The Sun. — London, England, 1866-05-03 00:00:00

- Royal Literacy Fund. The anniversary festival of the Royal Literary Fund took place last night at Willis's-rooms. About 100 gentlemen sat down to dinner. Lord Houghton presided ; and among the company were the Bishop of St. David's, Viscount Milton, M.P., Lord Crewe, the Dean of Canterbury, Mr. Beresford-Hope, M.P., Mr. Pollard-Urquhart, M.P., Sir J. Simeon, M.P., Professor Fawcett, M.P., General Eyre, Sir R. Murchison, Sir T. Tancred, Sir F. Doyle, Sir W. Jones, Professor Kingsley, Professor Tyndall, Rev. C. Merivale, Judge Manockjee Cursetjee (Bombay), Rev. R. Whiston, Messrs. A. Trollope, Spedding, G. Cruikshank, Forsyth, Bell, Swin burne, S. Baker, &c. On the removal of the cloth, the noble CHAIR MAN, in proposing the toast of " The Queen," re ferred to the munificent patronage which her Ma jesty bestowed on this fund , and to the interest which was taken in it by her late lamented Consort. The toast was cordially received, as was also that of " The Prince of Wales and the rest of the Royal Family," in proposing which the chairman alluded to the gracious presidency of his Royal Highness at this anniversary two years ago, and expressed a hope that other members of the Royal family might con fer upon them a similar honour in years to come. In proposing "The Church," Sir W. JONES men tioned the loss sustained by poetry and philosophy in the death of the Rev. J. Keble and Dr. Whewell, and the able contributions rendered to history by living members of the Church, such as the Bishop of St. David's, the Rev. C. Merivale, and Dean Stan ley, and instanced our fine old Valhalla, Westmin ster Abbey, as a type of the close connection between literature and the Church. The Bishop of St. DAVID'S, in acknowledging the toast, remarked that the Church of England,having a book for its authentic charter and title deeds, and being through its juste milieu position pressed on all sides by hostile forces, could not but be closely con nected with literature. He thanked God that the Church was unable to wield the weapons of physi cal force in maintaining the defensive, and he hoped that whatever its outward fortunes might be, its connection with literature, which was alike honour able to both, would ever continue. The next toast was " The Army and Navy," to which Gen. Eyre and Capt. Forbes responded. The CHAIRMAN, in proposing the toast of the evening, " Prosperity to the Royal Literary Fund," remarked that last year the society came in conflict with a very important section of the literary inte rests of England, who thought that some other or ganisation would be more beneficial. The result, however, had been that they were as strong as ever, and that they had fn)ly maintained their position. This was an eleemosynDxY society, and it professed to be nothing else. They did nothing to lead men to choose li tera ture as a like every for that, n y n ot be regulated by the every other occupation , law of supply anddemand, but it assisted those who, having chosen that role, without any grave fault of their own, fell into difficulties. Books had been written upon the misfortunes of men of letters, but after all they were the misfortunes of all men, arisin g from improvidence, an over estimate ef their own ability and disappointed aspirations. As his friend Theodore Hook once remarked, it might well be called a republic of letters, for they had not a sove reign among them. (Laughter.) The profession of letters seemed to him to be one belonging to that state of society in which literature was nascent, was hardly accepted by the masses of the community, and in which the literary man was looked upon as something peculiar and extraordinary. Now he looked forward to a time when literature would not be a profession at all, but when the gift of writing would be dispensed as widely in society as the gift of conversation. Such a state of things of course implied a very advanced state of society, and one perhaps that had never yet been attained by any State ; but when we considered how widely the literary profession already extended, and how diffi cult it was becoming to determine who was a man of letters and who was not, it certainly seemed that we were in some degree approaching the ideal at which he thought they should aim. Nothing, indeed, could be more wonderful than the expansion of Eng lish literature at the present time. Articles ap peared almostdaily in obscure periodicals that would have astonished people living 50 years ago. The literary element in England was in a state of great activity, and it was this very extension which called for the operations of the Literary Fund. For what was the position of a man of letters in this country who was overtaken by misfortune ? Such a man, as a man of thought and reflection, was necessarily given to solitude, and came but little in contact with society, while with the reticence which was an essential ingredient of the English character, he was disinclined to communicate his difficulties to his fellow-men. In no other way, then, could assistance be so delicately rendered him as by this fund, for he would know that his case would be considered with sympathy, and that with the ex ception of half a dozen whom he might meet next day in society on terms of perfect equality, no one would know his secret. (Hear, hear.) Moreover this society was useful as bringing literary men to gether. They were, unfortunately, by no means gregarious animals, though there were minds in England, which, if brought into electrical commu nication, might produce Heaven knew what, and, therefore, anything wlaich brought literary men into contact with each other was a thing useful in itself, and the more so as literature was rapidly expanding. An extension of the franchise was now the topic of much discussion, and he might compare with it the extension of literature. He feared that the latter, too, would be accompanied by a redistribution of seats—(laughter)—but he should be very sorry to see the old seats of literature, to which they were so fondly attached, transferred altogether to tumul tuous magazine communities. He should not like to see their old friends entirely superseded by the Cornhill or the Fortnightly. An excellent lady, of rather confused notions, had said that she had read all about the cave of Adullam in Mr. Addison's Spectator—(laughter) —and he trusted that the old classical names would still remain household words, and that these ancient boroughs would not be dis franchised. It might be that England had attained its political zenith, for the rest of th e world was making such rapid strides that this country, while as great and as prosperous as ever,remaining might not retain its present pre-eminence. It was not for us to say that this, for the good of the world, should not be the case ; but we might at least look f orwar d to the extension of the English language, and we might legitimately pride ourselves on the position our literature had attained, as well in historical cri ticism as in poetry and every other department. Its future de s tiny must be left to Providence, for— man lie gave " Upon the mind to It pleaseth God to ride, And make each passion-crested ~ Part of his mighty tide. • n-erested wave The noble chairman concluded, amid much applause, by proposin g the toast, which was drunk with great an d enthusiasm,a ,_ al luncriptions to the fund to the amount of about " ( X) were afterwards announced. Mr. VENABLE S , (LC., then proposed " The His torical and Imaginative Literature of England," coupling with it the names of Professor Kingsley and Mr. A. Swinburne. Professor KINGSLEY, i n r , should pass by the first p art o C t i Z )ngin g , said he a Professor of History, he a knew coursetoast, for bein g of it. (Laughter.) With regard to the imaginative nothing . m aginative literature of the present day, h e pointed out the predominance of female writers, mentioning es • ally Jean Ingelo w, Adelaide Proctor, and cr e au thors of " John Halif ax " an d " Rom o l a. " thought if this toa st were continued, ladie s would have to be called upon to acknowedge it, for th e Amazons had invaded Parnassus. (Laughter.) Th e ladies were beating the other sex out of the field, and the advice he would give to any young man who wished to avoid not only the charity of this fund, but Whitecross-street Prison and the work house, would be to marry, if he bad the chance of such good luck, a literary lady, and betake himself to the humble and chivalrous service of reviewing his wife's books. (Much laughter.) Mr. SWINB URNE having also acknowledged the toast, Sir R. MURC FUSON proposed " Classical and Scientific Education," to which the Rev. It WINS" Tog and Professor TYNDALL responded. The Dean of CA TERBURY next proposed " The Diffusion of English Literature," which was acknow ledged by Judge MANOCKJEE C URSETJEE ; and Mr. TROLL OPE gave " The Pioneer 3 Civilisa tion," with which were coupled the names of Vis count Milton and Mr. Baker. Several other toasts were drunk, and the pro , ceedings did not terminate till a late hour. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. MADRAS. The annual general meeting of this company was held yesterday, at the London Tavern ; Mr. J. Walker in the chair. Mr. J. Byrne, the secretary, having read the notice convening the meeting, the report. an abstract of which has appeared in the Times, was taken as read. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, adverted to the loss the company has sus tained by the death of their late respected chair man, General D. Sim, who had during several years ' rendered great services to the company, and they all regretted his loss. The report gave them a sum mary of the affairs of the company, and he thought the results were very satisfactory and encouraging. The average mileage showed an increase of 60 miles over that of the corresponding period of 1864. The aggregate gross traffic showed an increase of £55,548, and the net receipts an increase of £47,812 ; so that while the increase in the mileage was 10 per cent., the increase in the gross traffic was 32 per cent., and in the net traffic 57 pe r the ro cent. During that .• time thug stock and permanent way were well maintained ; and they felt most thankful for the ' absence of accidents, which spoke well for the vigi -1 lance and care of the officers and servants of the company. Next month a further section, 32 miles in length, of the line beyond Cuddapa would be opened for traffic, and the whole of that line to the junction with the Great Indian Peninsula Railway at Raichoor would be completed by the time the Peninsula Company's line was ready to join them at that point. From Cuddapa to Raichoor was 156 miles, upon which the works were progressing, including the great bridge over the Tumbudra. The shipment of stores for their lines in India was going on actively as usual. The company si nce its first establishment had shipped 307,000 tens of materials, including machinery, rails, &c., the cost being about £2,750,000, and the number of ships employed 695, out of which only six were lost, but of course the company did not lose, as the cost of the materials shipped were covered by the insurance. The whole of the 307,000 tons of ma chinery, plant, and stores was shipped by their own office; no brokers or shipping agents were employed or warehouses engaged, as the goods were sent direct from the manufacturers to the ships ; so that their office in London had saved all expenses of brokerage and so forth, and thus rendered consi derable service. The working of the south-west line showed the very remarkable ezonomy of using iron instead of wood for sleepers. Even on the west coast, where abundance of wooden sleepers could be obtained, the cost of maintenance was £164 per mile per annum; whereas, on the Bangalore branch, laid with iron sleepers, the cost was only £75 per mile per annum for maintenance. On the North- West line the maintenance was as low as £7l per mile. It in fact made all the difference between a profit and a loss. He congratulated the proprietors on being the first to adopt iron sleepers in India. On the North-West line the gross receipts showed an increase of £34,712, or 22 per cent., and the re ceipts an increase of £30,645, or 40 per cent. as compared with the corresponding half of 1864. That showed the success with which the expenditure had been kept down, as they had carried more traffic at less cost, and that was very creditable to the per sons employed. The gradients were very severe on some of their lines : the section of the South-West line was similar to an inverted At. Starting from Madras, the line ascended to a height of 1,500 ft. ; then descended to the river Caudry, 501 ft. above the sea level, whence it rose again to 1,300 ft., and thence gradually descended to the sea level at Bey poor. When they had reduced the cost of working to 44 per cent. of the receipts he thought that very satisfactory. On the North-West line the mileage had increased 77 per cent., the gross receipts 171 per cent., and the net receipts 246 per cent., the work ing expenses being only 27 per cent. of the receipts. They had lately got some superior locomotive en gines out there which drew 16 loaded waggons up their inclines, instead of 11 loaded waggons, at a cost of very little more fuel and water than the other engines consumed. The South-West line, in cluding rolling stock and improvements, had cost under £ll,OOO a mile. They had heard a great deal of Indian railways having exceeded the estimated cost. This line was roughly estimated to cost £4,000,000, but since they commenced operations the prices of labour and materials had increased from 50 to 150 per cent. The line had cost £5,000,000, which was not much of an excess, considering the great increase in the price of labour and materials. The cost of the North-West line, so far as they had gone, was under £9,200 a mile, and the net re ceipts of the past half year yielded a return of 4f per cent. on the cost. Those results reflected great credit on the engineers and the officers and ser vants of the company. They had nearly expended £8,000,000 on capital account, and they had re cently been authorised to raise an additional sum of £1,000,000, with the usual guarantee of 5 per cent. Mr. ARBUTHNOT seconded the motion . for the adoption of the report, and it was agreed to unani mously. On the motion of the CILURMAN, the directors were authorised to raise an additional capital of £1,000,000 by the issue of 50,000 shares of £2O each, upon which interest at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum was guaranteed. It was understood that the new capital would be offered rateably to the shareholders. The retiring directors, Mr. J. Walker, Mr. Arbuthnot, and Mr. G. Norton were re-elected ; and also Mr. J. Thomson, the retiring auditor. Mr. A. Hall was elected an auditor in the room of Col. Smith, resigned, and - the proceedings concluded with a Tote of thanks to the chairman and directors. WHIT EHAVEN AND F URNESS. A Wharncliffe meeting of this company took place at Whitehaven on Monday, Mr. Collins in the chair, to consider bills for the construction of a branch line from Sella&ld to Egremont, and for the amalgama tion of this company with the Furness Railway Company. _ _ Mr. ihTSGRAVE, the solicitor to the company, read the heads of the bills. The Amalgamation Bill provided for the amalgamation of the two companies on the Ist July. The shareholders of this company were to receive a fixed dividend of 8 per cent. per annum in perpetuity. Formal resolutions approving the bills were carried unanimously, and the proceedings terminated. _ ....