The Sun. — London, England, 1866-11-26 00:00:00

Naval Intelligence. Her Majesty's sloop-corvette Reindeer, 7, 952 tons, 200 horse power (nominal), Commander E. Nares, made her official trial of speed, at her deep load draught, at the measured mile, Maplin Sands, on Saturday, previously to proceeding to sea. The ship was in command of Commander W. L. Part ridge, second in command of the Steam Reserve in the Medway ; the other officials on board superin tending the trials being Mr. W. W. Williamson, inspector of machinery afloat; Mr. T. Baker, chief engineer and inspector of machinery at Chatham dockyard ;Mr. W. Hutchens, assistant-master ship wright at the dockyard ; Mr. Rennie and Mr. Phillips, representing Messrs. Rennie and Sons, the makers of the engines. The machinery was under the charge of Mr. J. P. Allen, chief engineer of the Reindeer. The engines are a pair of direct-acting horizontal engines, with a length of stroke of 20ft. ; effective diameter of the cylinders 4iin. On leaving , her moorings in the Medway on Saturday the Rein deer drew 15ft. aft, and 13ft. 11in. forward, with 123 tons of coal, the whole of her shot, shell, and guns, and 12 months' stores and provisions on board. She is fitted with a Griffith's two-bladed propeller, 12ft. in diameter, and set at a pitch of 12st. 4 in., the immersion of the:upper edge being lft. 7-lin. The wind during the trial was westerly, with a force of 2 to 4. On reaching the trial ground six runs were taken at full boiler-power with the following results :-First run, time, 7m. 125.; speed, 8 . 333 knots per hour ; steam, 171 b ; vacuum,2sin.; number of revolutions of screw per minute, 96. Second run, time, sm. 565. ; speed, 10.112 knots ; steam, 161 b. ; vacuum, 26 ; revolutions, 91. Third run, time, 7m. 255. ; speed, 8.090 knots ; steam, 151 b.; vacuum, 25 ; revolutions, 91. Fourth run, time, 6m. 19s. ; speed, 9.490 knots, steam, 151b' vacuum, 21 ; revolutions, 94. Fifth run, time, 6m. 54s ; speed, 8.696 knots; steam, 171 b; vacuum,24l ; revolutions, 90. Sixth mile, time, sm. 535.; speed, 10.198 knots; steam, 151 b; vacuum,2s; revolutions, 89-giving the true mean speed of the vessel to be 9.081 knots an hour. From a cause which was explain able a pressure of steam of not more than 171 b could be obtained, or the results would have been more satisfactory. Two runs were afterwards made at half-boiler power, with the following results : First mile, time, 7 min. 19 sec. ; speed, S• 2 knots ; steam, 22ib. ; vacuum, 25 ; revolutions, 81. Second mile, time, 6 min. 39 sec. ; speed, 9.0233 knots ; steam, 2111 b. ; vacuum, 25 ; revolutions, 80 ; at half-boiler power the true mean speed was 8.611 knots, prov ing that the Reindeer steams by far faster in pro portion at half-boiler than at full-boiler power. With the engines at full speed, the half-circle, with the helm put over hard a-port by four men, in 20 seconds, and the angle of the rudder 26 deg., was made in 2 min. 9 sec., and the full circle in 4 min. 34 sec., the diameter of the circle being rather over 100 yards. During the trial the engine 3 worked very satisfactoriiy. At the close of the trials some experiments were made in stopping and starting the engines and in raising the screw, at the termination of which the usual certificate was given of the satis factory condition of the engines. At the termina tion of the trials the Reindeer anchored at the Little Nore, where she will be inspected to-day by Vice_ Admiral Sir Baldwin W. Walker, K.C.8., Com mander-in-chief, after which she will take her de• parture for the Pacific, calling in at Portsmouth and Plymouth. On Saturday afternoon another addition to the list of vessels in the Royal Navy took place in the launch of the 4-gun screw steam sloop Nymph, of 1,081 tons burden and 300 horse power, from her building slip at Deptford dockyard. The day beau tifu'ly fine a large concourse of spectators assembled, booths being erected for their accommodation. Just previous to the time fixed for the launch taking place his Royal Highness Prince Arthur, accom panied by Major Elphinstone, arrived and was re• ceived by Capt. Arthur P. E. Willmott, C. 8., Superintendent of Deptford dockyard and the Royal Victoria Victualling-yard, with other officials, the baud of the 27th Kent (Deptford Dockyard) Rifle Volunteers playing the National Anthem. The ceremony of naming the vessel was performed by Miss Eardley Willmott, niece of the Captain Super intendent, and at a given signal, the cord which held the vessel was cut, and to the strains of " Rule Britannia" from the band and the hearty cheers of all assembled, the vessel glided gracefully into the Thames, where she was successfully taken in tow by Government tugs. The Nymph was laid down in April last year, and has been completed under the supervision of Mr. E. J. Reed, Chief Construc tor to the Navy. Her principal dimensions are as follow :-Length between perpendiculars, 187 ft. ; length of the keel for tonnage, 158 ft. 3iin. ; breadth, extreme, 361 t. ; ditto for tonnage, 35ft. 10in. ; ditto, moulded, 35ft. 2in. ; and depth in hold, 19ft. 4in. Orders have been received by Col. J. 0. Travers, C. 8., commandant of the Chatham division of Royal Marines Light Infantry, directing a detach ment of 97 non - commissioned officers and men, with three officers, to proceed from head-quarters for ser vice on board the Frederick William, 74, 500-horse power, Capt. J. J. Kennedy, C. 8., Coastguard ship at Queenstown. The whole division at Aldershot under the com mand of Lieut.-Gen. the Hon. Sir J. J. Y. Scarlett, K.C.8., marched out on Thursday in the direction of Bagshot, Blackwater, Frimley, andS , andhurst, and t o ok up the positions mentionedy a combined in The s ined un ofthe 12th inst., the object being b move ment to check the advance of an enemy from adon the n orth, either by the main road from Lo Bagshot, or any p arallel roads or ac cessible country v.a on either side of such roads. The exe cution of the plan of operations had been deferred from the 13th inst. owing to unfavourable weather, but on this oc casion it was carried out in every detail. The troop s were so disposed as to guard all the approaches to the camp from the quarter indicated, and after checking the advance of the supposed foe by a heavy artillery fire returned to camp by various routes, having been under arms about seven hours. The report of the Recruiting Commissioners con tinues to be the theme of discussion at Aldershott Camp. Some of the recommendations have given satisfaction to the soldiers, but an addition to the daily pay and a better pension are represented as necessary to render the service more attractive and popular. In this respect the testimony of old soldiers strongly confirms the opinion of Col. Rad cliffe, R.A., expressed in the dissenting paragraph attached to the Commissioners' Report. A number of new breech-loading rifles (Snider pattern) have been received at Aldershott Camp and distributed to the different regiments for prac tice. The 28th (North Glocestershire) Regiment, now stationed at Aldershott, is under orders to proceed to Manchester about the end of the present month. The Volunteers. The ceremony of distributing the prizes won by members of the Ist Middlesex Artillery in the course of the preceding twelvemonths took place on Satur day evening. As in the regular army, so among Volunteers, the Artillery claim to rank as a corps d'elite. To celebrate the occasion worthily the Ist Middlesex accordingly gave a grand ball in the llanover.square Rooms, and the prizes were to have been distributed by the Duke of Buckingham, the honorary colonel of the regiment. A letter, how ever, written at a late hour from the Council Cham ber announced that his Grace was detained by public b us i ness of an important character. In his absence, therefore, the task of handin g to the successful com petitors the valuable recognitions of their skill and mer itorious service