The Sun. — London, England, 1866-03-26 00:00:00

--- _ RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. NORTH BRITISH. The half-yearly meeting was held in Edinburgh ; on Friday ; Mr. Hodgson, the chairman, presided. The report, an abstract of which has appeared in • The Sun, was held as read. The CHAinmAN, in moving its adoption, said it was easy for the committee of Glasgow shareholders to say, " rest and be thankful," to work the line as they now had it, and give themselves no trouble as to what their neighbours were doing. The directors must consider the whole circumstances of the com pany. The position of this company had undergone three changes within the last ten years—first, the extension of their line from Hawick to Carlisle ; se condly, their amalgamation with the FifeshirQ lines; awl thirdly, their amalgamation with the Edinburgh an d Glasgow Company. The re was no use blink ing the fact that the North British were now a com peting company with the Caledonian from the Sol way to the Tay. There we re at least 14 p in ts at which the two systems no w came in contact rth , lud and - ing Carlisle, Edin bur g h, Glasgow, Pe, Dundee. He wished to see a legitimate, reasonable, and proper rivalry between the two companies, and, provided the companies to the north and south of them exercised due impartiality towards them both, there was no reason for any other rivalry than arose from the quality of the service they rendered to the public. But the Caledonian, notwithstanding the overtures of the North British directors, that neither party s hould seek for a northern amalgamation, had not been able to resist the temptation offered to unite with the Scottish North Eastern, which was the real bone of contention at the present time be- tween the two companies. The North British had also introduced a bill to amalgamate with the Scot tish North Eastern, but they had withdrawn it, from the conviction that the amalgamation with that line with either of the companies to the south was contrary to public policy, and they had resolved to offer an uncompromising opposition to the Caledonian Bill, on the ground not only that it was unjust to themselves, but that it was injurious to the public. The running powers offered to the North British by the Caledonian were perfectly delusive. As to the Forth and Clyde Railway, it was a line which had three connexions with the North British system and only one with the Caledonian, and it was much more natural it should fall into their hands. With regard to the Wishaw line, proposed by this company, it was a necessary link with that great mineral dis trict, without which the Edinburgh and Glasgow would be left on their hands as a dry bone from which the marrow had been sucked by the Caledo nian. He then referred to some passages in the speech of the chairman of the Caledonian Com pany, and also to the speeches at the meetings of Glasgow shareholders, and remarked that, while the latter looked to the welfare of railway property in general, they (the North British directors) must protect the special interests of their own shareholders. The Glasgow com mittee had, in urging a pacific course, overlooked the injuries to North British interests involved in the amalgamation bills and other measures of the competing companies. The capital, share and loan, required for the works authorised last session, but not raised, amounted to about £3,000,000. The amount for the Forth bridge was £600,000 ; but all that would be spent this year was £20,000 for an experimental pier. The new capital authorised would be raised gradually, over a series of years, probably at the rate of half a million a year. Fears were entertained for the ordinary stock from the additions made of late . years to preference capital; but he reminded the meeting that the ordinary dividend of the North British had risen from per cent. in the first half-year of 1863, to 3 per cent. in the last year. He moved the adoption of the report. Mr. H. DUNLOP seconded the motion. Mr. J. WHITE vindicated the action taken by the Glasgow shareholders, who, he said, were startled in November last by finding that schemes were proposed by the three leading Scottish companies involving 12 millions of outlay, in addi tion to six millions authorised last Session. They were sincerely desirous to prevent the companies embarking on a career which might prove disastrous, and their representations were addressed with per fect impartiality to them all. The North British ordinary capital was at present only four millions, out of an aggregate capital of 17 millions, and last session and the present they were asking for about six millions more of preference stock and loans. But, at the instance of the Glasgow shareholders, about 7 millions of the 12 had, for the present year, been withdrawn. The North British had conceded two millions, but they still asked authority to raise about £2,500,000. He requested the Board to make further concessions, and to consider whether some arrangements could not be made with the Caledonian which might render unnecessary the formation of the Forth and the Tay bridges. He concluded by reading the resolution accepted as a recommendation at the Caledonian meeting, which he proposed should be received. At the present meeting, condemned a policy of hostility and a ggres ..l sion, and urged the directors to use every possible means for adjustment of differences, by arbitration or otherwise. The CHAIRMAN said though ey might differ in detail, the Glasgow shareholders and the directors were really seeking the same object. The report was unanimously approved, and Mr. White moved a vote of thanks to the chairman. - were gratified in being able to announce the near completion and probable opening of the line to Aidin by the end of June. U nder very depressing and disadvantageous circu mstances the gross re ceipts had increased 41 per cent. over the corres ponding period of the previous i year, upon the same mileage. The guaranteed interest up to the 30th of June last had been received from the Im perial Ottoman Government, and immediately after the meeting the accounts would be rendered, as usual, for the half-year ending the 31st of December last. The platelaying would then be carried forward to Aidin at the rate of at least two miles a week, if sufficient locomotive power were employed, so that Aidin would be reached during the month of June, and the railway permanently opened for traffic by the Ist of July at latest. All other arrangements were in readiness for the opening. Mr. Charlton, the general manager, in his report stated that the receipts of the past half year showed that there had been an increase of £5,650, or 41 per cent., as compared with the cor responding half of 1864. Agricultural operations were being carried out to a large extent, the weather being now very favourable for the purpose, and on the completion of the line the opening up of the mineral sources of the province, to which attention was now being directed, would produce a profitable effect on the company's receipts. The capital account to the 31st of December last showed that £1,326,545 had been expended, leaving a balance of £78,948. The revenue account for the past half year showed that £19,399 had been received for traffic and £18,364 expended, leaving a balance of £1,035. EAST INDIAN. The traffic receipts on this company's line, 1,129 miles in length, for the week ending the 14th of January, amounted for passengers to £14,984, and for goods to £24,678—t0ta1, £39,662, against £38,649 for the corresponding week of 1865, or 1,105} miles open, showing an increase of £1,013. 