The Sun. — London, England, 1866-02-09 00:00:00

THE OUTBREAK IN JAMAICA. (From the Special Correspondent of the Times) KINGSTON, Jan. 15. The Legislature has been summoned, and meets at Spanish Town on Wednesday for the despatch of business. It had been prorogued till the 30th inst., but it is convened at this earlier date in order to em power the Royal Commission to compel the attend ance of witnesses and administer oaths. A short bill will be introduced with these objects, and the extraordinary session is not expected to last more than a day or two. Here, as at home, the appoint ment of the Commission has occasioned a lull in politics, and people are waiting for the evidence which is now being prepared on both sides of the question. It is difficult to convey any adequate notion of the conflicting and contradictory rumours and statements which meet one here. I have lis tened patiently to much that has been told me in proof of excesses of authority by British officers, and cruelties committed by subordinates during the rebellion or after it was stamped out; but while some of these stories are horrifying, and will, I be lieve, be given in evidence hereafter, it would be manifestly unjust to repeat them until they have 1 1 been properly sifted and substantiated on oath. An expression used pretty frequently among a few of the whites and coloured people is that since the new Governor's arrival they have felt themselves " un- 1 muzzled," and will now speak out. The arrest, 1 among others, of Mr. G. W. Gordon in Kingston, of Mr. Levien in Montego Bay, and their convey ance to Morant Bay, seems, indeed, to have created the greatest alarm among all who were liable to sus picion, or who thought that they might be suspected, for using seditious language. It is possible that these persons may find representatives in the House of Assembly who on Wednesday will take the op portunity of discussing the policy of the Govern ment. But the general feeling i 8 that at this junc ture and pending inquiry such a discussion would be time wasted. It will be gathered from what I have just said that a partisan writer finds no difficulty here in procuring abundant materials either to justify or condemn the measures taken in suppressing the re bellion. To collect such evidence is an easy task, for it is volunteered on both sides with equal readi ness ; but you soon find that it cannot be tested satisfactorily except before a judicial or quasi judicial tribunal ; and from all appearances, taking into account the maxim testintonia non numeranda, sed ponderanda, even the Royal Commissioners will be puzzled to discover where the balance of evidence rests. This caution must not be lost sight of in reading any of the statements, on one side or the other, which may come home by the mail. Since my last letter the evidence taken before the court martial on Mr. G. W. Gordon has been published in the colony. The reporters of two Kingston news papers were present at the trial, and both were pledged not to publish the proceedings until they received authority to do so from the military autho rities. In one instance this pledge was not kept, and the evidence was published by the reporter against the wishes of the gentlemen who were his employers at the time when the court-martial was held. After this publication the military authorities allowed the Gleaner to publish its report, which accordingly appears in that journal this morning. Substantially there is no great difference between the two re ports ; and, assuming that they contain the whole evidence against the prisoner, a foul wrong was done to him. The case against him, as there stated, could hardly be weaker. One witness, John Ander son) says :--" On a certain day George W. Gordon came to Stoney-gut, and told Paul Bogle to get volunteers and get the back lands ;' if the lands were not got all buckras will die. George William Gordon called Paul Bogle's chapel Island Castle, and named M'Laren as secretary to himself. Paul Bogle got M'Laren to go to the mountains to look for hands to come to Morant Bay. I saw M'Laren with papers in his pocket and pencil behind his ear." In cross-examination by the prisoner, witness said this occurred on a Sunday in June or July of last year, that plenty more people were present, and that all of them heard what the prisoner said to Bogle. Another witness, James Gordon, had seen a letter in which the prisoner proposed the people should col lect money and send it to him, in order that he might pay for a letter to go home to the Queen, or, " if the letter won't go, prisoner would go himself to see the Queen face to face." But, though wit ness said the letter was signed G. W. Gordon, it appeared that he did not know the prisoner's signa ture. A deposition made by a rebel who was wounded, and afterwards died, was handed in. This man (Thomas Johnson) in August, 1864, had " heard the rebels talk at the meeting-house about making war," and he said that the prisoner had at tended meetings at the same place ; but he did not depose that this seditious language was made use of by Gordon, or on the occasions when Gordon was present. In another written depositionby awounded rebel there was good evidence against the Bogies, and deponent had heard Moses Bogle say that lie had prisoner's handwriting, and that it was the pri soner who had put up the Bogies to this rebellion. Mrs. Gough, the postmistress of Morant Bay, knew Gordon's handwriting, and proved that he was in correspondence with several of the rebels. This seems to have been the substance of all the oral evidence adduced against the prisoner, except the fact that whereas he usually attended the meet ings at the Morant Bay Court-house, and had not missed one for some years, he was absent from the meeting held on the day of the massacre. In his defence the prisoner said that his reason for not attending the vestry then was his ill-health, and he referred to two physicians who had recently pre scribed for him. His address to the Court is thus given in the Gleaner:— " Your Honours,--I have to state that I was not taken up, but gave myself up at Kingston when I heard there were some rumours about me. Feeling myself quite innocent, I called on the General, in company with Dr. Fiddes, and told his Excellency if I was required for anything concerning the dis turbances here I was at his command. Ile told me he had no authority over me; and I was about taking leave of him, when his Excellency the Governor drove up with Dr. Bowerbank ; and I was stating to his Excellency the same thing, when he told me he would come for me and t a ke me on board the Wolverine. Dr. Bowerbank then escorted me to my lodgings, and to the wharf for a passage off. I have been entirely brought up with Europeans, and all my best friends are of that class at this moment. I have never had any other feelings but love and affection for them. I have myself imported Euro pean labourers, thinking they would be desirable for the improvement of the negroes. I have always been desirous to see Europeans introduced into the country as a blessing to it; and instead of driving them out, I should like to see them more numerously located ; and the extensive possession of land which I have would, I think, be sufficient guarantee for my wish ing th e safety of property. Therefore a rebellion would be the last thing I should wish to see. I have always recommended the people, who have frequently complained to me, patience and perseverance, and as a proof of have their votes that I have always endeavoured to position, and recorded,l so as to obtain legitimate Court declare t s ' i ' a eroly before my Maker and this per t se l never knew from Paul Bogle or any other kind. I knew nothin n g off any insurrection of this it_until I was informed by policeman in tithing °{ he I he then went to my friend Mr. Airey