The Sun. — London, England, 1865-12-27 00:00:00

The Cattle Plague. BUCKINGHAMSHIRE. Several matters of great importance connected with the cattle plague during the past week came under the consideration of the magistracy of this county. One of these had reference to the powers of inspectors in the performance of the ir duties, and was discussed on Saturday by the Aylesbury Bench —a fully attended one—at the instance of Mr . H. Lepper. He said that the farmers o f his district had become alarmed by the removal of manure by road, rail, and canal, lest the proximity of any of it which may be impregnated with the virus of the disease should communicate that disease to their cattle. At the request of some of them he attended to ask the advice of the Bench, especially as to stop all such transit would be a very delicate matter. One magi strate suggested that an order should be issued that no manure should be allowed to be brought into the di s t r ict unless it had been previously deodorised and certified to that effect. The Order in Council now in force was referred to by the clerk, and the only pertinent clause was found to be the 10th, which said " Every inspector shall have power within his district to cause to be cleansed and disinfected, in any manner which he may think proper, any pre mises in which animals labouring under the said dis order have been or may be, and to cause to be dis infected, and, if necessary, destroyed, any fodder, manure, or refuse matter which he may deem likely to propagate the disorder." This showed that an inspector had no power to stop a cart or a barge laden with manure unless they were on premises in which affected animals were or had been kept, the latter part of the clause being governed by the words in the first portion, " in which animalslabouringunder the said disorder have been or may be." Though it was accounted exceedingly desirable that some legis lative provision should be made for the cases referred to by Mr. Lepper, yet the Bench decided that under the Order they hadno power of veto such as that on which he had consulted them. Mr. Lepper reported that two additional cases of the disease had occurred at Aylesbury during the week, one being that of one of his own cattle, which was taken ill one day and died on the next. On the application of Mr. Joseph Boord, an additional inspector was appointed for the Missenden sub-petty sessional division. Another question of importance was con sidered at Newport Pagnel, where the justices had to hear a case against Mr. Alfred Smith, of Waven don, for driving 17 heifers into that village for sale, _ contrary to the orders of the justices and the Privy Council. The circumstances under which the in formation was laid were that an auction sale of the stock of Mr. Goodall, at Wavendon, took place on the 29th of November, and a part of the stock sold consisted of 17 heifers, which belonged to the de fendant, and which were driven by him on Mr. Goodall's premises for the purpose of sale. Mr. Shepherd, of Luton, for the defence, took objection to the proceedings. He said it appeared from the information that the justices of the division, being the "local authority" for the district, had 6n the 11th October given notice, pursuant to the Order of the Privy Council of the 22d of September last, that certain animals should from that date until the 13th December be excluded from every market and fair within the division, and that by an Order of the Privy Council of the 31st of October it was ordered that when any such notice had been published by the local authority it should not be lawful while such notice should be in force to bring or send any such animals to any place within such jurisdiction for the purpose of exhibition or sale. He (Mr. Shepherd) said if these orders were still in force it would appear that an offence had been committed ; but he called the attention of the Bench to the Order of the Privy Council made on the 23d November, by which the Orders of the 22d September and the 31st October had been revoked, with certain exceptions which did not apply to the present case, and it was also therein provided that such revocation should not affect any appointment made, or any notice given, or any act done, or penalty recoverable, under any Order thereby revoked; so that the Order of the justices would up to the 13th December only operate to the exclusion of such animals from any market or fair within the division, and not to the prohibition of ttat.h., g them else where for sale ; and as the act done by the defendant was on November 29, being sub sequent to the date of the last Order in Council, re iL, .; ii,rx Awn. laid, and before December 6, when the justices issued their second order under authority of the Order of the Privy Council of November 23, ex- tending the prohibition from December 13 to March 1 next, he argued there was no case against his client. The Bench, after some consultation, held that the objection was valid, and dismissed the in formation against Mr. Smith, and also one against Mr. Henry Harris, of Ilusborne-Crawley, who had sent three cows to the same place for sale. Mr. Shepherd incidentally referred to this case at the Aylesbury Petty Sessions on Saturday, and said that according to this decision nearly all the orders issued by the justices of Bedfordshire and Bucks became inefficient, so far as convictions for sale on occasions otherwise than fairs and markets were concerned. near Carlisle on Friday, arising out of the deter mination of the city authorities to bury at King moor, a piece of waste ground about two miles from Carlisle, all the cattle dying of plague within the city. The Local Board of Health at first endea voured to find a suitable burial-place in Carlisle near the infected byres, but could not do so ; they then tried burning the carcasses, but this was found so objectionable that it had to be abandoned ; and on Thursday they resolved to disinfect them and convey them out to Kingmoor in close carts, em bedded in charcoal. This determination was stre nuously resisted by the farmers in the neighbour hood of Kingmoor, and along the line of their route from Carlisle. Seven dead carcasses were carted out on Thursday evening and buried by torchlight, and later at night a crowd of farmers and labourers assembled on Eden-bridge, armed with guns and bludgeons, to prevent the passage of any more loads of the same kind out of the city into their district, which is at present quite free from plague. On receiving an assurance that no more wouldbe taken that night they dispersed. On Friday morning the Mayor of Carlisle, accompanied by the Town Clerk, Mr. Gordon, city surveyor, and Mr. Bent, Super intendent of Police, left the city in a carriage for the purpose of inspecting the burial-ground. As they were passing through Stanwix the horses in their conveyance were stopped by a crowd consist ing principally of farmers from the neighbourhood of Kingmoor and Etterby. An attempt was made to turn the carriage back ; some blows were struck, one being aimed at the door of the conveyance. The driver, by making a dash, got his horses away, but the assailants procured two cabs from Carlisle without delay and pursued the civic authorities in hot haste, arriving at Kingmoor simultaneously with them. When the two parties alighted an al tercation at once ensued, in which Mr. Milton Carr of Cargo, Mr. Elwood of Kingmoor, and others, took an active part. Angry words were followed by violence. The Mayor and Town Clerk were taken by the collar, and with Mr. Gordon were hustled about and pushed off the debateable ground. When the city authorities returned from Kingmoor they we re met at Stanwix by Mr. Dunne, chief constable of the county police, who had taken the precaution to station there a posse of policemen to preserve the peace. He had an interview with the Mayor, and stated that he had no doubt, from the excited state of the farmers, that if the burial of carcasses at Kingmoor were permitted a riot might be the con sequence ; that, under the circumstances, he could not hold himself responsible for the peace of the neighbourhood ; and that the Mayor must take the responsibility if a disturbance of the peace en sued. The city authorities have suspended the burials at Kingmoor, and peace is restored. Sum monses were taken out on Saturday against the ringleaders in the disturbance. SHROPSHIRE. 