The Sun. — London, England, 1866-01-16 00:00:00

Shipping Disasters. SHIELDS, Monday, Noon. Another fearful collision took place off the York shire coast on Sunday morning, between the Arno steamship, trading between Leith and London, and the brig Medina, of North Shields, laden with grain from the Sea of Azoff to Leith. The steamer ran into the brig amidships, and the latter immediately began to fill with water, and sank 20 minutes after she was struck. The master of the brig, Mr. Cole, w ith the cook and steward, Eman uel Bryant, jumped on board the steamer, and assisted by the mate of the steamer and a soldier passenger, a young re cruit, who showed great bravery throughout, the master of the brig got out one of the steamer's life boats, and he and the two persons mentioned pulled it in among the wreck of the brig, and succeeded in saving the following persons belonging to her, who were floating about in the sea :—W. E. W. Taylor, chief mate of the ea, who belongs to Great Yarmou th ; Wm. P M yb din us, second mate, belonging to North Shields ; David James, a seaman, belong ing to Aberystwith ; and Patrick Kelly, a seaman, belonging to Douglas, Isle of Man. The following were drowned :—llenrich - Walter, seaman, belong ing to Hamburg ; Augustus Finslow and Her man, seamen, belonging to Dantzic ; and John Batters, an apprentice, belonging to Newcastle. The Arno's bows were stove in, and she made a good deal of water forward ; but she did not ap pear at the time in immediate danger of sinking. As soon as the survivors of the brig were got on board she was steamed towards the land. After she had run in about four miles she sprang a very serious leak, and she soon had about ten feet water in the fore compartment. Orders were given to clear the decks, and the carcases of about 300 sheep intended for the London market, with other merchandise, were thrown overboard. But that did not relieve the ship. Under these circumstances the master of the steamer thought it prudent to get out the life- boats, and four of them were put over the side, into which 48 passengers and seamen got, and as soon as these boats were cast off the steamer ran more in towards the land. A steam tug came to her assist ance, and was seen to run in with her. After pull ing about some time the people in the lifeboats fell in with the full rigged ship Summer Cloud, belong ing to Leith and bound to the Tyne from Peru, with guano, the master of which took them on board. The master of the steamer, with 18 men and three women, remained on board after the lifeboats left her. During Sunday night the Conservator screw steamer brought Capt. Pattison, the officers, and the remainder of the crew and passengers of the Arno in the Tyne. They stood by the ship until within ten minutes of her sinking. The Conservator had got a rope to the Arno and attempted to tow her, but the vessel was so far sunk forward that the Conservator could make no impression on her. The Conservator stuck by the Arno during the whole of yesterday afternoon. About half-past 1 o'clock in the afternoon the water broke through the bulk heads of the Arno into theengine-room and put the fires out. The captain, crew, and passengers then left, and the two Tyne tugs, the Renown, and the Victoria, got hold of her, but in ten minutes after she sank, with George Adams, a man put on board from the Victoria. A man belonging to the Renown saved himself by floating upon a basket until he was picked up. The Wizard, steam tug, brought four marines into the Tyne last night. She took them out of an open boat. They had drifted from the Arno and had no oars to guide their boat. The principalportion of the fore cabin passengers aboard the Arno were seamen and marines belonging to her Majesty's ship Trafalgar, and they were coming up from Leith to their homes in the south on furlough. They, with the whole of the passengers, have lost everything, and are nearly all assembled on the New Quay this morning. Many of the men complain that they have had nothing to eat since yesterday. EXETER, Jan. 14. Another severe storm occurred last night, and the river Exe rose to such a height as to flood the Bristol and Exeter line, and delay the arrival of the trains. Scores of sheep have been washed away, and hundreds of trees have been uprooted and car ried down the stream. The streets in St. Thomas, adjacent to the city, are submerged, and the inhabi tants are compelled to remove to their upstairs rooms. Last night aMr. klrescombe, jun., son of the proprietor of the Exeter Gazette, and another young man were being driven in a fly from some mines on the banks of the river 'feign, where they had been to pay the workmen. The river had overflowed the bridge, and the flydriver, a man named Jessop, in attempting to cross, was washed down the stream and drowned. The two young men were rescued after being two hours in a. most perilous situation The horses were drowned. JERSEY, Jan. 13 The storm has for some days interrupted the usua mail packet communication with the Channe Islands. The mail via Southampton due yesterday morning did not arrive till this morning, while that via Weymouth due on Wednesday after noon did not arrive here till the same time. On Wednesday the steamer Dred, of Maryport, Wilson master, bound from Havre from Swansea, was seen in distress about eight miles off Gorey. The cutter Umpire weat to her assistance, and put four men on board, and during the night she was brought to about three miles from the land. Yesterday morn ing a signal of distress was hoisted, and Capt. Amy, the harbour master, secured the services of a pilot to proceed to the steamer. The lifeboat of her Ma jesty's ship Speedy, Commander Rogers, was ob tained, and four of the crew volunteered to go off. The lifeboat was towed out by the cutter Umpire. One of the crew of the Speedy, named Stoneman, remained in the lifeboat for the purpose of steering her, all the others being on board the cutter. When about halfway to the schooner a heavy sea came on board and nearly washed all hands off the deck. It overturned the lifeboat, throwing out Stoneman,who was drowned. The boat was lost. The crew of the cutter was unable to render hi m any assistance in consequence of the main boom giving way. Being com pletely exhausted, they were compelled to return to shore. The gale increasing, the schooner began to drag her anchors and drive shorewards. Her crew cut away the masts , and again signalled th e i r distress. Capt. Amy telegraphed to St. Helier for vo the lifeboat to be sent ro und, and in about an hour n . and a quarter she wa s launched at Gore y. A.lu teer crew was immediately raised and the boat put off, but on its arrival at t he schooner the pt refused to throw out a line, and the crew, who were much exhausted, had to pull back to shore after their fruitless journey. They effected a safe landing near Seymour's Tower. After riding out the gale last night, the weather having moderated a little, the Dred was towed into Gorey this forenoon by her Majesty's ships Dasher and Speedy. The weather is now (midnight) quite calm. The Board of Trade have received the annexed list of ships lost during the late gales. The details are furnished by the Receiver of Wrecks: —The ship Guy Mannering, .1,600 tons burden, Captain Brown, commander, from New York for Liverpool, totally lost on the rock at lona, Scotland ; 17 of her crew drowned ; cargo very valuable-4,600 bales of cotton, 5,360 barrels of flour, 38,986 bushels of corn, and ,40 cases of merchandise ; estimated loss of ship and cargo, £40,000. The ship Severn, 856 tons burden, owned by messrs . Liggett and Co., of Billiter-street, Lon don, from Calcutta for London, abandoned, a total loss. Her cargo was as follows :-149,8131b. of Assam teas, 226 tons of saltpetre, 750 bales of jute, 270 bales of hemp, 350 bales of safflower, 24 bar rels of dye, 275 cwt.' of t ur meric,. 