The Sun. — London, England, 1866-06-04 00:00:00

Railway arid other Companies, PROGRESS OF RAILWAY BILLS IN PARMA- MENT. Of the railway bills deposited for the considera tion of Parliament (exclusive of those already men tioned in The Sun as withdrawn or as having failed in their passage) the following have received the . Royal assent :—The Afon Valley, Buckley (addi tional powers), Central Wales Extension, Devon and Somerset (capital), Drayton Junction, Dublin and Kingston (lease), Kidwelly and Barry Port Railway and Burry Port Amalgamation, Lanca shire and Yorkshire (extension of time) Lancashire and Yorkshire ; North-Eastern (Durham new lines), North Eastern (Gilling, Helmsley, and Pickering Branch), Talcare Pier and Harbour Railway, and the Wrexham, Mold, and Connah's Quay (additional capital). The following bills have been agreed to by the Lords, but have not yet received the Royal assent : —North Eastern (Leeds and Wetherby Branch) ; North Eastern (Yorkshire new lines) ; and the Hull and Hornsea and North Eastern. The following bills have been passed through the Commons, and have been read a third time in the Lords :—Bristol and Portishead Pier and Railway ; Midland (additional powers) ; and the Severn Junction. The following bills have been reported upon and read a third time in the House of Commons :—The Beeldgelert ; Bideford, Appledore, and Westward Ho ; Bradford, Eccleshill, and Idle ; Bridgenorth, Wolverhampton, and Staffordshire ; Bridgwater and Taunton, Canal and Bristol and Exeter Rail way ; Bridport, Lyme, and South Coast ; Bris tol and Exeter (additional powers) ; Bristol and North Somerset (additional capital); Cale donian (Greenock and Gourock Extensions) ; Bristol Harbour Junction and Wharf Depot ; Crofthead and Kilmarnock Extension ; Chester and West Cheshire Junction ; East Gloucestershire ; Elham Valley ; Edgware, Highgate, and London ; Ellesmere and Glyn Valley; Exe Valley; Great Northern (additional powers) ; Glasgow and South- Western (Ayrshire lines) ; Great Western ; Hex ham and Allendale ; Hoylake ; Hounslow and Me tropolitan; Kingsbridge ; Lan cas hi re an d Y or k s hi re (West Riding branches) ; Launceston and South Devon ; Leven and East of Fife; Liverpool Cen tral Station (Railway) ; Llynvi Valley and Ogmore Valley Companies ; Llynvi Valley ; London and North-Western and Cockermouth and Workington Railways ; London and North-Western and Whitehaven Junction ; London and North- Western (new lines) ; London and South- Western (additional powers) ; London and South- Western (Poole and Bourneworth junctions) ; Lynn and Sutton (Works at King's Lynn) ; Lynn and Sutton Bridge ; Spalding and Bourne and Spalding Railway Companies ; Macclesfield, Knutsford, and Warrington ; Maid stone and Ashford ; Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire (Liverpool extension) ; Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire (new lines) ; Merrybent and Darlington ; Mersey Pneumatic ; Metropolitan District ; Metropolitan (additional powers) ; Mid Hants ; Northampton and Banbury Junction ; Parsonstown and Portumna ; Presteign, Clun, and Bishop's Castle ; Salisbury and Yeovil ; Solway Junction (capital); South Yorkshire; Spalding and Bourne; Swansea, Vale of Neath, and BreconJunc tion ; Thetford and Watton ; Teme Valley ; Upavon and Andover ; Uxbridge and Rickmansworth ; Wantage and Great Western ; West Riding and Grimsby (transfer) ; Whitby, Redcar, and Middles borough Union; Winchcomb and Midland ; Wivenhoe and Brightling,sea ; Worcester, Bromyard, and Leo minster, Wrexham, and I‘linera ; Wrexham, Mold, and Connah's Quay and Hoylake ; Wrexham, Mold, and Connah's Quay (additional powers) ; Wrex ham, Mold, and Connah's Quay (deviations) ; and Wrexham, Mold, and COnnah's Quay (extensions). Nearly all the remaining bills in progress in the Commons have been read a second time, and a great number reported upon. 11E3IEL HEMPSTEAD AND LONDON AND NORTT WESTERN. A Wharncliffe meeting of this company was held on Thursday at the offices, Cannon-row, Westmin ster ; Mr. J. Barrow in the chair. The Chairman moved the approval of a bill to confer further powers on the company. The motion having been seconded was carried unanimously, and the proceedings terminated. PETERBOROUGH, WISBEACIT, AND SUTTON. This line was opened for goods traffic on Friday. Passenger traffic will be shortly commenced. BRISTOL AND EXETER. It appears that 3d class passengers are now con veyed over the whole of this line by four trains each way daily, instead of by one only as formerly. BRISTOL AND NORTH SOMERSET. Arrangements have been concluded with the Great Western Railway Company for the completion and working of this line. The proposed Southern Exten sion has been abandoned. NEWPORT PAGNELL. A Wharncliffe meeting of this company was held on Thursday at the offices, Westminster-chambers, Victoria-street—Mr. J. D. Heatley in the chair. The CHAIRMAN said they had to consider a bill authorising the company to extend their railway to the Northampton and- Peterborough line of the London and North-Western, and to the authorised Bedford and Northampton Railway. A formal resolution approving the bill was adopted. GRAND TRUNK OF CANADA. The traffic receipts on this company's lines for the week ending the 12th ult. amounted for local pas sengers to £5,532 ; for foreign passengers to £2,363 ; for emigrants, to £442 ; for mails, &c., to £976 ; for local freight and live stock, to £12,171 ; and for foreign freight and live stock, to £l,B49—total, £23,333, against. £26,185 in the corresponding week of last year, showing a decrease of £2,852. The total receipts from the Ist of January to the above date amounted to £464,493, and for the same period of 1865 to £454,373, showing an increase of £10,120. ILLINOIS CENTRAL . The financial statement of this company for the received during of April shows that $ 57,709 had been acres during the month fo r the sale of £5 land and some town lots. T h e cash collected of ili April amounted to $ 91,192. In the traffic depart ment the total receipts on the railway for the month of April amounted to $406,773 against $409,939 for April, 1865, showing a decrease of $84,166. ERIE. The traffic receipts on this company's lines, in cluding the Buffalo division, for the month of April bast, amounted to $153,295 and for April 1865 to $ 1 ,538,314, showing a decrease of $385,019. BUENOS AYRES GREAT SOUTHERN. The traffic returns on this company's line for the week ending the 22d of April showed that 2,866 passengers were conveyed, the receipts being $83,005 ; for parcels, $5,466 ; and for goods, $97,392; total, slBs,B63—being equivalent at the present rate of exchange to $1,463. The number o f train miles run was 2,358 ; the receipts per train mile, 12s. sd. ; and receipts per mile of line for the week, £2 12s, 4id. RAILWAY BILLS. On Friday, in Lord Redesdale's Corarni‘tvtee, house assed. of Lords, the Hexham and Allendale The Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshirewicbconib tional powers) was also passed. The and Midland, to raise £42,000 by shares and £14,000 e by loan, the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshi re (new lines), and the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire (Liverpool Extension) were passed. In the Standing Order Committee, the Presteign, Clun, and Bishop's Castle Bill, to raise £275,000 by shares and £92,000 by loan, to make four railways, was passed. The Ellesmere and Glyn Valley was also passed. The East Glocestershire Bill and the Hoylakc Bill, to raise £200,000 by shares and £66,000 by loan, were passed. The Wrexham, Mold, and Connah's Quay and Hoylake Railways Bill was passed. In the House of Commons, Group 3, the South Eastern and London, Chatham, and Dover (Lon don, Lewes, and Brighton) Bill was again heard, and adjourned. Group 14.