The Sun. — London, England, 1866-10-19 00:00:00

C ardwell and Mr. Henley on Public Affairs. OXFORD, Thursday. The Mayor (Mr. J. C. C r aven) last night gave his annual dinner to the official and other leading personages of the city, University, and county. The company, which numbered about 250, included the Duke of Marlborough, the Right Hon. Edward Cardwell, M.P., the Right Hon. J. W. Henley, M.P., Mr. C. Neate, M.P., Colonel North, M.P., Colonel J. W. Fane, M.P., Mr. H. Barnett, M.P., Mr. Samuelson, M.P., the Vice-Chancellor (Dr. Leighton), the Dean of Christ Church, the Rector of Exeter College, the President of St. John's, the High Sheriff (Sir 11. Dashwood), Sir B. Brodie, the Warden of New College, the Recorder (Mr. W. H. Cooke, Q.C.), the Chairman of Quarter Ses sions (Mr. Hamersley), Professors Rogers, Bur rows, and Rolleston, Aldermen Sadler, Thorp, Browning, and Hughes, and Mr. Sheriff Castle. The " loving cup" having passed round, and the loyal toasts having been duly honoured, The MAYOR gave " the Health of the Lord-Lieu tenant." The Duke of MARLBOROUGH, in responding, pointed out the value of the Militia, Yeomanry, and Volunteer forces in the various counties, not only in a military point of view, but as bringing together all classes of the community—the peer, the landowner, the tradesmen, and the peasant—and linking them by a common patriotism, which overrid distinctions of rank and opinion. The next toast was " the Health of the High Steward (Earl of Abingdon)", which was followed by that of " the City Members." Mr. CARDWELL rose, amid hearty cheering, to re spond. He said—Mr. Mayor, my lord Duke, and gentleman, on many former occasions of this kind I have found it impossible adequately to express my sense of the kindness and cordiality with which you have been good enough to receive the mention of my name, and I assure you that I am using words of the deepest meaning when I affirm that I have no power to express the grateful feelings which animate me at the hearty and flattering reception which you have on this occasion been pleased to give me. It is a great gratification, Mr. Mayor, at the close of your year of office, the duties of which you have discharged with so much honour and credit to yourself and so much satis faction to your fellow-citizens, to meet at this festive entertainment so many, not only of the principal citi zens of Oxford, but of the authorities of the University and the county who are assembled here this evening to evince their esteem and regard for yourself, as well as to testify to that good feeling which so happily sub sists in all respects between the county, the Univer sity, and the city. I am glad to be present to bear my part in a tribute so honourable and so gratifying to you. Gentlemen, great events have been taking place around us within the last few months. It is not many weeks since we looked with apprehension on an approaching war in Germany--a civil war which threatened to be second only in duration and severity to that great internecine struggle which we witnessed with so much sorrow in the United States of Ame rica. But, happily, our forebodings have been dis appointed, and we were scarcely alarmed by the actual outbreak of war before we were reassurad by the restoration of peace. We have seen arise a new Germany on the ashes of the old—a Germany which ; is likely, I think, to exercise a greater influence in the councils of Europe, and I trust that that influ ence may prove a beneficent one. (Cheers.) We have seen, too, with great pleasure going on before our eyes the completion of that union so long and so ardently desired which unites Venetia with Italy. (Cheers.) It is the privilege of a country so abun dantly satisfied with its own territorial possessions as England is, and so justly confident in its own resources, material and moral, that it can witness events like these not only without jealousy, but with a lively sense of interest, provided they appear calculated to promote the advantage or to increase the happiness of friendly nations. But, sir, there is one respect in which it is right, I think, that we should carefully observe and examine such events. If we see victories gained more rapidly than the victories of Cie3ar or Napoleon—if we sec the des tinies of empires changed in a war so short in dura tion that it has been termed a seven days' war, I think it is only prudent for the greatest countries in the world to investigate the causes of those events, and to consider whether they can learn from them any lessons in regard to the future organization or improvement of their own material resources. (Cheers.) A great writer of the last century ob served that the history of the world has been the history of militias defeated by standing armies, by which I conceive he meant the history of less skilled armies defeated by more skilled armies ; and with respect to the training and effective armament of our regular forces, I would not yield to my hon. and gallant friend the county member (Col. North) in the zeal with which I would maintain that your forces, if they need not be so numerous, should always be in the highest state of efficiency and training. (Cheers.) But, sir, there is another sub ject connected with this which appears to me to be of peculiar interest at the present time--I mean the extent to which men engaged in civil life are DOW devoting themselves to the study of the military art, and constituting themselves valuable accessories and reserves in aid of the regular forces of the country. The noble duke in his eloquent speech, in which he referred to the Volunteer forces of this country, has anticipated to some extent what I was going to say ; but in the recent history of every country you will trace the same thing. y ou are aware how large a part the landwehr of Prussia have borne in the recent campaign, and you remem ber how in the Northern States of America civilians rapidly acquired all the activity and skill of profes sional soldiers. I can entirely confirm, too, what the noble Duke said with regard to the efficiency of our Militia when it was embodied during the war in the Crimea. I remember that distinguished gene ral the late Lord Seaton pointing out to me, I think it was the Staffordshire Regiment of Militia, and telling me it was in a state of efficiency that would do honour to any regiment of the Line. We are extremely proud of our friends, some of them from this immediate neighbourhood, who are at this mo ment enjoying the splendid hospitality of Belgium —(cheers)—and are displaying their practised skill in honourable competition with friendly foreign rivals. If, again, you turn to the sea, you have in the Royal Naval Reserve a force exceeding 16,000 men, officers, petty officers, and able seamen, whose daily life is employed in the maintenance of the superiority of that mercantile marine which is not only one great cause of commercial pre-eminence, but may also be considered essential to our great- ness as a naval Power. Well, sir, the inference I wish to draw is this—that it is most important not merely that each force should in its own separate State be in the highest state of efficiency, but that *e should most seriously and carefully consider what ought t o be the relation of these forces one to another, so that the whole defensive power of the etrentrYbest a all a o n uld be at any moment of n e cess ity i n hear.) most available condition. (Rear, 1 f vantage, for rd these f orces as o f s i ngu l ar ad of great streivrth,tll,_Y reasons. They are sou rces ey are sources of great ec onom y, but they p ossess this that they are great mer i t a b ove all others, ch ieti y enlisted on the defen sive side as against the aggressive side, and thus constitute a great makeweight in th e sca l e i n favour of peace, and a great discouragement cution of unjust and unnecesst lie • nt to the prose b Republic e Gentlemen, we have all, l am s Y u ' r w e ar s• (Cheers.) with h interest the progress of that , reat which we are connected by s o many friendl y ties, and with which we desire always to maintai n th e most amicable relations, towards which, moreover, re have been drawn now still more closely by th at