The Sun. — London, England, 1865-10-20 00:00:00

AMERICA. SOLITHAXPTON, Thursday. The North German Lloyd screw steampship New York, Captain K. von Oterendorp, from New York on the 7th inst., arrived off Cowes this morning and -went on to Bremen. She brings 55 passengers for Southampton and Havre, and 151 for Bremen ; and on freight $30,000 in specie for France, $lO,OOO and 800 tons of cargo for Bremen. On the 9th inst., in lat. 41 N., long. 66 50 W., the New York spoke the American ship Pearl, steering east ; and on the 16th, in lat. 50 N., long. 24 10 W., the Eng lish ship Lady Russell, steering east. The following is a copy of Governor Holden's message to the North Carolina Convention : " Executive Department, North Carolina, Raleigh, Oct. 3. " Gentlemen of the Convention,—l do not deem it my duty, under the circumstances, to address you a formal and elaborate message in relation to public affairs. Your duties are too plain to require sug gestions from me, and I entertain no doubt those duties will be promptly and faithfully performed. North Carolina attempted, in May, 1861, to separate herself from the Federal Union. This attempt in volved her, with other slaveholding States, in a pro tracted and disastrous war, the result of which was a vast expenditure of blood and treasure on her part, and the practical abolition of domestic slavery. She entered into the rebellion a slaveholding State, and she emerged from it a-non-slaveholding State. In other respects, so far as her existence as a State and her rights as a State are concerned, she has undergone no change. The President of the United States wisely determined that her existence as a State should not be extinguished, but that, under the clause of the Federal Constitution which gua rantees to every State in the Union a Republican form of government,' her people, in Convention assembled, might so alter and amend their Consti tution, and adopt such measures as would restore the State to her constitutional relations to the Federal Government, and thus secure once more to the people thereof the immeasurable benefits and blessings of the Union. Allow me to congra tulate you, gentlemen, upon the favourable circum stances which surround you, while engaged in this great work of restoring the State to her former and natural position. It is my firm belief that the policy of the President in this respect, which is as broad as liberal, and as just as the Constitution itself, will be approved by the great body of the people of the United States, and that the period is not distant, if we are true to ourselves, and properly regardful of the reasonable expectations of our friends in other States, when our senators and representatives will resume their seats in Congress, and when our State will enjoy, in common with the other States, the protection of just laws under the constitution of our fathers. In the touching language of your most worthy presiding officer, 'We are going home. Let painful memories of our early Union quicken our footsteps towards the old mansion that we maygrasp hard again the hand of friendship which stands at door, and sheltered by the old homestead which was built Upon a rock, and has weathered the storm, en joy together the long, bright future which awaits us.' I take it forgranted, gentlemen, that you will insert in the Constitution a provision for ever abolishing slavery or involuntary servitude in North Carolina, and that you will submit the Constitution, when al tered and amended, to the people of the State at the ballot box for ratification or rejection. I do not doubt that the Constitution thus altered and amended will be ratified by an immense inajority of the people. I send herewith the report of Jonathan Worth, Esq., Public Treasurer, setting forth the State debt, the condition of the sinking fund, and also a general view of the State finances at home and abroad; also reports from the banks and railroad companies, show ing their condition, and reports from the superinten dent of the Insane Asylum and the principal of the Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind, con taining statements of the condition of these institu tions. I also send herewith a report from the public Treasurer in relation to State property, to which with the other reports referred to I invite your careful at tention. It will afford me pleasure, gentlemen, to furnish you with any information in my possession which you may desire, and I beg you to be assured that I will be ready at all times to co-operate with you in such measures as may be deemed essential to promote harmony among our people, and to restore the State at the earliest practicable period to its constitutional relations to the Federal Government.—l have the honour to be, with much respect, your obedient servant, " W. W. HOLT/EN, Provisional Governor." On the 6th inst. President Johnson received the following despatch from Governor Holden : " Raleigh, North Carolina, Oct. 6, 6.15 p.m. Sir,—The Convention has just passed the fol lowing by a unanimous vote That the ordinance of the Convention of the State of North Carolina, ratified on the 21st day of November, 1789, which adopted and ratified the Constitution of the United States, and also all acts and parts of acts of the General Assembly ratifying and adopting amend ments to the said Constitution, are now, and, at all times since the adoption and ratification thereof, have been in full force and effect, notwithstanding the supposed ordinance of the 20th of May, 1861, declaring the same to be repealed, rescinded, and abrogated ; and the said supposed ordinance is now, and at all times hath been, null and void.' The Convention will dispose of the slavery question to morrow. The State election will be fixed on the first Thursday of November.—Very respectfully, " W. W. HOLDEN, Provisional Governor." General Grant arrived in Washington at 6 o'clock on the morning of the 6th inst., and during the forenoon called on the President and Secretary Stanton on business matters. The correspondent of the New York Herald says:— . " The latest news from Mississippi indicates that Judge Fisher, the nominee for Governor of the re construction convention of that State, has been de feated. His successful competitor is said to be Gen. Benjamin G. Humphreys. This individual is not merely one of the militia Generals of which Missis sippi and all the south-western States are so prolific, but a bona fide rebel General. He tried to be a regular United States' army officer, but while a cadet at West Point in 1827 he was court-martialled and dismissed for some offence. General Humphreys is a resident of Sunflower county, ?Mississippi, b u t was s ome years since a Senator in the State Legislature from Claiborne county." A telegraphic despatch from Nashville, th e 6 t h inst., reports a mass 0 . meetina of negroes in Ten- nessee : " Nashville, Oct. 6. st A grigat mass meeting of negroes and freedmen was held at Edgefield yesterday afternoon, 6,000 persons being present. An address was made by Brigadier-General Fisk. He rejoiced that the ne groes of Tennesse were free, as God intended them to be. He told them that they must prove themselves entitled to freedom by industry, sobriety, and d isc h d in tegrity. Hi s duty was to see that they discharged their duties. lie would put the black man in the jury box and on the witness stand. His remarks were received with great enthusiasm. He was fol lowed by several other speakers, after which the meeting adjourned. General Fisk states that during the past week 600 or 700 negroes have been sent to their former homes in different parts of the State, and have contracted with their former owners to work for wages. Within a month there will be a general clear ing out of negroes here, arrangements having been effected to procure them labour in different parts of the South." A letter from Lexington, Virginia, dated th e 2d inst., gives the subjoined account of the installation of of Gen. Lee as President of Washington Coll ege " Gen. Robert E. Lee was to-day installed Presi dent of Washington College. There was no pomp o f parade. The exercises of installation were the simplest possible—an exact and barren compliance with the required formula of taking the oath by the new pre sident, and nothing more. This was 'in accordance with the special recjnest. of Gen. Lee. It was pro posed to have the installation take place in the col ge chapel, to send invitations far and wide, to have a band of to play ' enlivening airs, to have young gi r l s , ro b ed in white and bearing chaplets of flowers, to sing songs of welcome, to have congra tulatory speeches, t o make it a grand holiday. That this proposed programme was not carried out was a source of severe disappointment to many. But Gen. Lee had expressed his wishes contrary to the choice and determination of the college trustees and the multitude, and his wishes were complied with. The installation took place at 9 a.m. in a recitation room of the college. In this room were seated the faculty and the students, the ministers of the town churches, a magistrate and the county clerk, the last two offi cials being necessary to the ceremonial. Gen. Lee was inducted into the room by the Board of Trustees. At his entrance and introduction all in the room rose, bowed, and then became seated. Prayer by the Rev. Dr. White, pastor of the Presbyterian church, directly followed. To me itwas a noticeable fact, and perhaps worthy of record, that he prayed for i the Pre sident of the United States. Altogether t was a most fitting and impressive prayer. Theprayer ended, Judge Brockenbrough, chairman of the Board of Trustees, stated the object of the coming together to install Gen. Lee as President of Washington Col lege. He felt the serious dignity of the occasion, but it was a seriousness and a dignity that should be mingled with heartfelt joy and gladness. Passing a brief eulogy on Gen. Lee, and congratulating the board and the college, and its present and future students, on having obtained one so loved and great and worthy to preside over the college, he said he could say a great deal more, had it not been voted against speech making. During the delivery of these few words, Gen. Lee remained standing, his arms quietly folded, and calmly and stedfastly look ing into the eyes of the speaker. Justice William White, at the instance of Judge Brockenbrough, now administered the oath of office to Gen. Lee. Foithe benefit of the curious to know the nature of this new oath to which Gen. Lee has just subscribed, and as it is brief, I give it entire. It is as follows : I do swear that I will, to the best of my skill and judgment, faithfully and truly discharge the duties required of me by an act entitled, " An Act for Incorporating the Rector and Trustees of Li berty-hall Academy, without favour, affection, or partiality. So help me God.' To this oath Gen. Lee at once affixed his signature, with the accom panying usual jurat of the swearing magistrate ap pended. Those inquisitive enough to seek further light than that revealed in the copied oath can look at the act therein referred to, and when found make a note of it. The document in the form stated was handed to the county clerk for safe custodianship, and at the same time the keys of the college were given by the rector into the keeping of the new president. A congratulatory shaking of hands fol lowed, and wound up the day's brief but pleasing, impressive, and memorable ceremonial. President Lee and those of the trustees present with the faculty now passed into the room set apart for the former's use—a good-sized room, newly but very plainly and tastefully furnished. General Lee was dressed in a plain but elegant suit of grey. His appearance indi cated the enjoyment of good health—better, I should say, than when he surrendered his army at Appo mattox Courthouse, the first and only occasion be fore the present of my having seen him. His looks and bearing have been often and minutely described, and I will not dwell upon them here. Most pictures of him on exhibition come up to the average of fidelity of this class of likenesses." At the monthly meeting of the New York Cham ber of Commerce, held on the sth, the subjoined letter of acknowledgment from the family of the late Mr. Cobden was read by the secretary : " Danforth, Midhurst, Aug. 25. "Mrs. Cobden and her children beg to return their warm est acknowledgments to the members of the Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York for their kind and genuine manifestations of sympathy with them in their be reavement. " Such a recognition of the character, talents, and ser vices of one who had always the alleviation of the suffer ings of humanity nearest his heart is especially soothing to their afflicted spirits ; and coming as it did after the struggle for liberty to the slave had been accomplished in the States rendered the resolutions of the Chamber of Commerce of New York peculiarlygrateful and valuable to Mr. Cobden's family and friends in this country ; and though he was not permitted to see the close of the struggle, yet his mind was blessed by a prescient knowledge of the final triumph of the Union." On motion, the letter was placed on file. SOUTH AMERICA: -tt We have received by the French mail steamer Guienne our fortnightly advices from the Brazils and River Plate. The Buenos Ayres Standard of Sept. 10, in its " Review for Europe," says : "The Paraguayan war continues ; nothing of importance in a military point has occurred since the sailing of the English packet. The Paraguayan vanguard under the command of Estigarribia is still hemmed in at Uruguayana, and would have proba bly succumbed ere this, but for the urgent solicita tions of the Brazilian commander to Gen. Flores not to destroy the town by a bombardment. Gen. Mitre has gone in person to superintend the attack on the town, and we all anxiously await the arrival of the steamer from Concordia with news of the fall of Uruguayana. Since the victory of Yatahy the Paraguayans seem to have halted in Corrientes, and it is generally believed that when the allies reduce Uruguayana the invaders will at once retreat to the frontier line of Paraguay. A small body of Para guayans is said to have penetrated the Gran Chaco with the object of entering the province of Santa Fe, but the governor of that province, aided by Gen. Emilio Mitre (the president's brother), has displayed such activity that we feel confident, be fore the Paraguayans enter that province, the Ar gentine government will have a powerful force ready to meet them. As the winter is now past and the fine weather has set in, we look for more active operations on the part of the allies, who, with a splendid army, a fleet commanding the rivers, and the most unanimous support from the whole coun try, have as yet done, comparatively speaking, no thing. The Emperor of Brazil has crossed Rio Grande, and is now close to the banks of Uruguay, where he will shortly hold an interview with Presi dent Mitre and Gen. Flores. The war has as yet had little effect on business in the River Plate ; articles of consumption for army purposes have of course increased in value, but the public securities of the country have not suffered. The credit of the national government was never better ; our paper currency is steadily improving, and our agricultural interests were never more prosperous." Under date of August the 25th General Flores sums up the casualties of the victory in the battle of Yatahy as follows :—Paraguyans—six officers and 359 men wounded ; 1,300 prisoners ; killed not told. Orientals—three officers and 58 men killed; 25 offi cers and 136 men wounded-222. Argentines— three officers and 12 men killed ; 11 officers and 71 men wounded-97. Brazilians—one man killed ; one officer and 13 men wounded-15. Total of allies hors de combat—. 334. • Before crossing the Uruguay Flores sent a Para guayan prisoner, a lieutenant, to summon Colonel Estigarribia to surrender. In a short time the lieu tenant returned with Estigarribia's reply, which was to this effect : " Uruguayana, Aug. 20. " Yesterday night, very late, I received the note dated on that day, delivered to me by the prisoner Lieutenant Jose Sorilla, who will deliver to your Excellency my answer. I read the said note atten tively in order to reply to yours as should a soldier of honour, to whom the supreme Government of his country has confided an important post. And in consequence I must declare to your Excellency that, as a Paraguayan, as a military man, and as a sol dier who defends the cause of the institutions, of the independence of his country, and whose Government is resolved to maintain by every effort the integrity of the Republics of the Plate and their equilibrium, I cannot and ought not to accept the proposals of your Excellency. Even supposing that, as your Ex cellency says in your note, I am lost, and should not expect protection from the armies of Paraguay, honour and obedience to the orders of the supreme Government of my country command me to die r3ialtahresrhaith_apnredseildievnert ofth e th a e rms that his Excellency the defend the sacred rights of so republicnoble confided cause e d to againstus t a o foreig n troops are of enemy. _ chiefs, officers, and all the to fall urapyounilthahneeller of thinking , ' and are de cidedposal that would dishonournae field before a e n f o d r e wou acceptingdcover o v er a with t s w h i a t i ri e the th m e modest which I occupy in of position Paraguayan soldier. country, I do not seek honours nor glory that meCtyoe eternal would. be acquired at the cost of my country, and with profit to some Paraguayan wretches vowed to the office of foreign conquest. Like myself, all the division under my command sigh for the moment of proving to your Excellency that the Paraguayan soldier neither counts the number of his enemies nor parleys with them when he defends such noble and dear interests.