The Sun. — London, England, 1865-08-17 00:00:00

AILWAY lOMPANIES. MIDLAND. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held yesterday at Derby; Mr. W. E. Hutchinson in the chair. The report and statement of accounts, an abstract of which has appeared in The Sun, were taken as read. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, said they had expended during the half-year £659,000 on capital account. Of that amount £71,000 had been expended upon the lines which were opened fortraffic prior to 1850, and that outlay had been rendered necessary by the continued growth of traffic. The outlay upon the construction of new lines had also been very heavy ; £28,000 had been expended for additional working stock, ren dered necessary by the opening of lines, and also by the continued growth of traffic on the old lines. In the accounts for the half-year ending 25th of De cember last it was shown that a greater amount was then spent for similar purposes. The diminution in the present half-year was partially owing to the fact that new lines constructed since June, 1864, had as yet been unproductive of dividend, and also because the working expenses had been considerably in creased. Although there was an increase in the traffic on the line under all its various heads that increase was very far from being commensurate with the increase which they had in the corresponding half of 1864, and which resulted in so satisfactory an increase of dividend. It was especially inade quate in regard to the mineral traffic, the receipts from which were only £604 in excess of those of the corresPondmg period of the previous year, while those of the half-year last mentioned showed an increase of £59,000, or 26 per cent. over the corresponding half of 1863. The directors were dissatisfied with the small increase, but they attributed it to causes over which they had little or no control, viz., strikes in the coal and iron trades. The diminution in the mineral traffic was no doubt partly attributable to that as well as to the greatly enhanced prices of coal and the effects of competition ; but he was glad to say that, the strikes being now at an end, their mineral traffic exhibited a very satisfactory increase, and the directors trusted that by the end of the year they would be able to give a very good account of that branch. (Hear.) With regard to the in creased expenditure in working the lines caused by maintenance of way and the repairs to stations and buildings rendered necessary by the growth of traffic, he had no doubt that the shareholders would agree with the directors that whatever amount was required to keep the line and works in au efficient state was well expended, and that it would prove a wise economy in the end. (Hear, hear.) The in crease of expenditure in the locomotive department, amounting to £17,000, arose from two or three causes—l. The increased price of coal. 2. The increased mileage rendered necessary by the requi sition of the Postmaster-General. 3. The new lines they had opened during the half-year. The increase in the other department was also mainly traceable to the opening of new lines and the in crease in train mileage. Their Parliamentary ex penses had also been considerably increased, partly in consequence of the new tribunal to which schemes for railways had to be submitted, but chiefly owing to the necessity of opposing numerous hostile mea sures, all of which he was glad to say they had defeated, either in committee on merits or from failure on the part of the promoters of the hostile measures to comply with the standing orders. The subject of expenditure was occupying the close attention of the directors with a view to a more economical working. It would have been exceed ingly gratifying to himself and colleagues to have been able, as on former occasions, to recommend an increase instead of a diminution in the divi dend. But, although Slightly disappointed in the present year, he felt the utmost confidence in the future of the railway, and he was convinced that the expenditure of the new lines was necessary to the permanent stability of the company, and would eventually be productive. He also believed that the existing depression in their dividends was only temporary, and that when the lines were com pleted and the traffic fully developed, the dividends would rise nearly if not quite to the level of those which were declared in 1864. Mr. W. P. Pula, M.P., seconded the motion, and the report was adopted, and the various divi dends recommended therein were declared. The meeting was then made special, and the Chairman proposed a resolution for the purpose of creating and issuing new shares under the following acts of Parliament, viz. :—The Midland (New Lines and Additional Powers) Act, 1865 ; the Midland (Mansfield, &c., Lines) Act, 1865 ; the Bristol Joint Station Act, 1865 ; the Cheshire Lines Transfer Act, 1865 ; the Stonehouse and Nailsworth Act, 1865 ; the Tottenham and Hampstead Junction Act, 1865. The DEPUTY CHAIRMAN seconded the resolution. Mr. TRAVIS moved as an amendment " that it is the opinion of this meeting that no new share capi tal be created or issued by the Midland Railway Company, unless the shareholders of the Sheffield and Rotherham Amalgamated Company be allowed to participate in the issues of such shares." Mr. M‘TuRK seconded the amendment. The CHAIRMAN said he was advised by the solid tor that he could not put such an amendment. After a long discussion the original resolution was carried, and the proceedings concluded with a vote of thanks to - the chairman. LONDON AND BLACKWALL. The half yearly meeting of this company was held on Tuesday at the London Tavern ; Mr. J. N. Daniell in the chair. Mr. J. F. Kennel, the secretary, having read the notice convening the meeting, the report, an abstract of which has appeared in The Sun, was taken as read. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the re port, said that the progressive condition of the affairs of the company was, he trusted, as satisfactory to the shareholders as it was to the directors. The pro gress of the goods traffic had been greater than that of the passenger traffic. Since he joined the company the directors had had great difficulties to encounter in their endeavour to open their line to the traffic of other companies. In those endeavours they were met with objections on every side, and at length they had gradually come to a position which must be satisfactory to all the shareholders, and they were on the eve of being allied to a large company. In look ing over their financial features the most important were in the accommodation they had afforded for warehouses, sidings, and the goods traffic of other companies on their railway. This was not the case at all with respect to the passenger traffic, which had not shown much increase. They had now certain plant on the railway for which they would receive the interest of the money expended, so that for pas senger traffic nearly everything that came to them ought to be profit. It would be the interest of the leasing company to throw all the additional traffic they could on the line, with a view to make the pro perty more valuable than it was at present. The accounts were so clear th a t he thought they did not require explanation from him, although he was ready to give any information in his power. The w or ki ng expenses were about 33 per cent. of the receipts, and he did not know that there was any other point to mention. Mr. MACNAGETEN seconded the motion for the adoption of the report. Mr. JEGGINS said he was glad to find that the ex penditure in Working the line had been so little in creased, and he thought, therefore, some credit was due to the present manager for that result. Unless there was some peculiar reason for carrying over so large a balance as £2,498, he would move that