The Sun. — London, England, 1866-09-05 00:00:00

ATL A. iE OF 1865. The recovery of the cable of 1865 from the very lowest depths of the Atlantic seems to have taken the world by surprise. It is not, however, too much to say that no class of the community has felt more astonishment than those who are best acquainted with the difficulties of the task—the electricians. Few believed with them that a good cable could be laid across the Atlantic at all, while still fewer believed in the pessibility of a broken cable being picked up from three miles' depth of water. The few who re turned from last year's expedition knew that they had grappled the broken cable, and could have brought it to the surface but for the weakness of their apparatus ; but it is not too much to say that many even of the.directors of the Atlantic Company were incredulous on the subject; and looked on the wire of 1865 as hopelessly lost. That this opinion was almost universal may be judged from the fact that the underwriters who had insured it at once paid on it as on a total loss, and a curious question will now arise as to the amount of salvage to which the Great Eastern is entitled for bringing the cable to light again and restoring it to speech. Fuller details have now come to hand as to the manner in which the cable was raised. From the moment of the fracture of last year's cable till last Sunday morning the reflecting marinegalvanometer connected with the shore end at Valentia has been incessantly watched. Night and a day for a whole year an electrician has always been :on duty watch ing the tiny ray of light through which signals are given, and twice every day the whole length of wire —1,240 miles—has been tested for " conductivity" and insulation. The results of these tests were almost marvellous in their uniformity, and they showed conclusively that up to the point of fracture the cable was as perfect as on the day on which it left the works—apart, of course, from the improve ment which always takes place in a wire submerged in the cool and uniform temperature of great ocean depths. The object of observing the ray of light was, of course, not any expectation of a message, but simply to keep an accurate record of the condition of the wire. Sometimes, indeed, wild, incoherent messages from the deep did come, but these were merely the result of magnetic storms and earth currents which deflected the galvanometer rapidly and spelt the most extraordinary words, and sometimes even sentences of nonsense, upon the gra duated scale before the mirror. Suddenly, last Sun day morning, at a quater to 6, while the light was being watched by Mr. May, he observed a peculiar indication about the light, which showed at once to his experienced eye that a message was near at hand. In a few minutes afterwards the unsteady flickering was changed to coherency, if we may use such a term, and at once the cable began to speak. The messages which have already appeared in our columns came with a distinctness and precision even greater than those of the cable laid this year. No repetition of a word or letter was necessary, and a few sentences of warm congratulation were at once sent back, and as quickly responded to from the Great Eastern by Mr. Canning. Both the shore ends of the last year's cable and that laid this year being in the little shanty at Foilhommcrum, a mes sage of the good news was at once sent through to heart's Content, and a reply, wishing every good fortune to the rest of the enterprise, was sent back to Foilhommerum and transmitted to the Great Eastern in the centre of the Atlantic within a quar ter of an hour. So also with the messages announc ing to the directors in London that the cable had been raised. These, though they can scarcely be said to have left Ireland before 7 o'clock, were de livered in the metropolis before 9, and return ines. sages were sent back to the Great Eastern before midday. Now as to raising the cable itself. Only those acquainted with telegraphic expeditions know the dismay caused by the report, like that of a cannon, as the weights of the dynamometer fall, when the cable parts and the wire leaps up over the stern of the ship and disappears like a flash in the depths of the ocean. Such an accident in the beginning of submarine telegraphy was supposed to be fatal and irremediable even if it occurred in only 3004athoms of water. The science of laying cables, however, has progressed with a rapidity almost commensurate with electricity itself, and within the last 10 years cable after cable has been raised for repair from such gradually increasing depths that now a thousand fathoms is considered, comparatively speaking, shoal water in which to grapple for a wire. Last year, after the chble parted,. it was grappled successfully many times, but as the machinery, was too weak it was never brought to the surface, and of course the fact of its ever having been caught at all was dis believed. Messrs. Canning and Clifford, however, were perfectly confident, and as their records bore out their assertions they were allowed to make pro- per machinery of their own designs with which to raise the cable which was broken last year. The result has proved that they were right in their anti eipations. if any of our readers can imagine what the difficulty would be of picking up a little rope in Cheapside from the top of St. Paul's, they will be able to form a faint notion of the difficulty of lift ing the wire lost last year in three miles' depth of water and in the middle of the Atlantic. Apparently, however, the ships, fitted with proper apparatus, found no more difficulty in grappling the cable than one might experience in raising night-lines for eels. They all caught it, and caught it almost when and where they wanted. The weather was very rough, but, nevertheless, the Medway, which was the first on the ground, succeeded in catching it, raising it partly, and buoying it. In the night, however, while a heavy sea was running, the buoy ropes gave way, and the cable went to the bOttom again. It must be remembered that, from repeated sound- ings taken for the purposes of the telegraph, no ocean bed is so well known to us as the bottom of the Atlantic. When the cable was grappled for it was covered with a soil composed literally of minute shells of the diatomacece tribe, so minute, in fact, as to be only visible under a microscope, and so fine in their organisation as to prove that not the slightest motion can exist at those depths, for otherwise their delicate formation would be destroyed. On these the cable has lain harmlessly as on a bed of sand, and the grapnels, as we have said, at once caught it. The Great Eastern and the Medway did not arrive on the searehing-ground till the 12th of the month, and after-- preliminary arrangements bad been made for working i n con_ cert, the Great Eastern, on the evening of 15th, caught and raised the cable more than 500 fathoms. In the act of buoying it the buoy rope slipped and it was again lost. On the second day she caught it again, and this time brought it to the surface. In the act of bringing it over the bows the grapnel surged and the wire again plunged down to its rest ing-place, three miles beneath the ships. Once more, within two days, it was raised by the Great Eastern, while the Albany, to the west, caught and , - broke it, and all the work had to be begun again. On the 26th the Medway caught it and brought it up a thousand fathoms, when, the sea being rough, and the strain on the grapnel sudden and violent from the pitching of the vessel, the rope broke. On the evening of the same day, however, the Albany caught it again, and brought it to the surface, and the Great Eastern, to " make assurance doubly sure," got two miles of it on board and securely buoyed what was outside the vessel. The work of making the splice at once commenced, but not where the wire was fastened to the buoy. The Great Eastern, on the contrary, underran the wire to a considerable distance to the east