—God preserve your Excellency many years. " ANTONIO ESTIGARRIBIA. Brigadier General-in-Chief D. Venancio Flores." The Paraguayans commenced at once fortifying Uruguayana, working also at night by the light of huge fires fed from the furniture and timber of the houses. The fortifications consisted chiefly of a brick wall and a ditch. Their cannon was only five 4-pounders of moderate range. Flores crossed his troops between the 22d and the 29th of August, and formed a junction with the Brazilians under the Baron de Porto Alegre, who had arrived and had taken the supreme command of the Rio Grande forces. As the allies had so great a superiority in cannon, it was determined to use this arm as far as possible to reduce the Paraguayans with the least loss of life to the allies. The following is from the Anglo-Brazilian Times of the 24th of September : " The news from the seat of war is this fortnight of a most uninteresting character, the 7,000 Para guayans shut up in Uruguayana declining to sur render, although the terms offered permitted all the officers and ' distinguished persons' to betake themselves whithersoever their will would lead them, while only the 4 ignoble vulgar' of the rank and file would become prisoners of war. Meanwhile, in the camp of the blockaders, nothing had been done in the way of a formal siege up to the 9th, ex cept to issue orders upon the Bth to make gabions to construct a battery. This inaction of 10 days since Flores completed the crossing of his force is ascribed to disputes as to the command-in-chief, which should, by treaty stipulations, belong to the Brazilian com mander, the Baron de Porto Alegre, and to this it is also ascribed that Gen. Mitre was in haste coming to Uruguayana from Concordia with 1,500 Brazilian and Argentine infantry, after a short interview with Admiral Tamandare, who had come from the town to confer with Mitre, and who was returning with him. It is also said that Flores and Paunero wished to assault at once, but that the Brazilian commanders naturally were unwilling to adopt a course which, besides unnecessarily causing a waste of blood, would yield all the credit of a victory on Brazilian ground to their allies, whose infantry and artillery so much outnumbered theirs; and that they preferred to wait the coming of 5,000 infantry and 16 pieces of cannon that were two or three days' march off, whose coming would not only place the Brazilian infantry on at least an equal footing with that of both their allies, but would likewise render an assault more certain, even if it did not induce the Paraguayans to abandon a hopeless resistance. It was also hoped that the Emperor, with his sons-in law, would reach Uruguayana to be present at the operations or surrender, buc the state of the lands and rivers he had to cross had delayed him greatly, and he was not expected before the middle of Sep tember. On the other side of Uruguay the allied cavalry were scouring the country in search of scat tered parties of Paraguayans, and a body of 1,500 cavalry had marched towards S. Thome and S. Carlos to attack some Paraguayan bodies there, and also to watch any advance in that direction. Another body was stationed at Curtin' Cuatia to serve as outpost against a Paraguayan army march ing on that side to aid those in Uruguayana, while the main allied army under General Osorio, Gene ral-in-Chief pro tem. in the absence of Gen. Mitre, was taking up a fresh position on the frontier of Corrientes, at the river Mandisori. Caceres was on the north-western side of the Corrientes with his irregular cavalry, others were at Goya, and between all these outlying bodies and the main army lines of estafettes were maintained to carry at a gallop in telligence of movements of the Paraguayans. These, as far as known, remained stationary, waiting, it is said, the coming of Lopez, who was looked for soon from liumaita, with reinforcements. They were reported to be strengthening their position at the village of Santa Lucia, on the river of that name, some 50 miles above Goya, and to be fortifying all the best points on the Parana. The Brazilian fleet upon that river remained in static quo, and the water was so low that nothing - could be done, even were it advisable to attempt to pass . above the batteries at Cuevas. The Uruguay had also fallen, and the steamer Uruguay,, which had gone down with wounded, could not get up again, thus reducing the Brazilian flotilla before Uruguayana to two small steamers and several armed launches, which, how ever, sufficed amply for the blockade on the river side. From the provinces there is little to notice. Troops still continued to arrive in Rio Grande do Sul and were pushing on in haste to the Uruguay. The expedition for Matto-Grosso still hung at Überabo organising, but the danger in that direction seemed passing away with the pressure on Lopes in the south. An unconfirmed report was current on the Plate that the Brazilians had retaken all their territory in Matto-Grosso, and a flying rumour at Rio talks of a slave insurrection in Minas-Geras, and, as it seems, not without grounds. The pro vinces generally are hurrying forward conscript and volunteers, and about 3,000 of these are now at Rio awaiting transports, besides those forwarded already during the fortnight to the south. An accident oc curred on the San Paulo Railway on the 6th, near San Paulo, upon the occasion of an excursion made, by request of some distinguished personages, along the newly finished part of the line. One of the two engines and a truck attached to it ran off the line and overturned ; the enginedriver was crushed be neath the engine, but the passengers on the truck escaped generally with slight injuries. In Rio all is quiet and dull. The ironclad Tamandare left for the Plate upon the night of the 15th inst. Mr. Thornton, the British Minister to Brazil, was pre paring to leave Buenos Ayres to go up to Urugu ayana, to pay his respects to the Emperor, after which he would make his residence in Rio. Consel heiro Bernardo de Souza Franco has resigned the presidency of Rio de Janeiro, its possession being incompatible with his other public employments." The Alleged Charge of Poisoning a Lady at Greenwich. Yesterday Mr. C. J. Carttar, the coroner for West Kent, resumed, at the Ashburnham Arms, Ashburnham-grove, Greenwich, the investigation into the circumstances at tending the death of Mrs. Elizabeth Reeve, aged 40 years, the wife of Mr. Wm. George Reeve, a veterinary surgeon, residing at No. 52, in The Grove, who it was alleged died from the effect of a certain deadly poison, known as vera tria or white hellebore, on the 15th of August last. Although the facts have appeared so often before the public in detail, it may be necessary to state that the de ceased lady was taken ill with convulsions on the afternoon of the 14th ot August, and died on the following morning from the effects of a rupture of a vessel of the head, caused, in the opinion of the medical man, by excessive vomiting. In the analysis Professor Rodgers found the presence of an alkaloid known as veratria, or white hellebore, the admi nistration of which would produce the vomiting and con vulsions. For some time suspicion rested upon the husband, who was entitled to £1,050 on the death of his wife ; but evidence on the other side was given to show that the un fortunate lady had taken the white hellebore herself with a view to procure abortion, as she was approaching her con finement, and had to several persons expressed her dread