The Sun. — London, England, 1866-02-10 00:00:00

The Cattle Plague. IMPORTANT DEPUTATION TO THE GOVERN- lIEN T. A large and influential deputation, appointed by the conference on the cattle plague at St. James's Hall on Thursday, had an interview with Earl Granville, President of the Council, and Sir George Grey, Home Secretary, in order to lay before them the resolutions adopted by the conference. The Earl of LICHFIELD introduced the deputation, which he said had been appointed at a meeting held on the previous day, which had been attended by practical agriculturists from no less than forty-four counties, who represented in many cases influential agricultural societies. The resolutions that were passed at that meeting spoke for themselves, and he might say that there was a unanimity of opinion among those who had been present as to the abso lute necessity of the most stringent regulations to check the progress of the cattle plague. There was but one course to take, and that was in conformity with the resolutions that had been passed, and which he would now lay before the Home Secre tary. His lordship then referred to the numerous attendance of members of both houses of Parlia ment, both at the meeting on the previous day, and upon the deputation, explaining that it had been thought desirable that those members should ab stain from giving any opinions upon the subject at present, as they would shortly have an opportunity of doing so from their places in Parliament. Mr. PELL said the first resolution prohibiting the removal of cattle had been at first amended and rendered less stringent, in deference to a feeling ex pressed by several gentlemen from Scotland, but that was not the feeling of the English deputies, and the consequence was that the amendment was struck out by the almost unanimous voice of the meeting, only three or four hands being held up in support of it. Sir G. GREY asked if there were any deputies at the meeting from those parts of Scotland from which the objections to the resolution, as it first stood, were received. Mr. PELL said they were present. Another amendment was moved and seconded by two gen tlemen from Scotland, who represented the feelings and views of a particular trade, and that amend ment was distinctly antagonistic to the resolution ; but it was rejected, and the resolution, as it stood, was carried almost unanimously. Sir G. GREY asked if there had been any repre sentatives from the large cities and towns of the kingdom—such as Birmingham, Manchester, and Liverpool—and if so, had they been consenting parties to the resolution? Mr. PELL said it wars not for him to say that. Ile knew there was a representative from the Man chester and Liverpool Agricultural Society present, and that circulars had been sent to every agricul tural society in Great Britain. Sir G. GREY wished to know how far the reso tion, in its present form, might be taken as ex pressing what he understood, they represented as the unanimous opinion of 44 counties ? Mr. PELL believed there were deputies from 21 agricultural societies present, and he believed one or two more. The Earl of LICHFIELD said that 44 counties were certainly represented. Earl GRANVILLE said it would perhaps be as well if the Government could be supplied with a list of those who were present at the meeting, and it was promised that such a list should be furnished. Mr. GOODLET, as the . representative of the Scotch Farmers' Club in Edinburgh, explained that opinion among the agricultural community of Scot land, and others interested in the cattle trade there, had been considerably modified lately, and he could say that so far as his own feeling went, his previous opinion had been very much shaken by the meeting of the previous day. The Scotch farmers were at first very much in favour of various curative measures that had been proposed, but ultimately they had come to the conclusion that the stamping-out process was the one which ought to be adopted. He then handed in a state ment of his own views on the question to Sir G. Grey in addition to some resolutions that had been passed by the Scotch body he represented. Sir G. GREY said it appeared from the written views of the last speaker that he thought all danger would not be avoided even by the prohibition of the removal of cattle, as slaughtering would still be carried on in Scotland by butchers who might carry the infection with them, about themselves or in the materials they used. The resolution forbade the removal of cattle on a highway, or by rail. Sup posing the road intersected a farm, were the cattle to be allowed to cross that road ? A MEMBER of the DEPUTATI ON—Distinctly not. Sir G. GREY—Not even with a licence ? Several Vo ES—C ertainly not. Sir G. GREY asked what was meant by the term cattle—did it apply only to neat cattle, or did it in clude sheep and pigs ? The Earl of LICHFIELD said he had used the word in its common acceptation, as meaning only neat cattle, leaving it to Parliament to use definite terms. Mr. RYDER, as representing the Manchester and Liverpool Agricultural Society, said he could not undertake to say that the resolution expressed the feeling of either Manchester or Liverpool generally, and did not think deputies from any society could claim to represent the feeling of the towns in their own counties generally. There could be no doubt that the interests of the towns were antagonistic to what was sought to be done. In his own case, he did not wish it to be supposed that the Manchester and Liverpool Agricultural Society represented the general feeling in those towns. Sir G. GREY said he understood that nothing in the resolution would prevent the unlimited importa tion of cattle, so that Liverpool, in fact, might be supplied with the greatest possible abundance, but that cattle so imported must no go inland—to Man chester, for instance. Mr. PELL said that the cattle, by the resolution, must not go inland. Sir G. GREY—So that every head of Irish cattle as well as foreign cattle coming to England alive would have to be slaughtered at the port of debarka- tion ? Mr. PELL said it must be slaughtered or sent away again. Sir G. GREY—Then the result looked forward to would be that the Irish butchers would be able to carry their cattle to Liverpool, and that Manchester and all the great towns of Lancashire would have to be supplied with dead meat. Mr. PELL said that would be so ; only he expected that the adoption of the resolution would have the result of inducing those who carried on the trade to slaughter the beasts in Ireland, and to bring the beef_ over i n th e carcass . E arl GPaNVILLE—IIas Liverpool facilities at pre sent for Slaughtering all the cattle that might be brought the Mr. RthE e for supplying the country around it ? ltNcas afraid not, but those facilities could be created , If the Legislature compelled it, it would be e asy to obtain the necessary means. Mr. SMITHERsa.d he considered the facilities already existin g in s o ports would really be found sufficient, for when ur the market was reduced to a d e ad-meat market on the hang n t of the butchers, animals would not be kept ilng i in the slaughter e slaughtered houses, but would be disposed'i rapidly, and an immense number of beasts inio• ht b in rapid succession. Mr. TOLLEMACHE, M.P., thought th e Prohibition of the removal of cattle would not have the d esired effect, and he instanced the case of Cheshire, w hi ch had suffered more than any other county from th e cattle plague, where the most stringent regulations to that effect passed by the m agistrates, though most strictly enforced, had been ineffective, as the cattle disease was extending in that county. Mr. G. W. HUNT, M.P., said time reverse had been the case in Northamptonshire. On the 11th of January an order was issued prohibiting the removal of any animal for more than 100 yards on its own