in order to get rid of the tangle in which the different buoy and grapnel ropes must have involved its western ex tremity. After this necessary process some 80 miles of the wire were abandoned. The Great Eastern has now about four more days' steaming to bring her safely into lieart's Contest. Already she has passed the 'deepest water on her route ; in fact, the very deepest water she can en counter was that from which she has raised the cable of last year. All fear, therefore, as to the safety of the line may be considered at an end, and by Sunday next at latest the shareholders will be in possession of two perfect linen. flow much they _ _ may be congratulated on this may be guessed from the fact that their present line, which is steadily increasing in its returns, is already earning money at the rate of £900,000 a year. No one will-grudge them their profits, for no one can deny them the credit which is due to their unflinching determina tion in the face of years of loss and ft ilure. If there be any one individual to who'll more than another the chief credit of the enterprise belongs it is certainly Mr. Glass. On him have mainly fallen the labour and the loss, and to him is due the honour of success. Naval and Military Intelligence. When the levee at Devonport Dockyard closed on Monday, at half-past two o'clock, Sir John Pakington joined his colleagues at Keyham, and they proceeded to inspect several of the ships of war in Hamoaze, including the Nile, Indus, Ocean, Agincourt, Implacable, Wyvern, Nassau, Royal Albert, and Canopus. Yesterday morning they went on board the Royal Adelaide, and, but for the heavy rain, would have visited the Impreg nable, Cambridge, and the ships for training boys. Meanwhile the Admiralty yacht was moved from Hamoaze into Barn Pool, where Sir John was to entertain Admiral Xelverton and the officers of the Channel squadron liow in the Sound. At 11 in the evening the Osborne was appointed to start for the Scilly Islands, Cork, and Pembroke. The Duke of Cambridge has left Gloucester House, Piccadilly, on a tour of visits in Scotland. The appointment by the Admiralty of Captain Astley Cooper Key, C. 8., governor of the Royal Naval College, Portsmouth, and commanding the Excellent gunnery establishment, to the new office of " Acting Director-General of Naval Ordnance," fulfils the pledge made on the subject by Sir John Pakington and his colleagues during the recent Admiralty inspection at Portsmouth, and, it may fairly be presumed, is the first step towards the establishment of a permanent Naval Ordnance- office, for the arrangement and supply of Her Ma jesty's ships without interference on the part of the authorities of the War Department. To the navy this is one of the most important appointments made for a great number of years, and we trust the Ad miralty will invest the new office with sufficient powers and Capt. Key with sufficient responsibility to satisfy the country that the supply of guns to the iron-clad ships of her Majesty's navy will at once be taken in hand with all the energy and ra pidity which its vast importance demands, and which we may reasonably expect from Capt. Key's known opinions on the subject. The appointment has been made just in time. Of the 29 completed vessels forming our iron-clad fleet, not one is yet armed with armour-piercing guns according to the new scale. We possess the swiftest and the strongest iron-clothed ships in the world, but they all carry guns whose projectiles are harmless against ships of similar weight and thickness of broadside armour. Russia has armed her ships with a large number of Krupp steel and other ordnance of the heaviest kind. Austria and Prussia have not been behiudhand in the matter, and even the ships of the new Italian kingdom carry heavier guns than the ships of this country. Brazil and Chili both possess a goodly fleet of iron-clads—not Warriors, it is true—all carrying heavy rifled guns, and America has lately shown us specimens of her 15-inch Rodman smooth bores in the turrets of the Miantonomah, and calls attention to others of 20-inch bore and to thousands of Parrot rifles in store. We are in no such state ofprepa ration. The first completed set of guns, with their car riages and slides, for any one of the iron-clad ships of this country is now being landed on the wharf of the steam basin of Portsmouth Dockyard. They are for the Bellerophon, screw iron frigate, Capt. E. Tatham, now cruising off Portland, but daily expected at Portsmouth to land the ballast with which her decks at present are cumbered, and ship her 9-inch 12-ton rifles in their proper positions in battery. When the Bellerophon has her guns on board, we certainly shall have one efficiently armed ironclad frigate to compare with those of other nations, and we shall have the satisfaction of knowing that she will be the heaviest armed broadside gun ship in the world. The guns for the Bellerophon consist of 12 12-ton 9-inch rifles, ten of which will be fought behind the 1 1 61-inch plated broadside of her central battery, with four 64-ton 7-inch rifles, and four lighter gnus for chase and shell practice. The ten guns in the cen tral battery will be trained by means of lever arms fitting in a slotway on the under part of the slide, and worked from the deck below the battery. By this arrangement half the gun's crew will be placed below the water-line of the ship, in perfect safety from shot, shell, or splinters entering the gunports, and will necessarily keep the battery deck so much the clearer in time of action. While the Bellerophon will thus, as a plated iron frigate completed accord ing to her original designs, embody in herself what we believe to be the essential requisites of a perfect broadside gun ship, in her speed, her handiness under steam and sail, the thickness and toughness of her sides and the power of her guns, there is another frigate at Portsmouth which, as a converted and plated wooden frigate, will also be the representative of her class, and will rank not unworthily alongside even the iron Bellerophon. This vessel is the Royal Alfred, fitting out by Capt. E. Tumour for flagship duties, and reported to be intended for the North American and West India station, for which she is pre-eminently adapted. She is a wooden ship carrying the usual coppering below the water-line, will have an armament equal to that of the Bellerophon, carries 6k-inch plating over her central battery, will have a 12-knot measured mile speed, and has ample accom modation for officers and crew, with excellent ven tilation throughout. The Royal Alfred was nearly finished under No. 6 building slip of Portsmouth yard as a 90-gun frigate, when she was partially taken down and converted to a frigate to carry armour-plating. Since Mr. E. J. Reed has been in office he has taken the Royal Alfred in hand, and the frigate, instead of only carrying 68-pounder smooth-bore guns behind 4i-inch plating, as was at first intended, will now carry, like the Bellerophon, ten 12-ton 9-inch rifles behind 6i-inch plating. On the portions of her main deck outside the cen tral battery she will carry four 6-ton 7-inch rifles, to fire either through broadside ports or through the ports behind her bow and stern armour-plating. On her upper deck she is also to carry four of the 6-ton 7-inch rifles, besides the usual complement of field and boat guns. The guns for the frigate are said to be all ready for her, but only one carriage and slide has yet been received for her at Ports mouth, and this is now in hand in the Steam Fac- tory, fitti ng w ith runn i ng i n and out gear—and otherwise completing in some of the details of the fittings. All the carriages and slides for the Royal Alfred are to be completed in this way, in order to expedite as rapidly as possible the equipment of the ship for service. The armour -plating of the Royal Alfred is disposed in four forms-L-1. A band of plating entirely round at the water-line. 2. Cen tral broadside armour -plating, rising from water line band to upper-deck planking, 100 ft in length on each side. 3. The entire of the bows and stern encased with plating. 