13,572 hides, 409 tons of rapeseed, and 18 tons of linseed ; crew saved —estimated loss, ship and freight, £lB,OOO, and cargo, £50,000, The ship Simla, from Calcutta for London, burnt at sea ; cargo-300 tons of rice, 2,282 bales of jute, 150 bales of hemp, 7,800 hides, 36 tons of linseed, 350 tons of rapeseed, 58 barrels of dye-wood ; estimated loss of ship an cargo, £ 50,000 . The ship Albion, 1,245 tons burden, owned by Messrs. W. Tapscott and Co., Liverpool, from New York for Liveool with general cargo, tota ll y wrecked near Stormness Harbour ; 11 lives lost, estimated value' of ship and cargo, £40,000. The ship Attalla, 945 tons, owned by Messrs. John Treharne and Co., Cardiff, totally lost off the coast THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 16, 1866. certain proportion will turn out badly, and my only wonder is that the number is not greater. It is the empty school, and the home which is no home, that make the full prison. (Hear, hear.) I speak from my personal experience of Kirkdale, of some 1,200 or 1,500 cases in which I have had to pass sentence ag chairman of the sessions there, when I say that the great majority of the prisoners with-whom I have had to do have been for all practical purposes wholly untaught. It is, indeed, an exception when you have a prisoner who is otherwise. Now that, to my mind, is rather a hopeful sign than thereverse. Things would be even more unsatisfactory than they are if criminals as a class were men or women who had had good chances in life and had voluntarily thrown those chances away. An undertaking of the kind which we are now promoting is sometimes so much misrepresented that it is necessary to describe with some care what we intend to do. I divide cri minals into three classes-Ist, the boys and girls who are, or ought to be, provided for under the reforma tory acts—although I may mention in passing that 1 in many cases magistrates seem reluctant to put those acts in force, and these young criminals are i sent to gaol, which is the very worst place for them; I next come the old habitual offenders, those who have followed thieving as an occupation all their lives, and who probably will do so to the end ; thirdly, those who, though too old for the reformatory school, are yet young in crime, are not hardened, and have rather yielded to some sudden temptation than deliberately set themselves to live in defiance of the law. As to the second of these classes — the old professional gaol-bird—l say plainly that I think the less we have to do with him the better. It is of course not beyond the scope of possibility that such a one may really be tired of the life he is leading, and may wish to mend his ways, but the chance of sincerity in any par ticular case among that class is infinitely small. There is a stage at which moral as well as physical diseases become incurable, and a man who has long made it his habit to deceive prison authorities and gaol chaplains by a show of amendment and refor mation brings himself at last to such a state that he hardly knows whether in what he says he is acting a Part or not. That is the class which has brought discredit, I think undeserved dis credit, u p on all at tempts to reclaim prisoners. There is a story of one such character—an admirably-conducted man in gaol—who by extra work managed to lay by a re spectable sum, which was duly paid him on his re lease, and whi c h h e i mme di a t e ly proceeded to in vest in a (Laughter.) se t of housebreakers' tools. It • is not on men of that kind that I should have much help, hope of operating. If one of these peo Pie—who are i n an d out of gaol half their lives—applies for I should say to him, "I am sorry for you ; it is quite possible you may mean what you say, but we can't help everybody ; the assistance we have to give is limited, and that assist ance we think it b e tt er to reserve for those who have not yet thoroughly gone to the bad." That brings me to the question—Who are those whom you are to reclaim and to save ? I answer—the young, the weak, the untaught, or ill-taught ; the kind of man, in short, whose history is something as follows : He has a drunken father or mother, perhaps both ; he has an uncomfortable home, and he h as h a d no schooling. He means on the whole to do well, if it is not too difficult ; but he has not moral courage to stand up against temptation. He gets into bad com pany, he is drawn into a beer-shop, he is primed with drink, and he is induced to join in what is re presented to him as a " spree"—probably robbing a farm-yard or breaking into a house. He is caught, of course, while the older hands escape. He con fesses to the police, and pleads guilty at his trial, and he takes his punishment. He comes out of gaol ashamed to show his face ; he wants to get employ ment—he finds himself badly looked upon, he is taunted with having been in prison ; he tries a little, and finds that living respectable is too great an effort to persevere in. So he goes thieving again, and in the end becomes one of the incorrigible class. Now, I say that is a kind of man who, if he is not very likely to do much good in the world, may at any rate be so far saved as that he shall do no harm. (Hear, hear.) He comes out of gaol full, for the moment, of good intentions, and much, probably everything, depends on the company that he gets into, as to whether these in- tentions come to anything or not. What, then, do you propose to do for such a man ?—Mainly this— to get him a fresh start, away from his old associates and old habits. He will have a better chance any- where rather than at home. If he can be emigrated, so much the better ; there is not much inducement to dishonesty, and there is much inducement to labour in the backwoods of Canada or Australia. But if that, for any reason, is impossible, then re moval to some other part of the country is enough, I provided you can secure the supervision of a respect able employer, and the advantage of a fresh start in a place where nothing is known against him. In this there is no petting, no pampering, no favour shown to the criminal, such as is likely to discourage or to disgust the honest man. I may notice in pass ing that we have noc much now to fear from the tendency to pamper criminals. It existed, no doubt, 25 or 20 years ago, but a reaction has taken place; it is a fashion that has gone out, and perhaps, if anything, there is now, in some quarters, an inclina tion to rely, rather too indiscriminately, upon mere pain, or mere severity, as a deterrent. The money expended need not be much ; it is more, to my mind a matter of organisation than one of money. Part of it will be contributed by the prisoners themselves, :or an act passed three years ago enables visiting justices to give to a society such as we propose, duly Certified as being approved by them, the disposal of such sums as the prisoner on discharge would be en• titled to. And it is not the case that by finding em. ployment for an ex-prisoner you are placing him in a position which any honest labourer has cause to envy. .In that respect the honest, able-bodied labourer is perfectly able to help himself ; there is no want of employment now in England. Our object is simply to guard against the risks, the tempta tions that attend a man just turned out of goal, necessarily without a character—or rather with such a character that to be without one would be a gain to him ; and with such a set of rascals around him, who will try and get him back among them. And if it is objected—" When there is so much misery, and so much misery of a preventible kind, among honest men, why do you concern yourself with criminals at all ?" My answer is, that it is very well to say you will leave them alone, but they will not leave you alone. (Applause.) Ido it not mainly for their sakes, but very much for my own, and for that of the public in general: I do it on the same principle that would lead me to get a muck-heap or a dead carcase carted away from before my door, because it is a nuisance where it is. The criminal, individually, is generally speak ing one of the least interesting of mankind ; but the I existence of a large criminal class amongst us is both a national disgrace and a heavy national loss. It has been calculated, or conjectured—for upon such matters no very certain calculations can be made—that every habitual thief costs the public £3OO a year ; and, considering that stolen goods are sold at a fraction of their value,. that