farm, and in one week the deaths decreased from 199 to 95. Sir G. GREY—AII I can say to the deputation is what I have already stated this morning to a depu tation from Yorkshires that the Government do not diffe r at all from the principle of these resolutions. Our first view was that though it might be wise to attempt to effect a cure, yet the surest course was to give the power of slaughter. That power was given, and we were soon overwhelmed with remonstrances against the exercise of it. In De:temberlast a deputa tion waited upon me from some of the agricultural associations, who expressed their opposition to the power we had given, and their satisfaction at the fact that in deference to public opinion we were about to modify it. We were told throughout most distinctly that public opinion did not support the Government, but subsequently experience has fully confirmed the wisdom of the course we took in declaring that slaughter was the only effectual way of checking the spread of the disease. In Aberdeenshire, in October last, measures were taken to stamp out the disease by slaughter, and great good was done. I believe that a fund was raised to compensate those whose cattle were destroyed, which was contributed to equally by landlord and tenant. Sir G. JENKINSON remarked that one of the reso lutions passed at the conference declared that com pensation for the slaughter of animals infected, or in immediate contact with those infected, should be provided by Act of Parliament. His own view was, that such compensation should be provided by a local or county rate. Sir G. GREY asked if the deputation were aware that a proposal had been made for a poll-tax upon cattle. Mr. PELL thought there were insuperable difficul ties in the way of the accomplishment of that object. Mr. SINTIIIES inquired if the Government pro posed to take a census of cattle. Sir G. GREY-It i 3 being taken now, and we hope to have it in our possession shortly. Mr. TOLLEMACIIE, M.P., said the question of compensation involved great difficulties. As re garded Cheshire, the disease has been so general, that if they were to attempt to compensate the far mers by a rate levied on agricultural property alone, there would be no relief. It would be simply re ceiving with one hand, and paying with another. Sir G. GREY—I see here a resolution in favour of disinfecting markets, railway trucks, and cattle pens. That is a very important question. The Government wished to have it done, and they brought in two bills, but the whole agricultural in terest opposed them. lam glad you have now seen the evil of your objections, and I hope that measures may be taken to provide a permanent remedy for this state of things. Lord LICIIFIELD thanked Lord Granville and Sir George Grey for the courtesy they had displayed, and the deputation then withdrew. Naval and Military Intelligence. Her Majesty's ship Chanticleer, Commander W. Fenwick, arrived off Woolwich arsenal yesterday morning at 8 o'clock, and, having saluted the flagship Fisgard, she made fast at the powder buoy to dis charge her war stores. The salute not being custo mary in the Thames occasioned some official inquiry, and was not returned. Her ship's company will be mustered this morning by Commodore Superinten dent Dunlop, C. 8., and Mr. Ponsonby, naval secre tary. She landed a draught of seamen yesterday brought up from Portsmouth to make up the com plement of 180 men who will be transferred this morning from the flagship to the turret ship Prince Albert. She experienced stormy weather during her voyage home, in which some of her bulwarks were carried away, and she also lost a portion of her false keel. Capt. Wilmshurst, in command of the Prince Albert, at Woolwich, has again joined from leave of absence ; as also have the majority of her officers commissioned. According to present arrangements, she will be docked and out of the shipwrights' hands on the 17th inst. She was inspected on Thursday by Vice-Admiral Lord E. Russell, C. 8., Vice-Ad miral Sir G. R. Mundy, K.C.8., Rear-Admiral Stopford, and Rear-Admiral Sir F. W. E. Nichol son, C. 8., who were attended in their inspection by Mr. Turner and other officials of the yard. The officials and draughtsmen connected with the master-shipwright's establishment at Chatham are busily engaged, under the superintendence of one of the assistant-constructors from the department of the Controller of the Navy, in preparing the drawings, plans, and moulds, from the designs trans mitted from time to time from the Admiralty, of the ironclad turret-ship Monarch, and the new broad side iron frigate Hercules, both of which are to be commenced at Chatham as soon as the graving docks now occupied by the ironclad frigates Belle rophon and Lord Warden are completed, the former vessel being under orders to leave dock on the 17th inst., and the latter during the ensuing month. The chief interest is just now centered in the pre paration of the playas for the Monarch, the first turret-ship designed for the Royal Navy by Mr. Reed, the Chief Constructor at the Admiralty. It is intended that the Hercules and Monarch shall be constructed simultaneously so as to allow of both vessels being completed and fit for sea at about the same time. From the drawings and models already received at Chatham, it appears that the Monarch will be constructed with double turrets, and will be the first vessel of her size carrying two turrets. The Monitor class of ships hitherto built carry only one turret, but the advantages of two turrets is beginning to be appreciated by the Americans, who had already built such vessels of light draught. It was originally intended to construct the Monarch with only one turret, as proposed by Capt. Coles, but the committee of naval officers appointed by the Admiralty to examine and report upon the turret principle, of which Vice-Admiral the Earl of Lau derdale, K.C.8., was the president, strongly ob jected to a single turret, and hence the decision of the Admiralty to construct the proposed vessel with two turrets. The Monarch is designed with an upper deck twice the height above the water of the turret-ships Royal Sovereign and Royal Albert. Like the Bellerophon, she will be provided with an inner skin, and will be constructed on the double bottom cellular principle. Her armour will be of a maximum thickness of 7in. It will be carried to a height of 15ft. above and sft. below her water-line. The armour on her turrets will be close upon 12in. thick, while the interior of each turret will be suffi ciently large to receive two of the largest guns con structed. At the same time she will carry a heavy gun at her stem and stern. Both vessels are to be completed within two years. On Thursday evening the ward room officers of her Majesty's ship Victory entertained Admiral S' Michael Seymour, G.C.8., Port-Admiral and Nava Commander-in-Chief at Portsmouth, and staff, comprising Flag-Capt. F. Scott, C. 8., aide-de camp to the Queen, Flag-Lieut. E. 11. Seymour, and Secretary W. D. Jeans, C. 8., at dinner on board the Victory. After the cloth was drawn Commander Sheers, of the Victory, proposed " The Health of Sir Michael and Lady Seymour." Sir M. Seymour, in reply, expressed deep regret that the period of his command was drawing near, and bore willing testimony to the zeal and ability with which his orders had been executed by all the officers un der his commond. It is reported that SirW.Martin will be Sir Michael's successor at Portsmouth. A letter from Major-General Grey, commanding her Majesty's troops in China and Japan, has been forwarded from the I - lorse Guards through the Admiralty to the several divisions of Royal Ma rines for promulgation on parade. He says : Having forwarded to the Quartermaster-General for the information of his Royal Highness the Field- Marshal Commanding-in-Chief, my report of the embarkation of the battalion of Royal Marines on board her Majesty's ship Conqueror for return to England, I have now 'the honour to bring to the notice of his Royal Highness the high state of offi ciency and discipline for which the battalion under the command of Lieut.