The Sun. — London, England, 1866-06-20 00:00:00

Railway and Other Companies. LONDON AND NORTH WESTERN. The adjourned Wharncliffe meeting of this com pany was held yesterday at Euston Station ; Mr. J. P. Brown-Westhead in the chair. The CHAIRMAN said the only business was the consideration of a bill to authorise the Wolverhamp ton and Walsall Railway Company to make devia tions from their authorised railway, and to construct certain short branches. He was happy to say that the Great Western was associated with them in arrangements sanctioned by the bill. Mr. DEAN seconded the motion for the approval of the bill, and, after a few remarks from Mr. Wil liams, it was carried, and the meeting separated. MIDLAND. An adjourned Wharncliffe meeting of this com pany was held yesterday at Derby ; Mr. W. H. Hutchinson in the chair. The CHAIRMAN said the first bill he had to submit was for enabling the Midland Railway Company to construct railways for improving the communication between Ashby-de-la-Zouch and Nuneaton and other places. The lengtli of the main line, with its junctions, was about 19 miles, and the length of the branch to coal-fields about nine miles. After some discussion, a formal resolution approv ing the bill was carried unanimously. The next was a bill for enabling the company to construct branch railways and other works, and for conferring powers on them with reference to the undertakings of other companies. The share capital was £350,000, and borrowing powers £116,000. The bill was approved, as were also bills for autho rising the Bedford and Northampton Railway Com pany to construct new lines of railway ; the Halesowen and Bromsgrove branch railways ; to amaleamate the Lynn and Sutton ß r id go"nil the Spalding and Bourn ; to authorise the Spalding and Bourn to extend their railway to the Midland at Saxby ; to authorise the North British Railway Company to make several railways ; and agree ments with the Midland Railway Company as to a goods station at Carlisle. PEMBROKE AND TENBY. A Wharncliffe meeting was held at the offices, Pembroke-dock ; Mr. W. Owen in the chair. The Secretary (Mr. Stokes) read the heads of a bill for an extension of the company's lines to Mil ford, and from Whitland to Carmarthen. The CHAIRMAN' moved a resolution approving the bill, and congratulated the shareholders on their success in the Commons. The resolution was unanimously agreed to. VALE OF NEATH. The adjourned Wharncliffe meeting of this com pany was held yesterday at the Westminster Palace Hotel; Mr. Vaughan in the chair. The CHAIRMAN said the first bill he had to sub mit was a bill for the amalgamation of the Vale of Neath Railway Company with the Great Western Railway Company. The Solicitor read the heads of the bill, which provided for the capital of the company being kept distinct from that of the Great Western. The com pany were to have the same priority in respect of dividend as before the amalgamation. The CHAIRMAN moved a resolution approving the bill, and it was carried. A bill for making a Railway from the South Wales Railway to Clydach was also approved, and the meeting separatei. IVEL LAND. The traffic returns on this company's line in Canada West amounted for the week ending the 18th of May to £791, against £337 for the corre sponding week last year, showing an increase of £454. IMPERIAL MEXICAN (LIMITED). The report of the directors states that great pro gress had been made in the construction of the works of the railway. Mr. Samuel, the consulting en gineer, had informed them that the earthworks had been completed on 217 miles of the railway ; that it was probable from recent despatches that the sec tion between the city of Mexico and the junction with the branch line to Puebla at Apixaco, a distance of 85 miles, had been completed. The engineer's ' estimate of the traffic receipts on the Mexico and Puebla division showed a probable minimum of up wards of £5O per mile per week, and an estimated rate of working expenses of 33 1-3 per cent., and that the additional expenditure to expedite the com pletion of this portion of the railway it was expected would be amply repaid. The electric telegraph was now completed on 133 miles of the railway. Con siderable progress had been made in the erection of the workshops at Vera Cruz and Orizava. The re ceipts from traffic on the Vera Cruz section, 47 miles in length, for 12 months ending March 21st last, amounted to £86,703, or an average of £35 9s. 6d. a mile per week. During the last three months of the 12—namely, January, February, and March last—the receipts had been £29,636, or an average of £4B 10s. Id. per mile per week. Upon the Gua dalupe section, 3 miles in length, the receipts for passenger traffic in the 12 months amounted to• £7,647, or an average of £39 6s. 91d. per mile per week. On the Vera Cruz section the actual amount of profit had not been finally ascertained, but was estimated for the year at about £17,000, to be shared between the company and the contractors. On the Guadalupe section the profits had amounted to £4,074, three-fourths of which belonged to the company, and one-fourth to the contractors. It was estimated that the local and through traffic on the Mexico and Puebla division, 1121 miles in length, would average £52 per mile per week, or more than £303,000 a year, the working expenses £lOl,OOO, and the net revenue more than £202,000 a year. The directors felt that their re port would have been entirely satisfactory to the shareholders but for the Mexican Government having unfortunately allowed their payments to the company to fall recently into arrears to the extent of about £220,000, and for the political state of the Continent, which, with the condition of the money markets of London and Paris, had made it impos sible for the company to proceed with the arrange ments for raising part of the capital on bonds. It would be necessary to raise immediately by deben tures the funds required for the completion of the upper portion of the railway. Lite expenditur e on railway to the 31st of December last amounted to £1,534,241. RAILWAY BILLS. In the House of Lords yesterday the following bills were passed :—ln B, the Salisbury and Yeovil ; the Somerset and Dorset ; the Stourbridge ; the Longton, Adderly-green, and Bucknall ; the North British (St. Margaret's Diversion) ; the North British and Ledburn, &c. ; and the North British (Stirling, &c., Branches). and a n room C the following bills were again heard adjourned :—The Hoylake ; the Wrexham, Mold, ,au. di ' d Connah's . Quay and Hoylake • the Edg ware, ghgate and London ; the Midland (Settle to Carlisle) ; and the Caledonian (Greenock and Gourock Extension). In the Painted 1)d Chamber the following were also heard and adjourned :The London 'and North- Western and Whiteha,ven Junction ; the Cannock Chase and Wolverh am cestershire. Pt o n In the Ways and Means ; and the East Glou- Connnietrtee of the House of Commons the following bills w L on don, Brighton, . and South were passed :—The (various powers) ; the East London (additional and the Midland Co unties and Shan non Junctio n . ; In Group 14 the p reamble of the Nort h Bra (Taybridge) Bill was proved. In Group 16 the preamble of the Carmarthen and Cardigan Bill was proved. In Group 17 the preamble of the Tale of Neath (transfer) Bill was proved. In Group 18 the Forth and Clyde Junction and Caledonian, and the Forth and Clyde Junction and North British Bills were adjourned. In Group 20 the North British and Bridge of Allan were heard and adjourned. HUDSON'S BAY. It appears that the directors of this company intepd to recommend a dividend at the rate of 14s. per share, payable on July 9, in addition to the Bs. per share paid in January last. CRYSTAL PALACE. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held yesterday at the London Tavern ; Mr. T. N. Far quhar in the chair. The report, an abstract of which has appeared, was taken as read. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, said that so far as the first portion of the year bad gone the accounts were in a satisfactory state, and the progress had been of a congratulatory nature. As they were aware, no financial statement was submitted at this meeting. In the early days of the company it was found that the balance for the half-year to April 30 had been always against the company, the working expenses being in excess of the earnings in thatperiod. With the constant efforts that had been made, the balance of expenses against earnings had been gradually diminished until about two years ago, when the balance was placed at the right side of the account, and during the past half year a larger profit than in any corresponding half year had been attained. Their progress in other respects had been satisfactory. As to the dividend/ for the present year, they had the summer before them, and he had no reason to doubt that the proprietors would realise a good and satisfactory result. (Hear.) All their branches of revenue were in a good state. They had also the advantage of the private collection of pictures belonging to Mr. Cousins, which were of great service to the Palace, and they were much obliged to him for lending them to the company. He then explained that they had paid the represen tatives of the late Sir J. Paxton for improvements and additions to the property at Rockhills £3,000, and that the house and place had since been occupied temporarily by the general manager. The Board thought it very desirable that the general manager should reside as near th© Palace as pocgible, and they proposed to build a suitable residence near Rockhills for the general manager of the company, at a cost of £3,500. He hoped they would leave the arrange ment of this matter to the directors. Mr. ANDERSON seconded the motion for the adop tion of the report. Mr. BILLINGS moved an amendment to the effect that Mr. Bowlby, the general manager, continue to reside at Rockhills, and in the meantime that rib money be expended on a residence for the general manager, as proposed. Mr. THOMPSON seconded the amendment. Mr. PUNCHER recommended improvements in the refreshment department. Captain MACDONALD expressed his entire approval of the manner in which the affairs of the company were managed in the Palace and grounds. The amendment was carried by a large majority, and the report was adopted, subject to the amend ment already carried. The retiring directors--Mr. H. S. Bicknell, Mr. C. Horsley, and Mr. Nasmyth —were then re-elected. Sir.C. Fox moved a formal resolution, requesting the directors to make arrangements for keeping the Palace and grounds entirely closed during every Sunday. Mr. GIRDLESTONE seconded the motion at some length, amid considerable uproar. Mr. B. LANGLEY moved an amendment to the effect that two general meetings of the company having already fully discussed and settled the whole question, it was not advisable to make any altera tion whatever. Mr. BILLINGS seconded the amendment, which was carried by a very large majority ; and a vote of thanks to the chairman concluded the proceed- ings. The Sick Poor in Workhouse Infirmaries. +~- Mr. Farnall, Poor-law Inspector, resumed, on Monday, the adjourned inquiry into the serious charge brought against the authorities of the Rother hithe Workhouse. The inquiry took place in the board-room. Captain Stannock, chairman of the Rotherhithe Board of Guardians, was first examined, but he gave little evidence bearing on the case. Mr. James Blake, a member of the board of guardians, stated that he often visited the infir maries of the house. There were slight complaints made and remedied. The meat was cat up in the common kitchen, and carried across the yard and garden to the infirmary, but lately it had been car ried across in the joint. In answer to Mr. Hart, who represented the As sociation for Improving the Condition of the Lon don Workhouse Infirmaries, witness said he did not remember an old man being choked with a piece of meat, and then being buried under a certificate of death from natural causes. lie did not know of other cases. There were no night-stools in the in firmary. He knew they were necessary, but did not know whether the guardians ordered any. The nurses were paupers, and he did not know whether they could write. He believed there were closets to the wards, but not to the upper ones. Had heard complaints of opium being given to the patients. Mr. Geo. Nicholls, surgeon, and formerly medical officer to the house, said that Nurse Briton, against whom charges had been made, was under him, and was kind to the patients to the best of his belief. She took opium. The pauper nurses used to get drunk when they went out for a holiday. Mr. Thomas Ford Firth, present medical officer to the workhouse, said he received a salary of £35 a year, out of which he had to pay for drugs, which cost about 112 per annum. The guardians had made improvements which he had suggested. The mutton broth and beef tea were complained of. A mau had a cold, and an alteration was made. The wine, beer, and spirits were complained of. They_ were sometimes too weak. He had bad to com plain of some of the sick not getting the beer he ordered them. Miss Beeton complained of the quantity of stimulants ordered not being given to the patients. In consequence of this the stimulants were put under her charge. He remembered the case of the man dying on the floor of the infirmary whilst being taken to the water-closet. He had no confidence in pauper nurses, but he added they alone watched over the sick—there being but one paid nurse to superintend the whole. He thought the sick were treated kindly. Mr. Farnall—Do you call it kind to set pauper nurses, in whom you say you have no confidence, to watch over the sick at night ? Witness had not heard before that opium was given to the patients. He occasionally ordered chops for them, and believed they got them. Was not aware at the time that the old man referred to was really choked with the meat, and did not now con sider himself bound to accept the statement as true. The man who died on the floor ought not to have been taken to the water-closet, but he had no alter native but to dirty himself or go. Taking him across the ward no doubt accelerated his death. There were no night stools in the infirmary. Jane Sharp, a pauper inmate of the nursery, said she remembered the pauper nurse Briton, and had seen her act very cruelly to the patients. Had seen her strip a poor woman named Fairburn and beat her on her nakedness. Had often heard patients complain of Briton's cruelty, but she was afraid s peak about it. She had no complaint to make against the master and matro n . S he re membered two inmate to inmates named Turner and D er b y. Did not remember the latter havin g h er 0_ beer. Saw maggots ofcomheionu,tof her night go wn , it Derby's bed. H a d had to pay for the was and the laundress had sent backwtoitihke r unwashed because she had no money to pay meat was very bad at one time. r : ly d had s Hannah een n Gham, an Briton pulling her out of bed, beating her, u m s a e te F o a f irb tl o ie ro in ( fl ir r o m ad w fu a l pouring cold w a t er over h er. B r i ton a l so ill- us ed a woman named Usher, w h o was d ea d, by p u tting scalding hot poultices on her. She was now contented. This witness had been put upon mutton chops, and evidence was taken that she did not get them Miss Becton, regularly. who preferred the charges, and who was formerly paid nurse in the house, said that although chops were ordered by the doctor for some of the sick, they were not regularly supplied, and she had had to complain of it. The assistant-master blowed her up for doing so, and said he was not going to cut chops for paupers, it hurt his hands. Paupers had had to eat what they could get before Dr. Frith (through whom she made the complaint) came. After that mutton off the leg was substituted for the chops, but it was cold and fat. Maria Field, a pauper nurse, who confessed to the weakness of drunkenness, corroborated in cer tain particulars the other witnesses. John Sandwell, assistant-master of the house, did not recollect scolding Miss Beeton for complaining about the chops. He did say that cutting chops hurt his hands, and he wished paupers could be served from