The Sun. — London, England, 1866-02-20 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence. An order received at Chatham garrison, by tele gram from the Horse Guards, directs two officers and 50 skilled sappers and miners of the Royal En gineers to be held in immediate readiness for special service—it is understood in Ireland. On receipt of the ;order at Brompton-barracks the men were immediately selected, and were yesterday medically inspected. They have been placed under orders to leave the garrison at a few minutes' notice. Capt. and Brevet-Major Bent, Lieut. Wright, and a detachment of 50 picked non-commissioned officers and privates of Col. Gardner's sth brigade, Royal Artillery, left head-quarters, Woolwich, on Sunday, under special orders from the War Depart ment, and proceeded to the Euston-square Station on their way to Pigeon House Fort, Dublin, to be placed at the disposal of the General commanding the district. Yesterday an order was received at Chatham gar rison directing the head-quarters and service com panies of the 72d Highlanders, which arrived a few days since from Bombay in the chartered troopship Tweed, to proceed this day to Edinburgh, where the regiment will be quartered. The 72d will leave Tilbury at 1 p.m. this afternoon by special train, and, after resting four hours at York, will arrive in Edinburgh at 6 a.m. to-morrow. The strength of the eighth companies which arrived from India is 12 officers, 27 sergeants, 21 corporals, 14 drummers, and 316 rank and file. Two of the depot compa nies of the 72d Highlanders have already arrived at Edinburgh from Portsmouth. Capt. John Hallowes, 87th Royal Irish Fusiliers, has succeeded Capt. Jackson as instructor at the military gymnasium, Chatham. ; ,,Capt. R. H. Stot herd, Royal Engineers, has been ordered to join at Chatham, for service at head-quarters. Lieut. C. K. Brooke, Ist Battalion 15th Regiment, has joined at Chatham, for service with his depot at that gar rison. Lieut. Mill, 2d Battalion 2d Queen's Royals, has received ordersto join his depot at the garrison, and Capt. J. T. Twigge, Royal Engineers, to pro ceed from head-quarters to Manchester. A draught of 70 non-commissioned officers and men of the 29th Regiment, at Chatham, has been placed under orders to embark for Malta, to join the service companies at that station. The screw line-of-battle ship Meeanee, 60, 400 horse power, Capt. G. Wodehouse, which arrived at the Nore a few days since from the Mediterranean, as previously reported in The Sun, was officially in spected on Saturday by Vice-Admiral Sir C. Talbot, K.C.8., Naval Commander-in-Chief, and his suite previously to being dismantled and put out of com mission. In the course of his inspection the Vice- Admiral visited the principal portions of the ship and mustered the whole of the crew, whom he saw exer cised at quarters. Before leaving Sir C. Talbot ex pressed a favourable opinion of the condition of the vessel. The Meeanee is a teak built ship, constructed at Bombay dockyard, and is a sister ship to the ill fated Bombay. From her age and the length of time she has been in commission, she is anything but sound, and it is, therefore, not at all probable she will be again placed in commission. A considerable portion of her stores have already been sent to Chatham, and she will at once be stripped in the great basin, preparatory to being paid off. At Portsmouth on Saturday, on board the armour plate proof ship Thunderer, a plate 9in. in thickness from John Brown and Co., Atlas Steel and Iron Works, Sheffield, and one 6in. in thickness from Chas. Cammell and Co., Cyclops Steel and Iron Works, Sheffield, were put through the customary firing test, in accordance with the new conditions of trial re cently established by the Admiralty, and both plates proved of excellent manufacture. They represented the armour now being manufacted by the two firms named for the Hercules, broadside gun frigate, ordered to be commenced at Chatham dockyard from designs furnished by Mr. E. J. Reed, Chief Constructor of the Navy. The trials were conducted under the supervision of Capt. A. C. Key, C. 8., of the Royal Naval College, and H.M.S. Excellent ; 8 -inch spherical shot were fired at the plates, with 131 b. of powder, at a distanceof 30ft. Messrs. J. Brown and Company's 9-inch plate is the first of that thickness of metal which has yet been tested at Portsmouth, and considerable interest was therefore felt as to the manner in which it would resist the shots—taking a 6-inch plate under fire as a means of comparison. Twelve shots were fired at the plate, all overlapping each other at the edges of their blows, and the three central shots being delivered on the centre of pre vious shot-indents. The damage inflicted was trif ling ; in fact, after the plate had been struck by the first four shots it seemed to be improved by those which followed. There was no sign of a crack on the face of the plate at the conclusion of the firing, while the greatest depth made by the shots in the centre of their indents in the cluster of shots-marks was only 21in. A ship clothed with such armour -would be as impervious to 8-inch shot fired from 95cwt. smoothbore guns as she would be to snow balls. The target, which was built to represent a section of the ship's side for which these six and nine inch armour-plates arenow being manufactured, and that afterwards gained such fame at Shoebury ness as " The Hercules Target" in the latter part of last year, by its successful resistance to the Arm strong 300-pounder gun with its enormous projec tiles and powder charges, and its subsequent contest with the Armstrong 600-pounder, or " Big Will," was faced with its 8-inch and 9-inch plates—to the excellent quality of which the successful resisting power of the target may justly be attributed—by Messrs. Charles Cammell and Co., the makers of the 6-inch plate tried with Messrs. Brown's 9-inch plate on Saturday, and the sharers with the latter firm in the Admiralty contract for the supply of the armour-plating for the Hercules. During the past week the Ordnance Select Com mittee have been engaged at Portsmouth in wit nessing some very interesting and important shell practice against the old experimental frigate Ame rica, on the upper waters of Portsmouth harbour. The motive of the experimental firing was the selec tion of one percussion fuse, available alike for rifled or smooth-bore guns, that should supersede the varied descriptions of shell fuses now issued to her Majesty's ships. The practice in the harbour at the America has been concluded, and so far the Petman fuse has proved to be superior to all others, and, with im provements lately introduced in its action and con struction by Mr. Petman, it appears to possess the peculiar qualities required for a percussion fuse sup plied for universal use with all guns in her Majesty's navy. The second and concluding course of the experimental firing will consist of shells fired en ricochet over the Horse and Dean Shoals, off Ship head, the harbour having no length of range for such practice. The Wivern, 4, turret ship, Capt. H. Burgoyne, V * C., sailed from Portsmouth on Saturday for De vonport. Sh e is complete in her turret equipment, with theireafrornirieti. 