'The total receipts for the week ending January amounted to £40,585, against £37,581 for the cor responding week last year, showing an increase of £3,004. The traffic receipts for the week ending the 28th of January amounted to £43,862, and for the corresponding week lastyear to £41,540, show ing an increase of £2,322. The total receipts for the three weeks amounted to £124,109, against £117,770, showing an increase of £6,339. PEEBLES. The half-yearly meeting was held at Peebles on Saturday ; the Lord Provost of Edinburgh (Mr. W. Chambers) presided. The report of the directors congratulated the shareholders on the continued prosperity of the com pany. The moiety of the revenue belonging to the company for the half-year amounted to £3,855. The traffic returns exhibited an increase of £221 as compared with the corresponding period of the preceding year. After making provision for rates, taxes, there remained a balance available for dividend of £3,268, eut of which the directors re commended the payment of the usual dividend of 5 per cent. per annum on the preference shares of the company, and a dividend at the rate of 6i per cent. per annum on the ordinary shares, payable on the 3d of April. After providing for those dividends, and £223, the share of the surplus payable to the North British Company in terms of the lease, a balance of £95 remained to the credit of the Peebles company. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, said he had always looked forward to the eminent success of this economically constructed, cheaply worked, and carefully looked after line. On the opening of the tourist line between Galashiels and Peebles a still larger traffic might be expected. Mr. AINSLIE seconded the motion, which was unanimously carried, and a vote of thanks was given to the chairman. Thelleat MONMOUTHSHIRE. at the oret-YesearlY meeting was held on Wednesday the chair. , Newport ; Mr. C. Bailey, M.P., in The C nAntxxii, in . ot I., m heb ving the adoption of the re port, an abstract „ r e h i e d fr ers ene o r n al the e prosperous' ' congratulated the ~,1 , ,,, tii_ 1 1, as appeared in The Sun, position of the railway, out of which it was showed a balance of £21,4'15, r venu proposed to pay a dividend at the ra t e o f cent. per annum, leaving only a bala nce 6i per bills reason there was so small a bala um nee vi °I £3. The as that last year they had to oppose a large nunlb e , of year 4, the Parliament, which had involved an outlay of InFitead of acting like other companies in Rpreaud'in'6B the payment of that sum over several directors had written it o ff at once. He congratu lated the proprietors on the abandonment of nearly all the railway schemes which had been projected this year affecting the district. He was happy to say that the traffic was gradually increasing. The report was adopted, and a dividend at the rate of 6i per cent, per annum was declared. Mr. I'. Powell and Mr. F. Tothill were elected to the vacant seats at the board. I OTTOMAN (SMYRNA TO AIDIN). The report of the directors states that the works, including the long tunnel, had made satisfactory progress since the last general meeting, and they Pittsburg, United States. (From the Pittsburg Mining Journal.) The evidences of the great wealth of this Ame. rican interior city is summed up thus : TILE COAL TRADE. The coal fields surrounding Pittsburgh are 15,000 square miles in extent. The developed fields lie along the Monongahela, Youghioheny, and Allegheny Rivers, and along sections of the Pennsylvania, Connellsville, and Pittsburgh and Steubenville Railroads. The collieries of the Mo nongahela, which mainly furnish the markets with " Pittsburgh Coal,'" are about 70 in number, cover ing 12,894 acres, and valued at $4,809,875. They employ 3,485 hands. It is estimated that they have furnished, in the last twenty years, 13,097,581 tons of coal. The value of tolls collected from shipments of coal in the several pools of the Monongahela slack water, during 1865, was upwards of $85,000, an increase of $45,500 in two years. The coal freights of the Youghiogheny are brought to this city by the Connellsville Railroad. There are 22 colleries along this road. They em ' brace 3,929 acres, and are valued at $1,000,000. They employ 900 men. From these colleries the average amount transported over the Connellsville Railroad, for the past five years, has been about 2,000,000 tons, worth $5,000,000. In the hills immediately circling the city there are some ten or twelve coal works, covering an area of 1,570 acres, valued at $1,256,000, and giv ing employment to about 1,500 hands. Several of our rolling mills across the Monongahela, in Sligo and Birmingham, are supplied directly by col lieries a few feet above them. Graff, Bennett, and Co., who consume nearly 10,000 bushels a day, mine their coal in the adjoining hill-side. These " city mines" furnish nothing for outside markets. They yield a yearly product of 3,000,000 bushels, all of which is consumed by our rolling ' mills and iron works. The collieries that border the Pennsylvania Rail road from this city to the " foot of the Mountain " are not usually classed as in Pittsburgh measures, though the most valuable lie nearest this city. The bulk of the trade goes east. Those immediately in the vicinity of the city cover about 1,000 acres all told, employ 400 hands, and send to this market an annual average of about 4,500,000 bushels. The Allegheny Valley collieries, though neither very numerous nor productive, extend over a large tract of territory, perhaps 1,500 acres, and employ about 500 hands. From these collieries the Allegheny L Valley Railroad brought to this city, last year , I about 70,000 tons. These coal lands are considered exceedingly valuable, and but for the limited facili ties for transportation at the very season when their product is most called for they would no doubt be extensively worked. The exact depth and value of the coal measures surrounding Pittsburgh, it is impossible to figure. But the upper seam alone averages eight feet in thickness. An industrial writer figures its contents at 53,516,430,000 tons, which, at $2 per ton, would be worth $107,032,860,000. The number of col lieries at present in operation in the Pittsburgh coal field, embracing the whole range which we have described, is 103 ; bands employed 6,424 ; value of lands, $7,589,700 ; value of annual coal product, $5,000,000. THE OIL TRADE. Five years ago the oil trade of Pittsburg was in its infancy. The following table will show its pro gress and value. The receipts of oil by the Alle gheny River for seven years, ending Dec. 31, 1865, were as follows Average price of crude. Value. Year. Barrels. 1859 7,037 1860 1.7,161 1861 94,102 $2 75 $258,780 50 1862 171,774 1 75 300,604 50 1863 175,181 3 87 677,950 37 1864 476,939 10 25 4,888,624 75 1865 1,200,000 950 11,400,000 00 Total in 7 year5...2,142,194. Val. 5 years 817,525,960 12 The oil receipts by the Allegheny Valley Rail road, for the past two years, have been— Barrels. 1864 1865 Total in two years.. 839,870 The exports of oil over the Pennsylvania Railroad, from this city, in 1865, were 465,825 barrels, or an average of 1,503 barrels per day for the working days. This vast trade has created other branches of business. It has given employment to thousands of boatmen on the Allegheny ; has widened the de mand for barges, tugs, and steamers ; has built 60 refineries in our suburbs and furnishes the domestic and foreign markets with the great bulk of their supply, and do a business amounting to $7,000,000 per year. It has built portable engine, tanking, still, boiler, and oil tool works, that send to the oil regions of Pennsylvania and Virginia $2,500,000 worth of material per year. This trade has made rail roads necessary in the oil regions, and Pittsburgh has furnished the rails; steamers, and Pittsburgh built them; capital and labour, and Pittsburgh furnished them ; in fact, the development and early success as well as j a itt s ttasb t b l u e rrgg pr ics o a m tphi i te n a e lt n is c t eof the oil trade in Venango County is due, two-thirds, to the energy and tact a w n h a os t e he val ue t y r e a a d r e , grea t entre of the oil trade—a revenueo the country i s $65,000,000 a which, to the Government, is also counted by mm gal e Th e montht.ax on refinedoi October oil, in this city, during the sin gle last year, was $36,951 10 111 over 1864. That some idea ma g y at b n e o fo f rte 3 t o 9 f s t 