-Colonel Suther has been so c onspicuous daring the period of its se rv i ce i n J apan. i It s due to the commanding officer and the officers and men under his orders to state that the steady and correct manner in which their duties were per formed, th e i r excellent behaviour in camp, and their clean, soldie mr-cloikemendtl appearance.on on parade, are alike deservin g of ma antll beg to request that his Royal highnessbe a th' l e Field-Marshal Com manding-in-Chiefy pleased dtomakeknoNvn my favour a bl e report to t a e Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. Ex-Provisional Governor Johnson has returned to tho practice of his profession, the law, at his home in Columbus, Georgia. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held yesterday at the London Tavern—Lieut.-Colonel Pearson 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 working expenses had been grad ually increasing during the past four years. Some gentlemen thought they could save out of the work ing expenses 1i per cent. to increase the dividend. He trusted, however, that he would be able to show they were progressing in the right direction. Some three years ago a gentleman in the north con tended that the working expenses could be consi derably reduced. Messrs. Quilter and Ball, the accountants, were employed to examine the counts. The directors did not believe the working expenses could be reduced so much as had been sup posed. The Board had accepted the new directors selected by the shareholders, with a view to keep down the expenses and improve the working. A general manager was then appointed, and also a re sident engineer. He might say they were most for tunate in the selection of those gentlemen, for better men could not be obtained. The company's old and faithful servant, Mr. Forsyth, who had been ma nager and resident engineer of the company at the small salary of £B5O a year for many years, was ap pointed consulting engineer. Mr. Wilson, an inde pendent engineer, had examined the working stock, and reported that it was in fair working order, but the engines had long boilers that would not bear a pressure of more than 901 b. or 100 lb. to the square inch, while it was necessary they should be strong enough to bear a pressure of 1401 b. to the square inch, so, as to work efficiently and with economy. They had had various difficulties to deal with ; then it was found the repairing shops of the company were unequal to the requirements of the ordinary repairs. Proper tools and machinery had to be pro vided, and all this preparation had involved ex penses. The locomotive stock had in the interval to be kept in good order, and although the workshops were now in full operation, the expenses in that de partment had not been much reduced. Although the receipts of the railway had increased on the whole, the expenses had increased to a greater extent. There had been a falling off in the re ceipts on the canal as compared with the correspond ing half of 1864. The difference between the sum available for dividend and that for the corre sponding period was about £11,600 less. There had been a falling off in the canal traffic of £2,000, in the balance brought over of £3,000 ; the increase of working expenses had been more than £3,000 ; the increase in the interest account had been £2,800. Those sums accounted for the difference in the available balance. He then explained that the effects of the strike last year had been in jurious to their traffic. He represented the prefer ence shareholders at the board, and maintained that they were more interested in the success of the un dertaking than the ordinary shareholders, as they would participate in the surplus profits over a cer tain amount. They had no Parliamentary contest this year, and were doing everything in their power to develope the traffic of the district and to improve the position of the company. Mr. J. B. MooftE seconded the motion for the adoption of the report. A discussion ensued, in the course of which Mr. FILDES, M.P., recommended the directors to deve lope the through traffic from their district, and ob tain outlets for it in connexion with the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway, and other com panies north and south. _ _ _ Sir A. ANDERSON, a director, said he considered that the North Staffordshire Company was never in a more hopeful position than it was at present, and he believed the increased expenditure was capable of reduction. The report was unanimously adopted ; a dividend at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum was declared on the preference stock, and at the rate of 41 per cent. per annum on the ordinary stock of the com pany for the past half-year. The proceedings concluded with a vote of thanks to the chairman and directors. THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 10, 1866. NORTHERN OF BUENOS AYRES. The traffic receipts on this company's line, 19 miles in length, amounted for the week ending Dec. 16 to £646, against £-122 on 17 miles open for the corresponding week of 1864 ; the receipts for the week ending Dec. 23 amounted to £792, against £604 for the corresponding week of 1864. The Weekly average per mile for the two weeks was £4O 9s. 5d., against £3O 15s. 3d. for the corresponding weeks of 1864, showing an increase of £9 14s. 2d. per mile. GREAT SOUTHERN OF BUENOS.AYRES. The traffic receipts on the company's line for the week ending Dec. 24 amounted to £1,260, or £l7 15s. per mile. The receipts per train mile were 12s. 3d. Railway Traffic Returns for the Week. Miles Opened. Receipts. Railways. ~..—..."--,,,..—.._.......—...., 1866. 1865. 1866 1865 £ E Belfast and N. Counties 931 991 1,825 1.881 Belfast and County Down 44} 4t i 583 612 Biyth and Tyne 3G 36 Brecon and Merthyr Bristol and Exeter l2ll, 1211 5,667 5,410 Caledonian, Scottish Central. 4151 408 25 57 t 22,844 Cambrian . . Loc:.ermoutti K & Penrlth 3ll 332 Cockermouth and Workin 9 9 3,!6 297 Cork and Bandon 2O 20 305 312 Cork, Blackrock, & Passage 65 ( - 1 152 128 Cork and Youghal Cornwall 655 654 1,396 1,470 Deeside .. 17 17 260 248 Do Extension Dublin &Be llast Junction.... 63 63 1,358 1,282 Dublin and Drogheda 75 75 1,561 1.495 Dublin and Meath Dub. & Wicklow and Weadd lO6 915 2,890 2,591 Forth and Clyde Junction Furness, &c 5O 5) 3,618 2.808 Glasgow & South-Western Gt. EastPrn,Nrfk~&E.Union Great Northern 4Ol 401 35,084 32,630 Great North of Scotland 5B 53 1,593 1,349 Do Branches 42 41 1,084 923 Gt. Northn. & Westn.(lrel.) 7ll 715 705 413 9 t.Southn. & Westu.(lrind.) 3871 38 7 1 7,962 7.465 Great Wvitern l2BO 1270 64,395 60,870 Hull & llornsea highland Irish North-Western 145 145 1,617 1,640 Lancashire& Yorkshire 4u3 403 444383 35.370 Limerick and Ennis... 241 241 159 13 Limerick and Foynes 265 261 167 02 Llanelly 461 461 470 493 Llynvi Valley London & North-Western London & South-Western Lund. Brighton, &S. Coast 2931 2671 17,013 15 614 London, Chatham, & Dover; j 134 121 ) 7,983 5.618 all Metropolitan Extension /12 111 i 2,100 1,5,5 Do. Kent boast _ 27 27 780 540 Lon., Tilbury, tSc Southend 421 421 1,067 919 & Lincolnsh 246 216 19,638 16,358 Manch. S.J un.& Altrincham Pi 9} 1,416 1,253 Maryport and Carlisle 2B 28 1,531 1.386 Metropolitan Midland (incl. N.-Western) 6774 6511 49,299 44.0'24 Midland Gt.Westn. of Irind 2601 2601 5,085 4,44 t Monmouthsh. hail. & Canal 44 44 2,e92 2,417 North British, Edin., Perth and Dundee _7021 6564 22,411 20.446 N-Eastern and Stock. & DarL 12071 1160} 60,391 53,9 1 North London . . 4,360 3.106 worth iitall3rdshire 258 258 8,061 6.345 Pembroke and Tenby 11) it 95 46 Rhymney l9/ 191 1,104 1,033 Scottish North-Eastern 136 138 5,6.1 5,052 Somerset and Dorset 66 66 1 ,134 688 South Devon ...... 