of it, and fear that she should never recover, hoping that the child might not live. At the sitting of the Court yesterday thelearned Coroner inquired if there was any further evidence to offer. Sergeant Digby, 11R, produced Mr. Baldwin, herbalist, of the Greenwich-road, who detailed a conversationwhich he had with a customer as to the case, but nothing of im portance resulted from the evidence. The Coroner then proceeded to sum up, and said that the case was one of considerable mystery. The question which they would have to decide—of course admitting that the jury agreed with the medical evidence that the death had arisen from the effects of the veratria or hellebore, was whether the poor lady had taken the poison herself, either with a view to commit suicide or to procure abortion. Ho considered that there was no evidence to support either of these suppositions, and that the poison must have been e e e f effects administered by some ot her p erson. lowiThnegJury, verdictaf after 4 r T h ha o t ur th 's e c d o e n c s e u a l s t e a d tio di n e , d returnd th from the ffe of a certain poison known as veratria or hellebore, but how, when, or by what means the said poison was admi nistered there is not sufficient evidence to show ; and the jury further say that the administration was not the act or the deed of the deceased herself." This protracted inquiry then terminated. rHE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 20, IEU. Court of Common Council. Yesterday a Court of Common Council was held at the Guildhall for the despatch of business which had stood ad journed from the last meeting of the court. The Right Hon. the Lord Mayor (Mr. Alderman Hale) presided, and the court was very fully attended, both by the members of the Court of Aldermen and by members of the Court of Common Council. The minutes of the last Court, having been read by Mr. Catty, the acting town clerk, were confirmed. TILE DEATH OF LORD PALMERSTON. Mr. MAYNARD said the court would readily anticipate the words he was about to use with reference to the melancholy loss which the nation had sustained by the death of the late Prime Minister of England, Viscount Palmerston. The loss of that great statesman could not be regarded otherwise than as a national calamity. After the memoirs of the his tory and career of the departed which had appeared in all the papers of that morning, and which no doubt all the members of the court had read (and in those statements the history and career of the noble departed had been carefully and accurately narrated), he felt a diffidence in urging a resolution which he believed would receive general sanction. It could not be forgotten that in every position which the late Lord Palmerston held in the Uovernment of this coun try, even when an underling, or he would rather say as a subordinate, or as chief of the Administration, the noble viscount had equally distinguished himself by his great ability, his earnest zeal, and his active vigilance, and had conducted his career with the greatest honour to himself, to his country, and to the world at large. (Applause.) It was not for a humble individual member of the court like himself to enlarge upon this interesting topic, to attempt to exalt the character of a great statesman, and he should therefore content himself with moving the resolution with which he should conclude, and if carried, as he did not doubt it would be, he should suggest that the resolution should be forwarded, without the intervention of a com mittee, to Lady Palmerston by the Lord Mayor. (Hear.) Tho resolution he had to propose was in the following terms : " That this court has received with the deepest feelings of sorrow and regret the mournful intelligence of the death of the Right Hon. Lord Viscount Palmerston, her Majesty's Prime Minister. That this court regards the decease of this eminent statesman as a severe loss to this nation, and to the world at large, and in expressing its admiration of his talents, his manly bearing, and his great administra tive capacity, which had materially tended to increase the prosperity, to uphold the honour and dignity of this coun try, desires to convey its heartfelt and sincere sympathy with Lady Palmerston in the irreparable loss she has sus tained." (Hear, hear.) Mr. Alderman SALOMONS rose, and said that it was with a mournful satisfaction that he came forward to second the resolution which had just been moved with so much feel ing and propriety. He rejoiced that as a member of the Court of Alderman it should be permitted to him to second the motion, and ho rejoiced that this great corporation should be the first to take action in the expression of regret upon the groat calamity which had befallen the nation, and in the expression of their sincere regret at the loss the country had sustained. He (Mr. Alderman Salomons) was sure that many individuals in this great metropolis must have noticed the news of the alarming state of health from day to day of the great statesman whose loss they all de plored, and he felt that the intelligence of his death had been received by all with a feeling of the deepest sadness and regret. (Hear, hear.) For the last six or seven years the late Lord Palmerston had not only enjoyed the confi dence of the community, but had held and maintained the balance of party in this country ; and when the court looked back to the position the lamented nobleman had occupied, and to the many great events in which within the last few years he had taken part, he felt convinced it would not hesitate for a moment in the adoption of the motion which had been so appropriately made. Mr. R. N. PHILIPPS supported the motion in a few brief observations, and it was carried unanimously. On the motion of Mr. MAYNARD, seconded by Mr. Alder man SALOMONS, it was resolved that the Lord Mayor be requested to communicate the resolution to Lady Pal merston. It was further moved that the resolution be published in the usual morning and evening newspapers. Mr. J. E. SANDERS intimated to the court that he hal a matter of a private nature to bring forward, which might lead to a discussion, and he should therefore move that strangers should withdraw. Mr. Rows moved as an amendment that, in consequence of the death of the Premier, the court, after disposing of the necessary routine business, should adjourn. The amendment was put and negatived, and the motion of Mr. Sanders was agreed to ; and the court remained in deliberation with closed doors for upwards of an hour. On the re-admission of strangers the public business was pro ceeded with. Mr. R. N. PHILIPPS, in the absence of Mr. Jas. Anderton, presented a petition from Mr. Henry Pottor, of 65, Far ringdon-street, relative to the assembling of betting men on the land in Farringdon-road, and praying that the court will take such , measures as will prevent a continuance thereof. Aftcr a br;of oonvormntiony in whioli Mr. Devity and other members of the court took part, it was resolved that the petition b 3 set aside on thoground that the subject had been taken up, not only by the committee, but also by the interference of Sir Richard Mayne, Chief Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police. TUE GAS QUESTION. After some discussion, the consideration of the petition, presented by Mr. Whiteside, of the gas consumers of the City of London, praying the court to authorise the General Purposes Committee to engage professional assistance for obtaining the necessary information to enable them to apply to Parliament for power to erect gas works, and to manu facture or contract for the supply of gas, and to lay down new, or purchase the existing mains for the distribution of gas to the citizens of London, was deferred on the under taking that the question should come on before a special court to be held on Thursday next. ALLEGED BREACH OF PRIVILEGE. Mr. Deputy DE JERSEY complained of the publication by the committee of a printed document. which he contended involved a slander and attack upon the Commissioners of Sewers, and moved that the publication was a breach of privilege. _ ~. After a long discussion the CcumoN SERGEANT was ap pealed to, and declared that in his opinion the publication of the document was no breach of privilege. A somewhat stormy debate ensued, which resulted in a discussion, when there appeared— For the motion 29 Against it The court then adjourned to Thursday next. Attempt to Defraud the South Eastern Railway Company. Yesterday afternoon, at