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‘r HE SUP 4, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENENG, MAY 16, 1860. IMPERT AT, 'ARLIAMENT HOUSE OF LORDS—LAST EVENING, The Loth:. Cit.&NcELLon took his seat on the woolsack at five o'clock. PRIVATE BUSINESS The following bills were read a third time and passed : Lloyd Estate (Parleton); Worcester, Bromyard, and Leominster Railway ; Cleethorpe's Gas ; Aldrington, Hive, and Brighton Gas; Colchester Gas ; and Parsons town and Portumna Railway. The Tain Water and Congelton Gas Improvement Bills were severally road a third time and passed. CLAIMS OF OFFICERS—THE INDIAN ARMY. The Marquis of CLANRICARDE presented several petitions from officers in the Indian army praying for a speedy settlement of their claim. THE CATTLE PLAGUE IN IRELAND. The Marquis of CLANRICARDE asked the noble lord at the head of the Government if he had received any information tending to confirm a statement which appeared in some of the morning papers as to the outbreak of the cattle plague in the county of Down. Earl RUSSELL said the Government had received no information on the subject. Earl GRANVILLE said that a telegram had been re ceived from Professor Fergusson, to the effect that the disease had broken out in the county of Down, but that the local authorities would act on the instruction of the Privy Council, and would adopt precautionary measures in refe rence to two fairs that were to be hat in the neighbour hood where the disease had broken out. ATTORNEYS' AND SOLICITORS' (RELAND) 1866 BILL. The report of the amendments to this bill were brought up and agreed to. SELLING AND HAWKING GOODS ON SUNDAY BILL. Lord CHELMSFORD moved that the house should go into committee on this bill. Lord TEYNIIAIi moved that the bill should be com mitted that day six months, and presented several petitions against the measure. He said that in the metropolis no less than 20,000 were dependent for support on Sunday trading, which prevented them going to the workhouse. The injurious effects of the bill throughout the country would 'be most injurious to the inte rests of a very poor and industrious class, who were almost solely dependent on their dealings on the Sabbath. Practically regarded Sunday trading was a necessity, and he contended that the argument of the noble and learned lord who introduced the bill derived from the fact of wages being paid on Friday, and the half holiday on Saturday, in no way affected the classes who were interested in the continuance of Sunday trading. Lord CHELMSFORD, after protesting against what he described as the unusual course of opposing the committal of a bill which had passed its second reading without a division, remarked that the objections of Lord Teynham were contradictory and inapplicable. The suggested cases of possible hardship could be dealt with in committee, where power could be given to magistrates to award at their discretion penalties under a certain maximum amount. The bill sought to create no new law, but to render effi cient the law which had existed in this country for two centuries. Its aim was not to oppress any class of indivi duals, but to relieve large bodies of tradesmen who were now compelled in their own defence, against the selfish greed of a few, to forego the enjoyment of a day of rest, which was so useful and so beneficial to all men. The Bishop of CARLISLE, while approving the object of the bill, could not give it his support, because, in his udgment, with the numerous exceptions it contained, the passing of this measure into law would be giving a legis lative sanction to all those exceptional tradings on the Sabbath. Lord HARROWBY pointed out the absolute necessity of making some exceptions to a general prohibition of selling on Sundays in the interest of the poor dwellers in London and other large cities. The Duke of ARGYLL supported the bill, and, after a few words from the Bishop of OXFORD, The amendment was negatived, and the house went into committee upon the bill. The various clauses of the bill underwent considerable discussion, and several divisions took place, but no material changes were introduced. Several other bills also passed through committee. Lord CARNARVON, upon a formal motion for corre spondence, called attention to the recent outbreak of cholera at Liverpool among German emigrants, and, ex pressing an:opinion that the orders issued by the Privy Council were insufficient, recommended that measures should be taken by providing Wks for the accommoda tion of the emigrants arriving from Germany to isolate them from the inhabitants on shore. Lord GRANVILLE pointed out the difficulty of estab lishing at once a complete system of quarantine, even sup posing that such a system would be an effective preventive to the spread of cholera. He stated the various steps that had been taken, and especially that the Government had instructed the British Consuls to make known that ship owners here would not receive German emigrants on board their ships. The Duke of SOMERSET added that the number of hulks at the disposal of the Admiralty suitable for hospital pnrposes was very limited, but one had been placed at Cork, another at Plymouth, and a third in the Thames. The returns moved were then agreed to. THE BOMBARDMENT OF VALPARAISO. Lord HOUGHTON asked the first Lord of the Admi ralty what instructions were given to Admiral Denman I with respect to the blockade of the Chilian ports ? Serious hostilities had for some time existed between Chili and Spain, which had resulted in the bombardment of Valparaiso by a Spanish fleet. The bombardment had occasioned a great destruction not only of Chilian, but of British and other foreign goods. With regard to the act itself, it did not become him to offer any remarks. It might be within the rules of war, but he thought it was not usual to bom bard a city that made no defence.' His question referred to the conduct of a British admiral who was well known in this country, and whose conduct on the West Coast of Africa, when placed in a position of great difficulty, had certainly not erred on the side of want of enterprise. The British merchants at Valparaiso, having lost a large amount of property, were naturally annoyed, and seemed to imagine that the conduct of Admiral Denman had not been what it should be. They had held a meeting after the bombardment, in which they passed resolutions con demnatory of his conduct, alleging that he had given some assuranco that the British and American fleets would inter fere to prevent the blockade. He believed that Admiral Denman had but one ship, and that a wooden one, while the flagship of the Spanish admiral was an ironclad. The ultimate fact was that the British admiral had declined to interfere, even with the support of the American commo dore, who had an ironclad turret-ship, in any defensive manner between the Spanish fleet and the Chilian authori ties. He desired that justice might be done to all parties, and therefore ho would abstain from all comment, and I simply put the question which ho had submitted to the First Lord Of the Admiralty. The Duke of SOMERSET said he would state what were the instructions originally given to the senior officers in C l7 h t i b li. The present inst ruc ti ons were sent out as early as t h e November, when her Majesty's Government first heard that there was a blockade on the coast of Chili. The Lords of the Admiralty then communicated with the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and out to the officer in command the same instructions s7HdeerinchtmitnhechFo reign Office had sent out to the Britishnr,e, Those instructions were to this effect : Government rely on your using your utmost exertiojnestic:sr the protection of the lives and property of British subjects, t but you will be careful not to transgress the limits Of e in s, in tervention admissible to strict neutrals. Her Majesty's Government will be prepared to approve the exorcise of any friendly influence Which you may bring to bear within those limits to bring about a cessation of hostilities till reference can be made to the Spanish Government." That was sent to the naval officer on the station. At that time Admiral Denman was not on the coast of Chili. He w as in the North ; but on his way down, while at Panama, in structions were sent to him from the Admiralty drawing his attention to the fact that the neutrality hitherto ob served by Commodore Harvey with regard to hostilities bad b een f u lly approved by their Lordships, and desiring him in like manner to observe the strictest neutrality, and at the same time to give all the assistance in his power to the British Chargé d'Affaires in Chili, in endeavouring to protect ee British int eres t s an d se ttl e a dispute which had prejudi c i a l to them. Their lords hi ps wo uld