The Sun. — London, England, 1866-07-20 00:00:00

.RMY. (From the Special Correspondent of the Times.) HEAD -QUARTERS OF THE ARMY OF THE NORTH, OLmtrrz, July 13. Yesterday was distinguished by an incident of a personal character, which I shall narrate merely in order to give some idea of the difficulties which beset one in my position. Early in the morning I got, for the first time, my pass from the acting chief of the Staff. The document had long been promised, but in the confusion of the marching be fore and the retreating after the 3d of July I had not been able to obtain it, and was subjected to in termittent arrests and perpetual stoppages and in terrogatories—a sort of nomadic torture chamber— in consequence. There it was at last, the Haupt Quartier Staff seal, and a flattering description of my personal appearance on a printed form, and an order to all whom it might concern to let the bearer go to and fro without let or hindrance. It was early in the day. There was nothing doing at Olmutz. My horse had arrived at last from Vienna. The weather was charm ing—a hot breezy day. The Prus sians were said to have been seen in the neighbour hood of Littau, or Leittau, a town about 11 miles east and north of Olmutz ; and so my comrade and I resolved we would take a ride in that direction, and started off to see the country and the camps, and get a breath of fresh air. We passed out of one of the gates, and were soon on a fine high road lined with trees, which was, of course, alive with soldiers and camp equipages, and with country people coming in to sell their produce in the ever hungry army. There were forts on all sides rising out of the cornfields dotted with men at work, and there were poppy fields bright as a pre-Raphaelite painter's landscape, and there were fields still brighter with patches of gaily accoutred cavalry and white and green coated soldiery, and there was a glorious sweep of hill side and forest glade rising above the course of the march, and stretching away on the right to Prussian Silesia. And so we cantered on, gaily returning the salutations of the peasants, and now and then of an officer on his way to Olmutz. There was no music in the camps; no bands playing; none of the strains which enliven a soldier's rest and march alike. The last time the martial music for which the Austrian army is so famous was heard is only ten days gone by, and yet it seems an age. It was when the second line was advancing at Koniggratz to an assured victory. A beaten army is never very cheerful, but this is one of an elastic character, and perhaps some judicious., erry-making would do it good, and revive the spirits of the men. There is a good deal of marching about, but affairs of outposts and enterprises appear to be carefully avoided. Drumming there is to a limited extent as compared with a French army, and bugling as compared with our service is deficient, but there is a habit of sound ing a quick or two at intervals on the line of march to brisk up the men,which has a pleasant, inspiring. effect. There were many small detachments march ing along, and the road before us was thick with the dust of many feet of horses and men and the wheels of waggons. In less than half an hour we were out side the main body of the army, and no more bivouacs were to be seen in the fields, only a stray Uhlan or Lancer now and then, or an orderly with despatches, and the peasants in little knots as usual, the women always laden, or dragging heavy handbarrows, the men smoking as they walked along with their beasts of burden. Once came up a ragged Bohemian. "My Lords," said he in a whisper, motioning us to stop, "Look there! A man is sitting by the roadside under the tree yonder; he does nothing but write, write, write, in a book. Will you, my Lords, see if he is not a spy." A very suspicious Bohemian. When we came up to the man who wrote we asked him what he was doing, for it was pleasant to do a little bit of the Inquisition on one's own account, and we spoke as having authority. The man who wrote was awfully alarmed, and at once proceeded to satisfy us that he was merely summing up claims he had, a small dealer and chapman; against sundry peasant customers at Littau, and so, warning him to be care ful and do so no more, we rode on, and as we rode resolved to pay that townlet of which the spires rose before us in two respectable elevations a visit before we ascended a tall hill on the left, which promised a good view of the surrounding country. The hostinec of the Black Bear invited us to refresh man and beast, and so we rode into the stableyard under the inn gateway just as a light carriage entered and stopped at the door. A lady got out and entered the inn, and when the horses were put up we followed. The public room was not very tempting. A group of men sat at a table smoking and drinking beer, and listening to two gendarmes who were settling the affairs of the nation with great gravity. There was a suspicion of onions and trichnia mingled with the smoke of quaint vegetable matter and doubtful sckinken not calculated to promote appetite, and so the landlord, at our request, opened the door of the inner room, which was clean and neat, and therein we entered and sat down while the handmaiden was preparing a schnitzel of veal. The door of the end of the room opened soon after, and the lady whom we had seen getting out of the carriage came in and sat down at another table and addressed herself in silence to some refreshment. After a while the other door opened and in came the two gendarmes we had seen sitting in the outer room. They asked for our passes. These were produced. Then each taking one proceeded to read it slowly and to compare our descriptions with the owners. Mine excited some discussion between the two on a question of age and stoutness, but on the whole it was in my favour, and the two gendarmes folded up the passes, returned them, and left the room with a lingering air, as if they were loth to part and would like to take us up for the mere sake of keeping their hands in prac tice. The schnitzel was consumed, and we were thinking of leaving. At this moment there was a clatter of horses' boots in the little street, and a party of Uhlans— possibly some eight or ten in number dashed across the platz over the rude and slippery pavement with reckless rush, scattering a gr oup of people at the corner of th e street, and vanished. The lady rose from her table at the end of the room, ran to the window to look out, but the troopers had already gone. " I beg you, gentlemen, to tell me what was the colour of the men's facings and of their caps who passed. Was it yellow?" "No, not yellow." " Then it is not my husband's regiment," quoth the lady, and then in the most natural way in the world she began both to talk and ask questions. She was com ing to Olmutz to look for her children and for her husband, who was colonel of the 6th Uhlans, and the facings of his regiment were yellow, and the men had yellow on their caps. She knew they were some where about. As to ladies being with their husbands in war time it was not usual, but one lady had gone through the campaign with her husband, and never left him till fighting began, and so she wanted to see how she herself could get on. Then the conver sation became general about the Prussians. They had come to her house and had behaved very well-- that is, they had taken nothing forcibly, but they asked for whatever they had a mind to want, officers and men, and never paid a farthing for it. At Tropp an her father had see n 3,500 o f t h em t h e ot h er day. Th e y cost the poor pe o pl e 4,000 gu ld en a day and for their keep, lived at free quarte r s. Th en we had a peep out, and lady,the who had a very pretty little gloved h an d , leant over the table an d po i nte d out the places w h ere the Prussians al w l t e h re e , co f u o n r t s r h y e . lived close to th e fro t* After a time her carriage was announ l