The Sun. — London, England, 1865-11-08 00:00:00

The Pneumatic Despatch. Yesterday a ceremony of much scientific and public interest took place at the offices of the Pneu matic Despatch Company, 245, Holborn. This consisted in the opening publicly of the first portion of the tube which is soon to connect the General Post-office with the terminus of the London and North-Western Railway, and, which, if the promo ters succeed to the full extent of their expectations, is eventually to open up a new system of communi cation throughout the metropolis. The public have heard a good deal of the pneumatic despatch system, and to a limited extent have seen it in operation already. A short line was laid down experimentally at Battersea two or three years ago, and afterwards transferred to Seymour-street, where it has been and is now doing duty in the conveyance of mails between Euston-square station and the north western district post-office in Eversholt-street. A short passenger line on the same principle was also constructed at the Crystal Palace. The present, however, is the first practical application of the pro cess on anything like a large scale, and the results are certainly encouraging. The distance from Euston-square to Holborn is exactly one mile and three-quarters ; the second portion of the line, run ning off at right angles to the General Post-office, will be an additional mile in length, and of this further portion one-half has been laid ; so that the completion of the first important section of the company's undertaking may be looked for at no dis tant day. The opportunity yesterday afforded of seeing the line in actual working order naturally drew together a number of gentlemen whose names are familiar in the scientific and commercial world. There were present, among others, the Duke of Buckingham, chairman of the company ; Messrs. W. H. Smith and J. H. Lloyd, directors ; Sir C. Bright, M.P., Sir C. Roney, Mr. Sheriff Gibbons, Mr. Horne (of the firm of Chaplin and Horne), Sir C. Fox, Mr. Scott Russell, Major-General Margary, R.E., Colonel Creed, Mr. Baker, engineer to the London and North-Western Railway ; Mr. Fowler, engineer to the Metropolitan Railway ; Mr. Sa muda, Mr. W. T. Rammell, and Mr. Latimer Clark, joint engineers of the company ; Major Morgany, Mr. Margary, &c. Looked at from the street one would never imagine that the interior of the pre mises contains so much that is well worth seeing. Entering . from the level of Holborn, the visitor passes along a corridor through a doorway, and emerges upon a gallery of considerable size, from which he looks down on a brick floor, supporting lines of rails, much as he might do from a railway platform down on the line, but from a greater elevation. Underneath the corridor by which he has just entered he sees some mechanical appliances suggestive partly of an engine-room, and partly of a pointsman's gallery outside a railway station ; and below the level, again, on which the white jacketed engineer in charge is standing, and sup porting the platform on which both he and these mechanical appliances rest, are a couple of open ings, looking like black polished modern chimney pieces with the grates withdrawn. These are the mouths of the pneumatic tubes, of which one com municates with the North-Western Railway ; the other, idle at present, will soon be drawing in and delivering supplies from and to the postal head quarters in London. The hour appointed yesterday for the experiment to begin was half-past one, and shortly after that hour a sudden snap, and a sighing, rushing sound, like that which often heralds the be ginning of a storm, announced that the machinery was set in motion. The snapping noise proved on examination to have proceeded from the closing of iron doors a little way within the shadow of what has been compared to a fire-place, and these doors met, not evenly, but at an angle like that of a broad arrow, the point projecting outward, so as to resist the atmo spheric pressure. Some minutes passed before any thing further was visible or audible ; for, though with a moderate amount of pressure the pneumatic train is propelled at a speed of 25 miles an hour, from seven to eight minutes are required for the transit from Euston-square to Holborn. At last the close attention bestowed by the engineer upon his various signals and gauges was rewarded by a telegraphic tinkling indicative of the fact that the greater portion of the journey had been accom plished. A second and third signal followed at no great intervals, and almost immediately upon the last of these the doors flew open, as doors used to do in the days anterior to the French Revolution, when monarchs or great personages were about to appear, and in rolled solemnly four dwarfish iron waggons, weighing with their contents some 10 tons in the aggregate. The manner in which these doors open, as if by magic, to admit the string of car riages coming apparently from the bowels of the earth, is one of the most interesting features in the entire process, To render it intelligible, it must be premised that,the air in the tube is alternately ex hausted and condensed, according to the direction in which the train is going, and that the shaft com municating with the stationary engine which gene rates the blast, or causes the suction, enters the tube about 100 ft. from its mouth. There is, therefore, a body—technically speaking, a "cnshion"—of air, 100 ft. in length, behind the draught pipe, which renders material service in arresting the progress of the advancing train, and which would, in fact, :bring it to a dead stop within the tube if the doors were suffered to remain closed. A spring lever, how ever, underlies the rails at a short distance up the tube, and this, when pressed by the weight of the train, withdraws the bolt that keeps the doors in their places, and suffers them to be blown open. Although, however, they fly apart with a violence really alarming, they create no sound and sustain no injury themselves, owing to the fact that when fully open they are received into air-chambers. Air, therefore, in one and the same moment, is made to exhibit the force of a giant and the softness of a glove. As regards the carriages, it cannot truthfully be said that they are ornamental in their character. In shape they are like a capital D turned over on its straight side and mounted upon wheels ; either end of the carriage has a raised hood or flange, shaped so as to correspond with the interior of the tube, the dimensions of which are 4ft. in height by 4ft. flin. in width. Yesterday they were laden or ballasted with shingle filled into sacks, but their ordinary freight is expected to be in the first instance letter bags, then probably railway parcels, certain descriptions of mai ket produce, and ultimately, it may be, gene ral merchandise. After the train had made some suc cessful passages to and_ fro several of the party ex pressed a strong desire to pass through the tube themselves. Theywcre warned that the line was "not constructed with a view to passenger traffic," an d that they might find the way "a little rough." The spirit of adventure, however, is high in the heart even of the middle-aged Englishman, and each of the waggons had soon as many occupants as it could comfortably accommodate in the recumbent posture enforced by circumstances. Tarpaulin coverings were obtained for one or two of the carriages, • but the greater number of the excursionists had to fit them selves in as best they could among the bags of shingle, taking care to keep their heads well below the edge of the carriages, lest, as anAmerican gentleman pre sent was credited with saying, " they might get their hair brushed by machinery." The sensation at start ing, and still more so upon arriving, was not agree able. For about a quarter of a minute in each case there w as a pressureen , upon the ears suggestive of diving-bell experience, suction like that with which one isdrawn under a wave, and a cold draught of wind upon the eyes, having almost the effect