The Sun. — London, England, 1866-01-15 00:00:00

A.,./..1 The Weather. Owing to the sudden melting of the snow the Thames has flooded portions of the land upon its banks in the neighbourhood of Windsor. The river has encroached upon the Home Park and Eton Playing Fields, while much land is under water be tween the South-Western Railway-bridge and Dat chet. In the vicinity of the Wraysbury station large tracts of land are inundated, and the same is the case on Staines-moor. At Twickenham the waters of the Colne have flooded the adjacent land on both sides of the railway near the station. PORTSMOUTH, Sunday. At Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight the heavy snow storm and N.E. gale of Thursday were suc ceeded on Friday by a moderately strong wind from N.W , with bright, clear weather overhead. During Friday night the wind veered out again to S.S.W., and rose to a heavy gale, with sleet and rain, until nearly noon yesterday, when it moderated to a s outherly. Several vessels have gone strong wind, into Portsmouth harbour for repairs. Aniong these are the Norwegian bark St. Oloff, which has lost two anchors and chains; the Maltese bark Quintees, from Cardiff for Malta, which had lost sails and met with damage to chain plates and bulwarks ; the American ship Maria, from Callao for Antwerp, which has had damage done to her steering gear and had part of her cargo thrown overboard ; the ' Enmore, from Barbadoes, which has her rudder damaged ; the Lady Havelock, steamship, laden for Swansea, which has lost an anchor and chain, and met with other damage ; the Hope, brig, from Sunderland, which has lost spars from being in col lision with a Jersey vessel in Yarmouth roads. The Adelaide Ray, from Sunderland, which had lost an anchor and 40 fathoms of chain ; the Dutch brig Wilhelm V. de Voort, from Dunkirk for Greenock, which had lost sails and met with other damage. A French zebec is ashore on the rocks inside Bern bridge-ledge, and lies with her bottom stove in and full of water. She is loaded with iron. Her crew are safe on shore. No loss of life has been reported near the port. SHIELDS, Saturday Night. The strong frost which for two days bound the ponds and shallow streams in the counties of Dur ham and Northumberland in its grasp yielded last night somewhat suddenly, and the thaw was fol lowed by a stiff breeze from the S.S.W., which this morning freshened into a gale from the S.E., with a heavy sea, and to-night the wind has veered about and is blowing strong from the north-west. About 4 o'clock this morning the bark Victo rine, of Ostend, laden with copper ore, from Rotterdam, and bound for the Tyne, was caught in a squall from the N.E., and was driven with great force among the rocks at Souter-point. The Whitburn lifeboat was manned and put off to the wrecked vessel. Upon getting alongside the bark the grapnel irons were thrown on board ; but the wind and sea were so strong that, just as the boatswain of the ship jumped into the boat, the line broke, and the lifeboat drove ashore, when she became disabled among the rocks. Of course, it was of no more use ; but the steamboat William, which saw the disabled ship, made to her assistance. She was followed by another Tyne tug, the Robert Scott, and an effort was made to save the crew of the bark. In the meantime the Mariner, a third Tyne tug, was despatched for the Shields lifeboats. The Robert Scott got a connexion with the bark and saved seven of the crew, each of whom had to be dragged through the sea, the William saved another, and the eighth man was taken off by the tug Raymond. When the Mariner , came with the Northumberland and Tyne lifeboats there was but one man on board. He was the mate, who had been struck on the head by the main boom, and was lying ill in the cabin. The sea at that time was running high, but the Tyne lifeboat, manned by Shields pilots, was placed alongside the ship, and, seeing an opportunity, one of the lifeboat crew leapt on board the bark. A line was then got to the life boat by him, and with the assistance of some more of the life boatmen who got aboard the vessel also the ' injured mate was safely taken out of the cabin and lowered into the lifeboat. The master of the vessel Louis Clasen, who was struck by the mainboom, also had his right leg and right arm injured, and was insensible when taken on board the Robert Scott. The bark's mainmast is broken, and she was full of water when she was left. In the present state of the weather she is likely to become a wreck. Informa tion arrived here this morning that the brig Indian, of South Shields, had been run down by the New castle steamer Earl Percy, in South West Reach, but her crew were saved. Down to 10 o'clock to-night the wind has continued to blow very strong. GREAT YARMOUTH, Saturday Night. At noon to-day a frightful accident occurred at Gorleston, a village near to this port, by which 12 experienced boatmen have perished. Inthe forenoon a vessel with a signal of distress was observed to be running northward through the roads, and at once the lifeboats Rescuer and Friend of All Nations were full manned and proceeded out of the harbour in order to render her assistance. As they passed over the bar, the water upon which was very shallow, the Rescuer touched the ground, in consequence of which her rudder became unshipped. At this moment a heavy sea struck her and she caught the ground and immediately turned over, bottom upwards ; the crew, numbering 16 hands, being underneath. Two of these, Robert Warner, sen., and Geo. Palmer—ma naged to get from under her and were rescued by means of boathooks, by the crew of the other life boat, which was instantly brought to an anchor. The Friend of All Nations was then veered round, and proceeded after the Rescuer, which, in the mean time, had beaten over the North Sands bottom up wards, with two of her crew—Edward Woods, jun., and Win. Austin, who had succeeded in getting on to her keel. The Friend of All Nations came in) with her after she had drifted about three-quarters of a mile, and managed to take off the two men, who were much exhausted. Every effort was made by the Friend of All Nations to recover the rest of the unfortunate men, but without success , as not one of them was to be seen, a n d up to the time 2 of despatch ing our parcel their bodies had not been found. a'a s LO WESTOFT, Jan. 13. ". The brig Billy, of Whitby, with coal, struck off Southwold at 11 o'clock this morning during con tinued stormy weather, and the crew were all drowned. The small boat of the brig and the dead body of one of her crew were washedashore. Efforts were made by the Southwold lifeboat crew and by the Coastguard to rescue the crew of the brig, but without avail. There was a terrific sea on in South wold Bay to-day. PALLING, Jan. 12. We have bad some very rough weather this week on this coast. Yesterday the schooner Laurel, of Goole, stranded on our beach. The Parsee lifeboat of the National Lifeboat Institution was immediately launched, and succeeded in saving the crew of three men, and in bringing them safely ashore. The life boat had only just entered the boathouse when she was again called out to aid the schooner Julia C. Maclean, of Sunderland, which had stranded on Hasbro' Beach, about three miles north of Palling, but before the boat could xeach the scene of wreck, baiting several miles to go by road, the crew were saved by the rocket apparatus, and the services of the lifeboat were therefore not again required. NORWICH, Saturday Midnight. The weather experienced a great change this even ing. There is a sensible rise in the temperature, the wind has subsided to a great extent, and the snow appears to be in full retreat. Telegraphic commu nication between this city and London has been in terrupted since Thursday noon, and up to a late hour to-night messages to town were refused at local offices. In some cases the telegraph wires have fallen across the railway, and have been cut to pieces by passing trains. This remark applies more particu larly to the liae of the Electric and International Company, but the British and Irish Magnetic Com pany has also been disorganised. Strenuous efforts are being made to renew communication, and it is expected that one wire at least will be carried throu g h from the eastern coast to London by the middle of ne x t week. R INGSGATE, NEAR MARGATE, Jan. 12. , The No rwegian b r i gan ti ne F remar k e d ro ve 9 11 snore i n Kingsgate Bay yesterday afternoon. A portion of the crew came on shore in the ship's boat, but