The Sun. — London, England, 1866-04-16 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. OTTOMAN (SMYRNA TO AIDIN). A special general meeting of this company was held on Friday at the London Tavern, to consider a pro-position for raising further capital to complete the line ; Sir M. Stephenson in the chair. The notice convening the meeting having been read, The CHAIRMAN said that the necessity of raising further capital was explained by the delay in open ing the line occasioned by the " force majeure" of very difficult tunnel works ; and the means were suggested in the resolution which he would propose, to the effect that the directors be empowered to issue 6 per cent. preference shares not exceeding £300,000. The object of this preference stock was to enable the company to borrow upon better terms the amount (under i,100,000) required to complete the works, by the deposit of it as security, and this was the most advantageous course to pursue in the opinion of the Board, who had given the subject their best attention. The question of the deben tures due on the Ist May would also be dealt with when the first question had been disposed of ; but, of course, they were unaffected by the preference shares, which would follow the debentures. Absurd rumours had beensirculated as to the expiry of the concession from non-fulfilment of the contract. It was only necessary to state that the line would be opened by the end of June, that the opening would be within the period prescribed owing to and allow ing the delay in sending the last concession to the company, and that the shareholders might rest as sured that, even if the interest of the Ottoman Go vernment did not secure their continued co-opera tion, the strong sense of justice which that Govern ment had invariably shown would suffice to render groundless any apprehension on that account. Moreover, special provision was made in the origi nal. concession to protect the company against any such contingencies arising from delay in the tunnel works, which were admitted to be exceptional. With reference to the future policy of the company, and to the measures to be taken to realise to the utmost the advantage of all that had been done, he hoped to be prepared with such a recommendation as would effect the object and meet their entire ap proval, so soon as the line should be opened through to Aidin, and the proposed financial arrangements should be satisfactorily concluded. In the mean time, and until the traffic over the whole line could be worked and turned to account, all interested must continue to exercise their patience and for bearance, and to render all the aid in their power to the directors in their endeavour to bring about such a state of affairs as would be acceptable to all parties. He then proposed the first resolution, that the Council cf Administration be empowered to issue 6 per cent. pieference shares not exceeding £300,000. Mr. A. Dev Aux, deputy chairman, seconded the motion. in reply to questions by Mr. Billings and Major Beare, The Cu NIRMAN said the sole object of the reso lution was to enable the directors to raise the money on better terms than they could get by offering the stock to the shareholders of the public. With re gard to Mr. Dent, he might say that in compliance with the expressed wishes of the shareholders Mr.. Dent resigned his seat at the board, and took the opportunity of giving some explanations upon points that appeared to have been misunderstood ; but, on the part of his colleagues and himself, the chairman stated that, while fully recognising the soundness of the principle of shareholders drawing a distinction between those directors who attended to or neglected the responsibilities they might have undertaken, they thought Mr. Dent's explanation deserved con sideration, and they regretted to lose his valuable services on the board. The resolution was then carried unanimously. Mr. J. E. COLEMAN remarked that Mr. Dent was a director in the Joint-Stock Discount Company for only four months, and on taking office was as sured that everything was ri:.dtt. The CitAtint.tx said the second question was in reg3rd to the debentures on May Ist. The delay in opening the line, in obtaining increased revenue therefrom, and the full amount of the guarantee, £112,000 a-year, added to the abnormal state of the money-market, had hitherto prevented the company raising the funds to meet the debentures except at exorbitant rates. It might be necessary to meet the ques ion in the only practicable way, by obtaining further time for theirpayment, and giving an equi valent in an increased rate of interest, while the se curity would continue the same. The board would probably convene a meeting of the bondholders, and suggest that two or three of the principal holders should act as a committee to co operate with the board in such measures as might be deemed most desirable in the common interests. He concluded by moving a resolution to the effect that the directors be empowered to enter into such arrangement, and make such terms and conditions with the holders of the debentures of the £250,000 as they might deem expedient. Mr. J. E. COLEMAN seconded the motion, and it was agreed to. It was also agreed that a meeting of the bondholders referred to be held that day fort- night. On the motion of Mr. PACKER, seconded by Mr. Mr. Billings was elected a director of the company, and the proceedings terminated. ;MELBOURNE AND HOBSON'S BAY UNITED. The report of the directors congratulated the share holders upon the general prosperity of the under taking. The revenue from the passenger traffic was steadily on the increase, a considerable augmenta tion of the number of passengers and receipts hav ing taken place since the directors reduced the rates of transit between Melbourne and Richmond to the same fares as those to Emerald-hill. The receipts fsromtuerchandise were below those of the corre tro„anoi"g period of last year, but the directors e , t the causes of this decrease were not perma nent. s uper i or shed accommodation for receiving goods to and f rom the vessels at the pi er h a d re cently been provid e d at Melbourn e half year, at a cost of £20,000. The profit s f or the year, after de ducting the interest on debentures and workine , ex penses, amounted to i 27,284, being at the rate of D2arly 10-i per cent. per annum, out o f which the directors deducted £26,735 for a dividend at the rate of 10 per cent. per annum, which was declared at the general meeting in Melbourne, leaving a ba lance of £549. The expenditure on capital account amounted to £925,787. The revenue account for six months and one day ending December 31 last amounted to v 61,484, the working expenditure to i ' 29 , 3 81, and the interest on loans to £7,816, leav ing a balance, as above, of £27,284. The traffic returns on this company's line, 17 miles in length, amounted for the four weeks end ing Feb. 15 to £10,249, against £10,620 for the cor responding four week s o f l as t year, showing a de crease of £37 1. The r • per mile per week averaged £l5l, a„ant • 'Ss a gainst £156 for the corresponding weeks of last year. GRAND Tr IAJN . of thui. -F CAN 9.DA. The traffic receipts foreignria unted for local 'week ending the 24th o f maz e r Pany's.lines for the passengers to £5,797, f or local freight £2,082, for wails, &C., t o m6f Passengers to and live stock to £14,683, for foreign live stock to £l,967—total, £25,505,r freight and for the corresponding week of 1865,1:5t, X 261110 crease of £BO5. The total receipts from w n the g l a 4 e - January to the above date amounted to £-)8 1 - t. of and for the same period last year t o i.),-''),.8.6, _o:),002, showing an increase of £16,031. MAURITIUS. The traffic receipts on the north and midland lines, 65 miles in length, amounted for the week ending the 11th of February