The Sun. — London, England, 1865-02-09 00:00:00

Repeal of the Malt Duty. A public meeting of the farmers of England and of others desirous of promoting the repeal of the malt duty was held yesterday at the Freemasons' Tavern, Great Queen-street, Lincoln's-inn. The meeting was convened by the Central Anti Malt tax Association, and was very numerously attended, the large hall being inconveniently crowded. Sir Fitzroy Kelly, M.P., occupied the chair, supported by many members of Parliament, amongst whom were Sir Bulwer Lytton, M.P., Sir M.P., Mr. S c l a t er Booth, MT-, M. H. Beach, Sir John Trollope, M.P., the Hon. W.Duncombe, 111. P., Mr. Bromley, M.P., ford M.P., M.P., Mr. Goddard, Major Beres ford, Mr. Barrow, M.P., Col. Fane, M.P., ,Lord Holmer dale, M.P., Lord H. Thynnet M•P • Mr• Sturt, M.P., Lord Curzon, M.P., Col. Cartwright, M.P., Mr. Jonathan Peel, M.P., Sir Montagu Cholmeley, M.P Major Parker, .7 M.P., Mr. Morritt, M.P., Lord A. Hervey, M.P., Mr. Alderman Sidney, M.P., Col. North, M.P ., Mr. Pierrepoint Bentinck, the Hon. Ralph Dutton, Mr. Tomline, M.P., Mr. Cobbett, 111•P•7 Mr. Beach, :M.P., Sir J. Hay, m.p., Mr. Abel Smith, M.P., Sir R. Knightley, M.P., Sir Gerard Noel, M.P., Sir John Mordatuit, M.P., Sir E. Bering, M.P. In opening the proceedings, the CHAIR 1M rose and said—Gentlemen, we are assembled here upon a ve ry important occasion—the first, I believe, at least within our own times, upon which the agricul turists of England have ever met together in the metropolis to consider of the mode in which they could best approach the Legislature with their petitions for the redresss of a great and heavy grievance. (Cheers.) I trust that we shall not have met in vain, and that without detaining you by reading at length the purpose, as it has been publicly announced, for which you have been called upon to assemble, I may say, in a word, that it is to devise the best means, and to re solve strenuously and promptly to carry them into effect, to procure as early as may be the reduction, —(hear)—and also as quickly also as may be the total abolition, of the oppressive tax upon malt. (Cheers.) I have been requested to appear in a position of which I feel altogether unworthy—(no, no)—that of your chairman. I presume it can only be because I have the honour to represent an agri cultural constituency deeply interested in the ques tion which has brought us together, and because — and this I may venture to say of myself—l am known to be deeply and faithfully attached to the cause in which you are met. When I see before me an assemblage like this of the farmers of my country —when I feel myself supported as I am by many of the most distinguished members of the Legislature (cheers) —I know that it would be unjustifiable in me to detain you for many moments in the intro ductory observations that it is my duty to make. First, let me express my regret for the absence of two or three friends to the cause, who unfortu nately are not now here. Lord Berners, who lately presided at a meeting at Leicester, is unable to be here by reason of the alarming illness of a very near relative. Your well-tried and never-failing friend Colonel Barttelot is also prevented from being here by an illness arising from a succession of accidents. However, I rejoice to say he is recovering, and he has requested me to say what is not necessary— that his heart is in your cause ; and that, at the time when the question in which we are all engaged shall come before the House of Commons, he will, if he is alive, be in his place to perform his duty. (Hear.) Gentlemen, the state of the question is, perhaps, known to you all. This is a tax which, from the time of the conclusion of the war in 1815, has continued substantially undiminished. It was increased for a time during the Crimean war, and afterwards reduced to its former and, I regret to s a y, it s p ermanen t amount. This tax, which has thus continued unmitigated, was suf fered to remain without even the consideration of Parliament being applied to it, from 1835 to 1852. In 1835, as some of you may remember, ineffectual efforts were made by the late Lord Chandos (Duke of Buckingham) to procure its repeal ; but that well-tried and earnest friend of the agriculturist failed in his efforts, and I believe he failed, among other causes, because even at that remote period agi tation had begun for the repeal of the corn laws. He was opposed, we were all opposed, by a body, I re gret to say, more powerful in the State and more powerful in the Legislature than ourselves. In 1852 the Government then in power attempted to effect the reduction of one-half of the tax. They, how ever, very speedily ceased to occupy the ministerial benches in the House of Commons, and their efforts failed. From that time till 1863, though the ques tion was partially from time to time alluded to, no serious effect was made to call public attention or the attention of Parliament to the mischiefs and the injustice of this tax. In 1863 a deputation waited upon the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and for the first time for many years the Government became convinced that the agriculturists were in earnest, and that their voice must at last be heard. (Cheers.) A committee was moved for by myself in the House of Commons, and a committee was granted ; but the session terminated before a report could be made. We were anticipated in the beginning of 1864 by a bill of which you have all heard, for feeding cattle with untaxed malt. (Hisses.) I say nothing of that Act of Parliament. It has failed, but it has had this good effect among the community—it has satisfied the people of this country, and the Government themselves were compelled to admit—to some ex tent, at least—the injustice of this tax—(cheers) — to admit that the agriculturists of the country were entitled as of right to feed their cattle q_n untaxed malt. And, gentlemen, this is a great step gained, though, practically, the bill has had no effect in the country. It is a great step gained, because now, after one or two ineffectual struggles, we are at last going before the Legislature in a body, representing the whole of the agricultural interest of England, to call upon the legislature at last to give effect to our petitions. (Cheers.) I have, in the discharge of my duty in the House of Commons, given notice of a motion which willbe made in some three weeks from the present time. (Hear.) All that I need now de tain you by saying on the subject of that motion is, that you must not suppose that your representatives are less alive than yourselves to the justice of your entire claims. If they fail to ask at once and imme diately that which they know they cannot obtain. We, gentlemen, have a very arduous and very dim_ cult task to perform. We have to satisfy our own c onsc iences, and we have to satisfy your just de mands ; but we have to take a position in the House of Commons in which we do not dread that the Mi nisters of the Crown will be able to:say, " You know you are asking for that which you cannot obtain, because the necessities of the country are such that it is impossible at the present moment that a conces sion could be made of your demands." But, gentle men, what I do venture to say we shall de mand — what I call upon you all to enforce by petitions, by ur g i ng on ; your representatives in Parliament, and, ind eed, on the members of the other branch of the Legislatur e , influence, han or to whom and on all on whom you can exercise you even have access is that you make shall at least amount to this —that when any remission indi rect taxation, yourdemand shall be possible of reduce the malt tax upon the Legislature to shall be first considered. (Cheers and cries of " N' n my will, I should not have . 