of falling water ; b ut only fairly within the tube these sensations were got rid of, or left behind, and i h emotion had little more positive discomfort about it than would be attendant on riding on a tc lorry" ov er the worst ballasted line in England. It was a :=-ns.ation to be flying niong through the f,,rernost, in utter darkness, for the best which, in such a p l ace, seemed part of :sr] minutes, half an hour, knowing that to right and left of you water-pipes, drains, ce l lars, there were gas-pipes, roofs of trees, and all the intricate fibres of the L on _ don subsoil-way ; that nearer again to you was an arch which you might touch at your peril, and that of all these you could see absolutely nothing. The conventional horrors of rats and catacombs troubled one little, seeming out of place beside this latest effort of human invention or audacity. But one reminiscence connected with an earlier stage in the Clll'C (1: eart►.h, f history of this very pneumatic despatch did certainly I present itself at awkward moments. The incident was as follows :—Various experiments having been tried with the tube and its powers of suction, one of the officials at last determined to see what would happen in case the train stuck fast at any point on its journey. A carriage was accordingly "scotched," or fastened in such a way that it could not move, and then the power of the engine was exerted to the utmost. The carriage in question was intended for passengers, and furnished accordingly. By and bye *one of the cushions, the others, and finally all the movables which the carriage contained, were whirled through the tube and delivered at the other end, the force exerted being such that even the nails keeping down the carpet were extracted. As the only " movables" yesterday were human bodies, the moral of the story was not a pleasant one to draw ; and at sharp corners, which did present themselves at intervals, one recalled the popular heresies about 'the gracefully winding curves of English roads" contrasted with " the hideously straight and dusty avenues of France." The air within the tube was by no means foul or disagreeable; here and there a strong flavour of rust was encountered, but this wis explained by the fact that as the tube had to be laid in lengths, through various soils, and encountered in the process a large share of unfavour able weather, the corrosion on the surface of the iron could not be expected wholly to disappear until cleared away by the friction of constantly passing and repassing trains. On the arrival of the ex cursionists at the upper, or Euston-square extremity of the line, they quitted their places for a few moments to inspect the smaller tube, which com municates with the Eversholt-street district post office, and then returned by the way that they had come to Holborn. Ne doubt remained on the mind of any person wo made the double transit as to the facilities which the system, if a sufficient number of stations can be incorporated with it, is calculated to afford, not only to the postal service, but to the requirements of the general public. The scheme of the company, who, it seems, possess under their Act powers to lay down pneumatic tubes at any point within the jurisdiction of the Metropolitan Board of Works, is to construct similar lines to that yesterday opened between the 10 district post-offices and the General Post-office, and between the different railway termini and goods depots in London, connecting with these lines the six principal London markets and other important points. For these purposes it is calculated that some 35 miles of tubing and a capital of £1,250,000 would be required, the cost per mile roughly estimated being from £30,000 to £35,000. The expenditure of the company hitherto has been probably £150,000, which would be largely in excess of this supposed average; but the sum mentioned includes the cost of prelimi nary experiments, and also of seeking for two Acts of Parliament. The company expect great profits will eventually accrue to them from the carriage of goods, the prime cost of which, according to their system, would not exceed Id. per ton per mile in London, while every merchant knows that he has to pay is., or perhaps is. 3d., for the same weight and distance. On the other hand, however, it must be borne in mind that the interest upon the heavy pre liminary outlay cannot be lost sight of by the com pany in regulating their tariff of charges ; and, fur ther, that the merchant can send his goods where he pleases at present rates, whereas the company can only deposit them at certain well-defined stations. In the postal subsidy which the company enjoy, or will hereafter enjoy, they have one great element of strength. If they succeed in relieving the leading thoroughfares to any appreciable extent from their present glut of traffic, they will not only reap the reward of their own spirited enterprise, but will en title themselves to the gratitude of the public. HEALTH OF LONDON. (From the Registrar-General's Weekly Report.) In the week that ended Saturday, Nov. 4, the births registered in London and 10 other large towns of the United Kingdom were 3,910 ; the deaths regis tered, 3,014. The annual rate of mortality in the week in those 11 towns was 28 per 1,000 persons. In London the births of 1,067 boys and 988 girls, in all 2,055 children, were registered in the week. In the corresponding weeks of 10 years, 1855-64, the average numbers, corrected forincrease of popu lation, was 1,950. The deaths registered in London during week were 1,413. It was the 44th week of the year; and the average number of deaths for that week is, with a correction for increase of population, 1,262. The actual return exhibits an excess of 151 over the estimated number. This is partly due to the fall of temperature, which was low over the country. The deaths from diarrhoea are less numerous now than they were in September, and the number is still less as compared with the numbers returned weekly in August ; but the disease was as fatal last week as it was in the second week of October. The deaths from diarrhcea in the last four weeks were 54, 62, 48, and 61. In the 44th week of ten years, 1855-64, the aver age number of deaths from diarrhcea was 26. When the 61 deaths from that complaint last week are compared with the average, it will not be questioned that an epidemic tendency exists in the London po pulation at the present time. Two deaths of children in the week are referred to cholera. They are returned as follows :—On Oct. 30, at 5, Harland-square, Shoreditch, a girl, aged 4 onths, choleraic diarrhoea (one day) ; and on the same day, at 81, Besborough-place, Millbank, a boy, aged 5 years, cholera infantum (15 hours). Scarlatina was fatal in 59 cases, and typhus in 77. There were 177 deaths from phthisis. The following five cases in which accidents by horses or carriages were fatal were registered in the week :—On London-bridge, a leather-dresser, aged 48 years, run over by an omnibus ; died on Oct. 30, at Guy's Hospital. The daughter of a porter, aged 3 years, by the fall of a board which was knocked down by a cart ; died on Sept. 27 at 2, Brown's court, Marylebone. The wife of a cabinetmaker, aged 31 years, knocked down by a cart, and run over by an omnibus ; died on Oct. 27 at University College Hospital. A male pauper, aged 35 years, run over; died on Nov. lin London Hospital. In the Strand the widow of a labourer, aged 63 years, knocked down and run over by a Hansom cab; died on Oct. 28 in Charing-cross Hospital. The annual rate of mortality last week was 24 per 1,000 in London, 31 in Edinburgh, 24 in Dublin, 40 in Liverpool, 36 in Manchester, 31 in Salford, 26 in Birmingham, 32 in Leeds, 22 in Bristol, 23 in Hull, and 31 in Glasgow. The rate in Vienna was 26 in 1,000 during the week ending the 28th inst., when the temperature was 4.2 deg. Fahrenheitlower than in the same week in London, when the rate was 24 per 1,000. In Liverpool the births in the week were 284, the deaths 369 ; in Manchester the births 