The Sun. — London, England, 1865-10-14 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence. Field-Marshal the General C ornmanding •in- Chief the Duke of Cambridge, K.G., having concluded his inspection of the troops and fortifications at Portsmouth for the present year, left the Govern ment House yesterday morning at 9 am., and em barked on board her Majesty's steamer Fire Queen, Staff-Commander Paul, for the Isle of . Wight, at tended by his personal staff, and accompanied by Lieut.-Gen. Sir George Buller, K.C.8., Lieut.- Governor of Portsmouth, and the general officer commanding the south-west military district, with his staff, comprising Col. Gordon, R.E. ; Colonel :Elliot, R.A. ; Col. Shadwell, Assist-Quartermaster- Gen. ; Major Mackenzie, aide-de-camp, and other officers. The guns of the fortress and her Majesty's ship Victory fired a royal salute on the duke reach ing the deck of the Fire Queen, and the royal stan dard was at the same time hauled down from the flagstaff cf the garrison: The Fire Queen steamed away for Ryde, where his Royal Highness landed with the numerous staff of officers attending him, and proceeded in carriages to Sandown, where a passing visit was paid to the forts on the heights which overlook the bay. From Sandown the Duke drove across the island to Parkhurst, where an in spection was made of the troops and barracks. Af terwards the Duke proceeded to Cowes, and cross ing the Solent in the Fire Queen, visited the Royal Victoria Military Hospital at Netley. From what has transpired there can be no doubt that the pre sent visit of the Duke to Portsmouth and the south west district has been attended, in a military sense, with most gratifying results. Yesterday Major-Gen. Sir Robert Walpole, K.C.8., commanding at Chatham, who has been engaged upwards of a week past in the autumnal inspection of the faces under his command, com menced the inspection of the third battalion of infantry at Chatham garrison, under the com mand of Col. the llon. J. J. Bourke. He devoted yesterday morning to the inspection of the officers' and men's quarters at St. Mary's casemated barracks, together with the•books, accounts, and other official documents relating to each depot. In the afternoon the troops were mustered in review order for the customary inspection on Chatham lines, the depots present comprising those of the Ist and 2d battalion of the 10th Regiment, Ist and 2d battalions of the 19th Regiment, 65th Regiment, 80th Regiment, and the 102 d Royal Madras Fusileers. Prior to the field movements taking place, Sir Robert Walpole inspected the kits, arms, accoutrements, clothing, &c., of the men of the various corps, the condition of which was, on the whole, very satisfactory. After going through a variety of manoeuvres incidental to a review, the troops were dismissed to their quarters. The inspection of the infantry was brought to a close yesterday. The officer commanding the first division of the Depot Brigade, Royal Artillery, on the occasion of the official inspection on Thursday by Major-Gen. Sir Robert Walpole, K.C.8., was Lieut.-Col. C. D. IVaddell, and not Lieut.-Col. Guy Rotton, as was incorrectly stated. The Terrible, 20, paddle frigate, Capt. Gerard E. Napier, will sail from Spithead to-day for the Medi terranean, to relieve the Magicienne, ordered home. The Basilisk, 6, paddle sloop, Capt. Hewett, V.C., under orders for China, is detained at Spithead for the trial by court-martial of one of her officers. The Basilisk is being supplied at Portsmouth with two one-pounder rifled Whitworth guns with their ammunition. They are intended for boat service, or as swivel pieces on the ship's bulwarks. In China this same description of gun is already largely in use, although not on board her Majesty's ships, and has gained a very high character for range, accuracy, and destructive power. Her Majesty's iron screw store ship Wye, 700 tons, and 100 horse-power, from the west coast of Africa, Staff-Commander Valentine G. Roberts, yesterday arrived alongside the T pier at Woolwich arsenal, and commenced unsbipping her cargo, consisting of obsolete guns, carriages, &c., from Sierra Leone, and naval and military stores from other stations. The War Department steam store-vessel Lord Pan mure, 11. T. Moore commander, also arrived at Woolwich on the previous night from Devonport and Cork, laden with guns, shot, &c., from the former place, and 1,168 quarter barrels of returned ammunition from Cork, whither she had been de spatched with powder and small arms ammunition for extra supply, to be distributed to the troops in Ireland. The Lord Panmure left Plymouth at 2, and encountered a succession of heavy gales, which, by reason of the combustible nature of the cargo, mixed with the heavy guns, which were not blocked off, rendered the voyage one of considerable danger. She spoke and passed the Wye off St. Catharine's, Isle of Wight, shaping her course in a north-easterly direction and bearing up against a tremendous squall. The Wye afterwards bore up for the night at Spithead harbour. The Wye is ordered to be stripped and paid out of commission at Woolwich, having been relieved on the African station by the Dromedary, Master Commander Allard, from Wool wich. The war department vessel lnkerman, Wil liam Pellat, Commander, from Pembroke and Cork, has also arrived at Woolwich, with returned stores, and is ordered to reload with 120 tons of guns, car riages, shot, &c., for Devonport. Her Majesty's 6-gun paddle-sloop Spiteful, about to be commissioned, having been ordered on a trial trip to the Lower Hope from Woolwich, yesterday returned to the Royal Arsenal pier in charge of Commander Dillon, of the Steam Reserve, having made six runs at full speed and four at half speed, according to Admi ralty regulations established for testing the engines preparatory to the ship's commission. The average rate of speed was equal to 10 knots per hour, and the working of the machinery, which has been recently repaired, was reported as satisfactory. The boilers are new, and the repairs throughout the ship have been very extensive, rendering her compara tively new. The whole of her guns were hoisted on board yesterday from the pier, and the carriages, platforms, slides, &c., will be supplied to-day. The paddle-wheel steam sloop Styx, 6, Commander William B. Urmston, which arrived in Plymouth Sound on Wednesday, as already reported in The Sun, left Halifax, Sept. 21, and experienced fine wea ther until the last five days. She spoke Oct. 4, lat. 48 44 N., long. 26 47 W., the American ship Wil liam Tapscott, and Oct. 6, lat. 47 50 N., long. 19 17 W., the English steamer Achillian. The Styx brings passengers, two military convicts, and a luna tic ; she was put in ,commission on the 3d March, 1861, and has been one of the healthiest ships on the station. She left at Halifax the flagship Dun can, 81, the Euryalus, 35, the Galatea, 26, and the Gannet, 11. Admiral Sir James Hope, G.C.8., was daily expected; from Prince Edward Island. The Styx was inspected on Thursday morning by Capt. Seymour, of the flagship Royal Adelaide. After discharging her powder she will go up Hamoaze, where her crew will be paid off. The screw steam-frigate Liffey, 39, Capt. George Parker, from North America, is daily expected at Plymouth. Orders have been received at Devonport to bring forward for commission the sailing ship Flora, 40, for a coal depot. She will be available for going to sea if required through stress of weather. An investigation has taken place, by order of the Admiralty, into a charge made against one of the officials of Chatham dockyard of influencing workmen employed at that establishment in re cording their votes at the recent election for the borough. The investigation was directed in consequence of a letter received by Admiral G. Elliot, the defeated candidate, from one of his sup porters at the late election. In this letter it was alleged that