The Sun. — London, England, 1865-08-09 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence. The Fire Queen steam tender, Staff-Commander Paul, was undocked from No. 9 at Portsmouth yes terday, after repairs to her machinery. She will coal, and, after trial, will prepare to convey Admi ral Sir M. Seymour and a party on a visit with the Channel Fleet to Cherbourg. The troopship Urgent, Capt. S. Henderson, after coaling, will make a trial of her new screw , and if all is found correct is ordered to prepare for the use of a limited number of officers, and accompany the fleet to Cherbourg on the 14th. The annexed notification was promulgated from the Admiralty, Whitehall, yesterday, for the infor mation of those o ffi cers desirous of being present at Cherbourg next week :—" A limited number of naval officers will be received on board her Ma jesty's ship Urgent, at Portsmouth, early on the morning of the 14th inst., for conveyance to Cher bourg and back. All applications must be made in writing to the Secretary to the Admiralty, before Saturday, the 12th inst. The rate of messing to be paid by each officer received will be 7s. 6d. a day." The Admiralty Board meeting at the Keyham office of the Admiral Superintendent, which as sembled on Monday morning, rose shortly after 1 o'clock, when the Duke of Somerset and his col leagues passed through the engine factory, smith cries, and boiler factory in the great quadrangle to the north basin, which is being deepened and en larged from five to ten acres, and for that purpose is in the hands of the contractors, whose efforts are retarded and to some extent suspended in conse quence of the terms required by the amalgamated masons. Instead of 300 Mr. Bisset has only about 170 men, chiefly excavators. The construction of the sides of the basin is stopped, and the piles of wrought granite remain as they have been for many months past undisturbed. The strike of the masons against all the leading Government contractors and most of the principal builders here continues. It was commenced in consequence of the refusal of the masters to accept a code of rules drawn up by the Masons' Society in London. Plymouth was selected as the place where the first attempt should be made to bring the masters within the pale of the irrespon . Bible bodies to which the men belong. At Staddon a few non-society men are employed on the fortifica tions, and briskly pushing on the work. Picklecombe Fort is at a standstill, and so are Bovisand and Screasdon Forts. The operations on the long line of the north-east defences are almost suspended for want of masons. As far as possible the contrac tors are proceeding with their excavations and earthworks, but they are unable to complete some portions of their contracts. Four or five old masons are allowed by the Masons' Society to work at the Cattedown quarries. 'They are not members, but are compelled to act in conformity with most of the rules. After inspecting the excavations in the north basin at Keyham, and the Greyhound and Jason in the South basin, the Lords of the Admi ralty proceeded round the sea wall, through the tunnel into Devonport dockyard. Here they in spected the north smithery, and went round No. 4 dock, in which is the new steam frigate Amazon, launched in May last at Pembroke, and now pre paring for the first division of the steam reserve ; she is a wooden ram. They then went on board the sailing frigate Flora, fitting in the basin for a receiving ship for the Commodore at Ascension. After taking luncheon at the house of the Admiralty Superintendent, the. Lords of the Admiralty pro ceeded through the ropehouse and masthouse down to the south smithery, outside which four hose were connected with the pipes supplied with salt water from an elevated iron cistern which is filled from the mast pond by the engine of the south smithery. This arrangement is for the purpose of protection from fire. Four plugs near the ropehouse were also tested. Several members of the board returned to their yacht, the Enchantress, while the Duke of So merset, Sir Frederick Grey, and Lord Clarence Paget proceeded to the Chief office of the Admiralty superintendent, where they received deputations from the shipwrights, joiners, sailmakers, rope makers, and riggers, and from the artisans of the Keyham factory, on the subject of wages. Depu tations from some of the minor branches could not be received. This duty occupied the First Lord until six o'clock in the evening. The newly invented machinery for working the 12 ton 300 pounder Armstrong guns, with which her Majesty's ironclad frigate Bellerophon, 16, 1,000 horse power, preparing for sea at Chatham, will be armed, having been completed, the first of the ex perimental trials took place at Chatham on Satur day. There were present Captain Stewart, C. 8., superintendent of the dockyard ; Capt. Tatham, of the Bellerophon ; Mr. Thornton, principal master shipbuilder ; Mr. Baker, chief inspector of machi nery, who conducted the trials, and other officials. The importance of such an invention becomes appa rent when it is stated that each of the 300 pounder guns which the Bellerophon will carry in her bat tery weighs, with its slides, carriages, &c., no less than 17 tons. To cast loose, manoeuvre, and train guns of this class while the vessel is pitching and rolling in a beam sea, by the ordinary appliances of manual labour, would be simply impossible. The machinery invented by Mr. Reed, the Chief Constructor of the Navy, and tested for the first time on Saturday, promises to effect a complete re volution in the system hitherto adopted of handling and training guns on board our ships of war, the trials made proving that by the adoption of the machinery proposed some three or four men will be sufficient for working guns of the largesb size pos sible to be placed on board our ironclad vessels. At the same time it should be bserved that the object of the invention is not merely to enable the 12 ton, or even a larger, gun to be trained with facility, but also to put it under complete control when the ship is pitching and rolling in a seaway. To accomplish the first of these objects it is only necessary to mount the gun-slides upon rollers at front and rear, and then apply the training force by means of a tackle in the usual way, or by means of the winches adopted in the invention of Captain Astley Cooper Key, C. 8., in the Minotaur, or in the more com plicated plan proposed by Commander Scott, of a toothed wheel and rack on the deck, as fitted in his experimental slide now introduced into one of the vessels of the navy. It is obvious, how ever, that the facility with which a heavy gun, mounted on rollers at both ends, can be trained at a broadside port, in smooth water, would make it dangerously liable to break loose in a seaway, unless placed under the control of machinery. To insure this, under all circumstances, even in the event of the officerin charge being killed during action, Mr. Reed aPnears to have devised his machinery on a wholly novel, but, at the same, time, perfectly practical principle. Any Complicated mechanism to be worked by sailors in the hu r a. r n y a f a general engagement would be sure to fail consequently the machinery fitted on board thel3elllon i. is exceedingly simple. On the gun-deck itseli ingwhatever is visible excepting an ordinary double wheel of metal, between four and five feet in diameter, formed exactly lik e a steering wheel, and support e d on a holl ow standard containing the gearing-wheels that give motio n to the machinery below. Even this wheel it self may be dispensed with, for an exactly similar wheel is fitted on the lower deck underneath the battery, in which case, as would obviously be most desirable, the whole of the machinery for working the gun would be entirely away and out of the reach of injury, while the orders of ' those in charge of the gun could be transmitted by m e a ns of an ordinary voice tube of gutta percha. The object of fitting the gniding-wheels on both decks of the Bellerophon is to enable them to be worked separately, in order that the Lords of the Admiralty, on the occasion of their inspecting the machinery in the course of a few days, may determine which shall be retained, or whether both may be desirable, the one being used as supplementary to the other. Fitted below the beams of the gun-deck is a shaft turned by the wheels described, on which is a