to- £1,328, against £495 on the north line, 31 miles in length, for the corresponding week last year, showing an increase of £833. The receipts for the week ending the 18th of February amounted to £1,255, against £282, showing an increase of £973. The receipts for the week ending the 25th of February amounted to £1,256, against £628, showing an increase of £628. The receipts on the two lines for the week ending the 4th of March amounted to £1,273, against £619 on the north line, showing an increase of £654. The total receipts for the four weeks ending the 4th of March amounted to £6,112 on 65 miles, against £2,024 on 31 miles for •the corresponding period, showing an increase of £3,088. DEMERARA. The traffic receipts on this company's line for the fortnight ending the 17th of March amounted to $5,287, and for the corresponding fortnight last year to $4,210, showing an increase of $1,077. CARLISLE AND SILLOTH. The report states that the contingent rent paid by the North British Company this half-year amounts to £2,433. This, with the fixed half-yearly rent of £l,OOO, less income-tax, and £53 brought from last half-year, after providing for the interest upon debentures and preference stock, leaves a balance of £897 available for dividend on the ordi nary stock of the company. The directors there fore recommend that a dividend of 1 per cent. per annum, less income-tax, be declared on the ordinal* stock at' the ensuing meeting. MANCHESTER, SHEFFIELD, & LINCOLNSHIRE. This company has completed its arrangements to run two of its new steamers between Grimsby and Rotterdam. The Leeds and the Bradford are the two steamers at present devoted to the trade. It is stated that a bi-weekly service to Antwerp is also to be arranged. ELY, HA.DDENIIAM, AND SUTTON. The fraffic on this line commenced to-day. The line, which is 7i miles in length, is to be worked by the Great Eastern. TELEGRAPH CONSTRUCTION AND MAIN TENANCE (LIMITED). The report of the directors states that the whole of the purchase money due to the Gutta Percha Company had been paid to them, consequently this company is in full possession of all the property. The final award to Messrs. Glass, Elliott, and Co. for their business of telegraph contractors and manufacturers bad been received, and made up the total sum of £163,471, payable to them for the pro perty and goodwill of the firm, being £11,529 less than the amount of £175,000 mentioned in the agreement. This property was now in possession of the company. During the past year the manufac ture of the Atlantic cable was completed, and the amounts received in cash and realised securities, and the market value on Dec. 31, 1865, of the securities undisposed of at that date had been brought the IN fit and loss account. The directors ha 4 entered into an agreement with the Anglo-American Telegraph Company to manufacture and lay a new telegraph line between England and'America, and to endea vour to complete the line partly laid in 1865, in the success of which operation they had the greatest confidence. The net profits for the year 1865, after deducting the entire loss on sale of Atlantic Tele graph shares realised, and the depreciation in value of those in hand, amounted to £118,343, which with the balance from 1864 would make £161,668, from which a reserve had been made for repairs nf the Malta and Alexandria Telegraph of £6,356 ; and the following further amounts had been de ducted—viz., interest on unpaid purchase money, £18,771:; third interim dividend to the shareholders on capital at 5 per cent. per annum, £9,298, leav ing a disposable balance of £127,243. Out of this the directors proposed to write off £2,131 for ex penses of valuation and awards, to pay £13,214 for interest on capital at 5 par cent. per annum, to carry £8,583 to the reserve fund, to pay a divi dend at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum (free of income tax), which with the interim dividend made up a total dividend of 10 per cent. per annum on the paid up capital, to carry to a reserve account in respect of the outlay on the Atlantic expedition of 1865 £60,000, which would make the amount in reserve £81,177, and to carry forward a balance of £16,589. The company had obtained a renewal of the lease of the Malta and Alexandria Telegraph. The balance-sheet showed totals on both sides of £1,239,736, including a share capital of £522,328. MIS CELLANEOU3 AMERICAN NEWS. ~►---- From the Insurance Commissioners' Report we learn that the domestic insurance companies of Massachusetts had outstanding, at the date of last official return, outstanding fire risks to the amount of $196,456,708, and outstanding marine risks to the amount of $43,282,730. The mutual compa nies had, at same time, marine risks outstanding to the amount of $31,207,219, and fire risks to the amount of $239,905,677. Foreign fire and marine insurance companies, doing business in Massachu setts, have insured in this State during the past year property to the amount of $277,220,371.31. There are parties at work endeavouring to per suade Congress to enact a National Insurance Act, based upon the same principle as the National Bank Act, —a principle which will oblige all insurance companies to base themselves upon Government stocks. There is no prospect of their immediate success. A new company, under the title of the Great Southern and Western Life and Accident Insurance Company, has just been established in New Orleans, with General Longstreet for President. FIRE INSURANCE COMPANIES.—During 1865 the losses by fire in the United States exceeded $43,000,000, and in the last eleven years the follow ing losses are reported :- 1855 513,040,000 1856 1857 1858 1859 1860 1861 1862 1863 1864 1865 Total losses $214,588,000 For the ten months ending March Ist, 1866, $700,000 of internal revenue were collected in the 4th District of New York. The Loiillards paid in taxes, on manufactured tobacco, $375,754 for eight months business. The following named firms did business exceeding $5,000,000 in amount : George Bliss and Co. .. 510,273,000 S. B. Chittenden and Co. E. S. Jaff ray and Co. . 7,000,000 Lanthrop, Ludington, and Co 8,209,000 i A. T. Stewart and Co. Ifoit,llirae,trudCo. 6,872,939 Low, Harriman,' and Durfee.. 6,000,000 Anthony and Hall G. Brewers and Co 5,863,172 H. B. Clafin and Co. Garner and Co .. • • 8,151,123 George A. Weeks and Co 10,000,000 • • James L. Little and Co 5,179,000 Tat, Griswold, and Kellogg, 126, Duane-st 6,111,000 Woodward, Laurence, and Cu.. 91, Chambers-st. 6,516,000 ' Hunt, Tillindhast, and Co., 70 and 72,Reado-st. 6,255,000 The Central Illinois Wool Growers' Association met at Springfield on the 15th inst. The Associa tion passed resolutions recommending Congress so to adjust the tariff that all foreign wool shall pay a duty of 15 cents per pound, irrespective of qua lity or grade ; 30 cents per pound on washed wool ; 45 cents on scoured wool, and 25 cents per pound on foreign shoddy and ra g s. The subject of pro viding for the sale of wool so as to enable the growers to have something to do about establishing the lan price w as presented• wa s taken into consideration, but no P The members present were of 45) 300 sheep, and naturally felt a the owners thing pertaining to wool deep interest in e very raising. ued in manufacturing The number of persons enga . e m ployments in Ohio is estimated at 300,000 ; , and the manufacturing prol l ue ts for 1805 were valued at $67,000,000. The Rochester Express says that all the merchants OE that c it y were notifiel to call at th e Collector's t office to pay a fine of fifty dollars for neglecting o stamp receipts g i ven on the Express Company ' s books, on the delivery of wares, merc handise, or money. A great fire occurrel at Cincinnati on the 22d instant. The splendid opera house built by Mr. Pike, and of which he was