___ SOUTHERN- A special meeting of this company was held yes terday at the office, Bi.shopsgate-stre e t ; Mr. Graham in the chair. The Secretary read the heads of a bill for autho rising the company to make deviations and branches from their authorised line. It would enable the company to make a branch line connecting th e Southern Railway with the Killenaune collieries, which were in full operation, and they expected a large traffic. The contractor was in possession of land for the first section of eight miles of the main line, and the works were in progress. On the motion of the Chairman, a formal resolu tion approving the bill was carried unanimously, and the proceedings terminated. GOLD AND SILVER.—The value of the gold im £2,425989, at 865, and o _ ported int o th e U n i ted Kingdom i n t h e t h ree m onths en ding the 31 s t of March this year was computed X 1,108,8 40 in 1864 (corresponding periods). The valuef the export s o f gold from the United Kingdom in the three as compared with C 2,651,237 in 1 month £1 ,3 s endi364 ng the 31 s t of March this year was computed at 36,, as com pared with £1,470 , 514 in 1865, and £3,811,806 i n 1864 (corre s p o nding periods). The value of the silver imp or t e d into the United Kingdom i n th e th r ee months ending th e 31 st of March this year was computed at £2,193,182, as compared with £ 1 ,770,238 in 1865, and £3,639,590 in 1864 (corresponding periods). The value of the silver exported from the United Kingdom to the 31st of March this year was computed at £2,442,858, as com pared with £1,515,005 in 1865, and £ 3 ,511,480 in 1864 (corresponding periods). IRELAND. wasT h e r n e e m u a r i e n d s o w f t O h ' Neill I p , utbhlDm3LlN, May 2 murdere d funeral yesterday. constable, High mass was solemnised at Ann-street Chapel, at which many priests and an immense concourse of people assisted. The hearse was followed thence to Glasnevin Cemetery by 200 members of the me tropolitan force walking three deep. Nearly 100 vehicles followed, bearing the friends of the de ceased and others, who wished thus to mark their abhorrence of the crime by which poor O'Neill lost his life. Another reason for the peculiar distinc tion for a man in such a humble rank is pro bably the fact that he belonged to one of the nume rous " confraternities" which exist among the Ro man Catholics of Dublin, and the members of which make it one of their special duties to procure fune ral honours for their departed brethren. In addition to the general bond of union in the Roman Catholic Church, there is a very extensive organisation of brotherhood for mutual benefit and for purposes of charity, in which the visitation of the sick and the burial of the dead are regarded as the most impor tant. A large number of the metropolitan force are active members of these religious societies—a fact which some Protestants think renders them liable to be too much under the control of their clergy. The detectives have not yet succeeded in finding Kearney. The impression is that he is screened by the Fenian Brotherhood. The police have arrested his brother, Patrick Kearney, and a boy named Campbell, who worked in the same forge with the accused. The brother was found with a quantity of ammunition in his room, evidently prepared for re sistance, for he had in his pocket a six-chambered revolver loaded and capped, and £lO in money, for which he was unable to account. A subscription list has been opened for the benefit of Mrs. O'Neill and her orphan children. Yesterday the sergeant-major of the Coldstream Guards set the example, by wait ing on the Commissioners of Police with a letter of condolence for the widow from the non-commissioned officers and men, and a sum of six guineas which they had contributed. The military authorities have ordered a court of inquiry to assemble at the Royal Barracks this day, before which all the soldiers reported out of quarters on Saturday night must appear, in order to test the truth of the report that two soldiers were in the as sassin's company when the murder was committed. Yesterday 12 Fenian prisoners were brought from the county gaol, Limerick, to the Mountjoy prison, Dublin. They were conveyed in the prison van to the railway station, each prisoner, while passing from the van to the carriage, being firmly held by the collar between two constables. As there were 40 young men in custody, and it was not known which of them were to be removed, their relatives assembled in large numbers, and there was great lamentation at their departure. Mr. John Brennan, a native of Bray, who had made a large fortune in America, and came home to spend a large portion of it on buildings in his na tive town, died rather suddenly yesterday morning at his residence, Sea-point. It was he who built the International Hotel at Bray. He also caused the erection of a terrace called by his name, and several other fine buildings. It is said that there will be an inquiry into the cause of his death. May was ushered in with a bitter east wind and a considerable fan of snow, which greatly marred , the enjoyment of the Curragh races, which com menced yesterday, and were attended by the Lord- Lieutenant, Lady Wodehouse, and a large number of officers and people of distinction from Dublin and the neighbouring counties. Col. Buchanan, Royal Artillery, having relin quished the command of the Royal Artillery in Ire land for the purpose of proceeding to India with a portion of the Bth Brigade during the present sea son, his place will be taken by Col. T. B. F. Mar riott, who arrived in Dublin yesterday. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 3, 1866. officially reported at the War-office since the Ist of April :—Generals F. Campbell, Col.-Commandant Royal Artillery ; G. P. Higginson, Colonel of the 94th Regiment ; and 11. Shadforth. Major-Gen. C. Wright, Royal Engineers. Lieut.-Colonels J. Hassard (from wounds received in action) ; and W. G Stoll, 105th Madras Light Infantry. Major F. S. Savage, 86th Regiment. Capts. J. Robertson, Royal Artillery ; M. Vavasour, Royal Engineers ; C. Hunter, Military Train ; J. Nestor, 19th Regi ment ; G. Murray, J. H. Evelegh, H. L. de la Chaumette (Paymaster), 97th Regiment ; A. Steele (Quartermaster), Royal Artillery ; J. Nowlan (Quartermaster), 62d Regiment ; and J. B. Sey mour, Royal Marines. Lieuts. W. M. D. Llewelyn, 4th Hussars; G. H. Burrowes, 21st Royal Fusi leers ; J. T. Carroll, 38th Regiment ; A. A. V. Be verhoudt, 38th Regiment ; G. Fitzgibbon, 59th Regiment ; R. Young, Ist V. Battalion ; E. G. Cubitt, 4th Dragoons ; W. Smith, Royal Artillery, and T. Swanson, 42d Royal Highlanders. Pay masters A. Tovey, 24th Regiment ; S. Holdsworth, 82d Regiment, and T. King, 98th Regiment. De puty-Commissioner-Gen. J. Woodhouse, C.M.G. ; Deputy-Assist.-Commissary-General E. Estridge. Surgeons A. M. Macbeth, 105th Madras Light Infantry, and Staff Assist.-Surg. T. S. Teevan. Naval and Military Intelligence. The armoured screw frigate Bellerophon, 14, Capt. E. Tatham, will go out of Portsmouth harbour, it is at present estimated, on Friday next, and commence her trials of the competitive broadside 12-ton gun carriages about Mon day next. At present the Bellero phon has mounted in her battery three out of the four guns on the competitive carriages, the Sir William Armstrong, Woolwich Arsenal, and Capt. Scott's car riages. The Admiralty pattern wooden carriage is being altered on the jetty alongside the slip to receive the 10in. rifled 300-pounder gun which has been re ceived for trial from Sir W. Armstrong's works at Elswick. As yet the preliminary drills on board the Bellerophon hare been confined to Capt. Scott's carriage and gun, and the Woolwich Arsenal car riage and gun. Yesterday the difference in handi ness and time occupied in running the guns in and out on these two carriages was most remakable. The gun on Capt. Scott's carriage was run in over and over again in 12 and 13 seconds with no fatigue to the gun's crew, while the gun on the Woolwich carriage took actually minutes to perform the same feat, and even then completely drove the breath out of the men's bodies in driving round the useless wheels which ought to have had, but were very far from having, the necessary leverage over the run ning in and out chains. Sir