The Sun. — London, England, 1866-01-08 00:00:00

The Cattle Plague, The following letter has been addressed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer to Sir T. D. Lloyd : " Hawarden, Chester, Dec. 26, 1865. " Dear Sir,—The reasons which first offer them selves to my mind against any undertaking by Government to treat the insurance of cattle as a State concern, and to support it by a guarantee from the Exchequer, are of the following cha racter. " 1. The difficulty, and not the difficulty only, but the impossibility, of preventing carelessness, waste, and fraud of every kind, from the first moment it should become known that the ultimate responsibility (beyond a fixed limit, which would at once be found a very, very narrow one) lay with the public purse. " 2. The fact that in a number of cases particular districts and landlords have already made their own arrangements, which must have been acted upon. Were Government to move into the field, these good examples would be neutralised, and those who have met their own losses would be called as taxpayers to assist in meeting the losses of other people too. " 3. If it shall appear, as is probable, that it is to prevention rather than cure or compensation that we must look, under Providence, for the mitiga tion of the calamity, nothing could be so unfortunate as a measure like a State guarantee, which, by re laxing vigilance and the ingenuity of self-interest, would tend to take the mind off a subject obviously of the greatest moment, and, as clearly, not yet sounded to the bottom. This objection does not apply to plans of a voluntary nature, where every man would be checked by his neighbours, and each scheme would have its proper adjustments. " 4. If the cattle plague should not extend itself on a large scale, and so the losses of a severe cha racter should be confined to a small fraction of the farming class, there seems an obvious impropriety in relieving landlords, neighbours, and rateable property from the duty of assisting, so far as assist ance is necessary, those on whom the blow has fallen. And the precedent would be an evil one. " 5. But if, on the other hand, the disease should extend very widely, the result must inevitably be felt in a much augmented price of meat. The con sumer would then probably, taking the country all over, pay the same or a larger aggregate amount of money for a greatly diminished quantity. All those who were not smitten in their own cattle would thus profit largely by the disease as producers, while as consumers they would only suffer in common with the community at large. How, then, could the com munity be asked to pay twice, first for their meat in extra price, and secondly, for the cattle lost ; while landlords and cultivators of the soil would probably, as a class, have their loss (as in a bad corn year), countervailed by a corresponding or greater benefit? " I have thus stated freely what occurs to me, and perhaps in prudence here I ought to end, as my par ticular official duty ends with considering the merits of any call made on the Exchequer. Bat the nature of the appeal you make to me induces me to go somewhat further, and to state opinions which I hold with due submission to better judgments, and with all readiness to be corrected by events chan ging almost from day to day. " The severity with which this calamity falls in particular cases is grievous. It may be met, in part at least, by associations for insurance, which will diminish the difficulty arising from uncertainty— first, by dealing with a proportion of the loss ; secondly, by widening their local area. Then there is a special claim, though one varying with circum stances, upon the landlord for help. Then there is the resource, should the evil greatly grow, of public subscription, in which I hope we should find classes that have received benefit in other great visitations willing to return it. There is, lastly, the resource of some legal charge upon rateable property of the de scription liable to suffer. But the particular applica tion of these considerations must depend upon cir cumstances in great part as yet undeveloped. " In the meantime I believe the first of all duties is to study in every way the subject of prevention. The public mind is now in a state to endure measures of restraint in larger measure than before the fact of serious and progressive increase was established. And the powers in the hands of local authorities are, I believe, as large as actual circumstances jus tify or general wisdom would sustain. " So much for prevention by restraint upon traf fic in beasts. But there are other measures of pre vention, to be taken by each man for himself, which are of great moment, but which (as far as my infor mation goes) would appear to have been likewise less, or less intelligently, considered. I hear from time to time of cases in which substances are intro duced into yards and sheds and cowhouses for pre vention, with no aim more distinct than that of creating a strong smell ; whereas the two main objects to be taken into view I conceive must be these : to neutralise the poison, especially by the removal of all substances on which it would most easily lay hold ; and to improve the air by sub stances which increase the life-sustaining element in it, and thus raising the tone of health so as to re move or diminish that predisposition in the animals in cases of this description to be what is rudely called a low state or tone of body. " I shall not attempt to enter upon questions of chemistry, with which I am unacquainted; and I assume that the best which any man can do at the present moment is to state any facts within his knowledge which give a presumption of being pos sibly useful ; certainty appearing for the present out of the question. At this place one medicalinan —a scientific, able, and cautious inquirer—has ten tatively advised several of our farmers to adopt simple measures of precaution, which I may in a rough way (without his authority) deecribe as fol lows :-1. To remove from the cowhouses all sub stances probably offering a ready lodgment to the poison ; 2, to restore and invigorate the atmosphere by phosphorus ; 3, to keep the stock within walls, as no agency of the kind mentioned can be effec tive in the open air. The disease has now been in this neighbourhood for weeks. It came into the parish, I think, about a week ago. It has par tially surrounded farms where these measures have been adopted, and thus far they remain un scathed. We must not presume to answer for to morrow ; but I have not yet happened to hear of any facts so well worth attention. I may add that the circumstances of its appearance here seem to suggest that the disease passes by a diffused move ment in the atmosphere, and not only, though in all likelihood much more virulently, by contagion. Likewise that there are various points of detail which, if stated, would go strongly to support what 1 have said of the preventive measures. One word more of the measures themselves. At any moment the disease may appear on the exempted farms. But the evidence of their failure would certainly not ap proach completeness until it were known what pro portion of the stock were seized, and what propor tion of the seized had recovered. The return for the week ending Dec. 16 gives the following figures : Cases. Died. Recovered. County of Chester All Scotland 4,909 1,075 ... 366 Thus, in Cheshire, the deaths are 37f per cent. of the cases; in Scotland, 22 per cent. • and in Che shire the recoveries are 8 } per cent. Of the deaths ; in Scotland, 34 per cent. " I beg you to excuse any error which may have crept into this letter, and I remain, dear sir, your very faithful servant, " W. E. GLADSTONE. " Sir Thomas D. Lloyd, Bart., M.P. " P.S.