The Sun. — London, England, 1866-04-19 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. SMYRNA AND CASSABA. The half-yearly general meeting of this company was held yesterday at the office, Adelaide-place, London -bridge ; Mr. J. W. Larking in the chair. Ms. CAPE, the secretary, read the report, which congratulated the shareholders on the opening of the entire railway, which thelengineer had reported was properly and substantially constructed, and that the limited amount of rolling stock which it was considered prudent only in the first instance to pro vide had been placed on the line in good condition. The directors felt it due to the contractor, Mr. E. Price, to record their high appreciation of the e nergy and faithfulness with which he had carried out in every respect his contract with the companY• The concession was dated 23d January, 1864, the works were commenced on the 19th April, 1864, and the whole line was in work on 22d of January last. The passenger traffic for the first week ending 28th of January amounted to £533, or £8 14s. Bd. per mile, and went on increasing up to the week ending 25th of March, when it amounted to £822, or £l3 9s. 4d. pqr mile. On the 15th of March the carriage of goods commenced, and for the week ending the 18th of March amounted to £203, and for the week end ing the 25th of March the goods amounted to £2OO, making the total traffic receipts for those two weeks £873 and £1,022 respectively, the average of the two weeks being £l5 10s. per mile per week, at about the worst season of the year for traffic. The passenger traffic had already reached the amount which it was estimated it would realise at this season of the year, and it was still ra pidly increasing. As regarded the goods traffic, when the existing carry ing trade was diverted, as it would shortly be, from the road to the railway and developed, the receipts from the goods traffic would also be fully equal to the revenue which was expected from that source. The prospect of a large amount of traffic pointed to the expediency of an addition to the rolling stock. The share capital was £520,000 in ordinary shares and 1280,000 inipreference shares, together £BOO,OOO. In December, 1861, the directors were authorised to take up on loan £130,000, and to create and issue bonds for that amount bearing interest at 8 per cent., being repayable in five years, and to keep in reserve £130,000 of the preference shares to meet the bonds as they arrived at maturity. The bonds were ' created and issued, and the preference shares kept in reserve accordingly. Those funds were sufficient to meet all demands for the completion and fur nishing of the line in accordance with Mr. Price's contract, leaving a balance of about £5,440 to the credit of the coinpany. It was now proposed to authorise the directors to borrow a fur ther sum of £lOO,O OO, making, with the former powers, a total borrowing authority of £230,000. The £lOO,OOO would be required for purchasing additional rolling stock and paying the contractor a portion of the balance due to him in cash in lieu of shares. The proposed debentures would bear interest at the rate of 8 per cent. per annum, payable half yearly, be issued at £B7 10s., and be redeemed in 11 years from July 1, 1867, at par, by annual drawings. The company had the option, for a limited period, of taking over a concession granted to Mr. Price, for extensions of the line to Philadelphia and Bounnarbashy. The report of Mr. Austen, the engineer, stated that the official acceptance of the line was daily expected, which would render the Government thereafter respon sible for the annual net revenue of £40,000. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, congratulated the shareholders on the open ing of the line throughout, and on , the prospects of the traffic. Theirs was the first railway opened throughout in Turkey. For the admirable and rapid manner in which Mr. Price had constructed the works it was their duty to assist him as much as possible by raising the proposed capital. The report and balance-sheet were then adopted. Mr. BuncuELL remarked that it was a Turkish railway carried out by English enterprise. He thought it very desirable that English enterprise should develope the resources of Turkey. In con structing their railway they had been entirely suc cessful, and of all things for improving the condi tion of Turkey there was nothing equal to railways , and if judiciously carried out they could not fai to prove successful. lle had taken some pains to compare the traffic on their line with that on the Smyrna and Aidin line, opened in Sept., 1862, of which 48 miles were in operation, and had cost about £17,000 a mile, while the Cassaba line, 61 miles long, opened on January 22 last, had cost 1'3,000 a mile. He found that the traffic receipts on the Smyrna and Aidin line on March 22, 1863, amounted to £245, or £5 per mile per week, while the traffic on their line for the week ending the 18th of March last amounted to £872, or £l4 per mile per week, and for the week ending the 25th of March to £1,022, or £l6 15s. per mile per week ; the average of the two weeks was £947, or £lslos. per mile per week, against £267, or £5 ss. per mile per week on the Smyrna and Aidinline in the corresponding period of 1863. On a com parison of traffic for the weeks ending the 4th and 11th of March last on the Smyrna and Aidin, amounting to £5lO, it appeared that the average was £676 for the week, against £255 in 1863, or nearly treble the amount of the latter. The traffic on the Smyrna and Aidin line had greatly increased, and would still further increase on its opening through out to Aidin ; and, therefore, they might fairly ex pect the traffic on the Cassaba line to treble its pre sent amount in a similar period. They had the guarantee of £40,000 a year net profits by the Turkish Government, but he thought the traffic on the railway would yield the company a much larger profit than the amount of the guarantee. • Ile con cluded by moving a formal resolution, authorising the directors to create and issue £lOO,OOO in deben tures on the terms stated in the report. Mr. SIMPSON seconded the motion, and it was carried. Mr. J• Ball waa appointed an auditor of the corn pant• Re3olutions were passed. authorising the directors to exercise the option of taking over the concession for extensions of the line, and to make certain verbal alterations in the articles of association, which latter would require confirmation. The proceedings then terminated. undertake the mission, and left for Rio by the mail of the 9th inst., armed with the amplest powers. In the meantime the promising state of th - 3 k cal traffic must impress the Provincial Chamb3r of Pernam buco with the great importance of all those ques tions being taken up by that body, as affecting the commercial interests of the province in a greater degree than they affect those of the company. The line, the works, and rolling stock were in good con dition. Mr. Mann, the company's manager, con tinued to maintain his conviction that the traffic would this year yield a gross surplus of not less than £50,000, and that the want of sufficient rolling stock had become now a crying evil calling for im mediate redress. The clear net balance of revenue, after all deductions, for the year ending the 31st of December last, was £12,533, against £894 for the year preceding. In addition to the amount divisible out of the half-year's guarantee there was a suffi cient sum in hand, from the accumulations of the surplus of previous half-years, to warrant the direc tors in recommending for the past half-year a divi dend at the rate of 4 per cent. per annum. PER►NAMBUCO. The report of the directors states that they had hoped the mail recently arrived from Brazil might have brought some further communica tion from the Imperial Government on the subject of the promised extension of the company's guarantee. It had not, however, done so. In the meantime, however, all that could be done by them in the .Fay of urging upon the G overnment the ne tet7 01 the earliest decision upon it had been done, and th e di • rectors now awaited the result. no Le hers of Brazil not meeting March the directorsms to his Maj were of • • opinion that until . a memorial "tY th earnestly calling the Emperor, respectfully but po sition of affairs end . t, L , -!)esty's attention to the po the company by t h e i re great hardship caused to that had already taken plac e , and unnecessary delays e ii and praying therefore for speedy redress, might, assembling of the Senate, lead d resented prior to the to the matter ben taken in hand immediatety on tbe oPeni ng of ing session. A memorial to the above the cftet, under the B aal of the company, was accordingly he forwarded the February mail to Mr. Thornton, British Mi • at Rio, with a re q uest that he would himselfa. ulster kindly place it in the hands of his Majesty. B__ the last mail m ail Mr. Tho rnton informed the directors that be had done so. A copy of the memorial was al ' sub sequently handed by the directors to his ,Excellency Baron du Penedo, the Brazilian Minister here,. with the expression of a hone that he would feel 1 -' at libe r ty to advocate the company's , just and at, mitted claims as there set forth. It appeared to the directors extremely desirable that some person fullypossessed of all the circumstances of the case, and of the views of the shareholders and directors thereon, should go out from this country tow io too follow up the memorial, aimed w ith full pors to come to some immediate settlement with the Im perial Government, and to adjust all subsidiav questions, such as the increase of the ro llin g st o ck and the extension into Recife. Mr. Bramah con sented, at considerable inconvenience to himself, to [mse: CAFE TOWN. The traffic receipts _on this company's line, 63 miles in length, amounted for the month of Feb ruary last to £1,990 for passengers, and to £1,078 for goods ; total, £3,068. RAILWAY BILLS. yesterday before the referees of the House of Commons various railway bills were considered. In room B, the North British (Glasgow Branches) was to be reported, as was also the Mold and Den bigh Junction (Branches, &c.) The Brecon and Merthyr Tydfil Junction (Northern Lines) were postponed ; the Brecon and Merthyr Tydfil Junc tion (Southern Lines) was unopposed ; the West Drayton and Staines was unopposed, as was also the Drayton Junction Extension. In group 1 of the Committee on Private Bills, the Metro politan (additional powers) was again proceeded with and adjourned. In group la, the London, Chatham, and Dover, and South-Eastern (Ken nington, Clapham, and Brixton) was again proceeded with and adjourned. The Croy don, Mitcham, and Kingston was postponed until Tuesday; the London and South-Western (additional powers) was adjourned until the 26th inst.; and the City, Kingston, and Richmond was to be considered on Tuesday. In group 5 the Bris tol and Portishead was referred to the general com mittee. In the Bristol Harbour Junction and Wharf Depot the clauses were gone through, and the Bris tol and North Somerset (Deviation) was proceeded with and adjourned. In group 7 appearances were taken in the Northampton and Banbury Junction ; the London, Worcester, and South Wales was ad journed until this day ; the Ross and Tewkesbury was withdrawn; appearances were taken in the Teme Valley, and the case was adjourned; and the Thames and Severn Canal Navigation was proceeded with and adjourned. In group 13 the. Lancashire and Yorkshire (West Riding Branches, &c.), the clauses were gone through; and the West Riding and Grimsby (Transfer) were proceeded with and adjourned. the great river called the Wabbe Shabeli, which flows near Magdesho and Brava. Colonel Rigby suggests that the Resident at Aden might induce some of the Oghaden tribe of Somalis to rescue the captives, or at least to bring information as to where they are residing. Inquiries should also be made at Brava and Magdesho, and that trustworthy natives be sent into the country, who, in the cha racter of traders, might be enabled to obtain the much-desired information. The exertions of Colonel Rigby and Col. Play fair have resulted in the almost indubitable cer tainty that some at least of those who were on board the ill-fated vessel when she drifted from the reef reached the Somali country alive, and were de tained as prisoners by the natives. It becomes in teresting to know what has been done and what can be done to ascertain the fate of these unfortunate Englishmen, and to restore them, if still alive, to the relatives and friends who have for so many years been sorrowing for their loss. The local au thorities at Zanzibar and the Mauritius have made efforts which have procured some information, but not enough, and, above all, have not procured the liberation of the survivors. The slow but gradual accumulation of evidence has encouraged the rela tives of the St. Abbs' victims to urge upon the Go vernment to make some decided' efforts. Sir R. Murchison has thrown his philanthropic zeal and scientific ardour into the cause. Several members of Parliament have urged upon the Foreign-office the necessity and the duty of exerting all the means at its disposal to terminate the sufferings and the sus pense which during so many years have been under gone by the captives in Africa and by their relatives at home. The result has hitherto not been encou raging, as no means have been taken to ascertain the fate or to procure the release of the unhappy pri soners. It is true that the Foreign-office did make some inquiries through its agents and through the East India-office, but Brigadier Coglan, the agent at Aden, wrote in May, 1862, that in his opinion it was highly probable that any of the persons on board the St. Abbs had lived to reach the shore. Against that opinion, however, there is the evidence of natives who had themselves seen and who had heard of white prisoners among the Somalis, and the statements madeby different persons at different places, all tend ing to the same point. There is the evidence of articles having been seen in the possession of and received from natives, which articles are proved to havebeen on board the St. Abbs, and the hides marked with English characters which have recently come to light. From all these circumstances there appears no room to doubt but that some white men were, and probably are, held in captivity by the savage tribes of the eastern coast of Africa ; and whether those unhappy persons be or be not the survivors of the St. Abbs, it is equally a national duty to employ every effort to obtain their release, or to put an end to the prolonged suspense of their relatives in England. AMERICAN CURRENCY. Now that purely political matters in the United States have come to a dead lock, owing to the di verse policies of different departments of the Go vernment, it is encouraging to find that Congress at Washington is disposed to give some attention to the finances of the country. There is no ques tion that the financial condition of the Republic is much more favourable than the most hopeful could have anticipated after the lapse of so brief s °. period from the close of the civil war. The revenuesof the Government are considerably in excess of, its cur rent expenditures, both gold and greenbacks are accumulating in its various depositories, and the real question now is, not how more money shall be taken from the pockets of the people, but how taxa tion shall be abridged and its burdens made less onerous to commerce and production. There is not, probably, a parallel instance re corded in history of a nation whose credit has re covered so rapidly from so low a point of depression as that of the United States. In less than eighteen months the market value of its bonds has more than doubled in Etirope, though it has gone on increas ing the supply during a large portion of the time. Its circulating medium has also appreciated in about the same proportion in the same time, notwith standing its acknowledged redundancy, and is still approximating a gold basis.. With abundant means and resources, not only to pay the interest on, but to speedily liquidate the principal of, every dollar of its floating and funded debt, this improve ment in the financial situation must continue to progress till gold and American public securities stand side by side in all the markets of the world. So far as the bonds of the United States Govern ment are concerned, they will take