The Sun. — London, England, 1866-05-24 00:00:00

Railway and other Companies. GREAT WESTERN. A Wharncliffe meeting of this company was held yesterday at the Padelington Station; Mr. D. Gooch, M.P., in the chair. Mr. Saunders, the secretary, having read the notice convening the meeting, The CHAIRMAN stated that of the 21 bills on their list five only were promoted by or in connexion with the Great Western Railway Company, and of those only three were now ready to submit to the proprie tors for their approval. The other 16 bills on the list were promoted by other companies, and required the approval of the Great Western Company. The first he had to submit was a bill for conferring fur ther powers on the Great Western Railway Company in relation to their own undertaking and the under takings of other companies. After some explanations, a motion approving the bill was agreed to. wharf, The next was a bill for making a railway, and depot in Bristol, to connect the existing railways with the floating harbour, and for granting certain powers to the Great - Western and Bristol and Exeter Railway Companies, and to the mayor, aldermen, and burgesses of the city of Bristol with reference thereto. This was also approved, the subscription being £60,000. The next bill approved was a bill for making a railway from the South Wales'Railway, near Swan _ sea, to Clydach, and for other purposes. The following bills, promoted by other companies, were also approved :—A bill for converting the estuary of Barrylsland, in the county of Glamorgan, into a tidal harbour, and for constructing works in connection therewith; a bill for making railways from the Great Western Railway near Drayton, in the county of Middlesex, to Clonbreok and to the Windsor branch of the London and South Western Railway at Staines ; a bill for making a railway from Ellesmere to Llansaintffraid-Glyn-Ceiriog and for other purposes ; a bill for authorising the Lon don and South Western Railway Company to make and maintain the Brentford curve and the Kew-bridge curve, and other works, and for autho rising arrangements between them and other com panies, and for authorising a lease or transfer to them of the Okehampton Railway, and for the in crease of capital ; a bill for conferring additional powers on the Midland Railway Company for the capital, for giving effect to arrangements with_ the Great Western Railway Company in reference to lines and stations at Malvern ; a bill for making a railway from the Great Western Railway to Wan tage, in Berkshire ; and a bill for making railways from the South Wales line to the Coleford, Mon mouth, Usk, and Pontypool Railway, and to the authorised line of the South Wales and Great Western Direct Railway, and for other purposes. The Wharncliffe meeting was then adjourned to the 7th of June next. A special general meeting was then held, and the directors were authorised to raise £300,000 for the general purposes of the company, under the powers of the Additional Powers Act, 1865, to be entitled to a preferential dividend not exceeding 5 per cent. per annum. The proceedings then terminated. METROPOLITAN. A iVharnc,iffe meeting of this company was held yesterday at the London Tavern ; Mr. J. Parson in the chair. The secretary having read the heads of a bill to confer additional powers on the Metropolitan Rail way Company, to enable the company to alter and improve portions of their authorised works, and to acquire additional lands to extend the time for com pleting certain works. The CHAIRMAN explained that certain alterations and improvements were to be made at Bishop's-road and Finsbury. They had to improve the stations and ventilate them, which became the more neces sary the greater number_of trains they ran. They had to enlarge the stations at Baker-street, Gower-street, and Portland-road. Their traffic had doubled, and the increase was still going on. He moved a formal resolution approving the bill, which was carried. The meeting was then made special for confirm ing the agreement between the Metropolitan and Metropolitan and St. John's-wood Railway Com pany. _ _ After a discussion the agreement was confirmed, and a vote of thanks to the chairman closed the proceedings. SEVERN JUNCTION, A special meeting of this company was held yes terday at the offices, Victoria-street ; Mr. Tootal in the chair. The following bills were approved :—A bill to enable the company to construct branch railways to the South Western Railway and the Forest of Dean Central Railway ; and a bill for changing the name of the Thames and Severn Canal Navigation to the Thames and Severn Railway and Canal Company, and for authorising them to make and maintain the Thames and Severn Railway, to abandon part of their canals, and to raise further moneys. ISLE OF WIGHT. A Wharneliffe meeting of this company was held yesterday at Great George-street, Westminster, Mr. Huish in the chair, to consider a bill for making a railway and central station and erecting slaugh terhouses at Hyde, in the Isle of Wight. The CHAIR3IAN, in moving a resolution approving the bill, stated that it was promoted by indepen dent parties connected with the pier interest, old and new, in Hyde. The motion was adopted, and the meeting sepa- rated. LONDON, WORCESTER, AND SOUTH WALES. A Wharneliffe meeting of this company was held yesterday at Westminster-chambers, Sir C. Brough ton in the chair. The CHAIRMAN said the two bills which he had to submit to the meeting were for enabling the com pany to make deviations and alterations in their authorised railway, and for making a railway from Worcester to Tenbury, to be called the Team Val ley Railway. He moved a resolution expressing approval of the bills. The motion was agreed to, and the meeting sepa rated. EASTERN BENGAL. Yesterday the half-yearly meeting of th is com pany was held at the London Tavern_mrl J. L. Leith in the chair. The report, an abstract of which has appeared in The Sun, was taken as read. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, said the undertaking was steadily progres sing. The receipts for the half-year ending Dec. last showed an increase over those of the corresponng half of 1864. They were fortunate in being able to tallow such a result, considering the failure of the jute and rice crops in Bengal. It was o n the j ute TOP they ' depended for the merchandise they c arried. The larg er in the K? third proportion of the passenger traffi c was and fourth classes, who had suffered in consequ ence the want of th of e t o h r e d yoverty among them caused by standing this there i h uary supplies of food. Notwith standing been a considerable increase over the corres had not this of last year. They ,000 ecl. that carriage of opium year secured that which gave them 42 expanded to general traffic had rs, in the past year, yet the leave no reasonable doubt that they such an extent as to would earn during the current half-year net reven ue therevenue ffi half-year capital. sufficient The to pay a dividend of 5 per cent. on ne t receipts of the corresponding w ere £24,65 2 . The g ross r eceipts during: e the same ar of 1 864 per i o d which were not in the report we re up to 1865, 624, 725 r5. , and the working expenses w Dec.', 339,949r.i., sho win g the profits at 284;176r5. , againste 236,204 1 7 g, of the corresponding half-year ending Dec., 1864,..and the gross earnings in 1864, up to the end of Dee., Were 509,811r5., and those to Dec., 1865, were 624,72.5r5-, showing an increase in the latter of 114,914r5., Or 22.5 per cent. When the feeder roads which Governglent had not made were made they must expect an increase in that traffic. With regard to -.91e receipts per train mile, they bad in the half-year ending Jail., 1865, Bs., and on Dec. 31, 1865, 75., sot hattheyhad, taking the correspond ing half-year in 1 864, made a great advance. They wished to increase their terminal convenience in Cal cutta, and they had intended to have sidings attached to the canal, in order that they might hip more goods to the river, and they would then Le enabled to carry teas of India from the tea d'stricts which