the joint, and they were afterwards so served. He removed Nurse Briton from the in firmary to the body of the house at Miss Beeton's request. He remembered a pauper falling into a ditch at the back of the premises and getting smothered. An-inquest was held, and the man was not,- as alleged, buried under a certificate of "death from natural causes." He then proceeded to state that he did not remember Miss Beeton reporting to him her wants for the infirmary ; and to other matters he gave a general denial. The matron in her evidence said she did not know about the ill-treatment proved to have been prac tised on the paupers ; but she remembered about the maggots crawling out of a bed, and she saw them. She did not know about the spirits being watered ; she served them to paupers to take over just as she received them. The inquiry was then adjourned. The third and concluding day's proceedings took place yesterday. Dr. Anstie represented the asso tion. The evidence brought forward on this occasion on the part of the guardians was that of Dr. Nichols, the assistant medical officer to the workhouse, be fore Miss Beeton came, who stated that he had not seen any cruelty on the part of the pauper nurses ; and the Rev. R. Jones, rector of Rotherhithe, and chaplain of the workhouse, who attested to the same thing. This witness was cross-examined by the commissioner at some length as to what he knew about the matter, and he said he was sure the peo ple, if they had been ill-used, would have told him. He thought the paupers' evidence was much exag gerated ; but he could not say in what particular, and he suggested that the woman Briton might have beaten the patients as a woman might beat a dirty child. The witness Graham was recalled, and she, with every appearance of truth, said her evidence was not at all exaggerated. The Commissioner expressed an opinion that he thought so, and entreated the clerk, if he had any evidence to rebut that given by the paupers, to bring it forward. The clerk confessed he had none, thought strict inquiries had been made. A coroner's officer was called to prove that an in quest was held upon the man found in the ditch, but he said no inquest had been held upon the person who had been choked, or the man who had died upon the floor of the infirmary. A pauper wardsman was called to rebut the state ments about the patient dying upon the floor, but he allowed that the man who had got out of bed, be cause there were no bed-pans or night-stools, fell down, and had been got to the bed, " and that was all," before he died. This witness, who had had to administer medicines, could not read the name writ ten in an open hand upon a bottle. This closed the proceedings, and the report will be forwarded to the Poor-law Board. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENTW JUNE 20, 1866. Court of Aldermen. A Gourt of Aldermen was holden yesterday at Guildhall. The Lord Mayor presided. THE CITY PRISONS. Alderman and Sheriff GIBBONS made a report of the state of the City gaols, by which it appeared there are at present confined in Newgate 73; at the Debtors' Prison, Whitecross-street, 102 ; and at the City Prison at Holloway, 308 prisoners. HEALTH OF LONDON. (From the Registrar-General's Weekly Return.) The following is the weekly return of the Regis trar-General of births and deaths in London and in 12 other large towns of the United Kingdom : General Register-office, Somerset-house, June 16. In the week that ended on Saturday, June 16, the births registered in London and 12 other large towns of the United Kingdom were 4,261; the deaths registered 2,952. The annual rate of mortality was 25 per 1000 persons living. In London the births of 1,000 boys and 932 girls, in all 1,932 children, were registered in the week. In the corre sponding weeks of ten years 1856-65 the average number, corrected for increase of population, was 1,928. The deaths registered in London during the week were 1,370. It was the 24th week of the year ; and the average number of deaths for that week was, with a correction for increase of population, 1,218. The actual return ex ceeds the estimated number by 152. Whooping-cough was during a long pericd the most fatal disease in the zymotic class; but last week the deaths from measles rose to 80, while those from whooping-cough declined to 71. Both smallpox and measles prevail chiefly in the east districts. Four deaths from smallpox occurred in the east sub-district of Haggerstone ; six in the Green sub-district of Bethnal-green. Six children died of measles in the Woolwich dockyard sub-district. Diarrhoea was fatal in 20 cases. The following three deaths from cholera, were regis tered : On the 12th of June, at 3, Archibald-street, Bromley, the daughter of a mariner, aged 8 months, "choleraic diarrhcea." On the 13th of June, at 16, Dawson's-place, Mile-end New Town, the daughter of a rag sorter, aged 11 months, "cho leraic diarrhoea (seven days)." On the 13th of June, at 6, Swan-court, Newington, a watchman, aged 55 years, " cholera (three days)." It is a remarkable circumstance that three deaths from hydrophobia were registered in the week. The following are the particulars of the cases : A boatman, aged 15 years, who had been brought from llillingdon, near Uxbridge, to Middlesex Hospital, died on the sth of June of "hydrophobia from the bite of a dog." (Post mortem. Inquest.) A boy, aged 3 years, died on the 14th of June at 11, North-row, Walham-green, from "bite of a dog (5 weeks), hydrophobia (three days)." A widow, aged 80 years, died on the 7th of Juno, at 47, High-street, Islington, of "hydtophobia, from the bite of a dog." (In quest.) Five months after the bite. A girl, aged ten weeks, died on the 10th of June, at 9, Pulford-street, in the Delgrave sub-district, of " starvation or atrophy ; exhaustion." In the workhouse, St. George's-in -the-East, on the 7th of June, the wife of a stoker, aged 49 years "syncope ; want of food; privations." (Port mortem. Inquest.) A woman, aged 32 years, died from " sea-sickness (38 days)." The following three deaths by carriage accidents in the street are recorded :—The son of a shoemaker, aged 4 years, run over by an omnibus ; died on the 7th of June, at 18, Arthur-terrace, Islington. Tho wife of a sailmaker, aged 33 years, run over ; died on the 10th of June in the London Hospital. The daughter of a dairyman, aged 1 year, run over by a cart in Burton-street, Pimlico, on the 11th June, died instanter. The annual rate of mortality last week was 23 per 1,000 in London, 22 in Edinburgh, and 27 in Dublin ; 20 in Bristol, 20 in Birmingham, 34 in Liverpool, 27 in Manches ter, 25 in Salford, 28 in Sheffield, 29 in Leeds, 27 in Hull, 27 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and 28 in Glasgow. At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height of the barometer in the week was 29.710 in.. The pressure of the atmosphere was 29.99 in. on Sunday morning; and it fell to 29.35 in. on Saturday. The mean temperature of the air in the week was 58.5 deg., which is 0.2 deg. below the average of the same week in 50 years (as determined by Mr. Glaisher). The mean daily temperature was almost 11 deg. above the average on Sunday ; on Monday it was about the average, and during the remainder of the week was below it. On Sunday the thermometer in the shade rose to 83.8 deg., the highest in the week ; and that in the sun to 145 deg. ; on Saturday the latter attained 146 deg. The difference between the mean dew-point temperature and air temperature was 7 deg. The mean degree of humidity of the air was 78, complete saturation being re presented by 100. The wind blew from the south-west. There was rain to the amount of 0.14 in. On Tuesday the rainfall at Eccles was 1.64 in. At Liverpool on Saturday, at 9h. 35m. a.m., the pressure of the wind was 12.51 b to the square foot. [ADVEUTISEMENT.]—That the fearful annual mortality of 6' , ,0. 