powerful worm, or screw-thread, gearing into a worm-wheel. The latter is keyed on a short vertical shaft of con siderable strength, which passes up through the floors of the main deck, and is furnished with a strong flat lever lying along the deck and underneath the slide, the vertical shaft and horizontal lever ex actly resembling the rudder-head and tiller of a ship. The lever is firmly connected with the slide by means of a very strong connecting' pin, or bolt, working in a slot. This completes the machinery, which, as will be seen, contains but few parts, and those of the simplest and best-known kind. The trials on Saturday showed the advantage of mount ing a slide on rollers on both sides, as in order to train it it was only necessary to turn the wheel placed on either deck, when the gun and carriage moved with the utmost readiness and precision. The instant the wheel was stopped the gun was brought to afitandstill, just as in the case of guns mounted in a revolving turret, so that the nicest accuracy of aim may be obtained. On the whole being released, the gun is locked by the worm and worm-wheel, the " pitch" of which is so nicely adjusted that, while the slightest motion of the machinery will move the gun, no amount of rolling about can cause the gun to " fetch away," and set the machinery in motion. Obviously it is in a seaway only that mechanism of this nature can be put to a satisfactory test, but, judging from the obvious strength of the machinery employed in the Bellerophon, there can be but little doubt that it will be perfectly practicable by this system to train even a much heavier gun than one of 12 tons at a broadside port with complete security at sea. It should be observed that it is scarcely pos sible for the discharge of the gun to affect the train ing machinery—an important consideration, as the play of the slide upon the bolt of the lever is per fectly free. It only remains to be stated that the trials made on Saturday were perfectly successful, and demonstrated the perfect practicability of the in vention. With four men at the wheel the gun was manoeuvred and trained with the utmost freedom and facility, a period of exactly one minute being all that was required to bring the gun over to a complete arc of a circle, although from some altera tions in the drawings the lever prevented it being trained to the extreme angle. The machinery will remain fitted to the gun to await inspection by the Lords of the Admiralty. The screw steam sloop Peterel, 11, Commander Edward Maddox, from Halifax, Nova Scotia, ar rived in Plymouth Sound yesterday afternoon. The Edwin Fox was inspected yesterday by the military authorities, and the troops, 26th Camero nians, and detachments of other regiments from Aldershott, will embark to-day. The following appointments were made yesterday at the Admiralty :—Lieut:Walter W. Poynder, to the Scorpion ; Sub-Lieut. Henry A. Street and Sub- Lieut. George H. Hill, to the Scorpion ; Alexander M'Donald, assist.-surg., to the Linnet ; and Wm. B. Fletcher, assist.-surg., to the Research. .-~"= THE UNITED STATES. PHILADELPHIA, July 25. On the 22d of June the largest ironclad in the American navy was launched at New York. She is called the Dunderberg (thunder mountain), and was built at the yard of W. H. Webb, the builder of several celebrated vessels, among them the Rus sian ship General Admiral, the Re Luigi di Portu gallo, and the Re d'ltalia. She was launched without the slightest accident in the presence of an immense concourse of spectators, and will at once be fitted up for sea. Her draught when ready for sea will be about 21ft., and her displacement of water about 7,000 tons. Her tonnage measurement as registered is 5,090 tons, and her iron armour will weigh about 1,000 tons. She has six main and two donkey boilers, each main boiler being 13ft. deep, 17ft. 6in. high, and 2l ft. front ; together they will weigh about 450 tons. The boiler surface is 30,000 ft., the grate surface 1,200 ft., and the condensing sur face 12,000 ft. The engines are horizontal back action condensing with two 100-inch cylinders, and 45in. stroke of piston. The propeller is 21ft. in dia meter, and has a varying pitch of from 27ft. to 30ft., and weighs 34,5801 b. The coal bunkers will contain 1,000 tons of coal, sufficient for about 12 days' steaming. The plan of the Dunderberg is novel, and the results promised by her constructor will make her one of the greatest sea-going ironclad rams afloat. Her floor is flat, her sides angular, and her lines such that she must be very easy in a seaway, so that in all probability she will be able to use her guns when other vessels are rocking fearfully. The casemate surmounting the hull is pierced for 21 guns, and its sides slope inward at an angle of 35 degrees, sufficient, it is believed, to shed shot with ease and certainty. The sides of the casemate are over 3ft. thick, covered with plates of hammered iron 91t. long, 28in. wide, and 51in. thick, and fas tened on with heavy screw bolts. The peculiar con struction of the Dmiderberg makes her, as it were, two vessels, the space beeween the inner and the outer ship being used as coal bunkers, thus serving as an additional protection to the engines and boilers. Her dimensions are—length, 380 ft. 4in. ; beam, 72ft 10in. ; depth of hold, 22ft. 7in., height of casemate inside, 7ft. gin. ; length of ram bow, 50ft. One enormous keel and six keelsons strengthen the ship fore and aft, and aid in sustaining the great weight of the armoured casemate and battery. Bulkheads, dividing her into sections, give addi tional strength and guarantee safety in the event of stranding in collision. The rain is part of the ship, and is not bolted or fastened on as is usually the case, but is an extension of the bow, which for 50ft. is a firm and solid mass of timber. This is covered over with heavy wrought-iron armour, and forms a terrible beak, which, driven at a high rate of speed, would pierce through the strongest ships. On the side of the vessel below the casemate the armour is 31in. thick, and placed on vertically in screw bolted slabs, from 12ft. to 15ft. long and 3ft. wide. The propeller and two rudders are protected by a shelf, which runs out- aft and is braced to the stern and sides. One of her rudders is common to all ships, the other is placed above and forward of the huge propeller, so that if the main one is damaged it can be at once replaced. The Dunderberg is brig-rigged, and has been for nearly three years building, and her arma ment will consist of four 15-inch Rodman guns and 12 or 14 11-inch Dahlgren guns--a battery of im mense power. The most important part of the vessel, however, is her speed, and this cannot be tested u.ntil she is ready for sea. Immediately after the launch she drew 15ft. aft, 13ft. amidships, and Oft. 6in. forward. Her draught when ready for sea is not to exceed 21ft., and her engines are 5,000 ac tual horse power. The contract on which she was built calls for a speed of 15 knota an hour, and if this speed is got out of her she will be a formidable vessel for service. Much time will be required to prepare her for sea, and then she will take her place at the head of the American navy. There is much murmuring throughout the coun try at the construction of this costly vessel at a time when the Government finances are in so bad a way that retrenchment is necessary on all sides. The navy is being rapidly depleted, and every squadron will be reduced to the smallest number of vessels possible to keep up appearances and enable it to properly perform its duties. In many parts of the country vessels are being sold at auction, and all the navy yards are busily employed dismantling the larger ships, preparatory to laying them up in ordi nary. The expenses of the Government will be made as small as possible, both for the navy and army, and were it not for the fear of a brush in Mexico, both branches of service would quickly b e placed on a peace f oot i ng. A s t hi s retrenchment is going on frugal people cannot see the use of fit ting up this enormous ship and sending her to sea, abroad but the great desire for show that America has so s will tro n g g o ly no E d u o r u o b po t . ° prevail, and she There is a n o t e of preparation all over the count r y developedto astonish for the reception o f the Atlantic'l 1 cable, and ageneral grumble at the very high tariff of charges the mana gers propose to adopt