'The magistrates of this county are taking active steps for • preventing the extension of the cattle plague. Orders prohibiting the bringing of cattle. sheep, swine, or goats into the following Petty Sessional Divisions have been issued :—Welling ton, Wem, Condover, Burford, Clun, Purslow, Chirbury, Ford, Cleobury, Whitchurch, Shiffnal, Pinehill, Bishope's Castle, Upper Munslow, and Stotterdin. The magistrates of Shrewsbury and Bridgnorth have also issued similar notices. WORCESTERSHIRE. Lord Lyttelton, Lord Lieutenant of this county, invited the magistrates of Worcestershire to meet him on Saturday last to discuss the question of uni formity throughout the district of the orders to be issued ; restricting the cattle trade ; and also in reference to the statistical returns recently called for by the Government. The orders made by the magistrates of the different petty sessional divisions of the county are very various, some restricting the prohibition of public sales to cattle, while others extend the prohibition to sheep and swine. YORKSHIRE. The reports of the past week as to the cattle plague from almost all parts of Yorkshire indicate that its virulence in some localities has rather increased than diminished. In York itself only 10 head of milch cows have died, 19 being the number lost during the previous week. As there is in that city a fund of about 21,500 to reimburse those who have had losses, CM claimants have sent in applications which repre sent `27,5 cleains or cattle oy - the tustra6e, tne value or which is estimated at £3,483. A return of the cattle affected in the Balmer West division of the North Riding shows that 260 beasts have been attacked -165 of which have died, 55 are still ill, 10 have been killed, and 20 recovered. The returns which have been made from the neighbourhood of Easingwold show that the deaths are greatly on the increase. At Easingwold the deaths are 35, Alne 5, Craike 30, Farlington 24, Helperby 13, Huby 118, Marton Lordship 1, Myton-on-Swaleso, Scackelton 3, Stil lington 1, Tholthorpe 2, and Whenby 12. In this district, including losses at Shipton, Tollerton, Sut ton-on-the-Forest, Linton-on-Ouse, Aldmark, Be ningbrough, and Overton, there have been no less than 452 deaths. The disease has been most preva lent in low fiat places of the district. In the neigh bourhood of Boroughbridge the disease is steadily CORNWALL. making progress. In the neighbourhood of Thirsk it Another disastrous week of the cattle plague has has confined itself to last week's area, but it has been experienced in Cornwall. In the Truro dis trict Mr. W. Lander, Cubert, lost nine ; Mr. Joseph reports show it to be greatly on the increase, there Rowe, Cubert, two ; Mr. Tyser, Perranzabuloe, having been in the division of Allertonshire 146 one ; Mr. Ball, Tolgarrick, one ;' Mr. Gatley, Tre- cases. Bedale is this week affected for the first sillian, four ; Mr. Pearce, Pencoose, two ; and time, and the magistrates have stopped the usual Messrs. Farley, Brewer, and Morcombe, Truro, one markets. At Darlington the disease is extending, each. Several deaths and several cases of illness and in the neighbourhood of Pocklington 44 beasts were reported from the West Penrith district, but have died during the week. Pickering has at length the whole of the cases were confined to the pre- been visited, and has led to a meeting with a view viously infected farms. The disease broke out in of establishing an assurance society. But in no dis the early part of the week near St. Columb, and two trict has so much damage been created as in the deaths have since been reported ; it also made its ainsty of the West Riding, where upwards of 100 head appearance at Carlyon, in the eastern part of the of cattle have fallen victims to disease during the past county, and a farmer named Willis has already lost a week. In several parts of the county farmers have dozen valuable bullocks, and has five in a bad state. been prosecuted for neglecting to report its presence In the Padstow district two deaths occurred, and upon their farms to the inspectors, and the latter many fresh cases were reported in the neighbour- have freely expressed their opinion that it is totally hood of Helston. At St. Winnow there was one incurable unless the animals are treated when first death, and several are bad. Five convictions under magisterial orders t oo k p l ace d ur i ng th e wee k at affected with premonitory symptoms. From the inspector's reports presented to the Malton Bench Penzance, Camborne and HeLston, for driving on Saturday, it appeared that the plague had cattle into prohibit e d di s t r i cts, and one farmer was fined for omitting to inf orm t h e i nspector of the out- spread rapidly in old places, and that there were many fresh outbreaks, chiefly among small holders break of the disease among hi s h erd ; in all the cases, however, light fines were infli c t e d . The Western of stock—generally milch cows. The disease has been very fatal during the week, and in some cases hounds and the St. Ewe and . St. Coltunb ha • ' Tiers the burial of dead cattle has been a daily occupa have ceased to hunt until further notice in conse- tion on certain farms. The rapid spread of the (Pence of the prevalence of the plague. An assur- plague caused a perfect scramble to effect insurance ante society lvas formed oa Wednesday for Bocon- at Malton on Saturday, the committee room of the noc and district. A numerously attended meeting association recently formed being besieged with ap was held at Truro on Monday, Lord Vivirn, Sir c. phcants all day —many waiting hours for their Rashleigh, Sir C. B. Sawle, Mr. Kendall M P ' ' turn There is a singular feature observable in the Mr. Davey, M.P., and Mr. F. Williams, M.P., being North and East Ridings. In the low lying coun try the plague most prevails, and it is also very among the company. It was resolved that a mem . o prevalent on the summits of the Wolds and the rial be presented to • the Secretary of State praying H the Government to suspend all movement of cattle tions and M oor hi lls ; but the middle eleva tions of the country, rangingfrom 200 ft. to 600 ft. in Great Britain; to order that all imported cattle be slaughtered at the port of landing ; that no cattle in altitude, are most singul ar l y f ree from i t. These be allowed upon unenclosed lands ; and that raw districts represent the estate s o f Lord Carlisle in the hides, horns, &c., be not allowed transmission with- North Riding, and those of Lord Middleton in the out passes. The proposal to set on foot a county East Riding, and these districts have ref rainalfrom subscription was withdrnwn for want of support. joining