announced, and the lady bade us adieu with a pleasant s and tripped off, and we saw her drivi ng o ff towards Olmutz. We were leaving the room to go round for our horses, when one of the gendarmes, a - youn c , ,, th an w i th high cheek-bones, stood in the way You must come to the Chancellery," quoth he ; "you cannot leave." The why or wherefore we could not learn, and so, to the infinite satisfaction of all the people in the inn, and all the children in the square, who were joined by all the old people, male and female, we were marched across to an archway in a big building, where a jury of the most respectable Littauites, with spectacles on nose, had empannelled themselves to inspect us. The verdict was unfavourable and instantaneous. We had eccentric hats. Did ever any one ever see such preposterous boots and spurs? Spies, not a doubt of it. I sat down on a bench to await the arrival of an " authority," and my neigh- THE AUS T. bour shrank back and jumped up as if I had the plague. A little man in grey, with red tenet eyes, red head and whiskers, and inquisitive spectacles, tackled my companion, who explained what and who we were, and why we had cone t( Littau, and the little man gave it as his deci 1 1 opinion that we were no better than we ought to be, and that we had no business to be going about on horseback in such times at all. Disparaging remarks in Bohe mian and Moravian dialects were, we guessed, freely directed against our proceedings, and Chinese-eyed gendarmes swelled visibly with importance and in dignation. Our passports were exhibited for the little man, and increased his doubts. And, to cover all, another literary Lattauite found a tremendous mare's-nest. Why, my companion's pass was signed by Henikstein, a traitor, a man .now in prison for aiding the Prussians ! Mark that ! And mine was only dated that day. Spies, if ever men were ! There was a clamour, a grunting, and a growling; win dows were thrown up ; old women and children came forth as if from the earth. At last the au thority arrived, in the shape of a gentlemanly, el derly man, in civil costume, who proceeded upstairs to a large, official-looking saloon, with maps on the walls and tables and chairs, and books and papers of imposing appearance. We followed under charge of the gendarme. The authority took his place at a large table, while we stood before him, and heard the gendarme's statement. Then he examined our passports, and proceeded to ask us questions which showed the real nature of the case against us : "Were we aware that, even if the papers produced were genuine, we were only authorised by them to be with the head - quarters of the Northern army ? Why were we in Littau, between the Austrian and the Prussian armies, and close to the Prussian frontiers ? It was all very well to say we wanted to see something to write about, but we had no busi ness to leave Olmutz." " Had we ever seen the lady with whom we had spoken before ?" Never." " What, never ! Did you not wink at her when she came in ?" (This question I beg to say was addressed to my military companion.) " Not wink at her ? Are you quite sure ?" (The gendarme was convulsed with anger at the negative.) " Well, do you admit you spoke to her in a foreign language ?" " No, in German ; the lady only used a word of French, and spoke only German." (The gendarme gave a sigh at such dreadful mendacity, and rolled his eyes till they were quite gone out of sight.) " What were we three leaning over maps for and talking in a low voice ? What did we say about the Prussians being near ?" (Oh, my friend, you were listening at the door it seems.) As the case developed itself it was astounding. Here were two men appearing in a town between the Austrian and Prussian main armies, on horseback. They come no one knows whence. They ride up to an inn just as a carriage, in which is a strange lady, drives up from the Prussian side. They demand a private room. There the strange lady joins them. They wink at her knowingly, and she winks at them. Then a party of Austrian cavalry dash through the town from the direction of Olmutz, evidently in pursuit of some one, and do not know there are two strange horsemen in the inn. The party are agitated in the inner room. The lady and the two men converse in a strange Jan- , guage. A map is produced, and they pore over it, speaking in low tones and in an unknown tongue ; but they are heard to speak of the Prussians and of their being near. At last the lady goes away ; the two men prepare to follow her. They are stopped, and produce passports, one signed by a chief of the Staff known to be under heavy suspicion and in arrest, and the other has a passport signed that day. As we were hearing all this with intense amazement there was a noise of wheels in the square, and in a few moments our fair friend entered with wonder and anger in her face and eyes. "I, the wife of the Colonel of the 6th Uhlans, to be brought back as if I were a spy ! What does it all mean, Sir ?" The authority explained the case, but the lady had proofs of her identity, and looked as if she felt very sorry for having noticed two such doubtful people. One of her husband's regiment was actually in the square below. A Uhlan, a pleasant, cheery fellow entered, and stood at " attention" at the sight of his Oberst's wife. A little polite conversation between the authority and the lady, and some low dialogue, the effect, of which was in our favour, followed, and the lady made a bow (she denied the wink very warmly), took her leave, and drove off towards Olmutz. Meanwhile, the gendarme had left the room, and the authority, who really was a very intelligent and agreeable officer, though determined to do his duty, gave us to understand that he had no doubt we were what we represented ourselves to be, bub that he could not without serious consequences dismiss a case presented to him under such circumstances by the gendarmerie. " See what risks you run. These people don't understand German. You might have been seized in some village, bound with ropes', and dragged away for miles to some military post, or• been ill-treated," and so on, in a very friendly way, urging the madness of our thirst for knowledge. The gendarme returned, and he was informed of the decision arrived at. We were to go back under an escort to Olmutz, to be handed over to the officer on guard. Our names were written on a piece of paper. A Uhlan was summoned ; it was the same who had recognised the lady. He received his orders and we took our leave to the intense disgust of the gendarme. That worthy, who had accused us of speaking in English to the lady, was asked if he knew English when he heard it. No, he did not, but, as he did not know it, he guessed the language must be English. As we walked across the square for our horses the whole disengaged population of Zittau acted as escort. The Uhlan, who viewed the whole proceeding with the utmost contempt, busied himself in quickening the ostler, and grinned all over his hearty face when he was told we were sus pected of being spies. " And do you know the lady we were talking to?" " I should think I do ! Why, she is my Colonel's wife !" Well, they took her for a spy, too !" "My God ; the pigs. Well, they are capable of it. It was well I was there !" and he laughed at the idea tremendously ; and so we can tered off towards Olmutz. Now, this Uhlan was a wise man. He had no mind for a ride of some 22 or 23 miles at the heels of two persecuted foreigners. We broke into a hand gallop on the road outside the town. And as we galloped the Uhlan fell be hind, at last all but the top of his lance disappeared, and when we rose the brow of the hill and looked back he was no more seen. May he be borne safely through the shock of many Prussian lances ! It was nigh 7 o'clock when we reached Olmutz, having lost two hours and a half in arrest at Littau. Scarcely had we gained our quarters when the last of the Teutonic correspondents at head-quarters