the sole owner, was com pletely destroyed. The loss of Mr. Pike will foot up $1,000,000. He had only $37,000 insurance on the opera house. Sev era l others of those among the sufferers lose to the amount of over $lOO,OOO. The fire extended across thew _ ide thoroughfare known as Fourth-street, injuring the Buckeye Billiard Saloon to the extent of $lO,OOO, but not extending to other buildings on the same block. The total loss was $1,751,000, on which there was an insurance of but $327,000.. - Private information received from Texas goes to show a greatly improved condition of things in portions of that State. The- question of manhood suffrage is openly advocated in many places, and is receiving influential support. The crop of cotton, it is stated, will be greater the coming year than ever before raised in that State. The New York Tribune says :—" It is regarded as certain that at the next Papal Consistory one of the bishops of the United States will be created a cardinal. According to the prevalent opinion in Rome this distinction is to be conferred, not upon any of the bishops who, during the war, showed a warm sympathy with the cause of the Union, nor upon any one of those who kept a profound silence on the national question, nor upon any of the arch bishops, but upon the special envoy from Jeff. Davis to Rome—Bishop Lynch, of Charleston. Of course, this opinion resist only on rumours, and may yet turn out to be without foundation. It is also stated as probable that one of the Mexican bishops NVill be raised to the dignity of a cardinal." One of the clearest proofs of the returning pro sperity of the port of Charleston, S.C., is that the receipts from customs from that port in the month of February last was $31,618.71. A bill has been introduced into Congress, autho rising the establishment of an Ocean Mail steamship Company between Charleston, S. C., and Liverpool, via Queenstown. The Atlantic and Mississippi Steamship Com pany have twenty-three steamers constantly run ning between New Orleans, Memphis, and St. Louis. The amount of produce going down the river to New Orleans was never so large as at pre sent—cotton shippers preferring this route as the cotton undergoes but one transhipment. The manufacturing establishments of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, includes 50 glass factories, 58 oil refineries, 31 rolling mills, 46 iron foundries, 33 machine shops, 10 boiler works, six large steel works, 10 brass foundries, 16 potteries, five cotton mills, 4 woollen mills, nine plough works, 10 establishments for heavy forging ; also a number of white lead factories, chemical works, saw, axe, copper, and other manufactories of only the great staples of trade, turning out nearly one hundred million dollars in value of her own manufactures. There were in the United States at the begin ning of the present year 593 railroad companies running one or more railway routes. At the close of the year 1864, the date of the last official returns, there were nearly thirty-five thousand miles of rail way in the United States, supported at an annual expense of $1,264,336,000. We think few people are aware of the immense sums that have been ex pended in building some of our American railroads. The Illinois Central, 708 miles long, cost $28,610,000; the New York Central, 555 miles, $32,740,000; the Erie, 528 miles, $39,428,000; the Memphis and Charleston, 290, $67,450,000 ; the Chicago, Peoria, and Quincy, 400 miles, $39,270,000. Pennsylvania has more miles of railway than any other State, reporting 3,359 miles of the iron track ; Ohio, the second in order, has 3,310 miles; Illinois, third, 3,156. Massachusetts has 1,285 miles, costing $59,051,000. An interesting statement of the strength of the Federal army and its distribution over the country has been transmitted to the United States Congress. It appears that on the 9th January the army con sisted of 26,587 regulars, 57,590 white volunteers, and 65,736 negroes—total force, 149,943. Of this number 41,741 have since been mustered out of ser vice, reducing the army to about 108,000 men. On January the 9th, 103,936 of these troops were dis tributed among the various Southern States, and those mustered out were taken almost excusively from Southern garrisons, so that now there are about G 2,000 men in the Southern States. On the 9th January the distribution of men in the South was as follows :—Texas, 29,248 ; Missouri, 10,890 ; Tennessee, 10,684 ; Alabama, 10,623 ; 10,193 ; Louisiana, 10,153 ; Arkansas, 8,567; South Carolina, 4,768 ; Virginia, 4,641 ; North Carolina, 3,106; Georgia, 1,063. There were no troops in Maryland, Florida, or Kentucky. The ninth volume of Mr. Bancroft's " History of the United States" may be expected within a few days. Governor Buckingham, of Connecticut, has issued a proclamation appointing March 30th as a day of fasting and humiliation in that State. There arc indications that New Orleans and Key West arc to be abandoned as naval depots. Nearly all supplies are being removed from them. The shipments of copper ore from San Francisco to Boston during 1865 were 10,614 tons ; to New York, 7,528 tons; to Great Britain, 10,762 tons. Total shipments, 28,9:31 tons. The Lake Superior mines produced 9,971 tons of copper in 1865, a gain of 915 tons over 1861. Iron county, Missouri, is tempting to capitalists. It contains more iron than any other equal area in the country, and also abounds in copper and lead ores, accessible by rail from all points North and East via St. Louis. A co-operative store in Trenton, New Jersey, is doing a business of $50,000 a year, the stockholders making large profits, and buying cheaper than they could at the other shops. _ _ Some Philadelphia and Pittsburg capitalists have been incorporated as the Kentucky Lead and Zinc Mining Company, with a capital of $500,000. They propose to develop some veins of lead ore in Crit tenden county, Kentucky. The Missouri Pacific and Union Pacific Rail roads have made the contract for the transportation of some 10,000 troops destined for the plains, and for the vast amount of supplies and Government freight for Fort Riley and Western posts in Colorado and New Mexico. As the transit of these is to com mence about the first of April, the Missouri Pacific Road must necessarily complete its connection with the Union Pacific, in West Kansas, about that time. THE UNITED STATES AND THE PARIS EXHIBI TlON.—General N. P. Banks, in his recent speech in the United States Congress, urged that some of the national vessels be used to transport American contributions to the Great Exposition. He said : " We want the people of Europe to see of what our navy is composed—our iron-clads and Monitors, as novel in naval architecture as was the yacht Ame rica. We want them to see 20-inch guns, and the thousand-pound projectiles we have fabricated. The naval authorities of our country, I am told, would not hesitate to challenge the navies of the whole world to discharge their batteries upon one of our irresistible and silent Monitors, if they will allow that Monitor to return the fire of each . by single shr t." Tut: PACIFIC RAILROAD.