11( ly Power were equal to it an interruption, for knoinwcu.rred—l will not call well meant— the observations of some gentl fi eT t a a w n as o . n my c aloper right. If I had the power to direct the that, s eidnafsmuch the country, I do not hesitate to snaations of as the income tax was origin a ll y very purpose of .enabling the Finance Minister the we, now that the the day to reduce taxationupon commodities chiefly articles Ought to articles of general consumption, income tax has been partially reduced, stop where we are, and apply whatever surplus may exist in the revenue of the country to the reduction and to the extinction of the malt duty. (Cheers.) But, gentlemen, let us deal practically with the subject. (Hear.) Let us remember that the agriculturists, though I venture to say with con fidence they are by far the most important body of men within the Queen's dominions—(hear, hear) — are not, numerically at least, or as represented in the House of Commons, the most powerful. We have many classes of the community to contend with ; some among the commercial classes ; others are influenced by political considerations that ought never to operate upon their minds at all in a ques tion of the justice or tin injustice of a particular tax. Looking at all these classes, and seeing that we should be outnumbered, and that even many who wish well to our cause would be unable to support us, if we demand too much at once, I do beseech of you and exhort you all to instruct as far as you may instruct—l should rather say to urge upon —your representatives not to go blindly into this battle, and seek for what they know they can never obtain—or not now—but make a just and practical demand upon the Ministers of the Crown, that whatever surplus can be applied to the remission of indirect taxation shall be applied to the reduction and aboli tion of the malt tax. (Cheers.) In that gentlemen, you will be well supported by reason, by experience, and by justice. You have seen, in the 50 years of peace which have elapsed since 1815, tax after tax reduced and annihilated, upon articles sometimes of general and sometimes only of partial consumption —upon articles some indeed of home produce, others entirely of foreign produce. (Hear.) It would be in vidious to enter into comparisons and computations, but I may observe, without enumerating any other articles, that you have lately seen, out of the surplus arising from time to time in the revenue of the country, the tax entirely taken off paper and largely diminished on foreign wines. (Hear, hear.) I feel, therefore, that your demand is founded in justice, and I urge upon you to petition, to approach the Legislature, to make your voices to be heard, to satisfy your representatives—in whom I . know you may confide —telling them that you trust to them, that you rely upon their zeal and earnestness, and that you will never afford your cordial support to the policy of any Government, of whomsoever composed, till measures are taken for the early and final repeal of the malt tax. (Cheers.) In conclusion, the hon. and learned gentleman said it gave him great plea sure to say that the people had begun to bestir them selves and give proof of their earnestness by sub scribing money to create a fund for carrying on the movement until it should have attained complete suc cess. Within a few minutes the secretary had placed in his hands £25 as the donation of Mr. Barrow, M.P. (Cheers.) He would now call on Mr. Punnett, of the county of Kent, to move the first resolution. The resolution was as follows : That this meetingis of opinion that the excise duty upon malt inflicts great and serious injustice upon the growers of barley, which is almost the chief product of our native soil—is a grievous burden upon the consumers of our na tional home beverage, especially the working classes, by whom beer is so largely used as a portion of their diet—and is wholly at variance with the free trade policy of the country. Mr. PuNNErr, in the course of an able speech, pointed out the great injustice the malt tax was to the producer of British barley. The effect was shown by a statement of Sir Robert Peel in 1836, that during the previous 80 years to 1835 the consumption of beer had fallen off from a barrel to half a barrel per head of the population, while those articles which came into com petition with malt had largely increased. In that time the consumption of tea had increased from one ounce per head to 24 lbs. per head of the population ; the consumption of coffee from 4 oz. to 11 lbs. ; the con sumption of spirits from half gallon to one gallon per head. Since 1835 these effects had been more strongly developed. He showed that, previous to 1800, beer of the double-X quality, for which London brewers charged is. per gallon, might be brewed at 4d. per gallon. That was a grievance of which working men had good cause to complain. He de precated party feeling in the management of the question, which was purely of a fiscal nature ; at the same time pointing out to his brother-farmers the advantage of making the repeal of the malt tax a hustings test before they supported any candidate for the House of Commons. Mr. BALDWIN, of Birmingham, seconded the motion, and expressed an opinion that any reduction of the duty on malt would at once recoup the Trea sury, from the vast increase of consumption which would take place. Lord CURZON, M.P., supported the resolution, which was also spoken to by Mr. MORRITT, M.P., who gave an account of his reasons for having brought forward his motion for the repeal of the malt tax last session, and stated that he was proud to be able to demonstrate to the whole length and breadth of England that he was dead against the injustice of the malt tax. Mr. BANKS STANHOPE, M.P., also supported the resolution, insisting that the malt tax was, as re garded the farmers, a tax upon wages—a tax which was contrary to the principles of every statesman. Major BERESFORD also spoke in support of the resolution. He would not enter upon the injustice of the tax, because it was too manifest to require proof. But if the tax was in itself unjust, it was still more unjust at the present time, and under the present system of free trade. It had been said that this was not so much an agricultural as a general question. He was ready to acknowledge that ; but at the same time he thought it very much an agri cultural question. It was contrary to the whole principle of free trade, under which the agricul turists of England now laboured. They had been told by the late Sir Robert Peel and Sir James Graham that the adoption of free trade must en tail the reduction and abolition of the malt tax. Twenty years had now elapsed since that decla ration, but the impost still remained firmly fixed on their shoulders at present. It was to their earnestness and energy that the reduction and ultimate abolition of the tax must be due. If they only exhibited half the energy which the manufacturers had shown, the tax would not long be so fixed. The manufacturers had shown that they would not stand any impost which they dis liked. They met, coalesced, agitated, and brought forward any measure that seemed desirable. But the agriculturists, the yeomen and farmers of Eng land, tamely submitted to this injustice. They should rise like one man—agriculturists, yeomen, tenants, landlords, aye, and labourers, for it was a question for them too—be earnest, be determined, be constant, and they might depend upon it they would then gain those advantages which the example of the manufacturers had given, and which he trusted they would follow. They were told they were to yield to this injustice, because it was a large amount of tax—nearly six millions. If it was a very large amount, and it was unjust, it was a great and damnable injustice. (Cheers.) The larger the amount the greater the injustice, and the greater ought to be their determination to get rid of that which was large and unjust at the same time. Their powers ought to be now larger than usual, for a general election was coming on. Let them then remember who were their friends, and not allow. themselves to be humbugged by fine-spoken words. Let them look to the men who had stood by them hitherto. If they properly used their power they would obtain the repeal of the malt tax, if not this year, at least next. (Cheers.) A Cabinet Minister had told his constituents that the duty upon malt was only 12j. per cent. Let them listen to his rea soning. He talked of the manufactured article, with all its expenses, like porter. The truth was that the malt tax was a