see that by t so prejudi c i a l those instructions Admiral D e nman was ordered to be strictly neutral therefore, h e had between the contending parties. If, p aod s e he d to u prevent the bombardment of the city, it was obvious old have been taking an ac tive part on one aide, would have been ac ti n g in direct contravention of the instructions given to him. What had occurred was this:—Admiral communication with the senior had been in similar officer of the ffiincestrruotioofos the American force, who b a d his own ; but they thought th at a boar town, if done suddenly, would be attended with cruelty and loss of life that they made so much went that if the attack was made without ::.eavrrenan;rgeen being given to the town, so that women anZhilotice might be removed, they would interfere t o the rd P m o e u n r t : days, bombardment. Even that measure of h umanity W as b e _ yond the instructions as of gi v A en dm o i f ra t l he De b n o m m a b n a . no tice, however, was conditions, therefore, which in his opinion would have justified force no longer existed, and being bound by the letter of his instructions, he could not do anything but withdraw, and allow the Spanish vessels to fire upon the town if they thought proper. In consequence of the withdrawal of the inhabitants there had been little or no loss of life. Only two persons who had remained to look after some property w er e killed. The bonibardment was principally directed against the Custom House; but being in the midst of a vast amount of foreign property, great loss, he was afraid, had fallen on foreign merchants. With regard to that he might observe that the English Chargé d'Affaires recommended the removal of foreign goods from the Custom House, and had communication with the Chili= authorities, who had agreed to allow the goods to be removed on certain conditions. The merchants, how ever, considered these conditions were vexatious, and as they believed no attack would take place on a defenceless town, they left their goods in the Custom lloLse, where they were destroyed. After a few words from Lord DIJNSANY, and a brief reply from the Duke of SOMERSET, their lordships ad journed at a quarter to nine o'clock. HOUSE OF COMMONS—LAST EVENING. The SPEAKEIb took the chair at 4 o'clock. THIRD READINGS. The following c.h3 bill an s d w e e u re cki re o a:l de a t ß h o ir a d ds ti r e w a e n ar d passed:— Swindon, Sheldon District Water. THAMES AND SEVERN CANAL NAVIGATION BILL. On the motion for the third reading of this bill, Sir W. HEATHCOTE moved that it be read a third time that day six months. Mr. GOLDNEY seconded the amendment. Mr. BIDDULPH defended the bill on the ground that no more water would be required than heretofore, and sug gested that the bill should be postponed for a fortnight. The bill was ultimately withdrawn. In answer to questions from Mr. Gregory, Lord Naas, and other Irish members, Mr. C. Fortescue said there was too much reason to believe that the cattle plague had made its appearance near Belfast, and explained the stringent measures which had been taken to stamp it out. THE BOMBARDMENT OF VALPARAISO. Sir L. PALK asked for information as to the recent bombardment of Valparaiso, and particularly for an ex planation of Admiral Denman's conduct. Admiral WALCOT defended Admiral Denman with great warmth, and Sir J. HAlr and Admiral SEYMOUR in the samefone expressed their confident belief that he acted in conformity with his orders. Mr. LIDDELL condemned in strong language the bom bardment of an unarmed city, and asked whether the Chilian Government had requested the withdrawal of our Charge d'Affaires, and, if so, on what ground. Colonel ED WARDS read some extracts from resolutions Passed by the British merchants at Valparaiso tending to show that it was owing to the assurances of the British Admiral and the British Minister that the city had been left undefended. Mr. GRAVES pressed on the house the serious injury inflicted on British interests by the conduct of our Admiral and Minister, and asked whether instructions would be sent out to prevent the repetition of such a barbarous outrage. Mr, LAYARD thought that the best answer he could give to the statements which had come from the other side of the house was simply to state what had taken place at Valparaiso. Some time last year, in consequence of events that had taken place in Chili during the war be tween Spain and Peru, the admiral who commanded the Spanish fleet suddenly appeared before Valparaiso, and made, under the form of an ultimatum, certain demands upon Chili, giving that Government to understand that if these were not complied with war would be declared be tween Spain and Chili. As soon as intelligence was re ceived by her Majesty's Government that this ultimatum had been presented, and that war had been declared between Spain and Chili, the Government manifested an earnest desire to do something to bring between othne two belligerent par ties. The PeThedeeespeatches announcing the commencement of the war against Chili were received in this country on Nov. 16, and measures were immediately adopted. The English Government, without a moment's delay, communicated with the French Government with the view of ascertain ing whether that Government would be disposed to offer its good offices to Spain and Chili in order, to restore peace between them. Another step was also taken. On the day following that on which the despatches had been received from the English minister at Chili orders were sent to him to do all in his power to protect the property and interests of British subjects, but at the same time to be careful in maintaining the strictest neutrality between the bellige rents. The French Government, in answer to the commu nication addressed to them, responded most cordially to the overture made by her Majesty's Government, and since then both Governments bad acted in complete concert in all that had taken place. On Nov. 18 the Spanish Govern ment were informed that the French and English Govern ments were prepared to mediate between the parties if their good offices were asked for or would be accepted. The Spanish Government at once and very cordially accepted the proposal to bring about peace by means of mediation. The consequence was that the French and English Go vernments proposed the following terms to the belligerent Powers : that Chili should disavow any intention of offending Spain ; that the treaty existing between Chili and Spain at the time of the outbreak should not be an nulled; that Spain should express herself satisfied, and disavow any intention of conquest in South America ; and that diplomatic relations should be renewed, in honour of which a salute should be fired, Chili firing the first gun. These proposals were sent to the French and English Ministers, with instructions to propose them to Chili. Whilst these negotiations wore _going on, her Majesty's Government received intimation from Mr. Thompson that there was some apprehension of a bombardment of Valparaiso, and that he had made strong representations to the Spanish admiral on the matter. The Spanish admiral .declined to give any assurances on the subject, and refused to state whether or not he was going to bombard the town. Tho British merchants in Valparaiso were accordingly informed of their danger, who thereupon requested the Chilian Govern ment to afford them opportunities of removing their pro perty to a place of safety. This the Chilian Government declined to do, but on a subsequent representation from Mr. Thompson they withdrew their objections to the re moval of the property, saddling, however, their compli ance with certain conditions, which the British merchants refused to comply with, declaring that they would hold the Government of Chili responsible for any damage that might ensue. Mr. Thompson thought the merchants acted wrongly in not accepting the conditions offered to them. On the 16th of December Mr. Thompson was instructed to offer to the Chilian Government the good offices of Eng land, and the French Minister was commanded to make a similar offer on the part of his Government. These in structions were received by the French and English Mini sters about the end of January, but unfortunately before that time the Chilian Go vernment had entered into a treaty of alliance, offensive and defensive, with Peru and the other South American Republics. Moreover, to complicate matters, a successful attack had been made upon a vessel 1 of war belonging to the Spanish Government, which added considerably to the difficulties of a pacific settlement. The Chilian Government professed their desire to accept the conditions offered, but said that owing to the alliance which they had formed with the other republics they could not without consulting these republics make any arrangement