The Sun. — London, England, 1865-10-09 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence. The Commander-in-Chief went down to Wool wich on Saturday morning, and made his autumnal visitation of the garrison. The Royal Duke was received on his arrival by Major-Gen. E. C.Warde, C. 8., Commandant, accompanied by Capt. Wil liams, Aide-de -Camp; Brigade Major Hay, and C apt. Naugle, Deputy-As-sistt.- Quartermaster -Gene ral, composing the garrison staff ; and the follow ing commanding officers, namely :—Col. Maxwell, commanding local division Royal Marines ; Colonel Hawkins, commanding Royal Engineers ; Major- General Sandham, Lient.-Governor Royal Military Academy ; Col. Huyshe, commanding C Brigade Royal Horse Artillery ; Col. Crofton, sth Brigade Royal Artillery ; Col. the Hon. G. T. Devereux, 2d division Depot Brigade; 'Col. Anderson, C. 8., 4th Brigade Royal Artillery ; Col. Price, Inspector and Purchaser of Horses; Col. Wodehouse, C. 8., Depot Brigade Royal Artillery ; Assist.-Commis sary-General Swain, Col. Gardner, sth Brigade Royal Horse Artillery; Lieut.-Col. Reilly, C. 8., B Brigade Royal Horse Artillery; Capt. and Adjt. Gilmour, Depot; Capt. Calvert, Riding Establish ment, &c. There were likewise in attendance from the Horse Guards Lord William Paulet, C. 8., Ad- jutant-General ; Col. Gambier, C. 8., Deputy Ad jutant-General ; Col. Gardiner, Assist.-Adjutant- General ; Capt. Forbes, Deputy Assist.-Adjutant General, and Major-Gen. Bloomfield. His Royal Highness was attended by Lieut.-Col. Clifton, Aide-de-Camp. The whole of the troops not on sentry and other barrack duties, consisting of the Royal Horse Artillery, the field batteries Royal Artillery, the Corps of Royal Engineers, the sth Brigade Royal Artillery, and a batta lion of Royal Marine Light Infantry, pa raded on the common in marching order for his Roy al Highness the Field-Marshal's inspection at 9 45 a.m. The Infantry Brigade, in command of Col. Gardiner, in line of contiguous quarter-distance columns, was in the centre, the Horse Artillery and Field Batteries on the flanks, and the Military Train, in charge of the ambulances, &c., were in the rear. The assembled mass of men and hones formed a most imposing line, and stretched across from the brow of the hill to the road running pa- rallel to the Ha-ha separating the common from-the barrack field. The Duke entered the ground shortly after ten o'clock, and was received with a general salute throughout the line. After the officers and colours had again taken post with their battalions, the whole force marched past in the following order :—The Royal Artillery, Field Batteries, and Military train at a walk, and afterwards at a trot, and the Infantry in columns of grand divisions, at company distance, in quick time. When the troops had completed marching past they moved round to the west of the ground, where they were inspected in dismounted order, and remained " standing easy." The . Commander-in-Chief then proceeded to the inspection of a model military store waggon, brought up . from the Royal Arsenal in charge of Mr. Norman, assist.-constructor in the Royal Car riage Department. The waggon is built and fitted on an improved system suggested by Col. Sir David Wood, and permits of each article required to be carried in an artillery waggon to be packed sepa rately, and ready at hand. The waggon contains a collection of horseshoes, nails, tools, grease, oil, spokes of wheels, ropes, tethers, and other supple mentary articles required in cases of emergency. It is divided into drawers, numbered and correspond ing with a label affixed to the door, on reference to which the article required is obtainable in bulk at selection, without the necessity of further un packing. The Duke entered into a length ened explanation with Mr. Norman on the va rious details connected with the advantages of the new waggon, which-he appeared to approve, in the main, and said he thought the only objectionable point he could observe was the difficulty of transport on account of its weight, viz., 45 cwt. This diffi culty was readily met by Mr. Norman, who said that the ordinary ammunition waggon, drawn by four artillery horses, weighed 44 cwt., and was easily transported over difficult passes. The introduction of the new waggon is . to be referred for further consideration. The Commander-in-Chief and Staff then returned to the troops, who forthwith com menced a serie3 of firing and active field exercises, of which it will be unncessary to give a detailed I ft.-count, the Horan Artillery -and each Lehi battery , being called to the front alternately and put through a most severe and searching drill immediately in presence of the Duke, who frequently marked his approval to General Warde as the manceuvr.ss were being executed. The movements were splendidly performed, and though at times they were half hidden and obscured by the opaque clouds of dark red dust and smoke, they called forth the warmest commen dations from the spectators, both civil and military, who were assembled in large numbers in rear of the saluting point; indeed, it is doubtful if artillery could by any possible means manceuvre with more rapidity and precision, each battery in its turn vieing with its precursor. A manceuvre which, but for the agility and experience of the driver, might have been fatal occurred in the C battery. Col. Huyshe directed and headed a rapid movement and change of posi tion with the guns at a gallop, when one of the rear horses stumbled and was dragged along some considerable distance ; he eventually recovered his position, however, without injury to either horse or driver. The marching of the Royal Marines in grand divisions and their advances in line were ad mirable. The movements of the foot artillery and Engineers, though somewhat inferior, were executed with a coolness and , steady bearing which, con sidering the limited time they can devote to battalion . drill, did them infinite credit. When each portion of the force had gone through its inspection, which was, moreover, exceedingly severe, the whole formed on the original ground, and after again saluting the Commander-in-Chief they were marched off to bar racks, his royal highness having previously called the commanding officers of batteries and bat talions to the front and expressed his approbation of the whole proceedings. The Duke having inspected the Royal Military Academy and the stables of the Royal Horse Artillery, lunched in the Royal Artil lery mess-room, and left Woolwich at 3 o'clock under a salute of 21 guns from the Greenhill Bat tery, as given on his arrival. Her Majesty's screw troopship Himalaya, Capt. Thomas B. Lethbridge (acting pro tern. during Capt. Lacy's absence on sick leave), arrived at Ports mouth early yesterday morning from the St. Law rence, with Lord Monck, Governor-General of Canada; and suite on board, and a large number of officers, men, women, and children from various of her Majesty's regiments serving in the British Ame rican provinces. She sailed from Quebec on the 26th ult., experiencing fine weather until the 2d inst., when a fresh gale was fallen in with from the N.W., which continued until the sth inst., in lat. 49 3 N., long. 13 25 W., when the windvcered round to S.E. by E., and fell nearly to a calm. On the 6th strong easterly winds and heavy head seas were met with, which continued until the ship arrived at Spithead. Lord Monck, accompanied by Capt. Pemberton, Alle, and suite, landed at Portsmouth dockyard immediately after the arrival of the Himalaya, and after visiting Port-Admiral Sir Michael Seymour, G.C.8., at his official residence, the Admiralty house, Portsmouth dockyard, left by morning train for London. The officers and men belonging to regiments serving in Canada that have re turned to, England in the Himalaya are as fol lows :—Royal Artillery, Brevet -Major 'Wilson and Lieuts. lieramis and Younger Grenadier Guards, Capt. Hon. C. G. C. Eliot ; 2d b attalion 7th, Lieut. Smith, Ensigns Rynde and Rea.cle ; Ist battalion 15th Lieut. Carey and Ensign Brooke ; Ist battalion 16th, Ensign Lloyd; Ist battalion 17th, Capt. Allen ; Ist battalion 25th, Lieut-Col. Ross, Capt. Vivian, Lieuts. Lees, Dawson, and Wingfield, an d Ensign Cook ; 30th Foot, Major M'Pherson, Capt. Clarkson, and Lieut. Braine ; 47th, Surg.