The Sun. — London, England, 1865-07-10 00:00:00

ELECTION INTELLIGENCE. CITY OF LONDON. On Saturday, at one o'clock, an aggregate meet ing of the central and all the various ward com mittees for promoting the return of Messrs. Lyall and Fowler, the Conservative candidates for the city, was held at the London Tavern ; Mr. Baring, chairman of the Central Committee, presiding. It was very numerously attended, and much excite ment prevailed. The two candidates were present, as were also Mr. Wolverley Attwood, Mr. George Masterman, Mr. C. H. Wigram, Mr. Walter Hind ley, Mr. Arthur Peel, Mr. Henry Masterman, Mr. J. Grant Hodgson, Mr. Alderman Allen, Mr. H. Hucks Gibbs. Mr. T. B. Austin, Mr. John Bag gallay, Mr. T. P. Beckwith, Mr. J. W. Birch, Mr. A. Caldecott, Mr. W. J. Marshall, Mr. F. Mildred, Mr. H. It. Price, Mr. Price, Q.C., Mr. Walter St. Aubyn, Dr. Wambey, Mr. George Stockdale, Mr. Ambrose Moore, Mr. Thos. H. Wigram, Mr. Edward J. Wiggins, Mr. Sergeant Atkinson, Mr. W. Hinton, and many more persons of influence in the city. Mr. BARING, on taking the chair, said he should be loth to say a word against the character of their opponents, for the question at issue was not one of private character. When he found the gentlemen who sat opposite to him in Parliament, and who re presented the city, advocating measures of an ex treme character as regarded organic changes in Church and State, then he said, whether they (the Conservatives) were successfulin this contest or not, it was their bounden duty to protest against the be lief which, if those gentlemen had been unopposed, would have been conveyed throughout the country, that those opinions were entertained by the entire constituency of the city of London. (Cheers.) However gratifying the Conservative canvass returns had been on this occasion he was never over-san guine and never believOdin success until victory was achieved. He had only to hope that there would be no wavering between that day and the day of polling, and that no stone would be left unturned to assert the principles which they had all so much at heart. (Cheers.) The Government stated no policy ; they did not go to the country on a Reform Bill, but they said if the country wished one they would propose it. (A laugh.) Believing there ought to be an enlarge ment of the constituencies where that could be done in accordance with the increased intelligence of the community, the Conservatives had to decide whether they considered the proposal to reduce the franchise to £6 desirable, without any other extension of the constituencies so as to,take in those who by their education and intelligence had a right to the fran chise ; or whether, rather than reduce the franchise, it was not wiser to elevate classes to it who were now excluded. Their opponents in the city said, Look at the general prosperity ; why would you disturb it by any change in the representation ?" They and their party assumed that to them belonged the whole credit of the national prosperity, of being at peace, and of an increasing trade; that, in fact, England was what it was entirely through them. He thought, on the contrary, that we owed a great deal to Eng land herself—to the enterprise and the indomitable activity and energy of the British character. Had this country never prospered except under the guid ance of a Liberal Government, so-called ? Had not other countries prospered as well? America, before the civil war, was most prosperous; France, with a protective policy, had been most prosperous, and so had Spain under a prohibitive system. His two friends, Messrs. Lyall and Fowler, had throughout this contest won golden opinions from those who were the advocates of moderate sentiments, and from those who looked forward to tranquil and mo derate government, and he urged the meeting not to relax in their exertions to secure theirreturn. (Loud cheers.) Mr. LYALL referred to the kind reception he had everywhere met during the canvass, and to the good feeling with which the contest had been conducted on both sides ; but he complained much of the Registration Society, which calling itself Liberal, and knowing that half of the citizens were Con servatives, reminded him that Mr. Jefferson, though in drawing up the famous American Declaration of Independence he asserted that all men were free, lived and died a slaveholder. The Times of that morning had commented on some of the measures .which the Government had passed ; but it should be borne in mind that it was almost impossible for members not in the Government to introduce bills with any hope of carrying them, and he gave an in stance within his ovn experience. lie denied that the Liberal party had introduced all the great mea sures in which Parliament had acquiesced, and he showed, on the contrary, since 1781, when he said the present division of parties took its rise, how great a share the Conservatives had in inaugurat ing legislation, instancing, among others, the French Treaty of Mr. Pitt in 1787, the Union of England and Ireland a few years later, and the reform of the criminal code. He urged their friends to poll as early as possible on Tuesday, and each one of them to act as if victory depended on his own individual exer tions, remembering in how small a degree they had failed of success on one or two memorable occa sions in the present generation. _ Mr. FOWLER, who spoke next, said the leading journal of that morning had told them that the prosperity of the country was such that it ought to secure a continuance in favour of her Majesty's Go vernment. Assuming that prosperity was due, not to bountiful harvests, but entirely to the financial etnius of Mr. Gladstone, he was not prepared to admit that was the ground on which the present election ought to be decided. The election was not a question of the past, but of the future. (Cheers.) It was not the question whether the country had become prosperous under Lord Palmerston, but I whether it was wise to return to Parliament men who wore pledged to a great change in the Consti tution of England. (Cheers.) Would it be wise in the citizens of London to return four men, all of whom were pledged to extreme revolutionary changes ? (Cheers.) Looking to the great part which Lord Palmerston had played in the history of Eng land, he regarded him with respect and veneration ; but would it be wise in them to confide their interests to men who, on constitutional principles, were opposed to the policy by which Lord Palmer ston was guided? Mr. Gladstone, after his some what tortuous course of opinion on some public ques tions, was certainly not the one to whom he, for one, should like to see the destinies of England con fided. (Cheers.) In Lord Palmerston they had a statesman who wished to maintain rather than de stroy ; but could they say the same of Mr. Glad stone ? Witness the speech he delivered about 12 months ago, which, if it had any meaning at all, pointed to universal suffrage, and witness, too, the way in which he was upheld by the advocates of the Manchester school. If any one of the four Liberal candidates had been the advocate of moderate con stitutional principles, he (Mr. Fowler) should have hesitated before entering into the contest ; but as I they were all advocates of an enlarged suffrage— possibly of household suffrage—and of the ballot, and as there was no security that the religious insti tutions of the country would be regarded by them in a favourable spirit, he thought it was the duty of the party to which he belonged to exert themselves to prevent the City of London being represented by men of such extreme opinions. (Cheers.) H e called upon the meeting, in conclusion, to resent the insolent attempt of the Liberal Registration Asso ciation and Mr. Sidney Smith to dictate to the con stituency, and make the first city in the world a mere nomination borough. (Cheers.) Mr. M. W. ATTWOOD said that the meeting would agree with him in expressing their united and cordial satisfaction with everything that had passed since they commenced the contest, and their determined resolution to carry it on to.the end with every hope of substantial success. (Cheers.) All the circum stances had tended to confirm them in the convic tion of the justice, the reasonableness, and the ne cessity of the contest, and that victory would crown their efforts if the Conservatives of London used the strength that was in their power. They did not in tend to adopt the recommendation to wait until the discordant