98 79) 3.9G8 3,29 South-Eastern 315 308 20,699 19.12: Tall Vale 6l 61 5,266 6,388 Ulster Vale of Clwyd . lO 10 109 149 Waterford and Kilkenny 3l 31 375 3 , 6 Waterford and Limerick 77 77 1.231 941 W'haveu,Cleator,&Egrmnt lO 10 589 571 FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. Austrian B2B 826 31,141 31,863 Bahia and San Francisco Belgian Eastern Junction Bombay, Baroda, & Cen. India 306 1851 9,0,5 2,800 Detroit and Milwaukie lB9 189 1,407 4.493 Dutch Rhenish Eastern of France Eastern Bengal East Indian Grand Trunk of Canada 1 .577 1377 - Great Central of Belgium 285 261 6,462 5,333 Great Indian Peninsula 590 553 35, 96 12,163 Great Luxembourg l3l 134 5,1 2 4.011 Great Southern of India Great Western of Canada 335 315 10,597 11 .336 Madras Madrid, Saragossa &Alicant 778 713 15,857 I 5,3 ?0 Northern of Canada Northern of France 724 724 6 , ,7f 8 54,674 Norwegian Trunk . ~ /t torn en Paris, Lyons, & Mediterrn 2OOO 197) 137,945 123,318 Paris and 4 hdeans 1 t ,21 1618 07,991 61,;6 • Recife and San Francisco. &c. 77) :71 1,43 5 1,037 Sc ride.. Do. Punjab, &c 253 95 1,747 2:7 South Austrian, &c 1658 1527 49,607 41.932 Southern of France Bll3 823 27,6.0 21,336 Victoria Welland. West & N-Wn. of France .. 1155 1016 45,118 43,780 General Jubal Early lately wrote a letter from his refuge in the 'West Indies, in which he accounted for his bad luck in the Shenandoah valley by saying that he had far fewer men than Gem Sheridan. The latter has since published a letter, in which ho shows that ho took more prisoners from Early than the latter reports as his entire force. American Literature and Art. The most ambitious effort before us is 4 ‘ Thomas a Becket," a metrical tragedy by G. W. Hollister. This is an acting play, the copyright of which belongs to Edwin Booth ; it is also well worth reading as a poem, the leading characters being sketched with a good degree of truth and power. It is laid in the reign of Henry Second of England, whose futile because premature struggles with the Papal power, together with his amours with the fair Rosamond, form the principal incidents of the play. The great defect of this tragedy is its harsh ness. The characters are all hard, men and women alike, with the single exception of Rosamond ; there is not enough of softness, purity, and piety to relieve the pride, passion, and rapacity of the prominent actors. Those were doubtless stern times, but they must have had their touches of tenderness and beauty, as flowers bloom on the verge of the glacier, and vineyards climb almost to the crater's edge. " Grondalla " is a rhymed fiction who'se history we learn with indignant pain. It was written by a New England woman, full of the purest impulses, but with more aspiration than genius. She sent the MS, to the late Park Benjamin, who, as is well known, kept a sort of literary intelligence office in New York, and gave his critical opinion of the works of unpractised authors for a consideration. He pronounced the work equal to " Enoch Arden," predicted its success if published, and expressed a hope that such a gem of poesy might not be with held from the light. Sustained by this encourage ment in spite of the rebuffs of unappreciative publishers, who, as we all know, do not always welcome the genius for which the public is waiting, the too confiding writer printed the work at an ex pense she could ill afford, and which will never be remunerated by its sale. There is not a word in the poem to her discredit ; it is merely wanting in those positive merits, which the critic had assured her it possessed. There was wonderful vitality as well as efficiency in Sherman's march through the South, else it would be fairly done to death by successive books. Its history has been given by more than one mem ber of the general's staff, and we now have an ex tended narrative by Daniel P. Conyngham, a war correspondent of the New York Herald, and dedicated to the proprietor of that sheet. Mr. Conyngham joined Sherman in March, 1864, attended him as volunteer aid-de-camp in all the subsequent movements, and was thus an eye-witness of the scenes he describes. He assures us that his sketches are impartial and faithful, and a casual glance at his pages will show the reader that they are lively and entertaining ; indeed we have no doubt they will afford vivid pictures of many scenes in this memorable march. The recent number of the American Journal of Education is peculiarly rich in biographies and por traits of men of eminent service in' behalf of schools. It gives brief memoirs and spirited like nesses of David N. Camp of Connecticut, Hiram Orcutt of Vermont, Ira Mayhew and John M. Gregory of Michigan, and J. P. Wickersham, J. F. Stoddard, Charles R. Coburn, F. A. Allen, and Samuel P. Bates of Pennyslvania. To this wealth of portraiture are prefixed fine likenesses of Charles Davis and Theron Baldwin. This valuable quarterly not only gives full reports of the educational sys tems of the principal States of the Union, but contains much information with regard to schools abroad. Walker, Fuller, and Co., of Boston are about to publish "Massachusetts in the Rebellion," a work which will give the history of all that the old Bay State has done in the recent war ; the troops and treasures she has furnished, the high officials, civil and military, that owe nurture to her soil, and the brave fellows that have died in its defence. It will be a royal octavo of six hundred pages, with three steel engravings, containing portraits of soldiers and civilians, living and dead. The materials are in the hands of Rev. P. C. badly, and the pub lishers will spare neither pains nor expense to make the work worthy of the subject treated. Meretzek's opera troupe, under the leadership of Mr. Grover, began a brief season at Boston, on January 15th, with " Lucrezia Borgia." The perform ance was marked by unusual excellence, and the season promises great success. Miss Kellogg made her first appearance on the 16th, in " Puritani."— Gran's opero season, at Chicago, was a pecuniary failure. Ile has an engagement with Maretzek, by which the latter will not enter Grau's western field. —A harp accompanies the choir of the church of the Holy Trinity at Brooklyn, and the effect is especially pleasing and gives great satisfaction.— W. Eugene Thayer, the organist, formerly of Wor cester and lately of Boston, is receiving honours in Germany. lie is hard at work upon his first sym phony, the andante of which is shortly to be played by the Royal orchestra of Berlin. Art is reported dull in Boston ; pictures slow of sale; and two of them, de very busy, to Paris. But the Art Ved painters and er i Club is revived with new enthusiasm ; T. D. John son has a large number of pupils in his class of instruction ; and Gerry and Griggs are occupied with Vermont Scenery, for which they have orders. The Taxes in America. The Springfield (Massachusetts) Republican begins to clamour for a reduction of taxes. It declares that the American people have astonished them selves and the world as much by their. capacity for taxation and their willingness in bearing it as by any other feature of their new national life and power in these rare years of history. The capacity is increasing as their resources develope and their wealth accumulates ; but as the danger to their na tionality grows less imminent, as it already has, and their currency system becomes sure and steady, and the volume of paper diminishes, and so business grows more regular, speculation less rampant, and profits smaller, though more certain, their disposi tion to pay taxes will become, along with their in dividual ability, less generous. They will count the c9st more closely, and scrutinise the revenue lists, and grow querulous towards the collectors. The moral of this is, that the