The Sun. — London, England, 1866-05-31 00:00:00

Association of Trade Protection Societies, yesterday the annual meeting of the members of this association took place at the Westminster Palace Hotel—Mr. Robert Wells, of Hull, in the chair. Amongst the other members present were —Mr. H. F. Pankhurst, Manchester ; Mr. Henry Whitworth, Manchester ; Mr. John Cripps, Liver pool ; Mr. A. Hardwick, Liverpool ; Mr. George T. Bathgate, Edinburgh ; Mr. Wm. Johnson, Leeds ; .31r. W. 11. Chamberlain, Leicester ; Mr. John D. P a ul, Leicester ; Mr. Edward Gripper, Notting ham ; Mr. Joseph Roberts, jun., Leicester ; Mr. John Parsons, Bristol ; Mr. John Miller, Bristol ; Mr. Thomas Blakeman, Mr. Henry Evanett, M. P. A. Taylor, M.P., Mr. J. D . Harris, Mr. Mac alister, Glasgow and West of Scotland ; Mr. J. H. Dixon, Sheffield ; Mr. W. H. Barrow, Mr. J. L. Longstaff, Lord Amberley, M.P. (Nottingham), Mr. Thomas Angell, Mr. V. Fococke, Mr. Lewis Waterman, Bristol ; Mr. Robert Mellors, Notting ham ; Sir F. Crossley, Ba rt., M.P. (Halifax), Mr. Leeds), Mr. Graves , M.P. (Liver- E. Baines, (Leeds), Lord F. Caven dishpoo ,1) Mr. Beecrof t, (North-west Riding), Mr. Norwood, M.P. Bcc. The CHAIRMAN said the first business before them was the consideration of the Bankruptcy Bill. The committee met on the previous night, and drew up a short report of the expression of opinion which they had elicited from the various societies. It would be entirely impossible for the meeting to go seriatim through all the clauses of the bill, but there were certain great principles of a most important nature to be submitted to their consideration. Mr. MELLoRs, the secretary, then read the re port, which recommended that the bill should re ceive the support of the commercial community, subject to such modifications as were named. The committee approved of the realisation of the assets being left in the hands of the creditors, who were to a ppoint inspectors and trustees ; but such ap pointment should be made,by a majority, in num ber and value, of creditors, and not by a majority in value only, as proposed by the bill. They ap nroved of the disqualification of relatives as trustees. Tiley thought the trustee should be paid either a sum in gross or commission on the sum realised, to be fixed by the creditors at the time of the appoint ment of the trustee, and not by the inspectors after the estate had been realised. They regarded the &Unction between trader and non-trader as unne cessary, and desired non-traders to be liable to a summons similar to trader-debtor summons. No debtor should be made bankrupt under £lO or £2O. The present law as to imprisonment for debt, and the discharge of debtors from prison, should remain wialtered. As to the adaptability of county courts the committee were not agreed. No priority of full payment of trust funds should be permitted, except in cases under wills and settlements for widows and children. The discharge of a bankrupt should be given upon payment of 6s. Bd. in the pound, or the adoption of the Scottish system, viz., at any time, by the assent of all the creditors who had proved ; after six months, a majority in number, or four fifths in value ; after 12 months, a majority and two-thirds in value ; after 8 months, a majority in numbers and value ; in two years, by the court, after due notice to the creditors and a hearing, and that without the certificate of the trustee being necessary. The criminal sections had not been amended. The addition of clauses to include a deceased insolvent's estate the committee considered desirable. The various recommendations in the report were then discussed, and the results were that the meet ing approved of the proposition respecting the reali sation of assets being left in the hands of creditors, but rejected the suggestion that the appointment of inspectors and trustees should be made by a majo rity in numbers and value, and not by a majority in value only, as proposed by the bill. The sugges tion that the trustees should be paid either a sum in gross or by commission was also rejected. The proposal for the disqualification of relations as trus tees was agreed to. It was unanimously agreed that the distinction between traders and non-traderswas unnecessary. The clause in the report to the effect that no debtor should be made a bankrupt under £lO or £2O was negatived. In regard to the law as it affected imprisonment it was thought that the present power of imprisonment for debt in the supe rior courts on final prccess should be retained. As to the adaptability of county courts as a machinery for bankruptcy administration, the meeting was not agreed, though several of the delegates were of opinion that county courts might be so constituted a s to render them fit for the purpose. After a long discussion, it was agreed—" That no priority of payment, as proposed by sec. 249 of the bill to be given to friendly societies, be allowed." As to the clause relating to the discharge of a bankrupt, it was agreed that the requisition of payment of a divi dend of 6s. Bd. in the pound as a condition prece dent to the right of a bankrupt to procure his dis charge be expunged, and that in lieu of the mode of obtaining the discharge of a bankrupt, the pre seut Scottish system of assent of creditors be substi "tilted. Upon the question as to the imprisonment for debt a variety of suggestions were made, and at length a resolution was proposed—" That in the opinion of this meeting some provision should be made for the punishment of the several offences mentioned in division 3, sec. 159, of the act of 1861, And also for the punishment of fraudulent pre ferences." It was felt desirable that an allowance to the bankrupt should be made as under the old act. Mr. Miller suggested that half-a-dozen professional men, two from London and the others from the country, should meet for the purpose of considering the " little details" of the bill, especially the forms ; such gentlemen to be paid by Government. Mr. Pankhurst thought that this was a most unlawyer like suggestion, and one which the Attorney-Gene ral would not think worth a moment's consideration. The meeting then adjourned till this morning. _ In the evening a deputation , consisting for the most part of the gentlemen who interested them selves in the meeting, w upon the Attorney- General in the Earl Marshal's himm, House of Lords, for the purpose of acquaintin6rwith the result 'The depu g tati of their deliberations. by the following members of pa r liamentonasaugmented Phillips, Mr. Bazley, Mr. E. j :---Mr. ' lm es , Q.C-, r,.. L o A Milton, Mr. Barnes, Sir M. Peto, Mr. Hadfield, the Hon. Mr. Egerton, Mr. Horsfall, Mr. Turner Mr Graves, Mr. Graha m, Mr. Hibberd, Mr. u. 2 • Berke ley, Sir F. Crossley, Bart., Mr. Harris, & c . The deputation having been formally introduc e d by Mr. Norwood, M.P., Mr. WELLS, the chairman of the meeting, rea d the above resolutions to t no he At thentorne en ter into a discus y-General,who, in reply, said he could t sion upon the several points which were contained in the resolutions ; but he might inform them that .. these points had not escaped considerat ion. Some of them indeed had been very carefully co nsidered. Mere were two on which he might say that his own private opinions ;were very much in accordance with those they h a d to the diatineti expressed, viz., the one which related He had n o say.eonliDetween trader and non-trader. He could not ee in favour of that distinction. better to do what positively w hethe r it would be to the clause affeetTnyg friendly wished or not. With respect i endlY societies there was g round for consider a ti on ted to him. It might be tnhowughaht they had submit the engagements of those societiest inconsistent with that th ey s h ou ld take away from them the privileea which they no w possessed by law. It might, p er h aps as retrospective legislation again s t t be regard e d tn • Might compromise be effec bed in this way.) a That th privilege should be continued to the e I present so cieties