they are often destroyed, and the produce is always wasted, I think upon the whole that is a very moderate esti mate. You all recollect the old saying about dirt being only matter in the wrong place. We want to deal with this human dirt—to take it from where it is.simply a nuisance and an offence, and to place it where it may become a useful manure. This is not a new experiment. Both in London and in Birmingham, to say nothing of various smaller towns, societies of the same kind exist, and I am told that in both of those places, according to the last reports, fully two-thirds of those who have been selected for assistance are known to be earning their living honestly ; those who have relapsed, and those as to whom nothing is known, and who for the most part may be assumed to have relapsed, will form less than one third of the entire number. With sonic concluding observations his lordship moved the following re solution :—" That considering the great difficulty in obtaining employment experienced by persons discharged out of gaol, and it having been proved, when assisted by societies established to aid them in obtaining the means of earning a livelihood, the number of persons recommitted to gaol is consider ably diminished, this meeting has heard with much satisfaction of the recent establishment of the Man chester and Salford Discharged Prisoners' Aid Society, which is in the opinion of this meeting de serving of general public support." Mr. ALFRED MILNE, chairman of the Salford quarter sessions, seconded the motion, which was supported by Mr. T. HIBBERT, M.P., chairman of the Salford visiting justices, and carried unanimously. A vote of thanks to the noble lord for presiding terminated the proceedings. Agricultural Prospects. Last week opened with a gale and heavy rain up to 10.30 a.m., while the remainder of the day was boisterous, but the rain ceased, and did not return. On Monday a heavy gale continued, with showers at intervals ; thermometer 40 deg. ; barometer down to 29in., having fallen considerably. Tuesday was a cold day, wind south-west, thermometer 38 deg., barometer - 28.85 in., inclined to frost, and perhaps to snow, as the atmosphere had all the appearance of this, and the barometer particularly so. The land in all districts was so saturated with wet that no ploughing could be proceeded with for spring til lage, and from the same cause the teams could not get on to the land with manure, the grass land being also too soft. A good frost would be re quired to push this work forward. On Wednes day morning it was observable that a slight frost had been experienced in the previous night, and the day was very cold, with slight rain in the afternoon, as in some parts of the coun- try snow had been experienced. No opportunity yet afforded for fieldwork being proceeded with, and the weather continued most unfavourable for the thrash- ing of wheat, as has been proved by the samples brought to market in all the agricultural districts. In fact so long as farmers proceed with in-door work whilst such weather continues, the condition cannot improve. Prices paid for damp samples now are most unsatisfactory, such being of little use to the millers, and yet there is no improvement in the de mand for old, as might naturally be expected. There has been much less brought forward, and the returns as to quantity have greatly fallen off during the present week. Barley does not suffer so much in wet weather on being thrashed, but still the quality is somewhat deteriorated, and the maltsters would rather have it in good dry condition. The deliveries are also falling off, and it appears probable that a sufficiency will not be kept up during the remainder of the malting season, at least of a fine quality, and that at the close an inferior sample must suffice for the finish. The quality of the malt will be a good deal under that of the past year, which was more than usually good, and the brewers had laid in large stocks, that were just what they wanted for so hot ' a summer as the last, causing the consumption to be extremely large, and at the opening of the pre sent malting season these stocks had been much re duced. A touch of winter has at last been experi enced, for on Thursday morning at 2 o'clock snow commenced to fall very heavily, lasting up to mid day ; the depth in most places being Bin., and in many others 10in. Being of a soft substance, the effect was very detrimental to the wires of all the telegraphs in and some distance round town ; the wires were so heavily loaded with snow that they broke down in all directions, putting a complete stop to communication by telegraph, as no doubt it will take a considerable time to put them all in order again ; as in the meantime, the old mode of conveying information by the trains and through the post-office must be resorted to. On Fri day morning another heavy fall of snow took place, after a slight frost in the previous night. The wind was S.W. ; thermometer 33in. During the previous fall the windblew from the N.E., giving some expectation of a continuance of wintry wea ther, and the night was frosty. From account 3 of this heavy snowstorm, such a deep fall in so short a time has not been experienced for many years. On Saturday morning a complete change had taken place, heavy rain having set in early, which lasted until noon, and the temperature being higher, the snow commenced to melt fast, and the fear now is that floods will take place wherever the fall has been so heavy. Had the snow remained on the ground for a time it would have been acceptable to the farmers, seasonably checking the growth of the first planted wheat, which had assumed the appearance of being winter-proud ; but now it may be injured by being too saturated with moisture, and will re quire protection in some way or other. For the pre sent no field work can be proceeded with, and it is difficult to form a correct opinion of the effects on the plant under so sudden a change. The latest sown may now be the safest, from this being much more backward, and not so risky as too forward. The markets will not be benefited from a worse condi tion whilst such changes in the atmosphere take Place ; and probably farmers will cease to bring out whilst the condition is so bad, as left in the stack would be the safest course.—Mark-lane Express. tions, for a brief period at least ; let it cease to think of the chances of this or that faction getting precedence and powers until this great question is disposed of. Let Con gress definitely authorise the President to extend the powers and define the duties of the Freedmen's Bureau authorising tho leasing of lands, so as to secure the best application of the labor of the South, and we may thereby be in time to secure another crop, and save ourselves fr'm being distressed, perhaps ruined, by lack of means to settle balances against us in our trade with the world abroad. Baltimore Commercial. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TIMES.