0 young children and delicate persons of all ages may be arrested, if. instead of flying blindly to pills and medicines, which, though apparently relieving the patient, have in reality no other tendency than that of increasing debility, and with it the dangor of life, we were simply to study how to inc: ease the vit a l f orce by i m p a rting new and pure blood, upon which the ha rmon i ous d e velopment of the whole frame depends,and has been successfully proved by Du Barry's inva lids'Joint e ftt e s s ' an le n o uly odait.heltßyeivealidesnttahrAeentbimiceas, as snmd mush thousand s easily assimilated nourishment as the best meat. find for , physician to the Samaritan substitute tor human children it is the be t Routh stances, th ,t which comes milk. Dr. onbua ll b o m sp a i t t t a e l rs fo — r in W h o i m s cnand Children—the best authority says —Amongst the vegetable sub is, without doubt, Du eos it es e t to milk in its composition admir able publication on Food, taining both phosphoric Barr y's acid in abundance Arabica Food, con and chloride of principle which is foundtrt s Fiu m i n ; milkit also in it its includes casei constituent n wonder, ff there fore, that under its influence many childlen i atrophy (wasting away of the body), and marked u cted with have completely recovered. I have given it with the greatest ity advantage in such cases ; and so far as I may judge f g r r o eatest own experience, practice fully carries out what thnleor my from a knowledge of its composition, led us to anticipate!' In tins, lib, 2s 9d; 21b, 4s 6d; 51b, lls ; 121 b, 225; 241 b 408.—Barry Du Barry and Co., No. 77, Regent-street, London ; also Phillips, tea dealers, 8, King William-street ; likewise at Cl, Gracechtirch-street ; 4, Cheapside ; 49, Rishopsgate. street Within ; 63, 150, and 298, Oxford-street; 830, Strand; 54, Upper Baker-street ; 103, Tottenham-court-road ; 96, ttino•-hill • Close Upper-street, Islington, N.; Harvey, No „ , Brothers, 65, High-street ; and Stubbs, Queen's-terrace, St. John's-wood. London; and all respectable grocers and che mists.—Beware of spurious imitations. , ptahretssam a CITY BROKERS. The CITY SOLICITOR (Mr. Nelson) reported to the court that since their last meeting Mr. C. Borth wick, whose application to be admitted as a broker of the city of London without finding the usual sureties was reported a short time back, and refused by this court, had made an application to de Court of Queen's Bench for a mandamus to compel the court to admit him, and the application had been unanimously refused. Alderman COPELAND moved that the statement of the solicitor, and a copy of the shorthand writer's notes of the proceedings, be entered in the journals of the court, and also printed. The motion was agreed to. It may be stated that the rights of the corpora tion in this matter appear to be now so well under stood, and having received the confirmation of the Court of Queen's Bench, a great many persons who have been for a considerable time improperly acting as brokers, have thought fit to come to the Court of Aldermen and comply with its regulations. A COUNTY RATE IN THE CITY. Alderman WILSON brought up a report from the _Committee of Visiting Justices of the City of Lon don Pauper Lunatic Asylum, which stated they had expended the £5OO which had been placed at their disposal by the court for the purpose of making cer tain payments in connection with the asylum, and asking for a further sum of £2,000. It should be stated that this money will not eventually come out of the funds of the corporation, but will be repaid by the different unions who have seat patients to the asylum. Alderman Wilson moved that the report be agreed to. Alderman COPELAND said he should support the motion, but he could aot help at the same time put ting it to his brother magistrates whether, when the Court of Common Council had just agreed to an improvement rate, and large sums were required for other matters, the time had not arrived for making a county rate in the City of London to defray the expense of these lunatics, police, and administration of justice. It had long been his opinion that this ought to have been done, and a:county rate had been proposed in qirarter sessions many years ago by one of his brother magistrates, which motion he sup ported; but although they wereat that time in a mise rable minority, he still thought that this was the pro per course to be adopted. If a county rate had been agreed to at the time he mentioned the south side of the Poultry would have been down long ago, and many other important improvements would have been effected. He concluded by stating that if he could obtain the support of his brother magistrates he should certainly, at their next meeting in quar ter sessions, propose that a county rate should be levied in the City of London. (Hear, hear.) Alderman J. C. LAWRENCE expressed his opinion that, as the COurt of Common Council had already agreed to expend a large sum of money for the pur pose of effecting improvements in the City, it was hardly the right time to propose to levy a county rate. If they were to have a county rate, the amount proposed to be expended by the Court of Common Council would not be required ; and he thought that they ought, at all events, to wait until they saw the effect of the carrying out of the proposition of the Court of Common Councilbefore they agreed to levy a county rate. The motion of Alderman Wilson was then agreed to, and after the discussion of some business of a private character, with closed doors, the Court ad journed. IRELAND, DUBLIN, June 19. The fracas in the county of Dublin Militia, of which an ex parte statement was published in a pamphlet by Lieutenant Flood, who has since gone to Australia, and of which a summary has appeared in The Sun, having been referred to the Lord• Lieu tenant, his Excellency has given his decision upon it, and this decision has been promulgated in the regiment, and printed for private circulation by Captain Caulfeill It is but common justice to the gentlemen that your readers should be made ac quainted with the result, which was communicated to the Earl of Meath by Colonel Smyth, Inspector- General of Militia. Lord Kimberley having care fully examined the documents and put the case against Captain Caulfeild very strongly, came to the following decision : " Captain Caulfeild being the aggressor, and the whole affair having originated by his own improper act, should be reprimanded by his commanding officer for the unjusti fiable act of opening a letter with which he had no concern whatever, and having done so, forwarding the same with a very offensive letter from himself to Lieutenant Flood, in stead of bringing the matter to the notice of his command ing officer in the first instance, as it was his duty to have done ; and that Lord Meath may be pleased to caution the adjutant to refrain from such a step in future ; and that his Lordship be good enough also to point out to the adjutant that in a military point of view he should have rested sa tisfied with the decision of his commanding officer in the case, especially s as Mr. Flood expressed his willingness to withdraw his offensive letter upon receiving an apology from the adjutant, who was the original aggressor, and therefore bound to make the first advance, relying upon his commanding officer implicity that his character should come out of the affair unimpeached and without reproach. That, as the matter has been referred for the decision of higher authority, Lord Meath should therefore make known to the regiment that the charge against Captain Caulfeild of conduct unbecoming the character of an officer and a gentleman' is totally devoid of foundation in the real spirit of the term, and that he is fully exonerated from any such imputation. That Lieut. Flood should be informed by Lord Meath that, even making full allowance for the irri tation he experienced from the act of the adjutant, and the unjustifiable threat contained in his letter of the 22d of Jan., he should not have charged Capt. Caulfeild with con duct unbecoming the character of an officer and a gentle man, either in his reply to Capt. Caulfeild or in his letter to the Earl of Meath—such an imputation being applic able to wilful, scandalous conduct, and not to an unac countably mistaken notion of duty." Prefixed to this