties of flesh-food; while in some parts of the world cattle are .slain for their skins, and enormous quantities of good meat are thrown away for want of pur chasers at any price. Yet, the triumphs of commerce are among the greatest glories of this century; and the greatest of commercial triumphs has been in articles of food. Thousands would literally perish -with hunger were the present natural flow of food from agricultural Ame rica to manufacturing England, suddenly to cease. It is perfectly evident that the greatest perfection of commerce must consist in such an interchange of com modities as will produce the nearest approach to universal equilibrium of cost, especially in those articles . which are necessary for the people. In this direction im mense progress has been made with bread —immense pro gress with the less bulky articles of clothing ; but prices .would seem to show little progress in the article of meat, which, though altogether beyond the reach of some of our people, is still to be reckoned among the necessaries of life. The reason why commerce in flesh-food partakes little cf the general progress is to be found in its perishable character, and the special appliances which are therefore necessary for its transportation to great distances in a state of perfect preservation. The difficulties thence arising deter careful merchants from embarking in the trade ; but it is worthy of consideration whether those difficulties are not really less than they seem. If this should prove to be the case, men of capital and enterprise, who would thoroughly master the subject, and embark boldly in .the business of bringing us flesh-food from South America and other places in the best forms under which it is capable of transportation, would certainly reap abundant profits, besides conferring a great benefit upon the country. In anticipation of practical endeavours of this description wo venture a few suggestions. The vessels engaged in such commerce should be steamers, especially adapted for the purpose. This will certainly add to the cost of transportation, but it will also insure a rapid transit, which, with such perishable articles, is a very important matter. If transportation by steam . should cost £9 per ton that would be less than ono penny per pound of meat, and the South American beef would not cost the importer more than threepence per pound, delivered in Liverpool. Considering the quick transit, and consequently quick returns, fourpence per pound would yield a heavy profit to the merchant. Another penny would be a good profit to the retailer, and the public would still get an excellent article at fivepenco per pound. We say the public would get an excellent article, because it is to be presumed that merchants who under stand their business would not attempt to bring us bad salt, seasoned with meat, after the fashion of the Charqui, which is offered to the public at fourpence per pound. The meat is really good, and if it were well packed in good salt, and quickly transported in a suitable vessel, there would be little need of over seasoning. Charcoal packing for the deck, and metallic pipes iu the hold, communicating with the water, would keep the cargo very much cooler than the atmosphere of the tropics. A tithe of the steam-power of the vessel applied to a suitable freezing apparatus, would make the hold a vast refrigerator safe, in which meat could be kept fresh for a couple of months if necessary. Other ways of keeping the meat could be used with ad vantage. The dried or hung beef of the United States is very. palatable, awl not over seasonal. It costs little for curing, and would stand a reasonable vo y age . B ee f Sli g htly 'salted, -boiled, steamed, or roasted, and then pUt down in its own rendered fat, will keep well. In nitrogen gas meat will keep perfectly fresh for an indefinite period. Sugar will preserve it perfectly, and will not snake it unpala table. There aro still other modes of preserving, which would doubtless prove economical when applied on a large scale; but we have already mentioned enough to show that, with skilled packers and steam transportation, a trade in flesh-food could be done with America which would bo very profitable to the merchants, and highly advantageous to the people. Movements of Cotton in America• The United States Consul at Liverpool has written the following letter regarding cotton in America:— " United States Consulate, Tower-buildings, South, Water-street, Liverpool, Nov. 21, 1865. "Dear Sir,—Your letter