—A message from the President, communicated to the Senate, March 12th, inclosed a memorial of the Legislature of Colorado, with a letter from Governor Cummings, praying an amendment of the charter of the Pacific Railroad to secure its location on the Smoky Hill route, via Fort Riley, Denver, and Salt Lake. It represents that this route is two hundred miles shorter, with a present population of fifty thousand, 'and the most feasible pass through the mountains, while the other is an unpeopled wilderness for a distance of one thousand miles. A letter from Alabama says :—" I am happy to state to you that our free negroes are doing finely. We have no trouble with them ; they have all gone to work manfully ; they give an impetus to trade that we never before had. I have sold Jack Peters' negroes more golds this year and last year than I ever sold Peters, and he owned 450 negrocs. So you see the free-pegro system is working well with us." Anti-monopoly meetings are constantly held through the West. At Orland Cook county, Illinois, the farmers have formed a league for the purpose of working in concert toward the reduction of the pre sent evil. They insist that the only remedy for o v i es in freight is a ship canal around COUNTERF EITING THE FENIAN BONDS. The N e a r; a h r a a r b us i n ess of counterfeiting the Fenian bonds has been carried on extensiv el y in New York. Three presses g Falls. are reported to hav e been running for a fortnight in that city, and perhap s lon g er, on a very accurate counterfeit of bonds of various" denominations. The spurious $lO bonds so closely resemble the genuine that it requires an expert to detect the THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 16, 1866 cheat. The engravers and printers of these coun terfeit bonds are said to have been employed by men of large resources—and it is, moreover, alleged that the backers of the counterfeiters have employed a gang of adventurers to distribute their bonds, and that already many thousands of the false tokens have been sold to hundreds of incredulous Irishmen and hard-working servant girls, and that the interior of the State, and New England and the West, have been flooded with the counterfeits, or are to be flooded within a fortnight. CONFESSION OF ONE 9F THE WASHINGTON CON SPIRATORS.—A man named King, arrested at Louis ville, Kentucky, a few days since for a theft re cently committed in Ohio, and who *As in gaol await ing a requisition from the Governor of Ohio, has confessed to Harris, a recently-confined Govern ment detective, that he (King), and not Payne, was the man who attempted to assassinate Secretary Seward in Washington, in April last. This confes sion being repeated to Major-General Jeff. C. Davis, temporarily commanding the department, he telegraphed to Washington for parties who were acquainted with the facts of the assassination con spiracy to come and investigate the affair. King is identified as a rebel spy during the rebellion. When the American war began, or a little later, many Americans converted their property into gold, and sent it to England. The amount of money thus thrown into English business is variously esti ' mated, the highest figures being $500,000,000, and the lowest $300,000,000. The burning oil or gas well, twelve miles below Franklin, on the banks of the Alleghany River, has not yet been extinguished, but apparently burns as fiercely as ever. THE GREAT MINERAL SPRINGS.—The Lelands, of the New York Metropolitan and Saratoga hotels, have addressed Robert G. M'Creary, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, a letter, soliciting the lease of the summer hotel, which they learn is about to be erected in the vicinity of the mineral springs found on the battle-field, of which they understand he is the proprietor, providing the hotel will be large enough to accommodate the summer visitors to the battle-field, the National Cemetery, and the springs. To this Mr. M'Creary replied that the springs have been visited by thousands, that the water is daily carried away in large quantities, but no definite arrangements have yet been made to erect the hotel and put the water in the market, though there is an increasing public demand for both. THE GOLD AND SILVER-BEARING ORES OF LAKE SUPERIOR.—The Houghton Gazette has a long article on the gold and silver-bearing ores in the " Silver Lead" region. It says :—" During the past six months repeated assays of the rock ob tained from the Silver Lead vein shows a value of f7OO per fathom in gold and silver. Supposing three-fourths of this amount can be obtained by the present methods of extraction the yield 'would still be over poo per fathom. It is a good copper lode or vein which yields 400 pounds of refined copper per fathom, which, at present prices, would only be worth $1.60 ; at the average price for the past two years, say 25 cents, it would be worth $l.OO per fathom, or only one-fifth of the silver and gold rock. A VOICE FROJI THE SOUTII.—A numerous and influential meeting of the citizens of Norfolk, Vir ginia, was held a few days since, the Mayor in the chair, at which resolutions were adopted strongly , endorsing the restoration policy of President John son. In respect of reconciliation it was, among other things, resolved That, having in good faith ac cepted the result of the late contest between the North and the South, we desire that all traces of alienation shall be obliterated, and we cordially invite enterprising men from every State of the American Union to settle among us, assuring them that they will be received as fellow-citizens of . our common country, and co-labourers in building up that commercial greatness which we believe our city is destined to attain." This is the proper spirit, and we hope similar meetings will be held in other por tions of the Southern country. A large number of enterprising people in the North are deterred from going South and pncrafzim7 in tho Inhnsir of rlovolnp_ ing the vast resources of that part of the country, in consequence of apprehending that their presence will be unwelcome, and that they will be subjected to irritating taunts and insults from the native re sidents. We do not believe that this feeling pre vails to any extent among intelligent communities in .the South ; and if expression be given to the Southern voice in the manner it has been in 'Nor folk, much good will accrue to the people _of both sections.—New York Times. non. Solomon Foot, a member of the United States Senate from Vermont, died on the 28th March, in Washington, after an illness of several weeks. Mr. Foot was a native of Cornwall, Addi son county, Vermont, and was born November 19, 1802. On his graduating at Middlebury College he adopted the profession of law, and soon rose to I eminence at the bar of his native State. In 1833, '36, '37, '3B, and '39 he was a member of the Ver mont House of Representatives, and was Speaker daring the last three years. He was also chosen a member of the State Constitutional Con vention, and held the office of State's Attorney for Rutland for six or seven years in succession. In 1843 he was elected a member of Congress, and on the expiration of his term was re-elected. In 1850 he was appointed a United States Senator, and in 1856 and 1862 he was again chosen by the Legislature to fill the responsible position of Se:- nator, and during the latter part of the Thirty sixth and through the entire sessions of the Thirty seventh Congress he presided as President pro teen over the: deliberations of the Senate. In early political life Mr. Foot was a Whig, and an ardent ad►nirer of Webster and Clay. Slavery in its grasp of power found in him one ready to meet and sturdily oppose its advance, and when the rebellion was inaugurated he stood forth earnestly battling in defence of right, truth, and the unity of the States. Mr. Foot was a man of rare integrity and worth. No one possessed more the confidence of his com peers than did he, while those opposed to him held him in the highest esteem. In his decease Vermont and the nation experience a great loss ; for where a good citizen and an honest statesman dies the coun try at large will appreciate his death as a public calamity. Movements of Cotton in America. THE COMING CoTroN Cnor.