The Sun. — London, England, 1865-01-04 00:00:00

THE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA. corner, goaded to exasperation by the devastatin g n . ehestttnd i fairest States, and unable to cope march of Sherman through one of wt.si the new levies of the North without breaking in upon its lis t; tie la hea t lining of it fi s na se ll ru y p a l b es an a d g o a n ; nneerigrnogrreesmeTasn,t will' of its slaves, and call into its servic3, on the pro mise of -liberty and a farm to all the survivors a quarer of a million of able-bodied blacks. The Southern President did not think a month ago that the time had come when it was politic or necessary to make the hazardous experiment, but Sherman's march, Porter's armada, the re verses which have befallen Hood, and Mr. Lin coln's call for so large an additional force—a call which will be met by money if it cannot be met in any other way—have so altered the circumstances as to have created throughout the South a very general feeling in favour of the measure, as one absolutely indispensable not alone to the safety of the Con federates at home, but to its prestige abroad. It is asserted in the Richmond Enquirer of the 15th inst. that General Lee has become a convert, and that he has written a letter to Mr. Porcher Miles, Chair man of the Confederate House Committee on Mill ' tart' Affairs, in favour of immediately arming the negroes. The Enquire,- argues that independence is dearer to the South than negro slavery. " Shall we," it asks, " prolong the war for the sake of our negroes ? Shall we sacrifice our children to pre serve our slaves ? Shall we exhaust our country, destroy our noble defenders, and endanger every institution rather than test an experiment that may give us the means of recruiting our army, of assum ing the offensive, and of conquering a speedy peace? Neither rhetoric nor argument nor authority can determine whether the negroes will make for us faithful soldiers. The experiment must tea and decide this question. General Lee asks that this experiment be made. For us this is sufficient. Never will we put our prejudices against his de liberate judgment and advice. He is a rash man that does. He is not a wise man that imposes re sponsibilities and yet withholds means for their ac complishment We hate, detest, and despise the enemy far more than we love and ad mire slavery. If our liberties cannot be gained but by the sacrifice of slavery, we are prepared to make that sacrifice, and to urge that sacrifice upon our . countrymen. We would not return to the Union if every slave could be returned to his master, and if every guarantee that human ingenuity could de vise were secured for the protection of the ' institu tion ;' we prefer liberty with free society to reunion upon the securest basis of slavery." President Davis is tenacious of his individual opinion, but he is a statesman in the best sense of the word, and as such knows how to yield at the proper time to the force of circumstances which he is unable to control, and will not, it is to be fairly presumed, set himself in vain antagonism to the judgment of such a general as Lee, or the sentiment of the Southern people. The closing of the ports of the South has deprived it of the aid which the North derives from Ireland and Germany. The negroes alone remain to right the wavering balance, and it is asserted that when the South employs them it will not only strengthen its arm to achieve the independence it seeks, but will remove the greatest stumbling-block which has ever stood in the way of the cordial good wishes and the recog nition of Europe. The order of General Dix, which virtually amounted to a declaration of war against Canada, if the Canadian Government failed, as he pre-supposed it would, to do a certain thing in a certain contin gency, has been disavowed by President Lincoln, and the general has been directed to rescind such portion of it as was offensive to Canada, and conse quently, to Great Britain. General Dix has borne the snubbing with the profoundest equanimity. In any other country so high an official would resign if his conduct were publicly condemned by his supe riors. Not so in America. It costs much trouble, much twisting, much wriggling, much sacrifice, much eating of dirt, much expenditure of vital energy, much adaptability, much humiliation, and much self-abasement to get into office ; and once in, it is the rule to hold on " like grim death" to the last extremity, or until the periodical change of Administration at the end of the customary four years shall make an end of all officials, both high and low, and leave a fair field and a tobula rasa for the new comers. Besides, every official has the idea that if he be not President he ought to be, and may be, and in this expectation he consideri it to be his bounden duty to become popular, to pander to the passions and the prejudices of the people—to make political capital for himself, and to be a some- ' body amid the crowd of nobodies that surrounds him. There is no denying the fact that in issuing his orders to his subordinates on the Canadian fron tier to pursue any future marauders into Canadian territory if they could not otherwise kill or capture them, and on no account to deliver up any prisoners they might make on the demand of the Canadian authorities, General Dix struck a sympathetic chord in the hearts of his countrymen. He was, in Ame rican parlance, endorsed by the public, and not only endorsed, but vehemently applauded. It is always popular to threaten Great Britain ; always unpopu lar to assume towards that powerful, but in America very grossly misunderstood, country a position of fairness or conciliation. - hence General Dix, the receiver, and not Mr. Lincoln, the administrator, of the snub carries off the honours of the day in the Canadian imbroglio ; and the friends of General Dix believe they can safely calculate that by his prompt and what they call truly American action he has perceptibly strengthened his chances of a nomina tion for the Presidency in 1868. The unanimity with which the Canadian press has reprobated the conduct of the Vermont raiders, whether they be thieves or soldiers, and the sincerity with which " they have deplored the imperfection of the law by means of which Mr. Justice Coursal conscientiously felt himself compelled to discharge them, together with the earnest determination of the Canadian government to re-arrest the malefactors if that be possible, and to prevent as far as the utmost vigilance will allow the organisation of similar acts of warfare on Canadian soil, have somewhat cooled the anti- British war :fever of last week. There, neverthe less, remains a sufficient amount of excited ill-will to portend, unless the greatest care and caution be employed, an unsatisfactory, if not explosive, state of public feeling towards Canada and Great Britain during the whole continuance of the war. Hitherto the sympathies of the Canadian people have been almost wholly with the South. But if Southern agents in Canada, with the view of aiding their cause by creating animosity between the Northern Government and that of Great Britain, attempt to organise invasions of the Border States on Canadian soil, they will run the serious risk of converting friends into enemies, and arraying against their cause the interests of a great nation. They may, perhaps, imagine that the sympathies of Great Britain count for little, and have been of the smallest possible aid to them in their struggle, but they ought to be wise enough to know that if British sympathy had gone wholly to the other side the Confederacy would scarcely have stood so high as it stands to-day in the world's opinion, or had half the chances that it now has of proxiraate ad mission into the family of nations. (From the Tines' Correspondent.) NEW YORK, Dec. 20. Seldom have the Northern people been per mitted to enjoy such a feast of victory as that which within the last few days has been spread be fore them by Generals Sherman and Thomas. It is difficult to say which of the two is at this moment the most popular, or excites by his achievements the most enthusiasm. Sherman's march through Georgia, without, as he reports, the loss of a Waggon," is one of the most brilliant episodes of the war, and will secure him a high and abiding place in the history of his country. The Confederate forces that might have o pposed him were so small and so widely scattered, and by the mystery as well as the mastery:of his movements he threatened so many places at once, that there was literally no body to contest his progress. He swept across a belt of territory from 10 to 20 miles wide and 300 