rushed in to say we had not a moment to lose. The enemy were advancing to cut the line ; Olmutz would be in a state of siege in 24 hours. He had just seen Benedek, who told him to be off at once if he wished not to be shut up. Here was fresh trouble. Our friendly informant bade us adieu, and betook himself to the station. The intelligence was too true. At headquarters my companion was told by the Quartermaster-Geiteral that he could not answer for our being able to get away after to-morrow morn ing ; all trains were stopped except for military purposes. The telegraph or was g so after to -morrow, A: . posts or mails wouldcome With the kindliness and courtesy which characterise all the superior Austrian officers, Gen. Kricz pro mised to give passes for ourselves, servants, horses, and baggage, and we prepared to pack up at once, while at headquarters an Austrian patrol and guard rode in with the waggons of a Prussian field-post which they had captured. More valuable still they had captured a special correspondent. At first 1 was almost in hopes that some compensation was about being made to me for my perpetual sufferings from aggressive Prussians in the capture of one who was always in pursuit of me, and always threaten ing my communications, putting me in a state of siege, going about at his ease gaining victories, and getting and sending off his letters, and I was pre paring to be as clement as Titus, when it was made known to me that it was not your military corres pondent at the Prussian headquarters who had been taken so characteristically defending the post with his life, but the gentleman who represented the Kreutz Zeitung of Berlin. As there were copies of a proclamation inciting the Hungarians to rise found on him, the correspondent will be sent to Vienna to await judicial proceedings. This morning early my comrade and myself proceeded to the headquarters Staff Bureau to get the pass from Gen. Kricz and to pay our respects to Gen. von Benedek. The lat ter came in while we were with the General, and re ceived us with that frankness. and simple natural I heartiness and directness which gain for him the hearts of all who come near him. He seemed a little thinner than he was at Koniggratz, but his eye was as sparkling and bright, his voice as ring , mg, and his action as vivacious as ever. To my companion his farewell was affectionate, and he em braced him on leaving as a comrade on thd field of battle. No one has ever met Ludvig von Benedek without liking him, or parted from him without re gret, and no braver soldier ever drew sword than the vanquished leader of the Austrian host at Konig gratz, now the commander of a corps, and soon to be the defender of a besieged camp and city. The colonel at the station read the order, and issued his instructions to a captain of artillery to make room for us, bag and baggage, with a field battery. We were to be ready at half-past 1 o'clock, and the train would start at 2 o'clock. It was a new phase of this Prusso-phoby, from which I have so long been suffering. They are at Brunn ; they are moving over towards the line of rail which connects Olmutz with Lundenburg and Vienna. They are on the north and east of Olmutz, and on the north-west and south of it. The very last way of spending a summer and autumn that any man could propose to himself, unless he were an enthusiast in sieges, would be to pass them in Olmutz, with the eternal Prussians outside ; and all one's dreams of advanc ing armies and triumphal progress were come to this—another retreat, and yet another and another, and the zundnadel-gewehr behind one for ever. It was a journey to be remembered to Vienna. At 1.30 p.m, our small retreating column of two cor respondents, with horses, traps, and servants, were at the Olmutz railway station, which was the very crater of a military eruption, and sent forth train after train of artillery and infantry to the south. The difficulty of getting there once more set forth a defect in the military organisation of Austrian armies in the field, which must be remedied, or it will occasion some serious disasters. There is no adequate gendarmerie to keep the road clear andtbe trains in order. and all the thoroughfares and bridges were blocked up with waggons of immense variety of forms, under the control of drivers of still greater diversity of speech. The quantities of objurgatory language and of more cogent instru mentalities used on such occasions may be conceived, but much of their vital force is lost on the wood of carriages and the passive resistance of baggage oxen acid stoical horseflesh. When the station was gained it was not much to have done. As fast as, the trains of 40 or 50 carriages could be filled they were sent off with their living cargoes of troops southwards, and in this part of their work there was no reason to blame the Austrian administration. The carriages for the men are wooden boxes closed at the sides, with doors sliding back or forwards so as to close them completely or permit air and light to enter. Longitudinal benches, with a central passage, are placed on stretchers, and accommodation is afforded in each carriage for 28 men—at a pinch 30 are put in--who step out from the line as each carriage door comes opposite to them, and march in by two under the inspection of their officers. There are extra car riages for officers, staff, and horses. A single train swallowed up a whole battalion easily. Then its place within the station was taken by another batta lion marching out of the enclosures outside, which swarmed with men and guns, and so the process went on as fast as trains could be brought up. But it was slow work, and it promised to be long before the battery of field artillery to which we were attached could be despatched, as one battery intended to go early in the morning was not sent away till 2o'clock and the columns of trains, so to speak, are regularly formed, so that if an enemy were reported on the way the whole might halt with guns on each flank and disembark, even in something like order of battle along the line of rail. For more than an hour I stood watching the process, and talking de omnibus with a most intelligent officer of artillery—intelli gent as most officers of that arm of the service are —and he gave me his opinion very freely about all things on which he conversed. There was a Croat regiment entering the train -great, heavy fellows, with heavy faces, dressed like Hungarians—" Are they good soldiers ?" Pretty well only. They do not march well, and need strict discipline. As to the Hungarians, he was not so favourable as many are. " They are of all sorts. They make better cavalry than infantry, and are not as good as the Germans any way." The Poles were certainly bard fighters, but fickle. The Italians were uncertain ; when good, very good ; when not that, perhaps worse than in different. Roumans et id genus omne he considered mere mud to build up a wall with. No, the German, per et simple, was the soldier, and the misfortune was that they had such a variety of races not German in their army, or that they had any but Germans at all. He ranked the artillery first, then the German horse, then the Hungarian horse, then the Poles, then some of the Hungarian infantry—the rest were but leather and prunella. It was 7 o'clock before the neititscheiner and my companion's van and the horses were placed on the trucks which carried of No. 3 4-pounder foot battery of the Imperial Artillery Regiment No. Bto a new field of warfare. All the interval was spent in looking at the regiments going off (with an interval in which my comrade, having advised himself to sketch " Olmutz, as seen from the river bank," was arrested and carried off as a spy), and in talking about the great battle of Koniggratz to various officers. As the only car riage of the second-class was filled with wounded officers, we took our seats in the neititscheiner, and the only drawback to our enjoyment at