decision is a letter from Lord Meath, as colonel of the regiment, to Capt. Caul feild, referring to facts which go far to account for the error of judgment into which Capt. Caulfeild was, unfortunately, betrayed, and which ought to have been frankly acknowledged at first, as he now admits it to have been altogether unwarrantable. These facts, the colonel says, he is fully aware mate rially influenced him in opening the letter. He says that— " Prior to our last training you reported to me that Lieut. Flood was then confined for debt in Kilmainham Gaol ; my directions to you then were not to bring the matter officially before me, as I had a strong feeling that his ffiends would pay his debts, , and thus enable him to appear when the regiment should be called out, but that in case it came to your knowledge that he had again beenput in gaol for debt you were forthwith to inform me of it, so that I might lay a statement of it before the Inspector- General of Irish Militia. I should have refrained from granting my sanction to the circulation of any further observations connected with this subject, during ,the voluntary absen ce f rom thi s co untry of one of the 'par ties, had I not perceived that a large circle of your friends and acquaintances having been irregularly made acquainted with a portion of the facts were entitled to be put in possession of the whole, and the decision of autho rity on the subject. I deplore the absence of Mr. Flood, in consequence of tho assertion he makes in page 7, line 14, of the correspondence he has published—viz., that he had not received one application for payment ; whereas, I am in possession of the testimony on oath of the Paymaster-Ser geant that he had received letters on different occasions from the postman directed to 'Lioutenant Flood, County of Dublin Militia,' marked on the back or top of the enve lope, '3d, sth, 7th, and 10th application for a small ac count,' and that the three first enumerated were re-ad dressed and posted to Mr. Flood, Raheny-house; and the fact of some of these having passed through the office is corroborated on oath by the orderly room sergeant. I can not close this communication without referring to a subject on which your honour and gentlemanly feeling have been impugned (after so many years of intimate acquaintance) without giving expression to the sincere and thorough con viction I entertain of the high standard of your honour and the integrity of your mind, notwithstanding the late grie vous error in judgment you have committed.—Yours faithfully, "MEATH, Colonel." At the sitting of the court-martial yesterday the President announced that the prosecution was closed, and called on the prisoner for his defence. The prisoner answered that he had no defence to make, but he handed in a lengthened protest, which was read. The Court then adjourned till 2 o'clock. When it was re-opened the Deputy-Judge-Advo cate addressed the Court on the whole case, after which the proceedings terminated. At the same time another court-martial sat in the mess-room of the 85th Regiment to try Corporal Chambers, of the 61st Regiment, on similar charges, and also, for having deserted with his re gimental clothing and necessaries. He pleaded guilty to the charge of desertion, but with respect to the first—not having given notice to the command ing officer of an intended mutiny in her Majesty's forces stationed in Ireland—he refused to plead at all, because it was " vague, uncertain, and indefi nite," and did not necessarily show an offence which the Court had jurisdiction to entertain. After the production of evidence the trial concluded. At this trial Col. Sawyer, 6th Dragoon Guards, presided ; Capt. Whelan, 61st Regiment, prosecuted ; and Major Mein, assisted by Mr. Johnson, barrister, officiated as Deputy-Judge-Advocate. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TimEs.—The sudden collapse of Parliamentary Reform, and several political reputations, will be felt by many as a relief, by some as a disappoint ment. There can scarcely be imagined, and cer tainly not remembered, a greater promise, or a larger ambition, so abruptly terminated. The down fall is so great that we naturally pause to see what more is coming. Only four months ago a new Parliament was opened by a new Administration, the fortunate heirs of one that had enjoyed more than an average tenure of office, and had accumu lated popularity and success. The survivor of a generation of great statesmen led in the Lords, while the most brilliant and favoured of Peel's lieu tenants could count a majority of 70 in the Com mons. There was a large field open to achievement, for many subjects had been held back for the better times which, as it happened, had then actually ar rived, for the worst dangers of the country came to an end with the close of the American War. Yet it was quite evident that the new Administration would have to hold its ground on the usual terms of doing battle on every point that could fairly be dis puted. We only shared the misgivings of a multi tude far greater than chooses to avow itself when this Administration elected to win its spurs in an enterprise which had proved fatal to every Govern ment that had attempted it, and which 15 years of delay, and five years of absolute pretermission, had proved to be far from a first necessity of political existence. Parliamentary Reform is a most weighty matter. It must be long in preparation if its work is to last long. It must be a creation of time, for it proposes to bind time itself, and lay it under endur ing laws. It creates customs and prescriptions. It partially supersedes a Constitution founded in the depths of ages. It proposes a safe compromise be tween classes and interests that ever grow and become more complex. We did think that this work might be deferred till the new Administration had essayed its power and proved the temper of its instruments. But it was to be otherwise. The mighty birth of matured wisdom, instead of starting out in full panoply from the brain of its author, dropped out piecemeal, and it was only after a severe struggle and much loss of time that the Government sub mitted to the decency of a complete measure—if, indeed, that could be called complete which was sup plemented with hasty after-thoughts. The discredit of a policy, and of a measure, so utterly different from that on which Lord Russell had earned his good name was aggravated by the evident fact, and the unblushing avowal, that both had the confidence of a small section by no means entitled to this honour. It could only be in some factious and utterly unconstitutional character, as the organ of democracy or some other less'definable policy, that the member for Birmingham could have been ad mitted to the counsels of her Majesty's advisers. His name did not become a tower of strength, and it afforded a cue to the most flagrant faults of the measure. The cautious public has tested the mea sure, and ascertained both the metal and the mint. It is Mr. Bright's bill, and nothing more, and is now thrown back on the hands of its coiner. But even this bill, as we have maintained throughout, might have been treated differently. While we insist upon the duty of bringing out a complete bill, if only as an evidence of inquiry, forethought, and care, common sense certainly shows that every figure, and every detail, should be left open to Par liamentary consideration. Mr. Gladstone appears to have started without any clear understanding as to the points to be insisted on, and those to be left open ; and it is only at the last hour he has arrived at the conclusion that the principle of the Bill is to add so many hundred thousands to the lower end of the electoral lists. That really would have been a very fair question to put to the house of Commons in the middle of February, and the house would have been disposed to give a favourable answer. But while this appears after all, and after many challenges on that point, to be the real principle of the measure, Mr. Gladstone has actually allowed the measure to fall to the ground without putting that question to the house, or gain