was undertak en by Mrs. C ree d, wife of Lieutenant-Colonel Creed, commanding the regiment. The ceremony was prefaced by some remarks on the part of Colonel Creed himself, who pointed to recent events upon the Continent as establishing conclusively that good weapons an d good organisation were indispensable to the main tenance of the position of this country. English Volunteers, he felt assured, were alive to the neces sity ; and at the hands of General Peel, the present head of the War Department, he was persuaded volunteers, as well as regulars, would receive the best description of small-arms, and, further, would be su pplied with every requisite neco3sary to meet the best weapons that could be produced upon the continent. During the past year the strength of the Ist Middlesex Artillery reached 9 batteries, comprising 550 men, exclusive of the band, and of these he had reason to hope that not less than 400 would earn the capitation grant. Their march from London to Brighton last April, with guns fully horsed, was most successfully performed, and the conduct and discipline of the corps left nothing to be desired. At their inspection Col. Cox compli mented them both upon their appearance and effi ciency ; and at Shoeburyness the corps was well up to its work. He was consoled for his own ab sence from the B3lgian rifle meeting by the fact that the brigade had been well represented there ; and when the time came for a return visit of foreign volunteers he trusted they would receive as hearty and hospitable a welcome. The first (garrison gun) prize, given by the Duke of Buckingham, was a handsome cup, having round the bowl six guineas of different English reigns set in or introduced into the workmanship, with ten half-guineas similarly diver sified as to date, studding the foot of the cup. It was awarded to Capt. Monkton. The names of the detachment winners of smaller cups were—Lieut. Dixon, Sergt. Long, Corporal Sharman, ,Gunners Palmer, A. Rymer, and Chambers. Second Prize— Sergt. Graves, No. 1, winner of silver cup. Rest of detachment winners of smaller cups—Sergt. Bone, Corporal Mills, Bombardier Garnan, Gunner Notley, and Gunner Wimble. The remaining prizes were distributed in the following order. It will be noted that a large proportion was carried off by the officers of the corps :—Field gun prize, value £4O ; first prize, winner of Skinner's Cup, Capt. Hunt, No. 1. Winners of smaller cups--Gunners Talrum, Hedges, Peachey, Robertson, Roberts, and IVaud. Second prize, winner of silver cup, Sergeant Koester. Winners of smaller cups—Corporals F. Tracey, J. Tracey, Gibbon, and Orme, and Gunners Herbert, Trist, and Lang. Carbine prizes, competition, No. I.—First prize, value £lO, won by CorporalMeeres; second, £7, Bombardier Garnham ; third, £5, Cor poral Gibbon ; fourth, £4, Gunner Garnham; fifth, £3, Bombardier Bell ; sixth, £3, Sergeant Bone. Competition, No. 2.—First prize, value £lO, *won by Gunner Notley ; second, £7, Gunner Waud ; third, £5, Sergeant Rothl ; fourth, £4, Captain Monckton ; fifth, £3, Gunner Gibsone ; sixth £3, Corporal F. Tracey. Highest aggregate scores of non-winners.—First prize £3, second £2. First won by Veterinary-Surgeon Withers, second by Gunner IVimble. Ladies' Consolation Prizes—First won by Sergeant-Major Tilfor, second Gunner Lewis, third Corporal Orme. No. 2 Battery Car bine Challenge Cup, value £l5, won by Lieutenant Dixon. Regimental Carbine Challenge Cup silver vase, value £2O, won first half year by Corporal Meeres, second by Gunner Notley. Battery Car bine Challenge Cup, value £25, won by No. 8 Bat tery ; the winning squad, each gaining in addition a University tankard—Captain Monckton, Bom bardier Bell, Bombardier Garnham, Gunner Garn ham, and Gunner Notley. University tankards were also presented to two squads of six, both headed by Captain Monckton, won in a carbine match in July with the 2d Surrey Artillery, and in October with the Ist Kent Artillery. Major H. F. Smith's Challenge Cup, a silver model of a nine pounder field gun, value 50 guineas, won by No. 5 (Captain Keeble's) Battery. Of the winners Cor poral Gibbons received a silver cup, the rest of the battery tankards. On the motion of Major Smith, cheers were heartily given in recognition of the ser vices rendered by Mrs. Creed. The room was then cleared, and dancing having been commenced was kept up with spirit for some hours. The distribution of prizes won during the year by the 7th Surrey Rifle Volunteers took place on Sa turday evening, at the head-quarters in Kenning ton-lane. There was a very large gathering of the friends of the corps to witness the proceedings, and Mr. Locke, M.P., who presided on the occasion, opened the ceremony by speaking in terms of praise of the high position attained by the 7th Surrey in the Volunteer service. Mrs. Beresford, the wife of the commandant, Lieutenant-Colonel Marcus Beresford, handed the well-won prizes, which were numerous and valuable, to the winners, who were received with warm cheers by their comrades and fellow competitors. Colonel Beresford, in the course of some remarks he made upon the relation of the Governri-nnt and the Volunteers, spoke of the inade quacy of the Government grant to meet the legiti mate expenses of a corps, and he thought it was time the grant was increased so as to meet the out lay on rifle ranges, head -quarters, and the renewal of uniforms; to relieve the Volunteers generally, and the officers particularly, of the expenses which now to some extent fall upon them. The pleasant proceedings closed with a ball. A small-bore competition at 800, 900, and 1,000 yards, for the Grosvenor Challenge Cup, presented by the Middlesex Shooting Committee, was shot on Thursday, at the range of the London Scottish at Wimbledon. The match was open to all members of rifle corps in Middlesex, the city of London, and the Tower Hamlets, and to all natives of Middlesex and persons having their occupation in the county. Any rifles were allowed, but of course all the weapons were the recognised match rifles—Whit worth, Rigby, Metford, Henry, and Bissell. The match was won by Captain Jaques, of the Cater ham Club, who fired with the Whitworth, and made 106—viz., 37, 32, and 37. Capt. Goodliffe, of the London Rifle Brigade, who fired with the Metford, made 101, and the like score was made by Private 'Wyatt, of the same brigade, with a Whit worth. Mr. Luxmore, with the Rigby, and Dr. Stormont, of the London Brigade, with the Met ford, followed next with 94, and Mr. Nosworthy and Captain King, both of the Inns of Court, and both of whom fired with Metfords, made 93 and 92. The cup will be fired for again in December. The winner is awarded a portion of the entrance fees. Afol l ra : na i y s l a cia f va a se ct worthy of record that the Volunteers are becoming possessed of the new breechloaders. regiment been given as prizes to be shot y in as wi s l e ic v h en he w heroeldgsivaencobmymoinsseiotc Iter to the • issesksnedowroenf, t m oo o , z t z h: lo t a h ( o ie s rs e Volunteers who are pos sessed in into breech-loaders, antehd that several avi h n London c t m an co convert makers have given notice rifles of any bore on the Snider principle. Miscellaneous American News. The Pittsburgh Mining a n d M anufacturing Journal states that among the many iron r eg i ons of Virginia one of the most remarkable is th e vast deposit of brown hematite ores in Alleghany c oun t y, known as "The I ron Mountain s of Virginia." The Messrs. Jordan ow n, near Covin gton, in that county, a tract which has been described as a cubi c mile— not a superficial mile—of brown hematite iron ore ; and that vicinity alone is estimated a s able to furnish a million of tons of iron a year for more than a century. There is a single bed of salt in Nevada that is computed to cover 50,000 acres. It is solid rock salt, 95 per cent. fine. It now yields at the rate of 2,000,000 bushels per annum. The water rushes up