the remaining part of the crew, seven in num- ber, had to be taken off by the Kingsgate lifeboat of the National Lifeboat Institution, as the wind had increased to a heavy gale. ST. IVES, CORNWALL, (Tan. 12. During a heavy gale from N.E. yesterday, the Bessie, of Hayle, a new screw collier, wcrth £lO,OOO, went ashore on Hayle Bar. She soon became firmly imbedded in the sand, and her crew, consisting of nine men, had to take to the foretop. The St. Ives' lifeboat, belonging to the National Lifeboat Insti tution, and the rocket apparatus, were taken to the spot without delay. The sea was running moun tains high at the time. It was too distant, however, for the rocket apparatus to reach the vessel, and the lifeboat was unable to get to her from want of power. A telegram was accordingly despatched to Penzance for the large lifeboat stationed there of the National Lifeboat Institution, named the Richard Lewis. That boat was at once despatched, and on arriving at Hayle the two lifeboats put off to the steamer in the presence of thousands of people who lined the shore, the St. Ives' crew being deter mined to share the honours of the day. After hard pulling the latter lifeboat was the first to reach the vessel, and picked up one of the crew who had fallen overboard, the other lifeboat then came up and took off five of the crew, and the St. Ives' lifeboat the captain and the remaining two men. The two boats then returned to the shore, amid shouts of applause from the people on land. One of the crew of the Penzance lifeboat, while alongside the steamer, was struck overboard by her jib, but was quickly rescued by his comrades. A more meritorious life boat service never was performed. The long struggle of the crew to reach the ship, and their coolnessand judgment in the actual rescue, are beyond all praise, and but for them every soul must have perished. TEIGNMOUTII, DEVON, Jan. 12. The China lifeboat, belonging to the National Lifebgat Institution, has done good service at Tor bay during the fearful storm, by saving the crews, consisting of 11 men, from two vessels. BRISTOL, Saturday. The gale did comparatively little damage in the city, but in the neighbourhood its effects were severely felt. At the Grove, in East Clevedon, 25 immense elm trees were blown to the ground, one falling completely across a building, breaking in the roof and otherwise injuring it. Three ships, the Thomas and Maria, the Anne, and the Industry (the first laden with railway sleepers, and the two others with coal), bound from Newport for Bristol, were wrecked near Clevedon Pill, but the crews were saved. The Bananza, outward bound from Newport, was lost on Barry Island. Three trows, the Swallow, the Sarah Ann, the Talbot (of and for Lydney), and a new trow, name unknown, from Lydney for Bridgewater, master's name Barnes, were sunk off Portishead—crews saved in their boats. Another sloop was sunk in Walton-bay ; three of the crew survived, but the fourth died after reaching shore. Telegraphic communication was suspended, and has not yet been completely restored between Bristol and the other parts of the kingdom. The Military Revolt in Spain. (From the Correspondent of the Times.) MADRID, Jan. 10. The Government did not favour us with any news last evening, and this morning the official Gaceta has not yet made its appearance. We have heard nothing further about the movements at Barcelona, after the first disturbance of Monday evening was quelled in blood ; but private information would lead us to believe that several of the minor commu nities of. Catalonia have " pronounced" for Prim. Catalonia, however, is a province very far removed from Madrid, and the rumours afloat are, perhaps, only the invention of people who would wisfi matters to turn out as they represent them. A deputation of the Lower House was driven in gilt carriages to the Queen's Palace yesterday in the afternoon, to lay before her Majesty the assurance of the unshaken devotion and allegiance of her faithful Commons. A more tangible and, perhaps, no less disinterested and sincere proof of loyalty has been given by the banker-Marques Don Jose de Salamanca, who has hastily returned from Portugal, and who comes to proffer his services to the Queen and her Government in this their present need and distress, offering, it is to be hoped, unlimited loans from his coffers—for a consideration. Senor Figuerola, the Deputy, who on Wednesday evening last brought forward some odious compa rison between Prim's outbreak at Aranjuez, and O'Donnell's pronuncianziento at Vicalvaro, in 1854, threatening O'Donnell with retaliation, and crying out to him, " An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth," and " he who rises by the sabre shall fallby the sabre," addressed an interpellation to the Home Minister the other day, asking by whose order or authority the words by him spoken on that occasion had been struck out of the official report of the sitting, and also suppressed in all the Madrid papers —but the Minister, Senor Posada Herrera, declined entering on any explanation or discussion on the subject, and positively refused to !vouchsafe any answer to the " hon. interpellator." 1 News from Chili of the sth of December seem to authorise a belief that Senor Covarrubras, the Fo ; reign Minister of that republic, has accepted the ! good offices of the Western Powers. Agreeably to the latest intelligence Prim was at Urda, high on the mountains of Toledo, only five leagues from the Molinillo, an estates of his where large stores of arms are said to be secreted. One of his followers, at the head of a volunteer band, is the well known Escoda, who has extensive connections among the Catalans, and who, shortly before the movement of last Wednesday, had been seen at a I hunting party on the grounds of au estate known as the Cortijo of San Isidro of Aranjuez, a hunting party at which Prim was present. There are no less than three columns now in pur suit of Prim ; the first is that of Zabala ; the second the one originally led by Concha, but now under the command of Serrano ; not the Marshal Duque de la Torre, President of the Senate, but another of the same name, who is Mariscal del Campo, or Major- General. The third column, which set out onMonday last at 7 a.m. by train for Toledo, is commanded by the Lieut.-General Echague. Col. Aldama, with the officers of the insurgent regiments who remained firm in their allegiance, and some of the st ragg l ers of the same corps, a band of about 50 mounted men, march in the van of Zabala's column, anxious for the honour of a first charge upon the rebels. 11 A. 31. MAILS CLOSING. The Madrid Gazette does not give the telegraphic dospatches literally according to custom. It simply asserts that " the divisions of Zabala and Echague follow close in pursuit of the insurgents, who are on the T o l e d o Mountains, and are making their way to the frontier of Portugal." The insurgents , it is added , are in a state of the greatest disorder and demora lisation." Other despatches assure us of complete quiet at Barcelon a , as well as in all other parts of Cata l o ni a and Aragon. It is, however, admitted that the wires have been for some time out of order, owing, the Government organ informs us, to a severe storm. 