for messages. Itia considered that, if the cable is successful, suc h newspapers as wish to procure European news will have to in crease their prices in order to pay the enormous ex pense. There is a great doubt, howeve r , o f t h e suc cess of the undertaking, and though every one will heartily welcome the arrival of the Great Eastern with her precious freight, there are fears that the second cable will meet the misfortunes of the first one. Heart's Content, the point selected for land ing the cable, is situated in Trinity Bay, Newfound land, about 30 miles from the Bay of Bull's Arm, where the first cable was landed. Heart's Content is a small village of 900 inhabitants, mostly fisher men, and posseses a beautiful harbour surrounded by high hills. The water is deep enough to permit the 'Great Eastern to approach near the shore with per ' feet safety. A small two-story house in the centre of the village has been purchased for the office of the Telegraph Company, and an operating room is being carefully fitted up on the first floor. Theroom will be made perfectly air and water-tight to prevent th'a slightest external influence from affecting the ex vaedingly delicate instruments that are to be used. Two stone columns, built from the solid rock, rise up in the centre of the room, and on these will rest the galvanometers by which the messages will be receivedfrom Valentia, and sent to the United States. At present there is a break in the connexion between the United States and Newfoundland. By the 27th of July it is expected that a line will be in order from Heart's Content to St. John's,Newfoundland, but at last accounts the cable across the Gulf of St. Lawrence, which has been out of order since the Ist of June, had not been repaired. On the 22d of July a steamer left New York with instruments proper for under-running the cable and discovering the break, but the cable cannot be repaired in time to make it available for transmitting messages by the Ist of August, when the Great Eastern is expected. Until the break is mended, the only thing that can be done is to have a fast steamer in position to carry messages across from Cape Ray, Newfoundland, to Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. This will be a slow method, but the best possible under the circum stances. It is expected the Great Eastern will have enough cable left to fill up the gap. During the week intervening until the Ist of August every one will anxiously anticipate the arrival of the cable and the solution of the great problem whether the two continents can be placed in telegraphic communi cation. The finances of the country are still at sea, and no one seems to know how the Secretary of the Trea sury will procure funds to meet the heavy dem ands upon him. Ordinarily the payments of the Govern ment are about four months in arrear of its expendi ture, so that for the next two months the payments will be for the discharge of debts incurred during April and May. During those two months the ex penditure was about $200,000,000. For the three months succeeding the expenditures are less by one third, so that in October, November, and December $200,000,000 more may be expected to fall due. Within ten weeks about $100,000,000 of certificates of indebtedness will fall due, so that $500,000,000 must be paid before the end of the year. Towards this large indebtedness there may be anticipated from internal revenue $100,000,000 ; from Customs $40,000,000 ; from the unsold portions of the loan, $30,000,000 ; and from miscellaneous sources per hapEt $30,000,000 more, making an aggregate of $200,000,000. The Secretary of the Treasury has a deficiency of $300,000,000 to meet, and no re sources, and this is what causes the flutter among the financiers. It will be some time yet before the pressure comes, and until then there will be all sorts of suggestions what to do, all of which will be found unsound. That the Treasury will_ tide it over, however, there need be no doubt, for it has been in worse troubles than this one, and scores of Treasury printing presses are still at command. American politics are very quiet, and the politi cians have taken a season of rest until the meeting of Congress. In order to get away from the office seekers, President Johnson contemplates a private visit to a friend who has a mansion on the Hudson River, and he will be the guest of the owner as long as official duties will permit. The President has lately exhibited remarkable clemency in releasing every Confederate military or naval officer of every grade confined in the North. The prisons are nearly emptied, and the Confederate civil offi cers of high rank are now the only prisoners. In Richmond he has somewhat mitigated the rigors of the Confiscation Act, by ordering the restoration of the property of all Confederates who have been pardoned, but in other cases the confiscation continues, and it is now extended into many other parts of Virginia. Every case, however, is stayed until the United States' Supreme Court can decide upon its merits. The editor of the Richmond Whig has been allowed to print his paper, but is restricted in regard to free discussion in political matters. He has resumed publication, and says he will do the best he can under the circumstances, and still vigorously opposes the Government as far as the restrictions will permit. The electi ons th roug h ou t Vi rg i n i a l ast week were universally i n f avour o f th e S outhern rights candidates, and h ave so i nv i gorated the Southern leaders that Colonel Moseby, of guerilla fame, announces himself a candidate for Congress. The opposition to Governor Perry, of South Caro lina, has been entirely broken, and the President has finally decided to support the Governor, come what may. This is a severe blow at the Radicals, who wished to oust him and have some fanatic like But ler appointed in his place. South Carolina is again quiet, and the last phase of the negro riots has passed away in the capture of an entire regiment of white troops known as Duryea's Zouaves (who per sisted in attacking the negroes), and shutting them up prisoners in Fort Sumter. The negro war, how ever, continues elsewhere. It is stated that for 400 miles the Alabama river is lined with the finest plantations, the owners of which, disgusted at the idea of free negro labour, wish to go abroad, and are willing to sell out at $4 or $5 an acre. The Georgia newspapers publish articles on probable scenes of bloodshed in that State if the Government does not at once assume control of the negroes. It is announced that the President has approved the arbitrary course pursued by Governor Brown low, of Tennessee, in excluding every man from voting at the coming election who has had any con nexion with the ConfederaCy. The people thus disfranchised are ninety-nine hundredths of the voters, but when election day comes it will be found that they will all vote, in spite of Brownlow and his orders, and that the candidates opposed to him are elected. Pronunciamientos cannot keep people from voting where all think alike, and at the head of the Congressional ticket chosen will no doubt stand Emerson Etheridge, now in a military prison for opposing Brownlow. Although a majority of the people, headed by the President, have declared against negro suffrage, the Radicals are not satisfied, but still agitate the ques tion. They are gathering their forces for a strenuous movement when Congress meets. The Republican State Committee of Massachusetts has just issued an address, indicating that a movement for uni versal negro suffrage in the South will undoubtedly be made, and if successful at least three of the Southern States will be placed under the control of the blacks. The Radicals say that although Presi dent Johnson has declared against negro suffrage he is at heart in favour of it, and he has several times told leading Republicans that his policy with regard to it was not yet settled. They confidently anticipate being able to force him into it by means of the strong majority they will have in the coming Session of Congress. It is reported that Dawes, of Massachusetts, stands alone among the New Eng land members in opposing negro suffrage, and the only Western member of any prominence who is opposed to it is Masson, of lowa. Those who know the feeling of the members of the next House of Representatives, say it will be largely in favour of negro