killing duty upon the produce of the land. It was for them to be determined and ener getic, and they would find that their friends would stand by them, and all that then would be wanted would be for them to stand by their friends. (Cheers.) Mr. RALPH DUTTON, M.P., said that if he were to presume to make a speech on the subject to such practical men as composed the meeting, he should only be travelling over ground that had been tra versed before. It was said in the Times that this was a landlord's tax. Now he considered it to be essentially a tenant-farmer's tax. (Hear.) As a proof of that he might mention that on Monday last he had attended an anti-malt-tax meeting where he himself and the chairman were the only landlords in the room. lie appeared now to give a guarantee of his humble efforts to obtain a remission and then the total repeal of this tax. Every argument that ever existed against the tax was more than ever f financial The orcibleonl now, with barl e y t at th e p r i ce it was . (H e ar.) y arcr iune fke however' that was brought against th em was I • argument of how this larg e sum of money was to be recouped to the Treasury. He thought that if the y were allo w ed t o malt inferior barleys the loss to the Treasury would not be so larg e by o ne - half as it was now computed to be. Moreover, there was always a large sur plus that ought to go i n part to the reduction of the THE SUi, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 9, 1865. tax ; while the rest of the deficiency might be made up by greater economy in the public expenditure. (Cheers.) He lived in a county which included the large arsenal of Portsmouth, and he saw a good deal of what was going on in the so-called fortifications for the defence of the coentry. God forbid that he should advocate leaving the country in an unde fended state, but he thought they were spending money to an unnecessarydegree. (Hear.) Hethought that in the building of these costly iron ships they were making experiments for the benefit of other na tions, and which those nations would make for them selves if we did not set an example. We went on building against France, but it was probable if we ceased building, France would do the same. A Federal commissioner, sent to report upon the capa city of the iron-shipbuilding yards of this coun try showed that the private yards could, without pressure, turn out 500,000 tons of shipping in the year. With such resources at our command—with the Government yards at their back—if a war should take place, we should very soon be in a state to follow the best models which other nations had exploited for us, and in a short time create an effi cient navy, without locking up so much public mo ney as we were doing at present. The present Sec retary of the Admiralty before he came into office stated in the House of Commons that a very large sum of money could be saved in the navy. He be lieved the nohle lord said £5,000,000 wasto be saved in the construction of the navy alone. That was exactly the sum that was wanted to repeal the malt tax. (Cheers.) So, when the Chancellor of the Exchequer wanted to know where the money was to come from, they must refer him to the noble lord the Secretary for the Admiralty. (Cheers and laughter.) The CHAIRMAN then put the first resolution, which was carried unanimously and with loud cheers.) Mr. OSBORNE, of Tamworth, now moved the second resolution, which was to the following effect: " That, strongly holding these views, this . meeting is de termined to persevere, by every available means, in de manding the repeal of this obnoxious tax, and agrees to the following petit on to Parliament (to be signed by the chairman on behalf of the meeting and recommends it for adoption throughout the country." The petition, which was circulated amongst the assembly in print, was taken as read. The speaker then showed how every one in this country had had the benefit of free trade except the agriculturist— how oppressively the malt tax operated on that class—and how its repeal would not only benefit them, but equally benefit every other class in the community. Mr. WOOD, of Dorsetshire, seconded the motion. Colonel NORTH, M.P., supported the motion, re plying to the taunt of the Chancellor of the Exche quer that agitation was first required in this matter before the tax would be repealed. The farmers as a body were a quiet, orderly, loyal set of gentlemen, not much given to agitation ; but the Chancellor of the Exchequer would find, after this, that he would not have a complaint of that kind to make. Mr. P. BENTINCK, M.P., expressed concurrence in the determination to divest the question of a party feeling. The rights of the rural population, who were not fairly represented in the House of Commons, had too long been sacrificed to party considerations. Mr. CORBETT, M.P., impressed on the meeting the necessity of obtaining the assistance of the town population in carrying this question. When they became convinced that they would obtain cheap beer, they would readily support the proposition. He was sure there was no real difference of opinion on the subject between the manufacturing and agri cultural populations. _ _ Mr. FIELDING called attention to the fallacies put forward by Mr. M. Gibson in the House of Com mons last session, and repeated at a recent meeting at Ashton, where he stated that the percentage of taxation upon beer was only 12} per cent., while that upon tea, wine, and other articles was very con siderably higher. The CHAIRMAN, in putting the resolution, which was carried, announced that the last speaker had subscribed £lOO to promote the success of the meeting. Mr. STORER, of Nottingbamshire, then moved the following resolution : " That this meeting gladly recognises and approves of the. establishment of the Cential Anti-Malt Tax Associa tion in London as the medium of communication with Par liament, and the central authority for organising the vari ous anti-malt tax associations, and hereby appoints a com mittee of gentlemen to be the council of the association, with power to add to their number." He alluded tO several fallacious statements made in the Times, and said that if this had been a question affecting the duty on manufactures that journal would have done its utmost to procure its remission. He contended that the farmers were the greatest sufferers by this tax, and that it fostered the mono poly of brewers and maltsters. He had no doubt the increased consumption of beer would make up for the revenue sacrificed, and that even if the duty was totally abolished, the increased consumption of other excisable articles would more than compensate the revenue. Mr. J. B. BRANDRAM, of Thornton-hall, Hert ford, seconded the motion. A Gentleman here endeavoured to address the meeting, but the Chairman explained that, in con sequence of the shortness of time which was allowed them, it was absolutely necessary that a selection should have been made of the speakers. A scene of some confusion took place, in which another gentleman, who said he had for many years farmed thousands of acres, claimed to speak, but the meeting would hear neither of them. The resolution was supported by Mr. SURTEES and Mr. KEELEY, of Yorkshire, and, after some fur ther interruptions, declared to be carried. A vote of thanks to the chairman having been carried, The CHAIRMAN, in returning 'thanks, said he should be sorry to leave uncorrected an error into which a gentleman had falling in insinuating that he (the chairman) objected to the remission of the paper duty and the duties on tea and wine. He was glad of such remissions, but what he insisted on, and would continue to insist on, was equality of justice in the remission of taxa tion ; and he contended that, in the remissions of taxation already made, the heaviest and most unjust burden of all, the malt tax, was altogether omitted. (Cheers.) It had been suggested that they should not altogether rely upon the support of their urban friends. On the contrary, he suggested that they should put themselves in communication with every town in England, and by means of lectures, &c., to make it known that one effect of the repeal of the malt tax would be to furnish them with good cheap beer instead of a bad, dear, and unwholesome com pound. It was in the name of the great labouring class and of the people at large that he called on them to support the movement now making to abolish this most odious and unjust import. (Cheers.) The meeting then separated. STRANDING OF A LARGE AMERICAN SHIP.