ing one substantial advance for his bill. It is the first duty of a Minister, though not always easy, to bring important questions before the House, and compel a definite answer. That much is due both to measures and to men. The principle is either established or rejected ; and the several parties in Parliament are committed by their acceptance or rejection. What has been done in this case ? By the division of Monday night nothing, absolutely nothing, is established, and nobody is committed to anything, except that the rateable value is a better basis for the franchise than the estimated rental. It is a mere detail. There are probably few people who have not changed their opinions on the point at one time or another, as well they may, considering the variety of circumstances and the changes of legisla tion. But it has no necessary bearing on, the only principle now allowed to be in question-..the ad mission of so many thousand poor electors ; for it would have been perfectly competent to anybody to move that the rateable value to give the franchise in boroughs should be £6, or ever. £5, if necessary to obtain the required increase. The Attorney-General could have moved this with much propriety. As this has not been done, the enlargement of the con stituency has not beendefinitively put to the House. The Opposition, therefore, cannot be charged with refusing to enfran3hise working men. They cannot be charged with the exclusion of a single ratepayer from the franchise. They may even allege that they are ready to apply the principle and the privilege of scot and lot to the entire population of England. They stand perfectly uncommitted—except gene rally to the enfranchisement of ratepayers—and their liberality is unimpeached. They are as they were at the opening of the session. But" a great Government, at the head of a great party, has de stroyed itself as rapidly and gratuitously as one of the City Banks was said to have done the other day. The only result of immense labour is a suicide, of which no better account can be given than the eccen tric reason for which poor creatures occasionally put an end to themselves. Why has the Liberal Govern ment thrown itself over a precipice ? No honest jury could possibly return any other verdict than that it has committed suicide to prove estimated rental a better test than rateable value. Such is the bright martyrdom Mr. Gladstone has attained to. But what a time to do it in ! If the better the day the better the deed, we presume the worse the day the deed. Here are the natio n s o f Europe generally declaring war against each other. Her Majesty, without whom nothing can be done, and who has both to accept resignations and fill the vacancies, is now discharging the functions of Royalty at Bal moral, near six hundred miles from Westminster. All that could be done last night was to announce the general standstill, and promise more definite expla nations in a few days, when letters and answers, if not Ministers, outgoing and incoming, shall have had time to traverse the island to and fro. Unless her Majesty should further shorten the very short stay she intended to make in Scotland, two succes sive Cabinets will have to visit the Highlands within ten or twelve days, at what loss and inconvenience to the public service it is frightful to think. Then come a few other questions. There is the Session to be wound up. There is business that must be done, and business that need not be done. There are also accidents that may happen even before we get a Government at all. If the American Civil War gave us so much trouble, will a Germanic Civil War be quite harmless? We are boasting our immunity perhaps prematurely. There is one comfortablere flection, only one, that occurs to us, and we owe it to Mr. Gladstone and his colleagues. They have not been overthrow n by th e O ppos iti on . They have been slain for no principl e an d by n o antagonist. There is neither cause nor foe. The blow, such asit was, to which they have succumbed was dealt by one of their own party. If the chiefs of the Opposition come in now, it is because they are invoked as mediators, and called in to heal a party feud. The Government has subsided, and: another takes its place by the laws of succe ss i on . Not a single item of retribution is due to the new Government, not a grudge on the contrary all possible co-operation. The Liberals are bound by the very terms of their own self-im molation to give the Conservatives a fair trial, and certainly not to exact from them a task which, with everything in their favour, they have found it im possible to bring to even a respectable end. HERALD.—The official report of the Jamaica Commission must be accepted as a judicial deter mination of an earnest and angry controversy. Be tween the partisans of the white and coloured popu lation, the Anglo-Saxon sympathisers and their negrophilistic denouncers, the believers in the recti tude of their own countrymen and the unreasoning apologists for everything done by a man with a black skin, there was manifestly a great and impass able gulf fixed, which was not to be bridged over by any ordinary means of intercommunication—at least while prejudice was at its worst and passion had not had time to cool. The difficulties in the way of any generally acceptable conclusion were smoothed by the appointment and minimised by the constitution of the commission. Two of its mem bers were men trained by the exercise of judicial functions in large centres of population, where the slighest indication of partiality is jealously watched, but who had, nevertheless, so borne themselves that the faintest shadow of a shade of reproach had never rested on their names. Mr. Russell Gurney, though a Conservative in politics, is connected by family ties with the denomination most interested in proving the late Governor of Jamaica in the wrong. Mr. Maule is a man of proved capacity and of the strict est impartiality, while the reputation of Sir Henry Storks stands so deservedly high that no one would venture to impugn the sincerity, and scarcely any one would question the accuracy, of a conclusion at which he had arrived ; though many thought it a mistake to appoint a commission at all, none had an objection to urge against the commissioners. The announcement of their names was received as a satisfactory guarantee that their work would be well done, and proportioned to the confidence thus expressed in their discretion will be the disposition now manifested to acquiesce in their conclusions. We may be pardoned for congratulating our selves upon the remarkable manner in which the investigation the commissioners have conducted has verified the opinions we once and again expressed during the progress of the disturbances. They tell us in limine that the outbreak of St. Thomas's was no mere local squabble, begotten of a police man's blunder, and fomented by the folly of a few hot-headed volunteers. On the contrary, they say that it had its origin in a planned resistance to law ful authority. As usual in such cases the resistance proceeded from many and mixed motives. Per sonal animosity, political rancour, and a distrust, to some extent well-founded, of the rectitude and impartiality of the local tribunals, all had their share in producing the prevalent disaffection, but the great and primal cause was a desire to btain land rent free ; to introduce in the chief of the West India islands the same high-handed system of proprietorship which obtains among Australian bushmen, American squatters, and Hibernia n ad vocates of tenant-right doctrines. That the head quarters of the insurrection—the centre and focus of rebellion—was in St. Thomas's-in-the-East, the commissioners admit, but they also say that no sooner was resistance to constituted authority be gun, than it " spread with singular rapidity over an extensive tract of country," so that more than a momentary success by the apostles of strife and dis cord would have ended in a sacrifice of life and pro perty which, even when hinted at in the cold and reticent style of blue book compilers, is calculated to make every one shudder