for a limited time, and not be extended to those which mig ht be formed hereafter. As to imprisonment for debt, he saw no prospect whatever of being induced to waive that portion of the bill. He did not think the objections which had been urged were sufficiently - solid to remove the reasons which had induced them to make the proposal. Re specting the dividend, that was no doubt a very im portant and difficult matter, as to the fixed dividend which would entitle to discharge. He had no doubt that they had well weighed their proposition. The object which they (the framers of this bill) had in view was, by having such rules, t o discourage that class of trading commonly called "reckless trading," and to make it not too easy for the bankrupt to en ter into business again. Whether they or the Govern ment were right he would not attempt to say. H e should like to know what the views of the associa tion were, supposing a c ompromise of this kind we r e entertained—to retain the pr esent clause as to the general sale, and giving such power as they sug gested to the credit or s within alimited time, and i ges then to the court to dispense with the dividend, or if it was thought that the con duct s x o f y t e h a e r sb' period,ankru had been unexceptionable, or his losses due to unavoidable circumstances. He should be very glad to hear their opinion upon it. Mr. WELLS said the association would meet in the morning, and would then take the matter into con sideration. He would beg to ask the right hon. gen tleman if there was any particular reason why the amount should be fixed at 6s. Bd.? The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said that was one-third of a pound—that was all. It was possible that some persons might actually endeavour to increase their assets with the view to getting that dividend-6s. Bd. they contemplated bankruptcy ; but he would be quite ready to make the punishment clause more stringent. Mr. WELLS said the difficulty was to ascertain whether such was the intention or not. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL--Certainly. Mr. WELLS further pointed out that, in certain cases, the 6s. Bd. clause would bear very hard. After some further conversation, Mr. Norwood, M.P., thanked the right hon. gentleman for his courtesy, and the deputation withdrew. Naval and Military Intelligence. The Prince of Wales has announced his intention to inspect the 11th (Prince Albert's Own) Hussars previous to their departure for India. About 60 rank and file, 12 women, and 36 children of the 96th Regiment have arrived at the camp at Col chester from the Cape of Good Hope, and ha ve been attached to the Bth depot battalion, pend in g the arrival of the depot fro m Belfast. Ca p tains Kirkwood and Tulloch, Lieutenants Houghton and Gillespie, and Ensigns Broughton and Durand are the officers expected with the d . epot. The sailing Indiaman Edwm Fox, Commander Molison, belonging to Messrs. Gellatley, Hankey, Sewell, and Co., of London, arrived at Spithead yesterday morning, with troops from India inva lided from various of her Majesty's regiments serving in the Bombay Presidency. She sailed from Bom bay on the 3d of February, and called in at St. Helena on the 7th of April. Light airs and calms predominated throughout the voyage until reaching soundings, not a reef having been taken in of the ship's canvas up to that time of her sailing from Bombay. On striking soun di ngs, h owever, the ship met with heavy easterly gales, which detained her in the chops of the Channel for 12 days. The troops brought home comprise—Capt. Preston (in military charge) and Lieut. Kyle, 45th Regiment ; and Staff Assist.-Sung. Stafford, in medical charge ; Lieut. Kershaw, Bengal Native Infantry, 138 non commissioned officers and men, for the Royal Vic toria Military Hospital at Netley, with 14 women and 31 children. Fifteen invalid soldiers and one child died on board since leaving Bom bay. Mr. Good, a private passenger, also died on board on the 17th of February. The invalided troops were disembarked from the ship yesterday morning at Spithead by a Go vernment steamer and conveyed to the Royal Vic toria Hospital at Netley. The Star of India is bound to London, but remained at Spithead up to sunset last evening, detained there by a strong south-east wind, and would have to remain so until the wind changed, or the arrival of a steam-tug to her assist ance from the Thames. The unarmeured screw frigate Liverpool, 35, 600- horse power, Capt. John Seccombe, just completed at Portsmouth in her refit for further service, made an official trial of her speed over the measured mile in Stokes Bay, near Portsmouth, on Tuesday, in accordance with orders issued to that effect from the Admiralty. The ship is complete in every respect, and ready to proceed from Spithead to sea at an hour's notice. On weighing her anchor from Spit head for the trial ground on Tuesday morning her draught of water was taken at 21ft. Sin. forward, and 23ft. 2in. aft. Coals in bunkers, 360 tons. Six runs were made over the measured mile, with full-boiler power, and four runs with half-boiler power. The full-power runs gave the ship a mean speed of 10.050 knots, and those at half power 8.204 knots. The wind was light, and water quite smooth. The Liverpool is one of the handsomest of the old school of wooden frigates, but the results of her trial will not compare favourably with those of our ironclads of similar power and tonnage. The Pallas, for instance, is very greatly superior to the Liverpool in speed (three knots), all points in rela tion thereto being fully considered, although the engines of both ships have been supplied by the same makers, and are of the same nominal horse-power. The Challenger, 20, unarmoured screw corvette, Capt. R. B. Maguire, sailed from Spithead yester day afternoon for Australia and New Zealand, where, on arrival, Capt. Maguire will hoist his broad pen nantt as commodore in command. The Severn, 35, screw frigate, 2,767 tons, 500-horse power, arrived at Sheerness yesterday morning from Plymouth. To-day she will be taken into the large basin of the dockyard and dismantled. In about ten days she will be paid out of commission, and placed in the third division of the Steam Reserve. The ship brought home about 90 supernumeraries and time expired men from the East Indies, including Assist.- Paymaster Smith, of the Jaseur ; Assist.-Paymaster Cox, of the Valorous ; Messrs. Taylor, Bolt, and Fox, clerks, from Ascension ; Mr. Capes, naval cadet, of the Octavia ; Mr. Hughes, engineer, of the Vigilant ; and Mr. Blondin, engineer, of the Tamar. The Severn was commissioned at Plymouth by her present captain in July, 1862, and has been in com mission nearly four years. On the 22d of the fol lowing September she left Plymouth for Bombay, where she arrived on the 13th January, 1863. She then visited the Persian Gulf, Aden, Ceylon, the Straits of Malacca, Trincomalee, and Madras. In July, 1864, she was relieved on the East Indies station by Admiral King, and ordered to China and Japan. After visiting Hongkong and Amoy she proceeded to Yokohama in the November of that year, mid arrived in Japanese waters too late to take part in the affair of Simonosaki. She next visited Yeddo, the capital of Japan, where she re mained six days. The Severn left Yokohama in April, 1865, arrived at Trincomalee the same year, where she received orders for home. She then pro ceeded t o B om b ay, where she was relieved by the o ctavia, Commander Hillyer. On the 23d January she left for England, touching at the Mauritius, which she left on the 25th of February, Simon's Bay April 4, and Ascension April 22. While off the Cape, in a gale of wind, she lost her starboard quarter boat, her foretopmast, and main yard, which delayed her three weeks to make good the damages. She was off Scilly eight days before her arrival at Plymouth ; but owing to the prevailingetiaonin east came home the days,s s he could u m n a d k e e r n sa o e w a w h a t y h . e ex S c h e e p and CwahilPee in the Channel did not get up steam till the morning of the day before that on which she arrived at Sheerness. The following appointments were made yesterday at the Admiralty :—C. G. Johnston, master, to the Lord Clyde ; W. B. Mainprise, paymaster, toth d e , Lord Clyde; Alfred P. Freeman and i h a assist.