material bond, the electric wire. We watch with friendly interest the progress they are making in the reconstruction of Government and the consolida tion of their power in a more centralised and efficient state, probably, than it has before seen. Side by side with that great republic, but not in any emula tion of its surpassing greatness, we are at this moment employed in the interesting work of con structing a new community by uniting the various provinces of British North America in one confede- ration. They will not be of a greatness to compare with their powerful neighbour ; there will be no rivalry and there will be no jealousy ; but extend ing, as they will, from the Rocky Mountains to the Atlantic Ocean, with an unlimited territory, with a large population, with commercial enterprise, and with maritime energy, they will constitute no mean community among the nations of the world. And so being, they will not only not desire to be them selves an independent nation, but they hold it to be their highest pride and privilege to remain the fore most dependency of the Crown of England. (Cheers.) Gentlemen, I remember that at this table—l think it was about three years ago—l en tertained an opinion that the harvest of that 3 ear was a good harvest, and I ventured in this ball to express that opinion ; but I spoke in the presence of an older and wiser man than myself, my right hon. friend your county member—(cheers)—and in following me he said—" It is very presump tuous to talk about the produce of the harvest until the wheat harvest has been thrashed out." Sir, I submitted to the prudent caution of my right hon. friend, and I am afraid he will give me no such caution to-night. I am afraid he will tell me in despair to say what I like of the harvest of the present year. But, sir, notwithstand ing existing disc ouragements—notwithstanding the cattle plague, which, I am happy to say, is begin ning to desert our shores, never, I hope, to return— notwithstanding the panic in the city, I believe it is now—as it was in the time of the cotton famine in Manchester—that, such is the elasticity of our re ! sources, and such is the steadiness of our industry, that no serious alarm need be entertained for the steadiness of the 'public revenue, or for the con tinued prosperity and employment of the people. (Hear.) Gentlemen, when supporters of the Go vernment that was and of the Government that is to meet for the enjoyment of social intercourse at this hospitable bard, it is a rule established by ancient custom, and sanctioned by the precept of the Mayor, that we leave behind us at the door all topics on which there is a recognised difference of opinion. It will be my duty faithfully to observe the salutary rule which has been laid down, and I shall therefore say nothing upon those vexed topics, but shall con clude these few observations with the expression of my sincere and earnest nope that when the time of action comes round, and we again return to our Parliamentary duties, we may address ourselves to questions of that kind in no narrow or party spirit (cheers)—but in a broad and patriotic spirit, con scious of the vast importance of our proceedings to the future destiny of England , an c d on a c n lu im si a o t n e s d w o h n ic ly h by a paramount desire to arrive at may satisfy public expectation and strengthen the institutions of the country. (Loud cheers.) Mr. NEATE also returned thanks. After remark , ing on the difficulty which the present Administra tion must have experienced in finding a fit succes sor to his right hon. colleague, he referred to the 1 rumoured visit of several members of the late Go vernment to Rome, and observed that the Pope ' himself being in a rather embarrassing position the gathering there would be a somewhat melancholy one. Perhaps, however, they would derive some consolation from the sense of mutual misfortunes. I (Laugh ter.) The MAYOR proposed " The Health of the County Members," remarking that when losing a Cabinet minister in the person of Mr. Cardwell, the city and county would have been glad had a successor been found in Mr. Henley. Mr. HENLEY, who was warmly received, said— The mayor Las been pleased to allude iu terms of regret to his not having become a member of the present Government, but he could only tell them that he thought it was wiser for a man to find out for himself that he was old than to leave it to others to find that he was not well able to do his work. That was his feeling in the matter, and he thought ' he was right in acting upon it. It must be a great gratification to the mayor and to his fellow citizens to see the general respect in which their municipal feasts and institutions were held, as proved by the present gathering. It had not been his luck for many, he thought he might say for 40 years, to see all the representatives of the city and county, and of the boroughs included in it, assembled in that hall. (Hear, hear.) Our municipal institutions had been well described as the cradle of our liberties, and among all the advantages and pleasures they conferred there was none, he thought, more gene rally valued than the festive entertainments which attended them. (Laughter.) They brought toge ther men of all ranks and of all opinions, and that under circumstances where they learnt to come and enjoy themselves without raising any questions which would excite the shadow of discord. 'Phis was a not unimportant lesson, for one of the great secrets of securing all that was valuable was to respect dif ferences of opinion. His hon. friend (Mr. Neate) had described him as being apt to listen, a quality which he thought was not a bad one, and perhaps being rather deaf he appeared the more anxious to catch everything he could. Indeed, he professed he had been anxious to catch something that he ex pected was going to fall from his hon. friend's lips (Laughter.) It was only natural that his right hon friend (Mr. Cardwell), with the habitual reticence which naturally hung about a Cabinet Minister, should say nothing—(laughter)—but his hon. col league told them that the right hon. gentleman was going :to Rome, and this made him exceedingly anxious to know what was to come of it. He did not know but what they might be getting up an erup tion of Vesuvius—(laughter)—or whether his right hon. friend was going to put the Pope in his pocket (renewed laughter)—or what was going to happen, and he thought that perhaps his hon. friend had been specially instructed to put forward in an in direct way something that the right hon. gentleman would not venture to say himself. (Laughter.) He had, however, been disappointed. Talking about Italy naturally led him to refer to the great changes that had been taking place in that country and in Germany, and to which his right hon. friend had I alluded. The Sovereigns who had brought about and were enjoying the fruits of those changes had a great and fearful responsibility upon their hands. (Hear.) They had swept away all old regimes and all hereditary titles, and they, therefore, could have no claim to the p os i t i on they themselves held ex cept by securing to the great people over whom they now ruled those advantages which they put forward as the ground and reasons that justified them in the course which they had taken. This was a great responsibility, and we, as lookers-on, who enjoyed the institutions for which those peoples yearned, but which as yet they did not possess in reality, could only hope that their expectations would be fulfilled, to their advantage and happiness. Unless this proved to be the case, a fearful day of reckoning would certainly come upon the Princes by whom those great changes had been brought about. He should not live to see it, but he felt certain that such a day of reckoning would come unless, as he and ;11 of them cordially hoped, the just expectations of those peoples and of Europe were fulfilled, and the professed end of those changes accomplished. (Cheers.) His right hon. friend had said that he warned him on a former occasion against being too sanguine with reference to the harvest. Ile wished there was occasion for the same warning now, but he was afraid that theprospect in manyparts