from a distance of about 35 feet, and makes a constant deposit of the finest white salt. The Portland Transept tells a story illustrating the thieving carried on at the great fire. It says that a man and his wife, who were burnt out and went over to the Cape to board, on being shown to their room, found it furnished with their own fur niture. Calhoun M. Derringer, the newly appointed Assessor of Internal Revenue for the Second Dis trict of Pennsylvania, in place of Thomas W. Sweeney, resigned, entered upon his duties on the Ist November. The activity manifested in Atlantic City by the people there in improving the place exceeds any thing of the kind since it was incorporated. Some twenty new buildings are in course of construction, and about as many more have been contracted for. The railroad company have and are delivering an immense amount of gravel for filling up the side walks and other purposes, and the authorities are grading and raising the streets, so that in due time the proper grades will be filled up in all the spa cious avenues. Every train conveys to that city building materials of various kinds, and scores of carpenters are busily engaged in getting it ready THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 26, 1866. for the structures intended. From present indica tions Atlantic City has a prosperous future. Sur veyors are engaged in laying out streets and lots at the lower end of the town, intending thus to survey about four miles of the island. A new Episcopalian church is to be erected next season, and during the holiday vacation an addition is to be finished to the public school. These indications show that those who own property there are determined to make such permanent improvements as will contribute to the rapid growth and popularity of the place. Fifteen hundred acres of peat, twelve feet thick, are said to have been discovered in Hardin county. The TVatchnzan and Recorder remarks that a strong feeling has sprung up among the coloured people in favour of emigration to Liberia. The feeling is not confined to any section of the coun try ; it is manifested North and South. Young and old, and of all occupations, now desire to go to Liberia. They declare that as soon as the coloured population are admitted to the full rights of American citizens there will be a rush to Liberia that will astonish every one. The reverse was ex pected. It was supposed that freedom and citizen ship would retain the negro in America. But the coloured people say they are unwilling to be sent off as rubbish or as people out of place ; they will go as independent passengers, as emigrant citizens-- not leaving the country for its good, but for their own. The following information of what writings re quire stamps in the United States will prove valu able to business men generally, and should be kept for reference :- Ist. Instruments of writing dated before October 1, 1862, do not require a stamp. 2d. Those dated between August 1, 1862, and August 1, 1864, may be stamped either before or after use by the Court Registrar or Recorder. 3d. Those dated August 1, 1864, and more than twelve months old, may be stamped before a United States Col lector, without payment of the penalty of $5O. 4th. Those dated after August 1, 1864, and more than twelve months old, can be stamped upon the payment of the penalty of $5O. _ _ _ And every assignment of a note, which assignment is made since October 1, 1862, without regard to tho date of the note, is to be stamped as an agreement, namely, five cents—no matter how small or how large the note may be. All persons having notes unstamped should have them stamped at once. A receipt for money or property over $2O, no matter what the amount, only requires a two-cent stamp. The grand jury of Newark, Ohio, have found indictments against eleven persons for the en couragement of fraudulent voting at the late elec tion. The new railroad to be constructed between Mount Holly and Camden is an enterprise of incal culable importance. When completed and in run ning order it will open to the farmers residing along the entire length better communication with the Philadelphia markets than was ever before enjoyed, and their interests are of no small consequence in securing its early completion. The Camden and Amboy Railroad Company, who now own the charter, have taken an active part in perfecting those preliminary arrangements, such as building, purchasing, and settling the right of way, and other necessary measures, and so soon as everything is satisfactorily adjusted the work will commence. This will be an important road, and cannot fail to be advantageous Rot only to the people along its route, but also to the stockholders themselves. The Philadelphia Inquirer says the statement that the Ocean Telegraph Company was about to lay cables from Heart's Content to Halifax does not seem to be substantiated by later intelligence. It is now said that the plan is to construct a new land line in Nova Scotia, ending at Placentia ; thence a cable will be laid to St. Pierre, on the Island of Miquelon. A land line will be extended across that island, and a cable laid down to Sydney, Cape Breton, where it will connect with the United States. Another land line will be constructed across Newfoundland, and carried by cable to Port Hood, New Breton, where it will connect with lines to the United States. The present land line across New foundland, which frequently gets out of order, is to be kept up for the sake of the cable communica tion aboss the Gulf of St. Lawrence. By this means there will be three modes of communication with the United States, and it is hoped that one of them at least will be always in order. A railroad is proposed from Shelburne Falls to Wilmington, Vermont, connecting the new line to New Haven with the Western Vermont line, thus making the mopt direct route to the Sound. A meeting of those interested in the scheme was inst. held at Shelburne Falls on the 9th. The Boston, Hartford, and Erie Railroad will be completed to Southbridge in the course of a month. The State prison at Charlestown has 581 inmates at the present time, about 50 of which are under sentence for life. The receipts from manufactures during the year amounted to $61,573, and the price paid the labourers varies from 50c. to $l. Among the contractors is the American Whip Com pany, of Westfield. There is a library of 1,600 volumes in the prison, mostly of the lighter style of literature, to which the convicts have access twice a week. The receipts of flour at Boston for October were 237,300 barrels—by rail 132,700, and by sea 104,600. George Peabody's donation of $25,000 to Phillips Academy, at Andover, will be devoted, at his re quest, to endowing the chair of mathematics and natural sciences. Its income only will be used in payment of the professor's salary, and any balance not thus expended is to be added to the permanent fund. The money comes in the form of Massa chusets 1883 Five per cent. Bonds. The lumber business in Maine has been unusually prosperous during the past season, with a good supply of water for the mills, and a quick demand for all lumber produced. There have been sur veyed at Bangor already sixty million feet more than last year, and the amount will probably be two hundred and twenty-five millions in all. John T. Parker, of Farmington, has invented a new machine for boring oil and artesian wells, by which the tubing is put in as fast as the augur de scends, and this prevents all danger from covering and considerably lessons the cost of the work. When the well is finished, or at any other time when necessary, the augur collapses and is drawn up through the tubing. Colonel J. W. Robinson, of Concord, has re signed the superintendency of the White Mountain Division of the American Telegraph Company, in order that he may accept the position of general agent of the Brooklyn Home Life Insurance Com pany for the States of New Hampshire