Mr. George, the master smith, and two of the foremen in the smithery,had exercised consi derable influence over the men employed under them at the last election, to induce them to record their votes in favour of Mr. Otway, the present member, and that this coercion had been carried to such a n extent that none of the men in the factory dared vote in opposition to the officials named. The result of the inquiry has been that so far from Mr. George and the other officers named at all influencing any of the voters the whole of the men employed in the smithery were left uncontrolled in recording their votes, while Atkinson, the workman who had made the charge, subsequently admitted that most of what he has caused to be written to Admiral Elliot was untrue, and that neither Mr. George nor the fore men in the smithery had exercised any undue influ ence over him. The Lords of the Admiralty consi dered the conduct of Atkinson, whomade the charge, and Matthews, a fellowworkmanwhom he employed to write the letter, to be so bad that they have directed both to be dismi— ed from the dockyard, and never to be employed in her Majesty's service again, while at the same time they forfeit all claim to any superannuation allowance to which they were en titled. Atkinson has been employed in the dockyard 25 years. A court-martial was held on Thursday morning on board the Royal Adelaide in Hamoaze, for the trial of Lieut. Collin Mackenzie Dundas, of her Majesty's ship Zebra, for being on the 16th of August drunk and incapable of performing his duty. The prisoner pleaded guilty, and the Court, taking into considera tion his excellent testimonials, adjudged him to be severely reprimanded and to lose all seniority. The Court was composed of Capt. Fred. B. P. Seymour, C. 8., Royal Adelaide, President; Capt. Chas. J. F. Ewart, Cambridge; Capt. F. S. Tremlett, Impreg nable ; and Capt. Stirling, Greyhound. Mr. Wm. Eastlake, Deputy-Judge-Advocate of the Fleet, was in attendance. The Zebra will now proceed to Sheerness, where her crew will be paid off. The Cattle Disease. The Sanatorium Committee of the Corporation of London held a meeting yesterday in the Long Par lour at the Mansion House, at 3 o'clock. Mr. Gib bins, the chairman of the markets' committee, pre_ sided. Mr. GIBBS, the secretary, read the answer of Lord Palmerston, through his secretary, the Hon. Evelyn Ashley, to the application that he should meet a de putation from the committee to confer with them on the subject of appointing a royal commission to inquire concerning the cattle plague, referring them to the commission that had just been created. Mr. GIBBINS, the chairman, informed the com mittee that he had undergone a long examination before the royal commission ; but during the whole time he said that not a single question had been put to him upon the subject of having a sanatorium with a view to endeavour to cure animals that were afflicted with the disease. It was not until the close of his examination, when he was asked whether he desired to make any suggestion to the commis sioners, that he had an opportunity of expressing the strong conviction he entertained that some steps should be taken to try to discover some mode of curing the disease, and that the practice of indiscri minately slaughtering the animals that were attacked by the malady was likely to lead to most disastrous consequences in regard to the supply of food. Several members then expressed their views as to the course that was best to be adopted, and Dr. TRIPE said that as Lord Palmerston had re ferred the deputation to the royal commission that was now sitting, it appeared to him the committee ought not to desist from their labours under exist ing circumstances, but that the deputation, or at all events a portion of them, should go before the Royal Commission and express their views as to the curability of the disease, and the necessity at any rate of endeavouring to do so. He proposed a motion to that effect, which was seconded by Mr. Straker. Mr. GUERRIER, who is an extensive cattle sales man, said he was in a position to state a fact within his own knowledge with reference to this disease, which he considered of great importance. A short time back a cargo of foreign cattle, consisting of 108 animals, arrived at Harwich, and one of them was suffering from this malady, and was removed and died. The whole of the remainder were per fectly healthy, and were declared so by the Govern ment inspector, and were killed and sent up to London. Ten others, that were consigned to another party, were placed in quarantine, and at the end of the prescribed period these also were declared by the inspector to be quite healthy. These facts, it ap peared, clearly showed either that this disease was not the rinderpest at all, or, if it was, that it was not so infectious as was represented, for out of this entire cargo only one animal died. The CHAIRMAN observed that it appeared to him that it was very essential that facts such as those that had just been stated should be brought to the knowledge of the Royal Commission, with a view to guide them as to the course they should adopt. Mr. GAME, said there was no doubt at all in his mind that this disease among cattle was curable, and he was himself aware of one case where some cows had been condemned by the Government in spector, but, in consequence of the knacker's man who had been applied to not being able to come at the moment to them, they were subjected to cura tive treatment, and the whole of them recovered. Mr. REIDKIN also cited another case within his knowledge, where 30 cows belonging to a cowkeeper named Jones, residing in New-street, Whitechapel, had been condemned, and 24 out of the 30 were entirely cured under the treatment of some cowman living in the neighbourhood. The motion of Dr. Tripe was eventually carried, and arrangements were then made with regard to the gentlemen who should be deputed to give evidence before the Royal Commission, and the nature of the facts to which they should more par ticularly direct their attention, after which the com mittee adjourned. RUINOUS LOSS BY THE CATTLE PLAGUE. At the Mansion-house, yesterday, Mr. Morgan, of the firm of Humphreys and Morgan, solicitors, of Newgate-street, attended before the Lord Mayor for the purpose of calling the attention of his lord ship, and, if practicable, of obtaining his assistance in two most distressing cases of ruinous loss by the cattle plague. Mr. Morgan said that he appeared on behalf of two farmers, named Simon Williams and William Jones, the first of whom resided at Tyndal Cryden, and the other at Tyr-y-Celyn, in Merionethshire, both of whom were present, and his object was to state to his lordship the particulars of a most dis tressing loss they had sustained through the prevail ing malady known as the cattle plague. Mr. Williams left home in August with 136 head of cattle, worth from £l2 to £l5 each, for the purpose of proceeding to Barnet fair, and he disposed of 12 of the cattle on the way, and arrived at Barnet fair with 124. He sold 33 at the fair, and set out to return home with the remaining 91. On arriving at Aldenham, , in Hertfordshire, one bullock was attacked with the disease, and it was examined by Mr. Dale, the inspector for the district, and ordered to be killed. Very shortly afterwards the entire of the remainder were also attacked with the fatal disease, and the whole of them perished. The second case, that of Mr. Jones, was exactly the same, only he had not lost quite so many cattle, but the loss in both cases was quite ruinous, and the parties had, in fact, lost their all. Under these circumstances, he had thought it right to come before his lordship and make him acquainted with the facts, in the hope that the funds which he understood were at the disposal of the Cattle Plague Committee appointed by the Corporation of London might be made available in such a distressing case. The