had formerly been carried by water, and which would then be carried by their line. They were building stores also for receiving goods and exporting them. The steamboat service had been working favourably, and they brought from various parts of India goods on their railway which otherwise could not reach them. The report was adopted, and a vote of thanks to the chairman terminated the proceedings. RAILWAY BILLS. The railway bills introduced this Session, but al ready withdrawn, comprise the following :—The Axholme and Marshland, the Channel Piers and Ferry, the Gravesend and Farningham, the Hamp stead, Holloway, and Kingsland, the Hull, West Yorkshire, and Lancashire, the Kilburn, the Maccles field, Buxton, and Sheffield, the Midland and Great Western Junction, the Metropolitan (station con necting lines No. 1), the Manchester and North Lancashire, the Melton, Loughborough, and Ashby de-la-Zouch, the Penzance and St. Just, the Shrews bury and Potteries (extensions), the Waterloo and Whitehall (extension to Newington Butts), the Barnet, Hendon, Hampstead, and London, the Caledonian (Glasgow lines), Caledonian (Greenock and Gourock), the Caledonian (Stonehouse and Galaton), the Downs Dock and Canterbury Junc tion, the Epsom Downs, the Rosherville, the Wy combe, Marlow, and Uxbridge, the Bangor and Llanberis Direct, the Caledonian (extension to Largs), the Caledonian (works at Dundee), the Callington and Central Cornwall, the Fareham and Netley, the Monnow Valley, the Rostrevor Exten sion, the Sedbergh and Hawes, the South Stafford shire and London, the Vale of Llangollen, the Ban bridge Extension, the Brighton Pneumatic, the Brecon and Merthyr Tydvil Junction (capital), the Exmouth and Budleigh Salterton, the Glasgow Union and Suburban, Glasgow and South-Western (Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Junction), the Great Northern and Manchester and Sheffield (Haxey and Goole), the Grangemouth, the Maley, Thorpe, and Walton, the Navan and Kingscourt (Castleblaney extension), the Newry and Greenore, the North Surrey, the Bishop's Castle, the Newry and Ar.. magh, the Pontypool, Caerleon, and Newport, the St. Bride's Bay, the Tyne Valley, theWensum Val ley Extension, the Blyth Valley, the Brecon and Merthyr Tydvil Junction (amalgamations), the Caledonian (KilsytA branches), the Caledonian (Edinburgh and Larbert Junction and ;branches), the Cambrian (Docks, &c.), the Clapham and Lon don-bridge, the Cray Valley, the Great Northern (Hertford to Stevenage), the Havant, the City, Kingston, and Richmond, the Hambleford and Droxford, the Holloway and Metropolitan Junc tiou, the Holywell Port, the Middlesborough, Stock ton, and Billingham, the Midland and South Wales Junction, the South-Western and North British Junction, the Tyne, Wear, and Tees, the Wolver hampton and Bridgnorth, the Worksop and Don caster, the Dublin, Rathmines, Rathgar, and Rath gachan, the Wolverhamton and Walsall, the Shef field Buxton, and Liverpool, the Calcutta and South-Eastern, the Skipton and Ilkley, the Stock bridge, the Devon and Somerset (Amendment of Acts), the Calne, the Bristol and North Somerset (Southern Extension), the Cambrian (Steamboats), the Hampstead, Highgate, and Charing-crosA, the London, Bucks, and Gloucestershire Junction, the Neath and Brecon, Central Wales, &c. (Amalga mation), the Great Eastern, Great Northern, and Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, the Great Great Northern and Great Eastern Arrangements (Spalding to Lincoln), the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire and Great Eastern, the Maryport and Carlisle, the Ross and Tewkesbury, the Wilt shire, the Andover, Radstock, and Bristol, the Cambrian (Amalgamation), the Castle Cary and Langport, the Salisbury and Dorset Junction, and the Ely Valley. In all 94 bills thus appear to have been withdrawn out of 417 deposited, leaving 323 for consideration. Of these the follow ing have already failed in their passage through Parliament :---The Wimbledon, the Great Western and Brentford, the Mid-London, the London and Worthing Direct, the London, Chatham, and Dover (new lines), the Croydon Direct, the London, Brighton, and South Coast (Surrey lines), the Lon don, Croydon, and Caterham Junction, the Cleve don and Portishead, the Hadlow, the Sandown and Newport (Isle of Wight), the Ardrishaig and Loch Awe, the Birkenhead and Liverpool Junction, the Birkenhead and Liverpool, the Bristol and North Somerset, the Bristol Port Extension, the Cork Harbour and Curraghbinny Extension, the Craven Junction, the Crystal Palace and South London Junction, the Devon and Cornwall, the Devon and Somerset (Deviations), the London Railways Gas, the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire (spuri ous Bill), the North and South Wiltshire, the North Wales, Birkenhead, and Liverpool, the Rochester Docks (Railways), the Sirhowy (Extension), the Skipton and Warfdale, the Somerset and Dorset and Bristol and North Some/set, the Swansea Ge neral Station and Hotel, the Tavistock, and Gun nislake, the Wrexham, Mold, and Connah's Quay, the Balham and Clapham, the Metropolitan and Epsom, the Swansea and Canal Transfer, the Brecon and Merthyr Tydvil (northern lines), the City and London Bridge ; the Croydon, Mitcham, and Kingston ; the Potter's Bar, Barnet, and Hen don Junction ; and the Bromley, Farnborough, and West Wickham. We have thus a total of 43 Bills rejected, leaving 280 Bills still pending. Last year 276 Bills received the royal assent. OVEREND, GURNEY, AND CO. A meeting of shareholders convened by Messrs Sheppards, Pelly, and Allcard, was held yesterday at the London Tavern, for the purpose of forming a new company to preserve the goodwill of the late establishment ; Mr. Miles Coventry, a holder of 40 shares, was called to the chair. Mr. SHEPPARD said he had a plan to propose which he hoped would meet with the support of all present with a view to preserve the goodwill of the busi ness. He had consulted with a number of share holders, and his firm felt that, as brokers to the old company, they ought to do everything in their power to benefit the shareholders. The company had given £500,000 for the goodwill of the business of Messrs. Overend and Gurney, and there could be no doubt that it was a good business, and he be lieved it was well worth what they had paid for it. He had sent circulars to the 2,300 shareholders, con sisting of bankers and others, with a view of obtain an expression of opinion as to what should be done. They had received assurances from several that the deposits when realised from the old company would be handed over to the new company. He had no doubt that if the new company were carried out on a proper basis it would be successful. They had already put forth a prospectus for a new company under the Limited Liability in yAlcoto. ,o ` o r o he sh c a a r p es it o a f l I, w l a o s proposed to be £1 ,000,0001 each. The sum of £1 per share to be paid on ap plication, £2 on allotment, £2 at three months, £2 at s ix months, and £3 at 12 m on th s, so that the capital would be paid in full, no additional calls could be made, and no further liability could exist. A clause wouldbecathreaftulifly one-thirdintroduc of the edintotchaepiatra-1 ar ticles of assoc i ation n ra g l t m h e e eting pro perty of the shareholders , and leavin g a largebalance to wind up the company, ul t d spot call r ag e e c n ti e was lost, the directors should thus nt to depositors. The bu siness of the new company would be confined to commissions, and the discount i ng o ofr a t bills dperiods, carefully c re ceiving money on deposit, at call, shareholders of Overend, Gurney, an selected. The shares would be offer d ed fi co. r ( s l t fin t i o te t d h ) e , and those not so applied for would be distributed to the p u bli c by the directors. It was proposed purchase th e l ease of the premises in w hi c h t h e busi ness had b een conducted, and to resume at as ear l y trlbute to d a date as possible. He had received letters from bankers and others as to the absolute necessity of such an establishment in London. It was in