The Sun. — London, England, 1866-08-10 00:00:00

THE AUSTRIAN ARMY. (From the Times Special Correspondent) TRENT, IN THE TYROL, Aug. 3. With a splendid band playing the most lively airs and dance music at the corner of the street, with hundreds of officers and a populace of soldiers form ing a foreground to a vista of tall, balconied houses such as Prout or Haghe would revel in, and a thin outer border of " citizens" enclosing the white coats in a sombre frame, with ladies peering from their lattices on the crowd below, the scene presented by Trent yesterday evening when the sun was setting put one much in mind of some grand tableau on the stage of a theatre. The illusion might have been complete but for those grand Alpine peaks towering over roof and campanile, which raised the beauty of the spectacle beyond the highest effort of the most successful painters. Then, in the intervals of the music. other bands could be heard afar, and up and down the street columns of troops, pouring from point to point, passed across the thoroughfare, and the pavement echoed with the regular beat of their feet. As night came there was silence, scarcely broken after the bugles and drums had announced the last post; and with the dawn again the world was ordered to awake by beat of drum and by the bugle call, and again and again the roll of many feet in regal cadence rose and fell as these restless troops marched to and fro, and were so engaged pretty much all through the day. On the walls are notices which announce to the stranger that he is in a state of siege, and that he cannot leave or enter the city without permission. Others indicate the bridges which are open to. licensed persons ; others call on the citizens to preserve order in case of an engagement with the enemy, and direct that the drawing rooms shall be lighted up from dusk till dawn in the event of a combat occurring in the neighbourhood, for Gen. Kuhn is not the man to neglect precautions. He was Gyulai's Chief of the Staff, and it is said that if he had had his way the French would have met with very different treatment in the campaign of Italy. The Italians are now at his gates, and Gen. de Medici will find, if his Royal master renews hostilities, that he has a formidable antagonist. For some time past Gen. Kuhn has exer- ' cised the officers and troops under his orders in the most arduous marchings among the mountains, and long before the war broke out the whole of his staff became perforce acquainted with the terrain. He works hard himself, and makes those around him work also; and as the corps under his orders cover a large space, and are necessarily much divided, there is an immense deal to do, especially under a system like that of Austria, which is complicated in paper, pen, and ink work as can be. There are some 10 or 12 officers on his Staff, and many of them begin their work at 6 or 7 o'clock in the morning, and do not leave their desks till 7 or 8 o'clock at night, except to take their meals. When the Italians first made their appearance in the valley of the Brenta the Austrians had only a few hundred men posted near Primolano and Cismone, but they fell back fighting with such skill and tenacity that they were enabled to check the Italians in the passes till Kuhn received reinforcements from Verona, and by the time De Medici arrived at Pergino the Austrians were strong enough to entertain hopes of defending Trent, although they could not hold Burgo or Levico. When I arrived at Trent I heard with in credulity that the road was open to Verona. It seemed impossible that an enemy should have ad vanced up the Val Saguna and left open a railroad connecting a great fortress with the point he was attacking. Bat it was quite true. There is a cer tain place in the valley whence De Medici might and ought to have sent a force to destroy the railroad between Trent and Verona, in the neighbouring valley of the Adige. However, he neglected to do so, and, as the Austrians have the rail up from Verona and the rail down to Innsbruck, the road over the Brenner, and then a rail from Botzen to Trent, they have been able to assemble a large force to save Trent should hostilities be renewed, and to get supplies and provisions of all kinds. But the position of the Austrians in the Southern Tyrol is not easy in a military or political sense. From the irregular line of mountains running nearly south-west and north-east north of Brixen, the valleys and rivers have a southerly direction, so that a force defending them is necessarily Split up and has to act by itself, and often times the valleys, instead of tending towards a common point as they recede, diverge and increase the distance between the columns. There are certain obvious advantages, however, to counterbalance those defects in the position of a defensive force. For an army taking the offensive the situation of the Austrians, if they were led by good generals, is ad mirable. The names of a dozen towns lying at their feet recall what Bonaparte and his generals did in these very defiles. But, whatever their military con dition may be, n o one can doubt the political status in the Southern Tyrol. Without going back to histori cal relations, it may fairly be assumed, if language, look, politics, and commercial relations go for any thing, that the majority of the people of Trent are Italians. Some 30 years ago the German element predominated, but the principle of developing na tionality, which the present Emperor, from the best of motives, is said to have favoured to a dangerous extent, set in motion before his time and vigorously employed ever since, bore down by its vivacity and positive life the inert resistance of the Teutonic mass, and established an Italian supremacy in the cities and towns, though the valleys are still full of a faithful peasantry little affected by "Italianisi mus." The increase of the trade in silk and oil has strengthened the yearning of the bourgeoisie to unite their fortunes with those of the subjects of Victor Emmanuel, not because they like him or love the Piedmontese, but because they think the change would acid to their social - happiness and to their political strength. It would be difficult to trace the line of demarcation, and, as far' as one can judge from a hasty glance at the condition of the people and the state of the towns under their rule, there is no reason for removing the Tyrolese of the south from the jurisdiction and government of the Austrians. It would be well for us if all our people in England, Ireland, and Scotland looked as thriving —if our towns were all as decent and all our manu factures as prosperous—as the Tyrolesepeasantry, as Trent, and as the oil and silk trade hereabouts. Whether the Italianisation of the city population be a sort of Fenianism or not I am unable now to de termine, but it causes uneasiness to the Austrians, as it gives them a sense of enemies within and with out, and complicates their position by giving to their defence of the Southern Tyrol the aspect of an at- tempt to hold by force that to which they have no moral right, and of a struggle in which success will be odious to those whom they seek to defend against invasion. Should the war be renewed it is scarcely possible to doubt of their holding the Tyrol. It is true that the Austrians, by some strange perversity of fortune, or incapacity of their leaders, generally play a role for which they are not suited. They are, and e been nearly always, in a defensive position. initiative has been denied to them because their W urrnsers, Blacks, and Gyulais were not capable of originating plans of campaign , their adv ersaries. If the uti po ea sseditis be the base of the new appropriation the nof territory, the Aust r i ans o will lose th e V alley Brenta up th e su b ur b s o f Trent itself, i n addit'ontoother losses in the Tyrol, resist and no doubt th ey will such a decision vigor ously, although smitten into the Slowh of Despond by repeated buffets and blow from s all sid es . This morning I sa w General Kuhn at his quar t ers