—ln Cheshire allowance must be made for dairy stock ; but the inequalities elsewhere are many. The recoveries in all England are to the deaths as one to eight; in Forfarshire, where the numbers attacked are larger than in any county except York, they are two in seven." C AMBRIDGESHIRE AND THE ISLE OF ELY. At Sutton upwards of 30 beasts have died during the week. Only one of a fine herd of cows, the pro perty of Mr. J. Warth, is now left alive. In the Marsh district Mr. Jones, of Shaw's Dike farm, has lost five beasts • Mr. T. Wil son , of Doddington, one ; Mr. J. Morton, of Stoned farmed, one ; Mr. T. Wilson, at Fendike farm, eight; Mr. Shepperson, of Stafford's farm, one ; Mr. J.. Infield, of West Fen, one ; and Mr. G. Hutchinson, one. At Cotten ham five or six beasts are dying on an average daily. At Willingham the deaths were not so numerous last week, but since the outbreak of the disease the total loss has been about 470 in this village. The disease has broken out Comberton. At Chi pen ham Mr. Newman has lust 29 s t eers and heifers, a milch cow. Th e di sease has also three calves, an d reached the farm of Mr. Louis Kent, who has lost a valuable cow. ESSEX, In the Colchester district there is no great spread of the disease. The stock of Mr. R. Wheeler, of Great Wigbo roug h, has, however, suffered greatly, and there seems a probability that he will lose his entire herd. Mr. Rodwell, of Dedham, has lost one or two beasts. At the County Quarter Sessions this week Mr. Du Cane, M.P., complained of the conduct of the Government in the matter. The i hon. g ent l eman o b served that t h e G o vernment n effect said the cattle We are most anxious to stamp out Plague from the country, but we are wait ing for the actio n of the county authorities." The county authorities said :—" We only wish we could make the cattle plague disappear, but we are wait ing for the action of the Government." It was agreed that a general order should be issued applic able to the whole county, under powers of the Order in Council of Dec. 16. The order provided, that up to March 1, "No cow, heifer, bull, bul' ock, ox, or calf, shall be brought from any other part of Great Britain beyond the county of Essex into that county ; and further, that no such animal shall be driven or conveyed along any highway within the said county from any place within such county to any other place within the same, or from or to any part thereof, for any purpose whatever." The fol lowing provisoes were, however, added :—" Pro vided, nevertheless, that this prohibition shall not extend to prevent persons living within such county as aforesaid having animals fitted for slaughter, and which have been bona fide in the possession of the owners thereof at least 28 days prior to sale, from sending the same from any part of such county to the nearest railway station, or to any butcher for the pur pose of sale and slaughter only, provided a certificate signed by two justices of the peace acting for the said county and within the same district, authoris ing such removal, be first had and obtained for such purpose.: And provided that cattle, the bona fide property of the owner, may be removed from one part of the occupation to another along a highway for any distance not exceeding 300 yards." The magistrates also adopted a memorial to the Home Secretary praying the Government to substitute their own immediate action for the present local authori ties, which, the memorialists added, " have hardly as yet met the grave difficulties of the case." SUFFOLK. The county magistrates adopted on Friday a series of restrictive resolutions similar to those passed in other districts. An order has been made applicable to the whole county under the powers of the Order in Council of Dec. 16. In the course of a discussion on the subject Mr. Corrance expressed an opinion that Government should be memorialised not to al low cattle to pass through the county by railway. NORFOLK. On Saturday the County Agricultural Association resolved to hold no exhibition of stock during 1866, by reason of the cattle plague. The neighbouring Suffolk and Essex societies have not yet adopted any resolution on the subject. BERKSHIRE. In the report of the proceedings of the adjourned quarter sessions in The Sun of Saturday a slight in accuracy occurred as to the date prohibiting the re moval of cattle within any part of the county. The resolution of the court was—" That it is expedient from the ' 6th' (not the 16th) of January until the Bth' of February (not ' 18th') next absolutely to prevent the removal of any cow, heifer, bull, ox, sheep, lamb, goat, or swine to any market or fair, or parish, or place whatsoever, within the jurisdiction of the said justices, for the purpose of exhibition or sale." DEVONSHIRE. An adjourned meeting of the Quarter Sessions for the county was held at the Shire-hall, on Friday afternoon, to receive a report from a special com mittee appointed to consider what orders should be made by the Court, under the powers granted by the Order of Council of the 16th December. The Earl of Devon presided. The report of the com mittee, which, on the motion of Earl Fortescue, seconded by Sir Stafford Northcote, was unani mously adopted, recommended the Court to order that a notice be issued under Clause 18 of the Order in Council of November, 1865, declaring that it is expedient that from the Bth day of January inst. until the Ist of February next, no animals, as de fined by that order, shall be brought or sent from any other part of Great Britain into any part of the county of Devon, subject to the jurisdiction of such sessions. It was further ordered that in certain districts where the plague is raging no cattle shall be removed thence to any other part of the county. A notice was directed to be issued prohibiting the movement of any cow, heifer, &c., from any part of their jurisdiction to any other part of their jurisdic tion, except between the hours of seven in the morn ing and five in the evening ; but such prohibition shall not prevent the movement of any cow, &c. (not otherwise prohibited), except along highways or over or along any unenclosed road. The com mittee, having been informed that much danger is to be apprehended from the regulations under which cattle are supplied to the Government Victualliffg,- office in Devonport, and under which certain animals tendered to the Government by contrrctors, and re jected by the Government inspector, are taken back by the contractor, for the purpose of being fed in the neighbourhood of the dockyard, apprehend that this practice may conduce to the extension of the cattle plague in that neighbourhood, and theyrecom - mended the Court to request the Secretary of State to call the attention of the Lords of the Admiralty to the subject, with a view to the adoption of a proper remedy. The committee further reported that they had resolved that a copy of this report be forwarded to the clerks of the petty sessional divi sions, and they be requested to obtain the opinions of the magistrates on the following questions :-1. Whether it is desirable to issue a general order for the whole county, whereby all movement of meat cattle from place to place may be stopped. 2. Whether it is desirable to retain the present orders, prohibiting the movement of any animals from any part of the county into any magisterial division. 3. Whether it is desirable to establish a system of certificates, permitting the removal of cattle under certain conditions-1, for breeding purposes ; 2, from breeding farms to feeding farms ; or from any farm on the occasion of a change of tenancy. 4. 