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THE SUN, LONDON, iVIONOAY EVENING,'SANUARY4,7IS, 1866. Archaeological Association. -s The members of this association resumed their ordinary meetings, after the Christmas recess, on Friday evening, in their rooms in Sackville-street. Mr. Cuming, who was in the chair, exhibited several interesting specimens, among which was the end of an ancient British war dub, found in Moor fields, and with it was also shown an Esquimaux war club, which closely resembled it. Mr. Owning remarked on the similarity of the implements of several savage nations of the present time with those of the Britons, and on the light thus thrown on the past by the rude arts of modern savage life. The discussion of the subject• of forged antiqui ties formed a prominent part of the proceedings of the evening. Thames Embankment has been a fruit ful source for the production of fictitious relics of all kinds, which are alleged to have been found in dig ging in the bed of the river. Several coins were ex hibited, which had been sold as genuine Roman coins of different emperors, which were proved to have been forged. Among them was a- halfpenny of George 11., which had been rendered much more valuable by its conversion into a coin of one of the Caesars. Mr. Roberts observed that many gentlemen —even some members of the Archaeological Asso ciation—had been imposed on in that manner, and he stated that he was recently requested to examine what the owner considered a very choice collection of antiquities, which at the first sight he detected to be forgeries, including among them daggers of very fanciful shapes, for which high prices had been paid. Mr. Levien, of the British Museum, said that forged documents were very often offered for sale to the museum, purporting to be manuscripts and let ters of great antiquity ; but on some occasions the forgeries were instantly detected by the paper mark of Parkins and Gotto. In continuation of the same subject, Mr. G. Hills read a letter he had received from Mr. Burns re specting the alleged Greek and Roman coins which had been discovered by the Rev. E. Kell, of South ampton, and which he exhibited at a previous meet ing of the association. From the finding of these coins, connected with other circumstances, Mr. Kell had assumed that the Romans and Greeks had made the Isle of Wight the high road for the conveyance of tin from the mines in Cornwall, and that they carried it to the south side of the island and thence shipped it to France. In the opinion of Mr. Burns the coins are spurious, especially those presumed to be Grecian ; one evidence against their genuineness be ing that they are only of copper, and not of either silver or gold. Mr. Geo. Wright stated that when the association held their congress .in the Isle of Wight, Mr. Kell had confirmed his opinion respect ing the transit of tin through the island by pointing out distinct traces of Roman roads across the island, which roads were continued on the Hampshire coast towards Cornwall. At the last meeting of the association Mr. George Wright exhibited the bone of an ox, shaped into an implement, which had been found at Barnes, in earth brought from St. Katharine's Docks, and it was then stated that other similar bones had been found in different parts of London, which it was proposed produce on another occasion, and last evening large collections of bone implements were exhibited by Messrs. Cuming, Simpson, Cato, and Guns ton. Three of them had the appearance of handles, and had been filed or rubbed, and in some instances holes had been bored through them.. The uses to which these implements had been applied could only be conjectured. Mr. Curving was of opinion they had been used in weaving or lace-making. Mr. Roberts, and some other members, conceived the holes had. been intended to pass strings through to serve as handles to pull by ; but no satisfactory ex planation could be given of them, though it was generally agreed that the implements were of great age. Mr. Rutley read a notice of two fresco paintings of the Crucifixion in the Church of East Bedfont, which he attributed to the 13th century. His reason for assigning that date to the paintings was, that there was a crown of thorns around the head of Christ, which emblem, he said, was not introduced in paintings of our Saviour before that period. Mr. Levien, however, said that there is a German manu script of the 12th century in the British Museum, in which the crown of thorns was introduced. 'The paintings, however, are supposed to have been of a late date. The meeting then adjourned. Lcc me by Lord E. Cecil. Lord E. Cecil, M.P., for South Essex, delivered an interesting lecture on North America on Tuesday evening, in tho lecture hall of 'the Chelmsford Mechanics' Institu tion ; Major Skinner, RA., presided. The audience was a large one, and comprised Mr. J. A. Hardcastle, M.P., Mr W. M. Tuffnell, and other local gentlemen of influence- The lecturer, Lord E. Cecil, M.P., who was received with cheers, said :—Tho United States and Canada were so well known by report that he felt his task would be consider ably lightened. All that appertained to the United States must be peculiarly interesting to Englishmen. Springing from a common ancestry, and speaking the same language, the people who inhabited the United States—however much we might differ from them politically and socially were, after all, bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh ; and their cities, their lakes, their mountains, their woods, their forests, their vast prairies, and their mighty rivers, were intimately connected with the history of our beloved land. North America also continued to afford us a field for our redundant population, who might there, if they had health and energy to seek for it, acquire competence and even wealth. A visit to America, involved, however, some drawbacks, not only to the emigrant but to the pleasure seeker. One of the greatest of those drawbacks was the ten days' voyage across the Atlantic. If one supposed oneself on board one of the magnificent Cunard steamers bound to New York one would find no lack of comfort ; everything which could make the voyage agreeable would appear to have been thought of, and there would seem at first to be nothing to do but to eat, drink, and be merry. But there was one thing—that was the abominable roll of the ocean, which made one's heart leap into one's mouth, and caused one to vow never to be so foolish as to put one's foot on board a Cunard steamer again. (Laughter) T wo or three days, however, brought a change. One began to be able to peck a mouthful or two, and to wash it down with a glass of champagne or brandy and water. One also began to look about, to take an interest in the working of the ship ; and as one got rid of sea sickness one got rid of English reserve at the same time. The passengers on board one of the Cunard steamers were a perfect study. You found yourself with a Vice-President of the United States on one side, and perhaps a detective in pursuit of a Muller on the other, whilst opposite might be a French Minister 'going out, and Mr. Barnum perhaps next to him. (Laughter.) Some most amusing scenes might also bo witnessed on board these steamers. He (Lord E. Cecil) remembered a Yankee stump orator, who, in spite of sea sickness, would insist on mounting the paddle-box and haranguing the passengers on Mr. Seward's election. Let it be supposed that New York was sighted and the traveller found himself in ono of the monster hotels—more like monster barracks than anything else, discussing the various " fixings" which a charitable waiter brought to him. Tho term " fixings" was of universal application in America; it includes everything visible as well as eatable ; and it was even said to be used in the language of romance, for there was a story of a Yankee who told his lady-love that her image was implanted on his heart like a plum in a pudding fixing. (Great laughter.) Having glanced at Broadway with its different classes of wayfarers—one on one side and ono on the other—the admirably managed Belle Vue Hospital, the Croton Water works, supplying an ample daily quantity of water to the 900,000 or 1,000,000 inhabitants of Now York, &c., the noble lord said he would suppose the tourist went on board the steamer which was waiting to take him to West Point. West Point could be approached by boat or rail way, but the former was infinitely preferable, for as the boat glided smoothly up the river you might almost fancy that you were enjoying tho pure and bright atmosphere and the lovely scenery of a Scotch la k e , the river disclos ing at each successive bend some fresh beauty. At the great military college of West Point all the best generals —Lee, Stonewall Jackson, Sherman, and others, on both sides, during the late war—were educated. In addition to its other picturesque attractions , W est Point was also in teresting to the English traveller f rom having been the scene of one of the most terrible trage dies in the American War of Independence —he referred to the well-known case of Major Andre, aide-de-camp to Sir Henry Clinton, to wards the beginning of 1780. He (Lord E . Cecil) would now suppose that the traveller took " the cars," and pro ceeded by that mode of c onveyance to Philadelphia and Baltimore. Philadelphia, the Quaker city, was chiefly re markable for its clean, tidy appearance and well laid-out streets. The houses for tho most part were warmed by steam boilers placed outside to guard against explosions. This mode of heating houses was common enough throughout the States, and appeared to him to bo prefer ableto heating by hot-water pipes or German stoves, which warmed and stifled you at the same time. The public buildings of Philadelphia comprised