elements of which Lord Palmer- I ston's Government was composed had dissolved into their original chaos, or to stand patiently by until the remnants of his Administration should settle among themselves who should succeed to the vacant offices and the power. The people of Eng- land had some right to a voice in that matter, and having some interest in it they (the Conservatives) intended to have a voice in the settlement of the issue. (Cheers.) They saw coming that final struggle —that time of contest when those gentlemen would be disputing among themselves who should succeed to the chair of theßoscius of the day, and they (the Conservatives) meant to be prepared for that con test, and they trusted when the time arrived the Conservatives in the House of Commons would be so strong that with them would rest the determina tion. (Cheers.) He moved—" That this meeting de sires to express their determination to give their united and cordial support to Mr. Lyall and Mr. R. N. Fowler." The resolution was seconded by Mr. E. Master man, son of the late Mr. Masterman, who long repre sented the city in Parliament in the Conservative interest, and carried by acclamation. On the motion of Mr. H. Gibbs, a vote of thanks was passed to the chairman, and the proceedings were brought to a close. WESTMINSTER. The Liberal electors are now invited to vote for the two Liberal candidates, Mr. John Stuart Mill and Capt. Grosvenor, and to avoid plumping. Mr. W. H. Smith, the Conservative candidate, denounces this " unnatural coalition," which he attributes to the inherent weakness of both the Liberals, and he asks, " Is Capt. Grosvenor prepared to vote for uni versal suffrage with Mr. Mill, or will Mr. Mill again change his opinion and vote for the ballot with Capt. Grosvenor ?" On Saturday evening Mr. John Stuart Mill ad dressed a crowded meeting of the electors and non electors at the Literary Institution, Pimlico. He said that his nomination was a protest against the influ ence of the money power in elections, and repeated the explanation already given by him in public of his political opinions. At the close of his address several questions were put and answered, and Mr. Mill described the plan he would wish to see adopted for the representation of minorities. On the motion of Dr. Brewer, seconded by Mr. A. Dicey, a reso lution in favour of Mr. Mill was passed unanimously. MARYLEBONE. Notwithstanding the division which exists in the Liberal ranks, Alderman Sir R. W. Carden has not ventured, after his defeat at the last election, again to contest this borough in the Conservative interest. The return of Mr. H. Lewis, whose Parliamentary conduct has given general satisfaction to his consti tuents, is regarded as secure ; but an impression prevails among a large section of the Liberal party that Lord Fermoy has not discharged his duty as the representative of the borough with sufficient as siduity to entitle him to be again elected, and Mr. T. Chambers has accordingly been brought forward in opposition to him. Lord Fermoy protests against .the trouble and expense of a contested election being thrown upon him in a case where no party principles are involved, and where the new comer is a rather less advanced Liberal than himself. Mr. T. Chambers, on the other hand, denies that his inten tion in coming forward is to split the Liberal inte rest, and asserts the right of the electors to a choice of candidates. The three candidates are working hard. On Saturday Mr. H. Lewis attended three, Lord Fermoy attended two, and Mr. T. Chambers, who has to make the best use of the short time left him to introduce himself to the electors, attended four meetings. On each occasion the candidates had to make long speeches, to answer questions, and to listen to praise or blame, so that they cannot be charged with want of energy or endurance. At 3 o'clock on Saturday afternoon Lord Fermoy addressed a numerously attended meeting of the electors at the Marylebone Theatre, when Mr. J. A. Nicholay took the chair. In answer to questions put to him by the electors, his lordship denied that he had ever been absent from the House of Commons when any great ques tions affecting the people were being discussed, and he had always given his vote in divisions on such questions on the Liberal side. A resolution was then carried, pledging the meet ing to support Lord FLrmoy, a proposition to pass a vote of want of confidence being laughed down. His lordship met the electors again at 8 o'clock at Milton-hall, Kentish-town, when Mr. Munn occupied the chair. His lordship having explained his political principles, a resolution approving his Parliamentary conduct was carried. Mr. Harvey Lewis addressed a large meeting at 4 o'clock in the afternoon from the balcony of theßen Johnson Tavern, Paddington ; Mr. E. M. Roche in the chair. Resolutions were passed expressing the confidence of the electors in their late member, and pledging themselves to return him at the head of the poll. In the evening he again addressed the electors at the Vestry-hall, St. Pancras, when Mr. Silas Taylor took the chair. Mr. Harvey Lewis said no one proposed to con test the election with him, and he hoped those who had before honoured him with their N otes had been satisfied with his conduct and his votes. (Cheers.) If they again elected him as one of their represen tatives, he should vote for the extension of the fran chise to every lodger who showed, by his intelli gence and education, that he had a right to a vote, but he should not support what was called manhood suffrage. He should also vote for the abolition of church rates, for the principle of non-intervention, and for a reduction of taxation. They might rest assured that, while thinking of the great interests of the country generally, he should not be forgetful of their local requirements. In answer to various questions, he said he should vote against Mr. Law son's Permissive Bill and Mr. Somes's bill to shut up public-houses altogether on Sundays. A resolution was then carried, approving Mr. Harvey Lewis's conduct in Parliament, and pledging the meeting to return him as their representative in the new Parliament. Mr. Thomas Chambers delivered his first address to a crowded meeting at the Feathers Tavern, War ren-street, Fitzroy-square, when Mr. Morton pre sided. The second meeting was held at the Oxford Tavern, Kentish-town, at 4 o'clock, when Mr. E. Billing acted as chairman. He made his third speech at Westbourne-hall, Westbourne-grove, and his fourth at 8 o'clock at Portman-hall, Carlisle-street, Portman-market, when Mr. A. M. Shaw took the chair. His principles were " free trade" as extended to the labour of the poor ; " free worship," apart from the insult of toleration ; " free Government," meaning a Ministry appointed by the Sovereign, and dependent upon a House of Commons fully re presenting the people ; " the franchise," to which he pledged himself in the following words—"l will support the widest and largest measure of electoral reform which any Government will bring in." In answer to a question he said he was anxious for reform in the law courts. At all of the meetings resolutions in favour of returning Mr. Chambers were adopted unanimously. Mr. John Hope Fox, a Liberal-Conservative, has issued an address, in which he says he is opposed to the ballot, and is in favour of a thorough reform in the bankruptcy laws. He has announced his inten tion of addressing the electors somewhere in St. Pancras this evening, " the time and place to be hereafter named by placard." FINSBURY. The nomination for Finsbury will take place at 12 o'clock to-morrow. The polling will begin at 8 o'clock on the following morning, and terminate at four in the afternoon. The contest is likely to be sharp. There are to-day five candidates for the favour of the electors. There were six last week, but Mr. Ribton, barrister, 'cvho issued an address upon Conservative principles, has not deemed it ex pedient to proceed beyond that preliminary step. The surviving candidates are Mr. Cox, one of the late members, Mr. M'CullaghTorrens, Mr. Phillips, Mr. P. W. Perfitt, and Mr. Alderman Lusk. of these five gentlemen no one has had his claims placed more prominently before the public by means of placards throughout the length and breadth of the borough than the worthy alderman. " Lusk for Finsbury," in large blue letters, with the ac companying expositions of his political creed, con stitutes the prevailing literature