dispensable to country bankers. He had had the assurance of Mr. D. B. Chapman, who had retired from the firm some years ago, having been con nected with it fro m 18 17 to 1857, for 40 years, that they had never had any losses, except one from TliE SUN, •.LON.DOIN, THURSOAY EVENING-, MAY 24, 1866. a robbery, which was immediately made good out of the reserve. Mr. OSBORNE said he was co-operating with Mr. Sheppard with a view to establish the new company. If by any means they could preserve the goodwill it would be of great value to those who subscribed to the new company. The £200,000 a year would be worth having. He had no information to give them as to the affairs of the company. They were at present in the hands of Messrs. Coleman, Tur quand, and Youngs, and so soon as a statement could 'be prepared it would be submitted by the liquidators to the shareholders. Several shareholders asked for more information to enable them to decide as to what course they should pursue. Mr. HOARE said he would go and ask the liqui dators any question the shareholders wished answered. He knew that it had been a most suc cessful business, and Mr. Gurney had told him a short time before the business stopped that he pro posed the dividend should be 7 per cent., that £50,000 should be paid off for goodwill, and after that to put aside a very considerable reserve. But the pressure of depositors put an end to the possi bility of going on, and he felt certain that no more information as to their affairs could be obtained at present. [A Voice—" Why not reorganise the old company ?"] He thought that was utterly impos sible. Mr. Gurney was ready to assist them if a strong company could be formed for the purpose mentioned. After some further observations, Mr. SEER said he had come up from the country that morning, and felt much obliged to Mr. Hoare and other gentlemen for their suggestions, but his view was that if £lO or £l5 a share were wanted to resuscitate the company he was sure it would be forthcoming, and he for one would gladly pay it. (Hear, hear.) The concern was only stranded, and it only required sufficient capital to float it again. (Loud and continued cheers.) He then moved that in the present state of their information it was not expedient to launch a new company. The motion was seconded. Mr. SHEPPARD said he had anticipated that view, and had prepared a resolution for that purpose, but, after reading it, Mr. Seer said he preferred his own resolution. Mr.' KINGSCOTE said he had told Mr. Sheppard that he did not know what was hanging over them, but thought it quite possible to revive the business. The subscribed capital of the company was £5,000,000, of which £1,500,000 had been paid up, leaving £3,500,000 to call up. The liabilities were £20,000,000, of which £12,000,000 were on call and notice, and £8,000,000 on deposit of securities. They had taken over £2, 800,000 from the original firm, secured in various ways, £500,000 of which could be realised in six months, and £500,000 more in 12 months, consisting of £300,000 liabilities of public companies, and £200,000 on ships, &c., making £1,000,000 realizable in one year. He pro posed that a call of £5 a share should be made, which would give them £500,000, and they would realise £500,000 out of the other assets, making another £1,000,000. He proposed that they should immediately raise £2,000,000 on loan' for one or two years, and, with a view to carry on the business, to make a further call of £2 10s. per share. This would give them £250,000. The shareholders had given £500,000 for the goodwill, they had £2,800,000 dead weight to meet and realise, and they had no capital to do it with. They were £1,300,000 worse than nothing, so that with the first difficulty they must fall. It was silly to go on in that way, and perfectly natural that such a result should follow. They had £2,800,000 locked up to Irgin with. By getting a few leading bankers to manage their affairs and take matters in hand, with something like what he proposed, they might go on again and preserve their property, but if they did not do that perhaps £lO or £l5 a share would have to be paid to wind-up the concern, while, on the other hand, it would require only a call of £7 10s. to revive the business and to go on. Mr. CIIOSBIE thought it much better to call up £lO a share at once to start the old business than to start a new company. (Cheers.) They - had no business in the Court of Chancery ; the directors should have made calls—even raise new capital on preference shares rather than remain as they were. (Cheers.) A very long discussion then ensued, and various propositions were made, which resulted in a resolu tion to the effect that the meeting be adjourned to enable Mr. Kingscote to select a committee of seven shareholders, including himself as chairman, to make inquiries and take such steps as might be expedient for resuscitating the company, five to be a quorum, and to report the result as soon as possible. It was agreed that no member of the Stock Ex change would be placed on the committee. Thanks were voted to Mr. Hoare and Mr. Shop pard for their exertions, and a resolution requesting the directors to call a meeting of the company as soon as possible was carried unanimously. The proceedings terminated with a vote of thanks 1 to the chairman. was 201 b., the pressure of the steam in the boilers 16.251 b., and the vacuum in the condensers 24.33 in. Two runs were made at half-boiler power, with a maximum of 47 revolutions of the engines, and a mean of 45.5, giving an average of 8.329 knots an hour. The engines stopped from the time of moving the telegraph in 21 seconds, started ahead in 10 seconds, and astern in 17 seconds. The draught of water forward was 17ft. 10in. and aft 20ft. The direction of the wind east, the force 6 to 7. The ship was fully rigged for sea, having 230 tons of coals on board. She is fitted with a Smith's propeller, with the leading corners cut off, the diameter being 16ft., the pitch 23ft. 6in., length, 3ft, and immersion of the upper edge lft. 4in. The engines worked very satisfactorily, without hot bearings, the boilers generated a good supply of steam without priming, and so far as the machinery is concerned the vessel is certified as being fit for sea. Her Majesty's 4-gun screw steam-vessel Sylvia, recently built at Pembroke-yard, and commissioned by Capt. Mayre for surveying purposes, has been brought up to Woolwich by Commander Spain and a crew of riggers and stokers from Devonport, to be completed for service. The double-screw iron and wood gunboat Vixen, of 754 tons, and 160-horse power, and the Viper, 737 tons, and similar horse-power engines, built by Mr. Charles Lungley, at Poplar, andnow in progress of completion for commission at Woolwich, are or dered to be out of the shipbuilder's hands of the yard without delay. The iron paddlewheel vessel Antelope, at Wool wich, having undergone a thorough refit to hull and machinery, is ordered to be prepared for immediate commission, as also are the 17-gun sloops Chan ticleer and Zebra, both vessels being in a forward state, and about to be undocked at Woolwich. The last-named vessels were employed on the Mediterranean station, where they will probably return on being re-commissioned. They will leave Woolwich as well fitted for service as if new. The boiler made some time ago in the factory of Woolwich dockyard after the designs of Mr. Richardson, to test the practicability of burning petroleum for steam purposes, on Tuesday had four fires made under it, keeping up a powerful supply of steam throughout the day for the special inspec tion of Capt. W. Edmonstone, C. 8., A.D.C. to the Queen, and recently appointed superintendent of the yard. The boiler, which appears to have been built on too confined a compass to exhibit the full effect which it is proved can be produced by petro leum fires, has been fitted with tubes for super heating the steam and consuming its smoke. It appears, notwithstanding its small dimensions, to have yielded a satisfactory result, and the general opinion is that a very short time must