260, the deaths 246 ; in Salford the births 81, the deaths 65 ; in Birmingham the births 223, the death 162; in Leeds the births 217, the deaths 139 ; in Bristol the births 125, the deaths 68 ; in Hull the births 76, the deaths 46 ; in Edinburgh the births 118, the deaths 104 ; in Glasgow, the births 326, the deaths 254 ; and in Dublin the births 145, the deaths, 148. There were 278 deaths in Vienna during the week ending the 28th inst. Southampton—Among the population of this borough (estimated to the middle of the present year at 53,001), 28 deaths were registered during the week ending last Saturday ; no death was referred to cholera, but five resulted from scarlatina. The annual rate of mortality during the week was 28 per 1,000 persons living. At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height of the barometer in the week was 29.564 in. The barometrical pressure fell to 28.99 in. on Mon day, and rose to 30.05 in. on Saturday. The mean temperature of the air in the week was 42.5 deg., which is 3.9 deg. below the average of the same week in 50 years, (as determined by Mr. Glaisher). The mean temperature was below the average on every day except Monday ; and the air was cold at the end of the week. The highest day temperature was 57.8, on Sunday ; the lowest night temperature was 31.2 deg., on Th urs d ay. The thermometer fell below the freezing point of water, also on Saturday. The range in the week was 26.6 deg. The mean daily range was 14.1. On Sunday the range of tempera ture was as great as 24.1 deg. ; on the two follow- THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 8, 1865. ing days it was less than 8 deg. The difference be tween the mean dew-point temperature and air tem perature was 2.7 deg. The mean degree of humidity of the air was 90, complete saturation being repre sented by 100. On Tuesday and Wednesday it was 95. The direction of the wind was variable. There was rain to the amount of 0.92 in. It fell on Sun day, Monday, Tuesday, and Friday. There were dense fogs on Friday and Saturday. spirits of wine. Three drops in a cup of green tea produce immediate perspiration. " For the cramp we rub the joints, and apply, with wet bandages, a mixture of white wine vinegar, ginger, and cocoa-nut oil." They kindly gave me some of their medicine ; both mixed with spirits of wine and in raw state. A very small quantity of Pepita de Camalonga, in a glass of water, cures spasms ; and ditto of the Madera de San Paca, cures dysentery. From a friend, a native of the Philippine Islands, I obtained a botanical book, written 200 years ago by a friar, giving a description and the uses of several indigenous trees, shrubs, and herbs of these islands, which seem to abound in medicinal plants. He says, " The Pepita de Camalonga is in size and appearance very like a nutmeg ; it is rank poison, but held in such high estimation that the women generally carry one suspended round the neck, and if attacked with sudden spasms they suck it, and swallow two or three times the saliva impregnated with it, and are so immediately relieved as ,to con tinue their work. The wood of the San Paca is given in water, and cures dysentry." So I found my Philippine friend was no impostor, and I sent his description of the mode of cure, and some of the medicines, to Sir Benjamin Hall. He acknowledged the receipt of them, and said both should be laid before a medical board; but with what result I never heard. After my interview with the Malayans, one of my servants was attacked with cholera, spasms, and retching. I had none of their medicine except cocoa nut oil ; but I had him placed between two blankets, gave him half a teaspoonful of carbonate of soda in hot water, and applied the friction as explained. The pit of the stomach was as hard as a board, but in about 10 or 15 minutes the tension suddenly ceased. I administered immediately a large cup of hot camomile tea, and a minute after the water actually ran down hiia, so profuse was the sweat that burst from him. By this time the Malay ar rived and pronounced him cured. I have a book, called " Deeds, not Words," con taining a list, but by no means of one half, of the persons cured by this treatment. Many who owed their lives to this man would not allow their names to be included for fear of offending their own medical attendants; besides, hundreds went to his house to I e cured, neither giving their names or address. I found 111 named as cured in the first and second stages ; 36 dangerously ill with cramp, sickness, and dysen tery, and 10 left as incurable and dying by their doctors. On his return home one day, he found his wife alarmingly ill, and he feared he was too late ; but providentially he cured her. On one occasion he met some people carrying, as was supposed, the corpse of a young girl to the de posit for the dead, whom they said had died in an hour after being attacked. He told them to lay her down and he would see if she were quite dead. She was the only child of a bedridden mother, whom she supported. He applied the friction as above described, brought her back to life, ran in for two blankets, and, as no one would receive her, wrapped her up and laid her in the sun ; gave her the medi cine, and desired her to remain quiet until the per spiration subsided. She walked back in an hour to her home, cured ; but so great was the panic of the poor mother at seeing her child's ghost (as she thought) that it killed her. My Malayan friend was a great botanist and her balist. He told me " that a person was safer remain ing in an infected place than going away; that the system had got accustomed to the atmosphere, and did not run so much chance of taking the disease as if suddenly transferred to another atmosphere ; that no person should ever take strong purgatives or much medicine of any kind where the cholera was, as it predisposed the body to catch it." One or two ounces of oil of sweet almonds, mixed with an equal quantity of syrup of mallows, was the best purgative, if any was required whilst the cholera was raging. No great difference should be made in the usual diet ; but the first water used in boiling vegetables should be thrown away as soon as it boils, and fresh boiling water substituted. All windcws should be closed before the dew begins to fall, and not opened again till two hours after sunset ; and if left open during the night, they should be shut an hour before dawn, and not re opened till the sun is well up. I have tried, and always with great success, the toasted rice-water for dysentery. When toasted, it should have hot water poured on it, and boiled for twenty minutes at least. In the north of England I fell in with a poor woman who had had the cholera seven weeks pre viously very badly, with cramps, spasms, and dysentery; the last complaint had never left her day or night. I cured her of it in three days with the rice, and brought back the tone of the stomach by a small cup of camomile tea and a piece of dry thin toast given very early in the morning ; and then for several days I recommended, to assist th e digestion, of rhubarb and magnesia equal propor tions, and one half of the quantity of soda. Of this well-mixed combination she was to take what would lie on a sixpence just before each meal. She quite recovered. I have written this in the hope that these simple remedies may, with God's help, be the means of curing many of that fell disease that in India and elsewhere is so fatal, and now seems again about to visit Europe.—The Shilling Magazine for No ve aber. off in the anticipation of a reduction. Silks of all kinds fully as dear. There was not much alteration to note in brown nets, the demand being slow. RompALE, 6th.