just now in Clerk enwell-green and in the remoter regions of Islington. Alderman Lusk is an advanced Liberal. He will vote for a large extension of the franchise. He will rHE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, ,WLY 10, 1865 support the ballot. He is in favour of the total abo lition of church-rates ; he is against capital punish ment and flogging in the army. He gives the foreign policy of the Government his cordial ap proval ; but then, while professing general allegiance to the Liberal party, he refuses to be a blind parti san. Mr. Torrens, too, is very active in his canvass, and has met with a considerable amount of success. He has been addressing small sections of the electors during the past week, and hopes to address larger meetings still this evening and to-morrow. Mr. Phillips has invited his supporters to assemble to night at Sadler's Wells Theatre. Mr. Torrens will meet his on the following day at the same place. Mr. Perfitt, more considerately alive to the comfort of his audiences, holds open air meetings in various directions ; sometimes in that debatable ground not far from Clerkenwell-green, known as "Dixie's Land." Mr. Perfitt is described in some of the bills headed with his name as a Gladstonian ; but what particular shade•of politics the word implies, as distinct from the views of Mr. Milner Gibson and other members of the Govern ment, the bills do not state. Mr. Cox, while pur suing his canvass with considerable energy, main tains to a greater extent than some of his competi tors that dignified attitude which belongs to the tried politician. His friends, relying on work done, disdain to deface the walls of palatial-looking pub lichouses with promises of things to be done after Christmas. A small placard, with the simple in scription " Cox—your old and tried member—for Finsbury," contrasts proudly with the glaring an nouncements of comparatively unknown men. -Un happily, however, gratitude for past services is not always so lively a feeling as the expectations of pre sent favours, and there is absolutely a rumour that Mr. Cox will have to fight hard for his present seat. It is expected that the real contest will lie between him, Mr. Torrens, and Mr. Alderman Lusk. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. THE "SATURDAY REVIEW" ON THE DOINGS OF THE GREAT.—As every loyal subject is by this time aware, the Prince of Wales's chimney caught fire the other afternoon, and the " devouring element," as reporters sublimely style a little hot soot, was only subdued after the most strenuous exertions on the part of Lord Derby, Lord Palmerston, and his Royal Highness himself. Such is the simple story as given in half a dozen lines in most of the morn ing papers. But another does full justice to the momentous importance of the event and the heroic achievements of the principal actors. The epic sim plicity with which the writer opens his story pre pares us for what follows :—" There is no exagge ration in saying that Marlborough House stood in extreme jeopardy yesterday afternoon, and there can be no question that good luck alone has hitherto saved the building, for it is little less than a miracle that no serious disaster has occurred there long ago." Observe the wariness of the style, the economy of words, and the cogent proof of the proposition about a miracle. The art of putting the same state ment into two forms of words, and then advancing one as a proof of the other, is here employed in a masterly manner. The subject is treated through out with the same power and skill, and the result is a picture which ought to live in history along with that of Canute and his courtiers. As soon as the fire broke out the Prince hastened to the spot. " Seeing the urgency of the case, without a moment's hesitation he threw off his coat and waistcoat and handed buckets of water from the tank, or threw them on the fire with more alacrity perhaps than any of the other persons assisting." Why " per haps 2" Can it be doubted? Besides the coura geous manipulation of the buckets, the Prince gave " the most judicious orders throughout the exciting scene." When it became evident that, " in order the more effectually to combat the danger," some body must go—no, we beg pardon, " an entrance must be effected"—into "that part of the building commonly called the ' cockloft.' " The Prince was the first to penetrate " into the region indicated." We can sympathise fully with the distracted.feelings of the fashionable reporter whom a hard fate com pelled to call anything by the name by which it is " commonly called." . The whole body ought really to lay their heads together and invent some less odious name for a cockloft. It sounds so hor ribly vulgar, and the notion of a prince having to climb into a cockloft approaches the tragic. How ever, the literary Jeames has done his best to soften the thing down by the genteel phrase of "penetrating the regioniudicated" Unhappily the Prince " pene trated" the region indicated in another sense. " Not knowing that, to secure one's safety, it was neces sary to tread on the joists, he trod on the lath and plaster work constituting the ceiling of the apart ment beneath." The blood of the reader runs cold as he pictures the heir to the Throne walking on lath and plaster, and without his coat and waistcoat too. The worst apprehensions of the onlookers were realised, and the lath and plaster gave way. As they did not " prove sufficiently strong to main tain his weight, he fell through." There is surely something slightly irreverent• in thus attributing weight to a royal personage. The famous Queen of Spain, who " had no legs" officially, ought to be the type of princely nature. It was probably only by a slip of the pen that the writer betrayed this base anthropomorphic conception of a prince. But be that as it may, at this point the neglected joists came in useful and prevented him from falling far. " He quickly extricated himself, laughing most heartily at the drollness of the mishap, even amidst the danger which threatened." By the way, " threatened" is a weak way of ending a sentence. " Imminently menaced his royal residence," or some such phrase, would have been more worthy of the occasion. Jeames does not get hold of such a theme as a prince in a cockloft every day, and it is a pity not to make the most of it. The last sentence, however, of this amazing composition is pretty fair. It tells us that " the Prince of Wales, as soon as the fire was extinguished, though in a con dition in which he was hardly recognisable, failed not to remember those who had assisted him, and ordered refreshments to be served out to the blackened and begrimed people who had worked so hard and well." There is a kind of pathetic accent about the last words. " The blackened and begrimed people who had worked so hard and well." It rather re minds one of some of Mr. Bright's fine things about the sons and daughters of toil. We do not, how ever, quite see the force of the " though." We fear Jeames has fallen into a confusion of the subjective and objective. There is no reason why a man who is not recognisable should not recognise others, nor does it follow, because he has a dirty face and is without a coat, that his bosom should be unmoved by gratitude and considerateness. But the footman who, we presume, writes these things may be par doned for associating good nature and other excel lencies with a good coat. It is the nature of the creature. He thinks the seat of the soul is not in the pineal gland, or any other part of the body, but in the coat and waistcoat. At all events, the Prince may be congratulated on having proved in his own person the falsehood of the cynical saying that no man is a hero to his own valet. On pondering over this thrilling and instructive story, we cannot help thinking that the whole affair was contrived to in culcate the profound moral of King Canute upon modern courtiers. Like Canute, the Prince of Wales is probably bored to death with adulation and flattery. He cannot do the simplest thing, like any other gentleman, without having it blazoned abroad with all sorts of preposterous exaggerations in news papers and little prints which live on such tattle. He cannot even put his own chimney out in peace. Sensible of the scandalous absurdity of such views in those about him, he doubtless resolved to repeat the great Canute scene over again, due allowance being made for the altered spirit of the times. The sea-shore