Lord Mayor said he commiserated the posi tion of the poor people who had suffered so severely, but he was afraid he could not do anything for them. It was true that there was a committee at present in existence, and that there was a fund provided, but the public, notwithstanding the appeals that had been made to them, had responded so very sparingly to the call that had been made upon them for sub scriptions that the fund was totally inadequate to the purposes for which it had been instituted. It was also very probable, from what had recently oc curred, that the committee would not be any longer in existence after that day. Mr. Morgan said that it was really one of the most distressing cases that had come to his know ledge in connection with the present malady among the cattle. These poor farmers left home with pro perty that was worth £3,000, and the whole of it was lost. They had actually no means of subsistence, but were dependent upon their friends for support. They were compelled to pay the expense of burying the cattle, and this had swallowed up all they had received for the cattle they had sold, and they had actually expended their last shilling. The certificate of Mr. Dale, the Government in- THE SU - ri s LoNDON, SATURDAY EV cNtl , G, OCTOBER 14, IS6t. spector for the Aldenham district, was put in in confirmation of the statement that had been made, and it also appeared by the certificate that while the carcasses were lying in the fields, prior to arrangements being made to bury them, three of them were stolen. The Lord Mayor inquired with what possible object such a robbery could have been committed. Mr. Morgan said the carcases had been traced to a sausage shop in the neighbourhood of the me tropolis, and he was afraid there was too much ground for believing that they had been chopped up into sausages. He went on to say that these poor people were actually reduced to such a condition by the calamity that had befallen them that they were without memo to pay their expenses back to their own homes. The Lord Mayor repeated that he sincerely com miserated the parties upon their misfortunes, but he did not see what he could do for them. There was a poor-box belonging to the court, and if the appli cants would accept of £5 each to defray their ex penses back to their homes, to that amount he would readily assist them. Mr. Morgan having consulted with the two un fortunate persons, after some hesitation, and evi dently with great unwillingness and pain, they said they would accept his lordship's kind offer. The Lord Mayor observed that there was a royal commission at present sitting upon the subject of this cattle disease, and it appeared to him that it would be as well if the facts of these painful cases were laid before them. The £lO was then handed to the parties, and they left the court. A meeting of magistrates was held at the New Bailey, Whalley Range, on Thursday, to hear from Mr. J. Lawson, veterinary surgeon, a report as to the suspected existence of the cattle plague within the Manchester petty sessional division. Mr. H. L. Trafford presided. The magistrates were informed on Wednesday that a suspected case of rinderpest had occurred at Clifton House. Mr. Lawson was instructed to ascertain whether this rumour had any foundation in fact. The cow belonged to Mr. J. Fletcher. In his report, on Thursday, Mr. Lawson stated that the case was not rinderpest, but pleuro-pneumonia. He, however, with Mr. W. Taylor, meat inspector, reported that five cows were dying of the rinderpest ; that, indeed, one animal was already dead, and the other four would not survive this (Friday) morning. The animals belonged to Mr. Worthington, milk vendor, Whalley Range. The shippons, Mr. Lawson said, were in a filthy condition. They consisted of a wooden shed, in a portion of a field which was undrained. The magistrates, on hearing this report, considered that immediate steps ought to be taken to prevent the spread of the plague, and they agreed to appoint an inspector who should supervise the petty ses sional division, which extends round Manchester. It was suggested that Mr. Lawson, with his son, should be appointed. The meeting was adjourned till to-day, when the appointment will be made. A committee was named to prepare regulations in the meantime, and Mr. Taylor was instructed to perform the duties of inspector until the appointment of a veterinary surgeon. The Hereford Town Council has determined to exclude all horned stock from the great cattle fair in that city. In Sussex, too, it has been resolved to put a stop to fairs and markets. • The cattle plague appeared a: few days ago at Overton, near Wrexham, and it has since attacked several animals in the neighbourhood. One of the inspectors reports that on Monday he visited a farm at Bangor Iscoed, Flintshire, and there saw six animals lying dead, and many more attacked by the disease, It is believed that the fairs will be stopped at Oswestry for the present. The Liverpool County Magistrates held a meet ing yesterday for the purpose of considering the best steps to be taken to arrest the further progress of the cattle disease in the district. Resolutions were adopted to the effect that no cattle should be admitted to the markets for sale unless they were intended for slaughter, and that no beast should be permitted to leave the market after being sold with out undergoing a thorough examination by prope4 officers. It was determined to appoint a competent inspector, who will be assisted by a number of police, in order to see these regulations enforced. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. NORTH BRITISH. A special general meeting of this company was held at Edinburgh on Thursday for the purpose of authorising the creation of stock for the construc tion of, the works authorised by the last session of Parliament ; Mr. R. Hodgson, the chairman, pre sided. The CHAIRMAN said that although it was pro posed to create the whole of the stock required for the various works at once, it was intended in the meantime to construct only those works which were of most importance, so that shareholders would not be called on for more frequent payments than if the stock were created at successive periods. For the improvements at Perth station the contracts would be carried out in the course of a few months. As to the Forth Bridge scheme, he believed that the esti mates would be below those originally given in— and there could be no doubt that the bridge would be an advantage to the company, as connecting the two portions of the North British system. The works at Burntisland pier would also be of great import ance in facilitating their northern traffic ; and he hoped the negotiations with the Edinburgh Town Council for the improvement of the Waverley sta tion would come to a successful issue. As to the Glasgow City Union Railway, that would be of great importance in connecting the North British with the Glasgow and South-Western at that important point for interchange of traffic. He concluded by proposing a series of resolutions for the creation of new prefe rence stock, for the execution of the various works, and for approval of certain agreements with auxi liary lines. The resolutions were duly seconded, and carried unanimously. and commercial affairs in the colony had also suf fered. The staple article of export was wool, to the amount of £2,000,000 per annum, and he there fore hoped that the state of things in that colony would improve, and that the traffic on the railway would continue to increase. He regretted the death of their late excellent colleague, Mr. Barry, and concluded by moving that the report be received and adopted, and that £2,796 expended on the re newal of sleepers be carried to the capital suspense account. Mr. L. BROWNE seconded the motion, which was carried unanimously. A dividend at the rate of 4 per cent. per annum for the past half-year, free of Income-tax, was de clared ; the retiring directors, Mr. Watson and Mr. L. Browne, were re-elected, and also Mr. W. For ster, the retiring auditor. The proceedings then terminated, crop are more favourable than were those of last year. A despatch forwarded by the Foreign-office was received from her Majesty's Acting Consul at New Orleans, enclosing a statement contained in the New Orleans " Price Current" of Sept. 1, and an approximate estimate of the supply of cotton now in the country, made upon the authority of parties of experience in the business, and which represents the amount, including this season's crop, to be about 1,170,000 bales. It is not possible under existing circumstances to form an absolutely correct estimate There was no other business of public interest. CAPE TOWN. The half-yearly general meeting of this company was held yesterday at the London Tavern ; Mr. H. Watson in the chair. The report, an abstract of which has appeared in The Sun, was taken as read. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, said he had to congratulate them on the im proved and improving condition of their affairs. They had been informed of the agreement with the Wynberg Railway. Since the last meeting the direc tors hadspecially devoted their attention to the de velopment of the traffic and reduction of working expenses. They had revised the tariff of rates with the view to attract goods traffic from the common road to the railway. They would see from the traffic returns how far they had been successful on the main line between Cape Town and Wellington. For the half-year ending. June 30 last the number of passengers carried was 57,458, the number of tons of merchandise 11,640, and the total receipts £ . 16,141, against 38,484 passengers, 9,788 tons of goods, and £14,219 received in the corresponding half of 1864, showing an increase of 18,974 passengers, 1,952 tons of goods, and £1,922 received. When he told them that during the same time there had been a diminu tion in the working expenses of 22} per cent. they would recognise the extent of supervision in the ma nagement of their affairs that had been exercised in the colony. The Wynberg Railway had been worked satisfactorily by the company. There had been car ried on that line during the half-year 157,806 pas sengers and 471 tons of goods, but this traffic had not yet been properly accommodated. The capital account had been simplified and classified, but it was subject to revision, when Mr. Hawkshaw had decided the question submitted to him, and when the precise amount of capital to be guaranteed by the Colonial Government had been ascertained. The carrying over a balance of £1,731 had been necessitated by their agreement with the Wynberg Railway Com pany, as they were bound to make a reserve for de preciation of rolling stock in the event of the lease being terminated at the end of five years, which might be the case. The agricultural interests had been depressed in consequence of long droughts, DELHI. It is expected that the section of this line extend ing from Ghazerabad (the point of junction with the East Indian Railway) to Meerut will be ready for traffic in November next year, and the con tractors state that a further portion, from Meerut to Moozaffurnugger will be completed by the Ist of May, 1867, in time for the summer traffic to the hills, making together about 60 miles in length, through a populous and highly-cultivated country. With regard to the other end of the railway, it is expected that the portion from Umritsur as far as the river Beas will be completed in December, 1866. Messrs. Brassy and Co. are the contractors, and it is believed from the energy displayed that the line throughout will be completed within the time stipu lated in the contract. DEMERARA. The traffic receipts on this company's line for the fortnight ending September 16 amounted to $4,264, and for the corresponding fortnight of 1864 to $4,106, showing an increase of $l5B. Railway Traffic Returns for the Week. ' Mlles Opened. Receipts. Railways. .------"----1.------"---- 1865. 1864. 1865 1864 £ £ Belfast and N. Counties 931 991 2,039 1.852 Belfast and County Down 444 414 688 629 Blyth and Tyne 2B 28 2,538 2,042 Brecon and Merthyr Bristol and Exeter l2ll 1214 7,287 6,689 Caledonian, Scottish Central 4OB 408 28 660 26,822 Cambrian l3O 121 2,117 2.125 Cock ermouth K & Penrlth - 407 - Cockermouth and Workin - - Cork and Bandon 2O 20 518 432 Cork, 131ackrock, & Passage 6l (4 235 180 Cork and Youghal Cornwall 651 65 4 1,916 1.841 Deeside . 17 17 466 323 Dublin & 13elfast Junction.... 63 63 1,772 1.575 Dublin anti Drogheda 75 75 2,143 1.74 Dublin and Meath Dub. & Wicklow and Wextd. 105 91i 4,740 3,671 Forth and Clyde Junction - Furness, &c 5O 51 3,7,1 3.222 Glasgow & South-Western Gt. Eastern,Nrik.,&E.Union Great Northern 4Ol 365 41.383 39,259 Great North of Scotland ot. Northn. & Westn. (Irel.) 7ll 711 636 f 93 qt.Southn. & Westn.(lrind.) 3874 3874 10,461 8./52 Great Western l2BO 1236 76,218 74,277 Hull & Hornsea .. 13 13 159 137 Highland Irish North-Western . 145 145 2,092 1,880 Lancashire & Yorkshire...... 403 403 41.827 37,300 Limerick and Ennis.. 241 241 222 153 Limerick and Foynes 261 261 105 1(8 Llanelly 461 461 737 634 Llynvi Valley London & North-Western ... 12731 12711 121,702 113,008 London and Blackwell .. si 51 2,1%2 1,8 5 0 London & South-Western ... 490 k 4514 27,730 16.777 Lond. Brighton, &S. Coast... 272 2671 28,282 24.184 London, Chatham, & novel; ( 134 12/ 1 11,336 9.877 all Metropolitan Extensicn tl2 111 j 2,5u0 1,850 Do. Kent L oast I Lou., Tilbury, & Southend .. 42 421 2,*. 86 1,870 lian.,Sheffield,& Lincolnsh.. 246 216 30 357 19,20 Ranch. S.J un.& Altrincham.. 9 91 1,467 1,395 Maryport and Carlisle .. 28 28 1,717 1.513 Metropolitan Midland (incl. N.-Western , .. 6721 611 56,437 51,680 Midland G . t.Westn. of Irind .. uot 2601 8,905 8.7 3 Monmouthsh. Rail. & Cana.. 44 44 3,083 (2,5 0 North British, Edin., Perth and Dundee N-Eastern and Stock. & DtrL 11941 11601 7. 4 ,315 68 768 North London 9 9 3,670 3,3 7 North Staffordshire .. 258 258 8,361 8.531 Pembroke and Tenby .. 111 111 147 9.1 Ithymney .... 19/ 191 1,C42. 1'56 Scottish Nor th-Eastera...... 138 138 6,110 6,085 Somerset and Dorset ... 66 66 1,10.3 9 8 South Devon South-Eastern 315 303 32,596 30,109 Taff Vale ... 61 61 5,815 5,131 Ulster Vale of Clwyd . ...... 10 10 206 19S Waterford and Kilkenny..... 31 31 566 417 Waterford and Limerick ..... 77 77 1,555 1,673 W'haven,Cleator,& Egrmnt.. 10 10 629 7v3 Whitehaven Junction l3 13 1,110 1,077 Whitehaven & Furness Jun 35 35 950 10)08 FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. Austrian . 828 828 Bahia and San Francisco 7.% 761 3 1 311 Belgian Eastern J unction 24 264 421 366 Bombay, Baroda, & 'en. India 306 1854 2, 82 2,! 07 Detroit and Milwaukie 189 189 8,916 6,2 9 Dutch Rhenish Eastern of France 1176 1428 Eastern Bengal .. .. East Indian . 1105 1066 23,5 3 16,7;9 Grand Trunk ot Canada 1177 1.415 3 .715 27.636 Great Central of Belgium— 28.5 261 7,557 5,917 Great Indian Peninsula 590 553 15,.09 8,332 Great Luxembourg 134 134 6,041 4.991 Great Southern of India Great Western of Canada 345 3 5 17,331 16,723 Madras 571 448 7,235 6,095 Madrid, Sararrossa &Aiicant 6B) 650 _ 1 Northern of Canada ...... •• - 91 91 2,224 1,431 Northern of France 728 728 70,205 63,8 5 Norwegian Trunk Ottoman Paris, Lyons, & Mediterrn 1967 1781 155,083 149,950 Paris and Orleans 1616 1611 80,004 73.571 Recife and San Francisco. &G. 77.4 774 705 555 Sc nde les 105 717 ,1,279 Do. Punjab, &a 253 32 725 93 South Austrian, dtc ...... Southern of Prance 823 770 32,539 31,112 Victoria Welland West .5z N- Wn. of France .. 