suffrage, and the Senate will have nearly, if not quite, a majority on the same side. The Radi cals count strongly on this and the result of their labours in bringing in new Radical members be tween now and December. The Conservatives, on the other hand, hope to have enough Southern members in Congress to control matters. The Radicals, it seems, contemplate the extension of the elective franchise even more universally than to the negroes, for more than one newspaper in New England has recently published articles pointing to the great advantages to result from allowing the women to vote, especially in States that have demo cratic tendencies. There have recently been important decisions with regard to Confederate property which interest foreign claimants. When the property of John Slidell was confiscated in New Orleans a claim was made for 290,000 f. by Macuard and Co., of Paris, and another claim for 100,000 f. by the Citizens' Bank of New Orleans for money advanced on mort gages but it was decided that, Slidell being an enemy of the United States, his property belonged, under the provisions of the Confiscation Act, to the Government, and these claims could not be enter tained, The Attorney-General has decided that foreign claimants of captured cotton stand on the. nin SUN, LONDO.N, WEDNESDAY EVENING, AtTGATST 9, 1865. same basis as American claimants, and must make their claims as Americans do, before the Courts of Prize. The ownership of 9-10ths of the cotton of the South is in such a muddle that all the lawyers in the United States cannot straighten out the titles. The news from the Rio Grande is still a subject for grave speculation. A just cause of war has arisen in the conduct of Cortinas, who has really estab lished his headquarters on the Texas shore ; signs custom-house permits for the port of Sabinette, Texas, and gives safe conducts to places 20 miles in the interior of American territory. He finds shelter for himself and market for his booty on American soil. Yet I have no fear that this will lead to hos tilities, for no rules of internationpl law, such as control no other countries, can be applied to Mexi can matters. Our Government will submit to much more than this. The report that 25,000 additional troops were to be sent to Sheridan, and that steamers on secret service were fitting out in New York har bour, caused quite a flutter ; but the excitement subsided when it was found that they were to supply the places of troops and vessels now in Texas, to be discharged from service before the end of August. As for the announcement that General Grant had remarked, "The French will have to get out of Mexico," I believe him to be far too prudent a man to say anything of the kind, even if he thought it. STATE OF TRADE, MANCHESTER, Aug. B—ln the market for export yarns we have found a considerable amount of busi ness doing, but at about id. per lb. decline on Fri day's prices. The orders on which this business is founded have been accumulating in the hands of shippers for the last 14 days, and have only now been executed in consequence of spinners consenting to accept the decline already stated. In home trade yarns we have still a quiet market, with a little more inquiry than on Friday last, and more busi ness has been done, at slightly easier rates than on that day. In cloths we have really no change to report. Buyers are still found to be exceedingly unwilling to operate. They purchase only to supply their most pressing orders, and any offers they make for goods beyond wlat is needed for - these are at ex tremely low rates. The amount of business doing is very small, and prices on the whole have been gradually weakening throughout the past week. There has not been sufficient business in any descrip tion of cloth to arrest this tendency. The absence of demand, which applied for a time chiefly to India goods, is now nearly shared by all makers of cloth. Printing cloths, and other classes of goods, which for a time commandad more attention, are now re ported to be as mud neglected as other staples,:and this branch of the market, like others, to-day closes very flat. Messrs. John Slagg and Co. report of this day's cloth-marlet :—Since last Tuesday there has been but little business, and, although prices have undergone no hiportant change, the few ope rations effected show i weakening tendency. Buyers are still unwilling to purchase, and confine their operations to immediate requirements. LEEDS, Bth.—There has been about the usual at tendance for a Tuesday's market in the cloth-halls to-day, and a. fair amount of business was done. There is a steady demand for all wool black cloths, and a moderate demand for unions, and of neither class of goods are the stocks in the hands of manu facturers large. Strong meltons keepin fair request, and the same may ba said as to most of the soft classes of overcoatings for the colder season of the year. Country clothiers, as well as the large manu facturers, are well employed, as are also dyers and finishers. Wools and cloths are alike firm in price. The flax trade is steady, and prices are firm. NOTTINGHAM, Bth.--There was a limited demand for lace yarns at this Exchange-hall to-day, and prices for medium and coarse numbers were rather easier ; fine numbers were rather stiffer. The de mand for hosiery yarns was quiet, at little or no al teration from late rates. There is very little change to quote in the value of silks. Brown nets had a dull sale; fine numbers,however,were a shade dearer. Other descriptions tending downwards. ROCHDALE, 7 th.—There was a tolerably large attendance of buyers in the flannel-market to-day, and business was more active than last week. A good few small assortments of goods purchased, the chief kinds of fabrics being fancies, both low and medium qualities. Merchants, however, did not operate very freely, though a better dis position was shown than for the last few market days. The manufacturers keep well employed, and the deliveries to order are to the full average extent. The Yorkshire goods trade of low woollen fabrics in this market is dull, and prices nominally the same as last week. Wool is firm in price, and business is steady without being positively brisk. The Matterhorn Accident. The following letter has been addressed to The Times : Siu,—After the direct appeals which I have received from the president of a° Alpine Club and from yourself to write an account of tho accident on the Matterhorn, I fool it is impossible to remain silent any longer, and I therefore forward to you for publication a plain statement of the accident itself and of the events that preceded and followed it. On Wednesday morning, the 12th of July, Lord Francis Douglas and myself crossed the Col Theodulo to seek guides at Zermatt. Ater quitting the snow on the north ern side we rounded the foot of the glacier, crossed the Furgge glacier, and loft my tent, ropes, and other matters in the little chapel at tie Lac Noir. We then descended to Zermatt, engaged Inter Taugwalder, and gave him per mission to choose anther guide. In the course of the evening the Rev. Cha/les Hudson came into ourhotel with a friend, Mr. Hadow, snd they, in answer to some inquiries, announced their intention of starting to attack the Matter horn on the following morning. Lord Francis Douglas agreed with me it iras undesirable that two independent parties should be on the mountain at the same time, with the same object. M. Hudson was therefore invited to join us, and he accepted our proposal. Before admitting Mr. Hadow I took the precaution to inquire what he had done in the Alps, and, as well as I remember, Mr. Hudson's re ply was, "Mr. Hadow has done Mont Blanc in less time than most men." lie then mentioned several other excur sions that were unkaown to me, and added, in answer to a further piestion, " I consider he is a sufficiently good man to go with us." This was an excellent certificate given us, as it was by a first-rate mountaineer, and Mr. Hadow was admitted without any further question. We then went into the matter of gaides. Michael Croz was with Messrs. Hadow and Hudson, and the latter thought if Peter Taug walder went as well that there would not be occasion for anyone else. The question was referred to tho men them selves, and they made no objection. Wo left Zermatt at 5.35 on Thursday morning, taking the two young Taugwalders as porters, by desire of their father. They carried provisions