12}-ton smoothbore guns and their new iro n ag The new coastguard s, oatsotnguaercl. screw steamer Imogen, a vessel of 30 built a for the Admi ra lty by White, of C owes , and fitt e d w ith screw endues of 50 horse power no m i nal, bYe of essrs. John Penn and Son, made her official tri a l mea sured mile at Stokes Bay yesterda y, Bed over the eut. J. B. Portsmouth Michell, of her Majesty's ship mi a,all ll . command of the vessel, and the o ffi cers of steam factory and reserve conducted the trial. Th 12ft of water aft, and Bft 5' Imo gen drew In forward , rigged and complete for service, with all h er stores on board. She attained a mean speed of 9.7 knots. The Racoon, screw corvette, 22, Captain Count Gleichen, arrived at S p ithead from the Mediterra nean during Sunday afternoon from Gibraltar, sail ing thence on the 12thinst., and bringing toEngland a number of military and naval supernumeraries. fte Topaz°, 31, The crew of the screw steamri a eu at Plymouth, were in- Capt. W. M. Dowell, C. 8., spected yesterday by Capt. F. 13 • P • Seymour,C.B., of the flagship Royal Adelaide. Her Majesty's 17-gun sloop C hanticleer , Capt. W. H. Fenwick, from the Mediterranean, having been dismantled and discharged her stores at Woolwich, will be paid out of commission this morning. The sister ship Zebra, from the West Coast of Africa, was yesterday docked at Woolwich, for the purpose of carrying out the alteration and repairs detailed in a former number of The Sun. The War Department steam storeship Lord Pan- THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 20, 1866. mure yesterday steamed up to Millwall, from Wool- Pier (Railways) and the Mid Wales. In the cases with, and entered the ironworks and shipbuilding of the Blyth Valley and the Worksop and Doncas company's dockyard there, to be fitted with ne w ter there were no appearances. The Salisbury and boilers and have her engines overhauled. She is Dorset Junction was adjourned to the 21st inst. likewise to be thoroughly repaired and coated with The Bristol and North Somerset (Bristol lines) Peacock's composition anew, which will require a until the 29th, and the . Bridport, Lyme, and South month's docking. Coast until the Ist of March. The Tavistock and The sailing transport ship Thessalia, in the service Gunnislake was postponed. of the War Department, has sailed from Woolwich The following railway bills complied with the Arsenal, laden with hutting materials, for Bermuda. standing orders before Mr. Frere :—Cashel Junc- The Investigator, laden with a similar cargo, for Bermuda, is also ready for departure. tion, Waterford, New Ross, and Wexford Junc tion, Colnbrook, Belfast Central (Belfast Corpora _ . The following appointments were made yesterday at the Admiralty :—S. Libby (b.), master, to the Victory, for service in the Black Eagle ; H. A. Easther and T. H. Flood, second masters, additional, to the Princess Royal, for disposal ; A. Hackman, second master, to the Hector ; J. T. Partridge, second master, to the Achilles, and J. Knight, first class assist.-engineer, to the Topaz. tion) ; and the London and South-Western (addi tional powers). There were no appearances put in for the Hollywell Port, Holloway and Metropolitan Junction, Cray Valley, and the Tyne, Wear, and Tees. The cases of the West Cork, Cork and Ban don, Cork and Kinsale Junction, and Cork and Macroom direct (arrangement) was postponed, and the Merthyr, Tredegar, and Abergavenny was ad journed until Monday, the 26th inst. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. - NORTH LONDON. The report of the directors states that the traffic receipts for the past half-yearamounted to £109,785, and for the corresponding half of 1864 to £93,832, showing an increase or £15,953. The large increase in the receipts from passengers was in a great mea sure attributable to the City Extension line, which was opened for passenger traffic in November last. The working expenses for the same period were £62,679, as against £51,331 in 1864. A half-hourly service had also been established over the Hampstead Junction, and the North and South Western Junction Railways, the expense of which was considerable ; the re ceipts for working these sections of the company's system were increased by £3,374. The passenger traffic over the City Extension line had been such as fully to bear out the original estimate, and there could be no doubt that so soon as the goods station of the London and North-Western Company was completed the receipts from both descriptions of traffic together would secure to the proprietors a good return, notwithstanding the heavy cost of the line. The conditions under which the preference shares were issued provide that the interest thereon should not become chargeable against revenue until after Dec. 31, 1865, and the directors therefore pro posed to carry forward a large portion of the in creased receiptsin anticipation of this charge, which would come into operation during the, present half year. Dividend and interest on the increased capital raised by ordinary shares and debentures had been charged against revenue from the date of issue. After providing for debenture interest, the net ba lance to the credit of revenue was £43,885, from which the directors recommended that a dividend be declared at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum, leav ing a balance of £4,585 for the current half-year. The capital account showed that £2,613,207 had been expended, leaving a balance of £4,156. It was proposed to raise £150,000 additional capital by the issue of ordinary shares. CORNWALL.I The report of the directors states that during the half-year ended 31st Dec. last £11,570 of 4/ per cent. guaranteed perpetual preference stock was issued, and a like amount of the 6 'per cent. prefer ence shares were redeemed. During the same period £88,819 of debentures were paid off and £75,460 raised on debentures. Notwithstanding the high rate of interest current the whole of this sum was obtained at a rate not exceeding 41 per cent. Aspecial agree ment had been entered into with the Government, the effect of which was to place the dockyards and gun-wharf at Keyham in direct communication with the Cornwall and other railways of the district. The Keyham branch was now in course of construc tion. The percentage of working expenses for the half year had been 54.06 as against 56.05 in the corresponding half of 1864. The surplus applicable for payment of interest and preference charges bad been increased to £23,040 from £20,684. After providing for those charges the deficit for the half year was £6,503 as compared with £8,428 in the corresponding period. The traffic receipts for the past half-year amounted to £50,159 against £47,071 in the same half of 1864, £40,716 in 1863, and £36,485 in the same half of 1862, the expenses being £27,119, £26,387, £22,588, and £1,8,961 respec tively. The surplus also being £23,040, £20,684, £18,128, and £17,524 respectively. With the con currence of all the parties interested, it had been agreed that with regard to locomotives, the South Devon, the Cornwall, and the West Cornwallßail ways should be worked as one system, and that, after making due allowance for interest on capital, the locomotive expenditure should be carried to one ac count and divided between the three companies in proportion to the number of miles run on each sec tion. The directors believed that this arrangement would cause a considerable reduction in the expenses of the locomotive account. EDINBURGH AND BATHGATE. The half-yearly meeting was held at Edinburgh on Friday ; Mr. Hamilton in the chair. The report proposed the usual dividend of Gs. per share. Along discussion took place on the question of receiving or adopting it, and it was resolved simply to receive it. The meeting was