-Major A. Smith ; 4th battalion 60th, Capts. Pemberton and Tongue, and Lieut. Borthwick ; Ist P. C. 0. Rifle Brigade, Lieut. Carey and Ensign Dillon ; 4th ditto Capts. Stephens and Dashwood, Lieuts. Edwards and Egerton, Ensign Ackland, Assist.-Surg. Wil son ; Royal Canadian Rifles, Lieut. Dugmore ; Commissariat Department, Assist. -Commissary- Gen. J. B. Price ; ;'3(.1 Regiment, Capt . Lacey (In spector of Musketry), 150 non-commissioned officers and men, 38 soldiers' wives, 76 soldiers' children ; officers' wives—Mesdame Ross and 3 children, Lacy and 2 children, Price and 7 children, Allen and 2 children, Tongue, Dashwood, Kemmis and 1 child, Braine. and 1 child, Smith and 2 children, Miss Mountain, and 12 officers' servants. The non commissioned officers and men consist of invalided and time-expired men, andwill be disembarked from the ship this morning, the time-expired men being forwarded on from Portsmouth by the South- Western and South Coast Railways to their regi mental depots, and the invalids to the Royal Vic toria Military Hospital at Netley. The Himalaya, on her passage homewards, spoke the following vessels :—ln Quebec river, the ships Alfred, Guiding Star, Queen of the Chase, and Eliza Keith. On the 30th of September, in lat. 46 54 N., long. 47 W., the English ship Guy Mannering ; and the sth inst., the English ship War Cloud ; on the 6th, the Banda, of Liverpool, bound to London, 140 days from Hong Kong. It is under stood that Capt. Lacy returns from sick leave to day, and resumes command of the Himalaya, and that Capt. Lethbridge will be appointed to the Vic tory, for service in the screw troopship Simoom, now fitting out at Portsmouth. The Earl of Leicester on Agricultural Affairs. LYNN, Oct. 7. The annual meeting of the Docking Agricultural Association was held at Docking, Norfolk, last evening. The Earl of LEICESTER, in acknowledging the toast of his health, said—l am afraid that I cannot congratulate you upon meeting under propitious cir cumstances. We have harvested the very worst wheat crop that I ever recollect in this district, the natural result of having had no flag, no plough in, an unpropitious seed time, and early and severe frosts in the spring. I am afraid our prospects for the wheat crop are not very bright. It is very de sirable that in this district of the county we should get our wheats in early. It is now the 6th of Octo ber and there is very little land prepared for the wheat crop. Oar barleys on our light lands were burnt up, and on all lands they were badly got up. Yet as the barley harvest was tolerably general throughout the country during a period of wet weather I think that our Norfolk barleys are likely to hold their own, and those who hold such samples as were contemptuously discarded last year are likely to meet, I trust, with a fair price.. (Hear, hear.) While our barleys were being drenched we were re - joicing in the hopes of an abundant root crop. The extraordinary drought of the last five weeks has de stroyed that prospect. Our mangolds are good, but turnips must be deficient in quantity if not in qua lity. I am more and more satisfied of the beneficial results pertaining to deep cultivation for the root crop, and I am satisfied that one deep ploughing, and only one ploughing in the early winter, is the best means of retaining the moisture in the land, without which the turnip crop must be a failure. It is true that beef and mutton are fetching extraordinary prices, but we have to give nearly butchers' prices for our store stock. Our light land arable farms in West Norfolk are not adapted for the breeding of either cattle or sheep ; therefore we not derive that advantage from the high price of meat which we otherwise should do. And now, gentlemen, we are threatened with a disease in our cattle and our sheep ; but I think that from the exertions of the committee of our association, and especially through the exertions of Mr: Read—to whom we are deeply indebtcd—(cheers)—for the prompt and vigorous measures which were taken to prevent diseased cattle from infecting the healthy—with proper caution on our part and with a prospect of cooler weather, I trust we may escape severe losses from this calamity. (Hear.) This is a long list of grievances, but I think that we have learnt something from our trials that wilrbe of service to us even in years of abun dance. Continued prosperity causes the energies of man to lie dormant, and in the trials and difficulties we have had lately to contend with we have learnt some things. We have learnt that hay—the most costly crop we can grow—is not a necessary item in our produce. We have learnt the value of straw as a feeding article. We have learnt how to economise our root crop. And if we have learnt that it is desirable to give deep cultivation to the roots of our plants to enable them to seek moisture in the earth, the trials that have been given us have not been, I trust, in vain. (Hear, hear.) But we have not met here solely for the purpose of talking over our own affairs, but to consider what progress we have made in improving the condition of the labourer. (Hear.) .Although we may not be altogether pros perous at the present time, I think that I may say that he is. Labour is abundant, wages are high, and bread is cheap, and I think we may rejoice upon the moral and physical improvement of our labourer. Drunkenness used to be a common vice in this district. It was no uncommon thing to see a man intoxicated. But I think I can say that for some years I have not seen one of my labourers the worse for drink. (Cheers.) It was impossible at one time to get any work done without an allowance of beer ; it was beer here, beer there, and beer every where. Now I never make any allowance of beer to any of my labourers ; I give a full equivalent in money. They prefer it, and I am quite sure that they, their wives, and their families are the gainers by it. (Cheers.) I am satisfied also, gentlemen, that there is no work but what can be done better with out the beer that the men are in the habit of getting than with it. Many of my men are teetotallers. I do not think that it is desirable that men who can abstain from drinking malt or spirituous liquors in excess should bind themselves by a pledge, but those who find they cannot control themselves and abstain from excess have done a wise thing in doing so. (Hear.) They cannot obtain the beer that we drink, they cannot obtain the light wines of Germany and France, which will quench our thirst without caus ing intoxication. If they drink they must drink the drugged beer of the publican—(hear, hear)—which tends to excite their thirst and to cause excess, or they must drink the wretched stuff which is made at home, which is quite sufficient in itself to make any man a teetotaller. (Laughter.) If the malt duty was repealed the poor man's wife can never brew beer, and the money that is spent in the attempt had far better be employed in providing other luxuries or comforts for her husband's home. I must now con gratulate this union as being the only union in this country which has adopted that wise measure of a union settlement, and for having given a precedent to Parliament for passing an act which will do more to benefit the labourer than any other measure that has been hitherto attempted on his behalf. (Cheers.) Up to the present time our duties and interests have been apparently antagonistic. I say appa rently, gentlemen, because we had begun to learn that unless we provided proper cottage accommo - dation for our labourers within a reasonable distance of their work we were like to lose the ser vice of our best labourers. We also consider that it was better to open our close parishes and be subject to provide for the aged and infirm rather than to depend upon the supply of our labourers from the distant and open parishes. (Hear, hear.) That the evils which existed under the old law can be immediately remedied is impossible. Before the Act that