The Sun. — London, England, 1866-04-11 00:00:00

lii-PERIAL PARLIAMENT HOUSE OF COMMONS —LAST EVENING. Mr. DODSON (deputy-Speaker) took the chair at four o'clock. NEW MEMBERS. Mr. C. Forteseue took the oaths and his seat for Louth, Mr S. Goldsmith took the oaths and his seat for Honiton, and Mr. Eckersley for Wigan. NOTTINGHAM ELECTION. Mr. ADAIR, the chairman of the committee, reported that a witness named Springall had refused to attend the summons of the committee. The witness was ordered to attend on pain of imprisonment for contempt. THE FRANCHISE BILL A number of petitions were presented in favour of this bill. HAMPSTEAD, HIGHGATE, AND CHARING CROSS RAILWAY BILL. Mr. C. FORSTER moved that the order that the Ilamp stead, Highgate, and Charing-cross 'Railway Bill be committed, be read, and discharged, and that the bill be withdra The motion was agreed to. L Eft; ES T ER-S QUARE. Mr. W. LESLIE asked the First Commissioner of Works whether there was any intention of causing the en closure in Leicester-square to be turned into a garden or ornamental ground, under the provisions of the Gardens in Towns Protection Act, 1863 ? Mr. COWPER said the Gardens in Towns Act of 1863 i m p o sed no new duties on him ; but with respect to Lei cester-square, it did empower ,the Metropolitan Board of Works to deal with that spot, and the Board had pub lished a notice that they intended to do so. That notice had been followed by legal proceedings on the part of the gentleman who claimed the soil of Lei cester-square, and ho had no doubt that cause would so be decided. With respect to the statue with one leg and one arm, that was private property, and the owner of it had Jot taken that decent care of it which he ought to have done. TENANT RIGHT (IRELAND). Mr. O'BEIRNE asked the Chief Secretary for Ireland whether he would fix a day for the introduction of the bill for the improvement of the law of landlord and tenant in Ireland ? Mr. C. FORTESCITE said he could not positively state when the bill would be introduced, at all events it would not be until after the decision of the house on the Fran chise Bill. THE LOSS OF L'ABBE. Mr. B. COCHRANE asked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether the Foreign-office have re ceived any despatches to justify the hope that there are some survivors of the ship L'Abbe, which was wrecked off Tenadi Nuova in 1855, still detained as prisoners among the Somaali on the coast of Africa; and, if so, whether the Government would take any steps to procure their release ? Mr. LAYARD said the Government felt deeply for the families of the persons who had perished by the loss of this vessel. It had been supposed that all persons on board had perished, but in 1861 it was supposed that some of the survivors were in the Somaali country, and, accordingly. inquiries were made which led to the belief that the hope was altogether unfounded. But since that some hides had been brought to Zanzibar with European characters cut upon them, and that had led again to the belief that some white people were in the Somaali country. It was inha bited by a very wild race of people, and was almost inac cessible, but the Government had requested Dr. Living stone and Dr. Kirk, the latter of whom was proceeding to Zanzibar to make the most searching inquiry as to whether any white people were in captivity. He could assure the hon. gentleman that the Government would do all in their power to effect the release of any Europeans, if it should prove to be true that there were any under the un fortunate circumstances referred to by the hon. gentleman opposite. (Hear, hear.) INCOME OF WORKING MEN. _ Mr. B. STANHOPE asked the Chancellor of the Ex chequer what information existed as to the amount of the aggregate income of the working men of this country, and on what basis that amount had been calculated ? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said he was not aware that anything which could be called infor mation existed on the subject. His observations had been made upon computations derived from the census returns, but that could not be called information. It was merely an opinion. BARRACKS AT NOTTINGHAM. Mr. LOCKE, on the part of Sir R. Clifton, asked the Secretary of State for War when the Government intended to build barracks at Nottingham on the land which was purchased from the Duko of Ne wcastle in 1862 for the sum of £5,200 ? The Marquis of HARTINGTON said it was quite true that no vote had been taken for the erection of the barracks in the estimates this year. The proposition, however, to erect such accommodation would not be given up. THE ESTABLISHED CHURCH (IRELAND). Sir J. GRAY rose to move the following resolution : " That the position of the Established Church in Ireland is a jast cause of dissatisfaction to the people of that coun try, and urgently demands the consideration of Parlia ment." The honourable baronet said the subject he was about to bring under the attention of the house was one , :rhich possessed remarkable interest to the people of Eng land as well as Ireland. It was his intention in dealing with the subject not to raise an unpleasant or acrimonious discussion either within or without that house, and he hoped that no one single word which might fall from his lips would give offence to those in favour of the Church as an Establishment. He trusted the house might be of opinion that the time had arrived when some active step might be taken in the matter, because it was the general opinion in Ireland that the Established Church in Ireland had failed in every one object for which it was introduced into the country. The Catholic subjects of her Majesty, he could assure the house, woull never rest . until some step was taken to remove that which was looked upon with dislike by the great majority of the people in Ireland. The hon. baronet then proceeded to refer to a series of statistics to show the numbers of Pro testants and Catholics in various parts of Ireland, remarking that one of the causes of the decrease of Catholics in some places was caused by famine, pestilence, and emigration. He next proceeded to quote various opinions to show that the State Church was introduced into Ireland for political purposes. To show the injustice of maintaining the Establishment the hon. member traced its history from its foundation in the 16th century to the present day, and argued that it had been founded in tyranny and violence, and perpetuated in injustice as an alien institution, and the church of a miserable numerical minority of the people. He reminded the house that the honour of England was deeply involved in the question, and called upon them to treat it as a matter of imperial interest, and, at all events, consent to give it their earnest consideration. Colonel GREVILLE, as a sincere Protestant and an attached member of the Church of England, seconded the motion, on the ground that the Irish Church was an ano maly, the cause of endless heartburnings and animosities, and of weakness to the British empire. In the interest of religion and social h armony it was ti me th a t th e ques ti on should be settled once and for ever • and that could only be done b y placing, all religious ;acts in Ireland on an equality. In other words, let et Parliament deal with Ire land as it had d one with Scotland' and Canada, and by th a t means secure the lasting gratitudeand constant loyalty of the Irish people. B u t th at was not all,for pecuniarily re garded, England herself would profit by i t i l i le th adoptio n o f a new and more equitable poli cy ; and Thirty thousand pounds sterli ng m i ght be yearlysaisvadwise '— by the withdrawal of the grant toMaynooth, a similar am ount spent on the Lord Lieutenancy, and a t least a million more as the cost of supporting a large stand ing army. Glancing at ,the proposition which once enjoyed so much of the favour of Whig statesmen, that the Roman Catholic clergy sh ould be maintained out of state g rants, he observed that even if it were acceptable to to the Romish priesthood, which it was not, it was cer tainly not a desirable measure, for