to inquire if parties anything of it. I never went to any of the it in the least degree. a _ ai t_ e c . ircumstances I admit s th to a inquire about i n appearance suspicious trne are but I by his professio n it was certainlycertiaimulyy cannot help that. Paul Bo g l: is ° friend, and at the head his duty to practise peace and goodwill. astonished when I heard that he was this rebellion. I regret it, but that I cou l d not con_ trol. 111•Laren I h a ve lately known c hi efly since last meeting. My re ason for not attendi ng the last vestry was ,solely from ill health. I had a sever e couch, which shook my whole frame. Dr. Major called on me at the end of September and regretted my inability to attend the meeting of the vestry. I then saw Dr. Fiddes. I also refer you to my friend, Mr. Airey, that I told him my knees were so weak 1 would not be able to attend the vestry, and he said I was better away. The late Custos and my self were old and familiar friends, and, although we have had political differences, fought upon their merits, I should never have wished or done him any personal harm. The proof is this, that at the last election there was a slight disturbance, and I went to the baron and asked that he would allow things to go on quietly, although we were not on speaking terms, and I advised the people to e• , and • o on quietly to- wards him generally. The eyidenee of the two men, Anderson and Gordon, is not correct. Gordon's seems to be on hearsay, and Anderson's is not correct. I solemnly declare I have only been at the Stoney-gut Chapel once ; it was en a Sab bath evening, where we could not allow anything else but religious conversation, so he must have supposed that I said so. The statement of the man at York seems to be a general statement. Ido not know him. I deny what he attributes to me. In the depositions from Vere, the words attributed to me relative to Hayti are incorrect. I solemnly de ' clare I never thought of Hayti when I was in Vere ; and those words, if spoken at all, were spoken in another parish, and I emph a ti ca ll y d ec l are I never made any allusions to the Governor, or said that he was a bad man on that occasion. I was in a most chastened spirit on that occasion. I deny the statement made by Mr. Chevannes—that I said the people would take revenge. Revenge is not in my heart. With reference to the parties, Paul Bogle and Chisholm, in writing them letters, I have been in correspondence with them for some time, in general business, sometimes political matters. I have no correspondence that I would not like to be seen by this Court and by the world. I hope it will be the pleasure of the Court to take further necessary in formation, and as no charge has been made against me for any rebellion here, I had expected that for any crime or misdemeanour charged to me I should have been tried in Kingston, as I was not taken up on any rebellious acts, or in any district under martial law." Of course, if the evidence against Gordon were no more than that just summarised, there could be little difference of opinion, that however indifferent his private character, and whatever might have been the pernicious influence generally exercised by him over an excitable race like the negroes, there was no evidence upon which even a drumhead court martial ought to have convicted him of high treason. But I must repeat here the caution contained in my last letter, that the reported evidence may be found wholly incomplete for want of the documentary proof, which formed the strongest part of the case for the prosecution. The statement on the one side is that these documents were handed to the Presi dent, were passed from member to member of the Court, and lastly to the prisoner, being read in silence by all, so that the reporters had no oppor tunity of giving even the substance. This is the statement in the Gleaner, while, on the other side, it is alleged that the first published report contains the substance of every document used, and is there fore, as far as it goes, an accurate and complete record of the whole evidence. This is one of the many points in the questions at issue here on which the public at home, like newspaper correspondents here, must in fairness suspend their judgment until the official proceedings aro produced before the Commission. Meanwhile the island remains perfectly tranquil. Two or three incendiary fires have occurred in the neighbourhood of Spanish Town and elsewhere, but they are not shown to have had any connexion with the late disturbances. The negroes in the interior are quiet, but exult openly in what they regard as the disgrace of Mr. Eyre. " Missis Queen send Governor home to hang him" is a common say ing among them. After the outbreak in St. Thomas in-the-East, the black population throughout the island became much subdued in language and man ner ; and, as one symptom of this, their revival meetings and religious gatherings to a great extent ceased. At Christmas it was noticed that they re turned to work after a much shorter holiday than they usually take, but the news brought out by the last mail restored their confidence and gave them their former high spirits. You hear now at nightfall the monotonous drumming by which they amuse themselves, without always amusing their white neighbours—an irritating, ceaseless tutu-turn, com pared with which, in its effect upon the nerves, the bagpipe or hurdy-gurdy is sweet music. " Fuimus" is the motto of Kingston. It is a city of the past, and lives upon rich memories of trade with the Spanish Main now hopelessly destroyed, and of sugar and rum, of coffee and pimento, once pro duced and exported in plenty, but now represented by a beggarly array of empty hogsheads. Its tumble ' down condition may have been exaggerated, but one hardly takes a step that is not suggestive of poverty and of decay. Wharves are broken and unsightly, 1 shops, &c., are abandoned, warehouses shut up, and the proprietors, in utter despair of new tenants, do not even put up the notice " To be Let." This com -1 mon form implies that you have some possible remote prospect of receiving rent for your expenditure in brick and mortar. But the Kingston landlords know better than to be sanguine. Repairs are a serious thing here, and, rather than incur the cost of repairing, houses are sometimes allowed to fall into ruin. The streets are laid out at right angles, and if the houses were of better appearance, the roads well kept, and the piazzas not quite so crumbling and shattered, this might be no mean city. At present, adversity seems to have marked it for its own. Two or three years back there was a fire in the heart of Kingston, and there the ruins stand or fall, as the case may be, no one thinking of rebuilding. Even , the houses in the outski r t s se em t o b es p ea k commi aeration for the shabby gentility that has known better days ; and if you go beyond the outskirts you come upon waste ground and jungle, once well cul tivated and fruitful, which tells a more piteous tale still. Of course Kingston has its merchants and thriving citizens, who keep their " pens," as Jamaica country houses are called, and maintain there that reputation for hospitality which the Jamaica planters in the interior always enjoyed, and still, in proportion to their means, maintain. But it is not cheering to walk through the streets and see the universal marks of decadence which force them selves upon the least observant visitor. Of course, Kingston remembers with regret the good old times, thinks it has been ill-treated, along with the rest of the island, by the Imperial Legislature, hopes for the best from the present inquiry, but rather fears , that things won't mend, and that from bad will come worse. A stranger's impression, on the con trary, is that things could not be worse. One sub ject of complaint is that