amply sufficient for the whole party for three days, in case the ascent should prove more difficult than we anticipated. No rope was taken from Zermatt, 'because there was already more than enough in the chapel at Lac Noir. It has been repeatedly asked, " Why was not the wire rope taken which Mr. Hudson brought to Zermatt ?" I do not know; it was not mentioned by Mr. Hudson, and at that time I had not even seen it. My rope alone was- used during the expedition, and there was—first, about 200 feet of Alpine Club rope; second, about 150 feet of a kind I believe to bo stronger than the first; third, more than 200 feet of a lighter and weaker rope than the first, of a kind used by myself until the Club rope was produced. It was our intention on leaving Zermatt to attack the mountain seriously,—not, as it has been frequently stated, to explore or examine it,—and were provided with every. thing that long experience has shown to be necessary for the most difficult mountains. On the first day, however, we did not intend to ascend to any great height, but to stop when we found a good position for placing the tent. We mounted accordingly very leisurely, left the Lac Noir at 8.20, and passed along the ridge connecting the Hornli with the actual peak, at the foot of which we arrived at 11.20, having frequently halted on the way. We then quitted the ridge, went to the left, and ascended by the north-eastern face of the mountain. Before 12 o'clock wo had found a good position for the tont, at a height of 11,000 feet ; but Croz and the elder of Taugwalder's sons went on to look what was above, in order to save time on the following .morning. The remainder constructed the platform on which the tent was to be placed, and by the time this was finished the two men returned, reported joyfully that as far as they had gone they had seen nothing but that which was good, and asserted positively that had we gone on with them on that day we could have ascended the mountain, and have returned to the tent with facility. We passed the remaining hours of daylight—some basking in the sunshine, some sketching or collecting, and, when the sun went down, giving, as it departed, a glorious promise for the morrow, we returned to the tont to arrange for the night. Hudson made tea, myself coffee, and wo then re tired, each ono to his blanket bag; the Taugwalders, Lord Francis Douglas, and myself occupying the tent, the others remaining, by preference, outside. But long after dusk the cliffs above echoed with our laughter and with the songs of the guides, for we were happy that night in camp, and did not dream of calamity. We were astir long before daybreak on the morning of the 14th, and started directly it was possible to move, leav ing the youngest of Taugwalder's sons behind. At 6.20 we had attained a height of 12,800 feet, and halted for half an hour, then continued the ascent without a break until 9.55, when we stopped for 50 minutes, at a height probably of about 14,000 feet. Thus far we had ascended by the north eastern face of the mountain, and had not met with a single difficulty. For the greater part of the way there was, in deed, no occasion for the rope, and sometimes Hudson led, sometimes myself. We had now arrived at the foot of that part which from Zermatt seems perpendicular or overhang ing, and we could no longer continue on the same side. By common consent, therefore, we ascended for some distance by the arete—that is, by the ridge descending towards Zer matt---and then turned over to the right, or to the north western face. Before doing so we made a change in the order of ascent; Croz now went first, I followed, Hudson came third ; Hadow and old Taugwalder were last. The change was made because the work became difficult for a time and required caution. In some places there was but little to hold, and it was therefore desirable those should be in front who were least likely to slip. The general slope of the mountain at this part was less than 40 deg., and snow had consequently accumulated and filled up the irregularities of the rock face, leaving only occasional fragments projecting hero and there. These were at times coated with a thin glaze of ice from the snow above "raving melted and frozen again during the night. Still, it was a place over which any fair mountaineer might pass in safety. We found, however, that Mr. Hadow was not accustomed to this kind of work, and required continual assistance ; but no one suggested that he should stop, and he was taken to the top. It is only fair to say that the difficulty experienced by Mr. Hadow at this part arose, not from fatigue or lack of courage, but simply and entirely from want of experience. Mr. Hudson, who followed me, passed over this part, and, as far as I know, ascended the entire mountain without having the slightest assistance rendered to him on any occasion. Some times, after I had taken a hand from Croz or received a pull, I turned to give tho same to Hudson, but he invariably de clined, saying it was not necosssary. This solitary difficult part was of no great extent, certainly not more than 300 ft. high, and after it was passed the angles became less and loss as we approached the summit ; at last the slope was so moderate that Croz and myself detached ourselves from the others, and ran on to the top. We arrived there at 1 40 p.m., the others about 10 minutes after us. I have been requested to describe particularly the state of the party on tho summit. No one showed any signs of fatigue, neither did I hoar anything to lead me to suppose that any one was at all tired. I remember Croz laughing at me when I asked him the question. Wo had, indeed, been moving less than ten hours, and during that time had halted for nearly two. Tho only remark which I heard suggestive of danger was made by Croz, but it was quite casual, and probably meant nothing. lie said, after I had romanced that we had come very slowly, " Yes ; I would rather go down with you and another guide alone than with those who are going." As to ourselves, we were arranging what we should do that night on our return to Zermatt. We remained on the summit for one hour, and during the time Hudson and I consulted, as we had done all the day, as to the best and safest arrangement of the party. We agreed that it would be best for Croz to go first, as he was the most powerful, and Hadow second ; Hudson, who was equal to a guide in sureness of foot, wished to be third ; Lord F. Douglas was placed next, and old Taugwalder, the strongest of the remainder, behind him. I suggested to Hudson that we should attach a rope to the rocks on our arrival at the difficult bit, and hold it as we descended as an additional protection. He approved the idea, but it was not definitely settled that it should be done. The party was being arranged in the above order while I was making a sketch of the summit, and they were waiting for me to be tied in my place, when some one remembered that we had not left our names in a bottle; they requested me to write them, and moved off while it was being done. A few minutes afterwards I tied myself to young Taugwaldor and followed, catching them just as they were commencing the descent of the difficult part described above. Tho greatest care was being taken. Only one man was moving at a time ; when ho was firmly planted the next advanced, and so on. Tho average distance between each was pro bably 20 feet. They had not, however, attached the addi tional rope to rocks, and nothing was said about it. The suggestion was made entirely on account of Mr. Hadow, and I am not sure it even occurred to me again. I was, as I have explained, detached from the others, and following them ; but after about a quarter of an hour Lord F. Douglas asked me to tie on to old Taugwalder, as he feared, ho said, that if there was a slip Taugwalder would not be able to hold him. This was done hardly 10 minutes before the accident, and undoubtedly saved Taugwalder's life. As far as I know, at the moment of the accident no one was actually moving. I cannot speak with certainty, neither can the Tarigwalders, because the two leadhig men were partially hidden from our sight by an intervi'ming mass of rock. Poor Croz had laid aside his axe, and in order to give Mr. Hadow greater security was absolutely taking hold of his legs and putting his feet, ono by one, into their proper position. From the movements of their shoulders it is my belief