was called the New Poor Law was passed there were certain parishes in the estate that paid 19s. in the pound poor-rates. Certainly at that time, if it was not the duty, it was the policy and interest of the owners of the property to endeavour to diminish the population, and not to increase the cottage accommodation. But railways and other causes have entirely altered the position of employers and employed. But after all that can be or has been done by Parliament, or by societies like this, the physical and moral improvement of the labourer must mainly depend upon his landlord and upon his employer. (Hear, hear.) While I am upon the subject of rates, I will allude to what I consider to be an injustice in the existing law. There has been lately a very wise and proper readjustment .of the rates of our respective parishes, and there are cer tain descriptions of property that I think are un wisely exempted f rom b e i ng rated. I see no reason acres of why the 2,000 wood that I hold in this country—retainin g them as I d o f or t h e purposes ogam or or a of which, if converted into pasture or arables, wou l d be subject to rates, should not pay their quota to the poor -rates. (Cheers.) This; law was established years ago for the purpose of a ncouraging owners of property to plant timber for the purposes of the Royal navy, and when the reasons for that encouragement ceased the exemp tions which were derived from it should have ceased also. (Hear.) Ido not think that it would be right to value the woodland property at the same reete as the lands adjoining. The land has been brought up to its present state of value by skill and capital. The land that is under wood should be valued according to its natural value if converted into land for agricultural purposes. (Hear, hear.) It has been argued that it would be by no means desirable to alter a law so as to encourage the destruction of our wooded districts. The love of sport and the de sirable appreciation of ornament that exists in all Englishmen's breasts is such that in my opinion there would be no danger of any material decrease of the woodland districts of this county. (Hear, hear.) The difference that would be made in the rate would be comparatively inappreciable ; but it would remove an act of injustice, and it would pre vent feelings of discontent which I can quite under stand exists in the breasts of many of those who are the owners of this description of property. Sir WILLOUGHBY JONES and other gentlemen also addressed the meeting. Balloon Ascent• TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sir,----Some of the experiments which have been made about sunset not showing any decline of tem perature up to 2,000 feet, it seemed probable that the laws holding good by day might be very diffe rent, or even reversed, by night. At the recent meeting of the British Association at Birmingham the balloon committee was re-ap pointed, and one of its principal duties was, if pos sible, to carry out a series of night experiments by balloons up to a moderate elevation. The balloon at present at my command is that be longing to Mr. Orton, of Blackwall, and it was with this balloon, under his management, this ascent was made. To read the instruments I took a Davy's lamp, made very carefully by Mr. Watson, of New castle, careful experiments having frequently been made to satisfy the committee of its safety. The sun had set for nearly three-quarters of an hour, and the night had fairly closed in. The moon was shining, and the wind was passing from E.S.E. We left Woolwich Arsenal about 6.20, and within three or four minutes a height of 900 ft. was reached; and here the scene which suddenly burst upon me, having been previously occupied in adjusting the instruments, far exceeds description. Almost im mediately under us, but a little to the S.E., was Woolwich, north was Blackwall, south Greenwich and Deptford, and west, as far arid farther than the eye could reach, was London, the whole forming a starry spectacle of such brilliancy as far to exceed anything I ever saw. When I have been at this elevation, in the even ing, at a distance from London, it has had the appearance of a vast conflagration ; but now the air was so clear and free from mist that each and every light was distinct, and apparently all but touching each other. The whole of Woolwich, Blackwell, Deptford, and Greenwich could be traced, as a per fect model, by the boundary lines of light of their streets, squares, &c. In nine minutes we were oppo site Brunswick Pier, Blackwall, Crossing the Thames, then passed across the Isle of Dogs, Greenwich Reach, and so up the River Thames. As we ad vanced towards London the mass of illumination increased in intensity. At 6.42 the South-Eastern Railway Terminus at London-bridge was directly under us. Looking southwards at this time we saw the Borough stretching far away, and the many streets shooting from it, particularly Southwark street, with its graceful curve of lamps. In one minute afterwards we were at Southwark-bridge ; passed Blackfriars-bridge at 6.45, and Charing-cross at 6.47. On leaving Charing-cross I looked back over London, the whole model of which could be seen and traced—its squares by their lights ; the river, which looked dark and dull, by the double row of curved lights on every bridge spanning it. Look ing round, two of the illuminated dials of West minster clock were like two dull moons. Again, looking eastward the whole lines of the Commercial and Whitechapel roads, with their continuation through Holborn to . Oxford-street, were visible, and most brilliant and remarkable. We were at such a distance from these roads that they appeared like' ines of brilliant fire, assuming a more imposing appearance when the line separated into two, and most imposing just under us in Oxford street. Here the two thickly studded rows of brillitint lights were seen on either side of the street, and a dark space between them, but which dark space was bounded, as it were, on both sides by a bright fringe of frosted silver. lat first could not account for this, but presently at one point more brilliant than the rest persons were seen passing to and fro with their shadows on the pavements, and at once it was evident this rich effect was caused by the bright illumination of the shoplights on the pave ments. All the principal streets assumed this ap pearance. I feel it impossible to convey any adequate idea of the brilliant effect of London viewed at an eleva tion of 1000 feet, on a clear night, with the air free from mist. It seemed to me to realise a wish I have often felt, when looking through a telescope directed to the Milky Way, when the whole field of view ap peared covered with gold dust, to be possessed of power to see many spots of light, as, brilliant stars, for certainly the intense brilliancy of London this night would have rivalled the brilliancy of such a telescopic view of brilliant clusters of stars. We were over the Marble Arch at 6.51, about 11 miles in a straight line from*Woolwich, which dis. tance had been passed in half an hour. We there fore were travelling at more than 20 miles per hour. On passing onwards we left the Edgware-road on our right and the Great Western Railway on our left, and passed nearly down the Harrow-road. In six or seven minutes we left the suburbs of London, passing over Middlesex in the direction of Uxbridge. There the contrast was great indeed; not a single object could anywhere be seen, not a sound reached the ear, the roar of London was lost. The moon was shining, but seemed to give no light, and the earth seemed a black obscurity. After a time the moon seemed to shine with increased brightness, and the fields gradually came into view; then theshadow of the balloon was seen distinctly pointing out our path, in reference to the Pole Star and the moon. After this occasional masses of lights appeared as we passed over towns and villages, from all of which - cries came up, urging us to come down. At 7.18, whilst passing over a town, we came down to inquire where we were, but our voices were drowned by the beating of drums. Thus we passed out of