Southwark Police-court, a tall military-looking man named George Lasenby Worth, alias Captain Middleton, described as a gentleman residing at Prospect Cottage, Lightwater, Surrey, was brought before Mr. Burcham, on a warrant, charged with attempting to obtain the sum of two hundred pounds from the South Eastern Railway Company, under the pretence that he had a brother seriously injured in the tidal train at Staplehurst, on the 9th of June last. Mr. Stevens attended to prosecute, and the prisoner was undefended. Mr. Stevens, in opening the case, said his worship could not but recollect the fearful accident that occured to the tridal train from Folkestone on the 9th of June, when ten persons were unfortunately killed, and about thirty more or less injured. Claims were sent in, and when found to be just settled. On the 17th of June, three days after the accident, the company received a letter from No: 1, Barns bury-street, Islington, signed "G. L. Worth," asking for a parcel left under a seat in ono of the carriages at the time of the accident by his brother, stating that the latter was so injured that he was unable to see about it. On the 24th June they received another letter dated Prospect-cottage, Lightwater, Bagshot, Surrey (where the prisoner was found living under the name of Capt. Middleton), referring to the letter sent from Islington, stating that the writer's brother was still too ill to attend to his business, and re questing the parcel if found to be sent to the Sunningdale station. That letter was followed by another undated, but received by the company on the Ist July, stating that the brother, John Worth, was se injured by the accident at Staplehurst that he would never get over it,, and was ad wised to go to Lymington ; and with regard to compensa tion, the writer suggested that the company should pay him £2OO to settle the matter at once. On the 6th of July another letter was received from the prisoner, referring the company to Dr. Stewart, the medical attendant upon his brother at Lightwater. Mr. Adams, the medical gen tleman in the employ of the railway company, wrote to that address, and received such an answer as left no doubt of the intended fraud. It was written in such a manner as no member of the medical profession would write. He should be able to show that no Dr. Stewart was in exist ence at Lightwater, and that the whole of the correspon dence from the prisoner was carried on with the view of defiauding the South Eastern Railway Company of £2OO. Mr. Burcham asked whether the prisoner was the owner of Prospect Cottage. Mr. Stevens replied that ho understood he held the free hold, and, most singular to relate, he had instructed Mr. Marsh to sell it that very day at the Guildhall Coffeehouse. Mr. Burcham here asked whether he had any legal gen tleman attending for him. The prisoner replied in the negative. He did not require one, as all he relied on was the truth. Mr. Edward Ward, clerk in the office of the General Manager of the South Eastern Railway, said that it was his duty to receive all letters directed to the General Manager on business andentor tho same in a book. Ho received all the letters produced. _ . Mr. A craman Augustus Wooding, restorer of paintings, 17, Old Bond-street, said he knew the prisoner, and in March last let him a house, No. 1, Barnsbury-street, Isling ton. He knew his handwriting well, having reason to know it from correspondence he had had with him on dif ferent occasions. The letters produced were all in his handwriting. The letter signed " Stewart, M.D.," was also in his handwriting. Eliza Winfold, in the employ of the post-office at Win- dlesham, in Surrey, said she carried the letters round that district. She knew Prospect-cottage, at the Folly, and the prisoner lived there in the name of Capt. Middleton. Some time ago he told her to bring all letters to him addressed to Mr. Worth. She took several to him, and in July she gave a letter to his son, addressed to Mr. Stewart, surgeon, successor to Mr. Blunt. Witness never heard of any one having met with a railway accident in that district, neither did she know any person of the name of Worth. Mr. John Hellier Blunt, M.R.C.S., residing at Bagshot, in the district of Windlesham, said he knew the Folly, where Prospect-cottage was situated. He was the only medical man in that district, and there never was, since 1847, a doctor of the name of Stewart residing or practising near there. Witness knew the defendant's cottage, but never heard of any one residing there having had an acci dent by the railway. Samuel Strickland, a sergeant of the M division specially attached to the South Eastern Railway, said that on the 19th of July he received instructions from the general manager, and on the following day proceeded to Light water, in Windlesham. He saw the prisoner standing in front of a cottage. Witness asked him if Mr. Worth lived there. He replied, " No," but he had heard of a person of that name living:in the neighbourhood from the milkwoman who occasionally brought milk to his house, and he had seen the gentleman from his cottage in a chaise two or three times. Witness asked him to direct him to his resi dence, when the prisoner took him about 200• yards across the heath, and pointed out a place among some trees as the place. Witness then left him, and proceeded in the direc tion, but could gain no tidings of Mr. Worth. On the 15th Aug. last witness went to No. 1, Barnsbury-street, Isling ton, a fancy draper's shop, where he saw the prisoner be hind the counter. ; He called him out, and told him he was the man who misdirected him at Lightwater, when he in quired for Mr. Worth. The prisoner said " Yes ; his name was not Worth but Middleton." Witness then told him he was a police officer in the employ of the South Eastern Railway Company, showed him the letters produced, and told him he should be able to prove they were in his hand writing, and that his name was Worth. He shook his head, and began to speak, when witness cautioned that what he said might some day be used for or against him. The pri soner then commenced crying, and said he had been the dupe of his brother, who had received an injury to his back, and was then lying at Leicester. He wrote the letters to the railway company to try to get compensation money for injuries received in his back. Witness asked him if his brother was injured at the railway accident at Staple hurst, when he replied in the negative. The prisoner then said if he would assist him out of his trouble with the railway company, when he sold his property at Lightwater he would make him a handsome present, especially if the company did not proceed against him. He also said that if the railway company would forego any further proceedings he would write out a statement revealing all he had done. Witness told him he would mention what he had stated to the general manager, and then left him. On Tuesday last witness went down to Light water and apprehended the prisoner on the present charge, when he said he thought it was all settled; and that his brother had been a great scoundrel to him. In the room where he apprehended him witness found the letter from Dr. Adams to Mr. Stewart, the assumed medical attendant to his supposed brother. Mr. Stevens here said that was all the evidence he was prepared with on the present occasion. He should there fore ask for a remand, for the attendance of Dr. Adams and other material witnesses. The prisoner asked for some documents taken from him, among which were several from influential persons in Islington parish, where he had for many years resided in affluence. He was chairman to Mr. Cox's committee on his last election, and was at the time of his apprehension examining a bill for a banquet which had recently taken place among the parish authorities of Islington. It was not likely, therefore, that ho would be guilty of the charge imputed to him. Mr. Burcham directed the officer to return to the prisoner all documents not connected with the present charge, and this having been done he was remanded to Horsemonger lane gaol. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TIMES.