—The Midland (Ashby and Nuneaton), the Midland (Branches, &c.), and the London and North Western, and Midland Counties Coalfields (Extension) were partly heard and adjourned. Group 16.—The Swansea and Clydach was heard and adjourned. In the case of . the Brecon and Merthyr Tydvil Junction (northern lines) the parties stated that they did not intend to proceed with the bill ; the Vale of Neath (Transfer) Bill was heard and adjourned. In Group 18, the Caledonian and Scottish North Eastern Bill was heard and adjourned. In Group 18A, the Caledo donian (Edinburgh Station) and the C a l e d on i an (Corstorphine Junction) Bills were again adj ourne d . In Group 19, the Caledonian (Lanarkshire, &c., Branches) Bill was heard and adjourned. The Ministerial Crisis. (From the Examiner) Government is attacked in one breath for dispro portions in its plan, and in the next for an approach to symmetry abhorrent to our Constitution. And apropos of that Constitution, we must say that we rejoiced to see that Mr. Lowe closed his marvel lously clever speech with an appeal for mercy for it, or at least some little time of grace for it to gather its robes about it and fall with decency. We were glad of this cry to spare the Constitution, " the life and soul of this great nation," because we have noted that no great beneficial change has ever been proposed that the destruction of -the Constitu tion has not been predicted to follow. Mr. Manta lini did not poison himself oftener than the Consti tution has perished within the last forty years. It perished of the Repeal of the Test Acts ; it perished of Catholic Emancipation ; it perished of the Re form of '32 ; it perished of the Repeal of the Corn Laws : and here it is, safe and sound, ready to perish again of a small extension of the franchise and small redistribution of representation. It may be laid down as a safe proposition that no measure is good for anything which is not said to kill the Constitution. When Apollo Belvi, in the farce, an nounces his own death, he is asked of what he died, and promptly answers, " Of sudden death, to which he was very subject all his life ;" and the British Constitution has the same liability, but is not a jot the worse for it. And it may sing with the per sonages in Tom Thumb, who, having dolefully died, spring up to life merrily again, And if some folks please We'll die again to-morrow. The part has often been repeated, and can be always repeated so long as there is fudge in the world. But though we are glad to see the appeal for mercy to the Constitution as the sure sign and token of good in a measure, we are surprised that it should come from a man of Mr. Lowe's wit and humour, who must have had a sense of the absur dity of his high appeal for so small an occasion. He must have laughed in his sleeve as he begged pity, or, at least robbing time, for the often-doomed Constitution. (From the Observer.) Her Majesty's Government are once more in the midst of a crisis ; and those who think that the one political object to which the country is looking is the particular borough or county they re present, or the peculiarity of franchise, or corrup tion, or intimidation, to which they owe their seat, may find some consolation in the announcement that the Government is in a crisis. We have no reason to dispute the importance of these matters ; but we have reason to opine that those men whose thoughts run in a groove somewhat different to the whips or the attorneys must set about the serious considera tion of what is to follow from the defeat of the Minis try ; and to. do that they must review, and review correctly, what has happened this session. The Government, rightly or wrongly, determined, with a majority of 60, to do that which their majo rity of 13 - in 1859 considered impossible—namely, to fulfil the promises of 1859, and bring in a Reform Bill. But, foreseeing the length of debate to which thatwould give rise, they thought it would be better to confine it to a Suffrage Bill, expecting that they would thereby neutralise the opposition naturally to be expected from the members for small boroughs. But the opposition witich the Government met with was not from the members for small boroughs only. It was from a third independent party, of which the leaders are disappointed public men, and the followers uninstructed politicians, eager to try their hands at political intrigue, or their minds at political thought. The Opposition, combined with the whole Conservative party, forced the Govern ment to produce a Redistribution of Seats Bill along with their Franchise Bill ; and having done so are now complaining that the Government bill is not so complete as it ought to have been if more time had been given. It is just possible that the Government might have succeeded better if they had taken some other course than that which they did take ; but, on the other hand, some critics might, assert that they have tried everything to please their supporters, and found them equally intractable in all. The con sequence of all this must sooner or laterbe examined. (From the Saturday Review.) If Reform itself does not advance, and if the prospect of - carrying a bill this session becomes daily less, the debate which this great subject pro vokes certainly does not languish. It is maintained with a vigour and a liveliness which show that this Parliament is determined that, if it is to be the last of unreformed Parliaments, as we sincerely hope it may be, it will perish with the old reputation of English Parliaments for debate undiminished, and, we may even say, at its height. Mr. Lowe has again made a speech, the wit, cogency, and fresh ness of which have delighted and captivated his hearers. A new speaker on Reform, with novel views and a clear grasp of principles, has also ap peared in the Attorney-General ; and once more the discussion has come back to its old point, and the main question has been brought into new pro minence, whether any Reform whatever is wanted.. The Conservatives made what we cannot but con sider a great mistake on Monday even in trying to shelve the bill by advocating the insertion in it of impossible 'clauses on bribery. For this is a mis take, unless they are really prepared to insist, with Sir Stafford Northcote and Mr. Lowe, that no Re form is wanted. Captain llaytcr, by an amend ment hostile to the leading features of the measure, has attempted to deprive the Government of the opportunity of ame n di ng th e i r R e di str ib ut i on Bill in committee, even if they should be so inclined. The entire measure, as Mr. Disraeli very truly says, h and ae ni Captain come i ' f iters for the first time before th e h ouse , amendment ss i i s en. carried, Aud the we whole bill w i ll be at an are very glad to see, from the speech of the Attor ney-General, that the Gov e rnment is ent will not consent to thisht e amendm en t regard for otjihno c'tre.roe?jvenctehdonoul.7):: they have o ffie if the e sligthey must, in that cas e , go out of c iple being distinctly raised w h ether there i e s p to rila be - a Reform Bill, and some of the l ea di ng speakers for the amendment distinctly supporting it because no Reform Bill is necessary, the difference of opinion between the Government and the House will be far too radical and deep for the Ministry to undertake to guide Parliament if such an expression of adverse opinion is recorded against them. This is quite a 'sthamatenthde dmieffnetr,enfetrcaszerfdromGrtehsavtenoefrLomrderGelryosvasekneodr and did not invite the House to censure G overnm ent should alter its method of t p h r e oc l e 4 d i ur nis e .. Minis try, or to stop the bill altogether. procedure, Ministry consent for an• instant to N th o e r p e r a e n pe t s h a e l made by Sir John Pakington, that the whole sub ject should be referred to a Royal Commission. A Ministry that consented to let the conduct