miles long with the force and destructiveness of a hurricane ; arrived at the seaboard with a well-fed, un h arr assed, and exultant army ; established his communication with the Federal fleet ; assaulted and captured a strong fort, and took up such a sition in the rear of Savannah as, with a Federal fleet in its front, to leave little if any doubt that the place must speedily surrender or be reduced to ashes. The achievements of Gen. Thomas are not so splendid, nor have they yet reached their climax in the destruction—a final defeat of General Hood, who, in the face of mighty obstacles and an im mense superiority of numbers, has been nobly fight ing in defence of the cause intrusted to his safe keeping. No one will deny that he is a brave sol dier, but he has added by his conduct of the cam paign in Georgia and Tennessee since the removal of General Joseph E. Johnston another proof to the many which this and all other wars have afforded that something more than personal bravery is required in a generalissimo. The indivi dual soldier, if he be a private, a captain, a colonel, or a divisional commander, may, without incurring blame, be brave to rashness when he acts in obe dience to orders, but a general in chief who exhibits the virtue of bravery unaccompanied by that of prudence or adaptation of means to ends cannot escape censure even from his friends if his bravery be unrewarded by success. When General John ston was superseded by the Southern President, and General Hood appointed in his place, there was a very prevalent feeling throughout the North—and, it would appear, from statements in the Richmond journals, throughout the South also—that Mr. Davis had made a mistake, and that either in a fit of im patience or acting upon misconception he had dis pensed with the services of one of his ablest gene rals, and dismissed a consummate strategist, to make room for a mere fighter. The result appears to vindicate the prescience of the objectors. Gen. Sherman is reported to have had a high opinion of Johnston, but none of Hood, and to have seized the opportunity of Johnston's removal to march through Georgia with the larger half of his army, leaving the smaller half behind under General Thomas to cope with the dashing but unwary favourite of Air. Jefferson Davis. It is reported on high autho rity—if not the highest—that the reasons given for Johnston's removal were—first, 44 his failure to ar rest the advance of the enemy in the vicinity of Atlanta, far in the interior of Georgia ;" and, secondly, " the non-expression of any confidence that he could defeat or repel Sherman." Military critics—some who are friendly to the Confederate cause, and some who are not, but who look upon war as a game to be scientifically criticized by those who are competent to form an opinion —assert that General Johnston's strategy was sound ; that the Fabian policy was the only one he could employ when pushed by an enemy three if not four times his superior in numbers, and that until the day of his removal such policy had been pre-eminently successful, it is asserted that Gen. Lee, whom everybody, North and South, admits to be The first general of the age, adopted after the battle of the 'Wilderness precisely the same policy as Gen. Johnston, and gained great glory by it ; that the relative strength of Sherman's army and Johnston's was such that had Johnston been the attacking party, the chances would have been in Sherman's favour ; that at Dalton Sherman had a fortified pass in his rear, as a place of refuge to which he could retire in case of mishap ; that in moving south he advanced fortifying, and that con sequently he had always an intrenched position close behind him ; that under such circumstances victory could not have been decisive for Johnston ! while defeat would have been ruinous ; and that the true strategy—that which Johnston employcd—was to keep near the enemy, to take advantage of any ex posure of himself which he might make, and to re pel his almost daily partial assaults by the infliction of much greater loss than he suffered. It is alleged by the true friends of Gen. Johnston that he so im peded Sherman's faarchfrom Chattanooga to Atlanta as to hold him for 72 days in advancing 93 miles ; and that while in successive encounters with the Fe deral armies he inflicted a loss in killed, wounded, - and prisoners, of 40,000 men, he lost but 10,000 of his own; and that this course, if continued, would speedily have so reduced the disparity of numbers as, if not to have given Gen. Johnston the superiority, to have made the ultimate battle one of equal to equal. As regards the second allegation—not a very serious one at the best—it is easily disposed of. No sensible man, in high or low position, regards the em ployment of boastful language as evidence of merit, or modesty as a proof of incompetency. Whether the defence thus made for General Johnston be suffi cient, it is, unfortunately for the South, too clear that its interests in Georgia and Tennessee have suffered by his removal ; that General Hood, though brave, has been rash ; or, if not rash, unsuccessful ; and that the supersedure of Johnston has created political divisions in the South, which have a ten dency to weaken, if they have not already weakened • the hands of the Executive. The great Armada, as it is called, of Admiral Porter, composed of no less than 65 vessels of vsi t r, exclusive of 85 transports and smaller cr: c dt, and having on board General B. F. Butler, and at least 20,000—some accounts say 241°0—men detailed , from the army of the Potom forthis sp ec i a l serv i ce , has appeared off Cape 'Aar, bound for Wilmington. This is the expedition which was to have started in October, and which it was hoped would have won a great victory before the first days of November, so as to gain votes for Mr. Lincoln and re-seat him in the Presidential chair, amid a blaze of triumph and rejoicing. The necessity under which Gen. Sherman found himself of evacuating Atlanta—attained at so much cost and trouble, but afterwards found to be so worthless and untenable, and his consequent retreat through Georgia to the sea—led to the postponement of Admiral Porter's expedition until such time as Sherman's safety should be officially known, and his new base upon the coast securely established. Sa vannah and Wilmington were then to be simulta neously attacked. This, it is now asserted, was the progra mme arranged at Washington, with the full concurrence of ary movement General Grant, Mr. Lincoln, Mr. Stanton,• and Ge neral llalleck, and which, it is expected, will thi s week be a combined n ava l and milit ones - ed to completion by both cities —th e and Admiral Dahlgren, the other by byGeneral General against Sherman Butler and Admiral Porter. speculators have been " discou Already the gold t and prospective vict or i es in this dirtenegtio effect as to reduce th e premium from 131- he actual 11 th such or nearly 20 per cen t. The reduction, to ho 114, has not been maintai ne d, an d the speculators for the rise have been able to exhibit the dark side of the picture with such success as to bring up the premium again this morning to 127. The shadows in the future, which the too sanguine refuse to see, but which are obvious enough to all who look dispassionately upon events, are that the successes of the North, gratifying as they may be to the popular pride, and welcome to the party necessities of the Administration, will aid but little, if it all, in the termination of the war. Already Mr. Lincoln has confessed that he has not force enough .for the ends in view by calling for a new levy of. 300,000 men, to be drawn by conscription, if there is not patriotic zeal enough in the country to pro vide them by voluntary enlistment or by high boun ties. It is feared also that the South, driven into a CONVOCATION OF YORK.—The Archbishop ha s appointed this Convocatton to meet for desp a t c h o f business on Tuesday, the 21st of February. Hi s G race subject for discussion :—Subscrip tion the following f Lay Helpers ; the Table of lessons- from has named the Position o ; the Burial Service the Scripture. LOST IN THE SNOW ON DARTMOOII.