Middlesex over part of Buck inghamshire and Berkshire to High Moor, in Ox fordshire, where we descended on the farm of Mr. Reeves at 8.20, distant about 45 miles from Wool wich. The horizontal movement of the air at Greenwich during this time was 16 miles. The temperature of the air at Woolwich, at 5.25, was 61.2 degs., and 56 degs, at 6.20 ; it immediately rose above 56 degs. on leaving, and when about9oo feet high was 57 deg. fully. The difficulty I expe rienced in reading was so great that several minutes were lost in vain attempts to do so. At 1,100 feet the temperature was 58.2 degs., and it increased with increase of elevation till at the height of about 2,000 feet it was about 60 degs., or about 4 degs. higher than when the earth was left. On descending the temperature declined, and when about 600 feet was about 57 degs. Two or three times the balloon rose and fell through the space of from 600 to 500 feet, and on every occasion the highest reading was met with at the highest point, and the lowest read iug.at the lowest point. At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the tem perature of the air was 59.9 degs. at 6.20, and de creased gradually to 55/ degs. by 8.30. From this it would seem that at 6.20 the air was no less than 3.9 degs. warmer at Greenwich than at Wcolwich, and if the readings in the balloon be compared with those at Greenwich, the increase with elevation is lessened in amount. Two self-registering minimum thermometers were tied down, the one with its bulk resting on cotton wool, fully exposed to the sky, and the other with its bulb projecting beyond the supporting frame ; ,their indexes were a the qad of their colulnn of THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 9, lEEE. spirit on starting, or at 56 degs. ; at every examina tion of each of these instruments, a space was found between its index (which remained unmoved) and the end of the column of spirit, indicating a temperature closely approximate at all times to the temperature of the air. Finding this, I removed and replaced the silver caps from the dry and wet bulb thermometers, but could not find their pre sence or absence influenced the readings at all. At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the ther mometer for terrestrial radiation read from 6 deg. to 7 degs. below that of the temperature of the air during the whole time the balloon was in the air. The temperature at which dew was deposited, at the height of 1000 feet, in the early part of the ascent was from 2 degs. to 3 degs. below that of the air, and at about the same elevation was from 3 degs. to 4 degs. at the later part of the ascent. At Greenwich, the depression below that of the air, at 6.30, was 2k degs., and at 8.30 was no less than half a degree. The degree of humidity of the air, considering air completely saturated represented by 100, at the beginning of the ascent, in the balloon was 95, at Greenwich was 84 ; towards the end of the ascent, was in the balloon 85, and at Greenwich 97. The state of things was completely reversed, and would indicate that the water in the air had descended, its amount at the beginning of the ascent was 54 grains in a cubic foot of air, and at the same eleva tion towards the end of the ascent was 4k grains in the same mass of air. No ozone was registered at the Royal Observatory, but in the baloon paper tests were coloured to 4, on a scale where the greatest intensity is represented by 10. The readings of the instruments were taken very slowly, owing to the difficulty of directing the light on the instruments, the small size of the car, and the painfully constrained position necessary to read them at all. I failed entirely in my attempts at magnetical experiments ; and, indeed, of all, except ing those relating to temperature and humidity of the air. My best thanks are due to the officers of the Ar senal for their courteous assistance, and particu larly to Mr. Wallace, the gas engineer, for the light gas prepared under his immediate superintendence, and which was so well adapted for my purpose.—l am, Sir, &c., J. GLAISHER. Blackheath, Oct. 6, 1865. The .Attempted Murder of Two Persons at Hascombe. GUILDFORD, Saturday. This afternoon James Oliver, aged 67, was brought up in custody, charged, under the 24th and 25th Vic., cap 100, sec. 11, with stabbing, with intent to murder, William Underwood and Mary Ann Underwood, at Hascombe, on the evening of Thursday, the 7th of September. The magistrates present were the Hon. W. Brodrick (chairman), Messrs. Guildford Onslow, M.P., H. L. Long, Duncan Macdonald, A. S. Mathison, and J. Bradshaw. The prisoner, as already stated, has been remanded from week to week in consequence of the illness of the injured persons. The evidence taken was as follows: William Underwood, a grocer at Hascombe, who also sold table beer to be drunk off the promises, said he knew the prisoner, who worked for Mr. Hockley as gardener, and took his meals at witness's house almost every day. On Thursday, the 7th of Sept., he came in in the evening at about a quarter past eight o'clock. He then had a piece of bread and some cheese and some tea, and began to swear when he came in, and continued to do so as he had his meal. He did not mention any name, but said he would do for the that night. Witness said he thought pri soner had a good place to work at, and no reason to com plain, as he had very good pay for an old man, and often got an easy half-crown. Witness said, " I know what hard work is as well as you do, but I havn't done as much as you have, as you are an older man than I am." Prisoner re plied, "Oh ! that's it is it." He said nothing more, but sat a few minutes, and then got up and stabbed witness in the arm first and then in the neck. Witness did not see what ho was stabbed with, but prisoner had been using a knife to cut his bread and cheese. He was sitting at the time,and the attack almost knocked him down. Ho did not become insensible, and saw prisoner turn towards his (witness's) wife, but what prisoner did witness could not say, as he was scrambling up. Witness had been under medical treat ment since the attack. By the Chairman—Prisoner had not been violent to wards witness, but he knew that he had knocked a man down with a fire-hoe some time back. Mary Ann Underwood, the wifo of the last witness, re membered the prisoner coming to the house on Thursday, the 7th of September They all sat togetherin the kitchen. She heard the conversation between her hushand and the prisoner, which he (her husband) had justed stated. She saw the prisoner get up from his seat and hit her husband twice, but she could not see whether he had anything in his hand. After hitting her husband, he then came round the table and stabbed her in the neck—once only. She turned round, and found the blood spurting out, and said, " Oh, Jemmy, you've stabbed me." He never spoke, and she ran out of doors, and prisoner after her. There were two per sons, named Stevens and Giddings, who pursued him. One of the men (Giddings) struck prisoner with a stick, and sho then - saw that he had a knife in his hand. By Mr. Macdonald—Witness never had an angry word with the prisoner in her life. William Giddings, coachman to Mr. Healey, solicitor, said prisoner worked in that gentleman's garden, at Has combo. Witness went to Mr. Underwood's house on Thurs day, the 7th of September, and while drinking some beer with two friends, Mr. Underwood ran out at the back door, and cried out that he and his wife had both been stabbed. Witness was going to rush in when he met the prisoner, who had an open knife in his right hand. Prisoner stabbed at him, and he (witness) hit him three or four times with a stick. Stevens came to witness's assistance, with others, and took prisoner away. The prisoner only said, " Kill me, you Jack." . By;the Chairman—Witness had no reason to think the prisoner was drunk, but thought it was all his temper. The knife was like that produced. (A gardener's pruning knife that - did not shut ' was produced by Police -constable Le mon, 72.) William. Stevens, a labourer at Hascombo, said, on the 7th of September he was with last