4. Plated bulkheads across the gun-deck at the extremiti es of the broad side forming the armour-enclo se d central ship's plati ng, battery. a n t n e r , v C et a t p e, t. C L a u p a t r a d in , and the Pallas, armoured The Hector, armourir w o n n oci f e ri n g this morning to join the C Connolly, are both expected hann to el s fl a e i e l tfornomitsSwpietshteaernd cruise. The Orontes, screw iron troopship, Capt. H. W. Hire, sailed from Portsmouth yesterday afternoon for Queenstown, to embark the . Gist Regiment for conveyance to Quebec. The Robust, in course of building on No. 3 slip in Devonport Dockyard, to receive 81 guns, is to be cut down and converted into a double cupola armour-plated ship like the Royal Sovereign, 5 guns. The screw steamfrigate Orlando, 46, will be placed to-day in No. 1 dock in Keyham Steamyard. The screw steamsloop Vestal, 4, will to-day vacate No. 3 dock in Keyham Steamyard, in which will be placed the screw steamship Lord Clyde, 24, Capt. Roderick Dew, C.B. Rear-Admiral It. S. Robinson, Controller of the in p h l e o r gz i s a s j easttyW,soiroelwn isctheaDmosctkeyraesrhdip Navy, yest er d ay i nspected the departments and ships Industry C ommander Yonel, wen t d own to Woolwic hy , e sSttearff day, from Deptford, laden with a cargo of victualling Janeiro,agts stores T he for Admiralty R t Liverpool h ave c h artered io de agents the Cunard steamers Europa and Tarifa for the con veyance of the 13th Hussars and their horses to Canada. They will probably sail on Wednesday or Thursday next. The E battery, B Brigade, Royal Horse Artillery, from Dublin and Bristol, marched into garrison at Woolwich on Monday evening, and took up quar ters in the west square at the Royal Artillery bar racks, having started from Bristol on Aug. 25. The marching detail is as follows :—Capt. W. Saunders, in command, 2d Capts. E. Vaughan and W. Walton, Lieut. J. Bramley, Assist.-Surg. Ramsay, one vete rinary-sur., two staff-sergts., five sergts., five cor porals, four bombardiers, 57 gunners, 50 drivers, one farrier, one Armstrong armourer, four shoeing smiths, three collar makers, two wheelers, one trumpeter, 127 horses, six 9-pounder guns, six am munition waggons, one store limber, one forge, and one store cart. A detachment of nine non-commissioned officers, told off for special service in Canada, took their de parture yesterday from the depot, Royal Artillery, Woolwich, and proceeded by train to Liverpool, to take the mail packet thence to Quebec. We have to announce the death of Vice-Admiral C. Rich, who died yesterday afternoon at his tem porary residence in Pall-mall, from the effects of an accident. On Sunday night, in descending the lower flight of steps of the staircase at the United Service Club, he made a false step, and fell with great vio lence on the marble pavement. He sustained a very severe cut on the head, besides other injuries. The Admiral was immediately taken to his lodgings, a few doors from the Club, and medical aid was promptly obtained. He died yesterday afternoon between 12 and 1 o'clock. His commissions bore date as follows :—Lieut., June 28, 1810 ; Com mander, Jan. 27, 1816 ; Captain, June 28, 1838 ; retired Rear-Admiral, Sept. 10, 1857 ; and Vice- Admiral, Feb. 9, 1864. The following appointments have been made at the Admiralty :—Capt. -Utley Cooper iKey, C. 8., to be Acting Director-General of Naval Ordnance; Capt. Hood (of the Pylades) to the Excellent, vice Capt. Key; Sub-Lieut. G. H. R. Willis to the Lord Clyde ; Gilbert A. Meason, midshipman, to the Ocean ; John Masterman, midshipman, to the Hec tor ; C. J. G. Sawie, naval cadet, to the Ocean, as supernumerary ; Edward B. Eyre and Arthur Dew, naval cadets, nominated, and Peter Robertson, en gineer, to the Orontes. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 5, 1866. valent to a dividend of 2s. 6d. per share. There would be a further reduction in turnpikes in Novesaber next. Mr. NODES contended that the profits of the past half-year, including £1,084 for interest, did not exceed £9,988, which would admit of a dividend of only 3/ per cent., but they might make it 3- per cent. He was in favour of having 2d. fares on the various routes instead of 3d. fares. He moved as an amendment that the dividend be at the rate of 33- per cent. per annum, instead of at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum, as proposed by the directors. Mr. Fox complained that many of the men had too many hours and not sufficient rest. Mr. MACNAMARA, a director, said that everyman had a day's rest when he wanted it, and they were careful not to overwork their men. Mr. RADCLIFFE stated that the omnibus service between the Edgware-road and Hungerford-market was wholly inadequate to the wants of the public, particularly in the morning, and that it was impos sible for a large number to get seats, and when they did the journey occupied 25 minutes. Mr. ITACNA3IARA said they had put two or three new omnibuses on the route, and he believed the difficulty had been met, but, if not, he would be happy to meet Mr. Radcliffe on the subject. The amendment was negatived by a large ma jority, and ' i the report was unanimously adopted, together with the dividend at the rate of 5 per cent per annum for the past half-year. The proceedings concluded with a vote of thanks to the chairman and directors. UNITED GENERAL GAS. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held yesterday at the London Tavern; Mr. E. Hudson in the chair. The report stated that the profits for the half year amounted to £8,949, which added to £2,144 made a total of £11,093, out of which the directors recommended the payment of a dividend of 20s. per share and a bonus of 2s. per share, free of income tax. During the past session the Dublin Bill for carrying out the arrangement with the Alliance and Dublin Gas Consumers' Company had received the Royal assent ; and at Limerick there had been improvement. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report and accounts, said there was now no difficulty in the way of carrying out the arrangements with the Alliance Company., and the works would be handed over on the 29th of the present month. Mesrs. Hawkesly and Barlow had been engaged to value the company's property, and when they made their report the shareholders would be called to_ gether in special meeting to hear the result. Mr. RHODES seconded the motion. Mr. LYSLEY, M.P., desired to know whether the amount the shareholders were to receive depended upon the result of the examination. Mr. STEVENSON (a director) said the valuation was not to be less than £240,000, and not to exceed £270,000. Mr. LYSLEY, was surprised that the board, seeing their fu nc ti ons were to cease i n September, had not come forward with some proposition for a reduction in their remuneration. The CIIAIRJIAN said the board had the matter under consideration. The report was unanimously adopted, and a dividend declared as recommended. The retiring directors and auditors were re-elected and a vote of thanks to the Chairman closed the proceedings. Railway and other Companies. NORTHERN OF BUENOS AYRES. The report of the directors states that, as the whole line had been completed throughout the past financial year, the directors had deemed it right to debit the revenue account with all that was fairly chargeable to it, in order that every shareholder might understand the actual result of the year's working. The directors had secured the services . of Mr. J. B. Thomson, late of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway, who had reached Buenos Ayres in March last. The gross receipts were equal to those of the corresponding months of last year, showing that there was a fairly -earned balance in favour of the company in Buenos Ayres. The direc tors deemed this a satisfactory result, as the damage done by the storm of March last