and Ver mont. The work on the fishway over the Amoskeag clam on the Merrimac, at Manchester, has been begun. The passage will be 300 feet long and will cost $5,000. The catalogue of Yale College for the current year, just published, contains the names of 500 under-graduates in the academical department, of whom 101 are in the senior class, 115 juniors, 132 sophomores, and 152 freshmen. The students in the other departments are divided as follows :-- Theology 30, law 26, medicine 31, and the Sheffield scientific school 122 ; making a total of 709 stu dents connected with the institution. The receipts of gold and silver by public sources at San Francisco for the nine months to October 1 were nearly forty million dollars, indicating about 50,000,000 for the year. This is about the same as 1865 ; and Montana and Colorado, whose produc tion viostly conies east, will swell the aggregate gold product of the nation for the yea r t o a b out 75,000,000. This is less than was confidently ex pected, but quite up to the production of last ye ar , and probably a trifle beyond. The Nation gives the following summary of the Baltimore imbroglio :—" The course of the proceed ings which have been agitating Maryland, and ab sorbing the attention of the country at large during the past week, may be summed up as follows : -- After Governor Swann had given his reasons for condemning and removing the Baltimore commis sioners, and had appointed new ones in their place, these latter first summoned the old board to sur render their authority, and then, being unheeded, began to swear in their own policemen, in which business they were aided by the Sheriff. A colli sion being imminent, State Attorney Maund ap plied to Judge Bond for the arrest of the parties thus threatening the public peace, and a war rant was accordingly issued and served upon them, and they were brought into court, ob liged to give bail for their good behaviour, and in default were committed. A writ of habeas was issued by Judge Bartol, of the Court of Appeals, on Saturday night, but not served till Monday, when the warden reserved to himself the full time allowed him by law for making his return, and Judge Bartol sustained him, though it was known this delay would bridge over the election. The good management which thus defeated the sel fish, political ends of the Governor, and at the same time avoided bloodshed and even much violence, cannot be too highly praised. The courts will pre sently have an opportunity to decide, at their cus tomary leisure, whether the power lay with the Executive to try and then remove the commissioners, and if so, whether the new appointees were justified in seeking to take forcible possession of the autho rity with which they were invested. Thus far it is the, latter question alone that has come up, and it has been decided sufficiently to preserve a most im portant election from being held under the auspices either of Andrew Johnson or, to speak metaphori cally, of Jefferson Davis, though not to debar per jury from prevailing at the polls. A young man, who has passed under the name of George Olsen, and who has been engaged as lamp trimmer on board the United States steamer Ma dawaska, has just discovered that he is an Hunga rian nobleman, that his true title is Edward Louis, Count Batthyani, and that he is the owner of au immense estate. He has already received $300,000 as a portion of the money due to him, and is now in Washington, under the protection of the Austrian ambassador, trying to get his discharge from the United States naval service. Davis Bartlett, a North Becket sportsman, killed a coon the other day, which weighed 231 pounds. At the recent meetings of the Evangelical Alliance at Bath, the Rev. Dr. M'Cosh, of Belfast, read an. able paper, in which he gave details of the formation of an American Evangelical Alliance, and sketches of the religious condition of the United States, gathered during a tour this summer, extend ing over fourteen weeks, during which period he travelled between 13,000 and 14,000 miles by sea and land. In his paper the learned divine gave a hurried description of the country, the state of the people, the condition of education, &c. In the course of it he urged that every effort should be made to improve the coloured people (for they were capable of being improved), and raise them in the social scale ; the people themselves were enthusiastic for instruction, and if the present time were not embraced—if they were allowed to continue in igno rance—they would sink into habits of idleness and degradation, from which it would almost be impos sible to remove them. In Thursday's Journal des Deba ts M. Prevost-Para dol has an article on the foreign policy of the United States, which will be read with interest in England. After approving President Johnson for reviving the Alabama claims, and commending the English Government's determination to appoint a commission to inquire into the operation of the laws respecting neutrality, he proceeds to say "On the other hand, the conduct of the President, in the matter of Mexico, bears too evidently the impress of election eering tactics. He cannot possibly entertain a sus picion that France intends to remain in Mexico, in defiance of the formal undertaking into which she has entered with the United States ; he cannot appre hend that the Empire of Maximilian (if it be not de stroyed already) will survive our departure; finally, he cannot ignore the professions of neutra lity of his owu Government with regard to Mexico. None of these provisions, none of these recollections, however, seem able to prevent Mr. Johnson as suming with regard to Mexico an attitude which he must know cannot but be painful to the French Government. Mr. Johnson, who is aware that we are going, is evidently bent on looking as if he were driving us out, and far from doing what he can to attenuate that too obvious check to our policy, he leaves nothing undone that can make it more galling. The course of events, however, was so clearly de fined, and the success of American policy in Mexico so inevitable, and so close at hand, that a President free from personal views would not have made soglaringan abuse of so favourable a situation. But Mr. Johnson has now his own position to re trieve, and those French papers which were at one and the same time writing up both the Mexican empire and Mr. Johnson's home policy, may now discern who will have to pay for the damage sus tained by the President's popularity. Nevertheless the boldest of Mr. Johnson's advances to popular passion is his diplomatic intervention on behalf of the Fenian invaders recently sentenced to death by a Canadian jury. Clemency is always a good thing, and England will only deserve praise if, in this instance, she inclines to mercy rather than justice. But that a powerful neighbour, who has allowed such an expedition to be organised within his dominions, and who cannot plead (as England in the case of the Alabama) anything beyond ex tenuating circumstances for this departure from the neutrality laws, should in addition claim the pardon of invaders taken in arms, and add to his recom mendation to mercy a lecture on clemency, is what must stagger the world, were not the electoral posi tion of Mr. Johnson sufficient to account for such conduct. As regards justice, it would be difficult ument in favour of the toFe Fenian i r a i n n g marauders. forward e ras rigs not a case of rebels rising against the Government of their own country, but of foreign adventurers, who, in the midst of profound peace, attempting the conquest of a colony content with its fate, and determined to maintain its allegiance because it knows it to be a security for its independence, taken in arms, condemned by a jury after a trial, the impartial fairness of which they acknowledge themselves. Having staked their life on a guilty venture and lost it, the Canadian Fenians may afford a great