is not very handy for Marlborough House, but fire is always procurable. As Canute took water for the medium of his moral, the Prince had recourse to fire. Every other adjunct was perfect. The Prime Minister of England and the powerful chief of the Opposition were present. Two or three of the most illustrious of the Peers were there, while a body of soldiers and a detachment of the A divi sion lent an air of severe solemnity to the proceed ings. The scene was not q uite so imposing as that of the old story. The notion of an aged monarch, apparelled in his royal vestments, waving his sceptre over the grey waters of the everlasting seas, has a touch of the sublime about it that we can scarcely discern in the cockloft of Marlborough House. But the moral was pointed every bit as effectively. The ancient courtiers saw that the wave would n o t retreat at their master's bidding. Their modern successors were clearly convinced that fire will not retreat before a prince unless, like other mo r t a l s , h e takes off his coat and hands buckets with alacrity, and that lath and plaster refuse as obstinately to perform the duty of joists for him as for anybody else. Let us hope that the lesson will not be thrown away, and that this ludicrous flunkeyism may be reduced within somewhat more moderate bounds. THE " SPECTATOR" ON LORD WESTBURY.—Lord Westbury's fall was . absolutely necessar y t o vindi cate the public morality,. but it is a necessity already regretted, though by no means repented. His very well-judged and even graceful statement in the House of Lords on Wednesday will increase that regret. It is undoubtedly true that in him we have lost a Lord Chancellor such as for legal capacity, professional industry, and broad conceptions of law reform, the country has not had for very many Par liaments. As he told the house the other night, he leaves the appellate jurisdiction of the House of Lords in a thoroughly satisfactory state, only one judgment remaining undelivered, and that in a case in which the argument closed only a few days ago. In the Court of Chancery there would not,he hoped, remain at the end of this sitting a single appeal un heard or judgment undelivered, and this though Lord Westbury took a great deal more labour on his own shoulders than most of his predecessors. Unquestionably we have sacrificed a great lawyer to the vindication of our political morality, and no doubt the end was worth the cost of the sacrifice. But the sacrifice was costly. In the Judicial Com mittee of Privy Council, in the Court of Chancery, and in the House of Lords, if not also in the Cabi net, the loss will be severely felt. Bankruptcy law reform will be suddenly impeded ; the improvements in the register of titles to land in England and Ire land are already made, but will doubtless need ex tension, and find no one in power to take them up as did Lord Westbury ; and the great work of con solidating the statute law will lose its mainspring in his fall. All these sacrifices must be incurred by the country because Lord Westbury's great intellect was not aided by a conscience. Sir Roundell Palmer could not have been more unfortunate than in his appeal to the " conscience of the house" to absolve Lord Westbury. He was the centre of low intrigues and the vulgar clamour of greedy and interested men, and he knew it not—or if he knew it, did not believe that it was possible to im prove the situation. He rewarded officials for cheating the country, and put in their places—in one case at least —men whom he must have sus pected from their antecedents of being quite as likely to cheat the country as their predecessors. In short, while he was improving the process of the law, he was giving:, or acquiescing in giving, a thoroughly bad tone to its administration and admi nistrators. And therefore the conscience of the country, and " the conscience of the house," in spite of the Attorney-General, demanded his fall. Nor will it be the least part of the lesson his fall carries with it, that the country deliberately accepts inferior powers and poorer services rather than pay for bril liant abilities by any sacrifice of public integrity. Has Lord Westbury's great intellect suffered through this complete absence from it of anything like moral feeling and control ? It is obvious of course that his intellectual influence has suffered by it, not only re cently, but throughout his Chancellorship. Had the beautiful judgment pronounced in the appeal from the Court of Arches on " Essays and Reviews" been delivered by a man of any moral weight and charac ter—had it contained in itself, as, of course, coming from Lord Westbury, it could not contain any inci dental touch showing that the judge who gave it valued that comprehension of our Church in favour of which he was deciding no less for the sake of truth itself, than because it was the most fair and natural interpretation of the law—we believe the judgment would have been far more widely accepted, instead of being bitterly repudiated not only by Conservatives, but by many liberal Churchmen. It was the assumed cynical basis of the judgment, the indifference to all truth in which it was believed to originate, that raised half the outcry against it far more than the judgment itself. The clergy thought of him as saying, like the self-centred soul in Ten nyson's " Palace of Art," "I sit as God, holding no form of creed, And contemplating all." And to such a judge of course they demurred. There can be question at all but that Lord West bury has lost infinitely in intellectual influence by the absence of all moral influence. But influence is one thing and pure intellect another • for as it re quires a medium—atmosphere, water, what you please—to conduct sound, which cannot pass through a vacuum, so it requires something beyond intellect to give to intellect real social influence. What little social influence Lord Westbury's great intellect has is perhaps due to a certain good nature not inconsistent with a great taste for tram pling intellectually on weaker men. It has been clear throughout the recent transactions that the Lord Chancellor does habitually shrink from giving pain wherever he does not forget the pain which he is giving in the pleasure of a crushing intel lectual triumph. And by such good nature no doubt Lord Westbury has gained a certain small circle of disinterested admirers, and even a certain degree of influence for his great intellectual power, which, however, no man of equal power ever had to so small an extent. But the absence of intellectual influence does not' necessarily imply injury to the intellect itself. Though absolutely insulated, and carrying no authority with it at all beyond that of the mere reasons it puts forward, it might still be a great and lucid intellect without sign of weakness. And such, as far as we can judge it, Lord Westbury's appears to be,—breaking down only where it needs the help of moral feeling to enter into other men's minds, and interpret the meaning of their other wise unintel ligble controversies and desires. He is stated once to have said that for the exercise of patronage he is quite unfit,—that he had almost lived within the four walls of a court of law, and was quite at sea when he found himself suddenly transferred to a great world teeming with rivalries, secret motives and intrigues whic he did not feel competent tO gauge. And there was, we imagine, some truth in the statement. Not of course that Lord Westbury's innocence rendered him unequal to the task, but that the sort of intellect he has is utterly unfit for dis criminating motives and defeating intrigues. It is not itself sufficiently imbued either with moral feel ing, or with that respect for the world's opinion which takes the place of conscience to light easily upon the traces of a sinister motive. You must either have a conscience or a feeling of deference for social opinion to judge men's purposes quickly and clearly. Lord Westbury has too little of either. He has devoted all the resources of his great understand ing to a side of law where human nature and its motives are the last things which demand attention, —in short, to bringing a very long series of cus tomary principles to bear on more or less compli cated cases. And he has been successful in his pro fession to an extent which makes it almost needless as a matter of self-interest to confider the feelings of other men. The result has been an arrogant intellect of unusual power of