—The Columbus (Georgia) Sun, in reviewing tho speculations con cerning the coming cotton crop, estimates the amount to be 1,290,00') baks, or one-fourth the quantity produced iu 1861. In Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, West Tennessee, find Alabama, there is not one-half the required labour available to raise the usual crop before the war. One-fourth of the South Alabama field labour has gone, and about one-half only of the customary produce will be realised by what is left. About one-third of a crop can only be expected in Georgia. In the Sea Island districts little cotton is expected to be raised as compared with the quantity heretofore produced. Still, in the face of all these speculations, cotton recedes in price, and it surely cannot do so with out good cause. TILE COTTON CROP IN LOUISIANA.--We have a letter dated Baton Rouge, March 6, in which the writer, who has good opportunity of obtaining in formation, says:—" The prospect for a good crop the coming season is promising, and even at this early day the planters are making preparations to plant the largest amount of land they can find hands to work. Cotton will be the principal crop this year in this part of the State, and I am in formed that nothing but cotton will be raised throughout the State." CORN AND COTTON.—A Macon exchange states that little or no corn will be raised in the South this year, owing to the enormous profits which are ex pected to be realised from the growth of cotton. In view of the fact that the South must buy all the breadstuffs it needs, the same paper says :—" The West must now feed us ; and if the freedman turns out to be a faithful labourer, the trade between the South and West will exceed anything before known." There is scarcely any doubt but that the South will devote its whole energies to the raising of cot ton. It cannot possibly cost more than eight cents a pound in gold to grow it, while, if the crop turns out at all fair, it must sell for over twenty-five cents a pound in gold. So large and so certain a margin is rarely offered for an agricultural pro duct, and all accounts agree that, with the freed men or without them, a very large amount will be raised if the season is at all propitious. TOTAL RECEIPTS OF COTlON.—Mobile, March 13.—The receipts of cotton since the close of the war to date at all ports are 1,860,000 bales. It is thought that up to September 1, the close of the year, the total will reacli, if not exceed, 2,100,000 bales. At this port alone 100,000 bales are yet looked for prior to that date. A New Orleans despatch of 20th says the number of vessels now engaged at different ports in loading cotton for Europe is 138, of which 108 are loading for England, and 30 for France. The exports from New Orleans the previous week were 15,800 bales—the greatest portion for Great Britain, and the balance for France and Spain. The receipts at all the ports since the Ist September last aro put down at 1,500,000 bales. COTTON IN ILLINOIS.—The great increase in the production of cotton in Illinois, during the last three years is worthy of note. In 1862 the Illinois Central Railroad carried only 1,410 pounds of Illi nois cotton ; in 1865 it carried 1,579,000 pounds. It is estimated that last year's crop will foot up fully 10,000 bales, and that the average profit per acre is $3O. The following figures show the pro duction of several counties for 1865 :—Jefferson county, 435 acres, 240 bales ; Perry county, 661 acres, 639 bales ; Jackson county, 3,280 acres, 1,876 bales ; Williamson county, 1,678 acres, 1,000 bales ; Union county, 2,700 acres, 1,458 bales ; Johnson county, 1,600 acres, 800 bales ; Massac county, 723 acres, 270 bales ; Pulask county, 127 acres, 200 bales; Alexander county, 310 acres, 270 bales ; Pope county, 350 acres, 190 bales ; Hardin county, 45 acres, 30 bales ; Gallatin county, 300 acres, 200 bales ; Franklin county, 625 acres, 352 bales. The average yield per acre is a trifle over 800 pounds. This is an estimate made from cotton in the seed, but it takes from 3 1-3 to 3:1 in the seed to make one pound in lint. The average weight of bales is from 350 to 375 pounds. Shocking Murder at Tunbridge Wells. A shocking murder has taken place at Tunbridge Wells. The woman who is charged with the crime is named Ann Laurence, twenty-nine years of age, and lives at 2, Ebury-cottages, London-road. She has been living for some time with a man named Walter Higham, who obtains a livelihood by hawk ing vegetables. On Saturday morning the man and woman and two young children were in bed to gether, and about five o'clock the woman got out of bed, went down stairs, and got a billhook, with which she set upon the man, striking him over the head several times. He made his escape into an adjoining house. The woman then seems to have got a razor and cut the throat of a boy about four years of age. Dr. Davy, who was the house sur geon to the Infirmary, was called in, and the man was removed to that institution. He was found on examination to have four large wounds on his head, and about a dozen cuts on his back. His right arm was quite cleft through, while on his left hand there was a large wound, and his left wrist was dis located. When taken into custody the woman denied the charge, and imputed it to the man Higham. is said that the man has a wife and the woman a hus band, though they have been living from them for a considerable time. The prisoner was brought before the magistrates on Saturday, and remanded till to day. The first witness called was a woman named Mary Taylor, wife of a bricklayer's labourer, living at No. 3, Ebury-cottages, who said—About half past 5 o'clock this morning I beard a noise of " tus selling" in the bedroom of No. 2, occupied by the prisoner and the man with whom she was living. don't kno w the man's name. There were two child ren living in the house also—a baby and a little boy. At about 20 minutes before 6 o'clock I heard a great screaming of "Murder." There were two voices screaming—a man's and a woman's. I took no no tice of the screaming for a nqinnto or two. not"' I heard the man calling out, " Missus ! missus! come in and assist me. Go for a doctor, or I shall die." I then got up and came downstairs, and went into the back yard. There I say the man at Mrs. Alowcum ber's, of 1, Ebury-cottages. I went to the front of the house, and saw prisoner outside. When I went round the house she said, " I want you to come in." When I went in there was a policeman there. There was blood all over the house. The prisoner was co vered with blood. 'Prisoner spoke to me, and said, " Will you take my baby, Mrs. Taylor'?" I took the child, and washed it, and dressed it. The child was spotted with blood. The prisoner said, "He has killed my child ; it was not his, and he never liked it." She said, " The man has killed my child." I suppose she meant the man she was living with when she said " The man." I heard her say to somebody, " You dirty I said I would do it, and you have driven me to it." See what it has brought you to. Live like this I won't." That was at half-past 5 o'clock. This was said before I heard the cries, " Alissus! mis sus ! come in," and before the cries of "Murder." The man was in Mrs. Mowcumber's wash-house when I went into the prisoner's house. I think he went out of the front door of the prisoner's house into Mrs. Mowcumber's house, but I did not see him. When I washed and dressed the baby the prisoner was in the room, just going to wash and dress herself. The baby was in her arms when I went into the house, in its night-gown. During the time I was doing this the pHs - oiler was washing herself and tak ing off her things, -which were covered with blood. The prisoner had a dark stuff dress and an apron on. Both these things were saturated with blood. Her sleeves were stripped up, and her arms and face were covered with blood. I was in the house altogether about an hour. Prisoner did not speak either to me or the policeman. I did not see the child. I did not go upstairs. Police-constable May said he went to the prisoner's house, about 6 o'clock that morning, and in a bedroom he found