—On the sth of January a person of gen tlemanlike appearance and address, giving the name of Augustus George Fletcher, called at the Union Bank of Australia in Old Broad-street, and accused himself of a robbery on the premises of the Mel bourne branch, of which he had been chief clerk. About a year - and a half ago, according to his own statement, he had forced open a box containing valuable securities belonging to a Mr. Lewis, and taken out bonds to the value of about £lO,OOO. He had not been suspected at the time, and had re mained in the employment of the bank for a con siderable period afterwards, when he absconded to this country, proceeded next to imerica, and ulti mately to Buenos Ayres, whence he had just re turned for the express purpose of surrendering him self. Mr. Mewburn, the secretary of the Union Bank, to whom he made this avowal, asked him in the presence of Mr. Murray, the solicitor of the bank, whether he was ready to give up the securities, or the proceeds of them, to which he replied that he was anxious to make every repara tion in his power, and could at once make over to the bank some £1,500, part of which was in London and part in Paris, a promise which he has since made good. It appears that Mr. Mewburn took no steps to procure his appre hension, but on leaving the bank he went up to a constable of his own accord and gave himself in charge for the robbery. The constable took him to the Bishopsgate-street Police-station, where he repeated his story, and was brought up for exami nation at the Mansion-house on the following day, January 6. The circumstances of his surrender were then given in evidence by Mr. Mewburn and the policeman, but neither Mr. Murray, who ap peared for the bank, nor Mr. Bannister, who ap peared for the London correspondents of Mr. Lewis, was prepared to undertake the prosecution. Both admitted that they " felt some dif f iculty" in doing so, and something was said about an action commenced by Mr. Lewis in Australia, we presume against the bank, which helps to explain a some what mysterious want of concert between the two parties most interested in Fletcher's conviction. Both, however, professed their desire to further the ends of justice, if there were any legal means of proceeding against the prisoner. Mr. Alderman Finnis thereupon decided that no such means ex isted, that he had no power to detain Fletcher ex cept upon a proper warrant, and that, no warrant for his apprehension having arrived from the colony, he must be forthwith discharged, unless he should think fit to enter into his own recognizances to appear on a future day. The prisoner adopted this suggestion, and duly surrendered again on Saturday last, by which time it was thought pos sible that a warrant might have arrived from Australia. No such warrant being forthcoming, Mr. Alderman Finnis declared that he was without jurisdiction, and had no option but to dismiss the case. It must certainly seem marvellous to most people that a man who has committed a crime in Australia and escaped to England cannot be com mitted to prison, even upon his own confession, un less a warrant for his arrest shall have been re ceived from the colony. But such is the law. Nothing can be more free from ambiguity than the language of the Act under which a magis trate is especially authorised to commit persons charged with offences in the colonies. This Act was passed in the year 1843 to provide more effec tually for the apprehension and trial of criminals " who may be in other parts of her Majesty's dominions than those in which their offences were committed." It enables a constable to apprehend and convey before a justice of the peace those, and those only, " against whom a warrant shall have been issued for such offence by any person having lawful authority to issue the same within that part of her Majesty's dominions where such offence shall have been committed," and endorsed by a Secretary of State. Nothing is said of those against whom a warrant is out, or against whom a warrant may have been sent to the wrong place, but who may have given themselves up to the authorities, or may otherwise have fallen into the hands of the police. The same rule applies in the converse case of offenders escaping to the colonies. They arc only liable to apprehension on production of a warrant issued here and endorsed by a Judge of the colony. There is, therefore, no apparent way of securing the arrest of any one committing a crime in one part of her Majesty's dominions and escaping to some other part or parts unknown, ex cept by forwarding a separate warrant to each. In other words, the Acts • passed in pursuance of Extradition Treaties furnish in some respects a more effectual provision for intercepting fugitives from justice than an Act expressly designed to facilitate criminal justice throughout the British Empire. A citizen of the United States might and would be delivered up without any warrant from a magistrate of his own country, upon such evidence of his crimi nality as would justify his commitment had his alleged offence been perpetrated within the United. Kingdom. There was nothing, for instance, to pre vent Mr. Adams from preferring a charge of piracy against Capt. Waddell and the crew of the Shenan doah, had the means of establishing a prima facie case against them been in his possession. Under this Act, on the contrary, an endorsed warrant from the colony is expressly required before the question of criminality can be entertained at all. Here is just such a casus omissus as is constantly occurring to bring discredit upon the administration of our law. There used to be all sorts of absurd restrictions on the operation of warrants. It was held that a war rant issued in one county could not in strictness be executed in another, and even that a crime begun in one and completed in another might be cognisable in neither. To remedy these anomalies the practice of backing warrants was irregularly introduced, and at last sanctioned by statute. A " Consolidation Act" of the approved type was passed, which pur ported to regulate the whole subject of magistrates' jurisdiction. Being framed on no broad or uniform principle, it has, of course, failed to do so with suc cess, and recourse has been had to further patching. When shall we learn that piecemeal legislation is not more unphilosophical than it is unpractical ? When shall we realise that, so far from there being an y convenience in having a different rule for every different group of circumstances, it inevitably pro- . duces confusion and injustice? What could be the object of enacting specifically that a colonial war rant countersigned by a Secretary of State should be a condition precedent to relegating a criminal to the colony wherein his crime was committed ? All that is really needed is some adequate security against a British subject being arrested on mere suspicion and kept in confinement for an unreason able time before trial. The truth probably is that no one ever contemplated such a contingency as has occurred. It would very seldom happen that proofs enough to justify the committal of a refugee from the West Indies or Australia could be produced before an English magistrate without the assistance of a prosecutor from the colony, and it was forgotten that a culprit may supply the want of proofs by his own confession. Some loophole of this kind will always be left, so long as our Legislature, in the true spirit of English law, refuses to provide, on comprehensive principles, for exigencies that have not yet been illustrated by precedents. HERALD.—The meeting of the Conservatives of South Devon at Newton Abbot the other evening deserves more than a passing remark ; and it does so., not simply on account of the numbers and posi tion of the electors who were then gathered together, nor of the cheering enthusiasm displayed on all hands, nor of the weight and ability of t he chief speakers, though all these were conspicuous. We especially notice it because the state of parties and (as it appears to us) the true genius and work of Conservatism were set forth on the occasion with unusual distinctness. With Lord Devon's clear view of duty, Sir Stafford Northcote's minute power of analysis, and the peculiar faculty for hitting the nail very exactly and very hard on the head which happens to characterise each of the members for . South Devon, it could hardly be othe rwise. r Stafford Northcote very clearly defined t he position of parties in a few sentences :—" The truth is, that in the last Parliament—and I suppose one may say it has been the case in England for a very long time past, and probably will always be the case—the Liberal party has been divided into two sections, dis tinguished as the easy-going Liberals and the thorough-going Liberals. Of the easy-going Libe rals Lord Palmerston was the personification, the representative, the Coryphceus. Of the thorough going Liberals, there is no doubt in my mind that Mr. Bright is the type. And this was perfectly evi dent to every one who studied the aspects of the last Parliament —that between these two parties there was very little love lost, and indeed that the two were completely antagonistic to one another. This was also apparent—that the easy-going Libe rals, represented by Lord Palmerston, had the best of it, and kept Mr. Bright and his party very much in the background." This