taxes—often crude, cumu lative, and incoherent, as was inevitable in the ne cessity for haste in laying them, and in popular ignorance both of their own resources and the science of taxation—should be thoroughly revised, reduced to the lowest practicable point, put on as few ar ticles as possible, and so contrived in assessment and collection that the people, especially those of limited means, shall see and feel them as little as may be. That there may be considerable reduction in the gross sum raised is evident from the most general statement of American finances. The present revenue is at least three hundred and fifty millions a-year, perhaps four hundred. They ought not to spend over one hundred millions in carrying on the Government ; but allow one hundred and fifty. Interest on the debt takes another hundred. And fifty millions a-year for the reduction of the debt, which is generous enough for the present condition, when the country has so much to do in recovering from the waste of the war, and in reorganising in dustry and commerce for half its limits. This leaves a surplus of fifty to one hundred millions in income, which may be taken off the taxes. As much even as this may be practically gained also by a more intelligent and perfect system of taxation, and the collection of the same, in relieving the people of taxes, which are now inconvenient and annoying and cumulative burdens, tending to increase prices, and to disarrange trade, in greater degree than they bring means to the Government. The discovery of new objects of taxation ; of better ways of lay ing and collecting assessments ; where they can be imposed or enlarged without real burden to business or people ; where those now assessed do not pay for the trouble of collecting and the inconvenience they cause ; of ways of reconciling internal taxation with customs duties, so that the two shall combine to yield the most revenue without detriment to do mestic production and trade—the finding out and putting into operation information and principles on these and kindred points is the present and pressing duty of the Government. The war is over ; the people are settling back into orderly and systematic ways of business : and their rulers must needs recognise the facts and put their affairs on the peace footing, too, reducing and simplifying ex penses, consolidating the debt and the currency, shaving off the taxes, and, so far as possible, letting the people alone to work out their own and the nation's destiny. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TIMES.—The agriculturists of the kingdom have once more, in language neither uncertain nor unsea sonable, expressed their views on the absorbing question of the cattle plague. That destructive pes tilence is pursuing its ravages with unabated fury. It is only in appearance that the last return presents any improvement, for though the number of cases reported shows a material diminution, that is solely because a considerable proportion of the returns for the week were not forthcoming in time for publica tion. The disease therefore remains, to say the least, unchecked, while the season is approaching at which any effectual action in arrest of the contagion would be far more difficult than at present. In a few weeks' time the pastures will be opened, and cattle will be scattered. If we mean to try the sys tem of isolation, and to give the experiment of " stamping out" a fair chance of success, this is our last opportunity. Forty-four counties of Great Britain were represented at the meeting which pre ceded yesterday's deputation to Sir G. Grey, and the arguments of the speakers, as well as the reso lutions adopted, show the strength and decision of the opinions entertained. It is felt and believed, we may fairly say, by the agricultural classes of the whole kingdom that nothing short of an absolute suspension of the traffic in live cattle will now give us the least chance of extirpating the plague. Ac cording to their view, the prohibition must be un qualified in its rigour, without one single exception in favour of place or beast. Native cattle and foreign cattle, fat cattle and lean cattle, in uninfected no less than infected districts, in Scotland as well as England, must be continued within the boundaries of the nearest highways. Not even on railways must any live cattle be moved from one place to another. For a limited time the movement of live cattle on any road in any part of Great Britain is to be absolutely . forbidden. That is the resolution adopted and pro fessed by the representatives of the agricultural body, and its force will be appreciated from the discus sions and suggestions through which it was ultimately reached. At first, and as originally worded, the resolution communicated to Sir George Grey com prised an exception in favour of uninfected counties no unnatural reservation, seeing that a large part of Scotland remains still free from the murrain— but the opinion of the meeting was so strongly pro nounced against all exemptions whatever that the exception was struck out. Then two gentlemen, representing the interests intermediate between those of the breeders and the consumers, suggested that the removal of healthy fat cattle from the farm to the market for immediate slaughter might, under restrictions, be still permitted ; but that exception was condemned also, and the resolution in favour of an absolute suspension of traffic, without qualifica tion or exception, was adopted, with only two dis sentients. It is unnecessary to add that the imme diate action of Government, as superseding that of local authorities, in the execution of the requisite measures formed a portion of the demands recorded. Indeed, this intervention was not so much advo cated as presumed, for, as Lord Lichfield remarked; such a resolution as that adopted could never be rendered effective by any power except that of Go vernment. It was resolved, too, that three other measures, supplementary in their character, ought also to be put in force by Parliamentary authority. These were to the effect that all plague-stricken and compromised animals should be at once de stroyed ; that all infected premises and places should b purified ; and that a " partial remunera tion" should be provided for the owners of the animals destroyed. The nature of the provision to be thus made was not specified, but it was to be as sured " by Act of Parliament" in some form or other. Thus, while an edict of prohibition insures us against any movement of cattle, and so far against any further propagation of the plague, summary slaughter followed by careful measures of disin fection is to serve for " stamping out" the murrain wherever it may still linger or accidentally appear. These, of course, are the views of a class, but the interests of that class are obviously identical in the present instance with those of the public. One of the principal speakers, indeed, plainly urged that " the men who produced the meat and the men who ate it" were the people to be considered, even if salesmen, butchers, and jobbers should be prejudiced for the moment. It was not disguised that there would be inconvenience, or that the embarrassments might assume here and there a very troublesome aspect, but a choice of evils is all that the prospect offers. At present, it must be owned, the general body of consumers has felt little of the plague, ex cept in the prices charged, quite unreasonably, at the butchers' shops. The adoption of the measures now recommended by the agricultural societies would, it cannot be doubted, produce at least par tial pressure, and possibly panic, but the panic and pressure must come at last, and would come, except for timely precautions, with tenfold severity. The question is simply whether we shall confront cer tain inevitable troubles now, or let them fall upon us with infinitely greater weight by and by. No thing less at stake than the whole stock of cattle in Great Britain—the finest stock in the whole world. It is the future, rather than the present, which is so alarming. This murrain will destroy all our herds if it is not stayed, and nothing hitherto has sufficed to stay it. The only measures which still promise any success are the measures now advocated by the deputation of agriculturists. 