3 h o e amount of business done by our oil merchants, it is sufficient to instance Messrs. Waring and King, w ho, in the single month of August last (a dull month), sold 62,231 barrels, and Tack Brothers and Co., who sold 30,000 in the came time. Th - e value of the refined and crude oil hipped oyez the THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 26, 1866. Emil: Sylvania Railroad, from this city, last year, wax . over $15,000,000. Le t us take a cursory glance at the source of our / mesa it and expectant supply of oil. Venango count, y lies along the headwaters of the Allegheny River and its tributaries. This river, either by main S tream or its branches, navigable to the very wells themselves, is our chief and only direct thorough.f..are for the oil trade. One million dollars would complete the Allegheny Valley Railroad to the ver y heart of the oil regions and bring us so close to the great supply that no city in the Union cculd et - er hope to compete with us for the trade. But this is not done. And our enormous trade is clogg ed when the river closes every year. But let us.look at the wealth of the district from which our v,realth indirectly comes. From the returns of the Collector of Internal Revenue for the district embracing Venango county, it appears that the Gow.trnment received the following revenues from crude oil for the months indicated 1865 $111,991.50 May, 1865 .June, 1865 July, 1865 August, 1865 November, 1865. The tax on refined during the same time in that district amounted to $700,000. The total tax on crude and refined, for the first six months of last year was $1,738,095. For the whole year, 1865, it was $2,897,032.03. In 1863 the revenue derived was $649,962.00 ; in 1864, $2,255,238.80. MANUFACTURES. In manufactures Pittsburgh is pre-eminently great. The natural facilities, the capital, the energy that cluster to this point makes us the Birmingham of America. Our growth is un precedented. The total value of all the manu factures in Pennsylvania, in 1850, was but $155,000,000. The value of Pittsburgh manu factures is now more than two-thirds that amount. The value of iron and steel manufactures in the United States, in 1860, was $180,140,615. The value of our Pittsburgh iron and steel trade last year was over $20,000,000, or one-ninth the whole product. On this aggregate value the direct tax actually paid Was $3,882,546. Pitts burgh paid $438,972. In the returns made to the revenue officers of this city for eighteen months, from September, 1863, to March, 1865, we find the following statistics of sales in the articles of iron and steel : Axes, shovels, saws, spades, mattocks, picks $1,123,146.00 Forging, oil stills, tanks, boilers, shafting, steamboat irons, oil tools 1,640,168.00 Bolts, nuts, spikes, rivets, nails, washers 3,318,550.00 Railroad chairs, springs, axles 1,200,000.00 Iron and steel, bar, sheet, plate, p i g... , 28,843,123.00 Wrought iron gas pipe, horse shoes, edge tools, iron ware 481,120.00 Machinery castings, domestic hardware 6,392,087.00 $42,998,203.00 The total production of steel of all kinds in the United States, in 1865, was 18,000 tons. Pitts burgh alone produced 10,000 tons, and the capacity of her steel works is 48,000 tons per annum. We control all the iron, steel, and glass markets of the West and South. Our factories multiply more rapidly than our houses. As an instance of the magnitude of the iron and steel business to the railroads centreing here, we may state that in the single month of July last, the imports of iron by the Pennsylvania Railroad amounted to 1,730 tons. The number of cars em ployed in transferring this product was 173, and yet this was the dullest month the iron trade had experienced for years, and represented only about one-third our usual business. Some idea of the growth of our manufactures may be gathered from the fact that the returns of October, 1865, showed a business of $219,691.14, while those of October, 1864, were but $185,803.07. The amount of steel exported by rail in the year ending September Ist, 1864, was 11,874,202 pounds against 7,824,873 pounds for the previous year. About the same amounts with the same ratio of increase are exported by river. The cost of " running" our manufactures may be imagined from the fact that our foundries pay out over a million of dollars annually in wages, and consume 50,000 tons of metal. Our Fort Pitt Cannon Foundry paid weekly wages to workmen averaging $5,000, during the war. Our glass fac tories pay $175,000 monthly in wages. Our iron works employ over 9,000 hands, and pay annual wages of over $3,000,000. £lO. Should this not suit Kilsby, Barratt will give him £l2 to row tit Manchester. ROWING ON THE TYNE. So far the forthcoming seasoo augurs well, not only for the number of contests, but for the reputation of the rowers who are at present engaged, and for others who will pro bably take a part as the season progresses. At present five of the competitors who will figure in the contests take their daily exercise on the Tyne, and the sixth will probably, in a few days, join the group. As the time of action ap proaches, the friends of the men are getting more lively in their interest. Within the last fortnight large sums of money have been offered on Taylor v. Winship, at evens, and in ono instance a well-known salt deputed a gentle man and offered a premium to got a hundred on this pro mising sculler, but Winship's friends for the present de dine. Both men aro in active training. Winship is domi ciled at Mr. H. Clasper's, and takes his airings daily both on land and water, and apparently is in excellent health, and although public opinion rather favours his opponent, Tom's friends are very sanguine as to the result. Taylor trains from the Dun Cow, Dunston, and is all that can be wished for. A now boat has been launched by Mr. Jewitt purposelp for the match, and reports speaks very highly of her proportions. Winship will row in one of Clasper's finest specimens, consequently nothing is wanting in the shape of craft to further their progress and bring them up to the mrrk, providing their health keeps all right. To judge their merits by their present rowing, both men row uncommonly well. Winship is rather slower in stroke, which has the effect of Taylor's appearing to go swifter through the water, but the general opinion is if Winship holds on to the Grindstone Quay the tussle will be severe and long. For Boyd and Scurfield's match nothing in the shape of betting to extent has yet been offered. Boyd is training from his own domicile at Gateshead, and from the excellent manner he is taking his trials he will take some licking. Although he is the senior by a few years, his consti tution seems to be of an iron nature, and if it has to come to hard work, the Gateshead hero, if stamina has any voice in it, ought not to be the first to cry peccavi. Scurfield is a most promising sculler, and the plucky manner in which he has rowed both in matches and regattas proves him no mean antagonist for any man. He is much lighter than his opponent, and if the weather should be fine, probably he will get quicker on his sculls and give Boyd some trouble to keep company with him. As we have not seen him figure in his training, we for the present refrain from anp further remarks on his proficiency. Bright and Tulip's match is progressing very favourably, and both men are in close training. Bright will take up quarters at Mr. French's, Countess of Coventry, King's Meadows, this week. Tulip is at present staying below bridge, and re ports speak that he is doing good work, although Bright is mostly fancied. —Newcastle Chronicle. spite of failing powers, he was still sticking close behind his antagonist. The final trial, however, during the last hundred yards came at a time when Mr. Garnett had a lead of at least 20 yards, and was then going ahead at such a pace that it was evi dent nothing but a horse could overtake him. Still Mr. Royds persevered, and made a most desperate spurt at the finish. As he passed the winning -post, behind Mr. Garnett by some 15 yards, he reeled and fell exhausted on the grass, and after a few minutes had to be carried to the dressing-room, where, we are very glad to say, he soon recovered from his exhaustion. Mr. Garnett won the race, but in the opinion of all on the ground the endurance and determination to win shown by his younger com petitor left the latter virtually the hero of the con test. With this last race the proceedings came to a close. The times of all the runnings were noted, even to tenths of seconds, by Mr. Benson's chrono graph. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. It is reported that Jemmy Grimshaw having sent in to the Marquis of Hastings a bill for _travelling expenses, said to have been incurred last year, Mr. John Day has recommended his lordship to require more explicit infor mation, on account of its seemingly excessive nature. Usher, who won a Plate yesterday at Lewes, was pur chased by auction by Mr. It. Porter for 115 gs. and was afterwards resold to his original owner for the same amount, the fund realising a sum of 75 sovs. The 3-yr-old Miss Harriette, by Lambton, out of Water witch, winner of the Northamptonshire Cup Stakes on Wednesday was claimed by Mr. Joseph Dawson, who ran second with Shakspere. We understand that Mr. Marshall, to obviate the incon venience which is caused in the reporters room at North ampton bythe intrusion of the telegraph clerks, intends to have the names of the various sporting and other journals • inscribed on the tables used by the members of the press, intending by this means to ratify a right which has always been conceded to the Fourth Estate, but which latterly has been threatened by the servants of a company presumed to have ample accommodation for conducting their business elsewhere. We commend Mr. Marshall's example to officials of race meetings throughout th country. TAMWORTH HUNT.— All the stakes at this meeting close on Wednesday next. GRAND NATIONAL HUNT (CREWKERNE) STEEPLE CHASES —The Haslebury Handicap and the Waddon Stakes close on Tuesday next. NORTHUMBERLAND (ROTHBURY) STEEPLE CHASE MEET 'No.—This meeting will take place on the 4th of May, in stead of April 26, as originally advertised. CARDIFF RACES.—The Corporation Plate, the Open Steeple Chase, the Two Year Old Stakes, the Prince of Wales Stakes, and the Open Hurdle Race close on Satur day next. MHIRSK HUNT CUP.—The piece of plate selected is ad • mated by all who have seen it to be a very elegant work of art. Its real value exceeds £lOO, and the lucky winner will find his prize to be a great acquisition, and a handsome ornament to his sideboard. DURHAM RACES.—On Tuesday next will close and namo the Trial Stakes of 5 sovs each, with 25 added ; and the Stand Selling Stakes of 5 sovs each, 3 ft, with 25 added, 1 for this meeting. AQUATICS. ~;~~..., CORSAIR ROWING CUM. At a meeting of this club, held at Salter's, Wandsworth, the committee arranged the following fixtures : —May 19, four-oared gigs; June 2, pair-oared gigs ; June 16, junior sculls June 0, out-rigged fours ; Sept. 1, eight-oared. Entries to close a fortnight before. Members wishing to take part in the procession of metropolitan rowing clubs must not fail to show up on those days specified in the captain's circular. LEANDER CLUB. The opening day of this club has been fixed for the 10th of April. Entries for the trial eights for the Henley crew will close on 12th April, and the race will rowed 27th of April. THE WINGFIELD SCULLS. At a meeting of former competitors for the amateur championship, hold at Mr. H. H. Playford's, at Putney, on Thursday evening last, Mr. E. D. Brickwood was appointed secretary, with full powers to make arrangements con nected with the race. It was also resolved that in consi deration of the accumulation of entrance fees, which form the Champion Fund, and now amount to upwards of £3O, a new box should be purchased for holding the silver sculls, and the plates on Ns hich the names of the winners are inscribed, the old one being ill-suited and inadequate for the purpose. A rote of thanks was also passed to Mr. Frank Playford for his management of the championship since 1861, and for the success which has attended his efforts to form a Champion Fund. Tho race will this year be rowed on the first convenient tide after Henley. CHALLENGE FROM COOMBES TO DREWIT T. David Coombes is prepared to make a match from Putney to Mortlake, for £lOO a side, to come off within two months from the present date. BARRATT AND KILSBY. E. Barratt, of Manchester, begs to state, in reply to Kilsby's challenge, that he considers £7 too small a sum for expenses, but he will be happy to accommodate Kilsby .with a match OA the terms proposed ti he will allow him SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC TIIE " SPECTATOR" ON EARL GROSVENOR'S MO TION.—The Landlord of the House of Lords de clines Earl Russell's Reform Bill. A few days ago the House was considering one of the hundred me tropolitan railway schemes—the bill, we believe, for the Mid-London Railway—when Earl Grosvenor rose to move that the bill be read that day six months. " Why Lord Grosvenor ?" whispered a member, not quite up in his " Governing Families," " the railway is not going to Chester." " B ecause th ere are t wo hundre and fifty of his father's tenants sitting here," was the unexpected reply, and we believe the estimate was considerably under the truth. It is the same man, heir to the great influence and greater wealth which such a fact indicates, who will move the House of Commons on the 12th of March to reject any incomplete Reform Bill, and the fact has a grave significance. It shows, in the first place, that the Peers intend to fight through the Com mons, instead of awaiting the debate in their own House ; and in the second, that the Ministry can not rely on the unbroken aid of the Whig families who carried the bill of 1832, and who still lead so considerable a section of the House. It is all yery well to taunt the member for Chester with an ex clusive care for the interests of his order, but Englishmen have materialistic mind s , an d the action of an Earl Grosvenor, who can have nothing to get by breaking with his h er edita r y party, has a very different effect from that of a member who has. It makes ratting respectable, which neither Mr. Lowe's arguments nor Mr. Hors man's sarcasms have as yet succeeded in doing. A dozen men will quote Lord Grosvenor as an excuse for avoiding the lobby where one would have quoted Mr. Laing, and will feel as they do it that they avoid the taunt about the Cave of Adullam. It was not the princes of the tribes, the men with vast herds, or it may be town lots in the cities of refuge, who betook themselves to the cave, but the discontented and the distressed, people who did not inhabit, much less own, the Belgravia of the day. The mutineers and the waverers will undoubtedly feel greatly encouraged by a defection which guarantees them against social penalties for ratting, and insures them also, we suspect, against the danger of deserting the winning side. The name of the mover in such cases is almost as important as his motion, and in this instance the motion is singularly well drawn. We may admit frankly that what the daily journals are saying is true, and that Earl Grosvenor in moving that the house insist on a completed bill intends only to make any bill whatsoever impossible, and still his motion remains one for which consistent Liberals can vote. It strikes not only at the greatest of the many blots in the bill, but it strikes at the only one which it is pos sible for the Government to remedy without reced ing too visibly from its resolves. The absence of redistribution clauses makes the Government bill absolutely unreasonable. Supposing that even a majority of the House of Commons accept the new franchise, or franchises so like them as not to in volve a censure on the Cabinet, what will be the result? They will have intensified the grand anomalies of the present electoral system, the dis parity between Northern and Southern