that Croz, having done as I have said, was in the act of turning round to go down a step or two him self ; at this moment Mr. Hadow slipped, fell on him, and knocked him over. I hoard one startled exclamation froni Croz, and then saw him and Mr. Haddow flying down wards. In another moment Hudson was dragged from his stops, and Lord F. Douglas immediately after him. All this was the work of a moment ; but immediately wo hoard Croz's exclamation Taugwalder and myself planted our selves as firmly as the rocks would permit; the rope was tight between us, and the shock came on us both as one man. We held, but tho rope broke midway between Taugwalder and Lord F. Douglas. For two or three seconds we saw our unfortunate companions sliding downwards on their backs, and spreading out their hands endeavouring to save themselves. They then disappeared one by one, and fell from precipice to precipice on to the Matterhorn glacier be low, a distance of nearly 4,0(0 feet in height. From the moment the rope broke it was impossible to help them. For the space of half an hour we remained on the spot without moving a single step. The two men, paralysed by terror, cried like infants, and trembled in such a manner as to threaten us with the fate of the others. Immediately we had descended to a safe place I asked for the rope that had broken, and to my surprise—indeed, to my horror—found that it was the weakest of the three ropes. As the first five men had been tied while I was sketching I had not noticed the rope they employed, and now I could only conclude that they had seen fit to use this in preference to the others. It has been stated that the rope broke in consequence of its fraying over a rock ; this is not the case, it broke in mid air, and the end does not show any trace of previous injury. For more than two hours :afterwards I thought every moment that the next would bo my last, for the Taugwal ders, utterly unnerved, were not only incapable of giving assistance, but were in such a state that a slip might have been expected from one or the other at any moment. I do the younger man, moreover, no injustice when I say that immediately we got to the easy part of the descent he was able to laugh, smoke, and eat as if nothing had happened. There is no occasion to say more of the descent. I looked frequently, but in vain, for traces of my unfortunate com panions, and wa were in consequence surprised by the night when still at a height of 13,000 ft. We arrived at Zer matt at 10.30 on Saturday morning. Immediately on my arrival I sent to the president of the commune and requested him to send as many men as pos sible to ascend heights whence the spot could be commanded where I knew the four must have fallen. A number went and returned after six hours, reporting they had seen them, but that they could not roach them that day. They pro posed starting on Sunday evening, so as to reach the bodies at daybreak on Monday; but, unwilling to lose theslightest chance, the Rev. J. M'Cormick and myself resolved to start ou Sunday morning. The guides of Zermatt, being threat ened with excommunication if they did not attend the early mass, were unable to accompany us. To several, at least, I am sure, this was a severe trial ; for they assured me with tears that nothing but that which I have stated would have prevented them from going. The Rev. J. Robertson and Mr. Phillpotts, of Rugby, however, not only lent us their guide, Franz Andermatten, but also accompanied us them selves. Mr. Puller lent us the Brothers Lochmatter ; F. Payot and J. Tiarraz, of Chamounix, also volunteered. We started with these at 2 a.m. on Sunday, and followed the route we had taken on Thursday morning, until we had passed the Hornli, when wo went down to the right of the ridge . and mounted through the seracs of the Matterhorn glacier. By 8.30 wo had got at the plateau at the top, and within sight of the corner in which we knew my companions must be. As we saw one weather-beaten man after anothor raise the telescope, turn deadly pale, and pass it on without a word to the next, we knew that all hope was gone. We approached ; they had fallen below as they hadjallen above —Croz a little in advance, Hadow near him, and Hudson some distance behind ; but of Lord F. Douglas we could see nothing. To my astonishment I saw that all of the three had been tied with the club, or with the second and equally strong rope, and consequently there was only ono link— that between Taugwalder and Lord F. Douglas—in which the weaker repo had been used. The letters of the Rev. J. M'Cormick have already in formed you respecting the subsequent proceedings. The orders from the Government of the Valais to bring the bodies down were so positive that four days after the events I have just related 21 guides accomplished that sad task. The thanks of all Englishmen are due to these brave men, for it was a work of no little difficulty and great danger. Of the body of Lord F. Douglas they too saw nothing; it is probably arrested in the rocks above. No one can mourn his loss more deeply or more sincerely than myself ; for, although young, he was a most accomplished mountaineer, hardly ever required the slightest assistance, and did not make a single slip throughout the day. He had only a few days before we met made the ascent of the Gabelhorn, a summit far more difficult, I believe, to reach than the Matterhorn itself. • I was detained in Zermatt until the 22d of July to await he inquiry instituted by the Government. I was examined first, and at the close I handed in to the Court a number of questions which I desired should be put to the elder Taug walder ; doing so because that which I had found out re specting the ropes was by no means satisfactory to me. The questions, I was told, were put and answered before I left Zermatt ; but I was not allowed to be present at the inquiry, and the answers, although promised, have not yet reached me. This, Sir, is the end of this sad story. A single slip, or a single false step, has been the sole cause of this frightful calamity, and has brought about misery never to be for gotten. I have only one observation to offer upon it. If the rope had not broken you would never have received this letter, for we could not possibly have held the four men, falling as they did—all at the same time, and with a severe jerk. But, at the same time, it is my belief no accident would have happened had the rope between those who fell been as tight, or nearly as tight, as it was between Taug walder and myself. The rope, when used properly, is a great safeguard ; but whether on rocks, or whether on. snow or glacier, if two men approach each other so that the rope falls in a loop the whole party is involved in danger; for should one slip or fall, ho may acquire, before he is stopped, a momentum that may drag down one man after another and bring destruction on all ; but if the rope is tight this is all but impossible.—l am, Sir, your obedien servant, Haslemore, August 7. EDWARD WHYMPER. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, TIMES.—We are not surprised to find ourselves standing almost alone in the advocacy of foundling establishments, as a preventive of infanticide ; but what does surprise us is the unvarying tenor of the opposition in favour of an assumed means of con trolling this frightful evil, based on the terror of illicit maternity. It is sought to be shown that the best safe guard against illicit amours, and contingent illicit births, consists in devising means of keeping the pains, the penalties, the horrors of this even, well before the memory of the woman, the weaker party. Thus, and thus alone, it is asserted, can society be purified from this iniquitous stain—thus alone can it be regenerated. It has always seemed to us that this assumed safeguard had been tried out to exhaustion, and, by its results, proved defective; but a contemporary gave place to a letter yesterday, wherein the astounding testimony was set forth that, nowithstanding the prevalence of infanticide amongst us, we were still better in respect of this crime than other nations. If it be so, then we say God help this murderous world. Remembering that the proven cases of infanticide in the metropolitan area alone amount to over a thousand annually, the statistics that would transcend these must be hor rible and well-nigh beyond the power of language. The assertion is one, however, so much at variance