the central association at Malton, and have On Tuesday an inspector was appointed for the now formed separate associations of their own. division of South Powder. Farmers throughout the North and East Ridi ngs look with the utmost anxiety to the spring, when the horned cattle, from slaughter and disease, pro mise to be altogether destroyed in some parts. It is admitted that the plague yields to no remedy yet discovered, and the treatment now adopted is good nursing chiefly. The best idea of the state in which this district will be found in the summer m a y be seen by reference to the import figures. Morecambe is the port at which the Irish cattle are landed for the Yorkshire districts ; but that trade is virtually annihilated, the imports for last month being only 230 head against 3,000 for the previous year, and where by chance a truck of cattle is found attached to a railway train people collect round it as a novelty. Farmers are very much alarmed for the safety of their feeding cattle, and they eagerly sell beasts in half condition whenever a buyer turns up. The demand for beef, however, is sensibly lessening, and butchers finding difficulty in selling buy very cau tiously, and values are consequently much reduced. A new alarm has arisen during the past week in the reported disease among the pigs—similar to, if CUMBERLAND. The cattle plague makes rapid progress in Cum berland. In the dairies in one part of Carlisle about a score of cases have occurred, half of which have terminated fatally during the Pad ten days. The returns for Cumberland Ward since the beginning of November show that 62 animals have died of the disease, -11i7 have been condemned and slaughtered, 123 sold to the butchers after the plague broke out on the farmsteads, 40 remain ill, 6 have recovered, and 372 cattld' , out of the affected herds remain healthy. In the Wigton district, too, several cases have occurred in those before specified. The greatest anxiety prevails among farmers throughout the country. The Lord-Lieutenant has been asked to convene a county meeting this week to which ag riculturists are looking forward with much interest. On Saturday the East Cumberland Mutual Cattle Assurance Association resolved to discontinue ope rations after the 31st Dece m ber. when:the policies expire. some disturbances of a riotous nature took place THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 27, 1865 not the same, as the cattle plague. There are some who call for the stoppage of the pig trade, and the Pickering magistrates have taken the initiative, and have issued a supplementary order, prohibiting the sale of swine as well as horned cattle. At a meet ing of magistrates acting for the Doncaster district of the West Riding, held on Saturday afternoon, Mr. Stones, veterinary surgeon of Wath, near Rotherham, was appointed cattle inspector. The plague is extending over the whole district to the west and east of the town ; and so necessary has it become to take energetic steps that the magistrates in this part of Yorkshire, acting in conjunction with the Justices of North Nottinghamshire and North Lincolnshire, have adopted the powers con ferred by the 18th clause of the last Order in Coun cil. Mr. Coulman, of Thorne, Mrs. Dearden, of Balby, Mr. Thompson, of Braithwell, and many others, have lost many head of cattle, and the loss in the Doncaster district falls at present little short of 300. Report of the French Minister of Finance. 4.- M. Fould, in his report to the Emperor, recites the results of the year 1864, the estimate for the year 1865, and adds an outline of the corrective Budget of 1866. The Minister observes that in his report of the 9th of January last he declared that the recent legislation with regard to sugar pre vented him from speaking with certainty as to the prospects of 1864. The result has been that out of the drawback of 50,000,000 francs referred to in his report 16 millions have been received, but the remainder is irrecoverable. The total deficit of 1864, as at present shown, is nearly 50 millions. That amount, however, may be reduced by the de finitive arrangement of the account. With respect to the estimate for 1865, after the corrective Budget, the anticipated surplus was 7,312,000 f., but that surplus had been liable to deduction. A supple mentary credit or nearly 4 millions had been asked for the unforeseen requirements of the Minister of Marine, and again a loss had accrued from the realisation of ' Mexican Stock. By virtue of the Treaty of Miramor the Mexican Government had remitted to the French Treasury rentes representing a capital of 54 millions, of which 40,100,000 f. was applicable to the Budget of 1864 and 13,900,000 f. to the Budget of 1865. Since the closing of the last Session of the Chambers these rentes had been nego tiated, and, allowing for arrears received, the Trea sury had sustained a loss of 2,542,000 f., which loss ought properly to have been divided between the Budgets of 1864 and 1865 ; but, as the position of the Budget was such that it could not bear any loss, the whole was placed against the Budget of 1865, which would, therefore, be credited with 11,388,000 f., instead of 13,000,000 f. Notwithstand ing the miscalculation and the supplemental credit which, will be demanded by the Minister of Marine, it is hoped that the Budget of 1865 will result in a balance. The produce of the sugar duties will ex ceed the estimate in the Budget, and there is no reason to doubt that all the other imports will be as productive as had been expected. With respect to the year 1866 the Minister says it is not possible for him at the present moment to present to the Council of State a corrective Budget ; but from the materials which he has now he is led to believe that the income will exceed the charges, and will permit of a sum of some import ance being allotted to the Ministry of Public Works, in order to hasten the completion of works that have been commenced. It is well to notice that the correc tive Budgets have successively diminished. That in 1862 was 231,357,534 f.; in 1863, 221,478,553 f.; in 1864, 135,070,321 f. ; and in 1865, 82,843,112 f. In 1866 the corrective Budget will be still further reduced, even including the allocation for public works. The demands which have been received from the Ministries of War and Marine, whose wants furnished the most important elements of supple mentary expediture, are less by 11,000,000 f. than the credits which were recognised in 1865 to be necessary for those two Departments. Coming to the Estimates for 1867, the Minister remarks that various charges given to the Budget for that year a particular character. The principal consist in the changes which have been made with respect to the sinking fund. In 1866 clic sinking rktha amounted to 184,000,000 f., and it would have in creased in 1866 to 192,000,000 f. had not the Corps .c..