strength, the equality between Harwich with its 386 electors, and Manchester with 23,000 electors upon its roll; and will, moreover, have enfranchised in one session whole classes whom they will be compelled to dis franchise in the next. They will be legislating absolutely in the dark, for they will not know the extent of the transfer of power to which they have resolved to accede. Time qualification has been carefully fixed at the somewhat irrational figure of 7, which is not even, like the £6 rating, the limit of direct taxation, in order to prevent working men from obtaining a clear majority of the borough scats, but nobody knows till the disfranchising clauses are read whether the end will be secured or no. If fifty boroughs are disfranchised and their members given to towns, it will not be secured, and Liberal Ministers having gone as far as that—may, should a sudden cry arise, go some way farther. The Houses will be legislating at haphazard upon the one vital point of any Reform Bill, the transfer of power from a mixed constituency to a consti tuency in which a majority belong to a single and very united class. It is unfair to Liberals who, like ourselves, consider this the one danger of our society, to compel them to vote without seeing whether the danger exists or not, iu the face indeed of a decla ration from Ministers that its existence will be kept perhaps till next session a State secret. And while this compulsion is put on them, they perceive that because it is put, because the redistri bution clauses are to form a separate bill, the strongest wish of the nation, a settlement which shall last, is rendered almost hopeless. Why are Liberals who honestly want to give fifty, or sixty, or a hundred seats to the working men, and do not want to give them more, who wish to remedy an in justice, but not to enthrone Democracy, to vote for a bill which, while it secures no peace, may give the masses perhaps fifty, perhaps two hundred, members ? Their pledges ? Stuff ; they pledged themselves to give to the non-electors their fair share of power, and they will redeem their pledges the instant Government gives them the opportu nity. They do not pledge themselves to run the risk of disfranchising half the electors to whom the pledges were given. Again, the Government can if it likes accept this motion without resigning, it may be, even without a division.; Mr. Gladstone did not produce any argument of principle against making the bill complete. He simply said there was not the time for it, and he may admit without dis credit that he made a miscalculation of hours. Mr. Lowe will not make two speeches on the same night because a schedule is tacked to the act, and if he and his followers are a little mere lengthy, so much the better for the Ministry. A bored House of Commons will pass anything rather than be bored any longer. Or if that is too hard for Mr. Gladstone's pride—and he is doing an extraordinary am ount of humility just now, which suggests some inward rasp—he may take the house at its word for once, take a line of his own, and agree to a No vember Session, a Parliament called ad hoc. The partridges will all be dead then, and from Ist No vember to 16th December, or thereabouts, members will be just as happy in to wn as shivering in their counties. Let the bill be brought forward then, c omplete, and in the s i x weeks debated through, out of finished, passed, and got fairlythe road of the State locomotive, which it has now brought for years nearly to a dead lock. If the House of Com mons cannotfind time to consider therepresentation of the nation, it had better reform its system of business until it can, for no such excuse will be ac cepted anywhere outside its walls. It rattled a bill transferring a trace of four millions a year from English to German graziers through Parliament fast enough, and must on such a question as Reform, if necessary, make all the time required. But we shall be told the Government will not yield, will not mend their bill, will stand or fall, as they pro mised to do, by their own incomplete proposal. Very good ; then they must go out. THE " SATURDAY REVIEW" ON MR. GLADSTONE AS LEADER OF THE HOUSE OF CO3IMONS.—Mr. Glad stone has been long enough leader of the House of Commons to afford a test of his ability in his diffi cult post. That portion of the press which devotes itself to his especial glorification has already dilated on his extraordinary —extraordinary because, as it would seem, unexpected—success. We are invited to gaze on the edifying spectacle of a statesman of the highest talents and the keenest impulses sub jecting himself to the most austere and rigorous self denial. He nightly puts a bridle on his lips and a curb on his manners. Pegasus ploughs honestly, if sullenly, and plods the backward and for ward furrows without a single curvet or caper. The great orator is complimented for being neither dictatorial nor sarcastic. Punctual, careful, austere to himself and conciliatory to his opponents this is the picture which his eulogists draw of the present leader of the house. There is enough of truth in all this, at least to some extent, to justify the congratulations of his friends. But the question is not whether Mr. Glad stone is undergoing this edifying self-discipline, nor as to the amount of moral and spiritual good which a man may do himself by such a course of constant and severe watchfulness over his natural tendencies or acquired habits, but how far a character subject ing itself to this constant strain and artificial con trol is likely to win or to retain the confidence of followers. What Mr. Gladstone's friends claim for him is a wonderful success in going through a self-imposed but necessary martyrdom, just as if one should be in ecstasies at the apathy with which a Fakir endures a knife stuck through his forearm, or at the unwavering constancy with which he stands on one leg for two months. The thing done is painful, and revolting to the natural man ; but that it is done, and done without wincing or other external sign of suffering, is the devotee's triumph of art over nature. But, after all, it is un natural; and whatever is unnatural, although it may excite surprise, and awe, scarcely conciliates sympathy. As to the facts of the case, and the annals of Mr. Gladstone's brief leadership, we shall not contest the assertion that during his seven weeks of rule he has done next to nothing to offend anybody, and next to nothing to stir up hearty goodwill. Confidence, especially Parlia mentary confidence, is of course a plant of slow growth, and confidence is precisely that plant which the Chancellor of the Exchequer has not cul tivated with success. All men admire and respect him, and some love him with a pardonable vehem ence of partiality. But there are few who under- stand him - . Of kr. Gladstoue's scrupulous care to avoid offence, and to check his natural tendencies, since ParhaMent met, there can be no doubt. was noticed on the first day of the session that, with a humility all but ostentatious, he slipped into the house, and into his place of dignity, with a good taste —so good that its very excellence provoked comment. And throughout the session he has been mild, conciliatory, and nearly tiresome in his defe- rence and submissiveness. To Mr. Bright his de meanour has been all but fawning ; and to his great opponent, Mr. Disraeli, he has never ventured be yond the negative affront of simulating sleep. In deed he could not with safety do otherwise ; and Mr. Gladstone has carefully studied Mr. Disraeli's manner in office. The bland simper of the Tory chief has been exactly reproduced by the impertur bable serenity of the Liberal leader. If pliancy could conciliate, and if admirable sterrage over shoals and sunken rocks could create confidence, Mr. Disraeli and Gladstone might contest the pam of Parliamentary popularity. But this is just what they have not done. Mr. Gladstone has worked hard by exhibitinc , a masterly inactivity both in offence and defence, but it may be doubted whether