'These, when partially tried, have actually been successful, but partial trials are of no avail ; it is only by promptitude, uniformity, and comprehensiveness of action that the desired results can be obtained. The practical effect of these measures would be simply the substi tution of meat markets for cattle markets. The ox could no longer on any conditions be taken to the butcher, and the butcher, we may be certain, when thus situated, would soon find his way to the ox. In deed, we do not see why either butchers or salesmen should be permanently prejudiced by what, after all, is only a modification of their particular traffic. In termediate agents must still be required to bring the co mmodity from the producer to the consumer ; iu fact, the difficulty or novelty of the case would provide employment, we should think, for an in creased number of hands. The demand for meat will not be less ; the supply will not be less ; if anything, it will probably be greater than before. The only difference will be this—that cattle, in future, must be killed before removal, instead of after removal. It will still be the interest of everybody to promote the traffic, only it must be in dead meat instead of living animals. The railways will carry the same weight as before, and with much greater facility and convenience. One of the speakers said that already quarters of meat instead of panting oxen were to be seen on the Great Western Railway, "swinging in the cool air," on their way to London. It was remarkable, indeed, that no fear was expressed for the metropolitan supply ; only in provincial towns was it anticipated that inconvenience might be felt. But the action of local authorities in various parts of the kingdom, though tardy, perhaps, or vacillating, has now be come so general that some progress towards the necessary changes must needs have been accom plished. A great trade like the cattle trade is not to be reorganised in a week, but the prospect has now been for months before us, increasing in dis tinctness and certainty day by day, and our traders must have been false to their national character if they have not made some preparations for the inevi table time. Our choice, it is now plain, has been but a choice of time from the very first. The only method of staying the plague was by isolation. That isolation would have been easy at first, and easier even a month ago than now ; but it will be easier now than a month hence, and nothing but the experiment stands between us and the total ruin of the national stock. Better late than never is as much as we can say ; but it is something to be able to say that. TILE " ANGLO-AMERICAN TIMES" ON THE RELA TIONS BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN AND THE UNITED STATES.—Queen Victoria's Speech at the opening of her new Parliament is not likely to be received with unalloyed satisfaction in the United States. Since the decease of Lord Palmerston the people of America have been disposed to expect a more im partial policy from his successor in office ; but the statement of intention-by Earl Russell's Adminis tration, as contained in the Speech fromthe Throne, is not calculated to satisfy their expectations in this respect. Her Majesty the Queen of England is made by her advisers to say—" My relations with "foreign Powers are friendly and satisfactory ;" a statement which will assuredly be questioned, if not contradicted, in the United States, whilst, at the same time, it is certain to be impugned in the British Parliament itself when the correspondence between Earls Russell and Clarendon and Messrs. Se ward and Adams shall be brought under discus sion. The Royal Speech somewhat modifies the above declaration, for a few lines fur ther on we read :—" A correspondence has " taken place between my Government and that of "the United States with respect to injuries " inflicted on American commerce by cruisers " under the Confederate flag. Copies of this cor " respondence will be laid before you." The offi cial publication of the diplomatic papers submitted to Congress, and the discussion of their merits by the Press of Great Britain and the United States, have already enlightened the people of the two countries upon the questions in dispute between the Cabinets of St. James and Washington; and it is scarcely probable that the documents hereafter to be laid before the English Parliament will throw , any additional light on the subject, or convince the citizens of America that no injustice has been com mitted against them in the destruction of their com merce by British-built and British-manned priva teers. While the United States were absorbed in that long and fearful struggle, which has resulted in the triumph of Democratic institutions and the consoli dation of the Union on firmer bases than ever, the two great Western Powers of Europe accompanied words of friendly sympathy with acts which, to say the least, did not belong to the same category. Whatever may have been the motive or intention underlying those acts, the results to American in terests were of a direful description ; but the damage caused to the United States by the Punic Policy of great Britain was incomparably more hurtful than that of his Imperial Majesty Napoleon the Third. The latter, taken at its worst, was merely an insult of an indirect nature ; an insult, moreover, not offered to the Republic itself ; whilst that of the former was an injury of gigantic pro portions, organised under the eye of Sovereign and Parliament, persisted in throughout weary years, notwithstanding innumerable protests from Eng lishmen and Americans alike, and resulting in direct, immediate, and continued benefit to England's commerce. The armed intervention in the affairs of Mexico was the act of one man ; and American citizens have known how to distinguish between the policy of a single individual and the friendship of a nation which, until the establishment of the Second Empire, had invariably been the staunch ally of the Republic; and they knew, moreover, that outside the immediate circle of the Emperor and his adhe rents, the French people were all but unanimously adverse to the Mexican expedition, and evidently desirous that their troops should be withdrawn and the relations of the two countries re-established on the old time footing. With Great Britain the case is widely different. According to the declaration of Earl Russell at Blairgowrie in 1863, " the " majority of the English people were for the " North"—that is to say, in favour of the pre servation of the Union ; but the citizens of the United States have never been able to appreciate the justice of this assertion, seeing, as they did, their commerce swept from the ocean, their ships blazing in every sea, their carry ing -trade transferred to English bottoms, and reparation persistently refused by England's Government. The comparison between France and Great Britain does not end here, for the Em peror Napoleon is showing himself desirous to conciliate America by an early withdrawal of his troops from Mexico ; whilst the first Minister of England's Queen admits the " injuries inflicted on " American commerce by [English) cruisers under " the Confederate flag," and yet declines to give any satisfaction for the cruel wrong thus committed. The demands of the United States in reference to what are called " the Alabama claims," are not of an offensive nature. The American people and Government do not wish to