process, but by no means ready in deciphering character and mo tive,—one of great power of statement, of considerable speculative power, but of no political and moral power. Many great lawyers have shown themselves indifferent to political principle ; perhaps the habit of advocacy and of analysing evidence has led to indifference of this kind. But no man of anything like the same power ever seemed so far removed from the play of political and social interests as Lord Westbury. Throughout his career in the House of Commons, and in the Peers, his only real interest has been on questions of law and law reform. Even party struggles were not of interest to him, and when he became a Liberal, after having been a Conservative, probably one name represented precisely the same state of utter indifference to the questions usually supposed to be at issue as the other. Lawyers are seldom keen politicians, but they almost always enter eagerly for the time into party struggles. Lord Westbury has never been one of this kind., His intellect was a scientific instrument which he kept aloof from the scenes in which he employed it, and probably the only great semi-political struggle in which he ever fought keenly was on a law reform—the Divorce Act, which he fought hand to hand with Mr. Glad stone in 1857. His intellect has always been in some sense a cynical one, not only in its reckless ness of attitude towards its victims, but in its com paratively little interest in the battle-fields of human affairs. It has always been solitary and critical, and, therefore, excluded from half the intellectual world—that half which-can only be entered on a level with others, and by virtue of sympathy with them. He has more speculative than practical power as a thinker. His mind stands as really outside the moral and political world of England as Mr. Disraeli's, but then it Is a mind of much more solid intellectual strength, though equally solitary and free from the limiting influence of moral con victions. He is, we imagine, much more awake to purely speculative interests than most politicians. It is said, for instance, that he takes the profoundest interest in the Darwinian scientific speculations, to which he is much opposed, remarking, " It is im possible to conceive that all these creatures come from the same act of creation ; the true difficulty is to believe that they come from the same Creator," —just one of the old Gnostic difficulties. The " riddle of the painful earth"—perhaps not painful to him, but still a riddle—often flashes "through him as he sits alone, "Yet not the less held he his cynic mirth And intellectual throne." His fall is the fall from a place of influence, hazardously held, for a few years, of a great mind which we shall long miss, and at least intellectually regret. THE " LONDON REVIEW" ON THE GAS MONO ' POLY.—When London was first lighted with gas, now nearly half a century ago, the increase of illu mination over that afforded by the old oil-lamps was so great that people were not unnaturally astounded, and thought that thenceforth night would be abolished from our streets. Those of the present day who are old enough to recollect the former state of things, still talk with something of youthful fer vour about the magnificent radiance cast over our streets from the orderly rows of lamps, and are so strongly impressed with the superiority of the exist ing arrangement over the earlier that they seem content to let matters remain where they are. We of a younger generation, however, are not so well inclined to take a flattering view of our street illu mination. We have no recollection of winking oil burners to serve as a dark background to our modern gas lamps, and we can only consider the latter on their own merits, and with reference to what we require for the ordinary needs of life. Thus regarded, we find—we were going to say a glaring imperfec tion, but that would be manifestly incorrect—so we will merely write, a great and grievous shortcoming. There can be no doubt that we have not light enough in our streets, and that we only obtain enough in our shops, warehouses, and places of public amuse ment by going to an expense far beyond what we ought to be called on to incur. Our great thorough fares, after the shops are closed, show black and I dismal, and a short-sighted man has to look very sharply about him to save himself from being run over--such vehicles as do not carry their own lamps, which few do, being scarcely distinguishable until close at hand. It is disgraceful that even to this day Londoners should have cause to bless themselves for moonlight nights,which, though they may be no longer required as a protection against footpads (except when a garotting fever has possessed the souls of our ruffians), are certainly useful in saving us from many a step into an otherwise unseen pud dle or mud-bank. And yet we pay enough for our inadequate gas supply. We pay at the rate of 4s. 6d. per one thousand cubic feet, while Liverpool only pays 3s. 4d. for gas which, according to the statement of the Lord Mayor at the Guildhall meet ing the other day, is vastly stronger and more effec tual. The cheaper gas of the northern city, it appears, gives for every thousand cubic feet a light as intense as that supplied by 25 candles, while the dearer gas of London is only, on the same measurement, worth nine candles. How is this ? If it is asserted that the greater proximity of Liverpool to the coal districts of the north makes the difference, it is sufficient to answer that in Ply mouth, which is still farther than London from those districts, the price of gas is only 2s. 9d. the one thousand cubic feet, and that in most of the large provincial towns the price is more than 32 per cent. less than it is here in the metropolis. At Manches ter the corporation have taken the manufacture and supply into their own hands, and they now furnish the consumer with gas at 2s. 9d. One of the speakers at the meeting—Mr. Flintoff, who said he represented an association consisting of more than 5,000 gas consumers—entered into some calculations which, if they were correct, show the egregious rate at which we arc being overcharged for a bad com modity. He stated that " One ton of coal, costing the London companies 145., yielded 9,400 cubic feet of gas, and that the residual product of this ton of coal sold for 11s., leaving 3s. as the cost of the raw material for 9,400 cubic feet of gas, or about 4d. for one thousand feet." To this, of course, must be added the cost of labour, plant, and distribution ; but it is clear that such a charge as 4s. 6d. per thou sand cubic feet can have no legitimate warrant in the expenses of production. The truth is that the manfacture of gas is a monopoly, and the gas com panies charge us pretty well what they please, and give us a bad commodity to boot. We are starved in light for the same reason that we are insufficiently supplied with water—because we are at the mercy of irresponsible corporations. Fifteen years ago the Government was obliged to threaten the water companies that, if they did not serve the public better, their privileges would be taken away from them ; and since then matters have somewhat im proved, though there is room for considerable fur ther improvement. The gas companies must be similarly frightened, or they will assuredly do no thing. The object of the meeting in the City was to consider the propriety of petitioning Parliament for the total repeal of the Metropolitan Gas Act of 1860. A resolution to that effect was carried, and thus one step has been taken towards the removal of a gross abuse. " THE READER" ON DEATH BY LIGHTNING.