example of clemency, but they can never be made a pretext for interna tional discussion. Nevertheless they have been unable to escape the vigilant eye of Mr. Johnson, eagerly scanning the map from Mexico to Quebec in quest of some opportunity that might be turned to account for his rehabilitation. These weaknesses, inherent to all governments where election is the exclusive source of power, are but of secondary im portance by the side of the great example the United States have given since the end of the civil war, by the peaceful disbanding of their army, and the regular paying off of their debt." On the Ist November the Musical Fund Hall, Philadelphia, was filled in every part by an intelli gent audience, to listen to a lecture by Rev. T. De Witt Talmage, of the Second Reformed Dutch Church of this city. The lecturer was introduced by Mr. J. Ford, President of the Philolathean Society. The lecture was entitled " Our New House, or Pleasures of House Hunting." For sparkling wit, plain common sense, deep pathos, keen satire, and useful suggestion, the lecture was unsurpassed. The lecturer set forth with inimitable humour the dreary work of wandering among houses to let, and then portrayed what a house ought to be, going from hall to parlour, and from parlour to dining-room, and from dining-room to nursery, and from nursery to sleeping apartments, stopping at the door of this last room to wish his hearers good night. Any report would fail to do justice to this lecture, made up for two hours of laughter and tears. The Philolathean Literary Society, under whose auspices the lecture was delivered, is composed entirely of young men, who have for their aim the welfare of the young men of Philadelphia, by im proving them in their literary attainments. A short time since a Roman journal published a cable despatch sent to the Pops by a council of seven Catholic archbishops and forty bishops held at Baltimore. WIIO ARE TIIE WORKING CLASSES ?—There are thousands of employers who work hard or harder than the employed. There are many, in what is called a large way of business, whose tasks are never done by night or day ; and who are besides worn down by the anxieties which are the necessary attendant of their calling ; upon whom disasters occasioned by fluctuation of markets, the vicissitudes of wind and weather, and numerous other casual ties, beyond human control, are often descending with crushing violence like an inundation on the corn-fields or an avalanche from the mountains, overwhelming at a blow their most cherished and well-founded expectations. From the time of old Horace, " Nil sine magno vita labore dedit mortali bus"—and the 19th century affords no exception to this rule—" nothing without great labour."— Tracts for the limes. 7 TVENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO. Less than twenty-five years ago the first success ful experiment with electro-telegraphy was made, though it had been the subject of investigation some years previous. A wire was stretched from Wash ington to Baltimore in 1844, and soon after ex tended to New York, and very rapidly throughout the country and the world, till at length the earth is girdled, and time and space are literally annihi lated. The author of this wonderful discovery still lives in the enjoyment of a green old age, rich in honours and the substantial rewards of his genius. Twenty-five years ago ocean steam navigation was a new thing, and its practicability has just been demonstrated. True, years before a little steamer, known as the Savannah, had crossed the Atlantic, but her daring feat had long been forgotten, never, perhaps, to be recalled, had not the Western World been waked up one morning by the astonishing news that the Sirius, a small English-built steamer, had arrived from London. The Sirius was soon followed by the Great Western—and thenceforth ocean steam navigation became a fixed fact. Before there had been no steamships, only steamboats— useful craft on lakes and rivers, and other inland waters—but the idea that steam could be made avail able for navigating the ocean had long been scouted in high places. Twenty-five years ago there were no steamships of war, but ocean steam navigation having been demonstrated as practicable, the nations ceased to build sailing vessels for war purposes, and rapidly substituted steamers. Twenty-five years ago most of the inventions of agricultural machinery, which now so lighten the labours of the farmer, while they increase his gains, were unknown. Who ever heard of the reaping machine till it made a sensation at the London Ex position in 1851 ? It must have had a brief exis tence before that, for it was sent, a perfected engine, from Chicago to London ; but how few had ever heard of it, and now, who would think of working even a twenty-acre farm without its aid ? Twenty-five years ago there were railroads with locomotive engines, but they date only a few years anterior. The writer of this well remembers read ing the account of Mr. Stephenson's first success in England, and he has not forgotten when the first short line was put in operation in this country. Twenty years ago railroad connection between the Hudson River and Lake Erie was scarcely com pleted, the Erie and the Hudson River lines were hardly thought of, and in the great West, where the railroad may be said to have achieved its greatest triumphs, it had no existence at all. If the last twenty-five years did not witness the origin of the railroad, it has seen its wonderful expansion, until this country and Western Europe have been con verted into gigantic gridirons by the crossing and interlacing of iron bands, and all other modes of land travel have become nearly obsolete, and a five mile journey in an old-fashioned stage coach is more to be dreaded than a hundred miles in a rail-car. Twenty-five years ago California was unexplored and uninhabited, save by Indians and a few Mexican adventurers and outlaws, and its wealth of precious ores was a well-kept secret ; and the other gold-producing States and Territories -Nevada, Colorado, Arizona, Montano, and Idaho —now so familiar to every ear, had no existence, save as they formed parts of the unexplored far West of the Rocky Mountain region. Twenty-five years ago a hundred thousand dol lars was regarded as a magnificent fortune, to which, though many aspired, few attained ; and the num ber in the metropolis of the - Western World whose estates reached this figure could be counted on one's fingers. There are more men in New York to-day whose annual incomes reach one hundred thou sand dollars than there were twenty-five years ago of those whose entire possessions amounted to as much. Twenty-five years ago there were possibly, half a dozen millionaires in the whole country. To-day they may be counted by hun dreds. Twenty-five years ago the population of the Em pire State was less than two and a half millions. To-day it cannot be less than five millions. Twenty-five years ago the population of the entire country was only seventeen millions. To-day it is nearly forty millions. Twenty-five years ago there were twenty-eight States in the Union. To-day there are thirty-six, with half a dozen more to be added within a few years. The world moves ; but such wonderful strides as it has made within the last twenty-five years for mer generations never saw. Every department of life has felt and seen its accelerated motion ; and it is almost enough to make one feel giddy to look back over the last quarter of a century and wit ness the rapid succession of discoveries in art and science, and the wonderful increase in wealth and population.