the tendency of the pre sent age was to take away rather than create religious en dowments. Mr ' C. FORTESCUE, in indicating the course which the Government proposed to take, delivered a speech of a decidedly trimming character. Ministers, he urged, occu pied a very different supt that which was held either by th e position ' from they could not rs or opponents of the motion, and they saw their waytoundertakeh .to deal with the question unless they saw their Way to bri mediately, yet in abrief bringing about a change, if not im of what should be and ; with a clear view not only not only of what should bo ut of what should be done ; should be built up ; and with pulled down but of what tdistinct knowledge of the state of public opinion both in well as in Ireland, as bein g sufaci n e g ia nd and Scotland, as tured to enable them to bring their dtlY Powerful and ma gainztisions to a practical result. He admitted the case a Irish Church, and personally regarded the resolutio n the cordial sympathy and concurrence. n e w i i ith feelings of t°o:l3rse it on any fore, on the part of the Government, eclined, there principle of abstract equity or justice, •rmanent policy ; and whilst declining also to grounds of o take cha rge of the resolu tion, he did so because of th e impossibilit y of carry i ng it into effect. At the same time he wish e d it well and God speed. M r. R. P. _DAWSON opposed the motion, and ex pressed his continued determination to Fnstain in its in tegrity the united Church of England and Ireland in the latter country. Mr. P. URQUHART remarked that he had heard, with feelings of mingled pleasure and regret, the speech of the Irish Secretary, and The O'DONOGHUE uttered a similar sentiment, be cause, after the statements made on previous occasions by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, he had expected that the Government would have adopted a very different course on the subject. Mr. WHIT' SIDE was also astonished at the doctrine laid down by Mr. C. Fortescue. The course proposed to be tak en b y t h e G overnment was a remarka bl e ill us t ra tion a t_ i h ta o NJ, by th row i ng out hi nts for the encouragemen t of uPon one subject they might secure a vote • upon another, that of reform, which they were just on the eve of debating. Adverting then to the arguments of the mover of the resolution, the right hon. gentlememan denied that Ireland was essentially a Roman Catholic country, or that the position of the Established Church there consti tuted a reason for its destruction any more than the fact that the Church of England being in a minority in Wales was sufficient ground for its abolition in the principality. The present was a wretched attempt to withdraw the at tention of Parliament from the true state of Ireland, in which there was a large revolutionary party, whose object was to destroy the monarchy and establish a republic in its stead. It was a direct attack upon the property of the country, which was represented by the wealth and intelli gence of Ireland ; for the annihilation of private property must follow the ruin of the property of the Church. It should be remembered, too, that at the period of emancipa tion, the Roman Catholics voluntarily abandoned all claim to interfere with the Established Church, and both Dr. Doyle and Archbishop Murray declared themselves per fectly satisfied with the settlement then made. Recurring to the policy of the Government, the right hon. gentleman observed that he preferred the manful declaration that not one shred of its property should be left to the Church to keeping up a perpetual agitation and holding out the pro spect of that property being operated upon at a more con venient season, when agitation had been successful, and the time was favourable for undertaking tae good work to which the right hon. gentleman had bidden "God speed." What was that good work? Was it not the work of spoliating the Church, the appropriation of property that did not belong to them, and which they had no right to take away ? He trusted -that the house would not forget that this was a Protestant State ; which meant that, whilst they respected antiquity and the practices of their Church, they, nevertheless, asserted the right of private judgment, and vindicated the inde pendence of the human mind. lie trusted, then, that the Church would never be overthrown by a British Parlia ment, and certain he was that it would never be destroyed save by the vote of a recreant senate and the consent of an apostate nation. Sir H. HOARE, believing the motion was based on justice, gave it his hearty support. He was convinced that until the great anomaly of the Irish Church was re moved peace in Ireland would be impossible. On the motion of Mr. ESMONDE, the debate was then adjourned until Friday. Leave was given to Mr. Ayrton to bring in a bill to appropriate a portion of the income from the Finsbury estate of the suppressed stall of Finsbury, for the relief of the spiritual destitution of the metropolis. Leave was also given to Mr. Sergeant Armstrong to in troduce a bill to amend the law relating to mixed mar riages in Ireland. The orders of the day were subsequently gone through, and The house adjourned at half-past one o'clock. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. +- BAHIA AND SAN FRANCISCO. The 17th half-yearly general meeting of this com pany was held yesterday at the London Tavern ; Mr. T. M. Weguelin, 11.1. P., in the chair. The report, au abstract of which has appeared in The Sun, was taken as read. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report and statement of accounts, congratulated the shareholders upon a steady increase in their traffic, and though it was not so rapid as they had hoped for, still the progress was steady, and gave the ex pectation that at no distant interval the receipts would cover the expenses, and they would then have the whole of the guaranteed dividend. The traffic receipts continued to progress up to the latest date, and the secretary, Mr. Clay, had just informed him that the traffic receipts during the first ten weeks of this year amounted to £8,091, against £6,036 in the corresponding ten weeks of last year, showing an in crease of £2,055, or above 30 per cent. It was ne cessary for him to say that the traffic had been better this year, in consequence of an abundant crop. As the Government now seemed determined to construct I the converging roads to the railway, it was to be an ticipated that the company would be able to main tain the steady increase in their traffic. The great interest the President of the province had taken in the construction of the roads was most important for the development of the traffic on their line, so that the company's working expenses should be at least equalled by their traffic receipts. It was merely in consequence of the deficit in the receipts to cover the working and other expenses that the directors asked the shareholders to assent to a proposition for de veloping the traffic to that extent ; as it was quite clear that it was not the interest of the company to endeavour, by the outlay of extra capital, to increase the traffic to the advantage of the Government. The directors considered that certain facilities might be given to the traffic, by the outlay of a certain sum which could in itself be made remunerative ; but if there should be any deficiency of return on the extra outlay it could be borne by the usual profit on the company's interest account. For that purpose the di rectors proposed to borrow £20,000 ; but they did not expect that it would be necessary to spend more than £lO,OOO or £12,000 to accomplish the object they had in view. They proposed to purchase and work two steamboats from the present terminus of the railway to the landing-place in the city of Bahia, as no doubt the passengers and goods thus conveyed would pay the full interest on the capital employed ; another object was to construct workmen's houses which would pay a fair rent, and a market place at Ala goinhas, the terminal station of their railway, to encourage the formation