Independence-hall, Gerrard-house and Mint, penitentiaries, and many other asylums and institutions. Let the traveller again mount the cars, and a four hours' journey along the banks of the Delaware, through a pretty undulating country, would convey him to Baltimore. As Philadelphia was remark able for the tidiness of its streets so Baltimore was remark able for the good looks arid comeliness of its ladies. Before the late war Baltimore was a pleasant town to dwell in, possessing a most hospitable disposition towards strangers. Once more he would suppose -that the traveller continued his journey on the Baltimore and Ohio Railway, making no stoppage until he arrived at Cincinnati. As to travelling in the cars, to imagine what it was like you must fancy a long and wide omnibus, with a passage in the middle, and furnished with rows of stuffed seats. You must then fancy every second passenger chewing tobacco for very life, and you must then picture to yourself a total absence of ventilation, and a reeking odour of tobacco juice, apples, oranges, and moist clothes; then you would have some faint notion what travelling in the cars meant. (Laughter.) On many of the American Railroads, how ever, if you were able to invest half a dollar for the pur pose, you could enter a sleeping car, where well-venti lated sleeping apartments were arranged in the same manner as a ship's cabin. Before arriving at Cincinnati it was necessary to cross the spur of the Alleghenies, while the Ohio was crossed by means of a huge raft. Cincinnati was a large dirty city, famous for its pork and a sparkling wine, dear in price, pleasant to drink, and termed Catawba, champagne. Pork was manufactured so rapidly at Cincinnati as to remind one of the scene in the pantomime where a policeman was put into . a box and came out again all cut up again into sausages. (Laughter.) "Hog and hominy " were to be had at Cincinnati in perfection ; and he might remark that punctuality was not only the soul of business, but the soul of eating also in the States. (Laughter.) He had seen waiters told off to various dishes ; at the word " one " each dish cover was firmly grasped with the thumb and fore-finger, and at the word " two " every cover was removed with military precision— (laughter)—while such was the voracity and the velocity with which the good things on the table were despatched, that if you showed any shyness or reserve you stood no chance of getting anything at all. (Laughter.) The noble lord then conducted his audience—over abominable roads, the very recollection of which, he said, made his bones ache—to the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky, of which he gave a detailed account. As this cave has been re peatedly described before it is perhaps scarcely necessary to follow his lordship through this portion of his lecture ; it may be noted, however, that he stated that in one part of the cave some stone cottages had been recently erected by an enterprising doctor for the reception of consumptive patients ; this " summary mode of interring patients before they died" failed, but the doctor, nevertheless, pocketed his fees. (Laughter.) His lordship also called attention to the part of the cave known as the chapel, whore, he said, a couple had once been married, the traditfon being that the bride had promised her mother not to marry her lover anywhere on the face of the earth, and that she did not consider that the pledge which she had given prevented her from marrying him under the earth. (Much laughter.) Having followed the windings of the cave (which extended over more than 100 miles) for some time, the noble lord said he would again take the cars to the West, and turn to St. Louis, 1,200 miles from New York. There was nothing peculiar to distinguish St. Louis from other large American cities, except that it had been for years looked upon as the extreme western point of American civilisation. The houses were built of wood, and to guard against fire there were at the street corners large knobs communicating by means of electricity with a central fire office. Some eighty miles from St. Louis was a celebrated iron mountain ; the works were well worthy of a visit ; the ore, before smelting, was among the purest in the world. He would now mount the cars again, and creep along through miles of desolate-looking forest land to Chicago, which might be said to have been built more for utility than for ornament. The streets, however, were well laid out on the usual American plan— broad, straight, and at right angles. Tho houses were the plain, four-walled boxes which might be seen in any ordi nary Anglo-Saxon town. The position of Chicago, on the borders of one of the great inland lakes, was admirably adapted for trading purposes, and if we took into considera tion the fact that it had no existence 35 years ago, and that it now comprises between 150,000 and 200,000 inhabitants, it would be seen that its progress has been marvellous. Rapid, however, as had been the rise of Chicago, it born no comparison with what had taken place in the lately discovered oil regions of Pennyslvania, where within a very few months of the felling of the trees of the forest cities of several thousand inhabitants had sprung up. A long journey of twenty-four hours, through a flat and uninteresting country, brought the traveller to Niagara Falls station—that was to say, to Niagara Falls, the mightiest cataract in the world. After alluding to the geological formation of the district, noticing a theory that in the course of 16,000 years the Falls would gradually re cede towards Lake Erie until they altogether ceased to exist—a theory, however, which concerned the present gene ration very little— (laughter)—the noble lord observed that, strange to say, the general impression of travellers on see ing Niagara for the first time was one of disappointment. The eye was unable at first to take in the vast torrent of water. A feeling of awe, however, succeeded, as greater proximity impressed one's mind with the sublime spectacle. The width of the whole cataract was 1,080 yards, the height of the Horseshoe Fall was about 158 feet, and that of the American, or smaller fall, was 164 feet. To . give au idea of the fall of waters, it was sufficient to say that they wore computed to amount to 20,000,000 cubic feet per minute. To attempt to measure the volume of such a vast cataract seemed, however, like. counting the sands upon the sea - shore, such was the bewildering idea of Almighty power and infinite wisdom conveyed to the mind of the spec tator. Au American who saw the Falls was stated to have been able to ate fi d n s d ecae n da o poinu b lly. e in tt g er ndoo r w e lhv s ne en re l f b r l o t o h nt e h — m e t( w hla o auu r g ld htht l e e ar as t) o— s f uch a scene to b e f oun d . T wo m il es b e l o w o a e m n lso ce the to i m a the Falls was a suspension bridge, constructed to unite the America and Canadian sides of the river, and here a good view both above and below the Falls was to be obtained. If tho traveller next made a bold plunge on Lake Ontario four hours would find him at Toronto, the streets of which had a wood instead of a stone pavement. While he (Lord E. Cecil) was in Toronto the Canadian Houses of Legislature were sitting, their removal to Otawa not having been then determined on. The prevalence of tobacco chewing in the midst of a debate certainly did not add to the dignity of the assem bly, and he sincerely hoped that whatever changes might be in store in the future such a reform would never be imported into the House of Commons. At the same time the Canadian idea of decorum was superior to that which prevailed in many of the American legislative assemblies, the debates of which were frequently very amusing. For instanqp, here- was a report of a speech by an Illinois M.P. : "Mr. Speaker, I think sheep is property, and our laws ought not to be so that dogs can commit ravages on sheep. Up where I live sheep is of more account than dogs, and although dogs are useful, sheep are usefuller. Show me the man who says dogs are usefuller than sheep, and I'll show you a know nothing. Mr. Speaker, I am through." (Laughter). The noble lord said he would next halt at Montreal, the largest town in Canada, the population being principally French Canadians. Montreal was by no means deficient in public buildings, although none of them were remarkable for architectural beauty. Being the older town, the streets of Montreal were not so well laid out as those of Toronto, while they were exceedingly