the dividend be at the rate of 4 per cent. per annum, instead of 31 per cent. per annum for the past half year. The CHAIRMAN said that no one would be more ready to. receive 4 per cent., instead of 34 per cent., than the directors ; but the object of proposing the latter arose entirely from prudential motives. On the 31st of December next they would be called upon to hand over the undertaking to the Great Eastern Company, and it would be necessary to square up the debenture account ; and, in doing so, they would have to pay about £5,000 at the end of the year for interest, as it were, in arrear, which arose from some of the interest on debentures falling •~:. due in April and October, instead of on the Ist of January and Ist of July, to which dates the half yearly accounts were made up. They thought it therefore better to carry over the present balance than to declare a larger dividend than was proposed, especially as a similar sum would have to be taken out of the profits of the current half-year to make up the difference. The Secretary, in reply to a question, stated that the year's interest on loans was about £20,000, and that the arrear mentioned had existed since 1842, but that in every succeeding year the full year's in terest had been paid out of revenue. The report was adopted ; a dividend at the rate of 41 per cent. per annum was declared on the preference shares, and at the rate of 3,1 per cent. per annum on the ordinary shares for the past half year, payable on the 16th inst. The meeting was then made special, to consider the propriety of sanctioning the lease of the under taking to the Great Eastern Company. Mr. 'rrREMAN, the solicitor to the company, read the principal portions of the lease, and explained nearly the whole of it to various shareholders. The object was to lease the London and Blackwall Rail way to the Great Eastern Railway Company for 999 years at a rental equivalent to 4} per cent. on the ordinary capital of the company ; the lessees taking on themselves all the liabilities, and guaran teeing 4i per cent. on the nominal capital of the London and Blackwall and Millwall Extension Railway, which was sanctioned in the last session of Parliament. The first half-year's rent would be due on the Ist of July, 1866, and from which there could be no deduction except for income-tax or property-tax. _ _ _ After some discussion, in which Mr. J. M. Par sons, Mr. Jeggins, Mr. G. Smith, Mr. Whetham, and Mr. J. R. Frewer took part, the resolution ap proving the lease of the line and property to the Great Eastern Company and authorising the seal of the company to be affixed thereto, was carried. After a recommendation from the meeting that the present auditors be continued in office during the construction of the extension lines, the proceedings concluded with a vote of thanks to the chairman and directors, and to Mr. Tyreman, the solicitor, for their attention to the interests of the company. BRISTOL AND NORTH SOMERSET. The report states that the works are proceeding with great steadiness and activity, and that the Hon. Chichester Fortescue, M.P., and Mr. H. Danby Seymour, M.P., hare been elected in the places of Mr. Thatcher, resigned, and Mr. Box, de ceased. The retirement of Mr. John Bingham, Parliamentary agent, from the secretaryship, in consequence of increasing professional engagements, is also announced. SOUTH YORKSHIRE. The report stated that £160,263 had been added to capital account during the half-year ending the 30th of June. The interest and dividend account showed that £21,645 had been required to pay the interest on debentures and loans, the Dearne and Dove Canal dividend, and the Sheffield Canal rent. A further sum of £39,073 was required to pay a divi dend on preference stock and shares, and the 5 per cent. minimum dividend on the ordinary stock, gua ranteed by the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln shire Company; making together thesum of £60,718, which was the estimated net income for the half year from that company under the lease. The total expenditure on capital account was £2,829,430. WEST YORKSHIRE: The report of the directors stated that the net re venue was £12,232, after providing for preference dividends and all other charges, except income-tax, and would give £3 17s. Id. per cent. for the half year, or being at the rate of £7 14s. 2d. per cent. per annum on the ordinary capital. The reserve fund was likely to realise £22,000, and this would have to be distributed by resolution at a special meeting. The bill for amalgamating the company with that of the Great Northern Company was passed on sth July last. CHARING-CROSS HOTEL. The third ordinary general meeting of this com pany was held on Monday at the hotel, Charing cross—the Hon. James Byng in the chair. The report of the directors was read by Mr. G. S. Haines, the secretary, which stated that the restau rant had been opened on Ist March last, the hotel on 15th May, and the Shades, in Villiers-street, on the 25th of the same month. The business done had fully realised the expectations of the directors, and it had been conducted from the commencement by Mr. T. Higgs, late manager at the Great Western Royal Hotel, at Paddington. From the capital ac count it appeared that there was a total expenditure up to 30th June last of £208,614, while there was a balance unexpended of £6,635. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, congratulated the shareholders on their being now able to meet under thei: own roof. He was also happy in being able to announce that the working of the hotel during the six weeks it had been open had been most satisfactory. The trade receipts had exceeded the anticipations of the directors ; but they did not wish to be too sanguine as the business might not be kept up in the dull season which was now approaching ; still, from the situation of the hotel and the nature of the business they did not expect a very large diminution. They occupied a central position in the metropolis, and connected as the hotel was with one of the most important railways in the kingdom, there was no doubt that a large amount of public patronage would always be awarded to it. In a short time it would also be connected with the London and North-Western Railway by its branch to Charing cross, now sanctioned by Parliament, and which must bring a great increase of business to the hotel. They also expected to derive a considerable amount of revenue from the vaults underneath the hotel, which extended for 200 feet along the Strand. He might state that up to last night the hotel had been full, and from the business which was being done the directors had every reason to believe that they would be in a position in December next to declare a satisfactory dividend. Mr. THOMSON seconded the motion for the adop tion of the report, and it was agreed to unanimously. The CHAIRMAN stated, in reply to a shareholder, that the hotel was now furnished from top to bottom. The retiring directors, Mr. Anderson, Mr. Eborall, and Captain Warren, were then re-elected, and the meeting was made special for the purpose of passing a resolution enabling the company to borrow a sum of £20,600. The CHAIRMAN moved a resolution to that effect, which having been seconded, was adopted after some conversation, in the course of which he stated that they had now£l6o,ooo of share capital, £35,250 issued on debentures, and £20,000 as temporary loan from the bankers. The £20,000 to be borrowed under this resolution would most probably be ap plied to clearing off the loan, the great object of the directors being to keep down the capital and in crease the dividends. A vote of thanks to the chairman and the direc tors terminated the proceedings. Th GROSVENOR HOTEL COMPANY. The half-yea r ly mee ti ng o f thi s company was held Yesterday at the hotel, Pimlico, Major Murray in the chair. the business The . report stated the responding half of la of the h a refreshment room h l g and the directors believedee company would be increased. b een Victoria station and the bridge at Battersea were being enlarged ; be completed early next year, the then become available for the hotel ttel re had been an increase in as compared with meeting pen t e io d z t e o the public, e b ar. Since the last p t als t hs h e e ng p e rofits of the lee entrances to the the Thames works would station old passenger traffic of all the large railways entering London. Me metropo litan district line would, when completed, connect the hotel with the city. Those undertakings also would add very greatly to the revenue of the hotel, The net half-yearly profit of £3,406 would be avail able after paying interest oa the debentures and loan for a dividend at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum, leaving a balance. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, said the number of visitors had increased by 700. The refreshment room, which was opened on June 27, was estimated to produce £4ooperannum. ai~ The prospects of the company were very satisfac tory, and the directors expected a great increase of business from the new access to - the Victoria station. The reconstruction of the lift was in progress, and guard against acci pdreencatsuintiofnsuturasef, a a r n a d s m p :k ss e ib th le em tos impossible, had been adopted. Mr. RiCILUIDS seconded th amotion, which was adopted. and in the report was de clared,'fie dividend recommen :auks to the chairman closed and a vote of tb the proceedings. CLIF r .CON SUSPENSION BRIDGE. The report of the' directors states that the receipts ftom the opening of the bridge on the Bth of De cember to the 30th of June last were £2,088, but of this amount there remained a disposable balance of .11,174. The directors proposed to retain £250 as a contingency fund, and recommended that a dividend at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum be declared for the period during which the bridge had been opened. This would absorb £909, and leave £l4. All present claims on the capital account had been discharged, but for the works now in pro gress liabilities to a limited extent were being in curred. MERSEY STEEL AND IRON WORKS. The first ordinary meeting of this company was held at Liverpool yesterday ; Mr. J. P. Horsfall, M.P., in the chair. The report stated that the gross profits of the year amounted to £24,362, and after paying all expenses the directors recommended a dividend of 6 per cent. per annum, free of income tax, on the paid-up capital, leaving a balance of £2,945 after writing off all the preliminary expenses, to be carried to a reserve fund. The report was unanimously adopted, and the retiring directors were re-elected. trate he had sent Inspector Walker to meet the cattle trains at Aylesbury station on Monday evening to examine the animals, but, for once, no cattle had been bought at the London market by Aylesbury dealers. He, as one of the justices, would be happy to hear any representation from the farmers, and to do all he could to abate the danger which all felt to be so imminent. Mr. DENCHFIELD though the Government wanted stirring up, and said he was in possession of facts which showed the necessity of the most stringent steps being taken by the magistrates to prevent the importation of London beasts into the country. Mr. SENIOR said that in Ireland the authorities could prevent English cattle from landing there, and he urged that a similar course should be adopted here as to cattle both from foreign countries and from London. Mr. H. LEPPER did not think a quarantine would work with efficient effect. Mr. G. A. LEPPER said that the authorities at Hol stein would not admit English stock, and a gentleman with whom he was acquainted received a telegraphic message stating that the beasts which he wished to ship thither would not be allowed to land, so bad a reputation had they acquired. He still held to his view, nevertheless, of the foreign origin of the disease now devastating the herds in this country. The meeting ended with a vote of thanks to the chairman. SOMERSET. The cattle disease has made its appearance in some of the dairy farms in the neighbourhood of Shepton Mallet, especially in the village of Dilcheat, and a meeting has been convened for Friday, for the pur pose of forming a Mutual cattle Assurance Asso ciation. BRISTOL. A meeting is to be held to-day in this city, under the presidency of Sir W. Miles, to take into conside ration the means of preventing the cattle plague, which is now raging in many parts of England. CUMBERLAND. The announcement that the cattle plague has ' broken out in the county of Cumberland has created the greatest anxiety. The place where the outbreak was alleged to have taken place is Whin Close, a small farm in the Abbey Holme, on the shores of the Solway Frith, and its close proximity to marshes where thousands of cattle are turned out to graze at this season increases the fears of the cattle-owners in the neighbourhood, who have manifested much alarm lest the infection should be communicated to their stock. There is, however, some reason to hope that the case is not so bad as at first represented by the people of the district. There is no doubt four cattle have died under suspicious circumstances. Mr. Adw. Graham, the farmer to whom they belonged, gives the following narrative :—The four cows he has lost were all he had on his farm ; one of them, a Gallo way, was bought at Wigton ; another, a short-horn, was purchased at Cockermouth ; while the other two wereAyrshires bought at Carlisle. It was one of the latter, purchased at the end of May,that first showed symptoms of disease, about a month afterwards. A veterinary snrgeon was called in, who treated it for pleuro-pneumonia, and at his suggestion it was sepa rated from the others. The animal became worse. Its yield of milk ceased, it began to cough, shivered to wards the last, swelled and died, after an illness of ten days. About a fortnight afterwards the other three cows were almost simultaneously attacked. Their symptoms were similar ; one of them died after an illness of four days, and the others lingered about ten days, having been kept alive so long, Mr. Graham avers, by his care in giving them nourishing " mashes." He is strongly of opinion that his cattle did not die of pleuro-pneumonia, with the symp toms of which he is familiar, and his brother and neighbours are of the same opinion. Two prominent symptoms of the new disease were wanting. There was no mucous discharge from the nostrils, and no foetid breath. Mr. Graham is greatly impressed with the virulent nature of the malady, and declares that not one cow in a hundred attacked with it could possibly survive. His neighbours are alarmed, and neither he nor any of his household is allowed to enter any neighbour's byres. THE UNITED STATES. o -- SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 17, 1865. the same. They tell the North that without their money reorganisation is only a word. The rail roads are all destroyed, and even where there are crops they cannot be got to the markets. A letter from Texas puts the case very strongly. " The Southern people," it says, " are broken down in fortune, and they have not enough capital to make roads and build up afresh their trade, system of themselves. It can only be done through the me dium of foreign or Northern capital." As far as I am able to judge Northern capitalists are not run willing to give the required aid, but they fairly ask for some security that their money will not be utterly thrown away. They want to be assured that the South has distinctly and finally abandoned its designs against the Republic. When, therefore, the self called " friends" of the South deny