with Spain. Considerable delay in conse quence took place, and the Spanish Government wished to accept this as a pretext for breaking off the negotiations, but the French and English Governments held Spain to her agreement to accept their good offices. A short time afterwards her Majesty's Government had reason to believe that instructions had been sent to the Spanish Admiral in the Pacific to bombard the city of Valparaiso. The French and English Governments im mediately communicated with the Court of Madrid, and asked whether such instructions had actually been sent out. The Spanish Government equivocated a good deal, and in fact led her Majesty's Government to believe that no such instructions had been sent. It was therefore with great surprise that they heard yesterday that this defence less city bad been bombarded. He wished that they should clearly understand the position of English merchants. He might say that every statement contained in the resolu tions which bad been read to the house by the hon. and gallant member for Harwich was entirely destitute of foundation. I Col. EDWARDS—Does the right hon. gentleman mean to say that the document itself is not authentic ? (Laughter.) Mr. LAiARD—What I say is that the statements made in the resolutions of the British merchants I and entirely w ith out foundation, and d contraryare completely to fact. One part of one o f the resolutions, i' viz that Admir a l iral Den man had pr om i se d to defend Valparaiso ' against any att ac k by the Spa n i s h fl eet, was not correct. At one time it was the intention of the Chilian Government to employ torpe does against the Spanish fleet, but Mr. Thompson had assured them that such a procedure would be unwise, as it would place Valparaiso in the position of being the attack ing party, and thus lay it se lf open to be bombarded. s The . Spanish admiral moreover de c l are d that he o buld bom bard the city if torpedoes were employed against Admiral Denman, in conjun c ti on w i th the Unite h d ia S li ta e d t e u e t s . give navy, had then asked the Spanish ad m i ra l to e notice to the inhabitants if, in conseque nce o f the use of torpedoes, he shouldbe required to bombard the place. The Spanish admiral declared that he would not do so, and Admiral Denman had then said that if fire was opened suddenly upon Valparaiso and British lives end angered he should feel it his duty to interfere and stop the proceed ings of the Spanish fleet. This it would be seen was a dif ferent story to what was contained in the resolutions. The torpedo scheme was ultimately abandoned by the President of Chili, and the contingency provided for by Admiral Denman never arose. The Chilian Government, as he had stated, had accepted thegood offices of France and England on condition that the republics with which they were in alliance should also agree, and an answer was promised to France and England - as soon as a reply was got from these republics. Suddenly, however, on the 25th of March the S panish admiral d ec l are d th a t un l es s c e r tain conditions w ee ; c a ll . he Proposed were consented to, he should, within a tm w numbe r of day s , b om b ar d V a l para i s o. This inti mationas perf ec tl y unexpected by England, France, an d America ; and their Ministers in Chili received instructions to communicate with the P res id ent o f C h ili . Th a t di gn i- O7ce E l r a e n f d ee c e e o d n d liitimonsesli suggested disposed to accept the good till he by F rance an d E ng l an d, is but craved delay ansdi Aa o np u t n nmi dmi Spanishcommanderwhetherotherchat , American Mi nisters endeavoured to dissuade him from a tt acking admiral declar e d th a t unless he the place, but th e S pan i s h notice that h e would proposals were accepted within a few d a y s h e should give bombard the place, a ll ow i ng the inhabitants four days to remove their property. After that the French and English Ministers again remonstrated against the attack upon Val paraiso ; they stated that the President was willing to come to terms, and they hoped that the matter might be settled by negotiation. The Spanish admiral replied that as he had issued his manifesto it would not be consistent with his dignity to withdraw, that ke must give notice of hostilities on the 27th, and on the 31st commence the bom bardmene. Upon that the British nterchauts urged Admiral Deman to prevent the attack. Admiral Denman replied that he was utterly unable to interfere ; that to do so would be an act of war on his part—(hear, hear)—and he called upon the British merchants to withdraw their pro perty, in accordance with the notification given to them 30 hours previously. The Chilian Government pad offered to allow them to remove all their, property in land without charging the usual dues ; and that offer, as was intimated to the merchants, had been deemed by her Majesty's Government a very fair one, and one that ought to be accepted. However, the British merchants had deliberately refused this very liberal offer, and it was really surprising that they should now turn round and endeavour to hold the Government—at all events, Ad. miral Denman—responsible for their losses. The statement that the American commander had offered to stop tho bom• bardment if the British admiral would co-operate with him was utterly untrue, no such offer having been made. On the contrary, the American minister admitted the right of the Spanish commander to bombard Valparaiso, and neither he nor the commander appeared to have had the slightest intention to interfere to stop him. Nor was it true that Admiral Denman had ever put forward any plea as to the insufficiency of his force ; on the contrary, he subsequently stated that if his force had been ten times what it was he could not have interfered. Moreover, he had been informed that day by the Spanish Minister that when the American commander went on board the flagship of the Spanish ad miral to remonstrate with him, he said, more by way of joke than otherwise, "Suppose I were to put my ship be tween you and the town, what would happen 2" The reply of Admiral Nunez was, " You are a sailor, and I am a sailor. You know what your duty would be.under such circumstances, and you know therefore how I should fulfil mine. If you put yourself between me and the town, it will be my duty to sink you." Upon that the American com mander shook him warmly by the hand, and said he thoroughly understood him, and that, under the circum stances, he should do tho same. (Laughter.) As for the alleged removal of the fortifications, he (Mr. Layard) un derstood that Valparaiso was a place which could not be fortified, even though a considerable time were allowed for the purpose. And then with respect to the statement that the Chilians had refused to allow the British sailors to land and extinguish the flames, all he could say was that he had that day received a despatch from Admiral Den:- man, in which he described hosr his men had landed and assisted in putting out the fire. He said that nothing could have exceeded their good conduct; not a single bit of plunder had been taken; and, although the Chilians were going about offering the men brandy, not one of them were intoxicated. He was fully disposed to make every allowance for the exasperated feelings of the British merchants at Valparaiso, still it was unworthy of them to put forward statements which were completely at variance with facts. Undoubtedly the bombardment of a town, whether fortified or not, was a belligerent right ; but then came the question how far might the exercise of the right be consistent ,with the usages of civilised life? He was desirous to say all that was possible in deprecation of the act of the Spanish commander, still he could not avoid making the admission that he had acted in con formity with the positive orders of his Government. He would have been willing, if possible, to have refrained from an act which everyone must characterise as most barbarous; but his instructions were positiva. The Spanish Govern ment, however, were greatly to blame. They knew that the French and English Governments were making every effort to bring about a peaceful solution of the difficulty, but without giving those Governments any notice positive instructions were sent out that the town should be bom barded. In justification, however, of Admiral Nunez he must add that the whole of his fire was directed against the public buildings and the railway station. That fact was clearly reported by Admiral Denman. Moreover, full time was given to the inhabitants to leave the town, and the only lives lost in the bombardment were those of a woman _ _ and a child. Therefore there could not be a question but 1 that Admiral Nunez had acted with as much humanity as possible. On the other hand, he would not conceal