—Antiquary in Scientific American. A fortnight ago we gave a private letter addressed by Secretary Al' Culloch to Consul-General Murphy, at Frankfort-on-the-Maine, giving the information which the Secretary has just stated officially, that the 5-20 Bonds would be paid when due in coin The following official confirmation has now reached England :—Secretary M'Culloch has replied of ficially to an inquiry made by Messrs. L. P. Morton and Co. relative to the manner of payment of the principal of the 5-20 Bonds. The Financial Secre tary says :—" I regard, as did also my predecessors, all United States Bonds as payable in coin. The bonds that have matured since the suspension of specie payments have been so paid, and I have no doubt that the same will be true with all others, this being, as 1 understand it to be, the established policy of the Government. The 5-20 Bonds of 1862 will either be called in at the expiration of five years from their date and paid in coin, or be per mitted to run until the Government is prepared to pay them in coin." The Temps of Wednesday published a circular which the Minister of War has just addressed to the Departmental Intendants, informing them that the entire expeditionary corps of Mexico is to return to France at the early part of next year, and that they are therefore to cease henceforth to send any stores to that country. " This circular," says the 2 emps, " confirms a resolution of which no one could any longer doubt, and which was too clearly indicated by the nature of things not to force itself in a measure upon the attention of the Government. Our withdrawal from Mexico will take place speedily, completely, and at one time. It will be simultane ous, and not successive. The partial and successive withdrawal would have been justified had Maximi lian's empire gradually consolidated itself and been able to replace by its increasing force the strength we withdrew from it. That has not been precisely the course of events during the last few months. It does not need much reflection now to recognise that the system of gradual evacuation at first decided on might have exposed the last representatives of the French flag in Mexico to grave difficulties, and led of itself to the revival, so to speak, of an expedition, the end of which is ardently, and we believe unani mously, desired." We are requested to correct a current misappre hension that the Exhibition at Paris will open on the Ist of May next, and to state that the Ist of April is the day appointed, which arrangement will doubt less be adhered to. A complete rehearsal of the opening of the Exhibition is to take place on the 31st of March, 1867. In consequence of the date for the opening of the Paris Exhibition having been altered from the Ist of May to the Ist of April, an order has been re ceived at Chatham directing the whole of the models in course of preparation at the dockyard for exhibi tion to be ready for transmission to Paris by the middle of the month of February. We hear that the Paris press has just issued four octavo monthly magazines. One is dedicated to art, another to literature, and a third to science, while the fourth is to be known and inquired for as " Le Mois Agricole." It is published by M. Gossin, and may be safely consulted by those who are looking for reliable information on French agricultural affairs. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TIMES.—Few Judges have ever retired from the Bench with a more enviable reputation than Lord Chief Justice Erle, who will, we believe, take leave of the Court over which he has so long presided this morning. Yet he has never courted popularity; as an advocate, he was never engaged in such memor able causes as have immortalised the names of Erskine and Brougham; as a member of Parliament he did not aspire to be a debater ; as a Judge, he was the last man to deviate a hair's-breadth from the narrow path of duty for the sake of passing ap plause. His success in both capacities was not only fairly, but even slowly won. For years he followed the 'Western Circuit without getting more than a stray brief, and when at last he gained an exten sive practice he was matched against several more brilliant competitors. That he was able to hold his own among them and ultimately to lead the Circuit was due to sheer force of character, indomitable perseverance, and unswerving integrity. These qualities were eminently characteristic of him during an experience of more than twenty years in the Queen's Bench and Common Pleas, and to these he added a transparent and enthusiastic love of justice, which is not more common among Judges than among other men. Judicial impartiality of a lower order is a virtue by no means difficult of attainment. It is cultivated almost unconsciously by legal habits of thought, favoured by a sense of self-respect, and strongly fortified by the wholesome restraints of professional honour and public criticism. Even this kind of impartiality, however, is not always proof against such temptations as those of political, reli gious, or national prejudice. But to love justice supremely for its own sake, to keep its principles ever present to the mind in the daily administration of the law, and thus to impart the dignity of a moral sanction to every sound legal judgment, is a much higher and much rarer gift. It is chiefly because he was justly believed to combine it with great legal acquirements, and to make a conscience of everything that he did or said in public, that Chief-Justice Erle, like Sir James Patteson, in spired a confidence w hi c h so many Judges of equal learning and ability have failed to secure. It may appear strange that we should mention among the distinctive features of Chief Justice Erie's career the fact of his having been a Scholar of IVinchester and a Fellow of New College, Oxford. There is too much reason to fear, however, that Judges who have received a Public School and University education belong to a type which is gradually dying out. The present Lord Chancellor, the present Attorney-General, and the present Solicitor-General have none of them, we believe, enjoyed either of these advantages, as they used formerly to be considered ; and if Mr. Karslake is to be the new Solicitor- General, his name must be added to the non-academical list. At this moment, graduates of Oxford and Cambridge are in a de cided minority on the Common Law Bench, and the disproportion is most conspicuous among the re cently appointed judges. This may or may not be a subject of regret, but it is certainly a coincidence worth notice, since it directly affects the character of the law as a learned profession. The great luminaries of the bar and bench in former times were generally " scholars and gentlemen ;" their youth had been spent in mastering the ancient lan guages, and their writings bristle with classical quotations. Such accomplishments are no doubt still to be found among eminent barristers and Judges, but they are constantly becoming more scarce, and the opinion is gaining ground that Uni versity honours do not conduce to success at the Common Law Bar. This has sometimes been at tributed to the enervating effect of academical studies and interests uponyoung men destined for the rough work of advocacy ; but this cause, so far as it has any operation, must have operated since the earliest beginnings of English jurisprudence. The works of Coke are full of allusions to the repulsive aspect of legal treatises, and the necessity of disciplining the mind for an apprenticeship to the law. Refined and speculative intellects must have been as liable to be disgusted with technical lore when Latin, Greek, and Mathematics ruled supreme at the Universities as they are now when these faculties share their dominion with philosophy, history, natural science, and modern literature. Sensitive temperaments must always have shrunk from the rude encounters and keen personal com petition in which robust natures appear to rejoice and thrive. In short, the reason why comparatively few of the greet prizes of the law fall to the share of University men is not to be sought in their de ficient energy, but in the greater diffusion of wealth over the community. A few generations back the Bar, like