'Whether they are satisfied with the present system of inspection, or desire to suggest any improvement therein. During a discussion which took place a denial was given to a report made at the Sessions on Thursday that cattle had been improperly buried at Ideford, one of the infected districts. MONMOUTHSHIRE. The adjourned Quarter ,Sessions of this county were held on Thursday, in compliance with a resolu tion proposed by Lord Llanover, the Lord-Lieute nant, to consider the advisability of issuing orders with respect to the cattle plague. On the first day of the sitting of the Court, which was a large one, Sir Thomas Phillips pointed out the desirability of having a uniformity of action throughout the county, which could not be the case unless some of the petty sessional orders were revoked ; as, for instance, in some districts pigs and sheep were pro hibited from markets and fairs. As yet the county had been free from the disease, and in order to secure a continuance of this providential state of things they must stop cattle coming into the county alto gether, and the sooner that was done the better. Mr. RELPH thought they would suffer less from dying than by prohibiting their being transported from one:part of the county to another. He would support a motion for the prevention of the introduc tion of cattle from districts without the county. The CHAIRMAN (\Jr. R. S. Bosanquet) thought the stopping of fairs would be a good protection. Mr. RELPH argued that it would be of serious con sequence if the sale of sheep and pigs were prohi bited. • COL CLIFEORD said, if the disease was not in the county, it was spreading in some parts of Hereford shire, adjoining, and cattle near the border might be easily driven over. In order to be safe they must prohibit the passing from one district to another. Mr. WILLIAms was of opinion that they should exclude all horned stock, but not._ sheep and pigs, from entering the county, and prevent horned stock from traversing from place to place within the county. Mr. RELPH said that in the mountains sheep were together, and had free access to adjoining counties. He should be glad to see them excluded, but how could they do it? The Hon. CLIFFORD BUTLER thought it would meet the wishes of the majority of the farmers if they prohibited all cattle, sheep, and pigs coming into the county, and allowed sheep and pigs to be sold at fairs and markets. Sir T. PHILLIPS suggested that no cattle, sheep, or pigs should be conveyed from place to place within the county by rail, and in this suggestion the Court agreed. It was eventually agreed that orders should be issued revoking all petty sessional orders and prohi biting the introduction of horned stock, sheep, and pigs into the county from any other county, the exhibiting of any horned stock at any fair or mar ket (this prohibition not to extend to sheep and pigs), and the conveyance by railway from place to place in the county of any cattle, sheep, or pigs. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 8, 1866. BRECONSHIRE. At the Epiphany Quarter Sessions for this county there was a very full attendance of magistrates— Mr. Henry Williams, chairman, to take into con sideration the last Order in Council having refe rence to the cattle plague. The greatest unanimity pervaded the sentiments enunciated by the gen tlemen who took part in the discussion, and the fol lowing resolutions were passed—" In pursuance of the order of the Lords of her Majesty's Most Hon. Privy Council, dated the 16th of Dec., 1865, with reference to the contagious or infectious disorder now prevailing among cattle, it is deemed expe dient by the magistrates assembled at the general Epiphany Quarter Sessions of the county of Brecon to prevent the removal of every cow, heifer, bull, bullock, ox, or calf to any market or fair, or to any place whatever, within the county of Brecon, for exhibition, until the Ist day of March next." " That it shall not be lawful for any person from the date of this notice until the Ist of March next to bring or send any such animal as aforesaid from any other place in Great Britain into any place within the county of Brecon. Any person offending herein will for every offence forfeit a sum not exceediag £20." The following resolutions were also adopted : " Provided always that nothing contained in these orders shall be held to prohibit any person from bringing or sending to any butcher within the juris diction any fat stock bona fide purchased by such butcher, such fat be slaughtered within 48 hours of such bringing or sending." " That the Court do memorialise the Secretary of State to invest the ma gistrates with power to prevent the introduction of hides and skins into this jurisdiction, as well as the exportation of the same from the county until the Ist day of March, 1866." In addressing the grand jury, the chairman stated that, although the county of Brecon had hitherto been free from the plague, the Court had deemed it necessary to pass the above resolutions as a preventive to its intro duction. The Court had full power to prevent the importation of swine, goats, and sheep, but it was to be hoped there would be no necessity for it. It had been said that dogs could convey the infection from one farm to another. He therefore thought the farmers would do well to prevent strange dogs coming on their farms. In fact, one gentleman had said that so mysterious was the infection of the dis ease that a stick dipped into infected water in the north of England and brought down to Cornwall would be sufficient to generate the cattle plague. NORTHAMPTONSHIRE. At the Northamptonshire January Sessions the following orders were made:— " That it is expedient from the 10th day of Janu ary inst. until the Ist day of March - next ensuing that no cow, heifer, bull, bullock, ox, or calf, and which are hereinafter designated as cattle, shall be removed from place to place within their jurisdiction, except with the licence of two justices acting in and for the said county, and except such cattle be re moved for immediate slaughter, or to the nearest railway station where cattle are received, to be sent to some market legally open for the sale of cattle ; provided also that nothing contained in this order shall make it unlawful for any person to remove his own cattle from one part of his farm or occupation to another, unless such cattle shall, in the course of such removal, be driven more than 100 yards upon any highway or public road. Provided also that nothing contained in this order shall make it unlaw ful for any person to bring or send, with the licence of two justices of the said county, any cattle from any land or premises in his own occupation in any place, either within or beyond their jurisdiction, to any other land or premises in his own occupation within their jurisdiction. Provided always that pre vious to the granting of any such licence the owner of the cattle to be removed, his or her bailiff or fore man, shall personally appear before the said two justices, and make a declaration in the form here under set out, or to the like effect ; and also produce to the said two justices a certificate by the church warden, overseer, waywarden, or guardian of the poor of the parish (or of some adjoining parish in the case of cattle upon an extra-parochial farm) in which such cattle are at the time of the signing thereof, in the form hereunder set out, or to th e like effect. " And the said justices in Quarter Sessions do order and declare : " That upon such conditions being fulfilled any two justices of the said county, acting either together or separately, in ay in their discretion grant such licence, and any such licence so granted shall be in the form hereunder written, or to the like effect. Provided always, that such licence shall be available for not more than three days, including the day of the granting thereof, and then only between the hours of 6 in the morning and 6 in the evening. Provided always, that in the event of the person in charge of the said cattle refusing or failing to produce for in spection such licence on demand of any justice, or any constable of the said county, or of any officer of the parish or place in which such cattle shall be on such demand, such licence shall be thereupon null and void, and the said person so offending shall be liable to the same penalties to which he would have been liable if the said licence had never been granted. Provided always, that it shall be the duty of the person in charge of such cattle, immediately they have arrived at the destination mentioned in the licence, to return such licence by post, addressed to the justice whose signature appears first in the said licence." NORTHUMBERLAND. At the general quarter sessions for the county of