he has gained much way. A ship which is always lying to scarcely advances on its voyage. We can only recall two blunders in Mr. Gladstone's brief reign. He made a mistake in not asking Mr. Disraeli to second the Speaker's nomination, and his apology was but grudging and half-hearted. And on one occasion, stung by what a leader ought never to hear, or, if he hears, ought never to show that he hears—namely, some impertinent " Oh, ohs !" during the Devonport Dockyard debate-- he lost his temper for a moment, and began to hector and lecture his enemies ; by which he drew on himself the very ugly retort from Mr. Otway, that, if he interrupted the leader, it was only by following that leader's example, who was very notorious for similar comments, ejacu lations, and apostrophes. These are the only ripples which we can recall on the Dead Sea of the Session. A momentary gleam of interest in his work was displayed by Mr. Gladstone when, for a little space, he had to disenss the beauty of savings' banks, and could disport himself for an instant, even by anti cipation, on the flowery glades of budget. But, with these exceptions, from Dan to Beersheba all has been barren. In the debate on the address, Mr. Gladstone fasted on the dreary husks of Fenianism. Throughout the Cattle Plague debates he merely registered and accepted the corrections of Mr. Bright and Mr. Stuart Mill. He was complimentary to Mr. Clay and his most fanciful of fancy franchises. On the Queen's University he had no policy, and on Mr. White's economical crazes he was dull. On Mr. Gregory's motion on International Law he was silent, and on the Church Rates Bill he spoke one way and voted another. On Mr. Coleridge's Bill he neither spoke nor voted ; a circumstance the more significant since, on the last appearance of the measure, he opposed it with animation and distinct ness. This certainly was a question on which a policy might fairly be expected from the leader of the House, and from one so long a representative. When Mr. Gladstone yields, as on the Devonport Dockyards, he yields without alacrity ; and any opportunity for asserting a principle or a policy with dgnity, he has either evaded or has been un able to grasp. From the leader of the House of Commons people generally expect some opinion, and perhaps some explanation, of a foreign policy ; but, for all that we know of Mr. Gladstone's views on this not unimportant branch of public business, we might suppose that any broader question than the best mode of getting the largest revenue out of a cur-dog was beyond the functions of an English Minister or an English House of Commons. Such was the dreary dulness of the Treasury Bench up to last week. At, length, however, came the occasion which no dexterity could avoid. The fence was be fore the new Master of the Hounds which he must either face or shirk. No craning could make the stakes less stiff or the ditch narrower. The two nights' debate on the introduction of the Reform Bill presents a somewhat melancholy study to those social philosophers who concern themselves with the miseries of common life. Indeed, we are not sure that the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals might not take up Dlr. Glad stone's sufferings on that sad occasion. His worst foes could hardly have invented a martyrdom so severe as that which the Chancellor of the Exche quer endured on that dismal Monday night. For an orator to know that he is dull, irretrievably dull, and that every one of kis hearers knows it too, is something worse than the purgatory of fluent talkers. As a reformer and franchise-monger and electoral statistician, Mr. Gladstone is at sea. Gi ve him the chance of enunciating a broad paradox or truism—say the necessity of universal suffrage, or the Platonic ideal of a State in which none but the virtuous should represent honesty, industry, and the seven cardinal and theological graces, and Mr. Glad stone is at home. He sweeps on through a stately array of platitudes or fallacies, no matter which, which really impose upon hims e lf. Thi s i s an orator ' s function. He believes in hi mse lf ;h e i s carr i e d away by his own readiness and volubility. If he has never the matter out, he feels the delight of an inventor in devel o pi ng hi s extemporaneous genera lisations. Such was M r. Gl a d stone ' s case w h en h e delivered himself of his famous saying about the abstract right of humanity to the franchise. He had to conduct a cause which he did not quite un derstand; to recommend a scheme which he cer tainly did not excogitate, and which laboured under the sad mischance of being, after all, nobody's plan. It may be doubted whether the Reform Bill was in existence a fortnight before it was tabled in the house. Like the walls of Athens, it exhibits every sign of what is called a tumultuary origin. Not only was it hastily drawn up, but it must have been, altered, interlined, and erased at the very moment of production. Mr. Gladstone had to read from what we call an unrevised proof. It happed to him as sometimes happens to people of our craft. An article is prepared, and written, and set up; and, on the morning of publication, down comes some pro voking telegram which only just contradicts all one's facts, upsets all one's deductions, and throws the whole literary engine out of gear. Something of this sort seems to have happened to the Reform Bill. We dare say it left Lord Russell a whole, and in its way complete. But these vexatious returns were not ready till the eve of publication. A measure which ought to have been founded on ascertained facts had to be botched and cobbled to suit the facts which were very slow in making their appearance. And Mr. Gladstone had not got a firm grasp of the facts ; and, what was still more provoking, the facts were not exactly the facts he had reckoned upon. However, the fatal day of March would not wait; Monday evening came, and Mr. Gladstone had to defend and recommend a bill which is not quite clear that he had read, or, if he had read, had been able to collate with what was its alleged justifica tion and ground. The advocate had got up his case, as far as he condescended to get it up, from one brief, and had to address the Court from another. No doubt, if Mr. Gladstone could have drawn a picture of the working-man wholly given up to savings'-banks and evening classes, and could have said, " Here is the ideal citizen whom unjust laws and unrighteous restrictions shut out from all share in the concerns of his and our common country," he would have galloped famously. But though he might have meant to say this, he could not say it, except with limitations and qualifications and draw backs fatal to all oratorical flow and ease. The unexpected fact turned out to be that this very class was actually making its way to political supremacy, wiihout any extrinsic aid. The fall in the value of gold, and the consequent rise in rents, was silently elevating the whole political strata of society. Mr. Gladstone had got his grievance, and had probably nursed it and cherished it, and was ready to dilate upon its atrocity—when, lo and behold, the griev ance was found to be non-existent. The working man's oppression turned out to be as well-founded as that of Canning's knife-grinder. Mr. Gladstone did not swear—at least not audibly—but he evi dently showed that he was in the sulks. This is not a happy position for the leader of the house. Hitherto, nothing has come before the new Parlia ment in which Mr. Gladstone's heart has been en gaged. The very statistics which usually exercise such an inexpressible charm over his mind were not his own statistics, and it was not in him to shed a poetic gleam over averages and tables which laboured under the double disadvantage of being both un familiar and unlooked-for. Does it then really come to this, that a leader of the house must be either something of the prime buffo or of the prig ? Must the Treasury Bench be the home either of " geniality" or of boredom ? Mr. Gladstone may be all but a demigod ; but Aristides got