--In this age of discoveries, when wealth is everywhere springing up under our feet in un expected forms, we must look for a little impatience at the sober pace and staid ways of those " vene rable matrons," the Banks of England and France. A writer in the Journal des Debats has undertaken to do justice to a sentiment with which we are fami liar enough in this country, but which appears to prevail also on the other side of the Channel. The inexhaustible source of wealth which lie conceives we are under-estimating, overlooking, and allowing to lie comparatively waste is no other than credit. It cannot indeed be said that " credit" suffers much neglect in the commercial world at large, or that public opinion requires enlightening as to its value ' • but there are two great unbelievers—two great ob stacles, in the shape of the " Old Lady" in Thread neealc.-streot and the elderly a. 00 oalnioust to keep pace with her in the next greatest centre of commercial transactions. The writer directs his attack upon the Bank of France, and accuses it of a timid and servile adherence to the English example. He intimates, however, that so long as this example is set by a bank of vastly greater wealth and large range of business the lesser establishment has hardly a choice but to follow the lead of the greater. It is the greater that is in fault. We need hardly stop to ask whether this is not an excess of charity to French offenders. It is admitted that they do not suffer the sane restrictions as the Bank of England. Their restraint is self-imposed, even though, as al leged, upon a model which they cannot close their eyes to. The Bank of England rules the world, and they have not the strength to disobey. Upon this view of the case the charge falls upon the Bank of England and its charter. Through a shadow we are accused. Nor do the arguments at all differ from those which we have heard a thousand times employed in this country to advocate a more " elastic" system, or, rather, a more adventurous policy than that of the Bank of England. " Credit" is the one cry of all those writers and talkers. They see in it something inexhaustible and infinite, and requiring only more national faith and co-operation to be developed to any conceivable results. Let us all trust one another ; let us expel the unbeliever or stop his mouth ; let us break the bonds which an ex cessive caution has placed upon our mutual confi fidence, and we may all think ourselves rich, and be thereby rich. How far such confidence would go if it were universal, or could be sustained by a vigo rous effort of universal will, we need not inquire. The writer in the Journal des Debats must address himself to a much wider circle—indeed, to the world —if he hopes ever to see mutual confidence carried to such a magnificent result. In money matters, as in other points, this is an unbelieving world. We will confine ourselves to his remarks as they bear on the Bank of England. As a general rule, and under ordinary circumstances, we cannot think it our province either to censure or to defend the course of the Bank of England. No doubt it has special duties to the public in respect of its special relations to the State, its pre-eminent position, and its wide influence. But no doubt, on the whole, it acts as any other banking company would do under the same circumstances, having a prudent regard to its own interests,tempered with a certain amount of forbearance. But it is not our place to single out any bank for animadversion, and the Bank of Eng land is only one bank among many. What is at tacked by the writer before us is the legislative re strictions which ties the hands of the Bank. and prevents it from attempting to realise the dream of unlimited credit. At a certain point it really is need less to bring in the figures, for this is a question not of figures but of principle, the Bank finding itself unable to issue more notes, and therefore not in a condition to lend its credit with safety. What the writer argues for is that the issue of notes should be left to the discretion of the Bank; and that, like any other commercial company drawing upon its credit, it should have full powers for sustaining its credit by purchasing bullion at the market price whenever that operation may be necessary. The operation, however, is one of indefinite risk and cost. The resuscitation ofr , credit may sometimes require a very great expenditure, and, as the whole world is interested in the process, hardly any sacrifice can be deemed too much. It is the point in which timi dity, as shown in anticipatory restrictions, becomes a universal injury. The writer therefore maintains that the State ought to repay the Bank the 11 mil lions it is assumed to have borrowed, and leave the Bank the free use of that sum. The argument goes towards the removal of all restrictions. The first deliverance, however, is to be from this sleeping partner, the State, that, just for its own conve nience, and to secure its own regular share in a per fectly safe banking business, clips the wings of the Bank, and disables it from what is really sometimes an act of common humanity. The State, indeed, descends from the clouds sometimes to liberate the Bank from the chains it has itself imposed, and it hereby confesses the failure of its system. But its principle is safety and restriction. It is, so this writer appears to think, the principle of the foster mother, that knows not the true nature of the child committed to its charge, and that, to save itself risk and trouble, checks a generous development. The first duty of banks is to commerce, not to govern ments. The State is a bad banker, timid, jealous, and pitiless ; it will no t d o goo d lest it do evil. It robs commerce of a friend to make it a slave, and thereby obtains a little servile aid at the cost of a noble and profitable alliance. We wish to do full justice to reasoning which is not new to us, though in a foreign tongue. There is, however, an impor tant point at the very heart of the question which it seems to us the writer has overlooked. The restric tion so much complained of is not to check banking enterprise, but simply to secure the convertibility of the Bank note, and make the paper currency as safe as a metallic. The State is nota partner in a bank ing business, except only that it claims the natural profit arising from the substitution of paper for money. The country is found to have in its desks and its pockets a certain average of Bank notes, and the State considers itself entitled to the profit on that sum. It also protects paper money from the chances of depreciation, or, rather, utter worthlessness, by certain other regulations, applyi ng no t on ly t o : the Bank of England, but to every other Bank in Eng land. All this comes under the question of cur rency, and has nothing whatever to do with com merce, or what is called commercial paper. All the nonsense that has been talked and written about the currency arises from confounding it with com merce, and from supposing that commercial credit could be rendered permanently elastic by any per manent increase of the circulating medium. As commercial bodies the Banks of England and of France may lend their credit as much as they please, and if they are not equal to the occasion there are other companies or individual capitalists ready to take their place. We shall not speak of merely passing occasions, crises as they are called. They have been met, they can be met, and they may pos sibly have to be met again. They really have little place in this discussion. The writer aims at a general enlargement of the currency in some way which shall keep it enlarged to the demands of speculation and render it a source of material wealth. At times it would require sustaining at extraordinary cost. This sacrifice in the interest of commercial enterprise he would meet, as it seems to us, by lay ing up for that purpose the ordinary profit on the substitution of bank-notes for coin. That profit is due to the State, and is not a mere waif and stray to be flung on a gambling table, or due to the pro-. motion of speculative enterprise. It would soon disappear in the vastness of the operations necessary to sustain the commerce and credit of a country deliberately embarking in the career shadowed before us. What should we all come to if it came to be understood, not without reason, that the State paid annually a large sum in order to provide means for the purchase, on any terms, of any quantity of gold that might be necessary for the redemption of any number of bank-notes, at any nominal value, that the Bank of England might choose to issue ? The writer has mistaken the principle of the enact ment,' which he thinks only a case of bad banking. The Government of this country refuses to bank, as it refuses to trade or do anything else the people can and will do better themselves. That is the reason why in the Bank Charter Act it has sepa rated the Issue from the Banking Department, and confined itself to putting the former on a secure footing. _ _ HERALn.