getting off out of the dust and heat was caused by the fact that our next neighbour on the truck was an ammu- nition waggon. Now, an ammunition waggon in the abstract is not to be objected to, but when it is an open van attached to a train drawn by a loco motive vomiting sparks of fire it assumes an im- portance not attributable to it in its normal condi- tiou. When, however, the same waggon is covered with trusses of loose hay, the interest attached to it is much enhanced, and when the hay aforesaid is used as a bed by a meditative gunner who smokes a very long pipe, and sleeps with it in his mouth, it requires a good deal of " user" in such matters to close one's eye in perfect indifference. Just as we were starting a cheerful Austrian officer cantered up to tell us that we should have to fight our way through, as the Prussians were at Lundenburg. _ _ _ At Brodek and Prerau there were considerable bodies of Austrians lying out in the open fields near the railway, and the last rays of the sun fell on the helmets of a body of Cuirassiers, scouring along the fields as if in hot pursuit of some unknown foe: Be- fore darkness set in there was a little scene of an- other nature. In a quiet field near a farmhouse was drawn up a company of Hungarian infantry on three sides of a square. In the centre stood a little group of officers around some man, besides whom stood a man in black, and women peeped curiously through the ranks or retired towards the farm with their aprons to their faces. We strained our eyes and ears to see the curling smoke and hear the fatal volley, but a turn in the road shut out the scene, and the noise of the train drowned the sharp rattle that were the last sounds the poor wretch would listen to in this world. The train sped on all night, easing at each station to hear the news. Lundenburg was reached bye to at 3 o'clock in l pthruessmiaohrialifnogr,thae time w e ebade being. the eternal er na Before 8 o'clock i n th e morning the spires of Vienna g were in view ; and far and near, inside the lines of the defensive works, the white tu ' nics and green plumes and grey coats swarmed, and the hum of thousands of voices rose from the cornfields. A great host is encamped here. Close by are Wagram and Essling, but is not Aspern near at hand also ? The heart of Austria is not to be found in Vienna. See what hordes are camped on the swift Danube to bar the way to the enemy! Many a Prussian must find his resting-place in these widespread plai us before his royal master shall set foot in the palace of the Kaisers who gave his ancestors their crown. It will need all Napoleon's genius and Napoleon's fortune to win the great battles which the King of Prussia must win at any cost before he stands on the heights of Mariahilf. CHARLES FREDERICK HUTH, Esq., is the gentle man recommended by the Court of Directors of the Bank of England to fill the vacancy in the direction, occasioned by the retirement of the Bight Honourable Stephen Cave. E NUN LON D►ON, FRIDAY EVENING, JULY 20, 1866 COURT 0: COUNCIL. Yesterday a meeting of the Common Council was held at Guildhall, the Lord Mayor in the chair. THE VISIT OF THE KING AND QUEEN OF THE BELGIANS TO THE CITY. Mr. Alderman and Sheriff Gibbons, adverting to the visit of the King and Queen of the Belgians, suggested that a circumstance so gratifying deserved mention in the records of the corporation. He there fore moved, " That this court desires to record the expression of its satisfaction at the honour conferred upon the City of London by the acceptance by their Majesties the King and Queen of the Belgians, and by their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales and the Duke of Edinburgh, of an invita tion from the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor to a banquet at the Mansion House of this City, on Fri day, the 6th of July inst." The motion was seconded by Mr. KELDAY, the chairman of the Guildhall improvement eommittee, who took occasion to refer to the dignified manner in which the Lord Mayor had dispensed the hospi talities of the Mansion House on an occasion which would always be memorablein the annals of the city. Mr. ANDERTON thought the Lord Mayor was eminently entitled to the thanks of the citizens of London for having entertained their Majesties on the occasion. (Hear, hear.) The motion was then put, and carried with ac. clamation. THE MANSION-HOUSE RELIEF COMMITTEE. A letter addressed to the Lord Mayor by the Rev. William Henry Jones, vicar of Mottram, in Long dendale, Lancashire, and secretary to one of the local relief committees during the cotton famine, was read by the town clerk. Mr. Jones was de puted, by a committee organised for the purpose, to ask permission of the Court of Common Council to erect a handsome stained glass window at the east end of the Guildhall, as "an offering of gratitude on the part of the operatives of the cotton manu facturing districts of England to the Lord Mayor and the Mansion-house relief committee, and therein to their benevolent friends throughout the world, for their timely and long continued succour rendered to them during a period of unexampled industrial distress." • The offer wassthankfully accepted, and it was re ferred to the Guildhall improvement committee to superintend the erection of the proposed memorial. THE REFORM MEETING IN GUILDHALL. A petition, signed by Mr. Edmond Bales, the pre sident, Mr. Nicholay, the treasurer, and Mr. George Howell, secretary ; on behalf of the executive com mittee and other members of the National Reform League, was read ; soliciting the use of the Guildhall on such evening as might be convenient in the next or following week for a meeting of the electors And non-electors of the City of London, " desirous of constitutionally and peaceably expressing their de sire to participate in the right of voting for the re presentatives of the people in Parliament." A petition containing a similar request was pre sented from the London Working Men's Association, signed byMr. G. Potter, president, and Mr. R. Hart well, secretary. They stated that the association consisted principally of skilled artisans, whose objects were the political enfranchisement and social ele vation of the industrial classes, that the offices of the association were in the City of London, and that a arge number of the members were either resident or followed their usual occupation within its bounda- Their object, they said, was to convene a pub ic meeting of the working men of the City of Lon don to enable them to express an opinion on the question of parliamentary reform at the present political crisis ; that they had agreed to convene an open-air meeting in this city, but, understanding there was some objection to such a course by the city authorities, they had applied for permission to hold a meeting for the purpcse in the Guildhall on the evening of the Ist of August. The prayer of the petitioners was supported by Mr. d. Richardson, Mr. Rudkin, Mr. Ddputy Fry, Mr. Alderman Lusk, M.P., Mr. Deputy C. Reed, and Mr. Deputy Elliott, among others, on the grounds chiefly that it was reasonable in itself, that the mode of meeting sought by them was constitu tional, and especially deserved the sanction of the civic authorities, seeing that the petitioners, in -air meeting i n th e Ci ty ; that the de ference to them, had abandoned the i n t en ti on o f hhaolildiiftslgelfa,nfioopmenthe very name of th e " moot " hall, by which it sometimes went, was -avail a bl e f or such a purpose, as a place where in anci en t t i mes public grievances and questions had been mooted and dis cussed, and that the corporation of London through - dut its whole history had been prominently iden tified with popular freedom. Mr. Alderman ROSE, on the other hand, reminded the court that it was the privilege of the Lord Mayor to preside at all public meetings in the Guild hall, and he asked if the Lord Mayor was to preside at the meeting which was asked? If