of a town. It was believed that the comparative small outlay proposed by the directors would not only yield a fair return on that capital, but have a moral effect in the province, and place the company in a position to request that the much needed roads might be proceeded with more rapidly. He was happy to state that the railway throughout had been accepted by the Government, the President of the province was perfectly satisfied with it, and the only request he had made was that the direc tors should put up a clock at Bahia, which would be done. Mr. Morgan, their worthy vice-chairman, had suggested the opportunity of stating what was very gratifying to the directors, and must be equally so to the shareholders, that the company had com pleted the line within the capital, and was now in good working order, having been constructed within the estimated cost. (Hear, hear.) Mr. MORGAN, deputy-chairman, seconded the motion for the adoption of the report and statement of accounts. Mr. ROBERTSON said that the dividend would have been at the rate of 61 per cent. per annum, instead of 6 per cent., if it were not for the damage that had been done to their line by the floods. He thought the expenses moderate, although they had been increasing during the past half-year. He was opposed to raising money for steamboats, be cause he considered the money would be lost. The CUAIRMAN said the object was to develope the traffic and convey goods and passengers from the company's present terminus,? 31 miles from Bahia, into the centre of that city. The two s o t f ea l m ig e h r t s er w s ou th ld ey co w st ou ab ld ou b t e £, 6 a , b o l o e o , t o a n c d o w n v i t e h y threa aidffi e direct to and from the railway without delay. The Board unanimously re commen d e d t h e plan proposed, with the view to develope the traffic sufficiently to cover all working expenditure, and thus secure for the shareholders the full 7 per cent. guaranteed b y the Brazilian Government. A long discussion ensued on items of account, in the course of which objections were made to the paragraphs in the report relating to the steamboats, and to miring £20,000 without any guarantee. After some observations from Mr. Goez, Mr. J. Watson, and other shareholders, on a show of hands an amendment for the omission of clauses 7 and 8 o f the report was negatived, and the report was carried. A poll was demanded. A resolution authorising the directors to raise £20,000 for the purposes mentioned, on such terms as they might deem advantageous, was carried. The retiring directors, Mr. If. Lewis, M.P., Mr. J. Mor gan The proceed' Mor gan, Mr. R.. J. Gainsford, and Mr. Wickham, were reel -elected, and a dividend of 12s . per share was cle ared for the past hllf- , ear , 3 , payable on the lOth inst. to the chairman and directors. LONDONDERRY AND COLERAINE. The ordinary general meeting of this company was held yesterday at theoffice, Coleman-street-build ings, Moorgate-street ; Mr. J. It. Hall in the chair. The report stated that there were three statements of revenue account. The first, embracing the period from the 30th of June, 1858, to the 30th of June, 1862, during which the entire rental of the railway was taken by the Public Works Loan Commis.. sioners, in part payment of their loan and the inte rest thereon, The second, from the 30th of June, 1862, to the 10th of April, 1865, was to the end of the lease. The company having obtained an Act of Parliament to capitalise all its debts in 1862, issued. debentures in lieu thereof, the yearly interest on which absorbed, together with the very trifling office expenses, all the rent received. The third, from the 10th of April, 1865, gave the result of the working of the railway, at which date the lease terminated and the line reverted to the com pany. The rent payable under the terms of the lease granted for seven years by the Public Works Loan Commissioners to Mr. W. M'Cormick, and which expired on the 10th of April, 1865, was £8,500 per annum for the first two years and £lo,oo o foreachsubsequentyear. Atthe expiration of the term the lease was relinquished, owing to the loss the Belfast Northern Counties Railway Coin , parry, who had taken a sub lease from Mr. 111‘Cor mick, stated they had sustained under its terms. This, the directors regretted to say, the subsequent working proved, as the net proceeds for the year ending April 10, 1866, could not be estimated above £B,OOO. Still the traffic showed upwards of £9OO increase for the six months ending Dec. 31st over the corresponding period of the preceding year. On the railway reverting to the company the directors entered into a working arrangement with the Bel fast and Northern Counties Company on terms which were considered fair, but as a clause in the agreement enabled its discontinuance at any three months' notice, it was always in the power of the directors to terminate it should any change be con sidered desirable. From June 30, 1862, to the ter mination of the lease the rental was absorbed in paying the interest on the various classes of deben tures, all of which was regularly met to the 10th July last ; but owing to the condition of the rail way at the termination of the lease the directors were forced to expend the greater part of the traffic balances in the renewal absolutely required ; in con sequence of which the interest on the B, C, and D debentures for the six months ending Jan. 10th last was not paid. The directors had not lost sight of the possibility of turning the reclamation powers of the company to some advantage. The expenditure on capital account amounted to £653,593, leaving a balance of £1,694. The revenue account from April 10th last to Dec. 31st showed that £13,364 had been received, and £18,691 expended, leaving a bal ance of £5,327 against revenue. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, said that since the expiration of the lease 12 months ago the directors had appropriated certain sums out of revenue to repair the fences in several places, and put the line in a workable state. having no funds to resuscitate the reclamation powers of the company, the directors had opened communi cation with the Irish Society, with a view to their assuming the right of reclamation granted to the company. If the proposition should result in a feasible arrangement, it would be laid before the proprietors for their approval. Mr. LAVER, in reply to a question, stated that the terms for working the line were about 2s. per mile for a certain number of train miles, and at a lower rate for a greater number of miles. The terms were about equal to 50 per cent. of the gross receipts. The company had no plant to work the line. The rolling stock had been sold years ago, and there re mained on that account about £5,000 due to the company, for which they held £19,000 of D deben tures as security. The full interest on all the de bentures of the company was £9,700 a year. The report was adopted, and a vote of thanks to the chairman concluded the proceedings. THE SON, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 11, 1866, from the Mediterranean, are daily expected at Plymouth. Upwards of 100 shipwrights and mechanics from Chatham and Sheerness dockyards left those es tablishments yesterday in the Fearless, paddle wheel steamer, for Millwall, to be employed in the operations to effect the launch of the ironclad frigate Northumberland. They will be engaged on that vessel until further orders. An order has been received at Chatham directing No. 3 battery of the Ist Brigade, Royal Artillery, now stationed at Shoeburyness, to be relieved by a battery of the 2d Brigade, from Gosport. The above alterations are to be made on the 20th inst. Rear-Admiral Hugh Dunlop, C. 8., on his promo tion, yesterday formally resigned the duties of Com modore-Superintendent of Woolwich Dockyard, in favour of his successor, Capt. Edmonstone, C. 8., appointed Captain-Superintendent, according to the new Admiralty regulations. Mr. Frederick W. S. Ponsonby, naval secretary, who filled the same office with Commodore Dunlop in the West Indies, now retires