then made special to consider the proposed amalgamation with the North British Railway. The CHAIRMAN stated, in consideration of the large majority of proxies held by Mr. Hill against their views in this matter, the directors had resolved to resign office. He then proposed that 5 per cent. be accepted, with a security on the line, as the condi tion of amalgamation with the North British. Mr. HILL moved an amendment, to the effect that the company accept of 5 per cent. duly secured, which was to be increased to 6 per cent. within three or four years, the company remaining as creditors without amalgamation. Mr. BARBOUR alluded to the increased value of the line from the greatest development of the oil and shale district, and stated that the line would shortly form part of one of the direct lines between Edin burgh and Glasgow. The Amendment was carried, and a vote of thanks to the chairman concluded the proceedings. DUBLIN AND BELFAST JUNCTION. The report of the directors states that the traffic during the past half-year produced £43,760, being an increase of £5,739 as compared with that for the same half of 1864. The traffic receipts for the year 1865 amounted to £80,471, against £74,031 in 1864; and the expenditure to £43,447, against £45,612, the net income being £37,024 for the year 1865, and £28,419 for 1864, showing an increase in receipts of 76,440, and a decrease in expenditure of £2,165, making together £8,506. The total income of the company amounted to £44,539, and the total ex penditure to £22,233, leaving a profit on the work ing of £22,306, which, with £1,899 brought from last account, made a disposable sum of £24,205, out of which the directors recommended a dividend at the rate of 4k per cent per annum less income-tax, leaving £4,552 for the current half year. The charge for interest on loans showed a decrease of £2,471 as compared with the same half of 1864. PARIS AND ORLEANS. The receipts on the old lines of this company for the week ending the 4th of February amounted to 1 ,391,090 f. (£55,644),being an increase of 162,312 f. (X 6,492) as compared with the corresponding week of last year. The receipts from Jan. 1 to Feb. 4 amounted to 6,851,56]f. (£274,062), being an in crease of 6 21,500 f. (X 24,860) as compared with the corresponding period of the year 1865. The re ceipts on the old lines show au increase of 60,234 f. (£2,400) on the week, and of 231,995 f. (£9,280) since the Ist of January. GRAND TRUNK OF CANADA. The traffic receipts on this company's lines, in the week ending 27th January, amounted for local passengers to £3,988, for foreign passengers to £1,371, for mails, &c., to £976, for local freight and live stock to £3,540, total £23,715, against £20,251, for the corresponding week of last year, showing an increase of £3,464. RAILWAY BILLS. Yesterday the following bills complied with the standing orders before Mr. Smith :—The Heysham Parliamentary Reform. A deputation from the city of Glasgow waited upon Earl Russell yesterday, at his official residence in Downing-street, Westminster, to present a me morial agreed to at a large public meeting held in Glasgow, on the subject of Parliamentary Reform. There were present on the occasion—Mr. R. Dalglish, M.P., Admiral Erskine, M.P., Mr. M'Laren, M.P., Mr. Craufurd, M.P., Mr. Crum- Ewing, M.P., Mr. Graham, M.P., Mr. Potter, M.P., Mr. Baines, M.P., Colonel Sykes, M.P., Mr. GOvan, Mr. Cranston, Mr. Campbell, Mr. Muir, and Mr. Pearson. Mr. DALGLISH, having introduced the gentlemen constituting the deputation, read the memorial, which, after setting forth the reasons why a reform in the representation of the people in the Commons House of Parliament was essentially necessary to the good government of the country, concluded by calling on her Majesty's Government to introduce a bill having for its object the extension of the franchise to £lO rental in counties, and £6 rental in cities and boroughs, together with a more equable distribution of seats. Mr. GOVAN said he had been appointed as one of the working classes of Glasgow to represent that body on this occasion. He need not dwell on the necessity of Parliamentary Reform, or the justice of the popular demand for an extension of the franchise. These points had been conceded, and all that was required of him to do was to ask his lord ship to exert his powerful influence to enact a Re form Bill that should be liberal and substantial. The meeting at Glasgow was attended by persons of all classes and of various shades of political opinion ; yet, with a view to bring the question of Parliamentary Reform to an harmonious settle ment, they had consented to a compromise, and had expressed their willingness to accept a £lO franchise in counties and a £6 fran chise in boroughs. He considered this limita tion both reasonable and fair. There would be no danger in basing the suffrage on these grounds. The working classes had no interests inimical to those of any other class in the community. All they pos sessed and all they sought to acquire was intimately bound with the welfare of every other class, and, therefore, any extension of their possessions and acquirements could not fail in promoting peace, virtue, and equity throughout the land. Mr. CRANSTON observed that in constituting a new 'franchise he believed the working classes would prefer having it founded on the rental rather than on the rating. With regard to a new distribution of the Parliamentary districts, great good was an ticipated to result from any measure that should have that object in view. The abuse would then no longer exist of some places with a constituency of only 350 electors sending to Parliament as many members as other places where there was a consti tuency of 3,000. As long as that system continued no good could be hoped for by any alteration of the franchise. It was said that the working classes had shown considerable apathy on the subject of Reform; but this might be accounted for by their having been disappointed in the non-fulfilment of the promises which had been held out to them ever since 1832, and which had finally driven them into the forming of trades' unions, co-operative societies, and to self legislation. By these means they had reduced their hours of labour, and at the same time raised their daily wages. It was from the Legislature they had been taught to expect those benefits, but they had at length discovered that they could do it better for themselves ; and hence the alienation of classes. They saw the influence of the working classes in France, and yet they were not more intelligent or patriotic than the working classes of Great Britain. It was the same in America, and yet the working classes of this country were quite as good citizens as they. They, therefore, with the greatest respect and confidence, called upon his lordship to introduce a measure of reform that should be effectual and lasting. Mr. CAMPBELL thought the present a most oppor tune moment for introducing a Reform Bill, inas much as his lordship's Government was strong, not only in the majority it possessed, but in the sym pathy and confide nce o f th e peop l e. Th e antece d ents of his lordship end of many members o f th e Govern ment gave the people a right to expect that their interests would be properly attended to, and the question settled in order that public men might be able to devote their time and attention without dis traction to those other important questions which concerned the general welfare. Because, after all, Parliamentary Reform was