the Lord Mayor was not, would the chairman be a person who by his .position and influence could command order in such a meeting ; and would it, above all, be a meeting for free discussion ? That very day he had seen walls placarded with a notification, with routes indicated, of an organised procession, accompanied by bands of music and banners, which were to pass through various parts of London at night to Hyde-park, and there to hold an open-air meeting on Monday next. He looked upon that as a demonstration intended to overawe the Government, andas an unconstitutional and illegal proceeding. He objected to a meeting such as was in contemplation by the memorialists being eon because it was to take place in the venedi evening men of business would wh probably have gone to their hom es i n t h e su b ur b s , n Guildhall,en all If the Lord Mayor was to preside over such a meet ries. ing thav circumstance would be aguarantee for order, and he (Alderman Rose) would be content ; but if not, and the meeting should be held, there should be a responsible chairman likely to maintain order and to afford facilities for afree discussion. (Hear.) Mr. BANISTER stated, as a circumstance worthy consideration in connection with the application for the use of the hall, that the proposed meeting was to take place, if the hall should be granted, on the very evening on which the Lord Mayor would entertain her Majesty's Ministers at the Mansion House. Mr. H. L. TAYLOR did not complain of working men endeavouring to obtain the franchise, but he contended that the corporation of London should hold itself entirely aloof from all political partisan- ship, and endeavour to steer ....lea; of any collision with the Government of the day. He reminded the court, besides, that the hall had recently been re- stored and embellished at vast expense, and it might be exposed to some risk by a great public meeting being held in it at night. Mr. Deputy C. REE D , in reply, argued that the corporation of London had always stood by the working 1 c a sses, and he could not conceive upon what ground it should now turn round and deny a reasonable ____ __ . request from men who were precluded from meeting in the public streets, and who, in the very desire to procure the use of the hall, which had been used for political discussion times without num- Mr. Deputy E L ber, sought to p l ace themse l ves un der some rule. of England had b een save d b e f o re now by the corp o - LIOTT observed that the liberties ration of London, and he should have been pleased if the request of the petitioners had been granted with a good grace. If it should be refused there would be a stronger a rgument i n f avou r of reform than now existed. No man was more opposed to this so-called reform than h e , b ut perhaps.. he was wrong in that respect, and h e would not prev ent the memorialist s having their " say," provided they demeaned them selves with o r d er and propr i e ty. Eventually a motion to the effect that the prayer of the petiti oners be g ranted, and that the proposed meeting be held on a d ay, an d s ubject to regulatio ns to be pre scr ib ed by the City L an d s C omm itt ee, was carried o n a d vision by a majority of 25 in a court of 89 members. D ONATIONS OF THE CORPORATION. On the re commendation o f t h e C oa l, C orn , an d Finance Committee the Court voted £2lO-towards the restorati on of the church o f St. B ar th o l omew the Great i n Smithfield, and £ lO 5 to t h e City Orthopoadie Hospital. The Court then adjourned. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. COLCHESTER AND STOUR VALLEY. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held at Colchester on Wednesday —Mr. T. L. Ewen in the chair. A dividend at the rate of £3 Bs. per cent. per annum was declared payable on the ordi nary stock. MANCHESTER, SHEFFIELD, AND LINCOLN- SHIRE. The accounts of this company for the past half year show a total revenue from all sources of £537,997, a total expenditure of £248,396, and a balance of net profit of £289,601, which, with £2,169 from the previous half-year, gives a total available sum of £291,770. From this sum is de ducted the debenture and preference charges, amounting to £251,083, leaving a balance of £40,687, out of which the directors recommend a dividend at the rate of £2 per cent. per annum on the ordinary stock of the company, leaving £1,486 for the next half-year. VICTORIAN. The traffic receipts on the Victorian Government lines from the Ist of January to the sth of April last amounted on 251 miles to £150,058, or £44 ss. per mile per week , and for the corresponding period last year to £140,311, or £4l Bs. per mile per week, showing an increase of £9,747, or 6 . 95 per cent. RAILWAY BILLS. In the Painted Chamber of the House of Lords yesterday the case of the London, Chatham, and Dover and South-Eastern (London, Lewes, and Brighton) Bill was again heard and adjourned. In Room C the Bo'n ess and Grangemouth, the North British (Wishaw branches), and the North British (Taybridge) Bill were again heard and adjourned. In Room D the Midland (Ashby and Nuneaton) Bill was referred to Lord Redesdale. The Vale of Neath (transfer) Bill was heard and adjourned. In Room A the Caledonian and Scottish North- Eastern and the Caledonian (Lanarkshire branches) Bills were heard and adjourned. In Lord Redesdale's Committee the following Bills were passed :—The North-Western and Char ing-cross, the Louth and Lincoln, and the Brecon and Llandovery Junction. In Room 1, House of Commons, the Pembroke and Tenby ; the Northampton and Banbury Junc tion, and the Barry (Extension) Bills were passed. BUENOS AYRES GREAT SOUTHERN. It appears from the recent advices that the traffic on this company's line, which had been partially suspended to repair damages caused by the floods, was again in operation over the whole line, and that the accumulation of goods had been so large at each end of the line, owing to the impossibility of finding any other means of conveyance, that the actual receipts of the railway would experience little or no loss from the stoppage. The Hyde-park Meeting and the Police. The following correspondence between Sir R. Mayne and Mr. Edmond Beales has been sent to us for publication : " The Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis encloses for the information of Mr. Edmond Beaks a copy of the public notice that the meeting an nounced to be held in Hyde-park on the evening of Monday next, July 23, cannot be permitted. As Mr. Beales's name is mentioned in the printed bills calling the meeting, the Commissioner of Police trusts that Mr. Beales will exert his influence to prevent any attempt to hold this meeting. " July 18, 1866." " To SIP. RICHARD MAINE, THE COMMISSIONER OF POLICE IN THE METROPOLIS. " Sir,--I beg to acknowledge the receipt this morning of a letter from you, of yesterday's date, enclosing a copy Of the police notice issued by you as Commissioner of Police, to the effect that the meeting announced to be held in Hyde-park on the evening of Monday next cannot be permitted, and trusting that I will exert my influence to prevent any attempt to hold the meeting. I thank you for your courtesy in sending me such communication, but I am unable at present to recognise your power or right to issue any such notice, or to take upon yourself to declare that the meetiag cannot be per mitted. I must withhold that recognition until you show me under what statute or law, or principle of law, you are acting ; for I am at present ignorant of any law or statute empowering or authorising you thus to attempt to prohibit the people from exercis ing one of their most important and most constitu tional rights. ,Teither can I admit the validity of the reasons assigned by you for the assumption of so large, and, I must be allowed to add, so dan gerous and unconstitutional a power. Your first reason is, that such a meeting, being inconsistent with the purposes for which the park