-paymaster, s , t ,ass_taesrs,isttoantht,etlioo the C o ly ro d n e t ; es ii . en w ry . : ( l3 3 7: F n : P a a s Y t master's-assistant, clerk, to the Canopus ; David , J. Hunt, clerk, to the Cumberelaydl;llJoin. s ' P o , : B a r s a s i i s n t e . 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Each box of pills is wrapped with printed instructions, for the guidance of invalids, who will readily understand, from carefully studying them, the best way of regaining health. Holloway's pills will work a thorough change in the constitutions of the weak and nervous. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENIN IRELAND DUBLIN, May 30. It is not so easy to circumscribe and " stamp out" the plague of Fenianism as the rinderpest. When the police think they have succeeded, and that their vigilance so long on the stretch may at length relax, a sudden outbreak shows that the social disease has been lurking in unsuspected quarters almost as viru lent as ever. The plan, however, of putting the in fected out of the way seems to be as effectual in one case as the other. In former times the summary mode now adopted of dealing with suspected cattle was the approved method of dealing with suspected rebels. In these times we find it sufficient to lock them up, and prevent communication with the healthy part of the community. It is a fortunate circum stance that in both cases the pestilence is a foreign importation, and may be successfully guarded against by a strict inspection of vessels at our ports. The police are now pretty well acquainted with the diag nosis of Fenianism, and yesterday they obtained what they believe to be clear proofs of five new cases, in Dublin. At 26, Capel-street, they found Peter Kelly, a leather-cutter, whom they believe to have been one of the military organisers of the Fenian movement, who has held much intercourse with the soldiers in the garrison, and been an extensive manu facturer of military belts. In the same street they found Thomas Brady, alias Flood, who had lodged in the house in Denzille-street where Stephens was when the Irish People was seized. Bryan Gibney was arrested in Little Britain-street, and he is said to have been first a " B" and latterly a " Centre " in the Brotherhood. Two other persons, T. Brady and John Reilly, were arrested at their residences in Great Britain-street and Green-street. These two are supposed to have formed part of the detective staff of the Fenian police, whose business it was to protect Stephens by conveying false information to the authorities and putting them on the wrong scent. The Daily Express understands that Judge Long field has intimated his intention to retire from the position of Judge of the Landed Estates Court, which he has ably and faithfully occupied since the institu tion of the Court. Since the death of Judge Hargreave, whose place the Government have declined to fill up, a considerable increase of business has been added to the duties of the two remaining judges, and this circumstance is assigned as a reason for the course which he is reported to have taken. He was called to the Bar in 1828, and has consequently been engaged in his profession for 38 years. His large views, public spirit, liberality of sentiment and earnestness of character, even more than his ability and learn ing, contributed to raise him to the high place which he has so long occupied in public estimation. The proceedings of the general court-martial for the trial of soldiers charged with participating in the Fenian conspiracy wa3 resumed yesterday at the Royal Barracks, under the presidency of Colonel Brett, 61st Regiment. Lance-Corporal Brennan was under examination during the entire day, and gave further details of the prisoners' complicity with the movement. He was cross-examined at consi derable length by Colour-Sergeant M'Carthy's counsel, but at the rising of the Court at 4 o'clock nothing had been elicited from the witness to shake his direct examination. Although no other case of rinderpest has appeared in Ulster, a cordon is still maintained round each of the " infected districts." The number of police at Cabra has been reduced to three ; but an additional force of 30 has been ordered to districts near Dun donald, in which some cattle have died. The Bel fast Newsletter says :—" The impression gains ground in the neighbourhood that no animals have suffered from the malady which has worked such dreadful havoc in the sister kingdoms." At a meeting of the Royal Irish Academy, held yesterday, Mr. Gilbert announced the following do nations :—From the Marquis of Kildare a MS. of the book of posting of the forfeited estates of Ire land of 1701 ; from Lord Romilly, English Master of the Rolls, 10 vols. of the publications issued t n en of de r n r c o e fe ; sso f r rom Mr. W. D. Dander's treatise Moore h a i s on the constituents of food. trasnusPleartiino A number of gentlemen, including Lords Bandon and Bantry, have presented an address on Ritual ism to the Bishop of Cork, in which they give a strong expression of " their utter reprobation of the unchristian and unworthy manner in which they deeply regret that a clergyman of the Church, though happily not belonging to the diocese," spoke of his lordship, in a published letter addressed to his parishioners. The allusion is to the Rev. Mr. Carroll, of St. Bride's, Dublin. Lord Otho Fitzgerald has resigned the office of a director of the Midland Great Western Railway of Ireland Company. accepted two more bills for £lOO each. One the prisoner negotiated, and he (witness) only got £5O out of the £lOO, and the other bill the prisoner re tained as a collateral security. Gave bills amount ing to £660, and received £lOO. Was being also sued on a £lOO bill now. The deputy keeper of the records at the Bank ruptcy Court produced prisoner's schedules of 1850, 1852, and 1857. In one his debts were £2,297 ; assets £233. In the next £lO9 ; assets nothing. In the third £449 ; assets nothing. The prisoner's description on the schedue showed that he bad been an ensign and lieutenant in the 2d Royal Foot, a lieutenant in the 66th: Foot, an omnibus pro prietor, a gentleman without employment, a part omnibus proprietor, and he had several aliases. Mr. Charles Vallancey Lewis, solicitor, proved that he had got judgment against the prisoner nine years ago for £35 and had never been paid. Mr. Henry London Buck, clerk to Baz ter, Rose, and Norton, solicitors, proved that in 1.863 prisoner was petitioner in a suit in the Divorce Court ; lost the suit and costs, £487. He had since endeavoured, but in vain, to get a sixpence of the money. The prisoner was remanded till Wednesday next on bail. Extraordinary Betting Nuisance Case. At the Guildhall Police-court yesterday Mr. W. Pearson, the landlord of the " Old George," Old George-yard, Snow-hill, was summoned before Sir James Duke and Alderman Waterlow for permit ting betting on his premises. Mr. W. J. Scott, of Skinner-street, appeared to prosecute ; Mr. G. Lewis, jun., of Ely-place, was for the defendant ; the City solicitor watched the case on behalf of the Corporation ; and Mr. Super intendent Forster on the part of the City Police Commissioners. Mr. Lewis said the defendant pleaded Not Guilty to this charge. He was a •warehouseman, and 18 months ago the London, Chatham, and Dover Rail way Company agreed to take his premises, and the price had been fixed upon, but the company had not yet entered into possession. The defendant's time was out, and he was only there on suffrance, so that in reality he was not the tenant. Alderman Waterlow asked if he was not the land lord of the publichouse at the end of the yard. Mr. Lewis said he was. Mr. Scott said that the premises in question be longed