—During thelast few days we have seen. not a few.newspaper paragraphs containing signifi cant particulars with regard to various petty strikes that are in progress in different parts of the coun try. The great strike of the North Staffordshire ironworkers has come to an end : it does not appear on what terms. The public will care very little whether masters or men have carried their point, being satisfied to know that the quarrel has been, in some way or other, decided or accommodated. But we might have selected during the last week three or four incidents illustrative of the temper and conduct of men on strike which ought to convince thoughtful men that it is inconsistent with sound policy and public duty to treat these matters with the indifference which has hitherto marked the attitude of the Government and the Legislature. We may as well say at the outset that we are utterly averse to anything like a revival of the old combi nation laws. It is just and it is necessary that the operatives should be free to combine in efforts to raise their wages or resist injustice—just, because it is impossible to deny to the mass the right we assert for individuals of fixing the price at which they will sell their labour ; and necessary, because it is only by combination that they can place them selves on anything like equal terms with their em ployers. Singly, they would be helpless, and forced to accept almost any terms, and submit to almost any bondage that their masters might impose. And further, the effect of legislative repression, as experience has shown, is to render combinations much more dangerous and desperate than they have been since the law has tolerated them. The ' men will unite in any case ; and if they cannot openly combine they will secretly conspire ; and, feeling themselves to be at issue with the law, will defy the law with the recklessness of outlaws and the cunning of conspirators. The measures which we desire would tend to secure, not to interfere with, perfect liberty of action on the part of the artisan ; the acts which we desire to punish are not abuses of individual liberty, but outrages upon it. One day we read that' a number of men have refused to work for a particular master unless he dismissed some labourers who had refused to join the trades union. Next day we find that an operative who has given offence in a similar way has been attached and beaten by his fellows. Or we hear that some honest fellow who has walked fifty miles to find work is " lying a mass of wounds in the local hospital" because he dared to accept 6s. where others were trying to get 7s. Again, we learn that a body of men on strike have entered a timber yard, and driven some quietly-disposed persons from their work ; the police interfere, not to punish the rioters, but to secure the escape of their victims ; and the local journals coolly observe that if the timber merchants continue to employ "blacklegs" a serious disturbance may be expected—i.e., if men choose to get their work done on terms which are accepted by their new workmen they will be mobbed by those who have refused those terms. We cannot think that the Government is doing its duty -while outrages of this kind can be committed with im punity. It is the duty of the State to protect every man in the enjoyment and lawful use of his property and his industry. The timber merchant has a right to employ any man he chooses, at any wages that man will accept ; and if any set of men, whether common thieves or discontented labourers, endea vour to disturb him in the exercise of that right, the whole force of society ought to be employed in his defence. It is not to be tolerated that men who will not work themselves for a given rate of wages should interfere with those who are only too glad to obtain that rate—that they should, that is, demand more than their labour is worth, and then beat and threaten the men who are willing to sell it for its market value. If in this way they succeed in extorting higher wages from the employer they have robbed him just as nakedly as if they had taken the extra money from his cash-box by open force ; and at the same time they have robbed a number of unoffending men or their property—namely, the labour which they were anxious to sell at the market price. If a set of bakers were to combine to sell no bread under 4d. the pound, and to be beat and break the win dows of all who did, it would not be many hours before they would be soundly thrashed, arrested, and carried to prison among the execrations of the people ; yet this very thing is being daily done by working men, and generally with perfect impunity. It is the systematic practice of the trades unions to compel obedience to their commands by an orga nised terrorism. Where they are strong enough they will allow no work to be done by any man who does not belong to the union. They order the unionist workmen in the same employ to strike if the poor fellow be not dismissed ; and the employer, though loathing the tyranny and indignant at the interference, is compelled to yield. If a similar conspiracy were entered into to compel a banker to dismiss a clerk, or a wholesale firm not to deal with a particular shopkeeper, the conspirators would promptly feel the vengeance of the law. The unionists are never punished unless they use out rageous menaces or open violence, and rarely even then. When the trades union determines on a strike every one must join it at his peril. There may be hundreds of men who are quite content with the wages they are earning, or quite convinced that a strike will make their position worse instead of bet ter. Indeed, this is generally if not universally the case. Yet the workman who goes on earning his 30s. a week must strike for 325., and live meantime on a precarious allowance of 10s. a week. It is as much as his life is worth to go near the works. If violence is not always used, and rarely proceeds to the last extremity, it is because menace supplies the place of force. The strike is maintained by nothing but illegal terror. If the men were free to follow their own inclination a large number would not strike at all, and of those who did a con siderable proportion would very quickly return to work. It is the duty of the state to see that there shall be none of this coercion ; that every man shall be at liberty to sell his industry at his own price, and to work or refuse work at his pleasure; and that no sort of molestation shall be offered by those who do not choose to work to those who do. The state is just as much bound to protect the industry of the poor man as the prope rt y of the rich ; and ought to punish as severely those who rob the former of his only wealth as those who invade the ample possessions of the latter. To prevent a man from accepting work is to rob him of wages ; to in timidate him in order to make him leave work is to wrong both him and his employer ; and wrongs of this sort are so frequent and so dangerous to society that, instead of the impunity they at present enjoy, they should be punished with extreme and deterrent severity. At present the criminals are treated with an indulgence for which is is impossible to account on the very few occasions on which they are brought to justice ; a judge who really understood the cha racter of their guilt, and the system of terror and tyranny which they help to sustain, would certainly visit them with the utmost penalty permitted by the law. There is no class of criminals whom it is so necessary to put down with a strong hand—none whose career is more mischievous to the community, or produces more loss, alarm, suffering, and in security, than the men who take part in the perse cations, riots, and outrages connected with the trades union system. Some pseudo-philanthropists profess sympathy with their cause; some well meaning but thoughtless people would extenuate their offences by the plea of ignorance ; but all who really under stand the case of the working classes, and really desire to render them practical service, will agree in condemning these offenders as the worst enemies of their order. We have carefully avoided any con demnation of the trades unions as such. If they would abstain from invasions .of the freedom of others—if