is thrown open to and used by the public, is illegal,' I cannot ad mit that it is for you, as Commissioner of Po lice, to determine what is, and what is not illegal. What law, or what statute, declares such a meeting, when held in the park, to be illegal ? Sup posing the inconsistency to wiich you refer to exist, and I am not aware that it does, how can that incon sistency amount to illegality ? The people should be shown what law they are breaking before they are thus accused of acting illegally. The park is either the property of the nation, as there are strong rea sons for contending it is, under the transactions which have taken place between the Crown and the people, through Parliament, respecting it ; or it is still Crown property, though kept up and maintained out of the public purse. If the former be the fact, where isyour authority for excluding thepublic from their own property ? If the latter be the case, then show me that you are acting under the express authority of the Crown, as claiming to be the exclu sive owner of the park, and as a loyal subject, while regretting that in such a case the Crown should not be at one with the people, I should be ready to yield obedience. Your other reason is, that such a meet ing is calculated to lead to riotous and disorderly conduct, and to endanger the public peace.' This is a mere assumption, and might be made to apply to and public meeting —even to:meetings held at elec tions for members of Parliament, and perhaps more appropriately, for it is wholly at variance with the objects, wishes, and intentions of those convening and proposing to take part in this meeting. They will be perfectly willing that you should interpose, and even, with their aid, to stop any conduct riotous or disorderly, or endangering the public peace. They contemplate no such conduct. The people have been somewhat contemptuously denied the elective franchise, and have been taunted with not caring for it. They seek, in consequence, to exercise, peace ably and constitutionally, their right of meeting in public, to show that they do care for the franchise, and thus refute the aspersions cast upon them. It appears to me that the proceedings of those who shall attempt to interfere with and prohibit such a meeting, instead of protecting its exercise and seeing that it is unaccompanied with riotous or Ldisorderly conduct, as you are empowered to do under the Police Acts, will be the proceedings really calculated to lead to such conduct and to endanger the public peace. I positively and em phatically repudiate this charge as most odious and unjustifiable, as regards the objects of this meeting and the characters of our fellow-countrymen having the conduct of it. As at present advised, and until I am furnished with your authority for issuing this notice and interfering with this meeting, if I use any influence, which I do not promise to do, to prevent its being held, or to induce its being held in some other spot, I shall do so only in order that , he people may avoid doing anything which can in the [east degree tend to throw a shadow over the justice of their cause, or provoke collision with the police force, however unadvisedly or unconstitutionally that force may be called into operation, but without :or one moment admitting your right or power to interfere, or in any way waiving the right of the people to hold such a meeting. Before concluding, I must observe that if it be true that you have, as I am inf orme d, ac t ua lly caused the notices of the meeting to be obliterated or posted over with your notices, you appear to me in so doing to have acted very unjustifiably and injuriously to the property of other persons, - and, at all events, not in the most dignified way in such a matter and under such cir cumstances.—l am, sir, yours respectfully, " EDMOND BEALES. "4, Stone-buildings, Lincoln's-inn, July 19." TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—I beg to inform you that no alteration has taken place in our programme with regard to the meeting on Monday next in Hyde -park. Trusting you will give the widest publicity to the above statement,---I remain, sir, your very obedient servant, GEORGE HOWELL, Secretary, 8, Adelphi-terrace, W.C., July 19. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS TIMES.—Once more Austria and Prussia are in presence, and their difference, after baffling all the efforts of well-meaning mediators, is left to be set tled by the shock of half a million combatants. The confidence of Austria is unshaken. A battle on the Danube may yet reverse the sentence pronounced by the battle on the Elbe. Floridsdorf may avenge Koniggratz. By a decisive trial of strength, it will be shown whether a dynasty which has given the German people so long a series of Sovereigns can henceforth consent to become a stranger in Ger many. All the ardour of the belligerents, however, can hardly keep pace with the impatience of the lookers-on. An encounter under the walls of Vienna is inevitable; it is imminent ; but it is not to-day, nor perhaps to-morrow, that we are to hear the roar of the cannon. The hostile armies have, doubtless, come in sight of each other, but their re spective forces can hafdly yetbe thoroughly massed together. Their concentration and deployment may be the work of days. Time may be taken up in marches and counter-marches, in the choice of ground, and in the efforts of each party to have the other at a vantage. The forces gathered to gether by Austria for this decisive contest are esti mated at something like 400,000 men and 600 field guns. 100,000 of her chosen troops are, it is said, crowded together withi n th e intrenched camp of Floridsdorf. By far the larger part of the Northern Army has found its way from Olmutz to the capital, and no fewer than 60,000 to 80,000 of the choicest soldiers of the Army of the South had.a few days ago reached Salzburg, and are no doubt by this time with the Archduke Albert at Vienna. The spirit of this vast army, if we believe the testimony of all correspondents, leaves nothing to desire. The dread of the needle-gun, we are told, has greatly subsided, even among those who have witnessed its deadly effects. Those who have never had to withstand it laugh its terrors to scorn. "It is a weapon that wounds, but kills not," the Austri an officers repeat with complacency, as if the purpose of a battle were rather to kill than to disable an enemy, and as if the multi tude of the wounded bad not the effect of creating greater discouragement and confusion in an army than ever so high a heap of slai n . W ere it, indeed, proved that the fire of the Prussian breech -loader is more fatal to limb than to life, its value would be increased, not merely because hamanity would re joice at anything which rendered war l ess murder ous, but also because the loss in wounded cripples the energies and embarrasses the movements of a commanding officer far more than the actual havoc of death. The dead are but too easily tended and provided for, while the necessity of removing the wounded from the melee has a tendency to demoralize their comrades. The particulars we daily receive from eye-witnesses of the late battle-fields of Bohe mia, however, force upon us the conviction that it was not only to their breech-loader that the Prus sians were indebted for their signal victories. In the opinion of many competent judges, all the ad vantages of thorough training, discipline, and high powers of endurance were thought to be on the side of the Austrians, and the Prussians would, it was supposed, have no chance against their ad versaries, unless the " specialty of their infantry weapon" made up for their deficiencies and short comings. These predictions, however, as we all know, were hardly borne out by the event. The Prussians proved to be fully equal to the Austrians at all weapons, and even in those frequent charges of cavalry on which the final issue of more than one combat depended the