—Business to-day has decidedly been of a more animated character, and out of so good an attendance of those most deeply interested in the trade it would have been strange if, after so many dull markets and such a flagging trade for so long, something decisive had not attended so large a gathering. There was an excellent demand among the home buyers for figured and fancy flannels, the clearances of which have so far this season been most satisfactory. The use of these so extensively for shirtings has been a disadvantage to the makers of plain goods, but now that we have had a taste of cold weather, the latter, in their department, expe rience some little amendment. A much greater de mand would, however, be most acceptable, as stocks have unavoidably accumulated quite as much as when the manufacturers carried on operations with the certainty of a good prospect. Yorkshire goods are so dear that the trade in them is most limited because of the check it gives to speculative opera tions. Sales of wool are on a very sparing scale, and prices are not such as to encourage larger transac tions. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TIMES.—The reappearance of the Shenandoah in British waters at the present juncture is an unto ward and unwelcome event. When we last heard of this notorious cruiser she was engaged in a pitiless raid upon American whalers in the North Pacific, and several war steamers of the United States were stated to be in pursuit of her. It was also reported, though somewhat vaguely, that our own naval commander on that station had offered any assist ance in his power, and little doubt was entertained of her speedy capture. The next thing that we learn is that she has entered the Mersey under the Confederate flag, that she is alongside and in charge of Her Majesty's ship Donegal, and that Captain Waddell ,has forwarded a letter to Lord Russell. Whatever be the contents of that letter, this act is obviously equivalent to a surrender of the vessel to the Government of Great Britain, as the Stonewall was surrendered to the Spanish authorities at Ha vannah. The time which has elapsed, however, since the termination of the war, and the conduct of Captain Waddell during this interval, constitute very material points of difference between the two cases, and render it necessary to consider that of the Shenandoah exclusively on its own merits. It is fortunate that in this instance nothing practically turns on the original equipment of the ship thus placed in our hands. In a certain sense it is doubt less true that the Shenandoah was built and manned in fraud of our neutrality, for those who gave the order for her construction and engaged her crew must have been well aware of her real destination. But it is also true, as Lord Russell pointed out in one of his letters to Mr. Adams, that when she cleared for China as a merchant ship, under the name of the Sea King, not a tittle of evidence was offered on behalf of the United States or any other party to justify her detention. Arms were after wards sent out in a French vessel to a rendezvous at sea, and the Sea King assumed the character of a Confederate man-of-war ; but it is far from certain that, even if all that is known now had been known then, a conviction could have been ob tained against her under our own or the American Foreign Enlistment Act. At all events, she has since been received as a public ship of the Confederate States in one, at least, of our colonies, and although this circumstance would not avil to screen any individuals who may have conspired to violate our law in respect of her, it would be too late to discuss the validity of her claim to shelter during the war. Had the Shenandoah arrived at Liverpool at the beginning of this year, it must be assumed that she would have been entitled to the benefit of the regu lations then in force as to the reception of bellige rent vessels. According to these, she would have been required to depart within twenty-four hours, unless either stress of weather or the want of imme diate supplies should have made a longer stay abso lutely needful, but no Federal ship of war would have been allowed to start in pursuit of her within twenty-four hours. It is, of course, self-evident that she now presents herself under wholly different conditions. Not only has she lost the character of a lawful cruiser by the collapse of the Power by which she was commissioned, but she has forfeited the temporary privileges reserved to vessels in the Confederate service by Lord Russell's notice of the 2d of June. At any time within a month after the receipt of that despatch in any colonial port, it would have been competent for Captain Waddell to in voke the benefit of it, "divesting his vessel of her warlike character, and, after disarming her, remain ing without a Confederate flag within British waters"—subject, however, to all legal risks, one of which would have been a claim of ownership on the part of the United States' Government. As it is, the month of grace has long since expired, and the Shenandoah stands in the same position as if it had never been granted. What, then, is this posi tion, and what consequences does the fact of their having carried on war for months after the fall of the Confederacy entail upon Captain Waddell and his associates ? These are two very different ques tions, and questions of very unequal difficulty. It is much to be regretted that either of them has been raised in this country instead of in America, and that no Federal man-of-war succeeded in capturing the Shenandoah before she cast herself as it were upon ourmercy. Having been raised, however, both issues must be honestly faced, and we may be sure that, whatever it may involve, strict justice will be done by the Government and tribunals ofE ngland. With regard to the Shenandoah herself, we apprehend that little hesitation can be felt. On every principle of law she belongs to that Government which has suc ceeded to all the rights and all the property of the de facto Confederate Government. This doctrine is laid down very clearly by Vice-Chancellor Page Wood in the decision which has been so much criti cised of late in America ; but in truth it is scarcely more than a rule of common sense. Lord Russell did not affect to override it by the provision in his despatch for the disarming of Confederate vessels in our ports, but, on the contrary, facilitated the ap plication of it through a resort to the proper civil tribunals. The Captain-General of Cuba doubtless acted on the same view when he delivered over the Stonewall to the agents of the United States ; nor, indeed, is it easy to imagine on whose behalf any counter claim could be preferred. What may be the technical formalities to be observed in the transfer is a matter of very little importance. 'Whether we ought to wait for a demand, or to make over the ship unasked, we hold it in trust for the United States to all intents and purposes. It is only when we come to the personal liability of Capt. Waddell and the crew that we are met by perplexing circum stances. It is now more than half a year since the American war virtually terminated, and the ravages of the Shenandoah have been infinitely more de structive during this period than before. The state ment of losses contained in Mr. Adams's letter of April 7 is as nothing compared with those that have since reached us from Behring's Straits and adjoining coasts. Nearly 40 whalers are said to have been among her victims in those seas, and the price of sperm oil has already been raisedjvery largely by her depreda dations. Now, it appears that Capt. Waddell pro fesses to have had no authentic information about the close of the war until he fell in with her Majesty's ship Barracouta on the 30th of August, when be immediately consigned his guns to the hold and altered his course for Liverpool. We have no wish to prejudge a case which must become the subject of a legal inquiry, but it is impossible to let such a statement pass unchallenged. It is expressly nega tived by our accounts from California, derived from the testimony of persons belonging to the ships which he had destroyed. We have their positive as surance that Captain Waddell was told of all that had happened by some of his prisoners, but refused to credit it, because it was based on Northern au thority. How could it otherwise have been brought to his knowledge, or how he could expect to receive an intimation of it from an office which, if it were true, no longer existed, it is for him to explain, for by refusing to accept such notice he certainly took on himself all the responsibility of his subsequent acts. Why did he not at least run into the nearest neutral harbour to verify a report which, unless false, so gravely compromised his further proceed ings ? It is possible that a good answer may be give to these questions, but we must repeat that the onus probandi lies entirely on Capt. 