care of them selves, and find their level upon a plane with the most solid investments known to capitalists. But the management of the currency is a separate ques tion, and as involving the interests of the commerce and industry of the country, requires very careful ,reatment. As a general principle, the less that is done in the way of legislation upon this subject the better it is for these great interests, which are always most prosperous when values are stable and there is no unnatural disturbance of the laws of trade. But in the present case, with the currency and commercia values fluctuating with every speculative movement in gold, legislation is proposed as a means of cor recting these disturbances, and establishing values upon a fixed base. Though the volume of currency is large, it is pos sible that, with the domestic political relations of the different States restored, and industry seeking its accustomed channels, the business of the coun try may grow up to it, and a return to specie pay ments become practicable. At present, with the heavy commercial and speculative demand for gold, this is clearly impossible ; and how long this state of things, involving continual suspense and hesita tion in all business enterprises, may continue, without legislative interference, it is equally impos sible to decide. There is, undoubtedly, a strong motive for keep ing the currency inflated and prices high among those who desire to speculate in stocks and commo dities, and who would likewise be willing to keep the business of the country unsettled till certain political ends are gained. On the other hand, many business men of large experience, including Secre tary Al'CuLLocll and a majority of the Committee of Ways and Means, believe that the present volume of currency (amounting to some $900,000,000, is liable to still further expansion by the organisation of new national banks) is fatal to the best interests of American industry, by keeping its products at home while sending gold abroad, and enabling speculators to withhold these produc tions even from home consumers. They claim that prices are too high, not only restricting produc tion and consumption, but giving the foreign pro ducer an unfair advantage in all the markets of the world ; that they will not come down to the nomi nal standard till forced down by a vigorous con traction of the currency ; and that the sooner the bottota of the market is reached the better it will be for all concerned. . This radical diversity of opinion has been deve loped in the discussion and action which have taken place in Congress on what is known as the Loan Bill. In this bill, the Secretary of the Treasury, who moulded its principal features, sought to obtain a large dizieretionaay power for the purpose of funding the superfluous currency, and thereby inaugurating low prices and specie payments at an early date. Ilis opponents declared that no such power should be granted ; that its exercise at the present time would be ruinous to property holders and manufacturers, who have already hard work to prop tip the market in the decline in gold ; and in sist that there should be no contraction or retire ment of Treasury issues, excepting the debt certi ficates and interest bearing notes, leaving the 050,000,000 pure and simple legal tenders intact. A member from Pennsylvania even went so far in his opposition as to introduce a substitute pro vidina that gold should not be sold by the Govern ment at less than 130. But Mr. M‘CuLLocir's Loan Bill has passed the Lower House of Congress, and in spite of the almost frantic speculators, gold continues to, de cline, or, to put the case more intelligibly, Govern ment promises to pay continue to appreciate in value. Gold in New York has been down to 125, English Captives in Africa. A painful interest has lately been excited by the publication of narratives whichwarrant a belief that a number of Englishmen have been for more than 10 years past, and probably some of them still are, held as captives by the barbarous native tribes of Eastern Africa, whose cruelty and treachery were exemplified in the murder of the Belgian traveller, Baron Yon der Decken, who a few months since met his death at the hands of the Somali tribe. The subject to which we have now to call the at tention of our readers is very painful, not only on account of the numerous sufferers themselves, but also by reason of the prolonged anxieties, uncer tahties, and sugpense which have been endured by their relatives in this country. The facts are these : —ln June, 1855, a ship called the St. Abbs, while on a voyage from London to Bombay, struck on the island of San Juan de Nuova, off the eastern coast of Africa. In attempting to launch them all the boats ex \ cept onewere swamped. The remaining boat was taken by the captain and two of the crew, who landed on the island, where they were afterwards joined by one of the passengers, who swam ashore (another being drowned in the attempt), and by two others of the crew. The rzmainder of the crew. numbering with four young cadet passengers, 2G in all, continued on board the dismasted ship which, after hanging on the reef for two days, disappears 1 in the course of one night, and was reported by the survivors on the island to have broken up. It afterwards, how ever, became known that the hull of the St. Abbs had. gone to pieces on the island of San Juan de Nuova, but had been swept off by the current and had drifted to the coast of Africa near Magdesho, where she was boardedby the natives, who possessed themselves of everything on the wreck. A great many articles known to have been on board the St. Abbs were afterwards brought to Zanzibar and dis posed of by the natives of Magdesho. The St. Abbs was taking out Government stores, and among the articles brought for sale were light infantry bugles, cases of surgical instruments, &c., all containing the Government mark, also boxes of books, ivory billiard balls (the St. Abbs was taking out several billiard tables), surveying instruments, officers' epaulettes, &c. As the wreck occurred at the sea son when vessels all go north from the coast of Africa, most of the articles recovered were conveyed to the Red Sea and Persian Gulf to be disposed of, and only those articles for which there was no sale in native markets were brought to Zanzibar to be disposed of among the European residents. No cause for doubting that those on board the vessel had perished with her was entertained until four years later, when reports reached Ceylon and the Mauri tius that a number of Englishmen were in captivity somewhere on the coast of Africa. Colonel Rigby, who was then consul at Zanzibar, instituted in quiries, which convinced him that the hull of the St. Abbs had been driven ashore near Magdesho, and the persons on board had been captured by the 'Abghal Somalis and carried into the in terior. Colonel Rigby learnt that a caravan of pilgrims to Mecca from Magdesho had seen seve ral white prisoners at one place, but upon arriving at Jeddah the pilgrims found that the British Con sul and all the Christians had been murdered, so that there was no means of forwarding intelligence to Europe, but they mentioned the circumstances to pilgrims from Ceylon and the Mauritius, through whom they were made known to the British autho rities. The Governor of the Mauritius issued a proclamation in various languages offering a reward of £lOO for each white prisoner who should be re stored, and a native of Magdesho, who had himself been on board the wrecked ship, incited by the re ward, started for the interior, but was stopped and imprisoned at Lamoo. This circumstance is with great force urged by those interested in the subject as strong evidence of the truth of the statement that white men were actually kept prisoners in the inte rior. From information obtained by Col. Rigby at Zanzibar there appears no doubt that the survivors of the St. Abbs were divided into two parties----one of w taken a long distance into the int er i or, and the hich o was thi, consisting of three persons, was k e pt by the Abg hal tribe of Somalis , not far from Mag e desho. Attention recentlyhas tt been a b called ll kt,os had%l ii this subject from the circumstance brought from Magdesho