—A melan choly Saturday. -- A young eholy occurrence took place on had just been appointed who married man named Sweeney, prison, had gone Schoolmaster to the Dartmoor convict town on foot to into Tavistock on business. He left the k in the evening. return to Prince Town soon after 8 o'clock . ind blowing A heavy snowstorm came on, and, a fierce w— many feet at the time, the is in some places became . h deep. [Sweeney took two hours and a quarter to reach errivale-brige, a diktance of four miles. There is a pub andlic-house at the bridg, and there ha stopped for a while partook of refreshment. The gale had by that time increased in fury, and the landlady urged the poor fellow to stop the night, but being, anxious to get home to his wife and and young children he refused the hos proffered pitality with thanks, and set out for his home He never reached it, his dead body being found the following morn ing about three-quarters of a mile from Prince Town, in a , crouching position, close by the hedge. rHE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 4, 1865. be felt by the middle and upper classes, but especially by the middle class, who, he hoped, would take a prominent part in promoting the system, for the education of the middle class was becoming of increased importance. One of the great objects now was that the education of all classes should be harmonised. Much had been done in promoting the education of the lower class and in revising and re modelling upper-class education, but it was essential that the middle class, the great depo - sitory of political and social power, should be harmonised with the rest. Although the education of one man should not be the same as that of another who had a different object 'in life, still no class should be left to think that what was important to one class it was waste of time and foolish in another to acquire. Whatever study could be commonly agreed upon as con ducive to formation of good character, of improved taste, and instrumental in cultivating the faculty of accurate ob servation, that study was one:which no particular class should acquire, but to which all classes should devote themselves. (Cheers.) Sir S. H, Northcote, 31,P , on. Art. The annual meeting of the Exeter School of Art was held on Monday in the Market-house, Exeter. Sir S. Northcote, the President, was in the chair, and among those present were Sir John Bowring and the High Sheriff of Exeter (Mr. Cooper). Sir STAFFORD NORTHCOTE said he believed the trea surer's statement might be taken as read, the substance having been given in the able report just read by Mr. Westcomb ; and, that being so, it now became his (Sir Stafford's) duty to move, in accordance with the usual cus- tom, that the report be received and adopted. He thought that they would agree with him that the report presented many points of interest, and was, on the whole, one which ought to give the greatest satisfaction. (Hear.) They could not help feeling that the present was a time which, both as regarded the cause of education generally, and as regarded the circumstances of Exeter in particular, might be said to have been rather a critical time, but at the same time he might say that they hoped it was a crisis which would lead to prosperity. (Hear.) They knew, and indeed it had been referred to in the report, that art education in this country had this year been upon its trial. He was not quite sure that he ought not, as president of the committee of that in- stitution, to have taken exception earlier, but at all events he was bound to take exception now to the particular terms in which the committee appointed during the past session of Parliament had been alluded to. The report, which they had heard read, spoke of it as a committee which was ap pointed for the purpose of inquiring into certain grievances which had been alleged to be felt by the masters of schools of art, in consequence of the minutes which were passed by the Department for the Promotion of Practical Art last year. He was bound to say that that was not quite correct, and certainly not an adequate description of the functions of that committee. It is quite true that complaints were made by the masters of the operation of some portions of those minutes, and they were the moving cause of the ap pointment of that committee, but the committee itself took a much wider range. (Hear, hear.) It was appointed not for the purpose of inquiring into this or that complaint, or into a portion of those particular minutes, but for the pur pose of inquiring generally into the constitution, manage . . ment, working, and success of schools of art which were partially aided by the Government, and thereby to inquire into the principles upon which the money voted in Parlia ment for the promotion of art education was expended—in point of fact, they took a review of the whole of that por tion of the department of Government which was charged with the promotion of art education, from the commence-- me7F - to the time of their appointment. examined They. into the working of the whole system, and the difficulties attending it, and those who would take the trouble to refer to that report would find that the committee went rather fully into the history of schools of art from their founda tion, but more especially from the time when a Parliamen tary committee before sat on the subject, in the year 1849, and that they inquired into all the particulars connected with their working, and into the evidence which could be given as to the general effect of art education in this country. (Hear, hear.) The general result was that they found the position of affairs had materially changed within the past 20 or 30 years-20 or 30 years ago the question which was asked of them was whether it was possible to educate the people of England in art. (Hear, hear.) Now, the question was no longer could they do it, but it was would they do it, and to what extent would they do it. This was the only question now, for that it had been done, and was now being done, was clear to every one—he was going to say, who would keep his eyes open and observe what was passing around him—but certainly to anyone who would. examine the evidence which had been laid before the Parliamentary committee. They would see, too, he thought, that, although a considerable sum of the public money was expended on this object, the evi dence satisfactorily showed that this money had been well expended, and that considerable advantage had followed from it. (Cheers.) The encouragement of art-education had accomplished great objects ; it had enabled us to ascer tain that which was previously a disputed point, thut the Englishman had as good a mental capacity for producing works of art as the native of any other country—(hear)— that the English people might be taught and their taste cultivated as much as other nations could be—(hear, hear) —and it had been shown by the evidence of manufacturers that what had been achieved had told most materially for the benefit of the manufacturers of this country. Inquiry had also shown that there - were difficulties in the working of the system, and difficulties in the way of its extension. It stood to reason that the system continued as it was at its commencement would not be suitable when its work had become more matured, just as the 'leading strings that were servieable in infancy became ultimately a nuisance and an inconvenience. It became necessary for the same reason that the system of art education— not because it was unsuccessful, but because it had been successful—should be modified in regard to the details of its working, so as to enable it to attain its object. (Cheers.) Originally the work was begun with a small number of schools, founded chiefly at the expense of the Government, maintained and directed by the Government. After a time the work was extended—towns in which schools were desired were allowed to have them established by themselves; and the system was enlarged in order to cover the new field of operations. But art education had spread so rapidly that a very large additional expenditure by the Government was necessitated, and with a further extension an increased minute superintendence must be in volved if Government aid were continued; and the difficul ties inseparable from centralisation would be augmented. It was therefore of importance to see where the alterations needed should be made. When the Government expended large sums of money in promoting education it was neces sary that certain tests should be laid down, in order to as certain that the money was properly spent; and the greater the area of operations the more rigid must be the tests, and :he more difficult the working of the systems. For this reason, in regard to primary education, the Government was obliged, in self-defence, to have recourse to the plan of what was termed, " paying on results," in order to pro vide that their expenditure should be properly laid out ; but this was introducing a principle which must obviously hamper the liberty of education, for many important re sults of education could not be tested. Two schools might be equally advanced, and yet