to Mr. Pearson, and Mr. Potter had used his best endeavours to put a stop to the betting which he charged Mr. Pearson with encouraging. The summons was taken out under the 3d section of the 16th and 17th Vic., cap. 119, which provided that the owner or occupier of any house, office, room, or other place would be liable to penalties not ex ceeding £lOO if they permitted betting therein. Mr. Lewis said the only question was whether he was the owner of the premises where the betting was carried on. Mr. Scott proceeded to explain that Mr. Potter had taken the premises, George-yard, Snow-hill, from the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway Company, and was to have that portion which had been occupied by Messrs. Morgan and Bowles. He thereupon proceeded to fence off what he thought belonged to him, leaving a right of way to defend ant's house, when the defendant and his sister claimed a certain portion as belonging to them ; and since Mr. Potter had put his goods beyond their line of demarcation no dispute had arisen between them. It was on the ground claimed by Mr. Pear son that the betting took place, and constituted the charge of permitting betting on.his premises. Henry Potter said he was a florist, carrying on business at 65, Farringdon-street. He had agreed to take the premises which had been occupied by Messrs. Morgan and Bowles. Mr. Lewis said they must prove what were Mor gan and Bowles's premises. His client took a lease from Morgan and Bowles of the public-house, with a right of way to it. Alderman Waterlow thought they had better con fine themselves to the part that was occupied by Morgan and Bowles. Mr. Lewis said it was all Messrs. Morgan and Bowles's except the right of way. Mr. Potter said that he went on the premises on the 15th of May to rail off theportion that belonged to him, when Mr. Pearson cautioned him to be care ful not to trespass on his portion of the property. He and his sister pointed out a line which they claimeJ, and the sister said if any goods were put beyond that they would be thrown off. He had not put his goods on the ground claimed by Mr. Pear son. On that day he saw a number of men with their betting-boards, who were making bets, taking money, entering it in a book, and then giving cards to the persons who paid the money. Cross-examined—There was a right of way to Mr. Pearson's house which he had railed off. He had not seen the deeds under which Morgan and Bowles held their lease. Mr. Lewis drew attention to the agreement be tween Mr. Potter and the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway Company, which stated that the property let was described in the schedule. The schedule stated that the premises were in the city of London, parish of St. Sepulchre, and consisted of the Old George-yard, late in the occupation of Messrs. Morgan and Bowles. He wished that put on the depositions as it might be necessary hereafter. Sir James Duke said that it referred to that part only which had been formerly occupied by Messrs. Morgan and Bowles. Witness, in continuation—When he enclosed the yard he drove all the men up into a corner near the defendant's house, and he did it purposely to drive them away. He did not know what title the Lon don, Chatham, and Dover Railway Company had to the freehold, but he had heard that they had bought it. A long discussion ensued as to whom the pro perty belonged, at the conclusion of which Sir James Duke said he should adjourn the inquiry. Mr. Lewis opposed the adjournment. The de. fendant was charged with permitting betting on his premises, and he had no right to be put to the trouble and expense of an adjournment. Sir James Duke said he would adjourn it. Mr. Lewis supposed that Sir James Duke would not decide without hearing both sides. Sir James Duke said he would not, but before he could hear any more he must ascertain who was really the owner of the property. Mr. Lewis applied for the costs of the day, as it was a private prosecution, and not instituted by the Corporation of London. Sir James Duke declined to make any order for costa until the case was decided, and then, if the charge were not proved, he would award costs. Mr. Lewis respectfully protested against the ad journment. The case was ultimately adjourned till Friday. Some betting summonses arising in the same yard were also adjourned without being gone into. stomach, and liver c omp l a i nts, [ AD VERTISEMENT.]—Consumption, and all nervous, bilious, in every stage, are only ag gravater and accel era t e d b y drugs o f e very description, but peril:o;ly curable by D u B arry ' s health restoring Revalen ta Arabica Food, as proved by thousands of cases which had been considered hopeless; such as indigestion (dyspepsia), cough, asthma, consumption, habitual constipation diarr heea, all gastric derangements, 'Hemorrhoids, liver com plaints, flatulency, nervousness, biliousness' fevers, sore throats, diphtheria, catarrhs ' colds. influenza, noises in t h e head and ears, rheumatism gout, impurities, eruptions, hysteria, neuralgia, irritability, sleeplessness, acidity, pal pitation, heartburn, headache, debility, dropsy, cramps, spasms, nausea and sickness even in pregnancy or at sea, sinking fits, bronchitis, scrofula, tightness of the chest, pains in the pit of the stomach and between the shoulders, tie. We quote a few.—Cure, No. 46,270. Mr. James Roberts, timber merchant, of Print ley Surrey, of thirty years' diseased lungs, spitting. of blood, liver derangement. and partial deaf ness.—Cure, No. 47,121. Mies Elizabeth Jacobs, of extreme nervousness, indigestion, gatherings, low spirits, and nervous fancies. —Cure, Nc,. 1,771. Lord Stuart de Decies, Lord-Lieu tenant of Waterford, of many years' dyspepsia.—No.49,B32. Fifty years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, const patiea, flatulency, spasms. sickness, and vomiting—Maria Jolly.- Cure No. 54,816. The Rev. James 'l'. Campbell, Fakenhara Norfolk, of indigestion and torpidity of the liver. which had resisted all medical treatment. In tins, lib, 2s 9d ; 21b, 4s 6d ; 51b, 115 ; 121 b, 228 ; 241 b, 40s.—Barry Du Barry and Co. No. 77, Regent-street, London; also Phillips, tea dealers, g ' ' King William-street ; likewise at 61, Gracechu rc h- s t reet ; 4, Cheapside ; 49, Bishopsgate street Within ; 63, 150, and 298, O x f o rd-street ; 330, Strand ; 54, Upper Bak er - s t reet; 103, T o tt en ham-court-road; 96, Upper-street, Islington, N.. Brothers, 65, Righ-street ;an Harvey, Notting - hill; Close d Stubbs, Queen's - terrace, St. John's-wood, London; and all respectable grocers and che mists.—BeWarC 01 spurious imitations. Money Agents and Officers in the Army. At the Westminster Police-court, yesterday, Mr. Ormerod Potts, of 57, Cumberland-street, Pimlico, money agent, a man about 45 years of age, was charged with fraud under the 24th and 25th Vict., cap. 96, sec. 90 (the Consolidated Statutes Act), which says, " Whosoever, with intent to defraud or injure any other person, shall, by any false pre tence, fraudulently cause or induce any other per son to execute, make, accept, endorse, or destroy the whole or any part of any valuable security, or to write, impress, or affix his name, &c., upon any paper or parchment in order that the same may be afterwards made or converted into or used or dealt with as a valuable security, shall be guilty of mis demeanour, and liable to three years' penal servi tude." Mr. Sleigh, barrister, prosecuted ; Mr. Edward Lewis, of Great Marlborough-street, defended. Mr. Sleigh, in opening his case, said he should prove that at the time the prisoner obtained the bills from his client, the latter parting with them on the faith that the prisoner was a gentleman and a man of substance, he was in a state of poverty, unable to pay the most trifling bills, and that since 1851 he had been insolvent three times. Lieut.' William Gore Brakspear, 31st Regiment of Foot, said he saw an advertisement last year in the papers of a person offering to lend money to officers in the army or navy. He communicated with pri soner at the address given, 57, Cumberland-street, Pimlico, and having received a letter from prisoner which induced him to believe he was a respectable man, and a gentleman of means and position to advance money, he requested a loan of money. Pri soner sent him a bill for £2OO at three months, which he accepted, and returned to prisoner.