on half-pay. The duties of the secretary's department have devolved on Mr. Cole, assistant-secretary, who has filled that post during the past 10 years, under successive Commodores, at Woolwich. Capt. Edmonstone, having taken over the post of Captain-Superintendent, has been granted a month's leave of absence to arrange his affairs. The duties, afloat and ashore, appertaining to the office, will be conducted in the interval re spectively by Commander Towsey and Commander Biddlecombe, senior officers in succession. The duties of Captain-Superintendent of Deptford Dock and Victualling yards were yesterday assumed by Capt. Arthur P. E. Wilmot, C. 8., late senior officer on the West coast of Africa, vice Captain Henry Chads, who has succeeded to his flag rank and retired. Sp - ints in Horses. (From a Correspondent of the Sporting Gazette.) The celebrated surgeon Abernethy is said to have attributed almost every malady to a diseased state of the stomach ; so much so, that the following anecdote is recorded of him :—A gentleman, the subject of ulcerated legs, seeking the advice of the doctor, wished, before entering into detail, to show him the ulcers, but was abruptly prevented by the remark, " Never mind your legs, your stomach is the culprit." To state that the stomach plays a most important part in the animal economy is super fluous. The medical man is constantly advising his patients who complain of headache, pains in the back, &c., to take more exercise, not to eat suppers, all which advice goes to prove that the physician considers the digestive organs to be at fault. In the treatment of most diseases, the practitioner considers it necessary to cleanse the system. This is accomplished by the administration of purgative; which, by acting on the stomach, affects through the medium of the nerves the other part of the body involved in disease. "The stomach beingmisaffected, which he calls the king of the belly, because if he be distempered, all the rest suffer witk him as being deprived of their nutriment, or fed with bad nourishment, by which come crudities, obstructions, wind, rumbling, griping, itc."—" Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy." If such be the case, that the diseased action of the stomach produces ill effects upon the other organs of the body, it is our duty to consider whether the stomach, by its position or construction, is likely to bring about such a pathological state as inflammation. The chief nervous influence is sup plied to the pneumo-gastric nerve, which, as its name implies, gives off branches to the lungs, and arises from that part of the nervous column called the medulla oblongata, from which it proceeds downwards to the chest, and therein gives off fila ments, which, together with the sympathetic system, form the pulmonary plexus. After forming these and other plexuses needless here to he mentioned, the pneumo-gastric nerve passes into the abdomen, and therein contributes to the formation of the semilunar ganglion, whence the stomach, spleen, and liver derive their nervous force. From this superficial anatomical sketch, it will easily be seen how great a nervous relation exists between the organs of digestion and respiration. It will be readily understood how impressions made upon the organs of digestion will affect those of re spiration, and produce inflammation of them, but by what means these bad impressions are obtained' is beyond our present power to discover. We must therefore rest satisfied with the knowledge of the effect of which some omnipotent force as yet un known is the cause. "The manner in which the will is conveyed to the brain, or how sensations are excited in different parts of the body, remain involved in mystery. The author of nature is per fect in all his works, and although we do not understand all the workings of his hands, we are compelled to acknow ledge their wisdom, propriety, and beauty."—Beaumont. Much remains for physiologists to discover con cerning sympathetic action. That it is a pheno menon taking place every moment we all know, "for whether one member suffer all members suffer with it, or one member be honoured all members rejoice with it," but by what means the result of sympathy is made manifest, remains for future physiology to determine. In my letter of last week I attempted to prove the theory of inflammation, as previously explained, to be correct, changing theory into fact by adducing examples of disease of not uncommon occurrence among horse and cattle, as congestion of the lungs ; it will now be my endeavour to apply in practice that which theory has suggested, and in so doing, to point out the results of inflammation, or, in other words, to enumerate a number of diseases occurr ing consequent upon the withdrawal of nervous force, either locally or generally ; and in the first place shall detail those maladies involving the bony tissue in inflammatory action. Splints.—Very few horses live who are not affected, more or less, with the disease denominated " Splint." A splint consists of a bony tumour, generally situated on the inside of the foreleg, which is composed below the knee of the following bones : —The cannon (metacarpus) and small metacarpal bones, situated behind the cannon, the one inter nally and the other externally. In the colt the metacarpal bones and cannon arc united together by a fibro ligamentous substance, but as age advances, ossification of this structure commences, and, finally, the cannon and small meta carpal bones are cemented together by bony union, or, in other words, those three bones form one com mon shaft. Usually at five years old, while the pro cess of ossification is progressing, the animal is daily performing severe physical exertion, and the result is that, owing to the causes to be afterwards con sidered, the horse " throws out," as it is called, a splint. Let us consider how it is that the fibro cartilagin ous substance:existing between the cannon and meta carpal bones becomes converted into bone. Perci val' writes : "The immediate or proximate cause we believe to be increased action, amounting in some instances to inflam mation set up in the vessels of the fibro cartilage, whereby hypertrophy or exostosis (growth of bone from bone) is produced." T cannot agree fully with the opinion of Mr. Per civall, which considers that the conversion of the fibro cartilage into bone is due to a deviation in the part from health. When the bony depositions pro ceed beyond their limits, that is,.grow out beyond the space occupied by the primary substance—viz., the fibro cartilage, and by their aggregation form a tumour, then, doubtless, the disease splint is set up, but the conversion of cartilage into bone is no ab normal condition of the part,. but simply a natural consequence occurring prematurely—that is, before the full development of the animal tissues. My reasons for arriving at this conclusion are that in foetal life the skeleton is composed of cartilage, which becomes gradually converted into bone. Even at birth many of these bones are not united toge ther, but during months in the life of the lower ani mals, and years in that of man, they are undergoing a gradual change from cartilage into bone. In order to make myself clear on this, let me remind the readers of the Gazette that bony tissue is com posed of two materials—viz., of animal and calcare ous matters, the former giving elasticity, and the latter hardness ; the amou n t o f an i ma l matter in young animals is large, wh ereas i n o ld or es it gives way to the calcareous or earthly material, and RAILWAY BILLS. Yesterday before the referees in Court A Mr. Hankey presided. The adjourned bills of the Hud dersfield and Halifax and Lancashire and Yorkshire, which were taken together on the previous day, were continued. Mr. Venables appeared for the first bill, and Mr. V. Harcourt for the second, and after several additional witnesses had been heard the bills were to be reported. In Court B Col. Stewart presided. The adjourned bill of the East London (South London Extension) was opposed by Mr. Somerset for the London, Chatham, and