Kingston is not the seat of Government, and that the public buildings, the officials, and the Governor, and his little Court, are located at the sleepiest of sleepy places—Spanish Town, otherwise St. Jago de la Vega. It is as though the capital of Great Britain were not Lon don, but Brentford. Something like this the Kings tonians say ; but, taking them altogether, they are not a desponding people, and with such advantages of position as the town enjoys —a harbour in which the whole English navy could ride at ease, and be hind it an island unsurpassed for excellence of cli mate, fertility of soil, and variety of products —one is loth to believe that Kingston will always remain as Kingston is. An Englishman of ordinary san guine temperament finds it especially difficult to be lieve, as some people here declare, that his country people must one day abandon this lovely island in sheer despair of ever again paying their way. He re members how great a source of wealth it once was; he knows that its natural resources are boundless as ever; he feels that if people of English blood aban doned Jamaica it would be given over to the wildest anarchy ; and he is not inclined to acquiesce quietly in the colonial philosophy which says, " Our glory is departed," and does nothing to win back the pros perity and the glory. At every turn there are echoes of England. The negro, it is true, does not do jus tice to the English tongue ; but he speaks no other, and does his best in speaking that. English planters cultivate, or don't cultivate, the estates. English merchants and shopkeepers carry on trade in the towns. There is greater lethargy and less enter prise among the white people than you find in Eng land, but that is due to climate. Then there is a more than English geniality and hospitality, to which no stranger can be insensible; and, along with this, an attachment to English manners and customs, and a love and longing for the dear old country, always spoken of by colonists as " home," tte whichr hro t ar o er uly ea g l h lytouching. One is pleased t o fi n d that the m ore i nte lli gent among the coloured people enter into have a right tclaim , this feeling, and claim, as th e y , and the p r i v il eges of Bt r h i t e i i s r h B e ll i t a i r z e e h i s n h i p t h . e s t o r t a n d e i t s i e o n n d s their children to England to be educated. All among the class I have mentioned acknowledge the benefits which th e colon these benefit s h ave been feYweerntjh°aYns —though wished y —by being connected with the mother country. 1 But for the hateful difference of colour, Jamaica I would be a thoroughly En g lis h Colony ; yet other West India islands less blessed than Jamaica pros pered in spite of this difference. It is imposabie i for an Englishman to despair of an island in which, I as I write, the Guards' waltz is being extracted by vigorous thumping from a piano in the opposite house, while a group of black children in a yard I close by have just sung, " Lo, He comes, in clouds descending," and now and then I hear distant snatches of a sturdy chorus proposing three cheers for " the Red, White, and Blue !" I do not pretend to have fathomed the negro's character ; to do so requires close study and wide observation, for he seems to have a complex charac ter, with many good qualities, crossed by much that requires humouring, management, and firm control. On the surface of things, however, Quashie appears to be a likeable fellow, good-tempered, sociable, joyous, easily pleased, easily—ah, too easily— wrought upon and led ; excitable, and in that state liable to sudden and almost unaccountable excesses of rage; fonder of, basking in the shade than of working in the sun, and as political economists agree, contented with too little, having few wants, and these easily supplied, and seldom caring to raise his condition. I wish he would be more careful of his womankind, and less careful of his own ease. It is nearly always the women who bring down the heavy loads to market. Sir Quashie rides his pony or mule in dignity and ease, while the hewer of wood and drawer of water whom he has taken to wife trudges patiently by his side, generally poising on her head a big basket of yams, bananas, or green oranges. How well she poises it, too, and with what a Royal air she walks. Her lithe, shapely figure and well-set head, the light, clean dress and gay turban, the basket full of tropical fruit—perhaps gold-coloured, perhaps flaming red—and the good-humoured black face, which returns your nod, and shows the reddest (also the thickest) of lips and the whitest of teeth, make a study of form and colour which would delight an Academician. But, then, this always graceful, sel dom pretty, black Venus, who toils so hard for six days in the week, is actually fond of wearing finery on the seventh ! I believe she shares the reproach with a good many of those in Europe and elsewhere who think themselves her betters. She is a daugh ter of Eve, and on Sundays at all events likes to be well dressed, according to her notion of good dressing. Let me assure all who may be inclined to think poorly of her in this respect that the black woman seems to possess an instinct for dress , ing well, that she evidently has an eye for colour, and is gifted with a taste very far beyond that of her class in England. Her turban is gay, as I have said ; but its bright colours contrast well with the dusky face and gleaming teeth below. Her dress is a cool, clean print, always light, hardly ever gaudy. In the early days of emancipation I am told that the negress bought dresses of flaming colours, but for these there is now no market in Jamaica—a proof that, in matters of taste, the negress is, at all events, an improvable being. For this reason, a lady assures me, the black girls make excellent ladies' maids. They are never tired of brushing and dress ing hair, and are never happier than in decking out their mistress in her best, and in showing their taste by the choice of her dress and the jewellery which is to help her charms. That the blacks are not very considerate towards their women seems to be too true. In the market groups here this is very apparent, and on the wharves the same scene is enacted. The coaling of the steam boats is done principally by women. Some weeks ago a sketch of this very lively scene appeared in the Illustiated News, and was accurate so far as it represented the women carriers, but not at all accu rate in depicting them as half-naked. Capt. Cooper, R.N., the manager of the Royal Mail Steamboat Company here, showed this sketch to some of the women employed, and they were highly indignant. " Him make great mistake," one of them said ; " let 'em come and see us Sundays." And no doubt on Sundays these women, coarsely dressed as they are when at work, and necessarily dirty while doing this dirty work, come out resplendent. They are well able to do so, for they earn excellent wages. The Royal Mail steamer Tamar was coaled here the other day, and 260 tons were put on board. I have ob tained the statistics, which are curious enough. Forty-seven people were employed as day labourers, of whom 13 were women; in three-quarters of a day they earned ls. 6d. each, no difference being made in the payment to either sex. At task-work 99 per sons were employed, and of these 84 were women. The coal is carried on the head in baskets from the head upon the wharf to the steamer, and in this in stance the price paid, which varies according to the distance traversed, was 3d. per dozen baskets. The largest number of baskets carried during the three quarters of a day was 166, the next highest was 161, and in both instances the carriers were women. The average earnings of each person were about ls. 9d. At night the pay is double. There was no difficulty in getting the requisite number of hands; but the work, of course, is not continuous. On Saturday his Excellency Sir Henry Storks re ceived the heads of the military department at Head-quarters House, in Kingston, and afterwards paid a visit to Admiral Sir James Hope on board the flagship. He was accompanied by his aide-de camp, Lieutenant Baring, and the Secretary of the Commission, Mr. Roundell. His Excelloncy re turned in the afternoon by train to Spanish Town. Mr. Eyre continues at Flamatead. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 9, 1866. Naval and Military Intelligence. Her Majesty's 17 gun screw sloop Zebra, 951 tons and 600 horse power, recently paid out of com mission by Commander C. G. Lindsay, from the West Coast of Africa, is ordered to undergo a com plete overhaul and repair at Woolwich. Her engines and boilers have been removed, and portions of her hull opened out, to ascertain her condition. She is to be fitted with a topgallant forecastle, and the sys tem of her armament is to be reformed and reduced to 7 guns, as follows--2 bow and stern guns, 64 pounders ; 1 6-ton pivot gun amidships to carry a 2001 b shot ; and 4 64 pounder broadside guns, all to be rifled muzzle-loading Armstrongs. Her Majesty's sloop Chanticleer, 17 guns, 950 tons, and engines of 200-horse power, Commander William H. Feawick, from the Mediterranean sta tion, was yesterday reported in the Thames. Arrangements have been made for her reception off the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, this morning, to land her powder and shot, and to proceed thence to the dockyard to pay off her crew. Her Majesty's 20-gun screw corvette Tartar, 1,296 tons, has been stripped at Woolwich, and is now in readiness to be transferred to Messrs. Castle and Beech's yard at Charlton to be broken up. The sum of £lB,OOO having been granted for the repairs of the iron paddlewheel vessel Antelope, in dock at Woolwich, she is ordered to be completed by the 31st of May next, and will then be equal to new. Her destination on being recommissioned for service is expected to be the south-east coast of America, to relieve her sister vessel the Triton. The 4-gun serveying vessel Sylvia, under con struction at Woolwich, is ordered to be launched on the 20th of March next. The Minotaur, ironclad, Capt. Herbert (pro tem.), has been continuing her trials up to yesterday, at the conclusion of which she went into Portsmouth harbour, and was placed alongside the new jetty at the dockyard. Her Majesty's ship Malacca arrived at Madeira on Jan. 31, having experienced rough weather. She lost a lifeboat in the gale, but sustained no other damage. The Japanese portion of the Royal Marine Bat talion belonging to the Woolwich Division (120 in number) yesterday received their pay and were granted furloughs to visit their friends. Each man received an average of £lO duo for wages accumu lated during the period of the voyage home. In a general regimental order of the R►oyal Artil lery, dated Ist inst., are the following announce ments :—The good service pension vacantbyMajor- Gen. Bell being appointed Col.-Commandmant has been awarded to Major-Gen. Taylor, Inspector- Gen. of Artillery The Secretary of State for War has decided that veterinary surgeons of brigades of Royal Horse Artillery shall, for the future, draw the usual allowance in lieu of forage for their horses, of receiving forage in kind and paying for the same. The following officers are raised to in creased pay, viz..—Lieut.-Col. H. J. B. Macleod, 22d Brigade, vice Douglas, promoted, dated Sept. 20,1865 ; Lieut.-Col. G. T. Field, 3d brigade, vice Maberly, promoted, dated Sept. 26, 1865 ; B. Reeves, 15th brigade, vice Dixon, promoted, dated Nov. 23, 1865 ; Lieut. J. C. Robinson, Bth brigade, vice Macartney, promoted, dated Dec. 23, 1865 ; Lieut. G. W. Turnbull, Depot Brigade, vice Cane, promoted, dated Dec. 26, 1865 ; Lieut. G. A. B. Pownall, Ist brigade, vice Brodie, resigned, dated Jan. 2, 1866 ; Lieut. H. Ripon, sth brigade, vice Budd, promoted, dated Jan. 5, 1866. The following appointments have been made : Brevet Major H. T. Arbuthnot to be Assist.-Super intendent of the Small Arms Factory at Pimlico, vice Capt. Jervis, whose period of service in that appointment has expired; Second Capt. M. P. Eden to be Assist-Superintendent of the Small Arms Fac tory at Enfield, vice Arbuthnot ; Capt. G. 11. J. A. Fraser to be Assist.-Superintendent of the Royal Laboratory at Portsmouth, vice Bayly, deceased ; Second Capt. V. D. Majendie to be Assist.-Superin tendent of the Royal Laboratory at Woolwich, vice Fraser ; Second Capt. C. O. Brown to be Capt. In structor, Royal Laboratory, Woolwich, Nice Ma jendie ; Capt. C. B. Le Mesurier to be Capt. In structor, Royal Carriage Department, Woolwich, vice Boyle, placed upon half-pay. The following appointments have been made at the Admiralty :—T. Jamieson, storekeeper of the Royal Victoria Yard, to be storekeeper of the Royal William Yard, vice Triscott, superannuated; E. Ede, storekeeper at Haulbowline, to be storekeeper of the Royal Victoria Yard, vice Jamieson; J. Mar tin, storekeeper at Bermuda, to be storekeeper and accountant at Haulbowline, vice Ede ; Jas. Lamont, chief engineer, to the Si moom ; D. Miller, engineer, to the Asia, for sere ice in the Earnest; W. Maxwell, engineer, to the Simoom; G. J. Weeks and W. B. Cleverly, first-class assist.-engineers, to the Simoom; Lieut. C. R. K. Smyth to the St. George, for service in the Coastguard; Lieut. W. H. Wright to the Frelerick William, for service in the Coastguard ; Capt. F. H. Shortt, to the Favourite, commissioned ; Lieut. John Patton, to the Favourite ; Lieut. Clement La Primandaye, Lieut. Marcus A. S. Hare, and Lieut. Charles S. P. Wooc!ruffe, to the Simoom ; Wm. John Symons, second master, to the Simoon ; John Watson M•Kenzie, engineer, additional, for disposal, to the Princess Royal ; and Michael B. Kelly, first class assist.-engineer, additional, for disposal, to the Princess Royal. The following appointments were made yesterday :—Lieut. Edward White, to the Prince Albert ; Lieut. Richard B. Wilkinson, to the Favourite ; Staff-Commander Valentine G. Roberts, to the Victory ; John Phillips, master, to the Fa vourite ; James Ray, paymaster, to the Favourite ; Andrew C. Jeffreys, assist.-paymaster, to the Tra falgar; Walter B. Spence, assist.-paymaster, to the Favourite ; Harry Foster, clerk, to the Favourite ; Henry S. Baskerville, assist.-clerk, to the Favourite ; Edward Hickson, assist.-clerk, to the Formidable ; John Boxell, engineer, to the Indus, for service in the Trusty ; William Laird, engineer, to the Asia, for service in the Camel ; George C. Scholes, engi neer, to the Cumberland, for service in the Mullet ; and John Allin Lemon, acting second class assist.