—The time required for a rifle-bullet to pass clean through a man's head may be roughly estimated at one thousandth of a second. Here, therefore, we should have no room for sensation, and death would be painless. But there are other actions which far transcend in rapidity that of the rifle-bullet. A flash of lightning cleaves a cloud, appearing and disappearing in less than one-hundred-thousandth of a second, and the velocity of electricity is such as would carry it over a distance equal to that which separates the earth and moon in a single second. It is well known that a luminous impression once made upon the retina endures for about one-sixth of a second, and that this is the reason why we see a ribbon of light when a glowing coal is caused to pass rapidly through the air. A body illuminated by an instantaneous flash continues to be seen for the sixth of a second after the flash has become extinct ; and if the body thus illuminated be in motion, it appears at rest at the place which it occu pied when the flash fell upon it. The colour-top is familiar to most of us. By this instrument a disk with differently-coloured sectors is caused to rotate rapidly ; the colours blend together, and if they are chosen in the proportions necessary to form white light, the disk appears white when the motion is sufficiently rapid. Such a top, rotating in a dark room, and illuminated by an electric spark, appears motionless, each distinct colour being clearly seen. Professor Dove has found that a flash of lightning produces the same effect. During a thunder storm he put a colour-top as a motionless object with colours distinct. If illuminated solely by a flash of lightning, the motion of all bodies on the earth's surface would, as Dove has remarked, appear sus pended. A cannon-ball, for example, would have its flight apparently arrested, and would seem to hang motionless in space as long as the luminous impression which revealed the ball remained upon the eye. If, then, a rifle-bullet move with sufficient rapidity to destroy life without the interposition of sensation, much more is a flash of lightning com petent to produce this effect. Accordingly, we have well-authenticated cases of people being struck senseless by lightning who, on recovery, had no memory of pain. The following circumstantial case is described by Hemmer :—On the 30th of June, 1788, a soldier in the neighbourhood of Mann heim, being overtaken by rain, placed himself under a tree, beneath which a woman had previously taken shelter. He looked upwards to see whether the branches were thick enough to afford the required protection, and, in doing so, was struck by lightning, and fell senseless to the earth. The woman at his side experienced the shock in her foot, but was not struck down. Some hours afterwards the man revived, but knew nothing about what had occurred, save the fact of his looking up at the branches. This was his last act of conscious ness, and he passed from the conscious to the uncon scious condition without pain. The visible marks of a lightning stroke are usually insignificant : the hair is sometimes burnt ; slight wounds are observed, while, in some instances, a red streak marks the track of the discharge over the skin. The effects of a shock of artificial lightning on a gentleman of our acquaintance, who is very sensitive to the electric discharge, may be here described. Under ordinary circumstances, the discharge from a small Leyden jar is exceedingly unpleasant to him. Some time ago he happened to stand in the presence of a numerous audience, with a battery of fifteen large Leyden jars , charged beside him. Through some awkwardness on his part, he touched a wire which he had no right to touch, and this discharge of the battery went through his body. Here life was absolutely blotted out for a very sensible interval, without a trace of pain. In a second or two consciousness returned; the recipient of the shock saw himself in the presence of his audience and apparatus, and, by the help of these external facts, immediately concluded that he had received the battery discharge. His intellectual consciousness of his position was restored with ex ceeding rapidity, but not so his optical consciousness. To prevent the audience from being alarmed, he observed that it had often been his desire to receive I accidentally such a shock, and that his wish had at I length been fulfilled. But while making this 1.,- mark, the appearance which his body presented to him was that of a number of separate pieces. The arms, for example, were detached frOm the trunk, and seemed suspended in the air. In fact, memory, and the power of reasoning, appeared to be complete long before the optic nerve was restored to healthy action. But what we wish chiefly to dwell upon here is, the absolute painlessness of the shock ; and there cannot be a doubt, to a person struck dead by lightning, the passage from life to death occurs with out consciousness being in the least degree impli cated. It is an abrupt stoppage of sensation, j unaccompanied by a pang. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-July 8, BOW-STREET. THE CRUELTIES PRACTISED AT THE THAMES EMBANK MENT Woßics.—An investigation took place on Saturday afternoon before Sir T. Henry, at the instance of Mr. Love, chief officer of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, with reference to several charges against men em ployed on the Thames Embankment works, for ill- treating horses. The cases had excited considerable interest, atten tion having been drawn by recent correspondence in the newspapers to the constant ill usage of the animals em ployed on those works. James Terry and John Ha,yter, two carmen employed by different contractors, were first charged. It appeared that numerous complaints having been made to the society, instructions were given to Mr. Temperley and Mr. Rutherford, inspectors of the society's constables, to watch the proceedings at that part of the works opposite to the Foreign-office. They stationed themselves for the purpose in the balcony of the Foreign-office. The prisoners were engaged in conveying cartloads of wet clay to the edge of the embankment. The front off wheel of the cart driveu by Hayter having sunk nearly to the axle in the clay, the cart became fixed, and all Hayter's efforts to remove it by tugging at his horse's bridle were unavailing. Hayter then called to the other prisoner, who came up with a whip and commenced flogging the horse most unmercifully. The poor animal, however, was wholly unable to stir. The whip was produced by Mr. Temperley. Sir Thomas Henry inquired of Inspector Temperley how far it was from the spot where this occurred to the balcony where he and Rutherford wore posted. Inspector Temperley replied that it was about 30 yards. He could distinctly see what was going on. Sir Thomas Henry—Why did not you go down and in terfere ? ' - Inspector Temperley—Because they will not allow us to go upon the works. The cart was ultimately got out of the rut by the assistance of a chain horse. As Hayter's horse was being removed from the works he (Mr. Temperley) went round to the gate to examine it. The poor beast was marked with four large wheals, and the blood was still flowing from those wounds, where the lash of the whip had cut into the flesh. Altogether, apart from these wounds, the horse was lame in one of the fore legs, and in very poor condition. The prisoner Hayter said the horse would not pull, and he could not make him pull, so he called to Terry to come and help him. They could not move him, and so they got a chain horse as soon as they could. Inspector Temperley said that while the prisoners wore trying to get the horse from the rut there wore two chain horses doing nothing. Inspector Rutherford said the chain horses were supplied for the purpose, but the men preferred dispensing with them whenever possible, to save time. They were paid so much a load, and therefore time was a material considera tion to them. For the same reason they went close to the embankment, which they had no business to do. Hayter denied these statements. The chain, horse was put on as soon as it had entered the yard. He had no intention of treating the horse with cruelty. He would promise not to act in a similar manner again if the magistrate would pass it over this once. Sir Thomas Henry inquired who employed the men. Inspector Rutherford said they were employed by the contractors, who paid them sixpence for every load they carted to the works. Sir Thomas Henry—Then they are not employed by the contractors to the works. _ Inspector Rutherford—They are not. -- Six Thomas Henry observed that there had unquestion ably been great cruelty, and somebody must be made re .sponsible for it. In order to sift the matter thoroughly ha must have the masters before him. After an adjournment for this purpose, Thomas Evans, cowkeopor and carman attended, and stated that Hayter was his servant, and was paid Ll a week. He was hired to throw the muck, 9s. per day being paid to witness for the use of the man, horse, and cart. It was understood thata chain horse would be supplied by the contractors to assist when necessary. Hayter said the chain horse was only allowed to help them up the shoot ; it was then detached, and if they wanted it