been purchased from a caravan of Somalis, just to Zanzibar, which ar rived from the interior, was found i English letters carved on it. The e Z h a a n s z e i d b Zanzibar e t o man to w h l a i ho have had sel p .e u r r a - 1 h o i k de it p to ut m i e t ss alid . aside, swanalddoannhdissaorrnsiv, awho t gave it to Col. Play fair, the British Consul. He further stated that he had seen other hides with let ters cut on them. Thoselettrgwere,noelonht, carved by one of the captives, perhaps in the faint hope of their meeting the eye of some European. Colonel Uigby, who recently read a very interesting paper upon the subject before the Royal Geographical Society, states that the part of Africa inhabited by these Somali tribes is very salubrious and fertile. The natives possess large herds of cattle and the hides are brought to Zanzibar for sale. There is communication with this Part of Africa f rom Z ey l a and Berbera on the Gulf of Aden. The Oghaden caravan to the great annual fair at Berbera tra verses a great part of the country to the banks of THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 10, 1866 a lower point than it has before reached for three years. The good work is going on, and, surely, the day is not far distant when an American green back will be worth its face in gold.—.4nglo-Ameri can Times. Naval and telligence. Yesterday Major-Gen. Sir R. Walpole, K.C.8., commanding the forces in the Chatham district, ac- companied by the officers of his staff, inspected the _. • _ __. _ .. . . _ ;er screw steamer Lady Jocelyn, which has been taken up by the Government for the conveyance of reinforcements for the various corps serving at Gibraltar and Malta, the total number of officers and troops conveyed to those stations being be tween 600 and 700 men of all ranks. During the day the following troops embarked at Government quay, Gravesend, on board the Lady Jocelyn, un der the superintendence of Brigade-Maj orW. Lynch and the officials connected with the Quartermaster's department at Chatham garrison :—For Malta— Lieut. Col. H. P. Yates, Lieut. M. F. 11. M'Caus land, Lieut. F. 11. W. Milner, Lieut. H. H. Crook enden, 75 non-commissioned officers and men, and one woman, of the 3d Brigade Royal Artillery ; Lieut. Short, 2d battalion Bth King's Regt. ; Lieut. J. Tennyson, Lieut. W. R. Elliott, Ensign J. W. Bazalgette, Quartermaster W. H. Martin, one officer's wife and three children, one armoury-ser geant, one woman and five children, of the 29th Regt. ; Staff-Surg. P. M. Jackson ; Lieut. C. L. M. Kinivan, 84th Regt. ; and Chaplain the Rev. T. W. Burridge, M.A. For Gibraltar—Lieut. Wm. Nangle, Lieut. W. J. Franks, 89 non-commissioned officers and men, 8 women, and 9 children of the 2d battalion 16th Regt. ; Lieut. J. R. Watson, En sign S. B. Blyth, Ensign E. C. T. Stone, 51 men of all ranks, 3 women, and 8 children of the 2d ,batta lion 23d Royal Welsh Fusiliers ; Ensign C. Roberts, 42 men, 2 women, and 4 children of the 42d Royal Highlanders ; and L ieut. J. D. Brockman and wife 86th Regt. ; giving a total of 18 officers, 372 non commissioned officers and men, 3 officers' wives, 20 women, and 34 children. In addition to the above, 12 officers and 260 non-commissioned officers and men of various regiments will embark on board the Lady Jocelyn at Portsmouth. The embarkations were effected yesterday in a very expeditious man ner, and the vessel will take her departure from the Thames to-day. The Lady Jocelyn will bring home the 38th company of the Royal Engineers and de tachments of other corps. The B battery 4th Brigade Field Artillery, num bering five officers, seven sergeants, three buglers, and 152 rank and file, with 25 women and 42 children, together with the whole of the materiel of the battery, including six light 12-pounder Armstrong guns, 93 horses, ammunition wag gons, hospital carts, and other stores, have arrived at Chatham garrison from Woolwich, and have taken up quarters in the North-square, Brompton barracks. The battery was under the command of Col. N. 0. S. Turner, with Capt. the Hon. It. Dillon, and three subalterns. The Cameleon, 17, screw sloop, 952 tons, 200- horse power, Commander T. M. Jones, arrived in Sheerness harbour yesterday at noon, and saluted the flag of Vice-Admiral Sir Baldwin Walker,K. C . B. , the newly-appointed Commander-in-Chief. The vessel will be shortly taken into dock and dismantled, after which she will be paid out of commission and placed in the third division of the Sheerness Steam Reserve. The following appointments were made yesterday at the Admiralty:—Commander C. J. Balfour to the 'Winchester, vice Chapman, promoted ; Lieut. E. W. Hereford to the Britannia, additional, for service in the Dapper, tender. John Stuart Mill on American Protection. The following letter has been forwarded by the London correspondent of the Chicago Tribune for publication in that journal : "Blackheath Park, Kent, Feb. 26, 1866. " Dear Sir,—l have to acknowledge a letter from you dated Feb. 15th, asking me to explain a pas sage of my " Principles of Political Economy," in which I express the opinion that a protecting duty for a limited space of time may be defensible in a new country, as a means of neutralizing a branch of industry in itself suited to the country, but which would be unable to establish itself there without some form of temporary assistance from the State. This passage you say has been made use of by American Protectionists as the testimony of an English writer on political economy to the inapplicability to America of the general principle of free trade. The passage has been used for a similar purpose in the Australian colonies, erroneously in my opinion, but certainly with more plausibility than can be the case in the United States; for Australia really is a new country whose capabilities for carrying on manufac tures cannot yet be said to have been tested ; but the manufacturing parts of the United States, New England, and Pennsylvania, are no longer new countries ; they have carried on manufactures on a large scale, and with the benefit of high protecting duties, for at least two generations ; their operatives have had full time to acquire the manufacturing skill inwhich those of England had preceded them; there has been ample experience to prove that the alleged inability of their manufacturers to compete in the American market with those of Great Britain does not arise merely from the more recent date of their establishment, but from the fact that American la bour and capital can, in the present circumstances of America, be employed with greater return and greater advantage to the national wealth in the pro duction of other articles. I have never for a mo ment recommended or countenanced any protecting duty except for the purpose of enabling the pro tected branch of industry, in a very moderate time, to become independent of protection. That mode rate time in the United States has been exceeded, and if the cotton and iron of America still need pro tection against those of the other hemisphere, it is in my eyes a complete proof that they ought not to have it, and that the longer it is continued the greater the injustice and the waste of national re sources will be. " I confine myself, on the present occasion, to the one special point which you have referred to me ; and do not enter into the fallacies of Protectionism generally, or of American Protectionists in particu lar. But since you pay me the compliment of think ing that what is said in my " Principles of Political Economy" is read and listened to by some Amer-- Cans, I beg to recommend to your notice the further explanations which I have added to the passage quoted by you in the last published (the People's) edition of that work. I have directed the publisher to send you a copy, and if the important journal with which you are connected is pleased to attach any value to my opinion on the subject, that opinion will be found much more completely stated, with additional replies to Protectionist arguments, in pp. 556 to 558 of the People's edition. —I am, dear sir, yours faithfully, tcJ. S. MILL:, Henry Ward Beecher on the Admission a the South. Henry Ward Beecher, in his oration, delivered at Brooklyn, makes use of the following