elaspe before it will become the aclknowledged and universal steam fuel for marine and other locomotive engines. The small labour necessary for lighting and keeping up the fires will render the duties of the stokers very light. The Italian screw' corvette Principessa Clotilde, 20 guns, 400-horse power, Capt. Paoli Caselli, three days from Brest, on a cruise, put into Spithead yes terday morning to take in a supply of coal. On anchoring at Spithead- the Principessa Clotilde ex changed salutes with the main battery of Ports mouth garrison, and with her Majesty's ship Vic tory, Capt. the lion. T. Egerton, C. 8., the flag ship of the naval commander-in-chief, Vice-Admi ral Sir Thomas S. Pasley. The corvette is an unarmoured wooden. vessel, something nearly akin to our own Racoon class. In approaching the Isle of Wight from the Channel she fell in with a dense fog,: and struck the ground once heavily off St. Catherine's, but she is-believed to have sustained no damage. The Liverpool, 34, screw frigate, Captain John Seccombe, steamed out of Portsmouth yesterday to Spithead, on the completion of her repairs and refit, and in passing through the harbour entrance chan nel exchanged the customary salutes with the naval commander-in-chief. Previous to anchoring at Spithead the Liverpool made a trial of her machi nery down the west channel. The invalided troops brought home from India, in the ship Newcastle, as reported in The Sun of yesterday, were disembarked from the ship yester day, at Spithead, and transferred by a Government steamer to the Royal Victoria military hospital at Netley. The Newcastle was to sail from Spithead, for London, last evening, on the turn of the tide. Major-Gen. A. B. Stransham, Inspector-Gen. of the Royal Marine Light Infantry, accompanied by his aide-de-camp, Capt. J. C. Travers, arrived at the head-quarters of the Chatham division late on Tuesday evening for , the purpose of resuming Ws summer inspection of the battalion of Royal Ma rines, in which he had been occupied a few days previously. Shortly after his arrival at head quarters, where he was received by Col.-Comman dant J. 0. Travers, C. 8., and the officers of the divisional staff, Gen. Stranshamvisited the gun-shed battery, where the non-commissioned officers and men of the division were undergoing a course of in struction in the use of heavy ships' guns, under the direction of Capt. E. A. Wilde, the instructor in gunnery to the division. After spending some time in seeing the detachment exercised in manoeuvring, loading, training, and firing the guns, General Stransham returned to the Royal Marine Barracks, where he inspected the books of the battalion. In the evening a banquet was given by the officers of the division to Major-Gen. Stransham, Vice-Ad miral Sir B. W. Walker, Naval Commander-in- Chief, Major-Gen. Sir Robert Walpole, K.C.8., and other officers were present. An order has been received at Chatham garrison directing the following detachments to be held in readiness to embark at, Gravesend for India as soon as the necessary tonnage has been taken up by the Government, to augment the troops serving in the three Presidencies—viz., 3 officers and 60 non-com missioned officers and men of the Ist battalion of 4th King's Own Royals, 1 officer and 35 men of all ranks of the Ist battalion 19th Regiment, 2 officers and 110 non-commissioned officers and men of the 77th Regiment, and 2 officers of the 102 d Royal Madras Fusiliers. By orders received at Colchester from the Horse Guards the undermentioned draughts are held in readiness to embark for India :—For Bengal-41st Regiment, 52 rank and file ; 38th, Capt. Caldecott, Lieut. Sinclair, Ensign Conner, and 100 rank and file ; 82d, Capt. Spencer, Ensign Dixon, and 40 rank and file. For Bombay-49th Regiment, En sign Mayne, 1 sergeant, and 38 rank and file ; 103 d, Capt. Taylor. For Madras-Ist battalion Ist Regi ment, Capt. Steer, Lieut. Keith, Ensign Booth, and 76 rank and file. A draught of the Ist battalion 16th Regiment, consisting of 1 officer, 82 rank and file, 1 woman, and 2 children, embark at Liverpool to-day. Lieut. Reeves, of the 103 d Regiment, has been ordered to join the depot at Colchester. 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Ils 121 b, 225 ; 241 b. 40s.—Barry D u B arry and Co., No. 77, Regent-street, London; also Phillips, tea d ea l ers, 8, King William-street ; lik ew i se at 61, Gracech urc h- s t reet ; 4, Cheapside ; 49, Bishopsgate street Within ; 03, 1 50 , and 298 O x f o rd-street ; 330, Strand ; 54, Upper Bak er - street ; 103 Upper-street, Isli ng t on, N.; ' Harvey, Notting-hill; Close Brothers, 65, High- s t reet ; and Stubbs, Queen ' s-terrace, St. John's-wood, Lo n d on; and all respectable grocers and che mists,—Beware of *uric. Pottenh.im-court - road ; 96 , US iznifationo• SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.. - TIMES.—The House of Commons will return to day to the humbling conviction that life is made up of little things. On the notice paper there are 25 orders of the day, relating to as many bills in pro gress, though the bills, public as well as private, that have become the law of the land since the be ginning of the session already mount up to a consi derable aggregate. Several subjects of importance are now occupying the public mind, among them the reconstruction of our own constitutional basis and the projected Congress for the rearrangement of Europe; but to-day the elephant is notlaunching a ship or tearing up trees by the roots ; it is picking up sixpences and cracking nuts. Here is the pro gramme for this evening's entertainment :—Cus toms and Inland Revenue, Terminable Annuities, Commons near London, Local Government, Belfast Constabulary, Reformatory Schools, Industrial ditto, Nuisances, Solicitor to the Treasury, Companies Acts, Ways and Means, Labouring Classes Dwellings (Ireland), Naval Savings-banks, Lunacy Acts (Scotland), Pier and Harbour Orders, two bills about Fishery Piers and Harbours (Ireland), Railway Companies Securities, Railway Clauses, Bankruptcy Law, Merchant Shipping Act, Poor Law Officers' Superannuation Returning Officers, Tramways (Ireland), Railway Debentures Registry. Upon these, and other bills, as well as upon other subjects of passing interest, there are notices of motions. There is at least variety in the entertainment, though we could imagine men with a craving for the grand and the heroic feeling much like an Englishman at the table of a second-rate German inn, spread with a crowd of small, sus picious, and unintelligible di.9.hes. However, all these bills require care. Every one of them, if passed heedlessly, might make a leak in the Exche quer, or take away the liberty of the subject, or be a means of extortion or an engine of oppression, or become simply waste paper. The British Parlia ment has to pay the cost of its jealousy, and it is a very jealous body. It will insist on doing every thing, as it were, with its own hand, or at least standing by. Accordingly, if there is a mistake in a bill—and there never was a - bill without mis takes of one sort or another—it must wait for a new bill, to be corrected. Before a twelvemonth is over the lawyers will 136 pronouncing many of these bills a folly and an absurdity, if not worse. There is no help for it, for no human intelligence can fore see all the difficulties which a law will not only have to encounter, but will even raise in its own way. To the uninitiated mind it certainly does occur that a great number of public objects, very similar in all respects, might be met by general laws ; and, also, that every power given by law must presup pose an authority capable of applying the law, and competent powers for every means and every pro cess necessary to its execution. Butthe British Par liament consistently and steadily refuses to put a law on its legs in this fashion and let it run alone. What a fuss we have had about Enclosures and the reservation of Commons for public recreation. But there must be something special for the metropolis. We have always prided ourselves on the possession of local. government, but