in Trent. He was good enough the to accede to my request to be permitted t o v i s i t advanced added and get a view of the Itali an position, and that he would send one of his staff officers to accom pany two English officers and myself who have come to Trent with the intention of visiting the battle field of Custozza if possible, and take us over the ground at 5 o'clock, when the sun had lost a littie of its fervour. The General is in the prime of life, and is evidently a man of immense energy and quickness. He spoke English for choice, and added to his courtesy by offering us a pass by the military train for Verona to-morrow. At 5 o'clock the officer ordered by General Kuhn to show us the out posts made his appearance, and we drove through the fortified gateway along the high road towards Pergine, which is one o f the most picturesque 1 h i ave seen even i n the Tyrol or Sw i tzer l an d. It s carried along the face of a precipice scarped in the rock, and is one of the great military roads made by the Austrians, after the events of 1859 showed them the necessity of improving their communica tions. The drive was beautiful, but it was not long, for in half an hour or so, having passed though several barriers of stone and trunks of trees, we came in sight of the advanced post. Before we reached the spot there were visible in several places the sites of bivouacs, and rude bowers made of branches and littered with straw showed were the troops had lain before the truce allowed them to take shelter inside the city. The advanced post was simply a house by the roadside, in which the peasant's family were still residing. A barrier of earth and casks filled with mould blocked the way, and soldiers lay in groups on either side, who rose and stood at attention at the glimpse of the white uniform. Walking through the barrier we came out on the road, and straight before us at the distance of a couple of miles a largecastle, with battlemented front and the towers partly in ruin, perched on the slope of a mountain, came into view over the fringe of trees and vineyards which bordered the road, and shut its further course from sight. "The enemy are there," said our guide, " but you cannot see their headquarters from this." The castle in ques tion belongs to the Bishops of Trent, and a fine view those respectable prelates must. have enjoyed for many a century if they had a taste for scenery. Just beyond us was a picket of Austrian soldiers. Be yond them, again, was a solitary sentry pacing t 6 and fro as he looked towards his front. " That man there is our most advanced sentinel," said the officer. " Beyond him I cannot go, but you can if you want to stay with the Italians. There is a line of a kilo metre from each outpost, to which each side can move, and then there is a space for 1,000 paces be tween those lines, which is neutral ground, but which no one can pass." We scrutinised the old castle closely through our glasses, and were rewarded by the sight of a few men moving about in blue uni forms, and an inspection of some neighbouring houses was attended with a like result. Our com panion said that he had recently visited General de Medici to arrange the lines of demarcation, and that he found there a ragged and dejected Englishman, who was in vain entreating the General to let him stay in the Italian camp. He was, he said, a poet, and was wandering in the Tyrol to feed the cravings of his muse. De Medici, however, thought he was a spy, and that he was wandering about to fill his pocket. At any rate the Austrain officer over took him on the road to Trent as he was returning to his quarters, evidently bound for the city, hav ing been turned out of the Italian lines, and what became of our unfortunate countryman he was unable to say. As Pergine lay in a hollow under the castle, our guide proposed that we should visit another post in a village on the bill above us called Civezzano, from which we could look down on the Italian army and see their tents. A drive up a mountain road of some 20 minutes brought us to a large hamlet, consisting of lofty three and four storied houses of solid stone, with external balconies and high shingle covered roofs, common in the Tyrol. The entrance was defended by an abattis and a breastwork, and the narrow street was filled with German soldiers—not Hungarians, Poles, Croats, or Wallachians, but pure, solid Germans, with blue eyes and light hair, and solid round faces and blue lips, seeming so like the British privateif one looked only at the face that we amused ourselves by fancy ing one fellow's name must be " John Brown," an other's "Pat Murphy," and a third's "Sandyßoss." Having reported ourselves to the majorin command of the post, who was installed in an ancient mansion in the main street, we proceeded through the village to a point close by a little oratory, in which was the inscription "Nostra Donna della Cholera, 1844," to commemorate, perhaps, the departure of the plague from Trent, or the fact of its ravages in that year. A large cross was erected close to the mound on which the oratory stood, and inside the grating on the altar beneath the picture of the Virgin burnt the votive candle. At this mound we halted, and there lay the headquarters of De Medici, before and below us, in the midst of a considerable village which the Americans would call a city. The Italian general is well lodged in an extensive white building used as a silk manufactory, for Pergine is or was a thriving place, and derived large gains from its silk fabrics. The position they appear to occupy is not as strong as that of the Austrians, and their force was hid in the valleys near Pergine, in that wonderfully secre tive way these Tyrolese glens and hamlets have of swallowing up soldiers. Our companion, who had ample experience of the Italians, spoke with respect of their courage and in telligence ; but he did not think their elan was durable, or that they were capable—at least, as capable, as the Austrians—of bearing the fatigue of a long campaign, or of a long battle. Of their cavalry he entertained a very poor opinion. The Garibaldians were of all sorts. Many of the prisoners were without uniforms, or even decent clothes, so that the Austrian soldiery " objected to fight with them." They had no discipline. Their officers were lamentably ignorant of their duty. The Austrians had taken old men of 6') and boys of 12 and 13 years of age, and one woman was discovered in man's clothes. But, though he spoke of them thus as sol- diers, it was without contempt or anger. Having contemplated our survey, as the evening was closing in, we returned to Trent, after an agreeable, if not very profitable, excursion. .AUGUST 4. This evening I start for Verona with the intention of proceeding to Venice, if possible. Murder and Manslaughter in 18 65. • It appears form the "Judicial Statistics of England and Wales" i3saed on Tuesday morning that the total number of murders reported last year was 135, exceeding by one the number iu the preceding year. From the counties 76 .were reported, 51 from boroughs, and 8 by the metropo litan police. In Lancashire 28 cases occurred, of which 6 were reported by the county constabulary ; 13 cases oc curred at Liverpool, 4 at Manchester, and 5 at other boroughs. In the preceding year the number of cases was 23, of which 5 were reported by the county constabulary ; 9 occurred at Liverpool, 3 at Manchester, 3 at Wigan, and 3in other boroughs. In Yorkshire there were 15 cases, 7 reported by the county constabulary, and 8 in the boroughs. In the preceding year there were but 5 cases in the West Riding, with lat Bradford and lat Sheffield. In Durham there were 10 'cases, inclusive of 1 at Sunderland ; in the preceding year there were but 3 cases'in the county. in the metropolitan police district 8 cases occurred, against 14 in the preceding year, there having been no case in the City in either year. In Somerset there were 7 cases, 4in the county and 3 in boroughs ; iu Southampton 7, 5 in the county, and 2 in boroughs ; in Devon 6, 5 