one of them might be effect ing considerably more good than the other, and yet the good so done might be such as could not be submitted to the test of results. - If this were the case with reference to general education, how much more so would it be the case in art education ? To judge fairly by results the Govern ment found it necessary to prescribe nearly the same copies for all schools, and required great uniformity in order to see more readily which pupil came up to a certain standard. Now in reading, writing, and arithmetic there was no doubt great uniformity, but in art training there ought to be more elasticity and license as to results, for if a master were cramped by being compelled to direct the production over and over again of the same copies, such a course detracted from the advantage to be derived from allowing the master to travel out into his own line, and from encouraging stu dents in those branches of art that it may be peculiarly de sirable that, from their profession, their position, or their method of overcoming difficulties, they should cultivate. The Government had felt that difficulty, and endeavoured, as far as possible, to meet it by introducing in the various schools a large number of subjects, in order to give the greatest possible amount of scope to both master and stu dent. In that way they had introduced a system which, whatever might be its other merits, certainly did not pos sess the merit of simplicity. (Hear, hear.) This was the state of affairs when the Parliamentary Committee, of which he was the chairman, came to inquire into it. The opinion they came to was that the work of imparting cul ture could be simplified by taking care that the manage ment of the local committee was efficient, by giving the pupils free play for their own energies, and by allowing in the system as little interference as possible with the efforts of the masters. (Hear, hear.) This course has been recom mended, and a new code of regulations would be submitted to Parliament that would tend, at any rate to set• the schools more free than they were. Another point at tained had been that attention which had been drawn to complaints made, not altogether without reason, of the un equal division of funds between the central institution at South Kensington and the provinces, although it should be considered that the institution had an immense influence upon the country. The managers of the Art Department were most anxious that more should be done in the circu lation of works of art collected there, and that more should also be done in the promotion of schools in the provinces, and he (Sir Stafford) believed that a great deal more would in a few years be effected in disseminating the advantages of the central institution, although more was being done than some persons perhaps were apt to think. Expensive foreign works of art had been purchased by the Government at large prices ; and these had been lent, or copies or oasts had been made of them, so that they had been reproduced and rendered saleable at prices fabulously low. Mr. Cole mentioned to the committee an instance in which a majolica plate, originally purchased by the State for £2OO, was lent to Messrs.blinton and had been reproduced so as to sell at3ss. ; and when the copy was compared with the original there were hardly any members of the committee who professed to know which was which. (Cheers.) In this way it would be sought to circulate those valuable articles that would create a taste for art which fine works of art were capable of engen dering. It must therefore be acknowledged that the South Kensington Department was doing a great deal of good in the country. Mr. Cole had suggested a plan of organising a system under which fine works of art could be lent from thebgreat national institutions centralised at London to the different provincial museums for limited periods; and by an arrangement of this nature, which ho had no doubt would ultimately be carried out, works of art that might be spared from the metropolis and other places could be ex changed or lent, so as to enrich the museums of the coun try and add novelty as well as contribute to the spread of knowledge - and art, and of objects of interest. The more the department of South Kensington was stirred up the better, and he did not regret having been on the commit tee that had called them to account for having monopolised too much of the Parliamentary grant. The only way to meet the present difficulties attaching to the schools of art was to have a more enlightened local management, and a selection should be made of such managers only as would take an interest in art, and so qualify themselves as to jus tify their holding the trust. He hoped that interest would The Frightful Accident at Dundee. The Scotsman publishes the following particulars regarding the accident at Dundee, of which a brief account was published in The Sun of yesterday : " The melancholy occurrence took place at Bell-street Hall, a large concert room situated immediately below the United Presbyterian Church (of which the Rev. Mr. Ber wick is pastor), in Bell-street, Constitution-road. The hall is well known in Dundee in connection with dertain concerts and other entertainments given in the place from time to time by Mr. Springthorpe. The hall is badly constructed, so far as regards the public safety, the chief access being very dangerous. Entrance to the hall is gained by a broad flight of stairs leading down from Bell-street into the large area beneath the church. The top of the stairs is guarded by an iron gate, and as this opens inward it is not difficult to understand the danger that must arise from a great pres sure without. On Monday evening a very large crowd of people assembled at the gate desirous of obtaining admis sion to a promenade concert, which, under the title of Springthorpe's Exhibition,' had been announced as one of the attractions of New Year's evening. When the adver tised hour arrived the man in charge opened one half of the gate for the purpose of admitting the people to the hall. On this being done, the pressure of the crowd from without was so great that the man was overpowered, and the other half of the gate burst open. Those in the front rank were swept through the narrow opening and forced down the stairs with great violence. Much confusion and alarm pre vailed, and efforts were made to stem the pressure from be hind. These for the time however proved unavailing. The people next the gate were pushed in a mass down the stairs, and those behind pressed upon them and overthrew them. Before the pressure could be stayed a confused heap of people several feet deep were piled up in the small space of about six feet at the bottom of the stairs. Nearly three-quarters of an hour elapsed before these were extricated from their position, when it was found that nine young women and 10 men had been crushed to death.. In addition to the 19 per sons who were thus killed, a large number were more or less severely injured." EDINBURGH, Tuesday Night. The latest news from Dundee gives the number of sufferers in the catastrophe at Springthorpe's Music-hall on Monday night as 19 ; 20 was the number reported this morning. The stair, on which about 100 people were suddenly heaped, was 7ft. wide, and consisted of 15 steps. It wets exte rior to the hall, and the strong gate at the top had been partially open for some minutes, admitting two or three people at a time. Suddenly it gave way, and tho foremost of the crowd were precipi tated, prostrated, and piled upon a square space at the foot of the steps exterior to the hall. Some who were caught in the awful crush were able to call to the crowd behind, but their cries were unheard or unheeded, and the crowd still rushed on, un aware of the frightful massacre caused by their violence. The scene is described as most horrible. Suffocation appears in most cases to have been the cause of death, there being few cases of broken limbs. Some of the sur vivors; however, were much injured in extrication. One or two were extricated only to die in their res cuers' arms. Many providential escapes are re corded. The chccktaker narrowly escaped with his life. The calamity caused immense excitement in Dundee,.and great anxiety for young people thought to be in the crowd. Many touching scenes took place in the identification of the bodies, all of which have been now claimed. The deceased evidently all belonging to the humbler classes. Three-fourths were boys and girls of 12 to 18. The day was, as is usual throughout Scotland, a general holiday. A judicial investigation is being made. Frightful Railroad Accident on the Grand