1119 953 6 ' ,715 54,719 The Cotton Supply Association. At the meeting of the Executive Committee, held on Tuesday, a letter was read, accompanying a sample of cotton grown at Missolonghi, Greece, from seed sent out by the Association, which was valued at 30d. per pound, and stating that the crop on an estate in Negropont, planted early in the year, had suffered considerably from locusts. A letter was received from King William's Town acknowledging the grant of cotton seed and a gin which had been made to the Kaffrarian Agricultural Society, and enclosing a sample of Kaffrarian grown cotton, which was valued at 24d. per pound. A letter was received from Carthage, Africa, describing the writer's proceedings, with a view to promote the growth of cotton in that district. A letter was read from the honorary agents of the association atßom bay, reporting that they had supplied Egyptian seed to the cotton inspector at Ahmedabad and other parties. A letter from Lucknow, accompanying an article in the Oudh Gazette upon the last annual meeting of the association, represents the importance of renewed efforts on the part of the Government to make the resources of India still further available for the production of cotton of an improved quality. The writer expresses a belief that if suitable mea • sures were adopted, not only would India send cot ton of a satisfactory description in greater abun dance than hitherto, but that a larger demand than ever would arise for our manufactures, and that thus both India and England would be mutually benefited. A letter fowarded by the India-office was received from the Collector of Kurnool, in the Madras Presidency, reporting the failure of some experiments with New Orleans cotton seed which had been made in that district. The seed only ar rived towards the end of September, when the pro per sowing season was past, but several ryots were induced to sow it at the late crops, without success, however, in any instance. It stated that in most cases the seed did not germinate, and when it did so the plants withered very shortly, and that only in five villages of Pattikonda did a total extent of 31 acres produce about six maunds of uncleaned cotton. The general failure of exotic seed in the district of Kurnool, when sown by native agricultu rists, renders them unwilling to make use of it. A further communication was received from the Go vernment of Bombay, furnishing detailed statements of cotton cultivation, and the out-turn of the crop in that presidency for the season 1864-65 as com pared with 1863-64. The collector's returns exhibit a small decrease, but the Cotton Commissioner con siders the estimate to have been underrated, with the exception of Surat and Kaira, and he has added an additional column, showing an increase of 24,000 candies. The total return of American cotton cul tivation in the Southern Mahratta country is com puted at not less than 366,900 acres, after deduct ing a decrease of 43,000 acres in the Dharwar Collectorate, as compared with the preceding year. The Commissioner in Scinde reports that there is an increase apparent in the area of land cultivated with indigenous cotton throughout Scinde to the extent of 28,436 acres, which is no doubt due to the exceptionally high price of cotton during the year. The cultivation of foreign cotton has been confined to the Kurrachee Collectorate. It is further stated that the prospects of the season's STATE OF TRADE MANCHESTER, Oct. 13.—We have had a more active demand for yarns to-day than previously this week. Shipping yarns have been in request, and extreme prices have been freely paid. In many cases Id. per lb. higher rates have been paid than yesterday, and the amount of business has been considerable. This branch of the market closes strong, with an upward tendency. There are still many orders in the market held back, waiting the arrival of advices by the American mail, expected to-day. For home trade yarns we have also had a strong market, with a considerable amount of busi ness, at prices about Id. per lb. in advance of the rates current on Tuesday. There is a firmer feeling in the cloth market, with somewhat revival of busi ness. The principal operations have again been confined to resale lots, and at prices which would be quite unremunerative to manufacturers. Under these circumstances manufacturers have been able to get but few orders to make. The market, how ever, is getting rapidly cleared of resale goods, and we have noticed to-day a decided improvement in the prices of all kinds of cloth. Telegrams have come to hand from India, which report an improve ment at Bombay on the 3d inst., more business having been done at slightly higher prices. Shirt ings of 71b. weight were 15s. 6d. per piece. This is not a price which would lead to business here, but it may be observed that at the date of the to egram they would not have received advices of the highest rates which have ruled here. At the close of the market an American mail (the Damascus) was tele graphed. At New Orleans, September 26, cotton was dull at 44 cents for middling. At Memphis, stock, 8,000 bales, at 38 to 42 cents. on the 28th. At New York, September 30, the week's receipts of cotton had been, 23,300 bales ; two day's sales, .6,500 bales ; prices, 45 to 46 cents for middling. Market active and firmer. NOTTINGHAM, 13th.—At our Exchange-hall to day there was a fair attendance. Advanced rates were asked by spinners, which caused the demand to be confined to needy buyers, who had to pay 3d. per lb. more money for lace yarns. Hosiery yarns are also very dear. Silks very firm all round. There was a steady demand for brown nets, and prices unobtainable a week ago were realised. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TIMES.—Mr. Disraeli has discoursed on agricul tural subjects this year with unwonted brevity, and, perhaps, with a less triumphant assurance that his own judgments are infallible and his opponents among the most foolish or perverse of mankind. It is the natural and happy result of meetings of all kinds to produce, if not agreement, at any rate tolerance. In the various congresses that have been held this autumn people have talked blandly and politely about things that used to make them loud of voice and red of face only a few years ago. If this goes on in the social, scientific, and ecclesias tical worlds, why should not the same effect be perceived in the discussions on agricultural matters? Agriculture is now almost entirely divorced from politics. There is no class which can believe that it suffers wrong from the monopoly of the land owners, and, on the other hand, the owners and oc cupiers of land have no ground for the suspicion that there is an important section of English society which wishes them ill, or desires to pull down s one thing which ought in justice to them to be con . served. An Agricultural Association consists now ,of a number of.people who unite for the purpose of instructing and aiding one another in prosecuting the most important department of human industry. A man of judgment who takes part in the proceed ings of such a body knows that he does not act for a class or section of society ; when he speaks it is to the whole country, for there is no inhabitant of a London court, no digger in a north-country coal mine, who has not a direct interest in anything that will increase the production of the soil. Those who manufacture for the belly will always be sure of a market, and will, indeed, be such important pro ducers that their sayings and doings cannot but re ceive an attention beyond that which any other class can command. Mr. Disraeli did not give us any decided opinions at Amersham the other day, or any new views ; but he spoke with moderation and good sense on several points, and even con descended to argument on behalf of his old hobby of giving sovereigns and new coats to labourers, as if it had not been al.ready demonstrated to all the world that it is the most noble and graceful way of rewarding virtue that had ever been devised byman. With respect to the question of leases, it is impos sible not to agree with Mr. Disraeli, for if the ques tion were argued for a twelvemonth and a score of blue-books