—(Bill produced.) Mr. Sleigh remarked that the bill was drawn by James W. Lyon, and asked the witness if there was a drawer on the bill when he accepted it? Witness upon consideration said he did not re member; he thought not. He should not have ac cepted it without he had been under the impression that he was dealing with a gentleman. He had never received a penny piece for the bill, and was now being sued upon it. Three or four days after wards letters passed between them, and prisoner at length said he could not advance money on so large a bill, and sent two bills of £lOO each which he asked him to accept. (Looking at one of the bills.) That was in the prisoner's handwriting, all of it, and I suh t nn d ld i! rd notsig sign I strikedifferent h himselfi n h s i a m i ii, agents., signed " Ormerod Potts ;" accepted the bill and another for a similar amount and sent them back. the and ,p,roisronaneer ePasostts s t ' r ' a t n o g t e he t b h ill at s rod" to the letters, because money-lenders went ptnanidtwatnCim's,Onelva induceds £lOO bill hadto accept been ' believing him to be a man of position and fund. Before he received the second bill of A i l id o e o r s t h o o a t e . e e p lv t i t t h n e e ss prisoner d id n had o t ob object £5O tt to his itso holding him at the large bill as a security. In January or Feb ruary saw the prisoner at his own house. Asked him the reason why he refused or neglected to advance more than £5O on all the bills he held, and he said he should advance no more, as he had heard witness had other bills out. That was so. He said the £2OO bill was safe in back his hands. When he a dvanced the £5O he said he one £lOO bill, and when would give witness three months had elapsed witness gave him a bill Ii for £6o—for £5O lent and £ lO interest. Believed was for £6O. Understood it to be so ; but it might have been for £6OO. Witness afterwards MAY 31, 1866. Royal Society of Arts. The closing meeting of the season was held last evening—Mr. A. S. Ayrton, M.P., in the chair. The paper announced was " On Popular Errors Regard ing Australia," by the Hon. Charles Gavan Duffy, and the attendance was remarkably numerous. Mr. D UFFY began by remarking that Australia and its institutions were much misunderstood in England, though so closely allied to it by various ties. Its people were English, and included repre sentatives of no mean number of well-known families here. It was too much believed here that the Australians had failed in carrying out the problem of self-government ; but he maintained that they had conducted that deeply interesting and pregnant experiment in such a manner as to deserve the ap plause, and not-the-censure, of thoughtful men. He quoted a remark from the National Review, which said that their Parliaments had not patriotism enough to give a decent stability to a Government; that there were crises once a week and changes of Gevernment once a month. He proceeded to show that these statements were false, and gave the num ber of Administrations in different colonies for vari ous periods, showing that the duration of govern ments had been about the same as in England. And he showed that England had not been free from some of the faults charged against the colonies, such as the exclusion of eminent men at periods of excitement, &c. Criticism of their institutions ought to be made on sure grounds. The colonial statesman had to contend with difficulties from which the English statesman was free. In Eng land the bones and sinews sustaining and moving the body politic—the vital machinery of the State —were covered by flowing robes of ceremony, and custom forbade too close an inspection of the august and mystic organism beneath. In Australia they had only the naked ribs and vertebra, pos ' sessed with a vigorous principle of life indeed, but with scarce a rag of traditional veneration to shelter them. The colony of Victoria, in which he resided, had never cost the mother country a guinea, and had sent her a hundred millions in the way of trade, and he trusted that her citizens would not be deemed unreasonable in moving for a rehearing on the ground that the verdict against her was contrary to evidence. Mr. MARSH, M.P., said he regretted that Mr. Duffy had not dwelt more on the social condition of the Australians, who were highly civilised. He had been out there himself recently. In Queensland they had given him a dinner, which was attended by about 300 persons of very various classes, but they all wore white neckties. (Laughter.) He considered that evidence of a high state of civilisation. He thought universal suffrage worked badly where estab lished, and that property was insecure in those colo nies ; but that Queensland, where they had not uni versal suffrage nor the ballot, was very prosperous. Captain HART, late Chief Secretary in South Australia, said in that colony the Government and the people were most prosperous, and that universal suffrage worked well. They had a large yeoman population from having sold a great number of 80 acre lots of land long since. Sir John Gray, M.P., Mr. Gilpin, M.P., Mr. Brady, M.P., and Mr. B. Hawes also took part in the discussion, and the chairman summed up in a graceful speech, concluding by proposing a vote of thanks to the Hon. C. G. Duffy, which was heartily responded to. The late American War. EARL RUSSELL TO LORD LYONS. " Foreign Office, May 6, 1861. " My Lord,—Her Majesty's Government are dis appointed in not having received from you by the mail which has just arrived any report of the state of affairs, and of the prospects of the several parties, with reference to the issue of the struggle which appears unfortunately to have commenced between them ; but the interruption of communication be tween Washington and New York sufficiently ex plains the non-arrival of your despatches. "The account, however, which her Majesty's Consuls at different ports were enabled to forward by the packet coincide in showing that, whatever may be the final result of what cannot now be designated otherwise than as the civil war which has broken out between the several States of the late Union, for the present, at least, those States have separated into distinct confederacies, and as such are carrying on war against each other. "The question for neutral nations to consider is, What is the character of the war ; and whether it should be regarded as a war carried on between parties severally in a position to wage war, and to claim the rights and to perform the obligations attaching to belligerents ? " Her Majesty's Government consider that the question can only be answered in the affirmative. If the ' l 'z-ovum:tient of the northern portion of the late Union possesses the advantages inherent in long-established Governments, the Government of the southern portion has, nevertheless, duly con stituted itself, and carries on in a regular form the administration of the civil government of the States of which it is composed. " Her Majesty's Government, therefore, without assuming to pronounce upon the merits of the question on which the - respective parties are at issue, can do no less than accept the facts presented to them. They deeply deplore the disruption of a Confederacy with which they have at all times sought to cultivate the most friendly relations; they view with the greatest apprehension and con cern the misery and desolation in which that dis ruption threatens to involve the Provinces now arrayed in arms against each other ; but they feel that they cannot question the right of the Southern States to claim to be recognised as a belligerent, and, as such, invested with all the rights and pre rogativesof a belligerent. ‘‘ I think it right to give your lordship this timely notice of the view taken by her Majesty's Government of the present state of affairs in North America, and her Majesty's Government do not wish you to make any mystery of that view. " I shall send your lordship by an early oppor tunity such further information on these matters as may be required for your guidance. At present I have only to add that no expression of regret that you may employ at the present disastrous state of affairs will too strongly declare the feel ings with which her Majesty's Government con template all the evils which cannot fail to result from it.