Trunk of Canada Railway. (From the Lama Free Press, Dec. 16.) A most dreadfuj. accident, attended with loss of life, occurred last night shortly before 8 o'clock on of Grand Trunk 'Railroad, abo u t a m il e an d h a lf west the Detroit and Mil wau k ee j unct i on t h roug h the a collision between the day passenger express west and a freight train going east. The particulars which have been gathered thus far are nearly as follows : The passenger train was behind time, and had made all the necessary passes, according to the telegraphic instruction, until it had passed New Baltimore sta tion, where, it s said, it had or d ers to cross the freight going east of the Detroit and Mil wau k ee junction. When it arrived there, according to the story of the operator at the Grand Trunk junction it had orders to proceed all right. Under the s e in passed the junction, w h en s h ortly after gineer thought he discovered a n eng i ne w st a ru rct e s ti t o h n e s e it n ahead. The next instant he heard the whistle to down breaks, when he immediately gave a similar order and There were with hi m i n th e ca b persons besides the f ireman. p the two engi nes came crash ingjump - together in frightful contact, literally making chaos of everything connected with both. The en gines were dovetailed into each other in an insepar able manner, and the mail and baggage car of the passenger train driven partially through the forward passenger car, thereby causing the frightful catas trophe which followed. The passenger train, which consisted only of two coaches and a baggage car,was crowded with passe ngers. Both cars were filled to the utmost, so much so that scarcely even standing room could be obtained. After the accident those in the forward car who were not helplessly injured en deavoured to get out as soon as possible. It is said, and we give it upo n the authority of one of the pas sengers, that the baggage man, who, it appears, had charge of the train, there being no conductor aboard, or one of the breaksmen, shut the, hind door of the car, and would not for some time allow' the pas sengers egress, stating that there was no dan g er. Immediately after the smash occurred the stoves were upset and the cars took fire. In an almost incredible space of time the flames enveloped the whole, with the exception of the last car, and how many perished time alone can tell. After recover ing from the shock those who escaped turned their attention to the rescue of those in danger, and suc ceeded in delivering several from the burning mass. While thus engaged they were forced to witness a sight which fairly curdled the blood in their veins, and towards the recital of which the pen denies its office. The mail agent, George W. Millen, from Port Huron, was found to be jammed in between the baggage and forward passenger car. His leg was firmly held between two pieces of broken tim ber, and all efforts to rescue him before the devour ing flames reached . him in their folds proved futile. The most Herculean efforts to extricate his crushed and bleeding limbs were used, but the rapidly spread ing flames d rove t h e labourers from th e i r wor k, and they were forced to witness him perish before their eyes, his heartrending shrieks for help piercing their ears, until stifled amid the smoke and flames of the devouring element. God of . Heaven, it was a sickening sight, and completely enervated the ener gies of those around in their duties to others pro bably equally terribly situated. After the fire had burnt down his charred trunk was taken from the ruins, the head, arms, and legs completely devoured, and the body roasted to a cinder. As we have stated, it is not known how many persons perished. We can, the re f ore, only as yet surmise the number sacrificed to the catastrophe.rnins discovered S a Some persons of a in working among the woman's hoop skirt, and shortly afterwards the bones of a human being among the ashes. Another person drew from the ruins a portion of the bottom of a silk dress, and a ticket upon which was the address, " Miss Mary Boorlingham, Oneida, N.Y." But whether this belonged to any one who perished has not yet been discovered. It is said that a lady and two children were in the car, who have not turned up, and that a physician who was in. the city awaiting the arrival of a sister or some female relative or both, mourns their absence. It is probable that five or six have perished. Beyond the melancholy death of Arr.:Millen no other names have transpired. The names of the wounded, so far as could be ascer tained, together with the nature of their injuries, are as follows :—Mr. Davidson, express agent, Detroit, head and face severely ; a family named Ashley, for North Danforth, Massachusetts, consisting of a mother, son, and daughter, were more or less in jured. The mother was severely injured about the head and face, and the son, it is feared, is injured internally. He was completely bewildered for some time. The daughter, Mary, had her arm broken, and her leg severely bruised, and appeared to be suffering intense pain. They were on their way to Wisconsin, where they intended to settle. Mr. Wat son, a gentleman from Canada, internally, so badly as to be unable to give an account of his residence and friends. Ebenezer Hillyard, Mount Clemens, severely about the head, face, and body ; N. Avery, Port Huron, slightly ; T. L. Wells, head and face slightly ; Mr. Smith, Detroit, head and face, slightly ; Hubbard Davis, head and face slightly ; Henry Newton, near Ypsilanti, head and back se riously ; W. S. Lloyd, Cedar Falls, lowa, head and shoulder slightly ; Martha Montgomery, daughter of J. 0. Montgomery, Whitefield,. N.H., head, se- - verely ; Mary W. Green, Topsham, Maine, head slightly ; James Bickell, London, C.W., arms and legs, severely; R. L. Walter, Brownstown, Michigan, shoulder and breast, slightly ; John Law, Toronto, slightly ; J. Prescott Eldridge, East Constable, New York, leg severely. These are the names of the principal sufferers. There are two or three others, however, who are reported to have found refuge in some of the adjoining farm houses, where their injuries, said to be slight, were attended to, A special train left the central depot about 10 o'clock for the purpose of removing the sufferers to the city. Owing to the obstructions on the track only those who were able to walk returned by it. Another special was despatched over the southern road to re move those whose injuries required careful handling. They were all brought in at a late hour, and their sufferings kindly administered to as was pos sible under the circumstances. The majority of them are strangers in a strange land, and should receive the kindest treatment from our citizens. It is almost needless to say that all their baggage was destroyed, which to several is an irreparable loss. The mails were also burnt, with the exception of a I few letters. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TIMM—We are now in possession of those papers papers which mankind must form their judgment as to the true nature and bearing of those transac tions in Canada which have so greatly irritated the press and the people of the United States. For once we feel very much inclined to sympathise with them in the first outburst of their indignation. The outrage which had been inflicted upon them by per sonstaking their departure from the neutral terri tory of Canada was of the foulest description. It had nothing in it of the nature of war, but was really robbery and murder striving to shelter itself under that all-atoning name. The success of a hun dred such outrages as the St. Alban's raid could not by any possibility have influenced in the slighteit degree the result of the American civil war. It is not by plundering banks and murdering clerks that the destinies of great nations struggling for existence or independence are to be decided, and, for our part we shall heartily rejoice if the perpe trators shall be at last given up, to be dealt with not as honourable enemies, but as criminals exposed to the just vengeance of offended law. We have purposely abstained in a matter of so much import ance from offering any opinion on the rights of this question until we had before us the arguments of counsel and the decision of the judge ; the point at issue is one of some intricacy, but we hope we may make it clear enough to enable our readers to judge of the question for themselves. By one of the clauses of the Treaty of 1842, of which we have recently had the benefit in the case of Mul ler, provision is made for the extradition of, cri minals taking refuge in the territories of the two contracting