is exactly where we stood at the end of the last Parliament. Since then some 200 new members have taken the place of old representatives, a very large proportion of them elected simply on the strength of a name— that of Lord Palmerston—which was susceptible of Reconstruction of the South. The reasons every day accumulate which call impe ratively for a re-organisation of the labor of the South, with the purpose of securing another cotton crop. There is no denying the fact that such has been the action of Congress of late that the President has felt it incumbent upon himself to stand somewhat upon his reserved rights — upon his reserved action in doing anything decisive to help the South. Whilst it must be acknowledged, too, that a good many of his acts have been extraordinary ; that ho has taken the responsibility of anticipating the action of Congress in dealing with the South ; still, the necessity and the call for it so for this has been so plainly apparent, clearly an absolute necessity, that practical men have re joiced that we had one in the elevated position to which he has been called competent to do this—competent to deal with needs hardly contemplated in the past by those who framed the Constitution. Had he been less resolute and less capable, had he timidly stood back from doing good from the fear of results purely personal to himself— had he, in short, been so afraid of censure as to have stood by in silence to let the South and the country suffer, he might indeed have been lauded for his devotion to official and constitutional routine, but he would hardly have been standing where he does now in the estimation of the great world of humanity. Whereas, by being the man for the occasion, he is now recognised as a true states man, as one calculated for every contingency to which he may be subjected. In other words, he has won the con fidence of the people, if he has not conciliated the politician; and it is too late for the latter now to think of interfering with a policy and with kindly endeavors so generally en dorsed by the people. Let it be noted that whatever of vindictive feeling existed during'the war, and immediately at its close, how ever loyal men may have felt about having the rights of the law against treason rigidly executed, the fact developed that the South is utterly crushed has brought about a feel ing of commiseration at the ultimate consequences of past follies that cannot be ignored or disregarded. And if the South has reluctantly appreciated her changed condition, and has been found listening to her old counsellors instead of at once throwing them overboard, it is no more than might have been expected%f any community whatever, because talent will maintain its prerogative, make itself felt, despite any and every countervailing influence what ever. But the one great fact that cannot be ignored, North or South, is—that now with a restored Union our in terests must be identical, and the sooner all come to re alise this the better for the whole. We cannot cripple one part of our common country without injuring the advance of the whole. And if wo cannot now realise this great fact, and speedily, we must as a nationality suffer, we must continue to have 'our prosperity postponed, and possibly, indeed —as matters are drifting—probably we shall awaken to our want of wisdom when it is too late. Now we have felt it incumbent on ourselves to do what we could, of late, in insisting upon a speedy reorganisation of the South, upon making its labor effective, and sup plying it with capital. We have shown that as matters are progressing we are likely to have nothing that can be considered a cotton crop. And as only lately we were compelled to accept the amount of the cotton on hand, as only "seven hundred thousand bales," and this on the authority of Secretary M,Culloch, we have In addition a statement which reduces even this amount, as we shall proceed to show. It is well known that the average weight of bales before the war, and whilst the cotton presses throughout the South were in good repair, was four to five hundred pounds each ; so that when a crop was named as " four" or "five" millions of bales, it represented a maximum quantity. But it is now stated, on the authority of an old New Orleans merchant, writing to a Liverpool paper, ' kat the bales being sent forward now amount, on an average, to only three hundred or three hundred and fifty pounds ! Of course this reduces again, and disastrously, the estimates of what is available for the wants of the country and for foreign exchange, and it is another urgent reason why not a moment shoullt be lost in doing all that is possible to secure another crop this year of the great staple. Now, in view of all these things, is it not possible for the. controlling power in Congress to at once join with the President in the adoption of measures to reconstruct the shattered South ? Can it be that upon questions of pre cedence, of propriety, of anything merely political in its tendency, that the great opportunity for doing good will be thrown away, and the South be left not only to sink into hopeless poverty herself, but be allowed to drag the whole country itself along with her to distress and pos sible bankruptcy. We have instanced the action had elsewhere by commercial men, by Boards of Trade, by those who are competent to scent the danger afar off, which points to needed action in the premises. Let Congress, then, we insist, forget its political action in other direc- The Baltimore and Liverpool Steamers. It needs no argument to convince Western producers and merchants that our trade with Europe should be conducted through the cheapest channels, or that the cheapest channels are those which effect the greatest sav ings, the elements of time and money both being consi dered. Whether for St. Louis and the Far West, which is in commercial relations with our city, that channel shall lay through New York or New Orleans or any other sea coast point, can only be determined when each of those points shall offer its utmost facilities for expediting the transit of commodities through it. It is in this point of view that we hail with satisfaction the commencement at Baltimore of an enterprise which now bids fair to establish a line of steam packets between Baltimore and Liverpool. The Somerset, one of the steamers belonging to this line, left Baltimore September 30th, being the first American steamship which departed for Europe since the close of the war. She carried out a large cargo of Western and South ern produce ; and on the 25th of November returned well laden with European goods, after a passage of less than sixteen days. The Somerset is one of four vessels compris ing the line. Another of them, the Worcester, left on the 29th of November, with a cargo valued at a quarter of a million of dollars, and enough of refused freight to load two other ships of her capacity. One advantage claimed for this route is the avoidance of the delays incurred at ports further north. Thus it is stated that goods imported for Baltimore merchants have lain in New York from two to three, months, whereas a Cincinnati house which shipped very heavily by the Somerset in bond and upon through receipts, given direct from Liverpool to Cincinnati, had their goods delivered from the steamship direct to the cars of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, at the capacious Locust Point shipping harbor. This fact shows both a great saving of time and also of money in cases where goods are entered at the custom-houses of the seaports. There is every indication that the city of Baltimore and State of Maryland will grant such aid to this line of steamers as will give it every desirable local facility for enlarging the amount of its business and promoting de spatch in the transaction of it. Importers of foreign goods in St. Louis will undoubt edly interest themselves to ascertain the advantages offered by the route through Baltimore. If its facilities are such as are claimed for it by the Baltimore press, they will bo quite sure to give it the preference over compet ing lines through New York or Boston.—St. Louis Re- publican. CONFEDERATE COTTON LOAN.