'Waddell's side. All the world knew and believed the news which he rejected, and which was not so improbable in itself as by any means to justify his obstinate scepticism. There is an old saying about none being so blind as those who won't see, and the facts here suggest an almost irresistible suspicion that Captain Waddell was determined not to be arrested in his destroying career till he had done his old enemies the utmost possible mischief. Nor would it tend to remove this impression if it should prove to be correct that on the pilot coming on board he asked innocently whether the war was over or not. It would have been a great relief to ourselves, though little to the advantage of the United States, had the Shenandoah been simply excluded from the Mersey and 'left to rove the seas till she should fall into the hands of her pursuers. As it is, there seems hardly any legitimate alternative but one. Captain Waddell and his 130 men cannot be handed over as prisoners of war upon any hypothesis consistent with that of the war being at an end. Nor under any circum stances can they be given over to the United States They might possibly be prosecuted under the Foreign Enlistment Act, but experience has shown the ex treme difficulty of establishing offences of that nature. The crime of which they really stand ac cused—supposing them to have wilfully ignored the termination of hostilities—is that of piracy, and on this charge it is possible that they may be appre hended and tried before an English Court of Justice. DAILY NEWS.—Whether from good fortune or good sense, or perhaps we may fairly say from a favourable combination of both, it happens that Lord Stanley's name becomes associated with the promotion of most objects of use and interest to the public. Although the opposite of an imaginative man, and therefore wanting in one of the most needful elements of a broad and generous sympathy with those who fill a different place in life from him self, the accidents of his position give him the know ledge and the interest which enable him to under stand the wants and join in the wishes of very diversified classes of the community. It is not at all wonderful, then, to find the heir of Knowsley, the late Minister of India, the member of half a dozen royal commissions, and the near neighbour of Liverpool, presiding at the inauguration of an athletic institution in that town. Lord Stanley knows very well what hard metal work is, and no body is better entitled than he to say what is the character of the bodily exertion which is its needful counterpoise. And he knows very well, by the observation of the facts which every day are forced upon his attention, how imperative it is that such a counterpoise should be placed within the easy reach of the sedentary dwellers in great towns. As he sees the marvellous growth of Liverpool he cannot help recognising how the want of fresh air, the want of country exercise, and the more and more engrossing character of city pursuits, demand the refreshment which is only in such circumstances to be obtained by the cultivation of some form of:gymnastics. So recog nising the necessity of the times, he usefully gives the benefit of his name and support to an institution which undertakes to supply the want, and which, having secured itself the advantage of an excellent hall in Liverpool, is likely, we are glad to learn, to form the example and nucleus of imitation and association in other towns similarly situated. That in performing this duty Lord Stanley could say nothing very new or very striking is no detraction of his powers. All that can be said on such themes is known, theoretically, to everybody. Doctors do not need to tell us that without exercise we must fall into ill health and die ; we are perfectly ready to acknowledge it as an established truth. We are all fully aware that the tendency of the mental work this age delights in is to excite the nerves and dete riorate the muscles ; we are perfectly conscious that by wearing out the mind at the same time that we neglect the body we are burning the candle at both ends, and that a speedy extinction of the light is the inevitable result to be expected. Nevertheless we go on doing it just the same. It is easier and pleasanter for us to live close to our places of business than to reside at a distance, or if we do go to a distance it is easier and pleasanter to take the rail or the omnibus than to get up in the dark mornings in time to walk, and then to return on foot at night through the muddy streets, dismal with the gaslights reflected from the puddles. Everybody has not a taste for volunteer ing, and the devotees of cricket or aquatic exer cises are at any rate during the half year debarred from these pursuits, while even during the season the business hours and growing dimensions of our great cities make it daily more difficult to obtain oppor tunity for indulging in them. What, then, is wanted is something accessible, something independent of weather and season, something which shall meet every variety of taste and strength of body, and something which shall give real bodily work, and not merely the excitement of a billiard room. These requirements, Lord Stanley very justly observed, are only to be provided by halls for athletic exer cises. The clerk or the junior partner may turn into them at any hour he finds convenient. He will have the comfort of a dry, well lighted, and cheer ful place of exercise. He can fence, or spar, or swing from ropes, or leap, or choose any other form of muscular exertion to which his fancy may incline him ; he has the encouragement of emulation and the guidance of practised skill, and in an hour he will do more to open his pores and expand his chest and harden his muscles, and unite hand, eye, and head in regulated precision, than he could by any amount of " constitutionals" through the depress ing lanes of the suburbs of a great town. This is a matter of experience as well as of obvious common sense. In fact, a clergyman, who spoke after Lord Stanley, supplied au apt illustration in his own person. He had been breaking down with over mental work and anxiety, and he was ordered by his doctor to rest. But he had no opportunity or means for resting, so he determined, instead of resting the mind, to work the body In daily gym nastics. This performed the cure. Now, as a clergyman's work does require him to be to some extent in the open air, to walk about in his parish, and to exert his voice in the pulpit, it is obvious that this case illustrates the insufficiency of mere town exercise in so far as the streets will supply it, at the same time that it illustrates the efficacy of gymnastic exercises, even though taken within the precincts of town air. It is, of course, to be fully admitted that such exercises may be abused. There is no thing that the wisest can recommend that may not be pushed to excess. But this is a risk that is not to deter us from using it for its fair purposes. Lord Stanley very justly pointed out the distinction when he said that the object of such institutions is ," not to make athletes, not to make champions of Eng land out of men who have not to live by their muscles ; but to develope strong, sound, and healthy constitutions." No doubt we shall, as these establishments spread and multiply, hear of accidents occurring in them, and even of men breaking down under the training. It is so in every pursuit into which emulation enters. But the fact that some men ruin their