ostracized because he was so very good. It may be that the house would prefer a second-rate if first-rates are to be hopelessly dull. THE UNIVERSITY RACKET MATCHES. It has at length been determined that the double match should be played on Tuesday next, and the singlo one on the day following, when, as usual, the scene of action will be the Prince's Club, Hans-place The selections of those who are to represent their respective Universities are al but complete. Messrs. Maitland and Phipps appear in the double match, and either ono or other will play in the single. There are three candidates for honours, who will present themselves on behalf of Cambridge, Messrs. Warner, Knight-Bruce, and Parker, two of whom will be chosen to take part in the double match, but Mr. Knight-Bruce, being the winner of the prize racket at Cambridge, claims to take part in the present encounter. AMATEUR ATHLETIC CLUB. On Friday the gentlemen who compose the Ama teur Athletic Club of London held their annual champion meeting in the grounds of Beaufort-house, at Walham-green. An unusually large number of competitors entered the lists, partly from the fact of the contest taking place so soon after that of the sister Universities, each of whom had large numbers of representatives in town to witness the great aquatic contest of to-day, and very many of whom took up the challenge which was offered by the London Amateur Club. The first event was the race of 100 yards. This was contested in three heats. The final heat was run in little over 12 sec., both the Oxford men winning, though not easily. The first to breast the rope at the winning-post was Mr. T. M. Colemore (Brasenose), Mr. R. W. Vidal (St. John's), who ran so well at the Uni versity competition a fortnight ago, being second. The hurdle race which followed was also in three heats ; it was a run of 120 yards, over ten flights of hurdles, each 3ft. Gin. high. Mr. Tiffany of Cambridge, and Mr. Morgan, of Oxford, both of whom so distinguished themselves at the University competition, won each a heat in this race. The final heat, however, left them comparatively nowhere, and Mr. Milvaine, of Trinity, Cambridge, came in the winner, Mr. C. W. Jackson (Oxford) being so good a second that for a long time it was contended, or at least believed, that it had been a dead heat. The seven• miles walking race was one of the con tests in which great interest was manifested. It was, however, comparatively speaking a hollow affair, Mr. J. G. Chambers, of Trinity College, Cambridge, easily keeping clear of his competitors, and winning a fair toe-and heel walking match of seven miles in 59 minutes 3 seconds. In "putting the :weight" all the University competitors were easily beaten by Captain Fraser, who threw the ball with ease to a distance of nearly 35ft. None of his antagonists came within five feet of this fine effort. In !throwing the hammer not one of the competi tors, even including those who won in the Univer sity games, came near their previous performances, the two winners, Mr. D. Morgan (Oxford) and Mr. R. James (Oxford) only throwing it respectively a distance of 75ft. and 78ft. thus leaving Mr. James an easy winner. The high jump was, excepting in the speed of one of the races, the only portion of the games which quite distanced what had been lone at the University contest. All the honours of this competition were carried off easily by Cambridge, Mr. J. C. Little jumping with comparative ease the height of sft. 9iu. Mr. Roupell, also of Cambridge, made a very good sec on d. I n th e b roa d l eap b ot h the Cambridge men wo n , Mr. Fitzherbert being first, springing 19ft. Bin., and Mr. Little second, jumping 191 t. 4in., or a foot less than he was able easilyTiLn haaLawes, n one -mile loerm Oxford,nprabt cye h ei in gwno College, s h e rivalgefiwen,oe Cambridge, second. a em rl i n University g v b e ey : t s i \A i r y r a.. sports. o . r wß ts pro bably, be recollected by our readers that in the one mile race at Oxford every dependence was placed by the Confabs on the performance of Mr. Lawes. lie, however, was unable to run, and cer tainly the style in which he was able to beat his competitors yesterday showed that the expectations of his friends and backers were well founded. This race was run in 4 minutes 39 seconds, and none of the gentlemen appeared in the least distressed, though the pace was terrible, especially at the end. The quarter of a mile was actually run within 55 seconds, Mr. J. H. Ridley, of Eton, being the winner. Mr. C. W. Beardsell, who was second, made Mr. Ridley's victory a very hard one ; in fact, all the competitors were well together and the pace, as the time of running shows, was tremendous. The half-mile race was an easy victory for Mr. Thornton (London) ; it was run in two minutes and five seconds, Mr. Gibbs (Cambridge) being a very good second. All the competitions were brought to a conclusion by the great event of the day, which was a foot race of no less than four miles. For this as many as nine entered, or rather started, Mr. Garnett, of Trinity College, Cambridge, and Mr. Molloy, of the London Rowing Club, being favou rites. Scarcely one of the gentlemen, but the winner, Mr. Garnett, seemed in good training for such a terrible contest. The pace from the outset was very severe, and the whole four miles were run in a few seconds over 21 minutes. For a long time Mr. Garnett and Captain Barnes kept the lead, Mr. Royds, of Eton, following close behind them. At the conclusion of the third mile, however, it was evident that Captain Barnes's chance was gone, and he at last resigned the race, but not without a struggle which showed that he had pushed his physical rapa city to its utmost limits. Mr. Royds then took up the running with the most earnest spirit. All others were now out of the contest, and it was evident that the race lay between Mr. Garnett and Mr. Royds. The former gentleman ran magnificently, and Mr. Royds, who was a mere lad compared with his antagonist., was evidently deficient in proper training, and seemed to use greater efforts in keep ing himself going than were at all necessary to his actual speed. At this time the race became a scene of almost painful interest, as Mr. Royds came along gasping, and visibly taxing his powers tp the very utmost to overtake Mr. Garnett. But the latter was well ahead, and was clearly running apace that suited him, though it nevertheless was one of tre.. mendous speed. At the eleventh and last run round theot whocou tarsewAl lyitr.Rhoywdhsawt pluck asli and cheered tremendously by pertinacity, in United States Finances. It is computed, from official data, that since the last annual report of the Secretary of the Treasury, made on the 30th of October last, he has reduced the aggregate amount of the public debt $29,000,000, and has paid $29,000,000 of currency interest on seven-thirty bonds, and $30,000,000 coin interest on gold-bearing bonds, making an aggregate of cur rency and coin interest of $59,000,000 paid. In addition to this he has paid all the current expenses of the Government, and a large amount of requisi tions from the War and Navy Departments, cover ing war expenditures incurred previous to his re port, not before audited, and not included in the statement of the public debt. On November 1 his coin balance was $34,554,087 15 ; his currency balance $33,800,591 54 ; makingan aggregate of $68,355,5 78 69. On March Ihe had in coin, $55,736,192 12, and in currency, $60,282,767 12, making an aggregate of $116,018,959 24 of coin and cur rency—an increase of coin of $21,181,108 97, and an increase in currency of $26,482,175 58 ; total increase of money in the Treasury, of gold and currency, of $47,663,180 55. In brief, the public debt has been reduced $29,000,000 since November 1, while there is in the Treasury over $47,500,0 00 of specie and currency more than at the first-named date, showing an improvement in the finance of the Treasury in the debit and credit statements of over $76,500,000. There are still further encouraging features