of such a measure be t a k en out o f i ts h an d s, wou ld instantly los e the respect and confidence of the country. content to drag Lordoln the days of Melbourne naeeatem p a t L ib i l b e er aft the initiative, and daring itself totake one Commission ficulties with anotherwhicher itf The consequence would solve the dif was th e a l t t itself unable to grapple. existence, trusting Ministry nevert wasl la t took office, the nation hailed d en Sir Robert Peel t advent to d guide.power o f a And e statesmanvenifitwho could act an d e with delight the were possible for a Whig Government, resti ng on the vast inert power of the Whig aristocracy to cling to office in a time of political prostration and disappointment, it would be the ruin of Mr. Gladstone to adopt such a policy, even if he would condescend to accept the position in which it would place him. Nor would the evil be one that would merely affect individual statesmen' It would have most dangerous consequences for the whole system of Parliamentary government. (From the Spectator.) The prospects of the Reform Bill are not growing bright. The Tories have resolved to support Capt. Hayter's motion, the division on which will be taken on Monday, and expect the support of many of the thirty Adullamites, and of almost all members of the menaced boroughs. Many Liberals, moreover, who dare not stay away when the question is one of reducing the franchise, can avoid a vote on the subject of grouping, while that part of the scheme attracts no Tories. It is considered even possible that an affiance will be struck up between the Tories and the more Conservative Whigs, that Captain Hayter's motion will be carried, and that Government will then resign without a dissolution, which in the present state of opinion might be disastrous to the party. The only chance for the bill is the adhesion of that section of the Adullamites which honestly wished for a complete measure, and having got one will vote for it, and that is a very slender one. (From the Times.) To-night the House of Commons will decide upon Captain Hayter's amendment to the motion that it shall go into committee upon the Franchise and the Redistribution Bills. Just a week has elapsed since it was proposed " that Mr. Speaker do leave the chair ," and th e i n t erva l h as b een spen t i n de bating amendments on the grouping scheme of the Government. What may be the opinion of the House upon Captain Hayter's amendment will be soon known, supposing a vote to be taken ; but if we assume the Government to succeed in defeating it by a narrow majority, there will still remain four other amendments to be disposed of before the Re form Bill can be considered in detail. It is certain that sooner or later the bills must be withdrawn. The belief that they will be immediately withdrawn is already so universal that it will exercise a certain influence on the vote of the house, if a vote be taken. Men will not scruple to vote against the amendment, and, indeed, will properly vote against it if they know that its object is attained so far as Reform is concerned, and that the Government is saved. It is impossible to gainsay Captain Hayter's description of the Reform scheme of the Ministry, but we hope no member will have to determine whether he will endorse it by a vote. The best, in deed the only, way out of the present imbroglio is the withdrawal of the bills, with a pledge to repro duce them in an amended form next session. (From the Herald). To-night the fate of the Reform Bill will be de cided ; and in any case, whether Ministers obtain a majority or are again left in a minority, the measure must be lost. Nobody now believes that it has a chance of success. But Government, encouraged by a last hope of retaining their places, have been endeavouring to suggest a bargain which, while it would involve the sacrifice of the bill, would enable them to serve their one absorbing purpose, and cling to their places. It is that a certain number of/Liberal members at present hostile should be re called to their loyalty by a promise that in return for their votes, should Captain Hayter's amend ment be rejected, the Cabinet shall for a year at least postpone parliamentary reform. It is possible though improbable, that the artifice may succeed ; but it is altogether impossible that any set of states men in England could long continue, under such a tenure, to hold the reins of Government. But every likelihood points towards another defeat, which this time must be final and crushing. At the very twelfth hour Mr. Gladstone will surely have made up his mind upon the course to be adopted. According to his own statement, he had not done so on Friday night, when questioned by Lord Elcho, who spoke as if confident of a majority against the bill. Any concession now must come with the worst grace imaginable when the Government is in a corner, driven to bay, and compelled to choose between swallowing its pledges or surrendering its places. (I'rom the Daily News.) The division which is expected to take place in the House of Commons this evening will decide some thing more than the fate of the measures which are condemned in Captain liayter's resolution. The existence of the Government is at stake. There is no use in cherishing any illusion upon this point. We are not surprised that the section of the Liberal party of which on Friday night Lord Elcho was the spokesman should endeavour to conceal from them selves the real nature and full extent of the issue which is impending. They startback in alarm from the ca tastrophe, which they have so nearly brought about ; and dare no longer steadily contemplate it. Out of this mixture of fear and hope have sprung the rumours which have lately been cirlulated in the Cave, with ' out reaching the outer world—rumours without father, without mother, without pedigree—that the Government do not intend to persevere with the measures which they have announced over and over again, by the lips of the Prime Minister, and of the leader of the House of Commons, that they will persevere with. Lord Elcho intimates for himself and his friends, that if her Majesty's Ministers will be satisfied with a nominal victory and will pledge themselves not to make a real one, the party of secession will again secede, and will desert their new allies, as a few weeks ago they deserted their old associates. (From the Morning Post.) In all governments, but most especially in con stitutional governments, is it essential that there should be the most perfect good faith maintained between the Executive and . the Legislature. Par ties are arrayed against parties, and battles are fought and lost ;" but the parties must be arrayed and the battles must be fought in fair and open field. It is, therefore, with regret we allude to a current report that the Government have made pro positions to these gentlemen who conscientiously differed with them on the Franchise Bill which shall have the effect of placing the Ministers in a majoriy this evening, on the secret understanding that, hav ing obtained this majority, the Government are afterwards prepared to give up the bill. We do not hesitate to say that if such a compact has been entered into it is difficult to say which party plays the more disgraceful part—those who, to save their places, propose such terms, or those who, to save the Government, are willing to accept them ; but we may presume to remark that beyond these two parties there stands a third, namely, the public ; and it is not to be tolerated that on a great question affecting, to use the Chancellor of the Exchequer's own words, the" flesh and blood of the country," the nation is to be played off in this manner—that Reform is to become, not a mere game of shuttlecock and battle-dore from party to Party, but that a really great issue is to be taken on false