who has heard or read of the excesses which invariably attend the triumphs of infuriated and exultant semi-savages. There fore, say the commissioners, Governor Eyre is en titled to praise for the skill, promptitude, and vigour with which he repressed the outbreak in its early stages ; for the judiciousness of his disposition of the naval and military forces at his command ; for the seeming severity, but actual clemency, which marked his conduct in a position beyond expectation arduous, beyond expression trying. So much being granted, or rather, being established by irrefragable evidence, it seems almost like praising with faint censure, to re mark, " that by the continuance of martial law the people were deprived for longer than necessary of the great constitutional privileges by which the security of life and property is provided for," inasmuch as in such extraordinary emergencies the ultimate security of life and property can only be obtained by the employment of the most severe and drastic measures for the punishment of those by whom they have been jeopardised. In the concluding sentences of the report the commissioners condemn the need less frequency with which the punishment of death was inflicted ; the recklessness and barbarity of the floggings ; the cruelty of the indiscriminate and causeless burning of 1,000 houses. In other words, they approve the energy and commend the acts of Governor Eyre, they recognise in his vigour and promptitude the instrumentalities by which the horrors of a servile warfare were averted ; but they condemn the imprudent zeal, or it may be the inex cusable ferocity, with which some of his subordi nates acted. For all this the readers of our corres pondent's letters will have been pretty well prepared. We have never undertaken to justify every excess committed, every severity inflicted, by men who felt that they had escaped indiscriminate massacre as by the skin of their teeth, and who, in some instances at least, were not unwilling to measure the ven geance they took by the barbarities which had been practised on others, and which they were only too certain were in store for themselves. But we have throughout maintained the principle that if the Government of the Queen in the colonies is to be preserved at all, those to whose hands it is com mitted must receive from the home authorities a generous and trusting support. The late leader of the Liberal party recognised this principle thoroughly, and carried it even to excess, as was shown in the debates on Don Pacifico's claim, and on Sir John Bowring's mode of coercing the Chinese for seizing the lorcha Arrow. But Mr. Cardwell's lengthy despatch shows that the traditions of the Nestor of the Cabinet have not been preserved among his colleagues and successors. The Colonial Secretary acknowledges the impartial and painstaking character of the commissioners' report. He thinks highly of the candour and alacrity with which the Governor and other inculpated parties furthered the progress of the inquiry. He believes in the extensive ramifications, the disloyal charac ter, and the ultimate objects of the conspiracy ; he agrees that the proclamation of martial law was wise, the resort to severe measures of repression ne cessary, the slightest appearance of indecision above all things to be dreaded. Nevertheless he decides against the continued tenure of office by the man whom he and the commissioners alike commend. Governor Eyre is absolved, but not reinstated. In saving the white population, in preserving the Queen's dominion, in putting down a formidable rebellion, he has done well, but apparently because he failed to abrogate martial law at the earliest pos sible moment he is no longer to continue Governor of Jamaica. To some extent we must admit that we approve of this decision. The exacerbation of feeling is so intense, the passions excited in the re cent conflict were so bitter, that no one could blame the Government for taking every possible means to soften down the asperities of the past. The pre sence of Governor Eyre would, of necessity, tend to hinder the subsidence of these feelings, as it would keep before, and in domination over, the black popu rightly or wrongly, th e y re lation the man whom, gard as the incarnation of that policy which has scattered their dreams of a black republic and left not a wreck behind of all the visions raised by de signing demagogues, and accepted as verities by their miserable dupes. But if Mr. Eyre is to be re called it should be clearly understood that be is not disgraced. If he erred in maintaining martial law too long it is admitted that he erred from too great anxiety to do his duty, and in consequence of ap prehensions which even now do not seem to have been altogether groundless. The indiscretion of some officers, the indecent levity of others, the need less seventies of a few, and the inexcusable barbari ties of one or two, he did not instigate, he did not approve, nay more, of their very existence he was not aware. For the multiplication of death punish ments he was not responsible, for the flagellations he cannot be held answerable, and of the wholesale fire raisings he was altogether unconscious. When these excesses were brought to his knowledge, it may well be that he refrained from paralysing his power by punishing the only men on whose aid he could rely, and therefore, it may be, he abstained from such expressions of his sentiments as he would have uttered under less trying circumstances. This, how ever, was one of the misfortunes of his position. Revolutions are not made with rosewater, and re bellions are not put down with kid gloves. When a handful of whites find themselves suddenly me naced by a multitude of blacks, when the hatred of race is inflamed by political antagonism and per sonal animosity, it is almost a moral necessity that things should be done of which calm and cool judg ment will disapprove. That this was in some mea sure the case in the Jamaica disturbances we have always admitted ; but as we have throughout, so do we still maintain, that, though motives of policy may justify Governor Eyre's recall, no scintilla of reason has been shown why he should be even tem porarily disgraced, or why his future preferment should in any degree be impeded. [ADVERTISEMENT.]—HoIIoway's Pills.—Momentous In quiry. —Surrounded as we are by exciting causes of disease it becomes our duty to seek some means of expelling im purities from the body or rendering them harmless. Pro fessor Holloway has discovered a medicine capable of effect ing this all-important point, and has generously placed it within the reach of the poorest. His pills guard the con stituents of the blood, which, when contaminated or de stroyed, permits fevers, inflammations, and other maladies to run riot through and uhdermine the system or consign their victims to untimely tombs. In malarious districts and unhealthy towns these pills, after silently proving themselves the best protectors against fevers, &c., have within the last few years been adopted by the profession and public. Money in America. The Spectator's special correspondent in NeW York writes a very good letter on Money Matters in America, dated New York, May 25, 1866. Be describes the effect of the great financial crisis London as being very slightly felt in Wall-street . Gold rose from . l3l on Wednesday to 141 on Friday, the sum exported from Ist May to that date being 22,000,000 dollars. " Nor have I heard," he goes 011 to say, " except in a single instance, any reference to those somewhat memorable articles upon our final' cial condition, and especially on our intentions tn' wards our creditors, which appeared in the Time s ' the Saturday Review, and other London We il ' about eighteen months ago and previously, and C l9lll which any cruelly-disposed person may _obtain some gratification by compelling their writers to re', them aloud to a circle of admiring friends." point of interest in this letter is the medium of Cf' culation—what, as the writer emphatically state s ; is called money. He says, "In the winter of 186 ' a gentleman who has a high reputation