W. Armstrong's gear for running in and out, and Mr. Cunningham's for the same purpose, have neither yet been tested pre liminarily on board the Bellerophon. At Stokes Bay, near Portsmouth, yesterday, a trial was made over the measured mile of a twin screw launch, fitted by Messrs. John Penn and Son, which was attended with very satisfactory results. The launch (No. 19 on the Admiralty list) drew Ift. 101 in. of water forward, and 2ft. aft, the mean immersion being 2ft. sin. Her two screws were each of four blades, with a diameter of 2ft. Gin., and a pitch of 4ft., the length being 31in. The four cylinders of the engines were each sin. in dia meter, and the length of stroke 6in. The heating surface of the boilers was 100 ft., and the fire-grate surface 4 8-12ths. The wind was from the N.E., light, the weather fine, and the water smooth. Under these conditions the following results were obtained:—Six runs at full boiler power, in knots, 7185, 7.017, 7.258, 6.857, 7.500 ; mean speed of the ship, 7122 knots ; steam, maximum 73, mini mum 71; revolutions, maximum 320, minimum 308. Four runs at half -boiler power, in knots, 5.572, 4.270, 6101, 2.894 ; steam, maximum 72, minium 70 ; revolutions, maximum 368, minimum 364. The trial was considered very satisfactory. Lieut. J. B. Michell, of her Majesty's ship Asia, superintended the trial, as the officer of the Steam Reserve, and the manufacturers of the engines were represented by Mr. H. Anderson. The gunboats Heron and Britomart left Plymouth on Sunday for Halifax. The paddlewheel steam sloop-Barracouta, 6, Commander William B. Urm ston, with the gunboat Charger, followed on Tues day evening. The armour-plated turretship Wyvern 4, was placed on Tuesday alongside the sheer hulk in Hamoaze to have her guns removed. Extra hands, joiners, and others have been placed this week on the armour-plated ship Zealous, 20, in Devonport Dockyard, to expedite her for active service. The screw steam despatch sloop Amazon, 4, at Devon port, was put in commission on Monday, by Cora -1 mander J. E. Hunter. She will have a compliment of 130 officers and men. AprildNo l o c an2 N p v .6i h ,e e ras e , r l hfr s rei t vo e lene ac tAi niafrigate April Terrible ,lB, a 2 n l d , Capt. lapßdGanranoeiTdysdyr Gib raltar,eahata r o e hl I na: O P en J a tradi d n . alPlymouthMalta the S v o Victoria, r y i a e t t e h r e k, the Resistance, the Phoebe, the Enter the Racer ; and at Gibraltar, the Skylark Redpole. The Phoebe was to leave for Eng le 2d of May. The Supply left Gibraltar on the 26th April. The Terrible brings Mr. Jones, Paymaster, and 32 time-expired men and invalids, two sergeants and four privates. The screw steam frigate Severn, 35, from the East Indies, and the troop ship Orontes, from China, are daily expected at Plymouth. The head-quarter division first battalionab about ut 1 13th Regiment, from is ld io e n rsh o o f arrived he tt t , and embarking on board her Majesty's steamers p.m. yesterday a t Portsmouth from Aldershott, Gladiator and Dee left in the evenin g for Devon port. The deaths of the following officers have been The Accident on the Brighton Railway. FURTHER PARTICULARS. It would appear that Wm. Jeffrey, signalman of the Caterham Junction, who has been 12 months in the employ of the company, went on duty at 6.40, and entered all the trains passing up to the time of the accident. The ballast train in question arrived at Caterham at 8.30 p.m., and was shunted into a sideway on the down train line, and after pulling down clear of the points was put back into the chalk siding. The next train before the 8 p.m. train from Brighton was the down train, which should have passed Caterham at 9.36 p.m., but did not pass Jeffrey's box till 9.39. It may here be stated that the regulations for this signalman provided that he should keep the key of the points leading out of the siding, and only per mit anything to pass after having " blocked" the down line by telegraph to the next signal station. Instead, however, of doing this, it is stated on the one side that he gave the key of the crossing points to the head guard of the ballast train, with these instructions, "You follow the Dover." The signal man, however, denies that he gave him any direc tions whatever, but says that he intended him to follow the two trains—the 8 p.m. Brighton Com pany, and one of the South-Eastern trains, both of which were late. When the South-Eastern line was cleared back by telegraph from Selsdon, Jeffrey at once altered his station semaphores and distant signals to " All right," and the eight p.m—the un fortunate train in question—from Brighton passed with the signals in that state. It is further stated that after passing the South- Eastern train the usual whistle was given by the driver of the ballast train for permission to leave the siding, and that Jeffrey gave the necessary sig nal in reply to do so by waving twice a white light he held in his hand. There is, however, great doubt about these state ments. Certainly it hardly seems credible that Jeffrey, having taken off his fixed signals for the eight p.m. train to pass, should order the ballast train out before it had done so, the more especially as he says he did not " block" the line back to Selsdon. Owing to the discrepancy in the state ments of the men, and as the reasons given by the guard and driver for leaving the sidings are ob vious the authorities did not deem it advisable to arrest Jeffrey. The collision must have been of the greatest vio lence. It had the effect of throwing the engine and tender of the eight p.m. train of the line and down the embankment, killing the guard and smashing his van to pieces. The first three or four carriages were driven at right angles to the line, and into each other, whereby Mr. and Mrs. Drew were killed, the lady on the spot, and the gentleman died about two hours afterwards, and injuring the other pas singers. Eight of the worst cases were taken to the residence of Mr. Jackson, by whom they were most kindly treated, and attended on the moment by three medical gentlemen who happened to be in the train. The other passengers, numbering some 20, were brought to London, and sent in cabs to their homes. One lady, however, upon reaching the station was so bad that she was taken to Guy's Hospital. Her name is understood to be Jane Edwards, living somewhere at King's-cross. Her injuries, however, are ascertained to be not of a dangerous iiture. The following is the official list of the killed and injured : KILLED. Mr. and Mrs. Drew, 43, Great Percy-street, Pentonville. William Webb, guard, Brighton. WOUNDED. J. P. Ranwell, 254, Camden-road ; general con cussion. Capt. Matthew, 10, Leicester-square; leg injured, and severe shaking. Annie Pollard, 3, Copthall-chambers ; severe pain in the back, &c. Mr. J. Sexton, 7, St. George's-terrace, Lower Edmonton ; bruised on head and face. William Foster, Esq , 29, Fulham-place, Maida hill ; injury to leg, and severe shaking. Miss Cohen, 34, York-street, Westminster. Mr. and Mrs. E. Surge, 29, Langham-place, Portland-place. Mr. and Mrs. D. Glasgow, 20, Myddelton-square, Clerkenwell. Mrs. Watnor and child. The accident blocked the line till 5 a.m. yester day morning, and in consequence the 10.20 p.m. down, and 10 p.m. up South-Eastern mail, as well as the South-Western special, were greatly delayed. The mail bags of the two first -named trains were transferred and forwarded by the 1 a.m. train. Within a few minutes after the accident the infor mation was forwarded to head-quarters at London bridge, and it is hardly necessary to add that the officials there instantly adopted all means that lay in their power in the shape of rendering assistance and administering comforts to the unfortunate passengers. 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Norfolk, of indigestion and torpid ity of the liv er , w hi ch had resisted all medical treatment.— In tins, 11b, 2s 9d ; 21b, 4s 6.1 ; 51b, lls ; 121 b, 22s ; 241 b, 408.