the Church, was recruited almost enti re ly from that clas s w hi c h alone could then afford or appreciate a liberal education. It is now 'open to all the world, and there are thousands of parents who ' never took a degree themselves, and have no desire to give their sons a University education, but who are perfectly willing and able to bear the prelimi nary expense of a start at the Bar. It is no secret that Sir William Bovill will accept the vacant Chief Justiceship, and Mr. Karslake, as we have already stated, is designated as his successor. The former appointment is almost a matter of course, and no Conservative lawyer at the Common Law Bar holds a higher position than Mr. Karslake. We cannot forget, however, that he has never sat in Parlia ment, and is not known to have paid any attention whatever to politics. For this purpose he must be regarded as an untried man, and it would be too much to expect that he can for some time to come fill Sir Hugh Cairns' place in Lord Derby's Adminis tration. Unfortunately, the Attorney-General, though a veteran member of Parliament and keen politician, has taken hitherto but little part in de bate, and we cannot look upon his late address to his constituents as an encouraging specimen of his statesmanship. The run of good luck, as the world calls it, which has fallen to Lord Derby's lot in re spect of legal vacancies has, in fact, led to a very curious result. He will have adorned the Bench with one Judge of remarkable, and with two others of respectable, political cspacity, and he will have for his law officers two gentlemen of high standing in their profession, but with little or no established influence in the Housef of Commons. DAILY NEWS.—A gaping wonder at the battle of Sadowa is the motive, or excuse, of a daily out pouring of foolishness on the subject of the reor ganisation of our army. That abroad, in States where the Government lives in perennial fear of its subjects and cupidity of its neighbours, a striking victory should be enforced as a reason for persuad ing the country to double the troops at the Govern ment's disposal is very easy to be understood. But that we in England should have our minds unhinged by the fact that it has been proved in Germany that the Austrian army is not superior to the Prussian, as we formerly supposed it was, is certainly a re markable consequence of a single campaign. It is of course well that in regard to the points which that campaign showed to be important we should take warning. It demonstrated that stragetic skill in the closet is of even more value than martinet precision on parade, and therefore whenever we can find an English Moltke, we shall do wisely to sub stitute him for the Duke of Cambridge and General Peel. It proved that better arms give to one side a marked superiority over the other, and therefore it is well that we are going to put breechloaders of the best construction we can get into the hands of all our troops. But it is certainly hard to see how it has demonstrated either that our present army is insufficient for our home defence, as the recruiting commissioners tell us, or that the right way to in crease it and make it popular is, as the Times in sists, to quarter each regular regiment for the five years it is at home in one county, iu order that during the ten years of its service abroad the mi litia regiment of that county may feel encouraged by the reminiscence, or may be urged to a martial frenzy of enlistment by the letters which tell of glory won in the . capture of a Maori pah or a Kaffir kraal, or of the health and com fort of such quarters as Mhow or Hong Kong. Any attempt to imitate Prussian systems how ever more or less possible in France or Italy, is open in England to the fatal objection that they can have no hold over men in a reserve force. By its nature it must be paid for only a part of its time, but we in this country have no means of binding men down to residence in a fixed locality, or to per formance of a fixed service, for only a fifth or even a third of the wages their full time is worth. Men will come and go, will renounce or take up occupa tions, according as they find advantage or inclina tion suggests ; and among people so essentially mi gratory it would be impossible to depend upon being able at any moment to get the half-pay men we have on paper. Neither could we hold such men subject to the mutiny laws, so as to keep hold over them when not called out, for the existence of a caste, not permanently enrolled, but subject to be at any moment before a court-martial, flogged, or branded, would in a few years make the idea of military service so hateful that we should fail to get men for any term of regular service to which a period of such irregular service was attached. It is clear, then, that we must still base our army enlist ment on the same principles as at present—a fixed term of regular service for such adequate reward as we may offer, and a wholly separate engagement for partial service, into which men may enter or not as they feel disposed. Of course, if we can make the partial service so attractive as to induce a num ber of the regular time-expired men to enter it, so much the better. But it will still be a militia, and not a compulsory reserve, and therefore, like the army, dependent for its maintenance on the advan tages it has to offer. Can, then, nothing be done to give us, under the system of a voluntary army and militia, the power of expansion in case of need which a conscription and a reserve supply ? The answer is happily in the affirmative, but the methoi is different. And, first of all, let us see what it is that is really required. How long does it take to make a raw recruit into a soldier ? In our regiments of Guards he takes his place in the ranks in three months, and is relieved from extra drills i n six. But the Guards pique themselves on their precision on parade, and the time required to qualify a man for this hair-breadth accuracy in step, time, and position, is six times as much 5.5 is required to teach him all that be needs to know or ever will practise on the field of battle. To marc h to front, flank or rear—to wheel, to form fours, to extend, and to close—are all the movements the soldier has to perform; all besides is the work of officers and sergeants. The value of veterans is in deed great, but it is of veterans in the field and not in the barrack-yard. Their value consists not in their fighting better, or standing steadier, for the rawest levies will do as well in these respects, but ia keeping their heads cool, looking to their officers , and rallying after being broken ; and these quali ties will be learned as rapidly by the recruit as by the three years' service man when both come into the emergencies of actial service. And it is in evi dence by eminent artillery officers that even in their more technical branch three months are sufficient t° make a good gunner. Hence it follows that if we have proper organisation to make recruits into sol diers, we need not fear but that in a month of warn ing we can make first-rate infantry, and in two months more increase our artillery and cavalry to any requisite extent. The comparatively longer time required by the latter arm is, of course, a rea son for keeping them comparatively stronger in peace, but it does not affect the question of th e t strength of the line. But what is organisation ? is the having in readiness the system on which W e are to work, and the men who are to work it--a°', those on whom they are to work. Our need, t.