—l am, &c., (Signed) " J RUSSELL." EXTRACT OF EARL RUSSELL'S SPEECH IN THE HOUSE OF CO3IMONS, MAY 30, 1861. From Hansard. "My honourable friend, the member for the West Riding of Yorkshire, alluded the other night to one subject in a tone which I was very sorry to hear used by any one. My honourable friend said that ' the great Republican bubble in America had burst' Now, Sir, lam proud to confess—l may be subject to correction—but for my part, when I find that a dark and tyrannical despotism has been abolished, and that people are likely to enjoy free government in its place, I rejoice. It is my duty to represent her Majesty as friendly to all existing States ; but if a despotic Government fall, and . the people w h o h ave been subjected to it are likely to obtain better and freer Government, I cannot conceal that it gives me satisfaction and that I sympathise with them. But I own I have very different feelings when a great republic, which has enjoyed for seventy or eighty years institutions under which the people have been free and happy, enters into a conflict in which that, freedom and happiness are placed in jeopardy. I must say that thejoy which I felt at the overthrow of some of the despotisms of Italy is counterbalanced by the pain which I experienced at the events which have lately taken place in America. I admit that 1 have thought, and that I still think, that in this country we enjoy more real freedom than the United States have ever done. I admit also that the great founders of that Republic, wise and able men as they were, had not the materials at hand by which they could interpose, as we are able to do in this country, the curb and correction of reason in order to restrain the passionate outbursts of the popular will. Yet we cannot be blind to the fact that the Republic has been for many years a great and free state, exhibiting to the world the example of a people in the enjoyment of wealth, happiness, and freedom, and affording bright pro spects of the progress and improvement of man kind. When I reflect that the reproaches which are cast by the States of the North upon the State of the South, and the resistance which they have called forth, have arisen from the accursed institu tion of slavery, I cannot but recollect also that with our great and glorious institutions we gave them that curse, and that ours were the hands from which they received that fatal gift of the poisoned garment, which was flung around them from the first hour of their establishment. There fore I do not think it just or seemly that there should be among us anything like exultation at their discord, and still less that we should reproach them with an evil for the origin of which we are ourselves to blame. These are the feelings with which I heard the remarks of my honourable friend the other night ; and I must say that I be lieve the sentiments which he expressed formed an exception to the general impression in England. Indeed I think nothing could be more honour able to our country than the prevailing pain and grief, which have been occasioned by the prospect of that great and free people being about to rush into arms to destroy each other's happiness and freedom." SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TIMES.—The chief nations of Europe will [in a few days meet at a Conference of which almost every one has spoken ill by anticipation. If there be an advantage in entering on any great enterprise with limited expectations, the representatives of the great Powers will have it. They may not, like an cient augurs, laugh in each other's faces, but they may well sigh when they think of the ambition, the obstinacy, and the desire of vengeance which three of their number have left behind them at home. In the capitals of the hostile Powers the Conference is declared to be a useless, though, perhaps, a neces sary ceremony. It may be well to conciliate the good will of neutrals, and to remove the scruples of those who shrink from the shedding of blood. To refuse to meet a public Council of the European na tions would be savage and ungracious, and as the deliberations cannot last long, and the time can be excellently employed in bringing troops into the field, there can be no objection to send an envoy or even a Minister for Foreign Affairs to hear what the neutral Powers propose. But the politicians of Vienna and Florence profess to have no faith in the power of ceremonious old statesmen to stay the dis putes of nations, to still patriotic enthusiasm or military ardour. That the Conference will be a failure is the burden of all the opinions from the neighbourhood of the Courts which will have to de cide on war or peace. It is well to bear this in mind, for whatis called official;intelligence has a strangely powerful effect even on the most sagacious intel lects of this country. When English people find all these Princes and statesmen taking such trouble, and appointing a solemn meeting with so many for malities, they can hardly believe but that some great consequences must flow from it. The agree ment of the intending belligerents to send repre sentatives is looked upon as evidence of a change of purpose, and war seems less menacing the moment the world consents to discuss its causes. Our Con tinental neighbours, who depreciate the importance of the Conference, judge perhaps more truly, and certainly more prudently. The safest plan for all will be to attribute no effect at all to it until we really see how the principals in the dispute actu ally demean themselves. If the plenipotentiaries reallypublish the protocol of each day's proceedings, the world will soon be able to judge whether the Conference affords a basis for any settlement what ever. If things take a favourable turn, we shall be all the more agreeably surprised; if they do not, then it will have been well to have escaped disappoint ment. The three Powers have acceded to the invi tation without committing themselves to anything whatever, and until the first meetings of the Con ference it is impossible to say whether it holds out any opportunity of reconciliation. The course which the discussion will take may, however, be predicted with tolerable accuracy. It is almost certain that at the first meeting Italy will make a formal demand of the Venetian territory, and declare that the sa tisfaction of it is an indispensable condition of nego tiation. Of the three parties, Italy is the only one which actually asks a definite concession. Austria, on the other hand, will probably declare her deter mination to stand politically on the defensive ; to make no demands, but to abate no pretensions. She has accepted the invitation of the neutral powers, and it is for them to explain why they have sent for her, and what it is they would propose to her. The doctrine of the Viennese Government is that it arms only to protect its own territory, which has descended to it from past generations, and been acknowledged to belong to it in successive treaties. To defend its own province in the south, its own rights and the rights of the German Confederation in the north, will be proclaimed to be its purpose, its clear right, and its bounden duty. For this it has 800,000 men in arms, and is increasing its forces every day. In spite of provincial discontent and pecuniary diffi culties that are near upon bankruptcy, it possesses its immense army splendidly equipped, and with a