was being repaired ; six miles of sleepers were being re-laid, and the re ceipts were at their lowest, being the winter months. The traffic for the year ending March amounted to $3,247,667, or £25,981 ; and for the year ending March last to $3,819,951, or £30,559, show ing an increase of £4,578. The receipts for the three months ending June amounted to $835,190, or £6,681, against $676,874, or £5,415 in the corre sponding period of 1865, showing an increase of £1,266. Tenders were invited for debentures at 12+ per cent., and applications had been received and deposits paid upon about £3,000, which, together with £72 received for interest, was placed to a sepa rate 2.ccount. The directors hoped that, with the improved state and prospects of the money-market, the required subscriptions for debentures might be shortly obtained on more favourable terms. They relied upon the forbearance of the creditors until after the meeting, when the whole matter would be submitted to the shareholders. It could not, how ever, be expected that this forbearance would be further continued. The directors had not yet re ceived the expected remittance from the Buenos Ayres Government in regard to the guarantee. The balance-sheet, to the 31st of March in Buenos Ayres and to the 30th of June in England, showed that £282,567 bad been expended on capital account. The revenue account showed that £30,427 had been received and £40,346 expended, including £8,164 expended in London, leaving a deficiency of £9,919. The liabilities of the company amounted to £57,837, and the assets to £19,087, the directors being em powered to issue debentures for the sum necessary to discharge the deficiency of this account. MELLIS AND EYE. The third ordinary meeting of this company was held on Monday at Eye—Mr. Chenery in the chair. The accounts showed that the receipts on capital account to Aug. 13, 1866, had been £7,066, while the expenditure had been £6,703, leaving a balance of £363. The Engineer (Mr. W. Bruff) reported that from the advanced state of the works there was every probability that the line would be ready for the Go vernment inspector early in October. The report was adopted, and the directors were authorised to raise £5,000 on loan. The proceedings closed with a vote of thanks to the chairman and directors. ATLANTIC AND GREAT WESTERN. The traffic receipts on this company's lines, 507 miles in length, amounted for the week ending Aug. 16 to $131,088, against $145,000 on 490 miles, for the corresponding week last year, showing a decrease o f $13,912. The total receipts from Ist Jan. to the above date amounted to $3,315,471, including $821,173 for passengers and $2,378,464 for freight, against $2,922,543 for the corresponding period of 1865, showing an increase of $392,928. LONDON GENERAL OMNIBUS (LIMITED). The half -yearly meeting of this company was held yesterday at the offices, Finsbury-square—Mr. Law in the chair. ' The report was taken as read. The CHAIIIM4N said it would have been most gra tifying to him if they were in a position to declare the same dividend they had on the last three occa sions. It was so far satisfactory that the decrease in the dividend did not arise from a diminution of business, as their receipts had been £5,000 more than for the corresponding half of last year, and they had carried 659,000 more passengers. They had been obliged to expend £20,000 more in food for the horses than in the corresponding half of 1865. They could not control the prices during the past half-year, but the charges had since become less. 'f he additional railway competition had not di minished their receipts on the whole ; he believed there would always be a large omnibus business in London, and that they would not suffer by railway competition, either now or at any future time. They had got a boon from the late Chancellor of the Ex chequer by the reduction of the mileage duty. If they had not had that boon they could not have maintained their position as having a fair average prosperity. The balance -sheet showed debts amount ing to £51,800, the assets being £120,454, leaving a balance of £68,388 after all debts were paid. They had had to pay in compensation 1,000 guineas for an accident to a passenger 22 stone in weight, whose foot slipped, and who caught hold of a rail, which gave way, and partly contributed to the accident. When it was considered that they carried so many millions of passengers they had very few accidents. There was not much sympathy among juries for joint-stock companies, and therefore they had to meet the case as well as they could deal with it. Ile con cludedthat the report and statement of a c co un t b s y b ere moving ceived and adopted, and that a dividend of 2s. per share be declared out of the profits of the undertaking for the past half-year. In reply to ques tions he stated that the removal of the turnpikes had reduced their charges by £15,000 a-year, and when the reduction in the mileage duty to Government came into operation itwould reduce the large amount formerly paid under that head by £39,000 a-year. The loss from the high price of provender was equi- THE CHOLERA. MANSION-lIOUSE RELIEF COMMITTEE. Yesterday at a. meeting of the Working Com mittee held at the Mansion-house, a resolution was unanimously passed, on the motion of the Lord Mayor, to the effect that, in furtherance to the conference recently held between them and the com mittee of the Bishop of London's Cholera Fund, at which it was agreed without a dissentent voice that a part of the funds of each committee be set aside for immediate distribution among cholara conva lescent patients, the Mansion-house Committee apply a sum of not less than £2,000 for that purpose, and a copy of their resolution be forwrrdcd to the Bishop of London. The committee also passed a unanimous resolution, and on the motion of the Lord Mayor, in substance, that, in their opinion, it would be undesirable for them to select any public institu tion, or to take upon themselves any responsibility in reference to the placing of orphans, but that the amount (15,000) previously resolved to be devoted by them to that purpose be divided among the various local committees, and that these local com mittees should be empowered to select the orphan children, and to arrange for their maintenance, sub ject to the approval of the Mansion -house Com mittee. There were present at the meeting yester day, besides the Lord Mayor, Sir Mordaunt Wells, Mr. John Abel Smith, M.P., Mr. Charles Hutton, Mr. H. W. Ripley, Mr. Richard Hoare, Mr. R. B. Wade, Mr. W. J. Maxwell, and Mr. R. N. Fowler. The Lord Mayor took occasion to say that those resolutions having been adopted, and the informa tion they had received from various quarters lead ing them to believe that the disease was materially subsiding, they would forthwith hold a conference with the local committees, to whom they were all deeply indebted for their cheerful and valuable so who had done the work oapsseirgantediontnin them emergency, cy, well, in whom they had im plicit confidence, as to the disbursement of the money which the Mansion-house Committee had set aside both for the benefit of convalescents and for the maintenance of children made orphans by the epidemic. The whole committee signified their ap proval of the course suggested by the Lord Mayor in those respects. Touching the disposal of the many children made orphans by the disease, Mr. Ernest Hart, who took so conspicuous a part in bringing about the recent inquiry into the condition of the sick poor in the metropolitan workhouses, has addressed a letter to the Lord Mayor describing the provision made for the 18,000 children committed to the charge of the Administration Generale de l'Assistance Pub lique of France and placed under the care of nurses and protectors in the country. All the children, he says, admitted to the asylum are immediately sent into the country, unless they are subject to some affection which requires special care, or their state of