it is by act of Parliament nevertheless, and by 50 acts, and there must now be a supplementary bill ; aye, No. 2 of this session. There is now a constabulary everywhere, so we thought ; but there must be a special act for Bel fast. There are Reformatory and Industrial Schools on every line, and every branch of a line out of London ; but the institution wants its annual re pair, and here are bills for the purpose. Parlia ment has been labouring to remove nuisances, ever since we remember; but "new brooms sweep clean," and here is a new one for the parish housemaid. The " Companies Act" is four years old ! It must be mended. So on of all the bills before us. Every one of them is the tenth amendment, or the twentieth supplement, or the thirtieth superaddition, on the hundredth variety, of some measure once thought sufficient for the day. There are always exceptional circumstances, and Parliament insist in keeping them all within its own cognizance. The Act that did for a fishing pier in One, village shall not do for its neighbour on the opposite shore cf the bay. The pier No. 2 is for different fish, or larger boats, or a current the other way ; or the land is in a dif ferent kind of holdi n g ; or th e o p pos it e i n h a bit an t s, being certain to put different constructions on the same Act, must have different Acts ; or there are. two sets of officers, and it will be impossible to find places for them, except under different bills. We submit' to all this, and accept it. We cannot call it the reign of King Log, for it makes plenty of small agitation, and we are kept in a continual ruffle, though it sometimes degenerates into a muddle. An absolutism to settle all these trifles would be a King Stork, who would soon finish up our troubles, and us with them. What we have to do is to redeem legislation from its continual pettiness, to brush away the flies, and raise a subject here and there into the higher relief it may deserve. As a matter of taste, pleasure, and convenience, one thing is worth more than half-a-dozen even if they can be proved an equal quantity ; and we would rather have to deal with two or three matters at once than with six times their number. The first Order or the Day in the list before us comprises a little world of fiscal reductions, in volving half-a-dozen controversies, unless, indeed, we are simply to leave everything to the Chancellor -of the Exchequer, as the man who must know all about it. The interest of the promised reductions has almost disappeared in their number, for they are grouped in about the same quantity, the same va riety, and the same absence of natural connexion as the groups of boroughs in the Redistribution Bill. We have been told, of course, that some of the re missions have been promised to the Austrian Go vernment, and the matter thus virtually taken out of the hands of Parliament, It is a new dectrine and a new mode of conducting public business, but we will say nothing about it now, for our present purpose is to deprecate a ll sma ll ways o f d o i ng things. For various reasons, we have about the oldest combination of fiscal booms that the most capricious fancy could have devised, the remission of timber duties, special duties on wine in bottle, the duty on pepper, and those on stage carriages and post horses. The reduction on stage carriages is from Id. to id. a mile. Why so much, if not more ? Why touch the duty at all this year, if it is necessary to leave a quarter of it? On the face of the budget, however, it appears that if we could endure to have our pepper still taxed, we might be allowed to use omnibuses and post horses untaxed. The claims of pepper to consideration are, we con fess, new to us ?_ Is there some adulteration or sub stitute, still 'more deleterious than pepper itself, which has to be driven out of the market ? Is pep per too dear? Is it used too thriftily in economical households ? Our own experience is the other way, for if there is one thing which we should have thought to abound in every indifferent kitchen and to lie in handfuls all round the village cook, it is pepper, which must be the general succedaneum for all other defects, and the charity that covers a multitude of bad flavours. Nor are we aware thatit is used more in Ireland than in England. It is easy to do with out pepper, not so easy to do without public con veyances. But this is a large question, and for that reason we would wish to take it as a whole, and so consult the dignity of Parliament. Is not locomo tion so general a necessity in this country that, as far as it is necessary, it should be untaxed ? It is a necessity for many to live in the country without more than one or two neighbours within walking dis tance. Nay, many ladies, who do plenty of work too, cannot walk a mile, or ought not. It is a neces sity for many to spend their hours of business in the metropolis, and the rest of their time in the suburbs, or further off. It is a necessity to many to be always on the move, and almost to live on the rail or the box. It is a necessity for many to live in one part of this metropolis and go to another for work. The Legislature is now assuming that we must have working men's villages miles from their day's work. It is necessary to many to travel for health. The law gives many indulgences to classes and trades, and to particular kinds of vehicles, and the result is that all over the kingdom you meet every half-mile a light trap or spring cart rattling along the road at a good pace, carrying a couple of robust, jolly, red-fac e d f e llows, on some small busi ness errand or other for themselves or a master, and stopping occasionally at a publichouse, while women of almost all ranks of village life, including the cler gyman's wife, are seen toiling on foot, with heavy baskets and parcels, in the sun or the rain. Locomo tion in this country is very costly, not very comfort able, and full of most invidious distinctions. Our ordinary railway trains are costly; the " parliamen tary" most wickedly inconvenient and uncomfort able. The great majority of our omnibuses and cabs are the worst to be found in Europe. An ordinary four wheeler—that is, a wooden box placed on four wheels, with the intervention of four pieces of iron work, called springs—may perhaps save a man 10 or 20 minutes in the distance between Hyde-park corner and the City, yet it will take more out of him than if he did it on foot. The excuse is that the legal fare is low, the expenses are great, and the taxation is heavy. So the man who must be often traversing London, and who cannot afford an easy brougham with a swift and sure-stepping horse, must either walk or contribute to the Exchequer battered nerves, stiffened joints, aching bones, and softened brains by the use of cheap and highly taxed conveyances: If these were untaxed and left en tirely free to public ingenuity and enterprise, there are many conceivable modifications of the existing street traffic—such as different kinds of conveyances for different rates of desired speed and different degrees of human robustness and corporeal endur ance. We confess we care more for smooth and expeditious carriages than we do for cheap pepper, and while we rather prefer soup that does not set one gasping almost before it has reached the mouth, we also prefer to feel quite sure that one's own bones are not being disjointed in a street cab.. Is pepper a necessity ? Is locomotion not a necessity ? So, why is the former tax to be taken away and the latter left on ? We presume there is some sort of answer to this question. POST.