that the whole affair hid created a most painful impression upon her Majesty's Government. (Hear, hear.) Everyone had thought that the time had gone by for such acts of—he might also say barbarity—acts entirely inconsistent with the position of a nation like Spain. He must likewise ex press his sympathy with the British merchants ; but at the same time he could not conceal that they were themselves to blame for the losses which had fallen upon them. With respect to the alleged demand of the Chilian Government, that Mr. Thompson, our Minister, should be withdrawn, he had only to say that her Majesty's Government had re ceived no such communication. The discussion was continued by Mr. Whiteside, Mr. B. Cochrane, who referred to our own proceedings at Canton and Kagosima; by Mr. Baring, who asked what AdMiral Denman had to do at Valparaiso, if not to protect British interests ; by Mr. Denman, who corroborated from inde pendent sources the statements of Mr. Layard ; and was brought to an end by Mr. T. G. Baring, who stated that Admiral Denman had acted in strict conformity with his instructions to observe a policy of non-intervention. Mr. SANDFORD asked what precautionary measures had been taken by the Government against the spread of cholera. Mr. H. A. BRUCE replied the powers possessed by the Privy Council were givsn by the Quarantine Act of Geo. IV., and under it - they had directed local authorities at the outports to visit all ships arriving from suspected quarters to prohibit the landing of infected persons, and, if neces sary, to take measures to isolate them, and they had also offered toplace any towns which desired it under the pro visicns of the Diseases Prevention Act. This country, he pointed out, had never acted on the system of quarantine ; we had always depended on tho local authorities, and our best security must be in improved sanitary regulations, such as better supplies of water and increased ventilation , and cleanliness. The motion for adjournment having been agreed to, Mr. O'REILLY, in a lengthy speech, which entered in great detail into the defects of the present system, moved for a Select Committee to inquire what changes might,with advantage, be made in the system of national education in Ireland, in order to allow greater freedom and fulness of religious teaching in schools attended by pupils of one re ligious denomination only, and to guard effectually against proselytism and protect the faith of the minority in mixed schools. The motion was seconded by the O'Coson Dom Mr. C. FORT ESCUE admitted, on the part of the Go vernment, that in his remarks on the model schools— which he had severely criticised —Mr. O'Reilly had hit a blot, and amendments might be necessary; but pointed out that with regard to the other schools, which were working well, the alterations suggested might deprive the minority in some districts of all education. As the subject was under the consideration of the National Board, ho declined to consent to the appointment of a committee. Mr. WHITESIDE, denying that there was any real mixed education in Ireland, argued against the present system, on the ground of its partiality and in favour of confining State aid to secular education, leaving religious teaching to be dealt with separately. Mr. GREGORY read extracts from the opinions of pro minent clergymen of both religions in condemnation of the present system, and insisted that its present defect was not proselytism, but an indifference to all religious teaching, which led to infidelity and to Fenianism. He agreed with Mr. Whiteside that mixed education was very rare in Ire land, and contrasted the system unfavourably with those of Prussia and Holland. After somo remarks from Mr. S YNAN 7 Mr. O'REILLY withdrew his motion. In answer to Sir H. CAIRNS, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, "without giving an absolute pledge, intimated that any changes pro posed to be made (and he demurred to Sir H. Cairns' de scription of them as great and serious) would in all proba bility be laid before Parliament before the annual vote for Irish education was moved. Mr. CARDWELL obtained leave to bring in a bill to remove doubts as to the effect of letters patent granted to certain colonial bishops, and to amend the law relating to bishops and clergy of the colonies. The bill, he explained, was rendered necessary by a recent judgment of the Privy Council, that the supposed power of the Crown to create dioceses and to confer jurisdiction in colonies having inde pendent legislatures did not exist, and the main object was to bring our legislation into conformity with that hypo_ thesis by repealing certain prohibitions, so that the Church of England would be in no worse a position in the colonies than any other religious denomination. The house adjourned at a quarter to 1 o'clock. SINGULAR RAILWAY ACCI DENT.—On Monday an inquest was held at Lancaster, upon the body of John Bland, a stonemason, who came by his death under the following circumstances :—He was working on a bridge at Scorton, on the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway, about seven feet from the nearest metals. Whilst so engaged a goods train passed, and he wap knocked off the bridge by a bar of iron projecting from one of the trucks, which had shifted from its fastenings. The injuries were of such a character as resulted in his death. The jury returned a verdict that deceased met with his death by being struck in the manner above stated. [ADVERTISEMENT.' —Holloway's Ointment and Pills— Hope for All.—Whatever their ailments none need despair of being cured till they have tried those inestimable reme dies. Whether the disease be internal or external, spon taneous or the result of violence, if a cure be possible, Holloway's medicaments will effect it. The severity or duration of the malady is no bar to the successful influence exerted by these twin medicines, which cleanse, purify, and invigorate every solid and fluid in the body and com pletely renovate the digestion. They render every organ of secretion healthy. These admirable antidotes to disease act immediately on the absorbent system; lungs, heart, and circulation, whereby they invariably give energy, tone, and vigour to all the natural functions of life. [Association for Promoting the Welfare of the Blind: A numerously attended meeting of the members and friends of this association was held yesterday afternoon at St. James's-hall•—the Archbishop of York in the chair. Amongst those present were the Earl of Carnarvon, the Bishop of Oxford, Dean Stanley, Professor Fawcett, M.P., Lord Houghton, the Bishop of St. David's, the Bishop of Peter borough, &c. The Hon. Secretary, the Rev. C. B. Reid, M.A., read the report, which stated that regular as sistance was now given by the association to 172 blind men and women, against 170 in the previous year. Of the 172 persons now bene fited, 61 were supplied with work at their own homes, at sums varying from £l4s. to 3s. per Week ; 28 were instructed and employed at the workshops of the association, and 25 were engaged in selling goods for the society. Pensions to various amounts were grantedto ninepersons who were unable to earn their own living. Of the total number of blind per sons assisted 51 were married, and have 72 children dependent on them for support. Of those employed at their own homes and at the society's workshops 31 are women, who earn respectively from 4s. to Bs. per week. The industrial arts carried on were as follows—viz., worked at by men, the manufactures of brushes, brooms, baskets, carpentry, mats, rugs, chair cane and rush-work, nets, bead work, hassocks, and firewood ; made by women, brushes, baskets, firewood, chair cane and rush-work, nets, knitting, ornamental leather-work, bead-work, and needle work. The blind officials connected with the society were the director, teachers of music, brush-making, carpentry, bead-work, leather-work, reading, writ ing, and general education ; also a collector, town travellers, and a housemaid. The importance of giv ing work to the blind at their own homes was con stantly being more forcibly illustrated ; by this plan the blind were enabled to reside with their friends in whatever part of the country they may be located ; and thus family ties were strengthened instead of being rudely snapped, as was too often the case where per sons deprived of sight had to leave all that was dear to them in this world to obtain daily bread in some far distant town. The cementing of social bonds was highly necessary for every class of the community, but in the case of those who laboured under the heavy affliction of blindness its importance could scarcely be exaggerated. As fully half the blind lived in rural districts, the mere establishment of workshops in large towns would be obviously in sufficient. Since