language in reference to the admission of the Sou th : " You are going to keep them out until you are certain that it would be best to let them in. It is impossible to give a certainty. What are the things you want guatantees about? Secession, rebellion, the condi tion of the freedmen. What ! a guarantee of seces sion? We want a guarantee that the South are willing to give it up. how long would you take before you would consider that experiment as settled—five years. Would that cure them ? Now the South is just in the condition of a man who has gone into Court with a contested title. He be lieves that he is the owner of that estate, and the other parties believe they are the owners of it. All his life is in the conflict. It is decided against him in the lower Court, and he carries it to the Court of last resort, and argues it. The Judges decide it against him finally ; and what does good citizenship require? Does it require that he should say, " Mr. Judge, I am perfectly satisfied that I did not own this property." Do you require him to change his opinion ? Is more required of him than this, that he says, " as a good citizen, obey the laws ; _ . _ I do not think it was right, but it was decided against me and I shall obey ?" Is not that all you would require of contestants in a court? And now the South believed in secession. The works of Calhoun were taught in their colleges, and the young men were taught, as you were taught, the contrary doctrine, to believe that States rights was the true political doctrine. Many of them assert the right to secede from this Government, from the compact and confederation of States ; they believed it. What has the war done ? The war has settled the fact, whether they believe it or not, that it shan't be. The fact is settled, it shan't, and all that you can ask the South is, will you give up the fact and say so ? Will you give up the fact, though you still believe the doctrine ! 'Are you going to keep them out till they don't believe the doctrine ? The question is settled when they say, "We have re f erred this question to the court and arbitration of war, and war has declared against us, and we accept the verdict —we bow to it." Can you in honour ask anything more than that ? " But then we want guarantees against rebellion." Four parts out of five of the total property of the South have been destroyed by war, and is not that guarantee that they won't, fight again very soon ? The popu lation of the South has been more than decimated —doubly decimated. There is mourning there of which we have no record or knowledge here. What village has been blotted out in the North ? Hundreds have been there. What cities depopu- Wed here? Many, many there. Whole families extinguished and lineage blotted out. There were no bells rung and no trumpets sounded on the re turn of the shattered remnants of armies; and now do you want a guarantee that this depopulated and destroyed South will not attempt to organise a war again?" The Brussels journals contain an account of a grand ball given there at Wauxhall, last week, under the patronage of Lady Howard do Walden and other ladies, for the benefit of the necessitous English resident in that capital. RAILWAY ACCIDENT AT PARKSIDE.--Yesterday afternoon a serious accident occurred at Parkside, near Newton Bridge, to the express train leaving Liverpool at 2 23. As the train approached the Parkside junction a luggage train came out of one of the junction sidings to go upon the main line of the principal way. The engine of the passenger train struck the goods engine, and both were seriously damaged. A second-class passenger car riage and a brake-van were thrown on their sides, and the passengers of the second-class carriage experienced a very narrow escape. The brakesman jumped out of the van before,it upset. The driver of the passenger train and the driver and fireman of the luggage train jumped off their respective engines when they saw that an accident was imminent ; the fireman of the passenger train did not do so, but he nevertheless escaped injury. Though several of the passengers were shaken, none was severely hurt, and the only person who sustained injuries of any consequence was the driver of the Liverpool express, who slightly hurt himself in jumping from the e n g ine. Assist ance had to be obtained from various st ations alon g the line in order to clear the railway of luggage and debr s, and this process occupied a couple of 113urs. i rADVERTISEMENT.I—IroIIoway's Ointment and Pills.— Important to Everybody.—For more than thirty years these remedies have been ranked before all curative agents, for the all-sufficient reason that they never can be wrongly used in either external or i n ternal diseases. Holloway's ointment should be well rubbed on the throat and chest in sore throat, enlarged glands, chronic cough, and wheezings. In common catarrh and influenza the ointment well rubbed upon the walls of the chest, aided by a few doses of the pills, soon effects a cure. The same treatment, judiciously followed up, removes diphtheria, asthma, bronchitis, pleurisy, and prevents the deep inflammation, resulting in abscess or ulceration, so apt to ensue when throat or chest complaints are neglected. Anthropological Society. At the meeting of this society on Tuesday evening—Dr. Hunt, the president, in the chair—a paper was read by Mr. Bollaert on "The Anthropology of the New World." After referring/to the opinions entertained respecting the peopling of America before it was discovered by Columbus, and pointing out the relations between the inhabitants of the Old and New Worlds, Mr. Bollaert took an elaborate survey of the various races inhabiting . the American conti nent, commencing with the Esquimaux and the posses sions of Russia, and proceeding southwards to Mexico and Peru. Intim resume of these considerations he observedthat as we find nearly the same general arrangement of rocks iu the New World as iu the Old, it is natural to conclude that the continent of America bears an equally ancient date, and has gone through analogous changes. The Old World, how ever, has its greatest length_from east to w est, the New, north and south, and the great mountain ranges also take opposite directions. The fossil remains have great pecu liarities ; and the vegetable and animal creationsof America have very marked differences when compared with similar creations in otherportions of the globe. Plants and animals, it is generally considered, were created antecedently to man, and. when wo examine the distribution of humanity in the New World, and compare it with what is met with else where, we discover differences of such a character as to give the idea that the red or copper-coloured man of America came from other tkan one pair. He estimated the native population of America, at the period of its discovery, at 100,000,000 ; at present there may be from 10 to 11,000,000. They aro said to have 400 languages and more than 2,000 dialects ; but all the languages of America are peculiar to it. On comparing the Indians of America with the other great species of men in the Old World, he came to the cop elusion that there are not any remnants of a brown or Asiatic race in America, nor any other remains than those of the New-World man. Mr. Bollaert said that having some years since collected and examined materials con cerning the history of America, particularly as to the ar chitecture of ancient Mexico, Central America, New Gra nada, and Peru, the languages spoken there, the arts, and science, he first came to the Conclusion that in those re gions each nation showed a civilisation of its own, and that other localities in those lands supported tribes, and even nations, as mere hunters in the wilder ness. This shadowed forth to him that the red man of tho New World was rather a distinct species, or creation, when compared with the white man of Europe, ; the brown of India, tho black of Africa, and other groups of mon. The native of the New World, if investigated, physically, mentally, and morally, is found to be governed by special laws. Ile has his own climate, his own aliment ; his own diseases, which he knows how to alleviate and cure ; but let him contract any of the European maladies, the majority (especially