but a means to an end. Mr. MUIR said that while the people of Glasgow differed very widely with each other on points con nected with Parliamentary Reform, yet they were willing to come to a compromise and to assist his lordship with all their might in carrying a £6 rental franchise in boroughs, and a £lO rental franchise in counties ; at the same time they were all of opinion that no such measure would be satisfactory without a redistribution of seats. He trusted that the mea sure to be proposed by his lordship would be such as again to awaken the enthusiasm of the country. Mr. GRAHAM, member for Glasgow, strongly sup ported the views of the memorialists, both as regarded the reduction of the franchise and the redistribution of seats. Whether those two objects should be the subject of one and the same measure was a ques tion which he was sure the confidence of the coun try would leave entirely for his lordship to decide. At the same time, he would suggest one considera tion of no slight importance. If his lordship and the Government were satisfied that they could carry simply a measure for the reduction of the franchise, and in so doing perhaps even strengthen their means of afterwards dealing with the ques tion of redistribution, by all means let them take that course ; but if they had reason to doubt their ability to lower the franchise even by a sepa rate measure, it would then certainly be much to be regretted, not only that the question of Parlia mentary Reform itself should be turned over to their political opponents, who, in the case supposed, necessarily become the Government, but that that Government should have it in their power to point to an imperfect measure of Reform as that which had been introduced by their predecessors. It would be much better that the Liberal party should now introduce such a measure as that even, if defeated, no party which might succeed them in office should be able to point at as a defective measure. Mr. DUNLOP, member for Greenock, said that with regard to the redistribution of seats the people of Scotland attached great importance, as many parts of that country suffered gross injustice from the undue influence given to certain places by the present system. He therefore thought the two sub jects might be combined in one measure, and then if the Government were defeated, they might ap peal to the country with greater hope of success, inasmuch as they would be able to say that they had brought forward a perfect measure of Reform. If, however, his lordship thought a different course was desirable, and that a bill limited to the question of franchise simply, not only with the intention but with the certainty of carrying it, then he believed his constituents would be ready to support the noble lord in supporting that course. But with regard to the extension of the franchise he was afraid he could not promise similar forbearance. Anything like a greater franchise than that of a £6 franchise his con stituents would not feel disposed to accept. Mr. M'LAREN, member for Edinburgh, said a very large portion of the people of the city of Edin burgh were in favour of Parliamentary Reform, and would support the Government in extending the franchise and redistributing seats, whether in one or two bills, according as the Government might think proper to adopt. Earl RUSSELL said he had listened with great at tention to the observations which had been addressed to him, and while making some remarks in reply, he, in the first place, must observe that it was not in his power, neither was it his duty, to state to them the nature of a measure to be introduced by a member of her Majesty's Government in his place in Parlia ment. Any measure, however, which the Govern ment might introduce would be founded not upon what might have been done in any other country— whether in France or in the United States. They were not then discussing the nature of the Parlia mentary institutions which the people of France might possess, or which the people of the United States might possess. He thought it would well become them, having had a representative Consti tution for 600 years, to found any amendment it might now require upon the principle of that old Constitution, and not to depart from that which which their ancestors and their own experience had taught them, and go to foreign nations or modern representative systems, to attain a knowledge of what was required for the improvement of their own. With regard to the question of Parliamentary Re form the deputation would agree with him that there must be many elements considered when determin ing what should be the representation of the coun try. Numbers and population must be considered, property must be considered, and intelligence must be considered, and not only intelligence, but local circumstances must likewise be taken into account. If, for instance, they were to adopt a plan of repre sentation entirely upon the principle of numbers, and to give to each place what its numbers required, this great metropolis would have about as many mem bers as the whole kingdom of Scotland ; but con sidering that the great interests of the metropolis were not more varied in their nature than the vari ous interests of the people of Scotland—though the population might be as great, an arrangement must be made with a view to a fair representa tion of the interests of the whole United Kingdom. They had not, however, at present to deal with any theoretical question, but to consider the present state of affairs. In 1830 and 1831, when Lord Grey laid his propositions before Parliament on the subject of Reform, the abuses in the representation were of so gross and so glaring a nature, that, as soon as the subject was broached by the Govern ment, with the authority of the Crown, the cry ran all through the nation with a flame of enthusiasm sufficient to carry the proposition at once. But in those days Gatton and Old Sarum, without any in habitants, were entitled to send members to Parlia ment ; while Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham, and various other flourishing towns, h ad no mem bers whatever. It was so striking au abuse that the people were quite willing, when the matter was taken up by Government, to agree to reform that state of things. But the present state of things was totally different. Whatever abuses or defects existed in the present representation, they were different in degree, if not' altogether different in kind. It had seemed to him, he confessed, for some years, considering what they had done in 1832, that it was a very obvious and a very pressing defect in the representation that skilled artisans in the towns —men industrious and enterprising, virtuous, and intelligent, were to so great an extent excluded from exercising the franchise at elections. It had been maintained that any skilled artisan could by indus try and prudence occupy a £lO-house, and thereby obtain a vote ; but he was convinced that no well conducted artisan who wished to give his family that amount of respectability in point of clothing, and that degree of education which his posi sition in society entitled him to do, could afford to give £lO a year for a house in addition to those expenses. But he would not now discuss that ques tion ; it was evidently a matter for considera tion. A measure had been framed, and he would not anticipate its discussion. As to a redis tribution of seats, that question did not appear to him to involve a defect so obvious, or to require so immediate