Dover Company ; Mr. Johnson, for the London and Brighton Company; and Mr. Bid der appeared for the bill. After many additional witnesses had given evidence the bill was to be re ported. The Great Northern and Great Eastern Companies Arrangements Bill (Spalding to Lin coln) was unopposed. The Great Northern (Ad ditional Powers) Bill was opposed by Mr. Pope on behalf of the,, Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company. Mr. Davison appeared in support of the bill, and after evidence had been taken the further consideration of it was adjourned. In the committee presided over by the Chairman of Ways and Means the following bills were passed : The Sunningdale and Cambridge-town the London and South Western (Poole and Bournemouth Junc tions), the Buckley (additional powers), the Bridg water and Taunton Canal, and the Bristol and I Exeter. In Group 9, Admiral Dnncombe in the chair, the Hoylake Bill was heard, but no decision was to be given until after an opposing bill was heard. For the - Wrexham, Mold, and Connahs Quay, and Hoy lake, Mr. Denison, Q.C., Mr. Johnson. Q.C., and Mr. Salisbury appeared in support ; Mr. Mere wether, Q.C., Mr. Burlee, Q.C., and Mr. Saunders appeared in opposition for the Great Western and London and North-Western Companies ; and Mr. Lloyd appeared for the corporation of Chester. The Wrexham, Mold, and Connahs Quay (Exten sion), being unopposed, was referred to the general committee ; and the following were adjourned : Buckley (Docks, &c.) ; Wrexham, Mold, and Con nahs Quay (additional powers) ; Chester and West Cheshire Junction ; and Manchester and Stockport. Before Mr. Frere on standing orders the Talacre Pier and Harbour (Railway) Bill was postponed until Friday ; the Metropolitan and St. John's-wood (Capital) Bill, standing orders were complied with. The East Strathmore (opposed) Bill did not comply with the standing orders and the same with the Bristol and North Somerset (Southern extension) (opposed) and the Great Eastern (Additional Powers) Bill on the petition for additional provi sion. The Devon and Somerset (capital) complied with the standing orders, and the Morayshire also complied with the standing orders. Naval and Military Intelligence, The Barracouta, 6, paddlewheel sloop, 1,053 tons, 300-horse power, Commander W. B. Urmston, left Sheerness harbour yesterday morning for the official trial of her engines at the measured mile off Maplin Sands. The vessel was in charge of Lieut. Golding, of the Sheerness Steam Reserve ; Mr. W. W. Williamson, Inspector of Machinery Afloat, and Mr. G. Blaxland, Chief engineer of Sheerness Dock yard, were also present. The engines were in charge of the chief engineer of the ship, Mr. James Mang nail. The vessel, with all her stores on board, and fully rigged and ready for sea, made six runs on the measured mile, giving an average result of 9.209 knots per hour. Two runs were also made at half boiler power, giving an average of 7.707 knots. The draught of water forward was 12ft. 10in ; aft, 15ft. Bin. The load on the safety-valve was 201 b., and the pressure of steam 201 b. The force of wind was 2, and the direction S.W. The engines worked most satisfactorily. There were no hot bearings ; the boilers generated a good supply of steam, with out priming, and the engines and boilers were cer tified as being in every respect ready for a length ened tour at sea. At the conclusion of the trial the Barracouta returned to Sheerness harbour, which she will shortly leave for the West India station. The repairs of the iron paddlewheel steam vessel Oberon, 3, Lieut.-Commander E. 11. Verney, at Devonport, will be completed about the 25th inst. The screw steam storeship Fox, 2, Staff-Com mander Henry A. Moriarty, left Plymouth on Sun day for Woolwich. An American sloop of war, bound to Spithead, passed up Channel, off Plymouth, on Sunday. The screw steam corvette Jason, 17, was re moved on Monday morning from the dock in Key ham steam-yard, and went outside the Plymouth breakwater to test her machinery. The steam frigate Severn, 35, Capt. Montresor, from India, and the_serew steam gunvessel Surprise, exists, therefore, only sparingly in their bones. The elasticity in the bones of youths, owing to the superabundance of animal matter therein con tained, enables them with comparative ease to place their feet at the back of their head, and to perform other elastic movements, whilst the old man is with difficulty able to lift his foot a yard from the ground. Again, it is common for veteri narians, when about to operate upon an old animal, to ask the following questions :—" Do you think I could operate on this animal without throwing him ?" The reason for this inquiry is that every veterinarian knows well how liable to fracture the bones of an old horse are when compared with those of a young one ; it is evident, therefore, that from foetal life to old age the animal skeleton gradually develops from cartilage into bone, becoming, as age advances, richer in earthly matter, and therefore more brittle. The stages may be thus enumerated :-1. In foetal life the skeleton is cartilaginous. 2. In youth it becomes partially ossified. 3. As age advances it grows entirely into bone ; and 4, in old age the bones become fragile. Such being the case, does it not seem likely that the conversion of fibro cartilage existing between cannon and metacarpal bones into bone, is a change in strict accordance with the laws of nature. That such does take place, even if the animal is never subjected to work, is a known fact. When the question naturally occurs, how is it then that splints are thrown out ? I answer—some animals have an hereditary predisposition to the formation of (ex astoses) bony tumours, which sometimes appear be fore the animals affected with them have been com pelled to perform labour of any kind, but generally they are produced by the subject of them having been put to work too early, say at four years old, when nature, in order to accommodate herself to circumstances, attempts to hurry on the works of nature, and by this means to render the body ca pable of performing severe physical exertion ; but nature will not thus be hastened onward in her operations with impunity, for if this be attempted, it is at the expense of the animal tissues, inflamma tion in the bodily structure is excited, and in the case under notice in those of the leg, which perhaps for a time remains confined to the fibro cartilage, which ultimately causes a too excessive develop ment of bone —or, in other words, a bony tumour results, or, in stable phraseology, a splint is thrown out. A splint is usually formed on the inside of the leg, and nearer the knee than the fetlock. This is accounted for because the greater amount of weight is thrown on the inside of the foot than on the outside. Bony tumours occur oc casionally on the parts of the cannon, arising from blows or other external injuries, and are also called splints. A splint when fully formed rarely causes lameness, or decreases the value of the animal so affected ; yet in the early stage of this disease, when the deposition of bony matter is going on in ternally (if I may so express myself)—i.e., when scarcely any bony protuberance can be detected by passing the hand down the leg the animal will evince symptoms of great suffering, and will conse quently, as a result of pain, go lame. For example: I recollect a very fine young horse being very lame, who baffled the skill of many, as the seat of lame ness could be discovered by none, when it was finally determined to turn the horse out to grass. The animal had not been out six weeks, before on the inside of the cannon, and near the knee, a splint appeared, after which he walked perfectly sound, and remains so in this particular to this day. Splints rarely interfere with the action of the joints, and rarely, unless connected with other diseases, with that of the suspensory ligament or tendons, as these structures have the power of controlling the forma tion of bone in their vicinity, and iu so doing always maintain a free passage for their proper functions. Treatmcnt.