asking me to favor you with such information as I obtained while in the States as to the quantity of cotton there, and the prospects for the future, has been received. " Knowing the importance of correct information upon this subject at the present moment to the manufacturing interest of this country, in reply I enclose you a copy of a letter from the Secretary of the Treasury at Washington received by me just before sailing. By it you will perceive that the quantity in the South at the time of the capture of Savannah by General Sherman in December last was about one million bales, and that the new crop of the present year will probably not exceed three hundred thousand bales. While in America I made most anxious inquiries from all the sources at my command, and which fully convinced me that since the capuro of Savannah there has been de stroyed, used in home consumption, and exported, an ave rage of about 13,000 bales per week; this will leave some thing over seven hundred thousand bales in the States, in cluding the new crop. " The weekly consumption in the States at the time I left was about ten thousand bales. It is expected that this home consumption during the coming winter and spring will be greatly increased owing to the demand for cotton goods, and the large profits realised, and will require not less than twenty thousand bales per week; the capacity of the mills, if run in full time and with a full complement of hands,- being sufficient to consume oven more than the quantity mentioned. " In consequence of the great destitution in the South, all the cotton is being hurried to market as fast as possible, and hence thi3 recent large receipts at the ports.—Very re spectfully yours, &c., Thos. H. DUDLEY. " Treasury Department, Oct. 27th, 1865. "Dear Sir,—Your favor of the 24th inst. is received. From the best information I can obtain, I estimate that the amount of old cotton in the Southern States, that was in a condition to be sent to market at the time of the cap ture of Savannah, did not exceed one million bales (1,000,800). This year's crop will probably not exceed three hundred thousand bales (300,000).—I am, yours very truly, "H. 31‘CunLocH. "Thomas H. Dudley, Esq." The movements of cotton at New York, during the week ending Nov 7, were as follows : Receipts, 26,076 bales ; sales and resales, 16,500 bales; exports, 9,010 bales. Middlings closed heavily, at 56c. to 561 c. per lb. Late Texas papers state that the accounts from the cotton regions of Texas continue unfavorable. To say nothing of the abatement of labor, the rains and the worm havo.wrought such injury as renders it certain that no more than half a crop will bo gathered from the ground planted. Many estimate the amount at much less. It is said that 25,000 bales of cotton will bo produced in Illinois this year. The New York Tribune, in an article on cotton, says:— " The crop of 1860 was about five million bales of 400 pounds each, worth to the growers, had no civil war in tervened, $5O per bale, or two hundred and fifty millions of dollars. Now the two millions on hand last May, the ono million grown this year, and the two millions which may be grown next year, have sold, or will sell, at the nearest railroad station or steamboat landing for an average of not loss than 321 cents (gold standard) per pound, or $l3O per bale—that is, for an aggregate of 650,000,000 of dollars. In other words, the planters will receive in the average as much for a crop of two millions of bales as they did for one of five millions. Cotton-planting in America is to-day the best business on earth—far better than gold-mining in any State or territory. Good planta tions in abundance can now be bought for $lO (greenback) per acre—say $lO,OOO for one of a thousand acres, whereof half is ready for the plough." The following is a statement of the movements of cotton for the week ending 21st October, at the southern ports, and 31st October, at New York ; also, the total receipts of all ports since let September compared with the last four years preceding the war : RECEIPTS. EXPORTS FOR PAST WEEK. Past Since To. Gt. To Other Week. Sept 1. Britain. France F. P. 1865-66 1860-61 102,000 543,000 45,000...11,000...4,0 00 1859-60 140,000 645,000 31,000...10,000...7,00 0 1858-59 llO,OOO 500,000 23,000...20,000...2,0 00 1857-58 EXPORTS SINCE IST SEPTEMBER. To Great To Other • Britain. France Foreign Ports. Total. Stock. 1865-66 136,000 7,000... 