— BLACKPOOL, LANCASHIRE, Tuesday Night.--Early this morning (writes the Rev. R. R. Redman) a vessel was observed from this place on the Salthouse Sandbank, with signals of distress flying. The lifeboat stationed here, be longing to the National Lifeboat Institution, was soon launched, and proceeded to the assistance of the stranded ship. 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The daring burglary on the premises of Mr. Walker, the jeweller, continues to excite intense in terest in the city, and has produced a strong feeling of apprehension among merchants, bankers, and tradesmen for the safety of movable property of enor mous value which they are accustomed, and, in deed, obliged to leave behind them at night to the guardianship of the police, and in some instances to that of private watchmen. In Cornhill, in parti cular, where most of the leading gold and silver smiths carrying on their business, and in Lombard street, where the iron safe of a bullion dealer was ransacked under similar circumstances only a few months ago, the event has given rise to great dis satisfaction, . and the negligence of the police is strongly censured. To-day, at 12 o'clock, a meet ing of the inhabitants of the ward of Cornhill was held in pursuance of a requisition signed by 30 of the principal firms in that part of the city and presented to Mr. Alderman Carter, the chief autho rity 'in the ward. The requisitionists refer to the various robberies of late in the city, and state they deem it desirable that the inhabitants should meet " to take into consideration the insecure state of the property of the bankers, merchants, and shop keepers, and what measures should be taken in consequence ; at the same time to inquire generally into the working of the City Police, and as ,to their efficiency for the protection of the vast amount of property necessarily intrusted to their care. Mr. Alderman Carter, sharing in the common feeling of insecurity, as a leading citizen of the ward, at once convened the meeting on the receipt of the requisi tion, and it was held accordingly. He t r i e d, in deed, to gain a hearing on the matter at the meet ing of his brethren at the Court of Aldermen on Tuesday, but in vain. Most people would probably have thought, with him, that a meeting of the ma gistrates of the City of London furnished a legiti mate occasion for his calling attention, as one of themselves, to a matter which was engrossing the attention of the citizens at large, and upon which he might be presumed to have a peculiar right to speak as the Alderman of the populous and wealthy district in which the robbery had occurred. It is understood that he had meant to call their at tention to the apparent negligence on the part of the police which those repeated and daring robberies in dicated, and to the consequent feelings of insecu rity ; but he was stopped by an artifice to which some of the older members of the Court of Aldermen re sort when they wish to shirk an unwelcome subject, or to deal with it free from the safeguard of public supervision. First of all, at the very mention of the matter, Mr. Alderman Finnis, a leading member, if not the chairman, of the Police Committee, moved that strangers withdraw, upon which the• court was cleared of the people present, including, of course, the representatives of the press ; and that done, on the motion of Mr. Alderman Copeland, the Court was counted out, although they had with the same number of members been discussing for some time before the stale question of brokers' rents. Yester day one of the firm of Messrs. A. B. Savory and Sons, the silversmiths, of Cornhill, attended at the justice room of the Mansion-house, before Alder man Sir R. Carden, who was sitting for the Lord Mayor, and offered to contribute £5O towards a second sum of £l,OOO, in addition to the £l,OOO already offered for the apprehension and conviction of the thieves and the recovery of the stolen property, trust ing that other firms would join in the subscription. He was accompanied by Mr. Walker, who stated that he had been 40 years in business in London, the last nine of them in the City, and that all his arrangements for the safety of his property, especi ally that of having no one on the premises at night, had been made on the express advice of an inspector of city police. For years no event of the kind has occasioned more excitement. Throughout yesterday, as on Mon day and Tuesday, a crowd of people assembled in Cornhill, near the scene of the robbery, and many of the principal inhabitants called on Mr. Walker to express their sympathy and to see for themselves the way in which it had been effected. Like many of the places of business in the City, that of Mr. Walker, with the whole of the offices above, under the same roof, was left entirely unoccupied at night. At the top of the house, several storeys from the ground, is the workshop of a photographer, which is enclosed from the rest of the premises by a door on his own landing. The floor below that is let out as offices, and the floor below that again, which is the first floor, is in the occupation of Sir C. Crosley. The whole of the upper part of the house is accessible in day time by an d open door and a flight of stairs leading from a passage running from Cornhill to a paved yard called Sun-court, at the back of Mr. Walker's premises. The ground floor is divided into two shops, one of which is occupied by Mr. Walker, and the other by Messrs. Mitchell and Harris,tailors, each of which has an entrance from Cornhill, and that of Mr. Walker a side entrance from the passage gscrosi in t nthe the and shutters,n shop, , ihnp through ,which Corn hill,leading into Sun-court. The whole o f th e b asement between the two shops is used as a cutt i ng -room by the firm of tailors, and access to it i s h ad by stairs from their shop above. Mr. Walk er ' s part of the building is divided into a fn communicate by a very narrow p assage, and both of which is lighted by gas during th e whole night and on Sundays.there are ir ln on grtwoaptinlae which a passing policeman, or any other person, can at any hour of the night command a full view of the whole of the interior of the front shop, and the greater part of the back one if the door between the two be left open. From Sun-court, again, at the rear, a view is had of the interior of the back shop by a similar arrangement in the window, but with this addition, that a policeman or any other person look ing through one of the two apertures there can see reflected in a mirror nearly the whole front of an iron safe, which is erected in a party wall in a corner of the back room. The view, it is true, is somewhat obstructed by a partition, partly of wood and partly glazed, enclosing a workman's bench placed against the window ; but practically a policeman with a strong light inside the shop could see the safe re flected in the mirror. The officer on the floor im mediately below the photographer's workshop has two doors communicating with the landing on the stairs, and it was the custom of the occupants of that office on leaving for the day to lock one door in the inside, and then to lock the other on the outside, and to place the key on the bracket of a gas-meter on the landing of the stairs. From morning till night the stairs leading to the whole of the house above the shop was open to anyone having business there, and fliafgtehrt from 4o' theclock l in pho t t h o e gr d a a p y hees ape s rs h o o n p descending the key of the offices of the fl oor b e l o w on mightthe see br th acke e t of the gas meter. The offices of Sir C. Crosley, on the first floor, were locked in the same manner, ex cept that the key was taken away at night. All the 'occupants of the upper part of the house are accus tomed to leave for the day some hours before Mr. Walker