that it is con quered, and bid it strive to entangle the Government in fresh difficulties by opposition in the Council Chamber, they inflict the greatest injury upon it which can possibly befall it. They keep it in a state of poverty and destitution, and add to its present miseries by shutting out the hope of future relief. There are still Southern advocates who appeal to the ignorance and passions of the seceded States by tell ing them that they have only to go through the form of yielding, and disguise their hostility to the Go vernment, in order to be sure of success at last. Such representations are worse than foolish—they are wicked to the last degree, and seem to be inspired by intense malignity towards the people they are avowedly intended to benefit. No Northern man will take his money into a State which scarcely takes the pains to conceal its disloyalty. The South must remain in the dust while its false friends persist in affirming that it is in a state of incipient rebellion. How low those Southern States have fallen is constantly being illustrated by information of un doubted authenticity. Thus, the Governor of Ala bama has lately issued an address to the inhabitants, in which he draws a lamentable picture of the State. He looks back to 1860 when Alabama had a popu lation of 964,201 souls, of whom over 500,000 were whites. It had nearly 6,500,000 acres of land under cultivation, and 750 miles of railroad. " The value of our real estate and personal property, exclusive of the value of negroes, was V 95,277,078." The contrast now is one of the saddest kind. Of her young men Alabama sent into the field 122,000, of whom 35,000 never returned. The lands' are laid waste, the wealth is exhausted, and, in the words of Governor Parsons, " our towns and cities, our rail roads and bridges, our schools and colleges, many of our private dwellings and public edifices, are in ruins. Silence and desolation reign where once stood the comfortable home which resounded with the joyous laugh o f c hildh oo d an d innocence." This is a gloomy sketch, but every touch of it is true to the life. The lives that have, been squandered cannot be recalled, but the face of the country may soon be entirely changed if the enterprise of the North is not checked. The Cattle Plague. The following communication relating to the puri fication of cattle trucks has been addressed to the various railway companies by the Board of Trade : " Board of Trade (Railway Department), Whitehall, S.W., Aug. 14. " Sir,—l am directed by the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade to request you to refer to my letter of the 7th inst., addressed to theseeretary of your company enclosing a copy of a communication made to the Board by direction of the Lord President of the Council, which, with a view to prevent the extension of the existing cattleplague, urged on the directors of railway companies, as a public duty, that they should take immediate steps for instructing their officers to see that stringent regulations be made and enforced to insure cleanliness in all matters connected with the conveyance of cattle. " In a more recent letter the Lords of the Council have communicated to this department that it is imperatively necessary that their Lordships should be satisfied that all possible measures of prevention are being adopted to miti gate the severity, and to prevent the spread of this fearful disease ; and have requested that this Board will ascertain and inform their Lordships what steps have been taken by each Railway Board to comply with the recommendations made to them in the above-mentioned letter of the 7th of August. " The Lords of this Committee are anxious to procure for the Lords of the Council at the earliest moment the in formation with respect to railways for which they have applied. "I am, therefore, to beg that you will immediately com municate to the Board of Trade full particulars of the steps which aro being taken by your company, and of any steps which they intend to take, in accordance with the recom mendations conveyed to them in my letter of the 7th of August ; .and I am to add, that my Lords will esteem it a favour if you will give to this matter your earliest possible attention.—l am, sir, your obedient servant, "W. D. FASE. " The Manager of the Railway Company." GREAT EASTERN RAILWAY. The goods, cattle, &c., manager, has set apart 150 trucks expressly for the conveyance of foreign cattle, and their use for the home trade is strictly pro hibited. NORFOLK. A meeting of veterinary surgeons has been held at Norwich, at which some interesting facts were communicated. Mr. Smith stated that the most seriously infected districts of Norfolk were Trunch, Swafield, North Walsham, and Bradfield. About North Walsham there were six infected occupa tions. In some cases every head of cattle had been ilost or destroyed. In one ca se f our were f ore i gn beasts, and the carcases were bought by Norwich butchers, and forwarded to Norwich eithe, s r to be sold in Norwich or sent to London. On the same farm he and Professor Simonds found several head of young stock diseased and in a dying state. There were also some carcases buried in a pit, and covered with a few broken sticks and leaves, the stench from the pit being something impossible to describe. Professor Simonds requested that mould should be placed over the carcases to the depth of sft. or 6ft., or the whole neighbourhood would be infected. The professor suggested that the dry portions of the lit ter made by these beasts should be collected and burnt, and that the litter containing faecal matter should be treated with chloride of lime, and left so for some weeks. He also recommended that in the event of there being any other cases and the ani mals should die the skins should be put in a solution of lime before being sent off the premises. Some Irish beasts bought on Norwich cattle-hill, and which had been exhibited in Copenhagen-fields, ap peared to have carried the disease into the district. The rinderpest was supposed to have appeared among some cows at Islington about June 21, and it was found in Norfolk July 2at Reepham. Mr. Smith stated that instances of the disease had been also met with at Wood Dolling, Foulsham, Guist, Thimblethorpe, &c. Mr. Smith added that a suffi cient staff of Government inspectors would pro bably be appointed, and that Professor Simonds would only recommend for appointment those vete rinary surgeons who held the diploma of the Royal Veterinary College. The treatment Professor Simonds advises is the use of diffusable stimulants in the early stages to be shortly followed up by doses of sulphate of soda. AYLESBURY. Yesterday afternoon the committee of the newly formed Association for Mutual Assurance against Loss by the Cattle Plague held a meeting, lasting nearly four hours, at the Crown Hotel, Aylesbury, to draw up rules to be submitted to a general meet ing of members to be held next Wednesday. The chair was occupied by Mr. W. Rose, of Eythrope, and there was a full attendance of committeemen, besides others who were deeply interested in the subject, Messrs. H. Lepper and George A. Lepper, veterinary surgeons to the Pleuro-pneumonia Asso ciation, being present. Generally speaking, the rules of the society spe cially formed for assurance during the emergency of the smallpox among sheep in 1862 formed the basis of the rules, and certain points were reserved for the decision of the body of members—such as, whether assurance should be by poundage or at a certain rate per head of stock, whether the cattle should be valued at an average or a maximum amount be fixed, &c. The rules having been drawn up, Mr. J. K. FOWLER recommended that an appeal should be made to the inhabitants of the county to subscribe to a reserve fund, for he felt assured that they, having an equal interest