Northumberland, held at the Moot-ball, Newcastle on-Tyne, onWednesday, Mr. C.W. Orde, chairman, Mr. THOMAS ANDERSON brought the subject of the cattle disease before the notice of the magis trates, and said that he had first of all to ask them to adopt the powers given them by the late order in Council. He wished them thereby to do all that they possibly could to prevent the spread of the cattle disease at once, lest the time unfortunately should arrive when it would be too late to make the attempt. (Hear.) If the disease were not extin guished before the spring, when cattle would have of necessity to be turned out to pasture, and would have to pass along the roads—the consequences might be far worse. Unless the markets or fairs were stopped, he imagined that nothing could be done to effectively prevent the plague destroying the cattle of the county. That would be a very inconvenient step to take, but in dealing with a great evil like that, they must make up their minds to submit to inconveniences, to great trouble and expense. (Hear.) The disease, as far as he knew, did not admit of a cure, but it did of prevention, To obtain prevention it was necessary to obtain per fect isolation, and to obtain perfect isolation, the re moval of cattle must, as far as possible, be stopped. For his own part he should wish to see the removal of fat and lean cattle stopped, because he thought that there could be no greater difficulty in the way of the farmers of that county sending their cattle as dead meat than there was in the way of the farmers of Aberdeenshire sending their cattle to London as dead meat. (Hear, hear.) With the view of ac complishing the object above set forth, Mr. Ander son introduced a resolution embracing certain prin ciples—namely, that all proceedings of the Court as a local authority on the subject of preventing the spread of the cattle plague should be null and void, and that the Order of Council should be accepted as the basis'; that it• should not be lawful after the sth of January for any person to bring any animal from any other part into the county within their jurisdiction, and that no person should send any animals from ono part to another within their juris diction. The second clause could not apply to animals sent by railway, and the third might be subjected to the certificate of two justices. Earl GREY said he entirely agreed with Mr. An derson that the cattle plague was a serious calamity, and that they would have to submit to great incon venience, trouble, and expense in the hope of get ting rid of it. They must, however, take care to frame their resolutions in such a manner as to re duce the inconveniences to the minimum. The last proviso of Mr. Anderson was not quite to his mind. A man might have a couple of farms and wish to remove his stock from one to the other owing to shortness of food or the like, but by the regulation to which he referred he would be unable to do so without obtaining an order from two justices. On the other hand, there was no doubt that it was extremelynecessary to see that any proviso which , they introduced should not open the door to abuses which they wished to guard against. The resolu tion should prohibit as far as practicable all removal of stock in the county, but he thought at the same time that there should be certain excep tions. He did not believe it possible to prevent the removal of cattle short distances—from one healthy district to another: Mr. Anderson had said that there would be no more difficulty in sending cattle to be slaughtered at market than in sending dead meat from Aberdeenshire to London. It would take considerable time to organise such a system; and, moreover, a large farmer would be in great difficulty by it if organised, and likely to be at great loss by being placed in the hands of the butchers, and not obtaining a fair price. If such a plan were intro duced, it would cause butchers to go and slaughter on the farms, which would be very dangerous indeed, as they might even carry about the country the very infection they wished to stop. The question of re moval required careful consideration, as did other details of the measure, and the noble earl proposed the appointment of a committee to deal with the questions while the Court was sitting. Sir M. W. RIDLEY said it seemed that the plague was spread by animals being sent to market to be sold as fat. They were taken to grass in the imme diate locality or purchased by small butchers for the supply of the manufacturing and mining popu lation, who were considerable consumers of food, and through those butchers and such removal the disease was communicated throughout the west of the Castle Ward. In one case a salesman took an animal to Walker, and 15 or 16 others were infected and destroyed, or died. The same result followed taking some stock to Mickley. He did believe that there was a general impression that the disease would be best checked by allowing no beast sent to market to leave alive. That might, according to the last order of Council, be effected with the con currence of the borough authorities, provided the slaughterhouse were contiguous to the place of sale. The cattle-market was not within their jurisdiction, and if they slaughtered the animals as they came out they met with difficulty, as there was no suitable provision. _ Mr. ANDERSON said they had no power to prevent animals being shown in the Newcastle market, or being put afterwards into the train and taken to Morpeth. Capt. BLACKETT thought it would be well to stop the markets. Earl GREY remarked that they could not do so. Capt. BLAcKm said they might suggest that the markets should be stopped, and read a paragraph from a newspapei to show that the cattle-market at Oxford had been prohibited without inconvenience to . the butchers or customers, while prices were easier. Earl GREY then rose to order, and recommended that they should decide upon the several paragraphs involved seriatim, and arrange the details in com mittee. He took it that they were all agreed as to the desirability of preventing the spread of the dis ease by using prohibitory measures in accordance with the Order in Council. (Yes.) He thought it a great misfortune that by the Order of Council they could not prevent cattle shown at Newcastle market being taken to Morpeth, and thought application upon that point should be made to Government. The noble lord then inquired if they were all agreed to endeavour to prohibit cattle being brought from other places within their jurisdiction. With regard to the next point—that of removal within the limits of their jurisdiction—a sub-committee should be ap pointed, as he suggested, to consider the details. Earl Grey, Mr. Anderson, ➢Zr. T. Ridley, Mr. C. Grey, and Mr. R. B. Sanderson were then nomi nated a committee to consider the whole of the pro visions ; and after an absence of one hour and a half they returned into court, when it was resolved to prohibit, after the sth inst., the bringing of cattle into any place within the jurisdiction of the Bench; also that a license of two justices should be required before any cattle bo removed from one place to an other, and to close all markets and fairs. On the motion of Earl Grey it was further determined to send a copy of these resolutions to the Home Secre tary, and at the same time to express the opinion of the magistrates that the present regulations are not sufficient to check the spread of the disease, the Bench believing that a uniform and stringent mea sure should be adopted throughout the country on the responsibility of the Government. Naval and Military Intelligence. The Lords of the Admiralty have given instruc tions for one of the iron mortar vessels belonging to the squadron laid up at Chatham dockyard to be lent to the Great Eastern steamer, to be used as a tender to that vessel during the time she is lying in the Medway receiving on board the new Atlantic telegraph cable. Commodore Dunlop, C. 8., superintendent of Woolwich Dockyard, has received a circular letter from the Lords of the Admiralty, desiring