Prussian dragoon or Ulan almost invariably came off the conqueror over those Bohemian cuirassiers and Hungarian hussars who were hitherto thought to bear the palm among the most dashing and fearless horsemen on the Continent. The hopes of the Imperial army are now resting upon the Archduke Albert, a Commander who brings back with him from Italy the prestige of victory, and who may be pre sumed to inherit that genius by which his father, the Archduke Charles, was enabled to cope with the First Napoleon, meeting him on those very banks of the Danube on which the destinies of the Austrian Monarchy were then as now at issue, and turning against him for two days at Aspern and Essling that tide of victory which had so invariably set in in his favour. Without in the least intend ing any disparagement to the Archduke Albert, we must, however, be allowed to remark that his talents will now have to be displayed on another field than the plain of Lombardy, and against another enemy than the brave but unfortunate La Marmora. The battle-fields of the Quadrilateral are s 9 limited in extent and so familiar to all Austrian officers, and especially to the pupils of old Radetzky, that a campaign on that ground is to them little more than a game of chess or billiards. Had Benedek been left in command at Verona, the same or even more splendid successes would have attended the Austrian armies ; but when intrusted with a plan of opera tions on so complicated a field as the mountain fron tier of Bohemia, he seemed to feel his own incom petence ; and, as he took leave of the Emperor, he ' reminded him, it is said, that "he was no stra tegist," and all he could promise was to " fight the Prussians hard whenever he met them." The neigh bourhood of Vienna, the line of the Danube, the Marchfeld, the isle of Lobau, and all those spots now classical in military art, are certainly no less difficult ground than the defiles of Nachod or Trau tenau. Napoleon himself seemed to be at his wits' end before Vienna, and if the Prussians attempt any manoeuvre beyond a front attack on the tete de-pont at Floridsdorf, the son and heir of Archduke Charles will have occasion for all the resources of his father's tactics. The Austrians stand on ground of their own —on fields which they know span by span, on positions which their art has for some time striven to turn to the best advantage ; but all these circumstances militated equally in their favour at Sadowa and Koniggratz as they did at Solferino ; yet those and many other fields were lost by them, through no want of skill possibly, through no lack of valour certainly, but owing, perhaps, to that ill-luck which warned them of old against seek ing their advantage in war, and advised them to pro mote their interests by matrimonial alliances. Not withstanding these drawbacks, and notwithstanding the gloomy anticipations of even the best friends of Austria as to the results of the battle now impending, it would be irrational to feel an absolute confidence that fortune will continue faithful to those Prussian standards which it has hitherto so constantly be friended. The Prussians have been playing a high game ; they are running a desperate venture ; they have marched 500 miles into an enemy's territory ; they are separated by three large kingdoms from their basis of operations ; they have left hostile for tresses in their rear and on either flank. Success, un interrupted success, is for them a necessity, a con dition of life. The consequences of a reverse would be beyond calculation. They have in front an enemy in all probability superior in numbers, by no means inferior in strength or courage, unappalled even in defeat, and partly also not only unbroken, but flushed with recent victory. They have before them a broad and deep river, a long line of ramparts, a formidable array of heavy artillery. The Prussians seem aware of their danger, and are straining every nerve to bring up all the forces at their dis posal. The communications between their various corps are kept up with the utmost diligence, and all their movements tend to a general concentration towards those lines of Floridsdorf which will in all probability be the first scene of the approaching struggle. The possession of all the Saxon and Bo hemian railway lines, and their late victories against the Federals on the Main, enable the m t o summon up large bodies of troops which were eith er engaged or intended for engagement in Bavaria. On the other hand, the Austrians also have been and are collecting all their troops for a decisive effort. It will be difficult for the Prussians to match their enemies in mere numerical force, and if, as seems most probable, they are inferior in num b ers, they will require all energy they displayed at Nachod and Koniggratz, not only to get the b e tt er of the odds that may be mustered against them, but to overcome the obstacles of the enemy's position, and that dogged, desperate resolution with which a noble, warlike race, like the Austrian, is sure to turn at bay and stand its ground under the eye of its Emperor and for the defence of the capital. DAILY NEWS.—The military news from south eastern Germany becomes more vague a n d meagre as the great armies respectively effect their concen tration and take up their critical positions. That of the Crown Prince, without the co-operation of which no decisive operations are likely to be attempted, is still, however, several days' march from Vienna, Prerau and Prossnitz, which it occu pied on Monday and Tuesday, being fifty miles north-east of Lundenburg. The first a rmy, t h e main body of the Prussian force, is again in motion, after the inaction of the last three days, marching upon the Austrian capital. According to a despatch from the Prussian heedquarters, as many Austrian troops as filled forty trains were sent from 01111 u tz to Vienna before Su n d a y l as t. Th e ra il wa y line by which they travelled is now entirely in the hands of the Prussians from Prerau to Lundenburg, and connects the army of the Crown Prince with that of Prince Frederick Charles. The Prussians, now that political reasons for delay are again at an end, wag be expected to push for war d. Th e i r own ar my in fine condition, and their reserves, largely aug mented, are at hand, while delay would be only favourable to the enemy. The Austrian army of the Danube will be in some respects superior to that lately styled of the North, as containing a larger proportion of purely German regiments. An official statement has been published a t B er li n res pecting the negotiations for a three days' truce which were recently conducted through th e me di a ti on o f the French Government. The proposal was made at 3 time when the Emperor of the French was exerting himself to bring about a peace, and was made pro fessedly in order to enabl e th e Ki ng o f P ru ssia. to ascertain the resolution which the Italian Govern ment had formed in the extraordinary circumstance s in which it was pl ace d . Th e negotiations We' because the Emperor of Austria, who, as we knoff from the Vienna Gazette, was at the time 0 : pecting powerful aid, insisted on reserving perfee! freedom of movement for his armies within their lines—in other words, insisted on liberty to remove any number of re g i men t s f rom t h e Army of tue South to Vienna, a transfer which the Emperor has been resolved to effect at any price since the 3d les t ' In Western Germany the political state of affairs has been somewhat modified. The Bavarian Go vernment has not so completely separated itself from its allies as seemed reason to believe a few days ag o ' The Prussian terms of accommo d a ti on, w hi c h, at e ,: what has happened, cou ld no t b ut b e h ar d , seemed too severe for acceptance, and the negotiations are accordingly at an end. Th e B avar i an ar my 11 ' made a retrograde moveme n t, an d w ill e ff ec t a junc tion with the Bth Federal Corps behind the Neckar' when the forces of the Bund will f orm on e consoli dated, army. The announcement, no t un expected is made that the Prussi ans are l ay i ng s i ege to the ta: le g s for fortress of M ayence. E x t ens i ve prepar a for its defence h ave b een ma d e d ur i ng t h e last viee' but should the impending battle before Vien7 prove as decisive as is generally expected, it vi not be necessary to prolong the siege. COUNTRY MARKETS. BIRMINGHAM—TmatsDAv. I, at, At this day's market there was a f a i r su pply of Nv-e and the turn in price was in favour of the buyers, but f te make no alteration in quotations. B ar l e y d u ll. Oats qui t as dear. Beans still scarce. Peas rather cheaper. BURY ST. EDMUND'S-WEDNESDAY. There was a fair show of wheat here to-day for the ST; son. Trade was firm at the rates of this day week. other kinds of grain very little passing. ed' r White wheat, 56s to 62s ; old red, 49 s t o 51s ; nevcia. 