a remedy as that of the franchise. It was, at the same time, a question of considerable diffi culty. When Lord Derby introduced his bill on Parliamentary Reform, he proposed that one mem ber should 'be taken from each of 15 boroughs and be distributed among the large towns that were not represented at all, or wereinadequately represented. That, he thought, was a proposition hardly suffi cient to give the measure a permanent character. But, on the other hand, if they went so far as to say that the number of representatives should be exactly in proportion to the number of the population, it would be so great a change that it would be entirely out of the question to believe it could be carried. Without saying whether it would be advantageous or mischievous, it would be quite hopeless to carry any such measure. On the question of the bill it self he did not intend to say anything definite—for while considering the measure they had a right to reserve to themselves their own opinions. He re membered saying many years ago in the House of Commons that they were like bees working in a glass hive. All their proceedings were exposed to public view ; but he had heard that the bees adopted the precaution'of filling up that part of the hive which was not dark with wax, so that their proceedings might not be seen—a very proper pre caution. So he and his colleagues had determined to imitate the bees and not expose the honey till it was ready to be gathered. Mr. DALGLISII then thanked the noble lord, and the deputation withdrew. Agricultural Prospects. Sunday week opened with a very wet day and a terrific gale; wind from S.S.W. to S.S.E. ; thermo meter 43 degs. ; barometer 20.05 inches. Monday was fine in the morning, then thick, but subse quently held up, with the wind being from the N.W., and some little appearance of frost at night. On Tuesday morning there was a slight tinge of snow on the ground, with a fine dry day, the second in succession, and on light soils spring tillage was proceeded with. From Suffolk it was stated : " The weather has been wet and stormy, but just now we have a little appearance of frost, which would prove highly beneficial." From York shire, of the same date, " We have frosty weather, and strong snow storms since 2 p.m." From the East Riding, " Weather up to yesterday was more like spring than winter, and the unusual mildness of the season has forced forward vegetation prema turely; but to-day a sharp frost has set in, and a continuance of it is very desirable." From Northum berland it was remarked, "The weather since our last continues unsettled, but mild, with westerly gales up to Saturday afternoon, when it turned cold, with a change of wind to the east, and a great deal of rain fell. Since yesterdayit has been fine and frosty, with N.W. wind." O n W e d ne sday morning a white frost was visibl e , b u t t h e w i n d being back to the south, a return of rain was experienced in the after noon, and the evening was very wet ; thermometer 34 deg., barometer 29.65 in. Several farmers in the light land district had made a good beginning in the morning and had hoped to go on, but the sudden change put a stop to their proceedings. Carting of manure to the meadows had made no progress, and the farmers were becoming more anxious, as it is high time this work should be accomplished before the grass gets too high. The change in the tempera ture will, how ever, g i ve a seasona bl e c heck, and be consequently very acceptable. On the west coast of Scotland, on th a t d ay, the wea th er was reported to be cold, with a h eavy f a ll o f snow . Thus the pro verbial changes of th e we ather in the month of Feb ruary are being e x p er i ence d, an d we may yet have a little touch of wi n t er f ar th er south. There has been no favourable opportunity to thrash wheat, and the condition of nearly all samples now brought to mar 'had few parcels can be obtained fit for the ket use d o a f mp m millers. Such as have bought new qualities, and put them on one side for improvement, have been wof ally disappointed, for they have " none off," and are worse for keeping, and must be kiln dried, to make them immediately usable. There is a complaint from many markets that a sufficiency does not come out to supply our present wants; and those millers near ports where old foreign qualities can be obtained are now resorting to the lowest markets to obtain more of this description than they have taken for some time, while during spring tillage they will have to take much more, or let their mills stand still. In many low parts of the country, where the waters are out so much, there has been a complete stop to mills worked by water power, and many of them have stood still since the heavy fall of snow in January, when floods were more general than usual. On Thursday the morning was thick, wind W., ther mometer 37 deg., barometer 29.50 in., with rain again at night ; still in Norfolk we understand fair progress has been made with sowing barley on their lightest soils. Farmers who have to buy this corn for seed will do well to secure fine qualities imme diately, or they will have to contend with an infe rior sort. Our Suffolk advices from that date say— " During the past week the weather has varied much, wet predominating; the last few days have been colder, with frost at night." Friday was a thoroughly wet day, wind W.S.W., barometer 29.60 in. Of course all field work was stopped where such was the state of the weather. Our accounts received on that day from Warwickshire, state—" We have had changeable weather during the week. A good deal of rain has fallen, and in some districts the land has been flooded for a con siderable time. The wheat plant is generally, up to the present date, reported healthy." From Lin colnshire it was stated—" The weather keeps fine, and a short crop of turnips is wonderfully favoured thereby. No sowing yet ; land too wet. Wheat looks well." The continued favourable reports of the wheat plant, after so much wet weather, must be attributed to the extensive drainage so generally resorted to, and wet seasons will consequently not be so much feared as was formerly the case. On Saturday morning the wind was round to the north ; the day was cold and dry throughout ; thermometer 38 degrees ; barometer 29.80 inches ; and in the evening the wind blew from the north. A continuance of this sort of weather would be most acceptable to the farmers and beneficial to the trade generally.—Mark-lane Express. SPIRIT OF TEE PUBLIC JOURNALS. THE " SATURDAY REVIEW" ON M. DE BOISSY.