—The adjourned meeting of the holders of the Seven Per Cent. Cotton Loan will bo held at the London Tavern on Thursday next at one o'clock, when resolutions will be proposed in conformity with the report of the committee, to which we recently had occasion to refer. Some interesting develop ments are expected. AN OLD CONSUL.—ConsuI Vevey, Aix la Chapelle, who has been spending a few week in Paris for the benefit of his health which has lately been in an unsatisfactory state, is one of the oldest consuls abroad. He received his first appointment over thirty years ago, and has served as United States Consul at Antwerp, Havre, and other con tinental towns, in all of which he has given great satisfaction to every administration, except, we believe, that of Buchanan, and this exception added to his repu tation. [ADVERTISEMENT.j—HoIIoway's Ointment and Pills.— T hero is no question whatever that rheumatism. neuralgia, and such like painful maladies, aro more rife this season than for some years past. The number of testimonials of cures effected by Holloway's remedies is unprecedented, and should be enforced on the attention of all sufferers from these complaints. The parts in pain should be fo mented for some minutes with warm brine, dried, and im mediately well ruMbed with the ointment. It will pass into the pores of the skin and give the greatest relief. Many valuable lives are annually lost which might be saved if early recourse in illness were made to these remarkable remedies, which must necessarily prove beneficial and cannot do harm. of Ireland in coming from Quebec; estimated value of ship and cargo, £8,700. The ship Juliet, 440 tons, Captain Hitch, master, owned by Mr. F. Chambers, of London, with a cargo of sugar and rum, from Demerara for London, lost at Hell-bay, Land's-end; estimated value of ship, £4,000, and caigo, £13,000. The barque Jeanne, 312 tons, Captain Jacques Jaussens, owned by Messrs. Chabot and Co., of Ant werp, from Buenos Ayres to Queenstown, wrecked near Maryport ; estimated loss of ship and cargo, £34,300. The bark Lucetta, 192 tons, from Seaham for Rochester, with coals, lost on the Gun fleet Sand ; value of ship and cargo, £3,700. The bark Diana, 261 tons register, of Liverpool, owned by Mr. G. Caldewell, of Troon, cargo coals, totally lost on South Point of Holy Island ; value of ship, £4,000. The bark Norma, 650 tons, Captain Horet man, owned by Messrs. Konitzky and Thiermann, of Bremen, with a cargo of tobacco from Richmond for London, lost on the south-east spit of the Goodwin ; loss of ship, £8,300, and cargo, £6,000. The bark Lexington, 344 tons, owned by Messrs. J. Milligan, jun., Liverpool, cargo, coals and machinery, from Liverpool for Havannah, totally lost one mile off Coral Point, north-west of Islay, one man lost by remaining on board ; value of ship, £4,000, and cargo, £4,000, The bark Ariel, 365 tons, owned by Messrs. R. Craggs and R. Hall, Stockton, with a cargo of wheat from Odessa for Queenstown, abandoned 30 miles from Old Head of Kinsale, no lives lost ; estimated loss of ship, £6,000, and cargo, £3,500. The ship Eugenie, 1,136 tons burden, owned by Messrs. John Martin and Sons, Dublin, with a general cargo from Liverpool for St. John's, New Brunswick, totally lost off Ballymac Cotter, county of Cork ; captain and 12 men drowned ; estimated loss of ship and cargo, £35,000. The bark Ayrshire, 681 tons, Capt. W. H. Terry (master), owned by IV. E. Corner, Leadenhall-street, London, with a cargo of timber, from Quebec for Dundee, lost off Poor Island ; estimated loss of ship and cargo, £6,000. The Palinurus, 1,082 tons, Capt. A. Berry, owners Messrs. R. Allen and Co., Liverpool, with a cargo of coals from that port to New York, wrecked at Cymyran-bay ; one life lost ; estimated loss of ship, £15,000, and cargo, £1,600. The above form a small part of the ships that have been lost they number between 300 and 400. Lord Stanley upon Aid to Discharged Prisoners. -- ♦ - Lord Stanley, M.P., took the chair yesterday at a meeting held in the Manchester Town-hall to pro mote the formation of a Discharged Prisoners' Aid Society for that district. Lord STANLEY said--We are met here for the purpose of establishing a society which has for its object the giving of temporary aid to discharged - - - - prisoners, and assisting them, if willing, to find honest employment. Ido not want to encumber the few remarks I shall make with any superfluous details, and shall therefore only explain the grounds on which I think such a society may be usefully formed. We have in this country, unhappily, a large criminal class, which, though recruited from all districts, mainly makes its home in the great towns, where concealment is easiest and plunder most abundant. It is not material for our purpose 6 estimate - with any accuracy the number 6 that class, for the figures we have are vague, and are necessarily to some extent conjec• tural, but we may safely assume it is large, andthat whether diminishing or not—as to which there is a difference of opinion—it will continue large for many years to come. Our late judicial statistics are not pleasant reading, and I recommend the study of them to any person who may be inclined to take too hopeful or rose-coloured a view of our actual civili- sation. (Hear.) Since 1861 there has been a steady although a slow increase in the number of commit tals, and though allowance must be made for an in- crease of population, and also in some degree for the increased efficiency of police, still it is certain that there has been—to put it in the mildest form—no considerable falling off in the amount of detected crime. Nor do I think we can expect that there should be, when we remember how vast a population still remains among us, living apart from and below all the influences of civilised life. No town has done more, in many respects, for its inhabitants than this city of Manchester; but late inquiries have shown beyond dispute that in Manchester and Salford there are many thousands—some estimates put the number as high as 50,000 (I have not verified the figures, therefore I should not like to vouch for them)—of children, mostly of the lowest grade, who are neither at work nor at school. Of these we must expect that a very different interpretations. It was equally pos sible to support Lord Palmerston, because he differed froin the Conservative party, or because he flouted Mr. Bright; because he called himself a Reformer, or because he strangled a Reform Bill. All this is changed now. Stat magni nominis umbra ; but the shadow has no shelter in it. That the position of no inconsiderable number of members of Parliament at this moment is singularly perplexing we are aware. We cannot help it, and we do not regret it. Running with the hare and hunting with the hounds ; gaining a seat or gaining power as a Liberal, while the retention of it against the assaults of Liberal friends depends upon the chivalry of Conservative opponents, recommended as it is alike by the example of the late Premier, is a game which very few can play, and which, we are obliged to add, ought not to be played even *here it can. Lord Russell, at all events, whether he admires the moral aspect of the last six years or not, is too wrong headed to support the role himself. Sir Stratford Northcote anticipates the embroglio, seriously enough, yet not without a sufficient feeling of the fun that there will be before the next session is over. " We may have another attempt made to carry on the system of the last Parliament ;" but then " I believe Mr. Gladstone is a man of energy, of charac ter, and of that impatience—if I may use the ex pression—of anything like indifference or indolence, that he will be a very bad leader of a party desirous to keep things quiet and to be apathetic. He may be a very able and excellent leader when great measures are to be passed, and great debates to be carried on, because his great abilities will always overbear, and make men pass by any imperfections, infirmities, and faults of temper, and other faults which tell in quieter times ; but I am sure it would have been quite impossible for Mr. Gadstone in the last Parliament to have played