him to make known to the departmental officials of the yard that their lordships cannot accede to the re quest contained in the various memorials for an in creased rate of pay. The wages of the ordinary labourers in the yard will therefore remain as here tofore—namely, 13s. per week. ller Majesty's 20-gun screw corvette Tartar, 1,296, and 250-horse power, now in dock in Wool wich, is in course of being surveyed by Mr. Turner and the shipwright officers of the yard. Some of the timbers have been removed, and portions of the hull and other parts of the ship have been opened out in order to ascertain the requisite expenditure to render her again fit for foreign service. The amount is estimated at about £12,000. The Tartar is sister vessel to the Cossack, both of which were partially constructed by Messrs. Pritchard, of Black wall, to the order of the Russian Government, on the outbreak of the late war with that country, and were then taken possession of by this country and completed at Woolwich. Mr. Alfred B. Sturdee, master shipwright at Malta, and promoted from Woolwich dockyard, is appointed master shipwright at Sheerness, vice Mr. William Moodie, permitted to retire on superannu ation. The sailing transport ship Havering Wood, in the London Docks, commenced shipping on Saturday shot and shell (about 270 tons) from Woolwich Arsenal, for Vancouver's Island ; and the Arcadia made fast inside the T pier, in readiness to load with 600 tons of hutting materials for Bermuda. The Medusa, 6,350 horse power, Mr. T. Potter, master-commander, in charge, which was detained at Chatham until Saturday, left the harbour on that day—the weather having moderated—with the whole of the boys and lads, and the complement of officers belonging to the Wellesley, 72, late the training ship and guard ship at Chatham, for conveyance round to Devonport, where they will be transferred to the Ganges, 84, the new training ship for boys at the western ports. In case of the Medusa meeting with rough weather during her passage down Channel she will put in at one of the ports. The Wellesley has been re-commissioned by Capt. W. IL Stewart, C. 8., as the guardship for the dockyard and reserve at Chatham. Only a portion of the ship's comple ment formally attached to the Wellesley will be re tained on board that vessel, the remainder having been transferred to the Royal Naval Barracks, for disposal, as supernumeraries. The Royal Marines, with the exception of a small detachment, have joined headquarters. Boys and lads desirous of entering the Royal Navy will still be received under certain restrictions onboard the Wellesley, and after wards transferred to the other training ships. The ironclad frigate Bellerophon, 14, 1,000 horse power, at Chatham, is to be fitted with a mechani cal engine-room telegraph, by Messrs. John Penn and Sons, the makers of her engines. The ventilat ing arrangements on board for supplying a constant current of fresh air to the engine-room and aft and forward stokeholes, will be fitted on the plan recom mended by Mr. Baker, chief inspector of machinery at Chatham dockyard, which has been adopted with so much success in most of vessels belonging to the ironclad fleet. The screw gunvessel Griffon, 5, 80-horse power, attached to the 3d division of the steam reserve in the Medway, is undergoing some extensive repairs in No. 2 dock, in anticipation of being again brought forward for commission. A few months since she was put out of commission after a lengthened period of service on the West Coast of Africa. The crew of the Formidable, 84, fi lgship of Vice- Admiral Sir Charles Talbot, K.C.8., Commander in-Chief at the Nore, were paid down on Saturday. The screw steam corvette Malacca, 17, Capt. R. B. Oldfield, from Portsmouth, en route for Rio Janeiro and the Pacific, arrived in Plymouth Sound on Saturday morning. She will convey disposable 1 seamen for ships on the station. 'The screw steam storeship Fox, 2, Staff-Com mander H. A. Moriarty, having been repaired, was removed on Saturday from Keyham Steamyard into Hamoaze. The screw steam frigate Galatea, 26, Captain Rochfort Maguire, got up steam on Friday and went from Plymouth Sound into Hamoaze, where she was placed alongside the jetty at the dockyard, preparatory to paying off her crew. When her cable parted during the late gale, her boatswain's leg was so much injured that he has been placed in the Royal Naval Hospital. The screw steam frigate Orlando, 46, the crew of which were recently paid off, has been removed from Devonport Dockyard to the moorings in the Steam Reserve in Hamoaze. The lighter Tortoise left Plymouth on Friday with stores for Pembroke. The screw steam gunboat Dapper, tender to the school ships at Dartmouth, is having defects made good at Devonport. The following appointments have been made at the Admiralty :—Lieut. George J. G. Purcell to the Excellent, for service in the Royal Sovereign ; James Jack, first-class assist.-engineer, to the Royal George, vice T. W. Bower ; George J. Long, assist.-clerk, to the Excellent ; and Walter H. Rae, assist.-clerk, to the Ganges. The Administration of the Poor Law. On Friday Mr. H. B. Farnall, C. 8., the Poor Law Board's Commissioner, made an official inspec tion of the workhouse of St. Giles's, Camberwell, and some facts relative to the general mode of ad ministering the poor law were elicited which may prove of interest at this time when public attention is directed to the subject. The Commissioner's visit was quite unexpected by the workhouse authorities, and no preparations whatever could have been made for his coming, so he saw the workhouse in its ordi nary every-day working order. He first inspected the books, and he gathered from these that the work house, a straggling building, or series of buildings— for the place has had several additions made to the original structure from time to time to meet the in crease of poor on the change of the parish from a coun try district to be a part of London—has accommoda tion for 512 inmates, and that the average number is 450. In the corresponding week last year there were 455 inmates, while this week they have been 451. Of these 355 are classed as disabled, sick, in firm, or insane ; 46 as children, and 50 as able bodied men and women. The last weekly return of vagrants relieved shows the number of houseless to be 125. About £l6O is given a week in outdoor relief, and in addition to the people in the work house the parish has 252 children being brought up at an establishment far away from the workhouse —namely, at Sutton, where they are kept apart as much as possible from workhouse influences, and so educated that they may be weaned of all parochial associations—a plan not, however, generally adopted. The total number of persons receiving relief in any shape in this parish is 2,534, out of a population which at the last census numbered 71,488, and now must be upward of 100,000, if its growth has been anything like in proportion to that of other suburban parishes. The visiting book showed that the inmates are daily visited by a chap lain, whose salary for the duty—an anxious and painful one—is not equal to the wages of a brick layer or carpenter. A Roman Catholic clergyman comes and goes when and where he likes, and " sisters" and other ladies occasionally visit the house. The medical books are kept on a plan to show the diet and medicine of every patient. The Commissioner then passed into the body of the house. Going through a large dining-hall, which is also used as a chapel, as a pulpit in the centre showed, and up some well ventilated corridors and staircases, he visited the places where ablebodied women, a very small class, were employed at the wash-tub. -In answer to questions directed to some of these as to what made them paupers some interesting details were learnt. In one case, the husband was sick in the house, and in another the woman had been left a widow witi some five or six children. One of these had been apprenticed and the others were at Sutton, and the woman was evi dently looking forward