- 8 ,-ord,vn, iii one exercise or ns liglib, uuring we last Session, and upon the invitation of the Government, annulled 65,000,000 f. of rentes. The result, how ever, has been to reduce the Sinking Fund to 127,000,000 f. Although for several years the wants of the public service have not permitted that alfY part of that fund should be applied to the re duction of the debt, yet the sum which should have been so applied continued, nevertheless, according to the law, to figure in the Budget of expense. On the other hand it was also carried to the account of receipts, and in 1866 the amount was divided be tween the ordinary and extraordinary Budgets ; 32,000,000 f. were allowed to the ordinary Budget to insure an equilibrium, and 98,000,000 f. were added to the resource of the extraordinary Budget to be applicable to• public works. Thus the Budget was apparently increased, and the Sinking Fund, the action of which was purely nominal, in stead of strengthening the public credit, only in duced a false notion of the financial condition. It had long been recognised how advantageous it would be to get rid of this complication, but there had always been two conditions necessary to success— first, that it should no longer be necessary to draw upon the Sinking Fund to meet the ordinary ex penses, and secondly, that certain resources should be made applicable to the reorganisation of the fund upon new bases. Those two conditions would be found in 1867, owing to the reduction of expenditure in the several Ministerial depart ments. Acting upon the instructions of the Emperor, a new scheme for the Sinking Fund had been pre- pared. According to that plan the fund would be chargeable with certain expenses, which would gradually diminish, and finally disappear entirely. On the other hand, it would be fed by revenues which must continually increase. The balance of income and expenditure showed a surplus of about 18,000,000 f. which might be subtracted from the Budget without affecting the equilibrium. To that revenue, which must annually increase, must be added other guarantees and resources which in the first year would allow of a redemption of the public debt to the extent of 30 millions. The reconstitution of the Sinking Fund, so favourable to the finances of the future, is still more opportune and useful when it is at the same time a protest against those easy and dangerous doctrines the tendency of which is to burden the future for the benefit of the present. In fulfilling an engagement with its creditors the Government will profit by the state of peace which now prevails to reduce its debt and to restore its credit. It would have been impossible to make the allocation of revenue in favour of the Sinking Fund had it not been for the reduction of expenditure which had been made in different branches of the public service. Those reductions made a total of 30 millions, but, after corrections from various causes, the real figure would be 26,500,000. In that saving the Ministry of War had contributed 14,000,000 and the Ministry of Marine 7,000,000. The Ministry of Agriculture, Commerce, and Public Works had diminished the ordinary expenses by 1,800,000f., by0,0 37 th o e o Af.iHouseholdl nistry of the Household and Fine Arts nearly 6 and the Ministry of Finance by ,000,000 f. The recent modifications of the commercial system had allowed of some reforms in the Customs' department which had led to a reduc tion of 1,400,000. The result of a searchinc , investi gation made thi s y ear l e d to t h e conviction still further reductions might be made in the Customs' Department. But against those reductions must be placed certain augmentations of credit, which the wants of particular departments, owing to the ex tension of their business, entirely justified. In short, the project of the Budget of 1867 results in these three important points : Suppression both in receipt and expenditure of the Sinking Fund, the creation of a new Sinking Fund, and, finally, the savings realised in different Minis terial departments. Without those economies it would have been necessary in 1867 as in 1866 to apply a portion of the Sinking Fund to the discharge of the ordinary ex penses of the Budget. That necessity had compelled the adjournment of the reconstitution of the Sinking Fund. It is now, however, urgent to reorganise that fund upon new bases, which substituting reali ties for appearances will allow from 1867 certain sums to be applied to the reduction of the public debt. Such is the aim of the law which is now preparing, and which, if it should receive the sanction of the Corps Legislatif, will allow of the surplus of 92,700,000 f. expected to arise 90,000,000 f. to be carried to the ordinary Budget in order to replace the amount of the Sinking Fund which figured in the Budget of 1865, and which formed the principal dotation for public workswhich have been begun. With respect to the Budget Ex traordinary of 1867 the Minister states that 90 millions, part of the surplus of the ordinary Budget, forms the most important element. In addition to that sum there will be 25 millions, the annual indem nity for Mexico, 16,666,666 f., the second payment by the Algerian Society, and some other amounts, which will increase the total to 133,996,666 f. The expenditure will only reach the sum of 133,556,201 f., or more than 16 millions below the amount, of the Extraordinary Budget of 1866. Speaking of the floating debt M. Fould states that on the let of January, 1865, the amount was 808 millions, and that now it is but 772 millions, which, however, was greater by 69 millions than it was upon the Estimates of 1864, the reason of the difference being that the floating debt has to support not only the provided charges, but also to supply any extraordi nary funds, for which no special provision had been made, which may be required for the support of troops in France, or the colonies, or elsewhere. The satisfactory state of internal affairs and the pros perity of commerce have kept the rate of interest during the past year at a very moderate rate. The inquiry into the causes which of late have raised the price of money is being pursued with energy. Nume rous and impartial depositions have been taken, and from the examination of the different opinions thus set forth there will be obtained most valuable in formation. In conclusion, the Minister congratu lates the Emperor upon the continually increasing development of commercial activity. The Customs' returns of imports and exports for the first ten months of the present year show a considerable augmentation upon the receipts against the corre sponding period of last year, and the railway re turns showed a progressive and rapid increase of traffic. The report concludes by declaring that, thanks to the wise and pacific policy of the Empe ror, the country can reckon upon the increase of its prosperity and the development of its resources. The Indian Cotton Trade. _~ (From the Bombay Gazette of Nov. 15.) If Government and the cotton producers of India have let slip the golden opportunity, which the American war opened up for them, of establishing a permanently extended trade in the great staple, it is not yet too late to retrieve in some measure the error, although it is impossible to recall the chances which are already gliding through our hands. Never had a nation a fairer opportunity of establishing once and for ever a lasting and lucrative trade in cotton than that which the American war offered, and never has a nation more griffon -Ay neglected it. It is true we have responded to the wants of the world by growing cotton in abundance, and it is true that Government has toyed and dallied in the most dainty and delicate way with its improve ment. But it is also true that our cotton was only saleable because no other cotton could be had. Where was the foresight of Government that it did ' not see that an opening was presentedto it of deve loping permanently by the improvement of the cot ton staple an immense source of wealth and indus try throughout India ? It was known that our staple was bad, and in a normal state of the market could not hold its ground against that of America, and