pretences, and when a division has given a majority to the Government, it is given on the secret understanding that the object for which the majority has been registered is immediately to be sacrificed to keep a Government in office. (From the Morning Advertiser) Let Mr. Gladstone act this evening, not from mo mentary feeling, but, upon a large and grave view and consideration of all the circumstances of the country. Let him tell Mr. Disraeli plainly—" If Europe were calm and tranquil, we should be tempted to hand over the Government to you', and to let you try your hand at the adjustment of this dif ficult question ; but circumstanced as England is just now, we dare not take upon ourselves such a responsibility. We must maintain our position, and try to settle the question, in spite of all open or cove rt opposition." Yet we hope we shall not hear of an " adjourn ment of the whole matter until the session of 1867." If the Bill is only to b e introduced in Mar ch next year, then, encouraged by what has just occurred, the opponents will renew the attack after the sam e fashion. Mr. Gladstone will be justified in holding out one threat to the House of Commons and only one. Let him not menace the house with a disso lution—still og let him threaten a resignation of THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, * JUNE 4, 1866 the Ministry. But, remembering that the really telling argument just now is, want of time—let him calmly explain to his opponents that, if they defeat him now, they will merely prove that an ordinary session is not sufficient for a full consideration of the question. Let him distinctly announce, there fore, that if the Bill cannot be proceeded with now, he must ask the house to meet in November for the express purpose of devoting four or five weeks to the discussion of the subject, and of that only. THE AMERICAN PRESS. Th 6 New York Tribune says the late Legislature of Mississippi passed four acts relative to freed men— First—" An act to confer civil rights on freedmen, and for other purposes." Second—" An act to regulate the relation of master and apprentice, as relates to freedmen, free Degrees, and mulattoes." Third—" An act to amend the vagrant laws of the State." Fourth—" An act to punish certain offences therein named, and for other purposes." In the fourth act, section four, is as follows : Be it further enacted, That all the penal and criminal laws now in force in this State, defining offences and prescribing the modes of punishment for crimes and mis demeanours committed byslaves, free negroes, or mulattoes, be, and the same are hereby, re-enacted and declared to be in full force and effect, against freedmen, free negroes, and mulattoes, except so far as the mode and manner of trial and punishment have been changed or altered by law. Some of the " penal and criminal laws" which have been re-enacted for the freedmen are as fol lows : Art. 58, Sec. xi., p. 248, Rev. Code, makes it punishable with death for a negro to murder, commit rape, burn houses, commit robbery, or attempt to commit such crimes. White persons are not punishable with death for most of the offences mentioned in this section, nor for the attempt to commit any one of them. Article 45, of the above-named act, page 245, provides that a slave shall receive twenty lashes if he be found away from the place of his employ ment without a pass. This is re-enacted for freed- men. Article 46, page 246, awards thirty-nine lashes to the slave for buying or selling without written permission. Re-enacted for the freedmen. Article 476, page 24, allows civil officers and others to appropriate to their own use any article a slave may be seeking to sell. Re-enacted for the freedmen. Article 51, page 247, makes it punishable for negroes to congregate at night, or hold schools, &c. Re-enacted as above. Article 63, page 249—80th ears are to be cut off for false witness. (No white ears to be served so.) Re-enacted as above. These are some of the laws of a State, especially re-enacted for the freedmen; a State which has " accepted the situation ;" a State which demands to take part in the action of Congress and help to make laws for the benefit of the people. A white murderer may escape scot free ; a negro shall be hanged even for attempt. It would be childish to deny that a Civil Rights Bill is needed in a State not yet emerged from barbarism. The New York Commercial Chronicle says :--- 4 4 If we had been told at the opening of last Congress that within sixteen months our national debt would be considerably diminished ; that the currency also would be contracted ; that gold would fall from 280 to 130, or lower ; that the price of many other commodities would also be considerably reduced ; and that all this would be accomplished without any severe panic, or any commercial re vulsions, these predictions would have received but faint assent, if, indeed, they had not been disbelieved altogether by everybody, except here and there, perhaps, by a single enthusiastic be liever in the destiny of our great republic. But all these improbabilities have been realised. At the pre sent moment our people are full of confidence that as the national finances have always heretofore turned out so much better than expectation, so it will be in the future. In illustration of this general and well-sustained confidence we need only to look at the financial doings of Congress. So available are our national resources, and so abundant are the receipts from taxes and duties, that in the new fiscal measure introduced into the house on the 25th April by Mr. Morrill, and now under daily discussion in the committee of the Whole, we are about to remit no less than 75 millions of internal taxation. Such is the productiveness of our revenue system, and so greatly reduced arc our national expenses, that, after the giving up of this vast amount of annual re venue, we shall be able to raise amply sufficient to carry on the Government. Hence it is obvious that we have thus far solved very satisfactorily the pro blem which has so long been agitated by financial essayists and political economists, whether the people of this rich, free, untaxed continent would ever bear heavy taxation. We have settled the question, andin such a way as to establish on an unshaken basis the permanent foundation of ourpublic credit. Now, in the opinion of our wisest financial men, the time has come for consolidating our vast public debt at a low rate of interest. It is stated that the war debts which England and France incurred during the first quarter of this century were funded at rates about equal to five per cent. This rate, it is assumed, is the highest which we ought to pay, now that peace has given the assurance that, however much the demand for our securities may increase, the supply has reached its maximum, and that henceforth no Government bonds will be issued except in exchange for other securities. These reasons have caused Mr. M'Culloch to approve, and they will probably induce the Senate Finance Committee to adopt, Mr. Sherman's Funding Bill. We do not vindicate all the subordinate provisions of this measure, but its main features we heartily endorse. We believe that at no very distant clay the whole of our $2,800,000,000 of debt will be represented by five per cent. bonds ; and that these bonds will sell at par both in our own and in foreign markets. .It has been shown that the annual saving of interest we should effect by funding all our debt at five instead of six per cent. would be sufficient, if placed at compound interest, to produce a sinking fund which in 36i years would pay off the whole of the principal. This fact is mentioned as an induce ment to us to make our new Consols more attrac tive to investors by exempting them from all taxation. The New York Tribune, of May 16, has a charac teristic article