and his servants, and it is the practice of Mr. Walker before locking up his shop for the night to send a boy upstairs to see that everyone there has left the premises. No one answering, he assumes they have all gone, and Mr. Walker locks the side door leading to the court on the inside, and then leaves with his servants by the front door in Corn hill. It is now beyond all doubt that Mr. Walker, however unknowingly, or the person who was the last to leave his shop, locked the thieves in his pre mises on Saturday night. They were then probably secreted in the offices immediately below the photo grapher's shop, the proof of which is that a candle stick which had been taken from those offices was found after the robbery in the floor below in the oc cupation of Sir C. Crosley. Being thus masters of the position, they appear fi rs t to have entered the office of Sir C. Crosley—probably by picking the lock—and then to have picked the lock of his iron safe—for there were no marks of violence on it— from which they took a small sum of money, though all that was there. The thieves then, in the most Workmanlike manner, cut a hole in his floor, by which they descended into the tailor's shop below, into which no one could see from the out side, as in the case of Mr. Walker's shop, which adjoins it. They must then have tried to cut through a partition dividing the tailors' shop from Mr. Walker's back shop, but, encountering an iron lining to have desisted and gone down to the basement or cutting-room, in the ceiling of which and the floor over it they cut a hole and so entered the back shop, containing the iron safe, and immediately above. The partition enelosing the workmen's bench, round the window of the back room, is partly of wood, about breast high from the floor ; and the hole in the floor was cut immediately behind the partition, so that the thieves entering the back shop by that way could conceal themselves behind the woodwork without being seen through the aperture in the win dow, and afterwards operate on the iron safe at in tervals as opportunities presented themselves. How that could have been done with so much effect, and without being seen by the different policemen on duty on that particular beat between the Saturday evening and Monday morning, and each of whom is presumed to go his round once every 11 minutes, is for them to explain. A very strong opinion pre vails on the subject in the city. Once in possession of the whole contents of the safe the thieves must have returned by the way they came to Sir Charles Crossley's office, using for the purpose a rope-ladder, which they eventually left behind them, with a gimlet, a finely tempered steel wedge, used in prising open the safe, and a most formidable life-preserver. They must then have made their exit by the side door, taking off first a lock on the inside for that purpose, and then closing the door behind them on a latch. They key of the offices on the second floor, which is left on the gas-meter on the landing, was found on Monday morning in the lock, and on the inside of the door, the door itself standing open, showing that the thieves must have secreted them selves on the premises before they had been closed for the night. In the meantime, Col. Fraser, the City Commis sioner of Police has instituted a rigid inquiry into the whole of the attendant circumstances. He denies that there has been any change of the old constables in that part of the city, such as has been imputed *to him, except, perhaps, the incidental one of a man leaving the force and another being appointed in his stead. For some time past repeated com plaints have been made to his predecessor and him self by the constables on that particular beat of negligence on the part of Mr. Walker, or his ser vants, in the insecure manner in which their pre mises were left at nights. Eight of those complaints have been made in writing to the chief office between July, 1858, and January, 1864. The constables on duty at nights have repeatedly had to use a pair of handcuffs in the place of a padlock which had been left off the shutters at nights ; once they had to enter an open window in the course of the night, and search the place for thieves, no one being resident in the house. These complaints, made in writing at the time, and now produced, are somewhat remark able. In July, 1856, Police-constable Bull reported that he had "at 9 15 in the evening found the pad lock unfastened on the shop shutters of Mr. Walker, jeweller, in Cornhill ; no one residing on the pre mises, they were left in charge of the night constable at 10 p.m." In February, 1859, the same officer reported that " at 7 30 p.m. he found the shutters open, and a window insecure on the first floor at the rear of the premises of Mr. Walker ; no one residing in the house, Sergeant Wreford secured it by nailing the shutters, and informing the night constable at 10 p.m." On the 21st of October, 1859, Police-constable Stobart reported that " at 10 p.m. he found unfastened the office window in Sun-court belonging to Mr. Walker, and no person residing there, the house was left in the care of the night constable when he came on duty until 6 a.m." On the 21st of August, 1861, Police-constable Grace reported that " at 10 p.m. he found a padlock un fastened on the shop shutters of Mr. Walker ; that Sergeant Carter secured them with a pair of hand ' cuffs and left the padlock at the station, because nobody resided in the house." On the 3d of December, 1861, Police-constable Whale reported that "at 8 15 he found the padlock left off the shutter-bar of the shop of Mr. Walker, where it was usually put as an additional security ; and no person residing on the premises, the bar was secured by a pair of handcuffs, and the key left at the station all night." On the 11th of March, 1862, Police-constable Botting reported that " at 10 15 p.m. he found the staircase window in Sun court open at the rear of the house occupied by Mr. Walker. No person residing there, Sergeant West wood and Police-constable Adams examined the pre mises found all apparently correct. The night con stable remained watching the premises until relieved, by the day constable at 6 a.m., who remained until the arrival of the foreman at 8 30 a.m., who found all correct." On the 10th of January, 1863, Police constable Hallett reported that at 10 p.m. he found the side door leading into Mr. Walker's premises from Sun -court and to all the offices above open ; no person residing there, a constable was left in charge during the whole night." On the 21st of January, 1864, Police -constable Bethel reported that " at 7 50 p.m. he found unfastened the padlock on the shutters of the shop of Mr. Walker, and no per son residing on the premises, a pair of handcuffs was placed on the shutters, and the padlock taken to the station." Up to last evening none of the thieves had been apprehended. The Saffron-hill Murder, .41.- APPREHENSION OF GREGORIO, AND HIS STATEMENT. Last night, between the hours of seven and eight o'clock, the man GregoriO, who it is alleged committed the murder of Michael Harrington, in Saffron-hill, on the night of the 26th December, was brought to the King's-cross police station by Mr. Negretti, of the firm of /siegretti and Zambra, of Hatton-garden, and was charged, on his own confession, with having committed the murder. The following particulars were gathered from Mr. Negretti himself. Ho stated that a number of Italian gentlemen having taken great interest in the case, and feel ing that the man now under sentence of death was not the man who actually committed the murder, were determined to bring the offender to justice. In consequence of what Mr. Negretti heard he yesterday proceeded to Edgbaston street, Birmingham, and in a carpenter's shop found the man Gregorio at work. He asked him if he was aware that his cousin, Serafini Polioni, was to be hung for the mur der of Michael Harrington, in Saffron-hill. Gregorio said, "You don't mean that ? " On which he (Mr. Negretti) said he did, and that it was true, and that there was no prospect of his being saved, and then askod him if he knew any thing at all about it, or had anything to do