instead of any vigorous efforts being made to improve it or to compel improvement, which would have been the exercise merely of a humane despo tism, we have a Cotton Frauds Act as the summon bonum of legislative wisdom, and a cotton commis sioner experimenting, and still experimenting, and distributing a few pounds of New Orleans seed nnnii lily in flu , MnfnAsil. We think that entknn improvement is decidedly and emphatically a govern ment question, calling at once for what should have years viLrorniis Onvernrnont, action. Without depreciating, and indeed duly recognising Dr. Forbes's services, we say that they are not on a scale adequate to the emergencies of the moment, and that the organisation and means by which better seed is to be introduced in the cotton-growing districts is so deplorably ineffective, as at one and the same tune to indicate the most supine indifference on the part of the Government and to demonstrate that at the end of the century the work will be still to do. If improvement is to proceed in the spirit of comfortable indolence that prevails at present, we shall assuredly see our whole cotton trade dwindle away, and that perhaps at a startling rapid rate. On the other hand, if we are to retain that trade in even an average degree (and some of it we must lose), it is indispensable that the most earnest and prompt measures should be taken to put the produce of the Indian cotton fields on an equa lity with the produce of the best cotton growing countries, since even already the agencies are at work which will endanger or rather destroy our trade. That America will be entering the field again before a couple of years are over is scarcely to be doubted, and it becomes a much graver question for the consideration of Government, how to retain for India as much of the cotton trade as possible, than to examine with microscopic spectacles every tele graphic message that professes to be sent on public business, lest some unwitting official may have de frauded the revenues of the country of a few pies. If cotton growing in India were a profitable Euro pean enterprise, then Government might safely leave the enterprise and the improvement in European hands. It is absurd, however, to imagine that the miserable, ignorant ryots in the Mofussil, who can not tell the cause of their sudden enrichment, who do not know where or what America is, who have the faintest possible conception why the demand for cotton has become so enormous, and prices so high, and who anticipate no end to the present flow of fortune, can ever see the imperative necessity of introducing a new staple. The statistical and minute-writing machinery of Government is perfect, and it preserves the peace satisfactorily also all over India. Surely, however, the Governor-General and the Governors of the presidencies are something more than sublimated commissioners of police ; and not the least among their functions is to lay eager hold of such an opportunity as that which the Ame rican war presented of conferring a permanent bene fit upon the cotton-growing districts of India. Go vernment knows the English estimate of Indian cotton ; it foresees also the appearance in the home markets, at no remote date, of the more serviceable growths of America, and it can also easily divine what the consequences to the Indian cotton at pre seat grown must inevitably be. Already the trade in some of our most valuable exports is dwarfed, some of them even are almost dropping from our articles of produce altogether, and when our cotton trade collapses, the export trade of the Pre sidency will be in an unhappy position. There is yet time before America can take her old place to institute such measures as would ultimately preserve or speedily regain for India a large propor tion of her present cotton trade. With Government aid it can be done ; without it it will not be at tempted. BREAKFAST BEVERAGE. —Homceop athic practitioners, and the medical profession generally, recommend cocoa as being the most healthful of alt beverages. When the doctrine of homoeopathy was first introducel into this country, there were to be obtained no preparations of cocoa either attrac tive to the taste or accepta ) le to the stomach ; the nut was either supplied in the crude state, or so unskilfully manu factured as to obtain little notice. J. Epps, of London, heernceopathic chemist, was induced in the year 1839 to turn his attention to this subjeA, and at length sue ceded, with the assistance of elaborate machinery, in being the first to produce an article pure in its composition, aid so refined by the perf et trituration it receives in the process it passes through, as to be most acceptable to the delicate stomach. For general use Epps' cocoa is distini.uished as an invigo rating, grateful breakfast beverage, with a delicious aroma. Dr. Hassell in his work, "Food and its Adulterations," says—" Cocoa contains a great variety of important nutritive principles; every ingredient necessary to the growth and sustenance of the body." Again, "As a nutritive, cocoa stands very much higher than either coffee or tea." Direc tions : —Two teaspoonfuls of the powder in a breakfast cup, filled up with boiling water or milk. Secured in tin-lined 1-Ib., and lib. labelled packets, and sold at ls. ad. per lb. by grocers, confectioners, and chemists, Report of the Capital Punishment Commission. - The following is the report of the Capital Punish ment Commission as finally, and it is believed unani mously, agreed to. Several of the commissioners have, however, signed a supplementary paragraph stating their belief that capital punishments might now be safely abolished : To THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY. We, your Majesty's commissioners appointed " to inquire into the provisions and operation of thelaws now in force in the United Kingdom, under and by virtue of which the punishment of death may be in flicted upon persons convicted of certain crimes, and also into the manner in which capital sentences are carried into execution, and to certify to your Ma jesty under our hands and seals, or under the hands and seals of any five or more of us, our several pro ceedings in the premises, and at the same time to report to your Majesty our opinion whether any and what alteration is desirable in such laws or any, of them, or in the manner in which such sentences are carried into execution," humbly report as follows : 1. We have been occupied a considerable time in taking evidence upon the question referred to us. Many witnesses have been examined, and a care ful summary of their evidence precedes this report. In addition to this oral testimony, certain ques tions have been addressed to, and answers received from, nearly all the nations of Europe, and some of the States of the United States of America, with regard to the laws relating to the punishment of death existing in those countries respectively. The opinions of all her Majesty's judges in Eng land, Ireland, and Scotland, as well as of other eminent criminal lawyers, have been requested upon the expediency of making any alteration in the laws under which the punishment of death may now be inflicted upon persons convicted of certain crimes. In answer to this request some of the judges have sent in statements of their views, while others have attended before the commission and verbally stated their opinions. The whole of this evidence, both oral and documentary, will be found in the appen dix. 2. The commissioners forbear to enter into the abstract question