2,000...145,000...332,00 0 1860-61 121,000 35,000...19,000...175,000...446,00 0 1859-60 179,000 50,000...20,000...249,000...430,00 0 1858-59 103,000 54,000...12,000...169,000...308,00 0 1857-58 NEW ORLEANS. The following is a full statement of the movements up to October 25, the latest dates received by mail : Stock on hand Sept Ist, 1865 (bales) 83,239 Received to-day 1,785 Received previously 245,617 Exported to-day 2,793 Exported previously 124,026-162,371 Stock on hand and on shipboard not cleared GALVESTON. Mr. James Sorley gives these figures in his circular for October 21:— This Year. 1860-61. Stock on hand Ist. Sept., 1865 ...bales 13,857 3,168 Received this week Received previously 17,158 19,954 Received at other ports Total 38,006 ... 28,815 Exported to Great Britain Exported to New Orleans Exported to New York Exported to Boston 662 ... 2,701 25,397 ... 13,904 On hand and on shipboard not cleared 12,673 14,910 COUNTRY MARTaITS. NORWICH-SATURDAY. The supply of wheat was fair at this market to-day, and trade being slow, last week's prices were scarcely main tained, even for the best qualities, other sorts very dull and lower. There was a good supply of barley, and a trifling decline being acceded to by growers for the best malting qualities, a large business was done. Grinding and distilling sorts met a slow sale. In other articles not mach doing. White wheat (weighing 631 b to 641 b), 50s to 548 ; red ditto (weighing 631 b to 651 b), 50s to 528 ; best mal ting barley (weighing 551 b to 561 b), 30s to 33s ; runs ditto (weighing 541 b to 551 b), 28s to 30s ; distilling ditto (weigh ing 521 b to 531 b), 24s to 268 ; oats, 24s to 26s ; beans, 37s to 39s ; peas (maple), 36s to 38s per qr ; • flour, 33s to —8 Od per sack. YORK-SATURDAY. Our market was moderately supplied with wheat, which met a slow demand at last week's quotations. There was a tolerable supply of barley, for which the demand was middling. Prices in some eases lower. Oats small, and the trade firm at full prices. Beans at late quotations. New white wheat, 48s to 545; new red, 46s to 50s per 36 stone. Barley, for malting, 32s to 36s per qr ; grinding, 28s to 32s per 30 stone. Oats, new, 23s to 26s per 24 stone. Beans, 40s to 42s per 40 stone. Malt, 62s ; ryo, 28s per qr. Flour, 36s to 378 per sack of 2801 b. NOT TINGIL9.II-SATURDAY. There was a fair supply of wheat on offer, but the trade ruled dull, and the rates of the previous week fully sup ported. Oats were a moderate show, and met a fair sale at last week's rates. There was a small supply of beans, which met a steady sale at recent rates. Old white wheat, 54s to 59s ; old red, 49s to 53s ; new white, 50s to 568 ; now red, 42s to 50s per 36 stone. Bar ley, old malting, 27s to 38s per qr ; old grinding, 26s to 28s; new, -s to —s per 30 stone. Oats, old, 27s to 30s; new, 20s to 25s ; old foreign, 22s to 27s per stone. Beans, old, 48s to 52s ; new, 40s to 43s per 38 stone. Super flour, 37s to 39s ; fine, 34s to 36s per 20 stone. LEICES TER-SATURDAY. The attendance was about an average one, and the show of wheat was tolerable. Business was rather languid, and recent currencies maintained. The supply of barley was fair. Fine samples steady, coarse is per qr. lower• For oats there was a tolerable inquiry, and prices remained without material alteration. The show of beans limited, and sales took place at last week's rates. ' Old white wheat, 52s to 56s ; old red, 48s to Us ; now white, 47s to 54s ; new red, 41s to 49s per 36 stone. Bar ley, malting, 33s to 36s per qr. ; grinding, 28s to 30s per 30 stone. Oats, old, 27s to 32s ; new, 22s to 26s per 24 stone Beans, old, 488 to 52s ; new, 40s to 14s per 38 stone. Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS . DUE. Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton De°. 19 . Ditto, via 3larseilles Dec. 13: Brazil and Cape Verde, by British pao,et Dee. 4. Ditto, by French packet Cape of Good live, Ascension, and St. llama.— Duo. '.2 China, Penang, and Singapore, via Sou hamptou D o. 2. Ditto, via Parscilles Nov. Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton. India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton... Dec. 2 Ditto, via Mimcillcs India (I.l..mbay), via Southampton. Nov. 26 Ditto, via .tlarsciiles Nov. 26 Mauritius, via Southampton Dec 12 Ditto, via Marseil e. Newfoundland Portugal Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon... .. United btates and British North America, by Bri tish packet Nov. 30. Ditto, by - United States packet, via Southamp ton Ditto, via Cork Ditto, by Canadian packet, via Londonderry Dec. 1. West Ccast of Africa. Madeira, and Teucriffe Dec. 11. West Indies and Pacific . (except Bahamas, Cuba, and Mexico Nov. 21 Cuba and Mt de° Bahamas, via New Y ork. Deo. 14. Bermuda, ditto Deo. STEAMBOATS IN AMERICAN WATERS. The SI. Louis Republican says that steamboats are more nume rous and generally of a finer class than they•were be fore the rebellion. The St, Louis and New Orleans ton nage, now overforty thousand tons, is thirty-three per cent. greater than that of 1859. The Ohio river tonnage has creased fifty per cent. during the same period, the Missouri river tonnage has increased 50 per cent., and large addi tions have been made to the number of boats on all the upper rivers. Small steamboats have especially increased in the last five years. And yet these added tons are now • usefully employed upon the western waters, in the vast in ternal commerce which has recommenced with the peace. [ADVERTISEMENT.] —That the fearful annual mortality of 60,000 young children and delicate persons of all ages may be . arrested, if, instead of flying blindly to pills and mcdicines, which, though gyp ercntly relieving the patient, have is reality na o her tendency than that of increasing debility, and with it the danger of life, we were simply to study boW to increase the vital force by imparting new and pure blood, upon which the harmonious development of the whole frame depends, has been successfully proved by Du Barry's inva lids' and Infants' Food, the Revalenta Arablca, and its thousands of cures annually. It yields three times as rato l easily assimilated nourishment as the best meat, and for children it is the best substitute for human milt. Dr' Rout'', physician to the Samaritan Hospital for Women and Children—the best authority on midi matters —in his admir able publication on Food, says—Amongst the vegetable sub stances, that which comes closest to milk in its compositiou is, without doubt, Du Barry's Itevalenta Arabica Food, con aining both phosphoric acid in abundance and chloride a potassium ; it also includes casein, the same principle which is found in milk in its constituent parts. No wonder, there fore, that under its influence many children affected with atrophy (wasting away of the body), and marked debi have completely recovered. I have given it with the greatest advantage in such cases; and so far as I may judge from all own experience, practice fully carries out what theory', from a knowledge of its composition, led us to anticipate. In tins,l lb., 25. 98. ; 21b., 45. 6d ; Mb., Its. ; 121 b., 22x. ; 4 41b ' 40s.—Barry Du Barry and Co., No. 77. Regent-street, London; also Phillips, tea dealers, 8, King William-street ; likewi at 61, Gracechurch-street ; 4, Cheapside ; 49, Bishopagat e " street Within ; 63, 1.50, and 298, Oxford-street ; 330; Strand; 54, Upper Baker-street ; 103, Tottenham-court-road ; Upper-street, Islington, N. ; Harvey, Notting-hill ; Close Brothers, 65, High-street; and Stubbs, Queen's-terrace , S t ' John's -wcod, London ; and all respectable grocers and obe' mists.—Beware of spurious imitations. Births. - - - GREY. —On the 24th inst., at 19,Water-lane, Tower-streetl the wife of Henry Grey, Esq., of a son. HICKS.—On the 24th inst., at Notting-hill, the wife of G. E. Hicks, Esq., of a son. RAwLiNs.—On the 24th inst., at 2, Ladbroke-square, th° wife of Captain R aw li ns , 4th Regt., of a son. Marriages. CROMIE — MONTAGU.—On the 23d inst., at Christ Chu rcli, Bayswate r , J o h n C rom i o , E sq ., o f Cromore, co. London' (lorry, to Emily, eldest daughter of the late LordWillitoo Montagu. GILL—BRADLEY—On the 22d inst., at St. James's Cbur' r b e : Nottingham, John Henry Gill, Esq., of Sand i 'T Derbyshire, to Eleanor Jerram, second daughter o Bradley, Esq., of Nottingham Park. Deaths. ACKER-LIM—On the 22d inst., at the residence of his sis ter !. Mrs. Peter Brown, at Dover, Captain Charles K Ackerloy, RN., and brother to Chamberla,yne Chamber layno, Esq., of Mangersbury, county of Glouceste r. BROCKLY. 7 9I2 the 23d inst., at 71, Warren-street, Fitzror ury, square, Mr. George Brockly. T t , . Douscox.—On the 21st inst., at Abergavenny, Mon., 4,-,ria Dobson, Esq., of Fair Lawn, Merton, Surrey, aged 4-• FEILDEN.- On the 22d inst., at Great Ormond-street, -1-4°ll- don, John Feildon, Esq., aged 61. %Nor FExwicx.---On the 23d inst., suddenly, at Dalston, P-' Horace Fenwiek, aged 61. ~,t, gad Kensington, the 23d inst., at 16, Onslow-eres,-- d Kensington, T. J. Pettigrew, Esq F B.S. 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