with it. Gregorio said that his cousin had nothing to do with it, and added, " All that took place was in the bagatelle-room, and nothing at all outside. When I was in the house my head was much knocked about. Serafini was not in there. I did not see him." Mr. Negretti then said to him, " What made you stab these people ?" He replied, "He was in the bagatelle room and was beaten about the head and body with sticks and pokers, and had I not had the knife I should not have come out of the house alive." He then added, " Can I save him ?" (meaning his cousin). Mr. Negretti said, " Yes, if you give yourself up." Gregorio said, taking his coat and hat, " Come along with me ; " and on coming down the stairs of the workshop he said, " My cousin shall not suffer for me." On arriving in town Gregerio asked Mr. Negretti if he would be kind enough to go to Newgate and tell his cousin that he (Gregorio) had come to town for the purpose of giving himself up and saving him. Gregorio several times on the journey shed tears and said he would save his cousin. Arrived at the police station, Mr. Superintendent Gernon of the G division was at once in attendance, and then Mr. Negretti stated that the man Gregorio had come to give himself up for the murder on Saffron-hill. As Gregorio can neither read nor write, and speaks but little English, and that imperfectly, Mr. Gernon thought it best that an inde pendent interpreter should be sent for ; and one having been procured, Gregorio was told that he might state what he pleased, but that he had better be careful.what he did say, as it would be written down and might be used against him. Gregorio said he was aware of what had been said to him, and then made the following statement : " My name is Mogni Gregorio. I have just come from Birmingham. I used to live at 73, St. John-street, Clerk enwell. Soon after this affair I went away from there. After that I stayed here a day or so, and then went away. I stayed at No. 1, Francis-court, Berkeley-street, Clerken well. I stayed there two nights. After that I went to the other side of the water. I stopped there till the following Saturday—three days and a half. I left then, and went from there to Birmingham. I went by railway from cross, in the morning, between one and two o'clock. I was there five or six weeks, and have just arrived from Birming ham. I have come here to hear what they have got to say. I have come to consign myself (give myself up). I under stand that my cousin is going to be executed for stabbing people in Saffron-hill at the Anchor public-house. I used a knife myself in self-defence. It was done somewhere about five or six o'clock on the day after Christmas-day. I was there, and used a knife in self-defence, because there was a lot of people there with clubs and pokers. That is all I have got to say." (This he repeated two or three times.) " I have heard that my cousin is going to be exe cuted, and that is why I came here." Mr. Superintendent Gernon here informed Mr. Negretti that the statement of Gregorio did not appear to be an ac tual confession of the murder, and therefore he could not have him detained on the charge of murder; but he should have him detained as an aider and abettor in the charge that had been preferred against Polioni. The charge having been read over to Gregorio, he made no remark, and was locked up. SPIRIT OF THE JOURNALS. TlMES.—Yesterday the farmers of England rallied around the statdard raised by Sir Fitzroy Kelly, and to-day a chosen band will march upon Down ing -street, and summon the Chancellor of the Ex chequer to surrender at discretion. Those whose business or pleasure may lead them to the neigh bourhood of the Treasury buildings a little after noon may see the distressed agriculturists on their way, every one of them suffering under the Malt Tax, and bent on obtaining relief from their burdens at the hand of the chief of tax gatherers. We hope the prospect does not alarm the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Two years ago he protested against being intimidated in his own house when a crowd of clergymen and hospital treasurers ventured on a re monstrance, but to-day he will have to face a more stalwart company. Instead of the mild dispensers of Charities there will be men known in many a field of action ; squires and yeoman from Kent and Sussex, from the Eastern counties and the shires, from the extreme North, the South, and the West, will be assembled together, all powerful and all re solute. If the deputation which will wait on Mr. Gladstone to-day truly represent yesterday's meet ing, they will be a company powerful in everything except Parliamentary influence. Their natural leaders do not believe in the possibility of their suc cess. With the exception of Sir Fitzroy Kelly, no member of the late Conservative Government ven tured to countenance by his presence the meeting in the Freemason's-hall. These leaders of the country party know that before abolishing a source of re venue there must be a sufficient surplus in hand. The Malt Tax brings in six millions a year, and six millions are not to be picked up in every corner. The speakers yesterday disdained for the most part to refer to this difficulty, and one of the few who did touch upon it was content to declare that it was no business of his to provide an income to meet the national expenditure. Yet former experi ence might have warned them of the futility of clamouring for a repeal of the Malt Tax without having a surplus or providing a substitute to make up the deficiency. Thirty years back the far mers' friends got a majority of the House of Commons to vote for the repeal of the tax, but the leaders of both the great parties protested that the Government could not be carried on without the money raised by it, and the decision was reversed. ' And what was declared by Whigs and Tories to be impossible in 1834, when the national expenditure was under forty millions, is not to be done at a stroke now when the expenditure is nearly seventy millions. The fact that we have not got the money to make any appreciable reduction of the Malt Tax might be thought a sufficient answer to those who are agitating for it, but it is not hard to show that if we were so fortunate a tax on malt liquors must in some form or other be maintained. When the Chancellor of the Exchequer has a surplus he is bound to apply it in relief of all classes of taxpayers, and to remove those taxes which press most hardly upon them. As far as the Malt Tax is a tax on beer it satisfies neither of these conditions. Mr. Cobbett, indeed, advances a reason of a different kind against the Malt Tax. Unlike the needy knife-grinder, he always has a pitiful story, and yes terday he melted his hearers by telling them of a farm labourer who, after a long life of faithful ser vice, was so far demoralized by tea-drinking that he stole two-pennyworth of sticks to light his fire. Printed in the form of a little tract this tale might, perhaps, be distributed with success in the rural districts, but there are few who will agree in the deduction that beer-drinking is more conducive than tea-drinking to morality. The moral argument, such as it is, is wholly against a reduction of the tax on beer, but it may be set aside. It is enough to discuss the question on the simple grounds of finan cial justice and financial policy. On the first head it is sufficient to recall Mr. Gladstone's unanswer able argument of last session, that the remission of a duty affecting the price of beer would be a relief to England at the expense of Scotland and Ireland. We consume beer, which our neighbours do not, and to re lieve our own pockets alone would be to give an excuse for the cries of Scottish rights and Ireland's wrongs. Nor does the burden of the Malt Tax, as a tax on beer, furnish any reason for its abolition. The speakers yesterday indulged, as in the fashion of amateur financiers, in some very random statements on the percentage of the cost of beer and other com modities due to taxation. One gentleman said he had in his pocket calculations which proved that the tea duty amounted to no more than three per cent., and as he seemed to know that the