of Eng land was not a hopeful one. In this district, fortu nately, a large portion of the harvest was secured before the weather changed, but there had never theless been a great deal much damaged, and there must be more or less suffering in some quarters, for even if nu increased price reimbursed the pro- dueers the consulnerswould suffer in what they would have to pay. lle had always said, and was ever ready to abide by it, that politics must not be touched upon on these occasions, but he thought he tsee the en su i ng sess i on o f Parliament must great might say, without tre n chi ng u p on th a t r ule, that and important changes brought forward—he would only express his hope that if they were brought for ward in th e b road and comprehensive manner to whic h his right hon. friend had alluded, with the view of satisfying the just expectations of the people and if those measures were met in the spirit which his right hon. friend had so admirably described, they might be settled in a way that might be bene ficial to the country. (Che ers.) They were su bj ects so deep and affecting for good or evil to such a vast extent the whole body of the people of this country that we should never grudge or regret the time that N, LONLON, FRIDAY. EVENING, OCTOBER 19, 1866. was taken up in coming to a good settlement, if, with the blessing of the Almighty, we arrived at the desired end. It was better to go too slow than too fast, for steps of this kind could never be retraced. That, he believed, was a point on which they were all agreed. and he thought they would also agree on this, that the great prosperity of this country, and the great blessings we enjoyed, had arisen in the main from the careful handling of such questions, and from our always endeavouring to hold fast to what we believed to be the old lines of the Consti tution. (Cheers.) Col. NORTH and Col. FANE also acknowledged the toast ; and the healths of the members for Ban bury and Woodstock, the Vice-Chancellor, and other gentlemen, were given and responded to, that of the mayor being proposed by Mr. Cardwell. sion of the soil by a few great proprietors ; that he would oppose every Government who would not break up this system, enfranchise the land, and sweep away the entails which protected this selfish oligarchy. And when, in accordance with the esta blished custom, the Whigs covered the flaming de magogue with the ermine of a judge, it was a strange sight to see this eminent person selected as the in strument of justice in sentencing men accused of uttering language not very unlike his own. For years upon years the Irish Catholics gave themselves up almost body and soul to the Whigs for patronage. What good has it done them? I heard it said the other day that Lord Derby, to use the common phrase, was going to do justice to the Catholics by giving them places, and a good deal was made of the fact that he has a Catholic Attorney-General, Mr. Morris, in place of the Whig Protestant At torney-General, Mr. Lawson. I shall not insult your honesty and your understanding by occupying much time in exposing this wretched idea of " jus tice to the Catholics." Justice, forsooth, because one man, or 20, or 100 men get such appointments. No, that it is not the kind of justice we haves right to expect from the Government. As between deno minations, perfect fairness and impartiality is all we should demand. (Cheers.) Let judges and law officers and every other class of officials be chosen for their merit and fitness, and let us hear no more of the old system of sectarian appointments. (Loud cheers.) What we want is something for the coun try ; above all—for I am sure you feel as I do that is the vital question—something that will check this rush of emigration that is draining the life blood from Ireland. (Continued cheering.) The late Go vernment deliberately refused to consider this all important question. The present Government have wisely expressed their judgment upon it, and have not shrunk from entertaining a remedy. There fore I say it is, so far, easy to choose between them. (Cheers.) Having thus contrasted the Whigs and their opponents, may I venture to perform that most disagreeable of all tasks—to speak a few words of myself. (Loud cheers.) It is the duty —the painful duty—of a candidate to do this. For six years I sat in the House of Commons, not ne glectful (I hope I am pardoned for saying it) of the interests of my country—(cheers)—nor forgetful either of what was due to the Church to which I be long. (Loud cheers.) And though it has been my fortune as a Catholic to sometimes take a leading part in questions involving the interests of my faith, though I never shrunk from any public duty where the smallest claims of my co-religionists were un justly endangered, and though I have obtained the credit of being one of the foremost in defence when my Church has been attacked, I have never, I am rejoiced to think, given the slightest offence, by a single word or act of mine, to those who differ with me in religion. (Loud cheering-) I have always be lieved that one of the great misfortunes of our coun try has been sectarian dissension. (Hear.) As an Irishman, I have remembered that Edmund Burke, Grattan, Flood, Curran, and a host of others, down to Thomas Davis—(loud cheers)—who have becu our statesmen, patriots, and orators, were sound Pro testants, and that they not only never offdnded their Catholic fellow-countrymen, but actually laboured hard in their behalf. (Loud cheers.) This policy of conciliation, and of justice to ourselves, from which I never deviated, may perhaps account for a fact not often unhappily noticed at Irish elections— namely, that in my recent contest in the King's County I had voting for me a majority of the Catho lic priests—that, of course, was to be expected—but also, I am equally proud to say, a majority of the Protestant clergy. (Cheers.) You will expect me to state what I have done in Parliament, though per haps you knowsomething about it already. (Cheers.) You remember the bishops'famous pastoral in 1859, and the various points it urged upon Irish mem bers to endeavour to carry. Of all these points only two—the amendments in the Irish poor law, about the treatment of little children in workhouses, and the conditions of the Irish Catholic poor in workhouses and prisons in England—have been accomplished, and those two points have been accomplished by me. (Loud cheering.) As I see in this densely crowded ball to-night, and I am very glad to do so, a large number of young men, I may also refer to my labours, partly successful, in throwing open the appointments in the civil service to free public competition. (Cheers.) On this subject I defeated Lord Palmer- ston, who was a staunch supporter of the old system of patronage, a corrupt system, by which the Go vernment bribe members of Parliament with petty places, to be distributed in another kind of bribery by the members amongst their constituents. That system I attacked. (Cheers.) I carried against the Government a motion for an inquiry into it, and the result has been, on the one hand, t o g i ve addi tional men in rising in lif e , an d o nthe facilities other, rto t o young strike t rike at the s can d a l ous system o f parliamentary patronage. (Cheers.) If you send me to the House of Commons again--(loud cries of "We will," " You're safe")—l shall, next to the essential interests of Ireland herself, devote myself to completing my labours on this subject ; and, by flinging open, I trust, the whole of these appoint ments to open competition, thus give a chance of obtaining a good position to young men destitute of rank or fortune or great friends, but posse ss i ng in dustry, ability, and an honourable am biti on. foreign(C h eer s policy. ) of [Having the late Government, th e hon. referred at some le ng th t o th e gen tleman resumed.] And now, in looking back at my Parliament, I will a thleVmhig partyonute in nt Lord Russell and th e opposition s you what to is the Whigs have left ? They are gone, as a Government —what is their monument? The pyramids of the Nile are supposed to be the tombs of Egyptian sove reigns, and a Frenchman has ingeniously calculated