hot and dusty in the summer. The great wonder of Montreal was the Victoria-bridge, constructed by the Grand Trunk Railroad Company, whose trains now traverse nearly ton miles of water by this means. The bridge, with the exception of the tubes, was all solid masonry, and, although the piers looked light and fragile, they were calculated to resist a pressure of 70,000 tons ; they were constructed with sharp edges outwards, so as to cope with the great masses of ice as they came down the St. Lawrence. Quebec was the oldest town in Canada, having been founded in the reign of Francis I. of Franco, by Jacques Cartier, a lineal de scendant of whom was Prime Minister of Canada. The streets were irregular and dirty, and the architecture of the town's buildings was by no means worthy of the natural beauty of its position. Having referred to au obelisk GO feet high, raised to the memory of the Marquis de Montealm, the last French Governor-Generalof Canada, and also to the Montmorenci Falls, which, he said, although smaller than those of Niagara, had still a peculiar beauty of their own, the noble lord observed the military strength of Quebec was very great, but there were some engineers who believed that its strength was overrated, and that in any future siege the improvements in artillery would enable an enemy to bombard it successfully from the other side of the St. Lawrence. The weak point in its armour was still, as in former days, the Plains of Abraham, to the westward—that memorable battle-field which saw decided the question whether the English or French race should rule in America. A monument was erected on the Plains of Abraham in 1832 to mark the spot where General Wolfe fell in the action of September, 1759 ; and close at hand was still to be seen the well which quenched his dying thirst. No ono could look without emotion on this spot so pregnant with memorable events. The story of Wolfe's life taught us a lesson of no common patience and energy exerted in the cause of his country ; and the loss of Wolfe appeared to remind us of the loss which we had recently sustained of the statesman who, in the fulness of his poli tical glory, had been taken from amongst us. Both Wolfe and Palmerston toiled unceasingly to promote their country's good ; both afforded bright examples of devotion to the public service ; both in the truest sense of the word had the honour of England for their uppermost thought ; and so long as the world endured so long would their names be connected with England's greatness and pro sperity. Ono word as to the climate and resources of Canada. Tho climate was infinitely colder than that of the United States, owing to the absence of the influence of the gulf stream ; and for the six months of winter, com munication, except by sledge, was impossible. The true remedy for this was a well-arranged system of railways ; but from the poverty of the Canadian Government and the comparative failure at present of the Grand Trunk Railway of Canada, it was to bo feared that most sensitive of all commodities, money, would be lacking for the pro secution of Canadian railways for some time. Canada would, however, succeed to a magnificent inheritance when the seaboards of the Atlantic and Pacific were linked together by railway communication ; she would have then the command of the markets on the east and the west, and would be enabled to open up a new world in that vast field, the Hudson's Bay territory. The material resources of Canada were boundless ; but let no one think that there, any more than in the States, he was going to pick up gold for the trouble of asking for it. A man might perhaps amass a good fortune after thrift and care and a life of toil, but he must have a pair of stout arms, a good constitution, and a little capital to commence with. Skilled artisans were in demand, but schoolmasters and gover nesses were at a discount, and nothing was more sad than to see such poor people constantly performing the feats of subtraction and division in what little money they had instead of multiplying it. The noble lord then returned to the States, and proceeded to speak of Concord, where the first levying of troops by Massachusetts against the English Government took place, and where the practice of tarring and feathering was first introduced. It was said it was first put in force by an English colonel on an Ame rican militiaman. The Americans were, however, in the habit of declaring that every bad custom came from Eng land, and every good one from themselves. (Laughter.) His lordship next referred to Lowell and its industry, remark ing that the famous shoddy cloth, which put such large fortunes into the pockets of army contractors during the late war, was first manufactured here. Touching nett upon Boston, his lordship referred to the monument erected to commemorate the alleged American victory at Bunker's Hill. The English, however, he said, remained in possession of the battle-field, and, although it suited American vanity to call the action an American victory, no impartial historian had ever ventured to claim it as such. Boston was a beautiful town, with a certain fresh ness about it very attractive to strangers. Referring in complimentary terms to the hospitals in Boston, the noble lord said American public establishments were distin guished by greater economy than English, and the Ame ricans were also remarkable for the ready and ingenious manner in which they turned everything to account. This power of adapting themselves to circumstances, and mak ing the most of what they had, was one of the great secrets of their national success. Lawyers, doctors, traders, and mechanics, who took part in the late war, re turned, when it was brought to a close, to commerce and their old occupations, just as if nothing had happened. General Lee, whose campaigns might be mentioned among those of the greatest generals, did not retire into private life, but undertook the monotonous duties of president of a military college ; whilst the Federal General Sherman, who might almost have dictated the policy of the Republic, returned to the drudgery of a lawyer's office in a small country town. Conduct such as this reminded one of the old Romans, who saved the State one day and wielded a plough the next. (Chem). A cordial vote of thanks was accorded. to the noble lord for his interesting lecture. SPIRIT OP THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. " THE LONDON REVIEW" ON THE FATAL COL LISION OFF DOVER.—The Board of Trade inquiry into the collision between the mail packet Samphire and the American barque Fanny Buck has termi nated in a manner satisfactory to Captain Bennett, the commander of the Samphire, and to the com pany he serves, but hardly to the public. On the night of the 13th ult. the Samphire left Dover for• Calais with the mails, 78 passengers, and a crew of 18 men. When about five miles from Dover har bour the Fanny Buck ran into her, and had it not been that she was built in compartments, many lives might have been lost ; for the American barque did not stay to render assistance to the Samphire, but held on her course with characteristic Yankee indifference to any interests but her own. It seems very doubtful whether the barque was sail ing with her proper lights, and, at at all events, it would appear from the witnesses in her behalf, that the night was clear enough to enable the crew of the Samphire—and consequently the crew of the Fanny Buck—to see half a mile off. Upon this question, taking all the evidence, it appears to be doubtful to what distance the crew of either ship could see before them, If the night was clear enough to see as far as the barque's witnesses state, it is inconceivable how, with a proper look out, the collision could have occurred. If, on the other hand, it was so dark that a ship sailing with out lights could not be seen at more than 60 or 100 yards off, it becomes a most material question whether the American barque displayed her proper lights. If she didnot, and the evidence leans strongly in this direction, great blame will attach to her cap tain or to the mate—who, by the way, was a Dutch man—who commanded for him, he being ill in his cabin. Indeed, whether we are to believe the case for the Samphire or the case for the Fanny Buck, the American bark was to blame, if it be true that she sailed with insufficient lights. And even if she can be excused upon this ground, there was a ras cally cowardice, an abominable callousness, in her desertion of the ship which, through her