as a Pub licist, both in Europe and America, was discussing in a company, of which I was one, the proposal to make Treasury notes a legal tender by Act of Co n " gress. He spoke against the proposition with out qualification ; told how he had entreated Mr. Chas e ' then Secretary of the Treasury, and certain mom, bers of the Finance Committee of Congress, not ° bring ruin upon the country—not to make nom' , even Treasury notes, a legal tender; and at kw' taking a greenback from his pocket, he held it UPI saying, " That ' thing' money ? It's a good thil, in its way—a convenient thing ; but call it moneyL i The writer shows that events afterwards Prn": that what his friend flouted so contemptuoVi was money—not the representative of money, r l . money as much as any guinea that ever was cow' and it is in a want of knowledge of this fact that , English financial wiseacres have erred so et ously. He illustrates what he has advanced 1 10 amusingly. " About a year and a-half ago I n tS in an omnibus, when a man entered who was plall a Cuban Spaniard. He offered the driver a sal gold coin—a dollar, or quarter-eagle—for his fa xe ", ' What am I to do with this?' said the man ; • isn't money ! ' We all, except the Spaniard, laug l l e but Jehu was right ; it was not money, and I could do nothing with it. The Spaniard could th speak a word of English, and was moneyless handful of gold. One of his fellow-passeng e settled the matter by giving the driver a very di ill-smelling piece of paper, about an inch and 014 square. At another time I found myself my pocket-book at a restaurant, where I rarely P - but in my purse I had some coin, which I had 1 0 ried all through the war, for I confess I like d ,. sight and the feeling of the stamped metal —a 7 c i barons taste of which I have - not been able to myself—l offered a silver half-dollar, bull altbli the cashier had his drawer full of money' be td not give me change for my silver, which I p' i ' e to leave with him and redeem on my WI P as , with a fifty-cent ' shin-plaster,' or stamp. I ture to express the opinion that gold and silver . t g actually ceased to be coin among a rich and tilt o people, who have plenty of the precious metals ante d spare ; and the thing my political economist irl ey scouted so was actually money,,.as actual O n and as good money within the United States its golden eagle." COUNTRY MARKETS. LEEDS—TUESDAY. hao The show of grain this week is good. We hav e s _ Le ee fair consumptive demand for wheat to-day, a t an ad • of 3s per qr. over last Tuesday's rates. All spring co favour of the seller. MARKET HARBOROUGH.—TuEsDAY• tgs A moderate show of wheat, and sales were mad e to 3s over the quotations of the previous week. fB 6 Old white wheat, 54s to 58s ; new red. 46s to 53s 11 0 s t, stone. Barley, fine, —s ; other kinds, 28s to 3 8 s p er o ld, Oats, new, 22s to 30s ; old, 28s to 32s per qr. Beans' 30s to 335; new, 42s to 46s per qr. LIVERPOOL—TUESDAY. f At this day's market there was a good attendanc e town and country trade, and a large business was doua gd wheat at an advance of 6d por cental upon white an „, e t to 8d per cental upon red since this day week. Flour ;;cg with a free sale, and French must be quoted 2s 6d per S.',p dearer. In oats and oatmeal there was not much Barley, beans, and peas were rather neglected. For 0 40 corn there was a better demand, but owing to the go" la offering, prices, if anything, were a trifle lower, 290 be d i, the top price for best mixed; inferior and in soft (I°7l tion was offering at 27s 6d to 28s 6d per 4801 b. MILTON MOWBRAY.—TUESDAY. sal There was not much wheat on offer to-day, t or; were made at advanced rates. Barley a small supP , o 3a scarcely worth notice. Oats and beans very limi ted, at higher rates. a s ton e ' White wheat, 53s to 598 ; red, 46s to 54s per 3 , ; ) , pdt Barley for malting, 36s to 39s per qr; feed, 30s to 30 stone. Oats, old, 288 to 34s ; new, 22s to 30s per Beans, old, 50s to 53s ; new, 448 to 48s per qr. . SHEFFIELD—TUESDAY. d d e rBB o A limited supply of wheat on o ff er , and the, 0 410 proved steady at an advance of is to 2s per qr. "L e re 0 barley disposed of at top prices. Oats and bean" fair request at higher rates. 6d W W , Red wheat, per load of 3 imp. bushels 188 63 O t ° 0 1 do 2os 6 d New red do do —s 6d __ o n New white do do —so d 0 2OO , Beans do do , gs Od 4 0 0 ,r, 4 Peas, per qr . Grinding barley, pe r q r p 348 Od Od 20 0. Malting barley, c o 38 8,t20 o 4 Oats, d o 2 7 s Od Flour...As td to 26 Od per 141 b. GAINSBOROUGH—TuEsDAY. lie d Our ' a Our corn exchan ge t o -d a y was no t very l ar ge -9 ° oh!, with wheat, and best sorts were 3s per qr, dearer.,,, sorts 2s per qr. hi g h er . R e d an d m i xe d , 555. 1 ; co fi l; white wheat, 578 to 59s p er 36 stone. 8 1 3113 ' of limited, and readily m a d e th e extreme quotations previous week. Foreign Mail Packet List• MAILS DUE. J 0 Australia and New Zealand, via So u th am pton _lf Ditto, via Marseilles gt. Brazil and Cape Verde. by British packet ........ Jae Ditto, by French packet .......... jul• ie Cape of Good Rope, Ascension, and St. Heleno.• • • Ju ne 1 4 • China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton' Ja pe Ditto, via Marseilles. Falkland Islands ................................. ' n o Gibraltar, via Southampton India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton... a s .J 0 Ditto, via Marseilles ....... •• • . T oe India (Bombay), via 50uthampt0n................ ", ro neP Ditto, via Marseilles ...................... p • pe j 9 Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton ....... ° i/o' s 2 , 1 : Ditto, via Marseilles ....................... Mauritius, via Southampton Ditto, via Marseilles .1 11 n: 4, Newfoundland ..1011 Portugal . ....... ...... ••• • Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon.. ........•' g e, United States and British North America, b7i 3 “ jots tish packet .......... Ditto, by United States packet, via SonthaniP a ton ......... • Ditto, via Cork ... • .......... ti• Ditto, by Canadian packet. via LondonderrY JuiY • IP West Coast of Africa, Madeira, and Tenerife West Indies and Pacific, (except Bahamas 511 " .4 /00e . : 7 4 . Honduras) .................. .............. f oe S Ua Cuba and Mexico .................. .. ...... . Bahamas, via New York. .......................... Bermuda, via Halifax ........................... Births. 0 Cl BuEE—On the 17th inst., at Richmond, the Wif ° f f 54, Bubb, Esq., of a daughter. 0 BRADLEY—On the 18th inst. Mrs. G. F. Brea lel ' 0 0 Compton-terrace, of a son.. rnablea °l3 ' of I LEWIS—On the 18th inst., at Ridgway, 1n Ibl-PA wife of Charles W. Lewis, Esq., barrister -e. daughter. inst., pr igb lll LEE—On the 18th at 8, Norfolk - te rrace, the wife of Wm. E. Lee, Esq., of a son. Marriages. If . 6 ' 4 ei . V ill% f O . KING—GEORGE—On the 16th inst., at ,-7 , - 1 1 1, 0 0_,.. left, Ham, Henry King, Lieut. R.N.R., you ngest 7-" s o, D 0; late John King, Esq., RN, of Dover, to 3 ' o '6'olo eldest daughter of Christopher . George, scl " der, R.N. , EP is# 101 10 6 gen' KENNY — PERREAU—On the 15th inst., at St• - 033., O . t copal Church, Edinburgh, Colonel R. Itfnuint_ youl i f r :o gal Staff Corps, to Mary Hamilton iNs`',,7, Dit'"" daughter of the late Major M. Vir• P elle- ' Army. , g, lid Deaths. , 1 Ar. - ° A BAssETT—On the 18th inst. at at Rochester, ileartree Bassett, Esq., of the Comptroller-General's r 10 her Majesty's Customs, aged 37. reibo .. CALVERT—On the 18th inst., at . Furneellt o. Esq., a ged ' T hames' J, Herta, Edmond S. P. Calvert, HIGGENS—On the 17th inst., at liingston-on-. IVA G. Higgens, Esq., aged 51. HOOK—On the 16th inst., at Voles, ii iref Esq., aged 69. MonfP nlell l4. l7 ' LONG—On the 17th inst., at Dolforgan, Long, sci., o fh Snodland, • Henry H. Gifford, fourth son of R. P. ri STOKES—On the 16th inst., at ng Notts, -• BV:' Kingston, Esq., aged 80. ston, ROW S ' ND- 12, LIA II.I ‘ No. l o f London : Printed and rubifshedbyVVlL _ ‘inoo, ~ of No. 112, Strand, Printer. at TrEs S 111 !_'.„, COW Strand, in the Precinat of the SavnY. in ""' Middlenz.—Wednesday, June 2 0 , 1860'