that it would take 2,000 ordinary graves to make one pyramid of Egypt. Lord Russell and the Whigs have far exceeded this, for their monument consists of two millions of Irish graves —a thousand pyra- As another can gis.)due to him and to d m id id a s te of h E as gy h p oo t u . m (L on o t u i d on c e h d e , er i i t n you that I should state that I preceded him in the field by no less than four months, for it was in June last that I received, in Cork, the invitation from a very powerful section of electors of this county. I have not a word to say against him. But after what has happened, and the almost unanimous welcome I have received, I need hardly say that I am firmly resolved, under all circumstances, to persevere in this contest, and go to the poll. (The hon. gentle man then sat down amidst cheers.) The following resolution was then unanimously Passed : " Resolved, that having now heard Mr. Pope Hennessy's statement of his political views, and bearing in mind his public career and his labours in Parliament on behalf of Ireland, we cordially adopt •him as our candidate for this county, and pledge ourselves to support him by every means in our power at the ensuing election." A telegram from New Ross says that at a large meeting of electors there Mr. Pope Hennessy was unanimously adopted as their candidate. DESTRUCTIVE AND FATAL FIRE AT MATLOCK.- Yesterday morning, at daybreak, Messrs. Hackett's tape mills, near Matlock, were discovered to be on fire. An alarm was raised, and with as much expedition as possible several private engines were brought to the spot, but the utmost exertions of the villagers were insufficient to stop the progress of the flames, which in less than two hours totally destroyed the mill and its contents, leaving nothing standing but four bare and tottering walls. A poor fellow named Hallam, who was employed as bellringer, perished in the flames, Immediately after the discovery of the fire he was seen at one of the windows of the topmost story of the building crying for help. He was then enveloped in smoke, and as the staircase by which he had ascended was on fire, and no ladder sufficiently tall to reach him could be procured, be foil a victim, and must have boon burnt to ashes. The building, whi c h was the property of M r . Unwin Heathcote, of Sh epa lb u ry, Hertfordshire, was in sured in the Nor w i c h U n i on, and Messrs. Hackett' s ma chinery and st oc k, w hi c h l atter wa s increased on Tuesday, by the addition -of a large quantity of cotton, were also in sured. The damage done is roughly estimated at £lO,OOO, and about 200 persons will be thrown out of employment by the fire, the cause of which is believed to have been a flue from the blacksmith's shop attached to the mill. The American Government is considering and will probably adopt a new system of small coinage. The one, two, and three cent pieces will have respectively one, two, and three raised and perforated stars. Thus, by hold ing the coin to the light, or feeling it, its value will be known. The half dimes and dimes are to bo larger and of better metal, and will be distinguished by one and two per forated stars. Naval and Military Intelligence. The following petty officers and men belonging to the screw frigate Leander, 39, 400 horse power, Capt. W. M. Powell, C. 8., were awarded medals and gratuities by the Admiralty for long service and meritorious conduct, on that vessel being paid off into the Chatham Steam Reserve on Wednesday—. viz., F. Tapsell, boatswain's mate, long service pen sion, medal, and gratuity ; E. Alford, ship's cook, long service pension, medal, and gratuity; J. Gut tridge, leading stoker, long service pension, medal, and gratuity; T. Fordo, carpenter's crew, long service pension ; and J. Hawkins, acting-sergt., Royal Ma rine Artillery, longservice medal. In consideration of the good conduct of the officers and men of the Royal Marines serving on board the Leander during the time she was in commission an order has been received at Chatham from the Admiralty granting an extra month's leave of absence. The screw sloop corvette Reindeer, 7, 200-horse power (nominal), in the fourth dock at Chatham, has undergone the necessary alterations to her main hatchways to allow of additional space being ob tained for the large midship guns she is intended to carry. She will be out of hand and ready for un docking in the course of next week. The injury to her false keel from her getting on the ground is also being made good. On being floated out of dock the Sepoy gun-boat will be placed in the same dock for repairs. In accordance with orders to that effect from the Admiralty the sailing frigate Africaine, 44, at Chatham, is to be handed over to the Elder Bre thren of Trinity-house to be converted into a coal hulk. An Admiralty order received at Chatham directs that principal naval officers appointed to naval civil establishments for limited periods are in future to be allowed to draw furniture, exclusive of articles of glass, plate, &c., from the dockyard stores to the extent of £330. Visit of the Volunteers to Belgium, (From the Times Special Correspondent.) BRUSSELS, Thursday Morning. Yesterday was a comparatively quiet day here as regards public proceedings, though the non-official hospitalities were continued without any diminution. The Lord Mayor of London is treated with marked respect by their Majesties and the citizens. At the theatre on Tuesday night the King desired his lordship to take a chair on his left in front of the Royal box. This the Lord Mayor, with good taste, for which the whole audience, who saw what was going on, gave him credit, respectfully declined to do, but occupied a seat immediately behind the King. The King has placed one of the Royal carriages at the disposal of his lordship, and by this-and many other attentions evinces his wish to pay respect to the city of London and the character of the present chief magistrate. Yesterday morning the King in vited Col. Loyd Lindsay and his staff to ride on horseback with him in the Bois de la Cambre, the Bois de Boulogne of Brussels. This wood has but recently been laid out as a public pleasure -ground. It is very extensive, and was formerly the appanage of an old abbey. As now arranged it contains spa cious carriage rides, capital shady alleys for eques trian exercise, and excellent footpaths. If we had it near London, Rotten-row and the Ring would soon be deserted. Leopold 11. is a good rider, and he and his companions did their 14 miles yesterday afternoon before returning to Brussels, from which the Bois is distant about a mile and a half. At 2 o'clock the King and Queen set out from their city Palace for the Muse; in order to hold the levee, at which all the officers of foreign rifle corps were to be presented. The repairs going on in the Palace itself prevented their Majesties from holding the levee there ; but the place chosen for the recep tion was not an inappropriate one. It was the old palace of the Austrian governors of this country, and Albert and Isabella lived there in the time of Philip 11. of Spain. The very apartment, too, in which the officers were present was the ancienne Salle du Trone. The Royal cortege was headed by a squa dron of the Guides, and another squadron of the same regiment brought up the rear. In a closed car riage and pair were some of the Royal attendants, then came two outriders in the scarlet liveries, and next a closed carriage and pair, in which were the King and Queen. There was a grand flourish of trumpets as their Majesties set out from the Palace, and another announced their entry into the Musee. The distance between the two buildings is scarcely a quarter of a mile, and the horses went at a walk ing pace, the crowds iu the streets cheering the King, the Queen, and the Royal Family. At the foot of the great staircase was a guard of the Chas seurs, and a number of Court footmen in the Royal livery. The officers about to be presented to their Majesties were shown into the apartment called the Salle a Colonnes on their arrival at the Musee. The levee commenced at a quarter past 2 o'clock. The King and Queen stood in front of the throne, at tended by a numerous retinue