again they must go 50 yards or more to fetch it. Mr. Love explained that the contract was held by Mr. Furness ; but there were two sub-contractors under him named Connor and Jay. Jay had two shoots in front of Whitehall, and Connor had one by Hungerford pier. Any one is allowed to shoot rubbish there on payment of is. to the sub-contractor, who provides chain horses to assist,but no tramway is laid down. It frequently happens that car men who have ill-treated their horses disappear, and never return to work there. What was wantedin order to remedy the evil was more horse-power and a tramway, or at least better roads. Since these proceedings had been taken he be lieve great improvements in the roadway had been com menced, by laying down bricks, stones, and other hard material to fill in the ruts. Sir Thomas Henry—ls Mr. Jay or Mr. Connor hero ? The foreman of Mr. Jay said it was his duty to superin tend the whole of the works in front of Whitehall. There wore always chain horses to assist. No doubt the roads had been very bad since the lain, but steps were being taken to improve them. Sir Thomas Henry—But no steps were taken till two of the men had been apprehended on this charge. I have given instructions, however, to the inspector of police to have the works narrowly watched, and the officers of the society must also have access to the embankment. It is the wish of the Board of Works, and I am sure it must be also the wish of the contractors, that this great undertaking shall be carried on without cruelty to the poor animals who work there, and if the good feeling and humanity of the men will not impel them to do their duty in this respect they must be compelled to do it by heavy .penalties. A man guilty of cruelty to a horse was not only liable to a heavy pecuniary penalty, but might be committed for two months without a fine ; and for causing or allowing cruelty the employer was amenable to the same punishment. He men tioned this to show the employers to what consequences they exposed themselves if they did not take care to pre vent their men from behaving in this manner. He should adjourn the cases for a fortnight to see how they went on in the meanwhile. Inspector Baldy said that since these proceedings had been commenced active steps had been taken to improve the roads. On Friday night and this (Saturday) morning men had been constantly employed in filling up the ruts, &c. Sir T. Henry—l am very pleased to hear that, and hope there may be no more cause to complain. As we have no desire to press hardly upon the men, I shall be willing to liberate them upon their own recognisances. WANDSWORTIL—CONVICTION OF THE EARL OF WINCHIL• SEA FOR SMOKING HIS CHlAlL'o—Satarday morning WaS appointed for the hearing of the second summons against the Earl of Winchilsea and Nottingham for smoking a cigar on the platform of the Vauxhall Railway Station, contrary to the bye-laws of the South-Western Railway Company. Mr. Crombie again attended in support of the summons. On this occasion the earl attended, with Mr. Metcalfe, the barrister, who defended him. Before the case was gone into Mr. Metcalfe said he was instructed to state by the e arl that although he was not present on the fi rst day he had no intention to annoy the magistrate. Mr. Dayman said the earl had explained his absence in a letter. He was at Stockbridge at the time. Mr. Metcalfe said he wished it to be thoroughly under stood that the earl intended to bow to the legal tribunal. Mr. Thompson, the station-master, at Vauxhall, was called to prove the case, which occurred on the 7th ult. He said the earl refused to desist, and pointed to an engine, and asked him to take notice that there were coals on it. Mr. Metcalfe—lnstead of coke ? The engine was smok ing, contrary to the bye-laws. (Laughter.) In answer to questions by Mr. Metcalfe, the station master and porter showed that persons were in the habit of smoking at the platform, but they always checked it. The parties invariably desisted. Whetiever they refused they were reported. Mr. Metcalfe then endeavoured to show that smoking was tolerated at Waterloo Station in open day, at other stations, and in carriages on the line. The earl did not deny that he smoked, but he complained that the practice was systematically allowed. If the company intended to en force their bye-laws then they should issue a notice to that effect. Mr. Dayman said the company proceeded against smokers as much as they could, and he thought much of the practice was owing to the laxity of station-masters. He then fined tho earl 10s. and 2s. costs, as he did not think the offence so great as tho smoking in carriages. The money was immediately paid. TOWER HAMLETS. This electoral constituency, the largest in the me tropolis, with the exception of Lambeth, resembles Southwark alone in being spared the turmoil of a contest. The elements of dissatisfaction largely abound, but owing to personal and political compli cations a fair trial of party strength was not on the present occasion obtainable. A very large and in fluential section of the Reformers of the Tower Hamlets appear to consider that the representation of the borough has gained nothing in efficiency by the substitution of Mr. Ayrton for their old member Sir W. Clay, who sat for the borough from the day of its enfranchisement under the Reform Bill until the year 1857, and then, as his friends assert, only lost his seat by a " fluke." The Liberal party in the borough are stated to be entirely satisfied with the second member, Mr. Salisbury Butler, who, al though of advanced politics, has given a steady and honourable support to Lord Palmerston's Govern ment. Mr. Ayrton's attempts on various occasions to damage and discredit the Ministry have from time to time excited much indignation ; but when the friends of the present Government have counted the proba bilities of a contest they could not shut their eyes to the fact that the Conservative party in the Tower Hamlets by no means regard with the same dis favour Mr. Ayrton's occasional endeavours to annoy and embarrass the Government of Lord Palmerston. A contest appeared tabe inevitable a few days ago. An invitation was sent to Mr. Samuda, the engineer, to become a candidate on the Liberal interest, but he declined. Mr. John Humphreys, one of the coroners for Middlesex, then issued an address, in which he promised, if elected, to give to Lord Palmerston's Government "an ungrudging support." Mr. Hum phreys is well known within the borough, and his address was well received. Mr. T. Beard, solicitor, of Basinghall-street, also addressed the electors. On Thursday Mr. Humphreys issued a second address, explaining his reason for retiring from the contest. As Mr. Beard has also withdrawn his pretensions, the old members, Mr. C. S. Butler and Mr. Ayrton, will be re-elected without opposition. LAMBETH. The nomination of candidates for this borough is appointed to take place this morning at 10 o'clock, on hustings which have been erected as usual at the Horns Kennington. There are at present four gentlemen really or nominally appealing for the support of the constituency. We say really or nominally, because Mr Haig, the Conservative candidate, has taken so little pains to press his claims upon the electors, and has, indeed, so ostentatiously announced his intention to abstain from all the most ordinary electioneering proceedings, that his nomination can hardly be treated as a practical endeavour to obtain a seat in the House of Commons ; but rather as a protest, somewhat faint and imperfect at the best, against the notion that the borough of Lambeth is wholly Liberal in sentiment, and an assertion that there is, after all, within its limits a Conservative minority, no matter how small, which is dimly striving to make its influence felt in Parliament. The other three candidates are all Liberals, varying a good deal in personal character and attainments ; but not essentially differing as to the course which they are likely to pursue upon any of the most important political questions of the day. They are Mr. Doul ton and Mr. Alderman Lawrence (the late members for the borough), and Mr. Thomas Hughes. All three gentlemen have during the week been most assiduous in their exertions to press upon the elec tors their claims to a seat in Parliament ; and on Saturday they each of them addressed several well attended meetings in different parts of the borough, at which resolutions were adopted approving their principles, and pledging those who were present to exert themselves to secure their return. One of the meetings addressed by Mr. Doulton was an open-air one, held in Union-square, Horsemonger lane. SOUTHWARK. There is no note of preparation for a contest, nor scarcely anything to show that an election is at hand in " the Borough." The signs that are to be met everywhere in the City, in Lambeth, in Fins bury, in Westminster, and in Marylebone are wholly wanting. No committee-rooms are to be seen ; no meetings summoned to hear the addresses of the candidates. Besides the hustings there is to be but one polling-booth. The votes in all but two dis tricts—" in the event of a poll being demanded"-- are to be taken at schools, a vestry-hall, and a work house. The paths are quite smooth for Mr. Locke and Mr. Layard to walk over. AN ELECTOR'S JOKE.