in the county and 1 at Devonport ; in Kent 6, 3 in the county and 3 in boroughs ; in Gloucestershire 5, inclusive of 1 at Bristol ; iu Staffordshire 5, inclusive of 1 at Wolverhampton; in Worcestershire 5, inclusive of 1 in the city of Worcester ; in Berks and Leicester 3 each ; in Cheshire 2, including 1 at Birkenhead ; in Lincolnshire and Shropshire 2 each ; in Norfolk 2, including 1 at Norwich ; in Oxfordshire 2, in cluding 1 in the city of Oxford ; in Sussex 2, including 1 at Hove ; in Cumberland, Herefordshire, Northamptonshire, Warwickshire, and Westmoreland, leach ; in Derbyshire, lat Derby; and.in Monmouthshire, 1 at Newport. InWales 8 cases were reported ; in Anglesey, Brecon, Denbigh, and Merioneth, 1 each ; in Glamorganshire 4, inclusive of 1 at Cardiff and lat Swansea. In 13 English and Woleh calm ties no case of murder occurred. - - - - There were 54 attempts to murder, 32 of which were re ported by the county constabulary, five by the metropoli tan, and 17 by the borough police ; in the preceding year the number of attempts to murder was 46, of which 30 were reported by the county constabulary; 15 were in different boroughs, and one in the city of London. The cases of manslaughter were 279, showing an increase of 65, or 30.3 per cent., as compared with the number in the preceding year. Of these 123, or 44.1 per cent., were re ported by the county constabulary ; 95, or 34.1 per cent., were in cities, boroughs, &c. ; 57, or 24.4 per cent., in the metropolitan police district ; and 4, or 1.4 per cent., in the city of London. In the preceding year, of 241 cases, 101, wereo ce r n 4 t l.9 per cent., were in the counties ; 88, or 36.5 per cities, boroughs, & C . ; 49, or 20.3 p er cent., in the in metropolitan police district ; and 3, or 1.3 per in the city o f London. cent., ADVEUTISEMENT. j-_ Holloway's Pills.—Unusually hot weather in the summer months is often productive of un pleasant consequences to many. The liver, the oach and bowels i n such cases are more or less seriously affected, so that most persons are at certain seasons liable to dis orders which rage in warm weather. Th ey cannot have a better safeg uar d or a more powerful curative than Hollo way's justly celebrated pills. They cool and purify the blood, and render the system less liable to any sort of irre gularity, or, when disease is present, they abate its force, and at last destroy it altogether. Dysentery, biliousness, acidity of the stomach, sick headache, and debility speedily disappear before a course of this inestimable medicine. SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 10, 1866. THE CHOLERA. -+- - MANSION-HOI7SE RELIEF COMMITTEE. Subscriptions continue to flow into the Mansion house, and to the banks in connection with it, towards the fund now being raised there for the relief of the prevailing distress consequent upon the visita tion of cholera at the rate of nearly £l,OOO a day. Up to last evening the total amount received was roughly estimated at something upwards of £4,000, though the subscription has only been going on four days ; and the committee, composed of emi nent bankers, merchants, clergymen, and other per sons of consideration in the City of London, with the Lord Mayor at their head, look forward to the receipt of a large sum for the humane object they had in view. Yesterday at the Mansion-house alone £730 was received. The Lord Mayor has kindly placed one of the largest rooms in his house at their disposal, and they meet there daily at one o'clock to hear and consider applications from local bodies for assistance and to make grants in money, ' 1 to be expended at the discretion of ' those local I authorities, who are presumed to be best ac quainted with the state of the districts in which they reside, having regard to the extent to which cholera prevails, and to the consequent distress from the death of heads of families. Yesterday the Lord Mayor, Mr. Thomas Baring, M.P., Mr. Joseph Hoare, banker; Sir Mordaunt Wells, the Rev. William Rogers, rector of Bishopsgate ; the Rev. F. G. Blomfield, rector of St. Andrew, Undershaft ; Mr. R. N. Fowler, banker ; Mr. W. J. R. Cotton, Mr. W. J. Maxwell,. Mr. R. B. Wade, Mr. Andrew Johnston, Dr. Andrew Clarke, Mr. Charles Hut ton, and other gentlemen, were engaged for about two hours in this self-imposed duty. The Com mittee are exceedingly desirous that it should be widely known that they have a fund at their dis posal, that they are prepared to dispense it in the districts where it is or may be wanted; through the agency of local boards, committees, dispensaries, and the like, and to consider every application made by such committees on its merits. Each application must also be accompanied by reliable statistics its to the epidemic. They suggest, too, that wherever in any poor district in which cholera has made its appearance no local board of that description exists one should be formed without delay, in order to take advantage, for the sake of the poor and for the common good, of the means at the disposal of the Committee for providing suitable food, stimulants, and other necessaries for persons afflicted with the epidemic, or liable to it from predisposing causes and circumstances. They also contemplate the re lief in particular, as far as practicable, of poorchil dren who have lost one orboth of their parents by the ' disease. Upon this point the Lord Mayor read a let ter he had received from the secretary to the Orphan Working School, Haverstock-hill, stating that, al though they had only the day before received 40 or , /bans into the school, and intend to receive 40 more in January, they had, in deep sympathy with the pre vailing suffering, determined to admit 10 more at a special election to be held shortly from children whose parents or whose fathers only have died of cholera. They would gladly have admitted more than ten, but they have already 355 in the house, and have only room for 400 altogether. Yesterday the Rev. Mr. Blomfield, a member of the Committee, took occasion to refer to a sugges tion which had been made there on the previous day, that it would be desirable to merge the Bishop of London's fund and some others now being col lected to meet the emergency in that of the Mansion house. There must, he thought, have been some misunderstanding; but however that might be, the Bishop of London seemed to think there were rea sons for acting separately from the Nlansion-house Committee, but still in co-operation with them, and especially that there should be a daily communica tion between the two Committees as to the grants of money made by each. The LORD MAYOR said the suggestion had come from one thoroughly competent to give an opinion, and who thought such an amalgamation for many reasons desirable, but the Bishop was, perhaps, right in thinking that his fund should be kept sepa rate. He (the Lord Mayor) was strongly of opinion that they ought to have, wherever practicable, local committees in all the various districts of the metro , polis. He had the higheSt opinion of the clergy as a body, and should be happy to see them helping on this movement in their respective districts ; but the Committee should give a guarantee to the public that they were going to apply this money regardless of all considerations of creed. (Hear.) He saw great danger in the clergy being made the exclusive medium, as was contemplated in the case of the Bishop of London's fund. It did not follow that in poor districts a local committee could not be formed out of poor people. What the Committee wanted was supervision, and some of them might pay occa sional visits to the different districts to see how the relief committees were working. The Rev. Mr. 13t03IFIELD referred to a large dis trict of the metropolis,with an estimated population of 120,000, in which the local authorities for some reason or other had not moved yet, and nothing had been done. Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales has been pleased to contribute the sum of £5O to the fund for Mrs. Gladstone's " Temporary Home for Children recovering from Cholera." IVe are requested by the Bishop of London to state that several ladies accustomed to nursing, and clergymen from the healthy paks of London, have offered their services in the districts afflicted with cholera. The Bishop of London will at once make arrangements for the employment of any competent persons who apply by letter to Fulham-place, S.IV., stating their desire to engage in such work. The admissions to the London Hospital for cholera in the 24 hours ending yesterday forenoon were 10, and for diarrhoea 9, being only one more than bad been brought to the institution during the previous 24 hours. The deaths during the same period have been 7 (6 from cholera and 1 from diarrhoea), while the recoveries have been 9, 6 being from the more severe form of the epidemic. There remain in the wards 113 persons. An unusually rapid case of cholera occurred yes terday in the workhouse of St. George's-in-the- East. One of the washerwomen of the establish ment, a woman of robust health, was seized with the disease at 5 in the morning and she was dead at 11 in the forenoon. No previous symptoms existed. The epidemic continues with great violence in this parish, and several new cases were reported yester day. The local Board of Health have had to pur chase a hearse capable of carrying 12 of the dead to the cemetery at once. Before this was done the ac commodation of unburied bodies threatened to be come a source of great danger, the regular under takers not being equal to the emergency. A special conveyance has also been procured, and is kept in readiness day and night for the conveyance of cholera patients to the hospital, thus obviating the necessity for the employment of cabs. Yesterday a meeting of the West Ham Board of Guardians was held in the board-room of the Union house ; Mr. J. Meeson in the chair. The chairman said he was glad to inform the Board that during the past se vera l d ays the cholera had decreased, both in the virulence and in the number of cases. There had only been three deaths in the workhouse, and these were cases that had been. brought there. Their staff of medical officers and inspectors of nuisances had been working most assiduously, and their labours had been attended with great success. He thought also that too much praise could scarcely be given to the clergymen of that parie h. In answer to his appeal in the newspapers, the Rev. G. P. Keogh had received no less than £4OO, and so ample had this been that he had sent a. portion of it to Plais tow. He and the Rev. A.. J. Ram, the vicar of West Ham, had each also received £25 from the Bishop of London. The following report of the medical officer shows the prevalent disease for the week ending August 4 :—' 4 Attacks of cholera, attended by the ten district medical officers ap. dpurioinntgedtdheurwinegekt,h6esw;ereeke,olvle9re;d,.d3ea;ths from number c c f h c o as ler e a s under treatment, 51. Diarrhce .a cases during the week, 1,027; recovered, 195 ; under treatment, 852. This number probably includes s ome of the 356 cases of the previous week. I do riot see any other prac ticable ulnas ures required thar those in force. Regard ing the epidemic I am glad to say that the medical practitioners arc working zealously and kindly in their respecti ie districts. The total number of deaths registered by all the practitioners, including private patients, has been during the past week : West llam, 59 ; Stratford, 56 ; total, 115. Yours obediently, JAMES THOMAS VALLANCE." This shows an increase ug to August of about 23 over the pre vious week, making the total number of deaths since the commencement of the epidemic 298. The Lancet of this week contains a report on the present diffusion of cholera in the East of London, of which the following are the principal conclusions: "1. A remarkable close coincidenCe of the western boundary of the East London cholera field with the same boundary line of the houses supplied with water by the East London Company—a coincidence preserved from week to week. " 2. That the East London Waterworks, to the credit, we believe, of the present engineer to the establishment, Mr. Charles Greaves, are well constructed to enable the company to supply good water, so far as the state of the river at Enfield permits. " 3. That this company, however, have the means, both at their filter-beds at Lea-bridge, apparently and at their Old Ford pumping -works, of takingsupplies of water from most objectionable sources, but that the use of these means, under any ordinary circumstance, is disclaimed. " 4. That an inquiry into the condition of a drinking water must be made more as to the nature of its contami nations than as to their amount. " 5. That there is a difference between the mode at least of the supply of water by the company to their northern and more elevated districts and that to their southern and low districts, which coincides with the difference in the mortality by cholera observed in these districts. It would be unsafe, however, to draw at present any positive infer ence from this fact which, indeed, may be adduced in favour of the harmlessness of the water as well as against it. " 6. That the other hygienic conditions of the cholera field present no difference from those of other districts sufficient to account for its limitation. To this we may, however, make perhaps one exception in tho intersection of the district by the lower part of the river Lea and canals and cuts in connection with it, all in a rudely offensive condition. The absence of drainage, through the unfinished state of the low-level Sewer, is shown to be insufficient to account for the present localisation of cholera. "7. That there is good reason for believing, contrary to much that has been said on the matter, that the injurious constituents of a drinking water admit of removal by prac ticable means. " In tho above report we have confined our attention to cholera. This is not because we overlook the influence of unsound water in bringing on diarrhcea ; hut because, among our reasons, we have not had in our hands such full d..tu fur comparison as we have had on cholera." A case of Asiatic cholera was reported in -Preston yesterday, the victim being a miller named Jackson Bradshaw. A few days ago he visited a friend in Liverpool who was suffering from the cholera, and it is said that he afterwards attended the funeral of a person who had died of cholera. last Monday evening Bradshaw left Liverpool at 6 o'clock for Preston, arrived at the latter place at 8, and then proceeded home. Nothing appeared to ail him at this time. At 9 o'clock he was taken ill, and on being visited by a medical man it was found that he was suffering from an attack of cholera. He got worse, and died shortly after 5 o'clock yesterday morning, and was interred in the cemetery yesterday after noon at 2 o'clock. Bradshaw was a strong, healthy man, and was a strict teetotaller. The street he lived in is a very low one, the houses haying a very dirty and most wretched appearance ; but nothing of a local character has had to do with the attack under which he succombed, and the case, according to the authorities, was one of absolute importation. For some time all the streets, &c., in the town have been subjected to extra scavenging, all nuisances have been looked after, and as far as possible sup pressed. Poor people have had lime, brushes, and disinfectants given to them, and the local board have done their utmost to keep the town free from disease. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. _ -a- . ROYSTON AND HITCHIN. The 41st ordinary general meeting of this COM was held yesterday at the offices, G-racechurch street ; Mr. J. Cobbold, M.P., in the chair, when a dividend at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum, less income tax and a small sum for expenses, was de clared, payable on the consolidated stock of the company. The retiring directors were re-elected, and a vote of thanks to the chairman terminated the proceedings. and Brighton, which would create a large traffic between those two favourite places. The net amount at the credit of the revenue account was £110,835, out of which the directors recom mended the payment of a dividend for the half year, at the rate of four per cent. per annum, amounting to £107,190, and leaving a balance of £3,645 to the credit of the current half-year. The capital account to the 30th of June showed that the company was authorised to raise £12,679,500 on shares and £4,193,400 on loans; total, £16,872,900, of which £15,494,961 had been raised, and £15,384,127 expended, leaving a balance of £110,834. The amount of the unexpended capital at the end of the past half-year was £1,488,773. The revenue account for the six months ending 30th of June last showed that £529,302 had been re ceived, and £287,465 expended in working £137,307 for preference charges, and £1,961 for rent of lines, leaving together with £8,266 brought from the pro ceding half-year an available balance for dividend of £110,836. LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH COAST. The report of the directors of this company states that the amount received on capital a ccoun t to J une 30 olva stock slI5 and 494961,consisting of £5,369,201 i n ordinary shares, £6,326,561 in preferen tial stock, £2,500,590 in mortgage debt, and £1,298,609 in debenture stock. The amount of capital expended during the half-year had been £822,884. The gross revenue had been £529,302, showing an increase of £32,844 over the correspond ing half of 1865. The total traffic rece i pts amounted to _ _ £517,586, and working expenses, including renewals, to £287,465, or 55k per cent., against £244,179, or 50 1-3 per cent. for the corresponding half of last year, showing an increase in the latter of £43,286. The cost of working per train mile was 2s. Bd., against 2s. 'lid. for the corresponding half of 1865. There had been a large augmentation in the work ing expenses, arising from the additional mileage worked from an increase in the rate of wages, and from the outlay in the improved signalling of the main line, necessary for securing the safety of the traffic. The Bill promoted jointly by the South- Eastern and the London, Chath am , an d D over Lewes, and B r i g ht on Parliament. line, Companiesha dreceived for th the L sanctionon don, of Con sidering the decisions of Parliament in three foimer Sessions, and the obligations which the company had taken upon itself when before previous Committees to accommodate the district of East Sussex and Surrey on the faith of those repeated decisions, the directors could not but express their surprise and regret at a result so entirely atvariance with that of previous years. With the above exception, the efforts of the directors against the aggressive schemes of the South-Eastern and the London, Chatham, and Dover Companies were attended with success. The company obtained a bill for an extension to Hastings, but the intended expenditure of capital would be avoided, an agreement having been en tered into with the South-Eastern Company secur ing to the Brighton Company a joint control, and an improved position in the present station at Has tings, which the South-Eastern Company were to en large, granting at the same time to the Brighton Company rights of user of the present St. Leonard's station, heretofore used by the South-Eastern Com pany. The works in progress were proccedi n g satisfac torily. The portion of the South London constructed by this company between London-bridge and the Barrington-road, Brixton, was completed, and would be opened during the present month. The rest of the line from Barrington -road to Wandsworth-road, where it joined this company's lines leading to Vic toria, was in course of construction by the Chatham and Dover Company for this company's use, and would be completed i n a f ew wee k s , and this com pany's line from Wa n d swort h- roa d to the Victoria Station was in an eq ua ll y f orwar d s t a te. When those lines were completed the delays which had hitherto arisen in conducting the traffic to and from the Vic toria station would be effectually put an end to. Concurrently with those imyrovements a third line of rails would be completed as far as the Balham Junction, where the main line trains left the local lines. In connexion with those works the company had obtained, for the first time, an independent ac cess to London-bridge by three additional lines of rails, controlled by their own signals, and an en largement of the Londou-bridge terminus, equivalent to a doubling of its former area and means of ac commodation. The completion of the South London line would give a new and shorter ro ute between London-btidge and Victoria, and West - end and City accommodatio n t o R ot h er hithe, the Old Kent road, Peckham, R ye -l ane, Denmar k-hill an d Brix ton. The line froni East Grinstead to Tunbridge wells was completed. This would bring upon the company's line a share of the Tunbridge-wells traffic, which must be largely increased when the Surrey and Sussex Railway was opened. The lines from Leatherhead, through Dorking, to Horsham, would be opened in the autumn, and thus a second route to Brighton, completed. The only remaining line wns that from 13 - afield to Tunbridge-wells, completing a direct line between the latter tout TOTTENHAM AND HAMPSTEAD JUNCTION. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held on Wednesday, at the office, Westminster-cham bers, Victoria-street ; Captain Arrow in the chair. Mr. HORN, the secretary, read the report, which stated that the progress of the works during the past half-year had, on the whole, been satisfactory, and the permanent way of the line would be laid through out during next month. The company's bill of this session, for authorising an increase of £lOO,OOO in the share capital, and also to empower the Great Eastern and Midland Companies to purchase the entire undertaking had received the Royal assent. The report of Messrs. M'Clean and Stileman, the engineers, stated that the permanent way should be laid throughout during the month of September, and that the railway might then be used for the exchange of goods and mineral traffic between the Great Eastern and the City and Hampstead Junction Railways during the construction of the stations. The capital account to the 30th of June showed that £313,222 had been expended. The CHAIRMAN moved the adoption of the report, which was- seconded by Mr. T. Pain, and carried unanimously. It was stated that the directors did not intend to ask the shareholders at present for power to raise the additional capital authorised by Parliament in the present session. GROSVENOR AND WEST END TERMINUS HOTEL, The general meeting of this company was held on Tuesday at the hotel, Victoria Station—Major Mur ray in the chair. The report stated that the profits on the trading for the past half-year amounted to £5,294, from which must be deducted the interest on debentures and mortgage, which, owing to the extraordinary state of the money market for some months past, was much heavier than it had ever been more. After making due provision for all debts, a sum of £2,424 remained available for a dividend, at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum, leaving a small balance for the next half-year. The high price of provisions had been seriously felt. The hotel and establish ment, working on a fixed and published tariff of prices, could not make sudden alterations to meet the unexpected rise in the cost of all supplies. Not withstanding the extensive failures which had crip pled so many enterprises, the works which were to connect this hotel with the northern railways and with the city had never been interrupted, and the confidence of the Board was still unshaken in their belief that these works would, when completed, place this company on as solid and satisfactory a founda tion as that of any similar undertaking in the coun try. The capital account showed that £166,891 had been expended, leaving a balance' of £1,761. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, said on the last occasion when they met there had been a serious falling off in the receipts. On the present occasion they had not only satisfac torily recovered that, but they had made a very large profit during the past half-year. The total increase during the past half-year as compared with the same of last year, was only £4OO. The divi dend had been left to the shareholders to determine, but the directors recommended one at the rate of 5 per cent. He was of opinion that it would be better to leave the money in the directors' hands for a short time, and when they were in a position to do so they would declare the dividend. The report was adopted, and after some discus sion a dividend of 5 per cent. per annum was de clared, payable Ist Oct. next. A vote of thanks to the chairman concluded tho proceedings. The New Act on Public Health. The Act to amend the law relating to the Public Health, which received the Royal assent on Tues day, has just been issued. It contains 69 sections (with two schedules), and at the present neriod the new law is attracting public attention. The act is to be cited as " The Sanitary Act, 1866." There are four parts in the statute. The first part relates to the amendment of the Sewage Utilisation Act of 1865, and is to be construed as one with the recited act. Any sewer authority is empowered to form committees, and where the sewer authority of a dis trict is a vestry or other body, may, after notice, form part of the district into a special drainage dis trict, for the purpose of the Sewage Utilisation Act, and a number of inhabitants, not being less than 20, may by petition to the Home Secretary .bring the matter under his consideration. Any owner or oc cupier of premises within the district of a sewer au thority is to be entitled to cause his drains to empty into the sewers, and the sewers may be used beyond the district. Provision is made as to the drainage of houses, and the supply of water and wells, &c., be longing to any place are to vest in the sewer autho rity. The second part relates to the amendment of the Nuisances Removal Acts. In any place within the jurisdiction of a nuisance authority the police may enter a house for the removal of a nuisance by the warrant of a justice of the peace. A requisition of ten inhabitants is to be equivalent to a medical certificate as to a nuisance. The word " nuisances" is to include any house or part of a house so over crowded as to be dangerous or prejudicial to the health of the inmates, or any factory, workshop, bakehouse, &c. A nuisance authority is to make an inspection of the district, to ascertain what nuisances exist calling for abatement, under the powers vested in it, and to enforce the provisions. A nuisance authority, on the certificate of any legally qualified medical practitioner, may order premises to be cleansed or otherwise disinfected, and to pro vide means of disinfection. Carriages may be provided for the conveyance of infected persons. " If any person, suffering from any dan gerous infectious disorder, shall enter any public conveyance, without previously notifying to the owner or driver thereof that he is so suffering, he shall, on conviction thereof before any justice, be liable to a penalty not exceeding £5 ; and shall also be ordered by such justice to pay such owner and driver all the losses and expenses they may suffer in carrying into effect the provisions of this Act ; and no owner or driver of any public conveyance shall be required to convey any person so suffering until they shall have been first paid a sum sufficient to cover all such losses and expenses." Sick persons suffering from any dangerous contagious or infec tious disorder being without proper lodging or accommodation, or in a room occupied by more than one family, or being on board any ship or vessel, may be removed on a certificate of a medical practi tioner to a proper place. Places for the reception of dead bodies may be provided at the public ex pense, and places for the reception of dead bodies during a post mortem examination are to be pro vided. Power is now given to remove to hospitals persons brought by ships. A nuisance authority may require payment of costs and expenses from owner or occupier, and the occupier paying is to deduct the same from the rent. In the second part of the Act, entitled " miscellaneous," in cities and boroughs or towns the Secretary of State, on the application of a nuisance authority, is empowered to make regulations as to lodginghouses, in fixing the number of persons who may occupy a house, or part of a house, which is let in lodgings, or occupied by members of more than one family, &c. Cellars used as dwelling -places maybe closed by the nuisance autho- , rity. Hospitals may be founded for the sick. There are two provinces in the Act which require immedi ate.publicity. By the 38th section it is enacted that any person with an infectious disorder, wilfully ex posing himself, or any person in charge of sick per sons causing such exposure, is to be liable to a penalty of £5, and by the next section, for letting houses in which infectious persons have been lodged without properly disinfecting such places the offender is liable to a penalty of £2O. There are other pro visions to enforce sanitary regulations as to local boards, burial boards, and other matters, to be adopted for the preservation of the public!' health. The fourth part of the statute is to be applied to Ireland, and certain modifications are made for its adoption in that part of the United Kingdom. The first schedule has reference to Ireland, and the second schedule shows the statutes repealed by the present Act. It came into force from Tuesday, the 7th of August inst., when it received the Royal assent, and may be generally adopted as " the Sanitary Act " of the Session of 1866. SPIRIT OP TII PUBLIC JOURNALS. --s POST.—The Lord Mayor is evidently an optimist. It is scarcely more than a week ago that he said the very prettiest thing imaginable of the " smooth tone-tied chief" who is now ru li ng t h e country, at the head of a Conservative Ministry. The expan sive movement of the civic breast consequent upon a good dinner may perhaps have had something to do with that, and the reticence upon most political subjects which earned for most of the speeches tipon that occasion the distinction of having nothing in them, may have further contributed to the flowing periods and elegant extracts in which the First Magistrate of the City celebrated the qualities of Lord Derby. The Lord Mayor has evidently since that evening been advantageously employing his time in a favourable review of all the intermediate classes of society ; and, true to his principles, he appeared, " accompanied by his mace and s word bearers," on the platform at Guildhall, on Wednes day night, to proclaim that he also extended his belief in the virtues of mankind to Mr. Beales and Mr. Odgers,- and his conviction that " good temper, good judgment, and moderation" were there before him, " strongly written upon the faces of as good, as fine, and as intellectual a gathering of working men as he had ever seen brought together under one roof." It is painful to us, however, to remark that even the Lord Mayor was not exempt from. that mania of taking " precautions" which has been made the subject of such severe comment in the case of Mr. Walpole. With so touching a belief in the tem per, judgment, and moderation of the meeting, it is surprising that he should have thought it proper to allow such an invasion of the liberties of the people as is implied in the protection of drinking-fountains and statues by boardings and the defence of a plat form by barriers. And no doubt those who are less advanced in optimist opinions than the Lord Mayor will assert that they detect in his speech, at the conclusion of the meeting, wherein he solemnly enshrined among his recollections that of having presided "in that beautiful hall over one of the noblest and most glorious meetings which had ever taken place in the City of