health by over training for a boat-race is not to prevent us from encouraging a manly and healthful recreation, any more than the 'loss of a life in a foolhardy Alpine excursion is to bid us reprobate every walking tour 'in Switzerland. Our business is to keep fully in view the chief aim of such pursuits, in order that the exaggeration may be discouraged, which al one can lead to harm. In this th e public may lend some aid. It must temper due encouragement with oppo sition to all feats which are attractive rather from their peril than from their grace or utility. It must refrain from injudicious applause of exploits which need too long devotion to physical toil for their ac complishment. In truth, if it takes care to subscribe when necessary to set such establishments fairly agoing, the public will do most wisely if it leaves their maintenance to the enthusiasm of their fre quenters. These will be quite numerous and eager enough to do without artificial stimulus. The pro gress of the German Turnverein is being equalled by the later but not less striking progress of gym nastic institutions in this country, and a national association which is to unite and extend their ener gies is already been set on foot. It is a happy proOl that Nature vindicates her own laws, and that the evils civilisation introduces will in a healthy nation find easily a natural remedy. Not merely mental vigour but moral soundness may be expected to be enhanced by the adoption of a system which is first of all suggested to us by the cravings of the body for physical exercise. All we have to do is to wish well to this latest development of muscular religion, and, while wishing well, to abstain from being seduced by novelty to urge a good thing to the point of evil. Cholera and its Cure. How awful and universal was the panic through out Europe when first this dire disease appeared advancing with rapid strides, and slaying its thou sands and tens of thousands as it passed, sparing neither young nor old, rich nor poor ! It is true that the ill-fed, dirty, and vicious were its surest and quickest victims, and also that death (generally speaking) was rifest in the low marshy ground, on the banks of a river, and in deep valleys, or where ever there was a stagnation of air. Some years previously the population in the south of Spain, especially in Seville, Cadiz, and Malaga, had been decimated by the yellow fever, imported in vessels from the Havana and Puerto Rico. The friendly (?) intervention of the French in the year 1832 was one benefit to the Spaniards. They strictly forbade and prevented the entrance even of any vessel from infected places into Spanish ports, from the month of May until Novem ber ; they obliged them to perform a vigorous quarantine at Vigo or Mahon, when passengers and cargo were sent to the lazaretto, whilst the vessels were fumigated and purified. This quarantine was never wider 21 days ; and if any deaths had taken place on board during the voyage, they were incar cerated for from 40 to 60 days in that portion of the lazaretto set apart for infected persons and goods. A French vessel of war was stationed just outside the bays of Cadiz and Malaga, not allowing any vessel to enter without permis sion. Against the yellow fever the vigo rous measures met with perfect success. This dreaded disease was completely banished from Spain. But not so the cholera. The Spaniards, hoping to prevent by the same measures its ingress into Spain, not only summarily forbade the entrance of all ves sels from infected ports, but obliged all other ves sels carrying clean bills of health to pass a quaran tine of from three to ten days before admitting them to pratique ; they also sent a large force to the frontiers, to prevent any communication by land, hoping, by thus entirely isolating themselves, to ward of this dreaded enemy. But all in vain. The cholera took a leap over their heads, and alighted in a village about 40 leagues in the interior ; and their first knowledge of the fact was accompanied with the announcement that the village was empty, and all dead except some half-dozen. The news spread like wild-fire, augmenting the panic of the natives. In Spain, as elsewhere, each physician tried his theory ; some half-killed their victims with calomel and purgatives, others intoxicated them with brandy or stupified with opiates. The strictest diet was enjoined, and in many places fruit and vegetables and fish were not allowed to be sold ; thus causing almost a famine amongst the poor, whose general aliment they were ; and ruined the agriculturists, whose subsistence depended on the sale of their produce. But this was of no avail either. Death was here, and death was there, and death was everywhere. This grim enemy, who com menced his ravages in Russia, proceeded to depopulate the whole of Europe. On his first visit Cadiz seemed a favoured spot ; his malignant breath seemed merely to have passed over the city, so few were attacked, and the only two or three deaths occurred in the upper class ; but in the years 1854-5 the disease was more virulent, and all classes were attacked; and many fancying they had caught it or having it but slightly, died from fright. Almost all who, thinking to escape from cholera, left an infected place for the pure air of the country,were victims to it. Servants,labourers, and even many of the family, fled as soon as any one was attacked. Every non-infected town or village closed its gates against any new corners ; and the corpses of them who died in the country had to be buried by the father, wife, or child who might surviv e. One might fill scores of pages with heartrending accounts of the tragic scenes one witnessed and heard of. The reader, then, may judge of the reaction of feeling when it was known that some men from the Philippine Islands were curing numbers, and that the street they lived in was thronged with people to witness what they considered to be an im mediate interposition of Providence in their be half. Of course the doctors were all up in arms against these interlopers on their special demesne. Several of them waited on the Civil Governor to beg him to prevent these characters from imposing on the credulity of the people ; but when the popu lace heard this, they surrounded the Municipality, threatening to break the windows if they were de prived of the assistance of the men who were work ing miracles amongst them. So it was decided that two of the complainants and a policeman should go with Lorenzo Martinez, the principal cholera-curer, to the hospital, and witness his skill on the cholera patients there. If he succeeded in curing them, they were to be allowed to continue doing so—if not, they were to be sent to prison as impostors. There were ten patients in the hospital ; one in a dying state, whom he refused to touch, as incur able ; three were severely attacked, the rest slightly. He cured them all, and most of them walked out of the hospital with him. The doctors then wished to oblige them to state what was their method of cure ; but they would not, as they had been so badly treated. I sent for them, stating my full belief in them ; and as the cholera was raging in my coun try, I entreated them to describe to me their method of cure, which I would willingly pay for, in the hopes that it might serve to stay the mortality in England. " Most willingly, lady, will I explain all to you, but without any remuneration. It is a common disease in our country, and we think little of it, as the medicines that cure it are indigenous there ; and having the medicines with me, how could I see them dying around me, and refrain from ad ministering them ? " The cholera," he said, " attacks the human frame in three places. If in the lowest part of the body, it produces dysentery, and, if taken in time, is easily cured by taking rice water ; but the rice must be roasted first, as the coffee-berry is, and then boiled. Let him drink nothing but that, and the more the better, with just the chill off it. Should the dysentery be obstinate, let