war material inferior to that of no State in Europe. The world knows this, and the con sciousness of it will no doubt cause Austria to as sume a lofty bearing at the Conference. The Em peror is convinced that if he has only Prussians and Italians to deal with he will gain a not very difficult victory. With a quarter of a million of men in the South, he defies the Italians to wrest Venetia from him, and with a still more magnificent host in Bohemia, led by Field-Marshal Benedek, one of the most approved soldiers in the world, he may possibly contemplate taking a signal revenge on his chief enemy. The neutral Powers must be prepared to find the Austrian as obstinate and supercilious as the Italian is passionate. They will probably be told that neither in Germany nor in Italy the Austrian Emperor listen to any terms of accommo dation which involve concession to his opponents, and they will be invited to propound, if they can, something which shall insure the peace of Europe without hurting in any way the honour 'of the Emperor. Prussia, though with less haughtiness, will probably be equally disinclined to initiate any proposal, for she thinks that time will aid her designs in the Elbe Duchies, and that if left alone either peace or war must eventually take the Au s trains out of Holstein an d b r i ng i ts own t r oops in. On the neutral Powers, therefore, will fall the bur den of proposing terms for the adjustment of these disputes, and the mo r e c l ear l y th e y express their opinions and lay do wn w h a t th e y think to be the duty of the intending belligerents the better will be their chances of success. If the two German Powers could be prevailed upon to submit the ques tion of the DUchies to be decided by the Gen federation, aad would bind themselves to abide by the decision, the original cause of these troubles would be removed, and peace would then be far from hopeless. There is, at least, reason to hope that they may be prevailed upon to make some such arrangement. There would then remain the question of the cession of Venetia. This undoubt edly forms the most difficult part of the programme. It cannot be omitted ; it is difficult to settle it ; but though we cannot be sanguine on the matter, yet we may be allowed to hope that a time is coming when Austria will find that it is advantageous to her interests, and not prejudicial to her honour, to re tire from this province. R e venture to make no suggestions as to the manner in whi c h th e negotia tion should be carried out, because we feel that there are many difficulties, and cannot admit the solutions which have been proposed. For we may say a t once that, however plausible the scheme of a territorial compensation maybe, it is most questionable in prin ple. It is easy enough on paper to compensate Aus tria for Holstein at the expense of Germany, and for Venetia at the expense of the Turkish empire, for such arrangements are not so easily made as they were 50 years ago, when diplomatists portioned out the map of Europe at their pleasure. Such a scheme, for instance, as the subjection of the Danu bian Principalities to a foreign yoke in order to give the Venetians freedom and independence argues a complete want of reflection. The world would never tolerate so gross an outrage on political morality as the sacrifice of one people for the benefit of another, The indemnification of Austria at the expense of Turkey might not be so flagrant an act, for the Sultan's Government has few merits, and the people at the north-western extremity of his empire would hardly suffer by being exposed even to Austrian taxes and Austrian conscription. But there are trea ties in the way, nor is it at all unlikely that Austria would refuse to have a Bosnian population added to the races of the empire. Possibly it may be necessary at last to propose nothing but a pecuniary indem nity. Money is a common-place, but still a good and honest equivalent for territory or anything else, and it would show more sense in Austria to accept it than to endeavour to extend her sway over another discontented people. POST.—The debate to which the motion for the second reading of Mr. Clay's Elective Franchise Bill gave rise in the House of Commons yesterday fur nished a not inappropriate interlude in the pause between the commencement and the close of the great party struggle which is taking place on the sub ject of the Ministerial Reform Bill. What ought or what ought not to constitute a qualification for the possession of the franchise are questions the solu tions of which have been so various that the Govern ment, in the scheme which they have submitted to Parliament, have been fain to keep in the beaten track marked out'for them by the Reformers of 1832, simply contenting themselves with widening the thoroughfare. It is true that in doing so they have necessarily exposed themselves to the charge of act ing capriciously, since they are necessarily unable to assign any intelligible grounds for fixing limits which are purely arbitrary. If £lO is too high a property qualification for borough voters, why should it be as sumed that £6 would be too low, and that £7 con stitutes the happy mean ? By what possible train of reasoning could it be shown that the man who pays a rental of 140 s. is a fit person to have a voice in the election of a member of the House of Com mons, and he whose rental is Is. less is unfitted to exercise the same privilege. These objectiois are, of course, in their nature unanswerable, and are met by those who consider a property t est a goo d one with the assertion, which very few are inclined to deny, that it is necessary to draw the line somewhere, and as that line must be arbitrarily drawn, the best 01,1111.11•10 that can be done is to draw it in such a way as to admit the bulk of those who are fairly entitled to share, however indirectly, in the government of the country. There are some, however, who are dis satisfied with a system which capriciously excludes many who are co n f esse dly qua lifi e d, by their intelli gence if not by their wealth, for admission to the electoral body, and they accordingly seek to devis e some means by which each individual may be en abled in his own proper person to vindicate his right to the exercise of the franchise. It is not often, how ever, that schemes founded on these principles are brought within the sphere of practical legislation, and Mr. Clay is therefore entitled to the credit of having been the first to submit to Parliament a measure of Reform which, ignoring all property qualifications , would confer the franchise on every male inhabitant of a city or borough who could furnish evidence of p.os sessing a certain amount of education. It is so (lA' cult, if indeed it is not absolutely impossible, to deny the proposition that every educated man ought to be allowed to exercise the franchise, that most persons would be inclined to think that the funda mental principle of Mr. Clay's bill is a sound one. What he asks is, in effect, that out of that large number of townsmen at present unenfranchiset those who are enabled to pass a test examination in writing from dictation and elementary arithmetic, shall be entitled to vote for the representatives et the boroughs in which they reside. Of the means by which this extremely simple Reform Bill is to be carried into effect it is only necessary to say a few i words. It provides that examinations shall be held under the direction of the Civil Service Commis sioners in the several Parliamentary boroughs, th e standard of such examinations being the same a s those of candidates for appointments to subordinate situations under Government. Candidates are fur ther required to make application by registered let ter addressed to the Civil Service Commissioners In London for admission to examination, and to PI certain fees as well before as after passing that ordeal. Unsuccessful candidates will be entitled the expiration of twelve months again to submit themselves for examination, and provision is made for the enrolment of the names of all those Ivo. ° have succeeded in satisfying the examiners of their proficiency in the subjects above referred t.cl; Such are the most salient features of a 131 ', which is specially remarkable as being the firs" attempt, we believe, in this country or in any other at applying the test of examination as 3 means of ascertaining the qualifications of indi viduals, not to hold particular appointments, bu t simply to record their votes in favour of those whomi they wish to represent them in Parliament. 