- engineer, to the Indus, for service in the Zealous. Court of Common Council. A Court of Common Council was held yesterday at Guildhall, under the presidency of the Lord Mayor. In accordance with the usual custom, the whole of the Corporation ofkers were re-elected for the ensuing year. THE BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK. The TowN CLERK (Mr. Woodthorpe) read a com munication from the Court of Aldermen in reference to a presentment that had been made to them by the leet jury of the borough of Southwark, which notified that at present there was no Townhall, and that the public meetings and other business connected with the borough was at present conducted in a public hotel, which they did not consider a fit or proper proceeding. The attention of the Court was therefore called to the proceeding. The communication vas ordered to lie on the table. THE IRISH SOCIETY. Mr. Alderman Rose was re-elected governor of the Irish Society, and Mr. E. Burkett deputy-gover nor, and these gentlemen severally returned thanks for the honour conferred upon them. THE PAUPER LUNATIC ASYLUM. Alderman DAKIN brought up a report from the special committee appointed to superintend the erec tion of the new Pauper Lunatic Asylum near Dart ford, in Kent, which stated that the building was ready for the reception of inmates, and that it had been completed for a sum very little in excess of the estimated cost, which was £60,000. It was stated that a little remained to be done to the building, but it was sufficiently completed to justify the committee in asking the Lord Mayor and the members of the Court to pay a visit to it, in order to judge for themselves how the money had been expended. This report gave rise to a somewhat lengthened discussion, in the course of which Mr. H. L. Taylor suggested that it would be better to wait until the entire cost of the building was ascertained before any report was agreed to ; and he at the same time inquired whether the Commissioners of Lunacy had given their formal certificate that the building was ' in a fit state for the reception of inmates. Mr. WOODTHORPE, the Town Clerk, upon this read a communication that had been received from the Commissioners, the effect of which appeared to be that, although the building was fit for the recep tion of a particular class, they considered that cer tain alterations should be made, and among them arrangements should be made for the inmates to be enabled to carry out farming operations, and at pre sent it appeared that they did not feel themselves justifiedin granting a positive certificate of approval. Mr. H. L. TAYLOR said it appeared to him that they were now in the possession of a great deal more information respecting the asylum than was furnished by the report of the committee or the speech of the worthy alderman ; and he was afraid that the ex pense would be very much greater than had been anticipated by that Court. (Hear, hear.) If they were to go into the question of farm buildings, he thought this Court ought not to be called upon to find the money. _ Mr. FRICKER said that as the report alluded to some further expense that was to be incurred, he should be glad if the worthy alderman would inform him what additional amount he considered would be required. Alderman DAKIN said that he believed £2OO would be all that would be required for what re mained to be done. With regard to the subject of farm buildings or providing farming operations for the patients, he begged to inform the Court that the committee had never taken such a matter into their consideration. (Hear, hear.) Mr. FRICKER said it had been reported that it would require £lO,OOO more to complete the build ing. Alderman DARIN said nothing of the sort was re quired. Mr. M'GEORGE expressed his opinion that from the letter of the Commissioners of Lunacy, and what had transpired in Court, that the building was very- far from being complete ; and he should there fore move as an amendment, " That the report be referred back to the committee for them to make a report upon the total cost of the building, and that the proposed visit of the Lord Mayor and of the members of that Court be postponed until this was done." Deputy PER KIN 3, 15r. SAUNDERS, and several other honourabl e mem b ers, th en a dd resse d t h e Court, and it was contended by the two former that the new building was quite as complete as those of a similar description at Hanwell, Colney-hatch, and Wandsworth ; and it was observed that with regard to the suggestions of the Lunacy Commis sioners that they were a changing body, and that one set of gentlemen frequently recommended what their successors disapproved of ; and after a some what lengthened discussion the amendment was put and negatived, and the original motion was put and carried, and it was arranged that the Lord Mayor and such members of the Court as chose to accom pany him, should visit the asylum on Monday, the 19th inst. THE RAILWAY INVASION OF THE CITY. The REMEMBRANCER (Mr. Corrie) reported a number of railway bills that were before Parlia ment, some of which it appeared would interfere with the proposed Holborn Valley Improvement and other works projected by the Corporation, and he recommended that the Court should petition against such of the bills as affected the interests of the Cor poration. The report was referred to the Improvement Committee. TILE GAS QUESTION. Mr. J. F. BONTEMS brought up a report from the special committee appointed in reference to the ques tion of the supply of gas in the City, which stated that there were several bills before Parliament, the object of which was to enable certain companies to amalgamate and to increase their capital to the extent of a million of pounds. The report recom mended that the necessary steps should be taken to oppose all those bills. Mr. MEDWIN, in supporting the report, said it was clear that the object the companies had in view was to prevent the public having the benefit that the law intended to give them of getting cheaper gas when the dividends of the gas companies exceeded 10 per cent. If the scheme was not defeated, the companies would have to pay 10 per cent. upon an additional million of capital, and the present price of gas would be maintained. (Hear, hear.) The report was then agreed to. LORD PALMERSTON. Mr. T. RLIDKIN then brought forward a motion that has been upon the paper of business for a con siderable time :—" That it be referred to the City Lands Committee to consider what mark of respect should be paid by the Corporation of London to the memory of the late Lord Viscount Palmer ston." He said he should have preferred bringing the motion forward when the Court was fuller than at present, but it had been several months on the paper of business, and it was as well that' it should be disposed of. He should not address the Court at any length, for he felt assured that almost every member of it would agree with him that Lord Palmerston, who had passed away from them, was entitled to every compliment that could be paid to his memory. (Hear, hear.) There might be some difference with regard to his political opinions, but he thought that every. Eng lishman must admit the great services he had ren dered his country, and the able manner in which he had on every occasion upheld its honour and dignity. He did not believe that any statesman ever pos sessed so much control over the House of Commons or was so generally esteemed in that august assem bly as the late Lord Palmerston ; and at the present early period of the session his loss was already felt more day after day. It had been stated that Lord Palmerston had devoted all the energies of his mind to the consideration of the subject of the cattle dis ease, and he believed that if he had been spared, he would have suggested something more practi cal for the relief of the country from the terrible calamity than all the Orders in Council put together. (Hear.) He admitted his incompetence to do jus tice to the subject, but he said he hoped that the Court would agree to his motion unanimously. Mr. JESSE TURNER said he had no desire in any way to disparage the character of the noble vis count, but it appeared to him that there was no neces sity that the matter should go to a committee, but that the Court itself, relying upon the precedents now be fore it, might agree upon a bust of the noble lord being placed in the Council Chamber, as had been done in the case of other illustrious persons. He moved an amendment to this effect, with the addition, that the cost of the proposed bust should not exceed £250. A difficulty then arose that as this involved the question of the outlay of money, which could not be done without notice, or the standing order relating to the subject being suspended, a motion was made that the last-mentioned course should be adopted. The motion was, however, negatived, and the amendment consequently fell to the ground. Mr. WEBBER said he hoped the Court