small-pox) are fatal to him, even to the annihilation of whole nations. If we examine hint by crania and its contents, we find, at least in - the confor mation of the brain as compared to the European, a marked difference. In the American Indian the anterior lobe is small, and in the European it is large in proportion to the middle lobe. Differences are also observed in the osteolo gical and physical characteristics when compared with the white man. Looking also to their relative intellectual capacitiesin the New World, in regard to religion, language, numbers, pictorial writing, and even the invention of a hieroglyphic alphabet, also to the architectural, we find these peculiar to each of the several groat nations, as also in their computation of time, and the invention of their various calendars and zodiacs. It appeared to him, in deed, that what we commonly called the semi-civilisation of the people of America should rather be denominated their own civilisation. Mr. Bollaert calculated by observ ing that the result of his inquiries led him to abandon the monogenistic view and to adopt the hypothesis of separate creations. Tho Rev. Dunbar Heath, Mr. Mackenzie, and Mr. Carter Blake took part in the discussion of the paper, in which the latter combated the notion that the animals of. America are of smaller size than those of the Old World; with re spect to the insect creation especially, that was remarkably the contrary. 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In tins, lib, 2s fid ; 21b, 45 6,1 ; 51b, aid ; 121 b, 22s ; 241 b, 105.—Barry Du Barry and Co., No. 77, Regent-street, London ; also Phillips, lea d'.;alers, 8, King William-street ; likewise at GI, Uracechurch-street; 4, Cheapside ; 49, Bishopsgate , street Within ; 63, i 50, and 208, Oxford-street ; 3.30, Strand ; 54, Upper Baker-street; 103, 'Tottenham-court-road; 96, Upper-street, Islington, N.; Harvey, Notting-hill; Close Brothers, 65, High-street ; and Stubbs, Queen's-terrace. St. ; John's-wood, London; and all respectable ;grocers and che , mists,—Beware of spurious imitations. THE PUBLIC JOURNALB. ambitious professionals. A constituency of the former - ingredients can be managed by the ordinary agency, the usual hospitalities, and a little interchange of personal kindness. A more respectable constituency secures for the successful candidate not only a larger expenditure in the first instance, but also continual applications for places and other favours supposed to be easy to a member of Parlia ment. That, however, is only an M.P.'s point of view, and it is one which is quite independent of political parties. As we have said above, we do not think the bill seriously threatens the political balance in the 40 cities and boroughs we have quoted ; but we also do not think it will prove conducive to electoral purity and dignity. DAILY NEWS.—The scattered family over which Air' Cardwell so conscientiously presides is giving him muc h trouble, and threatens to givehim more. New Zealand, the maritime provinces of British North America, and more recently Victoria, have proved wayward and untractable, and have provoked from the Colonial Secretary of State the language of warning and expostulation, and now, -while the fruits of his teaching are as yet things to be hoped for rather than admired, a colony in another part of the world is deviating from the straight and narrow patb, on the pleasantness and safety of which Mr. Cardwell so loves to descant. The Governor and House of Assembly of Van" couver's Island are at loggerheads, and the public affairs of that colony at a dead lock. The cause of the difficulty Is real, not sentimental. The Government of the colony has been spending more than it receives, and is accordingly involved in difficulties. ItS official staff - was organised in a sanguine spirit of magnificence which the event has not justified. Those who fixed the colonial establishment/ hi stead of asking themselves, as the founders of young 'Oru munities should always do, what service was wanted, er pear to have considered simply what amount of salarie ° the taxpayers would tolerate. At first the people wer e ' satisfied with the scale of their ou t go i ng s, even if thel were not proud of it, and if the population and revenue of ld the colony had continued to increase, no complai nts u o have been heard on this score. But of late the number f inhabitants has been decreasing, while expenditure has augmented, and the finances of the colony have fallen into a very unsatisfactory state. Under these circumstance°, the Government felt it necessary to enter ur n , policy of retrenchment. But instead of dismissing useless officers, it cut down the estimates al 3 P, r° ; priated for roads, surveys, education, and other use'..e" objects, and this at the very time when officw salaries were being raised and new offices created. Lion accordingly became more oppressive, more ppop left, business grew worse, and the evils which called forth thet first complaints were intensified. The Assembly was!c) satisfied with the method of economy practised by the Lx°' vernor, and instituted one of its own. It took the luieie, terial estimates in hand, 'and struck out the sum s destine,' to pay the salaries of those officials whose services it co l : :: sidered superfluous, reducing also those of the rentaie"-,- to amounts corresponding to theirusefulness and the abilit, of the colony. These, it must bi confessed, were strong measures, and Governor Kennedy lost no time in address' ing a letter to the House, decidedly blaming its act iea ; The Assembly, ho said, ought not to abolish 131ce. it without making compensation to their incumben ts, snu id was bound to pay the full salaries according to the. ° scale of the officials whom it retained. The Governer, • does not appear to have denied the right of the Assel3:ta [ to reduce the supplies, though ho strongly reprobated " v ote , idea of providing for, official salaries by an ann ual the But this was not the only point of difference between Governor and the House. The latter, b es id e c utting d° l, expenditure in one direction, enlarged in in ano ther inch. 1'- following way : it gained 69 , 000 dollars by its retren a month, and this stun, together with 8,000 dollars over e ra , above the gross amount of the original estimates, it ePP, priated for public works. The Governor, in his nlesseFoen treats the whole amount of 7 7 , 000 dollars a s an As. to the estimates, and remarks :- 66 The House 0" and ginating usurps the functions of the executive by ginating and increasing items of public expenditure and creating new offices. I cannot too distinctly decidedly express my dissent from this course. power of both initiating and voting supplies for S' tte ries and services cannot with safety be conceded to v),• en der Such branch of the existing legislature of this col° (ior Such a concession on my part would be a virtual surr 4g or of all that it is my duty to guard. Such a course — . O in known to the constitution of Great Brit ain, au4 1 re .. violation of those important constitutional principles the quiring a strict separation of the legislative frolaloii executive functions." The Governor is un queSti° l ! right in resisting the pretensions of the Assemlce'n initiate public expenditure. Wherever this right has b ° oo successfully asserted constitutional government bee.aause ruined. Nothing more contributed to make the late this of Assembly in Jamaica a nuisance than its p ractice u' 4o/0 respect. It is an essential part of the con stitutional Or the that every grant of money shall be recommended bo hY lci Crown before it is voted. Were it not so , there W°llopt no real and individual responsibility for tho resnavir g e r of the publiC finances, and members of the House opts' for m ons would be encouraged to push forward grfi „ s o objects interesting to themselves and to their COnstitu:tber without much regard to the amount or urgency' o f vo r• demands upon the national purse. The Assembly 0 ! t i o es couver's Island, however, knowing that its approPilaf are more for the interest of the colony than thes e Governor, mixes up unconstitutional preteisions timato claims. On the receipt of the Governor's me ou r it passed resolutions, among other things, refus po lish ed, pensation to the officials whose salar ies had been aei and asserting its right to originate and increase:loloa grants. In the neighbouring colony of British C.