of Aides-de-Camp and Ladies of Honour. On the right of the throne stood the Lord Mayor of London, wearing the uni form of a Deputy-Lieute4nt and his insignia as chief magistrate ; M. de COmminges-Guitaud, Mi nister of France, and the Secretaries of the Lega tions of Frac ce, England, and Holland. On the left were the Bourgmestre of Brussels, the Echevins, I'Etat-Major, and superior officers of the Garde Civique ; the Commission of the Tir National, and the Commission for the Reception of Foreign Riflel men. The King wore his uniform of General-in- Chief of the Garde Civique and the Grandon Cordon of the Order of Leopold. The Queen was dressed in black satin, and wore a diadem of brilliants, the Cordon of the Order of Isabelle of Portugal, and the insignia of her Austrian order. All the officers of the foreign rifle corps, including, of course, those of our Volunteers, were presented to their Majesties. The levee terminated about 3 o'clock, and the King and Queen rqturned to Laeken almost immediately afterwards. A concert was given in the Zoological-gardens by , the band of the Ist Surrey in aid of the sufferers by cholera in this city. Though the King's levee kept so many people away from the gardens, 1,500 francs were contributed in aid of the charity. There was some good shooting at the long range yesterday, but no return of the scores was issued. Mr. Pixley, the winner of the Queen's prize at Wim bledon, made bull's-eyes in presence of the King on his Majesty's visit to this range; and it was two bull's-eyes and a centre which Lord Bury scored before his Majesty. The weapon used by his Lord ship is the old Whitworth with which he competed in 1861, So pleased was the King with his visit to the long range that he has signified his intention to inspect the shooting there again to-morrow morn ing. To-day the Volunteers go to Antwerp for a civic reception of the foreign riflemen. From the extensive programme of the feting which they are to receive there I fear the return to this city will be a very late aff a i r . To-morrow there is to be a s econ d visit to Antwerp for an inspection of the fortifica tions. On Saturday the King will entertain the French and Dutch and Swiss riflemen, and as many of the Volunteers as can remain till then. All are invited, and it is his Majesty's wish that all should accept the invitation ; but many will be obliged to return home before then, much to their own regret. It is the intention of the Bourgmestre to issue about 500 tickets for the Opera to-morrow night, when there will be another gala performance. The band of the Ist Surrey continues to be an object of great attrac tion to the townspeople. Its performance is capital, and it is in no manner chary of its " music most eloquent." When there is not a State dinner here everybody is dining with everybody else. There are Volunteers' messes in the principal hotels, and some of these messes dispense their hospitalities with un ceasing liberality. Last evening Colonel Loyd Lind say, Lord Bury, Sir Paul Hunter, and the Staff of the Volunteers dined with M. de l'Eau d'Andre mont, Major Commandant k Bataillon des Chaseurs eclaireurs de la Garde Civique, who assembled around him a number of gentlemen connected with the administration of the city and the fetes and Tir. The Lord Mayor visited the Bourgmestre yesterday, and in the evening his lordship had a dinner party in his apartments at the Hotel de Bellevue. The prospectus has been printed of an organisation to raise a fund for entertaining the Belgian riflemen in London next year. Mr. Pope Hennessy at Wexfo.d. At a large meetindin the Town-hall, Wexford, Mr. Pope Hennessy, the candidate for the county, delivered a long address, which was well received. In the course of it he said—Men of Wexford, your enthusiastic reception convinces me that though we may have been heretofore personally unacquainted, we have not been politically unknown to each other. Indeed, if I may judge from what has occurred even since I entered this crowded hall to-night, and from what took place to-day in the Manse-house, I would venture to say that no one can again describe me as a stranger to the constituency of Wexford. The three-and-twenty priests who were assembled a few hours ago at the Manse, though I never saw a single one of them before, welcomed me as a familiar friend, and seemed to have as intimate a knowledge of my public career as I have myself. In the same way, I cannot be a stranger to certain Conservative landlords, who have been canvassing for me very actively—(cheers)—but who never saw me, and whom I never saw. Therefore, I shall assume the privileges not of an acquaintance merely, but of an old friend, and talk to you frankly. Now, you have met here in the discharge of the highest political duty you can perform, that is—to resolve who shall be your second representative in the House of Com mons; and there never has been on your part a more critical moment for such a resolution—a more cri tical moment, I maintain, looking both to the pre sent condition of Ireland and to the present state and prospects of political parties. What is the con dition of the country ? Prostrate in the dust, poli tically and materially. (Cheers.) You have heard, no doubt, till you are sick of it, that all our misfor tunes are due to three bad years; but I attribute the lamentable condition in which we are to 20 bad years, and 20 extremely bad years they have been—l mean the 20 years of almost unbroken Whig rule. (Loud cheers.) Lord John Russell began these 20 years at the time of the famine, when his gross neglect occa sion wide spread misery and desolation ; he termi nated them the other day, leaving Ireland in a state of wide-spread disaffection ; during the whole period he has been consistent in misgovernment and failure. (Cheers.) When he took office 20 years ago our po pulation was eight millions and a half. Where is that population now? Dwindled down to five mil-. lions. (Cries of " Down with the Whigs.") Fortu nately for us that has been done already, t hey are down—(cheers)—aud we must keep them down. (Loud cheers.) Even ten years of Whig rule carries a terrible lesson--let me remind you of its results in this county. In ten years the population of the county of Wexford declined from 180,000 to 144,000. You will estimate the nature of this loss if you will suppose this town rendered utterly destitute—your population of 11,600 swept away—the town of New Ross silent and deserted, the town of Enniscorthy with roofless houses and not a human being to be seen, the town of Gorey also totally destroyed—in other words, the four chief towns of this county no longer in existence. If you imagine such a picture, you will see something even less than the reality of desolation which was spread over the county during those ten years ; for the four towns include only a population of 26,000, whereas the actual loss has been 36,000. When we remember what Adam Smith says, that population is the source of la bour, and that labour is the source of wealth, we can appreciate how seriously this must have crippled our material resources. (Cheers.) But the material view is the lowest ; we must not forget the severance of family ties and heart-breaking pangs involved in the emigration which carried away those multitudes. To the injury thus received from the Whigs they added the insult of publicly applauding the exodus of the people ; one of our poets, Oliver Goldsmith, has said— " 11l fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, "Where wealth accumulates and men decay." "No, no," said the Lord Lientenaut, "that is ex actly the kind of land Ireland should become. Let men decay, and let us have horned cattle and sheep in the place of them." The Whig Cabinet took the same tone. " Drive the human beings away to America ; send in cows and oxen ; make Ireland a silent pasture-farm for feeding the manufacturers of England." When I moved a resolution expressing the regret of the House of Commons at the decline of the Irish population, and trusting that the Go vernment would, by giving reproductive employ ment, endeavour to keep the people at home, every member of the Whig Government voted against me. On our