act, Ives apparently sinking, that nothing can excuse. The scene on board the Samphire after the collision seems to have been somewhat disgraceful. There is too much reason to believe that the crew did not behave with the unselfishness we are taught to ex pect from British sailors ; and we fear we must go further and admit the probable truthfulness of the statement that they positively deserted the ship. The position of the Samphire was, it must be ad mitted, alarming. A sailing vessel had cut her down to the water's edge, and had then, with the ruthless indifference to life which, we sincerely re gret to say, is one of the most repulsive features of American " morality," held on her course. Ina very short time, in fact almost immediately, the head of the Samphire went under water, so that her rudder was lifted clean out of the water, while the sea was washing forwards up to her funnel. This position of affairs, perilous as it was, does not, however, excuse the crew, who, possibly in fected by the Yankee example which had just been set them, thought only of themselves. But if the crew, with a very few exceptions, surrendered them selves to the panic, Captain Bennett maintained to the full the honour of the British seaman. We are glad to make this acknowledgment, because his conduct in other respects is open to rebuke. If the Yankee skipper or his Dutch mate sinned against the humanities of navigation, Captain Bennett sinned against its prudence, and consequently against its humanities too. His misconduct, in this respect, comes so home to us, that we can hardly afford to consider the great guilt of the people on board the barque. The late civil war has given us such repeated instances of the lofty indifference of the American mind to human suffering that the coolness with which the Fanny Buck left the Sam phire and her living freight—for all she knew or cared—to sink, shocks, but does not in the least sur prise us. We have a right to judge English cap tains by a different and higher standard. By such a standard Captain Bennett's navigation of his ship on the night of his collision must be condemned. It is the main point of his defence that the night was so dark that the utmost caution was necessary, and yet he was sailing his ship at its ordinary speed —a very high speed. We take it that the inquiry which has been held at Dover has not resulted. unjustly in the decision of the magistrates and the nautical assessors, " that the captain of the Samphire, who is solely responsible for the con duct and management of his vessel, is culpable for having driven his vessel at so great a speed across one of the most frequented narrow seas in the world, on so dark and hazy a night as that of. the 13th of December." It is true, they go on to say, that the attendant circum stances, and the default of the barque in not exhibit ing a sufficient light from her lamps, " to some extent contributed to the damage and loss of life ;" but it is really impossible to see how the imprudence of a Yankee skipper can so excuse the imprudence of the captain of an English mail packet as to free him from any severer penalty than a mild reprimand, qualified by an emphatic and glowing compliment. Capt. Bennett's judges have seen no reason why his certificate should even be suspended. And yet, in despite of the most ordinary prudence, he was sailing his ship on the night in question at a dangerous speed—for what ? To earn his employers a pre= mium of £5! His defence is, that the night was a dark and hazy night ; yet he was driving his vessel at full speed. He had, himself included, almost a hundred souls on board the Samphire, and to earn £5 for the company, he risked their safety ; practi cally estimating them at something less than a shill ing per life. And this, we beg our readers to observe, is the system on which the mail-packet service between Dover and Calais is conducted. If the ships keep their time, the company receives £5 premium for each voyage ; if they exceed it, it for feits £5. But so well do these captains serve it, that the company, according to one good authority, gains between three and four thousand a year by premiums upon rapid and often unsafe voyages. And if they are to be complimented by their judges, and have their certificates returned to them when they have brought their ships to grief, and have lost the lives of some at least of their passengers, we do not see what control we can exert over them, or how those who sail with them can be secured the ordinary chances of escape from the dangers of the deep. THE " SATURDAY REVIEW" ON THE GOVERN MENT.—In general, a Government that is thought weak is weak, because the expectation that it will not succeed relaxes the energies of its supporters and gives courage to its enemies ; and no one can deny that the present Government is thought weak, and that very confident prophecies are hazarded that it will not last through the next session. Probably these anticipations are in some measure due to the time of year at which they are made. When nothing of any moment is happening, political gos sips like to spend their time in forecasting the future, and find it easier and pleasanter to see a gloomy than to see a bright prospect before them. Still, the Government has obviously its weak points as well as its strong ones, and it may be worth while to attempt an estimate of the chief elements both of its strength and its weakness. The most conspicu ous element of its weakness is the personal element. Except Lord Russell and Mr. Gladstone, none of its members occupy a first-rate Parliamentary position, and its two leaders have personal disqualifications which it is expected will tell against then. Lord Russell has many virtues, and combines aristocratic and democratic tastes in a manner that suits a large portion of his countrymen ; but he was never a good leader of a party, and is now likely to be a gorse leader than he was formerly. He has long lived a secluded life, takes little inte rest in what is said and written by the outside world, and has perhaps less knowlege of the general public, and of the men whb most influence their fellows, than any political leader has had dur ing the present century. Lord Palmerston was the popular man of the party, and Lord Russell for many years has been content to be practically un known to all the world, except a small clique of intimate friends. He has, too, the reputation of continually making small mistakes, and of giving perpetual offence almost without meaning it, or sus pecting that any one could object. In all probabi lity the great objections to bestowing a peerage on Sir John Romilly never occurred to Lord Russell, simply because Lord Russell knew nothing about the bar, or the courts, or legal opinion. Judges, he may have thought, are often made peers, and why should not the one judge he knew be made a peer'? There is, too, a great difficulty in filling up the vacant places in the Ministry, partly because the Liberal leaders have never tried to provide for the future of their party further than by securing a certain proportion of seats for ineffectual Russells, Byngs, and Cavenclishes ; and still more because the luck of life has been against the party, and death has happened to carry off emine n t Lib er als, and has spared eminent Conservatives. Had the Duke of Newcastle, Lord Herbert, and Sir Come wall Lewis been alive, there could have been no difficulty in making up a Cabinet that would have been much stronger than any Cabinet selected from the ranks of the Opposition. The great diversity of opinion that prevails among Liberals as to a Reform Bill deprives Lord Russell of the co-operation of Mr. Horsman and Mr. Lowe, and it has thus become a very hard matter even to find a Chancellor for the Duchy of Lancaster. A Ministry that cannot fill up the Duchy is in a very odd position. It excites a feeling of the ridiculous, and it is dangerous to be laughed at. It was regarded as quite natural that Lord Russell should have been unable to think of anything else than to make Mr. Goschen Chancellor. Had .a seat in the Cabinet been originally offered to Mr. Goschen, this would not have been taken as an indication of weakness, for Lord Russell might have thought the Cabinet would have gained by admitting into it a young, energetic, and courageous politician. But to have offered a minor place in the first instance, and then to have offered a seat in the Cabinet, would not have shown bow highly Lord Russell thought of Mr. Goschen, but how very limited the range of