—The Cabinets of London, Paris, and St. Petersburg are now making a final attempt to induce the two Great German Powers and Italy to arrange their differences without an appeal to arms. Whether they will accede to the proffered request, and send their representatives to a Congress at Paris, is suffi ciently doubtful ; but whether, in the event of their doing so, the deliberations of the assembled diplo matists would lead to the desired result, is more doubtful still. On the one side, as was justly ob served in a French semi-official journal the other day, France and England and Russia are not likely to engage in a negotiation without a reasonable expectation of being able to carry it to a favourable issue; whilst, on the other, the difficulties in the way of devising some arrangement which would prove satisfactory to all parties seem to be insuperable. That the rival Powers will express their willingness to take part in a Congress is not improbable. A readiness to talk a matter over is not incompatible with a fixed determination to pursue a specific course, whilst an expressed willingness to enter on a discussion is accepted by the multitude as_evidence of being amenable to the powers of persuasion. The bases of the Congress would necessarily be sketched out beforehand; but, although the future destiny of Venetia and of the Danish Duchies might be made an open question, that circumstances would not in itself render it impossible for Austria or Prussia to take part in the deliberations. Every thing in this world has its price, and it is not be yond the boun 3s of possibility that some equivalent might be found which would be accepted by Austria for Venetia, or some inducement successfully held out to Prussia to abandon the fruits of her recent victory over Denmark. At all events, the German Powers might be willing to hear everything which could be advanced on these interesting topics with out prejudice to any steps they might subsequently think proper to take to enforce their own views. It is, as we remarked a few days since, a somewhat novel experiment to endeavour to supersede armies by diplomatists when the question at issue is one of a repartition of territory. Its novelty constitutes, however, no real objection if it promises to be suc cessful. The utter barrenness of the deliberations of the Conference assembled in London during the Dano-German war, necessarily, however, leads us to regard in no very sanguine spirit the probable re sults of the labours of a Congress which will meet under very similar circumstances. In some particu lars, however, this notion of arranging the differ ences of nations at a council table is deserving of notice, and the historians of the latter half of the present century will unquestionably chronicle its origin as one of the distinguishing characteristics of the times in which we live. When Grotius wrote his celebrated work on the jural obligations existing be tween nations in time of war and of peace, the fun damental principle on which his system of jurispru dence rested, namely, that independent States are members of one entire family, was scarcely under stood. Nations then, and indeed from the earliest times, were in the habit of forming alliances for the purpose of overpowering a common enemy, or for the sake of mutual protection, but except when di rectly interested they rarely troubled themselves about the quarrels of their neighbours. Since the growth of international law into a science, and more especially during the past quarter of a century, na tions even the most distant have become so closely united that the effects of a blow struck against one are felt in a greater or less degree by all, and the motives for averting such a blow have become in a proportionate degree shared in by a large number of States. The discovery of steam, the construction of a gigantic system of railways, which seems to set frontier lines at defiance ; the establishment almost universally of a free-trade policy, with the conse quent extinction of all those petty jealousies which even in times of peace induced the best disposed nations to regard each other with aversion and dis like—all these causes have contributed to render the union between different States not merely nominal, but real. To this, we think, must in some degree be attributed the growing anxiety of nations to in terpose when any breach of the peace is threatened ; whilst, on the other hand, the circumstance that wars have become much more costly than in earlier times induces them to endeavour to secure their ends by moral instead of by physical force. Whether the new mode of procedure is likely to be as successful as the old one may, however, fairly be questioned. During the late Polish insurrection England, France, and Austria tried the effect of persuasion and in timidation with singularly unfortunate results, and we all recollect how idle were the protests of Great Britain against the spoliation of Denmark, and how futile the attempts made by the representatives of France, Great Britain, and Russia, in Conference assembled, to secure for that kingdom the undis puted possession of its own territory. It may be very creditable to the age in which we live that when public order is threatened those which may be termed neutral States appeal to moral .force; but neverthe less it must be confessed that up to the present the disciples of the new school have got very much the worst of it. Some persons may even be pardoned for questioning not only the possible success of their appeals, but the expediency of attempting by the ordinary modes of persuasion to induce States to desist from wrongful acts. If one individual of a community threatens another violence if he will not consent to part with his property, we should think very little of the system of jurisprudence which, instead of visiting the offender with condign punishment, devised some mode by which he might secure the object of his wishes without being com pelled to commit a breach of the peace. Yet this is very much what England, France, and Russia are endeavouring at the present moment to do. Prussia desires, in defiance of the wishes of every nation in the world, German or otherwise, to incorporate the Danish Duchies in her territory, and the intervening Powers are casting about to discover some means by which this desire can be gratified without any trial of strength between those who are by virtue of a treaty, as well as by right of conquest, the joint owners of the coveted dominions. Italy has no cause of quarrel with Austria, but she desires to repossess herself of Venetia, from which she had parted for half a century, and one of the duties of the proposed Congress will be to determine the manner in which this desire can be gratified without effusion of blood. We confess we do not exactly see where all this is to stop, if it becomes once understood that it is only necessary for one State to threaten another with an aggressive war in order to secure a Congress, not only for the settlement of the pending dispute, but for that of numerous others which become inciden tal thereto. This is the second Conference which Prussia, by, her inordinate love of conquest, has ne cessitated during the past two years. Opening of Tumuli on the Yorkshire Moors. The range of oolitic hills separating the deep glen of Troutsdalo from the valley of the Derwent is one of the highest ridges of the Yorkshire moors, and abounds with tumuli, the greater part of which had been ransacked by mere curiosity hunters before attention was properly paid to the remains of the early inhabitants of our country. Some barrows, however, remain in this district wholly or in part untouched; and among these, on the estates of the Rev. Charles Hooper Shebbeare, the Rev. Wm. Greenwell, of Durham, has on several occasions made careful exami nations, with a view to the historical illustration of the pre-historic occupants of the country. Of these, three bar rows on Wykeham Moor are known as "the Tremblers,' , and on the southernmost of these the examinations wore commenced. The howe is 98ft. diameter and lift. high, formed of sand. About 16ft. from the outside and upon the surface of the natural ground a circle of stones was found. Outside this circle a trench was cut, and soon after com mencing a few fragments of British pottery were found above the natural surface. These were scattered pieces such as, associated with frequent chippings of flint and charcoal, are commonly found in the materials of ancient grave hills. The first discovery of interest was made 25ft. from the outside of the mound, and south-east of the