constitute themselves the judges in their own cause ; all they have de manded is, that these " Alabama " and similar " claims" should be referred for adjudication to neutral and friendly Powers; and surely there can be no humiliation to this country in acceding to so mild and just a request. But they know that the settlement of the claims in question is of in comparably greater significance to Great Britain than to themselves. The vitality of young nations is more robust than that of older ones, and a few years of peace will suffice to build up anew America's commerce, and to cover the seas and oceans of the world with her well-known flag. The injury to her trade is reparable at an early date, but the remembrance of that injury will not be for gotten, or forgiven, while England refuses to admit the justice of America's complaints, and per sistently declines to refer all claims of the two countries upon each other to a disinterested tri bunal. It is, perhaps, to the advantage of the United States and the world at large, that the questions now in dispute between America and England should not be settled ; for, so long as these "Alabama claims " remain open, Great Britain pledges her entire commerce, her prestige amongst the nations, and the security of her out lying possessions, to keep the peace with all mankind. The American people, were they so disposed to act, would not fail to draw profit from England's well taught lessons. It is within the bounds of possi bility that when the latter Power is engaged in war with any nation, scores of " Alabamas" and " Shenandoahs," fitted out in American ports, will prey upon her commerce—the Government of the United States all the while protesting in favour of its neutrality, and lamenting, England-like, the deplorable waste of life and treasure by the two belligerents. Th e A mer i can N eutra li ty L aws might, in such case, be amended conformably to the English model ; and, when Great Britain pre sents her claims against the Republic, the law offi cers of the Union may use the nisi prizes arguments of the law officers of the Crown, and sorrowfully decline to admit the justice of England's complaints —as England now does those of the United States. In the interests of Great Britain, in the interests of humanity and civilisation at large, we regret the action of Great Britain on this vital question. We believe that our two countries have mutual interests, and should therefore pursue a friendly and open policy towards each other. But the present action of the British Government gives up the ace of trumps, which is certain to win the trick eventually in this game of Diplomacy, and may finally decide the question of the world's carrying trade. Negro Suffrage. The New York Herald believes that the passage of the resolution permitting negro suffrage in the District of Columbia is the first evidence of a dis position on the part of the Lower House of Con gress to allow the Executive of the nation any voice in the schemes of that branch of the Government. From the very commencement of the session the ruling spirits in Congress have been constantly in triguing against and assailing the President's policy, and yet announcing to the country that they are acting in harmony with his Administration. Unwilling to give the President an opportunity to officially expose their hypocrisy, they have to a cer tain extent succeeded in convincing those who had no means of judging correctly of the truth of their assertions. Under this cloak they have organised their cabals and matured their schemes for political and party operations in the future. They have found among the official advisers of the President a member of the Cabinet, who, posessing the oppor tunity to understand all the movements and objects of the President, is ready and willing to direct and suggest measures to frustrate the Executive. Start ing out at the commencement of the session with a joint Committee on Reconstruction—in reality a Committee of Public Safety—they have gone on, step by step, gradually encroaching on the preroga tives of the President. Fe thus find the historical events of the great struggles in European Powers repeating themselves in America, with Stanton as the Danton of the present day. With the War Minister watching events at the Executive mansion, and Stevens drilling his forces in Congress, they are directing all their efforts to place Mr. Johnson in a position where he will be powerless. They realise - that he is pushing forward his work of restoration, and placing the late rebellious States under the control of civil governments, leaving to Congress only the simple duty of admitting the Southern representatives to make the work of re adjustment complete. This duty they not only refuse to perform, but will not take the responsi bility of passing a law overturning the labour of the President in reconstructing the State Governments. They denounce and assail it, but are unwilling to send to the Executive either a resolution or a law enforcing their theory for him to sign or veto, knowing that if they do they place in his hands the material for him to make an issue with them before the people. The issue, when made, they desire to bring about in their own way and on their own conditions. The Herald adds that the vote on the negro suf frage bill in the house reveals the fact that the ex treme faction, under the lead of Stevens, composes only about one-third of that body. One-half of the Republican party are opposed to the revolu tionary schemes of Stevens and Stanton. All that is now necessary is prompt action upon the part of the Executive to secure a final separation of those two elements. The vote referred to furnishes conclu sive evidence that the Radicals could soon be forced either to the abandonment of their schemes or the alternative of becoming a weak minority in the na tional Legislature. A little courage and skill upon the part of the Conservative Republicans would have secured the endorsement of restricted instead of universal negro suffrage for the district of Columbia. It is this courage which the President has the power to infuse in Congress by the immediate over hauling of his Cabinet. The Catholic World says that nowhere has the Catholic Church increased so prosperously within the last fifty years as in the United States of America. General Clay in Russia. -0-- The Times comments at length on the recent enthusiastic reception of General Cassius M. Clay at Moscow, and thinks the old saying that " extremes meet " must appear as applicable to politics as to all other matters when we see Americans and Russians professing the most cordial and instinc tive sympathies with each other. Nor is the phe nomenon at all delusive or unsubstantial. It is perfectly certain that the most despotic Govern ment of Europe and the most Democratic Govern ment in the world are uniformly on the best Of terms, and that the people in both countries sincerely participate in that remarkable accord. But according to the oracle of the Times the truth lies a little below the surface in this case, and has in reality nothing of paradox about it. The Ame ricans do not, in fact, admire the institutions of Russia, nor the Russians those of the United States, but each nation in its own way entertains certain aspirations so like those of the other that they are content to sink all minor differences ill the identity of an overruling view. The late Czar remarked that America and Russia were the only two States with a "future" before them—the only two which were still young, still growing, and still expansive in the midst of the old countries of the world. Other States had fought their fights, re ceived their developments, and attained the ends of their careers ; only for the Great Empire and for the Great Republic were any " destinies " still in reserve. So, as destiny and aggrandisement involve a good many contingencies, our contemporary thinks it is as well that the only two nations still on this track should be good friends and allies. Russ ia is 'a great Empire, and America is a great Empire. Each country has a boundless territory, an inex haustible store of raw materials, and unlimited room for population. Both Russians and Ameri cans expect and intend to be something more than they are, and are reasonably disposed to make com mon cause in a speculative way against other States which have no such prospects, and at whose expense, perhaps, some of these magnificent desti nies may be ultimately accomplished. COUNTRY MARKETS. LIVERPOOL.