on this subject, from which we quote: —American influence in Europe moulded the recent debate, and extends into all classes of society. In other days America was discussed by the English press pretty much as we discuss the Republics of South America or the countries on the African coast. The journalists did not know whether Annapolis was an island or an archipelago. They sometimes placed Massachusetts in the State of Philadelphia, and horrified Boston by making it the capital of Maine. Their notions of social life in America were gathered from the books of Mr. Dickens and Mrs. Trollope, and from personal experiences among the emigrant ships. They imagined that everybody read the New York Herald, and that children were weaned on Virginia tobacco. Our Presidents were selected on account of personal prowess in the prize-ring, and nobody but Mr. Emerson and Mr. Everett could construe six lines of Horace. There was 'a general impression that public morals had fallen so low that a great statesman, who afterward became a lexicographer, was hanged for murder. Public life was very unsafe in our coun try places, and our colleges were tainted with atheism. Henry Ward Beecher was known to at tend chicken-fights ; and it was rumoured that he was preparing to challenge Mr. lleenan on his re turn from England. Those of us who were not positively debased were awaiting with anxiety an opportunity to welcome the English sceptre back to America ; but it was generally felt that no such royal mercy should be shown until we had done abundant penance. Who read an American book ? Who bought an American picture? Who owned an American stock or bond? Time, the tumult of a mighty war, the sublime English virtue of suc cess, the triumph of our armies prosperity under an extraordinary debt, have given the American name and character an importance abroad which a century of peace would not have gained. When the blockade was established Lancashire moaned in poverty, and the Exchange trembled. securities rose and fell with the victory or defeat of Grant's armies. The American maps were studied with intense and selfish interest, and true Englishmen felt an impulse of pride when they saw men of their own blood, with the same Saxon blue eyes, doing deeds more marvellous than those of Wellington and Marlborough. The aristocratic element, rich, fashionable, and noisy, was attracted to the South from the affinity of slavery and caste; but the great heart of England was in union with America. How earnestly the governing classes wished our over throw may be judged from the haste of Lord Rus sell to speak of the " late Union," and the enthu siasm of Mr. Gladstone (in one of his "pilgrimages of passion" as Disraeli called them) over Jefferson Davis and the empire he had founded. When a Russell and a Gladstone despaired of America, what could be expected from a Stanley and a Roebuck— from the Tories, whose creed is to incarnate all that is old and mossy, and 'destroy all that is fresh and life-giving—from every enemy of progress and truth? The governing classes wished our failure, because success here meant agitation at home, dis content, perhaps revolt, a general commotion among thrones, palaces, rubies, coronets, and all sorts of ribbons and stars, and garters and parch ments, chaos come again, a new spirit moving upon the face of the waters, and a new world coming into being. If America had failed, its failure would have been an example and a warning, teaching us to beware of Republicanisms and experiments with anarchy—even anarchy with a constable, according to Mr. Carlyle. Now that manhood in America has done so nobly, manhood in. England demands opportunity. Manhood pays taxes, and gathers material wealth, and organises volunteer forces, and makes the English flag the glory and terror of civi lisation. Why should manhood toil and spin, while caste, the accident of birth and station, should wear fine raiment ? Why should manhood in Leeds be merely work and sweat, and no voice in the Eng lish Commons, while 36 persons in Caine, who hap pen to be the dependents of an English nobleman, should have the privilege of speaking with the brilliant malice of Mr. Lowe ? The tendency of the English mind is upward. Mr. Mill might have died in retirement ; Mr. Gladstone might have sat in ashes outside of Oxford ; Mr. Hughes might have remained in genial seclusion ; the voice of Mr. Bright would be silent in St. Stephens but for the manhood, the toiling manhood of Westminster and Lancashire, Lambeth and Rochdale. The England that creates these statesmen is the England which sympathised with our country, and which best re presents the true Englishman of to-day. Annual Sale of the Middle-park Yearlings. This important sale of yearlings, the greatest in Eng land, not only from the number of its lots, but from their character and the prices they realise, came off, as usual, on Saturday afternoon, at Mr. Blenkiron's residence at Eltham, when the truth tf the remarks which we offered last week, that, although money was scarce in the city, it could be found in abundance fora Royalyearling, received an additional illustration. It is true that for some years past the price of young racing stock has been gradually rising, bnt never, in the recollection of the Tattersall fa mily has a yearling been known to _reach the sum of 2,500 guineas, which was given here by the Duke of Hamilton for a colt by Newminster, out of Lady Elcho, and we imagine it will be long before we have to record a similar purchase. The weather being fine the attendance was very large, comprising the Dukes of Hamilton and St. Albans, the Marquis of Hastings, Lords Vivian, Doneraile, Falmouth, Count Batthany, the Hon. Admiral Eons, Mr. Payne, Mr. H. Chaplin, and other well-known supporters of the turf. The proceedings were begun by a very handsome luncheon, and, after it had been partaken of, the company took their places round a well constructed ring, into which the yearlings were brought, and every facility was given for their inspection. Mr. E. Tattersall, in his address to his clients, told them that the present was the best lot of yearlings Mr. Blenkiron had ever submitted to the public, and before he concluded he thought ho should be borne out in his views by the prices they would fetch, and he wound up by expressing the deep regret he and the general company felt at the death of Lord Chesterfield, who was so great a patron of Mr. Blenkiron. The biddings then commenced, and, although the lots were knocked down at fair remunerating prices, no real sensa tion was created until the St. Albans colt out of Elspeth, the dam of Drumour, came up, when his fine size, com manding appearance, and racing-like proportions were in stantly recognised. A thousand from the Duko of Hamil ton was his opening price, and from that sum he sprung in bids of two and three hundreds until he stopped at two thousand, at which 'which price Mr. Henry Chaplin secured him, amid great applause. This it was imme gined would be the top price of the sale,-but the supporters of the Newminster colt out of Lady Elcho clung to the last to the belief that he would be placed at the head of the poll, and they were right, for when he was brought into the ring he came from 1,000 to 2,500 in less than five minutes, the finish between Mr. Chaplin and the Duke of Hamilton for the possession of him being very close. At last the latter prevailed, and can congratulate himself on having given the largest price ever known in the world for a yearling. It is needless to state that as fax as looks go ho possesses every racing attribute, although ho is not on so big a scale as the St. Albans colt. The other stars of the sale were the Newminster colt—Queen's Head; the Weatherbit colt— Triangle ; the Marsyas colt—Beatrice ; and the Weatherbit colt—Butterfly, while the pick of the fillies