London," a tone of relief that the beautiful hall was as beautiful as ever, and that a risky affair had been safely got through without either broken heads or a profanation of Gog and Magog. So far as this goes we agree cordially with his lordship, and we recognise with pleasure the recorded fact that the whole of the proceedings were conducted with an amount of order and good temper which do infinite credit not less to its prd moters than to those who composed it ; and unless Mr. Beales and the Reform League are above learn ing an obvious lesson from the fact, it will hence forth be clear to them that an orderly meeting within four walls is of far more value as an expres sion of opinion and carried with it infinitely more weight than a mere assemblage of individuals " in their thousands," under circumstances which pre clude all possibility of either speeches or resolutions being heard and understood. It would no doubt go rather against the grain to give up monster demonstrations, with all their excitement, and the additional spice of a possible brush with the police, for comparatively tame and common-place public meetings, where arguments alone can be used, and where the " brutality of the police " is only put forth to secure their discussion. But if, as we are quite prepared to believe, the object is to produce an effect upon the reasoning faculties of the public, the two methods of agitation bear no sort of com parison with each other, and we trust that the ardent Reformers will be content with availing themselves of the ordinary means of moving the public mind, even though they are permitted, in preference to again attempting to make use of extraordinary means, which are eminently unsatis factory in themselves, even although they are prohibited. In view of these considerations, we cannot but regret that Mr. Beales devoted the greater part of what was otherwise a very good speech to an elaborate defence of the action taken by himself and the League in connectiOn with the late Hyde-park disturbances. It is perhaps useless to remind Mr. Beales that when he inveighs against those who have made an " attack upon one of the most important and constitutional of the people's rights— the right of public meeting," he utters the strongest condemnation of the League itself, which brought that right into disrepute and disgrace by obstinately insisting on exercising it improperly, and thus giving occasion to all that followed. But, to speak strictly, it was not a public meeting at all that was ever contemplated in Hyde-park, and of this Mr. Bea_!es must be perfectly aware. And the opinion that " a large peaceful gathering" is in it self sufficient to " show convincingly what is really the state of the national feeling," is utterly worth less. Such "gatherings" are, from their very nature, powerless for discussion. They advance no question and prove nothing beyond their own existence, which is of a very doubtful value and tendency. Mr. George Potter followed in support of the reso lution which declared that the working classes " will be satisfied with nothing less than the speedy in troduction of a bill for the amendment of the repre sentation on the basis of residential and registered manhood suffrage and the ballot ;" and certainly addressed himself more closely and successfully to the subject. With the help of many figures he vin dicated the title of the working classes to a stake in the country, and based upon it the assertion that "the principles of honesty, morality, and justice should be observed in matters of government and taxation," which, although true as a proposition, by no means leads to the ground taken up by the resolu tion it was intended to support. Nevertheless, al though there are very few who are of opinion that either honesty, morality, or justice require the in stitution of manhood suffrage, there are still fewer who deny the propriety of au extension of the suf frage beyond its present limits. Mr. Potter did not overstate the case when he said that the claims of the unenfranchised have been " recognised by both Liberal and Conservative Governments," although that recognition by no means implies a recognition of universal suffrage ; and the Reform Bill of the session now expired, which proposed a most liberal extension of the franchise, if it failed, failed not upon the merits of that extension, but owing to the un happy and ill-judged manner in which it was pre sented and conducted in Parliament. Mr. Connolly, who made an unfortunate and suggestive reference to Jack Cade, and Mr. Odgers appear chiefly to have concerned themselves with invective against the supposed opponents of Reform, and a laudation of Mr. Gladstone and their "noble selves;" while Mr. Mason Jones we n t so f ar as t o propose ie tem perate measure of a petition to her Majesty, request ing her to exchange her Ministers - for Mr. Jones's nominees. Apart from such little eccentricities as these, the meeting appears to have been creditable to its promoters and their cause, and we trust it will mark a return on their part to the proper and recog nised exercise of the " most important and constitu tional right" of public meeting, as distinguished from demonstrations which have hitherto demon strated nothing but the inability of those who get them up to control them. DAILY NEWS.—The sudden arrival of the Empress of Mexico heightens the interest which so many Eno.- lishmen have reason to take in the affairs of that country. It is natural to suppose that the Emperor Maximilian would not have permitted the partner of his throne to make a sudden voyage to Europe in the ordinary French mail steamer unless the busi ness on which she came were extremely urgent. The Empress Charlotte is no merely ornamental- o f a court : s h e i s a woman of courage and dignity, o f capac i ous understanding and prac tieal aptitude, formed in all respects to figure with distinction in the great world. She has had a full share of the responsibilities as well as the perils at tending her husband's remarkable adventure in the New World ; and now that that • enterprise has reached its crisis; the public will not be far wrong in supposing that the Emperor Maximilian, tired of the periphrases of diplomacy, has permitted his other self to visit the distant source and centre of his power to learn at first band what further aid he has to expect from the creator of his throne and empire. There can be no doubt that this was the wisest step he could take ; if the truth is to be got at the Empress will find it. The Emperor of the French, however, may justly complain if he will, for it is rather sharp practice to introduce feminine naivete and persistence into an affair so mysteriotis and sacred as diplomacy without a moment's warn ing. The Empress left Mexico before the great events which have recently taken place in Germany could be known there. Unless the Emperor Maxi' ruffian had better information than was accessible to the European p u bli c t wo mon th s a go, he must have been expecting when he parted with the Empress to hea r soon th a t M ars h a l Benedek bad. chastised Prussian i nso l ence i n th e ne ighbourhood of Berlin. The Empress would probably. re ceive intelligence of the battle of SadoWst though scarcely of its vast political consequences, on her way to Europe. She finds the Empero r Napoleon preoccupied with affairs compared Wi th which the Mexican enterprise was a holiday diver sion. No one in France now thinks of the laurels which Marshals F ore y an d B aza i ne h av e gather ed the in the New World, a n d i t i s t o be feared that Empress will not be able to dazzle Napoleon with prospects that will withdraw him from the care s that now crowd upon him in Europe. The Empress of Mexico . is a sensible woman, and will take in the situation at a glance. She will be able to judge for herself what are the chances\ of her husband re ceiving succour from Europe. The French arrey and the French treasury have been the reserve on which the Emperor of Mexico has freely drawn fo r these