the existence of this institution several societies had been formed on its model. Some of those societies had been established for several years, and others were only just springing into existence. The older associations were situ ated at Liverpool, Bradford, Sheffield, Peck ham, Leicester, and Devonport, and they now col lectively afforded aid to about 300 of the blind. The educational parochial classes continued their useful work, with an average attendance of 120 pupils per week. Those classes were held at Westminster, Marylebone, Islington, St. Luke's, and Greenwich ; in them. instruction was given in reading, writing, and arithmetic. The free lending library of books in relief print was increasingly useful, and at pre sent 150 volumes were in circulation among seventy readers. The sick club, supported entirely by the work-people, continued its beneficial operation, and during the year many cases of illness had been re lieved from its funds. The receipts of the associa tion during the year amounted to £6,108 7s. 5d., while the expenditure had been £6,239 7s. 6d. His GRACE, in opening the proceedings, expressed the pleasure he felt at presiding on the occasion. They were assembled to sympathise with and sup port an association which had for its object the al leviation of the lot of an afflicted class of the com munity, by teaching them modes of honest industry and taking the work produced by them and dispos ing of it in their behalf. There were 30,000 people in this country deprived of the inestimable blessing of sight ; and, although the association reached only 200 of that large number, he considered its operations to be of incalculable value. The lives of these people were made useful to themselves and to society by means of the association, and he wished that in all the large towns of the country the example set by the good lady who was its founder would be followed. He most heartily re commended the institution to the kind sympathies of the meeting. (Applause.) The Earl of CARNARVON, in moving the adoption of the report, said no one could contemplate the objects of the association without being deeply im pressed with their benevolent character. At the present day a large number of the blind, owing to a want of the necessary provision for them, were either forced to enter the workhouse or become pro fessional beggars, and reached that border which was the distinction between a criminal and an honest man: The institution which they met to promote made the recipients of its benefits self-supporting, and altogether independent of the aid of friends. He highly approved of the wisdom of giving the work to blind persons at their own homes. The Bishop of OXFORD bore his testimony to the continued and unabated usefulness of the institu tion. He agreed with the previous speaker as to the excellence of providing work for these poor afflicted people at their own homes, and he thought this characteristic of the society gave it a special claim upon the charitable portion of the community. There were 180 persons at present receiving the benefits of the institution, and upwards of 4QO others were applicants for relief, and he anxiously hoped that this number would be assisted in their endeavours to obtain a livelihood. The moral de gradation of street ,begging, and the destruction within the mind of the spring of self-support put there by God, which resulted from it, should be guarded against, especially in the case of blind persons. The dark isolation of the blind rendered them especial objects of sympathy. The chief characteristic of the affliction was its separating character—the parting of the blind person from the ordinary work, the ordinary amusement, and the gifts which the exuberant prodigality of God's mercy conferred upon others, and there fore any effort made to alleviate this misfor tune was deserving of sympathy and co-opera tion. His lordship concluded by seconding the re solution. His grace said the Dean of Westminster found that it was physically impossible for him to address the meeting, but he expressed his real sym pathy and interest in the society. (Applause.) Professor F.AwcErr, in supporting the resolution, said one of the severest struggles he had ever had with himself was to speak on that occasion ; but he was told that he might do some slight good to those who were blind by taking part in the proceedings of the meeting, and when that was the case he thought private or personal feelings should not be consulted. (Applause.) He did not entirely be lieve in the isolation which was attributed to blind persons. After he was afflicted with blindness eight years ago he found that there was a - wonderful compensatory power in nature, and he thought that power would enable him to cling to the same habits, to cherish the same ambition, to indulge the same tastes, and to enjoy the same pleasure as if this affliction had not happened to him. His experience led him to the belief that where a person was afflicted with blindness the mind became more concentrated, the hearing more acute, the touch more delicate, and, in fact, every other power seemed to acquire new activity. He bad never altered his course of readingafter his misfortune. I He continued f rom t h e page of the b oo k a t w hi c h he left off p rev i ous to his getting blind, and en joyed his old course of angling as f ormer l y. H e enjoyed the grandeur and beauties of nature as much as ever, and often when in society, when de scribing some beautiful river, he stopped to think whether he had rea ll y seen it, or if it h a d b een de scribed to him. H e t h ought he enjoyed as much happiness as mos t people, and he believed every blind perso n wou l d derive eq ual enjoyment if brought und er th e same inspiring i n fl uences, t h e same associations, an d made to pa rticipate as far as possible in the same pleasures hick other people enjoyed. (Appl ause.) Lord HOUG HTON proposed the n ext resolution, to the effect that the meet i ng deeply sympa thi se d w ith the 30,000 blind perso ns i n the United. Kingdom, and recommended increased exertions to be made on behalf of the association, He entirely believed in the natural compensatory power to which allusion had been made, but that great power required assistance and development, which were sought to be given by the association. The Bishop of ST. DAVID'S supparted the resolu tion, and it was unanimously adopted. A vote of thanks to his grace concluded the busi ness of the meeting. Court of Aldermen. Yesterday a meeting of the aldermen of London was held at Guildhall ; the Lord Mayor in the chair. In reply to a question by Sir JAMES DUKE, Mr. Alderman COPELAND, president of Emmanuel Hospital, stated that the Metropolitan District Rail way would in all probability pass through a portion of the hospital, and that, if it did, an opportunity would be afforded the corporation of removing the institution into the country, which he thought would render it more advantageous to the public, and espe cially to the poor of Westminster and Middlesex. He added, that the property likely to be taken by the railway was valued at £24,000 by the hospital authorities, but that the .railway people had only estimated the value at £2,260, which sum they had paid into court--a shameful proceeding, as he thought. Mr. Alderman HALE presented a petition, from Mr. Charles Wilson Macbryde, praying that under circumstances therein stated the court would reopen the inquiry into the conduct of Mr. Robert Eykyn, stockbroker. The matter gave rise to a short discussion ; and in the end the court declined to comply with the ap plication, having already inquired into the matter, and decided by a unanimous resolution that the complaint against Mr. Eykyn was unfounded. The TowN CLERK read a letter from Sir George Grey, containing a recommendation made by one of the inApectors of prisons that in the Capital Punishment Bill now before Parliament a clause should be inscribed authorising the City authorities henceforth to bury the bodies of all murderers after execution at the Old Bailey, within the precincts of the City prison at Holloway. This recommendation proceeded upon a consideration of the very limited area allowed for the interment of murderers after execution in Newgate, consisting of only a narrow passage, in which already 42 had been interred since the passing of the act of William IV., directing that murderers should be executed and buried within the precincts of the prison in which they happened to be confined at the time of conviction and sentence, in addition to the remains of four or five persons who were executed for high treason before the pass ing of the act. There was only an average of 18in. between the bodies, not to speak of the possible effect of such an arrangement on the health of the inmates of a large prison