to the time when, with a little help from the board, she should be able to take her little brood " out." Without the stimulating of any official onlookers she expressed her thankfulness for the bounties she had received, and acknowledged that she had all she wanted. The infirm and sick wards of the women were then visited. In every ward, without ex ception, the commissioner went up to one of the unoccu pied beds, and, pulling it down, article by article, ended by turning over the mattress or bed itself, in order to satisfy himself that all was clean. In every case the inspection proved satisfactory, inasmuch as the beds were found well " made," the clothing good, and the mattress sufficient. In some of the wards, sacking-bottomed bedsteads are i n use, and in some iron ribs, and the latter are being removed to make way for the former, a most desirable change. The commissioner's unceremonious manner of inspecting the bedsteads led to one or two laughable dis coveries, as some hidden treasure of out-door life, which had been poked under the mattress by the owner as the place most secure from accidental observation. In the infirm women's wards the com missioner remarked with evident pleasure such little humanising influences as books—in addition to the usual religious books—of a light character, and birds, flowers, pictures, and little ornaments, such as decorate the homes of the humblest Londoners of the labouring class. Armchairs, too, he noticed, were given for the use of the sick and infirm, and he said he considered this exceedingly kind and thoughtful, and contrasted very strongly with the usual form, or straight, panel-backed, uncomfort able kitchen chair in some workhouses. The wards are tolerably airy, and all were clean and tolerably free from bad smells. From most of the windows the Dulwich meadows can be seen, and the inmates have a pleasant view of the manor bought by Ed ward Alleyne, " the friende and fellowe-player" of our national bard, and in the benefaction of the Dulwich estate this parish receives no little benefit. , All the women said they were quite comfortable, and they seemed so ; and it was among these old and infirm people that several of the able-bodied women were employed, under paid nurses, as attendants. In the men's wards there was the same clean liness and contentedness observable. In the im becile wards, and in which only harmless lunatics are kept, there are, in the men's wards, billiards and such like games, and in a garden attached a bowling alley. The women have toys and such like little indulgences, which keep the poor creatures amused and happy. An inspection of the out-places gave an insight into a class of people not exactly recognised as either out-door or houseless poor, namely, some dozen men, mostly of the " labouring-class," who are chargeable to the parish, but are contented to receive a loaf and 2d. a day, for which they work from 7 a.m. until 4 p.m. at stone-breaking and wood sawing rather than become inmates. From questions which were asked of these men, who were single, it appeared that one or two of them worked out dur ing the summer and came back in the winter, a course one owned he had followed for five or six years, while another, apparently a very young man, alleged he " hadn't troubled the parish for this six years." In making some inquiries and inspecting the accommo dation for the houseless, the commissioner found that it was usual, when mothers or fathers and their young children occupied one bed between the two, to make a return that two had been accommodated. This is important, inasmuch as the accommodation for the houseless is set down as for 2,000, and the average attendance each night as 1,238 ; and if in many cases two " persons" occupy one berth the margin for more than apply is larger than is gene rally supposed. The commissioner, on concluding his inspection, certified that the house was clean and in good order and the inmates contented. He also expressed his opinion that the condition of the house showed that every attention was given by the officers. Carl Schurz's Report on the Condition of Affairs in the Southern States. General Carl Schurz's Report on the condition of affairs in the States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mis sissippi, and Louisiana, has been publishod. General Schurz was sent by President Johnson on a tour through the Southern States, and his report gives the results of his investigations during three months' travel through the country. The document is exceedingly voluminous, but of absorbing interest. We extract some of the more important passages : CONDITION OF THINGS IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE CLOSE OP THE WAR. In the development of the popular spirit in the South since the close of the war two well-marked periods can be distinguished. The first commences with the sudden collapse of the Confederacy and the dispersion of its armies, and the second with the first proclamation in dicating the " reconstruction policy" of the Govern ment. Of the first period, I can state the characteristic features only from the accounts I received partly from Unionists who were then living in the South, and partly from persons that had participated in the rebellion. When the news of Lee's and Johnston's surrender burst upon the Southern country the general consternation was extreme. People held their breath, indulging in the wildest apprehensions as to what now was to come. Men who had occupied positions under the Confederate Government, or were otherwise compromised in the rebellion, run before the Federal columns as they ad vanced and spread out to occupy the country, from vil lage to village, from plantation to plantation, hardly knowing whether they wanted to escape or not. Others remained at their homes, yielding themselves up to their fate. Prominent Unionists told me that persons who for four years had scorned to recognise them on the street, approached them with smiling faces and both hands extended. Men of. standing in the political world ex pressed serious doubts as to whether the rebel States would ever again occupy their position as States in the Union or be governed as conquered provinces. The public mind was so despondent that if re-admission at some future time, under whatever condition, had been promised, it would then have been looked upon as a favor. The most uncompromising rebels prepared for leaving the country. The masses remained in a state of fearful expectancy. " RETURNING LOYALTY." It is a well-known fact that in the States South of Tennessee and North Carolina the number of white Unionists who during the war actively aided the Govern ment, or at least openly professed their attachment to the cause of the Union, was very small. In none of those States were they strong enough to exercise any decisive in fluence upon the action of the people, not even in Louisi ana, unless vigorously supported by the power of the general Government. But the whitepeople at large being, under certain conditions, charged with taking the preli minaries of "reconstruction" into their hands, the success of the experiment depends upon the spirit and attitude of those who either attached themselves to the Secession cause from the beginning, or entertaining originally op posite views, at least followed its fortunes from the time that their States had declared their separation from the Union. The first Southern men of this class with whom I came into contact immediately after my arrival in South Caro lina expressed their sentiments almost literally in the following language:—" We acknowledge ourselves beaten, and we are ready to submit to the results of the war. The war has practically decided that no State shall secede and that the slaves are emancipated. We cannot be expected at once to give up our principles and convictions of right, but we accept facts as they are, and desiro to be reinstated as soon as possible in the enjoyment and exercise of our political rights." This declaration was repeated to me hundrads of times in every