°l s ,°_,a os to which, besides supporting Govern ment establin it upon a sumptuous scale, has just ra ised the sniarY:3,l Governor from L 3.000 to £4,000, extravagance has pe st financial difficulties. It would really se em as if t o ld D tt thing the people of Vancouver's Island could dO ,o join British Columbia. COUNTRY MARKETS. Cr AINSBOROUGII—TUESDAY. i;, Our Corn Exchange to-day was thinly suPPl, a v 1 51 wheat. The full rates of last week were exceeded 'T o 00 white making from 51s to 53s ; and mixed from 49 5. ~g s 0 per qr. Barley dull and dear. Other descriptiow before. BULL. —T UE SDAY. V. O SP Since our last more business has been done in 0 d r. w h e at, at a n advance in this district of fully is paf o .. In foreign there have not been many transactions. , o t day.there was a large s upply of English wheat, whicb 5 0 , a fair sale at is advance. Barley scarce, and dear ; c ! o p0 48s to 525; old red, 42s 0 OS. the same. Beans and peas unaltered. The quotati are as follows: 4 6 ' 4 ' gs,liisiehlvoldEnmg,hliisthe, w 4 h 3 e s a t to , 445. Peas, English blu e, Barley, English, 37s to 425. Oats, Russian, 24 to 0$ to 41s Od ; grinding, 40s to 41s Od per 36 stone. BeEmni SALISBURY.—TUESDAY. . pg of We had a short supply of wheat on offer, part il ot ter• inferior quality ; but late rates were is per (41. d ree ° Barley was in much smaller show, and maintain ° to nst figures. A moderate business was done in oats, , fro ) and peas, generally at last week's figures. Fl6u d ' inquiry. A frOr ° ;C. 04 The following are the quotations :—Wheat re=s deans, 4 38s to Sand barley, 35s to 44s ; oats, 225 to fray t 1 i ts to 528 peas, 428 to 50s per qr. Taxes, o, 12J. 6d per bushel ; Best bread, 13d ; household per 81b loaf. Flour, 34s to 38s per sack. , MONMOUTHSHIRE—TuEsDAV._, . t, re: The 'following are the average quotations : --- w h e ' bs . 3 a, l 5s Od to 5s 6d per;malting inferior ditto 4s 9 d to g or white 5s 9d to 6s g barley 653 t0,43513..Fr q t ;I: to 269; ing ditto, .27s to 325; beans, 44s ;white 'white onto, 4 ' 6 black ditto, 23s Gd to 24s Gd. f LYNN—TUESDAY. A fair attendance to-day, and but a small sirovieel‘• wheat. The prices realised were the same as la s t .o,llit° New wheat, 42s to 46s ; new red, 41s to 44s ; 0 , O a ts, f i g ° 51s to 535; old red, 48s to 51s per 36 stone. os. ' Oat °, eh malting, 37s to 40s ; secondary, 33s to 355. ~, 1 70 24s to 260 r4r 24 e t..... Reans, small, 430 to 4"''' 36s to 4Q5 per 23 stone. . . „A NEWCASTLE—TUESDAY. , of Wi11'.,,. At to-day's market there was a moderate supyil froP from the growers, but a good arrival coastwise ali„ Ve abroad. The trade ruled firm, with a fair busientitir English and foreign bringing an advance a is Per 'titer ter over the rates of last week. Barley was a sin 3. o ov A '• and ewe a moderato sale, at late prices. Ai'dt'2l,ll9,ligel Beans re at rather more money. Peas a ll quantity Oats moved off at fully late rates , b ut a sll A market. It b e" The average prices of British grain for the We e r. been—wheat, 45s 4d ; oats, Os Od; arley, 39s Per q I Is — = ----- 7 ---- Births. , v,s,gesl DREW-On the 17th.inst., at Plaistow, West 50, ''' the wife of Richard Drew, Esq., of a daughter. 5..0i" EVANS-011 the 17th inst., at 3, Tavistock.placo,, ,O. stock -square, the wife of Anthony Evans, Escpo' rot e , WALRER—On the 17th inst., at 23, Brunswiek-fa4r lieusiugiou, tho Nv - ilu ul ClittrleS Walker, WOO law, of a daughter. Marriages. 3 101;',' Wm. Hingeston, Esq. fielle HmozsToN—DitETON—On the 17th inst., lleg' to Lucy, second daughter of Philip Bryanston-square, of Hampstead, and of the Inner Temple, barrister 4 law. , pr i i iit; ter of the Rev. John Down 110VSEMAN—Downs—On the 17th inst. _, at WV ' O l 3 0 t ji. La BrtoThe Church, Paddington, the Rev. John Housetnol, 10 Gloucester-crescent, Hyde-park to Edith, eldes ,Tort t d' ll Iv amptonshire. es' ' late Of aortal), '' Deaths. ELLESMERE—On the 17th inst., at Bridgewater rolls!: t James's, ilarriet, Countess (Dowager) of Ellesmetypiry lane, Cro7don, George Eattcliff, RATTCLIFF-OR tho 17th inst., at his residence, It STEWART-On the 16th inst., at Paris, John D. Ste Esq., late of Ilackerton, Forfar. . 1 0 ' Esq., aged 76. ,It, 10 r TysER-Ou tho 16th inst., at, 9, Gloucester -square„, f oge ' park, the residence of Sir T. Parlous, Bart., 0. Esq., aged 53. mi l e O es' UNDERHILL —On the 15th inst., at his resiuome, -i- d 7. cent, Wolverhampton, Joseph Unerhill, Dos, age - - ----f, -_-_____.7._ _ ----------- -- - " T 1 30 09°10 London Printed and Published by vv1.1,---A 0 3 0 0, 1 9 of of No. 112, Strand, Plinter, at TON Sort Otze-cogi Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy Jo Middleoex.---Thursday, April 19,1866. SPIRIT OF TIMES.—An industrious gentleman, with a greater taste for such inquiries and more belief in their results, than is possessed by the world at large, has been at the pains to work out Mr. Gladstone's Electoral Statistics ; and another gentleman has been so good as to call our attention to them in a brief summary. We. will frankly say that we are apt to regard any attempt to get really useful princi ples of action out of these figures much as the schemes of the philosOphers in Laputa for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers. The circumstances of time and place are al ways so much more important than the figures, that unless we take the former into account the latter are almost worthless. But when so much labour has been lavished and thrown at our feet —most honestly for anything we can see—we cannot but use it to the best of our ability. So what do the figures mean ? As it happens they are left to speak for themselves. Seemingly very little.use has been made of the Electoral Statistics in the debate hither to ; and it looks as if the speakers, on both sides, had ransacked them in vain. Our correspondent concludes, not unnaturally, that the working of the bill is to be seen, if anywhere, in those cities and boroughs in which it make the greatest difference, by altering the proportion of the working classes to the whole constituency. He has therefore excluded for this reason, as also for brevity, the cities and boroughs in which there is already a very large proportion of the working men, and in which this bill will only make that proportion a little more. He ex cludes, for example, two such constituencies as Coventry and Northampton. These are already in the hands of working men, as far as their numbers will do this for them. He has therefore selected from the Tables in Mr. Baxter's Appendix forty cities and boroughs in which the bill will work with concentrated force, doing its best or its worst, as people may hope or may fear. This is the line between wind and water in which shots will tell with decisive effect. Of 'the other cities and boroughs many aro already democratic ; many safe to the Conservatives even under the operation of this bill ; but these forty boroughs are so much border land, in which the warfare will be worst and the result most positive. We take the list as it stands, and our readers will see that we have no other wish, and, indeed, can have no other wish, than to show the immediate working of the bill, if any, in its most di rect range. We repeat that we take the figures before us, with neither the wish, nor at present the power, to question them. At Salford the proportion of working men will be doubled, and they will become a clear majority. The town returns Mr. Cheatham, and will probably con tinue to return Mr. Cheetham. As its population is more than 100,000, it ought to have another seat, and in that case will probably return two Mr. Cheethams. Wolver hampton will more than double its proportion of working men. It now returns Mr. C. Villiers and Mr. Weguelin, who will vote for the bill in the confident belief that they will not be disturbed. At Oldham the proportion will be more than quadrupled ; but as Messrs. Hibbert and Platt go a good way already, and are prepared to go further, we should doubt whether they will give way to Messrs. Cob bett and Spinks. At