were those by Lambton—Forest Fly, by Dundee—Defenceless, by New minster—Sacrifice, and the ono by Weatherbit—Frolic. The proceeds of the sale realised the sum of £19,120, or an average of £450, which is the largest on record of Mr. Blenkiron's series ; and to mark his sense of it Mr. Blenkiron has again placed £l,OOO at the disposal of the stewards of the Jockey Club, to be run for at Newmarket in 1867, and it was suggested by Admi ral Rous that so noble an example should be followed up by a prize of a similar amount fromthe profits of the Royal Paddocks at Hampton Court, for animals breil there: Mr. Blenkiron has also given £2OO to. the Stockbridge Race Fund. In the discussion that ensued after the sale on the Green as to the merits of the new purchases, it was pro posed that a sweepstakes•shoUld be got up, which was ac cordingly drawn out as follows : Sweepstakes of 1,000 sow, h ft, to be run over the Bretby _Stakes Course, on Tuesday, in the First October meet ing at Newmarket. The. Duke of Hamilton's colt by Newminster—Lady Elcho Mr, H. Chaplin's colt by St. Albans—Elspeth. The Marquis of Hastings's colt by Weatherbit—Butterfly. Mr. Merry's colt by Dundee—Ennui. • We append a list of prices and also the bets laid on the Derby of 1868. Bay colt by Amsterdam—Glance, dam of Narcissus by Venison (Mr. Fobert) _ 50 Bay colt, by Amsterdam—Madame Landeau, by the Libel (Mr. Pryor) ~, 160 Chestnut colt, by Amsterdam—Banshee, by the Ugly Buck (Mr. J. B. Morris) Brown colt, by Horror—Panpipe, by Bay Middleton (Mr. Elliot) ... ,„ 55 Brown colt, by Voltigeur—Chalybeate, by Leaming ton (Mr. Mound) „, lOO Roan filly, by Lambton—First Fly, by Birdcatcher (Mr. J. B. Morris) Bay filly, by Wild Dayrell—Pandora (dam of Hope), by Cotherstone (Mr. W. G. Bennett) 105 Chestnut filly (sister to Shrapnel]), by Woatherbit —Shot (dam of Marksman), by Birdcatcher (Mr. Chaplin) „, ,„ ,„ . „, „, 170 Bay filly, by Weatherbit—Fanfaronade (dam of Gasconnade), by Gameboy (Mr. Pryor) 430 Chestnut colt, by Colsterdale—Birdtrap (dam of Birdfinder), by Birdcatcher (Mr. J. B. Morris) ... 250 Chestnut colt, by Kettledrum, Goldfinch, by West Australian (Mr. Cartwright) ... ••• ••• 360 Black colt, by Chanticleer—Whimsical (dam of Fan tastic), by Launcelot (Captain Cooper) ... ... 470 Bay colt, by Wild Dayrell—Restless, by_ Burgundy (Mr. Angerstein) ... 50 Chestnut colt, by M arysas .- Q.E.D., • by. Kingston (Prince Soltykoff) ... 125 Bay colt, by King Tom—Lady Vernon, by Poynton (Mr. H. Goater) ... 360 Bay filly, by Weatherbit—Governess, by Chatham (Mr. Ton Broeck) ... 350 Bay filly, by Dundee--Calcayella (dam of Money spinner), by Birdcatcher (Mr. Norton) 190 Bay filly, by Dundee—Defenceless (dam of Carac tactis), by Defence (Mr. Jacques) ... •.. 420 Chestnut filly, by N ewm i ns t er —S ac rice (dam of Jeannie Deans), by Voltaire (Mr. Chaplin) 400 Chestnut filly, by Dundee—Magic (dam of Magi cian), by Melbourne (Mr. Ma,und)... •••• 400 Ba colt, by Wild D a y re ll—Furbelow (dam of Queen Mary), by Cotherstone (Mr. Ten Broeck) 520 Brown colt (brother to Neptunus, by Weatherbit Athena Pallas, by Birdcatcher (Count Batthyany) 610 Bay colt, by Amsterdam —Mrs. Fowler (dam of Sabrina), by Heron (M r . Chaplin) . — ..• ••• 300 Chestnut colt, by St. Albans—Elspoth (darn of Drumour), by Birdcatcher (Mr. Chaplin)... ... 2,000 Bay colt, by Newminster—Queen's Head, by Bay Middleton (Duke of Hamilton) ... ••• •• • 700 Chestnut colt, by Dundee—Dinah (dam of Com motion), by Clarion (Duke of Hamilt9n) ... 650 Black colt, by Dundee—Ennui (dam of Saunterer) by Bay Middleton (Mr. W. Robinson) ... 700 Bay colt, by Marsyas—Duchess of Kingston, by by Kingston (Count Batthyany) ••• ••• 610 Bay colt, by Dundee—Curse Royal, by Mildew (Mr. Cartwright) • • • • • • • • • 300 Bay colt, by Newminster—Lady Elcho (dam of Elcho), by Sleight of Hand (Duke of Hamilton) 2,500 Bay filly, by Newminster—Madame Stodare (dam of Wildrake), by Sleight of Hand (Mr. Pryor) ... 410 Chestnut filly, by Newminster —ream by Hampton (dam of Gaspard) (Duke of Hamilton) ... ..• 500 Brown colt, by Weatherbit--T r i a ngle (dam of Pro blem), by Epirus (Mr. Chaplin) ... ... 900 Chestnut colt, by Marsyas or Dundee—Beatrice, by Birdcatcher (Duke of Hamilton) ... ... 550 Chestnut colt, by Marsyas--Perfection, by Bird catcher (Mr. R. Herbert) ... .•. ••• 260 Chestnut colt, by Marsyas—Leprosy, by Mildew (Mr. Jacques)... 280 Bay colt, by Weatherbit—Maid of Palmyra (dam of Verdant), by Pyrrhus the First (Mr. Jacques) 310 Chestnut colt, by Weatherbit—Butterfly (dam of Eltham), by Knight of 'the Whistle (Marquis of Hastings) ... 900 Bay filly, by Weatherbit—Frolic, by Touchstone (Mr. Fobert) 310 Bay filly, by Horror—Eltham Beauty, by Kingston (Colonel de Butze) ... 115 Brown colt, by the Prime Minister—Actress (dam of Who's Who), by Annandale (Captain Cooper) ... 300 Bay colt, by Oulston—Medeia, by. Pyrrhus the First (Duke of Hamilton) 420 DERBY, 1868. 10,000 to 200 agst the colt by Newminster—Lady Echo. 25,000 to 250 apt the Dundee—Ennui. 10,000 to 100 agst the colt by King Tom—Lady Vernon. 25,000 to 250 agst the Brother to Neptunus. 25,000 to 2bo agst the colt by Newminster—Queen's Head. 25,000 to 250 agst the colt by Dundee—Dinah. 10,000 to 100 agst the colt by Marsyas—Duchess of King ston 25,000 to 250 agst the colt by Newminster—Triangle. 25,000 to 250 agst the colt by Weatherbit —Butterfly. 10,000 to 75 agst the colt by Weatherbit—Maid of Pal myra. Choice Localities. The factious correspondent of the Racing Times writes on the above subject as follows : There are many streets, squares, lanes, and alleys, blind and thorough, in the great metropolis named during the long run of and after the four Georges. A very celebrated yard in Lombard-street was one of them, wherein stood for a series of years the George and Vulture, one of the greatest hostels of a past generation. There Mr. Pickwick took up his abode, but, like most other quiet places, it has since been converted by the mighty styides of Mammon, aided by the demon of destructiveness, into gigantic and heavily-rented chambers, club house, and offices, so that the ghosts of its former patrons would recognise the scene of their for mer gaieties no more. It is not, however, of this highly respectable and wealthy locality that I am about giving anything further than a passing allu sion ; but to say that there is another George-yard where vultures congregate in force in what still remains of the ancient Snow-hill, situate between the late lamented Smithfield and the broad mass of ruins known as Farringdon-street or road. Here, since they have been prevented by the city autho rities from polluting the larger thoroughfares, have for sometime congregated as choice a collection of London's dismal dregs as could be brought together by any other attraction less than a public execution ; but, strange as it may appear, there were occa sionally seen many persons of credit and general decent appearance which rendered the contrast so much greater. The present entrance to this retired spot is through a small short court, at the end of which is a doorway, formerly a back way to the celebrated Old George Inn. The Court, consisting of some ten or a dozen houses, includes Polley's Hotel, a couple of chandlers' shops, and a cat's-meat store and mangle. The doorway referred to, which contains only half a door, is now the sole way to get into the yard, which is of a singularly dilapidated appear ance, in many respects resembling its owners, -- the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway Company. There are remains of stands for waggons and cranes to lift goods. The sheds are roofless, and in the left corner is the ancient hostel, and behind it, in another large square space, the old galleried bed rooms, now gradually disappearing from the scene. It is the spot immortalised by Hogarth, and, no