parties. This Treaty required an Act of Parliament to give effect to its clauses, and by that Act of Parliament (the 12th of Victoria), it was provided that such fugitives might be arrested by a warrant under the hand' of the Secretary of State or of the Governor of any province, and that if it appeared that there was sufficient evidence against him he was to be given up to those who made the requisition. But it being thought likely that in some cases it might be found more expedient to leave the regulation of the details of the execution of the treaty to be settled by local legislatures, it was provided by the fifth section of the Imperial Act that in case a local legislature should make pro vision for carrying the treary into effect by substi tuting some other enactment, the Queen in Council might suspend the operation of the Imperial Act within the limits of the colony the Legislature of which had made such provision. The Legislature of Canada did make this provision by an act passed in the 12th year of the present Queen, and the. Queen in 1850, by order in Council, suspended the Impe rial Act so long as the Canadian Act of the 12th Victoria should be in force, and no longer. Had matters remained here the thing would have been perfectly clear. By the Imperial Act the fugitive must be arrested by a warrant signed either by the Secretary of State or the Governor of the colony. Under the Colonial Act a warrant signed by a judge of one of the courts was sufficient. By the joint efficacy of the Colonial Act and of the order in Council, the Colonial was substituted for the Im perial Act, and it was not necessary to obtain the signature of the Governor-General. But the mat ter did not stop here. The Canadian Legislature consolidated its acts ten years afterwards, and the manner in which the consolidation was effected was by repealing existing acts and re-enacting them, with or without alteration. The 12th of Victoria was thus repealed and re-enacted. From the mo ment of its repeal, as it seems to us, the suspending efficacy of the order in Council was gone for want of something to act upon, and the Imperial Act, which had been held in abeyance for ten years, re- vived. But the matter did not stop even here. Two years after the act which had been re-enacted in the Consolidated Acts was materially varied in its leading provisions so that not only had this specific Act to which the order in Council applied ceased to exist, but its provisions, which were at first preserved by the consolidating Act, had ceased to exist also. The St. Alban's raiders were arrested under a warrant issued by a Judge, _ . which was valid if the Colonial Act was in force, but _ invalid if the Imperial Act had revived. The JUdge held the Colonial Act which had been re-enacted and varied was not in force, and for our part we cannot conceive how he could have possibly held otherwise. A Colonial Act can have no force of itself as against an Act of the Imperial Legislature. That force was in this instance imparted under the special authority of an Order in Council. When that Order in Council ceased to apply the Imperial Act must clearly prevail. So far, therefore, we thing that America has no cause of complaint against us. The Judge appears to have decided according to well recognised principles of law, and though the point was highly technical it appears to have been clear enough. The fault was not in him, but, in the first place, in the blunder of the Colonial Legislature, and, in the next place, in the oversight of the legal advisers of the Canadian Executive. But, admitting that the Judge was right in his law, was it clear that the Judge was bound to treat the matter in the summary manner that he did ? Was he bound to discharge the prisoner before him ? And if so, was he bound to discharge all the other prisoners whose cases he had not heard ? Of course we speak on this point with hesitation and diffi dence. The Judge assumed that it was a question of jurisdiction. To us it would seem rather a question of the process by which the fugitives were brought before the Court than of the jurisdiction of the Court. The application, as we understand it, was not on a writ of Habeas Corpus. The prisoners were brought up on the warrant of the Judge, the evidence against them was gone into, and the case was remanded to hear the other side. Is it quite clear that after the merits of the case had been entered upon at large it was competent to the prisoners to take this highly technical objection to the validity of the process which brought them there ? Even supposing this view to be incor rect, was it incumbent on the Judge to give such effect to an objection so highly technical and so easily remediable as to discharge six prisoners accused of such heavy offences, without even hearing what could be said in any case except one, and with the certainty that by so doing he was entirely defeating the ends of justice ? He took time to consider his decision on a point which he stated himself to be one of intricacy and nicety. Would he have done wrong if he had taken for the consi deration of a question so knotty and so important a period long enough to obtain the signature of the Governor-General, and thus to have cured effectu ally this purely technical slip, if it should really have been found to exist ? = We are not impugning the integrity or the ability of the Judge, of whose antecedents we know nothing, but we certainly think that there was some want of discretion in the precipitate and almost violent manner in which he cancelled the • whole proceeding, and probably enabled six great criminals to escape from the hands of justice. A warrant has of course been signed. by the Governor-General, but we fear that it is exceed ingly unlikely that these prisoners will be recaptured in so vast, so thickly wooded, and so thinly peopled a country as Canada, where there must be many Confederate refugees who would strain every nerve to facilitate their escape. But we go a step further, and maintain that if the Judge had no alternative but to act in the way that he did, the authorities of Montreal ought to have taken upon themselves the risk and the responsibility of detaining these pri soners, even without legal warrant, for the very brief period which would have been re quired to obtain the requisite warrant signed by the Governor-General. The question was one of great importance ; on it might have de pended the issues of peace and war, and any one refusing to allow the ends of justice and the very legitimate demands of a neighbouring nation to be defeated by a merely technical objection might • reckon with the utmost confidence on obtaining a legislative indemnity for his conduct. We do not know where the Governor-General was, but he probably was not beyond Quebec on the north, or Toronto on the south, and might, therefore, have been communicated with by railway and telegraph in a few hours. We are not in possession of infor mation sufficient to enable us to state on whom, beyond the Judge, the blame of this signal miscar riage of justice attaches ; but strong and unjusti fiable as the language of the American journals has been, we certainly feel that they have good ground for feeling indignant at a transaction that contrasts so unfavourably with the prompt and efficient assist ance which they gave us in the case of Muller. We must not expect that in the heat of a tremendous civil war persons having a legitimate subject of com plaint will confine themselves within the exact bounds of reason and justice •, and we have every reason to be satisfied with the decision of the Ame rican President, which has so opportunely checked a fermentation the results of which no man could foresee. At the same time we would point out that the Executive Government is not responsible for the miscarriage of a Judge, and that one of the prin cipal objects of the institutions under which we live is to remove our tribunals, so far as possible, from any such influence. But nothing appears to be alleged against the authorities of Canada beyond the timidity which prevented them from taking a very bold and hazardous resolution, on a very diffi cult question, on a very sudden occasion ; and whatever fault may be found ultimately to attach to the colonial authorities, judicial or executive, 'the people and Government of this country had no power in the matter, and have no other wish than that the provisions of the Extradition Treaty shall be carried out with the utmost fairness and fulness, in a spirit of strict impartiality, neither straining the law to promote the escape of the guilty nor to bring:the innocent within the power of their enemies. HERALD.