published upon it, we cannot conceive that there could be any conclusion except that the matter should be left in each individual case to the landlord and the would-be tenant, who are the parties to the contract, and with whom no one has any right to interfere. There is a vague feeling, de rived doubtless from the aristocratic and almost pa triarchal character which has marked English coun try life even up to our own day, that the letting of land should be ruled by other laws than other busi ness transactions. But it is for the benefit of the farmer and of the public as well as of the landlord that such ideas should be abandoned. Mr. Disraeli puts the difficulty very plainly :—" If the farmer is asked whether he will have a lease for a short term of years, he will give you reasons for objecting to that. On the other hand, the landlord will say that as the value of land, generally speaking, has been rising for a long series of years, if he grants a lease. for a long term it will be necessary to enter into some arrangement by which the rent shall be pro portionally and periodically increased." The busi ness, then, is merely one to be arranged between the parties according to their conceptions of their individual interest, and cannot be subjected to any universal custom, much less to positive law. It is easy to see, however, as the number of persons de sirous to rent land increases, while the land remains a constant quantity, the owners will, as a general rule, be able to impose their own terms and select a tenant who will assent to them. Mr. Disraeli, of course, keeps to his theory of raising the rural popu lation by munificent gratuities of three pounds for a life of virtue. The subject has so often been dis cussed, and is so purely one of personal taste and feeling, that we should not have returned to it were it not for the extraordinary argument by which, after many years' consideration, Mr. Dis raeli thinks proper to recommend his favourite notion. It is shortly this—that no person, whether an agricultural labourer or a person in the highest rank of society, ought to feel other wise than pleased when an " Association" takes upon itself to reward his virtues in his old age ; and that, in fact, if gentlemen with £5,000 a year were offered gratuities equivalent to those given to the farm labourers, they would be glad to get them. " Recollect," says the right hon. gentleman, c‘ you must estimate a reward of £3 to a labourer in pro portion to his income ; £3 to a labourer with 12s. a week represents a sum equivalent to £5OO or £6OO to a gentleman with £5,000 a year. Now, I have observed that gentlemen in the receipt of £5,000 a year are not absolutely indifferent to the chances of receiving £4OO or £5OO extra." If this theory be correct, the world has certainly to thank Mr. Dis reali for a great discovery. Why should not all orders of men be encouraged in the path of duty by the prospect of five weeks' income at the age of three score and ten or upwards ? Let it be tried at once, say, with one or two of the oldest Bishops, the Law Lords, the heads of colleges, and other such venerable persons. Certainly, £BOO divided between an aged prelate and an ex-chancellor would not be too much to encourage persevering good conduct on the episcopal judicial benches. Until that experi ment be tried successfully, we must believe that the feeling which objects to these gifts to laboUrers is a just one, and that the agricultural associations would do well to confine themselves to giving prizes to skill, and abandon their purpose of " recognising, reward ing, and encouraging merit in that portion of her Majesty's subjects." The " moral virtues" of la bouring people are best rewarded by those with whom they have worked, and who know more about them than any association possibly can. Mr. Dis raeli's observations on cottage-building are less open to objection. The difficulty undoubtedly is, that a well-built cottage is not likely at present to pay such a rent as will entitle the building of it to be called a good investment of money. But there arc other considerations, especially when the labourer is employed on the land ; and with the general ad vance of the labourer's condition and wages there is no reason to doubt that the providing decent ac commodation for him will be a prudent as well as a philanthropic work. A strong impulse. in this di rection will no doubt be given by the Act of last Session, which has done so _much to equalise the burdens on property and satisfy the claims of la bour, THE " LONDON REVIEW; On STEEL PENS AND GOOSE QUILLS.—Ever since men began to think, and advanced from gesture-language to picture writing and word-writing, they have used some favourite instrument which answered to a pen. The Hebrews chiselled the law on tables of stone ; the Greeks engraved their laws on brass ; the Chinese, before paper was invented, wrote with an iron style on thin boards or bamboo, and in the present day they form their characters with great rapidity in perpendicular columns by means of a pencil-brush held straight over the paper. Table-books of wood were used before the time of Homer, and continued in use long after papyrus-leaves and skins became ordinary materials, They were usually waxed over and written upon with a style. Whatever was written was easily effaced ; and by smoothing the wax a new and clear surface was supplied. The Hebrews had books written on skins in the time of David ; and the lonians wrote on goatskins and sheepskins when the plant of the biblos was scarce. The North American Indian " blazed" or wounded his recording pine-tree with an axe, so as to mark it with conspicuous white symbols. e also painted pieces of birch-bark with suggestive pictures, to remind the singers of the several verses in their songs or charms. As civilisation advanced, and pure letters were substituted for pictures by nation after nation, finer implements became necessary. The reeds of the ancients were in the hands of writers as late as the tenth century, and served in committing their ideas to paper, parchment, or vellum, prepared from abortive or very young calves. The oldest certain account we have of quill pens as in struments of writing, is in a passage of Isidore, who died in 636 ; but they were undoubtedly in use a century earlier. Many ancient manuscripts written in the sixth century are preserved in the monas tery of St. Gall, in Switzerland, and in other religious houses. They are in Irish, or Latin written in Irish characters, and exhibit the finest speci mens of laborious penmanship. The geometrical figures with which the letters are rounded, pointed, and adorned, are equally curious, minute, and cor rect. It is evident on inspecting these manuscripts that quill pens must have been employed long before caligraphy could have attained such neatness and perfection. At the same time, it is not always easy to determine from the writing whether a split reed or a quill pen was used in any particular manu script ; and the terms which expressed both instru ments long continued to be ambiguous. A bad quill pen and a good reed produced nearly the same effect. When Theodoric, King of the Ostrogoths, subscribed the public decrees with the first four letters of his name, it would puzzle any antiquary to say whether he did so with a reed or a pen, pro perly so called ; and his perplexity would be no less if required to state whether, when Jezebel wrote letters in Ahab's name, she did so with the split reed still common in thei East, or with a pointed iron style tipped with diamond. At length, how ever, the gall-nut, the gum-tree, and copperas formed a firm alliance ; and Pen and Ink was the result of the compact. The chisel, the graver, the style, the axe, the brush, and the reed withdrew their rival claims, and the supremacy of the goose-quill became clearly established, at least in the more cultivated quarters of the globe. In England its