— The Marquis de Boissy has fired off his annual popgun on the subject of England, and France, and things in general. His dislike of the English has been excited to an almost extraordinary degree this year by the friendly festivities of the allied fleets, and by the conclusion at which he has arrived, after prolonged conferences with his maritime friends, that, though the French ships are as good as ours, the English guns are incomparably better than the French. He is proud to be able to announce to the French Senate that, if he knows anything of France, the recent demonstrations of friendliness are the merest hypocrisy, and that unabated enmity con tinues to flourish between the two nations and their two navies. He trusts that the day will yet arrive for a descent upon the English coast. If ever that improbable event occurs, we can only say that we hope, in our turn, that the Marquis de Boissy will be in the van, that he will give us as much quarter as can be reasonably expected from so prodigious a warrior, and be content with taking us all prisoners. The programme to which he invites the attention of the Senate and the Imperial Government is indeed a remarkable one. First and foremost figures a rupture with our perfidious selves. Fenianism de serves to be encouraged, and M. de Boissy, who in his lucid intervals appears to be a pious person, thanks Heaven that England is about to undergo the misery of internal revolution. But England is not the only country on which he has got his eye. The annexation of Belgium forms the second part of his plan. And here M. de Boissy takes occasion again to reprehend the hypocritical benevolence that has characterised the language of those high in authority on the other side of th Channel. The French Emperor has expressed to the present King of Belgium his sympathy and condolence on the death of the venerable King Leopold. The French Emperor has done wrong. Ever since the Treaty of Vienna, Leopold was an enemy of France; and when M. de Boissy sees an enemy of his country " stricken down by the justice of God," M. de Boissy "cannot weep." " Je ne pleurniche pas un De Profundis; non; je chante un Te Deum. Je ne pleure pas quand ii meurt, je m'en rejouis." Lan guage so revolting to common decency provoked the ill-concealed impatience of M. de Boissy's audience. Ministers, Bishops, and Senators rose to protest against the outrage offered to humanity and cour tesy ; but M. de Boissy is accustomed to continue in spite of interruptions, and he did not pause in his triumphant course till he had thrice routed the absent, and as often trampled on the dead. Like Alexander, he then sighed for victories over another world. Turning to the Americans, whom he cha racterised as a brave but brutal nation, and one whose sole redeeming point is their antipathy to all that is English, he proceeded to regret the close of the bloody war. His prayer to heaven, he acknow ledges, would rather have been that the Americans might go on slaughtering one another until the French troops were safely out of Mexico. There is no difficulty in believing that such sentiments are the genuine fruit of M. de Boissy's gentle bosom, but when he assures us that he speaks the real sen timents of France, we must be pardoned for suspecting that he is not a specimen of French legislative manners. If ever the time comes for such ideas to become popular across the Channel, our French neighbours will have for ever forfeited their right to be considered a civilised and gallant nation. It is curious to learn that M. de Boissy, with all this bravado, does not speak of much per sonal dignity. Once or twice during his singular harangue he entreated the indulgence of his brother senators, on the quaint groun d t ha t h e is but a " little fellow." Lord Macaulay s New Zealander, should he ever come across M. de Boissy's sp eec h, and be ignorant of everything about that gentleman except what he learns from its contents, will natu rally come to the conclusion that he is pursuing the political manifesto of both a furious and a small sized monkey. ' THE " SPECTATOR" ON THE EMBRYO REFORM BILL.—Lord Cranbourne and his co-catechists, Mr. Bouverie and his co-confessors, managed to make the Government feel a good deal more uncom fortable yesterday week, concerning that unfortu nate little Reform Bill which they have so rashly promised without any:conviction on the subject, than they have yet been. The truth is that the Govern ment are a good deal in the position of the princes or princesses in the fairy tales who are bound to have an opinion on the solution of some detestable enigma by a certain moment, on pain of losing their heads, and who are quite unable to have any opinion at all, if it were to save their lives. There is a Ger man story of a horrid little imp who is to annex the Queen's baby at a given date, unless in the interval she can guess his name, and who goes about in the interval singing to himself in private and solitary places—" To-day I brew, to-morrow I bake, the next day a little stranger bring ; little does my lady think my name is Rumpelstiltzchen." But in that case the Queen is fortunate enough to have an emissary in a solitary wood, who overhears the little wretch, so that she knows his name in due time, and she keeps her little stranger to herself. We fear that will not be the fate of her Majesty's Govern ment. Mr. Disraeli has this advantage over the little imp in question, that he does not know the talismanic name himself any better than the ad visers of the Queen, who are bound to guess it by a given time under pain of losing their " little stranger," and probably their life too. So he can not, fortunately for him, confide it to himself and be overheard by the emissaries of the Government. Nobody seems to know what the answer to this terrible sphink riddle is, and, what is worse for the Government, nobody seems to care. Every one explains to them with exquisite candour what the magic formula to be attained is like, how it must be a comprehensive formula that will satisfy the thoughts of many hearts, but not a too comprehen sive formula that will satisfy the thoughts of too many hearts. In the meantime the miserable Go vernment send out their emissaries in the dim hope that some information may " turn up" some reve lation of the magic formula, and tell all inquirers in the House of Commons that they are writing for "returns." Lord Cranbourne presses innocently to know—" what" ret'irns? Sir G. Grey cannot ex actly tell -what. If he only knew what returns are really wanted, he would perhaps not need them at all. The unfortunate emissaries are prowling for information, the unfortunate Go vernment hoping they may be able to have a sort of opinion whenever the prowlers come back. But on the whole they are very much in the position of Mr. Micawber, who, when his friends recommended him to engage iu carrying coals on the Medway, im mediately " ran down to take a look at the Med way." The friends of the Government have recom mended them to do something with the franchise, and they have at once sent out emissarries " to take a look at the franchise." This sort of thing never comes to any good, and we fear it is now but too evident that we shall get no Reform Bill worth dis cussing out of the Government as at present con stituted. Mr. Bouverie and Sir H. Hoare, both good Liberals, and probably, speaking for a large number of other equally good Liberals, declared yesterday week that they would have nothing to say to what is called a " single-barrelled" Reform Bill, that is a Reform Bill which only opens the question of Reform, instead of closing it. We think they are perfectly right. What the country wants now is not men who will try to guess the incommunicable secret of what the country wish, for the country do not know what they wish on any point except one —the only one on which the Government are dis posed to thwart them—that they do wish to have an equitable arbitration, which will lay the question for a generation at least to rest. We need in this matter a Government with a conviction. Almost any moderate conviction covering the whole subject, expressed with weight and carried with a high hand, would have a fair chance of success. So weary is the country of being asked to decide a matter on which it is really not profoundly interested enough to decide, that any moderate opinion strongly and authoritatively expressed, backed by the whole weight of the Administration, and sensibly