like Newgate. The subject was referred to the gaol committee for consideration and report. The Court, on the motion of Mr. Alderman Waterlow, then proceeded to consider a report from the general purposes committee, delivered in on Feb. 23 last, on the reference to them to consider and re port upon the opinion of the law officers of the cor poration as to the right of the aldermen to present children to King Edward's School under the scheme propounded by the Court of Chancery for the go vernment of Bridewell Hospital. He quoted the prayer of the citizens of London in 1552 to King Edward, upon which the charter to the hospital was granted in the following year, and other documents, to show that the institution was mainly, if not en tirely, founded with the merciful view of receiving for a limited time, as a place for reformation, per sons, and especially young persons, who, though not convicted of crime, were yet tainted with it, and were likely still more to fall into temptation. He put it to the Court whether they were now prepared to retain or to surrender one of the most important privileges which the aldermen of Lon don had exercised for centuries in connection with the administration of justice—namely, that which enabled them to give practical effect to con siderations of mercy in the hope of rescuing persons of both sexes and of tender‘age, who might other wise go to swell the criminal population of the City. He moved the adoption of the report, and that it be referred back to the committee to take counsel's opinion as to the extent to which the regulations of the governors of Bridewell of January last were binding on the magistrates, and to report to the Court before taking further proceedings. The motion, which was seconded by Mr. Alder man Stone, led to a discussion, in which Messrs. Aldermen Copeland, Sidney, Besley, and Gabriel took part, Mr. Alderman Besley contending in effect that under the regulations of the governors young persons of the description mentioned by Mr. Alder man Waterlow would always be admissible, and that it would be unwise for the court to raise any ques tion with the governors about what were called " rights and privileges." The motion was eventually put and carried. Areport from the general purposes committee was presented on the reference to them on the 17th of April last, to consider the desirability of appointing a public prosecutor, and stating that the committee were of opinion that it was not desirable to enter tain the question at present. Mr. Alderman COPELAND, the senior member of the court, moved a resolution in effect, " That hav ing regard to the long services of Mr. Henry Wm. Sewell, the sword bearer in connection with the court, it be referred to the general purposes com mittee to take the subject into consideration, and do therein as they may deem fit." He said the ser vices of Mr. Sewell had extended over the long period of 39 years, and he bore testimony to the zeal and fidelity with which he had discharged his duties. The motion was seconded by Sir James Duke, who also spoke to the same effect, founded on a knowledge of the sword bearer for many years. And Mr. Alderman SIDNEY having suggested an alteration in point of form, the motion was carried unanimously. The court then adjourned. The Fenian Prospect. The appearance of Major-General Meade in Maine seems to have put an end to the grand Fenian", enterprise of the O'Mahony party in the neighbourhood of New Brunswick. When the re doubtable B. Doran Killian sailed with his three mysterious vessels upon a secret expedition, with unexampled success, it was proclaimed that he was going to Bermuda, or Campo Bello, or Ireland.. He very prudently went to neither place, but, after a due period of absence from public view, turned up in United States territory, with a few followers, menacing Campo Bello, it was thought, but being careful not to resort to overt acts. His time was taken up at the hotels at Eastport talking with his confidants and holding Fenian meetings, at which British tyranny was denounced, and subscriptions to the Bonds solicited. Under the excitement there was considerable accessions to the fund in the Moffat mansion. But the Irish are excitable, and they have asked in vain " when the row is to com-_ " 'Renee ? " As yet there is no signs of a " scrimmage," and the poor people who have been contributing their surplus means are beginning to be disgusted. There is a stoppage in the arrange ments, and the fountain is drying up. The United States Government has ungenerously put an end to the schemes of Killian and Co., and active hosti lities, if they are to be prosecuted, now devolve upon the adverse faction, under the guidance of Roberts and Sweeney. The latter declare that they really intend to do something. Their plan of action is kept sedulously , concealed, but it is declared that it will be effec tual when their forces are put in motion. This will be well, but as the point of attack is obviously Canada, and as Major-General Meade is now on the frontier, it is not to be supposed that he will be less vigilant with the Fenian army No. 2 than he has been with the Fenian army No. 1. The United States have a duty to perform to the people and the laws. They have so far shown every dis position to discharge that duty, and Englishmen may rest assured that Fenianism is nothing more than a rather stale joke, and that the Government of the United States have no intention of permit ting any breach of neutrality. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TIMES.—The House of Lords is doing its best to bring us into trouble. Under the guidance of Lord Chelmsford, it last evening passed through com mittee a Sunday Trading Bill, which seems likely to rival in- oppressiveness, and consequent futility, the Publichouse measure of 1855. Lord Chelmsford has discovered, it seems, that the Sabbath is violated in London and the large towns. The act of Charles 11. is a dead letter. People buy and sell and ex change in spite of the beneficent legislation of the Stuarts. There are places in London where a re gular fair is held. Not only do poor people buy meat and groceries on a Sunday morning, but many a labouring man actually provides himself on that day with a neckerchief or a pair of boots. The de secration must be put an end to, and as nothing is more easy for a Conservative Peer than to pass a bill through one House of Parliament, Lord Chelms ford gives the public a prospect of a most stringent measure. Whether it shall become law must de pend in a great degree on the reception it meets with from the country when its provisions are fully known. We have been accustomed to believe that in London the Sabbath is very decently kept. There is a mean between Scottish moroseness and Conti nental indifference. Of the two forms of industry production ceases altogether, while distribution is very partially carried on. Workmen of all trades make the Sunday a day of rest. .There is no carpen tering or bricklaying, no tailoring or shoemaking. All mercantile establishments, and all the shops which supply the upper and middle classes with any thing but immediate necessaries, are also closed. In nine streets out of ten in London almost every place of business, great or small, is shut up. But there is a class of goods which have at all times been sold. The poor have always been able to get their house hold necessaries on Sunday morning, and nobody has been deprived of the power of purchasing a news - paper on the Sunday. Among the poor in some parts of London there is a large amount of trading. Many of the labouring people have only time to make pur chases of wearing apparel and the like on Sunday morning, and consequently there is a class of dealers who make it their business to supply them. But, as far as we can see, there is nothing contrary to public decency in what is done. Unless the Sabba tarians can stop the processes of nature, there must be the need of food ; unless they can deprive their fellow-countrymen of their natural curiosity and interest in public matters for 24 hours, there must be a desire for such things as newspapers ; and un less they can change the industrial habits of the country, the working classes must feel the want of a Sunday market for the purchase of many articles. Under the system which has grown up during gene ratiOns, and the very existence of which is a proof that it is required by the needs of our population, the greatest amount of convenience is given to the public, and particularly to the working people, with the smallest amount of labour. Some must watch that the rest may sleep, and, in a country where hundreds of thousands labour six days in the week and take their leisure on the seventh, it is unavoid able that there should be a small class ministering to their wants, whose work