side we had some Irish members and the Conservatives who were in the house at the time of the division—such men as Lord Cran bourne, a leading member of the pr sent Cabinet; Sir Stafford Northcote, the present President of the Board of Trade ; Lord John Manners, a most faithful friend of Ireland—(cheers)—and also a member of the present Cabinet. But, infinitely more important than the generous conduct of these statesmen when in opposition, is the declared policy they have adopted on this, the paramount ques tion with us, since they have assumed the respon sibility of power. Mr. Disraeli not long since, speaking in his own county to a number of English men, said the state of Ireland should receive the first consideration of Government. (Cheers.) He differed with the Whigs on this subject of emigra tion ; he avowed that he deplored it sincerely ; that he did not regard it as a healthy depletion, but as a fatal hemorrhage, a hemorrhage which should be checked; and he undertook that the Government would devise measures to stop it. Now, of course, he does not intend to lay an embargo upon emigrant ships, or by forcible means to retain the people, but he can carry out his policy, if he thinks fit to do so, by legislation which will encourage re productive labour and give security to the tenant-- (cheers) —and I presume there can be little doubt but he will do this, provided be and his friends re ceive anything like fair play. Heretofore a Conser vative Administration never was allowed in our time any opportunity of carrying beneficial measures for Ireland, for it was hardly in office when it was turned out again. Even the s fact that they laid upon the table of the house a tenant-right bill, which is now universally admitted to be the best bill of the kind ever introduced, and a bill which would have satis fied the tenants completely, and kept hundreds of thousands of farmers from crossing the Atlantic, in spite of this the Conservatives received no mercy at the hands of many Irish members, who joined the powerful Whig phalanx, and threw the tenant-right bill overboard, for the purpose of restoring the enemies of their country to office. (Cheers.) Is that fatal policy to continue ? Has not the time come when Irish members should give the Conservatives an opportunity of developing and enforcing the saving policy they have proclaimed with respect to Ireland ? ( Cheers.) N ot content with approving and promoting the decline of the population, the Whigs made it a practice to sow discord between class and class and fan the flame of religious animosity. To set tenants against landlords, to set Catholics against Protes tants, to keep us disunited and therefore powerless for any national good, has been their invariable practice. (Cheers.) They promoted men to the highest seats, of justice who traded for years upon these miserable, these fatal dissensions. One of the ablest men upon the bench in this country—one indeed who for astute ness and tact as a politician, for eloquence, and for a very high order of ability, is not excelled upon the bench either in England or Ireland—distinguished himself, up to the very brink of office, by the com munistic doctrines he uttered in setting the tenants against the landlords. He delighted in telling the people that the real evil of Ireland was the posses- SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TIMES.—Mr. Bright, in his inflammatory speeches at Glasgow, addresses himself to a special theme— the benefit which the country would gain by sub stituting a House of Commons elected by a greatly larger number of voters—he himself speaks of another million—who should belong solely or chiefly to the class of working men, or, at least, to a poorer class than already have th e franchise. When such a Revolution takes place, and, furthermore, the constituencies are more equally arranged, so that the House becomes a more direct representation of the great mass of the people, Mr. Bright believes that inestimable blessings will follow—that the nation will be changed, the structure of English society remodelled for the better, the obstacles to civilisation, morality, and religion re move d, an d a brighter and nobler day dawn on the country. The measure of the advantages which are to be gained by such a Reform Bill is, of course, the measure of the inefficiency of the present House of Commons. If blessings so incalculable as to be only dimly viewed in the future, and to be best figured by the comparison of Eden to a barren waste, are to spring from an electoral system which approaches nearly to universal suffrage and the equality of electoral districts, it must be that the present House of Com mons does really exercise a malign influence on the country, hinder the spread of intelligence, impede the production or distribution of wealth, condemn the mass of the people to poverty and ignorance, waste its funds on the maintenance of needless armaments or useless placemen, and, in short, fail in all the duties which a Legislative Assembly in vested with almost sovereign power should perform. This is the position which Mr. Bright thinks it necessary to establish, and which he is bound to prove before he can stir a step on his road to Paradise. When we come to the definite grievances com plained of, we find how much at a loss the Radical party is for a case against the existin g Legislature. After racking their brains to find something to say they can only dwell upon two or three well-worn topics, and charge upon Parliament evils which re flecting men know to arise from other causes. First, there is the expenditure on national armaments. It is the dominant class which keeps up the army and navy, of course to provide for younger sons. Now, if there be anything clearly established it is that this gigantic evil is not one peculiar to England, nor one for which England is primarily responsible. The greatest armaments in Europe are maintained by nations whose Legislatures are essentially demo cratic---France and Italy. We have always said, and we repeat it, that the chief offenders, the real support of thispernicious system in Western Europe, are our gifted but ambitious and restless neighbours, the French. As long as the traditions of conquest cherished by that people remain, so long will it be impossible for this country to dispense with a strong army and navy. Does Mr. Bright call to mind that this year the French Emperor has been almost forced by public clamour into a war with people who were strictly settling their own internal ques tions, and had given France not the slightest ground of offence ? Is not Europe at the present moment full of menaces and alarms? With what fairness, then, can Mr. Bright sneer at the man who is re sponsible for the British navy as " the great recon structor" and contrast his zeal for armaments with his love of liberty ? Then there is the question of education. But one testimony is borne by all acquainted with the subject, and that education is hindered, not by want of schools and teachers, but by the children being taken away from school to work. We can only see one remedy, one sys tem by which ignorance could be exterminated. The State might make education compulsory, and forbid any child to be set to work before a cer tain age. But can it be said that the. country has demanded any such legislation, or would have supported the House of Commons in it? Would not the most strenuous opposition have come from mem bers of Mr. Bright's own class, and probably from the working men themselves? We hear, then, of the great grievance that the land is being concen trated into too few hands, and this also a new House of Commons is to remedy. The real reason of this, however, undoubtedly is the high price which land brings in the market, and consequently the small interest which it yields. Enormous fortunes are made in commerce, and the rich men offer prices which make it worth the yeoman's while to sell. The land of England in many counties is becoming a sort of pleasure ground for those who are accumu lating wealth in the great towns, and if it were divided to-morrow among all the adult males who dwell upon it, the process of agglomeration would begin again in a week. It is not the duty of the Legislature to resist what is evide n tl y an i nev i ta bl e tenency of our social state. All that it can do is to set land as much as possible free by rendering its transfer , easy, and that it has taken care for this Lord Westbury's Act bears witness. When we look at these accusations one by one we thus see how groundless they are. A good Reform Bill will cer tainly be a wise and truly conservative measure, but Mr. Bright ought not to lead his followers to suppose either that the present Legislature is selfish and unjust or that a Golden Age is to commence on its ruins. POST.