—Barry Du Barry and Co., No. 77, Regent-street, London; also Phillips, tea dealers, 8, King William-street ; likewise at 61, Gracech urc h- street ; 4, Cheapside ; 49, Bishopsgate street Within ; 63, 150, and 298, Oxford-street ; 3.30, Strand ; 54, Upper Baker-street ; 103, Tottenham-court-road ; 96, Upper-street, Islington, N. ; Harvey, Notting-hill; Close Brothers, 65, high-street; and Stubbs, Queen's-terrace, St. John's-wood, London; and all respectable grocers and che mists,—Beware of spuriousiraitations. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TDIES.--The political storm of the past month has been followed by a sudden calm. There is ex haustion after the struggle, but there is also satis faction with the result. The House of Commons has resented successfully what it considered the un fair dealing and dictation of Ministers, and has no desire to be aught but generous towards them and their measures. The ordinary supporters of the Go vernment are now able to return to their natural allegiance, and show that what they havedone was prompted by no spirit of faction and no indifference to the Liberal cause. We may even assume that the Conservatives, proud of their numbers, of the elo quence that has been displayed in their ranks, and of the great part they have played in vindicating the honour of Parliament and the good faith of public life, are ready to enter into new discussions with un wonted liberality. The general feeling is that never was there a better time to settle the question of Reform. Every one admits that, after the promises and the efforts, the disputes and recriminations of fourteen years, something ought to be done. Each side is committed to a change, and the wisest men of each side are desirous to fulfil their pledges. Nor is this merely the selfishness of politicians anxious to be rid of a troublesome subject. There is amid all the utterances of extreme opinions on either side a conviction that the Franchise may be safely extended so as to include a less wealthy class, but one which has made great progress in education and political moderation. Though with the strong Conservative spirit which possesses the upper and middle classes, and which the recent conduct of Government has remarkably increased, there is no chance of success for a measure of democratic Reform, there is a general feeling that such a Bill as will lay the ques tion at rest for a generation may now be passed into law, provided the Government make no further mistakes, but extend to their followers and op ponents that confidence which can alone insure support. We regret that, while moderate men of all opinions . are preparing thus to co-operate for the pub he good, one vehement voice is again heard. Mr. Bright has been an unfortunate ally of the Govern ment through the whole of this controversy. Indeed but for him there would hardly have been any contro versy at all. A full month before the meeting of Par liament, and at a time when the scheme of reform was yet to be settled by the Cabinet, Mr. Bright in augurated the dexterous policy of spreading the mea sure over several years, so as to gain by one instal ment the necessary leverage for making the next more thorough and complete. Whether the Government borrowed the idea from him or arrived at it indepen dently is of little moment. It is enough to say that the speech of their ally nearly ruined their project. The suspicions of the country and the vigilance of Parlia ment might not have been roused had not the truth been thus blurted out. But no sooner is the undigni fied contest which the Government had brought on itself at an end, no sooner have the Premier and the Leader of the House of Commons been barely saved from downfall by the votes of faithful but uncon vinced supporters, than Mr. Bright is unhappily in the field again. With the greatest part of his speech at Manchester we have no fault to find. Mr. Bright is quite right in saying that a large proportion of the 32 Liberal members who voted for Lord Grosvenor's amendment are likely to give their votes in favour of the Government and the bill in its future stages. Those 32 who really expressed the opinions of the majority of Liberal members have enforced their own reasonable views, and there is now no reason why they should not come back into the fold. Nor can we com plain that Mr. Bright should endeavour to make a stand for the exact fran3hises proposed in the Govern ment bill. As he desires to descend much lower than £7 and £l4, it is natural that he should refuse to rise any higher. What we deprecate is that he should affect to anticipate that the House of Commons will be utterly hostile to any measure of reform, and should begin to throw out threats of a dissolution. The party on whom he looks " sometimes with astonish ment and often with pity" is a "reactionary party" with a " very small minority in the country," al though they polled 313 votes. So the time has come when the question must be decided " whether the great Liberal party and population shall submit to that small reactionary minority." " Then we should come to this great struggle I don't care my , self, if it is to come, how soon it comes." "The bill in 1831 was not carried without a dissolution of Parliament. It may be that this bill must go through the same ordeal." Of course, all this was received with the usual cheering, but we would suggest to Mr. Bright's official friends that it is not the way to make their path smooth in the coming discussions. To recall the recollections of 1831, with its political frenzy breaking out into riot and organising rebellion, is not the way to reassure the upper and middle classes of this country. They are somewhat timid politicians. They find them selves a small minority possessing property in face of a vast working class, which not only does not save, but, if its spokesmen are to be believed, has elevated impecuniosity to the rank of a social duty. If a Reform is to be carried, the apprehen sions of the proprietary and mercantile sections of English society must not be roused. As little must the just susceptibilities of the House of Commons be weunde 1. One of the most disagreeable points of Mr. Gladstone's conduct as leader of the house is that he has never expressed any dissent from Mr. Bright's projects, or any disapprobation of the menace to the House of Commons. There arises a natural presumption, therefore, that when Mr. Bright speaks he speaks semi-officially ; that there is a sort of understanding between him and the Government as to what he shall say and the course he shall indicate. Are we, then, to con clude that the House of Commons goes into Committee on the Franchise Bill and the Re distribution Bill with the threat of dissolution hanging over it ? For the sake of the Govern ment, and for the sake of their measure, we should hope not. Any appearance of coercion, any ap proach to a threat, anything, indeed, but the most perfect confidence and good faith may be fatal to their Reform Bill and themselves. As to gaining by a dissolution, let them not deceive themselves. The country never was in a more Conservative frame of mind than at present ; the well-to-do and educated classes, who really govern, are only too averse from change. There are not fifty members who would approve so monstrous a proceeding as the destruction of a Liberal House of Commons three months after its first meeting on the details of a bill respecting which such diverse opinions pre vail, and the political results of which are so uncer tain. To send six hundred irritated members back to their constituents within a year, to punish them with heavy expenses, and then bring them up to Westminster to sit far into the autumn, would be a course which the boldest statesman would hesitate to try : Unless he could succeed in unseating the majority of the members of the present House, he would find the new one bent upon his destruction, irrespective of party. But it is useless to discuss a contingency so imp ro b a bl e . Th e G overnmen t will have to pass their Reform measures through the present Parliament or not pass them at all. We, who earnestly desire their success, are only anxious they should not renew their mistakes, and check the public anxiety for an honest and effec tual setttlement of the question. Such a settlement can only be made with the consent of the moderate Liberals, and, it may be said, also of the Conserva tive party. These two sections united will form a majority of this or any future House of Commons, and they make up the whole body of the House of Lords. To these, then, the Government must appeal, to these it must defer. They are men on whom all the platform oratory in the world will have no effect ; they are not to be daunted by threats or melted by sentimentality. Unless a Government can convince them of the justice and expediency of what it proposes, the announcement of its own desperate resolves and the threatening speeches of its allies will be alike in vain. HERALD.