with the farmers in the supply of wholesome meat, would on such appeal substantially sympathise with them in the present emergency. He and Mr. Fell, the secretary of the Bucks Agricultural Society, had just had, in refer ence to the arrangements for its approaching annual show, a letter from the President, Mr. Disraeli, M.P., who said he thought it was necessary to make such appeal to the owners of the soil in the county, who were, or ought to be, greatly interested in the pros perity of those farmers who were their tenants, and he expressed his willingness to use his influence so that the appeal might be well responded to. The meeting decided to inaugurate the suggested fund. On the question of inspection of cattle various suggestions were made, and Mr. DENCIIFIELD said that the plague had come within six or seven miles of Aylesbury, that diseased cattle were being carried along the London and North-Western Railway al most daily, and that as there was a large number of beasts brought into the Vale of Aylesbury from the metropolitan markets every week the justices would be justified in making some order on the subject. Mr. SENIOR said that in his capacity as a magic_ As if this cause of uncertainty was not sufficient to deter capitalists from embarking their fortunes in the States lately brought back to the Union, the miserable Mexican difficulty is incessantly paraded before the public. What can have induced an officer in the position of General Sheridan to write such a letter as that by Which you will have heard by telegraph I do not pretend to explain ; but the effect of it is clear and unmistakable. It strength ens the hopes of those who thirst to see the United States at war with a European Power, and it dis courages those who hope to see peace preserved. Which of these two classes is most useful to the country in its present condition any one is able to judge. The behaviour of some of the public func tionaries in this country is at times perfectly unac countable. The Chief Justice goes about lecturing from " stumps" on the duty of resisting the Govern ment in regard to negro suffrage. The commander of the United States' forces on the Rio Grande de clares publicly that the war is not finished until, Maximilian and the French troops are driven out of Mexico. The sense of responsibility can never have properly presented itself to either of these men. They labour to castfreshtrammels around the Government which placed them where they are. Gen. Sheridan outstrips Mr. Seward by an open declaration of war against the Emperor Maximilian, and his soldiers are eager that he should begin it at once. It is very unfortunate that at such a time the President is un able to affmarl 1 "/) rufhlin Itti.;.oaa. Thu uvuilltlOnt of health is now such as to cause serious uneasiness, the heavy cares of his office and the anxiety with which he is known to have been suffering having, for a time at least, broken him down. Happily Mr. Seward is able to give undivided attention to the duties of his post, and with such help Mr. Johnson might well afford to take that rest which is imperative to his safety. With an industry which is less to be blamed than regretted, the President insists upon attending personally to every detail of business, and the re sult is that there are grounds for some alarm re specting the repeated attacks of illness which have lately followed each other so rapidly. There is very little general news to offer. The burning of the steamer Glasgow has caused a very painful sensation, and every one feels that the rescue of the passengers and crew is entirely owing to the firmness and good management of the commander, Captain Manning. General Grant is travelling about the country, and is everywhere received with immense rejoicings. In the odd phraseology of the country he is having a " good time" of it. At one place where he stopped the ladies (all beautiful, as the report says) turned out and waited upon him at table—an attention which must have been a little distressing to so modest a man as General Grant is represented to be. Elsewhere the admira tion of the fair sex for the hero was shown in a more decided, though more tender, form. The news papers present hourly accounts of his " progress," and they ought to be thankful to him for giving them something else to discuss besides the thermo meter at Delatour's. I referred recently to the frequency of crimes against the person in this city. The records of the police show that from the Ist of May to the 31st of July last 20,467 arrests were made by the police of New York for various offences. Over 6,000 of these were women. The larger por tion of the return is made of robberies and assaults, and, if to the discovered cases be added a per ten tage for those which are never found out, it will be evident that New York is falling back into the con dition of California during the gold discoveries. Other parts of the country try to keep pace with it —for instance, in this morning's papers there are full and glowing accounts of the murder of a woman by her son ; of another son who stabbed his mother and sister while they were in bed ; of a frightful assault upon a woman committed by two negroes, both of whom were subsequently lynched by the mob at Evansville, Indiana ; of a still more atrocious assault upon a woman by a man in Chester, Illinois, the wretch actually cutting the woman's throat before committing the outrage upon her ; and a string of offences of what, I suppose, would be called a minor character. The slight punish ments usually inflicted for crimes of the deepest dye are not calculated to check the spread of this mania for shooting and robbing which seems to have seized a portion of the population. DEATH FROM FRIGHT.—LLANDIIDNO, Aug. 15. Yesterday a sad occurrence took place here. A family from Newark-upon-Trent, named Bradbury, and two friends were staying* the Georgo Hotel. About half past 10 in the morning the party left the shore in an open boat for the Little Orme, where they remained for an hour and a half. On their return the boat struck upon a large stone, which drove a part of the bottom in, and the vessel commenced filling with water. Mrs. Bradbury and her daughter were carried ashore safely ; Mr. Bradbury and the two gentlemen in company also landed, and the party walked to their inn, a distance of three quarters of a mile. Mr. Bradbury complained of a slight pain near the region of the heart ; he took a little brandy and went to lie down. Without any more unfavourable symptoms manifesting themselves ho died in half an hour. Mr. Bolding, surgeon , was soon in attendance, without avail; life was extinct before he arrived. The inquest will be held here to-day. Mr. Bradbury was an ironmonger at Newark, where he is much respected. 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TIMES.