State I visited, with some variations of language, according to the different ways of thinking, or the frankness or reserve of the different speakers.. FEELING TOWARD THE SOLDIERS AND THE PEOPLE OF THE NORTH. A more substantial evidence of returning loyalty would be a favorable change of feeling with regard to the Govern ment's friends and agents and the people of the loyal States generally. I mentioned above that all organised attacks upon our military forces stationed in the South have ceased ; but there are still localities where it is un safe for a man wearing the Federal uniform or known as an officer of the Government to be abroad outside of the immediate reach of garrisons. The shooting of single soldiers and Government couriers was not unfre quently reported while I was in the South, and even as late as in the middle of September. Major Miller, Assistant Adjutant-General of the Commission of the Freedmen's Bureau in Alabama, while on an inspecting tour in the southern counties of that State, found it diffi cult to prevent a collision between the menacing populace and his escort. His wagonnmster was brutally murdered while remaining but a short distance behind the com mand. The murders of agents of the Freedmen's Bureau have been noticed in the public papers. These and simi lar occurrences, however, may be looked upon as isolated cases, and ought to be charged, perhaps, only to the ac count of the lawless persons who committed them. WHAT HAS BEEN ACCOMPLISHED, While the generosity and toleration shown by the Government to the people lately in rebellion has not met with a corresponding generosity shown by those people to the Government's friends, it has brought forth some results, which, if properly developed, will become of value. It has facilitated the re-establishment of the forms of civil government and led many of those who had been active in the rebellion to take part in the act of bringing back the States to their constitutional relations ; and if nothing else were necessary than the mere putting in operation of the machinery of Government in point of form, and not also the acceptance of the results of the war and their development in point of spirit, these results, although as yet incomplete, might be called a satisfactory advance in the right direction. There is at present no danger of another insurrection against the authority o f th e United States on a large scale, and the people ar o willing to re construct their Sate governments and to send their senators and representatives to Congress. GENERAL IDEAS AND SCHEMES OF WHITES CONCERNING THE FREEDMEN. Some of the planters with whom I had occasion to con verse expressed the determination to adopt the course which best accords with the spirit of free labor ; to make the negro work by offering him fair inducements, to stimu late his ambition, and to extend to him those means of intellectual and moral improvement, which are best cal culated to make him an intelligent, reliable, and efficient free laborer, and a good and useful citizen. Those who expressed such ideas were almost invariably professed Union men, and far above the average in point of mental ability and culture. 1 found a very few instances of original Secessionists also manifesting a willingness to give the free labor experiment a fair trial. I can represent the sen timents of this small class in no better way than by quot ing the language used by an Alabama Judge in conversa tion with me :—" I am one 'of the most thoroughly whipped men in the South," said he ; "I am a genuine old Secessionist, and I believe now, as I always did, we had the constitutional right to secede. But the war has settled that matter, and it is all over now. As to this thing of free negro labor I cannot believe in it. But I will give it a fair trial. I have a plantation, and am going to make contracts with my hands, and then I want a real Yankee to run the machine for me—not one 9f your New Yorkers or Pennsylvanians, but the genuine article from Massachusetts or Vermont, one who can not only farm, but sing Psalms, and pray, and teach a school—a real Abolitionist, who believes in the thing, just as I don't believe in it. If he does not succeed, I shall consider it proof conclusive that you are wrong and 1 am right." :NGNESS TO WORK. That there among the negroes a good many consti tutionally lazy individuals is certainly true. The pro pensity to idleness seems to be rather strongly developed in the South generally, without being confined to any par ticular race. It is also true that the alacrity negroes put into their work depends in a majority of cases upon certain combinations of circumstances. It is asserted that the negroes have a prejudice against working in the cultiva tion of cotton, rice, and sugar. Although this prejudice, probably arising from the fact that the cotton, rice, and sugar fields remind the former slave of the worst expe rience of his past life, exists to some extent, it has not made the freedmen now on the plantations unwilling to cultivate such crops as the planters may have seen fit to raise. A few cases of refusal may have occurred. But there is another fact of which I have become satisfied in the course of my observations, and which is of great sig nificance. While most of the old slaveholders complain of the laziness and instability of their negro laborers, most of the Northern men engaged in planting, with whom I have come into contact, speak of their negro laborers with satisfaction ; and these Northern men almost exclusively devote themselves to the cultivation of cotton. r A good many Southern planters, in view of this fact, expressed to me their intention to engage Northern men for the mana gement of their plantations. This circumstance would seem to prove that, under certain conditions, the negro may be expected to work well. There are two reasons by which it may be explained : —First, that a Northern man knows from actual experience what free labor is, and understands its management, which the late slaveholder, still clinging to the tra ditions of the old system, does not ; and, then, that the negro has more confidence in a Northern man than in his former master. When a Northern man discovers among his laboring force an individual that does not do his duty, his first impulse is to discharge him, and he acts accordingly. When a late slaveholder discovers such an individual among his laborers his first impulse is to whip him, and he is very apt to suit the act to the impulse. 11l treat ment is a doubtful encouragement for free labor, and it proves more apt to drive those that are still at work away than to make the plantation attractive to others. But, if the reasons above stated are sufficient to explain why the negroes work better for Northern men than for Southern, it will follow that a general improvement will take place as soon as the latter fulfil the same conditions; that is, as soon as Southern men learn what free labor is, and how to manage it in accordance with its principles, and as soon as they succeed in gaining the confidence of the colored people. EXTRAVAGANT NOTIONS. In many localities I found an impression prevailing among the negroes that some great change was going to take place about Christmas. Feeling uneasy in their pre sent condition, they indulged in the expectation that the Government intended to make some further provision for their future welfare, especially by ordering a distribution of land among them. To counteract this expectation, which had a tendency to interfere seriously with the making of contracts for the next season, it was considered necessary to send military officers, and especially agents of the Freedmen's Bureau, among them, who, by administer ing sound advice and spreading correct information, would induce them to suit their conduct to their actual circum stances. While in the South I heard of many instances in which this measure had the desired effect, and it is to be expected that the effect was uniformly good whenever judicious officers were so employed. Impressions like