falls heavier on that seventh day. In such a civilisation as ours it is as necessary that people should work on different days and at different hours as that they should work at different occupations. For the health of the multitude who seek the fresh air there must be a few railway servants, or coachmen, or steamboat people esaployed; for the sustenance of the multitude there must be a certain number of tavern servants at their work ; and so, to minister to the weekly wants of so enormous a population, there must be a few thousands who make their living by Sunday trading. In such a matter as this the wisest policy is to leave things alone. The theory that people require to be protected from themselves or their neighbours ought not in these days to be made the basis of legis lation. Yet it is the corner-stone of Lord Chelms ford's bill. We are to shut up the shops of a number of people who want to keep them open, because if these shops are not shut up other people will find themselves obliged to open also. The Christian's holiday will be taken away if his Jewish neigh bour vends his wares during the sacred hours. We should have thought it had become almost unneces sary to refute arguments which assume that nobody is able to take care of himself, but that each must be guarded from his own covetousness or the unfair competition of his neighbour by paternal legislation. In fact, there is no reason to believe that there is any such unwilling trading. The tradesmen who sell on Sunday are people to whose customers the day is most convenient, and those who have another class of customers keep their shops shut. Those who thus work on Sunday are in no worse position than domestic servants in all families, and they, moreover, contrive to find a day of leisure in the course of the week. The system has now com pletely accommodated itself to the wants of the country ; it gives bread to thousands of a very poor class; it ministers to the convenience of those whose leisure is short and whose means are small ; and it seems to us that, unless some publicinjury is alleged, no Government ought to interfere with it. Lord Chelmsford, however, does not see matters in this light. When we recollect that all the various forms of Sunday trading have grown up in spite of the law by which each act of trading is now punishable by fine, it is but reasonable to infer that the law is in itself unjust and inexpedient as regards mere buying and selling, and that if any change is to take place it ought rather to be in the direction of moderat ing the old statute. But the failure of the present law only suggests to Lord Chelmsford a fresh enactment and the imposition of heavier fines. Still, as there are certa i n branches of Sun d ay trading which may be considered too powerful to attack, a set of exceptions are introduced, which will lead to some extraordinary and subtle distinc tions in the working of the Act. Aldermen and police magistrates must prepare their faculties for the decision of some very knotty points. Lord Teynham, who seems to have studied the measure, and who was not contradicted last night by Lord Chelmsford, tells us that, though fruit and pastry will be lawful, shrimps and water-tresses will be forbidden. The greengrocer will be able to supply his customers with potatoes, but must refuse them wood or coal with which to cook them. People may sell meat or bread, but not an ounce of tea or sugar. The pastrycook may vend his tarts, but if he venture an ice for sale or a piece of barley-sugar the policeman may come down upon him, and he may have to pay his 20s. But the most ab sur d and oppressive part of the bill relates to the sale of newspapers and the numerous serial publications which furnish so large a part of the public reading. In passing along the streets of any English to wn one of the most remarkableriodil publications,objectsisth political e nul per of shops in which er ca or literary or theological, are sold, often in company with the most heterogeneous wares. On Sunday the indoors are fuller than usual, and th e sa l e i s largest, because the day is a day of leisure ; but by Lord Chelmsford's bill no such publication is to be sold at any place in the United Kin g d om a f ter 10 o ' clock on Sunday morning. As a great favour, Lord Chelmsford consented to leave the words " or de livery of," so that a newspaper or periodical bought before 10 o'clock may be delivered after that hour; but in other respects the bill, after passing through Committee, stands as it did before. Such is legis lation in the Peers. We are not surprised to find that even among Lord Chelmsford's friends there were some who could not avoid expressing a doubt as to the wisdom of his measure. When it comes before the House of Commons this dissent will be more strongly expressed. We hope and believe that so mischievous and oppressive a scheme will never receive the sanction of the Legislature. POST.—The anniversary of what the late Premier not inappropriately termed our Isthmian games has once more returned, and in the noise, the excitement, and the turmoil of a Derby Day the financial crisis, the imminent European war, and the Reform Bills will be equally forgotten ; for on this day the greatest metropolis in Europe throws off its busi ness look, its Exchanges are deserted, and its in habitants betake themselves bodily to the Epsom Downs. Every one, from Ministers of State down to costermongers, yield to the paramount influence of the day, and concentrate their undivided atten tion on an event which determines which of a num ber of three-year-old foals possesses the greatest speed. Downing-street and Covent-garden are alike abandoned, for the Premier for the time being may have, and not unfrequently has, a horse entered for the great race, and the costermonger is safe to have a bet on one of the favourites. And so it happens that every one who can go does go to the Downs. From early dawn the roads converging towards Epsom present an appearance unknown except on this eventful day. Traps which have not seen the light since the festival of the preceding year are again bro ug ht i n t o requ i s i t i on, an d , d espite their dilapidated condition, are fully freighted and despatched on their hazardous journey. The four horse drag, with its well appointed team, struggles onward, side by side with the humble donkey-cart, whose shafts as well as interior appear completely efflorescent with human beings. It is the Londoners' carnival, and the peer and the pot-boy are for the non ce on the rnost perfect equality. Little doll s, an d oc casionally, we regret to say, toys of more formidable di mensions, supply the place of the bon-bons of an Italian carnival, and are thrown at and by senators and " non-electors," the inhabitants of Belgravia and the denizens of Whitechapel, with the most indis criminating partiality. The road to Epsom, like that to Hades, levels all distinctions, and the ferryman of the Styx never collected th e o b o li f rom his pas sengers with greater disregard for their antecedent social status than did the toll-makers at the Sutton gate—happily now no more—collect the sixpences which high and low, rich and poor, were. only too anxious to thrust into their hands, in order to secure a passage through that narrow aperture. In a word,_ the Derby Day, with all its accessories, is a natio nal institution, and as such reflects many of the princi pal traits of the national character. The love of a fair contest, where the best animal, whether man or horse, wins—the love of social enjoyment, unfetter ed . by the restrictions of even the m ost considerate an d paternal of Governments—the love of absolute equality in regard to all that concerns the individual, and his right to regulate his own actions according to his own fancy, are all vividly illustrated i n the ordinary proceedings of a Derby Day. There are, however, other considerations which are forced on our attention by the recurrence of this anniversary besides those immediately incidental to the follies and the amusements of the road and of the hill. The prize which will be won to-day by the owner of the fleetest of the three-yr-olds is accounted the blue riband of the turf, and it must be confessed that, independently of the eclat of securing that decora-. tion, the fortunate victor also obtains a reward of so substantial a nature that it w ould have astounde d those who first conceived the idea of establishing horse races for prizes with a view to inducing breeders to devote particular attention to the pro duction of their stock. But, large as is the amount of the subscriptions paid by the owners of horses entered for the Derby, and which, with some trifling deductions, passes into the pocket of the pos sessor of the fastest of the lot, it is occasionally insignificant when compared