doubt, was a place of busy resort. The paving stones partake of the general ruin, for, instead of being fixed in the ground, they are loose like the pedestrians who tread on them. Some of the most solvent of the smaller tribe of bookmakers plied their calling, and not a few of the still less important pickers up of half-crowns and shillings stood against the posts and boards whereon were nailed lists, as in the palmy days. A sinister look now and then betokened a "Bobby," or de fective, sometimes speculating bona fide himself, but oftener, looking out for victims of folly who had drifted into difficulties. There was the usual suppressed hiwa of voices—" Back anything, sir ?" " I'll lay again so and so. Ten to one bar one," and so on. " What can I do for you, this mornin' Pipy ?" was asked by a goodnatured-looking scamp, with a card on his hat and another on a post. " I'll lay agin the lot." Pipy Peters had formerly been in the army occupying the important position of lance cor poral, or full private, and after having passed successively through a number of troub?esomc operations ultimately was drummed out of the regiment. He had been professional tout or hanger-on at street lists for several years, and was a real commission agent, that is to say, waited out side shop-doors and at the corners of courts for sporting lads who could not get to the arena them selves, but hurriedly entrusted him with half crowns to invest according to special instructions, or at his Pipy's discretion. His fee of 6d. in each case mostly enabled him to scramble through the day, but when he was instructed to back, " dead'uns," or horses who could not, or were not meant to win, of course he was plus the investments which it need hardly be said he forgot to lay out, but carefully reported the contrary. As somebody once said somewhere, " A change came o'er the spirit of my dream." I only quote from memory, and the owners of capital found that the more they put down in the yard the less they were likely to take up, and so the civic autho rities, who generally lavish their substance in absurd investments, were resolved that the betting fraternity should once more, if possible, be driven thence to exercise their calling in another locality, which resolve was hastened by some brutal fellows grossly maltreating an unoffending constable in plain clothes, and a champion was enlisted by call ing a green-grocer, or herbalist, in the vicinity, to whom the spot in question was not by any mea ns a nuisance, it not being even within sight of his house, nor had he any interest to serve, except the dogmatic one of seeking to meddle with other per sons affairs and omitting to mind his own business. This gentleman, "Topper" by name, entered into a negotiation with, and finally succeeded in taking from, the eminent railway company aforesaid, the OIL George Yard, at a rental of nothing per week, and then assumed the right of dealing with the place, and so shutting up all access to the un lucky hotel, posting up a notice that all persons found trespassiag on the premises would be prose cuted according to law, and began fencing off with a few old barrels and some wire, a portion of the area which, as the tenant of the George considered, was a gross interference with the liberty of the subject, totally uncalled for on such a holding, and resisted the proceeding accordingly. The opinion of the City justices having been taken they dis missed the summons, so that Topper took nothing by his motion. In the present aspect of affairs, therefore, the ancient yard is still open for the exercise of al fresco betting. The George itself is a nice roomy place, and the curious antiquarian may look with a longing eye at the wretched Van dalism which is quietly wiping off the civic map some of the spots consecrated to the glories of former days. If the stray reader will proceed to Snow-hill, enter the coart and walk straight up into the enclosures, he will find ample space to contemplate, especially if he goes in an afternoon, when the exciting scenes of external betting are over. The host is a very intel ligent Yorkshireman, and has a moderate stock of all sorts of good things on the premises. It happens to be, while it lasts, the very place which prudent persons would favour with a wide berth; I mean by this that the class known by the term have generally very little to do with racing speculations, but by no means deny that there are many parties indulging in the harmless practice of backing their own judg ment who are equally as prudent as others. It follows that a greenhorn may have been a silly and a betting man, and, in the course of time, becomes a wiser and a better man, regulating his investments by the certain standard of experience. The most scrupulous personage need not be offended at enter ing the Old George, where there are large printed notices that betting is strictly prohibited within its precincts ; and he may probably take his lun cheon in comfort at old-fashioned tables, instead of the modern improvements of standing up in front of long bars, without cloth or cleanliness, and known as " sixpenny uprights." The excitement of the outer ring may be deemed an agreeable addendum, not without a practical lesson or two of the manners and customs of the strangest of all miscellaneous classes, who generally contrive to get a livelihood of some kind without the necessity of continuous labour. Vendors of various articles of commerce, from Birmingham jewellery down to paper collars, mix with the spectators. All kinds of certainties may be had on a trifling outlay, and if any Pas ° is disposed to entrust ready cash to gentlemen who return after the event, he willhave a °bane° of getting the product, assuming that his predic tions have been based on correc t pr i nc i p l e s. The Christian names of many betting men are ex pressively indulged in with playful brevity, an d they are freely ventilated as reliable personage!: I have not any acquaintance with them, nor should I dream of investing any of my small surplus cap s " tal either in backing horses, or in shares of public companies, particularly fi nance or h o t e l s . Each °f the latter is commonly based on fraud, and the pro' moters are little or no better than the welcher W gets his victim's deposit, never intending, under any event, to part with principal or profit. Both classes seem to prey with much the same motive, and the result may be calculated with unerring certainty. The City of London, who can expend a million sterling in spoiling th e fi nes t o f it s th o rough" fares for some little comfort for the future race of London horses of labour, and al' s° 'throw away nearly a hundred thousand pounds i n a new roof to their ancient hall, may probably leairde the betting fraternity a l one , p rov id e d th e y eau flu some retreat apart from the public streets, taking care to exercise a supervision by seeing that no breach of the peace is committed, and su ppressing , brutality such as was rece n tly p rac ti se d i n the spot under notice, and for which the perpetrators me' with proper punishment. To do this would be a graceful piece of toleration towards a class who, in, the course of time, by the ad vance o f c i v ili sa tion woul d improve in their habits, and the old George-Yar d ' or a locality of the kind, seems to be the Pla ce where the humbler followers of Tattersall's may may perform their minor transactions, and where members of that celebrated institution condescen d to act as commission agents. COUNTRY MARKETS. NORWICH-- SATURDAY. The supply of wheat at this market to-day was shorte, than of late, and the extreme rates o f l as t we ek were NV supported for all the best qualities ; other sorts dull. In barley, oats, beans, and peas little doing on late terms- lb was successively cold for the season up to yesterday, Nv_.