weakness or disease does not allow them to travel. The placing children of one and two years of age is carried out with facility, and under conditions which are considered to be satisfactory. Some difficulty is found in providing guardians for those of ages between six and 12. This is because only six francs a month are allowed for them, which is far from representing the cost of keep and cloth ing which they entail. This is for the department of the Seine. Others allow more. The Seine et Oise pay 12f. a month for children from 6 to 7 years old, and 12f. for children from 8 to 12 years, and so on. It is proposed, he says, to offer a higher tariff within the department of the Seine for these children. The present effect of the very low rates paid in the latter is said to be that those who take charge of them seek to employ them in the care of cattle, or other occu pations, causing them to neglect attendance at school, which is, however, obligatory. In 1864, of 7,628 children from 6 to 8 years of age, who ought to have attended the schools, 6,518 were in regular attend ance, being 85 per cent. ; and, of 2,586 children from 10 to 12 years of age who ought to have attended religious instruction, 2,003 were in attendance, being 77.45 per cent. The medical service is so organised that the guardians (nourriciers) have always at a little distance from their home a doctor to whom re course may be bad. It is thought, however, that country persons of the class employed are not suffi ciently disposed to call in early the services of the physician, and this carelessness is considered to be a cause of a great part of the rather large mor tality of the children in the country. It is com bated as much as possible. The medical officers in dicate to the administration when a child requires to be removed to an hospital asylum or to be sent to the seaside. When a child has been preserved from all accidents from its birth up to the age of 12 its guardian is entitled to a reward of 50f. In 1864 this was paid for 317 children (equal to 15,850 f.) Every person taking charge of a child aged 12 years, and undertaking to support and teach him a trade, is also entitled to a sum of 50f. This was paid in 1864 for 813 children (40,650 f.) A cer tain number of the guardians had consented to sur render the rewards or apprentice fees to which they were entitled, and these sums, placed to the credit of the respective children, have furnished a valuable resource for them when ceasing to be under the guardianship of the administration. In December, 1864, 4,861 pupils had to their credit a capital of 304,654 f. 27c. A sum of 14,863 f. 25c. provided by the liberality of charitable persons was also distri buted in 1864 as rewards, apprenticeship fees, or marriage portions to deserving young persons. Very few of the wards of the administration had caused trouble by serious misconduct. In 1864, out of a population of 10,000 young people from 10 to 21 years of age, only 24 were the objects of judicial in quiries, and then for acts of slight importance. Sixty-eight persons under 21 years of age demanded permission to marry. After 21 no consent is neces sary. Mr. Hart adds that those who have discussed the question of orphanages, as contrasted with the plan of placing children in country cottages, have done so without any other than either a theoretical opinion or very limited experience of two or three cases only in which children have been so disposed in cottages. The experiment is carried out success fully and on a very large scale indeed in France, and as no reference had hitherto been made to this fact he had thought it desirable to give some of the figures illustrating the operation of the French plan. Before separating yesterday the committee made grants to local committees to the amount in all of £250 towards the relief of the distress, £lOO of which they appropriated to Bow and Bromley. They received in the course of the day a welcome present of a cask containing 27 gallons of port wine from Mr. James Park, of Ball-court, Giltspur-street, for distribution among the sick and convalescent. A few days ago Mr. Henry Sprague, of Martin's-lane, Cannon-street, presented them with five jars of port for the same benevolent purpose. A check for £775., sent to the Lord Mayor towards the fund,was, by a slight clerical error, stated to be the donation of Mr. Cuthbert Borradaile alone, in stead of that of Messrs. Dean, the proprietors, and Mr. Borradaile, the editor, of " Debrett's illus trated Peerage," &c., Mr. Borradaile, in making the emendation, writes : " Will you allow me to add s word or two as to my expe rience —mentioned in Tuesday's papers—of the cholera districts in the east ? Could any one have imagined such a case as I saw last Sunday —an idiot boy of 10 years old, both of his parents dead from cholera, seven deaths in the house of his step-father, who had been left with two other step-children and one child of his own, and a grandmother standing by the child's bedside, who has openly announced her intention of exhibiting the boy,on his leaving the house as an idiot, cured of the worst form of cholera ?' I could mention several cases as sad as this, but hardly sorevolting. Two children in Limehouse, under 10 years of age, both of whose parents have died of cholera—children marked in the chaplain's list as of 'superior' birth and position ; two other children whoso widowed mother before she fell a victim to the disease supported seven orphan children in comfort ;' but I will not intrude further on your space, except to commend to your notice the propriety of directing atten-' tion to specialcases such as I have mentioned. Forinstance, could not the idiot boy I have spoken of be got into an asylum ?" THE BISHOP OF LONDON AND TIIE CHOLERA DISTRICTS. On Monday last the Bishop of London and Mrs. Tait visited St. James's, Ratcliff, one of the poorest districts in the east of London, where the cholera has been very prevalent and fatal. His lordship was received at the parsonage by the incumbent and the members of the Local Relief Committee, and proceeded to the church, which was crowded with poor people, very many of whom had suffered from cholera, either personally or in their families. Litany was said by the Rev. R. IL Atherton, the incum beat, after which the bishop preached a most im pressive sermon. He then went into the large school room adjoining, which wasfull of poor, some of them convalescts, scarcely able to stand, and nearly all in want of food. The bishop having addressed them in words of kindness and encouragement, pronounced the benediction, after which Mrs. Tait superintended the distribution of loaves to the poor. His lordship then visited the Mission Home, where sisters from St. Peter's Home, Brompton, and from St. George's Mission have been staying since the outbreak of cholera, and who have been, humanly speaking, in strumental in saving many lives. The bishop evinced great interest in their work, and offered up prayer for its success. Some clothes were afterwards given to the children of the ragged schools, who heartily cheered those who had cared for them. The help so promptly given by the Bishop's and the Mansion-house Committees has powerfully aided in checking the progress of cholera, but the local committee and others who are best acquainted with the wants of the people fear that, as the cholera is still among us, it will break out again if further help should be withheld. The incumbent is so convinced of the value of the services rendered by the sisters that he is anxious to establish a permanent Mission Home in his parish. The following is the daily return of deaths from cholera and diarrhoea in London, registered on Sun day and Monday, Sept. 2 and 3 : Cholera. Diarrhow,. West districts North districts Central districts.. East districts South districts ... 12 ... 15 Total •.• .. 30 ... 34 The returns for the sub-districts of Camden-town (Pancras) and Waterloo first part (Lambeth) were not received in time for publication. Bow AND BROMLEY SUB - DISTRICT.