the body of a child with its throat cut, and the razor, which he produced, remaining in the wound. Police-con stable Henley corroborated the evidence of the pre vious witness, and produced a billhook, which he found behind a portion of a faggot in the prisoner's house. He asked the prisoner if she had wounded the man Walter, and she said, " Yes, I did." He showed her the billhook, and she said "That is what I did it with. I meant to do for him, for he has brought me into all this trouble." She said it was all through another woman coming to see him who lived at Malting. Superintendent Emery, who took the prisoner into custody, deposed to the following statement made by her. He said after he had been upstairs and seen the dead body of the child he asked her the name of it, and she said, " His name is Jeremiah Lawrence, and he was four years old last March. It is my husband's child." He then went and saw the man Higham. On his return he told the prisoner he must take her into custody for the murder of her child, and attempting to murder Higham. She said, " All the man got I gave to him ; I meant to kill him, and I am sorry that I did not. I did not kill the child." Just before this a man named Holland came in and asked for a shirt for Higham, and prisoner said, "Don't let that man come in here. He shan't come in. He has been the cause of all this. He has gone with my husband to the woman's house who has caused all this mischief." After prisonerhadbeen locked up for seine hours she called the superintendent, and asked him if she should have an opportunity of saying anything before the magistrates, and expressed her determination to tell the truth, provided it was taken down in writing. He told her she would be able to say what she pleased then, but advised her to say nothing about the crime to him. rADTERTISEAIENT.I - Holloway's Ointment and Pills.— These potent remedies constitute a materia, medico, in themselves, for there is no internal or external disorder controllable by medicine for which the one or the other of them is not a positive remedy— eruptions, tumours, scro fula, scurvy, cancer, asthma, rheumatism, gout, and dropsy entirely subside and disappear under the action of these joint medicines; and in cases of indigestion, sick head ache, bile, liver complaints, debility, and other disorders originating in the internal organs, the pills produce the most astonishing results imaginable. The students of na ture know how simple are her ways ; if one preparation can throw out all impurities from the blood, disease is con quered, art triumphant, because it adopts the simplicity of nature. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. THE "LONDON REVIEW" ON POLICEMEN IN PLAIN CLOTHES.—In the early part of February last a, deadly enconnter took place near the Crystal Palace, one Satuiday morning, between two persons, each of whom appeared to the other to be a malefactor of some kind. As it turned out, one was a police man, whose sole object was the protection of the public ; and the other was a pianist, who had been professionally attending an evening party, and whose only aim was tp go home and get to his bed as speedily as possible. _ If each had known who the _ other was, nothing could have been more fortunate than their meeting at such an hour, and in such a place. For the place was lonely, and the hour about two in the morning, when a timid wayfarer would be glad to know that there was a policeman at hand in case of accident; and when a policeman, with a due sense of his position as a public guardian, would feel pleased that there was some one for him to protect. But two circumstances tended to dis- arrange this fitness of things—the pianist carried a bag, and the policeman was in plain clothes, Why a man carrying a bag at night should be a more suspicious object than a man carrying a bag by cay, we have never been able to understand. But it ap pears that, to the eye of a constable, this is one of the facts which demand further inquiry ; and so Mr. Maddocks, the policeman in question, seeing that. Mr. Ferguson, the pianist, carried a bag, at once followed him. This startled Mr. Ferguson. If there is one man who may be supposed to be more inoffensive and less dangerous than any other, we should say it is a pianist coming home after profes sional attendance at an evening party. To say nothing of the tendency of his art to civilise, and give gentleness to his disposition, there is the somewhat servile position he has been filling. He has had to pipe while others danced, to change his tune at command, to be servant to a merri- ment which he has not shared, to be an inferior to persons to whom on his own ground, and perhaps, their wealth excepted, upon — theirs, he is superior. Very possibly he has had to endure the discomfort of being laughed at, or of hearing is playing criticised as 100 slow or too fast, or of being told that his selection shows want of taste. All this he has had to bear meekly, with a grin, if not with a smile; feeling that for the nonce it would be better to be the waiter who has been hired for the occasion, and who, ministering to the creature comforts of the assembly, has had guests and com forts much at his command, with at least the smiles of the kitchen to console him for his labours upstairs. Therefore. if it were necessary for us in the loneliest time of the night, and in the dreariest season of the year to have to come face to face with a stranger " carrying a bag," and we were allowed to choose what upon inquiry the stranger should turn out to be, we should say, " Let him be a pianist returning home after six or seven hours' labour at the piano, accompanied with that exquisite lanailiation which the British matron and British misses and their swains know so well how to inflict." But none of these merciful and considerate thoughts occurred to Maddocks. He saw before him only a man with a man with a bag. The man, alone, might have passed muster ' • but the suspicious appendage re quired explanation. So he followed him ; and as he followed him the man with the bag quickened his pace, and presently began to run. The accute Paddocks saw, without any doubt whatever, that he was on the track of a subtle and obdurate burglar. And now, girding up -his loins, he set off at full speed to . run the scoundrel down, and presently overtook him. After a short parley there came a struggle, in the midst of which Ferguson whipped out a knife and stuck it into Maddocks: Then he released himself, and, rushing back, took out his watch, laid it on the pavement, and cried out, " Take that if you want it, but do not hurt me." The truth of the matter is that the trrified pianist thought he was in the hands of a Philistine ;lien, in fad, he was fly ing from, and then stabbing, a public guardian. But nothing could be more natural than the reason ing by which he arrived at his conclusion. A policeman at two in the morning 'is only to be dis tinguished from a civilian or a thief by his uniform. The constable whom Mr. Ferguson stabbed was so unlike a policeman that he - looked uncommonly like a foot-pad. Ile was dressed in a grey top-coat and a low-crowned deer-stalker's hat. Such a cos- tunic, at such an hour and in so lonely a place, might easily excite alarm in the breast of a man of stronger nerves than a pianist. And then all the attendant circumstances favoured Mr. Ferguson's idea that the policeman in plain clothes was a foot pad. For as Mr. Ferguson quickened his pace, the man in the grey topcoat quickened his also, and began to run as soon as Ferguson, so that there was no hope for him but to give the enemy leg-bail. In the result both parties suffered. The policeman was stabbed, and Mr. Ferguson was prosecuted for feloniously wounding him. Fortunately,' Maddocks recovered, and on Monday last the Grand Jury ignored the bill against Ferguson ; but " they at the same time expressed their opinion that in all cases wherepolicemen in plain clotheswere employed some unmistakeable means should be adopted, either by staff or a warrant card, to show who they are, with a view to prevent the recurrence of a similar proceeding to the present." We quite agree with the protest here conveyed against the practice of sending out police in plain clothes. But we can not agree with the Grand Jury in thinking that the staff or a warrant card, or anything short of the uniform, will effectually guard against the recur rence of a similar misadventure. THE "SATURDAY REVIEW" ON THE REFORM BE BATE.