tea duty was a shilling a pound it is a matter of curious speculation what he thought was the price of tea. But of the speakers who treated this part of the subject Mr. Fielden was the most elaborate. He criticised with severity the statements of Mr. Milner Gibson in the House of Commons and before the electors of Ash ton, and no doubt convicted the President of the Board of Trade of some hasty errors. But the ques tion of the malt tax is n o t b oun d u p w ith M r . Mil ner Gibson's infallibility. We are content to accept Mr. Fielden's own confession that out of the four pence which is the price of a pot of porter one half penny is the part due to the malt tax. The liquor is here not above the average, quality, and the tax is 121 per cent. There is no other taxed liquor which is so lightly taxed. The best black tea is four shil lings a pound, and the tax of a shilling is therefore 25 per cent. The best coffee is eighteenpence a pound, and the tax of threepence is, therefore, 16f per cent. If average qualities are taken, the per centage of taxation is, of course, higher. The aver age duty on wine is about 17 per cent. on the sell ing price. If the duties on sugar and• tobacco are taken into account the comparison is equally un favourable to the claims of the beer-drinker. The duty on spirits is, of course, many times higher, but this is regulated on different principles, and may be set aside. On a fair comp ar i son o f b eer w i th arti cles of consumption of a similar description it ap pears that beer is more lightly taxed than any of them. It may be confessed th a t a d emonstrat i on that beer is lightly taxed, c om p are d w i t h ot h er potables, is not a con c l us i ve answer to remonstrances against the malt duty. There is such a thing as a duty on malt apart from its effect on the price of beer. As far as malt i s an e l ement in beer the duty upon it affects`the article which reaches the consumer to a comparatively slight extent ; but if malt be capable o f immediate profitable u se , th e i ncreas e in its cost arising from th e d uty i s very large. The meet ing was yesterday told of a Staffordshire farmer who congratulat e dhi mse l f on having overcome last year ' s drought . by the device of feeding his cattle on barley which he had malted, when a friend warned him that h . e was infringing the law. How he could have . of " Gladstone's mixture," been ignorant of the law, considering the notoriety ap plied to the Inland Revenue for information. The board, faithful to themselves, told him he might is a wonder, but he cer tainly. wet his barley, but if he let it grow he would Incur penalties, It is an incidental hardship that a tax which is designed as an impost on beer should interfere with th e f eeding of cattle and the cheapen ing of beef. Could we retrace our steps, we should probably be of opinion that the Malt Duty ought to have been aboli s h e d b e f ore the Beer Duty ; b ut i t i s easier to bear the chains to which we are accustomed than to submit to new, and a proposal to reimpose the Beer Duty for the purpose of removing the Malt Tax would meet with very slight support. The far mers who gathered together in Freemason's-hall did wisely in appealing to their " tawn friends" for sup- Port. Urban friends have an interest in the matter equally with the rural population. Men like good beer, and cheap, and good beef, and cheap, in L on d on as they do i n th e country; and in the long run the consumer gets his share in the remission of a tax as well as the producer. If there were no such thing as a national expenditure no one would hold up his hand for a tax. Unfortunately for this view, there are many objects which Englishmen value more than money, and as long as we have good government we must pay for it. Between a large variety of taxes there only remains the possibility of choosing that which is least objectionable. These are truisms, but as Mr. Morritt confesses that his financial education began after he was elected for the North Riding they maybe of service to him, and le a d hi m, on reflection to see difficulties which he d oes not now appreciate : In the meantime, to talk i n th e d ark of throwing overboard six millions of mon e y i s more likely to tell in Freemason's-hall than in Downing -street. First get your surplus, and then show that of all taxes the Malt Tax has the best claim to be abolished. HERALD.—Lord Palmerston and his colleagues have undoubtedly treated the Reform question in a very dishonourable and dishonest fashion. They drove Lord Derby from office on the ground that the noble lord was not reformer enough : they under took to endo w th e country with a six-pound fran chise and to effect an important redistribution of seats. It was in their power to have carried such a measure through the House of Commons if they had pressed it with the slightest earnestness. The majo rity which had placed them in office was pledged to the support of such a bill, and the Conservative re action had not then effected any considerable change in the strength of parties. They introduced a bill, but it was evident from the first that they had not the slightest desire to carry it. They used none of the means which are at the disposal of a Ministry to press on its consideration. They showed in their speeches that they would be glad to see it fall to the ground, if only the fall did not take the character of a party defeat and their most faithful supporters ...,_-----/ ~..------'' ------.=b.--.--- --- i were put 1 1tc) .iered o ther smother it with talkee. S Mtn' amongst the independent I- 4 ,b e _ r a alf it was' . and amens lments of o needed nor sou ht. The few months before .14 01 thenceforth they assumed tht ‘t reform w a u e re pre sentative Rystem, w 11541 a I had declared to be necessary, t° be or fiff ected to treat as or; just and judicious, they Vow - -. st: iscreditable bream si r ardous and ill-timed. A in:f e t a ,ther say, was nelet inaike;ative y , faith, a grosser fraud, let uh' - committed even by a Liberal IVA. Ilder proverbial p_, sinner ought, according to that 1.. oks, but enshruf: losophy which is not hidden in bos , e , and so sil ew ' / in the nation's heart, to have his dt, - Inistry. °thing, inde,,,a, , this Ministry with all its offences. N.. , t, at le° A be can be said to excuse them ; but it natm_ ho ha• re ani allowed that there are very few person7serva,,vivee we l right to complain of them. As tepe e s r A polaw bie But thew, or! may, indeed, denounce the false pre . smen t ; bil they overturned a Conservative Dove j. cannot be on the other hand, as Consery atives ,we the ir o f tbe English let force to cain a measure sub versive m ....„ hart , icnodingotituai2titonth. at they did not put forty ti We should he we had a m g then fight to make fol.-cause o f liberty ana ''''' 1 0. the ,,, ne hu than now. The ,4 bubble" had not lA' "rears. England has learnt w orm ' 'n the right of the o ,o Men who used to believe 1 1 g ~ „,..,t ua• e that he w a 3 man to the suffrage, and to L. 'e have come to d r eg ..,, use it judiciously and wisely, - re m o dera te 0 ,..' .4 reduction of the franchise far rm.. The G e veraln; a , 'rest deal in the last fi that for which they then shouted. '-k. -,.in each, „ n ° is has given us five precious years—Year' ' - ig rel ° '6 o of which the feeling in favour of sweepl,-;v;:ieli ~, has grown fainter and slacker--years 3 - 1 ? - str oiP:,, Conservative party has steadily grown rev ive '.. - f until now it can laugh at any attempts to ii a iji r r' agitation which then it might have nee i. a n u r so determined effort to resist. We will noted !a then, of the Ministry that they have burl& ons vo t and made the name of Liberal 5yn0n523203 'the that of hypocrite. But if the C to ons c erv onl ail l iisain v i , Itcoit , complain no one has a right Whig-Radical majority is porticeps crinn es • w ho e. not complain of the violatioLl of pledg an d eit; accepted that violation with fferen ee 'bsurd ti , j ot with satisfaction. Nothing can be more . 3 ' &p olit e , the outcry which some of the soi-disant 1%0011 Liberals, now that a dissolution is ?the f ar o raise against the Ministry. It is part ° j,eeP a t What have these gen tl emen done to ef erl2 e d Government to its pledges ? Have thei, 6 11 0 ,! 