injections of the same roasted rice-water be administered. No one need die of this kind of cholera, if they refrain from taking anything else. At other times it attacks the large colon, and produces both dysentery and spasms. The first remedy is friction. " The worst and most difficult to cure is when its first appearance is felt in the pit of the stomach, when severe spasms and retching are produced, and if not promptly cured, cramp sets in, and is often fatal. " In both of these cases the stomach is as hard as .a drum, and friction must be applied until the hard ness and tension is removed ; and then we give three drops of our medicine in a cup of strong green tea, which produces a profuse sweat, and the cholera has gone. The friction must be applied in a par ticular way, or it will be of no good. " Grease the hand with cocoa-nut oil if you have it, if not, with hog's lard or common oil ; but if you can get neither, then apply the hand from the region of the heart to the pit of the stomach, and then straight down to the abdomen—takiiig care never to apply the friction upwards or in a rotatory move ment. The patient, meanwhile, should lie between blankets. Begin the friction rather gently, in creasing in force. All at once the tension and tightness and hardness will disappear. Then give the medicine; but if not to be had, give camomile or tilia (flower of the lime or linden-tree), a decoc tion as hot as the patient can swallow it. Keep th e patient a quarter of an hour in bed after the sweat bursts out, then change him to a fresh one, and continue to administer every half hour one of the two mentioned beverages, and simple beef tea after some hours, without any salt in it. The medicines are the pepita (a seed) of the Camalonga, and the madera (or wood) of the San Paca, dissolved in , STATE OP TRADE. MANCHESTER, Nov. 7.—ln shipping yarns we have again had a very quiet market, and the little business offering has been at a further reduction of prices. An impression is gaining ground that the market is near the turning point, and some consi derable offers have been made, but at prices much too low to be accepted by spinners. This branch of the market is tame at the close. For home yarn we have also had a very flat market, at irregular prices—say about 2d. per lb, below the rates current on Tuesday last. For cloth the characteristic of the market ever since last Tuesday has been a disincli nation to do any business, and only some few timid offers on the part of buyers at daily declining prices. The absence of pressure from stocks has mainly pre vented a general acceptance of such offers more freely, although some few sales have been made. To-day we have had much the same state of things, buyers offering for available lots at still lower rates, while there is still an unwillingness on the part of sellers to take these rates, although there seem s to be a growing conviction among them that the rates offering are pretty much what the state and general aspect of affairs would warrant. Very little busi ness has been done to-day in cloths on offer, and in cloths for future delivery nothing whatever. Messrs. John Slagg and Co. report of to-day's cloth market : " We have been almost without business since last Tues day. Buyers have made a few low offers which have met with but little general acceptance, and the busineas proposed has been at a daily declining scale of prices. To-day we have again reduced our quotations, but the business has been on a most limited scale, and at very irregular prices." LEEDS, 7th.—The cloth-markets to-day have been indifferently attended, and the business trans acted was of the meagre character usual when the autumn trade is gradually expiring. Manufacturers were most conspicuous by the activity with which they pressed their new samples upon the attention of the few merchants present. From what has again transpired to-day it seems to be unquestion able that tweeds of various styles will occupy a principal share of attention in the preparations for the spring trade. Very few new makes of meltons have yet met with encouragement, but there are probabilities that plain sorts will yet obtain a good footing. There have been large deliveries to day of various goods, both heavy and light, such as pilots and witneys on the one hand and tweeds on the other, to complete orders, and in many cases the manufacturers have wound up those engagements satisfactorily. Buyers of ordinary market goods were in little request, and of the small assortment in that department to-day some remained unsold. NOTTINGHAM, 7th.—There was a moderate at tendance at the Exchange-hall to-day. The demand for lace yarns was quiet, owing to the dull advices from Liverpool. In some instances prices were rather lower, and a decline of 4d. per lb. on coarse numbers has taken place during the past week. The demand for hosiery yarns was slow, buyers holding Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton Nov. 18. Ditto, via Marseilles Nov. 12. Brazil and Cape Verds, by British pactet Dec. 4.i Ditto, by French packet Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena Nov. 21. China, Penang. and Singapore. via Bout hampton Nov. 18 Ditto, via Marseilles Nov. 12. Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton Nov. 11. India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Nov. 18 Ditto, via Marseilles . Nov. 12 India (Bombay), via Southampton.. Nov. 11. Ditto, via Marseilles Nov. 20. Mauritius, via Southampton Ditto, via Marseil'e3 Nov.,o. Nov. 8. Newfoundland . Portugal.. ••• .....Dec 4. • Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon. .. United States and British North America, by Bri- tish packet .. •- Nov. 8. Ditto, by United States packet, via Southamp- ton .. Ditto, via Cerk Ditto, by Canadian packet, via Londonderry Nov. 10 West Coast of Africa. Madeira, and Teneriffe Nov. 10. West Indies and Pacific (except Bahamas, Cuba, and Mexico • •••• Bahamas, via New Y ork. Nov. 16 Bermuda, ditto Nov. :2 Cuba and Mexico [ADVERTISEMENT.] —Holloway's Pills and Ointment.— Derangement of the Stomach and Bowels.--In all cases of irregularities of the stomach, the liver, and bowel; Hol loway's celebrated pills aro a safe specific. Dysentery, biliousness, acidity of the stomach, sick headache, debility, loss of appetite, drowsiness, and incapacity for exertion will all pass off before a course of these pills, which purify the blood and give tone to the whole system. In external injuries, such as burns, scalds, and bruises, and all skin diseases, the ointment is wonderfully efficacious. Both pills and ointment are composed of rare balsams, unmixed with a grain of mercury or any deleterious substance. They can be used with safety by both sexes, at all ages, in any climate. s.."* . Mr. Wenciell Phillips on REconstrnction• Mr. 'Wendell Phillips has made a speech condemning President Johnson's reconstruction policy. The following are some of the more important passages:— " When Leo sheathed his sword it was at the bidding ° f Virginia, which had a voice more potent than that of th Federal Government. There was a third principle, es was the accepted dogma of the South—that the two race s could never live together as equals. The negro may bon laborer, but he never can exist with the white man : the plane of equality. In order to content him en,t'e, plane of equality, on which it ought to be conteudeast naturally, if it were really natural law, the South mu illogically deduce an argument that he must be kept J's' franchised and ignorant, because ho could not be trustea with equality. State sovereignty for the pedestal, and th i e negro slave ignorant, in order that he might be contateai The poor white, necessarily i g norant, from the univers ° a principle that you cannot degrade labor and at the PI time keep the labori ng c l asses intelligent. The Best standing on the pedestal of State rights, ruled the count/ by negroes and poor whites in one hand, and, as John B4o dolph said, by white slaves in the other. T party of the North, caste, social