—The house has resumed the discussion of the Reform Bill, without any change having been made in the position of parties or in the attitude of the Government• In different forms the old arguments have been stated and restated, and the same appeals have been made to the passions, the fears, and the hopes of opponents and supporters. The question has been once more asked, Shall we pass a Reform Bill ? and the answer has once more been given, that, although to pass a decently good Reform Bill would be an excellent thing, to pass a thoroughly bad one—a mere fragmentary, one-sided, incom plete bill—would be a very unwise thing. The great meeting of the Liberal party produced nothing but an appeal to that party to remember Lord Russell's services, to vote as he wished, and to be lieve that he would take care that no harm should happen from the bill being read a second tim e . The Government, by using every means of pres sure, by satisfying one lukewarm supporter with one sort of promise and another lukewarm sup porter with another sort of promise, has done its very utmost to secure a majority on the second reading. After that is to come the deluge. No Minister even suggests how the Franchise Bill is to be carried through both houses when it is taken in conjunction with several other bills on which the Government is plc aged to stand or fall as much as on the Franchise Bill. The Government is always standing or falling now. It is always crossing its Rubicons, breaking its bridges, and burning its boats. It is to go out if the Franchise Bill is not carried, and so it is if the Redistribution Bill is not approved ; and every argument used by the more independent of its supporters is met by the unvarying threat that if it does not receive a blind unwavering support, through thick and thin, right and wrong, it will go out of office. Some advantage will probably be derived from this, and the Government will perhaps get a majority—a ma jority largely composed of reluctant and unwilling supporters--on the second reading. The Rubicon and the bridges and the boats will then be done with, and the Government may think. it will stand with .credit ; !but the real discussion w!ll only then be begun, and the Opposition, as a mere party manoeuvre, might perhaps have reserved their strength with advantage until the Redistribution Bill had been produced, and the whole scheme of the Government revealed. The debate on the whole scheme must be equally long, discursive, and elaborate whenever it is produced ; and the only question now is, whether the Government shall re ceive such a condonation for bringing in a mere fragment of Reform as will enable it to retain office. The Opposition, therefore, might have waited until the real subject of discussion arose. But the most direct and effective course, perhaps, is that which has been taken, and if the Govern ment claims the approval or pardon of the House for having attempted to treat Reform bit by bit, the Opposition is entitled to point out and insist upon the magnitude of the mistake that has been made ; and those Liberals who, like Lord Gros venor, strongly disapprove of the policy adopted by their leaders, and dare to call their souls their own, give an example of honesty and independence by opposing the s..xond reading, which they could not have given if they had waited for the produc tion of the complete scheme. We may take it for granted that there are no argu ments against Lord Grosvenor's Resolution ex cept those which are derived from such vague and remote considerations as the duty of supporting Lord Russell, the necessity of redeeming Ministerial pledges, and the expediency of winning the approval of the working classes. Mr. Gladstone made a long, a fierce, and a declamatory speech, but he did not adduce a single argument against the Resolution. Lord Stanley, on the other baud, made point after point in support of the Resolution, and there is no reply possible to his arguments except that, however strongly reason may be in favour of the resolution, general expediency is against its being adopted at the present crisis. That a bill for the redistribution of seats is much more wanted than one for the extension of the franchise, and that . It is impossible to calculate the effects of reducing the franchise unless the effects of redistributing the seats are taken into account, is as plain as daylight. There is no use in discussing how many new voters the Franchise Bill would add to the electoral roll, or how many of the whole number of voters would belong to the working classes, or how many boroughs the working classes, if united, could control, unless it is known in what localities the voting is to go on. Let us suppose that, if the present constituencies were preserved, there would under the Franchise Bill be an increase to the whole number of voters of 400,000; the Re distribution Bill may, for all that any ,one knows, increase this enormously. If 20 large northern towns were substituted for 20 small western towns, the total number of electors in the English boroughs might easily be raised in a most marked manner. The inure extreme advocates of reform think that the Government measure is far too moderate, and that the working classes, even if the franchise were reduced to £7, would form much too feeble an ele ment in the constituencies. Who can tell at present whether this is so or not ? If the Redistributio n Bill takes away seats from boroughs where the working men are few, and transfers them to th e i boroughs where working men predominate, the b ill may be made to go very much further than it is suppoSed to go by its friends or its foes. The n ' again, calculations are made to show that such or such a number of boroughs will be completely under the control of the working classes. These calculation s are ingenious enough as far as they go, but they only go a very short way. No one who makes the cal culation has the necessary data. A few strokes of the pen in the framing of a Redistribution Bill would double at once the number of these boroughs. The fallacy of the whole argument of the Govern ment as to the moderate nature of their measure lies in this, that they draw their estimates from the present constituencies, and reserve to themselves the power of changing the constituencies, and se furnishing an entirely new set of data. If the Go vernment openly said that it made no matter hour many men voted, and that all Britons and Chris tians might as well be voters as not, then it would not alter the calculation of consequences very how the seats were distributed. But this is not at all the line which the Government adopts. It offnl us a moderate bill, a bill based on figures, a b il l guarding against a sudden transfer of politic a , power, and then it reserves to itself the privilege °' bringing in another measure of which no one kno ws the provisions, which may make the present bill an extreme one, entirely alter the figures, and transfer in a few months the great political preponderance to. a class that has now but a small portion of poli tica/ power. It is only, therefore, in a spirit of courtesy _ to the Government, and from a desire to s eem