—After the exciting debates of last week on the bill for the extension of the franchise, we turn with a feeling of relief to the calm and dignified discussion which preceded the second reading of the bill for amendi ng th e l aw by w hich capital punish ment is now regulated. We may also add that, having deemed it our d u ty to oppose the ill-advised plan upon which her Majesty's advisers proposed to remodel the political constitution of the country, we gladly embrace the opportunity of supporting their endeavour to regulate the infliction of the extreme judicial penalty. The recommendation s o 1 the Royal C omm i ss i oners u p on w hich the bill is based, were in fact little more than so many autho ritative adoptions of suggestions which have been frequently and perseveringly advocated in these columns. The Draconian severity of our penal code in days long past has been condemned by everybody. There is no one but would shudder at the thought of re-enacting the law which made a man's life forfeit for stealing a sheep, or sent coiners, forgers, and robbers to hang in ghastly rows at the Old Bailey every Monday morning. Enlightened policy, no less than common humanity, teaches us that the protection of society is best in sured, not by treating all crimes of whatever degree as deserving of death, but by a careful graduation of secondary punishments according to the nature and circumstances of each particular offence, reserv ing the ca pit a l sen t en ce for those crimes of peculiar enormity upon which all ages and nations have set the seal of their reprobation. With us the list of such crimes has been gradually curtailed till only murder and treason still remain, and even in these the substitution of a protracted, if not a life-long imprisonment, has been proposed as the Ultima Thule of a milder regime. To pro mote the attainment of this result we have had an agitation, conducted with average ability, in which appeals have been made rather to sympathy and sentiment than to reason and reflection—to morbid pity for the criminal rather than to careful consideration for the protection of society. Still it must be admitted that it was mainly through the influence of the abolitionists that the recent com mission was appointed, and we may therefore ex press our acknowledgments to them for the prac tical advantages which have resulted from their well-meant exertions. The tone of the debate on Tuesday night was singularly uniform in favour of the retention of the extreme penalty in some cases. With the solitary exception of Lord Romilly no one of the assembled peers expressed a wish for en tire abolition, and his lordship's speech was hardly calculated to advance the cause he espoused or to raise the reputation which he enjoys. It consisted mainly of supposed cases, possible of occurrence certainly, but still only affecting the question at issue as do those hard cases which are said to make bad law. The suggestion to imprison murderers for life, and then to administer the lash to them, sounds strangely as coming from a humanitarian advocate, and the assertion that capital punishment does not deter was but the thoughtless repetition of an oft exploded fallacy. When the Flowery Land pirates were brought out to execution, more than one of those who had often faced death in the war of waters, and had savagely imbrued their hands in the blood of their captain and officers, fainted in the prospect of the doom they had deserved ; and in the recent case of Charlotte Winsor the effect upon the prisoner was still more remarkable. While Harris and she were tried together the professor of infanticide remained unmoved, but when, at the second trial, she became aware that her accomplice was to give evidence against her, her courage failed, and her whole de meanour changed. In like manner, during the arguments of counsel in the Queen's Bench, she showed but little emotion, but as soon as the Lord Chid Justice intimated that his opinion was against her, and that the web of legal sophistry which her advocate had woven would avail nothing, her head drooped, and the tears fell fast down cheeks too long unused to the melting mood. Nor do the ex periments in the direction of abolition bear out the theories of its advocates. 'The report of the Italian Minister of Justice states that murders have in creased since secondary punishments were substi tuted for the extreme penalty. Our own experience shows that the modern tendency of juries to call almost every homicide manslaughter has been ac companied with a continuous increase in the in stances of the crime and in the enormity of its attendant circumstances. Theory and practice, therefore, concurred to restrain the Government from going the whole length to which Mr. E wart and his friends desired to carry them ; but, on the other hand, humanity and experience united to re commend the classification of murders, for the worst of which only should life be taken. The frequency of infanticide, the misery and wretchedness of the women by whom it is constantly committed to con ceal their own shame, the impossibility of obtaining convictions in such cases, have led to the adoption of a middle course, by which we may hope that the ends of justice will be promoted and the increase of this unnatural crime effectually checked. One important provision of the bill remains to be noticed. Executions are in future to take place within the walls of the prison, in the presence of the officials. We regret to see that this part of the mea sure was opposed by Lord Malmesbury, who attaches considerable, and, as we think, undue, importance to the possible influence of the last dread scene in a mur derer's life upon those who witness his public shame and his mortal agony. But those whose duty has compelled them to be present on such occasions will hardly endorse his lordship's opinion. Doubt less to the culprit himself the moment is generally one of intense suffering. On many of the spectators, it may be, it exercises a powerful influence, awak ening within them feelings in which pity, disgust, and horror, are strangely blended. But with the majority there is a studied endeavour to shut out such feelings. The roughs and rowdies, the scum and off-scouring of society, meet around the gallows' tree, not to learn a moral lesson, but to enjoy their brutal saturnalia. It may be that if each could wit ness it alone the effect would not be wholly lost upon him. But the evil influence of association is fatal to this: The endeavour to prevent the obtrusion of unwelcome thoughts, and to stifle the qualms of conscience, is only too successful when it is made in the midst of a mob, each one of whom has come to reproduce upon the flag-stones a copy of my Lord Tomnoddy, more vulgarised, but not more debased than its original. It is not in noisy mobs and tumultuous assemblages that the lessons of capital punishment are taught. It is not amid the roar of a multitude, in which the filthy jest and the profane oath goes round from