with the sum found , due to him in the balance-sheet of his betting-boo k. The Derby is, in respect to the inducements which it holds out for gambling, only partially distill: guishable from any of the races which are run at other " meetings ;" but, accepting it, as we may fairly do, as a type, it involuntary forces upon our notice some of those offshoots of the racecourse which, after the manner of parasites, th re aten the stability of the parent stem. The "'Ring" is not an institution of to-day or of yesterday, and we have no intention of preaching a homily on the vice of gambling. Those who desire to risk their money on events of chance can do so without fre quenting the betting-ring or visiting a German watering-place ; and the trickling drops on a pane of glass caused by a passing shower, or the varying lengths of the straws which may be pulled from a corn-stack, furnish to those who are so inclined as ample an opportunity as could be desired for ex changing the luxury of a palace for the squalid misery of a hovel. But, although we decline to consider the evils of betting regarded per se, it may not be out of place to pass a few comments upon the rela tionship in which the " Ring" stands to the racing stable, and the nature of the influence which the one exercises over the other. No one possessing the slightest conversance with sporting matters can 31 ; fect to be ignorant that the speed of horses is n° unfrequently affected by the amount of the moor staked on their ill success, instead of, as one would, a priori, suppose, the result of a wager being solely dependent on the capabilities of the horse about which it is made. In a w o r d, th e " Ri n g," vii 3 , l r, was originally an accidental appendage to the stab le and entirely subservient to it, has now gained the up' per hand, and horses which belong to a confederati on are now as often scratched, or pull e d, o r doctored/ in order to lose a race, as they used to be put in L a. high state of training in order to gain one. betting-book, from the magnitude of the transae" tions which it records, eclipses the list of Priz e : which reward the successful horses, and men h av e learned that it may be much more pro fi ta bl e to l os e a race than to win one. Against practices such as those at which we have hinted little or no precau tions can be taken, and the public are compelled to place implicit confidence in the honour of the bers of the turf. The favourites for to-day's race are watched even whilst we write with an anxiety and care far more jealous than are expended on 1: 11 1 - \ safety by the body guards of the most power i f; sovereign. " The Ring" h as cas t " The 1111 " : 0 proper into the sh a d e , an d it h as b ecome little l e 4 d than ludicrous to urge that the main object and of horse-racing is the improvement of stock. A . f fact is patent, and cannot be denied, that 99 out () every 100 race-horses are foaled, rear ed, and train ed with no other object than that of furnishing to their owers the means of making a good book. COUNTRY MARKETS. LIVERPOOL—TITESDAY. At to-day's market, with a fair attendance of buYe r A there. was a moderate request for wheat, at about las. Tuesday's rates. Flour also in fair demand at steady r 3 te ns Indian corn in moderate request, at previous rates. 13 ° 3 " firm. Oatmeal is per load dearer. MELTON MOWBRAY.-TUESDAY. White wheat, 52s to 56s ; red, 43s to 48s per 36 stun Barley for malting, 36s to 39s p er qr; f ee d , 3 0s to 3351; 30 stone. Oats. 26s to 335. B eans , o ld, 50 s to 53 8 ; 43s to 46s per qr. SHEFFIELD—TUESDAY:. Red wheat, per load of 3 imp. b us h e l s ....l7s 81 10 190 6 d White do do __Ws Od t0.: 7 co d New red do do ....WA 6 L I 2 0 8 6 1 New white . do do .... !Ss Od 0 (xl !team do Peas. per qr Od d - i 70 t1 : ( 0 1 Grinding* ba ley, per qr 3.s Od - Od Malting barley, . o stis Od t: Od. Oats, • do Ts Od .- Flour...As td to 24 Od per lilb. MARKET HARBOROUGH.—TUESDAY. r 6 Old white wheat, 50 s t o Ms ; new red. 46s to 495 10 st. stone. Barley, fine, — s ; other kinds, 28s to 38s p er s Oats, new, 24s to 30 s ; o ld , 29s to 33s per qr. Be al ' 48s to 525; new, 42s to 46s per qr. LEEDS—TUESDAY. „ Ivy tO Our buyers are acting with caution, w hich is not ul ,,,Td, be surprised a t ; holders of wheat show, on the other h i t he no anxiety to f orce b usiness. Where sales are 1113 "._ A nd extreme rates of F r id ay are o b ta i na b le. Barley, beall' oats quite as dear. TUE CHOLERA AT LIVERPOOL—The Rev. 1: 0- flier Callaghan,__o of the Eldon-street, Catholic Church, died on M l , nda,y,from chol era caug ht w hil e v i s iti ng c holera Pa ti,e- o 6 r [ADVERTISEMENT.]-That the fearful annual mor talit y ,0 0 young childre n and delicate persons of all ag es ID afines,a arrested, if, instead of flyi ng bli n dly t o pills and rne d t la which, though apparently re li ev i ng th e patient, l ia ;; l ity, reality no other tendency than th a t of increasing d!' - h oy/ and with it the dangor of life, we were simply to stual oo d, to inc ease the vital force by i m p art i ng ne w and pur e 4 1) $O O upon which the harmonious development of the who le ', r ev depends, has been successfully proved by Du BarrY .° d its lids' and infants' Fo o d, th e R eva l en t a n n.,0311 thousands of cures annually. It yields three times " . c i for easily assimilated nourishment as the best neat , I.° p l '. children it is the best substitute for human Women and Routh, physician to the Samaritan Hospital for W" B `a ai lr'' children-the best authority on ',ltch matters - in h is a gib' able publication on Food, says-Amongst the vegetableito stances, th .t which comes closest to milk in its eee l PT c orr' is, without doubt, Du Barry's Revaienta Arabica F° ° '" de of t Rifling both phosphoric acid in abundance and chlori ere' potassium ; it alio includes casein, the same princip le 'W f i l ere'" is found in milk in its constituent parts. No wonder,tir fore, that under its influence many children a ff e cted ri ty , atrophy (wasting away o f th e b o d y), an d mark d eb tcst have completely recovered. I h ave given it with th e Brea lDp advantage in such cases ;, and so far as I may judge "cdneorf, own experience, practice fully carries out wha t th from a knowledge of its composition, led us to an tleiP 2 4ll% In tins, lib, 211 9d; 21b, 45 6d ; 51b, Ils ; 1 21 b, 220 do; 408.-Barry Dnißarry and Co., N 0.77, Regent-street, Le n w i - ee also Phillips, tea dealers, 8, King William-street to at 61, Gracechurch-stre,t ; 4, Cheapside ; 49, Bish e Ptidf street Within ; 63, 150, and 298, Oxford-street ; 339, St r 96, 54, Upper Baker-street ; 103, Tottenham-court- ro adr,; - IpeO Upper-street, Islington, N.; Harvey, Notting-hill; Brothers, 65, High-street ; and Stubbs, Queen's-terraet h e. John's-wood, London ; and all respectable grocers 6 0d s.--- rnists.-Beivare of snurious imitations. i a r t t K h i s n . BELL— On the 15th inst., il wife of James Bell, ~_ get. INGE—On the 14th inst., at Cra ke the wife of w e - Wm. Inge, of a daughter. Y ' JOHNSON—On the 13th inst., at Dovercourt, -'-' ' wife of Captain 0. Johnso, R.N., of a daughter. w ife PLUNKETT—On the 13th inst., at Athlone, Ireland, tbniter. of G. T. Plunkett, Esq., Royal Engineer, of a cl am ' Marriages. - L V a loll BROWNLOW—BURLEIGH—On the 9th inst., s'' — goy ,. Church, Belfast, Arthur Brownlow; CionamaudeTr „eds. Kingston-upon-Thanies, the Navy, son of the late Rev. J. Brownlow, tO,ll-J,P., Euphemia„ eldest daughter of Wm. Burleigh, -1 ' 84 " Carrickfergus. , ~.c . Al' VALLA ' NCE—WADGE—On the 14th inst at 5t...,' - , 3 „ - leiov bott's, Kensington, Fred. B. Valiance,l o f 28, D' e- uce road, St. John's-wood, neef is. Iv. -v it ila o i Esq., Hanover-terrace, Regent's-psoLk, to Alice, Y ew:4 daughter of the late J. Wadge, Esq. Deaths. o w C ing' , NAR ' OLD—On th e 14th i ns t at Heath Yaruse, B Kent, Robert Arnold C. mold Esq., aged 70. I Bobt• • AKED—On the 12th inst ~ at Shaw-street, rjhrerpee Aked, Esq., age d 59 . „aill9 , Fr , • NNIE—On the 12th inst., at Albemarle-st• teat, pie 43. James Finnie, Esq., of Newfield, Ayrshir 0, age" Tu lee' JAMES—On the 14th inst., at Southill LodgP, l3 PP °r hill, Daniel D. James, Esq., aged . bov ine/ LAWRENCE—On the 14th inst., at Burch-road, BO Benjamin Lawrence, Esq., agod TO. g a noP 3r.. MATHEWS—On the 12th inst., at 13roo k- s ta vet, square, Wilkinson Mathews, Esq., Q.C. a rd, g r ' ROUGH—On the 15th inst., at 6, St. Paul's-aurehy Robert Rough, aged 50 a, 18re°t' VINK—On the 14th inst . at 5, Wer;tmorel andproa ~ bourne-park, P. W. H. Vink, Be q., aged a. __....--,,--- • London : Printed and Publishf.dbyWlLLllt a• 112 of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at TILE. ziurt U 1 moo ' A — uil ly 0i Strand, in the Precinct -of the Savoy , is the -- Middleses.7 . -Wednesda7., May 16, 1866.