„ l . a dry north and north east wind ; but since a fine which fell fell last evening the air has been softer, and trr day the weather has been fine and forcing. Otto White wheat (weighing 641 b), 50s to 54s ; old red (weighing 651 b), 48s to 50s ; now red ditto (yrei.g h , n g 601 b to 631 b), 43s to 48s ; best malting barley (welg o 'io, 521 b to 531 b), 36s to 38s ; runs ditto (weighing 511 b to 6 , 4 ,” to 34s to 36s ; distilling ditto (weighing 501 b to 521 b), 3 0s 63 32s ; oats, 24s to 26s ; beans, b7s to 39s ; peas ( maple ) , to 38s per qr. Flour, 31s per sack. NO T TINGHAM—SATURDAY. There was a middling supply of wheat, the show c oll c i sisting of white and red sorts. The tone of the den 1 9 .1 3 1, was dull, at recent prices. In barley there was not In s u c to doing, and previous rates were realised ; grinding, "bicil 33s per 30 stone. There was a short supply of oats, W 0 0, were taken off at late currencies; new, 28s to 325; fa"' 30s to 34s per 24 stone. For beans the inquiry NOS' and extreme rates were established. 0 4 Old white wheat, Ms to 58s ; old red, 48s to 525 i c , ll to , white, 52s to 56s ; new red, 46s to 49s per 36 stone. old, 30s to 34s ; new, 28s to 32s per 24 st one . Beane" old 50s to 53s ; new, 44s to per 48s 38s stone. LE ICES TER —SATURDAY. We had a fair show of wheat to-day, and the n diti° co t of the grain was good. Sales were made slowly, at tali late rates. Scar ce ly an y b ar l e y s h ow i ng , an d the delleta for was quiet. Prices were as last week. The demand ly oats was moderate, and there being only a limited suP f ti tt prices were not much changed. There was a. l to sprinkling of beans, which sold readily at quite a prices. Ic l 7 New white wheat, 50s to 53s ; new red, 44s to 480 ; .L• white, Ms to 56s ; old red, 49s to 52s per 36 stone. ley, for malting, 35s to 40s per q r. ; gr i n ding, 2 9 s for 024 per 30 stone. Oats, old, 30s to 33s ; new, 27s to 3 23 stone. Beans, old, 50s to 52s ; new, 44s to 46s per 38 siA ) Fine flour, 37s to 42$ ; seconds, 33s to 35s per 20 stone. YORK—SATURDAY. Oa t ' There was a limited supply of wheat at to-day's rn a ice s The show was sufficient to meet the inquiry, and 1: 0 j.. wero not much altered. The show of barley was eX eev ii ingly small, and late rates were maintained. The 811 ,,P, P a t of oats was agai n s can ty, an d samp l es c h ange d hanu,'o . o former terms. Beans were ra th er hi g h er i n pr i ce , an tone of the demand was healthy. New white wheat, 50s to 56s ; new rod, 47s to 50s pe dalcr 6 stone. Barley, for maltin g , 38 s t o 40 s p er qr . ; gr in: 32s to 34s per 30 s t one . O a t s , new , 26 s t o 30 s per 24 Aos6seo. Beans, new, 48s to 50s per 38 stone. Malt, 66s to Flour, 35s to 37s nor sack of 2801bs. I Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton...• "°- 13. Ditto, via Marseilles Julie 4. Brazil and Cape Verds, by British packet ...... .. • -u Tnn e ---c2! J un „ Ditto, by French packet Cape of Good Hope; Ascension, and St. Helena.•••••—, 3. China, Penang', and Singapore, via Southampton June - ix Ditto, via Mars e ill es Falkland Islands June 3. Gibraltar, via South amp t on India (Calcutta), and C ey l on, v i a Sout h ampton Juun 3 l . Ditto, via Mars e ill es ......... . —...•Jalle 13. India (Bombay), vi a S ou th amp t on. June jtme 7 : Ditto, via M arse ill es Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton June I A Jun e Ditto, via Marseill e s -73 Jun e ; Mauritius, via So u th am pt on ' Ju ne • • Ditto, via Marseilles June •7 Ne wfoundland .. . , ..... Jun e _ 4. . Portugal Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon. United States and British North America, by Bri- Jtsu e tish packet • Ditto, by United States packet, via Southamp ton Ditto, via Cork Ditto, by Canadian packet, via Londonderry • .. 11211 ‘ , l a West Coast of Africa, Madeira, and T e neriffe .. • • " 11- West Indies and Pacific (except Bahamas and is Honduras) Jae na Cuba and Mexico .., J ..•-• Bahamas, via New Y ork. Julie 8. Bermuda, via Halifax .June ADVERTISEMENT.] -Avoid medicines: they alvvai'„Tot' as f' vate chronic complaints, but Du B arr y' s D e l Lieus 1). 4 00 Restoring Revalenta Arabica Food, which yields three cot the nourishment of the best meat, saves fifty Wilco 110 0 0 ' in other remedies, and invariably restores perfect (11 g e re: strong nerves, sound lungs, healthy liver, pure 11 1 °""; 0 1' freshing sleep, functional regularity, and energy W CO. disordered or enfeebled. We extract a few out 01 1 011, Cures :—Cure No. 68,216, of the Marchioness de O r b e i la , of seven years' liver complaint, wasting away, d e d ger nervousness, with a nervous palpitation all over, ba d , t ,fo o , tion, constant sleeplessness, and the most intolerable 11 " I,or agitation.—Cure No. 1,771. Lord Stuart de Deci e t . Lieutenant of Waterford, of many years' flysPerj;psi, 49,832. "Fifty years' indescribable agony from nervousness, asthma, cough, cons tip a tion, P * spasms, sickness, and vomiti ng .—M ar i a Jolly."- - LT:hity 16,270. Mr. James Roberts, of Frimley, Surrey , ° . ; er spg,, c' years' diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver L', l , De:, ment, and partial dealness.--Cure No. 47,121. Bliss - 131- 0 , :1 0 " Jacobs, of extreme nervousness, indigestion, gatherl°;,, spirits, and nervous fancies.—Cure No. 54,816. The Il A e l o rpl T. Campbell, Fakenham, Norfolk, "of indigestion 110 ,..„' c ot' dity or the liver. which had resistef all medical trea d 2 tll l . In tins, lib, 2s 9d; 21b, 4s 6d; 51b, lls ; 121 b, 22s ; # Ol 108.—Barry Du Barry and Co., No. 77, Regent-street, J'f ire ivt l° also Phillips, tea dealers, 8, King William-stree=t Q' 11;40' at 01, Gracecharch-street ; 4, Cheapside ; 49, 13 ,1 1 "5Vsl ic n i o, ' street Within ; 63, 150, and 298, Oxford-street ; 54, Upper Baker-street; 103, Tottenham-court -1 " Cl Upper-street, Islington, N.; Harvey, e Notting- Brothers, 65, High-street ; an d St u bb s, Queen's - t nd 011;* John's-wood, London; and all respectable grocers mists.—Beware of of sourious imitations. Births. g ts. AtsToN—On the Ist inst., at 9, Crosby-square, .1,4.-1 Henry C. Alston, of a daughter. 010 10 111.* ALEXANDER—On the 2d inst., at Odin Lodge, w t. - 4 ; r . park, the wife of A. Alexander, GRANTILLE—On the Ist inst., at 86, Jermyll - a tre A wife of Fred. Granville, Esq., of a daughter. Dier tfor V MIEvILLE—On the 2d inst., at Wormley Hour' o .' - b, - ter• shire, the wife of J. F. Mieville, Esq.,of o ° l ° - a Esq., of a chug et, Marriages. r foig iC le BAKER—NELSON—On the 2d inst , at St. Sal n i , es 2;o••• dilly, Wm. B. Baker, of Talbot-terrace . and Bis' te 'r of Bayswater, to Horati o B e lli n i , younges t &lig — Nelson, Esq., of Bayswater. ' $, rice' - GALPINE — NELSON—On the 2d inst a t St. jf les -v,„;s' dilly, Thoma s J. G a l p i ne, of C an terbury, L to v f beth Aims, daughter of Horatio Nelson, r- 16(1 " water. Citoss—On the 31st lt Rayleigh, N GAYDeaths. E f Darriac ton 'e't On aged the 6 2 3 B .ll th ' u ' 1 t \r , m a . t , g at, P— efl MAI -, : 41 ,: r 0 i ) tre Cross, l 0 0 n ~, B. Maingtly, Esq., of Rot • terdarn. • P hil rERCIVALL-0 0 the 28th ult • Captain ~ at Hastings, Percivall, Royal Horse_ Artillery, aged 33, .„,, at b 9 ' yn " S . wrg—On the 29th ult. Charles Snevriu, J,P,•'' OP Thornhill-squ Is • are, lingto aed SAMBROOK—On the 30th ultra, g at 39,7 Old Rent -To _ T. Sambrook, aged 76. .7 i i ;, I, Gie°. TERRY—On the 29th ult., at IT P ark, -r-t o l, ampton Ifi ll ' Terry, Esq., aged 74. aro, WILLGUGHBY—On the 31st ult., at 2, Gordon-still- Willoughby,_Esq., aged 78. .............. _____---is ---- ----- 1 00 11 London : Printed and Pnbiighed by WILLIAIK NV. of No. 112, Strand, Pt inter, at Tilr, Snri o'"` 3 Z ot ioti Strand, in the Precinct of the SsvoY, in the Middleses.—Monday, June 4, 1866. 4' - ~.._ 1 A It Ntrq TI T „; 4 -1 Floor