with theoretical deductions, based upon considera tion of the tendencies of humanity, that only the most precise evidence deduced from statistical re turns could warrant its acceptance. In furtherance of his argument, the " Traveller" who addresses a letter to our contemporary cites his Chinese expe rience. He says that, although in China a distinct provision exists in favour of infant life, although foundling establishments are scattered profusely over the Chinese empire, nevertheless infants there are murdered remorselessly. Granting these premises, they seem to us very wide of proving the sequitur that, because of the foundling establishments, ergo the prodigality of infant life. It needs not the trouble of a Chinese itinerary to be well assured of the fact that the Chinese are more stolidly insensible to the value of infantile life than almost any other people—certainly more than any other people equally advanced in civilisation. No religious ele ment of thought influences them on this point. In a general way, the State holds it injudicious to destroy the life of an infant, as to destroy a machine might be deemed injudicious, The child might grow up to manhood or womanhood, and do service and prove useful to the State, ergo the State recognises the expediency of preserving it. As for the sin of in fant murder, this, in the estimation of Chinese parents, is almost no sin at all ; a circumstance that, when recognised, puts the entire Chinese experience out of the category of evidence favouring the " Tra veller's" argument. Another contemporary fortifies his objection against foundling establishments by adducing the fact, unfortunately well attested, that the rate of mortality as regards foundling children is enormously in excess of the rate of infant mor tality in well-ordered private life. Surely the dif ference must be recognisable of the two cases of in fants dying after the best has been done for them under the circumstances, and dying, the victims of murder prepense, deliberate. In making these re marks, we have not paused to demand the value that our dissentients would wish to place upon re straint, the product of fear. Assuredly the result is not morality-virtue, though it be made to pass for virtue ; it bespeaks no moral awakening to the sense of criminality. It is the result of an appeal to some of the lower elements of human nature, leaving un impressed the highest. Assuredly, in recommending the establishment of foundling hospitals, we had had no thought of promoting vice. In clamouring that means should be taken to check infanticide, we have had no thought of holding out encouragement to illicit maternity ; but, once and for all—though it it be a dangerous topic to meddle with publicly— we beg to remind our dissentients in this matter that the fallacy is transparent of all attempts to show that the morality of a nation, or a community, is inversely proportionate to the number of illegiti mate births—nay, under certain obvious and fre quently-occurring conditions, the fact is the very opposite. Infanticide is a crime so awfully on the increase among us, that those who would deal by it effectively in argument must be more outspoken than has been their wont in times gone by. To reason up to a certain point and then retire, be cause the aspect of things looks so awfully repul sive, is not the way to elicit a public sentiment fav ourable to morality. Of paltering with this crime there-has been a great deal too much, and too much religious acrimony has been imparted to the argu ment. For our part, we believe that women, the weaker sex, have had so much suffering thrust upon them in this matter by the law, by society, and, shall we - add, by most Christian religious organisa tions, that the injustice of man in dealing with woman must come home to their feelings with a pang of desperate resentment. Women must feel themselves to be the victims of men so acutely, that moral teachings in this matter can find in their souls but an uncongenial soil. We would desire that some of this pressure, this reprobation, this moral inculca tion, should be directed towards men, who, as so— ciety is constituted, are permitted to go almost scot free, not from the material pressure of illegitimacy only, but from its moral reprobation. Such are our sentiments, such is our belief ; but it is one, as we have often explained, that to give it much effect finds too few advocates in the times that are. Be yond some religious societies, fitch as that of . St. Joseph, we do not dare t o h o p e f or th e establish ment of free foundlings just now. Hereafter we feel assured it will be otherwise. Meanwhile it is for tunate that the suggestion we threw out, of regis tering and opening to inspection nurseries kept up by private individuals—in no case of high character —for illegitimate children, can be acted up to by people, of whatever views, in regard to foundling establishments. Whatever else may be matter of doubt in relation to infanticide, assuredly this is not. Too firmly impressed with the belief that the mon ster of iniquity, Winsor, is a typical woman, that hundreds like her carry on their murderous trade, we should be false to that conviction did we not speak, out thus plainly. POST.--It is laid down byLord Bacon, as a maxim of State policy of the first importance, " that all na tions that pretend to greatness be sensible of wrongs, and that they sit not too long upon a provocation." What is true of States may be true also of the indi viduals composing them, and, at least, of any mem bers of the State who may ever have been called upon to represent its authority. Such, at all events, is evidently the opinion of Lord Malmesbury. He is a statesman and diplomatist, and, having been Foreign Minister in a Conservative Government, his mind is no doubt deeply imbued with all the sound traditional principles of diplomatic honour. He would seem, as we say, to have thrown himself into his official and Ministerial dignity so completely that he has absorbed into his own person all that sensibility to injurious treatment which Lord Bacon requires in a properly disposed kingdom. Lord Malmesbury, in short, like the State he once repre sented, " pretends to greatness," and he shows him self, in a correspondence which we publish this morning, keenly sensible of wrongs." He has, howefer, we think, somewhat failed to observe the second point of Lord Bacon's advice, " not to sit too long upon a provocation." The provocation, indeed, was given during the elections, and Lord Malmesbury states that it was not till after the elections that his attention was called to it. Con sidering that the sting of the provocation was en tirely connected with an episode in the elections which was one of the most conspicuous circum stances in the whole contest, it will appear some what remarkable that Lord Malmesbury should have remained so long indifferent to it. If, indeed, he always neglects to read Mr. Gladstone's speeches until his." attention has been directed" to them, he will, we _hope, now be admonished to alter so im prudoit a practice, for they are not speeches which can safely be neglected. Ile has, in fact, it appears to us, been partially misled by this want of att en ti on in his apprehension of the point of Mr. Gladstone's remarks. Mr. Gladstone, in the course of his speech at Liverpool, was rebutting the charge of Mr. Disraeli that in lowering the taxation of the country he had merely been reducing the expenditure to the point at which it was left by the Conservative Govern ment. He pointed out that at the very moment when the Government was resuming office in 1859 a disaster had occurred to our forces in China, act ing under the instructions of the Conservative Go vernment, so that in fact the heavy expenditure for which Mr. Disraeli had endeavoured to make him responsible was occasioned under the direction of the Conservative Ministry. The fact isundeniable, but Mr. Gladstone in the heat of the moment was led on to embellish his fact with a slight rhetorical colour, which may have made it more vivid to his audience at the moment, but which adds nothing to its intrinsic value. " Our predecessors," he says, " in the exercise of their diplomatic wisdom, had to instruct our ambassador to sign;a treaty with China, and it appeared to him that the signing of a treaty was an operation which could not possibly be per formed in a satisfactory manner without