—Return of deaths from cholera and diarrhoea in this sub-dis• trict—For the week ending July 28, 144 ; Aug. 4 105 ; Aug. 11, 62 ; Aug. 18, 26 ; Aug. 25, 16 Sept. 1, 8. We see from the lists that one Alexander T. Stewart, dry-goods person, we believe, returns an income of $814,200 a year, the greatest in America. If Mr. Stewart is not the mere representative of a company, it is also, in all probability, the largest business income in the world. It is extremely improbable, if we except the Rothschilds, whose wealth is rather that of a family than of an indi vidual, that any uncrowned person has an income ap proaching Mr. Stewart's. If such a one exists, it must be among the South American States, where there are still one or two families surpassing those of Europe. Tho largest realised income in America is Mr. Astor's, returned, we believe, at more than £BO,OOO a year, a sum below the English highest level, but considerably above the boundary line between the rich and the millionaires, namely, £50,000 a year from realised property. Till recently thoro wero certainly not one thousand such millionaires in the world, but with the rise in rents an d prices tho number must have considerably increased.—Spectator. [ADVERTISEMENT.] Holloway's Pills. Liver Com plaints and Disorders of the Bowels.—lt is impossible to exaggerate the extraordinary virtues of this medicine in the treatment of all affections of tho liver or irregularities of the bowels. In case of depraved or super-abundant bile these pills, taken freely, have never been known to fail. In bowel complaints they are equally efficacious, but they should then be taken rather more sparingly, for every me dicine in the form of an aperient requires caution when the bowels are disordered, though a gentle or more genial ape rient than these pills in moderate doses has never yet been discovered. If taken according to the printed instructions they not only cure the complaint, but improve the whole system. AD VERTISEMENT.). -Avoid medicines: they always aggra vate chronic complaints, but Du Barry's Delicious Health- Restoring Itevalenta Arabica Food, which yields three times the nourishment of the best meat, saves fifty times its cost in other remedies, and invariably restores perfect digestion. strong nerves, sound lungs, healthy liver, pure blood, re freshing sleep, functional regularity, and energy to the most disordered or enfeebled. We extract a few out of 60,000 Cures :—Cure No. 58,216, of the Marchioness de Brehan, of seven years' liver complaint, wasting away, debility, nervousness, with a nervous palpitation all over, bad diges tion, constant sleeplessness, and the moat intolerable nervous i.gitation.—Cure No. 1.771. Lord Stuart de Decies. Lord Lieutenant of Waterford, of many years' dyspepsia.—No. 49,832. "Fifty years' Indescribable agony from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms, sickness, and vomiting.—Maria Jolly."—Cure No. 16,270. Mr. James Roberts, of Frimley, Surrey, of this ty years' diseased lung+, spitting of blood, liver derange meat, and partial deafness.—Cure No. 47,121. Miss Elizabeth Jacobs, of extreme nervousness, indigestion, gatherings, spirits, and nervous fancies.—Cure No. 54,b16. The Rev. Jas. I'. Campbell, Fakenham, Norfolk, "of indigestion and torpi dity of the liver. which had resiste 1 all medical treatment.' In tins, 11b, 2s 9cl; 21b, 4s 61; 51b, lls ; 121 b, 225; 241 b, 10 5.—Barry Du Barry and Co., No. 77, Regent-street, London; also Phillips, tea dealers, 8, King William-street ; likewise at 61, Gracechurch-street; 4, Cheapside ; 49, Bishopsgate street Within ; 63, 150, and 298, Oxford-street ; 330, Strand ; 54 , Upper Baker-street; 153, Tottenham-court-road; 96, Upper-street, Islington, N.; llarvey, Notting-hill; Close Brothers, 65, High-street ; and Stubbs, Queen's-terrace, St. John's -wood. London; and all respectable grocers and else. "jstd• -- BeWare QI §llvrious imitations, SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, TIMES.—The Home Secretary in this country has to discharge one very responsible and important office. He constitutes our only Court of Appeal in criminal cases. In France this office is entrusted to a C 01 0: de Cassation, and it has frequently been proposed to supplement our own judicial system by a similar provision. Such an institution, even ac cording to the analogy of our own law, appears but reasonable. In cases where property only is at stake a suit may often be prosecuted from court to court till it is finally referred to the highest legal authority in the kingdom. - In civil cases the power of appeal is provided even to excess, and it cannot but seem a great anomaly that the decisions of criminal justice, which have far more serious con sequences, should be wholly exempted from any re gular legal revision. A man may be convicted of a capital offence, and condemned either to death or to a civil death in a long term of penal servitude, and, however unjust the verdict, he has no oppor tunity of having it judicially revised, and, if neces sary, reversed. A technical flaw in the proceedings, as in the case of Charlotte Winsor, may be referred to a superior court ; but for the grossest misinter pretation of evidence, or the most palpable preju dice on the part of either judge or jury, there exists in the ordinary course of law no redress whatever. For the supply of this glaring deficiency we are obliged, in cases of material injustice, to resort to the clumsy expedient of applying through the Home Secretary for the clemency of the Crown. Such a course obviously fails to answer the strict demands of justice. At the utmost it only removes the consequences of the conviction, without redress ing the injustice of the conviction itself, and it often fails even to do as much as this. The process is generally slow, except in cases where the sentence of death has actually been pronounced, and the prisoner may be subjected to all the indignities and hardships of a felon before he can receive the par don which implies thatthey were wholly undeserved. But the more unsatisfactory such a method of appeal may be, the more necessary is it that it should be rendered in practice as efficient as possible. The Home Secretary repsents the only authority which is su perior to a British jury in criminal cases, and it-is incumbent on him to compensate by his vigour and decision the want of a more competent and satisfactory tribunal. If the energetic performance of this duty could ever be expected of a Home Sec retary, it would be from the member of a Govern ment whose' party have strenuously resisted any amendment of our anomalous system. If Mr. Wal pole considers that a Home Secretary is quite com petent to perform the duties of a Court of App ea l, he should be especially careful in his own person to assume the whole responsibility of the office. The public, therefore, have great reason to complain of the course Mr. Walpole has adopted in the now notorious case of 44 the Queen v. Toome r ," an d h e has succeeded in supplying a most conspicuous illus tration of the advantages of our present system. The principal facts of the case were recapitulated in a letter which appeared in our 'columns on Monday from a fellow-townsman of Toomer. This unfor tunate prisoner was convicted at the last Abingdon Assizes of committing a rape upon a Miss Partridge, and was condemned to 15 years' penal servitude, a sentence which he is now undergoing. The strongest considerations were adduced from the evidence to show that whatever might be the offence which Toomer had committed it could not possibly be re garded as a rape. The case was referred to in the House of Commons, and a memorial was in due course forwarded to the Home Secretary from the neighbourhood in which Toomer lived. There was a unanimous feeling that a gross injustice had been committed, and this was urged, not in opposition to the evidence adduced at the trial, but on the face of it. Upon