centre. This was a small cist, 2ft. by 13in., sft from the surface of the barrow and 3ft. above the natural surface of the ground. The cist was formed of four flags —a bottom one, two at the sides, and a cover. In it was a small urn, lying on its side, and full of the sand forming the howe. The " lip " was of more than average width, and was ornamented with three lines of impressed thong, the rim and other parts hav ing similar Ornamentation. No traces of bone nor any sign of interment was found in or near the cist. About Bft. from the centre, awl 4ft. above the natural surface, a quan tity of burned earth and charcoal was found, but nothing more until the centre was reached, when 2ft. south-east of it, 4ft below the'summit and 7ft. from the base, a bronze dagger and beautiful flint knife were discovered lying side by side, but unassociated with any sign of interment. There is little doubt that both the bronze and the flint belonged to the same person in whose honour tills mound was raised; and we have, therefore, a valuable illustra tion of the contemporaneous use of bronze and stone. It is a similar feature that no bronze arrow heads have been found, while those of flint are numerous. It is pre sumed that during the high cultivation of the bronze period stone implements were in common use, the poorer people having no other. On digging down to the natural surface of the ground, 7ft. directly beneath the dagger and, knife and lift. below the summit of the barrow, the Primary interment was found. The body had apparently been un burned, but the only remains presented the appearance o f a thin layer of dark matter, which felt greasy on being rubbed in the hands, and which ti chemical analysis shows has contained much animal matter. Among this black matter was a sina4 fraiiment of tironze ) so fa! 09Cayed as Naval and Military Intelligence. The steamsloop Stromboli, 6, Capt. Phillips, ar rived in Plymouth Sound yesterday afternoon. She left Montevideo on Feb. 22, and Rio Janeiro on March 13, and on April 20 put into Sierra Leone for coal and provisions. She found the port infected with yellow fever, of which the French Consul died on April 19 ; then proceeded to St. Vincent, and sailed thence on the 30th. All the ships of war had left Sierra Leone. The flagship Bristol was cruis ing in the Bights of Benin. On March 20, in long, 30 25 W., lat. 10 40 S., in consequence of a signal for assistance, the Stromboli sent a lieutenant on board the ship Monarch, from London, with passen gers for New Zealand ; she was leaky, and the crew refused to continue at the pumps unless the master would promise to put into port. The lieutenant recommended him to go to Rio, which was within a few days' sail. The Stromboli was to leave last night for Portsmouth. Her master's-assistant, Mr. Wheeler, died April 10 o£ typhoid fever. The Mullet, '5, screw gun-vessel, 430 tons, 80- horse power, Commander C. A. P. Y. Robinson, started from Sheerness harbour on Monday morning for the official trial of her engines. 0 wing to the strong south. easterly wind, which was blowing with a force of seven to eight, it was found that the ship could not be tried successfully at the Maplin Sands. She was therefore taken back into the Medway, and the trial was made at the measured mile at Saltpan Reach. Six runs were made at full boiler power, giving an average speed of 7.812 knots per hour, with a maximum of 95 and and a mean of 89 revo lutions of the engines per minute. The draught of water forward was 11ft., aft 12ft. 3in. The load in the safety valve was 201 b., and the pressure of steam boilers 181 b. The engines stopped from the time of moving the telegraph in four seconds. She started ahead in six seconds, and astern in ten seconds. Owing to the force of the wind and the strong tide, no half-boiler power was taken. The vessel was driven by a Griffith's propeller, the diameter of which is 9ft., the pitch 13ft. Gin. ; length, 2ft, 2iin., and the immersion of the upper edge, lft. 9in. She was fully rigged and in every respect ready for sea. The engines, manufactured by Messrs. Napier and Son, of Glasgow, worked satisfactorily without hot bearings, and . maintained a steady vacuum of 28in. throughout the trial. The boilers generated a fair supply of steam without priming. As far as the engines and boilers were concerned, the vessel was reported as being fit for sea. During the trial the ship was in charge of Commander W. M. L. Partridge, of the Sheerness Steam Reserve, Mr. W. W. Williamson, Inspector of Machinery Afloat, and Mr. G. Blaxland, Chief Engiher of Sheerness Dockyard, being also Ipresent. The Challenger, 18, screw, st eam - corvette, 1,462 tons, 400-horse power, commissioned by Commo dore Rochford Maguire, for the Australian and New Zealand station, was on Tuesday taken to the mea sured mile . off Maplin Sands for the final trial of her machinery previous to her departure. Six runs were made over the measured mile at full-boiler power, giving an average speed of 9.667 knots per hour, with a maximum of 58 and mean of 55 revo lutions per minute. The load on the safety valve ~~ to be unrecognisable as any part of a particular instrument. The features of this barrow were singular. There was no indication that more than one person had been buried, while the objects found were not placed in Ihe ordi nary manner, close by the body, but at distances from it, the usual urn being deposited in an unusual fashion. The subsequent two days were spent in examining three barrows situate a mile to the north, and on the ridge of the steep ground running down into Troutsdale.- The first 4 feet in height and 30 feet in diameter, formed entirely of stones, and having a circle of stones round the base. The barrow contained several interments, which were placed upon a pebbly flooring on the original surface. On the north-west, about six feet from the outside, a de posit of burned bones was found, without any urn or flint. Nine feet from the edge, and north of the centre line, was another deposit of burned bones, scattered over a space of three feet diameter, and among the bones portions of pot tery (evidently deposited as fragments), and an urn, orna mented with impressions of cord, herring-bone fashion. The urn was broken into pieces by the pressure of the stones, and it was difficult to tell whether it had contained the burned bones or not. Among the bones was a veil rare oval-shaped implement of flint (of which Mr. Green well has seen three or four specimens) which, unburned itself,was deposited with the burned body. The flint is care fully chipped on one side, and has been probably used as a knife, or to scrape hides or bones. About eight feet west a the centre, and laid among the stones of the tumulus,wer e partially burned portions of a tabia and an ulna—mere frag ments of a human body, evidently carelessly thrown in. In the centre of the howe was a circle of stones set on edge, 4ft.diameter. Within this, on the west side, was an urn, so decayed that it fell into dust on exposure. This contained burned bones, and had a smaller urn inverted at its mouth, the smaller urn having two ears pierced as i f for the purposeTf suspension. The larger urn had a very unusual semiciraflar cord-impressed pattern. East of this circle another urn filled with burned bones was found, also greatly decayed and unmanageable for preservation. Eas t of the circle, and 2ft. above it, was a detached fragment of pottery. Above the central circle the stones were much burned, and the surrounding earth showed more traces of burning, than in any barrows yet examined. The two other grave-hills, at a few yards distance, were on natural elevations, to which stones had been added to give increased height. The first was 16ft. diameter and 3ft. high. In the centre there was a hollow in the natural ground, which contained a deposit of burned - I bones and a single piece of calcined flint. The other waS an irregular-shaped barrow, 16ft. long, 12ft. wide, and 2ift. high, and had a similar hollow in the centre, also contain ing the remains of a burned body, with four calcined chip' pings