1\1 !' Gladstone, in advocating the rejection of the bill, exhausted the various and serious objections which the most hasty perusal of its content s must have suggested to nearly every one. Ihe educational test is a bad one because it is particu larly invidious in its nature, and it is equally 1 . 11/' satisfactory in its results. It is not young men whc ; happen to be the possessors of what the Chance llor of the Exchequer rightly designated as a little scho lastic learning who have the strongest claims t°. b o p o admitted to the electoral body. Regarding the elin i of a Parliamentary representative as a matter whi c , would in all probability be most judiciously ex er e cised by men of mature age and experience of t, world, the effect cf the proposed measure would to exclude those ho, having long quitted seb9 ° ' would be unable to support the test of an exaill, tion which, for persons in their condition of l u; would be a very severe one. Mr. Clay's meas ur t simply provides for the wants of those who are ne £lO householders, or who, if the Government mea sure of Reform should become law, will not be el n £7 householders—that is to say, for the humbi u e t section of the working classes. But of these we cioitim if there are any considerable numbers who would be prepared to write from dictation (no easy taskl i the way, for persons of average education), an *, pass . a satisfactory examination in addition, subtraeo tion, and division of money. Mr. Gladstone wen t s f far as to say that many members of the Hous.e.o% Commons could not solve problems in the div l , sl r , of money, and as Lord Robert Montagu inters rupted him by declaring that no one could divier money by money, the Chancellor of the Exebe c i f li t he was probably justified, amid the laughter 0 1 .,, u5 . house, in pointing to the noble lord as an. tration of the accuracy of his observation. Dim. 0 .. ing, however, considerations of this kind, it is I_, possible to avoid feeling that even if this bill beealuot law it would be practically inoperative. Abni n g es . a qualified universal suffrage, if such an expres sion sion may be permitted, it would add compara tiv few to the existing number of the electoral be,°,l, There are not many who would seek to Vat', themselves in the manner required for the Pot. oo sion of the franchise, and of those whose educate ~0. 1 would entitle them to seek examination fewer s' would pay the necessary fees and surrender a d a y ,„ work with the possibility of rejection and the e ri e:', o sequent loss of their money and th e i r ti m e. -t'd arguments advanced in support of the bill res", e o almost exclusively on abstract reasoning, from t i ,` l o general proposition that an educated man should 1.1.. entitled to vote. In practice, however, we are eel p . pelled to look beyond the sphere of ingenious theelZ, Tested by the touchstone of practical common Mr. Clay's Educational Franchise Bill will be 1 .1, to be wanting, aud, although the debate was intent';4ot rupted by the adjournment of the house, it is difficult to foresee that the measure will be e ° signed to the limbo of abortive legislation. COUNTRY MARKETS. GAINSBOROUGH-_-TTJESDAY. Our corn exchange to-day was not very largebr,airs nr with wheat. Mill ers an d f actors were slow purcuer any lots, and th e ra t es o f l as t wee k were fully 15 . r r cir• lower—whit e w h ea t , 52 s t o 54 5; m i xe d , 49 8 to 51s r , Spring corn scarce and prices about the same. HULL.—TUESDAY. bo th At our market to-day there was a good supPlY ov a English and foreign wheat, but very little was done'ved no change can b e ma d e i n quo t a ti on s. Barley ' O %O scarce, and held for an advance of is per qr. Bon s i e l cot and oats in good request, at full prices. The war, linseed was at a standstill, sales being inapracticab ie ' 43 4 ' English old white wheat, 50s to 54s ; old red, 44s to os , Barley, English, 36s to 375. Oats, Russian, 24s ,t ° e 40$ Beans, new English, 43s to 445. Peas, English bill to 41s Od ; grinding, 40s to 41s Od per 36 stone. SALISBURY.—TUESDAY. te° 49 ; At market this morning the supply of wheat vr 9 ^ s oB lo rate, and business ruled inactive at the same rates ,00 11 week. In barley there was nothing doing, the being over. Flour in limited inquiry. A fro o The following are the quotations :—Wheat realiSe r ; , 49! 38s to 52s ; barley, 35s to 42s ; oats, 22s to 3 2 s ; be t ' 6 , to ', 6 to 525; and peas, 42s to 50s per qr. Tares, frol?1, 121; 6d per bushel ; Best bread, 13d ; household o, per 81b loaf. Flour, 34s to 38s per sack. ONMOU T HIRE—TUESDA.Y. sol e There has been an average supply of wheat at tu• ° „/ eve ral markets, but business has ruled dull. At souve "plots markets home-grown wheat realised is per qvis rter a o money, and at all of them there was a tendency 00004 vance in quotations. Barley met with a limited x plsc e. for retail consumption, and no alteration in price toe hoar, Beans were exceedingly scarce, and fell far short e . : 05 0 0 " wand ; they were worth is more money. There " ,avf much done in oats. ; The following are the average quotations: —ti ' 5s 6cl to 5s 9d per bushel ; inferior ditto, 5s Od to rod' white, 6s to 6s 3d ; malting barley, 38s to 42s Per to ing ditto, 27s to 325; beans, 445; white oats, 2 4 s "- black ditto, 23s 6d to 24s 6d. LYNN—TuESDAY. eats 1, At our Corn Exchange to-day the show of W",,,0 moderate, and the demand was slow at last W°e' uitet rency. Spring corn unaltered in value. old 1 " fof New wheat, 42s to 465 ; new red, 41s to 445; io,ioy 51s to 53s ; old red, 48s to 51s per 36 stone. ,7 1.5 , malting, Ws to 40s ; secondary, 33s to 355. Pe 24s to 26s per 24 stone. Beans, small, 43s to 46 5 ' 36s to 40s per 28 stone. Births. the ' HARE —On the 28th inst. at at 62 St. George 'S-S q uitre' Hon. Mrs. Hugh H. Hare, of a:daughter. n LIALLOWES—On the 28th inst., at tho Curragh 114' land, the wife of Capt. Win. Hallowes, 85th the fantry, of a son. ScovELL—On the 29th inst., at 39, Eccleston-scir wife of Augustus C. &oven, Esq., of a daugbt e .m yOA TITCHBORNE—On the 28th inst., at FOOCOtO shire, Hon. Lady Titchborue, of a son. BELLMAN—MACLAINE—OU h inst•, at ~,, e aA.' Chapel, Mttrr th ia e g 2 e 9 s t . iftr e-S,,tr ee b t terrace, Victoria-road, to Amey, second Hackney, Mr. Robert A. Bellrna'n of u' r a - • daug hte une y, Maclaine, Esq., of the Bank of England and tr ac r l i arc li ,: SAUNDERS—EDGAR—On e. the 29th inst., at Trinq,'s4 , DO'' II igham, Norwich, Edward IT. Slundera7 1.) . 9 4 ' Lancers (Royal Irish), only son of H. O. Sunders,,, to .21: 1 !., of Kilavalla, Burrisokane, county TiplooroVsOr BAYNES—On the 27th in Ellen, daughter of the .late H. B. Edgar, Esq” wich. D a r a t t hS w . i,„41 100 , Augusta Caroline, daughter of the late AdoorAged , L. Baynes, - K.C.8., and the Hon. Lady Barles',lol,ol Ctrsz--On the 29th inst., at 16, Eccloston-squaro, ' Ife le° Anna Maria Cust, aged 76. one tithe Waltham loilso/.131 %ir4: MACKENZIE—On the 27th inst., at Geneva, the o f t Anne Mackenzie, widow of J. 11. Mackenzie, Senators of the College of Justice, Edinburg' „ perice 4 flelu, PRICE—On the 27th inst., at his residence, Bill Da Henry Price, Esq., aged 61. C aptai n o j° PERCIVALL—On the 28th inst., at Hasting s, Percival], Royal Horse Artillery, aged 33. ,theitete PRIEST—On the 28th inst., at 1, Waresloy Villas , u ham, Capt.Priest,(retired list> Of*, WYLIE—On the 25th inst., at 16, Burnbank-garcn 1.1,00 gow, Robert D. 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