aristocracy, mailed in St 3t° rights, fired that gun at Sumter and inaugurated ther: bellion. Caste, mailed in State rights, with the threefold whip of the slave, the poor white, and the Northern blare: ruled the Federal Union. Wi'h the idea of the imP° ssib tli lity of the two races on the plane of equality the Gent started in 1861. Sherman has swept round the Gulf, f ? has pushed Lee down to Fredericksburg. W hat o f the Where stands the South to-day? and where stands ' II t North ? How much has the South sacrificed ? :f one principle has she disowned? What one elern e c n t t sto strength has she parted with in political affairs ? to rights untouched. From the President at Waabi ll g te : o rd the last rebel convention that has ever assembled , has ever been uttered against the indestructible until . o f State Sovereignty. There is no crime in the Docalog°6oo The Democratic either national or international law that call sr i PP l° t„. or indestructible sovereignty of the States. That is o n of a ddress mal line that runs through every act and ever/no President Johnson. With o n e or two exs e P t t u u ltf. Southerner has ventured to ca ll the secession,Art rte The act which they did they repealed. They to validity by the very act of re p ea li ng it. TheY °ow the Union as they went out o f th e U n ion—an s rsl e p ie. No one single act of the retu rn i s su bmitted to t he T No one single act was submitted to the pe0P 1 0; co il same oligarchy that broke up the Union c °ll 4 l e- thd w to re-enter it with the same steps, - ,;, a ciPle' same usage, under the flag of the saran P h oe " The negro perhaps—not certainly—perhaps theY t t he parted with the chattel principle with the idea t ha A re negro may be sold on the auction block. Tb,,Tllot jet favourable auguries that that may be possible. c ar' achieved, not oven insisted upon, by no ole ar t o orlil tainty ; but p u tti ng th a t as id e , e d uca ti o n, labor, Plvs•gle marriage, locomotion, citizenship, suffrage, evell2 Beeps point that dete rm i nes th e con diti on o f th e man, 5 the sacred, indest ruc tibl e, i napproac h a bl e State, st":o•fthe folded in her bosom, denying with the full censer 1, it. Federal Government th a t they 0 t have any right tc alc ' • The negro if he is a wander er , says th e s t a te of 3fi sst 'c t ,,,te. we sell him for the benefit of the Treasury of the Whether he may be married, wh e ther he lir, 10 11 whether he may be educated, whether ho mai r°-1 1 , ° 8 10 5 / place to place, whether he may own land, whether ether he lay up money, whether he is to be a citizen, Wil a b is is to sit on a jury, whether ho is to be a w itnes s h - 01 , be own case, whether he can go to the polls, yfilet'ig 0 ,5 can have any rights, or any protection remain s 'i o ta sealed purpose of the obligarchy of the SOU' . ,f the rights, subordination of labor, the impracticability o f two races living equally together, the principle olio which the South went out, upon those nri nei ! °- eire r returns. Not a single rebel State Convention The uttered a doubtful note on any of these poin t ' Or same men with the same theories, and with the s sele helni ments of Government are to put their hands on rheas t he of state. Now; wherein, a n d t o w h a t exten t 'four Southern idea of civilization been cripnledLs. ia'd four thousand million of dollars, h a lf a m illion of ."‘ - the years of war, and yet the North does not clair° 7s l ,tion s South does not confess one single change in the' eat of of the past, unless in the future that single ole ra a chattelism shall be taken out of the political colunis' The following is an extract from the peroration of Phillips' speech concerning President J o hnson : -- 0 09 If you would avoid the alternative of "a count r y las- ot e wretchedness and infamy into a now civil war nbe - t itat Johnson. Do you own a bank share? I warn I°oo repudiation is behind the President's plan. A re l d th e merchant, and think, when the laboring systfo' n i, D o; South is finished, you will have a crop of cotton ? v - Lt of You will have a harvest of blo o d ;" an d this b all C oro Domingo. blood will be the horrors of St. D om " Th° h i3C P SI has felt freedom, has used arms," and, continues -od he he "holds his hand on th e nec k o f M r . I P C u lloch, s ° , llo Tha can strangle your finances, because the justice of God re ' his fate the measure of your prosperity." COUNTRY MARKETS ---4" --- -- BRISTOL—TUESDAY. t 11 We had'a fair attendance and good business cirgtrer 4 week's rates. Barley is dearer. Boiling peas ' 3 maize firm; oats fully as dear. L IVERP OL—T UESDAY. 13 1 1 , a to At to-day's market there was a fair attendance, , a slow sale was experienced for wheat at the aditnil'l-5 Friday of 2d per cental. Flour was not so saleaDle ,J,l late, and prices unaltered. Oats and oatmeal brot a s ti per bushel, and fully 3s per load advance. n e " s etil itil peas 2s per qr. dearer on the week. Indian corn of brisk inquiry at 2s per qr. advance. L EEDS—T UESDAY. i d wile ° A good consumptive d eman d f or b o th new an d t Tu °B ; at an improvement of i s p er qr . f rom th e r ates a io va rio9 day, but this h ar dly a p p li es t o qua liti es o f wilit°%. a lat e ' maintains its value, but the sal e is not so free 4 ° Beans, oats, and other articles fully as dear. MELTON MOWBRAY.—TuEsma• 36 F t 01 3 , 8; White wheat, 52s to 56s ; red, 41s to 52s Per, 5 151 , Barley for malting, 31s to 37s per qr ; feed, 295 ,t , PO' 30 stone. Oats 19s to 302. Beans, old, 443 to DvP 7 38s to 44s per qr. 1 LYNN—TUESDAY. oic , & silt f ite' or New wheat, 44s to 50s ; new red, 425. to 45s 48s to 52s ; old red, 4Gs to 50s per 36 stone. 2 Gs t° . malting, 34s to 36s ; secondary, 32s ; , ar ge, per qr.. Oats, 18s to 24s per 24 stone. Beans, to 40s ; small, 40s to 42s per 38 stone. fat SHEFFIELD—TuEsDAY. some weeks, but only a small quantity of white iv do {lll,, The supply of red wheat was more abundant 01111:11 offered for sale. The better qualities of wheat nit t ~01 6d per load of throe bushels more money than I zt ii olf, ° i , but inferior kinds wore little in demand. gThe,t'dco " oats, beans, and barley was larger, and prices au' per qr. Flour advanced Id per stone. 9'l rd 6,1 Red wheat, per load of 3 i m p. bushels....l7s 6 3 to 210 „- White do do .... 17 s 6d New red do do ....lea (d . 9 , New white do do do Beans dol7a Od *p.! Peas, per qr. ... 4OB Od : Q s 06 _, 3os Od aq , ,- Od Grinding ba ley, per qr 82$ Od ,'" 0* 3laltinebarley, CO :: Oats, do • 268 Od ............. F10ur....1a Od to 24 Od per 141 b. (1 4 ‘er.i'll BREAKFAST BEVERAGE. the medical profession generally, the most healthful of all beverages. When the doe"•o,fv homoeopathy was first introduced into this couet r Y: t trA e : were to be obtained no preparations of cocoa either 7 i t r Op e O c p om at m hi e e n p d ra c e oc tit o l i oll ,o e 7ii il o l , : tive to the taste or acceptable to the stomach ; th e /3- see.either supplied in the crude st a t e, or so uns kilfull y l tdoth factored as to obtain little notice. J. Eppe, OtAIL 0,11 111 homoeopathic chemist, was indu ce d i n th e year 1 8 . ) ' " %P -his attention to this s u bje t, an d a t l eng th suc,:ecd e fir st 10 the assistance of elabo ra t e mac hi ner y, i n being th e po d 1)1 , produce an article pure in its composition, and so ro t aya e the pert et trituration it r e ce i ves i n the process t ous e Ihrough, as to be most acceptable to the delica te tofie fe : For general use Epps' cocoa is distinguished as ae rating, grateful breakfast beverage, with a d e looo o . lo o, e Dr. Hassall in his work, "Food and its Adulter%tritlYtt says—" Cocoa contains a great variety of important I l i et h principles ; every ingredient necessary to the 0 ° 4 o° .° ' sustenance of the body. ,, Again, "As a nutria?, pifir stands very much higher than either coffee or tea:frfot ce; tions : —Two teaspoonfuls of the powder in a hrens.l o o / filled up with boiling water or milk. 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