of the expediency of abolishing or maintaining capital punishment, on which subject differences of opinion exist among them, but they are all of opinion that certain alterations ought to be made in the existing law. 3. The only crimes now practically punishable with death in the United Kingdom are treason and murder ; we say practically, because in Scotland there remain many other offences which are still in point of law liable to be so punished, though in fact such a case never occurs. We strongly recommend that this anomaly be no longer allowed to exist, and that all such obsolete laws be repealed. A list of these offences will be found in the Ap pendix, p. • 4. We have then, first, to consider whether, as suming capital punishment to be retained, we should recommend any change in its present application to the crime of treason, and upon this point we have come to the conclusionthat no alteration is required. The statute of the 11 and 12 Vic., c. 12, commonly called the " Treason Felony Act," without in any way abrogating the ancient law upon that subject, has introduced a new and more merciful law, which in all but cases of extreme gravity will probably su persede the former. The maximum punishment under this act is penal servitude for life, which seems sufficiently severe in cases of constructive treason unaccompanied by overt acts of rebellion, assassi nation, or other violence. With respect to treason of the latter character, we are of opinion that the extreme penalty must remain. 5. We now arrive at the consideration of the crime of murder and its punishment, and in treating this difficult question we think it convenient briefly tc refer in the first instance to the existing state of the law. 6. By the law murder is the unlawfully killing another with malice aforethought, and this defini tion appears to us to be correct in principle. Unfortunately these words have not been confined to express malice aforethought, or as it is sometimes called malice in fact, but have received a less natu kia collsGi u,Uun which has long been adopted as the settled law of the land. It has been held that malice in its legalsense imports nothing more than a wicked do injury to the person of another with out any just cause or excitau, is killed in consequence of any such wicked inten tion the law will infer malice aforethought, though no express enmity or preconceived design can be shown; not indeed a particular, but a general ma lice aforethought, arising from the extreme depra vity of disposition shown by the act. This doctrine of implied malice aforethought goes even beyond this, and it is carried to such an extent that the law always infers it when a person in the act of commit ting a felony, even of a trifling nature, kills another, though there may be in fact no premeditation, and no intention to kill, or do serious injury. When homicide is committed in the perpetration of crimes of great enormity, such as those enume- rated in clause 12, this inference may not be impro perly drawn. 7. The extreme severity of this construction has been somewhat mitigated by the law of manslaugh ter, which is defined to be the unlawful killing of another without malice express or implied. In order to reduce the crime from murder to manslaughter, the law allows evidence of provocation to be given to rebut the inference of malice, which would other wise be drawn from the act of killing. Here, how ever, again certain arbitrary rules have been intro duced into the law, which most materially restrict its beneficial operation. It has been established by the decisions of our courts that no provocations by words, or looks, or gestures, however contemptuous and insulting, or by any trespass merely against lands or goods, is sufficient to free the party killing from the guilt of murder, if he kills with a deadly weapon, or in any manner showing an intention to kill, or do grievous bodily harm. In those cases, though the suddenness of the provocation may rebut in point of fact the express malice aforethought, it is not allowed, on account of its supposed insignifi cance, to overcome the general malice aforethought which is implied by the law from the wickedness and cruelty of the deed. Without entering into the many nice and subtle distinctions which prevail upon this subject, it is enough to say that the practical result of this state of things is most unsatisfactory. A man who, in a sudden fit of psssion, aroused by insult to himself or his wife, kills the person who offers the insult, is, by law, guilty of the same crime and liable to the same punishment as the assassin who has long meditated and brooded over his crime. A great majority of the witnesses whom we have examined have expressed a strong opinion that this branch of our criminal law requires revision and amendment, at least as far as the punishment is con cerned, and we have unanimously arrived at the same conclusion. 8. We proceed therefore to offer such recommenda tions as we think expedient for altering the present law of murder. It appears to us that there are two modes in which the change may be effected. 9. The first plan is to abrogate altogether the existing law of murder, and to substitute a new de finition of that crime ; confining it to felonious homicides of great enormity, and leaving all those which are of a less heinous description in the cate gory of manslaughter. 10. The other plan is one which has been exten sively acted upon in the United States of America, where the common law of England is in force ; this leaves the definition of murder and the distinction between that crime and manslaughter untouched, but divides the crime of murder into two classes or degrees, solely with the view of confining the punishment of death to the first or higher degree. 11. We have given both these plans our serious consideration, and we are of opinion that the re , quired change may be best effected by the latter, which involves no disturbance of the present dis tinction between murder and manslaughter, which does not make it necessary to remodel the statutes relating to attempt to murder, and does not inter fere with the operation of those treaties with foreign Powers which provide for the extradition of fugi tives accused of that crime. The object proposed can be attained by a short and simple enactment, providing that no murder shall be punished with death except such as aro particularly therein men tioned. These should be called murders of the first degree ; all other murders should be called murders of the second degree, and punished as hereinafter recommended. 12. We recommend therefore : (1.) That the punishment of death be retained for all murders deliberately committed with express malice aforethought, such malice to be found as a fact by the jury. (2.) That the punishment of death be also re tained for all murders committed in, or with a view to, the perpetration, or escape after the perpetra tion, or attempt at perpetration of any of the fol lowing felonies :—Murder, arson, rape, burglary, robbery, or piracy. _ _ (3.) That in all other cases of murder the punish ments be penal servitude for life, or for any period not less than seven years, at the discretion of the court. 13. Our attention has been called to the frequent failures of justice in cases of infanticide. The crime of infanticide, as distinguished from murder in general, is not known to the English law. The moment a child is born alive it is as much under the protection of the law as an adult. 