dimi nishing the two principal grounds of complaint which now exist against our representative system, would have doubtless a very fair prospect before it, whether it complied with the conditions laid down by the soundest political thinkers or not. But that it must sensibly diminish both the ground of com plaint urged by the working classes—that they are not at all represented—and the ground of complaint urged by the Northern capital and intelligence— that it is represented with absurd insufficiency, and without any proportion at all to the variety and magnitude of its interests and importance—this is to us quite evident. Without providing some alleviation for both evils, any alleviation applied to either separately would only open the prospect of a longer and more exciting agitation on behalf of the other. As Sir H. Hoare, we think, suggested, and Mr. Bright has virtually admitted, that is precisely what the Radicals wish. They want to let off only one barrel now, in order that they may have all the other barrels of the revolver undischarged for the greater emergencies which may be expected in future. But then that is not what the country wish. There is but one point on which the mind of the country is clear, and that is to do such justice that it may get fairly to work at the ends of legislation without being pestered any more for the time about the mere means and machinery. For our own part, we think the £6 franchise—whether rental or rating—bad in itself—quite insufficient for the immediate object of giving a substantial representation to the working classes, and very dangerous in its ultimate logical results. Moreover, if it is to stand alone, it will aggravate the other evil, which it does not directly deal with—that evil of small corrupt boroughs—by introducing a new class of ignorant and corrupt voters into them. So that what the Government really propose is a hesitating and uncertain treat ment of a double disease, in a way likely to alleviate for the moment the symptoms of one, to aggravate permanently those of the other, and certain ulti mately to introduce a third disease. A physician who should treat a man suffering from neuralgia and a very irritable stomach, with opium, so as to soften the pain of the neuralgia, aggravatethe weak ness of the stomach, and form a habit of dependence on opium as a nervous stimulant, would certainly be thought a very bad physician, and it seems to us that this is what the Government propose with re spect to reform. They should not have promised a bill at all, without a sincere and almost imperious conviction on the subject. The weak tentative atti tude which they are now taking injures them seri ously as a Government with the country, and holds out no hope of a special success with regard to the particular measure. When will they learn that a teacher must speak with authority if he hopes to make learners learn ? A schoolmaster asking his class what they would like him to say, is not a more deplorable spectacle than that presented by Lord Russell with regard to reform. " THE READER" ON SHAKSPERIAN LITERATURE. —The most wonderful thing in reference to Shaks pere is that astonishing mass of mingled erudition and rubbish which we have heaped up in his name. We have buried him under a mountain of annota tion, conjecture, and bibliographical romance, such as the world has never seen before, and has little chance of ever seeing again. No man living, although he may have devoted his life exclusively to the subject, is acquainted with the full extent to which we have carried this mania. There is hardly a particle of Shakspere's life and writings which has not been made the subject of independent ana tomical investigation in books, pamphlets, periodi cals, papers read at learned societies, and lectures delivered in every city, t own , an d hamlet in the kingdom. The confidence with which opinions have been asserted concerning him is not more re markable than their infinite variety and divergence. One writer maintains he was a Roman Catholic, another that he was a Protestant, and both with equal vehemence and a tolerably equal display of evidence worth nothing. Literary ingenuity has passed through all the horrors of the rack to deter mine the profession or occupation to which he was bred, and which he abandoned for the vagrant life of a player. Thus Shakspere has been represented by different writers, on grounds so loose that they might be appropriately called shifting sands, as having been in his youth a schoolmaster, a dealer in wool, a butcher, a lawyer's clerk (upon which conjecture Lord Campbell condescended to enter the arena), a sailor, a soldier, a botanist, a chemist, and a medical student. He cannot have avoided all these callings—he may have been engaged in one or two of them ; but not an atom of proof can be adduced that he ever belonged to any of them. The tales, novels, love-pamphlets, and histories upon which be founded, or is supposed to have founded his plays ; the old plays he worked up into new ones; and the books which conjecture sets down as forming his " library," have each and all of them supplied topics for endless treatises, and disserta tions. His " learning" has given employment of the gravest kind to the critical faculties of Farmer, Prescott, and Whalley, who concur Only in spurning the authority of Ben Jonson and Aubrey, who must have been better informed on the matter than any of them. His " ignorance" is just now occupying the attention of Mr. Walter Thornbury, who is publishing a series of papers on things concerning which Shakspere is silent, and which he is therefore presumed to have known nothing about. This is, at least, getting into a new region. Having pretty well exhausted the things Shakspere knew, we are now invited to consid er th e thi ngs h e did not know. Upon miscellaneous subjects, general and special, there is no end of books. One writer has published " Reflections from Shakspere's Cliff, with a Glance at Calais Cliff ;" which latter eminence must have been discerned through the " mind's eye" of the reflector. Another admiring student collects Shakspere's " Moral Sentiments and Similes," and ruminates thereupon. Ulrici and Rudloff composed elaborate treatises to show the relations of Shakspere to Calderon, Schiller, and Goethe. Mr. Townsend wrote a book to prove that he was " not an impostor ;" and Mr. Smith wrote another to prove that he was Bacon. Mr. Green dedicated a volume to the genealogy of his crab-tree ; and Mr. Patterson another to the natural history of the insects mentioned in his plays. Drake and Douce, and a hundred more, have dug up and illustrated every imaginable feature of his " Times," an expansive field, to which there appears no limit, and which you may plough for ever without reach ing the bottom. His gleaners and collectors are as multitudinous as midges in the sun. One collects his jests, another his proverbs, a third his aphorisms, a fourth his wit and wisdom, a fifth and sixth, more excruciating than the others, his " Pearls" and " Beauties." Ayscough, Twiss, and Dolby have compiled Indices of his works ; Becket and Clarke Concordances ; and Dictionaries of Quotations crop up as fast as mushrooms. As to the editions of his Plays we say nothing. His sonnets have given birth to a distinct race of commentators and critics —Boaden, Barnstorff, Brown, Bolton Corney, Chasles, and we know not how many more. It is Babel travestied amongst those gentlemen. Schlegel and Coleridge differ from Hallam ; and no two are found in perfect agreement. Chalmers thinks that the sonnets were addressed to Queen Elizabeth ; Tyrwhitt, Farmer, and half a dozen others, think that some of them were addressed to a man, but differ as to which ; and Mr. Brown is at consider able pains to prove that they are not sonnets at all. The controversy about Mr. W. H., the " begetter of the sonnets," is simply chaos. Who was he ? Hart, a nephew of Shakspere's, says Farmer ; a man of the name of Hughes, says Tyrwhitt ; the Earl of Southampton, says Drake ; the Earl of Pembroke, says Brown ; and no other than the " divine Williams" himself, says Herr 13arnstorff. Go IT, Dizzy !