—In the speech made by Mr. Bright at I the opening of the New Exchange at Birmingham, on Monday, we are glad to recognise a moderation which is not often discoverable in the orations of this able but somewhat misguided gentleman. For once in his life he makes no direct attack on the House of Lords and the aristocracy ; he allows the British lion to wag its tail in peace, and forbears to de nounce the constitution, the law of primogeniture, and the National Church. For once he is content to speak of the American war in terms with which we do not feel much inclined to quarrel, describing• it as " an inevitable but temporary struggle, at which mankind look on with wonder and with bated breath." For once, too, he speaks kindly of his country, and says that we may be " deemed the greatest people on the face of the earth." An orator who has been wont to indulge in the gloomiest cynicism—who has favoured us from time to time with the darkest predictions of the future, of a State whose misfortune it is to be ridden rough-shod by a " governing class," warmed, perhaps, by the genial influences of the banquet, flies off into a strain of optimism which is in strange contrast to the usual tone of his discourses. The time is com ing, he tells us, when war will cease on the earth, when the nations will reduce their armaments and live in peace. Wars of conquest are gone by, there is no more jealousy between nations. "We stand on a loftier eminence than our forefathers did. We stand as it were on the shoulders of preceding gene rations." With the dreamer in Locksley Hall he imagines already the advent of the age of reason. He fancies that he lives in the time of which it may be said-- Now the war drum throbs no longer, and the battle flags are furled, 'Tis the parliament of man, the federation of the world; Now the common-sehse•Of most shall hold a fretfuLrealm . . in awe, And the kindly earth shall slumber, lapped in universal We wish much that 'we could go along .with Mr. Bright in his rhapsody, as we differ from him when in his jaundiced vein. The one seems as unnatural and as overstrained as the other. We have yet to learn that the world is so much better than it used to be ; that the jealousies, heartburn ings, and rivalries, which in all ages past have led to strife between nations, have ceased to operate as occasions of deadly enmity. In that millenium yet to come, when evil passions shall have become ex tinct in individual minds, and not till then, can we hope to meet with them no more in those vast aggre gates which are but made up of individuals. At the close of a decade which has seen every nation in the world at war, which has witnessed the war in the Crimea, the war in Italy, the war in Denmark, the war in India, w ith numberless lesser conflicts in Asia and Africa, which leaves us in the midst of a strife on the Western continent so vast in its pro portions, and so destructive in its progress that we cannot find a parallel for it in ancient or in modern history, it seems somewhat premature to speak of universal peace. It is an insult to our understand ings tell us that the nations have no further de sire f or t er ,jtorial aggrandisement, that wars of conquest are to IN; regarded as things of the .past. Are we to be persuaded that the Emperor Nicholas had no design upon Turkey ; that the Piedmontese in 1859 entertained no ambitious c s _rojects ; that the annexation of Savoy was.forced upon the Emperor of the French ; that the Germans never ioAlly in tended to dismember Denmark ; that the Prussi7tns at this moment have no hankering after SehleSwig- Holstein ? What is the American war but a most audacious and persevering attempt to subdue, by force of arms, an independent people that has just as good a right to its nationality as the people of the North ? Perhaps it would be difficult to find any ten years in the history of the world in which there has been more strife and bloodshed, in which ambitious designs have been more openly avowed and more daringly carried out than in the -period between the end of 1854 and the end of 1864. It is hardly yet time to tune our voices to the hymn of universal peace. The opening of a building which is designed for commercial uses suggested to Mr. Bright the leading idea of his speech. Mr. - Bright has his panacea for the ills of the times. Is it in the levelling of claM distinctions, the destruc tion of the throne and the aristocracy, the organ isation of Government on a basis of universal suffrage ? We might have anticipated that he would have laid some stress upon these ; that he would at least have alluded to his favourite scheme for the Americanisation of the effete institutions of this country. He did nothing of the sort. By an ingenious tour de force he transferred his stand point to a newer and More promising level. It is a trick not unknown to able logicians, to lay hold of the taunts of an enemy and transmute them some how into an occasion of congratulation ; to seize upon the premises of an adversary, and deduce from them conclusions exactly the reverse of his. The greatest and most dangerous of England's enemies once gibed at us as a " nation of shopkeepers." Mr. Bright adopts the title, and enrols it proudly on his escutcheon. Those who envy our power and in fluence have compared us to Carthage, and pre dicted for us her fall. Mr. Bright accepts the parallel, and boasts of the resemblance. Ile tells us, and certainly we never;heard it „before, that " ma nufacturers and merchants are too modest." "They are becoming more important in the world than warriors and statesmen, and even than monarchs themselves." " The power of these heretofore great authorities is waning, whereas " the power of the industrial interest is waxing greater." Labour,which was the curse of the first man, is the glory of his posterity. The triumphs of the hand, in which man competes with the brute and with brute forces, are nobler than those of the mind, in* which lie takes his place with angels and emulates God. The manu factgrer of carpets is greater than the poet who " lived not for an age but for all time." The superintendent of power-looms is the superior in every respect of the statesman who struggled with Napoleon and shaped an epoch. The seller of cot-1 ton is greater than the hero of Trafalgar, or the mighty genius who conquered at Waterloo. It is written that " as mortar sticketh between the joints of a wall,, so doth sin lie between buying and selling." Mr. Bright does not seem to be of this opinion. .Virtue and barter with him are exchange able terms, and a perfect state of society can only be anticipated when every one does his best to emulate the successful pedlar. Perhaps the nearest approach to his Utopia is to be met with among those countrymen in remote parts of Norway who extemporise an exchange of their own by every fjeld and fiord, who welcome the traveller by ask ing whether he will " trade" for his carriole, make a bid for his brandy-flask, and ask how much he will take for his gun. There are classes in Eng land who neither know anything of trade nor aspire to know anything of it, We suppose they are to be shut out from Mr. -Bright's future. We are to be a nation of shopkeepers, and those who are not shopkeepers have neither part nor lot in it. Fleecing a Simpleton.—Curious Case of Mistaken Identity. On Monday evening a middle-aged man, of respectable t appearance, was charged before ,Mr. Elliott, at the Lambeth ' Police -court, with being concerned, with another man not, in custody, in stealing two five-pound, bank notes and siX sovereigns, the moneys of Jeremiah Platt• The prosecutor, a person 26 years of age, and who scribed himself as a gentleman's coachman Put of place, said that on Saturday morning, at about 10 o'clock, he went: into a coffee-house in the neighbourhood of Charing-cross,' and sat down at the same table with the prisoner, who wag a perfect stranger to him, and whom he had never sem. before. While having some refreshments the prisoner asked, him if he was looking for a place, and he replied he wag that of a coachman to a gentleman. The prisoner said he had a relation an auctioneer, who, he felt certain, would procure for him the situation he wanted; and while speak ing on the subject a tall, well-dressed man, of gentlemanly appearance, came in and sat at the same table with them. This person said that ho had just received a legacy of £1,500, and should have no objection to lend any honest man money, and that as the prisoner and himself (witness) appeared to be honest persons he should lend them as much money as they were able to produce. The prisoner said he could produce £5O, and asked