the case thus being referred to him by way of appeal, Mr. Walpole first sends for the judge's notes ; and then replies that he does not think he ought to interfere with the conclusion which the judge and jury deliberately deduced from the evi dence. It is not his office, he appears to urge, to re verse the decision of juries. If Mr. Toomer's friends desire his intervention, they should refer the case, he says, to another jury by indicting Miss Partridge, the principal witness, for perjury,. and " if th ey are successful in gaining a verdict, it will be open to him to interfere." Irut suppose they are not suc cessful in gaining a verdict ; and suppose, for the sake of argument, that the first jury have perpe trated a great injustice, and the second jury have supported the injustice, does Mr. Walpole mean to say that he has no power to redress the wrong thus committed? If such a supposition were true, it would follow that we have no superior authority to appeal to at all, and if one blind jury follows the lead of another there is no power in England to correct their errors. But such a proposition is absurd. Mr. IValpole, as we have said, stands in the position of a Court of Appeal ; and the mere fact of his sending for the Judge's notes indicates that he possesses a power of revision. It is not his office merely to execute the verdicts of juries ; it is his business to revise them. What is alleged is that a jury have plainly misinterpreted the evidence put before them, and Mr. Walpole is appealed to that their decision may be reversed. Of course if he is candidly of opinion that no injustice has been coin mitted, he must leave matters to take their course, but if in his judgment the evidence does not bear out the verdict, it is his duty to say so, and to quash the conviction. This is the inherent responsi bility of his office, and he has no right to throw it upon the judge and jury, or, still worse, upon another judge and another jury. It is as absurd as if when an appeal Caine before the Lord Chancellor he were to say that he could not interfere with the deliberate decision of the Court below. A Home Secretary is a bad Court of Appeal, no doubt, but we have no better, and when a case is referred to him we have a right to expect a distinct opinion from him, on his own responsibility, one way or the other; if not, he might as well abdicate his office. It does not need a Secretary of State to in form us that a witness may be prosecuted for per jury. If Mr. Walpole has thus evaded the plain duty of his office, he has equally misapprehended the precise point which was referred to him. He tells Mr. Toomer's friends that Miss Partridge may be prosecuted for wilful and malicious perjury. Every one can perceive the hopelessness of such a prosecution. Not to speak of the susceptibility of a British jury, it is obvious that the only direct evidence which could be opposed to the statement of Miss Partridge would be that of Towner him self, which would be worthless for such a purpose. It is one thing, moreover, to cast a doubt upon the strenuousness of her resistance, and quite another to produce satisfactory evidence of wilfulness and malice in exaggerating it. But in appealing for Mr. Walpole's intervention no charge of perjury against the witness was implied. Of course, if she made a criminal charge at all, she designated the crime as rape, but her statement of facts may be admitted without assenting to her legal conclusions. The question proposed to Mr. Walpole is whether, assuming her evidence to be true, and an offence to have been committed of such a nature as she al leged, it amounted to the crime of rape. It was upon this point that the opinion of the public was so decidedly pronounced, and we cannot understand how any impartial person can have hesitated to sup port their universal conclusion. Here is a young woman who, having been induced to come to the house of an unmarried man upon false representa tions, consents, nevertheless, to remain, and to live on terms of intimacy with him. He soon makes his purpose plain, but she does not attempt to es cape. When he has committed the offence with which she charges him she condones it, and con tinues to live with him. She then discards the precaution of having a servant to sleep with her, and leaves her bedroom door unlocked ; and it is not until she has spent a whole night with the man she accuses that she brings this charge against him. It has not been sufficiently observed that the jury themselves recommended the prisoner to mercy on the ground that the prosecutrix had been " indis creet," and it is impossible not to suppose that the sentence was made designedly severe with the view of drawing public attention to the case. There is nothing to be said in palliation of Toomer's con duct, but it is ridiculous to call his offence rape, and it would be a monstrous cruelty if he were left to endure 15 years' penal servitude. It is this plain injustice which Mr. Walpole is called on to remedy, and he will neglect his duty if he omits either to reverse the verdict or to say plainly, which we think impossible, that he considers it just. lIERALD.—" To the north-west of Italy there is a great Power called France, to the north-east of Italy a great Power called Austria ; what I want is a check on the ambition of France." These were the words of Mr. Roebuck when he returned- to address the electors of Sheffield after a tour in Austria, when the civilities of archdukes and the smiles of archduchesses subdued his anti-Imperial and democratic sentiments. Mr. Roebuck, how ever, was the advocate of Austria not because he sympathised with her greatness, but because her greatness was a check on the ambition of France. What Mr. Roebuck's views are of the present crisis we must learn at another Cutlers' Feast ; but no thing can be more remarkable than the change that has taken place on the Continent since these words were spoken. A great empire has, iii the language of the First Napoleon, ceased to exist. It has been replaced by a still greater Power, which has sprung out of the chaotic elements of Northern Germany. No change in dissolving views is more remarkable than that which has, in an instant, replaced the House of Hapsburgh by the House of Hohenzollern. There was great force in 11 I r . Roebuck's observa tion, and the argument which he applied to Austria is equally applicable to what we may fairly call the eOl. w Prussian kingdom. It is undoubtedly in the interest of E uro p e and of peace that there s hould be a counterp o i se to the w eight and authority of France. It i s thi s i ns ti nc ti ve f ee ling of the na tion which has induced our countrymen to look on idun moved while treati es h ave b een torn up, and our el and ancient ally h as b een spo il e d of her possess ion ! and her prestige • the increased power of Prussia 1811 the defence of England. Not against the Frenc Emperor ; for, i n s pit e o f a ll th a t Mr. Kinglake may write or say, the E m p eror we fi r mly believe whin he again declares hi s emp i re t o b e peace. But even Emperors are mortal, and if the Emperor is Pea ce d : ful, France is not always in that mild frame of Eaul But we may be w e ll assured that Prussia Will not combat less energetically against the opinions r presented by the drapeau rouge , s h ou ld it ever s. unfurled again, tha n s h e h as combated , against A u . re tria. Before Bismarck urge d her against the eln,.P c ; i t he conquered the democracy at home, and he did by borrowing the arms of that formidable foe. re n'y a qu'un moyen," sa y s a grea t writer, " de va in `" , !. la Democratic re,,nante, c'est de lui emprunter lee armies ; le travail, et le talent." Certainly theseis arms have not been wantin g to Count Bismarck. , is well to talk of a nee dl e gun, or the celerity OL, marches, but these are the least part of the eeni, u ,,,i nation of merit which has achieved such unparallexu, and instantaneous success. It has been most truly remarked that since