witness. Mrs. Foster, the mother of Mrs. Underwood, ran out first, and the others followed. Mr. Underwood begged witness to go in -doors, as he and his wife had been stabbed. Prisoner ran out, and Giddings hit him, and then witness rushed on him and threw liim down. Giddings said, " Have you got him Bill ?" and witness replied, " Yes, I've got him all right." Witness slipped his hand down, and feeling a knife, told prisoner three times to give it up, but he would not, nor did he speak. Witness took the knife (produced) away from the prisoner, and cut his (the prisoner's) hand in do ing so, and it bled a great deal. Elizabeth Foster, the mother of Mrs. Underwood, con firmed the evidence of the first two witnesses. Police-constable George Lemon said he took the prisoner into custody on the evening of Thursday, the 7th of Sep tember, and told him the charge. He said, "I've had my revenge, and I've no doubt I shall hang, but I shall laugh as I'm crossing the scaffold." Witness had previously cau tioned him not to say anything unless he liked. The pri soner's hand was very seriously cut between the thumb and fore finger, and bleeding profusely. The cut was an inch in depth, and a surgeon was sent for to bind up the wound. Frederick Yato, a-surgeon, residing at Godalming, was sent for to attend the Underwoods at Hascombe, on Sept. 7. He found Mrs. Underwood had been stabbed in the left side of the neck, and her dress was saturated with blood. The wound was made with a sharp instrument, and was about an inch and a half in length. A principal artery was divided. By the Chairman—The wound was likely to cause dan ger to life. Witness stopped the hemorrhage, and if any return had ensued she would probably have sunk under it. She is still weak from loss of blood. By the Magistrates' Clerk—Mr. Underwood had been stabbed in the neck. The wound was angular, as if the knife had been turned, and there was also a wound in the left arm, midway between the shoulder and the elbow: The wounds were not dangerous, but the one in the neck was so close to the subclavian artery that only the knife having struck the collar-bone saved his life. If it had wounded that artery death must have been almost instantaneous. The knife produced would inflict such wounds as those referred to. The prisoner, who did not ask any question of the wit nesses, was committed for trial at the ensuing assizes. BREAKFAST BEVERAGE.—Homceopathic practitioners, and the medical profession generally, recommend cocoa as being the most healthful of all beverages. When the doctrine of homoeopathy was first introduce t into this country, there were to be obtained no preparations of cocoa either attrac tive to the taste or acceptat le to the stomach ; the nut was either supplied in the crude state, or so unskilfully manu factured as to obtain little notice. J. Epps, of London, homoeopathic chemist, was induced in the year 1839 to turn his attention to this subje t, and at length succeeded, with the assistance of elaborate machinery, in being the first to produce an article pure in its composition, and so refined by the pert at trituration it re•eivcs in the process it passes through, as to be most acceptable to the delicate stomach. For general use Epps' cocoa is distinguished as an invigo rating, grateful breakfast beverage, with a delicious aroma Dr. Hassan in his work, " Food and its Adulterations," says—" Cocoa contains a great variety of important nutritive principles ; every ingredient necessary to the growth and sustenance of the body." Again, "As a nutritive, cocoa stands very much higher than either coffee or tea." Direc tions : —Two teaspoontuls of the powder in a breakfast cup, filled up with boiling water or milk. Secured in tin-lined i-lb , and Lb. labelled packets, and sold at is. 6d. per lb. by grocers, confectioners, and eiwiplota. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. EAST NORFOLK. The turning of the first sod of this line, which will connect Norwich with North Walsham, will take place on the 18th inst. Lady Suffield has been invited by the directors to perform the ceremony. GMVAN AND PORTPATRICK JUNCTION. The first general meeting of this company was held on Wednesday at Stram'aer ; Provost Guthrie in the chair. The report stated that very considerable opposi tion was at the outset encountered by the company in Parliament. Petitions were lodged against the bill by the Caledonian, the London and North- Western, and the Portpatrick Railway companies, and also by two landowners. The bill, after some modifications, passed both Houses of Parliament, and received the Royal assent on the sth of July last. The directors had the greatest confidence in the merits of the line, both as, a means of supplying direct communication for the south of Scotland with Ayrshire and Lanarkshire, and as providing a direct railway and short sea passage route between Glas gow and the north and east of Scotland on the one hand, and Ireland on the other. The line would also open up a populous district hitherto unsupplied with railway communication. The engineer had reported that there was every reason to expect that the line would be constructed for the authorized capital. Nearly one-half of the capital had been subscribed, and the retiring directors were satisfied that it only required a continuous effort on the part of their successors to put the company in position to proceed with the early construction of the works. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, adverted to the advantages which the line would confer on the districts through which it was intended to pass, and stated that the line was much . required for the development of the short sea ser vice between Portpatrick and the Irish coast. There was at present a very large traffic between Glasgow and Belfast.by steamers, and he thought it was not unreasonable to expect that they would be able to draw to their line by means of the short sea passage a considerable part of the through pas senger traffic, which together with the local traffic would probably yield a good return to the share holders. Colonel MT ouALL seconded the motion, and the report was adopted ; Colonel M'Douall, Sir J. C. D. Hay, Provost Guthrie, Mr. J. P. Willison, Mr. J. Rodger, and Mr. W. Stevenson were elected directors of the company ; and Mr. J. Graham and Mr. W. Murray were appointed auditors. The proceedings concluded with a vote of thanks to the chairman. EAST INDIAN. The traffic receipts on this company's line, 1,126 miles in length, amounted for the week ending July 23 to £8,826 for passengers, &c., and to £14,744 for &c • total, £23 569 goods, • , , . The traffic for the corresponding week of last year amounted, on 1,065 miles, to £7,121 for passengers, and to £ll,OlB for merchandise ; total, £18,139, showing an increase of £5,430 of which £1,705 was for passengers, and £3,276 for goods. The traffic receipts for the week ending July 30 amounted to £8,391 for passengers, &c., and to £15,427 for merchandise ; total, £23,818, against £7,461 for passengers, and £9,933 for mer chandise, in the corresponding week of 1864 ; total, £17,394, showing a total increase of £6,424, of which £930 was for passengers, and £5,494 for merchandise. , NORTHERN OF FRANCE. The traffic receipts on this company's old and new lines amounted for the week ending the 23d of September, to £71,195, against £63,444 for the corresponding week of last year, showing an in crease of £7,751. The total receipts from the Ist of January to the above date amounted to £2,254,101, against £2,082,881 in the correspond ing period of 1864, showing an increase of £171,220, of which, 7.01; per cent., was Dn the new lines, 70 miles in length, and £66,139, or 8.26 per cent., on the old lines, 658 miles in length. Railway Traffic Returns for the Week. Miles Opened. Receipts. Railways. „.---......---.,„_-_-A- ___ 1865. 1864. 1865 1864 £ £ Belfast and N. Counties 9)l 991 2,137 1.860 Belfast and County Down 441 1 1 1 775 me Blyth and Tyne . 28 28 2,54 2 , 037 Brecon and Merthyr Bristol and Exeter 1214 1211 7,111 7,276 Caledonian, Scottish Central 403 405 28 526 27,143 Cambrian Coc%ermoutti K & Yenrith .. 