the part which Lord Palmerston played with one-hund redth part of Lord Palmerston's success." So Sir Stafford Northcote, in plain words, expects that Lord Russell will run straight upon his destiny like a man—or a bull. He has still two courses open. The one is, to satisfy the desires of the more moderate among his followers (or rather the desires of the less moderate among their consti tuents), by just paring down the corners of the original Reform Bill—turning £5O into £2O, and £lO into £8 (or into £6 in the hope that " the Lords" will stand his friend and compromise it into £B, which is much the same thing) ; or else he may satisfy Mr. Bright and place the majority of his supporters in a singularly unpleasant dilemma — while, if he meddles, in addition, with the distri bution of seats, the fate of Actteon will be luxury compared with his own. This, according to an acute observer, is the pleasant prospect of a Minis ter with a majority of 60 or 70 at his back, but hampered with a stupid and unreal cry which he and his party raised for hollow and factious pur poses years ago, and which now returns—pede Pmna claudo—to avenge itself after seven years of quiet but rather guilty silence. The Conservative course is very clear. That of straightforward people always is. We have no space for further quotations, and must give the spirit of what was said. If we find a party satisfied on the whole with England as it is, but yet thinking that the present condition of the representation of the people may be considerably amended ; that e. g. , the working classes, the educated (but non-househoding) classes, and a few others, should find their place in the sys tem, perhaps " we may doubt whether there is so much weight in their representations as they sup pose, we may remind them of the old epitaph, " I was well ; I would be better •, and here I am ; " but we are quite ready to go with them, as soon as a couple of points are settled. First, that anybody can be found who feels the grievance; second, that a remedy be discovered which is not worse than the disease. If, on the other hand, we find dangerous measures launched, either in stupid obedience to Mr. Bright and his ruler—whether the line be drawn at six pounds, five pounds, or no pounds at all—or in dull fetish-worship of Lord Russell's consistency —we shall oppose the nonsense to the uttermost. " THE SPECTATOR" ON THE LUXURY OF WINTER. —To a Londoner a sharp winter is a season of torment, a frost as bad as a second income-tax, a fall of snow worse than fifty concentrated fogs. He is the creature of civilisation, and snow hates civili sation, and the Londoner therefore hates snow. Talk of a cheery frost ; the first thing a frost does for a Londoner is to hand him over in humiliating bondage to the only hateful class of English trades men, the people who call themselves plumbers, and are everything by which they can hope to extort a few more unnecessary pounds. The " frost has burst the pipes, sir," remarks his servant confiden tially, and the Londoner knows that 6d. more has been piled upon his income-tax. The water is pouring through his pet ceiling, the skylight is breaking with the weight of snow, the roof is letting in drops which fall in heavy splashes with an infernal pur pose in their noise, and there is nothing to do but send for the man who can mend the pipes, and repair the skylight, and adjust the tiles, and who will pre tend to do all those things, who makes you some un intelligible statement about some pipe you never saw, and at last sends in a bill which amounts to about £7 10i. for each man's day's work, but which you are entirely powerless to dispute. Fretted with unexpected, and, as he knows, utterly useless expense —for no plumber ever seems to repair anything — the Londoner tries to reach his office, or counting house, or club, and is assailed at his doorstep by a couple of ruffians, who assert clamorously their right to clean " his" bit of pavement, and to be paid there for. If he is unwise to resist, thinking that in a civi lised community the authorities who tax him will see the street cleaned, but if he has any experience of vestries, or any knowledge of their genius for neglecting duty, he authorises the work, and pays a shilling to have his steps made as slippery as glass, under pretence of clearing them. At last he is in the streets, and finds them laden a foot deep with amass precisely like the pulp of brown paper, a sticky con glomerate of mud , snow, sand, and deadly cold water, which penetrates in a second through the strongest boots. He can scarcely see for the smut-loaded snow drifting in his eyes, scarcely walk for the clammy slush settled on the ice-bound pavement, scarcely hear for the wind. Every three yards one foot slips on the most treacherous footing in the world—a stone pavement covered firstwith athin coat of ice, thenwith a coat of slush, and finally with a crisp white powder which wets his ankles through and through. Every 30 yards he becomes an involuntary partaker in the " exhilarating enjoyment" of snowballing, his share in which consists in receiving either a cricket ball in the back—your London Arab always loads his snowball, an outrage on boy morality which ought to be made capital—or a handful of loose snow deftly lodged between his coat collar and his neck. He looks round for an omnibus, but the only one in sight is full and steaming, or a cab, and is told by the driver, who really is " cheery," partly from the prospect of plunder, partly because he has discounted that plunder in gin, that he is going home, but will carry him nevertheless for five times his fare. Ten times was asked, and given repeatedly to our personal knowledge, on Thursday with perfect impunity. Of co urse the Londoner—provided he does not wea r spectacles, in which case he gives in at once, glad to escape lunacy—resists for five minutes, but all cabs are alike, and he yields at last, and seats himself in his hansom to find the glass let down on his nose, and the three separate chinks in that vehicle raining iced water on his waistcoat and each knee. Chilled to the bone, his feet wet, his knees wet, his hair drip ping, not with water, but a liquid compound of ice and soot, he is carried at three miles an hour to his destination. There he finds everything going wrong, the telegraph wires hanging across the street, the gutter artistically choked up so as to flood the office, the boys up to their eyes in the luxury of making mud pies with the substance they call snow, and his partner, who lives in the country, eloquent on the loveliness of the landscape he had driven through. ' 'Every branch,sir," says that Goth, "looked like a stalactite," till his auditor wishes, as he tries to get warm, that they had been stalactites, and had tumbled on their admirer. All day long, if it is a day like Thursday, it is the same—brown mud and yellow flake outside, an incipient cold within, a total impossibility of going anywhere or seeing anybody, an absolute determination that the fire shall burn, a secret acknowledgment that till wet soot ceases to fall down the chimney the fire will continue to dis obey. The dreariness of a London office in a snow storm is a thing absolutely unique, or if paralleled, paralleled only by that of a private parlour in a country inn when -the rain is coming down with a manifest sense of duty to perform. " Cheery snow," indeed ! We wish Charles Dickens, and Mr. Kings ley, and all other masculine Christians, had been made to stand in it in the Strand all Thursday afternoon, sharing in the " exhilarating game," as played from under the Adelphi Arches. We also wish the storm had occurred a month later, when the borough members will be all in town. The Lon don Vestries would get small mercy then, and Sir G. Grey's bill for handing the streets over to Sir J. Thwaites would have been rushed through with the energy peculiar to men with the chilblains. Five minutes' enjoyment of the " cheery" slush would have rid us of Bumbledom for ever. Winter in London is bad enough even for the well-to-do, but it must be a heartrending season for the poor. There were scores of working women out in that snow storm, with