choice of the Government really was. The Government is also thought weak, and in some degree deservedly, because it must bring in a Reform Bill; and because, if it does bring in a Reform Bill, it cannot avoid associating itself with Mr. Bright. Whether it is or is not true that office was offered to Mr. Bright, he is at any rate in relations of great confidence with the Cabinet on the subject of Reform. He lets it be understood that he knows the decisions at which the Cabinet is likely to arrive, and that these deci sions are in a large measure determined by him. And he evidently knows so much, and influences the Cabinet so powerfully, that colour is given to a very exaggerated estimate of the pressure he exer cises on the Cabinet ; and their counsels are thought to be affected by him more than it is at all probable they really are. There can be no question that it is dangerous to the Government that it should be considered to be merely doing what Mr. Bright tells it to do, and that it seems to make itself a party to ail his vague and vast schemes of political change. If the Ministry could simply say that the working men ought to be allowed to vote, and that they proposed a measure which would give working men a fair proportion of political power and no more, there ought to be no great difficulty in getting a Reform Bill through the House. But when Mr. Bright guides the Ministry, or is supposed to guide it—and when he says plainly that the use of the proposed Reform Bill is to prepare the way for giving the working man a very different political position from that created for him by the Bill—the Bill assumes a new and not very inviting cha ratter. THE " EXAMINER" ON THE MOST DREADED PUN ISHMENT.—The advocates of the total abolition of capital punishment contend that death is not the greatest punishment, and that there would be more dread of perpetual imprisonment, and therefore more deterring effect. But if, as they aver, death is not the greatest punishment, how can they justify their endeavours on all occasions to obtain a commutation of the capital punishment for the secondary ? What right have they to use all their influence to get the convict subjected to a severer punishment than justice has awarded? This is a question they can never answer. It is quite true that the fear of death is overcome by many tempta tions and evil passions—cupidity, revenge, hatred —but this is true also of all punishments, for the most they can do is to check crime and keep it within bounds, complete prevention being clearly an impossibility. We believe, however, that there never yet was a criminal sentenced to death who would not gladly exchange it for a secondary punishment, nor one sentenced to imprisonment for life who would really prefer death. Eli Sykes, condemned to death for the murder of his sweetheart, who has just died in his prison in consequence of a fall, presents an example of the paramount terror of death, and also of the baneful effect of any tampering with justice. But for Townley's escape from the gallows this man might not have been a murderer, and he cherished hopes to the last of a commutation of punishment, and would have rejoiced in twenty years of penal servitude. A witness who had charge of him in his prison states :—" He asked when hanging day was, but witness told him he knew nothing about it, and the best thing he could do was to make his peace with God. Ever since this fall he appeared to be sensible and of perfectly sane mind. Witness saw him five or six times every day. He spoke a good deal on religion. After being sentenced prisoner. took his own clothes off, and he said he should like them to be sent to his parents. He had a suit of plain prison uniform put upon him, and he said, ' Here goes for twenty years.' Witness said, Nay, Sykes, I think you'll wear them till you depart this life ;' and Sykes replied, ' While there's life there's hope. My case is not as bad as Townley's—Townley's case was worse than mine, and if I get off with twenty years I shall be thankful.' At another time he said he hoped the Queen would take his case into consideration and let him off with penal servitude. Witness told him his case was a very bad one, and there was no hope for him. THE " ANGLO-AMERICAN TIMES" ON A NATION REDEEMED.—A few short years suffice to carry us back to a period when nothing was deemed more chimerical than the schemes of the hand ful of anti-slavery men then to be found in England and America. They were branded as abolitionists and fanatics, and treated at all times with discourtesy, and sometimes with violence. Abolitionism, however, has triumphed, its early leaders have become heroes, and its adversary is numbered with the dead barbarisms of the past. It is a wonderful chapter in the history of the world—that which records the struggle between Radical freedom and slavery in the United States, and no higher evidence of the energy of the American cha racter could be given than the rapidity with which the problem of the supremacy of free or slave insti tutions in that country has been solved. Other countries and other times would have taken centuries to work out sue' a reform. The announcement by the Secretary of State that a sufficient number of States have ratified the Constitutional Amendment abolishing slavery to make it the law of the land, proclaims the most important fact connected with the struggle which has so long convulsed and divided the American people. This is what makes the victory complete. The contest which has been going on was not so much a war between the people of the North and the people of the South, or the Secessionists and the Unionists, as between conflicting systems of government. The people of the North naturally favored free institutions and free society, while the people of the South, under the domineering influence of slavery, concluded that their interests demanded a condition of social aristocracy and institutions founded upon the idea of classes and castes holding toward each other the relations of masters and slaves. Hence the disagreement, lead ing first to controversy and wrangling, and afterwards to war. The war was a necessity—occasioned by the existence of slavery. From the very nature of that institution it was impossible for it to exist in peace in a country governed upon the idea of social . and political equality. It was an antagonistic ele ment, and its presence became a constant source of irritation and disturbance. Such has been the his tory of slavery in America from the first organisa tion of the Governme n t. Th e resu lt was a grow ing conflict between the principles of the Government and those of slavery, until the dispute, in the ordi nary course of things, ripened into an issue of arms. Either the principles of the Government had to be subverted, or slavery had to perish. The case was precisely analogous to such as often occur in the physical systems of men, when foreign and un friendly substances are by violence introduced into them. Inflanunation,s and fever remit, and the uncongenial thing is expelled, or the member which is the sufferer, if not the entire body, perishes in the conflict. Slavery was a thing foreign and hostile to a Republican system of government — its presence produced irritation and pain, and a conflict arose, which could only be terminated by the expulsion of slavery or the overthrow of the entire system and policy upon which the Government was constructed. Hence it was that slavery rebelled against the Government and attempted its destruction. The two things could not exist in harmony together, and slavery chose to be the aggressor in declaring war upon the other. The contest, once begun, was to be a life-struggle, and happily for the interests of humanity, free go vernment proved to be the stronger of the two, and slavery went to the wall and was crushed. Had the United States been a monarchy, or even an aris tocracy after the fashion of the more liberal Go vernments of Europe, it is possible that slavery might have existed in the country for many y ears without leading to war, or if war had resulted the principle of freedom woul i probably have been too weak successfully to cope with it, and the end would have been very different from the issue of the con flict through which the Americans have just passed. As it is, there can be but one opinion intelligently entertained of the outcome of the struggle and its value to the country. In the death of slavery the Americans are far more than compensated for all the losses and sufferings