they would honestly make up their minds to let non-unionists alone, and to seek the attain ment of their objects only by lawful and equitable means—they would be able to do good enough to atone in some degree for the vast amount of evil which has hitherto been almost the sole fruit of their labours. Their functions as benefit clubs se cure them a stronghold on the interests and affec tions of the operatives ; and if they were really managed by the best and wisest of their members — the true representative men of the class—rather than by young, ignorant, idle, and noisy dema gogues, they . would serve to diffuse among the workmen:in their trades a considerable amount of practical knowledge of great service both to them and their employers. Deprive the unions of the power of intimidation and extortion, and you de prive them of their. temptations to do mischief, and of their attraction for mischief makers. They would then become no more than benefit societies, com bining with their peculiar functions the office of a discussion club for matters connected with the trade. They would collect, as now, information from all quarters concerning its interests and progress; and not being, as now, an engine of tyranny over the men and hostility towards the masters, they would be able to render this information useful to both, and a means of averting quarrels and misunderstandings such as constantly arise from mutual ignorance. Such service is, we are told, rendered by a few of the best of the unions—chiefly, if not invariably, we believe, in cases where theunion has no power of coercion, from embracing only a portion of the trade —and if the law was so applied as to put an end to the wrongful power of the rest, their action, re strained within the law, and checked by the inde pendence of non-unionists, would probably prove, on the whole, beneficial to all parties concerned. COUNTRY MARKETS BRISTOL-THURSDAY. On our market to-day there was a fair supply of English wheat, which sold freely at rather over last week's prices. Foreign held for 6d to is per qr. advance, which checked the demand, and scarcely any changed hands. Malting barley rather dearer ; sweet grinding 6d per qr. improve ment; heated samples neglected. Maize in fair request; beans quite as dear. BIRMINGHAM—THURSDAY. During the present week there has been a fair demand for wheat, but no improvement could be realised. Barley more inquired for. Oats rather cheaper. Very little doing in beans or peas. At this day's market there was a fair supply of wheat, and all descriptions realised an advance of is per qr. Oats and barley unaltered. Beans and peas tending upwards. Currencies :—English wheat, white, 45s to 50s ; red,' 390 to 488 per 36 stone. Malting barley, 30s to 358; grinding, 22s to 25s per qr. Oats, 24s to 30s ; Irish, 21s to 24s per 30 stone. Beans, 42s to 45s ; and peas, 40s to 42s per qr. RANCHES TER—TIII7RSDAY. The trade has remained firm throughout the week, with fair demand for consumption at steady rates. Our market this morning was well attended, and a good demand for old and best sorts of new English wheats at prices rather over last week. Foreign advanced ld; flour sold freely at previous rates ; oats and oatmeal ruled steady ; new beans the turn dearer; Indian corn in buyers' favour. BURY ST. EDMUND'S-WEDNESDAY. The supply of wheal at this market to-day was good, it met a better demand from millers, and farmers were en abled to realise is per qr. advance upon last week's prices. Malting barley a fair sale at last week's rates. Oats, beans, and peas dull. Talavera wheat, 45s to 50s; red ditto, 38s to 425; barlelt 30s to 325; secondary ditto, 27s to 29s per qr. Averages :—Wheat, 1,977 qrs, 39s ; barley, 790 qrs., 29s 9d; oats, qrs, —s Od. EDINBIIRGH-WEDICESDAY. At to-day's market there were fair supplies of grain and Sold at fully last week's prices. Average prices. - • Wheat, 45s 8d I Oats, 25510 d Barley, 29s 9d Beans ...40s Od - - .. , Wheat on the top, is Od down average, is 3d up. Barley on the top, Os 6d up. average, Os 4d up. Oats on the top, Os 6d down average, Os 2d down. Beans on the top, 1s Od down average, Os 5d dovriu Total supply and sales. Wheat 668 qrs sold 527 • Barley: 1209 qrs sold 1001 Oats 1575 qrs sold 1155 - Beans 204 qrs sold 56 Town-made flour sells as follows :—White, 39s 6d; extra superfine, 37s 6d; superfine, 35s 6d; fine, 33s 6d. GLASGOW-WEDNESDAY. This day's market was well attended. Wheat in fair in' quiry; American 9d to 6d dearer per 2401 b.; other deserir tions unaltered; sack flour steady, barrel scarce, and W I. proving in value ; barley slow at 3d advance per 3201 b oats and oatmeal unchanged; beans, peas, and Indian cal l quiet. Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton Oct. 19. Ditto, via Marseilles Nov. 1 2 . Brazil and Cape Verds. by British pao.et Nov. 5. Ditto, by French packet Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena... Oct. 21. China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton—Oct. 1 9 Ditto, via Marseilles Oct. 27. Falkland 'Bianchi Gibraltar, via Southampton India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton..., Oct. 19 Ditto, via Marseilles . • Oct. 2 7 • India (Bombay), via Southampton. Oct 27. Ditto, via &larseilles Oct. 21. Mauritius, via Southampton Nov. 11. Ditto, via MarseiLe 3. Nov. 5 . Newfoundland Portugal Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon... United states and British North America, by Bri- .Nov. 5. tish packet .. ...Nov. 2 . Ditto, by United States packet, via Southamp- ton .. Ditto, Via Cork Ditto, by Canadian packet, via Londonderry.. Oct. 20. West Coast of Africa. Madeira, and Teneriffe .. Nov. la West Indies and Pacific (except Bahamas, Cuba, and Mexico Oct. 3 0 • Bahamas, via New York. Oct. 19 Bermuda, ditt 0... Cuba and Mexico Oct. 30. 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Function° Disorders.—Who would be well must see that ev ery orgf of the body does its duty, fully and fairly, which ev e ''' one may certainly insure by occasionally resorting to the s e 6 Pills, or by taking a course of them, according to the priP t4 directions folded round each box. Stomach , ;liver, kidil e f" and bowels are all searched by their purifying and corr.., tive powers, and any departure from their natural action : strenuously resisted, and order and regularity enfor c t Health may always be preserved by attentive obedien ce . Holloway's directions, and by using his medicine as ad by him. All obstructions will by this means be rowel the blood purified, and its free and faultless circulati° established. Pot elk hON Cap CZ C2l It( Di Oft -____ equ al C ' , OOEl 20 a c colon No A; bier for a Relye' JO Dowd en km the bi street 'V direct Assay lb• u/ house —......_ NI .0„, on th made \,nd. a i ..e C° W;1111 ti l es AloN, for i nE E•ta ndi found , i rpt in a t tracti c Pert ec Ping- 8 , Prices consta TrJati tions I borne- • Births. tt FRERE.—On the 18th i ns t., a t 34, Upp er Harley- 0t- Mrs. Temple Frere, of a daughter. STONOR.—On the 13th i ns t., a t B roug ht on H a ll, SiciP' fat the Hon. Mrs. Stonor, of a son, stillborn. STRADBROKE.—On the 17th inst., at 33, Belgrave-s9 n-$ll the Countess of St ra db ro k e , o f a daughter. eol STEWART.—On th e 15th i ns t., a t Ballygawly House' Tyrone, Lady Stewart, of a son. Marriages. HuDsolt—FisliEß.—On the 17th inst., at St. Paul ' s, C a so ; u'.7 P' bridge, Philip Llewellyn Hudson, second son of ;dot Hudson, Esq., of Cambridge, to Harriett Agnes, e' daughter of Francis Fisher, Esq., of Cambridge. 't llA MACKWORTH—CLIBITT.—On the 18th inst., at the B r a c t, Embassy, Paris, Sir Arthur William Mackworth, B G PV RE., of Glenusk, Monmouthshire, and Cefn-yd-fn , morganshire, to Alice Kate, younger daughter of d..„%tef. Cubitt, Esq., C.E., of Great George-street, Weetnal-u - Deaths. Cap HILL.—On the 16th inst., at Newcastle-on-Tyne, T; Horace F. Hill, late Rifle Brigade, son of the late 0" Noel Hi11,.K.C.8., aged 38. '4 LLOYD.—On the 17th inst., at Hereford, Anne D er i l l 4 Lloyd, relict of the late Lieut.-General the Hon. A l 4 Lloyd, of Bessborough;aged 76. oa tl, MultßaY.—On tbe 17th inst., at 125, Marylebone -r o,S4 John Murray, Esq., late of the Hon. East India Co. e aged 54. PARKIN.— On the 15th i ns t., a t 30, Gloucester -0 1 i - 0e Hyde-park, George P a tty Parki n , Esq., formerly e' Admiralty, aged 79. SKEATE.—On the 18th i ns t., a t 33, J a mes's-street, 0° garden, Mr. Wm. 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