man to man and even from woman to woman, that the still small voice which points the moral of the culprit's history can be heard. The assembled thousands know that their courses are evil, but each trusts to his associates to keep him in countenance, and thus each is gay with forced merriment even while St. Sepulchre's bell tolls at once for a living' man and a parting soul. The tolling might be retained, together with, as has been suggested, the exhibition of a black flag or other symbol on the prison walls, which should tell the passers-by of the tragedy which stern justice is en acting within. The lessons to be learned from the shameful close of a life of crime would, we v e n ture to say, be more impressively taught in this way than they can be by executions as hitherto con ducted. Having long since suggested this altera tion, and having constantly ad voca t e d it w h enever opportunity offered, we may fittingly express our satisfaction that the course we recommended has at length been legislatively adopted. The Irish Church Establishment. FACTS OR FICTIONS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sin,—Dr. Lee may be excused a little irritation at the conversion of his " Facts" into " fictions," but, on the other hand, his ingenuity has been:rewarded by an honorary degree, bestowed by Trinity College, and will, no doubt, receive further acknowledgment. Dr. Lee has observed that I " quoted legends which even Lanigan has rejected ;" but this assertion must be reckoned as ono of those matters of opinion which Dr. Lee may eall a " fact" if he pleases. He next misrepre sents me as " leaping from the seventh to the twelfth cen tury," because of " difficulty in producing any real in stances of the exercise of the Papal jurisdiction in the age preceding the English invasion," whereas my true reason was stated, namely—unwillingness "to mul tiply such instances ad nauseam." Dr. Lee also describes the presence of Papal legates at various ancient synods as beside the question," and gives the public to understand that the question at issue was that of episcopal succession. Dr. Lee well know that the Papal legates were brought forward by me, not in reference to episcopal succession, but to contradict his "fact" about "Rome having no rea l jurisdiction in Ireland till the year, 1172." Dr. Leo once more mentions the 199 parishes without any Anglican inhabitant, and professes himself unaware that the term " Anglican" was used for brevity instead of " member of the Established Church." This appears ab surd to Dr. Lee, an Englishman, but not to Irishmen. " These 199 parishes, Dr. Brady [so says Dr. Lee] conve niently forgets are all parts of benefices, containing, with one exception, members of the church." This unworthy insinuation of my " conveniently" forgetting this " fact" is only another "fiction." These 199 parishes are not all of them parts of benefices, for only 145 of them are in that position, as Dr. Lee has road in the Primate's charge. Dr. Lee's notions in reference the revenues of the Anglican clergy in Ireland seem of a fluctuating kind. In the third edition of his pamphlet ho estimates the ave rage yearly net income of an Irish incumbent at £215, and in his fourth edition printed in the same year, 1865, he estimates it at £245. This change appears to have neces sitated another, for at page 18 of his third edition Dr. Lee calls for an additional yearly revenue of £52,000 in order to raise each incumbent's income to £250 per annum, while in his fourth edition, page 14, his ideas expand, and he observes :—" To give every beneficed clergyman in Ireland only £3OO a year would require £60,000 to be added to the present yearly revenue of the Church." But a paragraph touching the number of curates and their sti pends, which occurs at page 14 of the third edition, and is omitted from page 11 of the fourth edition, is perhaps the occasion of both the alterations just noticed. Dr. Lee had, in fact, made a blunder in deducting the curates' stipends from the net incomes of the beneficed clergy, for those stipends had already been deducted by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners when they estimated the net income of benefices at £393,833 13s. ld. And as Dr. Lee, on disco vering his blunder, had to raise the net income of incum bents from £215 to £245, he took the opportunity of mak ing a corresponding increase in the estimated requirements of the Church, and raised his clerical pay from barely £250" to "only £3OO a year" for each incumbent, and changed the sum of £52,500 to £60,000. Dr. Lee has now estimated the revenue of the church at £649,500. Perhaps a judicious Parliamentary inquiry will increase that sum. Dr. Lee's statistics of clergy, churches and glebe houses, fluctuate as much as his ideas of church revenue. On comparing•tho several editions of the "facts," the numbers of the clergy are given iu six different years, 1730, 1806, 1826, 1829, 1863, and 1864. Authorities are given for only four of these years, Charles's Directory being the authority for the earliest year, and Parliamentary returns for the latest. Neither Mr. Charles nor Dr. Lee seem aware of the unreli able nature of the earlier return of 1730, nor of the exist ence of returns of the year 1792, which are of undoubted truthfulness, and were adopted by Dr. Beaufort. However, thus stands;" the progressive increase of clergy"as it appears in Dr. Lee's " Facts":-800, 1,253, 1,977, 1,950, 2,281, 2 - 141. That . is to say, in three years, between 1826 and 1829, the clergy diminished by the number of 27, and again, one year, between 1863 and 1864, the clergy diminished by 110! Credat Judceus I As to the number of glebe houses being 141 in 1730, it is very unlikely to have been the case But in 1791 there were certainly 354 gle b e h ouse s, by Dr/ Beaufort's account, and therefore Dr. Lee's estimate of 295 in 1806 has been wrongly obtained. But the complete in accuracy of these statistic s w ill a pp ear from the " prog reS . - sive increase of church e s," as taken from the different ed tions of Dr. Le e ' s "F ac t s ," an d t es t e d by Dr. Beaufort' s returns of 1791, and the returns of the Commissioners of Ecclesiastical Revenue in the year 1836. A.D. Churches. A.D. Churches. 1730 400 1820 1307 1791 ... 1001 1836 ... 1293 1800 688 1863 1633 1806 ... 1029 I 1864 ... 1579 1826 ... 1192 From the above figures, taken in every instance but two from Dr. Lee's "Facts," it appears that in 61 years 599 new . churches were built; in the nine following year s 3 . 13 churches vanished; in the six next years 341 were built, in the next 20 years 63 churches, and in the following 3 years 115 churches were erected. But in the next 7 years the number of churches was reduced by 14, and in 27 years afterwards was increaeed by the enormous number of 3 0 ' But wonders have not yet ceased. During the 12 months of the year 1863-4 54 churches have melted away, accord ing to the veritable "progressive increase" of Dr. Lee! Dr. Lee inquires, "How can Alexander Knox, with any fairness, be adduc e d as a w it ness f or th e pur p o se for wh ich Dr. Brady quoted him ?" Now, that purpose was c learly defined : Knox " thus d ea l s w ith th e b o dy corporate, an the rightful possession' theory," and the quotation then adduced proved to demonst ra ti on th a t i n the opinion of Knox the modern A ng l o -I r i s h Ch urc h did no t rightly PO" sess, as the corporate "body" of the old church, the ecclesias tical property of Irel an d. D r . L ee ' s prese nt quotation. from Knox does not apply to the "body corporate" theol99 and is so far irrelevant, but it applies to the question of the endowment of the State Establishment in Ireland/ end shows the views of Knox concerning the connection of property with religion. Dr. Lee, however, hardly Per ceived the full force of one part of his quotations from Knox. " When Canada was conquered, its Church Estab lishment was kept unaltered. It was no doubt felt that such a concession on the part of the victors was right as well as expedient. The different circumstances of 'l lia warranted and demanded a different conduct ; there Wv"' a universal transfer of property (in effect), and it w 5511 1 . 