no additional protection except thin shawls, which held the snow nicely in their creases, and the whalebone imbecility called an umbrella, which affords about asmuch protection against driving snow as an artistically arranged cobweb, but which held forward as it is., is an irresistible target for the boys. Even the men, cabmen excepted, are badly clothed, the working class in London wearing no thing half as efficient against the snow as a Scotch shepherd's plaid, and leaning to an overcoat which, , once wet, is about as comfortable as a wet sheet would be. They have gin, to be sure, but then in van not supply the wages lost by the frost, by the ,i impossibility of going up ladders, or walking on planks, or, as they say, " finding their fingers or the cold." They have not enough firing either. E n the rich have not a real roaring fire, a fire such as es you may see in a cottage in Yorkshire being unkno n in London, and while the wisdom of Parliament as prohibited cheap coal lest the Great Northern di '- dends should decrease, wood costs rather more th n its weight in copper. So the poor stamp and sp, and sip and stamp, and beat their arms, and try to -- make jokes, and look, as they are for the mome t, one of the most miserable classes upon ea . Winter is beautiful, no doubt, but considering t at it starves all agriculturists, and makes all dwell rs in cities miserable, and kills the old, and gi chilblains to the young, and destroys telegraph wir s, and interrupts railway trains and makes water un attainable, and strikes the poor ten times as heavily as the rich, 'why we may be permitted to plead that, beautiful as it may be, it is in London not quite o " nice " as spring, that the " hard grey weather " which " makes Englishmen " is an unmitiga nuisance nevertheless, and that though the dwell r on the Mediterranean has not usually a constitu tional government, he has compensations. COUNTRY MARKETS NORTHAMPTON-JAN. 13. An improved show of wheat, which met with a steady inquiry at former quotations for best qualities only ; other sorts may be quoted a shade lower. New white wheat, 42s to 49s ; new red, 38s to 46s ; old white, 48s to 51s ; old red, 45s to 48s per 36 stone. Barley for malting, 36s to 40$ per qr. ; grinding, 26s to 37s per 3t stone. Oats, old, 30s to 84s ; new, 20s to 28s per 24 stone. Beans, old, 46s to 50s ; new, 36s to 408 per 38 stone. Peas, 34s to 40s per 36 stone. 'ER—JAN. 13. -ery small, which met a ready, COLCHES The supply of wheat was vi sale at last week's prices. Wheat. white 408 548 Beans, 1ifazagan......338 3881 red 368 488 Middle and 5ma11...358 408 Barley .. 'tBB 40s Peas, white 388 4251 Oats CHELMSFO: D— , Tex. 12. d wheat at this market, but late prices could hardly be There was a fair supply mostly out of condition, and obtained. Whegt, old white....4ss 52s Peas, Partridge 37s 42s new ..43s 508 White . ..308 393 old red 393 43s Boiling .. ...... 38s 345 new. 35s 303 Dun.... ..... ...318 358 Barley.... 24s 31s ditto, new....—s —g Chevalier 273 198 Beans, Tick, 01d......348 37s Grind.ng 't3B 6s new. ... --8 - 0 Malt sBs tOs Harrow Ticks.3ss — 0 Chevalier 608 623 new....-8 - 0 Oats ... 2oe 268 Mazagan. 32s 370 GRANTHAM-JAN. 13. There was not a large show of wheat td-day. Trade firm at fully recent prices. Old white wheat, 54s to 58s; old red, 42s to 52s ; new whits, 52s to 56s ; new red, 48s to 51s per 36 stone. Bar ley for malting, 35s to 39s per qr. ; grinding, 28s to 308 per 30 stone. Oats, old, 28s to 30s ; new, 20s to 26s per 21 stone. Beans, old, 46s to 50s; now, 40s to 44s per 38 stone. Peas, 35s to 39s per 36 stone. ABERDEEN-JAN. 12. There was a fair attendance at market to-day. Oats sold slowly at barely last week's prices. Barley firm, and fully as dear. Wheat rather cheaper. 385 40 s Od od t to o 4 4 7 5 5 s 0 0d d } White wheat .1 - led wheat62lb lil bushel. Potato oats 2 3s Od 0 0d d to 23s 2 23 2 5 s 6 6 e1 (1 t Common oats 4olb 11 bushel. Bere 27s Ed to 288 Od 531 b lil bushel. Barley 28s Gd to 29s Od) Oatmeal 18s Od to 198 Od 111 boll of 1401 b. Flour, fine 37s Od to 38s Od tel sack of 280Ib. KIRKCALDY—JAN. 13. Moderate supplies of all kinds of grain. Wheat 6d per qr. down. Barley 6d up. Oats in favour of sellers. Wheat. Barley. Oats. First...— 45s Od r 31s Od 248 Od t.-econd 47s Od I 328 Od 158 Cd Third 4BB 6d 33s Od 208 Od COAL MARKET. Price per ton at the close of the market. s. d. 1. 0 . Holywell Main lB 0 Pensher Primrose .„ 19 6 N.Staffordshire 17 0 Tunstall Carway and Duffryn Walls End Haswell 2l 0 Malting 24 0 South . Hetton Shaw'sllartley lB 6 East Hartl e p oo l Hartlepool West Lambton l9 3 Eldon lB 0u South Kelloe Heugh Hall l9 9 Wylam l3 0 T ees Hetton Lyons lB 9Co yen Hartley Walker Primrose l5 0 Lambert's W . Hartle y_ 18 0 Russell's Hetton l9 6 Ships at market, 78 ; sold ee Foreign Mail Packet List MAILS DUE. Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton Jan. IS. Ditto, via Marseilles Feb. 13. Brazil and Cape Verde. by British packet Feb. 4. Ditto, by French packet . Jan. 22. Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena... .Jan. 21. China. Penang. and Singapore, via Sou; hampton..Jan. 1 0 . Ditto, via Marseilles Jan. 27. Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Jan. 18 Ditto, via Marseilles India (Bombay), via Southampton. Jan. 26. Ditto, via Marseilles Jan. 2 0 Mauritius, vla Southampton Ditto, via Marseil ei. Feb. 7• Newfoundland Portugal Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon United States and British North America, by Bri tish packet Ditto, by United States packet, via Southamp- ton' Ditto, via Cork Ditto, by Canadian packet, via Londonderry.. Jan. 1 9 ' West Coabt of Africa. Madeira, and Teller'ife .. 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We find it the safest remedy. M i di nd ; Ure, M.D., F.R.S. ; Dr Harvey; Dr Wurzer ; Dr Shorlinfo Dr Campbell. We quote a few out of the 62,0 0 cures No. 57,314. Tittenson - I cannot express my gratitude 0 the benefit I have derived from Du Barry's food. 311 ., 1 11 `61 . petite is perfectly restored, the pains in my leg, badc, —„(1 chest are quite gone, and I am fast gaining strength °I, flesh. Mrs A. Owen.—Cure No. 54,812. Miss Virg il :l4 Zeguers, cured of consumption, after her medical ad vi "ty abandoned all hopes of recovery . — Cure No. 49,832. 011°,6 years' indescribable agony frem dyspepsia, nervonsil`-is asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms, sicklie ls : the stomach, and vomiting. Maria Joly, Wortham, Lleglfa Dias, Norfolk.—Cure No. 47,121. Miss Elizabeth Jaceu'io. Nazing Vicarage, Waltham Cross, Herts, of extreme ner i oo o. ness, indigestion, gatherings,low spirits, and nervous is° or, In tins, 1 lb., 2s. 9d. 21b., 45. 6d ; 51b., 118. ; 121 b., 220.; , 4 0 0; 40s.—Barry )u Barry and Co., No. 77. Regent - street , Lon <e also Philli tea dealers, 8, King William - stre et ; Inc ° „ d r at 61, Gracechurch-street ; 4, Cheapside ; 49, BishoP0P01; street Within ; 63, 150, and 2 98 , Oxford - street ; 330, W I 0, 54, Upper Baker-street ; 103, Tottenham-court-road ; 1 , 0 05 Upper-street, Islington, N. ; Harvey, Notting-hil l ; ot. Brothers, 65, High-street ; and Stubbs, Queen's-terra ce :or John's-weod, London ; and all respectable grocers an d mists.—Beware of spurious imitations. Births. fo CunzoN.—On the 10th inst., at Gopsall, the Hon. •D''''' Curzon, of a daughter. 0 ° DAVISON.— On the 13th inst., at 61 , Lancaster-gate, wife of J. B. Davison, Esq., Q.C., of a son. ~,,, I t i r DANGAN.—On the 14th inst., at 1 8 , Wilton-place, 1,..' countess Dangan, of a son. 10' HARGREATES.—On the 14th inst., at Arborfield c. Berks, the wife of Captain Hargreaves, of t (Taught° Marriages. FITZROY—MACPTIERsox.—On the 11th inst., at 'o' . Castle, Commander George Dartmouth Fitzro3s,l,ol to Caroline Catherine, the eldest daughter of Macpherson. rge ' `!, KER—WILLIAMS.—On the 15th inst., at Saint GeS—eiri Hanover-square, Lord Charles John Tunes Ker, P l3 O ok and Lieutenant Scots Fusilier Guards, youngar,,ol)e his Grace the Duke of Roxburghe, KT., to lee' Mary, the fourth daughter of Colonel Thou:O il " Williams, of Craig y Don and Temple House, M.P. 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