14. We have considered whether the failure of justice, which undoubtedly often occurs in such cases, may not be obviated by some change in the law which shall add to the protection of new-born children. The principal obstacle which now pre vents the due enforcement of the law is the extreme difficulty of giving positive proof that the child al leged to have been murdered was completely born alive. 15. We have given this important and difficult subject our serious attention, and we have arrived at the opinion that an act should be passed making it an offence, punishable with penal servitude, or imprisonment at the discretion of the court, unlaw fully and maliciously to inflict grievous bodily harm or serious injury upon a child during its birth, or within seven days afterwards, in case such child has subsequently died. No proof that the child was completely born alive should be required. With respect to the offence of concealment of birth, we think that no person should be liable to be con victed of such offence upon an indictment for mur der, but should be tried upon a separate indictment. The accused should not be entitled to be acquitted in either of the above cases if it should be proved on the trial that the offence amounted to murder or manslaughter. 16. There is one point upon which the witnesses whom we have examined are almost unanimous, viz., that the power of directing sentence of death to be recorded should be restored to the judges. We 'think this change desirable. 17. Upon another important point there is also a great preponderance of opinion against the present state of the law. The witnesses whom we have ex amined are, with very few exceptions, in favour of the present system of public executions, and it seems impossible to resist such a weight of autho rity. We therefore recommend that an act be passed putting an end to . public executions, and directing that sentence of death shall be carried out within the precincts of the prison, under such re gulations as may be considered necessary to pre vent abuse, and satisfy the public that the law has been complied with. 18. There are other questions of great importance upon which we have taken evidence, viz. : (1.) The:propriety of allowing an appeal on mat ters of fact to a court. f law in criminal cases. (2.) The mode in which the Crown is advised to exercise the prerogative of mercy by the Home Secretary. (3.) The present state of the law as to the nature and degree of insanity which is held to relieve the ac cused from penal responsibility in criminal cases. It is obvious that these difficult questions are not confined to capital crimes only, but pervade the whole administration of the criminal law. They therefore require a more general and comprehen sive treatment than the terms of the commission under which we act will admit. We think, there- fore, that while we should not be justified in making any recommendation to your Majesty on any of these points, we should fail in our duty did we ... not humbly solicit your,Majesty's attention to them as requiring further investigation. All which .we humbly submit to your Majesty's ennead eratio n. Wreck of the Ibis —Loss of Seventeen Lives - -4.10.- - The following full details of this disaster, which has turned out to have been more serious than was supposed from the last account, are from the Cork Constitution:— The This left London on Monday for Cork. Bally cotton - was made about half-past one o'clock on Wednesday afternoon. The weather then being thick, Captain Holland stood a little in towards the land in order to make Poor Head, but when off Ballycrooneen Bay the engines suddenly broke down, the after crank pin having broken. The weather at the time was fearfully bad, a gale blowing from the south-west, and a raging sea prevailing. When Capt. Holland found his vessel drifting on a lee shore he ordered the flag of distress to be run up —the royal ensign with union down, and hoisted the telegraph " machinery damaged ;" and immediately after all-sail was set to try and wear the ship, which was fast running into the bay, but all to no purpose —she would not answer her helm, so severe was the gale, and seeing her fast drifting in shore Captain Holland ordered two anchors to be let go—one at 65, and the other at 45 fathoms. Capt. Holland next ordered one of the boats to be lowered, and sent the second officer and three men in her to try and communicate with the shore. During this time the usual signals of distress were made, which were observed by the coastguard at Ballycroneen, who came down to the beach, but could render no assist ance. The officers and men pulled back again to the ship, and after great difficultywere got onboard, but the boat was swamped during the night. The Ibis continued to lie to her anchors, but laboured violently, the sea at times making a clean breach over her, and at others sweeping her decks. Just when all hope was failing, a steamer was seen moving a-head outside, and Capt. Holland burned blue lights, but she passed on her way. Capt. Hol land supposed that, owing to the thickness of the weather, she did not notice him. Meanwhile the coastguard men despatched a messenger to Queens town to obtain assistance, and on Thursday morn ing at about half-past 9 o'clock the Sabrina .came to her aid. She had taken with her the two stoutest hawsers in the company's stores, one 7 inches in diameter, and which had never been used. As soon as the Sabrina came to the Ibis she made attempts to get the hawser on board, but three times they failed. However, the fourth attempt was success ful, and when Capt. Holland found his vessel under way, he slipped both his chains, which had been made ready for doing so with buoys attached. He then ran aft to take the bearing of his ship's head and see that she was paying off the land, but before he got to the wheel the hawser snapped, and the Ibis drifted in shore until she struck on the Julian rock, where she stuck fast. The sea broke in fury over the vessel, drenching the passengers, who were all on deck, and carrying away part of her bul warks. The rock is about a mile from the shore, and on it she remained for a few hours, when she parted in two, her after-part going down into deep water, leaving nothing but the mizenmast seen, but her forepart stayed on the rock, and was afterward drifted into within about 100 yards of the shore, where up to Friday evening it remained, standing as if it lay in dock. The fore and main masts were up, but the funnel was gone. Along with the Sabrina, the Cormorant, which was bound for Lon don, also came to the Ibis. When several of the attempts on the part of the Sabrina to pass the hawser to the Ibis failed her captain lowered his lifeboat, and at the risk of his life and those of the men with him, tried to pass a rope between thetwo vessels, but could not do so, and returned to his ship, when he and his crew were picked up, but the boat was lost. The hawser between the Sabrina and Ibis was conveyed by m eans of the steam ers United States and Lord Clyde, which left the har bour on receipt of the news of the disaster. After the vessel struck, Captain Holland saw that the only way of saving the lives of those on board was taking to the boats, and ordered all to be lowered. The crew, it is said, seemed horror-stricken at go ing into such a boiling surf in small boats, but Captain Holland cried out that he would show them the way, and immediately jumped into one of the lifeboats. Two of the seamen followed him. His intention was to go to the Sabrina, if he could. The sea, however, ran