two years. The E m p ress w ill p er ceive the" , this is a crisis in which the Imperial banker at Paris must in justice to himself draw together all his re sources, close outstanding transactions, taking but on taking from his debtors whate v e r th e y are a bl e t o no account parting with more . If th e Mexican Empire can stand w h en th e F renc h t roops have been recalled, and supplies of F renc h mone y h a ve ceasea, to flow, well ; if not, the E m p ress w ill h a rdly fin' it worth while to make a n oth er vo y age a cross the Atlantic. The political, military, a n d financial con dition of Mexico have bee n s k e t c h e d w ith a etas'terly hand by the p resen t F renc h Mi n ister 0 ' Foreign Affairs in more than one despatch since the beginning of the year, and the facts constitute a full justification of the resolution announced by the French Government to withdraw from its interven tion in Mexico. But there are certain results ot, that intervention which will .remain after the fina l settlement of accounts between the two Emperors,: and which greatly concern the British creditor. At the beginning of the year Mr. Middleton, Secretary of the British Legation in Mexico, sent home an approximate estimate of the amount of the revenue and expenditure of th e M ex i can Empire tc, be cal culated on for the year 1866. We reprint it :- REVENUE. Dollars. Maritime Custom-houses 12,500,000 Internal Custom-houses 5,200,000 Direct taxes upon property in town and country 1,200,0 00 Ditto upon commercial and industrial estab lishments 250, 000 Mining duties 650,00A Stamped paper, post-office, and other miscella neous taxes 1,000,000 Total 20,800,000 EXPENDITURE. Dollars. Imperial House 4740, 000 Ministry of the Imperial H ouse 30,0 00 71 State 77 Foreign Affairs 77 the Interior 3,7 00 7 000 77 Justice , 900 ,000 ' 77 Public Instruction 77 War ,1 Public Works 1 ,626,0 00 Finance 3, 40 0 ,000 77 .--- Total 25,434 ,0°0 Mr. Middleton suggests that the Customs revenue may produce a millio n d o ll ars more th an t h e among',. stated above ; but when he expressed that opinion he did not know that the French occupation, whic h had given such an impulse to consumption aid int; portation, was 'about to cease. On the other baud, he points out that th e cos t o f th e F renc h contingeou,, is not included in the estimate. He observes, mor e ' over, that, " owing tothe little progress being mad e , in the pacification o f th e coun t ry, " the amount sets down for military expenditure will not prove suf ficient. The charges of the public debt remain to be added. They are as follows : PUBLIC DEBT. Dollars. D ollarS. Interest and sinking-fund on British Convention Ditto, ditto, on Padre Moran Convention Ditto, ditto, on Spanish Conven tion 450,000 Interest and sinking-fund on the Internal Debt The Government estimate of In- terest payable on the Mexican Stocks in London, including the Deferred Bonds, and on the amounts of the Miramar and Paris Loans, is calculated at 10,280,000 12,830,0 00 Unpaid balances on Laguna, Seca, and Guada lajara Cond uc t as , es ti ma t e d at 150 ,000 Sundry recog n is e d c l a i ms Subvention to Vera Cruz Railway 1,350,000 ----- Total . 14,59 5 , 000 The general result is thus stated by Mr. Middle' ton : Dollars. Dollars. Total revenue Imperial House and the different Departments of State 25,434,000 Interest on Public Debt 14,595,000 40,029,0 00 Total deficit 19,229, 000 lere, then, we find the Mexican Government, in the third year of the French expedition, with 8 0 annual deficit nearly equal in amount to the gross revenue. But this is not all. Since Mr. Middleton wrote, the French Government has come to ao agreement with that of the Emperor Maximilian , under which the debt owing to France for the ex penses incurred in setting up the Emperor Maxi" milian's throne is taken at ten millions sterling; upon which sum interest is to be paid at the rate 01 three per cent. So, then, it comes to this, that the French inte rven ti on , which was to have regenerated Mexico, but whi c h,.i n f act, h as mere l y i ntens ified all the evils previously existing there, has saddled Mexico with an additional annual burden of two millions and a half sterling—a souvenir of th e .French occupation which the Mexicans will doubt less be careful to preserve. COUNTRY MARKETS. ♦ • DIRMINGIIAM—TRrnsDAY. At this day's market there was a full supply of wheat from the farmers for which much higher prices were de manded, but the market closed dull at last week's rates. Bailey 6d. per qr. higher. Oats only taken in retail. Bear Is. per qr. lower. Peas rather higher. BURY ST. EDMUND'S—WEDNESDAY. There was a fair supply of wheat at this market to-daYd and the trade wa s fi rm at t h e rates of last week. Seve ral samples of new Tal a v era were s h own, the quality of w hic'' , was fine, and the condition good. White wheat, 58s to GOs ; old red, 49s to 51s; new red. 44s to 48s ; grinding barley, 35s to 38s; Page's prolific bar ley, 39s to 40s per qr. A.verages :—Wheat, 8941 quarters, at 46s 9d ; barley, -- qrs., at s Od ; oats, qrs, at Os Od. BRISTOL —THURSDAY. On our market to-day English wheat;was in short suPPIYI and rather dearer. Foreign held for ls. per qr. advance a but with v e ry lit t l e d o i ng. Barley in good request, 6d. per qr. dearer ; fine qualities very scarce. Oats 1"' limited inquiry, an d aga i n the turn lower ; some new Irish tawney, per steamer, realised 225. per 3041 b. In Indian corn a fair business doing at a reduction of 6d. per qr. MANCHES TER—TirmsDAy. Our market this morning was fairly attended. Good fresh English was in short supply, and sold freely at rather more money; but other sorts, as well as foreign,were only in moderate request, and cannot be quoted dearer. Flea met a limited demand, at the currency of this day senn'ight' Oats and oatmeal moved slowly, at late rates. Beam ruled steady. Indian corn was s li g htl y i n f avou r 0 buyers. EDINBURGH—WEDNESDAY. Wheat on the top, Os Gd up average, is Od IV. Barley on the top, Os Gd down average, 3s 4d dovrn• Oats on the top, U s 6d up average, Os Gd up. Beans on the top, is 6d down average, Os ld up. Total supply and sales. Wheat ...................... 818 qrs sold 698 Barley ...................... 106 qrs sold 68 Oats 1137 qrs sold 503 Beans llB qrs sold 8 4 Average prices. Wheat, 48s ld I Oats, 30s lld Barley, 33s 2d 1 Beans 53s 6d L.. .. Town -made fl our se ll s as f o ll ows : —Whi te, 41s 6d; 014 ' superfine, 40s Od ; superfine, 38s 6d ; fi ne , 37s Od. GLASGOW—WEDNESDAY. id To-day's m ar k e t was thi n l y atten d e d . Wh ea t was he la rather dearer, but the business done was small; b a rley an peas unaltered ; beans a n d oa t s th e t urn cheaper ; Indlan corn 3d. lower per 2801 b. Births. Coin —On the 7th inst., at Harleston, Norfolk, the Wife of Adolpe Comte, Esq., of Paris, of a daughter. EvrnsOn the 9th inst., a t 33 , W est b ourne - par k, the vri f -- ° of Gustaf Evers, Esq., of a son. Marriages. r hn'o CUNNINGILOSE —*MACDONELL —On the 7th inst., at St.. , °-- 1 ,, Church, ERnburgh, John Cunningham°, Esq., of na t. gownie, Perthshire, and Throsk, Stirlingshire, late OW f 12th Lancers, to Helen Rebecca, youngest daughter ° f the late Eneas Ranaldson Macdonell, Esq., of Gi en g aill and Clan Rancid. WILDE—GREENE-0 n the 9th inst., at Kirby Cane, in 14 1 folk, Colonel Alfred Wilde, C.B. C. 5.1., an d A.D.C. the Queen, to Ellen Margaret, third daughter of Colonel G. T. Greene, C.B. Deaths. ALDRIDGE—On the 7th inst., at St. Leonard's F O - 6 f Horsham, the Rev. Cha r l es C. Aldridge,.A., curate ° f Putney, aged 27. BRYANT—On the Bth inst., at 4, Northampton-square, AB' Bryant, Esq., 31.8.C.5. and L.S.A., aged 68. BRASS—On the 7th inst., Sarah, daughter of the late Will' Brass, Esq., of Silver-str ee t, L o ndon. _M WE' London : Printed and PuLlished by WILLIAM" AND...—. M of No. 112, Strand, Printer. at Tan Sox Oklioe. ° " ts ; . o g Strand, in the r lto i na t of, the Savoy, ln the C°llll-. Middlemex—Friday, August 10,1888. I 14 . ' i . PI C ti (.: b