314 - 451 - CocksTmouth and Workin .. 9 9 317 33/ Cork and Bandon 2 - 20 443 3.`9 Cork, Blackrock, & Passage 64 I+4 220 187 Cork and Youghal Cornwall 654 654 2, 00 1.943 Deeside l7 17 519 137 Dublin & Bell ast J unction 63 63 1,802 1.536 Dublin and Drogheda 75 75 2,173 1.819 Dublin and Meath Dub. & Wicklow and Wextd lO6 91 f 4, 71 4,056 Forth and Clyde Junction Furness, kc 5O 5) 3,905 3.209 Glasgow & South-Western Gt. Eastern,Nrik.,&E.Union Great Northern 4Ol 365 40,811 39,641 Great North of Scotland 5B 53 1,745 1,4 40 8 Cit. Nortlin. & Westn.(lrel.) 7ll 71 1 873 1 lt.Southn. & Westn.(lrlnd.) BB7} 887} 11. 051 9 • 955 Great Western l2BO 1236 78,819 77,115 Hull & Hornsea Highland Irish North-Western 145 145 1,989 1,7,15 Lancashire & Yorkshire 403 403 43,315 39,184 Limerick and Ennis... 241 241 166 17 1 Limerick and Foynes 264 26} 140 107 Llanelly • 83 t Llynvi Valley London & North-Western London and Biackwall 5l 61 2,115 1,967 London Sr South-Western Loud. Brighton, &S. Coast 272 2671 27, 177 2 3 , 351 London, Chatham, & Dover; f 134 127 1 13,0 2 10.829 all Metropolitan Extension tl2 11f j 2,550 2,020 Do. Kent Coast 27 2,6.0 2.150 2,370 2,071 Lon., Tilbury, & Southend Man.,Sheffield, & Linoolnsh Manch. S.J un.& Altrincham.. 9 4 91 1,61/ 1,610 22 28 1,623 1,3 Maryport and Carlisle Metropolitan ... 3l 3/ 2,6; 6 2, 51 97 611 53,818 52,568 Midland (incl. N.-Western).. 672'1 Midland (it.Westn. of 'rind... 2601 2601 5,5.9 5.190 Konmouthsh. Rail. & Canal.. 44 44 3,027 2,7 i 7 North British, Edin., Perth • ....... 6934 6561 26,562 24.772 and Dundee N-Eastern and Stock. & Dar l. 11911 11601 73, 63 69 357 North London ... ............ 9 9 3,611 3,330 North Staffordshire.......... 258 258 8,350 8,561 Pembroke and Tenby ........ 116 114 203 106 Rh ... !.. . ....: ! ......... 19 2 19 4 1,069 1,0 4 Scottish N orth -zastern ..... . 138 138 6,11) 6,085 Somerset and D0r5et........ 66 66 1,158 989 98 7 94 4.715 1,562 South Devon ........... ....• • South-Eastern ............... 315 806 82,001 30,363 Taff Vale .................... 61 61 6,177 5,385 Ulster ... ............... lO5l 105 i 2,900 2.436 Vale of Clwyd. . lO 10 2.0 243 Waterford and Kilkenny 3l 31 552 420 Waterford and Limerick 77 77 1,502 1,4°,8 W'haven,Cleator,& Egrmnt lO 10 6tB 75 9 Whitehaven Junction l3 13 986 1,012 Whitehaven & Furness FOREIGN AND • COLONIAL. un Austrian B2B 828 41, '4l 4?,000 Bahia and San Francisco Belgian Eastern J unction 264 264 421 866 Bombay, Baroda, & Cen. India 306 185} 3,' 4) 2,057 Detroit and Milwaukie lB9 189 9,333 6,224 Dutch Rhenish lOBl 1081 6,733 5,761 Eastern of France Eastern Bengal - - East Indian Grand Trunk of Canada 1377 1335 30 860 25.481 Great Central of Belgium 285 261 7,574 6,C89 Great Indian Peninsula 590 553 16,309 7,940 Great Lukembourg l3l 134 6,150 4,978 Great Southe.'n of India Great Western of Canada 345 315 19,616 13,1.64 Madras. Madrid, Saragossa dcAlicant 683 650 18,175 19,01 Northern of Canada 94 91 1,852 1,632 Northern of France. 728 728 70,445 61,824 Norwegian Trunk Ottoman _ _ _ _ Paris, Lyons, & Mediterrn 1967 - 178 1 143,680 143,719 Paris and Orleans 1616 1611 78,225 74.899 Recife and San Francisco. &c 774 774 052 550 Sande lO5 103 1,0E6 1,226 Do. Punjab, itc 253 32 1.316 117 South Austrian, &c. ... southern of France 823 770 3 ,754 35,252 Victoria Welland_ ___ 25 25 1,015 589 West & Li-Wn. of France .. 1119 959 61,511 59,458 Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DIIE. Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton Oct. 19. Ditto, via Marseilles Oct. 13. Brazil and Cape Verdi!. by British paolet Nov. 5. Ditto, by N'rench packet Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena.. • oct. 22 China. Penang. and Singapore, via Southampton—Oct. 13. Ditto, via Marseilles Oct. —. Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Oct. 13. Ditto, via Marseilles . Oct. —. India (Bombay), via Southampton. Oct. 11. Ditto, via Marseilles .. Oct. 5. Mauritius, via Southampton Ditto, via Marseil'e 3. Oct. 5. Newfoundland .• • 1 0000000 Oct. 25. Portugal ..... . • • ..Nov. 5. Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon. United States and British North America, by Bri tish packet ....... ...Oct. 14. Ditto, by United States packet, via Southamp- ton ........ . ............................... Ditto, Tia Cork Ditto, by Canadian packet, via Londonderry—Oct. 6. West Coast of Africa. Madeira, and Teneriffe West Indies and Pacific (except Balla:Las, Cuba, and Mexico OCt. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. THE EXA3IINER 7 S TRIBUTE TO DUDLEY COSTELLO —Our readers have lost a faithful servant, we a pleasant friend, in Dudley Costello, who died last Saturday morning, at the age of sixty-two. For the last twenty years Mr. Costello has had charge over the news column of the Examiner, succeeding in his office the late Mr. Thackeray, who, when young in his career, was sub-editor. Dudley was the son of Colonel James Francis Costello, of the 14th Foot, a man of a high old Irish family in the county of Mayo (of the Barony of Costello), con nected by marriage with the Frenches of Roscom mon. By his mother's side he was descended from the great Reformer, John Knox, who married a Stuart (Lord Ochiltree's daughter). His mother was a woman of great wit and original genius, and much of his talent was derived from her. But a great uncle of his, dubbed the " Witty Counsellor Costello," is well known in Dublin annals. Edu cated at the Military College, Sandhurst, Dudley Costello's ready wit and extreme good nature en deared him to his companions as much as his very remarkable quickness of observation and talent distinguished him in the regard of the pro fessors. Several of his college friends remained his intimates through life ; amongst them Sir Richard Airey and Colonel Fancourt, late Governor of Honduras. Having gained all honours, he had, without delay, his commission from College in the 34th, on the return of which regiment from India he was for a few months only on half-pay, when he was re-appointed to the 96th, and sent to Nova Scotia. From Canada he went to Bermuda, and there he was in high favour among his comrades for his wit, and the good humour with which he strove to relieve the monotony of the Summer Islands. He gave up all his leisure at that time to drawing and literature, sketching in pen and ink, in a masterly style, all the grots and caves and peculiar scenery of the islands, and writing an account of them from their earliest discovery. In particular he made a drawing of Moore's calabash tree, an object of pil grimage to admirers of the poet, whose " Last eve in the shade of a calabash tree" made it one of the show objects of Bermuda. In after years he had a fruit of the same tree set as a drinking cup, and (together with the pen-and-ink sketch) presented it to the poet at Sloperton. Moore wrote to tell him that " no present he ever received gave him such pleasure." " Bessie, he added, " does nothing but drive about, carrying it with her and exhibiting it to all her friends." While in Bermuda the society of which he was the chief favourite looked regularly every fortnight for a newspaper " edited" by him. He took the trouble to ivrite it in a hand like printing, in order that it might be easily read, and there was mirth at the breakfast tables of his friends whenever the Grouper, as he called his paper, appeared. The staff of young offi cers whom he had appointed to assist were some times idle and indifferent, and he filled up the whole paper himself, writing in different styles—anything for an amusing joke that hit some topic of their daily conversation. For several years this amateur journalism continued to delight the world of Ber muda, the soldier-editor being at the time scarcely twenty. He returned home, joined his mother and sister in Paris, and hoped, through the interest of Mr. Canning, to whom he was related through the statesman's mother, once a Miss Costello, to obtain some appointment which would prevent the neces sity of his returning to his regiment and to his idle ness—the listlessness of a soldier's life having dis gusted him. He had an introduction to