him how much Le had. He said he thought ho could produce £2O, but must go to his lodgings for it, and the prisoner also said he must g' home to get his £5O. It . was then arranged that both should go for their money, and that the " gentleman" should remain at the coffee-house until their return. The prisoner accompanied him (witness) as far as Totten ham-court-road, and promised to meet him there on his return, when they could go together to the coffee house. He (witness) then proceeded to his lodgings, 1, Eversholt-street, Oakley-square, Somers-town, and took with him two £5 notes and six sovereigns—all that he he d got—and hastened back to Tottenham-court-road, where he found the prisoner waiting for him. They then pro ceeded together to the coffee-house, and outside found the gentleman of property waiting for them. That person said the coffee-house was too much crowded to settle their business comfortably in, and suggested that they should take a cab, for which he should pay, and drive to some re spectable publichouse. A cab was called and all three got in, and drove over Westminster-bridge to the Hercules publichouse, Hercules-buildings, Lambeth, where they alighted and went into the parlour. The prisoner called for three glasses of cooper, and paid for them, and then asked him (witness) how much money he had got. He told him 161., and gave him two Si. notes and six sovereigns, which he took and placed all in the hat of the gentleman, which was placed on the table, and appeared to put some thing in it himself. He then said they had better go out and get a couple of receipt stamps, , and he' accordingly left the house with the prisoner. On getting some distance the prisoner told him he had better go back and see that the gentleman• did not go away, but on going back he found ho was taco late, for the gentleman had disappeared, and with him the 161. (Laughter.) He then ran after the pri soner in the hope to find him, but he, too, had disappeared. (Renewed laughter.) In reply to a question from the ma gistrate, the witness said he was perfectly certain that the prisoner was one of the men, and the person he had been describing. He said that on Saturday, immediately after his robbery, he had given information to the police, amid on Monday morning, while walking in the neighbourhood I of Charing-cross, he met the prisoner and gave him into custody. Wilson Parsons, an exceedingly sharp boy of 15, a waiter at the Hercules, said he recollected the last witness aua two other men coming to the honse on Saturday last, ae swore positively that the prisoner was the person who had called and paid for the three glasses of cooper. The wit' ness was desired again to look' at the prisoner, which 1 1 ° did, and again declared with the utmost confidence that ho was the man. The prisoner, in reply to the charge, declared he wft s innocent of it, and -kneW no more about the trausactiol' described than any gentleman present. He also'nientione€ l the names of several gentlemen to whom ho was 'know'' , and said that if time were given him he would prove bi 4 entire innocence of the offence imputed. Mr. Elliott accepted his own rectignisances to appear the following morning, when he 'attended with a wholo host of respectable friends, who gave evidence in Di° favour. One Of the witnesses called was his brother, who swore that froin 11 o'cloCk on 'Saturday until a late to: in the evening he hadnot been out of his sight ; and IV magistrate; in discharging the accused, said he left 0 0 court without the slightest stain on his character. COUNTRY MARKETS. LIVERPOOL- - T s iIESDAY. At to-clay's market there was a fair attendance of tl town and country. trade, who, however; showed less dcsb to buy than was expecled, and only a moderate busing was done. Wheat may be quoted 3d per .. loolb. dearer 0 , the fortnight, but rather a slow 'sale. Flour was held for per barrel and sack more money, which checked the ( 1( mand. Oats and oatmeal, with a very limited demaV were without alteration in value. Barley, beans, and p° were rather more inquired for, but cannot be quoted dear , ' Indian corn was offered at 27s 3d for fine Danube, witho' finding buyers, and 27s would have been taken at the clo of the market. MONMOU'TIISHIRE—MoNDAY There has not been a large business transacted at tl markets of this• county during the last six or seven day lmt with the commencement of the now year it is exp, , _ 4 ( that a better kate-vf7things will -prevail. Wheat is in -I , request, and prices show -no alteration. 43arley commaill an average sale, and - oats and beans remain withoutehan The following are the average, quotations :—Wheat, 5s vs 8d per bushel; barley,.3s'2d to 38 pd ; oats, 2s to 2s SHEFFILD—TIIESDAY. - , The attendance was about an' average,----irhe - quatitit c wheat and other grain shown in bulk was very small, 1 ) _, 11 samples were abundant. A firmer tone pervaded the IV: ket, and a fair luigness was done in wheat, at an advs' of is to 2s per qr. Fine barley made the extreme prices last week. Oats and beans made late prices. No chard was made in the price of flour. Red wheat, per load of 8 imp. bushels...3ss 3d to 168 01 White do do ....17s Od 18s 0 " New red do do ....16s Od 36s 0, 1 New white do do ....16s Cd 37$ 0 ", Beans do du ....15s Cd 160 C", Peas, per qv 4OO Oct 42s 0 1. Grinding ba ley, per qr 30s Oct 32$ C d A Maltiuebarley, ( o uzs Od 310 v",, Oats. •lo . -21 s Od 288 0" 18 Flour...as 4cl to is :Id per 141 b. LEEDS-TUESDA.Y. The average prices for the week ending Jan. 2 were Wheat, 39s 10Id per qr. ; barley, 29s 11}01; and 211 Foreign Mail Packet List. Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton Jan. 1 5 ' Ditto, via. Marseilles Jan. 1 2 ' Brazil and Cape Verds, by British pac.et Jan. 4 ' Ditto, by British packet Jan. ,`-', Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena Peo. 19 ' china, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton Jan Ditto, via Marseilles Jan. 1. 3. Parkland Islands Jan. --" Gibraltar, via Southampton • . .Jan. °' India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton..., Jan. " Ditto, via Marseilles . . Jan. 12 ' India (Bombay), via Southampton Jan. 1 4 ' Ditto, via Yr arseitles Mauritius, via Southampton Ditto, via Marseil e , Jan. 6 ' Newfoundland Jan. 4 ' Portufr, 1 .. ........ .....Jan. 4 ' Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon.. ...... . .... United htates and British North America, by Bri tish packet . •....... ...Jan. 4 ' America, by British packet . Jan. 4 ' Ditto. by United States packet, via Southamp ten . • ••. ••••••••• Ditto, via Cork • Ditto, by Canadian packet, via Londonderry. -Jan. West CoaSt of Africa, Madeira, and Tencriffe.....,Jan. 1 " West Indies and Pacific (except Bahamas, Cuba, and Mexico .. • Jan. g' TOWN-CLERK or WORCESTEII.—At the anvil? meeting of _the Worcester Town Council held Monday, Mr. Rfchard Woof, solicitor, was unanimot° elected town-clerk of the city of Worcester, in the root his late partner, Mr John Hill, deceased. The salary I fixed at £450 pe r annum , w hi c h also includes the pay the duties of clerk to the Board of Health. Births. Arux.—On the 2d inst., at 'llodipote, Oxon, Mrs. .API of a, daughter.' LONDESBOROI/GIL—On the 31st ult., at 31, Hill-strO Berkeley-square, Lady Londesborough, of a son. . 4 .1 MILLER. —On tho 2d inst., at Stoke Newington, Mrs' . Miller, of a, daughter. 1 Marriages. • BEERS----MACLEAN.—On the alst ult., a Holy Triuil Byde, William I3eers, Esq., ,Captain 26th Camerone,, only sou of William -Beers,,Esq., Brook Cottage, Castle, co. Down, to Ellen, second daughter of the r Sir George Maclean, K.C.B. WlLLlAMS—limtraxo.--On the Sd inst., at Saint G e ol . An Hanover-square, Charles Henry Williams, Esq., fl°;` e , Court, Glamorganshire, to Millicent Frances, youk daughter of 'Robert Herring, Esq., of Cromer, Norfol' Deaths. Brt.BrE.—On the 2d inst., at Camden-town, Mr. ,° Bilbie, aged 75. llrctKs.—On the Ist hist at 42, Threadneedle-stree4, Mr. John Melts, aged 82. MAYNARD.--On the 2d inst., at 15A, . Hill-street, Berkel e: square; the Hon. Charles Henry Maynard, only son Viscount Maynard, aged 51. fo MAITYN.--On the 2d inst ., at Bath, John Mabyn, Esq., - merly of Bristol, aged N. , 0 THOMsoN.—On the 2d inst., at his apartments, at the P don Institution, Richard Thomson, Esq., aged 71. 1 YOUNG.—Ou the 2d inst., at Boswell House, Croydon Young, Esq., M.D. London : Pri Ited and Published by WILLIAM ANDIO) 04; of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at THE SUN Office, d Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the Cottp u Middlesex. —Wednesday, January 4,1805. 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