would pause before they agreed to the motion of Mr. Rudkin, and that they would not lose siglit of the fact that in the cases of such illustrious men as George Canning and Earl Grey the Court took no steps to do honour to their memory. (Hear, hear, and inter ruption.) That Court, he repeated, took no steps to recognise the brilliant services of those statesmen whose names he had mentioned, and they were now called upon to do honour to the memory of a ➢linis ter whose name did not appear upon any bill except the Extradition Treaty, to serve him of France. (Loud cries of " Hear, hear, order," and " No.") He would ask the Court if Lord Palmerston had ever given his support to any liberal measures, or to the cause of liberty in foreign countries, and whether he had not always been the backer-up of despotism in every quarter? (Cries of " Order," and " hear, hear.") Where was Lord Palmerston when Hun gary was on her knees begging to be recognised and to be made free ? Where was Lord Palmerston when Poland upon two occasions had an opportu nity of Obtaining freedom, and implored the aid of this country to enable her to become so ? A word from England would have rendered these countries as free as she was herself ; but where was Lord Palmerston to speak that word ? With these views upon the subject, he said he should propose as an amendment the previous question, and, if he stood alone, he would divide the Court upon it. _ _ Mr. ORRIDGE seconded the amendment. After a few words from Mr. LAWLEY, the amend ment was put to the Court and declared to be negatived. A division then took place, when there appeared —For the amendment, 22 ; against it, 56 ; majo rity against, 34. The original motion of Mr. Rudkin was then put and carried, after which the Court adjourned. The Cattle Plague. A conference was hold yesterday morning at St. James's hall of the representatives from the various agricultural societies of Great Britain and others upon the subject of the cattlo plague. The Earl of LICHFIELD presided, and upon the platform were Lord Combermere, Lord Berners, Lord Mostyn, Lord Bateman, Lord Shrewsbury and Tal bot, Lord Ravensworth, Earl of Stradbroke, Lord Powis, Lord Vivian, Lord Southampton, Sir C. Russell, M.P., Sir J. Western, Mr. Robow, M.P., Mr. Biddulph, M.P., Col. Stuart, M.P., Mr. Bromley, M.P., Mr. Dodson, M.P., Captain Speirs, M.P., Hon. C. Carnegie, M.P., Hon. P. A. St. John ; Hon. H. G. Liddell, M.P., the M`Leod of PiPLeod ; Hon. P. Scott, Mr. Bass, M.P., Mr. Davey, M.P. ; Mr. Heneage, M.P., Mr. Selwyn, M.P., Mr. D. Nicol, M.P., Major Parker, M.P., and a great number of agriculturists. The CHAIRMAN expressed his satisfaction at seeing so many agriculturists present to discuss a subject which threatened, without the interposition of Providence, to be come one of the greatest national calamities that had ever befallen this country. The object of the meeting he took to be to afford an opportunity forpractical agriculturists from all parts of the country to express their opinions as to the means which it might be desirable to take, in order if pos sible to check the spread of the disease. lie suggested that the members of either house of Parliament present should content themselves with listening to those opinions as a guide to them in the course they might think it right to take when the subject came before Parliament. This would deprive the meeting of any political tone and save time, which was very valuable. Mr. A. PEEL, of Northamptonshire, moved a resolution, declaring that the removal of all live cattle from one place to another over highways, except in uninfected counties, and the removal of all live cattle by railways throughout Great Britain, ought to be prohibited for a limited time. This disease was not new. 150 years ago scientific men made it their study, and foremost amongst them was Lan chesi, the Italian, who said that the pole-axe was the only remedy to kill out the germ of the disorder. By the system of treating it now adopted, the statistics showed a twelve fold increase in three months. Another plan had been sug gested by the Royal Commission, which might be called Mr. Lowe's plan, and this was in substance merely a repe tition of Lanchesi's plan; but Mr. Lowe said that if Par liament granted the prohibition this resolution called for it was easy to enforce, inasmuch as the presence of any beast on a road or railway would be proof of the offence. Many ol4jections had been made and many exceptions had been claimed, especially for fat cattle, but he would allow of no exceptions. There was no difficulty in for warding the meat when killed from one place or from one part of the country to another to any extent. There was no fear, therefore, that London or any great town would be insufficiently supplied. Tho resolution was seconded by Colonel lIALPORD, of Leicester, who spoke of the impossibility of carrying out the proposed or any plan for staying the plague under the system of local authorities. Mr. MARSHALL, of Ely, in Cambridgeshire, which he said was the largest loser of cattle from the plague, pointed out that in the resolution there was a most significant excep tion in the words " except in uninfected counties," a n d proposed that those words should be eliminated. (Hea r .) Mr. PEEL would have preferred to omit the words, but it was urged that there were eleven counties in Scotland in which no diseao existed, and that it was hard to subject them to restrictions. With the concurrence of the seconder he would withdraw the words. Sir G. JENKINSON objected that there was nothing in the resolution that went to what he considered the important point, viz., that the orders should proceed direct from the Government, and from no other authority. The CHAIRMAN remarked that it would be impossible to carry out such an order unless it emanated from the Go vernment. Mr. Ssow, who represented the fleshers of Edinburgh, feared that such a prohibition would inflict great inconve nience in country districts and small towns, especially in Scotland. He moved that healthy fat cattle proceeding to market should be exempted. Mr. DUNCAN, representing the fleshers of Glasgow, seconded this. Mr. BRANTUP suggested that, unless some provision was made for conveying cows to the male animal, next year the majority of the cows would be barren, and thus the future supply of cattle would be still further reduced. The resolution as amended by leaving out the excepting words was carried, as was another moved by Mr. SMYTHES, to the effect that all imported cattle be prohibited from moving inlaad. Mr. GOODLAKE, president of the Edinburgh Chamber of Agriculture, moved :—" That the immediate destruction of all plague-stricken animals and those in direct contact with them, and the complete isolation and official watching and control of all animals that have been within the influence of contagion, ought by act of Parliament to be provided for." This was seconded by Mr. RYDER, of the Liverpool Agri cultural Society, who observed that, from information he had received, vaccination, which had been regarded as a last resource for preventing the spread of the rinderpest, had failed in Cheshire, where the disease was increasing. It was only the cattle trade that opposed prohibitory mea sures. The Government had been negligent on the subject, every measure which had emanated from them having been dragged from them. He had no doubt that the country would readily compensate those whose interests were affected by the suggested measures of precaution, and ho proposed that it should be done by a compulsory rate. He further suggested that a public subscription should be made to compensate those who had already lost cattle— (no, no.)