44s to 48s , grinding barley, 35s to 38 s ; P age ' s prolific ley, 39s to 40s per qr. 91 averages :—Wheat, 498 quarters, at 52s 3d ; barley, qrs., at 32s 10d ; oats, qrs, at Os Od. BRIS TOL—THURSDAY. On our market to-day there was a short supply of EL 6 lish wheat, which sold slowly at late prices. Foreign' to 2s per qr. lower. Indian corn, on the spot, quite as but buyers generally held off for the large expectea rivals. Barley scarce, and sold freely, at f u lly last We e , prices. Oats a fair consumptive demand, w ithout 5 10 ' 4 tion in value. MANCHESTER—THURSDAY. via ° The supply of wheat offered at this m ar k e t to-daY l ot short, and sold readily at prices similar to those of . ces week. Foreign wheat lower. Fo r b ar l ey f orm er prl ot ruled firm. Oats maintained previous rates. Beans ili e so much inquired for, and peas were a s b e fore. , - ta weather has been all that could be desi re d f or prow° the progress of the growing crops. EDINBURGH-WEDNESDAY. Wheat on the top, 2s Od down— average, Os lld 111/' Barley on the top, Os 6d up average, is lld or iv o, Oats on the top, Os 3d down average, Os 9d & Beans on the top, 4s Gd up average, 4s Od 11 2' ___ _ Total supply and sales. - Wheat 6GS qrs sold 47 8 Barley 54 qrs sold 1 8 Oats 1200 qrs Beans 8 qrs Average prices. Wheat, 50s 4d 1 Oats, 3 Barley, 39s 5d i Beans 521 sold ss4 sold 6 dd 511 a t 0 Town-made flour sells as follows :—White, 42s 6d; e superfine, 41s Od ; superfine, 39s 6d ; fine, 38s Od. GLASGOW—WEDNESDAY: e e ' At this day's market there was a n average a tten- W Wheat and flour, in the absence of demand, have - t° tip written nominally unaltered. Beans firm. Barley, "„ and oatmeal the tu r n ch ea p er ; p eas 6d , an d I n di an cot" lower per 2801 b. foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton..., du" ,3 00. . Ditto, via Marseilles Aug 4 • Brazil and Cape Veld& At* '" by British packet • Ditto, by French packet Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena.....DlAJ china, Penang, and Sing.ipore, via Soulhampton JulY Ditto, via Marseilles Jab' " d. Falkland Islands 2 /. Gibraltar, via Soutbatopton JOY India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton... July 20 Ditto, via Marseilles India (Bombay), via Southampton July '‘ 33 ' 0 Z " . Ditto, via Marseilles JOY Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton July • Ditto, via Marseilles :4•• ,9 , L 2 Mauritius, via Southampton Auk' Ditto, .via Marseili e - Newfoundland Po:tug:al Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon United States and British North America, by Brl- 26 tish packet _ ... Jul/ . _ Ditto, by United States packet, via Southamp ton Ditto, via Cork .... 0, Ditto, by Canadi an p ac k e t , v i a L on d on d erry ..July ior Tcst Coabt of Africa, Madeira, and T.neriffe ~, _Aug* West Indies and Pacific (except Bahamas and 39 Honduras) July 30. Cuba and Mexico JIY : 0 , Y Bahamas, via New York. o• , , Bermuda, via Halifax • 1,..0.,* ADVERTISEMENT.). -Avoid medicines: they alwaYsY:ltt' vate chronic complaints, but Du Barry's DelicirmS o `, lo le l Restoring* Revalenta Arabica Food, which yields three s ' co st the nourishment of the best m ea t, saves fifty times it o tfoa' in other remedies, and in var i a bly res t ores per f ec t dige d. re' strong nerves, sound lungs, h ea lth y li ver, pure blOO ioolt freshing, sleep, functional regularity, and energy to tb e 6o e disordered or enfeebled. We ex t rac t a few out of.rebsib Cures :—Cure No. 58,216, o f th e M archioness de P•hiliti' of seven years' liver c om pl a i nt, wasting awa y, dues nervousness, with a nervous palpitation all over, ba d ", lion, constant sleepl essness, and the most intolera ble 0' at' agitation.—Cure No. 1,771. Lord Stuart de Decie o . ;DP , Lieutenant of Waterford. of many years' dyspePa i3. oB o 49,832. " Fifty y ears ' i ndescri b a b le agony from dY,Pieocil nervousness, asthma, cough, co ns tip a ti on , lla t° ,„ kg . spasms, sickness, an d vom iti ng . — M ar i a Jolly."—Cu'11101 16,270. Mr. James Roberts, of Frimley, Surrey, °/ f og, years' diseased lun gs , s pitti ng o f bl oo d , liver 4e ,` a pe , ' ment, and partial deafness.—Cure No. 47,121. Miss 10 1 10 1 Jacobs, of extreme nervousness, indigestion, gather l JO' spirits, and nervous fancies. —Cure No. 54,116. The . 11el to . T. tpt Campbell, Fakenham, Norfolk, "of indigestion sa" . .. e al• dity 0/ the liver. which h a d resiste all medical treat /410' In tins, 11b, 2s 9d; 21b, 4s ; 51b, its; 121 b, 220; c oa l +Os. —Barry Du Barry and C o ., N o. 77 , Regent-street, l'_fr.°eodie also Phillips, tea dealers, 8, King Willia m -street ; Jigs at 61, Gracechurch-street ; 4, Cheapside ; 49, Bisb ( 1 8 1 .00 . / street Within ; 63, 150, and 298, Oxfo r d- s t ree t ; 330, 54, Upper Baker-street; 103, Tottenham-court - ro i ' - aO 7 Upper-street, Islington, N. ; H arvey, bl ot ti ng -bill; . Brothers, 65, High-str ee t ; an d S tu b bs, Queen's-terra" -Ate John's-wood, Lond on ; an d all respectable grocers a nd '- mists.—Beware of SWITiOIIB imitations. Births. ARDITI—On the 15th inst., at 30, S ae k v ill e -street. - dilly, the wife of Signor Luigi Arditi, of a son. o f t` COPE—On tho 17th inst., at Bramshill, L a dy Coe' son. HUMPTIERY On the 18th inst., at Addlestone P 4 t:te r : rey, the wife of Arthur Humphery, Esq., of a clg u , o tolir NATHAN—On the 19th inst., at Onger Hill, Add y 019.0 11 Surrey, the wife of Jonah Nathan, Esq., of 5, Gi es square, Hyde-park, of a son. Marriages. ~ g , 4 trarje' STEWART - PHILPOTT —On the 19th inst., at , - 1 0.7 ,f, Kent, George Stewart, Esq., of Connaught-terra ce kef , park, to Phoebe Anne, third daughter o f the , Philpott, rector of Ilinxhill-cum-Brook. .., , e e" 9 0 0 WALLER STRANGE— On the 19th inst., at St. -8 el' A " •• Hanover-square, Adolphus Waller, to Jamesiu, 9l o , l o' daughter of the late H. S. le Strange, Esq., a . ton Hall, Norfolk. Deaths. 10 4 7 4 ' BRODHURST —On the 17th inst., at The Friary, -,,, Qt e upon-Trent, Notts, Wm. Brodhurst, Esq., aged "c e plY BULL—On the 17th inst at 51, Albert-street, ll e ° park, Miss Bull, aged 82. Gush—On the 18th inst., at 108, Mortimer-road, •L''' Elizabeth Gush, aged 74. ‘O- , 13 Th` Horwoon— On the 15th inst., at Alma Cottage, 4 road, N., Robert 11. Hopwood, aged 50. of PILCHER —On the 18th inst., Jeremiah rilcher , Russell-square, and Worthing, Sussex, Esq. i i ta Roor —On the 17th inst., Miss Charlotte Roof, dang f. the late Job Roof, Esq., of the city of London. gt , STAFFORD—On the 16th inst at the Charterhone e f Stafford, aged 75. 00 TOMLIN —On the 18th inst., at 5, Campbell-terra ce, road, Mr. W. Tomlin, aged 57. i London : Printed and Published by SUL LIAM te . ./S P - rA of No. 112, Strand, Pllater. at Tau Sur; Olnee o ' auti Strand, in the Precinct of: th e Savoy,t' in the '- bliddleeex.—Frlday, July 20, 1800. Lut 0: It tun Mai] Bala Rat( ire Prooe j On tip 'nap Ora A 8 8( Xrp, Map, 4 8 Ti 8 8A ltla gT,' l , bitt, w, tat, pa' tS I biTt l P aid setaraidl t - .; - ] raid baft m e Paid n :l e li -C 1 nag