—FRIDAY. We had a very thin attendance at market to-day, and 16 small amount of business passing. Wheat offered at 10 45 money without effecting sales. Flour dull at 6d to 15 por sack lower. Indian corn in favour of buyers. All other articles shared in the general inactivity. DERBY—FRIDAY. Our market to-day was tolerably supplied with wheal, which sold at late rates. New white wheat, 52s to 57s ;:old red, 49s to 53s per 3 ,6 stone. Barley' for malting, 36s to 40s per qr. ; grindi n g' 27s to 29s per 30 s to ne . O a t s , new , 22 s t o 28 s; old, 28s t° 32s per 24 stone. Beans, old, 47s to 508 • new, 448 to 463 per 38 stone. WAKEFIELD.-FRIDAY. Wheat trade slow, and prices rather in favour of buyers. Barley is dearer. Oats rather slower. Averages, February 9—Wheat, 2,097 qrs, at 495 bi d barley, 971 at 38s Hid ; oats, —, at —s Oct. STAMFORD.—FmAY. At our corn market to-day the supply of wheat We fair, with a slow sale at lower rates. Barley in m odertio supply, but the the demand was firm at former rates. Ih e bean trade was quiet. New white wheat, 49s to 52s ; red do., 45s to 48s per 1, 6 stone. Barley, melting, 34s to 38s ; grinding, 28s to 3 " per qr. Oats, new, 24s to 28s; old, 25s to 27s per 24 stone Beans, 44s to 50s per 38 stone. Peas as of late. LINCOLN.—FRIDAY. We had about the usual supply of wheat at our marke t day. Fine sorts easier, but damp sorts declined is per q r ; Good barley scarce and commanded high prices. Oats 'l' late rates. Beans unaltered ; peas not much sought after. New white wheat, 51s to 565 ; new red, 43s to 47s per 36 stone. Barley for malting, 34s to 42s per qr ; 31s to 33s per 30 stone. Oats, 24s to 325. Beans, 40 "- 51s per 38 stone. BRISTOL SUGAR.—FRIDAY. The sales of the week have again been very limited, tul i a prices are about Gd per cwt. lower. Refinod sugar to slowly at rather easier rates. Rum—there are no sales to report. COAL MARKET. Price per ton at the close of the market. g. 0 . s. d. Ifetton .. 17 6 Hartlepool 0 N.Staffordshire 17 0 South Hutton ......... 1 7 ,, Sha,w'sliartley lB 6 West Hartley Holywell Main l7 0 Kepier Grange l5 , 9 Pensher Primrose ... 15 9 Hastings Hartley l6 " g Tunstall Eden Main Pittington l4 6 Iletton Lyons l5 South Hartlepool l6 3 Ships at market, 37; sold, 23. Foreign Mail Packet List MAILS DUE. Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton Feb. 19 Ditto, via Marseilles Feb. 13 . Brazil and Cape Veld& by British packet Mar. 6 . Ditto, by French packet Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena Feb. 22 . China, Penang. and Singapore, via Southampton Feb. 19 ' Ditto, via Marseilles Feb. 13 Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton.........;:beeb.. 1191 Ditto, via Marseilles India (Bombay), via Southampton Ditto, Ditto, via Marseilles Feb. .3" Mauritius, via Southampton Feb 13 Ditto, via 31arseirei Feb. 13. Newfoundland Portugal Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon. . United States and British North America, by Bri tish packet Feb. 14 ' Ditto, by United States packet, via Southamp ton Ditto, via Cork Ditto, by Canadian packet, via Londonderry .. Feb. 7 ; West Coaet of Africa. Madeira, and Teneriffe ..Feb. l'' West Indies and Pacific (except Bahamas, Cuba, and Mexico F.b. 13 Cuba and Mexico Feb. 28 ' Bahamas, via New York. Man i4 ,l' Bermuda, ditto Feb. 1' [ADVERTISEMENT.] Dyspepsia (indigestion), wistipe tion, debility, consumption, and all nervous, bilious, stOnia°3i and liver complaints in every stage, are only aggravate al ;., ' accelerated by drugs of every description, but perfect i l Arabis A able by Du Barry s health-restori ng R ev alenta Food, as proved by thousands of oases which had bees °II s 1d biliousness,d h ae mo rrhoids,hu p eevs liveresr 15 , .fiU s o r eC h o o ma throatss p — l a c i o n as—cough d pf l a ha s tt t hu h ei m erni a ay also. catarrhs, ne r vdioa B r o on h lds influenza, noises in the h ea d an d ea r., rheumatism, gout' im purities, eruptions, hysteria, neuralgia, irritability, alecp ie- ness, acidity, palpitation, heartburn, headache, debility ' dropsy, cramps, spasms, nausea and sickness , even in p reg nancy or at sea, sinking fits, bronchitis, scrofula, tightness Pt , the chest, pains in the pit of the stomach and between i ll : shoulders, &a. We quote a few : — Cure No. 46,278. Mr Jam es Roberts, timber merchant , of FrimleY , Surrey , of 30 yea rs_ diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver derangement, an d p s" : tial deainess.—Cure No. 47,121. Miss Elizabeth Jacobs, of O ci treme nervousness, indigestion, gatherings; low spirits, rd ol nervous fancies. —Cure No. 1,771. Lord Stuart de Deole s, lieut. of Waterford, of many years' dyspepsia.—No. 4032; Fifty years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia., nervousne°(i asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms, sickneu s '_ llll o vomiting—Maria Joly.—Cure No. 54,818. The Bev , Ja`,.,. T. Campbell, Fakenham, Norfolk, of indigestion an d torp i d ity of the liver, which had resisted all medical treat:self-_ 24A% In tins, 11b., 2s. 9d. ; 21b., 4s. 6d; 51b., 118. ; 121 b., 40s.—Barry Du Barry and Co., No. 77, Regent-street, LondSinose also Phillips, tea dealers, 8, King William-street ; at 61, Gracechurch-street ; 4, Cheapside ; 49, BishoPsgaw ",, street Within ; 83,150, and 298, Oxford-street ; 330, Strss,,, 54, Upper Baker-street; 103, Tottenham-court-road' ""0; Upper-street, Islington, N.; Harvey, Plotting-hill; CI L Brothers, 65, High-street ; and Stubbs, Queen's-terrsee'he, John's-wood, London; and all respectable grocers A nd mists.—Beware of spurious imitations. Births. BOOTHRY.--On the Gth inst., at Welwyn, EtertS, I' adi Boothby, of a posthumous son. MORLEY. —On the Bth inst., at Twickenham, the Robert wil e of To.—nthe Bth in Morley, Esq., o s f t., a at s 9 0 2 n ., ii de- STuAR park, the wife of Major G. F. S L tu e a i r n t s , t o e f r- a ga d r a d u e g ter ' Y Marriages, s-iis of 30, 3 Rev.O,orBEATTIE —MunnAY.—On the Bth inst., at St. Mari f4 T r ill- tl3- y C j nlii ame to Agnes, youngest daughter of the late Murray,ellsßeattie, , E.citcairngreen, r . Jam es - shire, e if k- EDWARDS DEWING.—On the Bth inst., at St. John's , 4 0 e ,... ney, Arthur Cordy Edwards, of 4, Marquess-road, C:111; E. bury, to Harriette Brooke, the third daughter of iY • '- Dewing, Esq., of The Grove, Hackney. hs. oks 01 . BARRES.—On the 7th inst., Dea athiss residence, 12, Ladbr Villas, Notting-hill, the Hon. Judge D es Bsrres, late the Supreme Court, Newfoundland, aged 73. I? . Curr.—On the 6th inst., at Walcot Lodg, Surbiton , ''' Cuff, Esq., aged 67. T ra f a l- GlnnoNs.—On the sth inst., at 1 1 , Hora tio-terrace, gar-road, Peckham, Charles Gibbons, Escl., aged 49. _ ge.. PRICHARD.—On the sth inst., at the Goat Hotel, Bedd lert, Robert Prichard, Esq., proprietor, aged 36. JONES.—On the 6th inst., at Torquay, Wm. Jones, s t l''' M.D., formerly of the Strand, London, aged 59. „ Arra. W E TENHALL.— On the 7 th inst., at Clifto n, the Bos t. " Henry Wetenhall, M.A., aged 29. —.........--- - RjriVb • London:NO', of No. 112, Strand, Pilnter, at Triz Sun Offici o, n i Strand, in the Precinct of the SsVOY. in the Ceitn'i - Bliddieaex.--Saturday, February 10, VW.