41 - vitable that the Church Establishment should' reside with the wealth, not the property of the country." So, then/ in Canada the Church Establishment was unaltered — t here was no imposition of the church of the victors on the van quished, while in Ireland different circumstances demanded a different conduct. A member of the United Church be lieves, of course, that a Christian may serve in the War s ' but he is not bound to believe the bodies and minds of the vanquished to be the property of the victors. The van quished may surely be permitted to call their souls their own. But perhaps Ireland is an exception. There th e church of the vanquished was altered, and in the univ ersal transfer of property its establishment was inevitably obliged to reside with the wealth, not the property --wit the rich conquerors, not the poor serfs of the coun t / . The historical truth of this endowment of the victor church with the spoils of the vanquished is apparent ; t h° morality of the transacti on i s ques ti ona bl e . It contradicts, however, in the plainest manner Dr. Lee's "fact" that "the Established Church. in Ireland now is the B° l l church as that which has existed there for 14 centuries• (Facts, sth edition, p. 14.) And it contradicts the other statement of Dr. Lee, namely, that there was "no trans" fer of property, as is commonly supposed, from the Roa n Catholics to the Reformed Church at the Reformation! " " It is very satisfactory " to Dr. Lee "to find that II Brady in his reply does not attempt to contradict most the points which" he, Dr. Lee, "had advanced." Bu t tin e poor satisfaction must be, I regret to say, removed. Tone e the words of the Rev. Mr. Byrne, chaplain to the 8i 511 . °13 of Derry, e the Irish church disdains to save her position in the constitution by clinging to th e s ki r t s o f the EDP ° church, or appealing to the Act of Union." Dr. Lee's e: :- tire pamphlet consists of a def ence h um ili a ti ng to th ose who have higher views of a c h urc h th an t o rega rd it a s well paid political machine, and his statistical and history' cal researches seem to have been directed rather to sus taill a theory than to establish truth.—l am, &c., W. MAZIERE BRADY, 7 0 -'" April, 1866. COUNTRY MARKETS. GAINSBOROUGH-MESDAY. A h Our Corn Exchange to-day was well supplied Th e wheat, and the samples were in better condition• rates of last week were realised for the best sorts—w".r. making from 50s to 525; and mixed from 47s to 5 0 $ Per : %.. Barley trade about closed. Oats and beans scarce, W" out change in value. HULL.—TUESDAY. Ens ol Since our last a slow business bas been done in 1 - wheat, although holders have been willing to make c oo a cessions in price. At our market to-day there was ag t ft. e supply of English wheat, which met a fair sale at late ra ets In foreign there have not been many tran sac tions, hol oo being firm. Malting barley a fair sale at no advance 111 L -11 recent figures. Beans, peas, and oats in f a i r reque st a. prices. English old white wheat, 48s to 52s ; old red, 42s to 464, Barley, English, 37s to 425. Oats, Russian, 24s to Beans, new English, 43s to 445. Peas, English blue, to 41s Od ; grinding, 40s to 41s Od per 36 stone. dear. Spring corn wasgenerally firm. SALISBURY.—TUESDAY. The following are the quotations :—Wheat realised fr 4 l i s 38s to 52s ; barley, 35s to 44s ; oats, 22s to 32s ; boti ns l,, to Us ; and peas, 42s to 50s per qr. Tares, from 6s 6d per bushel ; Best bread, 13d ; h ouse h o ld ditto, - 1 per 81b loaf. Flour, 34s t o 38 s p er sack. MONMOUTIISIIIRE—TuEsDAY. t o ter' At most of the markets in thi s di s t r i c t th e re was s - bic h able supply of wheat, mor e espec i a ll y h ome - g rown, Iv as a sold readily at the late ad vance d rate , : an d there l c 01 0 little better demand for foreign. BarYey steady. -v e in good request, at an advance in price. Oats dull. red, The following are th e average quotations :— Whe at, 3d; 5s Od to 5s 6d per bushel ; inferior ditto, 4s 9d to ' s :• a (1- white, 5s 9d to 6s ; malting barley, 36s to 43s per qr ; g' l 2 6s; ing ditto, 27s to 325; beans, 445; white oats, 24s 6 d t° black ditto, 23s 6d t o 24s d. LYNN—TUESDAY. fa . We had a sho r t supp l y o f w h eat on o ff er, w ith an do proved demand—l a t e rates being maintained for tw 4 1 script ons. Barl e y, oats, and beans remain unchang ed value. New wheat, 42s t o 46 s ; new re d , 41 s t o 44 5; old for 51s to 53s ; old red, 48s to 51s per 36 stone. Barley ow, malting, 37s to 40s ; s econ d ary, 33 s t o 35 5 . Oatstprieool 24s to 26s per 24 s t one . B eans, small, 43s to 465. 36s to 40s per 28 stone. NEWCASTLE—TUESDAY. heo At to-day's market there was but a small s upply of f - ro a from the growers and coastwise, but a fair arriva ll : - 0 0 abroad. The trade ruled firm, with a dull busines s ' jot English and foreign bringing the extreme rates of id . week. Barley was a small show, with more in cll 6 l d to Malt was firm. Beans were unchanged, and Pe as oft is dearer. Oats m a i n t a in e d lat e p r i ces . Flour tilev" at last The average figures. prices of British grain for the week 110° ‘..r' been—wheat, 47s ld ; oats, 31s 4d; barley, —8 per Foreign Mail Packet List MAILS DUE. ~,,, 20. Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton........'"' i t Ditto, via Marseilles Mai '' , Brazil and Cape Verds, by British p ac k e t MO Ditto, by French packet BOP 2?. ~,-.., 25. Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena..•• , ..- - . ,• 3, China, Penang, and Singapore, via Sduthampton Mal Ditto, via Marseilles ..' Faikland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton.. ' .. I '' m a y 3 . AY ' Ditto, via Marseilles . • ...•••• India (Bombay), via Southampton. Me 1 4. Ditto, via alarociaes MAY 8 Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Dray 3 ; Ditto, via Marseilles )10 I Mauritius, via Southampton MAY gal S. Ditto, via 3larseille3 Newfoundland ... ..... , Portugal •, •••••M a Y ' _ _ Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon ... United States and British North America, by Bri- 3. tish packet Ditto, by United States packet, via Southamp ton Ditto, Tia Cork id .,l 4. Ditto, by Canadian packet, via Londonderry • • 13 West Coast of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe .. • • 31$ ' West Indies and Pacific (except Bahamas and ,4, Honduras) IJAY -'" Cuba and Mexico go Bahamas, via New 1' ork. May 3. 9. Bermuda, via Halifax Births. BICKNELL— On the Ist inst., at 37, Onslow-square, the of A. S. Bicknell, Esq., of a daughter. 1 4 e vf BRASSINGTON—On the Ist inst., at St. John's-b ill ' soli' Wandsworth, the wife of J. Brassington, Esq. , °fs j, SLATER—On the Ist inst., at Carlisle the wife ° ' f Slater, Esq., of a daughter. Marriages. ri burob A ' GA BITER—CLARKE—On the Ist inst ., at Stapleton — e on" Cecil Gardiner, of the Stock Exchange, London , s th son of W. Gardiner, Commander R.N., to Elizabeto. M. Louisa, eldest daughter of H. Clarke , of StaP le „ r eN MARTON—ASIIBROOK —On the Ist inst., at the paris h cu 'onlY Hove, near Brighton, George B. 11. Marton, Es c l; s hire , son of G. Mart on , E s q., of Capernwray Hall, Lamedangle" to the Hon. Caroline Gertrude Flower, youngest ter of Viscount Ashbrook. Deaths. HARRISON—On the 28th ult., at Highgate, John 1 131.145°°' 11. D., aged 33. PEPLOE —On the 27th ult., Daniel P. PeP leo, Esq./ of Galli stone, Herefordshire, aged 73. VERNON —On the 30th ult., at 31, Brunswick - sq uare ' 301311 Y. Vernon, Esq., aged 81. WILD—On the Ist inst., at his residence, North -ell- IT Fulham, Mr. James Wild, aged 85. Londmi: Printed and Pubiiehed by WILLIAM Ax• No li-; of No. 112, Strand, Punter, at Tnz Sum 011.30. Strand, in the; Precinct of the Savoy . 10 t he CO-- Middlesm—Thursday, May 3, 1866.