—To those who take an interest in the mari time affairs of the nation beyond what is summed up in a ready belief of the superiority of the " British sailor " to all created beings, and the efficacy of " hearts of oak "• in overcoming all possible diffi culties, the approach of winter has a peculiar and melancholy interest. To such it means the advent of storm and tempest, and of the long succession of disasters and shipwrecks which annually darkens our wreck-chart and desolates the homes of our seamen, and it cannot fail to lead also to the con sideration of the causes to which those disasters and shipwrecks appear to be due, and to a desire to seek for some means of _removing, at any rate, those which are evidently removable. That there should still exist so many sources of difficulty and danger to the navigator which distinctly come under this latter class is a curious commentary upon the interest which Englishmen are popularly sup posed to take in all matters relating to the sea ; and still more curious, as showing the small amount of attention which even those more particularly in terested in such things give to the amelioration of conditions which affect their very existence. This is r r v a e t d , i at,n mattersif we have probably in a great degree owing to the prevalent and supremely ridiculous beliefaoarrived t seamanship, we have long ago not passed, the ultimate point of perfection ; and the only result usually arrived at from a review of our present position is a hope that we may not be falling away from our former excellence, rather than a conviction that we ought to be reaching far be yond it. Old systems new and improvementsold ideas are clung rejected with a tenacity, and with an obstinacy, which induce a suspi c i on th at t h e to 4hearts of oak" which are the glory of the sailor must be generally accompanied by heads of the same material, or else that a too great reliance upon the influence of the sweet little cherub wh) is supposed to make them his special care has produced an indis position to any human improvement which might interfere with his authority. At any rate it is passing strange that, when the sea has so many dangers of its own to daunt the sailor, it should yet have been found necessary to invent some very ingeniously contrived artificial dangers to add to the category ; and we cannot forbear from calling attention to one which is but little known, but which will be recog nised by every sailor as having no small influence in swelling the list of disasters by which our coasts are every year distinguished. We allude to the pilot system, than which one more fraught with abuse, and less fitted to attain the objects for which it is supposed.to exist, could scarcely have been devised. In .the first place, pilotage is a strict monopoly. The Trinity Board in England, the Northern Light Com missioners in Scotland, and the Ballast Board in Ireland, have from time immemorial assumed the power to. fix the exact number of pilots which each place requires, and to decree that that number shall not be exceeded. It is not pretended that many more than the prescribed number of pilots—and equally' good pilots—would not be forthcoming if they were permitted ; quite the contrary. The reasons by which the system is defended are precisely the same as those which are put forward in support of all other monopolies, viz., that if the trade were thrown open such numbers would flock to it that they would not be able to obtain sufficient work to maintain them selves and their families, and that the result would be that whereas at first there would be far too many pilots for the service, in the end there would be far too few. If the same principle were applied to butchers and bakers, or even to the captains of vessels themselves, these reasons might at least be worth examination, but in times when we have arrived at such a confidence in the constant relation of supply to demand as to have not only based all our own legislation in every particular upon it, but to have become apostles to the rest of the world, such an argument cannot live for a moment. But pilotage is not simply a monopoly, it is a monopoly, which is aggravated by being accompanied by compulsory adoption. It is bad enough to tell the consumer that he must buy the goods he wants at one shop alone, but to tell him that he must buy goods there whether he wants them or not is to double the in justice, and in the present instance, from the pecu liarities of the case, to more than double it as re gards the small consumer. To the larger and more valuable, and consequently more responsible craft, compulsory pilotage is an actual boon, since the fact of its being compulsory relieves them from all responsibility for any damage they may incur while in the pilot's charge ; and it acts, therefore, as a kind of cheap insurance against liability in dangerous places. The effect of the whole system is, that as the pilots know they have a monopoly of the service, and as they know their services must be paid for whether rendered or not, they naturally enough—for they are but human . '" seek the work which is least disagreeable to the . ln• Unfortunately thi s i s a l so prec i sely the work which is of least value to the navigator. In fair weather , when the difficulties of entering a port are at the minimum, the pilots are on the look-out iu plenty for approaching vessels, and vie with each other in the distance they beat up to windward to catch thew., but in foul weather, when to the storm-beaten marl' ner coming from th e sea t h e i r serv i ces are most va in , , able, this emulatio n i s no l onger found to ex i st; a nd as the pilots know that the arriving vessels cannot b 6 served by other and more enterprising men than themselves, the tendency is to keep well under shel ter, and let the vessels get well in before they boar",_ them. Every sailor has e x p er i ence d t hi s, an d alt h o ugu it is true that in most of the important ports th pilots are kept well up to their duty as well as can b done by strict supervision, the enormous disadvan; tage of having to exercise such supervision, instead s of leaving the thing t o reme d y it se lf b y t h e act i o n °' the natural emulation which would result from eon: petition, is manifest; while, if the supervision i s at all relaxed, the service becomes demoralised t° a degree which is the cause of the greatest dange,r, to vessels maki ng f or por t. Th e reme d y f or n'' this is obvious. The trade Of pilotage is like all other, and the supply is equally capable of adapt ing itself to the de man d as i n a ll ot h ers. It i s 01 course necessary that every pil o t s h ou ld h ave passe°, an examination, and s h ou ld possess a cert ifi ca te of competency, but w h a t we wou ld i ns i st upon . that compulsory pilotage should be abolished, an' that the trade should be absolutely open to any man:capable of gaining his credentials. Those vim' sels which have no need of pilots would not then be forced to tak e th em , an d t h ose which nee' them most would be able to obtain them. The Real Causes of Prussian Suece-s. La France publishes extracts from letters communicat aa to it,,by one of its subscribers, "of German origin and re siding at Strasbou rg ," g i v i ng hi s i mpress i ons o f a weeks' visit to the th ea t re o f t h e war i n Germany. ll° merely desires to present a few observations katggested by his inspection of the ground, and particularly to mention what he heard from the lips of those who took an active part in the fighting as to the real causes of the