Walsall the proportion will be nearly quadrupled, but the working men will not improve on Mr. Forster. At Derby the proportion will be more than doubled, but Mr. Bass will have no occasion to tremble for his seat, nor, indeed, Mr. Cox if he shows himself decently amenable. Unless Portsmouth is exceptionally affected by the disqualification of dockyard labourers, its pro portion will be more than doubled, but it returns two Liberals, and will not do more. At Stoke - upon - Tr ent the proportion will be more than doubled, and Mr. Beresford Hope will have the opportunity of ascer taining whether artisans are a better class than shopkeepers. He will be able to make the ex periment under favourable conditions, and we are in clined to think with success, but Mr. Grenfell must feel quite sure of his seat. At Peterborough the Proportion will be more than doubled, but as Lord Fitzwilliam is the genius loci and Messrs. Whalley and Hankey go about as far as men can do, there will be no change. There is a mystery about the politics of Preston. It is, we believe, the most Irish and the most Roman Catholic town in this island. Its proportion of working men will be more than doubled ; but as it returned two Conservatives at the last election, it is quite possible that Lord Derby's friends will see their way again to a like result. At Rye the propor tion will be more than quadrupled, we presume, by the addition of agricultural labourers. In that case Mr. Mac kinnon, a moderate Liberal may have to describe himself as a moderate Conservative. At Dudley the proportion will be trebled, but that will make no difference to Mr. Sheridan. At Birmingham the proportion will be nearly trebled. It will continue to return Messrs. Bright and Scholefield, and, in the event of a redistribution of seats, will return two men as like them as can be found ; while the same may be said of Sheffield, where the proportion will be more than double and where Messrs. Roebuck and Hadfield must be tolerably safe from Franchise Bills. At Bolton also, the proportion will be more than doubled. Mr. Barnes must be safe enough ; Mr. Gray may have to give way to somebody more decided and explicit. At Ash burton the proportion will be trebled, and we should like to see the additional constituents march through Coventry, if they over heard of that place. However, they will do their duty to the new lord, and return Mr. Jardine again At Manchester the preportion, now large, will be nearly doubled. It will re-elect Mr. Bazley, and, perhaps, a closer psir than Mr. E. James. As the population is going on for 400,000, it will probably find room for the two candidates who did not get in at the last election. At South Shields the proportion will be more than doubled, but they will not quarrel with Mr. Ingham, or he with them. At Wigan the proportion will be more than doubled, and Mr. Eckersley may find himself in difficulties. At Cam bridge the proportion will be nearly doubled. It returned two " Liberal Conservatives," one of whom has been un seated, and it may possibly change them for Liberals of a less mixed quality. Ashton-under-Lyne will more than double its proportion, but it will rest and be thankful for Mr. Milner Gibson. Bury will more than double its pro portion, but it cannot do more than prefer Mr. Philips to Mr. F. Peel. Thus far, on the authority of these statistics, and the interpretation before us, the total proportion of working men, after the addition by this bill, will be 50 per cent. or more. Below this point, it will be between 40 and 50. But it is the addition we are concerned with now --that is, the estimated increase of proportion. At Black burn the proportion will be more than doubled ; and in that case Mr. Hornby and Mr. Feilden may have to give way:to Messrs. Pilkington and Potter. At Sunderland the proportion will be more than trebled, but that can matter little to Messrs. Candlish and Hartley. At Warrington the proportion will be more than doubled, but that town evi dently consults its industrial and commercial interests by returning Mr. Greenall, and its new voters will have the same reasons as the old ones. Gateshead will quadrupleihe its proportion, but the new vo ters will not be men if fi.y do nc r n e o a st eits accept pro S p i oio r rt W. n fi ll v u e t f t o 's ld, e xbpuitattihoenp. overt t c y cl o e f i s seTr v h ativ d o is . tri l e t t s o fi f ei c •c l e r s_t field Radicalsiss°alfr-eP r h o e t l e a c t i i n v e silken se n e i a - i e n o: b yw ays, but that will not affect mar then will more t han double its e "working men" by going into the lanes and b Morris. Mr. Abingdon will do the same without danger to Col. C. H. Lindsay. Salisbury will more than quadruple its proportion, and how it may then stand with its two returned Australians we know not; but they need not despair. Yarmouth will more than double its proportion, but the friends of Messrs. Lacon and Goodson will be equal to the occasion. At Hull the proportion will be more than doubled, but that will only obtain more supporters for Messrs. Clay and Norwood. Newcastle-on-Tyne will nearly double its proportion, with the same pleasant results to Messrs. Cowen and Headlam. Wycombe, which seems oddly interpolated in such a list, will more than double its proportion by the addition of labourers, we should think ; and in that case may return two Conservatives, instead of Messrs. Mills and Carington. Swansea will not quite double its proportion, but Mr. Dillwyn will be secure. Stockport will increase its proportion fivefold, but it will not seek better men than Messrs. Watkin and Smith._War wick will nearly double its proportion, and perhaps, in spite of its noble patron, it may return two Liberals in stead of one. Carlisle will nearly double its proportion, and though Mr. E. Potter will have no reason to fear, Mr. Hodgson may have to look about him. Whitehaven will just double its proportion, by the addition possibly of as many friends of the Conservative Mr. Bentinck. The dis trict of Carnarvon will more than double its proportion of, we should think, rural working men, who will not find a better adviser than the Liberal Colonel Pennant. The last in the forty is Horsham, which will double its proportion of rural industrials, and possibly exchange a Liberal for a Conservative. We have stated all these cases, and the operation of the bill upon them, with the utmost simplicity and left ourselves little room for comment. The first thing that strikes us —and it is the only remark we can now make—is that the grand pretence of a special representation for the working men wholly disappears. In all these cases much the same sort of men will be returned as a t present ; and if, in a very few cases, the working men do put their heads together, taking the lead from some cen tral organisation, and elect representatives of their own, in more cases will it be found that the new and poorer voters are employed to neutralise the votes of the shop keepers and better artisans. But the real phenomenon that will strike both sides of the controversy will be the very little effect which a reduced borough franchise widllihnatz, even in the extreme cases, as selec ted and sirens list before us. But is the probability of littlel acctcrutaalinelffyecist one way or another a reason for a bill ? ,not. We cannot help seeing in the ad.vdodelaectcylaossf,tahgeaibnisll the signs of a bad animus ag ainst the ret shopkeepers, againsteven the artisans of nivthinegmoforer delectoral quiet, humdrum class. There is i a r i s ti ca tod , quality. Re units of a mote natural, le selves even in the dep ths of our overg fear that man is mu ch the joked, indeed, should eve b 0 if the yrsoy:unleditisehso;w thbutewme very where, and that a deficiency or abs olute want now here be' re li e d on as a proof o osfarmesepeecftabwliesdaopmpeaarnadncveisrtcuaen. This, as we have often bad to observe, is a comparative que stion ; and a question, moreover, in which there s always a good deal to be said on both sides. As a matter of cost and comfort most Parliamentary gentlemen with a varied experience would rather have the poorest labourers even to the very dregs of the "freemen" class, for their constituents, than a set of self-important tradesmen and