Mr. Canning from his son, Captain Canning, R.N., his great friend in Canada and Bermuda ; but he had scarcely arrived in England when the death of the Minister occurred, which was immediately followed by the news that young Captain Canning was drowned while bathing in a tank at Bermuda. Cos tello's hopes of preferment were thus at an end. Ho went to Paris, having now quitted the army, and thought nothing so easy as a new pursuit, sure to succeed. Moore gave him letters to a pub lisher in Paris for his Bermuda sketches and accompanying narrative. Nothing came of this, so far as concerned the pictures themselves, but the talent shown in them had not been spent in vain. For while in Paris Costello was introduced to Baron Cuvier, who, delighted with his sketches in pen and ink, proposed to him to replace a lost assistant who drew for his work on comparative anatomy. He passed some months, therefore, in the private cabinet of Cuvier, drawing from pre served specimens of fishes, since published in the work. So exquisitely delicate in execution were his sketches that even those which failed to satisfy the naturalist because of the omission of a scale or a fin were shown as wonders of neat-handed skill. After a time he devoted himself to copying MSS. in the Bibliotheque Royale, where he made friends with all the authorities. His copies of the wonder ful work of King Rene of Sicily (on Tournaments and their Laws) are mast aecurate and beautiful, and were much admired in Paris. He continued for some years to draw in this way, and he and his sisters were, in fact, the first who drew public attention to illuminated MS. copying both in Paris and at the British Museum ; and he executed many curious works before the art had become common, as it has of late. He assisted his sister in her works on the Early Poetry of France and Per sian Rosegarden, each illustrated with curious illuminations laboriously executed, by hand, by both. Soon after this, by some accident, he was induced to become foreign correspondent to the Morning Herald—being a very good lin guist and went to Hanover, where his own introductions from friends and relations caused him to be presented at Court, and for his pleasantness he was much liked. He divided his time between Paris and London, always writing for papers and magazines, reading and studying to help his sister's works, contributing chapters to them, and enriching them with his notes, &c.; they in fact frequently wrote together upon many sub jects. He was an enlightened lover of art, devoted to study and literature, and possessed a memory of singular power, an accuracy of detail and a mili tary precision in fulfilment of all duties, that made him one of the most exact and reliable of men, but his charm consisted in his extreme gentleness and kindness of manner and of disposition. He married, but has left no children. The recent loss of a be loved wife contributed fatally to his end, for an insidious malady declared itself, when his broken spirit could not afford him the means of rallying. He tried a journey through Spain to divert his melancholy, but it failed of its effect, and a work on Spain which he had projected was not even attempted by him. He had written for many years stories, chiefly comic, for Bentley's Miscellany, and his charming " 'Liu through the Valley of the Meuse" is a hand-book in Belgium much appreciated ; the drawings are executed by himself, and are done with his usual delicacy. THE " SATURDAY REVIEW" ON A SCANDAL OF JOURNALISM.—On Tuesday last the Morning Star published a list of " The English Victims to the Rebel Loan." This list purported to have been printed in the New York papers of the 19th Sep tember, and certain sums set opposite each name represented English investors in the Confederate Cotton Loan, and " an estimate of the losses sus tained by them respectively." The figures were large, but there was a very unhistorical aspect about them. A critical eye in an instant detected cooking and manufacture. Just as, in mythical narratives, round and complete eras and cycles occur, so there was in this list an artificial aspect which could only be mistaken by those who wished to be deceived. The symmetrical apportionment of losses to the real or supposed means and social standing of the adventurers, checked and modified and intensified respectively by their avowed sentiments in favour of the South—and ranging from the princely fervour of Sir Henry de Hoghton's zeal, appraised at £lBO,OOO, to the tepid enthusiasm of Mr. Ashley, which only warmed up to £soo—was so very trans parent a specimen of a fictitious event that, had this absurd list been only quoted as the last New York canard, it might have been passed over as a sorry but malicious joke. It need not be said that there was a coarse, insolent spice of personalty in it, as benefited the New York press. Two gentlemen in timately connected with the Times, and one the registered proprietor of the Morning Post, figured for sums very creditable to the New York estimate of the pecuniary position of London newspapers of the first class. But when, just as an afterthought, Mr. Gladsto n e' s nam e the list as a victim to the extent of £2,000, it could only have been the most malicious virulence of party, or the deepest intensity of stupidity, that could pretend to mis understand this document. Indeed, to do the New York papers justice, they do not pronounce the paper to be authentic. All that is asserted is a wish " to enlighten the London journals by the following list." The sole object was to hoax those who were anxious to be hoaxed. We do not say that the Morning Star was hoaxed. The Morning Star knew the fictitious character of the list of victims as well as we did. Good feeling, good taste, or propriety of any sort was not to be expected from the Morning Star, nor, perhaps, was good sense. But a certain intelligence above that of idiocy is to be looked for even in the lowest of London journals. To believe, therefore, that the Morning Star believed itself when it professed to accredit the New York joke, is an imputation on that journal on which we do not venture. So tho Morning Star, for its own purposes, gave the list, with an accompaniment of two leading articles— one directed against Mr. Gladstone, and the other against the conductors of the Times. Of course there was the usual ingenious affectation of disbelief, as far as the_ Chancellor of the Exchequer was con , cerned, coupled with the plainest insinuations of all but proved guilt. As regarded the Times not even this flimsy attempt at hypocrisy was put forward. The Editor and City Correspondent were openly charged with having written in favour . of the South only in the interests of the Confederate Loan, of which they were large holders. So direct and personal was the charge that a special article in the Times , much in favour of the Confederates, was traced to the day on which the loan was issued. Of course it was published only as a Stock Exchange manoeuvre to force up the new stock. And yet more, by way of infusing blacker venom into the attack, the New York list was spoken of throughout as " official"—from " official sources "—a lie which, only to do them justice, we must say the New York fictionists did not venture on. It need hardly be added that, as far as is yet known, the list is a mere piece of mendacity. Most likely it does include the names of some capitalists who have invested, and, of course lost, in the Confederate loan ; but the prin cipal persons concerned, and to damage whom it was especially constructed, have denied that they ever held a shilling of the loan. There would be no disgrace if they had ; but, as a fact, they had not. Mr. Seymour's £40,000, and Mr. Beresford Hope's £40,000, Mr. Ashley's £5OO, the £25,000 invested by the Times and the £4,000 of the Post, Mr. Gladstone's little slice of £2,000, and Mr. Laird's sumptuous £20,000, are all indignantly de nied. In fact, the whole thing is proved to be— what everybody of sense knew it to be—a vulgar, insolent, horse joke, sadly characteristic of Ameri can journalism, and, we fear, sadly congenial to American taste. But