astonishing success of the Prussians. As to the famous breech-loadi n g needle-gun, he observes :—"lt is undoubtedly an excellent weapon, but in make and accuracy of aim leaves much t ° be desired. I was talking one day to Prussian officers abou t . the effects of this weapon, and, like many others, I OW; buted to it in great part the victories of their soldiers. soon perceived, however, that my expressions of admira tion produced an unpleasant effect on the nervous system of the heroes of Sadowa. You greatly exaggerate,' said colonel of infantry, the part which the weapon of our O r fantry played in this short campaign, and you attribute t ° the instrument itself what it wo u ld b e more j us t t o attri bute to the instrumentalists. Now, allow me to explain t ° you how it comes to pass that the Prussian army plays f, agreeably on the little in s t rumen t w hi c h we ca ll t h e n eedle gun, and which, believe me, is far from being a perfec t portable firearm. Very many improvements, be persuaded, will have to be made in this instrument, but no improvente nt can be made in those who use it. You have no adequate notion of the pains we have taken in our regiments t() , teach our men to h an dl e w h at your soldiers in France ca ll the six-foot clarionet. Shooting at targets, which until VI, recently your generals and y our regimental officers regard ed as a mere accessory and of little moment, has been fo r many years in the P russ i an army the object of continual practice of the most serious study. In Prussia we have em ployed all means not only for carrying to perfection the instruments, the engines of war, but to make the men capa ble of skilfully using what we put in their hands.' After these preliminari es , my P russ i an C o l onel describes at lone' and like a man well up in his subject the mode by Whi ch the Prussian soldiers were brought to be perfectly f a miliar with their arms, and to o bt a i n t h e b es t poss ibl e r esultts from it; the numerous exercis es , gra d ua t e d i n an intent gent manner, required from th em ; th e p r i zes awa rded to the best marksmen, and the care bestowed upon then ] ; Subsequently 1 happened to e xp ress great a d m i ra tion et the organisation of the Prussian army an d o f th e m ilitary system of the country. You confound two things whic h should always be distinguished,' observ e d a genera l officerwho has gained groat reputation in th e cor p s commanded by Prince Frederick Charles; moreover, you do too in° honour to our famous system of reserve, or L a ndweh r ' and you seem to me not to know that s i nce 1863 0° have, in part, given up this old machinery ; or r ather ic e have greatly modified it, and have come near to you r manner of acting. For a considerable time we had Laudwehr, because the Emperor Napoleon I. after 111 " victories over us forced Russia to keep her regular aril within 40,000 men. In order to provide f or th e defence.° the country we were forced, in turn, t o r esor t t o the cir cuitous plan of a sort of Nati ona l G uar d. N o t b e i n g a ble to have an army like yours, we contrived that every O a° should be, if not a regular soldier, at least a defender of the country. It was an excellent system against foreign W I ; sion in a State well constituted and homogeneous, but n ° adapted for offensive warfare. The political personsg ° who has just raised our country so high before attemptll the realisation of his great ideas, wished to free liiin se „:„ from the purely defensive military system of th e Laudiv"" and Laudsturm, and to enter on i hat of a permanent regu lar army, fit for campaigning. After creating in 186 3 a l army well instructed, and letter disciplined than aNatione Guard can ever be, lie converted that National Guard, 0r Landwehr, into a powerful reserve, from which, when 61° war began, he draughted the most efficient part into tb ° active army, leaving the rest to do duty as garrison troop s ' We have had, then, immediately, and from the very r e° : meut we opened the campaign, three distinct elements' troops for campaigning, troops of reserve to fill up vn eD ' u ; cies, and garrison troops to defend the country if the t V(. " first elements m e t w ith reverses. O ur m i l i tary orga ni° 3 ; tion is quite diff eren t f rom t h e French system. I b e lleY; it to be eq ua ll y goo d , an d i n many respects even supo ll°- to it.' " COUNTRY MARKETS. BIRMINGHAM—MunsDAY. At this day's market there was a short supply of Eug l t wheat, and all qualiti es so ld at an i mprovement of is 6" to 2s per qr. Fin e b ar l ey no cheaper; secondary difficult quit. Oats held fo r more money. Beans dull. Pea s lest inquiry. BRISTOL—THURSDAY. Supplies this week are large of Irish oats and Wien other articles very moderate. Values of wheat throng the present week have been gradually stiffening, and °II our market to-day farmers readily succeeded in e stablis b " ing an advance of 2s per qr. The supply was moderate and condition generally good. Foreign in short suPl 3l 4l and sold readily at 2s per qr. more money. Barley, b o ". malting and grinding, a quiet trade at last week's price'' Oats in better demand at fully last week's values for a n de' scriptions. Beans Gd to is per qr. higher. For ludis! corn a good demand, at an improvement of Gd to 1 ' per qr. BURY ST. EDMUNDS—WEDNESDAY. The supply of wheat at thispiarket to-day was not lard' , There being a b r i s k d eman d f armers h a d no difficulty 1 ' obtaining an advance of is to 2s perqr. on last week's rate: There was a larg e sh ow o f malting barley, and io n , samples fully maintained their va l ue , but towards the secondary qualiti es were b oug ht at is to 28 per qr. .`°- money. EDINBURGH-WEDNESDAY. Wheat on the top, 2s Od up average, is 8d IV' Barley on the top, 8s Od up average, is 4d vp• Oats on the top, Us 4d down Beans on the top, 2s Od down average, Cl O s s 14Odd .... . - Total supply and sales. Wheat 741 qrs ' sold 576 Barley 2101 qrs sold 1634 Oats 1210 qrs sold 964 Beans l6 qrs sold 14 Average prices. Wheat, 58s ld I Oats, 28s 8d Barley, 36s 4d 1 Beans 57s 9d Town-made flour sells as follows :—White,-47s 6d ; o il* superfine, 46s Od; superfine, 44s 6d; fine, 43s Od. GLASGOW—WEDNESDAY. • aso To-day's market was well attended. Wheat realise 20 improvement of is to is 6d per 241 b., and flour of is to d per sack; barley and beans steady; old oats, peas/ Indian corn 6d dearer per respective boll. Births. AUBYN— On the 17th inst., at 42, Upper Grovesnor-str eet, the Lady Elizabeth St. Aubyu, of a - daughter. CHAMPAIN—On the 17th inst., at C a d ogan-place, the 4° of Major Champain, R 7 E., of a son. DICKENS—On the . 18th inst., at 46, Gl ouces t er - r oad, Re gent's-park, Mrs. Chas. Dickens, jun., of a daughter. r HAY —On the 14th inst., at W oo l w i ch, the wife o f 31$3° R. J. Hay, Royal Artillery, of a daughter. Marriages. NOTTING —PRESANT—On the 18th inst., at St. Savieu r b ' ' 4 l South Hampstead, Lindop J. Notting, Esq., of Cr °s io d Hall-chambers and Highgate, to Emily Catherine, se e '„th daughter of John Prosant, Esq., of Adelaide-road, 612 " Hampstead. SIMPSON—SMITII -On the 16th inst., at St. Paul's, 13 I' °f pond, Isli ng t on, O ctav i us N . S i mpson, Esq., MaY' ,. In to Stamford to Jane Robinette, eldest daughter of the Win. Smith, Esq., of Nicholas-lane, City. Deaths. BURGH—On the 15th inst., at Ardboe, county Tyrone, th Rev. Win. de Burgh, D.D., rector of that parish. rfi MARTIN—On the 13th inst., at 35, Sackville-street, Col. Martin, late of the 20th Bengal Nat. Inf., aged 61. SIMPSON—On the 15th inst., at 6, Coburg-place, 134 water, Mr. Charles Simpson, aged 70. SYDNEY —On the 11th inst., at The Bourn, near gaidett head, Berks, Sir W. R. Sydney, K. 8., aged 79. TucKER.--On the 15th inst., at Mount Pleasant, Kingsb l.l , 6l Wm. Tucker, Esq. (late of Mortimer, Barks), aged 81 ° e TAYLOR—On the 16th inst., at 31, Lower Marine-tell!„ e j o ; Margate, Jas. Taylor, Esq., of 36, Nelson-terrace, Newington, aged 88. London: Printed and Published by WILL lAN AN DB" of No. 112, Strand, Painter. at Tnz SUN OfPoo, 1":;10t Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the CoUll" Middlesex.—Friday, October 19, 1860. 1 lip