—and condemned the slaughtering of calves for food during the continuance of the disease. Professor GAMGEE supported the motion, and contended for the stamping out of the disease by slaughtering all in fected animals. The thermometer enabled them to detect accurately the existence or non-existence of the disease in any animal. The motion was adopted with two dissentients. Sir G. JENKINSON moved—" That tile partial remunera tion of the owners of animals affected by these measures be provided for by act of Parliament." Ho could not ad vocate that such remuneration should be provided out of the consolidated fund, but by a county rate. (No, no.) The CHAIRMAN remarked that the resolution left that point open. _ _ - - Sir G. JENKINSON, in continuation, blamed the Govern ment for not having acted in accordance with the recom mendations of their own commissioners. The resolution was seconded by Mr. NORMAN and carried, as was another requiring that the disinfecting of all infected premises, market places, railway trucks, and cattle pens, should be enforced by act of Parliament, moved by Capt. De Witt and seconded by Mr. Tucker. A deputation was appointed to wait on Sir G. Grey to represent the views of the meeting, and urge upon the Government to take the steps necessary for giving effect to the same—the Hon. F. Scott objecting that it ought to be to Earl Russell—and a petition to Parliament praying that a stop may be put by legislative enactment to the removal of all live cattle from one place in Groat Britain to another, for a limited time, and, in connection therewith, to enact further—that all ani mals labouring under the disease shall be immediately slaughtered, and buried in the skin—the same being previ ously slashed and spoilt—the owners thereof being parti ally compensated from such source as the wisdom of Par liament may devise ; and that all cattle which have come in direct contact with diseased animals, or which have been in the same enclosure with them, though yet showing no symptoms of the disease, shall also be immediately slaugh tered on the premises, the offals to be disinfected and buried, the hides to be disinfected and sold, and the car casses also to be sold for the benefit of the owners ; the loss thereon•to the owner to be partially compensated, in like manner, out of the fnnds raised as aforesaid ; and in order that full advantage may be taken of this compulsory stoppage of transit of cattle, to enact provisions for carrying out sanitary measures to extinguish effectually all germs of the disease—in particular, that the whole premises occu pied by diseased animals, or by animals which have come in contact with, or been in the same enclosure, shed, or byre with diseased animals, shall be thoroughly cleansed and disinfected, and the manure, litter, and fodder taken therefrom, also disinfected or burnt, at the occupier's ex pense, by proper officers. And that further all railway trucks and pens, and other railway plant that have been used in the transportation of live stock, be officially cleansed and disinfected, and their use prohibited for a period of time. A vote of thanks to the chairman concluded the pro ceedings. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TIMES.—The protracted disputes between Capt. Cowper P. Coles and the Admiralty have been re cently brought to an unfortunate close. Capt. Coles, as everybody now knows, is the inventor and pro moter of a new design for a fighting-ship, the prin ciple of which consists in mounting its battery in a turret or turrets instead of placing it in broadside. Some time ago the merits or capabilities of the inven tion were so far recognised that Capt. Coles was taken into the pay of the Admiralty, and his skill made available for the public service. It appears that by a rule or tradition of the Department, the officers employed in it are debarred from entering publicly into controversies on professional subjects, but Capt. Coles obtained a special privilege in this respect, and was allowed to have " free liberty, by means of lectures, models, publications, and other wise, to prove th e great ut i l i ty, value, an d economy of his invention of shield ships, by way of diffusing and extending the reputation thereof, and to show the value of the sa me , an d th e numerous wa y s i n which it may be used, worked, and extended for sea going ships, coast defences, and otherwise." That a liberal use was made of this privilege our readers will easily remember, but at the beginning of last month Capt. Coles addressed to one of our contemporaries a letter, in which he was thought to have transgressed the bounds of propriety by attacking the designs and performances of his own colleagues in the service. Accordingly the Admi ralty called upon him to acknowledge or disavow the publication, and when he acknowledged it-- indeed, the letter had borne his own signature— proceeded at once to dismiss him from employment. On the face of this proceeding it would be hard to deny that the Admiralty was justified. The letter in question did certainly exceed the limits de fined by the reservation above given. It was not so much exceptionable in itself as inconsistent with the writer's position. It may, perhaps, have been inaccurate in some respects, and it was undoubtedly aggressive, but it did not in these particulars trans gress the privileges which controversialists, in the heat of argument, are apt to assume. But Captain Coles was an officer receiving Government pay, and his attacks were directed against his brother officers in his own department—the very men with whom he was supposed to be co-operating for the public good. They, moreover, stood absolutely d e b arre d by the rules of the service from all chance of self defence. They could not reply to thei r assa il ant, nor meet his charges with any explanation or denial. Their hands were tied, and therefore, whatever the chief authorities of the Department might have thought of the case themselves, they were bound to protect their servants in general from the abuse of a privilege conceded to one of their number. Capt. Coles had not confined himself to the advocacy of his own invention ; he had devoted himself rather to the disparagement of other designs, especially the designs of Mr. Reed, and had not been sparing of his censures in describing the productions of those who were employed with him, or the administration of those by whom he was employed. Although, however, we feel bound to make these admissions, we think the Admiralty might have accom plished all that was required by a less rigorous sentence, and we are of opinion that Captain Coles, under all the circumstances of the case, was entitled to their forbearance. In short, look ing at the matter broadly, there was enough in his position to excuse:irritability and discontent. HERALD.