so high, that it was almost madness to try to go against it, and the two men with him giving up, Captain Holland ran the boat for the shore. When about 100 yards from it she was upset, and the men swept into the waves. The two seamen were Robert Inkston and Joseph Sulli van. On cresting a wave, Capt. Holland succeeded in grasping an oar, but, good swimmer though be is, even with its assistance he was tumbled over and over in the water, until washed ashore almost insensible. He was caught by some of the country people who crowded the beach, and taken to a house, where he soon after regained his senses. Sul livan, after a hard struggle, reached the land, but Inkston perished. He was seen to lay hold of an oar, but no sooner had he done so than it was washed from his hands, and he sank beneath the waves. During all this time the scene on board the ship was of a most heartrending nature—the passengers crowded together, and bade one another good bye, expecting that the next moment would be their last. Some one thought of constructing a raft, which was set about, made, and launched. On it went seve ral of the passengers, but each one of them before they. were halfway to the shore met a watery grave- Among them was a man named Mahony, a seaman• The remaining passengers remained on the wreck. until, fortunately for them, the outward bound In man steamer City of London was discerned, and Captain Seaton, of the Lord Clyde tug boat, made towards her, and informed her captain of the position 'of the This, and asked him to send one of his life boats to the rescue of the passengers. This request he immediately granted ; the boat, manned by volun teers, was launched and towed by the Lord Clyde to Ballycrooneen Bay. She managed to get alongside the Ibis and to take off the 21 persons remaining on boardher, and land them safely. Amongst them were two little boys who stood conspicuously brave throughout the storm's greatest fierceness—they were the young Browns, sons of Capt. Brown. One of them was just being taken by a seaman on the raft, when he was caught by the stewardess and implored by her not to go on it. He came back, and be and :liis brother afterwards got into the City of London's lifeboat, but so full was it that they had to lie down on the flooring of the boat. The little fellows, who were coming home for their Christmas holidays, lost, as did everybody else on board, al most everything they had with them. Nothing but what the passengers had on them was saved. The Ibis now lies, her forward part close in shore, and standing firm on its keel, the after part barely seen, and with the mizenmast only prominently above the water. During Friday the shore was strewn with portions of the . wreek, but very little of the cargo came ashore. The latest accounts give the number of passengers lost as three soldiers, three deck passengers, and John. Mahony, father of the young man previously mentioned ; Robert Inkston, Patrick Mehigan, Chas. Higgins, John Yelverton, Jeremiah Travers, John Keating, James Egan, and Daniel Riding-- all belonging to the crew of the vessel. The Cork Examiner of Saturday evening says— " It has been ascertained that 17 persons who had been on board the Ibis have perished. Ten of those belonged to the crew. By a telegram received this afternoon it appears that another body, supposed to be that of a passenger, has been washed ashore, and that the vessel is rapidly breaking up. An inquest was held on thebodiesfound to-day. Capt. Holland and the mate were examined, and the latter said the persons lost on the raft left the ship against his will. Verdict, found drowned. No other bodies have come ashore." COUNTRY MARKETS LEEDS-TUESDAY. In the entire absence of demand for any article, prices .nittel, be quoted nominally the same as on Tuesday last. Tho average prices for the week ending Dec. 18 were : Wheat, 51s 9id per qr. ; barley, 37s 5d ; and oats, 21s Oid. • SHEFFIELD-TUESDAY. There was a seasonable show of wheat at our cor , ' """- ket to-day ; condition of grain irregular. The demand was dull, and in some cases rather lower ra,te. I,qa 4, be sub "-"l,Aet sorts of barley maintained late rates ; inferior rather cheaper. w qr oats the demand was firm at full rates. Beans were much, he same as heretofore. Red wheat, per load of 3 imp. burAsols„..l7s Gd to 19s (•d White do do .....us 6.1 21s 0(1 New red do do --Os ,d 17s 61 new white do do .• ••8s 6d 19s 6(.1 Beans do do ....Ps Od les Od Peas, per qr i)s Od 42s Oa Grinding ha ley, per qr 3is Od 32s Od Mattinebarley, • o 32i Od 31s Od Oats, do 268 Od 19s od F10ur....1s Od to 2,2 d per 141 b. LIVERPOOL-TUESDAY. We had a good attendance at to-day's market, with a steady consumptive demand at previous rates ; Frenc' l de scriptions pressed for sale, at a decline of ld to 2d per cental on the week. Flour quiet, and Gd per sack cheaper than on Tuesday. Indian corn quiet and unchanged. BcanS and peas both unchanged. MELTON MOWBRAY.-T lIESDAY. White wheat, 48s to 52s ; red, 42s t o 45s per 36 stone. Barley for malting, 33s to 37s per qr ; feed, 28s to 30s per 30 stone. Oats 20s to 325. Beans, old, 48s to 51s; MAY 43s to 46s per qr. Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton..... Jan. 18 Ditto, via Marseilles Jan. 12 Brazil and Cape Verde. by British packet ...... Jan. 4 Ditto, by French packet Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St Helena... Jan. 2 China, Penang, and Singapore, via Sou hampton Jan. 2. Ditto, via Marseilles Jan. 27. Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton... Jan. 2 Ditto, via Marseilles ... Jan. 27 India (Bombay), via Southampton. Dec. 27. Ditto, via d arsei des .. Jan. 5 Mauritius, via Southampton Ditto, via Marseil Newfoundland Portugal Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon United states and British North America, by Bri tish packet Ditto, by United States packet, via Southamp- •••• .• •• •••• Ditto, via CJrk Ditto, by Canadian packet, via Londonderry.. Dec. 29 . West Coast of Africa. Madeira, and Teneriffe Jan. 10. West Indies and Pacific (except Bahamas, Cuba, and Mexico Dec. 2) Cuba yond Mexico Bahamas, via New 1 ork. Jan. 11. Bermuda, ditto Jan. 17 Chappuis' registered whist-marker, for long or short, is now ready. Fancy card, is. the pair ; leather, 3s. 6d.; fancy wood, ss. 61. Wholesale and retail of P. E. Chappuis, the registree, 69, Fleet-street, and of all wholesale and retail booksellers, stationers, and fancy dealers. N.B.—lt is pronounced the best marker out. Births. DEBEIHAM.—On Christmas Day, the wife of F. G. Deben ham, of Cheshunt Park, Herts, of a son. PARR.—On the 25th inst., at 23, West-square, the wife of Dr. Farr, of a daughter. KNOWLES.—On the 24th inst., at Heathfield, Freshwater , the wife of Commander C. G. F. Knowles, R.N., Of 5 daughter. WALSH.—On the 24th inst., at 35, Hill-street, Berkeler square, Lady Emily Walsh, of a son. Marriages. ALEXANDER—WALKER.—On the 23d inst., at Holy Triniti Church, Newington James, eldest surviving son of J• Alexander, Esq., Of Bexley-heath, Kent, to EniilY , youngest daughter of J. Walker, Esq., Twickenham} Middlesex. HAWKEY—EVE.—On the 23d inst., at St. John's, Stratford, Mr. Thomas Hawkey, shipbuilder, of Seaham Harbou to Mary Anil, eldest daughter of the late W. Eve, Bo c k' of Bundish Hall, Moreton, Essex. Deaths. CARPENTER.— On Christmas-Eve, at the Vicarage House, the Rev. W. Carpenter, D.D., vicar of Paul, near Pen zance, aged 60. GODFREY. - On Christmas morning, the Rev. C. GodfreY't 31. 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