undisputed sway lasted 500 years. It brought in by degrees an era of its own,- which may be called the Age of Pens. The age of the spear and lance belongs to primitive times ; the mediaeval epoch was the age of the sword ; but the pen has proved a mightier weapon than either lance or sword, and in many countries of Europe its rule is more supreme than that of the sceptre. Perhaps the goose herself was the individual who suffered most from the momen tous change. As education grew general, and the demand for quills increased, the avaricious people in the farm-yard tugged relentlessly at the live geese, and scorned the idea of waiting till the day of their death to reap a harvest of quills. The clarified quills from Holland were sold at Bs. the hundred under a heavy duty, and even thirty shil lings a hundred were paid at last for the choicest article. None but schoolboys and artists ever used split reeds, for they made a rugged line, which, though picturesque in a drawing-master's outline, was ill-suited to " up-strokes." The crow-quill was fit only for etching and the finest penmanship ; while German text, old English, engrossing and other I" black hands" required turkey quills, the' goose quills being too weak for the purpose. With these exceptions, and that of the swan quill, which was still rarer, all the run was on the unfortunate geese. Immense flocks of them were fed in Russia and Poland for the sake of their quills, and, a quar ter of a century ago, about twenty millions were imported into England annually from those coun tries. Indeed, it was evident to thinking men, that ere long all the available geese in Europe would be insufficient to supply the English market. Such was the state of things when a competitor for public favour arose, destined to achieve in a short time extensive triumph, and win from the goosequill more than half its field of action. This was the steel pen. Many abortive attempts had been made to supply the schoolmaster and the clerk's office with some other instrument besides the quill. In France they tried bone pens, but without much success. Then the glass or " fountain pen" came and offered itself. It was both pen and inkstand. The sable fluid was to percolate in a perennial stream through the narrow tube without any trouble on the part of the writer. For " the first time of asking" it answered well; but on second use, the tiny duct was invariably choked up, and nothing could cleanse it. Then fountain pens were made of brass, the feeding channel opened and shut, and could be easily cleaned. But the brass oxidized, and the ink re fused to flow on any terms. Thin pliant brass lacquered over was tried next in imitation of quill pens, but no one could write with it ; tor toise-shell succeeded little better than bone, and the fashion of arming the nibs of pens made from turkey quills with rhodium, ruby, and diamond points was equally a failure. At length the right thing came to hand. A French mechanic, named Arnoux, had produced metallic pens in the last century, but steel pens for writing were first made in this country by Mr. Wise in 1803. For a considerable time they were manufactured with flat cheeks, and a patent was taken out for them in this form in 1812. Dr. Wollaston's rhodium pen, and the iridium pen of others, were both flat. About the year 1824, Mr. Perry began to make steel pens on an improved plan, and, six years after, they were manufactured in Birmingham, where some of the largest and finest steel pen establishments are now flourishing. At first they were neither good nor cheap. Pens very inferior to those we now buy at a shilling a gross were displayed ostentatiously on cardboard squares, and sold at half-a-crown a dozen. Many large for tunes were made, and numberless patents were taken out. Every possible shape and quality be came the subject of a patent, and not half of those proposed were ever manufactured. A pen-maker, who was fast becoming a millionaire, once showed a friend a collection of patented pens, which he had never made nor intended to make. " I buy the designs and models," he said, "of the designers. Then I patent them, and put them to bed. They are well worth manufacturing ; indeed, many of them are better than anything in the market. But if I were to bring them out, they would only damage the sale of those I am producing by the million, while I should be at the cost of new machinery. So I let them sleep on ; and if I do not wake them, no one else, you see, can." This was a trait of com mercial policy well deserving consideration in connection with the subject of patents. Swedish iron is said to be the best material for pens. It is converted into steel on the old plan in a furnace, or by the new process of Mr. Bessemer, and subsequently hardened by tilting, casting into ingots, and rolling it into thin sheets. The consumption of steel in this way is enormous. As much as four and twenty years ago it amounted to 120 tons annually, and was equivalent to about two hundred millions of pens. This quantity is now greatly increased in consequence of the penny postage, and the improvements in steel pen manu facture. Some id ea o f it may b e ga th ere d from the fact, that pens may now be bought by the trade at fourpence a gross, box included, and that there are houses which produce twenty, thirty, and even fifty thousand pens daily througuout the year. The art of pen -making has never been brought to greater perfection than in the manufacture of lithographic " crowquill " steel pens. They are very small, as the term indicates, and are adapted to the finest shading. Their chief use is in tracing in crimson lake, and also in lithographic ink on " transfer paper," which has the remarkable property of dis charging all its inked lines on the stone, so to make a complete transfer of the writing or drawing. The process by which steel pens are made is too long and complicated to be described in this place ; but there is one step in it which particularly strikes every visitor of a Birmingham or Sheffield factory. After a great deal of hard treatment they have undergone in the rolling-mill and the cutting-press, in the punching, slitting, and curving, in the oven and the cylinder, the pens have acquired a disagree able roughness, which must be removed. For this purpose they are put into huge tin cans with a quantity of sawdust. The cans are made to revolve rapidly by steam, and the pens cleanse and smooth each other by friction, while the sawdust takes up all the impurities disengaged. Thus Arthur Hallam used. to say that the form and gloss, the picturesque of man and man, are merged and ground in the social mill of great cities, where we are all uncon sciously employed in rubbing down each other's angles. Vacancies, Promotions, and Appointments in the Civil Service: (From the Civil Service Gazette.) HOUSE Or LORDS.—One of the principal doorkeeperships in tho House of Lords has become vacant by the death of Mr. Wm. Mopes. THE POST OFFICE.—Mr. H. Heritage has been appointed to be clerk, Shrewsbury. Mr. W. Stone has been appointed . to be sorting clerk, Derby. Mr. Home has been promoted from the old supplementary class to the third class of clerks, Secretary's Office, London. Mr. Northey has been promoted from the probationary class to the third class of clerks, Money Order Office, London. Mr. Blake has been promoted from the probationary class to the third class of clerks, Money Order Office, London. Mr. Williamson has been pro moted from the probationary class to the third class of clerks, Money Order Office, London. CUSTOMS.