—ln office and out of office (says the Saturday Review) Mr. Disraeli has of late years shown a consistent form of versatility which has become simply tedious. Bland, courteous, deferen tial, almost " 'umble" to foes as well as friends, he has by this time played out that game. He must come out in some other character during the present session. An Opposition leader cannot afford to sink into au accepted bore. Mr. Disraeli is now fairly pitted against one whom he must, whether he wills it or not, treat simply as an equal. The genius which quailed before a Palmerston must assert itself against a Gladstone, It is open to Mr. Disraeli to repeat his old strategy, and to bait the leader of the House of Commons nightly. Perhaps, however, the day for this sort of thing has gone by. Mr. Disraeli is no longer young, and his powers of secreting sarcasm may be enfeebled. But anyhow, if Mr. Gladstone is as thin-skinned and irritable as the tiger he has with the tiger's temper, much of the tiger's strengih of claw and jaw. It may not be as safe to poke up Gladstone as it was to snarl at the pachydermatous reel. One thing at any rate is certain—Mr. Disraeli must come out. There is one political virtue which he has not yet simulated in all its completeness: it is that of calm, solid patriot ism. He might try that character. Yet his rehearsal for the part in the theatre of Oxford, when he came forward as the mere obedient son and orthodox in terpreter of the faith, met with such a merry recep tion that it may be doubted whether he will con tinue in the part. And as he has exhausted all that artistic dulness could do for him in the Way of attracting confidence, he will perhaps find it, after all, most convenient to fall back, if he can, on his old brilliancy. The fingers may be stiffening, and the powers of patter may be less ready than they were ; but to a veteran actor an old sham is better than a new one. Moreover, a great party is not slow to discover that, if the candle won't shine, it must be snuffed out ; and Mr. Disraeli has not (tome to this. He must do something in the next five months, and whatever he does will relieve the ses sion from that dense cloud of stupidity which has of late years befogged Parliament, and from that dul ness to which he has himself so largely contributed• COUNTRY MARKETS. NORTHAMPTON—FEn. 17. New white wheat, 43s to 47s ; new red, 39s to 46s ; old white, 48s to 50s; old red, 45s to 47s per 36 stone. Barley for malting, 37s to 40s per qr. ; grinding, 26s to 378 per 30 stone. Oats, old, 30s to 34s ' • new, 20s to 28s per 24 st one. Beans, old, 46s to 50s ; new, 86s to 40s per 38 stone. Feast 34s to 39s per 36 stone. COL CIIES TER-FEB. 17. -------- - - Wheat was in moderate supply, but business was &Met for anything in fair condition. Barleys of all description° against the buyer. Beans and peas at last week's prices- Wheat, white 40s 54s Beans, Mazagan...... 33 3 red 36s 48s Middle and 5ma11..35s 403 Barley... 2Bs 40s Peas, white. 383 42 3 Oats .......20s 25s 403 CHELMSFORD—FEB. 17. Yesterday the condition of the wheat brought forward was bad in some cases, and in these instances trade Was very slow at is to 2s per qr. under the prices of this day week ; for samples in good condition, however, late rates were maintained. Barley good supply and unchanged. Wheat, old white....4ss 52s Peas, Partridge 378 426 new ..436 506 White ....308 390 old red 393 436 Bc.iling 38s It new. 358 398 Dun.... ..... — 3lO ''" Barley.... 24s 31s dit t o, new....--6 -- . 2 Chevalier 276 19s Beans, Tick, old --MO Ji° Grind.ng . e3s 6s new....-8 • Malt sBs 60s Harrow Licks.3ss — 0 Chevalier Us 623 new....-8 -0 Oats .. 206 266 Mazagan . 328 331 GRANTHAM—Prs. 17. • Old white wheat, 54s to 535; old red, 48s to 528 ; new white, 50s to 56s ; new red, 43s to 48s per 36 stone. Der" ley for malting, 36s to 40s per qr. ; grinding, 28s to 80s Per 30 stone. Oats, old, 28s to 308 ; new, 20s to 26s per 24 stone. Beans, old, 46s to 50s; new, 408 to 448 per 38 stone. Peas, 35s to 39s per 36 stone. ABERDEEN—FEB. 16. The deliveries are limited. There were very few sal: c l at our market to-day, and previous rates may be quo ted for all grain. White wheat 40s Od to 48s Od t 621 b v b us hel. Red wheat 40s Od to;4ss Odj , Potato oats 23s Od to 24s Od? 40th 1 1 9 bushel. Common oats 22 s Od t o 22 s 6d Bere 28s Sd to 29s Od t 63 ft , T i bushel. Barley 29s Od to 30s Od) Oatmeal 1 7 Od t s 6 d too 3 1 88 sOd s Od Flour, fineV ll sackb°ll of 140• 21gibib: 37s KIRKCALDY—FEn. 17. • Good supplies of wheat, barley, and oats. Sales readY. Wheat unchanged. Barley 1s per qr dearer. Oats w ell at previous rates. Wheat. Barley. Oats. 43s 0d ' 33s Od 1 24s Od t.eecnd 448 6d 1 358 Od 248 6d Third 46s 6d 36s 6d 268 Od COAL MARKET. Price per ton at the close of the market, s. d. d. s. Buddle'sWestHartley 16 ; South Hatton ......... 11 0 Tanfield Moor Butes 15 „ South Kelloe ......... Wharneliffe ............ 1 0 `i Hastings Hartley...... 1 , 6 0 Holywell Main......... 1 1 , 3 Davison's W. Hartley 10 0 Cassop .... .• 15 9 Hetton Lyons .........• 9 East Hartlepool ...... 1! 9 Walls End Gosforth 1 0 0 Framwell gate .......... . 16 157 ; sold, 105. Hetton . 17 6 Shaw's Hartley lB 6 Hartlepool Pittington l4 6 Stewart's Walls End Haswell... 18 0 Eden Main Kelloe Thornley' N.S taffordshire 17 0 Tunstall Wylam l7 0 Heugh Hall l6 9 Ships at market, Foreign Mail Packet List MAILS DUE. ---- - Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton Mar. 2 3 ' Ditto, via Marseilles Mar. 16. Brazil and Cape Verde. by British packet Mar. d ' Ditto, by French packet Feb. 2 2 - Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena Mar. 24 * China. Penang,. and Singapore. via Sout hamp ton Mar. 5. Ditto, via Marseilles Feb. 27 ' Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton . Feb. 2 8 - India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Mar. 5 Ditto, via Marseilles India (Bombay), via Southampton. Feb. 28 - Ditto, via &larcenies Feb. 22 Mauritius, via Southampton Mar. 1 0 Ditto, via Marseilles. Mar. 10 ' Newfoundland •• 4 I 0000000 Mar. 14 Portugal •••• OO •••••Mar & 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 • .... Ditto, by Canadian packet, via Londonderry. • Feb. , 2 West Coast of Africa. Madeira, and Teneriffe ...... Ma r. ' West Indies and Pacific (except Bahamas, Cuba, and Mexico Ft b. 28 Cuba and Mexico Bahamas, via New Y ork• Mar. e• Bermuda, ditto Iliac. 14 ARMY CLOTHING AND EQUIPAGE,—The Govern: ts' ment has stored in what was th e A rmo u r y-square riot of at Washington 450,000 p a i rs arm y s hoes, one room f u "" boots, 70,000 jackets, 150,000 shirts, 60,000 80,000 overcoats, 35,000 axes, 25,000 shovels, 40,000501 tents, 75,000 knapsacks, and similar immense quantities ioa other articles of clothing and camp equipage. The WlA° is valued at about 815,000,000. 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