to their constituents to be doing and say ing ll ,', something, that members can pretend at present to analyse the effects of the bill now under discussio n ' Those who, like Mr. Lowe, object to all redu ction of the suffrage can - discuss the bill thoroughly, for their case is clear before them, but the vast n ia r,; rity of the house wishes to have a reform bill, an, 7, only asks to know the objects and the limits of te! measure proposed. This the Government decline! to let them know ; they shall know soon, but Olut first thing is to pass a complimentary vote, as a 501 d of testimonial to the Government. The membelPe for small boroughs will then be told how they a r ia to be affected by the complete measure, and na naturally begin their resistance if they l' r d their interests endangered. It was, as L ord Stanley observed, very artless art to suPirto that these members would be entrapped to , alt carrying a Franchise Bill, and then, when tliit had made themselves powerless, would meekly ill their condemnation. It was making this a rt s , ed more artless when Mr. Bright kindly explainded beforehand the secret to those who were isten rt to be taken in. But the whole of this artless .3 will be quite at au end when the Redistributle evhcat r, Bill is laid on the table. Lord Stanley, how suggested that the Ministry may have an art fo r is by no means artless, and that those members a questionable boroughs who vote for the se c ,lir reading may find themselves rewarded by t`'•, l ], borough being spared in the Redistribution Nothing is more easy than to do a friend a g c s turn in such a case, unless the borough he sits for 5 notoriously and ludicrously bad. And this is eav mode of exercising pressure or influence that ba t scarcely be detected. No one will know v i a changes are made in the Redistribution Bill time, • the Franchise Bill has been read a second er and the bargain will be made, of course, in 3 I n o indistinct and vague way. Or, more probablp, a t bargain will be made ; but as it is obvious t(A:lit the members who sit for boroughs that 0 11 . „ r to be disfranchised have now a great opp ortun e ; of rendering a last service to those lOW ~s t make or destroy, the Government could tr "A to their calculation of their own interests. j i thingsmore unsatisfactory state of can scar c ' b . be imagined ; and although great allowance must made for those who think the best thing is at this o moment to go with their party, and to keep in elli c ir a Ministry which is probably as efficient as party or combination could now produce, Yet must be owned that Lilo Ministry scarcely des e , r to be treated so leniently, and that the mistake t° : 3 l have made in. throwing away the opportunity ell passing a moderate and complete measure has b e a most serious one. COUNTRY MARKETS. . NORWICH— SATURDAY. The supply of wheat was fair at this market to-( 1,1 Y1 0 being in improved condition, it me t a mo re ready', l no sa fully the rates of this day week. The barley trade iiierieg becoming quite a nomi na l one, tho few sranplos ° t ibia being taken on late terms. The weather is now and dryer, and is very favourable for barley sowing; dit to to 3os to White wheat (weighing 641 b), 50s to 's4s ; old I.° `.`,:hivs (weighing 651 b), '4Bs to 50s ; new red ditto % ) v e !thivg 601 b to 631 b), 42s to 478 ; bast making barley s ve* r d 2ll)) 521 b to 531 b), 3Gs to 38s ; runs ditto (weighing 511 34s to 365; distilling ditto (weighing bOlb to 5210 , 10), 36g 32s ; oats, 24s to 26s ; beans, &7s to 39s ; peas ( 11181) to 38s per qr. Flour, 31s per sack. NOT T INGHAM—SATURDAY. de' There was a mod era t e su pply o f wheat to-da3 r, er ( 1 1 ; mand for which was good, at an advance of is P an d There was not m uc h life in the demand for barleY'weA• sales were made at ratherunder the currencies of las i t . o, Oats met a steady sale, and prices were quite a s .1 :; heietofore. Beans were in short supply, and varyue-veor Old white wheal, 56s to 59s •, old red, 49s to Os ;of, white, 53s t o 57 s ; new re d, 45s to 49s per 36 stens. 4, O ld, old, 3Us to 35 s ; new , 24s to 30s per 24 stone. 13 ° 111 ' 50s to 538 ; new, 42s to per 478 38s stone. . wile° At to-day's corn LEICESTER—SATURDAY market there was no t mac. •00 showing ; condition of samples somewhat varied- • sio ss young wheats are looking healthy around here. 13 , g The was firm, and a rise of is per qr. was generally inacie'cases demand for barley was quiet, and prices were in soT e ,,, r iceo• easier. There was a short supply of oats, at recent r New white - wheat, 50s to 52s ; new red, 463 to 5; par" white, 558 to 56s ; old red, 49s to 52s per 36 stone.to 304 ley, for malting, 35s to 398 per qr.; grinding , 27s ',sr per 30 stone. Oats, old, 30s to 33 s ; new, 27 s to 32s Ptoe. stone. Beans, old, 50s to 52s ; new, 44e to 460 Per 38 6 ORK—SATURDAY. t We had a limited supply of wheat at our corn mar se t l 6 day. There was a fair inquiry, and farmers jest per qr. more money. Barley about the same as las!' de, There was a small supply of oats, which m et a v e ' l ,, 'e , o B mand, and late rates were easily made. The show 0, o re was short, and the extreme prices of last vio l ' realised. r3G New white wheat, 46s to 52s ; new red, 44 s to 485 P c e ijob e, stone. Barley, for malting, 38s to 40s. per qr. ; gri n f oe. 32s to 34s per 30 stone. Oats, new, 26s to 28 s per 21 s Beans, new, 44s to 48s per 40 stone. THE LONDON COAL DUTIES AND THE Cif . „" It is understood that at Fr id ay' s s it t in g of the r("- : mitteu on the local government and taxation of the We tt° o l polis a resolution was carried recommending the 1-1 0115° ll i Commons to continua the coal duties i n th e i r present , for the completion of the Thames Embankment and oti-1" improvements instituted by the Board of Works, fol d wise the improvement in Holborn Valley and Newt-- street, recommended by the corporation. Births. oTt , AsnEv—On the 13th inst., at 23, a Holland-roa d - Brighton, Mrs. W. G. Ashby, of son. L 1 g onf a D r E d i xe Commander n_s, o t the wife the e i j f l e . 4 o t h of Liddell,E.r We' BEN ZON—On the 14th inst., at 10, Kensington - a Chester-square, thouto• daog the i l e else' , MossoP—On the 13th inst., at Oakley-square, inst.,L . H.M.S., a S t. . m7 8 2. s e , n ?, z h o o n s , t o Aurora, Esq.,r_ of o a f a soI a • wife of Mr. C. Mossop, solicitor, of a son. Marriages. 0 f pplOT, ' C LARK—HAVELOCK— On the 14th inst., at St. .3fax./' Hammersmith, G. W. Clark, of Notting-bil l, to i;, c i s" only child cf the late J. Havelock, Esq., of the St°c change, and Manor House, Stakesby, Yorkshil .e. 1 el r';' , Hanuisox—HAmmoxn - On the 14th inst., at St. 313t.f,t 0 1 00; Brixton, J. T. Harrison, Esq., of Orton Villa , o f til, borough-park, to Elizabeth, y oung est daugliter.nrista'' late J. W. Hammond, Esq., C.E., of Kingsdovo, Deaths. „ North CLINTON—On the 10th inst., at M an ton Satch vine, Devon, the Right Hon. Lord Clinton, aged 75 . Gos nag , GOSLING—On the 13th inst., at Booking, Es sex, j. - „ Esq., aged 63. i s go , r eox , I HOPSON- On the 12th inst. at at Surbiton, W. A.. Esq., late Major 26th Canieronians, aged 45. g in s, n e f- HALL— On the 12th inst ,at hig residence, Floc ! , an o ' Fareham, Hants, G. B. Hall, Esq., late of 10th -'' arl and J.P. for tho county, aged 67 . '1. 2 Mon 16 0 Devon, A. S. Law, son of Sir R. and La d y Ott , 1. 1 LAW -On the 13th inst. , a t Vansittart House,t 1leY: aged 20. ' , . w .. Sc ScoTT—On the 12th inst., at Greenwich, Kent, the Esq., M.D., aged 41. TREMAYICE—O n th Frances Tremayn e 11th in e, aged 34. st., at Carc l ew , Cornw Ladyall' L on don : Printed and Pubiished by WILLI/111 .14 0 I V", of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Tun Sokt l'"" t f Strand, in the Precinct of the S‘riy the C° ll/I. ' Middleeez.—Monday, April 16, 1866. E f