they have experienced from the war. Their losses have been tem porary, and are generally such as time will speedily repair, while their gain in the removal of an enemy which was constantly menacing the integrity of their entire system of government will be permanent and constantly increasing. To determine the importance of that consummation which has been reached, we have only to reflect upon what would have been the consequence had the principle of free government been crushed in the struggle, and an organisation founded upon the principle of slavery been established in its place. Happily the danger, is past, the victory won. The enemy which sought to overrun the land and blight its promise has been trampled under foot, and the youthful nation stands like a second Her cules after one of his tremendous encounters, worn with the trial of strength, but effulgent in the glow of victory, and conscious of a power of which before he had never dreamed. To say that the American Government is to-day stronger than when the war of the rebellion began is asserting an acknow ledged fact. It is stronger because the element which produced dissension and weakness among its members is removed. It has been made a unit by the expulsion of slavery, while time will soon heal the wounds inflicted in the course of that battle through which this great achievement was accom plished. COUNTRY MARKETS NORWICH-SATURDAY. The damp state of the weather having affected the con dition of the wheats, the trade to-day wax slow at the rates of this day week. Barley small, malting and grinding sorts at former prices. White wheat (weighing 631 b to 641 b), 50s to 54s • red ditto (weighing 631 b to 651 b), 48 s t o 50 s; best malting barley (weighing 551 b to 561 b), 34s to 36s ; runs ditto (weighing 541 b to 551 b), 28s to 30s ; distilling ditto (weigh mg 521 b to 531 b), 25s to 27s ; oats, 24s to 26s ; beaus, 370 to 39s ; peas (maple), 36s to 38s per qr ; flour, 38s to —0 Od per sack. YORK-SATURDAY. We had a fair quantity of wheat on offer at market to day, and the condition of the grain was rather better, and sales made to a moderate extent at previous rates. Fine barley met a steady sale at late rates. Beans maintained previous rates. New white wheat, 50s to 56s ; new red, 43s to 46s per 36 stone. Barley, for malting, 34s to 38s per qr ; grinding, 30s to 32s per 30 stone. Oats, new, 26s to 28s per 24 stone• Beans, 40s to 42s per 40 stone. Malt, 628 ; rye, 30s per qr. Flour, 36s to 38s per sack of 2801 b. NOTTINGHAM-SATURDAY. Our corn exchange to-day was moderately supplied with wheat, there being a sprinkling of white and red sorts. The demand for wheat was firm at full rates. Barley un altered ; beans small supply, but firm. Old white wheat, 56s to 60s ; old red, 50s to 54s ; nor white, 53s to 58s ; new red, 49s to 53s per 36 stone. Bar ley, old malting, 32s to 40s per qr ; old grinding t 26s to 28s ; new, --s to —s per 30 stone. Oats, old, 275 to 30$ ; new, 20s to 25s ; old foreign, 22s to 27s per stone. Beans, old, 48s to 528 ; new, 40s to 4iis per 38 stone. Super flour, 37s to 39s ; fine, 348 to 36s per 20 stone. LEICESTER-SATURDAY. There was barely an average supply of wheat at market to-day. Thewheat plant is looking healthy in this district. The trade was healthy at late rates. Barley at previouS currencies. Oats unaltered. Beans were as heretofore. Old white wheat, 52s to 568 ; old red, 48s to 53s ; no white, 50s to 54s ; new red, 46s to 52s per 36 stone. Bar ley, malting, 34s to 39s per qr. ; grinding, 28s to 308 per 3 0 stone. Oats, old, 28s to 32s ; new, 20s to 25s per 24 stone• Beans, old, 46s to 51s ; new, 42s to 46s per 38 stone. CORK—FurrIAY. The follffiving were the quotations this morning :—Red wheat, 9s 9d to 108 Od ; white, 10s 8d to lls 2d ; barley, 70 6d to 8s ; oats, 8s 2d to 8s 6d ; black oats, 78 7d to 7s 10d; bere, 6s Od to 6s 6d. DIIBLIN.-FRIDAY. Tone was firmer to-day. Home grain a tendency UP; wards. Barley 6d to is dearer. Oats 3d beyond rates 0 ' this day week. Foreign wheat changed hands at full rates• Indian corn difficult to buy. Flour at former rates. Oat meal still dull. Foreign Mail Packet . List. --4- MAILS DUE. Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton.. ...Jan. IS. Ditto, via Marseilles Jan. 12. Brazil and Cape Verde, by British packet Feb. 4. Ditto, by French packet Jan. 22. Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena... Jan. 2 1 . China, Penang. and Singapore, via Sou:hampton Jan. 18• Ditto, via Marseilles Jan. 2 1 . Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton.... Jan. 18 Ditto, via Marseilles India (Bombay), via Southampton. Jan. 1 1 . Ditto, via Marseilles .. Jan. 2 0 Mauritius, via Southampton Ditto, via Marseil:e3 Feb. 7. Newfoundland Portugal Feb 4. Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon United States and British North America, by Bri tish packet Ditto. by United States packet, via Southamp •ton Ditto, via Cork Ditto, by Canadian packet, via Londonderry—Jan. 19. West Coabt of Africa. Madeira, and Teneriffe Feb. 11. West Indies and Pacific (exceptßahamas, Cuba, and Mexico Jan. 13• Cuba and Mexico Jan. 29. Bahamas, via New It ork. Feb. 8 . Bermuda, ditto . Jan. 11. HEAVY COTTON MOVEMENTS.—The week's exports o f cotton from this port have been unusually extensive, b 5 /: ing amounted to 13,596 bales, representing a currency value of $3,165,479. Included in the exports have bee" to Liverpool, 13,097 bales, valued at 83,056,225 ; and to t Bremen, 499 bales, va l ue d at $109,254. The ma rk closed briskly yeste r d ay f or a ll d es i ra b le shipping 011,"/ spinning grades at firm price; on an estimated stock of a l l kinds, available in this port, of 205,000 bales. The re ceipts at the port thus far this month have been quite ral, having amounted to 77,000 bales, making the tots' arrivals here since Sept. 1, 891,800 bales.—New York Tinta' [ADvEuTisEmENT.l—Holloway's Ointment and Every Day Want.— kin diseases, blotches, and unseel: eruptions, which prevail so frequently and annoy so ni°s can be removed with facility by this cleansing and coolly!. ointment, the salutary properties of which over all cutalle ous affections have been long and indubitably establish' Moderate doses of Holloway's pills should be taken wb li° . the outward ailment is being treated with his ointrae° , l they will depurate the blood and free it from every to that might induce a relapse, deteriorate the general boo ' or otherwise act injuriously. Births. GORDON.—On the 12th inst., at 1, Halkin-street west' Belgrave-square, the wife of Cosmo Duff Gordon, Bsil" of a son. GuTuniE.—On the 12th inst., at 80, Portland-place, 3 0. Guthrie, of a daughter. Ross.--On the 11th inst., at Kilravock Castle, Nairn:s lllr ' N. 8., the wife of M a j or Rose, of Kilravock, of a son. Marriages. • Du CANt—DATIEs.—On the 11th inst., at Rostherne, thD Rev. Alfred Du Cane, M.A., vicar of Rostherne to El , 8 0 Mary, elder daughter of D. R. Davies, Esq., of Mere v Hall, Cheshire. WOODMAN —Cowm.--On the 11th i ns t : e at All Saint,'l Norwood, Frederick Woodman, Esq., 'M.D., of Pea' , Alice Emily, eldest d aug ht er of thelate Henry Col vi Esq., of Calcutta. Deaths. BYRE.—On the 12th i ns t., in the 51st year of her g e l after a lengthe ne d illness, Elizabeth Ellen, the belc' l gt, wife of John Byrne, Esq., of Worcester-street, St' George's-square, S.W., deeply regretted by her hush' ¢. and children. Friends will kindly accept this intito tion. R.I.P. HILL.—On the 12th inst., at 27, Medina Villas, Brig very suddenly, Thomas Hill, Esq. ...„ of KIPPING.— On the 10th inst., William Kipping, Es 1' Goldhill House, Hadlow, Kent, aged 74. SHARPE.—On the 12th inst., at his residence, Old:l3ai lel ' Joseph Sharpe, Esq., aged 72. STUART.—At University College Hospital, William 1111 0 11 Patrick Stuart, Esq., of B ar b a d oes, M.R.C.S Eng., $. 0. '7 22. SENIOR.—On the Bth inst Liverpool, Samuel So— Esq., late of Montreal. ; f a " of SALICALD.—On the 10th inst., su dd en l y, A nne, the .91,`" Joseph Salkeld, of 14, Upp er W o b urn - p l ace, aged "' London : Printed and Pub li shed by WIL LIAM AND. 2 - - g 1 IC 0., of No. 112, Strand, Printer, a t T HE S UN OLU6O, l'r°. Strand, in the Precinct of th e S avo y, i n the Co u p Aliddleiew..—Monday, &man' 15, 1866. LA 2 7, I ~! `~`~~.. v TI At 1 the to To Pre ( In tr , w if they Paid.l No. ; , r This eattile DEI DEp o fiat' p ssoci able 111 ~oi za.XE 9 Societ, Fonda welo c i B ociet the Ai nr) t 3 Poses. S - A ....___ _ . 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