a large fleet;" and to this decision, and a consequent mis understanding of our motives on the part of the Chinese, Mr. Gladstone seemed to attribute the disaster of the Peiho in June, 1859. Whether this be a true explanation of the result or not is ob viously beside the mark. It is not a matter of any serious importance whether the Conservative Go vernment were right or wrong in its instructions to Mr. Bruce. The fact equally remains that the in structions did proceed from them, and that it was under their direction consequently, and not under Lord Palmerston's, that the expenses of 1860 were occasioned. But Lord Malmesbury pounces at once upon the reflection which it seems to convey upon himself. To him the affront to the Conservative Government, as embodied in his person, overpowers every other consideration. He is even convinced that it was the object of Mr. Gladstone " to saddle him with the undivided odium" of the policy of 1859. He endeavours accordingly to show by Statepapers that the policy of accompanying Mr. Bruce with a considerable display of force was supported by the naval, military, and diplomatic authorities on the spot, and was, moreover, distinctly approved by-Lord Russell on his accession to the Foreign-office. How is he, then, he asks indignantly, to re concile Lord Russell's straightforward letter with Mr. Gladstone's sneering attack ? If Mr. Gladstone had not been restricted to diplomatic language in answering so solemn an ap peal, he might, it scents to us, have suggested that if Lord Malmesbury cannot submit more quietly to the inevitable exaggeration of electioneering speeches, or, in homely English, if he cannot " stand chaff" more patiently, he may as well retire at once from practical politics in England. But Mr. Gladstone easily avo id s hi s antagonist's thrust by showing, as we have already done, that the point in his speech to which Lord Malmesbury ob jects was a mere matter of opinion of his own, and did not affect in any way the bearing of his argu ment. He thinks it unnecessary to discuss the diffe rence of opinion from Lord Malmesbury, and if he did point his argument a little more sharply than the facts strictly warranted, those from whose side the original charge proceeded are not, he thinks, the persons to complain. Mr. Gladstone is to be con gratulated on so.easy a release from his questioner ; but it would, in truth, have been strange if any one except Lord Malmesbury could have given a second thought to the question so elaborately raised. It does not require a solemn quotation of State papers four years old to prove that other persons besides Lord Malmesbury thought it wise for Mr. Bruce to be accompanied in his mission by a respectable fleet. There can be no doubt that both Lord Palmerston and Lord Russell were of the same opinion still. It is very probable also that Mr. Gladstone, so far 85 he was ever called upon to make up his mind on the subject, is of a different opinion. But whether it were so or not was of no importance whatever to the matter in hand. The fact remains that the pre sent Government succeeded, not to a small, but to a large expenditure. It was, perhaps, an instance of Mr. Gladstone's characteristic infelicity that he should mar a good argument by introducing, with out the slightest necessity, an unpopular opinion of his own, and in this case a more simple statement would have been equally effective. It is the peculiar danger of impetuous speakers to expose themselves gratuitously to these petty annoyances of retort. But we cannot imagine anybody except Lord Malmesbury thinkinathis little ornamental feint worth even . a stray arrow. COUNTRY MARKETS BRISTOL-TUESDAY. There was a good attendance at to-day's market, and a fair business was done. Notwithstanding the brilliant weather an advance of is pe r qr . over l as t wee k' s prices was obtained on wheat. Sweet grinding barley was held for 235, being an advance of is per qr. Old oats fully as dear ; now sluggish. Flour more active. LIVERPOOL-TUESDAY. At this day's market there was a good attendance of the town and country trade, and considerable disposition to get into stock was evinced. Wheat met an active demand at an advance of 3d to 4d per 100 lb. Flour fully 1s per sack and 6d per barrel dearer. Oats and oatmeal firmly held at late rates. Tho same remark applies to barley, beans, and peas. Indian corn not much inquired for. LEEDS-TUESDAY. We have better arrivals this week than of late. The business passing in wheat is not on an extensive scale, still we have to report an advance of is to 2s per qr. over last. Tuesday's rates. Oats and beans firm, and quite as dear. The average prices for the week ending Aug. 7 were : Wheat, 43s Gd per qr. ; barley, 26s Gd ; and oats, 21s 11d. SHEFFIELD-TUESDAY. The supply of wheat was small, and was chiefly in the hands of factors, who at the opening of the market required an advance of 2s per qr. This checked business for a time, but ultimately a fair trade was done at an advance on last week's prices of is per qr. 'Some samples of now wheat from the south were on offer, and though not in good con dition sold at 50s to 52, per qr. Beans and oats at fully last week's prices. Red wheat, per load of 3 imp. bushels....lss 6d to 16s 6d White do do ....17s 0,1 398 6d New red do do ....15s 6d 36s 6,1 New white do do ....!7s Od 19s 6d Beans do do ....15s 6d 178 Od Peas, per qr Grinding ba , ley, per qr 30s Od 328 Od Malting barley, do 32s Od 3Ss Od Oats, do 24s Od 285 Od F10ur....1s 5d to is 9d per 141 b. MARKET HARBOROUGH.—TuEsDAY. New white wheat, 43s to 478 ; new red, 39s to 43s per 30 . stone. Barley, fine, 358; oth er kinds, 28s to 30s per cl;- Oats, new, 22s to 24s ; old, 25s to 28s per qr. Beans, old, 408 to 42s ; new, 34s to 38s per qr. Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton Aug. 18. Ditto, via Marseilles Aug. 12. Brazil and Cape Verde, by British packet Sept. 4. Ditto, by French packet Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena Aug. 21. China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton Aug. Ditto, via Marseilles Aug. 12 . Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Aug. —• Ditto, via Marseilles • Aug. 12. India (Bombay), via Southampton. Aug. —. Ditto, via Marseilles Aug. 19. Mauritius, via Southampton Ditto, via Marseil:e 3. Sept. 4. Newfoundland 4 % Aug. 16. Portugal Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon United States and British North America, by Bri tish packet Ditto, by United States packet, via Southamp ton Ditto, via Cork O •• OO •••• Ditto, by Canadian packet, via Londonderry Aug. 11. West Coast of Africa. Madeira, and Terkel-life Aug. 10. West Indies and Pacific (except Bahamas, Cuba, and Mexico . Aug. 14. _ Bahamas, via New York . Aug. 16 Bermuda, ditto Aug. 30. Cuba and Mexico Aug. 29. 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SLADE.—On the 7th inst., at 104, Eaton-square, the wife .of Lieut.-Colonel W. H. Slade, sth Lancers, of a Baugh' ter. TRELAWNEY.—On the 6th inst., at Netherly House, Stone haven, N. 8., the wife of Horace Trolawney, Esq., of a son. Marriages. GII7ARD—ADAMS.—On the sth inst., at St. John's, Not" ting-hill, Harry Stanley Giffard, of the Inner Temple, barrister-at-law, to Alice, youngest child of the late JO' Adams, Esq., of South Hampstead. GRANT—BATIIE.—On the Bth inst., at St. Mary's, Spring grove, H. M. G ran t, E sq.,. B om b ay Revenue Survey, to Elizabeth, second daughter of the late Anthony Bathol Esq., of Purton, Wiltshire. Deaths. AYTOUN —On the 4th inst., at Blackhills, near Elgin, Wm' Edmondstoune Aytoun, Esq., advocate, Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature in the University of Edinburgh. CHANDLER.—On the 4th inst., at Grove-lane, Camberwell , Henry Worster Chandler, Esq., aged 88. ItAwDox.—On the 7th inst., at Bath, Captain Charles W' Rawdon, R.N., aged 66. SHAFTESBURY.—On the 7th inst., atßichmond, Surrey, th ° Countess Dowager of Shaftesbury, aged 91. THORNE.—On the 7th inst., at Turrett House, S. Lambet h ' John Mills Thorne, Esq., aged 79. YOUNG.—On the 13th ult., at her residence' Dana Cottgg e l Turriff, Aberdeenshire, Mar gare t O gs t on Young, relic' of Matthew Young, of Strichen, aged 95. London: Printed and Publiehed by WIL LIAM ANlfit Big?' of No. 112, Strand, Pai n t er , at I'm; SUN Office, N 0 4 , 1 , 1,1 Strand, in the Precinct of th e S avo y , in the" COluoi Ididdlesex..—Wednesday, August 9, 1865.