how about the Star , the only English newspaper which affected to beieve this misshapen slander—the only one which, for personal and party purposes, ventured to hint that a news paper like the Times could sell itself for such miserable hire as this? We have often had occasion to differ from the Times ; now and then we have been called upon to point out what we be lieve to be its errors in fact, taste, judgment, or policy. But, as was said of Lord Palmerston, we are all of us in a way proud of the Times, and we know that its Editor is just as incapable as we are of doing that which the Morning Star, with scarcely a simulated kind of disbelief, charged him with. Nay, we will say more. W e honestly be lieve that there is not a man connected with any London paper who would have acted as the Morning Star assumed the Editor of the Times to have acted —except, of course, the editor of one newspaper, which we leave to the Morning Star to specify. But does the calumniator apologise ? By no means. It is really doing. Mr. Gladstone and the gentle men of the Times a very great favour to give them an oppportunity of saying that they are not rogues, that they have not misused their position; that they have not prostituted their opportunities, that they have not abused that confidence which their country and honourable men place in them. On the whole, the English victims of this impudent hoax ought to be very grateful to the Morning Skin Possibly. We have seen this argument before. There was once a newspaper called the Satirist ; nay, there were two newspapers, the Age and the Satirist. There is even now (or lately was) a little shabby obscene penny print, called Peter Spy, which we once had the mis fortune to see. The practice of these journals is to se lect some unfortunate man or woman, and to charge them with every filthy vice. The charge is disavowed ; but the vindication of the libeller is always forth coming. The purveyor of scandal and defamation, and the slanderer of innocence, like the Morning Star, thinks that nothing is so foolish as to complain of putting into print any scandal, because it gives an opportunity of contradicting it. That is to say, it is the right thing to publish to the world, of any honest man, that he is said to have forged a bill, or of any honest woman that " it is whispered about from coterie to coterie" that she was discovered, &c., because everybody ought to be grateful for the opportunity of publicly declaring that he or she is neither felon nor harlot. As there is but one Eng lish newspaper which could have committed the offence of the Morning Star, so there is but one which could on these grounds justify it. COUNTRY MARKETS LEICESTER-SATURDAY. The attendance was fair at our market to-day, but tho show of wheat was by no means abundant. The best sorts made rather more money, secondary lots as before. Plenty of barley on offer, and a tolerable share If business done at the currencies of last week. Oats a middling show, and at fully late rates. Beans firm, and prices rather highe.i. Old white wheat, 45s to 50s ; old red, 42s to 46s ; neNY white, 44s to 49s ; new red, 38s to 42s per 36 stone. Bar ley, malting, 32s to 33s per qr. ; grinding, 27s to 29s per 30 stone. Oats, old, 26s to 29s ; new, 20s to 26s per 24 stone. Beans, old, 44s to 47s ; new, 37s to 42s per 38 stone. NOTTINGHAM—SATURDAY. The supply of wheat was tolerably good. The demand was fair at full prices. Selected lots of barley were in re quest, and high rates were realised. For oats a fair in quiry, ana prices in sellers' favour. Short supply of beans, at about Gd per qr. higher. Old white wheat, 48s to 52s ; old red, 45s to 48s ; new white, 42s to 478 ; new red, 38s to 43s per 36 stone. Bar ley, new malting, 27s to 35s per qr ; old grinding, 26s to 28s ; new, --s to —s per 30 stone. Oats, old, 27s to 30$ ; new, 20s to 25s ; old foreign, 22s to 27s per stone. Beans, old, 48s to 52s ; new, 40s to 43s per 38 stone. Super flour, 37s to 39s ; fine, 35s to 3Gs per 20 stone. NORWICH-SATURDAY. The supply of wheat was fair at this market to-day; but as the demand was very limited, the trade was slow ; prices for both old and new qualities ruled about the same as ou this day so'nnight. There was an increased supply of bar ley, but good malting descriptions were scarce, and for such the full prices of last week were paid; other sorts dull. Little doing in oats, beans, or peas. White wheat (weighing 631 b to 641 b), 48s to 52s ; red ditto (weighing 631 b to 641 b), 36s to 48s ; best malting barley (weighing 551 b to 561 b), 30s to 33s ; runs ditto (weighing 541 b to 551 b), 28s to 30s ; distilling ditto (weigh ing 521 b to 531 b), 24s to 26s ; oats, 24s to 26s ; beans, 3 70 to 39s ; peas (maple), 36s to 38s per qr ; flour, 31s to -- 0 Od per sack. YORK-SATuRDA.Y. There was a moderate supply of wheat at our corn mar ket to-day; most of the grain being of the new crop• Buyers purchased steadily at the extreme rates of last woe The demand for barley was fair, and business was done at full rates. The supply of oats middling, and fair 'inquiry at late rates. Beans by no means large supply, and priceo favoured sellers. New white wheat, 44s to 48s; new red, 40s to 43s per 36 stone. Barley, for malting, 28s to 32s per qr ; grinding, 27s to 28s per 30 stone. Oats, new, 22s to 24s per 24 stone• Beans, 38s to 42s per 40 stone. Malt, 58s; rye, 28s per qr. Flour, 33s to 34s per sack of 2801 b. 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We find it the safest remedy. Andre/ Ure, M.D., F.R.S. ; Dr Harvey; Dr Wurzer ; Dr Shorland ; Dr Campbe 1. We quote u few out of the 62,0 0 cures ; —cure No. 57,314. Tittenson - I cannot express my gratitude for the benefit I have derived from Du Barry's food. My ap petite is perfectly restored, the pains in my leg, back, and chest are quite gone, and I am fast gaining strength and flesh. Mrs A. Owen.—Cure No. 51,812. Miss Virginia zeguers, cured of consumption, after her medical advisers abandoned all hopes of recovery.— Cure No. 49,632. Of fifty years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms, sickness at the stomach, and vomiting. Maria Joly, Wortham, Ling, near Dias, Norfolk.—Cure No. 47,121. Miss Elizabeth Jacobs, of Nazing Vicarage, Waltham Cross, Herts, of extreme nervous ness, indigestion, gatherings, low spirits, and nervous fancies In tins, 1 lb., 20. 9d. ; 21b., 40 . 6 d ; 51b., ll s. ; 121 b., 2 25. ; IN.—Barry Du Barry and Co. , No. 77, Re g e nt - street, London; also Phillips, tea dealers, S, King William-street; Mewl-6 at 61, Gracechurch -street ; 4, Chea p si de ; 49 , Bishopsgate tßaker-street ; 103, Tottenh am - cour t- roa d ; 98, Islington, N.; Harvey, N o tti ng -hill ; Close igh- street ; and Stubbs, Queen's-terr a ce, St sur epp Uppere et Brothers,rt Withi n er6est : ; High-street; 110, and 298, Oxford -street ; 330, Strand; 54, John's -wcod, London ; and all ref pectable grocers and clie mists.—Beware of spurious imitations. Births. FISHER.—On the 6th inst., at 14, Priory-road, Kilburn, the wife of Rowland Fisher, Esq., of a daughter. MORTON.—At Mount Villa, Mahon, Mrs. Edward Morton, of a son. WOOLRIDGE.—On the 6th inst., at Winchester, tho wife of Charles Woolridge, jun., Esq., of a daughter. Marriages. BARNES—BARNES.—On the sth ins`., at St. Mary's, Faver sham, Frederick D. Barnes, of Singapore, youngest son of W. G. Barnes, Esq., of Shirley, Hants, to Marion, the oldest daughter of the late Henry Barnes, Esq., of Faversham, Kent. FRY—LEAROYD.—On the sth inst., at the parish church, Huddersfield Thomas Fry, 'Esq., of Forest-hill, to Fannie, youngest daughter of the late James Learoydl Esq., The Grove, Huddersfield. Deaths. BAKER.—On tho 6th inst., Charles John, son of Joseph Baker, Esq., of Vanbrugh-park, Blackheath, aged 22. ELIVES.—On tho 6th inst., at Ipswich, Timms Hervey Elwos, youngest son of the late Lieut.-General ElweS, of Stoke College, Essex, aged 48. FLAVELL.—On the 6th inst., at Kilburn, James nave% Esq., of Halstead, Essex, aged 63. HAMMERTON.—On the 6th inst., James Ilammorton, Esq., Hellifield Peel, Leeds, aged 87. 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