—Before proceeding with radical measures it is always necessary first to reduce all inflammation present, and this is accomplished by administering a dose of physic, and applying hot and cold bathings to the leg alternately. The end n view obtained—viz., reduction of inflammatory action, repeated blisterings by means of the brino dide of mercury ointment may act beneficially, but I prefer the performance of the operation called periosteotomy, which the following will explain : An incision through the skin above and below the splint is made, and the skin raised up from the splint by means of a seton needle. An appropriate shaped knife is now passed under the skin, and the splint is cut through, after which a dressed seton is introduced. This operation can only be performed by a qualified veterinarian. After the operation, corn must be denied, and bran mashes or green food given in its place. Through the medium of perios teotomy large splints have been reduced nearly level with the bone. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNAL. TIMES.-It is an unspeakable relief to have to deal with an opponent who has the wit to put the question between us on a simple and intelligible issue. It was open to reasonable suspicion that the supporters of her Majesty's Government were shutting their eyes, with more or less effort, to the nature and consequences of its action in the matter of Reform ; in fact, that the bill itself was not the real question. This, however, which we have treated as the best conclusion we could come to, is the first postulate and starting point of our correspondent " H.," and it is upon this basis that he rests the eloquent appeal to our loyalty and patriotism which we published yesterday. Never mind the bill—he says—nay, he almost dismisses it with a summary benediction. He had foreseen that the less said of it the better, for even before it came into the wo r ld he cried out with all-trusting faith for something or other, some settlement of the question, some rid dance from a controversy which did not appear to be quite congenial, The bill ROW sees the light of day ; its provisions, as far as they go, are not wanting in preciseness ; and a host of auxiliary statistics give us information which appears to have surprised even the authors of the measure on the very eve of its publication. Friends and foes join issue upon a thousand little differences, and every day is now adding fresh pamphlets, the authors of which all flatter themselves that they have made important discoveries. We need not add that, besides the usual fencing on the floor of the house, there has been some street fighting of a less refined sort. We were beginning to look with some mis giving to the sort of life we were likely to lead for the septennial period inaugurated under such auspices. Suddenly " H." appears to drag us out of these deep ruts. Like Justice, he is blindfold ; but he holds those well-known scales in which sub stances, virtues, verities, and achievements have ever been found to preponderate over all that is flimsy, specious, and transient. The Bill, no matter what, a blank sheet of foolscap, a Field- Marshal's baton, is in Lord Russell's hand, in the downward scale, while a pile of useless inquiries, vain misgivings, and superfluous reasonings kick the beam. " Follow your leader" is the watchword. " Occupet extremum stabies." Don't even look be fore you. Forwards. Thorough. Accordingly, and evidently because the case required it, " H." has carefully abstained from saying a word about the contents of the bill or the nature of the bill. Every word he says, and every argument be uses, would have applied equally had the bill not dealt at all with the franchise, and only transferred a score or two seats. His letter might have gone to the press without one single-correction had " H." dis covered subsequently to writing it that the bill was one for a commission to draw up a comprehensive scheme of reform. It might have gone to the press without a verbal correction if " H." had learnt that the bill comprised all six points of the Chatter. In fact, the letter is not about the bill, or about reform, but about a certain ghost, under that name, that has been haunting the Legislature now for 15 years, perplexing statesmen, creating scandals, affording opportunities of mischief, damaging cha racters. baffling exorcists, and, finally, the subject of one more attempt by a well known-Mystery Mau great in his line. The whole nation has been crying out for' deliverance, and now, if ever, is the time. But faith is necessary. Believe in him, " H." shrieks t with raptured vision and frenzied energy. Doubt not, mistrust not, know not, inquire not! Is not Lordßussell your chief ? Has he not been your leader to a hundred victories? Has he not at once led the van of the people and protected the rear of the aris tocracy? Is not his name the highest in the roll of honour, however it may stand in Battle Abbey? Will you see him beaten ? Whom then will you have ? Will you not then fall into a base servitude to Con servatives, themselves 20 years ago the victims of a like defection, and now rising on the fall of their rivals ? When the keynote is loyalty, the rest follows of course, and through the usual variety of changes. The variations upon the air are brilliant. There is the country to be satisfied. " H." does not stop to ask whether the bill is even meant to satisfy the country. There is the reputation of the House of Commons now put in peril, happily not now for the first . time, for " H." had already declared public credulity all but exhausted. There is the dread of something still worse, still more terrible, still more horrible than this very bill which we are to pass with averted eyes, and no questions asked. Pass the bill, or it will be worse for you, says " H." After de scribing all opponents as dirty conspirators and crafty contrivers, he tells them the defeat of this bill will produce a sweeping reform, which he takes for granted they would utterly abominate. Why, how ever, take this for granted ? It is quite possible a man may not like what he really believes to be . a bad measure, and may oppose it accordingly, yet be pre pared for something very sweeping and comprehen sive. The opposition, he says, is fatal to a mode rate course ; but it is not so certain that all the opponents do want a moderate course, instead of a conclusive one ; and one thing is certain, the pre sent bill may be a single step, but it is no course at all, whether moderate or the contrary. So the question, after all, is not one of reform, but of party. The chief of that party, in the exercise of his discretion, has put out something, no matter what, says "H.," and we are all bound to follow him, into darkness and swamps, if he takes us there. There is much to be said for such a line ; but reasonable men require first an almost absolute confidence in the chief, and then that he should let them see their work, or, at all events, show that he sees it himself. They want to have their work lying well before them, and with the light of day upon it. With regard to the chief, it is only necessary to say that Lord Russell cannot possibly wish to sup press that instinct of free inquiry and independent opinion which has been so characteristic of his whole career, and which has contributed to place him so high in " LL's " profound and reverential regards. Lord Russell has always loved truth and his country, as well as his party, and is aware that even the Whigs, the salt of the earth, as " H." calls them, will lose their savour if they once pre fer party to patriotism and truth. If, too, it is to be a question of personal confidence, it is rather hard on those who may expect a good many more years to be bound by the fixed notions, the circum scribed views, and the closing landscape of a statesman far advanced . in the eighth decade. But even this is not so important in the eyes of reason able men, even upon " H.'s " hypothesis, as some knowledge of the thing to be done ; in fact, an actual course to be taken. Our chivalrous corre spondent tells us we have a Reform Bill, and that is enough. We deny that first assumption. This is not a Reform Bill. It is a Franchise Bill, fabri cated for the very purpose of evading the necessity which " H." describes. With charming indiffer ence to the real contents of the Bill, " H." says that the House, in Committee, may " moderate and mould," " shape and amend," the bill as they please. It would have been just as easy to moderate and mould, shape and amend, turtle soup and salmon into the endless succession of delicacies constituting the material of the late Liverpool banquet. The least attempt to perform these operations on the Bill before the House would be thwarted by the difficulty of knowing the scale to be moderated to, or the mould to be fashioned to, for there is neither shape nor substance yet. So, whatever loyalty we may feel for the person, we still desiderate the thing to be done. Loyalty deals with known quantities, not with purely algebraic indefinities. Nobody was in ever in love with a symbol of no determinate value ; and that is all we can see at present in the hands of our leaders. HERALD.