--It is now scarcely possible to doubt that the triple murder in Holborn and the double mur der at Ramsgate were committed by one and the same man, known alternately as Stephen Forwood and Ernest Southey ; and the narrative of these deeds will probably be quoted in after times as dis tinguishing somewhat darkly the morality of our own generation. We can tell the story already with out much omission, for at Ramsgate the acts w e r e perpetrated almost before witnesses, and the confes sions of the prisoner combine with other evidence to leave little obscurity about the proceedings in Lon don. On Monday, then, the 7th of this month, Stephen Forwood engaged apartments at a coffee house in Red Lion-street, Holborn, and to these rooms he brought on the evening of that day three little boys, aged ten, nine and eight respectively. On the morning of the Wednesday following these children were all found dead in their beds. The man who brought them had taken them upstairs and put them to bed between 8 and 9 o'clock on Tuesday evening. Shortly afterwards he went up, as he said, to look at them, and remained upstairs about three quarters of an hour. Then he came down, and went out, after which he was not seen there again. Medical evidence now establishes the fact that these children were killed by prussic acid, and a profes sional witness, propounding, of course, only a theory of the transaction, considers that to the eldest child about a tablespoonful, and to each of the younger ones about a dessert spoonful, of the poison was administered as they lay. The smallest boy had a penny-piece in his little hand—given him, perhaps, as an inducement to take the medicine. While the town was horrified by the intelligence of this crime, another of almost equal ma gn it u d e was suddenly reported from Ramsgate. On the evening of the day when the dead bodies were found in the Holborn coffee-house a man arrived at Ramsgate and in quired for a certain woman. On the following morning he had interview with this woman and her child, at which he shot them one after another almost under the eyes of the other inmates of the house. Being taken red-handed, he volunteered a statement identifying himself with the person who had taken the three children to the house in Red Lion-street on the Monday previous. Subsequent inquiries and comparisons left little doubt about the fact. Accord ing to all reasonable presumption it was the same man who had slain all these people, three with poison and two with the bullet. Nor was he quite a corn ' mon murderer, for while he made little secret about his own agency in the matter, he charged the respon sibility upon others as . principals in the guilt, and seemed exceedingly anxious that his views should be made public. Upon investigation it appears that the two persons whom he killed at Ramsgate were his lawful wife and daughter, and that the three whom he killed in London were his children by the wife of another man. His " defence" is that he was driven to these acts by the criminal neglect of society and the obduracy of those to whom he had appealed in vain for sympathy and succour. It may possibly be in the recollection of the public that in the month of December last a most extraordinary application was made to Mr. Tyrwhitt, the sitting magistrate in Marlborough-street. A well-dressed man appeared before the Court and requested " advice" under cir cumstances which he proceeded to detail. He said that a mutual attachment existed between him self and a lady whose attainments were greater than her means, that they were anxious to be united, but that there were obstacles in the way, one of which was the fact that the lady was married already. They had, however, he said, formed a determination of raising themselves in the world together to the position they desired to oc cupy, or, failing that, of committing sui c id e . The fatal drugs had actually been purchased for the last resort, when better thoughts arose. They now resolved to separate, and not commit suicide, in proof of which amendment the applicant made a tender to the magistrate of the bottle of poison. When Mr. Tyrwhitt declined, very naturally, to take the poison into his keeping, and inquired how the matter was supposed to fall within his depart ment, the applicant opened what he called the " second part" of his case, which comprehended a request for public assistance. " If," said he to the magistrate, " a gentleman of your large experience, in concert with the Earl of Shaftesbury and Sir Ed ward Lytton Bulwer—men who have studied life and are skilled in its mysteries—will join with the all-powerful Press in this work, I cannot for a mo ment doubt that they will at once decide on the value to be placed on my moral and intellectual attributes." As Mr. Tyrwhitt still declined to inter fere, the applicant withdrew, and no more was heard of him ; but it is reasonably conjectured that he was no other than Forwood; indeed, we should hope that there are not two men possessed with these views of social obligations. At Ramsgate, however, Forwood read from a written statement these words to the magistrates--" I charge back the guilt of the crime on those high dignitaries of the State, the Church, and Justice, who have turned a deaf ear iv uiy heartbroken appeals, - who have refused fellow - help in all my frenzied efforts and exhausted strug gles, and who have thereby impiously denied the sacredness of human life, the mutual dependence of man, and the fundamental and sacred principles on which our social system itself is based." He then proceeded to denounce, jointly and severally, as the authors of his miseries and his crimes, the Earl of Shaftesbury, Sir E. B. Lytton, Lord Palmerston, Lord Derby, Mr. Gladstone, Mr. Disraeli, and other public characters. Such men, he seemed to think, were morally bound to assist a kindred and sympathetic spirit in the accomplishment of his destiny, and not to turn aside from an enlightened adept in the " mysteries" of life. This jargon appeared to open a singular view of the case, but it now seems as if more vulgar motives must have entered into the consideration of the criminal. The woman with whom he hadmain tained an illicit connexion had withdrawn from him, and he had threatened her with " something more than she could think of" in default of her return. They were her children who were first murdered in Holborn. The same motive would not apply to the murder of his wife and child at Ramsgate, but he there explained that the " contumely and frowns of the world" would have been visited upon his repre sentatives on account of his misdeeds, and that he thought the best thing he could do, therefore, was to put them out of the world first. At the same time, how ever, that he so readily avowed his acts it seems as if he had entertained some instinctive design of escaping detection, for he not only removed the poison bottle from the bed-room in London, but left in its place another compound, the odour of which was strong enough to overpower even that of prussic acid. So rests the story at this moment. It would not be easy to match it either for horror or strange ness, and we have still to see what correction or de velopment time or investigation may bring. POST.—The disbandment of the Federal army on the Rio Grande is a measure of policy demanded by circumstances. A letter, purporting to be written by the general in command of this force, witnessed to the expediency of avoiding explanations with foreign Powers. It might have been more conside rate to execute the " Mustering out" at sesinedis tance from the Mexican frontier ; but the Govern ment of Washington does not condescend to regard the convenience of contiguous States, and Mr. Seward will, of course, disclaim all responsibility if the disbanded soldiers cross the river. That, how ever, is comparatively a matter of small importance. As General Sheridan says, "It is of no use to beat around the bush." No amount of Federal sympathy, nor any number of Federal volunteers, will suffice to restore the republic in Mexico. " Beating around the bush" is, moreover, unsafe as well as idle. It is exceedingly easy to drift through fictitious neutrality into real war, and if Mr. Johnson comprehends the interests of the country he has not only to govern, but to re construct, he will be careful to steer clear of a coast which is presently d angerous i n more th an one sense. i It s inaccurate to suppose that the French inter vention in Mexico was in any form a challenge to the United States. The Monroe doctrine has not been accepted by France, and the assumption that one State has the right to dictate to all the States of a great continent is clearly inadmissible. The authority of the Government of Washington extends not beyond the frontiers of the Republic, and pre tensions that go further plainly contravene the