° then, , is a system which shallgiveus officers and sergean ts qualified to train recruits when the recruits may ' 4 required. Such asystem can never be, without ow.: mous expense, while purchase is maintained, an ° , promotion from the ranks denied. But it mig ht easily be if our regiments in time of peace wer e looked upon as the schools in which are being edu cated the officers we should want i n war. An d this might well be done. Nothing would be easie t r than to make the regimental commander so w or :' his non-commissioned officers that they would be , to take command, and so work the best of his me n that they would be fit at a day's notice to wear the sergeant's stripes. There would be no necessity for creating new regiments requiring new field-offic ers when the army had to be enlarged. The battalions in peace need not exceed four companies' strengt h ; there are some eminent French authorities who th ink that strength the best for a peace footing. When placed on a war footing the number of compan ies would be doubled, the lieutenants promoted to tDie . vacant captaincies, the sergeants promoted to t he new subalternships, the corporals to the se rgeanteie s t and in three weeks the new recruits would be sergeants roughly welded with the mass, and the regim ent ready for any service. The process is obviou sl y capable of indefinite expansion ; and to supply, cl nr i ; ing a long term of peace, the hope of promotL ° f which would be so attractive to a higher clas s °, men to enter the ranks, it would only be necess ar y to give them, besides an occasional commission% recognized prospect of getting posts in the comm is ; sariat, the arsenals, the military offices, or othe suitable services. No doubt these ideas are revo lutionary of established Ho rse G uar d s ' prineiPi e ' t The question is, however, w h e th er they are 0 , inevitable. The present syste m o f re l y i ng upon bT-1 characters to keep up the army h as c onfessed i f broken down. Characters are no w t oo high for th e ranks, as the ranks are rated. C om pulsion is ' ln ; possible. The public will not pay for an incre as i in our army what it would cost to b r ibe men of g character to enter a degrading trade. What rem ai n! 4 but that we try to remove the stain, to substitute hope for reckless despair, and to provide the m ean , ly by which, on emergencies, if emergencies arise, , may teach a whole population to stand in lin e battle, knowing they are under officers who 3r* competent for their work. COUNTRY MARKETS. NORWICH— SATURDAY. There was a fair supply of wheat at this market to- bUt claY7 and prices must again be quoted is to 2s per qr. dearer, the trade was slow at this advance. The supply of gc :) _ malting barley was about equal to last Saturday, and treme rates were fully maintained ; other sorts comtnande late prices. White wheat (weighing 631 b 68s to 70s • old red onto, (weighing 631 b), 58s to 64s ; ) new red ditto 601 b to 631 b), —s to —5; best malting barley (weitib,ilbl, 521 b to 531 b), 50s to 52s ; runs ditto (weighing 5 11 b to a`t` 46s to 48s ; distilling ditto (weighing bOlb to 521 b), 40s ; oats, 24s to 26s ; beans, 57s to 39s ; peas (maple), '" to 38s per qr. Flour, 44s Od per sack. NOT T INGHAM—SATURDAY. There was a fair show of wheat to-day, an d the con di c i tion of the grain was better than last week. The dais y was slow, and any advance in prices was made with dif6.. culty. There was an average supply of barley, th e qu a be T of which was irregular ; best sorts were fully as dear, ot e kinds flat. A healthy inquiry for oats, and sales were effected at rather over previous rates. Superior sorts beans were held at an advance of is per qr. nevi Old white wheat, 68s to 72s ; old red, 58s to 6 8 s i n , t o, white, 66s to Tos ; new red, 548 to 62s per 36 stone. o ld, old, 348 to 38s ; new, 23s to 32s per 24 stone. Beans, e 4.30 54s to 57s ; new, 46s to 528 per 38s stone. Fine flour , to 44s per sack. LEIOES TER—SATURDAY. plea A tolerable show of wheat to-day, most of the aaraxgd. being of the new crop. The demand was slow, at 811 6 e vance of is to 2s per qr. Only a few lots of really aof barley were exhibited, and these were steadily clisP° s „„ . e n ti, at the rates of last wee k. The quantity of oats v 755 s loe and business ruled firm, at prices the turn in favour o seller. A small supply of beans, at about late rates. oia, New white wheat, 60s to 65s ; new red, 58s to 62S Do white, 64s to 69s ; old red, 58s to 63s per 36 stone. 36s ley, for malting, 45s t o 50s per qr.; grinding, 325 tor per 30 stone. Oats, old, 32s to 40s ; new, 27s to 3 2 s Q P a e stone. Beans, old, 54s to 56s ; new, 42s to 50s per 3 ' Fine flour, 46s ; seconds, 40s to 44s per 20 stone. YORK—SATURDAY. There was a moderate supply of wheat at market to". te d but very few old sorts cam e to ha n d. Buyers oV r- o ver steadily, and samples were taken off at is to 2s per q r. od• late rates. Barley in fair supply, with a quiet dera il Rs The show of oats was limited, and prices quite as I l e s. last week. Beaus a steady trade, at rather higher pi a 36 New white wheat, 60s to G6s ; new red, 54s to 62 1 13 d ieg't stone. Barley, for malting, 38s to 42s per qr. ; g„, l lttoae' 33s to 34s per 30 stone. Oats, new, 24s to 28s per h.V Beans, new, 50s to 52s per 38 stone. Malt, Os I° Flour, 46s to 49s per sack of 2801bs. Foreign Mail Packet List. -f- --- MAILS DUE. ~ Australia and New Zealand , via Southampton v ` e ' Dec. i 4. Ditto, via Marseilles D ec 4. Brazil and Cape Verde, by British pa0ket......• •• • "" qz Ditto, by French packet ........ pee. - 7 Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena... . 1 " Y " 3. China. Penang. and Singapore, via Southampton.•D ea 2 7 Ditto, via Marseilles Nov% Falkland Islands Nov. 33 ' Gibraltar, via Southampton ei 3 India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton .-- - - o i. Ditto, via Marseilles India (Bombay), via Southampton Nov. 6 a Ditto, via Marseilles Dee . Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Nov 2" , 4 Ditto, via Marseilles Nov, D 20 Mauritius, via iouthampton . DJ°. 1* Ditto, via Marseille, ... NO. 21. Newfoundland ... ... _ ea 4 P or t u gal Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon ............. United btates and British North America, by Bri- 2 9. tish packet ........ • • • NO. Ditto, by United States packet, via Southamp ton Ditto, via Cork Ditto, by Canadian packet, via Londonderry ..Noy' i 2 iVest Coast of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe .. -• P ee ' ' West Indies and Pacific (except Bahamas and ~ Honduras) No '• " 3 .7g Cuba -4 M . .. nd exico . Nov. - .... pea. 1 9 Bermuda, via Halifax Dec 1. Bahamas, via New York. _....---•_-e- Births. BATEMAN—On the 23d inst., at Buckingham-gate, 4;l° 1'3(11 Bateman, of a daughter. LW/ sorl• NIN;IiCfeK of— Ojn. D. e m 2 . 3inst.at N la e t w e 911thal,l Nirtilt*WielCS,"l CH th AD e LAMBERT—On the 23d inst.,Chadwick, at Burgate, rr ny , the wife of Capt• E. H. G. Lambert, 8,.N., of a s " - ; f LEES—On the 22d inst t Brighton Mrs• H. Lee" of son. a, • ' son. Larersn, :fbr3idge, a t r h r e i 2 a 2 g d e i s n . JACKAON—MINCIIIN—On ~ Lode , Gloucester, the of 14° Rev. W. Ward Jackson, M.A.', „tor manby of Hall, Yorkshire, J.P., to Charlotte, only eaa C. H. Minchin, Esq., of Old Trafford, Manchester. b, MARLEY—GARSIA—On the 21st inst., at St. Mark's Chilfrco. Woolston, Hants, Albert Marley, Esq. second son 0 ~ , to Caratip Marley, Esq., of Blenheim House,S ' h out sea, st a St. May de Aletha3a Harvey,fourth daughterof the late Dr. Garslai M.D., F.R.C.S. Deaths. -,17 WV BLUNDELL—On the 22d inst ,ta 11, Marine-terrace, NT a 100, J. Blundell, Esq., late . of St. Helen's, age d 59. 1 4-„dg HODGSON-0a the 23d inst , in London, Mr. R. A-• .go dg" son, formerly of Belfast, aged 58. aDder PICKTHORN— On the 22d inst., at Aberdeen, CO -ori RE el" - John Pickthorn, R.N. NToN—n the 23d inst., , at Mordington House, 13°r Ni shire, Archib O ald C. i Catnipbell Rento n, Esq., of 1403 ton, late 42d y R I H2iffhlanders. o---a-1-----------------....-----'7"-'r-: •-✓3O ' London : Printed and P ubiished by WILLIAM AN ~/ 4 , 2, of No. 112, Strand, Punter at TM; SUN Otroc, NO: '` o i Strand, in tne Precinct of the Savoy, in the COUT"/ Miadiele&-7-Mhdayt NOVelllber 213, 180 - 4 1 ''~~.:.~ '.%P ~ ~_ Di lEat