—The opinion of an eminent Irishman upon the state of Ireland at the present crisis of her history must be deserving of the very serious atten tion even of those who are most inclined to dissent from his views. It is instructive to us to have both sides of every great question presented to us by ad vocates who put their case as strongly as they can. Before criticising too severely the speech made by The O'Donoghue last night in the House of Com mons we should remember that he is an Irishman per sang, that he aspires to the leadership of what may be called the national party, that he is the avowed opponent of the present system of govern ing Ireland by Englishmen. A man of Irish descent and patronymic, inheriting Irish traditions and Irish sympathies, it would be absurd to expect of him that he should regard the relations between that country and this in exactly the same light as an Englishman. He has been accused of making treasonable speeches, but his harangue of last night was certainly no more treasonable than was the statement of the Secretary of the Baptist Society, that the Jamaica negroes are disaffected to the Go vernment. The gist of The O'Donoghue's speech is, that the Irish are disaffected, and his assertion on this point is so far of importance that he ought to know more of the feelings of his fellow-country men than we do. If Irishmen are discontented with Whig rule, they an very much in the same position as - ourselves ; if they are tired of the union with England, and wish to sever it, we regret that it should be so, because the continuance of that union is inevitable ; if they have tangible griev ances to allege and wrongs to be redressed, we would wish to be informed of those grievances and to be put into a position to redress those wrongs. The speech of The O'Donoghue, in temperate as it was in parts, and exaggerated in tone, as might have been expected from him, does not put th ese comp l a i nts i n any very nove llight. It is the occasion which gives it its importance, the recognised existence of a widespread conspi racy of rebellion, which has been so far suppressed by the strong arm of the law, and happily without bloodshed. The O'Donoghue attempts to explain to us the sympathy for these conspirators among the lower classes in Ireland, by telling us that these i classes have been made disloyal by misgovernment and a persistent denial of their rights. Ireland at this moment is a " sick man," about the symptoms of whose malady and the remedies to be applied to it the doctors may perhaps differ, as doctors do. We have here a new prescription and a new line of treatment recommended. Some of us may dissent, in lirnine, from the theory upon which it is based, but the fact that all other recipes have more or less failed may, at all events, be alleged in behalf of the new panacea. The Attorney-General for Ireland, in his reply to The.O'Donoghue, contented himself with denying, in general terms, that the misgovern ment of Ireland had anything to do with the ad mitted dislike of the Irish for English rule, or that the Fenian conspiracy was the result of this feeling. He had it all his own way when he defended Judges Keogh and Fitzgerald, whose impartiality and mode ration have gained for them universal applause, and in criticising suggestions put at haphazard by his antagonist, such as the appropriation of the surplus revenue of Ireland, whatever that may be, to Irish purposes, and the tax to be levied on absentee land lords. After an evasive and lawyer-like speech, Mr. Lawson left the question of Ireland very much where he found it. In the animated debate which followed several Irish members laid various degrees of blame on the Government, while Mr. George and Lord Naas contended that the grievances alleged, whether real or imaginary, had nothing to do with the Fenian movement, which was of foreign origin. The Chancellor of the Exchequer refused to admit the affirmation of the proposed amendment to the Address, " that a widespread disaffection" existed in Ireland, the result of grave causes which it was the duty of Government to remove. He assumed, as he had no right to do, that this disaffection meant Fenianism. What the mover of the amendment urged was, that Fenianism sprang up from and grew upon it as. a fungus on rank soil. The Govern ment, Mr. Gladstone paid, could not remedy the evils of Ireland, because those evils were " inve terate." He would make no promise, and bind him self by no engagement for the future. The British Government cannot deal with inveterate wrongs. Ireland may have much to complain of, but things must rest as they are. The consideration of the amendment to the Address proposed by Th, e , O'Donoghue, th e st i ng of w hi c h i s that i t lays all the troubles of Ireland at the door of her Majesty's Ministers, was postponed by common consent to the bringing up of the report, when the debate will be resumed, and new combatants will enter on tile field. The Shropshire Murder. DISMISSAL OF THE PRISONER. CLEOBURT MORTIMER, Thursday. To-day the examination of Mr. John Meredith, farrier and miller, of Duddlewick, in this county, on a charge o f murdering his nephew, Edward Edwards, at Duddlewielg Mill, on the 14th ult., under the barbarous circumstances already reported in this paper, was resumed and concluded before the magistrates, at the public office here. The examination had already occupied two days, but the facts proved were of an entirely circumstantial nature as affecting the prisoner. It was proved that the murder must have been committed between nine a.m. and four p.m. °ll Sunday the 14th ; and the several witnesses examined de posed to the prisoner's actions during the whole of that time with the exception of a quarter of an hour. On exa mining the clothes of the prisoner a week after the murder stains of blood were found on a pair of trousers and a coat which were accounted for in two ways, first, that the soner was subject to bleeding at the nose ; and, second, that they were caused by blood falling from deceased ge the prisoner assisted in carrying him upstairs after he W 9 found lying insensible and bleeding in the mill on the Sun' day evening. The clothes had been sent to Dr. Taylor, the eminent analytical chemist, for examination. Dr. Taylor's evidence, therefore, was expected to form the main feature in to-day's examination, but in this the public was disappointed. No one fact was elicited in the evidence to-day, and the magistrates decided that there WO nothing to justify the committal of the prisoner, who NOS accordingly discharged from custody. COUNTRY MARKETS. MANCHE S TER-THURSDAY. Our market this morning was slenderly attended. Eng lish wheat was in poor condition, and must be quoted 1 0 per quarter lower. Foreign sold slowly, at a similar de cline. For flour there was very little inquiry, though English was offered at a reduction of 6d and French is per sack on the currency of this day se'nnight. Oats re ceded id per 451 b., and oatmeal 6d per load. Brans wer e unchanged. Indian corn was the turn lower. BIRMINGHAM—THUnSDAY. At our corn market to-day there was a limited suPPY of wheat, for w hi c h th e d eman d was mo d erate, and t " best sorts made fully l a t e currenc i es. F or foreign 'Ai ,,e rates were barely made. There was a good demand for l arley, and superior samples made is per quarter advance The demand for oats w a s l ess ac ti ve but pr i ce'' , re mained about the same. B e a ns were i n small supply , and sold at rec en t p r i ces . P eas a qu i et sa l e, a t forme r rates. Currencies :—English wheat, white, 45s to 50s ; red, 39 : to 48s per 36 stone. Malting barley, 30s to 358; grill din "; 22s to 25s per qr. O a t s , 24 s t o 30 s ; I r i sh, 21s t o 24s per 30 stone. Beans, 42s to 45s ; and peas, 40s to 42s per qn BRISTOL—THURSDAY. At this day's market there was a short supply of lish wheat, whi c h rea li se d th e ra t es o f t hi s d ay sea 'HI„; Fine barley fully a s hi g h ; secon d ary fi rm. O ats a nd beg as of late. EDINBURGH—WEDNESDAY. At to-day's market there was a large supply of coullt i l wheat, which sold slowly at barely late retes. Wheat on the top, 3s 3d down average, Os lld doWn' Barley on the top, Os 6d up average, Os 11d up' Oats on the top, is Od up average, Os 4d up' Beans on the top, is 3d up average, Os 3d up. Average prices. Wheat, 45s 8d 1 Oats, 2ss 7d Barley, 3ss Od 1 Beans ...42s Od Town-made flour sells as f o ll ows :—Wh i te, 42s Od, e xtra superfine, 40s Od ; superfine, 38s 6d ; fine, 37s Od. Total supply and sales. Wheat Barley 1 1 9 5 8 45 qrs so ld 925 qrs so ld 424 2715 qrs Oatssold 1653 sold 224 Beans 403 qrs GLASGOW—WEDNESDAY. od At our market this morning there was a very g o r attendance. Wheat was a slow sale, and about 6d cheaP i e lt per 2401 b .; flour receded 6d to is per 2801 b; barley broug l e last week's prices. Indian corn, beans, and peas in buY e ' favour. Oats and oatmeal were quoted as last week. 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