the above are very apt to spread among the negroes, for the reason that they ardently desire to become freeholders. In the independent possession of landed property they see the consummation of their deli verance. However mistaken their notions may be in other respects, it must be admitted that their instinct is correct. RELATIONS BETWEEN THE TWO RACES. There are whites in the South who profess great kind ness for the negro. Many of them are, no doubt, sincere in what they say. But as to the feelings of the masses, it is hardly necessary to add anything to what I have already stated. I have heard it asserted that the negroes also cherish feelings of hostility to the whites. Taking this as a general assertion, lam satisfied that it is incorrect. The negroes do not trust their late masters because they do not feel their freedom sufficiently assured. Many of them may harbor feelings of resentment toward those who now ill treat and persecute them ; but as they practised no revenge after their emancipation for wrongs suffered while in slavery, so their present resentments are likely to cease as soon as the persecution ceases. If the persecution a nd the denial of their rights as free men continue the resent ments growing out of them will continuo and spread. The negro is constitutionally docile and eminently good natured. Instances of the most touching attachment of freedmen to their old masters and mistresses have come to my notice. To a white man, whom they believed to be sincerely their friend, they cling with greater affe , :tion even than to one of their own race. By some Northern speculators their confidence has been sadly abused. Never theless, the trust they place in persons coming from the North, or in any way connected with the Government, is most childlike and unbounded. There may be individual exceptions, but lam sure they are not numerous. Those who enjoy their confidence enjoy also their affection. Centuries of slavery have not been sufficient to make them the enemies of the white race. If in the future a feeling of mutual hostility should develope itself between the races, it will, probably, not be the fault of those who have shown such an inexhaustible patience under the most adverse and trying circumstances. In some places that I visited I found apprehensions entertained by whites of impending negro insurrectione• Whenever our military commanders found it expedient to subject the statements made to that effect by whites to close investigation they uniformly found them unwar ranted by facts. In many instances there were just reasons for supposing that such apprehensions were industriously spread for the purpose of serving as an excuse for further prosecution. In the papers annexed to this report you will find testimony supporting this statement. The negro is easily led ; he is always inclined to follow the advice Of those he trusts. I do, therefore, not consider a negro in surrection probable as long as the freedmen are under the direct protection of the Government, and may hope to 0 0 their grievances redressed without resorting to the extreme means of self-protection. There would, perhaps, be dan ger of insurrections if the Government should withdravr its protection from them, and if, against an attempt on the part of the whites to reduc e th em t o somet hi ng lik e their former condition, they should find themselves thrown back upon their own resources. Of this contingency I shall speak below. THE DIFFICULTIES OF THE SITUATION. The true nature of the difficulties of the situation ig this: The general Government of the Republic has, 1)1 proclaiming the emancipation of the slaves, commenced A great social revolution in the South, but has, as yet, not completed it. Only the negative part of it is accomplished. The slaves are emancipated in point of form, but free labor has not yet been put in the place of slavery in point of fact. And now, in the midst of this critical period of transition, the Power which originated the revolution ig expected to turn over its whole future development to another Power which, from the beginning, was hostile to it, and has never yet entered into its spirit, leaving the class in whose favor it was made completely without power to protect itself, and to take an influential part in that development. The history of the world will be searched in vain for a proceeding similar to this which did not loci either to a rapid and violent reaction or to the most serious trouble and civil disorder. It cannot be said that the con duct of the Southern people since the close of the war hee exhibited such extraordinary wisdom and self-abnegatio n as to make them an exception to the rule. COUNTRY MARKETS NORWICH—SATURDAY. The supply of wheat at this market to-day was liberal, but the trade continues depressed, and prices receded per qr. for best samples, other sorts neglected. BarleY fair demand, and rates fully maintained for malting O' grinding. White wheat (weighing 631 b to 641 b), 50s to 54s • O a ditto (weighing 631 b to 651 b), 48s to 50s ; best malting barley (weighing 551 b to 561 b), 30s to 33s ; runs dit t° (weighing 541 b t o 551 b), 28s to 30s ; distilling ditto (ivoigin; ing 521 b to 531 b), 24s to 26s ; oats, 24s to 26s ; beans, 31 , to 39s ; peas ( map l e ) , 36s to 38s per qr; flour, 33e to Od per sack. YORK-SATURDAY. There was a better attendan c e, and the su pply o f wheat e ,7, -It , larger than last week. Trade quiet at b are ly l a te rz Better demand for barley, and easily made late rates. inquiry for oats ruled firm, and p r i ces unc h ange d. •"" many beans shown, and the demand about usual, at lat e currencies. nor New white wheat, 50s to 56s ; new red, 46s to 6 35 „r, 36 stone. Barley, for malting, 34s to 38 s p er qr ; grinaino' 30s to 32s per 30 stone. Oats, new, 26 s t o 28 s p er 24 ston e ; Beans, 40s to 42s per 40 stone. Malt, 625; rye, 303 1 1 0 qr. Flour, 36s to 38s per sack of 2801 b. NO T T INGHAM—SATURDAY. At our corn market to-day there wa s a f a i r suppi9„ e 0 wheat for the season. Condition of grain i rregu lar; to sorts as before, inferior i s p er q r. lo wer . F or barley 15 at rates were fully maintained for all good sorts. Oats sold last week's prices. Beans scanty, but late rates maintaine,`4o, Old wie wheat, sto 60s ; old rd, 50s to 53s ; white, 52 h s t to 58s; new red, 47s to 49s e por 36 stone. Of; ley, old malting, 32s to 40s per qr ; old grinding, 2G 5 „ 28s ; new, - s to —s per 30 stone. Oats, old, 27s to 2' 4 : new 20s to 25s ; old foreign, 22s to 27s per stone. Bea n .1 old, '4Bs to 52s ; new, 40s to 43s per 38 stone. Super &Uri 37s to 39s ; fine, 34s to 36s per 20 stone. LEICESTER—SATURDAY. Wag The quantity of wheat at our corn mar k et t o -day' „ tolerably good. Fine dry sampl es a b out t h e sam e, da i T e r tended downwards. Barley a b ou t an average, and fair „ 0 . mand at late prices. Oats small, and at last we ek's ravv Beans limited, and prices unchanged. nog' Old white wheat, Ms t o 56 s ; o l d red, 50s to 52 8 ; white, 53s to 54s ; new red, 49s to 50s per 36 stone. ''' ley, malting, 34s to 39s per qr. ; grinding, 28s to 30s Pe r , stone. Oats, old, 28s t o 32 s ; new, 20s to 25s per 24 stop Beans, old, 46s to 51s ; new, 42s to 46s per 38 stone. CORK—FRIDAY. fe d The following were the quotations this morning :."" 70 wheat, 9s 9d to lOs 1d ; white, 9s 9cl to lls 3d ; barleitia; to 7s 10d ; oats, 8s Od to 8 s 6d ;black oats, 7s 4d to 70 ' bare, Gs Od to 6s 6d. DUBLIN.—FRIDAY. Small attendance. Home g r a i n i n f a i r su pply ; Prie; unchanged. Foreign wheat cheaper. Indian corn n ° sa l quiry. Flour extremely dull, with lower prices. Oat° very dull, and prices in favour of buyers. A communication from Berlin states that t he Eulenburg affair, which led to the death of a French ll2(° : and several other occurrences of the same kind, having gested to some of the Prussian Deputies the idea 0 1 s6 , ra for the presentation of a bill to prevent military men wearing their side arms when not on duty. 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