law of nations, are in their nature subversive of national independence, and directly calculated to provoke a breach of the peace. By no words, quiet or offen sive, can the Monroe theory be established, and an attempt to enforce it by war would raise a question more comprehensive in its bearings than appears . to be conceived. Those who take a superficial view of the idea may not apprehend its extreme elasticity. It does not seem to have occurred to them that what may be tolerated on one continent can eventually be applied to another. The deference . to American notions may, we take leave to think, be carried too far. It cannot be friendly to flatter and foment conceits which, practically, would be resisted ; and in the presentinstance it is manifestly misleading the Go v ernment and the people of the United States to persuade them that, now, or hereafter, any language they may hold would serve to set aside an accom plished fact. The obligation France has undertaken she will fulfil. There is no room for doubt on the point, and to encourage scepticism is not an ac t o f kindness to the nation that, without the sh a d ow o f a r eason, choses to be discontented.. Th e E mp i re i n Mexico stands upon a solid foundation, a n d it i s for midably supported. Its title is incontestable, and its power may be measured by asuredby the po wer o f F rance. As a matter of history, it is also wholly averse from the fact to assume that the Emperor of the French took advantage of the difficulties of the United States to compass the overthrow of the , (I. rnm the T.;llico Correspondent.) NEW YORK, Aug. 5. We are now in the worst part of what is called here, in barbarous language, the " heated term," or, in plain English, the hot season. As the thermo meter rises the interest in events of the day de clines, and the only matters which engage the at tention of the public are the state of the finances and the price of gold. The official statement of the debt, unwisely withheld in July, has had a reassuring effect, for it shows that the amount is nearly a hun dred millions less than was generally anticipated. The total sum is two thousand seven hundred and fifty millions, the annual interest in gold being sixty four and a half millions, and in currency seventy four and three-quarter millions. These are great facts for the " heated" nation to consider, and it was not unnecessary that the Secretary of the Treasury should cause it to be announced that he will beable to manage his business without further help until the meeting of Congress. It is, however, only known to himself by what means he hopes to getsafely through the interval of six months. It can only be done by a large issue of certificates of indebtedness, even if the receipts from rep enue far exceed the anticipa tions of the most hopeful of financiers. Some per sons maintain that the debt is much greater than is shown in the returns, but there is no reason to sup pose that Mr. M'Culloch is dealing otherwise than fairly and straightforwardly with the nation. By general consent all discussion as to the method of dealing with the debt is postponed until the subject is before Congress. There is no doubt that great impatience of some of the petty taxes in existence is already felt. There is, for instance, an ad valorem tax levied upon every lady's dress that is made, the dressmaker assessing the value of the article, and making a due return to Government. This curious impost seems to have been uninten tional, and it is only obtained by classing dress makers under the head of manufacturers. The ladies have been throughout warm supporters of the war, but now that peace is restored the " dress tax" is ore of those frivolous and irritating methods of raising the revenue which in England Mr. Glad stone alternately discards and adopts. Another un popular tax is one of two cents upon every photo graph or stereoscopic view. "If they don't take that off," said a dealer the other day, " we'll turn some of them out who put it on." In this country the people can very soon decide which taxes they will pay and which they will resist. Herein, of course, consists one danger before the Government. While the excitement of the war continued, and the Administration was spending dollars at the rate of a million a day, the people did not object to pay anything that was asked of them. The battles are now won, there is no more fighting, what has passed seems like a feverish dream, and the public begins to feel that it is giving its money without seeing any return for it. There are no fresh victories to gild the heavy duties imposed on every imported article. Yet the complaints are few, and it is to the farmers that men who know their country will look with apprehension. They have never known before what it was to have a tax upon land, and how they will submit to it when it becomes a bur den is exceedingly problematical. From this quarter, if from any, will proceed the cry for re pudiation —an issue which every man of foresight desires to avert. "We can pay the interest on the debt, even if it is 6 per cent.," one of the leading merchants has said, " but whether the farmers in the East and the West will be willing to pay it is another question. They will probably return men at the next elections whose ' ticket' will be repudia tion, and we shall have a hard fight to beat them." On the other hand there are very many who affirm that there will be no demur to any reasonable plan of paying off the debt which the Government may propose. It is unavoidable that the uncertainty and doubt existing upon this important point should prevent that flow of capital to the South which would other wise take place, and which is so very necessary in the present juncture. The tow:Jur of all the com munications from the States lately in rebellion is SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. Mexican Republic. France does not wait for op portunities in the sense suggested, and the Re public in Mexico was banished by the Mexicans themselves. They chose their own form of go vernment, and they elected their Emperor. But this, it is said, was contrary to the Monroe doc trine, was all done in defiance of the United States, and in opposition to the policy of the so vereign American Republic. We are not con cerned to dispute about anything so transparently absurd. Still, the policy of every country must conform to the genera l l aws w hi c h regu l ate t h e policy of all countries, or--for there is no alterna tive—the country that does purely and simply what seems right in, its own eyes must abide by the consequences its separ a t e ac ti on an d i so l a t e d position may entail. We do not, however, believe that the United States will adopt the Monroe doc trine as its platform ; and although that which is immediately impossible may be preserved, laid up in lavender, and brought out periodically to make political capital in an election, there is no real substance in it. The Washington Government can refuse to recognise the Mexican Empire, just as Austria objects to acknowledge the existence of the Kingdom of Italy, but it is by no means cer tain that such a state of things would conduce to the security of the public. It must not be forgot ten that, if Mexico is still agitated by an orga nised system of brigandage, the neighbour who is talking so loud to her across the Rio 'Grande has a tremendously difficult problem to solve at home. Only a few months ago the Southern States of the Republic would have rallied under the French flag, and even as it is their spirit is unbroken. The South is defeated, but not dismayed, and the restoration of the Union on anything like a permanent footing depends on the will of the conquered people. They may be coerced, and their property may be confiscated, but tyranny only makes men long the more for freedom, and the