-Mr. Wm. Barnes has been promoted from the second to the first class of clerks in the London Docks de partment. Mr. Richard Reynolds has been promoted from the third to the second class of clerks in the London Docks department. Mr. J. F. Dutton has been promoted from the third to the second class of clerks in the London Docks department. Mr. Septimus F. Wayland has been pro moted from the third to the second class of clerks in the London Docks department. Mr. John C. Tindall has been promoted from the fourth to the third class of clerks in the London Docks department. Mr. James H. Knight has been promoted from the fourth to the third class of clerks in the London Docks de partment. Mr. Joseph Roughan has been promoted from the fourth to the third class of clerks in the London Docks department. Mr. George Ficklin has been promoted from the fourth to the third class of clerks in the London Docks department. Messrs. John D. L. Learmond, John Cross, William F. Heydon, Joseph Quinn, Henry Lewis, Alfred Rusby, and John Atkin have been promoted from the fifth to the fourth class of clerks in the London Docks depart ment. Messrs. Henry Ellis, John S. Cobb, Alexander B. M'Arthur, Charles N. Potter, James Clough, E. M. Ivers, C. T. Pitblado, James Chadd, and James Hopwood, have been promoted from the fifth to the sixth class of clerks in the London docks department. Mr. B. N. M'Dowell has been promoted from the fourth to the third class of examining officers at Belfast. INLAND REVENUE.—Stamp and Tax Branch.—Mr. W. H. Roberts, surveyor of taxes, Barnstaple, has been re moved to Luton, vice Mr. W. Martin. Mr. W. H. Spencer, late surveyor of taxes, High Wycombe, has been appointed to Barnstaple. COUNTRY MARKETS LIVERPOOL.-FRIDAY. At this day's market there was a small attendance of the town and country trade, and little business was done. Wheat and flour met with a slow retail sale at late rates. Oats were difficult to move, and oatmeal may be quoted at 3d. to 6d. per load lower. In barley, beans, and peas there were few transactions, and prices remained nominally without change. Indian corn was in limited request, and 28s. 9d. per 4801 b. was the extreme value of the best. nevi mixed American. DERBY-FRIDAY. We have hq,cl a great deal of rain during the week, and turnips have been greatly benefited. The show of wheat at to-day's corn market was middling. The demand was firm, at fully late rates. New white wheat, 42s to 45s ; old red, 46s to 50s per 3 6 stone. Barley for malting, 32s to 33s per qr. ; grinding, 27s to 28s per 30 stone. Oats, new, 24s to 26s ; old, 27s to 29s per 24 stone. Beans, old, 48s to 50s; new, 40s to 433 per 38 stone. • RIPON-FRIDAY. There was a better show of wheat to-day than last week, and fully as much oats, beans, and barley. There was ti steady demand, and last week's quotations were main tained. WAKEFIELD.-FRIDAY We have experienced a limited demand for wheat to-day, but we quote no change in value. Ordinary runs of now' are especially difficult to quit. Fine barley inquired for and quite as dear ; other sorts taken off slowly at late rates. In beans and oats no material change. Averages, October 9—Wheat, 5,354 qrs, at 47s barley, 1,219, at 32s 61d; oats, 30, at 23s 6d. STAMFORD.-FRIDAY. Old white wheat, 46s to 50s ; new do., 44s to 48s;per 3 6 stone. Barley, malting, 32s to 34s ' • grinding, 27s t o 285 per qr. Oats, new, 19 s t o 248; old, 25s to 27s per 24 stone, Beans, 40s to 48s per 38 s t one . Peas as of late. LINCOLN.—FRIDAY. New white wheat, 42s to 46s ; new red, 39s to 42s per 3 6 stone. Barley for malting, 33s to 36s per qr ; grinding, 29s to 32s per 30 stone. Oats, 20s to 28s. Beans, 38s to 48s per 38 stone. BRISTOL SUGAR.-FRIDAY. The demand has revived, and a fair business has been done to-day at full prices. Rum quiet and prices nominal COAL MARKET. Price per ton at the close of the market. - --- s. d. --- -- --- s. (1; Iretton Lyons 2l 6 Walls End Horton ... 21 6 Carway and Duffryn Hetton ••• -,2 0 Malting 24 0 Ships at market, 4 ; sold, 4. Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton Oct. 19. Ditto, via Marseilles Oct. 13. Brazil and Cape Verds. by British pac. et ...... Nov. 5. Ditto, by French packet Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena Oct. 21. China. Penang. and Singapore. via Southampton-oot. 19 Ditto, via Marseilles Oct. 13. Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton . Oct. —. India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton.— Oct, 13 Ditto, via Marseilles ........... • ....Oct. 19. India (Bombay), via Southampton. Oct. —. Ditto, via Marseilles Oct. 21. Mauritius, via Southampton Oct. Ditto, via Marseil e 3. Nov. 5. Newfoundland Portugal .......:..........N0v. 5. Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon.. United States and British North America, by Bri tish packet Ditto, by United States packet, via Southamp- ton Ditto, ria Clrk . • . Ditto, by Canadian packet, via Londonderry.. Oct. 13. West Coast of Africa. Madeira, and Teneriffe Nov. .0. West Indies and Pacific (except Bahamas, Cuba, _ and Mexico •• • Bahamas, via New York. Oct. 19 Bermuda, ditto Oct. 25. Cuba and Mexico Oct. 30. The sanitary report from Marseilles gives for Oct. 9th 37 deaths, 12 from cholera ; at Toulon, on the same day, there were 17 deaths, 7 from the epi demic ; and at Arles, on the Bth, 9 deaths, 4 from cholera. The police of Geneva have lately discovered, by means of a piece of velvet offered for sale to several private persons, a clue which has enabled them to lay hands on a whole band of thieves i° whose lodgings was found a trunk containing 120,000 f. The man named Boccon who de stroyed himself at Versailles is supposed to have belonged to the gang. !ADVERTISEMENT:I—HoIIoway's Pills and Ointment' Be not Deceived.—There is a Giant marching onward from the East who threatens to invade our prosperott, country—his name is Cholera, and his cohorts consist impurity, irregularity, debility, and despondency. Each of these provocatives of this dire disease may be overcom e without danger by Holloway's remedies, provided they b e resorted to without delay the moment listlessness, loose' ness, feverishness, or pain betrays disordered action. The " directions " will enable the least cultivated to treat sue' cessfully and subdue completely these warning symptorM 4 of cholera. When confidence in Holloway's preparatiooo, has once been established, each believer in their virtue!: will humanely recommend them to acquaintances, thgt none may foolishly harbour the foe's friends Within his 00 fortress. Birth 3. BLAKE.—On the 13th inst., at 3, St. John's-gardens, Xon" sington-park, SW., the wife of Capt. G. F. Blake, the Royal Marines, of a son. BRANDRETIL — On the 12th inst., at Standish Rectory, 3 1 - 11. Brandreth, of a daughter. MURRAY.—On the 12th inst., at Chalvey Park, Slough, th e wife of E. F. Murray, Esq., of a son. NOELL — On the 11th inst., at Cadiz, the wife of Mai° Noeli, S.R.A., of a daughter. Marriages. ALLEN—WHITEHEAD.—On the 11th inst., at St. Jaine o : n 6 Piccadilly, Robert Allen, Esq . ., Sudbury, Suffolk, Louisa, youngest daughter of W. H. Whitehead, 16 '" Commander H.C.S. SMITH—FRESHITELD.—On the 12th inst., at the par church, Brighton, Capt. 0. Smith, son of H. J. Sgabl Esq., and the H on . M r s. Smith, of Beabeg, county 'j Meath, Ireland, t o Ali c e Anna, youngest daughter of ' Freshfield, Esq., M.P. Deaths. ----- DrxoN.—At his residence, Belle Vue Rouse, Darlingtol/' John Dixon, Esq., C E., aged 68. of EMBLETON.—On the 12th inst., Luke Embleton, Bs(1„.. , o f - Manor Cottage, Manor-street, Clapham, and 40, r° 3- Park-street, Southwark, aged 80. GAREAD.—On the 11th inst., at West Lodge, Colchester' John C. Garead, Esq. JONES.—On the 12th inst., E. H. Jones, Esq., of The Cedes', Turnford, Herts, and 28, Mark-lane, London, aged 75 PAYNE.—On the 12th inst., at 12, Grove-hill-terrace, Grol °' lane, Camberwell, Mrs. Mary Payne, aged 67. RosEßTs.—On the 12th inst., at 9, Maida-hill East, O r°. Elizabeth Roberts, aged 91. WETHERELL. — On the 12th inst., at 69, Adelaide - rO6, South Hampstead, J. Wetherell, late of Seville, aged • London : Printed and Published by WIL LIAM AN lift ' uSC S of No. 112, Strand, Pi Inter, at Titz Sufi Office, NO. 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