of foreign flint. Two days more were occupied in the examination o f two howes, about a mile west -of " the Tremblers." Th e first was of a very unusual form. The central portion, doubtless the primary mound, was 27ft. in diameter; and 4ft. in height, but had on the south side an additional por tion, or secondary mound, projecting about sft. beyond the circle. This evident addition was composed of sand just the same as the parent barrow. This excrescent portion was first dug into, and at lft. from the surface a deposit of burned bones, scattered over an area of lift. diameter, was found, and among the bones a small urn, of the "incense cup type, ornamented in zig-zag lines, the triangles being filled in with parallel lines, a ll ma d e i n th e c l ay w ith a pointed instrument. A small fl a k e o f ca l c i ne d fli n t , par t a 5 bronze pin, and fou r j e t b ea d s, of differing lengths a nd pattern, one having a hol e f rom cen t re t o s id e as if for a button, were also found amo ng th e b ones. Th e excava tion of the barrow proper was th en commence d o n the north side. Eight feet north-east of th e cen t re , a nd ift* below the surface of the howe, a brok en urn , l y i ng among burned bones, was' found. This urn was qu ite plait" Among the bones also were f oun d f our remnan t s o f fah" , Heated flint implements, all ca l c i ne d, an d one flake 0 ' unburnt flint. On reaching the cent r e o f the barrow *, at one foot below the summit of the mound, portions o f three urns, all with burned bones were found. These urns appeared to have been destroyed by the introduction into the barrow of the burial next m en ti one d. M r. Greenwe"; arrived at the conclusion that a subsequent burial had clearly been made in a barrow already completed, as well by re-opening as by addition to the side as first men tioned. This inserted interment lay 4ft. S.E. of the centr e ' where on digging 2ft. deep a flat stone was found. This covered an urn standing up r i g ht, an d care f u lly packe d round with charcoal. O ne thi r d p ar t o f th e urn c ontaine d the burnt bones of the body, the remaining space 1) 61 1 filled up with charcoal, in which, however, was a seen urn inverted, and containing soil and a few burnt bone'. Among the bones in the larger urn was a flint wesl 343/4 calcined, having lost part of the broader end. The flint is struck from the core or nucleus at one blow, and is t il t fashioned to a point, being finely chipped along the edg e " and over the upper surface. This is not an arro w-head -- , it may possibly be one of the many typ es o f " thumb-flin ts' or hand weapons. The larger ur n i s 13i n . high, 1 0 4 wide • wide at the mouth. Two lin es o f i m p resse d cor d orname nt the inside of the lip, and the outer ri m h a s five lines ° A angular impressions, apparently m a d e w ith th e blunt ea ( ' of a piece of stick or bone. The smaller inverted urn is yin. high and 6in. wide, and has the inner ornament of the large one, the outside having a line of short slanting im pressions made in the clay, and is more generally orna mented by triangular arrangements of lines and cord im pressions over the outer surface. Still another burial was found in the prolific barrow. About 6ft. S.W: of the centre , and just below the surface of the howe, were three stones , and under them a deposit of burnt bones, w ith an ar il crushed and decayed. The f ragmen t s s h ow the height to have been 7in. and the diameter Gin. ; the ornamenta tion being the'same vertical and horizontal lines alternatebei arranged. Among the bones was a portion of a large a n well-made barbed arrow-head of flint, and three other frag ; ments of flint (wrought) a ll ca l c i ned. A gain, j us t SX. °f the large central urn, and pl ace d on the natural groun d was c i a very rudely made u rn , 7i n: h i gh, siin. wide, m arked with irregularly plac e d i mpress i ons of apparent l y .loosa twisted cord. In and around the urn were burnt W e l and among them a sma ll b arbed arrow head o f burn t flint. This remarkable barrow showed signs of great barn inge—the south side had masses of burnt earth and stone* and the north side had charcoal in great quantities — a posit lft. thick runn i ng through the howe forsft.width, thea; blocks of whi c h were l arge, one piece of charcoa l being llin. long, 7in. wide, and 7in. deep. Mr. Greenwell sug gests the theory that the first members of a family dyil were burned a n d inured, and that on the death of the chic they were all interred in the same tumulus, subseq uent burials being add e d as th e d ea th s occurre d. It s i only in this wa y th e grea t num b er o f s i m il ar i n termen ts can be accounted for. _The other howe was 281 t. diame ter ' and except on the south side had been previously cril.ede. In the undisturbed part an urn, 121 in. high and llin. with burned bones, and two flints were found. COUNTRY MARKETS. HULL.—TUESDAY. At our market to-day there was a fair supply' 0 - b°t .o English and foreign whe a t, b u t ver y littl e was done, lot no change can be madQ , in quotati ons . Th e market linseed was at a standstill, sales being imp rac ticable• of ral cargoes have come forward from tho Baltic, mos tl y inferior qualit y. lish old white wheat, 50s to 54s ; old red, 44s to . 4 51; Barley, English, 36s to 375. Oats, Russian, 24s W 4 40 .4 Beans, new English, 43s to 445. Peas, English blu e ' to 41s Od; grinding, 40s to 41s Od per 36 stone. SALISBURY lIESDAY. ted , At market this morning the . —T offer of wheat wss ;,13 ee Y• and business ruled inactive at the s ame ra t es a s last W In barley there was little offering, and quotations r °lll3 unaltered. The following are the quotations :—Wheat realised ft() ; 38s to 52s ; barley, 35s to 425; oats, 22s to 32s ; bean Lo Eg to 525; and peas, 42s to 50s per qr. Tares, from vs 1 0- 6d per bushel ; Best bread, 13d ; household ditto, per 81b loaf. Flour, 34s to 38s per sack. MONMOUTHSHIRE—TUESDAY. The markets during the past week have been but In rately active, and the supplies of most descriptions Of g scarce. In wheat, home-grown met with a tolerablt eite r sale at full quotations, and for foreign there was a a id inquiry, with prices tending upwards. For malting b there was no demand, and grinding qualities there i , e oo but a consumptive sale. Both English and foreign Led were very scarce, and good samples wer e i eadily porc h with' at is per qr advance. The supply of oats was scanty', j oy a good demand, and the late advanced rates we re ma are the average quotations: followingned. d? re The maintained. _Whew , sd w ss hth, 6idto6estBo96dep3ed ; rb in us e h lt e i l n ; g i b n a f r e l ri ey or , 3dBietttoo,42sse perOd citors:ssor.B 2 6doc, ing ditto, 27s to 32 5; b eans, 445 ; white oats, 24s 6 ,1' -- black ditto, 23s Gd to 24s 6d. LYN. At our Corn Exchange N—TutsDAY to-day the show of wheatc'- Wag moderate, and the dem an d was slow at last wee''oico rency. Spring corn u na lt ere d i n va l ue, excep t beans, were Is per qr higher. id ivili te f f New wheat, 42s to 46s ; new red, 41s to 44s ; fc' - 51s to 538 ; old red, 48s to Ms per 36 stone. Bar ley oevil malting, 37s to 40s ; secondary, 338 to 355. 0at51,09,0, 248 to 26s per 24 stone. Beans, small, 43s to 46 s* 36s to 40s per 28 stone. n i s r t t „ h a s t . l6, STRONG—On the 23d B i e La d !' ARM Armstrong, of a son. mac e FINN , Dorset -13 9. 110-f . ES—On the 22d inst., at 40, Queen's - ga te-te Lady Augusta Finnes, of a daughter. Marriages. 5101 11 ' STEW ART — GowER—On the 22d inst., at Tits o 9s oxoot the Rev. Ja mes H . Stewart, rec tor of B r ightwo l ls,, oo r to Emily, eld es t daughter of the late William 1 ." " Esq. of rt 11 Surrey. ' toot Iv lyer b, WIL LIAMS — WALmsLEY—On the 22d inst., at ' ° Sort Hants, Wm. Williams, Esq., banker, s l a y, of DolgelleTara Wales, to Aclah, youngest daughter of Sir J. lir of Wolverton Park, Hants. Deaths. , a tlit ABBOTT—Suddenly, William Abbott, Esq., late of ~.. aged 62. Rev* John BENNETT—On the 22d inst., a t Folkinghairt, the e d 40. 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