vi cinity of a well-governed Empire, protected by France, could not fail to inspire hopes which, by rash act, the North might confirm for ever. The Government of the United States, if the truth must be spoken, has failed to command the respect and deference of the world, and it is certainly not in a position, morally or politically, to instruct other countries. If the M ex i cans were oppresse d an d h e ld in bondage by the F rene h—if, i n s h or t , t h e i r condi tion was as deplorable as it actually is auspicious— the great American Republic would not be entitled to interfere until it had plucked the beam out of its own eye. Invited to render homage to the majesty of the restored Union, we must be permitted to ob serve that in so far as the work of restoration has has gone there is not much calling for admiration. We cannot find it in our hearts to admire a nation that has taken " yee victis !" for its motto. The war which was carried on to " plough the South with shot and shell," and not to leave food or refuge for the crow that flew over the once fertile plantations of Virginia, was at least intelligible. There was hard reason in its barbarity. But to aggravate the hor rors of such a contest in the persecution of a sub jected people is not to be justified even by the tyrant's plea of necessity. There is not only no need for it, but every motive, save that of revenue, points in a diametrically opposite direction. When the American Republic has itself admitted the equity of things, when it has tempered justice with mercy, when it has become a law-governed State, and when the negro difficulty is arranged, as it must be to re lieve the professors of philanthropy from reproach, then it will be time enough to prescribe the Monroe panacea. But while constitutional liberty in the United States exists in name only, we must think that the Mexicans exercised a sound discretion in discarding republican institutions. Nor is it at all probable that their decision will be disturbed. The sentiments said to be expressed by Gen. Sheridan may be popular in New York, but at Washington, it will be remembered, that if " the advent of Maxi milian was a portion of the rebellion," it is quite possible that an attempt to revive the Republic which the Emperor superseded would eventuate in a further departure from the doctrine expounded by Mr. Monroe. War with Mexico means war with France, and the Government of the United States is not, we are satisfied, ready to take upon itself the heavy responsibility that that proceeding would involve. COUNTRY MARKETS LYNN-TUESDAY. At our corn exchange to-day the supply of old wheat was small. The wetness of the weather caused a further advance of 2s per qr. to be paid ; some new samples were shown, the quality and condition of which were poor, weighing from 601 b. to 611 b. per bushel. Beans, oats, and barley were in better request at advancing prices. New wheat, 46s to 48s ; new red, 41s to 43s ; old white, 42s to 43s ; •ld red, 41s to 42s per 36 stone. Barley for malting, 28s to 32s ; secondary, 30s ; ordinary, 24s to 26s per qr. Oats, 18s to 24s per 24 stone. Beans, large, 38e to 40s ; small, 40s to 42s per 38 stone. SALISBURY.--TvzsnlY. At market this moaning there was a large attendance. A short supply of wheat offered, and a few samples of new in the market. Holders asked a considerable advance on the rates current a week ago. As much as 50s per qr. was given in some instances for wheat, being a rise of 3s as compared with last market. The following are the quotations :—Wheat realised from 38s to 50s ; barley, 26s to 32s ; oats, 22s to 30s ; beans, 40s to 48s ; and peas, 32s to 42s per qr. Winter tares, from 8s to lls per bushel ; Best bread, 10d ; household ditto, Da per 81b loaf. Flour, 28s to 34s per sack. HIILL.-T UESDAY. At this day's market to-day there was a small show of farmers' wheat, which sold readily at 2s per qr. advance on fresh thrashed parcels, and 18 upon warehoused lots. Foreign in fair demand, and 2s per qr. dearer. Barley scarce, and fresh grinding in request at 6d per qr. advance. Oats firm at full prices. Beans is and peas is to 2s per qr. dearer. English old white wheat, 47s to 50s ; old red, 42s to 435. Barley, chevalier 28s to 325. Oat s , R uss i an , 22 s t o 24 s Beans, new English, 42s to 435. Peas, English blue, 356 to 36s 6d ; grinding, 35s to 35s 6d per 36 stone. MELTON MOWBRAY.-TUESDAY. White wheat, 44s to 48s ; red, 39s to 44s per 36 stone. Barley for malting, 32s to 34s per qr ; feed, 26s to 29s per 30 stone. Oats, 27s to 30s. Beans, old, 43s to 455; new, 40s to —s per qr. SHEFFIELD—TuEsDAy. There was a moderate show of grain, including several samples of new wheat and oats. Owing to the unsettled state of the weather, wheat was more firmly held, and prices advanced 2s per qr. Beans made 6d per load more. Oats dearer, barley maintaining late prices. Flour advanced id to 2d per 141 b. Red wheat, per load of 3 imp. bushels....les Od to 7 s 61 White do do •. • •178 6d 20s Od New red do do ....Ns ed )78 61 New white do do ••..I 78 6d 20s Od Beans do do "—Ms Od 17s ed Peas, per qr Grinding barley, per qr 30s Od 32s Od Maltinebarley, co Oats, d o 32s Od 3Ss Od 24s Od 28s Od Flour...is M to is ‘d per 141 b. NEWCAS TLE-ON-TYNE.—TUESDAY. There was a fair supply of wheat from the growers, with a good arrival from the coast and abroad. There was a demand for both English and foreign, at an advance of is to 2s per qr. on the rates of this day week. Barley was 6d dearer; malt firm; beans unchanged; but grinding peas were 6d to is higher. Oats found a better sale at an ad vance of from 3d to 6d per qr. Flour in demand and is per sack dearer. COAL MARKET. Price per ton at the close of the market. s. d. s. d Helton ... 20 0 Kolloe Wylam l6 0 Holywell Main l6 0 'Lefton Lyons lB 0 Walls End Haswell... 20 0 ships at market, 15; sold, 7. SIIO6KING AND FATAL ACCIDENT.—A porter was engaged cleaning a window in the establishment of Mr. 31'Cormick, jeweller, Donegal-place, Belfast, on Monday morning, when he fell to the ground, a distance of nearly 20 feet. His skull was fractured by the fall, and the poor man died instantaneously. Births. BA im-012 the 14th inst., at 13, Gro svenor-place, James W. Baillie, Esq., of a son. w nx i N .—On tha 15th inst., the wife of William Wilkin, Esq., of Upper Hyde-park-street, of a son. TOTTENIIAM.—On the 1 2th inst., at Old way, P a i ngton , South Devon, the wife of Captain Tottenham, R.N., of a daughter. Marriages. C ox— STZ'HBNSON.-•-On the 15th inst., at St. Margaret's, Westminster, Alfred Cox, Esq., of 3, Victoria-street, Pimlico, to Alice Gardiner, third daughter of Edward S. Stephenson, Esq., of Great Queen street, Westminster. HALY—GOSTLING.—On the 15th inst., at Stoke Damerel, Devon, Richard Hebden O'Grady Haly, Esq., 84th Regt., the eldest son of Major-General O'Grady Haly, 0.8., to Geraldine Mary , youngest daughter of Major-General Gostling, R.A., of Penlee, Stoke Damerel. Deaths. BuRNE.—On the 14th inst., at Bath, the Rev. Henry Thou Burne, M.A., aged 66. EDMONSTONE.—On the 14th inst., at Haycock's Lodge, Ayrshire, Lieut.-Colonel Frederick Neil Edmonstone, late H.M.'s Bengal Cavalry, and youngest son of the late Sir Charles Edmondstone, Bart., of Dunbeath and Colzium, Stirlingshire, aged 47. HEywoon.—On the 11th inst., at Claremont, Sir Benjamin Heywood, Bart., aged 71. LESCRER.—On the 15th inst., William Joseph Lesther, Esq., aged 67. LODER.—On the 13th inst., at 31, Trinity-square, Brixton, Mr. Francis Loder, late of Swindon, Wilts, aged 64. NISBETT.—On the 13th inst., at his residence, West Brix ton, Surrey, David Nisbett, Esq., late aged 91- London : Printed and Published by WIL LIAM ANDHAW O of No. 112, Strand, Ptinter, at Tim SUN Office, No 112. Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the Coatnty Midalcsex.—Thursday, August 17, 1865. f