—Mr. Adam Black is at present very unpopular with his constituency in Edinburgh, which has given rise to a respectable joke " What can have caused Adam's Fall ?" asked one consti tuent. " The Eve of an election," was the reply. THE FIGURE OF THE EARTH.—The Cosmos pub lishes an article by M. W. de Fonvielle, on the sub ject of certain remarks made in Germany on the measure of an arc of the meridian of Barcelona, comprised between that city and Formentera. In this article he contends that Biot and Arago, in measuring that arc, did not by any means intend to correct the length of the metre, but only to verify the results obained by Delambre and Mecbain. Since then numerous arcs have been measured without any addition to our knowledge of tke figure of the earth; on the contrary, difficulties have arisen in proportion as the means of investigation have become more powerful. The academicians of our days are not half so sure of the real ♦alue of the spheroid we inhabit as the contemporaries of Picard and Lacaille were. It is found that the vicinity of mountains may cause the plumb-line to deviate from the perpendicular. Nay, they have even been led to suspect existence of a repulsive force in certain localities of the earth, such as Moscow ; and they have even been induced to start the question whether all meridians are identical curves or not, or the terrestrial spheroid may not have suffered some depression or elevation of surface sufficient to deform it and prevent its assimilation to a spheroid of revolution. .M. de Fonvielle shows that geometricians are greatly embarrassed in their choice between various con tradictory measurements, some of which are oven of doubt ful precision. All those measures have to be reduced to the level of the sea, and it is by no means certain that all the seas of the globe are on the level; and hence our author concludes that the only way to get out of the difficulty is to follow the example of MM. Biot and Arago, and mea sure a certain number of marine arcs. Considering the discrepancies so ably exposed by our author, we are reminded of M. de Gumpache's work on the Figure of the Earth, an abstract of which we gave about two years ago, and in which he endeavours to show that the earth is an elongated and not a flattened spheroid. We remember having read that work with great interest, and though we cannot presume to declare his ar guments perfectly correct, we cannot divest ourselves of a strong suspicion that he might be right to a certain extent. COUNTRY MARKETS NOTTINGHAM-SATURDAY. At this corn exchange to-day there was a limited supply of wheat, the show consisting of white and red sorts. The inquiry ruled heavy, and sales took place at the extreme rates of last week. Oats small, and prices same as last week. Peas scarce, and unaltered in value. Old white wheat, 44s to 48S; old red, 40s to 445; no , " white, 44s to 488 ; new red, 39s to 44s per 36 stone. Bar ley, new malting, 27s to 35s per qr ; old grinding, 26s to 28s ; new, 25s to 27s per 30 stone. Oats, old, 27s to 30s ; new, 21s to 25s ; old foreign, 22s to 26s per stone. Beans, old, 43s to 46s ; new, 40s to 42s per 38 stone. NORWICH-SATURDAY. There was only a thin attendance at this market to-day, but the supply of wheat was fair, and although the farmers were reluctant to sell, prices in some few instances gave way 6d per qr., even upon the best qualities. In oats, beans, and peas little doing. White wheat (weighing 631 b to 641 b), 48s to 498 ; red ditto (weighing 631 b to 641 b), 40s to 42s ; best malting barley (weighing 551 b to 561 b), 30s to 33s ; runs ditto (weighing 541 b to 551 b), 28s to 308 ; distilling ditto (weigh ing 521 b to 531 b), 24s to 26s ; oats, 24s to 26s ; beans, 375 to 39s ; peas (maple), 36s to 38s per qr; flour, 26s to 260 6d per sack. YORK-SATURDAY. The weather is now propitious for the crops. There was only a thin attendance of the trade, and for some articles the quotations are higher. New white wheat, 44s to 48s; new red, 40s to 43s per 36 stone. Barley, for malting, 308 to 32s per qr ; grinding, 26s to 28s per 30 stone. Oats, new, 20s to 22s per 24 stone. Beans, 38s to 40s per 40 stone. Malt, 58s ; rye, 28s per qr. Flour, 29s per sack of 2801 b. LEICESTER-SATURDAY. Old white'wheat, 42s to 46s ; old red, 38s to 43s ; neW white, 43s to 488 ; new red, 38s to 42s per 36 stone. Bar ley, malting, 32s to 34s per qr. ; grinding, 28s to 30s per 30 stone. Oats, old, 28s to 31s ; new, 23s to 26s per 24 stone • Beans, old, 40s to Os ; new, 36s to 41s per 38 stone. DIIBLIN.-FRIDAY. There was a steady market for all grain at previous rates; the demand, however, was limited for wheat and Indian corn. Oats in retail demand. Oatmeal nominal. Flour obtained good business rates for consumption. Currencies :—White wheat, 22s 6d to 24s 6d ; red do., 20s 6d to 22s Od ; grinding barley, 12s Od to 138 Od; malt ing do., 13s to 14s 6d ; white oats, Us to 12s ; black do., 10s Od to 118 Od. CORK-FRIDAY. The following were the quotations this rhorning :—Red wheat, 78 6d to Os Od ; white, 8s 8d to OS Od ; barley, 6s 9d to Os Od ; oats, 88dd to 8s 8d ; black oats, 78 6d to Os Od; bere, Os Od. MURDER AT WOLVERHAMPTON. - WOLVER RAMPTON, Monday.—Early this morning cries of "Murder" and " Police" were heard in North-street, Wolverhampton, and a man named Richard Shore was picked up dead. Thomas Poleman, who is known to have threatened him, is in custody. He protests his innocence. tADVERTISEMENT.II—HoIIoway's Ointment and Pills.-- A Word of Promise.—All sufferers from sores, ulcers, scor butic affections, and skin diseases may confidently com mence the treatment of their several infirmities with these healing and cleansing remedies. Under Holloway's well tried medicaments the worst cases will soon assume kinder aspect, and in the progress of the cure the afflicted will neither be embarrassed by difficulties nor disheartened by failures. A little perseverance and moderate attention to the " directions for use," enveloping every packet of ointment and pills, will enable every invalid t o con d uc t his complaint to a successful issue; and he may f ee l assure d that by following this simple but searching treatment, his skin will be made sound, severe suffering spared, and health restored. Births. BURNS.—On the 7th inst., at Castle Wemyss, Renfrewshiro, the wife of John Burns, Esq., of a daughter. RIDDELL.—On the 7th inst., at 26a, Bryanston-square, the wife of Francis Riddell, Esq., of a son. TURNER. —On the 7th inst., at Dartmouth, the wife of $• M. Turner, Esq., of a son. WESTMORLAND.—On the 7th inst., at 15, Porchester-squaret Mrs. F. G. Westmorland, of a son. Marriages PETHERSTONITAUGH—OARLETON.—On the 4th inst., at All Saints', Odiham, Timothy Fetherstonhaugh, Esq., late 13th Hussars, of The College, Kirkoswald, Cumberland, to the Hon. Maria Georgiana Carleton, younger daugh ter of the Right Hon. Guy, Lord Dorchester, Greywell Hill, Hants. FOLEY—STURT. — On the 6th inst., at St. George's, Han over-square, Colonel the Hon. St. George Foley, to Augusta Selina, youngest daughter of H. C. and lady Charlotte Sturt. Deaths. BLAND.—On the 4th inst., at Canby, Lincolnshire, Luke Bland, aged 68. CoLElntooxE.--On the 3d inst., at The Firs, Horsham, T. C. Colebrooke, Esq. COORE.—On the sth inst., Mr. Robt. Cooke, of 119, Salis bury-square, aged 65. KILPIN.—On the 7th inst., Mr. Joseph Keep Kilpin, late of Villiers-street, Strand. MONTAOU.—On the 6th inst., at Swaffham, the Rey. Gee Montagu, aged 72. TEMPEST.—On the 4th inst., at Wooten Hall, Henley-in" Arden, Francis Joseph Tempest, Esq. 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