0 ? the slightest pressure on it ? Have th e -' pe sityp, their pretended dissatisfaction by any l e to ~...0 Certainly not. They have been as a° w ithoi; i3 eo Brand's whip since the Reform Bill w as , s t et r i.',l,' *5 as before. They have supplied the clea r- f fon o f that they did not regard the breach e neo du e ice deserving of any censure. Look at the exc , i /fri tbi ; their leaders—of those Reformers , P . .„`" . h ing 0 , n o• who in their speeches subordinate eve r ills` a- a great question. Take Mr. Staysfeld, an .i ° bas,.,, a i o That promising middle-aged yehang _,,, ta dy t ° Ir , time during the last five years, be 03 1,, ~,,„- i Ye t on, kn Sta o n w s i f n el g d th ac a c t e r p e t f ed orm offi w c as e upon the necessity of immediate ret ° - " d iy a ho,ier would have none of it. Then there is oral „ r es' He is now rather violent again, and in when Siog not spare the Premier, but at the time son` ent, shelved, the thar2ilrthe. Brig knowing sure might have made the Premier try' 0 , 4 5 . Mr. Bright was faithful enough to the ce: C e oo lf the The repeal of his paper duty purchase d w p ",t tht, ii et tion of the Ministerial ill faith. AV° r e l l- ,ine P - vit Liberal majority did not make one, gen l f e dgeo, be effort to keep the Government to its P no O w , aided to evade them, and in pretending e f the k i o e, indignant and disconsolate at the failur e g ites b ' t he vernment to do anything on the Ref° ll l,ol" tt i. they are guilty of a shameless hypoerisl 110 $ 0 1' public, and gross injustice against W e de at 31 , ( l e , They are all alike, Ministers and indePe ll t he I l i /A. bers. The censure of the Ministry 13 3: et tle 13 ;i t ig pendent members is the pot calling the 1 : - ja y eve te e Mr. H. Seymour took occasion on Tue,, s en ne steps to deplore that the Government had t" -- D., C O' B a t to redeem its pledges ; he describedtislwood_.4. ' o p correctly ; each one of the taunts was J r.er cl ff,.. - s lli what has Mr. Seymour, or what have -" II aanYj t it of Sir F. Crossley, who also, althottg_st, tbilio much better satisfied with the Governor:, to 1 .:1 5 0 ought to have grappled with Reform, a° e ' i o J; o ot it do so ? Have they put on the se r v iti I ' l , B o they ever shown that they really care 3 ` 110 '',/ the passage of a Reform Bill? N e ver : itlio istri iti t been obedient supporters of the l it tle,,,, i ' i di grumbling now and then, perhaps, a o f, n e 4 ynergett -rico always ready to support it in any e -- d hyp o _l4 t are not worse, they are not more pr.ofourt.ai Deopcie, than the other occupants of the lthilia t . erl s i ll 0 but they are fair sample of that t Refe'r ° o '''' pendent Liberalism which raves abou ft , 0 , - se' election or in prospect of one, and refuses' a _„ 4 .0 3 Francis Crosley himself tells us, to v°" - e" - 1 , 3 11 1 form Bill because the enactment of such - must be followed by a dissolution. VirtUol.l 1 0 COUNTRY MARKETS f pliC HULL.—TUESDAY. ply ° pod' At our market to-day there was a short S il s cal l , - te s ' lish wheat, which met a slow sale at last w ae , r iou s ,.o l s ° , Foreign wheat in fair retail demand ot raja e c i ‘qi l l oa" Fine malting barley rather dearer, stout grr b ois l ',' fi g t I3 a fair amount of attention. Oats, peas, an ti (0 00 0- change. The arrivals of linseed are la i rg,, th 8 24,467 qrs., of which 10,382 are from Ca' c-It* i v 51Yg.,111191413 NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE.---, S have °-„- 0 0 4 8 ' The corn markets in Northumberlaou -1,01/3e'"i6l'ol, moderately attended, and the business dcal e ''',l;cl 0' 9 ",;0 1 9 what limited. At our market today co op s Prices- r - /la from Saturday. At Alnwick there waS large supply' of grain _ Northumberland wheat, wh which sold cilidonait3e2assitel4rltst,esS2.oirfs ot_leal44; Suffolk, 39s to 455; Dantsic, 39s to 46s' o ats, 3 65, ,- barley, 26s to 31s ; bean 36s to 40s; lie, 2 •7 s to sof 51s to 62s per qr. ; flour, 26s to 28s per ss ' cit 96 ; °ld ° The averages were—wheat, 38s ; barle)", - S 19s per quarter. t h e re a o LYNN.—TuEsDA V • d 90 t 1 A At to-day's market the attendance was go ° A si , , r 9, 0- was a fair show of wheat ; the demand Wa s -b°Bto - prices, the condition having been sorae w i i io by the weather. ela ' I / P t New wheat, 43s to 4-4 s ; new red, 37s to 398; v ole, 9 41s to 42s ; old red, 38s to 39s per 36 stone. .1-osteo,3 malting, 32s to 345; secondary, 30s ; ordinal, l a rge ,, per qr. Oats, 20s to 22 s per 24 stone. Beans, to 34s ; small, 34s to 36s per 38 stone. MARKET HARBOROUGH.—T3 New white wheat, 40s to 44s ; new red, 3is to o e 0 0 stone. Barley, fine, 34s ; other kinds, 25s to 3° S ' fi e Oats, late prices were maintained. Beans and V' also at late rates. _., O il' SALISBURY.—TUESDAY. , „ n a g' , At market this morning the attendance of 1 0 . 3- n ta l et e l, lers, and dealers exceeded that of last week. oci.4l' about the usual offer, and together with bean ti od, continue to be only very moderately dealt tn . , b li n t o r t ie ll o oo tered rates. For flour a limited demand was (35 1;seci 4 0° at 265, 28s, and 32s per sack. Wheat resho-5041; 36s to 42s ; barley, 28s to 338; oats, 19s to 280.,_;„"0/, ' to 465; and peas, 34s to 48s per qr. Best v'y household ditto, 9d per 81b. loaf. _ , _ O O, ----- ,itio!" BREAKFAST ,:p 100 0 % BEVERAGE.—Homo3opatw. i al a c• A o s' and the medical profession generally, rec crti°3 a ti le VP as being the most healthful of all beverages. , W , :is ° A I S,ri trine of homoeopathy was first introduced In'"_,,,, - A elv' he r; there were to be obt Ailed no preparations of papa a l t 's tractive to the taste or acceptable to the stole s- 0 0P 0 0 ' was either supplied is the crude state, or s f s , et i ,P ° O O :, manufactured as to obtain little notice. J. -r 4) :,.18 39 ,i" ic i ",t Homceopathic Chemist, was induced in the y e— co eec - iifj i his attention to this subject, and at lengti l ° jo g ti l r e e lor, the assistance of elaborate machinery , i n De m ici S s ps o ,l l e to produce an article pure in its composition, - 00 a it by the perfect ti ituration it receives in the P r° , lo te S te fir through, as to be most acceptable to the dex as as s t A: For general use Eppa's Cocoa is distingu ished s 0 0 i' rating, grateful breakfast beverage, possessin,gvaod oi itts' dons aroma. Dr. Hassan, in his work , •'' r ietY f tt? 4 0 Adulterations," says —"Cocoa contains a great : 0 0 1 40 a portant nutritive principles—every ii3gr edi , get , gal e',.co lre y the growth and sustenance of the bodY•• itlw r i 0 nutritive, cocoa stands very much higher t hsli -s e ol ile -Ae r • or tes. ,, Directions—Two teaspoonfuls of the_ i l i ' r. , 0 . 7 4 !), breakfast cup, filled up with boiling water or rn s 'old sold in tin-lined Vb., Ob., and 11b. labelled PeclOt_ t o ,. 3 1 groo2rs, confectioners, and chemists.—[" g' , r OS PTI Births. ..-r -g * e rg AMinst., ES.—On the Bth at Eaton- sq uare, r - CPP Ames, of a son. co/ BELL.—On the Bth inst., at 7, Buccleuch-terr3 ,513a6. Clapton, Mrs. Wm. Basil Bell, of a son. wife c 0 DENT.—On the sth inst., at Limpsfield, the l ' y pr fol Dent, Esq., of a son. vec tori , HUSSEY.—On the 4th inst., at Ring stead •i• Mrs. W. L. Hussey, of a son. 0 1° Marriages. o tia, 51 , 11 0 1 0 i t' HAnnts—GLisx.—On the 7th inst., at P l 9l , y4lolll' son of Sir William Snow Harris, I t i 7 c , lAN ''. 4 '3 garet Sibella Gertrude, daughter of t 10 1 , 1 ,3' I%sq• t. at s t a, P VAVASOUR—KAVANAGH.—On the Bth ins t•' Catholic Church, Hampstead, the g° l:l ' clf I ,_sour, to M. D. Kavanagh, Esq. • 0 Deaths. BRAND.—On the 7th inst., at Notting-hill, late 16th Foot, aged 76. , J0b1i,03. , gai°r:;el3,:eiieticlC BAILLIE.—On the 6th inst., in Lena°D'Aiire, ' O. Baillie, Esq., of Leys Castle, Inverness -D ,0, 10 ° ' 1 65. the v7i o' I3EETox.—On the 6th inst., at Greenhithe, g ic 'ti° Beeton, Esq., aged 29. a, g r eig -v3 DoyLE.—On the 7th inst., at St. John'sl_,,ltto, 1 er j L i nc obao lie sir Doyle, of the Steward's - offi ce, aged 72. 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