—Between states, as between indivi duals, angry words are too commonly the forerun ners of violent deeds. Such, moreover, is the proverbial etiquette of diplomacy that phrases which would hardly be considered insulting between man and man acquire the gravest meaning when bandied to and fro by the Ministers of rival Courts. One-tenth part of the mutual provocations ex changed between the Courts of Austria and Prussia during the last week alone would have sufficed to render war inevitable had any other states but thes9 two German Powers been in question. And yet it is so much to the interest of both that they should not go to war, they have had so much more experi ence of querulous despatches than of armed encoun ters of that fratricidal kind, that we would fain hope there may yet be left a loophole of escape, and Europe may be saved from the convulsion of that dread arbitrament. Since the time of Frederick the Great and Maria Theresa, during the Seven Years' War, Austria and Prussia have never actu ally taken the field against each other. Ten years consecutively have not elapsed during that more than a century without some alarming dispute caused by their rivalry in Germany. Since 1848 they have been at least three times on the brink of war, the bone of contention being at one time the hegemony of Germany ; at another the question of the Duchies, which has not yet been solved ; at another the dispute about Hesse. Each time, after a period of recrimination, they have shaken their fists in each other's faces, marshalled their legions, and advanced them till they almost met at the frontier. Each time have other countries held their breath, as it were, in expectation of the tremendous collision which seemed momently inevitable —but that collision never came. This furnishes us with a feeble groundwork of hope that it may be avoided now ; were it not for this we must confess it would be quite impossible to give a pacific interpretation of the facts which stare us in the face. As we write the prospect seems darker than it has ever been before. Letters exchanged weekly have been suc ceeded by letters exchanged daily. The last of these is couched in a tone of the most deliberate de fiance. Strange to say, it comes from Austria, who has addressed to Prussia a missive of the nature of an ultimatum, demanding, it is said, the discontinu ance of the Prussian armaments. We could hardly believe it, were it not that the same intelligence reaches us from opposite sources, being forwarded simultaneously be telegraph from Vienna and Ber lin. Austria, then, has gone forward too far to re cede. Either Prussia must yield, or there must be war—at least, it seems difficult to find any escape from the alternative. If we inquire into the mo tives which have induced the Austrian Government to take this extreme step, we may perhaps find them in the arguments which were considered to render necessary the same step on her part in 1859. It was well known to her then that two nations were arming against her, the hostile legions of Italy were gathering on her frontier. Austria would have avoided so perilous a struggle if she had been able, but there was no possibility of avoiding it without dishonour. Austria was ready ; every day's , delay served to exhaust her finances, and added to the strength of the enemy which consti tuted her weakness. Austria, therefore, addressed to Italy a summons to disarm of a very peremptory nature. That her policy in 1859 did not bear fruit in success is no argument against its repetition now, though it may be a reason for avoiding at all cost a war with a coalition almost as powerful as that which worsted her on the plains of Lombardy. The statesmen of Austria may be driven now by the same promises to the same conclusion as that which enabled their enemy, with such want of candour, to lay to their charge the blame of having taken the initiative in the Italian war. When Karolyi replies to Von Werther, and Von Werther to Karolyi, the Prussian Minister at Vienna being instructed to lay the blame of the first aggression in the shape of armed movements on Austria, the Austrian Minister at Berlin retorting that Prussia is arming but Austria is not ; if that is the only issue, all we can say is that it is a very pretty quarrel—a matter of opinion and definition rather than of fact—in which as Sir Roger de Coverley observed, " there is much to be said on both sides." But when we hear of a letter in which Prussia is requested at once to " demobilise" her army, and threatened that if she does not Austria will appeal to the Diet to put the Federal army on the war footing, which means that armed pressure is to be put upon Prussia, and of course implies that Austria will take the field—then, of course, we understand the business, and find ourselves on tan gible, if not on very safe, ground. Incedinius per agues, and the ashes that cover them are very thin indeed. When we are told, further, that it is known at Vienna that Von Bismarck has publicly declared war with Austria to be inevitable ; when it is affirmed that he has been making his prepara tions for it ever since his interview with Napoleon last year at Biarritz; when it is known that King William places such confidence in this incendiary politician that he is prepared to follow wherever he may lead ' • when a grand plot for the conquest of Venetia by Italy is on foot, emissaries are passing to and fro between the Courts of Florence, Berlin, and Paris, and an enormous Italian army is col lecting in front of the Quadrilateral ; when the dan gers that menace her are so plain that he who runs may read them, so imminent that the utmost promptitude is required to grapple with them, we can hardly find fault with Austria for at once choosing her position and adopting that which she considers the lesser of the two evils. The middle States, as represented in the German Diet, resolved as they appear to be to make at least an attempt at neutrality, would serve some practical end if they could manage to interpose as a sort of buffer between their gigantic neighbours. As it is, both Austria and Prussia seem anxious to employ them as a cat'spaw to make use of the one against the other. Austria is for calling out the Federal army ; Bismarck, wondrous to relate, be thinking himself of some sudden coup with which to counteract this move, has astonished the world by appealing to the German democracy. He has proposed that a German assembly shall be elected by universal suffrage, and empowered to consider the reform of the Federal Constitution. Of course, if this reform should not be in a Prussian sense Von Bismarck will make some counter proposition, or resort to some other expedient to gain time. He would be glad to reform the smaller states by " mediatising" or annexing them to Prussia, but it is hardly likely that they will vote their own politi cal extinction. The proposal does not seem, how ever, to be made with any definite intention at pre sent, other