the French Revolution, ser i! , den and so great a change has not been rot e us the map of Europe. Old reigning houses, illus t “%t titles, free and independent cities, depende f nationalities, have all vanished like the al lu i ° Xerxes. Ho counted them at break of day, And when the sun set, whore wore they ?" Flavit Bismarck et dissiputu r . We seem to a wak 4. B 1, 0 from a short sleep, and find—like the tailor b7O " Arabian Nights" ou rse l ves transplanted ie; another land. It is Germany ; but the living many of yesterday no more. Princes may be seleo; like Belisarius, wandering about, and begging 0 0 an obolus, but, unlike Belisarius, their brig- 0 preceded their misfortunes. The awakening now. More enlightened counsels, a more dig er ! ing policy, a Bismarck among their stateswteseu! might have saved many of these small Sta ti o No needle gun, or even no personal valour, ea .ago have achieved such results had Prussia net enlisted, fighting on her side, the weakn e :b e and internal dissensions of the States whiet," d has now and for ever incorporated into her gang, dom. When Mr. Roebuck pays another visit te Gbh many he must make Berlin, and not Vienna/ li g, head-quarters. As we have said, from an Beg. or point of view, and after all that is the po int of ewe from which we must regard foreign affairs --all t o are glad to see that is the desire of Lord Stani e J t o do so—if there is required a counterpoise t,., ° he power of France, it matters not whether it is isi ke j found at Berlin or at Vienna. It was well relna, r t h o by one of our most eminent diplomatists battles of Solferino and Magenta were as danger ton us as if they had been fought in the wealds of 1%3; and that was because to weaken Austria at„,„ e . time was to strengthen France. It is not "d, serving to assert that, had the Austrian arnlY s al wanted to Berlin, and gathered together allthe O lio States to stamp them as her own, as Prussi s ne d, done, the result, as far as England is coueet e ic would have been the same. We are only goingAT l v to the old theory of the balance of power. fig ht by good fortune, instead of having ourselves to for that object so essential to the peace and ee il , be dente of Europe, it has been obtained for us by the energy of the man whose will has destroyed ter , remnants of old feudal Germany, and whose a e ea k mination will collect the scattered atoms of Governments into one great and powerul nationa COUNTRY MARKETS. BRISTOL—TUESDAY. re i Rain falling all the afternoon. Good attendance... ° A &- wheat fetched is advance. Barley and oats in go% wand. Extreme prices last week. Maize quiet. Oa" altered. MARKET HARBOROUGII.—TuEsDAY. 36 ' Old white wheat, 53s to 57s • new red, 48s to 54s ll t o St. stone. Barley, fine, —s ; other kinds, 288 to 38 5 p er o ld, Oats, new, 26s to 32s ; old, 30s to 34s per qr. Beall') 52s to Ms; new, 48s to 50s per qr. OO LIVERP L— TUESDAY. At this day's market there was a fair a ttendance of P. 1 1.. town and country trade, who generally evinced more niu'r position to buy than for some time past. Wheat an d met with an improved demand, and may be quoted 2d 11 0 cental and 6d per sack and barrel dearer on the wee k ' hi oats and oatmeal there was little doing an d no cbaaig.e„6 value. Barley, beans, and peas were in r'equest for fee ten' at full prices. Indian corn attracted considerable at yd tion, and some quantity found buyers, at 2s Gd to 2s A, per 480 lbs. for prime American mixed, showing a ll vane° of Gd per qr. on the week. 7kett AIId LEEDS-TUESDAY. We have a good show of grain to this day's mar he attendance better than of late. There has been 8 7,yet consumptive demand for dry new wheats at is per la t last Tuesday's rates, and good old is in better doman i , o ut Into prices. Barley nominal. Oats and beans wit" alteration. LYNN—TUESDAY. bite, Now wheat, 52s to 53s ; now r9d, 48s to 50s; old for for 54s to 56s ; old rod, 49s to 51s per 36 stone. Ba, r ` ° ;„olv . , malting, 37s to 40s ; secondary, 28s to 30s. pat s, " l e i 23s to 25s per 24 stone. Beans, small, 47s to 'P.M. rt ' 36s to 40s per 28 stone. GAINSBOROUGII—TuEsDAY. Vie r° Our market was tolerably supplied with whoa- + . gbt was a quiet trade at late rates. B e a ns not much so u after at recent currencies. Other articles as of late. SHEFFIELD—TUESDAY. 208 64 Red wheat, per load of 3 imp. bushels 19s Od --,,, 0.1 White do do 2ls Od to 2,,,,‘, 0 d New red do do lBB Od 4 '' o od New white do do 2ls Od f s od Beans do do l9B Od 400 Od Peas, per qr. Grinding bailey, per qr Ns Od _ 0 4 Malting,* barley, co 3Bs Od 4 2 ' 0 4 Oats, do 278 Od 3 20 Flour...Jo 10d to 2s Od per 141 b. Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DIIE. t. 0. Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton SeP 1 3. Ditto, via Marseilles SO% Brazil and Cape Verde, by British packet....•••• • • • °°V Sept.,. "2.2. Ditto, by French packet . , 1 .1. Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena..••SeP; lg. China, Penang:, and Singapore, via Southampton••SeP" 11 Ditto, via Marseilles ~....Sept* Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton SeP t " 11. t. 19 " India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton SO ‘3. Ditto, via Marseilles . ........ —.•••SeP t ; 12. India (Bombay), via Southampton. scp . Ditto, via Marseilles .. Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton ... .. ...... ........... 21 , * 2'; Ditto, via Marseilles Sept* ,; Mauritius, via Southampton Sep t. 4 - 4 Ditto, via Marseilles Selit" '" Newfoundland , ..... SePt" 4 1-; * Portugal ~.Oct. .___. . . . Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon. United Btates and British North America, by Bri- 4 iz • tish paoket Ditto, by United States packet, via SouthanaP" ton ...... ...••••.. ....... • Ditto, via Cork Ditto, by Canadi a n p ac k e t, v i a L on d on derry .• S e p t. i o. West Coaht of Africa, M a d e i ra , an d Teneriffe •• West Indies and Pacific (except Bahamas and t. IS. Honduras) ............ Sep t 29, CubWnd Mexico 26. Bermuda, via Halifax S e p t ' Bahamas, via New York. hag Congressman Hubbard, of West Virgil: l g ' t oes sent to the 4, conscience fund " of the Unitod Treasury the extra $2,000 w hi c h C ongr ess irot ed) saying that ho voted for the increase of pay be ca—e could not otherwise voto the bounty to the soldie::../' Births. Vi le EUSTACE—On the 2d inst., at O r i e l H ous e, Bath, tI,-e of John Eustace, Esq., of a daughter. OW ' HoLrouu—On the 3d inst., at 14 Orchard-street , P °rt , 13. square, tho wife of John H. Holford, Esq., al a- : i , 1.0 1 1 MILLS —On tho 4th inst ,at La I Kan t t-- ..., Louisa Mills, of a son. . m" eY' t obly' MURRAY—On the 29th ult., at 29 Westland-row, - ori . the wife of Major C. Murray, late 16th Regt, °f 3 - Marriages. blea t I C i r a a l zra m o .T ,. , Somerset , HALL---GRovw—On the 3d inst , at the parish church' o f VT• t 't o W I L . g E en :R E a m ll ily 3L , ,„,. O W. • Grove, Q.G., F.R. PREEDY—EuE—On the 4th inst. at St. Punstates7ol,oo4ll West, William II 1 • of Mr. J. 1 '''" de a come, youngest son - 1 of Temple - bar, to Anne, only daughter of the late 0. of Fleet-street. ta.u, daughter o. 1; Deaths. /410. ln ASIIBURY—On the 3d inst ,at his London residence, a_ 9, Sussex-place, Hyde-park-gardens, after a short ilin elisi; John Ashbury, Esq., of Manchester and London, BLGAtEy—On I'rionds will aktinildilgyhageerot, tits:l373:lll J. Blande, Esq., aged 72.. DUND AS—On the 3d inst. , 29 Redcliffe - roa d, Bran ) tpnr Edward Wm. Dundas. h a le o MAuryx—On the 3d inst., in Whitehall - g ardens, C. Martyn, Esq. MoLINE—On the 4th inst , at No. 4, Westcom be Bllck ata, Roert Mol sq d - 7 , ago i • Po il on an E t — s, o B n ir th G e . POCOCK—On he the 3d inst., n at E The Priory, Christch u rch par k_rosdi 2 E d . P in o s c t ock G , Bart., J ag r ed 74. sci. vor ., George J. Poore, pool, aged 66. 411 1 101. S TAINFORTII—On the 3d inst., at 9, Mark-lane, t he Francis J. 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