presented. This reduction of the public debt is entirely in the short-date obligations and interest-bearing and plain legal-tenders, all of which have more or less an inflating tendency. On November 1 the outstanding seven-thirties were $830,000,000 ; on March 1 they were $818,044,000 ; showing a reduction of nearly $12,000,000. The increase of compound interest notes during the same interval has been only $1,000,000, while the decrease of one and two years' legal tender notes has been $24,000,000, and of plain legal-tenders $4,736,196. The legal-tenders of all kinds in circulation on the Ist of November were $633,709,611 ; on the Ist of March, $605,984,414, showing a decrease of $27,725,19 7 . These results may be summed up as follows :-- Since November 1 the debt has decreased $29,000,000 ; balance in Treasury increased over $47,500,000 ; contraction in the volume of legal tender circulation, $27,725,197 ; and contraction in short-date obligations of Government, $12,000,0 00 more. The argument is advanced by skilful finan ciers, judging from the exhibit made above, that the progress of contraction can go on without any of the anticipated evils which have been predicted —the healthy condition of the currency being a sufficient proof of 'the correctness of these impres sions. COUNTRY MARKETS. NORWICH- SATURDAY. With a middling supply of wheat at this market• to -day' there was a general dulness in the trade, and to effect sales a concession in prices was made of is per qr. For the few lots of barley which are now offered high rates are main tained, and all good qualities were still taken off for malt ing; grinding sorts fully os dear. White wheat (weighing 641 b), 50s to 54s ; old red ditto (weighing 651 b), 48s to 50s ; new red ditto (weighlng (101 b to 631 h), 42s to 47s ; best malting barley (weighing' 521 b to 531 b), 34s to 36s ; runs ditto (weighing 511 b to 5 210 ' 34s to 365; distilling ditto (weighing 501 b to 521 b), 32s ; oats, 24s to 26s ; beans, 5 7 s to 39 s ; peas (map le), 365 to 38s per qr. Flour, 31s per sack. 3 0 s to NO T T INGHAM—SATURDAY. At our corn exchange to-day we had a fair supply wheat, and the attendance of farmers and factors viT, tolerable. Considerable progress has been made with del' work during the past week. The demand for wheat' 35 slow, and prices wore rather lower than last Satur day There was a healthy demand for barley, and prices had s tendency to advance. The show of oats was goo d, at re cent rates. Old white wheat, 57s to 60s ; old red, 50s to 52s • ne white, 54s to 58s ; new red, 46s to 5 0 s per 36 stone. '0044 old, 30s to 35s ; new, 26s to 3 0 s per 24 stone. B eans, elr 50s to 53s ; now, 43s to 47s per 38 stone. YORK—SATURDAY. At this day's market there was a moderate show' c,lf wheat, for which the trade was very dull, at last weeks prices. Barley was in limited supply, and fully as New white wheat, 48s to 548 ; new red, 45s to 48s per ° I ! stone. Barley, for malting, 38s to 40 s. per qr. ; g rinding, 30s to 34s per 30 stone. Oats, new, 22s to 26s per 24 stone' Beans, new, 40s to 448 per 40 stone. LEICESTER SATVItDAY. ket We had a tolerable supply of wheat at our corn mar e to-day, but there was not much doing and late rates Weri barely established. A fair demand for barley, and s go o share of business was done at prices the turn higher . The show of oats was less than usual, and the denisud was firm, at fully late rates. There were very few samp les of beans shown, and late rates were well sustained. a New white wheat, 50s to 52s ; new red 47s to 49s ; white, 54s to 565; old red, 49s to 52s per 36 stone. 13 ` 3 1; ley, for malting, 35s to :40s per qr.; grinding, 2 7 s to e 4 per 30 stone. Oats, old, 34s to 38s ; new, 24s to 30s per • stone. Beans, old, 50s to 54s ; new, 42s to 44s per 385t011e Foreign Mail Packet List, -0- - MAILS DUE. Australia and New Zealand, via. Southamptoh., APr il 19 „ ' Ditto, via Marseilles April 1 , Brazil and Cape Verde, by British packet April 6 • 2 2 ' Ditto, by French packet .. A p ril • 3 Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena.... APrit China, Penang. and Singapore. via Sou: hampton..A M Pril 3"°. ar. ' Ditto, via Marseilles Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton Mar. 31 . India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton APrti 5 Ditto, via Marseilles , India (Bombay), via Southampton. Mar. 23,5• Ditto, via itarseilles . 31 * Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton gar. Ap r. 2 5 1 Ditto, via Marseilles April 3 Mauritius, via Southampton April 7 * Ditto, via Marseilles .. . April 11• Newfoundland ••Apr il 6* Portugal . ••• •..... ••• Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon.. ...... . •• • • United btates and British North America, by Bri tish packet ... gar. 28 ' Ditto, by United States packet, via Southamp ton Ditto, via Cork .... Ditto, by Canadian packet, via Londonderry.. overdOe' West Indies and Pacific (except Bahamas and Honduras) mar 31' . Cuba and 111xico gar. 3 !' Bahamas, via New York. April A pril Bermuda, ditto West Coast of Africa. Madeira, and Teneriffe .... April 1 ACCIDENT TO A RACE HORSE.—At Lincoln, O . " Tuesday, an action was brought by Mr. Wralltef against the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Ral f way. Tho plaintiff is a gentleman living at Bigby, Il e ' Brigg, who was formerly the possessor of valuable ra ce . ; horse called Brother to Patience. In March of last Y Brother to Patience ran with great success at Wethel w Races. After the races the plaintiff sent the horse by t h . d e fendants' railway to Barnetby. At Barnetby station tb; truck in which the horse was ought to have been slipPe'.- l : from the train. Owing to the negligence of the comP3I:I,Y servants this was not done at the proper time, and con to quently the truck ran through the station and WO rtho collision with an engine about 200 yards outside station. The horse was so much injured by the collisico`.., that he was destroyed. The negligence of the cornl33l"t was admitted, and the only question raised was the an l°l/n o of damages to which the plaintiff was entitled. Broth 0a Patience was worth 500 guineas. By the R a ilway Tr 3 for Act of 1854, however, railway companies are not liable a greater amount than £5O for in done to any bc te r while being forwarded on its journey, unless a g re value is declared, and an insurance effected scOrd/11,g ;t No such declaration or insurance was made in the Pre t e ue case. It was contended, however, by plaintiff that, as , 0 collision happened beyond the ultimate destination obiniTi. horse, the defendants were not protected froul nerd of Ito The defendants paid £5O into court, and a v er ` j- tiff t ° taken for them, leave being reserved for the plain move for a verdict for the full value of the Births. mn BEARD—On the 23d inst., at The Cedars, L on g D"- wife of George Reard,Esq., of a son. fryde" DYER—On the 24th inst., at 26, Cleveland-S ( l ll3re ' - park, the wife of A. K. Dyer, of a son. adi HEATHcorE- On the 23d inst., at 12, Bele - •la ve-scl ual "' Evelyn Heathcote , of a daughter . ' IZOUTLEDGE—On the 21th inst., at 294, Caxaden.-1.°3 a N' the wife of Edmund Routledge, Esq., of a son. Marriages. ,nsieg; ENIMET—Emrsox —On the 22d inst. at at St. John's ,n , f ton-park, G. N. Emmet, jun., second stavivinns, g6° too - cllO N. Emmet, Esq., of 2, Kensington-park-garde L. Moreton, only daughter of H. Empson, Kensington-park-gardens. te ice SPOONER—GREGORY—On the 21st lust., oa.l l -T• - 3 , pi t ; tershire, Wm. Spooner, Esq., of O t . o - c • Light Infantry, to Eliza, only daughter of the Pe Gregory, vicar of Oadby. Deaths. Ala nd ' Ze BLACKMORE— On the 6th Dec. at Nelson, NeW Dr. E. Blackmore, M.D., aged' 66. f 22d ins., R. Butcher, Esc! , °-,1 Chan's BUTCHER—On . mohr-terrace,the Blackheath, t and of Mark-lan e, age' jge, COOPER—On the 21st inst., at 29, Jesus-lane, Cowr Charles 11. Cooper, Esq., F.S.A. Air Y. C U RTIS—On the 23d inst. , at 39, Oxford-street, Curtis, aged 34. 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