than that of defeating the plans of Austria. BRITISH ORPHAN ASYLUM. - - The anniversary festival of this society was cele brated last evening at the London Tavern, Bishops gate-street, under the presidency of the Duke of Argyll, who was supported by Viscount Kirkaldie, Lord W. Lennox, Mr. T. Hughes, M.P., Mr. W. Mellor, M.P., Mr. Alderman and Sheriff Gibbons, Mr. Sheriff Figgins, Under-Sheriffs Duffett and Rawlins, the Hon. T. Winn, Mr. 11. Sykes Thorn ton (the treasurer of the institution), Mr. Charles Woolloton (the deputy chairman of the board), Mr. John Gillespie, Mr. Augustus Mayhew, the Rev. T. Rowsell, &c. After the usual loyal toasts, the CHAIRMAN gave " The House of Lords and the House of Commons," and Mr. W. MELLOR, M.P., returned thanks. The CHAIRMAN, in giving the toast of the even ing—" Prosperity to the British Orphan Asylum" —said there were at least two kinds of institutions for charitable purposes about which there could be no doubt, viz., hoipitals for the relief of sufferers and asylums for the relief of orphanage. There was one peculiarity belonging to this institution which rendered it especially deserving of attention, viz., that it was designed for the assistance of those who had formerly moved in a better station in life, and who through misfortune had fallen into poverty and distress. In his opinion there was no institution that more fully deserved the sympathy and support of the benevolent, and he had found, from a visit which he had paid to the asylum a day or two ago, that the building was magnificent, was , admirably kept, and was in all respects so well officered as to place it amongst the best organised charitable in stitutions in this country. It was gratifying to find that at the last Oxford middle-class local examination three of the boys from the asylum had carried off three of the highest prizes. He now invited attention to the fact that, although one gentleman had manifestly paid all the expenses connected with the purchase of the new building at Slough, it should be remembered that the money supplied by that benevolent person was an in vestment, and that the institution was just as de pendent as it ever was upon the charity of the public. The asylum was in need of funded property as shown by the fact that while the annual income was £2,350, the average expenditure was £6,000. The noble duke concluded an eloquent address by stating that, however useful might be the pecuniary result of these annual dinners, it did not furnish the true source of the prosperity of such an institution. The only regular and certain support to which they could permanently look was in a large number of annual subscriptions, however small the amount, and he cordially appealed to the present company and their friends to assist in providing the institu tion with the only satisfactory means of placing it on a solid and permanent .basis. The speech was re ceived with enthusiastic marks of approval, and im mediately afterwards the children of the asylum sang Muller's glee of " May Day," in a manner which testified to the skilful teaching they receive. The subscriptions announced amounted to about £lOOO. The musical arrangements were under the direc tion of Mr. R. Seymour, who was assisted by Miss Rose Hersee, Miss P. Lisle, Mr. Lawler, and Mr. M. Watson. COUNTRY MARKETS. LEEDS-TUESDAY. The arrivals this week are not large. For good qualities of either old or new wheat we have had a fair consumptive demand, at the full prices of Tuesday last, but there is little inquiry for common qualities. Fine barley as before; other sorts slow sale. In other articles no alteration. The average prices for the week ending April 9 were :—Wh c at, 47s Old per qr.; barley, 39s ; oats, 28s. BRISTOL—TUESDAY: At onr market to-day there was no alteration, except that there was perhaps a little more inquiry for wheat. L IVERP 0 OL-T UESDAY. The arrivals from Ireland and coastwise have been in significant. At this day's market there was a fair attend ance of the town and country trade, and more disposition to buy was evinced. Wheat met with a good consumptive demand, and in some cases id to 2d per 100 lb advance was paid for fine qualities. Flour was more inquired for, and anything offering cheap was readily cleared off. In oats there was no change to note, but oatmeal was rather dearer. Beans brought a trifle more money, and barley and peas sold at fully late rates. Indian corn was more inquired for, and a good business was done in it at 28 s 6d to 28s 9d per 4801 b for mixed American. MELTON MOWBRAY. -TUESDAY. White wheat, 49s to 55s ; red, 42s to 48s per 36 stone. Barley for malting, 34s to 38s per qr; feed, 30s to 32s per 30 stone. Oats. 27s to 345. Beans, old, 50s to 525; neW, 43s to 47s per qr. MARKET HARBOROUGH.-TUESDAY. Old white wheat, 50s to 54s ; new red. 445t049s per 3 6 stone. Barley, fine, 41s ; other kinds, 28s to 34s per 30 st. Oats, new, 22s to 28s ; old, 29s to 33s per qr. Beans, olds 48s to 518; new, 42s to 45s per qr. SHEFFIELD -TUESDAY. Red wheat, per load of 3 imp. bushels....l7B 61 19s 6 1 White do do ....19s Od to 21s ot l New red do do ....16s 6d )7 8 6 4 New white do do 'Bs Od 208 01 Beans do Peas, per qr Grinding bar ley, per qr d o .. . . 3 1i s s s 0 0 0 d d d 34 1: 0 : s LI Malting barley, t o 3Bs Od 41s Od Oats, do 27s Od 3 28 04 F10ur....1s td to 2) Od per 141 b, Foreign Mail Packet List MAILS DUE. Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton....... April 19 Ditto, via Marseilles April 13. Brazil and Cape Verde. by British packet. ..... May 4. Ditto, by French packet Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena April 23 Uhina. Penang,. and Singvore. via Southampton April 19. Ditto, via Marseilles April 13 Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton.... April 19 Ditto, via Marseilles India (B3mbay), via Southampton April i 3. Ditto, via Marseitles Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton kpril 13. Ditto, via Marseilles A pril 13. Mauritius, via Southampton Ditto, via MarseilLe 3. Newfoundland , May 9. Portugal Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon.. United States and British North America, by Bri tish packet Ditto. by United States packet, via Southamp- ton • • Ditto, via Cork O •• • Ditto, by Canadian packet, via Londonderry.. April 13. West Indies and Pacific (except Bahamas and Honduras) A Cuba and Mexico 3. Bahamas, via New York . • Bermuda, via Halifax West Coabt of Africa. Madeira, and Teneriffe MMlaarayyt.i Apri1:1 33293 Births. GULLY —On the 9th inst., at 40, Oxford-street, Liverpool, the wife of William Gully, Esq., barrister-at-law, of a daughter. POWELL—On the 9th inst., at 6, Park-road, Stoke NeW ington, tho wife of L. Powell, Esq., of a son. ROGET—On the 9th inst., at 4, Upper Westbourne-terrace, the wife of J. L. Roget, Esq., of a son, stillborn. TOTTENHAM— On the 9th inst., at 57, Belgrave-road, the wife of Lieut.-Colonel Tottonhaw, M.P., Scots Fusilier Guards, of a daughter. Marriages. HOARE—DAVIS—On the ith inst., at Christ Church, Cannes , Samuel, eldest son of J. Gurney Hoare, of Hampstead, Middlesex Esq., to Katharine L. Ha r t, e ld es t daughter of R. V. Davis, of Frognal, Hampstead, Esq. MONCRIEFF — OUNYNGHAM—On the 3d inst , at St. 11 et e A r't4 Church, Edinburgh, Hen r y J . Moncrief, Esq., „ LL.B., eldest son of th e Ri g ht H on. J . Moncrieff, Lor Advocate of Scotland, to Susan Wilhelmine, t hi r d daugh ter of Sir %V. H. Dick Cunyngham, Bart., of Prestonlield, Mid-Lothian, N.B. COPE MAN — On the sth inst at his residence, Deaths. Norwich, M r . J o h n C opem . an, aged 88. DO NALD — On the 31st ult., at 16, Grafton-street , Fitzroy" square, W., London, J. G. Donald, Finart, Gre enock. JAMES—On the Bth inst., at Sherborne, the Rev. T. Ja mes, M.A., r ec t or o f Lillington, Dorset, aged 72. MooRE---On the 7th inst., at Pippbrook Ho use, Dorking/ Mrs. Hannah Moore, aged 47 . s urr ey_road, London : Printed and Published by WILLIAM ANDRE 11 2 g. o f No. 112, Strand, Planter, at TIT ' Sur; 01noo, No. 1. Sid, in the Precinct of the Savoy .in the County 01 Bliddlesoz.—Wednesday, May 1',1666.